DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We publish the unofficial translation of an important editorial of the A Nova Democracia newspaper, issue 210, on the important struggle of the workers and revolutionaries in the country and the imminent military intervention in the State management.

The stoppage of the truckers clearly showed the deepness of the general crisis of the country in all meanings. Apart from displaying the fragility of the road transportation modal (which is a result of a bureaucratic capitalism based on the semi-feudal backwardness wrapped up with modernity and submitted to the semi-colonial imperialist domination) it also reveals the general situation of the country in an inclined plan. An inclined plan that no facade solution or supposed “management efficiency” (like the electioneering political parties and the media monopoly cackles) could invert. Not even the moralist and redeemer rant of the scammer military “boot-lickers”¹ of the USA could do it. Brazil is shaken and its true sane forces started to stir it up. Starting from this, nothing will be where it was until now.

Since May 2017 the island of Mindanao in the Philippines is under martial law, meaning that the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) can do whatever they want in order to fight the Communist Party of the Philippines and the NPA (New People‘s Army) who are carrying out People‘s War. According to the NDFP Far South Mindanao (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) the anti-revolutionary operations increased in quantity and quality since the declaration of martial law. Last month hundreds of people had to flee their homes to evade military reprisals. The AFP reacts to encounters with the NPA with air strikes, killing farmers and lumads (indigenous people). The prisons are full of alleged NPA members, mainly farmers and lumads as well. The protests against landgrabbing and and coal mining operations of multinational firms are brutally suppressed. And in these areas, where the military counter-insurgent operations are most frequently, the imperialists are investing their money. This shows what the Duterte regime is trying to do: offering foreign investors the opportunity to rigorously exploit the Filipino people for their business interests, no matter what that means for the people. If they have to be expelled, that's the way it is. If they starve, that's just the way it is. But if they resist, then they just have to be locked up, tortured and killed.

In addition, the reactionary press does anything to denounce the struggle. They write, that the “victims” of the NPA would mostly be “unarmed civilians”, “mistaken for (military) informants”, they try to confuse the masses and make the struggle look unjustified and the methods “terroristic”, by saying that they would be “the ultimate violation of human rights”. By that, they try to disguise the fact that they are the ones who are waging terror against the Filipino people.

And the reaction is forced to act like that, otherwise they would have to admit that the People’s War is still ongoing and that the masses can’t be silenced easily. Still, there are many areas in Mindanao that the AFP can‘t access, as the President Duterte confirmed a few days ago. He also hopes that the peace negotiations with the CPP will end the resistance soon (and will subsequently bring more foreign investors and businesses to the island and therefore worsen the situation of the Filipino people).  But every Maoist knows that you can’t just make peace with the enemy. The masses won’t be satisfied until Imperialism is destroyed for good and it’s the task of every Maoist to work towards this goal, while not captivating oneself with the reaction, nor being led astray by revisionism. You can’t reach anything at the table of negotiation that you haven’t already won on the battlefield.

In the end of April, Turgut Kaya was arrested by security forces in Greece due to an Interpol warrant. It is his second arrest in roughly four years, after the political activist from Turkey has already been arrested in context of the raids against alleged members of the TKP/ML in April 2014. Back then however, he was acquitted after 40 days of detention.

In Oaxaca, the Democratic Movement of the Workers of Education of Oaxaca (MDTEO) went into strike for indetermined period of time, as part for the construction of the national strike which is going to start on June 4. The national movement of workers of education aims against the counter-reforms on education. They make a firm stand against the opportunists who criticize the attitude of the workers of Oaxaca, these opportunists want to avoind conflict with the local bourgeoisie and sides with imperialism who are behind such „structure reforms“ and the servant bureaucratic capitalism and landlords who handles the old state and implement the imperialist policies.

Such reforms show the crisis of the boureacratic capitalism, as part of the general crisis of imperialism. The opportunists aims toward the corporative demands of the workers and refuse to see the struggle as part of the struggle for the demands of the people, they advocate to make deals in the electioneering scenerio, to collaborate and concilliate for a plate of peas. And MDEO makes firm stand for the people, they say the contend for managing the old state is among the fractions of the ruling classes, not the people. At the same time the increasing "fascistization" of the regime advances against the people in struggle with arbitrary detentions, political arrests, torture, enforced abductions of activists, etc.

MDEO makes a stand that their struggle towards the national strike aims to mobilize the broad masses, in state and national levels. They say the true victories of the strike can only be acheived in the streets, not in the parliament or any candidate. To do so, the workers need to improve their organization level be it official or unofficial, legal or ilegal means, according to the historical experience of the popular movement.

They make a call for unity, not for negotiating, but unity by deeds, by actions on the streets.

The following text was released in English language by the comrades of Tjen Folket. As the author himself states in the preface, we consider this document a contribution and impulse to further deepen the discussion about class analysis both in Norway and the FRG. In this sense, we document the following text:

Classes in the Norwegian Society

By Ragnar Røed

Tuesday Morning at 6 o‘clock police in Italy, Spain and Switzerland raided several places, private flats and left locals alike, on behalf of Hamburgs Special Commission ‘Black Block’ that is following up on the struggles in June last year. Seven people were arrested and the search for a protester from still continues. Oppose the terror of the reaction! Stand united!

The speech documented in the following was held at the commemorative events that were organized by Partizan to happen in parrallel in Switzerland and Austria:

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Speech of the Committee Red Flag on the commemorative events of Partizan on occasion of the 45. Anniversary of the murder of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya

Comrades,
Friends,

in the name of the Committee Red Flag we want to express our warmest revolutionary greetings to heroically struggling masses in Turkey, its democratic supporters in Europe as well as to all participation of this festivity. Explicitly, and from the button of our heards, we salute the masses, militants and leaders of the TKP/ML as well as those who struggle armed against imperialism under the leadership of its Central Committee. For us communist in formation, be it in the FRG or elsewhere, they are a bonfire and a source of inspiration.

Founded by Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, the TKP/ML struggles for more then 46 years now, on the foundation laid by him, against the exploitation and oppression forced on the peoples of Turkey and the world by imperialism. Through his struggle and his sacrifice Comrade Kaypakkaya is for eternity rooted in the consciousnesses of the international proletariat. His insistence do develop People’s War in every circumstances; his insistence, to apply the teaching of Chairman Mao and especially his insistence in relentlessly struggling against revisionism are a shining example for us.

Comrades of the Red Fraction of the Communist Party of Brazil – Red Fraction have send greetings to the celebrations organized by the comrades of Partizan in Basel (Switzerland) and St. Pölten (Austria) that we will hence document:

Greeting of the Communist Party of Brazil – Red Fraction in the occasion of the fall in combat of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya

Long Live Ibrahim Kaypakkaya! Long Live the People’s War!

The Communist Party of Brazil – Red Fraction send the warmest greeting to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist – TKP/ML - CC, to the commanders and combatants of the Workers and Peasants Guerrilla Army – TIKKO, as well as the heroic Turkish and Kurdish masses who struggle under its leadership, developing the revolutionary armed struggle as People’s War passing through 45 years of the fall in combat of the great Communist leader, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya.