برای
انتشار در سایت شعله جاوید:
The
Path of Comrade Zia Continues
The
Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan has lost one its founding
leaders and chairperson; this is a huge loss for the party, the camp
of revolution in our country, and the international Maoist movement.
Comrade
Zia, as a true communist revolutionary, dedicated his life to the
cause of communism and proletarian revolution. His life was one of
defending and promoting the principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. He
made an immensely important theoretical and practical contribution to
the cause of revolution and communism. His name and legacy will be
inscribed in the history of the Maoist struggle––not only in our
country but in the international movement.
He
was a prolific writer, a committed intellectual, and a great thinker,
unparalleled in the communist and intellectual history of our
country. Over the course of his revolutionary career, our comrade has
penned hundreds of articles and left behind thousands of written
pages addressing the different needs of the revolutionary and
communist movement. However, comrade Zia never put his name on any
document that was intended for external publication; as a true
proletarian revolutionary, he was not interested in name, fame, and
personal egoism; comrade Zia was single mindedly interested in the
development and spread of revolutionary ideas and the struggle for
proletarian revolution in Afghanistan and globally. To pay tribute to
his invaluable intellectual labour, we call on the central committee
of the party to publish selected works of comrade Zia. Publication of
his work is essential for class struggle and strengthening the camp
of revolution.
At
a time when the camp of reaction was blaring the “death of
communism” and “the end of history,” comrade Zia started the
struggle for the formation of the Communist Party of Afghanistan. He
proclaimed that delaying the formation of a communist party is
nothing but an indication of not accepting our responsibility for the
revolution in Afghanistan and global revolution. The first issue of
the second round of Sholajawid
as the central organ
of CPA announced, “at a time when social-imperialists,
imperialists, revisionists, and varieties of reactionaries are making
resentful attacks internationally, in the region, and in Afghanistan
against communism, drafting the program and founding the CPA is a
principled and courageous and appropriate communist counter attack.”
Under his leadership Sholajawid
was launched with a masthead of the Mao Zedong quote: “To bring
about a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party. Without a
revolutionary party, without a party based on
Marxist-Leninist-[Maoist] theory and the Marxist-Leninist-[Maoist]
style, it is impossible to lead the working classes and large popular
masses to victory in their struggle against imperialism and its
lackeys.”
On
the 7th
of October 2001, when the American imperialist coalition invaded and
occupied Afghanistan, the Communist Party of Afghanistan under
comrade Zia’s leadership, took a stance against the imperialist
occupation and its puppet regime. When opportunists and revisionists
rushed in under the wings of the occupation, the CPA called for the
unity of the MLM movement into one party to provide an MLM response
to the imperialist invasion and occupation. Thus, the Communist
(Maoist) Party of Afghanistan was founded. The third round of
Sholajawid,
as the central organ of the C(M)PA, started publishing with the
masthead, “Sholajawid
is the central organ of the C(M)PA, which is principally in the
service of initiating and carrying forward the revolutionary people’s
war of national resistance (the form of people’s war particular to
the current situation).”
Comrade
Zia paid significant attention to the Maoist theory of principal
contradiction. He never missed an opportunity to highlight that the
principal contradiction is between imperialism and the oppressed
peoples and nations. In the context of Afghanistan, he emphasized
that the principal contradiction is between the imperialist
occupation and the puppet regime, on the one hand, and the peoples of
the country, on the other.
In
1987 comrade Zia founded the Revolutionary Communist Cell of
Afghanistan (RCCA), becoming the first organization to raise the
banner of communism in the country, in its name. He made a rupture
with the unprincipled tradition in the communist movement of the
country where the banner of communism was hidden behind democratic,
new democratic, and even Islamist slogans. He established the
Revolutionary Communist Organization of Afghanistan (RCOA) in 1989,
which led to the formation of the Communist Party of Afghanistan
(CPA) in 1990. The RCOA under comrade Zia’s leadership became the
third organization in the world to accept Maoism as the third and
highest stage of revolutionary science and ideology.
Moreover,
RCCA and RCOA, under his leadership, launched the Voice
of
Revolution
as their organ, making another radical rupture from the deviationist
tradition where organizations claiming to be communist were
publishing journals (and some still are) with religious slogans.
Later, by launching the second round of Sholajawid
as the central organ of the CPA as a communist
(Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) journal, he took important steps forward in
answering the theoretical and ideological needs of revolutionary
struggle and communism in the country. Comrade Zia constantly strived
for the unity of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist movement in the country.
He constantly fought against sectarianism, individualism,
petty-bourgeois egoism that were hurdles confronting the unity of the
MLM movement in the country.
Comrade
Zia continuously, criticized and exposed the capitulationist
positions of revisionist and left-liberal forces and their hollow
theoretical basis in Afghanistan. The persistence of the C(M)PA in
this struggle forced some of the capitulationists to at least
partially abandon their position and pay lip service to
anti-occupation rhetoric. Our comrade firmly believed in and applied
the communist principle of criticism and self-criticism,
struggle-unity-struggle. The first issue of the second round of
Sholajawid
stated: “Sholajawid
will carry forward the struggle against opportunism dominant in
groups and forces, remnants of the new-democratic movement. However,
it will strive to learn from the past mistakes and will not engage in
futile verbal tirades and ad hominem attacks.” Comrade Zia and the
party under his leadership remained committed to this. His legacy
provides a positive model for future ideological and line struggles
within our movement. He was a model revolutionary organizer, and a
dear comrade for the true communists and revolutionaries.
Comrade
Zia was an example of a true internationalist. It was under his
theoretical and ideological leadership that the C(M)PA took a
principled stance against deviationist and revisionist lines within
the Revolutionary International Movement, which were responsible for
the collapse of RIM. He paid immense importance to building an
international Maoist organization, and saw it as imperative for the
growth of the communist movement internationally and in Afghanistan.
Therefore, Comrade Zia has penned over several dozen articles on
important line issues of the international Maoist movement and
towards struggle for the formation of an international Maoist
organization.
Comrade
Zia’s empty place would be felt in the struggle of our party and
the international Marxist-Leninist-Maoist movement. However, we
continue comrade’s Zia path by harbouring revolutionary humility,
grasping Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and applying the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist style of work and mass line in all our
struggles. To this end, comrade Zia’s legacy provides us with a
model of learning and improving; we should firmly uphold and apply
the principals of criticism and self-criticism and learn from
previous mistakes. Comrade Zia, like a true communist revolutionary,
never stopped learning. He taught us to remain in close contact with
the masses, learn from the masses, improve and learn in the trenches
of class struggle and apply theory to praxis.
We
pay our deepest condolences to the central committee of the C(M)PA,
all members and supporters of the party, the international Maoist
movement, and we particularly express our deepest sympathy with our
comrade’s family and loved ones.
Comrades
rest assured, the flag of struggle that has been kept flying by
sacrifices of tens of thousands of Maoist and new-democratic
militants in our country will not fall. The flame of struggle for
Maoism will not be extinguished as highlighted in the preface of our
party programme, “this flame is more ablaze than before and burning
and is going to put fire on the life stock of enemies, a big fire, a
mighty fire.”
Long
Live Comrade Zia!
Long
Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Long
Live the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan!
Long
Live Proletarian internationalism!
Communist
(Maoist) Party of Afghanistan, unit, #6
24
Jun 2020
