1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP: A Historical Hintpoint for our Party
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On those days where a group, consisting of JITEM (1) members, of the counter-guerrilla state was caught red-handed in Semdinli while they were carrying out another dirty action, and where magnificent serhildan s(2) were being realized against this, the communists from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan were sharing the good news of that they had taken a step which had an historical importance for them, with all our peoples. The 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP was convened with great success, and the socialist patriots had arrived a new crossroads on the correct way that they had entered for the Free Kurdistan. MLCP's Kurdistan Organization, which has the task of being the vanguard and the leader of the national and social liberation struggle in Kurdistan, had taken a historical step. The Kurdistan Conference, which is a "first" for the history of our party, was one of the most important Kurdistanish(3) products of our work and it was a great school which will add a new force and dynamism to our work and will create a new horizon.

There is no doubt that whether this leap forward will become a "historical" value for the people of Kurdistan or not depends on materializing the decisions of the conference, our will's passing the exam of life and the meeting of this act with our people by our interventions in the developments of the coming process. All the spirit of the 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP is constructed upon the will of materializing this. The Conference has emphasized, beside the confidence in the Party and in the line of the Party, the confidence in the people and the faith in the victory of the revolution. Confidence in the masses which gave its colour to all the steps of the Conference and the fact that the dynamics of struggle at the bosom of our people are still alive have come to the light once more and the magnificent serhildans of the patriotic Semdinli, Yüksekova and Hakkâri people have been the confirmation of these discussions.

The 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP is a clear declaration of will and a concrete step which was taken in order to make it an action more than being a wish to participate in the national liberation struggle in a vanguard-manner, and to conduct an active struggle with a spirit of self-sacrifice. As it can be understood from the Announcement and Call of the Conference, the will of giving concrete answers to concrete questions and doing this by putting itself on the centre has been the main directing conscience of the Conference. The Conference, which set its foot on the real ground and came to the agenda as an action aiming to face with real problems, is the expression of the beginning of a new process for our Party and Kurdistan Organization. Now we are in such a period that action says much more than words. For the reason that the Kurdistan Organization of MLCP had organized itself with this conscience for a long time and had directed its forces and action towards the trenches with this perspective, the Conference, in this context, means a will and orientation of leaping forward from this point.

From the 3rd Congress to the 1st Conference

1st Kurdistan Conference was one of the directives of the 3rd Congress of MLCP. The Conference evaluated the activities of the Kurdistan Organization since the 3rd Congress until today and took important decisions about the direction of the developments. Departing from the fact that the Northern Kurdistan revolution had been defeated and its national revolutionary vanguard had decided a political reformist strategy and ideological surrender, due to its broken will, the 3rd Congress had stated that the task and the position of our party in Kurdistan had changed and, in this context, had reorganized its section in Kurdistan, had defined concrete policies for our country(4) and had announced its will of being more active in realizing these policies.

The Unity Congress of MLCP in September 1994 had determined that the Kurdistan Revolution was at the stage of "strategic balance" and had based its strategy on opening a second revolutionary front in Turkey for the victory of our anti-imperialist democratic revolution which had already begun in Kurdistan. In order to materialize the line which has this understanding on its centre, our party had organized its activities in Kurdistan according to the goal of hindering the possible reactionary civil wars and to eliminate the possibilities of manoeuvre of colonialism on the basis of reactionary civil wars by the fraternity of the peoples and their united struggle. For this reason, it concentrated its work mainly at the "strip"(5) which has many social contrasts on it, such as those between the Turks and the Kurds, Sunnites and Alaouites and etc. On the other hand, under the conditions where the Kurdistan Revolution had been defeated and its national revolutionary vanguard had adopted a petty-bourgeois national reformist programme and strategy, the 3rd Congress which was convened in April 2002 had raised that our Party, which had always defended unconditionally the right of the Kurdish nation to establish its own state, beginning from its predecessors, on the theoretical and programmatic level but was not able to show an orientation which takes the revolutionary solution of the national contradiction as a current issue, in sense of a concrete comprehension of the question and in its practice, and had reached a clearance in idea and practical orientation only by the Unity Congress, from now on, is face to face with the task of shouldering the vanguardance and the leadership of not only the social emancipation but, at the same time, of the national liberation in Kurdistan. It is, before all, the perspective of spreading the political activity among all parts of Northern Kurdistan, the perspective of changing the line of organizing the second revolutionary front in the West for the united revolution of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and passing to the line of organizing the revolution in both countries. In accordance of this perspective, the Party turned its face to the interior of Kurdistan. The meaning of this was, at the same time, becoming more Kurdistanish, becoming more and more "the real owner of the problem".

The ground for active existence, consistent politics

In the period that we have left behind, the main ring of our activity in Kurdistan was to make the content of the political work harmonious with the perspectives of the 3rd Congress, to achieve a political revival and to widen the area of our work. This was the basic condition of turning our Party into a dynamic, a considerable force and gradually the vanguard and the leader of the Kurdish national liberation struggle. This had to be taken into consideration in determining the organizational perspectives, choices, means and forms. We would not be able to realize our claims of becoming Kurdistanish by repeating or imitating the activities carried out in Turkey.

The national question and the principled and actual necessities of this had to be concretised in our political struggle, in our every-day-agitation-work and in our publications. Beyond everything else, for the ideological struggle with nowadays' petty bourgeois national reformist PKK , which had leaded the national awakening and the Kurdistan Revolution and which still can canalise millions of Kurds (and indeed, in four parts(6)) into the political life and can mobilise them, to have a meaning and worth in the opinion of wide masses, it was necessary to develop a practical-political criticism. Since, if one does not have an action, his word has no worth. Acting with this conscience, the Kurdistan Organization of MLCP tried to show an active posture and to raise the flag of national liberation and socialism with high determination and effort, and according as its power and energy.

There is no doubt that this was not an easy pro-cess without any problems. Despite the habits of policy-making-style inherited from revolutionary spontaneism, the attacks of colonialism to hinder this, the ideological, political and practical siege of the other political groups and some troubling and difficult processes at the organizational level, it was succeeded to make the will of the 3rd Cong-ress dominate in the party work in Kurdistan and we came to the process of the Kurdistan Conference with this conscience and faith.

To construct a strong future

Having a look at the data of the previous period, we can easily say that the line of the 3rd Congress have been constructed in our work in Kurdistan. But, although our party has reached a certain level in its orientation of becoming Kurdistanish, it knows that it has a long and hard way to go through. Due to the activities, the attempts of creating an area for itself and the orientation of spreading from the centre to the periphery, the name of the Party has gradually been heard not only in the mentioned strip (Malatya, Antep, Dersim, Sivas etc.) but also over a wider area containing Hakkari, Batman, Van, Amed and other provinces and the socialist patriots began to be more well-known. Our people which live in the districts such as Ergani, Silvan, Bismil, Gevas, Baskale, Suruc, Halfeti, Siverek, Lice, Dicle, Yüksekova, Semdinli and others began to get to know our party and its tools that reach them. Whether this relation which is yet limited and is at the level of "knowing" us will reach to the level of "believing" us and "joining" us or not will depend on the insistence, continuity and the actions in our work. The socialist patriots, who know the fact that it is not possible be a force without using all forms and means which the struggle requires, have a complete determination on this subject. And this is exactly the will of the 1st Kurdistan Conference and the conscience which gives its colour to all the process of discussion.

As it was declared in the "Announcement and Call" the Conference "discussed; the political situation, national and social realities in Kurdistan, beginning from its Northern part; the positions and roles of different national parties and groups, PKK being in the first line; the activities of our Kurdistan Organization in Northern Kurdistan since our 3rd Party Congress and its' role in the future". In the light of these discussions, it will be in an orientation which concentrates on Northern Kurdistan but, at the same time, keeps its interest in the other pieces. It drew attention to the necessity of showing a higher sensitivity towards the problems and needs of our people in the Eastern, Southern and South-western pieces of Kurdistan and of the political exiles and the immigrants in different countries. For this to be concretised in actions in different forms instead of staying at the level of words there is no doubt that it is necessary to develop a political manner in accordance with this orientation and to break off with everything that impedes this.

For the Free Kurdistan

The topic which took the first place in the agenda of the 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP was the problem how and in which forms the national and social liberation movements in our country must be considered and how they must be united. The role and the tasks of the Kurdish workers and labourers in the national and social liberation movement was also one of the titles of discussion in the Conference. Emphasizing "the indispensability of the right of national freedom and social liberation of the Kurdistan working class, peasantry, labourers;", the Conference confirmed once more "the necessity of our working class to show the highest interest to the right of national freedom and national democratic demands and to struggle in the forefront in these matters for our working class to become the vanguard of the liberation of our people in Kurdistan and to march towards socialism". It gave the socialist patriots the task of carrying this conscience to the working and labouring communities. Likewise the Conference underlined strongly "the historical and political importance of the unity of Kurdistan and Turkey working classes in a single party and in the same way, the mission of the unity of workers and peoples of the world, our region in the first line". In such a period that the expression "becoming a part of those from Turkey" rather means "reconciliation" with the ruling ones and the expression "nationalism" means increasingly the Barzani-Talabani mandatarism, the 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP emphasized again "the necessity of our oppressed peoples to firmly unite their destinies -the working class and peasantry of Kurdistan; the proletariat and labourers of Turkey; oppressed national communities of Syrian, Laz, Georgian, Circassian, Abkhaz, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Gypsies identity- for the overthrow of the fascist and colonialist regime of the Turkish bourgeoisie which is the source of the national and social enslavement; and the establishment of a Union of Workers'-Toilers' Soviet Republics -which is characterized by a voluntary unity, the right of separation and equality of the peoples". It drew attention to the necessity of raising the flag of international revolutionary struggle. It expressed once more its faith that the Free Kurdistan can be achieved through such struggle. This must be considered as an emphasis to the importance of the international struggle and as a sign of the confidence in the world's people, under the conditions of the imperialist globalization.

Struggle for national and democratic demands

Emphasizing that the ground where the revolutionary line for national liberation and socialism should be discussed in the context of the struggle and the conditions belonging to Kurdistan, the Conference drew attention to the reflection of this in practice in the actual period. Announcing that "It is a national and social right and duty of our people -who is under colonialist yoke and whose national existence is denied- to struggle by all means, with military fight and mass violence coming in the first place, against the militarist forces of colonialism, its' ruling bureaucracy, its' economical and political institutions, for making it impossible for them to live in Northern Kurdistan and for throwing them out;

It supports and defends the national democratic demands such as the recognition of the national existence of our people, the freedom for our mother-language(7), the freedom to politically organize with Kurdish national identity, the dismantlement of the "state of emergency" machinery, the return of the peasant refugees to their villages and the complete compensation of their damages, the ending of military attacks against Kurdistan, the clarification of the places of mass graves, the detention and judgment of the fascist killers and their chiefs who are responsible for the disappearances, unsolved murders against the Kurdish people, killings and torturing against the Kurdish guerrilla, the unconditioned release of the Kurdish prisoners of war, Abdullah Ocalan coming in the first place", the Conference emphasized that the struggle for those demands is at the same time a necessity of socialist patriotic policy.

Support to the struggle, no to the reconciliation!

Drawing attention to the conscience of the necessity of being a force among the youth, women and the labourers of Kurdistan and to become the symbol of their hopes and their struggle in order to become a more and more Kurdistanish force, the Conference have pointed out some important aspects about the national forces in our country. The conference declared that the struggle of PKK, which is the blank of the attacks of colonialism, imperialism, social chauvinism and internal reaction, "against the national denial policy and racist-fascist mangle of the Turkish bourgeoisie, on the basis of national democratic rights, is legitimate and just", and it "is on the side of national democratic demands with all its power", but it "condemns the petty-bourgeois reformist strategy, line, viewpoint and practices of the PKK which is embodied in the retreat from the target of breaking the colonialist yoke in Kurdistan and our people's freely self-determination, and the tendencies of compromise with imperialism and the Turkish bourgeoisie". The Conference drew attention to the ideas within the ranks of the national democratic movement which hide then open support of the EU imperialists to colonialism and their anti-people imperialist character and which spread the dreams of "EU solution to the Kurdish question" and emphasized the task of ideological struggle and of explaining the facts to our people pertinacious and persistently. Likewise, the Conference discussed the place of HPG (8), which is at the centre of the colonialist and imperialist attacks, in the national democratic struggle and stated: "The right of armed resistance and armed fight of our people is legitimate, virtuous and unavoidable because their country is under fascist colonialism and their national identity is denied. In this manner, any attempt to decompose HPG will have a reactionary character and will serve denial and colonialism. HPG made a just, fit move and a step forwards by ending the unilateral cease-fire(9) and getting the position of active defence with national democratic rights."

The Conference also discussed the situation of the and reformist forces of denial and surrender who try to function particularly in our country and mainly in Europe: "Parties like Hak-Par, PSK, PWD, etc., all the internet chatterers and crews living in the arms of imperialism are bourgeois-nationalist barricades for the national freedom struggle and social liberation aspirations. Because, despite all their sharp bourgeois nationalist statements, in reality, they never even bring to their minds, any serious practice against colonialism and denial. They use all their faculties to mislead our people to enter under the yoke of US and EU imperialists. The anti-PKK blocs which such parties form have no progressive character". It has exposed once more the reality of these forces which establish relations with EU and US imperialism and with colonialism in the new period, which hopes their aid and which dream of appropriating the values created by the struggle for themselves, basing on the results of the aggression policies of the imperialists and colonialists. It has emphasized the importance of giving ideological and political struggle and showing a political posture against the illusions which these forces, who do not even throw a stone for the freedom of our people, try to create.

While these forces who see the developments in Southern Kurdistan as a ground to leap forward for themselves, who slander the national democratic struggle at the North with a complete unawareness and who adopt a pro-Barzani, pro-Talabani line, are advising our people to do the same thing, the Conference announced the socialist patriotic outlook on this subject: "The self-de-termination of our people in Southern Kurdistan as a Kurdistan Regional Government inside federal Iraq is indisputable in terms of national legitimacy. Concepts like "Second Israel" used to define the tendencies or practices of founding a nation-state in Southern Kurdistan root from a colonialist and chauvinist perspective.

Despite of that, the choice made in Southern Kurdistan is completely wrong in terms of its class and social content. This choice is developed on the basis of collaboration with the US imperialism and supporting the Iraqi invasion. This choice wounds the national honour of our people in all the pieces of Kurdistan and abroad; gives a grave harm to the possibilities of common struggle and brotherly unity of our people with the peoples of the region; strengthens the most aggressive enemy of world peoples, i.e. US imperialism, in our region. For these reasons, Barzani-Talabani nationalism cannot be supported.

Our people in Southern Kurdistan should base on the spirit and action of national freedom, which is existent in its historical traditions; and should develop an equal and brotherly unity with Arabic, Turcoman and other peoples."

Emphasizing this task, the Conference drew a definite and sharp line of demarcation between itself and different illusive outlooks.

Dîsa Dîsa Serhildan !(10)

Apart from the decisions declared in the Announcement and Call to the proletariat and our peoples, the Conference also took into its agenda of discussion a critical evaluation of the party work, development dynamics, the necessities of the way to the victory of revolution, the problems of institucialization, sectoral activities, preparing cadrices, becoming Kurdistanish and socialist patriotism. Different topics like the peace-policy, EU question, the strategic tendencies of USA in the region, the developments in the other pieces of Kurdistan, the actual problems of our people, the strategic necessities of our revolution took place in the agenda of the Conference. Evaluations and decisions on all of these topics will be strong basis for the development of our party work in Kurdistan.

Underlining that despite the damages caused by the developments after 1999 and their consequences in our country, and despite all the siege of colonialism and imperialism, our people insist on their honourable march to freedom, the Conference determined with joy and enthusiasm that the conditions are more favourable today for freedom and revolution than it used to be yesterday. It has sharpened its will of war and victory. It gave the party warriors the task of being at a situation of mobilization in order to turn the slogan "Dîsa Dîsa Serhildan, MLCP-Kurdistan" into a more and more definite reality.

The Conference showed clearly the way that the socialist patriots will follow, by announcing: "The MLCP Kurdistan Organization will continue its' ongoing struggle with a higher level of determination and will, with the perspectives and objectives formulated above. In our country which experiences a revolutionary situation, MLCP Kurdistan Organization will give all its' power and faculties in a full spirit of devotion and sacrifice, for gaining a level which responds to the needs of the fight. MLCP KO will be in alliance with the forces that defend our people's revolutionary and national democratic demands against fascist colonialism and denial. It will be loyal and respectful to the values created under big pains and heavy prices, with spilt blood and lost lives, in the process of national freedom struggle". It drew attention to the tasks of our patriotic people in this struggle and it called for more serhildans.

Finally the Conference "called the Kurdistan working class, poor peasantry, labourer women, youth and all the people to raise the flag of national freedom and social liberation and to listen to, strengthen and join the ranks of MLCP and its Kurdistan Section, MLCP Kurdistan Organization for throwing out the fascist colonialism of our country which embodies in the occupation army, police stations, tax offices and prisons in terms of political annexation; in economical annexation institutions which plunder our mineral and over ground resources; and in the denial culture and assimilation centers and for the urban and rural workers, landless peasantry, urban and rural poor to achieve a free and decent life.". The conference underlined strongly that the only way for Kurdistan to reach freedom and honourable life and this way passes from defeating colonialism.

The way to follow is clear. We will walk to the future with a high spirit of self-sacrifice, with a strong desire to win, and with the hope to wave the flag of national liberation and socialism everywhere in our country from the poor cities to the purple mountains. Our tasks are heavy, there are a lot of things to do, we have hard way to walk, but still we believe that we will win, because we are the future, and the future is revolution!


Footnotes and References

*This article was taken from Dengê Kurdîstan, organ of the Kurdistan Organisation of MLCP, No 14, October-November-December, 2005

1) JITEM - Intelligence and Anti-terror Service of Gendarmerie
2) Serhildan - Kurdish uprising
3) Kurdistanish - The word used by our party in order to express the idea of, not only being "Kurdish" but also being "of Kurdistan and in Kurdistan", being a force "belonging to Kurdistan".
4) The Kurdistan country
5) This strip contains the Kurdish cities like Malatya, Antep, Maras , Sivas, which are ubicated at the border of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and where peoples from different nations, nationalities and religions live together. There have been many provocations of the Turkish colonialist state in these regions during which hundreds of people were killed.
6) Kurdistan is divided into four parts which are the Northern part within the official borders of the Turkish Republic, the Southern part within the official borders of Iraq, the Eastern part within the official borders of Iran, and the South-western part within the official borders of Syria.
7) The Kurdish language
8) HPG are the Popular Defense Forces which are the Kurdish guerrillas affiliated to PKK.
9) The unilateral cease-fire was ended in June 2004.
10)Dîsa Dîsa Serhildan! - "More and more uprising!" in Kurdish language.
 

 

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1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP: A Historical Hintpoint for our Party
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On those days where a group, consisting of JITEM (1) members, of the counter-guerrilla state was caught red-handed in Semdinli while they were carrying out another dirty action, and where magnificent serhildan s(2) were being realized against this, the communists from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan were sharing the good news of that they had taken a step which had an historical importance for them, with all our peoples. The 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP was convened with great success, and the socialist patriots had arrived a new crossroads on the correct way that they had entered for the Free Kurdistan. MLCP's Kurdistan Organization, which has the task of being the vanguard and the leader of the national and social liberation struggle in Kurdistan, had taken a historical step. The Kurdistan Conference, which is a "first" for the history of our party, was one of the most important Kurdistanish(3) products of our work and it was a great school which will add a new force and dynamism to our work and will create a new horizon.

There is no doubt that whether this leap forward will become a "historical" value for the people of Kurdistan or not depends on materializing the decisions of the conference, our will's passing the exam of life and the meeting of this act with our people by our interventions in the developments of the coming process. All the spirit of the 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP is constructed upon the will of materializing this. The Conference has emphasized, beside the confidence in the Party and in the line of the Party, the confidence in the people and the faith in the victory of the revolution. Confidence in the masses which gave its colour to all the steps of the Conference and the fact that the dynamics of struggle at the bosom of our people are still alive have come to the light once more and the magnificent serhildans of the patriotic Semdinli, Yüksekova and Hakkâri people have been the confirmation of these discussions.

The 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP is a clear declaration of will and a concrete step which was taken in order to make it an action more than being a wish to participate in the national liberation struggle in a vanguard-manner, and to conduct an active struggle with a spirit of self-sacrifice. As it can be understood from the Announcement and Call of the Conference, the will of giving concrete answers to concrete questions and doing this by putting itself on the centre has been the main directing conscience of the Conference. The Conference, which set its foot on the real ground and came to the agenda as an action aiming to face with real problems, is the expression of the beginning of a new process for our Party and Kurdistan Organization. Now we are in such a period that action says much more than words. For the reason that the Kurdistan Organization of MLCP had organized itself with this conscience for a long time and had directed its forces and action towards the trenches with this perspective, the Conference, in this context, means a will and orientation of leaping forward from this point.

From the 3rd Congress to the 1st Conference

1st Kurdistan Conference was one of the directives of the 3rd Congress of MLCP. The Conference evaluated the activities of the Kurdistan Organization since the 3rd Congress until today and took important decisions about the direction of the developments. Departing from the fact that the Northern Kurdistan revolution had been defeated and its national revolutionary vanguard had decided a political reformist strategy and ideological surrender, due to its broken will, the 3rd Congress had stated that the task and the position of our party in Kurdistan had changed and, in this context, had reorganized its section in Kurdistan, had defined concrete policies for our country(4) and had announced its will of being more active in realizing these policies.

The Unity Congress of MLCP in September 1994 had determined that the Kurdistan Revolution was at the stage of "strategic balance" and had based its strategy on opening a second revolutionary front in Turkey for the victory of our anti-imperialist democratic revolution which had already begun in Kurdistan. In order to materialize the line which has this understanding on its centre, our party had organized its activities in Kurdistan according to the goal of hindering the possible reactionary civil wars and to eliminate the possibilities of manoeuvre of colonialism on the basis of reactionary civil wars by the fraternity of the peoples and their united struggle. For this reason, it concentrated its work mainly at the "strip"(5) which has many social contrasts on it, such as those between the Turks and the Kurds, Sunnites and Alaouites and etc. On the other hand, under the conditions where the Kurdistan Revolution had been defeated and its national revolutionary vanguard had adopted a petty-bourgeois national reformist programme and strategy, the 3rd Congress which was convened in April 2002 had raised that our Party, which had always defended unconditionally the right of the Kurdish nation to establish its own state, beginning from its predecessors, on the theoretical and programmatic level but was not able to show an orientation which takes the revolutionary solution of the national contradiction as a current issue, in sense of a concrete comprehension of the question and in its practice, and had reached a clearance in idea and practical orientation only by the Unity Congress, from now on, is face to face with the task of shouldering the vanguardance and the leadership of not only the social emancipation but, at the same time, of the national liberation in Kurdistan. It is, before all, the perspective of spreading the political activity among all parts of Northern Kurdistan, the perspective of changing the line of organizing the second revolutionary front in the West for the united revolution of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and passing to the line of organizing the revolution in both countries. In accordance of this perspective, the Party turned its face to the interior of Kurdistan. The meaning of this was, at the same time, becoming more Kurdistanish, becoming more and more "the real owner of the problem".

The ground for active existence, consistent politics

In the period that we have left behind, the main ring of our activity in Kurdistan was to make the content of the political work harmonious with the perspectives of the 3rd Congress, to achieve a political revival and to widen the area of our work. This was the basic condition of turning our Party into a dynamic, a considerable force and gradually the vanguard and the leader of the Kurdish national liberation struggle. This had to be taken into consideration in determining the organizational perspectives, choices, means and forms. We would not be able to realize our claims of becoming Kurdistanish by repeating or imitating the activities carried out in Turkey.

The national question and the principled and actual necessities of this had to be concretised in our political struggle, in our every-day-agitation-work and in our publications. Beyond everything else, for the ideological struggle with nowadays' petty bourgeois national reformist PKK , which had leaded the national awakening and the Kurdistan Revolution and which still can canalise millions of Kurds (and indeed, in four parts(6)) into the political life and can mobilise them, to have a meaning and worth in the opinion of wide masses, it was necessary to develop a practical-political criticism. Since, if one does not have an action, his word has no worth. Acting with this conscience, the Kurdistan Organization of MLCP tried to show an active posture and to raise the flag of national liberation and socialism with high determination and effort, and according as its power and energy.

There is no doubt that this was not an easy pro-cess without any problems. Despite the habits of policy-making-style inherited from revolutionary spontaneism, the attacks of colonialism to hinder this, the ideological, political and practical siege of the other political groups and some troubling and difficult processes at the organizational level, it was succeeded to make the will of the 3rd Cong-ress dominate in the party work in Kurdistan and we came to the process of the Kurdistan Conference with this conscience and faith.

To construct a strong future

Having a look at the data of the previous period, we can easily say that the line of the 3rd Congress have been constructed in our work in Kurdistan. But, although our party has reached a certain level in its orientation of becoming Kurdistanish, it knows that it has a long and hard way to go through. Due to the activities, the attempts of creating an area for itself and the orientation of spreading from the centre to the periphery, the name of the Party has gradually been heard not only in the mentioned strip (Malatya, Antep, Dersim, Sivas etc.) but also over a wider area containing Hakkari, Batman, Van, Amed and other provinces and the socialist patriots began to be more well-known. Our people which live in the districts such as Ergani, Silvan, Bismil, Gevas, Baskale, Suruc, Halfeti, Siverek, Lice, Dicle, Yüksekova, Semdinli and others began to get to know our party and its tools that reach them. Whether this relation which is yet limited and is at the level of "knowing" us will reach to the level of "believing" us and "joining" us or not will depend on the insistence, continuity and the actions in our work. The socialist patriots, who know the fact that it is not possible be a force without using all forms and means which the struggle requires, have a complete determination on this subject. And this is exactly the will of the 1st Kurdistan Conference and the conscience which gives its colour to all the process of discussion.

As it was declared in the "Announcement and Call" the Conference "discussed; the political situation, national and social realities in Kurdistan, beginning from its Northern part; the positions and roles of different national parties and groups, PKK being in the first line; the activities of our Kurdistan Organization in Northern Kurdistan since our 3rd Party Congress and its' role in the future". In the light of these discussions, it will be in an orientation which concentrates on Northern Kurdistan but, at the same time, keeps its interest in the other pieces. It drew attention to the necessity of showing a higher sensitivity towards the problems and needs of our people in the Eastern, Southern and South-western pieces of Kurdistan and of the political exiles and the immigrants in different countries. For this to be concretised in actions in different forms instead of staying at the level of words there is no doubt that it is necessary to develop a political manner in accordance with this orientation and to break off with everything that impedes this.

For the Free Kurdistan

The topic which took the first place in the agenda of the 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP was the problem how and in which forms the national and social liberation movements in our country must be considered and how they must be united. The role and the tasks of the Kurdish workers and labourers in the national and social liberation movement was also one of the titles of discussion in the Conference. Emphasizing "the indispensability of the right of national freedom and social liberation of the Kurdistan working class, peasantry, labourers;", the Conference confirmed once more "the necessity of our working class to show the highest interest to the right of national freedom and national democratic demands and to struggle in the forefront in these matters for our working class to become the vanguard of the liberation of our people in Kurdistan and to march towards socialism". It gave the socialist patriots the task of carrying this conscience to the working and labouring communities. Likewise the Conference underlined strongly "the historical and political importance of the unity of Kurdistan and Turkey working classes in a single party and in the same way, the mission of the unity of workers and peoples of the world, our region in the first line". In such a period that the expression "becoming a part of those from Turkey" rather means "reconciliation" with the ruling ones and the expression "nationalism" means increasingly the Barzani-Talabani mandatarism, the 1st Kurdistan Conference of MLCP emphasized again "the necessity of our oppressed peoples to firmly unite their destinies -the working class and peasantry of Kurdistan; the proletariat and labourers of Turkey; oppressed national communities of Syrian, Laz, Georgian, Circassian, Abkhaz, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Gypsies identity- for the overthrow of the fascist and colonialist regime of the Turkish bourgeoisie which is the source of the national and social enslavement; and the establishment of a Union of Workers'-Toilers' Soviet Republics -which is characterized by a voluntary unity, the right of separation and equality of the peoples". It drew attention to the necessity of raising the flag of international revolutionary struggle. It expressed once more its faith that the Free Kurdistan can be achieved through such struggle. This must be considered as an emphasis to the importance of the international struggle and as a sign of the confidence in the world's people, under the conditions of the imperialist globalization.

Struggle for national and democratic demands

Emphasizing that the ground where the revolutionary line for national liberation and socialism should be discussed in the context of the struggle and the conditions belonging to Kurdistan, the Conference drew attention to the reflection of this in practice in the actual period. Announcing that "It is a national and social right and duty of our people -who is under colonialist yoke and whose national existence is denied- to struggle by all means, with military fight and mass violence coming in the first place, against the militarist forces of colonialism, its' ruling bureaucracy, its' economical and political institutions, for making it impossible for them to live in Northern Kurdistan and for throwing them out;

It supports and defends the national democratic demands such as the recognition of the national existence of our people, the freedom for our mother-language(7), the freedom to politically organize with Kurdish national identity, the dismantlement of the "state of emergency" machinery, the return of the peasant refugees to their villages and the complete compensation of their damages, the ending of military attacks against Kurdistan, the clarification of the places of mass graves, the detention and judgment of the fascist killers and their chiefs who are responsible for the disappearances, unsolved murders against the Kurdish people, killings and torturing against the Kurdish guerrilla, the unconditioned release of the Kurdish prisoners of war, Abdullah Ocalan coming in the first place", the Conference emphasized that the struggle for those demands is at the same time a necessity of socialist patriotic policy.

Support to the struggle, no to the reconciliation!

Drawing attention to the conscience of the necessity of being a force among the youth, women and the labourers of Kurdistan and to become the symbol of their hopes and their struggle in order to become a more and more Kurdistanish force, the Conference have pointed out some important aspects about the national forces in our country. The conference declared that the struggle of PKK, which is the blank of the attacks of colonialism, imperialism, social chauvinism and internal reaction, "against the national denial policy and racist-fascist mangle of the Turkish bourgeoisie, on the basis of national democratic rights, is legitimate and just", and it "is on the side of national democratic demands with all its power", but it "condemns the petty-bourgeois reformist strategy, line, viewpoint and practices of the PKK which is embodied in the retreat from the target of breaking the colonialist yoke in Kurdistan and our people's freely self-determination, and the tendencies of compromise with imperialism and the Turkish bourgeoisie". The Conference drew attention to the ideas within the ranks of the national democratic movement which hide then open support of the EU imperialists to colonialism and their anti-people imperialist character and which spread the dreams of "EU solution to the Kurdish question" and emphasized the task of ideological struggle and of explaining the facts to our people pertinacious and persistently. Likewise, the Conference discussed the place of HPG (8), which is at the centre of the colonialist and imperialist attacks, in the national democratic struggle and stated: "The right of armed resistance and armed fight of our people is legitimate, virtuous and unavoidable because their country is under fascist colonialism and their national identity is denied. In this manner, any attempt to decompose HPG will have a reactionary character and will serve denial and colonialism. HPG made a just, fit move and a step forwards by ending the unilateral cease-fire(9) and getting the position of active defence with national democratic rights."

The Conference also discussed the situation of the and reformist forces of denial and surrender who try to function particularly in our country and mainly in Europe: "Parties like Hak-Par, PSK, PWD, etc., all the internet chatterers and crews living in the arms of imperialism are bourgeois-nationalist barricades for the national freedom struggle and social liberation aspirations. Because, despite all their sharp bourgeois nationalist statements, in reality, they never even bring to their minds, any serious practice against colonialism and denial. They use all their faculties to mislead our people to enter under the yoke of US and EU imperialists. The anti-PKK blocs which such parties form have no progressive character". It has exposed once more the reality of these forces which establish relations with EU and US imperialism and with colonialism in the new period, which hopes their aid and which dream of appropriating the values created by the struggle for themselves, basing on the results of the aggression policies of the imperialists and colonialists. It has emphasized the importance of giving ideological and political struggle and showing a political posture against the illusions which these forces, who do not even throw a stone for the freedom of our people, try to create.

While these forces who see the developments in Southern Kurdistan as a ground to leap forward for themselves, who slander the national democratic struggle at the North with a complete unawareness and who adopt a pro-Barzani, pro-Talabani line, are advising our people to do the same thing, the Conference announced the socialist patriotic outlook on this subject: "The self-de-termination of our people in Southern Kurdistan as a Kurdistan Regional Government inside federal Iraq is indisputable in terms of national legitimacy. Concepts like "Second Israel" used to define the tendencies or practices of founding a nation-state in Southern Kurdistan root from a colonialist and chauvinist perspective.

Despite of that, the choice made in Southern Kurdistan is completely wrong in terms of its class and social content. This choice is developed on the basis of collaboration with the US imperialism and supporting the Iraqi invasion. This choice wounds the national honour of our people in all the pieces of Kurdistan and abroad; gives a grave harm to the possibilities of common struggle and brotherly unity of our people with the peoples of the region; strengthens the most aggressive enemy of world peoples, i.e. US imperialism, in our region. For these reasons, Barzani-Talabani nationalism cannot be supported.

Our people in Southern Kurdistan should base on the spirit and action of national freedom, which is existent in its historical traditions; and should develop an equal and brotherly unity with Arabic, Turcoman and other peoples."

Emphasizing this task, the Conference drew a definite and sharp line of demarcation between itself and different illusive outlooks.

Dîsa Dîsa Serhildan !(10)

Apart from the decisions declared in the Announcement and Call to the proletariat and our peoples, the Conference also took into its agenda of discussion a critical evaluation of the party work, development dynamics, the necessities of the way to the victory of revolution, the problems of institucialization, sectoral activities, preparing cadrices, becoming Kurdistanish and socialist patriotism. Different topics like the peace-policy, EU question, the strategic tendencies of USA in the region, the developments in the other pieces of Kurdistan, the actual problems of our people, the strategic necessities of our revolution took place in the agenda of the Conference. Evaluations and decisions on all of these topics will be strong basis for the development of our party work in Kurdistan.

Underlining that despite the damages caused by the developments after 1999 and their consequences in our country, and despite all the siege of colonialism and imperialism, our people insist on their honourable march to freedom, the Conference determined with joy and enthusiasm that the conditions are more favourable today for freedom and revolution than it used to be yesterday. It has sharpened its will of war and victory. It gave the party warriors the task of being at a situation of mobilization in order to turn the slogan "Dîsa Dîsa Serhildan, MLCP-Kurdistan" into a more and more definite reality.

The Conference showed clearly the way that the socialist patriots will follow, by announcing: "The MLCP Kurdistan Organization will continue its' ongoing struggle with a higher level of determination and will, with the perspectives and objectives formulated above. In our country which experiences a revolutionary situation, MLCP Kurdistan Organization will give all its' power and faculties in a full spirit of devotion and sacrifice, for gaining a level which responds to the needs of the fight. MLCP KO will be in alliance with the forces that defend our people's revolutionary and national democratic demands against fascist colonialism and denial. It will be loyal and respectful to the values created under big pains and heavy prices, with spilt blood and lost lives, in the process of national freedom struggle". It drew attention to the tasks of our patriotic people in this struggle and it called for more serhildans.

Finally the Conference "called the Kurdistan working class, poor peasantry, labourer women, youth and all the people to raise the flag of national freedom and social liberation and to listen to, strengthen and join the ranks of MLCP and its Kurdistan Section, MLCP Kurdistan Organization for throwing out the fascist colonialism of our country which embodies in the occupation army, police stations, tax offices and prisons in terms of political annexation; in economical annexation institutions which plunder our mineral and over ground resources; and in the denial culture and assimilation centers and for the urban and rural workers, landless peasantry, urban and rural poor to achieve a free and decent life.". The conference underlined strongly that the only way for Kurdistan to reach freedom and honourable life and this way passes from defeating colonialism.

The way to follow is clear. We will walk to the future with a high spirit of self-sacrifice, with a strong desire to win, and with the hope to wave the flag of national liberation and socialism everywhere in our country from the poor cities to the purple mountains. Our tasks are heavy, there are a lot of things to do, we have hard way to walk, but still we believe that we will win, because we are the future, and the future is revolution!


Footnotes and References

*This article was taken from Dengê Kurdîstan, organ of the Kurdistan Organisation of MLCP, No 14, October-November-December, 2005

1) JITEM - Intelligence and Anti-terror Service of Gendarmerie
2) Serhildan - Kurdish uprising
3) Kurdistanish - The word used by our party in order to express the idea of, not only being "Kurdish" but also being "of Kurdistan and in Kurdistan", being a force "belonging to Kurdistan".
4) The Kurdistan country
5) This strip contains the Kurdish cities like Malatya, Antep, Maras , Sivas, which are ubicated at the border of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and where peoples from different nations, nationalities and religions live together. There have been many provocations of the Turkish colonialist state in these regions during which hundreds of people were killed.
6) Kurdistan is divided into four parts which are the Northern part within the official borders of the Turkish Republic, the Southern part within the official borders of Iraq, the Eastern part within the official borders of Iran, and the South-western part within the official borders of Syria.
7) The Kurdish language
8) HPG are the Popular Defense Forces which are the Kurdish guerrillas affiliated to PKK.
9) The unilateral cease-fire was ended in June 2004.
10)Dîsa Dîsa Serhildan! - "More and more uprising!" in Kurdish language.