Wednesday, March 19, 2025

TKP-ML Statement On The ‘Call For Peace And Democratic Society’ Announced By PKK Leader A.Öcalan - for debate

First, a brief reminder is necessary. Following the “Al-Aqsa Flood Operation” carried out by the Palestinian National Resistance on October 7, 2023, the Middle East witnessed developments of historical significance. Israel launched military operations first against Gaza and then against Lebanon. Meanwhile, in Syria, the Ba’ath regime collapsed, and power was handed over to the Salafi- jihadist HTS gang.

Contradictions among capitalist-imperialist powers on the international stage escalated into open war with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing wars and conflicts in the Middle East. This situation is reshaping alliances and realignments among the imperialist-capitalist powers based on these contradictions. All sides are preparing for a new war of re-division (the Third Imperialist War of Division).

In the words of Chairman Mao, “there is chaos under the heavens.”

It is unthinkable that these developments would not affect the Turkish state and the ruling Turkish classes. Since its founding, Turkey has been a semi-colonial market for imperialism, and due to its geopolitical position, it has served as a “regional gendarme” for the imperialist powers, making this situation all the more inevitable.

While Turkey’s goals and objectives in Syria are well known, the emergence of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria—led by the Kurdish national movement and encompassing various nationalities and faiths, particularly the Arab nation—has become a critical factor. As this “autonomy” has increasingly gained the prospect of achieving an official status, the ruling Turkish classes have been compelled to develop a new policy on the Kurdish national question.

imperialisme/trump Etats-Unis: «Women», «feminism», 200 mots effacés


Vendredi 7 mars une liste de 200 mots a été établie par les agences de l’administration fédérale, elles ont ordonné le retrait de ces mots des sites web accessibles au public. Plusieurs termes sur les droits des femmes sont visés comme les mots «féminisme», «violence basée sur le genre», «stéréotypes», «femme». L’administration Trump souhaite voir s’effacer les acronymes BIPOC, désignant les personnes noires, autochtones et de couleur, ainsi que LGBTQ. Les termes sur l’inclusion des minorités sont particulièrement ciblés. «Promouvoir la diversité» ne doit plus exister. Le concept de «ségrégation», au cœur de l’histoire des États-Unis, doit également être évité, «racisme», «amérindien», «migrants , «intersectionnalité»…Les agences limitent les termes qui représentent les personnes trans et les identités de genre comme «transgenre», «assigné à la naissance», «pronom non-genré» ou «non-binaire». La liste révèle que «changement climatique» et «pollution» doivent être mentionnés au minimum.



USA - Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention


Mahmoud Khalil dictated the following letter to his family by phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.  His family released it for publication.

Mahmoud Khalil speaking at Columbia University, April 2024.

Mahmoud Khalil   

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner.  I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.

Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.

On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours—I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey.  There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.

My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.

Viva a revolta das ruas do povo argentino! - novo MEPR Brasil


revolta argentina

Foto:Reuters/Agustin Marcarian

Apesar de ter sido eleito com um discurso semelhante ao do Collor de 92 de combater os marajás da máquina pública, o presidente argentino Javier Milei como o direitista que é, mantém os privilégios das elites enquanto a corda continha a arrebentar para o lado mais fraco, como ele fez recentemente ao mudar a fórmula de cálculo da aposentadoria dos idosos, além de cortar um bônus que os mais pobres recebiam e limitar o acesso dos mesmos a medicamentos gratuitos. A resposta a isso não poderia ser outra, e as ruas de Buenos Aires foram tomadas pela rebelião dos aposentados que necessitam agora lutar pelo mínimo que é deles por direito, acompanhados da população que está lutando contra os cortes do governo que sempre prejudicam os mais necessitados, e esses protestos então foram reprimidos com muita violência por parte da polícia Argentina.

Entretanto, após viralizar nas redes as fotos de um aposentado ferido nos atos usando a camisa do Clube Chacarita, a maior parte das torcidas organizadas do país decidiram então se somar aos aposentados nas ruas e combater a repressão violenta contra as manifestações, dando uma verdadeira aula de como defender as massas nas manifestações.

Palestinian Resistance Calls for Global Uprising against Israel’s Renewed Genocide on Gaza - 970 killed in 48 hours - hundreds of women - 174 children!


Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Gaza as Israel resumed its genocidal war. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

Hamas condemns Israel’s resumption of its deadly aggression on Gaza, calling it a war of extermination and demanding global accountability.

The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas has called upon the people of Arab and Islamic nations, as well as all free people worldwide, to take to the streets in opposition to the resumption of Israel’s war of extermination against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

This came in a statement issued by the movement early Tuesday morning after Israel resumed its large-scale aggression on the Gaza Strip with a series of airstrikes that killed more than .970 killed in 48 hours - hundreds of women - 174 children!

In its statement, Hamas declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are resuming their genocidal war against defenseless civilians in Gaza by reversing the ceasefire agreement that had gone into effect on January 19.

The movement further stated, “Netanyahu and his Nazi government are resuming their aggression and genocidal war against defenseless civilians in Gaza. Netanyahu and his extremist government have chosen to overturn the ceasefire agreement and expose the prisoners in Gaza to an unknown fate.”

Hamas held Netanyahu and his government “fully responsible for the consequences of this treacherous aggression against Gaza and the defenseless civilians who have endured a brutal war and a systematic policy of starvation (since March 2, when Israel closed the crossings to humanitarian aid).”

Hamas also urged mediators to “hold Netanyahu and his government fully accountable for violating and overturning the agreement,” calling on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to convene an urgent meeting to pass a resolution obligating Israel to halt its aggression.

He will not gain the upper hand.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad Movement stated, “The war criminal Netanyahu and his government’s declaration of resumed aggression in Gaza is an attempt to carry out more massacres.”

The movement accused Netanyahu of deliberately undermining all efforts to reach a ceasefire, emphasizing that “this new aggression will not grant the resistance the upper hand, neither on the ground nor in negotiations.”

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine asserted that “the occupation has committed its crimes and massacres in Gaza with prior planning as part of a comprehensive war of extermination.”

The Front called on “all international parties to take immediate action to stop the war of extermination in Gaza.”

(AJA, PC)

TWO-LINES STRUGGLE N°4 - Editorial

 

Editorial

In this new issue of the magazine we reaffirm the editorial of the first issue with which we began this adventure. The magazine Two Lines Straggle:

"It is not the magazine of a party, nor of a bloc, nor of a particular faction or tendency within the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, but the decision of different parties and organizations to promote the two-line struggle within the communists, as the name and slogan indicate, and to contribute to their unity, in particular, with the preparation of a Unified Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Conference.

"The need for a magazine like Two Lines Struggle lies in the urgency for the International Communist Movement to respond to the challenges posed by the world situation, in the face of the extreme sharpening of the most important contradictions of imperialist capitalism: that between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, that which exists between the imperialist countries and the oppressed peoples and nations, the one that exists between the different imperialist countries and the monopolies.

"Contradictions which in turn provoke an upsurge of the world revolution expressed by the uprisings of the masses of people throughout the world, the aggression against the oppressed countries and their wars of resistance, the growing preparations for a world war for a new division of the world, to which is added the scandalous destruction of nature... facts that indicate the advanced state of agony of imperialist capitalism and the excellent conditions for the advance of the revolution that demand that the communists unify their efforts to constitute a centre of international revolutionary leadership and advance in the construction of the Party of the working class in each country, essential to guarantee the triumph of the World Proletarian Revolution."

The three previous issues of the magazine presented the first texts prepared by the parties and organizations that created the magazine; In addition to other important documents, we highlight the one by the comrades in India, "The position of the CPI (Maoist) on the International Communist League".

It is clear that it is necessary to combine the struggle between the two lines with the development of the debate in order to continue on the path of the objective of this 2LS, which is the creation of a genuine unified international conference of MLM that can, on the basis of unity of principles and actually achieved action, form a new International Organization that will be a second step on this path after the first step constituted by the foundation of the RIM, of which we celebrate this year the 40th anniversary, and a real way out of the crisis of the international communist movement caused by the collapse of the RIM. A crisis that has generated dispersion, fragmentation instead of unity, nationalism instead of internationalism, weakness instead of strength, to face the great challenges and opportunities that the international and national situation offers to the ICM today.

The ideological, theoretical and programmatic work that we have done is still insufficient to achieve unity in an International MLM Conference; it is necessary to advance in the struggle against both revisionism and "leftism"; that line, extremist in words but opportunist in deeds, which in appearance elevates principles but distorts them in such a way that it replaces Marxism-Leninism-Maoism with empty phraseology.

We have a lot of work to do on this, with a dialectical method.

The second question is one of theoretical-practical conception. This 2LS must be realized in the fire of the class struggle in close connection with the masses. And, therefore, a demand that must be accompanied and fused with the battle against the political positions that derive from the ideological and theoretical positions of that fraction on the great issues that characterize the struggle of the communists in the mass proletarian movement in the countries oppressed by imperialism, the heart of the storm that the world is going through, as in the imperialist countries, the heart of the clash in the belly of the beast. Because there is no doubt that the consequences of these theoretical and ideological positions are an incorrect tactical and strategic line in the face of imperialist war, reaction and the new (modern) fascism, the organization and trade union and social policy of the proletariat and the popular masses, both in the countries oppressed by imperialism and in the imperialist countries, which in the end will determine the victory and advance of the ICM and the fate of the proletarian and socialist revolution in the world.

This work corresponds to the proletarian internationalism pointed out by Lenin, on the basis of Marxism, and to which Chairman Mao firmly adhered.

Precisely for this reason 2LS is nourished by the effort to unite all the MLM communist parties and organizations of the world in the May 1 Declarations, both in the diversity of accents, positions and practices that remain, and in the work of all communists in supporting the spearhead of the revolution in the world represented by the people's wars, in the first place the most advanced in our field such as the People's War in India, led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

The 2LS marches towards unity for an MLM International Conference, striving to establish the line of action in the face of the current situation at the international level, supporting the people's wars in a joint work, carrying it out with different methods in different fields and between different forces, based on the concrete analysis of the concrete situation; all of which requires the management of the relationship between unity and struggle, between joint steps forward and knots untied and to be untied, which is based on the effective advance of the communists and on the proletarian and mass movements, in the tactical and strategic aspects, and not on self-propaganda, the repetition of stereotyped phrases, the self-representation of linear and surprising advances, which are objectively the characteristics of the subjectivist fraction represented by the LCI.

This new issue shows that the struggle of the two lines is advancing in the service of the unity of the communists and the new unity of the proletariat and the oppressed and exploited masses.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Condemn the Zionist state of Israel for killing more than 400 in strikes in Gaza

Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer
Communist Party of the Philippines

March 19, 2025

The Communist Party of the Philippines strongly condemns the Zionist state of Israel for launching brutal strikes yesterday in multiple areas in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, including refugee centers, which resulted in the deaths of at least 404 civilians, causing widespread injuries and overwhelming hospitals and medical facilities.

This latest escalation of Israeli aggression is a brazen violation of the ceasefire agreement that took effect last January 19 which brought much needed reprieve and calm to the Palestinian people. It was carried out with the explicit support of the US government.

The Zionist state's actions are a continuation of the bombing campaign in line with its long-standing policy of driving the Palestinian people away from their land and suppressing their right to self-determination. The relentless bombing, which began in October 2023 has killed more than 61,700 people (including 17,500 children, and those missing and presumed dead), and caused injuries to more than 111,000 people.

The Trump government of the US is complicit in these atrocities, having recently approved the delivery of $3 billion worth of bombs, missiles and other weapons to Israel. It undermined the ceasefire agreement by supporting the Israeli demand that the Palestinian forces release all its prisoners immediately, contrary to the scheduled releases agreed upon in the ceasefire agreement. The recent declaration by Trump that he wants the US to "own" Gaza is a stark reminder of the imperialist ambitions of the US and its allies, who seek to dominate and exploit the resources of the Middle East, including the Palestinian territories.

The Trump government has escalated its military intervention in the Middle East and support for the genocidal war of Israel, after recent strikes against the Houthi forces in Yemen, who have been actively supporting the Palestinian people's struggle. The US strikes in Yemen are a blatant form of aggression and bullying to prop up the Zionist state of Israel and assert US dominance over the region.

The Party reiterates its solidarity with the Palestinian people, who have been subjected to decades of occupation, displacement, and violence. We support the Palestinian people's continuing resistance and their fight to assert their right to national self-determination.

We join all progressive, peace-loving and anti-imperialist forces in demanding an end to the Zionist state of Israel's aggression and occupation of Gaza, the violent oppression of the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, and an end to US military aid to Israel and war provocations in the Middle East.