RESOLUTIONS OF THE 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

MARXIST-LENINIST PARTIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

 

 

 

Resolution Nr. 1

On the Development of the World Economy

 

Resolution Nr. 2

On the Political Changes within the Imperialist World System

 

Resolution Nr. 3

On the Strategy and Tactics of the Marxist-Leninists

in the Struggle for National Liberation, the New Democratic Revolution and the Struggle for Socialism

 

Resolution Nr. 4

On the Perspective of the Sixth International Conference

 

Solidarity Declaration Nr. 1

The kurdish natonal right of self-determination must be recognized, and Abdullah Öcalan must

be released immediately!

 

Solidarity Declaration Nr. 2

Ecuador

 

 

Resolution No. 1

 

On the Development of the World Economy

 

1.

When Southeast Asia plunged into a crisis in July 1997, the imperialists argued that its effects would remain restricted to that region. In fact, at the background of the collapse of the "Asian tigers" was an extraordinary flow of surplus capital from the major imperialist powers to this region. They had tried to solve the problem of the fall of the profit rate by tremendous speculation and by extraordinary overexpansion of the productive capacities which was absolutely disproportionate to the market's capacity to absorb this production. This is a contradiction which the imperialist system engenders in the world.

The fall of the Brazilian Real characterized the beginning of a new wave of the crisis which has been going on for 18 months. This is the third great wave after the first one which began in 1997. The second wave took place in August 1998, when the Russian crash occurred and Russia declared that it would no longer fulfill its obligations to pay. This had repercussions in Europe and the USA.

The development of the crisis has shown that it is a worldwide crisis. It deepened the ongoing crisis in Japan, extended to Russia, the East European countries and Latin America, and is threatening to spread to Europe and to the US economy itself. The imperialists declared it was only a stockmarket and financial crisis, but it is the result of economic wars and of relative overproduction. This cyclical crisis of overproduction demonstrates the contradiction in capitalism between the social character of production and the private appropriation of the product. It is a deep crisis which progresses in waves and has a domino effect; there was economic collapse in some countries while others entered into a recession. The crisis will intensify and aggravate all contradictions of the imperialist system in the current epoch.

Bourgeois propaganda, which speaks of a mere "financial or stockmarket crisis," veils the fact that speculative capital is not independent of productive capital. The gigantic explosion of speculative capital during the past years is the expression of overaccumulation of capital.

Overaccumulated capital is going on a massive scale into speculation in search of investment opportunities yielding maximum profits. The feature of this speculation is that it is speculating on surplus value which has not yet been realized.

The fact that speculative capital is growing at an increasingly rapid pace is an extreme manifestation of the decay and the parasitic character of imperialism. These will only disappear with the disappearance of imperialism itself, but not through the reformist and revisionist concept of "control of finance capital." Finance capital signifies the merger of industrial and bank capital. On the basis of finance capital an all-dominating financial oligarchy has formed. Neither capital can be separated from the other; both dominate the state machinery.

The working class and the working masses, instead of pinning illusory hopes on a control of finance capital, must unite and resist the consequences of the crisis, must attack state monopoly capitalism and its rule as a whole.

 

2.

The development of the world economic crisis deepens and aggravates the general crisis of capitalism. This fact is in complete contradiction to the bourgeois ideology of "globalization," which promises industrialization, prosperity and peaceful development to all countries. In reality, however, the uneven economic development has worsened, particularly between the imperialist and the oppressed countries.

The internationalization of the production—a result of the capitalist restructuring of international monopoly production—sharpens the contradictions of capitalism to their highest limit, rendering the transition to socialism mature and necessary. The material conditions for such a transition are developing. However, only the imperialist countries and a few dependent countries are included within this internationalization. But only the imperialist countries benefit. The much vaunted technological progress advances exclusively in the sectors which are interesting for capital. At the same time, this rapid technological progress is accompanied by a great destruction of the productive forces. Manifestations of the destructive effects are mass unemployment of 1.2 billion persons increasing on a worldwide scale, and deindustrialization in many countries, even including certain regions of the imperialist countries.

The destructive effects of the capitalist mode of production can only be overcome if the productive forces are freed from their capitalist fetters. Only if the capitalist productive relations are overthrown can the productive forces develop in such a way as to be able to satisfy the continuously increasing material and intellectual needs of the society.

 

3.

The consequences of the ongoing economic crisis on the world situation will be far-reaching . These will not develop in a straight line. The reactions to the crisis will be not only economic but principally political. Neither the USA nor Europe, Japan, Russia and China will come out of the crisis in the same shape as when they entered it. It is impossible to foresee the changes that will take place.

As of now, great masses of the working people in the city and the countryside, hundreds of millions of people all over the world are reeling under the results of the crisis. A drastic increase in unemployment, cuts in already starvation wages, increased exploitation, massive displacement of peasants from their land, greater misery, severe problems in the fields of health, housing and education: these are the results of the crisis. Equally, the high concentration of land, the low international prices of produce and the usurious banking interest rates are generating the bankruptcy of millions of peasants in the oppressed countries, forcing them to migrate into the cities and to an unbearable misery. The monopolies and the reactionary states are taking every opportunity to make the working people pay for the consequences of the crisis. An example are the plans for overexploitation and sellouts being imposed by the IMF and other international instruments of imperialists, and the growing foreign debt. The imperialist plundering of the working class and oppressed peoples and nations has intensified to the extreme.

But, at the same time, the crisis has created the objective conditions for enormous mass movements, which can be observed in various countries of Asia and Latin America, and also in some imperialist countries. Currently we are witnessing a growing revolutionary resurgence and a strengthening of Communist parties which have remained loyal to Marxism-Leninism.

The crisis is a bad thing. But we will gain nothing if we are afraid of it, because it obeys the objective laws of capitalism. We can understand these laws with the help of Marxism-Leninism. Victory will neither be easy nor achieved in a short time. But if the Marxist-Leninists tackle the situation caused by the crisis with a revolutionary line, the people will draw strength from their sufferings and will advance in struggle against the crisis programs of their respective governments as well as the IMF and the World Bank. The masses will advance through revolutionary struggle until the revolution for national and social liberation is victorious, until socialism is achieved.

 

Signatories:

 

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

·        Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

·        Organization from the Congo

·        Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Dominican Republic

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Way, France

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

·        A/synechia, Greece

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Provisional Central Committee

·        Japanese Communist League (for the International Department)

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg

·        Marxist-Leninist Group (Red Morning), the Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, Norway

·        Amaru Institute, Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines

·        Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, Turkey

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, USA

 

Resolution No. 2

 

On the Political Changes within the Imperialist World System

 

 

1.

We are in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. The revisionist betrayal has left no socialist bulwark, such as Lenin's and Stalin's USSR and Mao's China, thus the contradiction between the capitalist camp and the socialist camp, for the time being, no longer exists.

 

Nevertheless, the fundamental contradictions that the capitalist-imperialist world creates, the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the working class in the capitalist countries, the contradiction among imperialist countries and among monopolist capitalist groups, and the contradiction between imperialism and oppressed peoples and nations remain unsolved and have even worsened. Within these objective and subjective conditions, national and social revolutions inevitably mature.

 

2.

The contradiction between imperialism and oppressed peoples and nations still is the sharpest and the main contradiction. This is confirmed by the great political mass struggles, insurrections and people’s wars for national and social liberation. The workers and peoples of Palestine, Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan, Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor, Congo, Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru, Nepal, South Korea and Afghanistan and other countries are fighting for their sovereignty and national independence. The vast regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America continue to be the focus of contradictions. The struggles of workers and peoples of these areas are a significant support of the struggle for socialism of the working class in the imperialist countries.

 

3.

The contradiction between the working class and the monopolies is currently sharpening worldwide due to the intensification of the exploitation of wage labor, the rise in mass unemployment and underemployment, through the introduction of the flexibilization of working hours and lean production.

 

4.

US imperialism is the most important economic, political and military power in the imperialist camp. It has the leadership in industrial and military technology.

 

However, as history shows, it only appears to be invulnerable and omnipotent. Its colossal foreign debt, its huge commercial deficit and the real threat of being seized by an economic crisis mark the beginning of its decay.

 

5.

The New World Order, a dream being repeated today by the US imperialists, leads to forms of relations between states, regions etc. that are maintained under this international gendarme's heel. The embargoes, the interventions, the punishing campaigns and the bombardments are decided by this most powerful world policeman of imperialism, ratified by the "international" organizations, and carried out by the armed branches of "the international community”.

 

 

6.

After the collapse of the USSR, a new rivalry is growing. Other poles are emerging in the midst of a complex process of arrangements and rearrangements between the different capitalist and imperialist blocs and powers, in the midst of an unleashed struggle for markets and a growing polarization between a handful of rich countries and the huge majority of poor countries and, within them, between the exploited workers and excluded people and the monopolies whose economic power and privileges are growing more and more. It is increasingly obvious that a situation of multipolarity is developing.

 

7.

The strongest opponents at the turn of the millennium are the dominant European states led by Germany and the leading imperialist state in the Asian region, Japan.

 

The European Union has been relatively more hit by the crisis than the US. However, it is taking measures to consolidate its monetary market and economic strength, and it is in an advantageous position of exploiting the former Soviet bloc countries. The rivalry between the United States and the leading European states for the dominance of Central and Eastern Europe explains many developments in these regions, such as the conflicts in former Yugoslavia.

 

Japan is in the worst position among the three global centers of capitalism. Its domestic economy has been in a prolonged state of stagnation since seven years ago. Among the imperialist allies of the United States, Japan is suffering most from US economic competition and the contradiction between its domestic economy and its plants in the United States, Asia and elsewhere. At the same time it colludes with the United States in exploiting the peoples of East Asia and threatens them with the US-Japan security partnership.

 

8.

Russia and Japan are two basic links in the international system. Russia is the second largest military power. It is suffering from an unprecedented crisis/collapse, and this prevents it from playing a decisive role in the international developments. But it aspires to play such a role. China has the potential, due to its former socialist accumulation, to be a serious competitor of the US in the near future. But it also faces the consequences of savage capitalist activities.

 

9.

Imperialism carries in itself the origin of wars of conquest, of plunder and domination, and even if the conditions for a new world war are not yet present, it is behind, directly or indirectly, the more than 60 regional and local conflicts that are waged in different parts of the world. Its arms race is relentless, more than 800 thousand million dollars are spent in it. The United States alone is spending 250 thousand million dollars in this race.

 

10.

But in response to these wild ideological, economic and military attacks on the masses, we also observe that the consciousness of the working class is growing again. Powerful strikes and large mass movements in different imperialist countries aim at the development towards the workers' offensive. They join the militant popular movements of women, the immigrants, the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movements, the ecologist movement and the rebellion of the youth. Thus a huge mass movement of working and popular masses emerges where socialist ideas can be raised. Better conditions for the development of Marxist-Leninist parties are arising, as well as for a strong support for national and social liberation struggles of oppressed peoples.

 

Signatories:

 

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

·        Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

·        Organization from the Congo

·        Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Dominican Republic

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Way, France

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

·        A/synechia, Greece

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Provisional Central Committee

·        Japanese Communist League (for the International Department)

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg

·        Marxist-Leninist Group (Red Morning), the Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, Norway

·        Amaru Institute, Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines

·        Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, Turkey

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, USA

 

 

Resolution No. 3

 

On the Strategy and Tactics of the Marxist-Leninists

in the Struggle for National Liberation, the New Democratic Revolution and the Struggle for Socialism

 

1.

The Sixth International Conference held an extensive exchange of views and experiences on the strategy and tactics of Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations in the struggle for national liberation, the new democratic revolution and the struggle for socialism.

 

These exchanges showed that, in individual imperialist countries, there is an upswing of an awakening class-consciousness of the working-class movement; in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America oppressed by imperialism and local reaction, there is an important upsurge of  mass struggles  and revolutionary movements, in the struggle for national and social liberation.

 

We are in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution.

 

As Mao Zedong said, "The seizure of power by armed force, is the central task and the highest form of revolution". According to Lenin, "the proletarian revolution is impossible without the forcible destruction of the bourgeois state machine and the substitution for it of a new one" and "socialism can be realized by no other means than the dictatorship of the proletariat, which combines force against the bourgeoisie, that is, against the minority of the population, with the full unfolding of democracy".

 

In the struggle for socialism and communism, the working class cannot  accomplish its historical role without Marxist-Leninist strategy and tactics. To this end, the Marxist-Leninist party must be closely linked with the masses.

 

Each party, on its own responsibility, must formulate and carry out its strategy and tactics on the basis of a concrete analysis of the concrete conditions in its country. This must be done by struggling against reformism, revisionism, opportunism and sectarianism. The experience of all countries must also be considered.

 

The proletariat and the masses of the people have engaged in and developed various forms of struggles based on their own experience, and it is the task of the Marxist-Leninist party to develop these struggles of the masses and raise them onto a revolutionary level.

 

2.   The strategy and tactics in the imperialist countries

 

In the imperialist countries, the strategic objective is to overthrow imperialism, the rule of monopoly capital, and to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. With the struggles taking a revolutionary upswing, the ruling forces, according to all historical experience, will attempt to maintain their power by means of brutal violence. Therefore, as a rule, the working class must rise up in arms. The development of class-struggles goes through various stages.

 

The struggle of the masses for economic and political reforms must be led militantly and must be developed higher into revolutionary class-struggle under the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party. This requires internationalist proletarian class-consciousness.

 

 

3.  The strategy and tactics in the dependent, semi-colonial and semi-feudal countries

 

The seizure of power in these countries is to wage the new democratic revolution, that means a democratic, agrarian and anti-imperialist revolution with a socialist perspective. This revolution is based on the alliance of workers and peasants under the leadership of the working class establishing a democratic dictatorship of the people.

 

In many semi-colonial and semi-feudal countries, the strategic line of protracted people's war is applicable.

 

Those Marxist-Leninist Mao Zedong Thought parties that are waging armed struggle as the principal form of revolutionary struggle in semi-colonial and semi-feudal countries, are pursuing the strategic line of protracted people's war.

 

In other dependent countries, the revolutionary struggle develops on various terrains of political and social struggle and can take the form of armed insurrection, combined or not with guerrilla war in the countryside.

 

 

4.

The struggles in the different countries stand in dialectical interaction with each other. It is necessary to carry out proletarian internationalism and to organize international solidarity for cooperation and mutual benefit. This requires a close unity of struggle of Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations.

 

Signatories:

 

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

·        Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

·        Organization from the Congo

·        Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Dominican Republic

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Way, France

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

·        A/synechia, Greece

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti (except paragraphs 2 and 4 of section 3)

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Provisional Central Committee

·        Japanese Communist League (for the International Department)

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg

·        Marxist-Leninist Group (Red Morning), the Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, Norway

·        Amaru Institute, Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, USA

 

 

 Resolution No. 4

 

On the Perspective of the Sixth International Conference

 

 

1.  The 6th International Conference was carried out very successfully. Four resolutions were passed which reflect the consensus on the respective points of the agenda:

·      On the development of the world economy

·      On the political changes within the imperialist world system

·      On the strategy and tactics of the Marxist-Leninists in the new democratic revolution, in the struggle for national liberation and socialism

·      On the perspective of the 6th International Conference

 

A broad range of 21 organizations from Asia, Africa, America and Europe took part. Eight other organizations participated in the preparations but were prevented from taking part. The conference not only led to a fruitful exchange of experience; it was distinguished moreover by a fraternal, open and lively debate among all participating organizations. This debate was carried out on a principled basis and carefully took the unity of the conference into consideration. Mutual understanding was strengthened. Also, there is a common determination to further deepen and advance this mutual understanding. The conference welcomes other multilateral forums and respects them as independent or complementary initiatives by other Marxist-Leninist parties. The International Conference supports these multilateral initiatives.

 

2. The Joint Coordinating Group (JCG) prepared the Conference very well. Again, it has proved indispensable for preparing and carrying out such an event. The JCG systematically informed the participants and organized a democratic exchange of ideas. For this purpose, such technical means of communication as the Internet will be made better use of in the future. The multilateral preparation was improved by carrying out regional conferences in Asia, Latin America and Europe. The conference participants adopted the report given by the JCG on its work.

The rules of the 5th International Conference for cooperation of Marxist-Leninist organizations were adopted and proved to be useful for this Conference.

 

3. The 6th  IC supports the initiative for an international League of Struggle with a broad anti-imperialist perspective. This league could help to strengthen other anti-imperialist initiatives already existing both at international and regional levels. The formation of such a league comes from initiatives of grassroots and people’s organizations and should be encouraged. This reflects our consensus that such a league must come from below. The league has a coordinating character.

 

There is a need of the Internet for facilitating the exchange of information and experience.

 

4. The 6th International Conference resolves to prepare and conduct a 7th International Conference within a period of 2 to 3 years. To prepare it, a new Joint Coordinating Group will be formed. An intermediate conference can be convened which can also have a regional character.

 

The 6th International Conference calls upon all Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations to participate in preparing and realizing  the 7th International Conference (ICMLPO) under the following basic principles:

 

a) Adherence to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought

b) Struggle against modern revisionism, and a positive attitude towards Stalin and Mao

c) Acceptance of the rules of the Conference.

 

To accept participants in the 7th International Conference, the consultative procedure which was valid until the 6th International Conference will be applied.

 

We call upon more Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations to sign the resolutions of the 6th International Conference and to spread them.

 

Signatories:

 

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina (except number 3)

·        Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

·        Organization from the Congo

·        Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Dominican Republic

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Way, France

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

·        A/synechia, Greece

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti (

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Provisional Central Committee

·        Japanese Communist League (for the International Department)

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg

·        Marxist-Leninist Group (Red Morning), the Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, Norway (except number 3)

·        Amaru Institute, Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines

·        Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, Turkey

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, USA

 

 

Solidarity Declaration Nr. 1

 

The kurdish natonal right of self-determination must be recognized,

and Abdullah Öcalan must be released immediately!

 

 

For seventy-five years, the fascist Turkish state has been violating the national rights of the Kurdish nation and putting the Kurdish nation under enormous pressure. The Turkish state has committed many massacres and genocide against the Kurdish nation.

 

More than 4,000 Kurdish villages were destroyed, razed and burnt down. More than four million Kurds were forced to leave their villages. More than 20,000 Kurdish intellectuals, progressives, peasants, workers, democrats and revolutionaries were murdered.  And thousands of them have disappeared.

 

For years, the fascist Turkish state denied the existence of a Kurdish nation.

 

US imperialism and the European imperialists were mainly instrumental in arresting the Chairman of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, and turning him over to Turkey.

 

We, the Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations of the Sixth International Conference, protest against imperialism and its lackeys for this treacherous plot.

 

The national right of self-determination for the Kurdish nation must be recognized immediately.

 

Abdullah Öcalan must be released immediately.

 

The Turkish state must rebuild villages that it destroyed.

 

Peasants who were forced to leave their villages to settle down elsewhere must be immediately given the possibility of returning to their villages and provided with appropriate compensation for damages the people have sustained.

 

Signatories:

 

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

·        Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

·        Organization from the Congo

·        Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Dominican Republic

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Way, France

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

·        A/synechia, Greece

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Provisional Central Committee

·        Japanese Communist League (for the International Department)

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg

·        Marxist-Leninist Group (Red Morning), the Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, Norway

·        Amaru Institute, Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines

·        Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, Turkey

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, USA

 

Solidarity Declaration Nr. 2

 

Ecuador

 

 

Dear Comrades of the PCML Ecuador,

 

The 6th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist and Mao Zedong Parties and Organizations condemns the murder of Comrade Jaime Hurtado by the enemies of the working class and of the people of Ecuador. The Conference expresses its revolutionary solidarity with the comrades of the Communist Marxist-Leninist Party in the face of this criminal act.

 

Jorge Rocha

 

Signatories:

 

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

·        Workers’ Party of Bangladesh

·        Organization from the Congo

·        Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Dominican Republic

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Way, France

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

·        A/synechia, Greece

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy

·        Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Provisional Central Committee

·        Japanese Communist League (for the International Department)

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg

·        Marxist-Leninist Group (Red Morning), the Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, Norway

·        Amaru Institute, Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines

·        Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, Turkey

·        Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, USA