The Kurdistan Workers' Party ( PKK ), which shown breakthrough in 1984 in Northern Kurdistan and, later, played leadership role in the national revolutionary struggle through its guerilla fight, has spread the war from 1990-92 in the cities, and the cities of Kurdistan witnessed mass uprisings. In 1993, the national revolutionary movement was confronted with serious problems for the first time and during the process following conciliating tendencies developed and the movement got to a reformist direction. In this period, it tended to purify itself from socialist wordings, concepts and symbols. The Turkish revolutionary movement's failure in opening the second front in order to repulse the fascist dictatorship or to spread Kurdish national revolution into Turkey, the ideological and political surrounding of the USA and imperialist world reactionaries, and the continuing dirty war of the colonialist fascist dictatorship have played an important role in the Kurdish national movement's deepening in the reformist line and being driven along to defeat.
In its 3rd Congress, MLCP made following determination about PKK's defeat, Ocalan's line in Imrali trials and the reconfirmation of this line by the PKK: "By the PKK General President's expulsion from Syria, the fascist colonialism made an important move which would disturb strategic balance in favor of itself; through the imprisonment of Ocalan via an international conspiracy, the strategic balance has clearly and certainly disturbed in favor of the Turkish bourgeois state. Abdullah Ocalan's Imrali line is the line of ideological submission, breaking of the political will, defeat and liquidation. By adopting and reconfirming it in the 7th Congress, PKK has passed from petty-bourgeois national revolutionary line to petty-bourgeois national reformist line."
In accordance with this line, PKK has, later, evidentially entered into a search for solution of the Kurdish question together with the bourgeoisie. It has prepared the ideological, political and organizational grounds and channels of this. As a result of this direction, which we can also express as a direction towards imperialist solution, it has liquidated the PKK and founded KADEK. However, KADEK announced that they have entered into a process of strategic change and denied the self-determination rights of the nations. With its political line -that does not reckons conflict with the state- and program -that only includes narrow democratic demands and described as peaceful and democratic solution- KADEK has played a limiting and pacifying role on the revolutionary dynamics of the oppressed Kurds, that keep their animation eventually.
KADEK, who described USA's occupation in Iraq as "democratic colonialism", start looking for solution of the Kurdish question within the USA's policies upon the region. However, it also didn't achieve any result up until now from the "Road Map" that it has presented to the Turkish state. And, despite to all its efforts, it never being accepted as the one spoken to. After that, it has set all of its hopes on searching for solution in the borders that determined by the USA. As a result and necessity of this attitude, it has liquidated the KADEK. And this time, it has changed its name as KONGRA-GEL.
Through its statements and program, which published later, KONGRA-GEL has positioned in a point that denies class and national liberation. At first it tried to solve the Kurdish question together with the Colonialism in a way that it has described as "politics of peace". But it was endless. Now it tries to solve it by making steps in direction of the USA imperialism's insistences. KONGRA-GEL has presented its foundation as a contribution to the USA's regional policies and plans in Middle-East.
With this stance, which is an expression of heavy influence of the imperialist barbarism's clamor that spread out since the years of 1990s' as "socialism died" and New World Order ideological attack, KONGRA-GEL plays a role that files revolutionary dynamics of the Kurdish national movement, that weakens the achievements of the national liberation struggle and directs Kurdish people towards visionary solutions.
By changing its name, KONGRA-GEL tries to prevent common attacks of the USA imperialism and the colonialist Turkish fascism, and tries to reach conditions -that it couldn't with KADEK, to turn into a legal or semi-legal party and make politics on the legal grounds.
Our Party, MLCP defends the self-determination right of the Kurdish nation, including the unification right of the Kurdish nation which divided into four pieces. And it struggles for this.
Of course, as the vanguard force of the united revolution in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, MLCP carries the Kurdish nation's democratic demands to the proletariat; and makes the true connection between the Kurdish nation's national and social liberation demand with socialist point of view. And it connects all of its works to the aim of United Soviet Republics of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan
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