Today is the first martyrdom anniversary of Comrade Basavaraju, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the brave soldier of the revolutionary communist movement in India, who fought till his last breath alongside of the Indian toiling masses.
Revolucion obrera Colombia
Desde el 1° de Mayo la Central Obrera Boliviana inició un paro general indefinido por demandas salariales, contra la escasez de combustibles y el desabastecimiento; un movimiento que fue escalando hacia mediados de mayo, y hoy se vienen desarrollando fuertes protestas, donde los obreros, campesinos, indígenas, mineros y estudiantes han salido masivamente a sentar su voz de protesta contra el gobierno burgués de Rodrigo Paz, servil a EE.UU. e Israel. Incluso, las protestas ya han impactado a nivel internacional.
El imperialismo estadounidense señaló como golpe de Estado el levantamiento. El gobierno del reaccionario Milei, de Argentina, apoyó a Paz con un avión militar que supuestamente transportaba alimentos, algo contradictorio cuando a la clase obrera argentina le toca comer carne de burro para sobrevivir. Hay denuncias del movimiento en Bolivia que acusan que la ayuda de Milei consistió en armas para reprimir. En cuanto al gobierno colombiano, el presidente Petro denominó la lucha como una insurrección popular, llamó al diálogo y en las últimas horas se han roto las relaciones, siendo los embajadores de ambos países expulsados.
El gobierno boliviano, que es abiertamente pro-estadounidense, aplicó una serie de políticas que afectan seriamente a la clase obrera y los campesinos. Una de ellas es la Ley 1720, una reforma agraria que pretende aumentar los impuestos a los pequeños propietarios y otras imposiciones que los afectan llevándolos a vender sus propiedades a grandes propietarios de tierras. Otra de las afectaciones ha sido la alta inflación durante 2025 que, se ha mantenido en 2026 aun cuando se ha frenado la tendencia al alza afectando el poder adquisitivo del pueblo.
Asimismo, el alto costo de vida se agudizó por una decisión que tomó el gobierno de retirar el subsidio a los combustibles, lo que llevó al aumento de los precios de los alimentos y el transporte. A esto se añade que la gasolina que se está vendiendo es de baja calidad y está dañando automotores. Y de remate, lo que hizo estallar la indignación popular es la reforma constitucional que el gobierno viene impulsando con el fin de entregar los hidrocarburos y la minería a las multinacionales imperialistas; reforma que el FMI ve con buenos ojos para volver a someter a Bolivia.
Esas son las razones que han desatado la ira de las masas en ese país, e incluso el planteamiento mayor del movimiento en estos momentos es derrocar al actual gobierno burgués. Algo que ha caracterizado por años al movimiento de masas boliviano es su nivel de organización y conciencia de lucha. A pesar de que en el país no exista un partido de la clase obrera y la influencia de los comunistas sea marginal, la dirigencia de las diferentes organizaciones sociales que están al frente del levantamiento popular han adquirido la conciencia de que la única forma de avanzar es con la lucha revolucionaria de las masas. Igualmente, durante las protestas se han podido observar Asambleas Populares en las ciudades, con masas conscientes y organizadas, con dirigentes que no ceden a pesar de que el gobierno ha intentado negociar por aparte con algunos de ellos para dividir el movimiento. La decisión que ha tomado la mayoría de las organizaciones es derrocar al gobierno actual.
Algunas de las organizaciones más destacadas en su actuación son la Federación de Campesinos Túpac Katari, la Central Obrera Boliviana, los mineros organizados en cooperativas, el movimiento indígena de Ponchos Rojos y algunas juntas vecinales de La Paz y El Alto. A medida que han crecido las protestas, han venido uniéndose los sindicatos de transportadores, los estudiantes y el magisterio que ya había protestado en abril y ha vuelto a las calles.
Algo para resaltar es que existe una coordinación, planeación y objetivos claros en las protestas. Las organizaciones tomaron sitios estratégicos del país, cerraron las vías nacionales, tomaron las ciudades más importantes y donde se encuentra el centro político. También han tomado aeropuertos, como es el caso del aeropuerto de Chimoré, en el Trópico de Cochabamba, donde campesinos cocaleros lo ocuparon para evitar desembarcos de una posible operación entre la DEA y el gobierno boliviano para secuestrar al dirigente del Movimiento al Socialismo, Evo Morales. Asimismo, los mineros usaron dinamita para defenderse de la fuerte represión estatal; los Ponchos Rojos han anunciado que si es necesario, se levantarán en armas contra el gobierno; incluso las masas han tomado algunas estaciones de policía y los policías no han puesto resistencia. Todo esto muestra una profunda crisis social y política donde el pueblo no quiere seguir viviendo como antes y quiere derrocar al presidente Paz pero aún no es consciente de que debe destruir el viejo Estado de los explotadores para instaurar el suyo propio y, por tanto, la dirección del movimiento está en manos del reformismo cuya máxima aspiración es cambiar de gobernantes.
Los comunistas saludamos y nos solidarizamos con este levantamiento que se está presentando en Bolivia. Enviamos todo nuestro apoyo a los obreros, campesinos e indígenas que están dando su vida para derrotar al gobierno burgués servil al imperialismo yanqui y a los sionistas.
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the TKP/ML: Communist Leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya is the very embodiment of courage in the face of the enemy, hope in the face of defeat, and the faith and will to triumph in the face of despair!
Workers, youth, women, and comrades of various nationalities,
On the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of Comrade Ibrahim KAYPAKKAYA, the Communist Leader who revealed the nature of the Turkish revolution and the codes of its social and political structure on May 18, 1973, we once again declare our determination to follow in his footsteps.
We are living in a historical period in which the imperialist-capitalist system is imposing war, hunger, poverty, and a futureless existence on the peoples of the world with even greater recklessness. From the Middle East to Latin America, from the Balkans to Asia, and from Africa to Eastern Europe, the peoples of the world are being targeted by imperialist aggression, war-mongering, economic ruin, and fascist repressive policies. On a global scale, the ruling classes are attempting to overcome their crises by imposing even harsher living conditions on the working class, laborers, women, youth, and oppressed peoples.
In Turkey, fascism is trying to survive by intensifying repression, detentions, arrests, torture, poverty, and disorganization. The policy of denial and annihilation targeting the Kurdish nation continues. As workers resist for their most basic rights, they face State terrorism. Youth are condemned to a futureless existence, women to male-dominated violence, and peasants to plunder and impoverishment.
The AKP-MHP clique is expanding the support it receives from the ruling classes, in parallel with the determination shown by U.S. imperialism in its regional calculations. Backed more strongly by the support of the capitalist-landlord class, this dominant AKP-MHP clique continues to intensify its attacks—using the levers of power and all its might—against other cliques, primarily the CHP, in order to preserve its political power.
The AKP-MHP clique has fixated on the goal of dismantling and undermining the Kurds’ organizational structures, resistance forces, and tools for seeking rights and struggle under the guise of a “peaceful solution” to the Kurdish national question. A policy of reform and compromise has become the main course of the Kurdish National Movement. The “New Solution Process,” which began on October 22, 2024, has served as a cover for a series of insidious and treacherous attacks that restrict the Kurds’ national rights. The “New Solution Process” has functioned as an overt liquidation process.
This process constitutes a sharp attack on the idea of “armed struggle for liberation.”
This process is a denial of the necessity of the Right to Self-Determination for National Liberation.
This process is a scheme to enslave every part of Kurdistan and even more Kurds for the sake of the Turkish Republic’s reactionary regional interests.
This process amounts to a departure from the claim of democratization and the integration of Kurds into imperialism, fascism, and jihadist reactionary forces.
This process is the continued expansion of reactionary, oppressive, and denialist Turkish national sovereignty over the Kurdish nation.
We reject the solution sought through imperialism and its lackey, fascism. Against the status of an oppressed nation imposed on the Kurdish nation, we say: Long live the Kurdish nation’s right to self-determination. The Turkish nation will not be free unless the Kurdish nation is free, otherwise imperialism and fascism will be the victors.
While the AKP-MHP clique stokes chauvinism with its “national and local” rhetoric, it has ensured the further deepening of the Turkish Republic’s structure, which is deeply dependent on imperialism’s economic and political system. This is not a choice for them but the inevitable result of their class interests. This deepening dependence has led to greater decay and corruption in politics, culture, and the economy. This subservience to imperialism has cast even more darkness, uncertainty, and a lack of future prospects over the lives of the people.
Comrades,
da ORE12/Controinformazione rossoperaia del 18.05.26
Sabato 16 vi è stata a Milano una nuova manifestazione nazionale di solidarietà al popolo palestinese indetta dalle associazioni palestinesi in Italia, dai sindacati di base, dal movimento degli studenti nelle sue diverse forme, dalle realtà di organizzazioni e partiti della sinistra rivoluzionaria e con la partecipazione di rappresentanze di partiti parlamentari o che lavorano per partecipare alle elezioni.
Questa manifestazione è stata di oltre 10.000 persone e, tenendo conto che si teneva a Milano e che quindi poteva coinvolgere tecnicamente come partecipazione larga, le realtà del Nord, innanzitutto di Milano, ma anche da Torino, dal Veneto, da Bologna, da Genova, mentre era molto difficile la partecipazione di delegazioni che provenissero da Firenze in giù e ancor meno dalle città del Sud e come città del Sud erano presenti i rappresentanti di Taranto, aderenti alla manifestazione come Slai cobas e presenti all'interno della delegazione di proletari comunisti come una delle organizzazioni politiche partecipanti.
Il corteo è stato indetto in questa data perché l'anniversario della Nakba, la più importante pagina storica dell’occupazione, deportazione, espulsione del popolo palestinese dalla sua terra che ci sia stata nella storia di questo popolo prima dell’attuale fase di genocidio, deportazione, dello Stato sionista di Israele con il sostegno innanzitutto dell'imperialismo americano e poi di tutti gli Stati e dei governi imperialisti reazionari del mondo, anche nel mondo arabo.
Quindi è una data fondamentale per il popolo palestinese perché da questa data nasce la volontà e l'aspirazione del popolo palestinese a conquistare la liberazione, l’autodeterminazione, la nascita di uno
Mumbai City District, May 16, 2026: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sought cancellation of the bail granted to lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj and Telugu poet Varavara Rao, both accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, alleging that they violated their bail conditions by attending an event at the Mumbai Press Club where other defendants in the case were present.
A special court on Friday (May 15, 2026) sought the response of Bharadwaj and Rao to an application filed by the National Investigation Agency seeking cancellation of their bail.
Bharadwaj was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in December 2021, while Rao was granted interim bail on medical grounds in February 2021. Rao’s interim bail was extended from time to time before being confirmed by the Supreme Court in August 2022.
The NIA claimed that both Bharadwaj and Rao had violated bail conditions that barred them from establishing communication with other defendants in the Bhima Koregaon case, or persons allegedly involved in similar activities.
According to the NIA, Bharadwaj and Rao attended a meeting held on January 19 on the terrace of the Mumbai Press Club, where other defendants in the Elgaar Parishad case were present.
The NIA alleged that the January 19 gathering was aimed at propagating the ideology of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and discussing the future course of the “Urban Naxal” movement.
In its application seeking cancellation of bail, the agency attached a copy of the Mumbai Press Club inquiry committee report, CCTV footage of the gathering, and referred to call data records of the accused.
The Case
The Bhima Koregaon case pertains to the violence that broke out near Pune on January 1, 2018, a day after a conclave called the Elgar Parishad was organized to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon.
The NIA has alleged that the Elgar Parishad conclave was part of a larger Maoist conspiracy to stoke caste violence, destabilize the Union government and assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sixteen people were arrested in the case.
But when the Supreme Court in 2023 granted bail to two persons accused in the case, it noted that the primary evidence cited by the NIA – a batch of letters – was of “weak probative value or quality”. In addition, a digital forensics firm, Arsenal Consulting, concluded that false evidence had been planted on the laptops and devices of the accused persons.
Of the 16 accused persons in the Bhima Koregaon case, 14 have been released on bail. Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, who was also a defendant in the case, died in prison in 2021.
Another accused person in the Bhima Koregaon case, Surendra Gadling, got bail from the Bombay High Court on May 4. However, he remains in jail as his bail application in a 2016 arson case is pending before the Supreme Court.
Bolivia. El país vive una situación revolucionaria en medio de la crisis estructural del capitalismo burocrático y las medidas antipopulares del gobierno derechista de Rodrigo Paz, quien desde que tomó protesta hace seis meses ha venido profundizando la contradicción entre el viejo Estado y las masas populares. Las protestas no han parado desde entonces, primero contra el gasolinazo, luego contra el aumento del costo de la vida, después contra la ley de tierras latifundista, y ahora también en exigencia de aumento al salario general de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, ante la incapacidad del régimen que solo sabe responder con represión y terrorismo de Estado, las masas plantean ahora como demanda central la renuncia de Paz. Desde el pasado 1° de mayo una Huelga General sacude al país involucrando cientos de movilizaciones en diversas regiones, al menos 70 bloqueos carreteros y enfrentamientos recurrentes con la policía antimotines y el ejército reaccionario. Este día 18 de mayo una megamarcha recorrió desde El Alto hasta La Paz (capital del país) generando nuevos choques entre los manifestantes y el viejo Estado dejando un saldo de al menos 57 detenidos y 4 asesinados. Los enfrentamientos de este día han sido particularmente violentos; el pueblo responde con dinamita a las balas asesinas del régimen. El gobierno reduce la situación a una provocación de “Evo Morales” y sus seguidores. En realidad, la gran burguesía y los terratenientes no alcanzan a entender que ya no pueden seguir gobernando como antes, y que las masas no quieren seguir siendo gobernadas como hasta ahora. ¡Solidaridad total con el pueblo boliviano! ¡Viva la Huelga General!
sol rojo
Today a general strike in Kenya takes place, protesting mainly against the increasing fuel prices which are affecting the Kenyan people. Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority last week raised retail fuel prices by as much as 23.5% – after hiking them by 24.2% last month. Today morning, roads into the capital Nairobi were blocked by striking transport workers, and in Mombasa, Kenya’s main port city, the strike raised concerns about supply-chain delays.
The general strike is underway across the major cities of Kenya. The Kenyan masses have taken to the streets and they are confronting the State and showing that they won’t retreat.
The State has responded as it usually does: deploying police and military forces to the streets. Numerous denouncements have appeared in social media, as the police and military forces are
The State has responded as it usually does: deploying police and military forces to the streets. Numerous denouncements have appeared in social media, as the police and military forces are unleashing their repression against the people. At least two protesters have been murdered.
Today, the first audience of the trial against five students who joined the protests against the French imperialism summit organized in Nairobi, takes place. The students protested in the University of Nairobi and they are members of the Revolutionary Students Commission, and also of the Communist Party Marxist of Kenya (CPM-K). One of the students charged is the chairperson of the student organization, Samuel Jobunga. The CPM-K has called to express solidarity.
The prosecution and the investigating officer did not appear in court to defend their case today.
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The demonstration took place next to the Huis ten Bosch palace, where Modi was warmly received by the King of the Netherlands for lunch. The irony that the same city hosts the International Criminal Court, a supposed bastion of justice, was not lost on the demonstrators. Speeches from Revolutionaire Actie, Rotterdam Front for Liberation, ILPS, and Indian diaspora members highlighted the multi-pronged onslaught of Brahmanical Hindutva fascism on the Indian workers, peasants, youth, women, religious minorities, oppressed castes, and oppressed nationalities like Kashmir and Manipur. The comprador nature of India’s ruling class was exposed, drawing the connection with the deal currently being negotiated and the increasing immiseration of the Indian masses. The importance of actively organizing a revolutionary movement in the Netherlands that can extend solidarity with the Indian masses was highlighted.
Slogans were raised in support of the revolution in India, for the self-determination of the Kashmiri people, and against Brahmanical Hindutva fascism and its agent, Narendra Modi. Attempts by fascist supporters of Modi, in collaboration with the Indian embassy and its employees, to intimidate the demonstrators were resisted.
Long live the resistance of the Indian and Kashmiri people!
Death to Brahmanical Hindutva fascism!
Victory to the masses in the global struggle against imperialism!
Editorial REBEL!
16 May 2026
Venue: Deputy Speaker’s Hall, Constitution Club of India, New Delhi
Date: 3rd June 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
revolucion obrera - colombia
Entre el 13 y el 15 de mayo, Donald Trump visitó China con la delegación estadounidense, compuesta por funcionarios gubernamentales y los CEOS -Directores Ejecutivos- Jensen Huang y Elon Musk, de Nvidia y Tesla respectivamente, además de representantes de otras empresas como Apple, Citibank y Boeing. Llegaron a Beijing, donde fueron recibidos con celebraciones por Xi Jinping junto a los altos cargos del Estado, en medio de los preparativos de la gran cumbre imperialista que se realizó durante estos días para trazar el nuevo orden de las zonas de influencia y los intereses económicos de ambos países.
Como parte del acto oficial entre el representante político del imperialismo estadounidense, Donald Trump, y a su vez Xi Jinping del socialimperialismo chino, la agenda mediática estuvo marcada por una fuerte narrativa de toma de decisiones estratégicas y control geopolítico, como si el mundo les perteneciera. En palabras de Xi Jinping: «El mundo se encuentra ante una nueva era. El mundo nos observa y necesitamos dar mensajes claros e inequívocos».
We express our red and internationalist proletarian greetings to Ibrahim Kaypakkaya,
the TKP-ML and the MKP.
The historical function of the TKP/ML in the present era had a new beginning with the birth of the Communist Party in 1972, led by comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, in the wake of the struggle against revisionism and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
It is right, therefore, today to combine the anniversary of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya with the 60th anniversary of the launch of the GPCR.
As it was written in a joint statement of a previous anniversary, Kaypakkaya is one of the best students of GPCR, he considered his ideas, the Tkp/ml a product of GPCR.
Ibrahim Kaypakkaya was the most conscious student of the influence of the GPCR in the world, following the proletarian revolutionary ideas of Chairman Mao, Kaypakkaya became its conscious and courageous spokesman in Turkey.
This role placed him in the Olympus of the great leaders of the world proletarian revolution.
For this reason, today's celebration has nothing ritual, but is an indispensable step in the international struggle against the capitalist/imperialist system.
Turkey is one of the main countries in the world, an important node of the three contradictions: the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the contradiction between imperialists and oppressed peoples, the inter-imperialist contradiction, which characterizes the capitalist mode of production and the proletarian revolution in the epoch of imperialism defined by Lenin.
Turkey is a potential weak link in the world imperialist chain and therefore the great hopes of the world proletarian revolution are entrusted to the revolutionary struggle of the Turkish proletariat and popular masses.
In the current phase, the tendency toward a Third World War is advancing, manifesting itself in wars of aggression against peoples, from Ukraine to Iran, and Palestine too. At the same time, we are witnessing reactionarization and fascism in both the imperialist countries and the oppressed peoples by imperialism, with the increased oppression of the masses and the proletariat, and the intensification of the exploitation of the working class.
But where there is oppression, there is rebellion!
US
imperialism in particular, with the Nazi-type presidency of Trump,
has raised the level and intensified the march of imperialist war; It
has given full coverage to the genocide of the Palestinian people. He
advanced in the war for the partition of Ukraine with Russian
imperialism. Then with the aggression against Venezuela, and now with
the imperialist and Zionist war of aggression against Iran, to
overthrow the legitimate governments and install new puppet
governments in their place.
That’ why it is necessary to be on
the side of Iran, on the side of the proletarians and popular masses
of Iran, with the Palestinian resistance and all the Arab masses of
the Middle East under attack and
support all the blows
inflicted on US imperialism and the Zionist state of Israel,
aggressors, warmongers, and genociders, denouncing also the
complicity and participation of all imperialist governments and
states.
it is necessary to fight for the international unity of
the proletarians and peoples of the region, for the unity of the
proletarians and popular masses of the imperialist countries and the
proletarians, nations, and peoples oppressed by imperialism.
While we oppose our domestic imperialism and imperialism in general, at the same time we must support all the just wars i.e. the national liberation struggles and the people's wars being waged in India and the Philippines led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Communist Party of the Philippines, so as the Communist Party of Turkey.
Supporting
the people’s war in India and the Communist Party of India
(Maoist), in this sense, is one of the fundamental tasks of the
revolutionary, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist communist movements of
the world.
For this reason, it is due to all of us to stop
imperialism, Modi’s regime and their genocidal hand, as part of the
global struggle against imperialism, that leads to wars, fascism,
poverty and oppression of peoples. Let’s
say loud then: STOP OPERATION KAGAAR! RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
IN INDIA/ STOP ADIVASI'S GENOCIDE!
In the face of all this, the proletarians, the popular masses, the peoples oppressed by imperialism have no other way than to intensify the struggle, develop social and popular revolts and movements aimed at overthrowing reactionary governments in the service of imperialism and the ruling classes.
To this aim, the MLM Parties and Organizations must unite to carry out together the national and international tasks of the MLM communist movement. They must unite on two fundamental issues: unity based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; the intransigent struggle against revisionism, as a secondary enemy the sectarian, ideological and purely propagandist petty-bourgeois currents that use Maoism as a weapon of division from Marxism-Leninism, from the relationship between communists, proletariat and masses for the affirmation of Maoism.
And to this aim also it is necessary to create today a unitary International Communist Forum capable of helping to lead the proletariat in the capitalist and imperialist countries and in the countries oppressed by imperialism in the struggle, mobilizing all the anti-imperialist forces, the national liberation movements and the advanced parts of the movements against war, fascism, reaction and repression, genocides, territorial and environmental devastation.
Long live Ibrahim Kaypakkaya!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Maoist Communist Party – Italy
May 2026
e Have Not Forgotten May 18, and We Will Not Let It Be Forgotten!
İBRAHİM KAYPAKKAYA IS OUR COMPASS!
It has been 53 years since the assassination of the communist leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya. This period of time—long for a human life but short for societies—has validated a significant portion of the theses İbrahim Kaypakkaya put forward. The class struggle and social practice have more than sufficiently confirmed the views he defended as a young communist leader. History has proven İbrahim Kaypakkaya right. As his successors, we continue to draw inspiration from his struggle and expand his legacy by internalizing his stance toward life—the very stance that enabled him to create miracles.
The 1960s and ’70s were years when political, social, and national liberation struggles developed and intensified, both globally and in our country. The momentum gained in ’68 had, by the time the ’70s arrived, undergone a qualitative leap within the framework of political struggle; the tools, methods, and paths of political struggle underwent a radical transformation. The youth’s struggle merged and developed with the spontaneous actions of the working class, peasant masses, and the laboring people as a whole.
The “1971 Armed Revolutionary Uprising” was a revolutionary breakthrough resulting from this new search for and understanding of political struggle, and it took place under conditions where fascist attacks were intensifying. In this sense, the ’71 uprising was the culmination of the anti-imperialist, anti -fascist struggle of the youth—characterized as the “’68 Generation”—which began in the ’60s, the working class’s June 15–16 Resistance and increasing strikes, peasant actions, and the world-shaking impact of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution—all converged to shatter the reformist line that had become dominant following the massacre of the Mustafa Suphi group. This makes the ’71 Uprising a significant milestone in the history of the Turkish revolution. İbrahim Kaypakkaya was the communist face of this uprising.
One of the key factors distinguishing Kaypakkaya from his contemporaries was the lessons he drew from the developing working-class struggle, particularly the Great Workers’ Resistance of June 15–16. Drawing on the experience of this resistance, he clearly demonstrated that the struggle for power would succeed not through reformist or parliamentary means, but by organizing the struggle of the masses. Kaypakkaya did not advocate for the “revolution” (!) of a handful of intellectuals and the “vital forces” of the army that were in vogue at the time, but rather for a revolution led by the working class, grounded in the peasantry, requiring the participation of the masses, and led by the Communist Party.
In this sense, Kaypakkaya is not a “peasant revolutionary,” as he has often and mistakenly been portrayed in propaganda. He emphasized the vanguard and leading role of the working class in the revolution and defended a line of armed struggle based on the fundamental worker-peasant alliance under the leadership of the working class. This was one of the defining points that distinguished Kaypakkaya from other revolutionary leaders of the time.
Another key point distinguishing Kaypakkaya from other revolutionary leaders of the time is his approach to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR). Kaypakkaya took a stand in favor of the GPCR, which was a decisive development for the International Communist Movement of his era. He adapted the universal lessons of the GPCR to the practice of class struggle in our region; he concretized this by stating, “Our Movement is a product of the GPCR.”
Kaypakkaya clearly declared his stance in the international arena regarding the polarization within the communist movement between Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and modern revisionism. Furthermore, in this ideological struggle, he achieved a definitive break by taking a firm stance against the revisionism and reformism entrenched within the TKP, fighting these ideologies on the basis of MLM, and by founding the TKP-ML, he raised the banner of communism. This point is crucial for understanding Kaypakkaya’s role within the TDH. His fundamental understanding and orientation during this process were characterized by a clear stance against revisionism, the exposure of the true nature of Kemalism, a clear position and analysis regarding the national question/Kurdish national question, and a clear stance on issues such as state analysis and armed struggle.
Theory Derived from the Practice of Class Struggle
The fact that the views Kaypakkaya put forward remain relevant today is directly linked to his approach to the struggle of the masses. Kaypakkaya was never a “desk-bound revolutionary”; he immersed himself in the masses’ class struggle practice at every opportunity. He was able to synthesize the lessons and experiences gained from these practices with the science of MLM, the most advanced science of our era.
From this perspective, we can confidently state that Kaypakkaya’s theses were shaped within the practice of the masses’ class struggle; as he learned from the masses’ practice, he synthesized these experiences with the MLM science. His revolutionary method has ensured that his theses continue to live and exist within the practice of the masses’ class struggle even today.
For example, his revolutionary work in the Kurdish provinces led him to advance his theses on the “National Question” specifically regarding the Kurdish national issue; subsequent social practice and the development of the Kurdish national movement have confirmed the importance of these theses. Kaypakkaya’s approach to the national question—not from the perspective of the oppressor or oppressed nation, but from the standpoint of the proletariat’s class interests—has led to a clear demarcation among those who identify as communists or define themselves as revolutionaries under today’s conditions.
A similar situation applies to the evaluation of Kemalism—the official ideology of the Turkish ruling classes—the definition of the Turkish state apparatus, the leadership of the Communist Party, the path and methods of the revolution, and all other such decisive issues.
He approached every contradiction in line with the interests of the working class and the toiling masses. It can and must be said that, under today’s conditions, the criterion for being a communist should be evaluated based on one’s approach to İbrahim Kaypakkaya’s theses. Because his theses were distilled from the actions and practices of the masses within the class struggles of our region.
His ideological development and the process of concretizing MLM science in our country—beginning with his involvement in mass struggles within the TİP (Turkish Workers' Party) ranks, particularly among the student youth; the intense questioning of the ideology guiding the TİP while he was in those ranks; his subsequent break with parliamentarism and reformism; his alignment with the National Democratic Revolution ranks; and his critical approach to and break from that ideology; followed by the clarification of the role of the masses in the revolution and his alignment with the ranks of the Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment, his subsequent break with the Dawn Revisionists—the successors of this movement—as a result of his critical analysis, and finally, the presentation of his programmatic theses, all of which can be summarized as the MLM period.
As can be understood from this, Kaypakkaya carried out a continuous break with the MLM direction in the practical, political struggle within the ideology of the working class, the proletariat; he “discarded the stale and embraced the fresh,” condemning the forms that bourgeois ideology had taken while breaking with the past, and advanced continuously through intense struggle. This is the meaning of his being the communist face of the Revolutionary movement of Turkey.
Don’t Forget May 18!
İbrahim Kaypakkaya’s differences are strikingly clear and systematic. In the struggle between right and wrong, discarding what is wrong and erroneous and replacing it with what is right; concretizing this in the next practical orientation; the ability to bring potential, dynamics, and power to the fore; a practice of work and organization rooted in deep trust in the masses and a firm belief that the revolution will be the work of the masses…
All of these are of such value and importance that they will serve as our compass in every revolutionary practice, large or small, carried out under today’s conditions. The fundamental aim of all these revolutionary efforts is to reach, organize, and build broader masses by adopting Kaypakkaya’s revolutionary method.
The process we are going through necessitates the task of defending Kaypakkaya’s revolutionary line against revisionism, all forms of reformism, and parliamentary illusions, and of forging a revolutionary communist line within the masses. As preparations for a new imperialist war of partition accelerate, as the Turkish ruling classes reposition themselves through NATO meetings in anticipation of this war, and as the “expiration” of armed struggle is declared, and under conditions where every revolutionary resistance hub is being targeted for elimination under the banner of “Turkey Without Terror,” our compass must be the Kaypakkaya line, and our practical orientation must be the revolutionary tasks of the moment!
Wherever we are, whatever revolutionary work we undertake, our motto must be: “Do Not Forget May 18!”
In the words of our Leader, “for a tighter, stronger, and more resolute struggle”, with his boldness and courage, let us fan the flames of rebellion wherever the working masses stand against imperialist wars, exploitation, and poverty!
İbrahim Kaypakkaya Is Immortal!
Long Live Our Party TKP-ML, TİKKO, KKB, TMLGB
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
TKP-ML Central Committee
May 2026
Link: https://www.tkpml.com/tkp-ml-central-committee-ibrahim-kaypakkaya-is-our-compass/?swcfpc=1
Tribute on the 53rd Martyrdom Anniversary of Comrade Ibrahim
Kaypakkaya, the Foremost Leader of the Maoist Movement in Turkey
Comrades,
Accept revolutionary greetings on behalf of our Party. We received your
invitation to participate in the programs commemorating the 53rd Martyrdom
Anniversary of the great Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. While we have accepted
the invitation, we are unable to be physically present. Therefore, we are sending
this message of tribute.
We remember Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya with the deepest respect. In the
1970s, Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, along with Comrade Charu Majumdar,
Comrade Chiang Ching, Comrade Siraj Sikder, and Comrade Jose Maria Sison,
played a vanguard role in establishing Maoism as the third stage of Marxism-
Leninism worldwide. For this reason, we recognize Comrade Ibrahim
Kaypakkaya not only as a leader of the people of Turkey but as a foundational
leader of the international Maoist movement.
Comrades,
To mask their inherent catastrophes, imperialism and its lapdog lackey regimes
are imposing fascism across nations, pushing the masses toward the brink of a
Third World War. In such a period, our primary responsibility is to develop
People’s War in every country following the path of Comrade Ibrahim
Kaypakkaya, and to prepare the masses for a life-and-death struggle against
fascism and imperialism.
Simultaneously, it is the duty of us all to shoulder the responsibility of building a
unified international organization of Maoists. Today, honoring Comrade Ibrahim
Kaypakkaya can only have these two meanings in our realization.
We note that two parties are jointly organizing today’s program. We hope that this
journey through the process of unity-struggle-unity will lead to the birth of a
single, unified Maoist Party on the soil of Turkey.
Comrades,
Our Party is persistently attempting to develop a successful Protracted People’s
War in our country, navigating through various ups and downs. Under the
leadership of our Chairman, Comrade Anwar Kabir, our Party is developing the
line of People’s War for a plainland country like ours through a comprehensive
historical synthesis.
Over the last 60 years, significant socio-economic changes have occurred in neo-
colonial countries worldwide. We are striving to advance our struggle by
analyzing these new conditions, such as the survival of semi-feudalism in new
forms through its alliance with bureaucratic-comprador capitalism, and the
massive urbanization fueled by the deep penetration of imperialist capital.
In Conclusion,
We conclude by once again paying our revolutionary tribute to Comrade Ibrahim
Kaypakkaya.
Red Salute!
With Revolutionary Greetings,
International Department,
Proletarian Party of Purbo Bangla (PBSP/Bangladesh),
14-05-2026.
India: Surrender-No Revolution Possible via Parliamentarism or So-Called Unarmed Mass Uprisings!
Must Continue the People’s War to Complete the New Democratic Revolution!
March 24th, 2026
The ongoing People’s War in India is crossing a major crisis. To destroy it, a horrific repressive campaign named ‘Operation Kagaar’ was launched at the beginning of 2024. Their target is to make India ‘Maoist-free’ by March 2026. After the failure of various repressive operations like ‘Salwa Judum’, ‘Green Hunt’, ‘Samadhan’, and ‘Prahar’ launched since 2009 with the aid of imperialism, the ruling bureaucrat-comprador capitalist class is now conducting this brutal “Kagaar” operation. For this purpose, the ruling class is carrying out genocide by violating their own constitution, laws, and regulations. In this repressive campaign, many tribal people, along with the Party’s General Secretary Basavaraj, PLGA chief Hidma, women’s leader Renuka, and hundreds of leaders and cadres of various levels, have embraced heroic martyrdom.
The Maoists of India were not only successfully resisting these repressive campaigns of the Hindutva fascist Modi government but were also continuing counterattacks.] However, exhausted by this repression, the liquidationist Sonu-Satish clique within the party emerged in mid-2025 with a ‘Surrender Line’ of “establishing peace” in the name of a ceasefire. According to government versions, several thousand leaders and cadres have surrendered following that line. On the other hand, the media-created secretary Tirupati alias Devji, who took an opportunist position to save his life after being arrested by the enemy, called Sonu-Satish traitors in an interview from a government guesthouse. At the same time, he is demanding the lifting of the government ban on the party and the dissolution of the PLGA. Both lines are liquidationist. Frustrated by government repression, they are abandoning the revolutionary path of Naxalbari and bringing forth a revisionist-liquidationist line.
This government-produced liquidationist line is a part of the Kagaar repressive operation itself. Caught in the crisis of government repression, a section of the former Maoist leadership has abandoned the Maoist path of liberation for oppressed nations and people—the line of continued revolution. They have adopted a line of compromise and conciliation with the pro-imperialist and anti-people politics of the Brahmanical Hindutva fascists Modi-Amit. They have fallen into the trap of the conspiracy to destroy the revolution. This is temporarily putting the ongoing People’s War into a crisis. In this case, the liquidationist right-wing Surrender Line created from within the party has caused much more damage to the Maoist People’s War than the government’s mercenary forces. They want to liquidate the Party and the Revolution in exchange for begging for their own lives.
After the setback of the Naxalbari movement in the ’70s, various forms of revisionist-liquidationist lines called the Naxalbari line/path “adventurist,” claiming that armed struggle or People’s War was not possible. In those difficult times, true followers of Maoism clung to the line of Naxalbari’s People’s War and, through a process of summation, built base areas in today’s Dandakaranya-Chhattisgarh. Although the Naxalbari uprising defeated the revisionism entrenched in India, it was defeated before it could form a consolidated force, develop a victorious People’s War, and establish bases. In Dandakaranya, a brigade-level guerrilla force (PLGA) was formed under the party’s leadership, and a People’s Government was established under the patronage of that force. Therefore, history shows that revolutionary struggle and People’s War do not end once defeated. Rather, they return larger and stronger.
It is true that the People’s War has suffered a major blow due to the repression of Operation Kagaar and has been temporarily defeated. However, it is not correct to say that this defeat means the end of the People’s War. This is because the fundamental problem—the exploitation and oppression of the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system that gave birth to and developed the Maoist Party—has not been resolved. This system itself is the enemy of the people, exploitative, oppressive, and a lackey of imperialism. Therefore, it is impossible to destroy the Maoist Party and the People’s War led by it.
In the last 70 years, many changes have occurred in India’s production system and the imperialist world system. Although the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system fundamentally continues, many new forms/types of it have developed. Taking these into account, the military line and program must be developed. Indian Maoists have paid attention to these new issues and are trying to develop their line based on them. This new development must be grasped through the synthesis of the experiences of the last 50 years while clinging to the path of People’s War—not by liquidating the Party and abandoning the path of People’s War or surrendering.
In the face of this disaster and loss, not only in India but also in our country, the election-oriented Left and Social Democrats are opposing the path of seizing power through People’s War. They are once again bringing forward the parliamentary “pigsty” path and the rhetoric of establishing revolution/socialism through so-called mass uprisings.
These mass-uprisingists cite the examples of ousting the fascist Hasina or the military autocrat Ershad in the ’90s. But what lessons do we learn from these two mass uprisings? In such uprisings, there is no change in the ruling bureaucrat-comprador bourgeois-feudal system controlled by imperialism and expansionism. One clique of the ruling class replaces another in power. For instance, in ’90, military autocracy was removed to establish parliamentary autocracy. When that parliamentary autocracy eventually turned into Awami fascism, they were ousted in the 2024 mass uprising, and the NGOs and civil society of the ruling class came to power. Then, through the February elections, the people, angry with the Awami League, voted for the BNP. Without the decisive role of the Army—the protector of the ruling class—the hand-over of power would not have been possible.
After Hasina fled, some tried to deceive by using the word “revolution,” but in reality, let alone a revolution, no significant or pro-people reform has taken place. Not a single treaty with imperialism-expansionism has been canceled, nor has any program for the liberation of the oppressed people—including workers, peasants, the poor, students, youth, women, and indigenous people—been implemented.
Therefore, to achieve the New Democratic Revolution toward the goal of socialism, the path of People’s War must be adopted. People’s War means a war of the people. The people will participate in that war only when there is a program suited to their interests. People’s War is not a matter of mere tactics; rather, it is part of the political line of the proletariat. No revolution can occur without defeating the various armed forces of the ruling class—the protectors of the existing enemy-of-the-people system —through a Protracted People’s War. Therefore, to make a revolution, the people must build their own army, which is only possible under the leadership of the revolutionary party of the proletariat and under a revolutionary program.
The Maoist Party of India, with the aim of seizing state power based on the line of People’s War, formed the PLGA through the process of implementing the Agrarian Revolution program via Dalams (squads) and established the Janatana (People’s) Government. That government lasted for nearly 20 years. An unarmed mass uprising is not capable of achieving that. However, the opportunity of a mass uprising can be utilized under the People’s War. That is a different matter.
After starting the People’s War, surrender means maintaining the old system. The parliamentary path or parliamentarism means accepting that system and drowning in the so-called ‘mainstream’ politics of the ruling class. And the line of so-called unarmed mass uprising is to use the people, who are angry with one ruling clique, for the benefit of a new/other ruling clique, attempting to make the ongoing exploitative system tolerable.
Therefore, no matter how difficult the path, in a neo-colonial, bureaucrat-capitalist, and semi-feudal country oppressed by imperialism, the only revolutionary path—the People’s War—must be continued to achieve the New Democratic Revolution toward socialism.
[Note: Published on People’s Political Bulletin/April 2026 of PBSP/Bangladesh]
¿Qué importancia tiene esto para el proletariado? Por todos lados el mundo vio al jugador español de 18 años ondear la bandera de Palestina con orgullo en la cima de un bus, mientras celebraba el triunfo de la Liga de fútbol de ese país. Criticado por unos, como el técnico del FC Barcelona que dijo al respecto que «Son cosas que normalmente no me gustan». Pero aplaudido y exaltado por muchos más que ven en este sencillo gesto, un acto de humanidad del jugador con el pueblo palestino y en contra del genocidio del que es víctima a manos de los sionistas de Israel.
La importancia de este hecho para el proletariado y los pueblos del mundo es que es muy valioso que figuras mediáticas como Yamal, que siguen millones de personas entre ellas niños y niñas de todo el planeta, se identifiquen del lado correcto de la historia porque esto les muestra el camino a seguir que es el de ¡no callar ante el genocidio!, es el de ¡levantar las banderas de los pueblos oprimidos del mundo!, es el de la solidaridad con un pueblo que quieren condenar a su extinción, es el de la resistencia a callar ante la injusticia en medio de un ambiente de opulencia y poder como en el que se mueven los futbolistas de la gran élite internacional.
Lejos de la «neutralidad» que en los hechos no existe, ante un genocidio como el que cometen los sionistas e imperialistas, la actitud de Yamal y de otras figuras de renombre internacional es la correcta, porque estos actos elevan la moral de los luchadores populares que se sienten más acompañados en las calles, a la vez que los genocidas son arrinconados en todas partes del planeta Tierra.
Así como se criticó la actitud servil de Lionel Messi cuando se arrastró como perro faldero ante Trump; hoy es necesario resaltar la actitud valerosa y correcta de Lamine Yamal que demuestra que más que deportistas, los futbolistas son humanos de carne y hueso y bien pueden estar del lado de los genocidas o del lado de los oprimidos.
Con la moral en alto, salgamos a las calles este 15 de mayo en todo el mundo a conmemorar una año más de la Nakba o de la Catástrofe que significó para el pueblo palestino, la creación del Estado sionista, genocida y ocupante de Israel
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Le Dr Omar Emil Awad, surnommé le « médecin des pauvres » et dirigeant du Parti Communiste jordanien, et le militant communiste Bahaa Alayan sont détenus à Amman depuis plus de deux mois après avoir participé à des mobilisations de soutien aux Palestiniens. Leur organisation dénonce des arrestations arbitraires sans procédure judiciaire transparente ni motifs clairs, dans un contexte de répression croissante contre les mouvements de gauche, anti-impérialistes et opposés au génocide à Gaza.
Khalil Yaqub Buhazaa, militant communiste bahreïni et spécialiste des droits des travailleurs, a été arrêté puis placé au secret par les autorités après ses prises de position en faveur de la Palestine et contre la normalisation avec Israël. Plusieurs organisations dénoncent une répression politique croissante à Bahreïn visant les opposants, syndicalistes et défenseurs des droits humains, dans un contexte de restrictions accrues contre les mobilisations propalestiniennes et les critiques du pouvoir. Plusieurs arrestations, retraits de nationalité et condamnations ont récemment été signalés contre des militants et internautes accusés de menacer les intérêts du royaume dans le cadre de l’offensive impérialo-sioniste contre l’Iran.
Se acerca un nuevo aniversario de la tragedia sufrida por el pueblo palestino, que desde 1948 fue expulsado de sus tierras por el Estado sionista de Israel, impuesto y respaldado por las potencias imperialistas, principalmente por los imperialistas británicos y norteamericanos, apoyándose en la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) a su servicio.
Fue el 14 de mayo de 1948 cuando el Estado sionista de Israel desplazó, a sangre y fuego, a más de 700 mil palestinos, arrebatándoles sus tierras mediante la acción criminal de un ejército asesino. Mientras tanto, la ONU, bajo la máscara de la «defensa de los derechos humanos», legitimó este despojo con la creación de campos de refugiados en países vecinos y en Jerusalén Oriental.
Para el pueblo palestino, este hecho significó una verdadera catástrofe histórica: la Nakba que a partir del 15 de mayo los palestinos recuerdan cada año como el día en que comenzó una tragedia que no ha cesado. Para el sionismo y los imperialistas, en cambio, representó la consolidación de un enclave al servicio de sus intereses en Medio Oriente.
Hoy, cuando Palestina está siendo arrasada por la ofensiva genocida del Estado sionista —con el respaldo abierto de los imperialistas, especialmente de Estados Unidos—, la resistencia del pueblo palestino continúa firme y ha despertado la solidaridad de millones de trabajadores y pueblos del mundo.
Esa solidaridad también se ha expresado en las flotillas humanitarias enviadas en apoyo al pueblo palestino, cuyos participantes son perseguidos, detenidos y reprimidos por distintos gobiernos al servicio del imperialismo. Recientemente, una nueva flotilla con destino a Palestina fue detenida en Grecia, y sus integrantes encarcelados y torturados con el beneplácito de las potencias imperialistas.
Llegamos así a este aniversario de la Nakba en medio de una intensificación de la agresión imperialista y sionista contra el pueblo palestino, donde el asesinato de miles de niños, mujeres y hombres se pretende convertir en algo «normal» para los capitalistas y sus medios de comunicación.
Por eso, este 15 de mayo llamamos a movilizarnos en las calles, frente a las embajadas y centros del poder imperialista, para exigir:
Desde las páginas de Revolución Obrera llamamos a fortalecer la solidaridad internacionalista y a unir la lucha del pueblo palestino con las luchas de la clase obrera y los pueblos oprimidos del mundo.
El imperialismo es responsable tanto del genocidio en Palestina como de la superexplotación de los trabajadores en todos los países. Tenemos un enemigo común: el capitalismo imperialista mundial el cual se debe derrotar ya.
¡El 15 de mayo todos a las calles!
¡Viva la solidaridad internacional con Palestina!
¡Alto al genocidio del pueblo palestino!
¡Libertad a los compañeros secuestrados y torturados!
¡No dejemos de hablar y de actuar por Palestina!
¡Viva Palestina libre!
Bonjour,
Nous vous recontactons suite à votre mobilisation le 17 octobre dernier
en solidarité avec Ali, lors de l'audience devant la Cour nationale du
droit d'asile qui avait été reportée.
Depuis, Ali, réfugié palestinien incarcéré en France depuis mai 2024
sur la base d’accusations israéliennes, reste incarcéré en
détention provisoire. Nous faisons ainsi appel à vous de nouveau pour
soutenir la mobilisation.
Le 22 mai 2026, Ali, réfugié palestinien, comparaîtra devant le Juge
des libertés et de la détention au Tribunal de Grande Instance de
Porte de Clichy pour une nouvelle demande de mise en liberté déposée
par ses avocats.
En Île-de-France, un rassemblement se tiendra le 22 mai devant le
Tribunal de Paris pour soutenir Ali. Plus d’informations à venir.
Le 28 mai 2026 marquera les deux ans exacts d’incarcération d’Ali
en détention préventive. Pour rappeler cette situation injuste et
symbolique, des mobilisations auront lieu le week-end du 30 mai. Nous
lançons donc un appel à mobilisation large :
- Organisez, rejoignez, relayez les mobilisations le 30 mai ;
- Soutenez et relayer l’appel dans vos réseaux et groupes politiques
;
- Participez activement, en signant l’appel.
Pour rappel, Ali est originaire du camp de réfugié·es de Balata, en
Cisjordanie. Contraint à l’exil en 2014, il avait obtenu le statut de
réfugié en France, avant que cette protection ne lui soit retirée
suite à des accusations transmises par les autorités israéliennes. Sa
situation illustre comment la répression contre les Palestinien·nes
peut se prolonger au-delà des frontières, avec la complicité
d’États européens.
Signez, partagez et soyez présent•es pour Ali le 22 mai au tribunal
et le week-end du 30 mai !
Nous vous invitons à signer et partager largement l’appel à
mobilisation [
https://framaforms.org/les-22-et-30-mai-2026-liberez-ali-refugie-palestinien-emprisonne-en-france-depuis-2-ans-1778140345
] afin de faire connaître sa situation et d’amplifier le soutien.
Dans toute la France, multiplions les actions en solidarité avec Ali et
tous·tes les réfugié·es palestinien·nes ! Si vous souhaitez
organiser une action pour visibiliser la situation d'Ali (tractage,
collage, banderole, événement, prise de parole), n'hésitez pas à
nous contacter pour amplifier nos actions ! Nous vous transmettrons un
kit de mobilisation avec du matériel de la campagne.
Pour la libération d'Ali, la restitution de son statut de réfugié et
l'abandon des poursuites à son rencontre !
La campagne pour la libération d’Ali
