Translated to English by Google and Otto's War Room.
From Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazil (Red Faction)
and posted at Communist
Party of Ecuador-Red Sun:
A to the Joint Declaration of May 1, 2018- Part 1
“ In
other words, provided we do not depreciate the Marxist-Leninist principles, we
accept the acceptable opinions of others and we discard those of ours that can
be discarded." Thus, we act with two hands: one for the struggle with
comrades who make mistakes and the other is for unity with them, the purpose of
the struggle is to persevere in Marxist principles, which presuppose fidelity
to principles, that is a hand, the other is to ensure unity. The purpose of
unity is to give an exit to these comrades, contracting commitments with them,
which means flexibility. The integration of fidelity to principles with
flexibility constitutes a Marxist-Leninist principle and is a unity of
opposites. "
President Mao, "Dialectical method for the
internal unity of the party"
Part of an intervention by Comrade Mao
Tsetung in the Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties - Moscow
In mid-2018, the Communist Party
(Maoist) of Afghanistan Colombia
In him it is affirmed of taxative way
that the Gonzalo thought "continues playing a historical negative role and
even was behind the elaboration of a Joint International Declaration in the
celebration of the International Day of the Workers to promote the sectarianism
...", and proclaims that "... it is necessary that, together with the
theoretical, ideological and political principles of the MLM against Avakian's
New Synthesis and the revisionism of the Prachanda Path, a struggle against the
deviation that has emerged as Gonzalo Thought must be waged. to declare that
"The PC (M) A is no longer obligated to maintain the internal struggle,
but considers that it is absolutely necessary to begin to carry out this fight
at the international level".
In the course of almost a year of its
dissemination, there was no echo of its appeals, nothing more than the furious
attacks that imperialism, the bourgeoisie, landlords, revisionists and all that
there is of more reactionary, systematically dispensed, to the PCP, to Chairman
Gonzalo and his thought and the people's war in Peru. And although this
document makes common cause with the reaction, which as it is seen it did not
take into account such aids in its fight against the proletarian
revolution. The attacks are not only the text of the declaration, but the
ideological and political line of the parties that sign it, express, for that
very reason, opposition to the theoretical and practical principles in which
the International Communist Movement (MCI) has been unified.
Since the publication of this document,
a series of important events have taken place at the MCI, as has the
publication of the Joint Declaration on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of
Chairman Gonzalo's speech on September 24, 2018, a statement from the December
26 on the occasion of the birth of President Mao and the holding of two
Meetings of Maoist Parties and Organizations in Europe. As we approach the
Joint Declaration of May 1, 2019, and that the MCI is making great strides
towards the realization of the CIMU (Unified Maoist International Conference),
we consider it necessary and appropriate to publicly present our comments on
its content to expose the pseudo-Marxist-Leninist-Maoist nature of these
attacks,
Our comments are based on common
understandings of ideological, political and construction issues established
over the last 10 years, by the parties that started to hold the Meetings of MLM
Parties and Organizations in Latin America, as well as other European Parties,
North America and Asia , which happened to
participate in this initiative. And, although we do not speak here on
behalf of that group, we consider this positioning as part of the common
development of the International Communist Movement, precisely from its left in
this most recent period of its history, in which it struggles to complete the
great dispersion of forces that characterized him in the last decades.
However, we consider it positive that a
Communist Party expresses its views and does not hide them from the
International Communist Movement. We are for the active ideological
struggle, based on proletarian principles, criteria and methods, as a necessary
condition for the International Communist Movement to reach a higher unity, in
the ideological, political and organic terrain.
However, we will not respond to all the
points of this criticism, because in its immense majority, the topics presented
in it, are already broadly and deeply based on a large number of joint
statements, documents and in the two editions of El Maoísta Magazine. Therefore,
we will focus on the issues that we consider most relevant, at present, for the
unity of communists worldwide. It is also necessary to expand on certain
issues in order to enable the large number of revolutionaries of the new
generations, as well as new groups and organizations emerged in recent years,
to be more aware of the problems, struggles and development of the MCI of the
past decades, mainly of the last thirty years.
The criticism of the Afghan comrades focuses
essentially on two points:
1) - That the PC (m) A is surprised by
the fact that the communists could not have a single statement for the MCI, and
considers this fact as a demonstration of weakness of the MCI: " The
Communist Party (Maoist) of Afghanistan [PC (M) A] did not expect that this
year the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations could not come to an
agreement on a joint May Day international declaration, but unfortunately that
was the situation." And accuses the initiative of the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organizations of Latin America and Europe of sectarianism, "Factionalism ":
"The signatories see themselves as the most advanced proletarian
revolutionaries in the world and insist so much on this claim that they have
justified their sectarianism with the publication of a separate declaration of
May Day, considered correct 100%. "
2) That the signatory parties of
said declaration are accused of serious deviations in terms of the ideological
and political line, deviations attributed to their adherence to the
contributions of universal validity of the Gonzalo Thought. Gonzalo
Thought is presented as a dangerous " deviationism ," a
third form of revisionism alongside Avakianism and Prachandism. Gonzalo
thought is pointed, along with the new revisionism for the liquidation of the
MRI, even as the main one.
The fact that the Afghan comrades, while
expressing their desire for a unified declaration, raises furious criticisms
and "devastating" attacks on the Latin American and European parties,
accusing them of being carriers of serious deviations from the country, is
curious. Marxism on fundamental issues, which they attribute to "Gonzalo
Thought," This being the case, it is suddenly demonstrated that the
Afghan comrades proclaim a unity above the discrepancies of principles, a unity
without principles. Well, they claim for not having a unified statement
with those to whom, without any valid foundation, they stigmatize
"sectarians," factionaries and divisionists. They point exactly
to those who, with thorough verifications of their social practice,
1) A necessary clarification
As already noted above, a large number
of organizations active in the International Communist Movement had a
relatively recent appearance and did not directly take part in the two-line struggles
that took place in recent decades, so a brief clarification.
In the last seven years, since the
formalized disappearance of the MRI in 2012, there was not even a single year
in which there was a single Declaration of May 1, so that the supposed "surprise"
of the PC (m) A by the appearance of the two statements do not find any
correspondence with reality. Moreover, sectarianism and arrogance is who,
without presenting reasons or minimally valid grounds, that the declaration of
the " eight parties and organizations of Latin America and Europe " is that it divided with the
" publication of a separate statement of May Day. "
On May 1, 2013, the year following the
official end of the MRI, at least three joint statements were published:
A statement by the MLM Parties and Organizations
of Latin America: " In the face of the general crisis of imperialism,
prepare, initiate and develop Popular Wars up to communism! an international
conference to establish levels of coordination between different parties,
organizations and Maoist initiatives that developed people's war or that, in
different levels of development, were in preparation to initiate it. The
denomination of "Unified" in the character of the proposed
international Maoist conference was, and is, a clear deference and recognition
of the existence of other initiatives, of which the so-called "Maoist Road Maoist Road
In that same year, a declaration
promoted by the "Maoist Road
In addition to these two statements, a
third proposed by the UOC-MLM-Colombia: "Let us unite and draw a clear
line of demarcation between Marxism and revisionism", focused on combating
"centrism" in the MCI, attributed to the Parties and Organizations of
the "MRI, which continued to support the so-called" Kiran fraction
"in Nepal, referring, above all, to the parties of the Maoist Road
initiative.
In the early years of Maoist Road Maoist Road
Over the years, due to content
discrepancies and the method of defining it, the first two initiatives were
developed in separate ways, expressing two conceptions and two different
political lines.
In this period, we considered that the
existence of multiple declarations of May 1 and of burning ideological themes
was just, since it corresponded to the need for different conceptions,
positions and criteria to be more clearly explained, with the aim of developing
the fight of two lines in the MCI. In correspondence to these divergences,
the statements expressed from the beginning different criteria for the
construction of the MCI. The history of these statements makes up part of
the struggle for the reunification of communists in the world, separating two
conceptions and two different political lines.
While the declaration promoted by the
parties and the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organizations of Latin America was
expressing an increasing ideological and political unity, based on the
development of the Maoist forces in each country, and then gaining new accessions,
in Europe and America from North; the other statements, such as that
promoted by the "Maoist Road", seemed to follow an inverse spiral.
On May 1, 2018, "Maoist Road
In a beautiful demonstration of the
prachandist dialectic, in which "two make one", we witnessed the fact
that the UOC - MLM, which over the years dedicated joint declarations against
"centrism" - attributed to "Maoist Road" - and signed with
this same statement, without either of the parties having made any
"rectification" of their positions.
Different is our consideration of the
appearance of the signature of the TKP / ML and the PCI (Maoist) in these
statements. As far as we know, those parties were not even consulted about
these signatures. In this case it is a gross manifestation of opportunist
methods, typical records of revisionism.
2) Some questions about the unity of the
International Communist Movement
As PC (m) A is known, together with PCm
Italia and then PCI ML-Naxalbari, it was one of the signatories of the
resolution called "Special Resolution", published on May 1, 2012.
This resolution formalized the liquidation of the MRI.
In the aforementioned Special
Resolution, of which PC (m) A is a signatory, it was stated that:
" In this context a potential
new wave of the world proletarian revolution develops and emerges, with the
people's wars led by the Maoist parties as their points of reference and
strategic anchors ...
" In the crisis it is clear
that the revolution is the main trend ...
... In the countries
oppressed by imperialism the perspective of the people's war is to
advance. In India Philippines
led by the Communist Party of the Philippines
In May 2012, the RCP-USA launched a
letter addressed to the Maoist parties and organizations, where it vomits its
revisionism against Maoism, Chairman Gonzalo and the people's war. In this
letter, Avakian attacks the aforementioned "Special Resolution" and
its authors and also announces the end of the MRI:
" The leaders of this
new" initiative "are not worried about this lack of serious input to
things because they are trying to substitute Mao's emphasis on" the right
thing of the political and ideological line "with a different" unity
"criterion , in particular a demagogic and pragmatic call to take the
popular wars led by Maoists as "their strategic points of reference and ...
... the Manifesto of the
PCR-USA makes an analysis of the erroneous tendencies within the international
communist movement ... an approach towards communist theory and principles as a
kind of dogma, similar to a religious catechism ...
... the depreciated call of
May 1 ... speaking Maoism without discussing Mao's most important adherence to
continuing the dictatorship of the proletariat, and reducing Maoism to the
People's War ...
.. The Appeal of May 1, 2011
by a new international communist organization is examined, as well as the most
recent document of the Draft Proposal [Special Resolution] is notorious this
type of approach .... in which people's wars are "the points of reference
and strategic pillar". (...) The 2011 document paints a false (and
frankly ridiculous) picture in which the people's war is advancing in Peru, the
Philippines and Turkey, and that, in a certain way, will serve as the basis for
He regroups the communists. (Letter to the Participating Parties and
Organizations of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, Revolutionary
Communist Party , United States
The aforementioned Special Resolution
was presented to the MCI as a turning point. The Parties that were its
signatories proclaimed themselves the vanguard in the fight for the
"formation of a New International Organization" to replace the MRI
and, unlike the PCR-USA, they presented themselves as the true heirs of the
MRI. Each party has the right to claim continuity of the best traditions
of the MCI. However, each party or organization must be measured solely
and exclusively by its concrete social practice in the application of the MLM
in the revolution in its own country and in the MCI.
After more than seven years of this
so-called "Special Resolution", unlike being a starting point on
which to support, guide, seeking to broaden and deepen the participation of
more parties and organizations, as proposed, it was found to be only the
outcome of formalization of a situation that was not sustained
anymore. Not even the so-called "MRI balance seminar" or any
other activity, which had the minimum characteristics and preparation necessary
for the construction of the MCI - Ideological, political and organic - were
carried out. Neither, as it seems to us, the Maoist forces within it were
able to express a real development, which served as the basis for the ICM, so
that this was already an agonizing initiative in its ideological eclecticism,
We consider that the MRI was a step
forward in its time, and that a correct and fair balance of its experience is
necessary. In order to carry out this correct and just balance of the MRI,
it is necessary to analyze the history of the struggle of two lines in its
interior and the role of each party in it. Like all revolutionary
organizations, the MRI was divided between left, center and right. Those
who today advocate legitimate "heirs" of the RIM must clearly state
what inheritance they claim and what inheritance they renounce. A centrist
position in this respect is nothing more than adhering to revisionism.
Por eso, tomamos como punto de partida
la Declaración Conjunta de 24 de septiembre de 2018, con ocasión del 26º
aniversario del discurso del Presidente Gonzalo, por representar el punto de
vista de un conjunto expresivo de al menos 11 partidos y organizaciones del
MCI, Partido Comunista de Brasil (Fracción Roja), Movimiento Popular Perú
(Comité de Reorganización), Fracción Roja del Partido Comunista de Chile,
Organización Maoísta para la Reconstitución del Partido Comunista de Colombia,
- Núcleo Revolucionario para la Reconstitución del Partido Comunista de México,
Comité Bandera Roja - Alemania, Comités para la Fundación del Partido Comunista
(Maoísta), Austria, Guardias Rojos - USA, Servir al Pueblo - Liga Comunista de
Noruega y Colectivo Bandera Roja (Finlandia) .
This group of parties and organizations
have, in their majority, all of them, their well-known practice in the
International Communist Movement, so that their positioning has an evident
relevance.
On the balance of the MRI we affirm in
the Joint Declaration :
"While the MRI was correctly
characterized by Chairman Gonzalo as a 'step forward', he also pointed out,
with the precision that is proper to it, that 'as long as a correct and correct
ideological and political line is followed' will be a step forward. The MRI
served to join the communists based on the red line, and this could not be other
than that of Chairman Gonzalo, that is, the main thing in the evaluation of the
MRI is to verify that it served the world proletarian revolution - in
particular to the task of struggling for the reunification of the communists,
which served the struggle to put Maoism as their sole command and guide, that
is, the struggle led by Chairman Gonzalo, and stopped playing a positive role,
when the revisionists of the "PCR" of the United States,taking
advantage of the problematic situation of the left by the bend in the people's
war in Peru, he came to hegemonize it totally.
But that, faced with the new situation
created by the general counterrevolutionary offensive, in the 1990s, the other
RIM parties did not sustain this step forward. Most of them lacked a clear
and correct definition of the content of Maoism, solidity and sufficient
decision to apply it. So, in the face of the blows uttered by reaction and
revisionism, they did not sustain and deviate. Suffice it to say that
there were not a few parties and organizations that in a couple of years,
publicly or secretly, adhered to the prachandist or avakianist positions on
fundamental questions of Marxism.
Some fear the struggle of two lines and
are refractory to criticism and self-criticism, objecting in all forms the
struggle of two lines on fundamental problems of the MCI and the RPM. On
the problems of the RIM, they wanted to impose a "clean slate" and prevent
the fight of two lines from deepening. Persisting in their errors, they continue
to affirm that "no discussion, no two-line struggle can take place before
the International Conference." These are the supporters of the
opportunist criterion that unity can be the result of a discussion in assembly
or of an agreement between groups and not of the two-line struggle advocated by
Maoism.
3) On some ideological principles for
construction
The proletariat is international, it is
a single class all over the world, with unique class interests and
an indissolubly linked destiny, one can
not be a communist if one does not think about communism, and that, communism
or everyone enters or nobody enters, as President Mao emphasized. That is
why internationalism is a stony principle, unity a goal sought and achieved
permanently through struggle.
The unity of opposites, as it governs
everything, the true communist unity is the unity of principles, which from the
conception of a dialectical and historical materialist world to democratic
centralism as organicity through many others, can only be obtained, sustained
and developed by middle of the fight. In deepening the great Lenin,
President Mao taught us that unity is relative and can only be achieved through
a hard struggle, which is absolute. In that sense and for that reason,
unity is a permanent goal and a powerful flag to be defended.
The great comrade Lenin taught us that unity
can not be promised, can not be "created" by agreements between small
groups, the "unity must be conquered ... with tenacious and persevering
work ...." The unit can advance only with the labor and organization of
the advanced workers ... Unity is impossible without organization .
"(Lenin, About unity, May 30, 1914. About the unity of the International
Communist Movement.)
Speaking of unity when unity is
sabotaged is an old opportunistic method that seeks to cover up the true nature
of the two-line struggle on fundamental issues of Marxism and ICM. The
struggle of two lines within a party is a reflection of the class struggle in
society, and it is absolute while unity is always relative. We are in
favor of the method of the " two-line struggle as a driving force of
party development ", as a fundamental Marxist principle, valid and
indispensable, for the entire International Communist Movement.
After more than two decades of hard
international proletarian struggles, false leaders such as Prachanda and
Bathharai or failed prophets like Avakian, were unmasked and crushed as a
"new revisionism", opposed to Maoism.
Meanwhile, Chairman Gonzalo and the
contributions of his thought, more and more, were recognized and assumed by the
International Communist Movement. They are contributions with which new
parties and organizations based on the defense of Maoism and in and for the
People's War have been formed and developed with renewed strength. This is
a victory for the international proletariat, through a hard struggle of two
lines and in the storm of the class struggle. However, revisionism, again
and old type, continues to be expressed in the ICM in ideas, criteria and
positions of parties that claim to combat it, but in practice do not go beyond
rhetoric, when revisionism remains the main danger .
In their critical document, the Afghan
comrades affirm:
" At this moment, claiming an
additional evolution to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is unfounded, whether these
claims are from the revisionism of the 'Prachanda Way' and the 'New Synthesis
of Avakian' or the deviationism of 'Gonzalo Thought' ... Our party he has
always emphasized that premature assertions such as 'Gonzalo Thought, Prachanda
Path and Avakian New Synthesis' are historically responsible for the collapse
of MRI . "
Furthermore, Gonzalo thought is
presented as an even more dangerous form of deviation to be combated, according
to the aforementioned document, because unlike the new revisionism of Avakian,
Prachanda and the LOD, it continues to have an increasing influence on the MCI:
"because it continues to play a negative historical role and even was
behind the composition of a joint international declaration in celebration of
the International Workers' Day to promote sectarianism ... Therefore, it
is necessary that, together with the theoretical, ideological and political
principles based on the MLM against the New Synthesis of Avakian and the
revisionism of the Prachanda Way, a fight against the deviation that has
emerged as Gonzalo Thought must be waged . The PC (m) A is no longer
required to maintain the internal struggle, but it considers that it is
absolutely necessary to begin to carry out that struggle at the international
level . "(Underlining our).
We reaffirm the provisions of the
aforementioned Joint Declaration of September 24, 2018, on the occasion of the
anniversary of Chairman Gonzalo's Address:
"So, the problem in the MCI does
not lie, mainly, in the fact that Maoism is not formally recognized, but in how
some understand it, that is why the importance of starting from who defined
Maoism as the new, third and superior stage of our ideology; because only
starting from the scientifically established by Chairman Gonzalo is that we can
understand Maoism as a unit, as a harmonious system. If it is not part of
what was established by Chairman Gonzalo, he falls into eclecticism, opposing
appointments, but not understanding ideas. If we understand this, we can
understand the reason why there are not a few Parties and organizations that
have been stagnating for longer periods of time and do not make leaps in their
processes, while those who are most committed to learning from Chairman
Gonzalo, in general , they are advancing, mainly in qualitative terms, but
also in quantitative terms. Those who rush to put labels we advise them to
open their eyes to the material truth instead of being exalted by their
imaginations. "
Today, 35 years after the foundation of
the MRI, Maoism is accepted as a new, third and superior stage of Marxism by
the International Communist Movement. Unlike at that time, apart from
revisionists of different types and the worshipers of Hohxa and Teng, there is
practically no party that is part of the MCI, which holds that we are in the
era of Marxism-Leninism or of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought . The
parties that today support ML-Mao thought, are already notorious revisionists,
and no one could say that they are part of the MCI. Others who had
previously been part of the MCI, such as Avakian and Prachanda, have been
unmasked as notorious revisionists.
However, among these different Parties
and organizations, there are different understandings about the content of
Maoism. We reaffirm that in synthesis there is no leap in the process of
knowledge about Maoism by them. It is not enough to recognize that Maoism
is a third stage, a correct definition of its content is necessary, without a
correct definition of its fundamental elements, there can not be a correct
application.
The Campaign for Maoism can not take a
big leap only with declarations, studies and debate if it does not advance more
Popular Wars in the world, in addition to greater development than those that
are in progress. For its part, no party can advance in the central and
main task of reconstituting or constituting the party to initiate the People's
War, without understanding and assuming the contributions of universal validity
of Gonzalo thought, as an unbreakable and indispensable part for the
application of Maoism as ideological and political incarnation.
That is why we reaffirm that Maoism is
the third, new and superior stage of the ideology of the international
proletariat, the Marxism of today. Gonzalo Thought is the creative
application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the Revolution in Peru
So today, to attack Maoism, revisionism
in its most varied expressions points increasingly and centrally against
Gonzalo thought, with the aim of preventing a correct assimilation of Maoism,
emptying and reducing its content, sterilizing it. That is why the
campaign in defense of Chairman Gonzalo and the campaign for Maoism are two
strategic campaigns and inseparably linked, as recently stated by the Maoist
Communist Party (France), to defend "Chairman Gonzalo is to defend Maoism."
The Communist Party (Maoist) of Afghanistan
4) Some questions about political
construction :
The most serious and revealing is the
position of the Afghan comrades on the Popular Wars in the world. The PC
(m) A separates the MCI from its base, denies the advance of the proletarian
revolution undermining the unity of the International Communist Movement.
The PC (m) A stands up as a relentless
judge when he states: "there is currently no people's war in Turkey ...
The PC (m) Not to agree with the joint May Day international meeting on the
existence of a people's war in Turkey, neither before nor this year ...
". According to the Afghan comrades, to defend the People's War in Turkey
All communists in the world have always
observed with particular attention the development of the Revolution in Turkey China
However, the central and main thing is
that the flag of the People's War raised by Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, continued and
continues to be deployed by the TKP / ML, by the heroic TIKKO, and by the
masses of people who fight under his leadership to carry out the Revolution of
New Democracy through People's War.
As is public knowledge, in the last
years an important fight of two lines within the TKP / ML took place. In
it, through hard struggle, the left imposed itself by defeating a right-wing
opportunist liquidationist black gang that sought to destroy the Party and
liquidate the People's War, placing the proletariat and popular masses in tow
from the reactionary PKK band. Through a hard struggle of two lines, the
left imposed itself by upholding, defending and applying Maoism, the people's
war and purging the Party of the liquidationist band. This is a great
victory of the proletariat and the popular masses in Turkey
(Turks and Kurds, it is not necessary to make this "10th" in Turkey
It is by more firmly grasping Maoism and
people's war that the Turkish Communists are solving and solving the challenges
of the revolution, giving it a new and powerful impulse. The position of
PC (m) A converges and serves the black revisionist and liquidationist
right-wing gang, serving its objectives of denying Maoism, destroying the TKP /
ML, and liquidating the People's War.
Supporting the Communist Parties and the
People's Wars, even if these go through difficult and complex moments and that
the real situation is not completely clear is a way to impose defeats on the
enemy and encourage the masses and militants when they are at crucial moments.
Elsewhere he states: "PC (m) A does
not agree that there is currently a people's war in Peru ,
(...) claim that there is a people's war in Peru Peru
To be good teachers it is necessary to
be good students before, diligently doing homework is a wise attitude to be
able to give opinions or advise with reason and knowledge. But just like
Avakian, the PC (m) A does it in an opportunistic way trying to take advantage
of the blows of reaction and revisionism and decree the end of the People's War
in Peru
No revolution in history, anywhere and
at any time, has found an easy path. All invariably had to face moments of
great and dangerous challenges, transiting for years to the edge of the
knife. Perhaps for the triumph of the Great Socialist Revolution of
October there was some important change in the general political line after the
defeat of 1905-07, was not it with the same line of the revolution defeated in
1905 that was triumphed in 1917? Who, if not the Mensheviks, They
proposed a revision and walked the path of liquidationism before the offensive
of the counterrevolution? Was not that true with the Great Chinese
Revolution and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? Did not happen
by chance a heavy defeat and the power of the proletariat usurped by the
bourgeoisie? And by chance these defeats are also not all temporary and
relative, since there can be no definitive defeat and in absolute terms for the
proletariat? Due to this temporary and relative defeat, the communists of
the world should or should not raise the need to take a deep stock of Mao
Tsetung thinking and President Mao's role, should or should not deploy and
defend Maoism against revisionism? The People's War in Peru
To be continued=>
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