RESOLUTIONS OF THE 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

MARXIST-LENINIST PARTIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

 

 

Resolution Number 1
The Aggressive and Expansionist Character of US-Imperialism, the Intensifying Contradictions among the Imperialist Powers and the Growing Threat of War

 

Resolution Number 2

The Economic Crisis of Imperialism and its Effects

 

Resolution Number 3
Class Struggle of the International Working Class, Anti-Imperialist Struggle of the Peoples and
International Solidarity Including the Improvement of Practical Cooperation

 

Resolution Number 4
On the Perspective of the 8th International Conference and the Preparation of the 9th International Conference

 

Resolution Number 5

To All Workers and Peoples of the World Declaration of the 8th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations

 

Resolution submitted to the participants of the 8th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties
and Organizations

 

 

 

 


Resolution Number 1


The Aggressive and Expansionist Character of US-Imperialism, the Intensifying Contradictions among the Imperialist Powers and the Growing Threat of War


1) The general aggressiveness of imperialism has increased since the turn of the century. It finds expression in intensified economic expansion, intensified exploitation of the working class and the peoples, and the tendency to assert the interests of imperialism by means of imperialist wars. The aggressive line of US imperialism unfolded with higher intensity after the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and subsequently of Iraq. At the
same time, the US imperialists threatened Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Syria. Nevertheless, the heroic resistance of the peoples of Iraq, in addition to the struggle of the people in Palestine has made the Middle East one of the storm centers of struggle against imperialism.
The imperialist US government is trying to use the war as a solution to their sharp economic crisis. Through the redivision of spheres of influence between the imperialist great powers and their monopolies in the world, it seeks to defend and extend its dominance, in particular in order to control the oil reserves.


2) US imperialism is the imperialist main power due to its economic, political and military power. With their aggression in Afghanistan, together with other imperialist forces they managed to impose a chain of military bases in Central Asia and in the Caspian Sea region which provides the possibility to control the oil resources and pipelines of those areas and the flow of oil to Europe, Japan and China.
The occupation of Iraq, with the world’s second largest oil resources, also has the aim of seizing the oil sources, set up military bases and control the entire Middle East.
The United States is supporting the state of Israel and the policy of the fascist Sharon against the Palestinian people.
With the theory of ”pre-emptive war”, it has openly broken with the rules of international law that were declared since the end of the Second World War and thus violated the rules of international law laid down by the UN.
It made "terrorism" out to be a global menace, and with the support of the governments of the imperialist powers and other countries, used it as an excuse to implement repressive measures against nationalist forces from oppressed countries and nations or revolutionary forces.
This development goes along with a domestic fascistization of the United States and other countries.
All imperialist countries have reorganized their armies into aggressive intervention forces and increased their military bases in other countries, partly under the cover of UN missions. The United States alone has 702 military bases abroad and military presence in 140 countries of the world. To increase their control over Southeast Asia, the USA has again established a strong military presence in the Philippines also in areas where the New People's Army is operating. The USA also has 500 military officers acting against the revolutionary armed movement in Nepal.
In Europe, the new NATO military strategy views the imperialist rivals as potential foes. With the expansion of the European Union eastwards, for the first time troops are being deployed right on the Russian frontier.
In Africa, too, the USA has a military presence and recently intervened in Liberia. France and Belgium also have significant military presence in Africa.
In Latin America, US imperialism has a military arm that is expressed in "Plan Colombia" (where there are already 400 yankee military ”advisors”), the Andean Regional Initiative, threats against Cuba, support to the coup d’etat in Venezuela, the recent military intervention in Haiti, etc., and an economic arm expressed in the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas; ALCA) and the foreign debts.
Nevertheless, the USA is not by any means invincible due to its internal economic crisis, its military over-expansion and mainly due to the struggle of the international working class and the peoples expressed in the growing armed resistance of the Iraqi people who defeated imperialist illusions of unfolding with impunity a victorious blitzkrieg, and also in the Afghani resistance.
The preparations for war and the invasion of Iraq unleashed a huge wave of protest in the world, coordinated across borders this way for the first time in decades, against the war and US imperialism. Even the masses in the United States protested against the war and against the justifications for the invasion, including now relatives of the soldiers. Denunciation of the systematic torture of prisoners and the coffins of the US soldiers put US imperialism on the spot.


3) The imperialist aggression against Iraq increased the interimperialist contradictions. While England, Spain and Italy joined the United States, France, Germany, Russia and China were opposed. The United States nullified the oil contracts of the Iraqi government with companies from France, Russia and China and building contracts with Germany with the occupation of Iraq.
The intensification of the contradictions between the imperialist great powers also increases the opportunities for the peoples and the revolutionary movements to take advantage of them. However, we Marxist-Leninists should be careful of the social-chauvinist proposals that support the idea that the peoples should unite with the imperialist governments of France, Germany, Russia and China against the imperialist and warmongering policies of Bush.
Social Democracy and all reformists tried to incorporate the antiwar movement. They talk of ”aggressive imperialist countries” and ”peaceful countries”. The peacefulness of the imperialist great powers like Germany, France, Russia is nothing but hypocrisy.
France, Germany, Russia and China did not participate in the invasion, but legalized it afterwards through UN resolution and are now negotiating with the US the redistribution of the Iraqi wealth through the replacement of the US-British occupation with UN occupation.
Pacifism advocates an occupation of Iraq by United Nations forces and completely fails to recognize the character of the UN as a tool of the strongest imperialist powers.


4) The present world has a multipolar tendency.
From the economic point of view there are four main powers: USA, the bloc of the leading imperialist powers of Europe (Germany, France, Britain and Italy) when it acts united in its main parts (it should be taken into account that twelve countries have adopted the Euro. England maintains its own currency), Japan and China.
Politically there are several main powers: USA, Japan, Russia (the second largest military power after the USA), China, and the European powers which tend to gather around the France-Germany axis or to unite with the USA.
The European Union just made an expansion with the neocolonial integration of ten new members with the declared goal of becoming Number 1 power in the world. The imperialist countries of Western Europe, Germany first and foremost, organize the direct subjection of the economies of the new EU countries to the dictates of their imperialist (super)monopolies. Germany and France, which have moved backward relative to the USA, are widening the markets for their monopolies.


5) The dispute for the division of zones of influence:
On the basis of the uneven development of imperialism, US imperialism sees a potential threat to its power as Number 1 in the world and is forcing the re-division of the zones of dominion in the world. The dispute is for new zones of influence, markets, raw materials, and particularly oil and territories.
During the Balkan war there were contradictions between the USA and Germany and also with Russia, China and France. The US managed to enter this area. It searches for ways to control supplies to Europe, Japan and also to China. It has almost completely encircled Russia and China. Russia continues to occupy Chechnya.
While the United States penetrated Central Asia and the Caspian region under the pretext of the struggle against terrorism, this intervention was clearly unfavorable for Russia and China. Russia and China are wary and have onducted joint military exercises with Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The blocs and the alliances among different powers are not stable.
All the imperialist powers try to extract benefits from the oppressed countries and also from those of the former Soviet bloc. They try to unite against the oppressed nations and peoples but fight among themselves to gain supremacy.


6) We sustain that the Leninist definition of the epoch is still valid: 1. Ours is the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolution, 2. the uneven development of imperialism and the inevitability that the imperialist countries resort to war for the distribution of the world among themselves, 3. imperialism has divided the world into oppressor and oppressed nations, the international proletariat fights on the side of the latter ones and the national liberation revolutions are an integral part of the world proletarian revolution. (Translation from Spanish draft resolution)
The aggressive and expansionist nature of US imperialism tends to develop through local and regional wars and interventions. Although the inter-imperialist contradictions have intensified and the trend to war is inherent to the nature of imperialism, the possibility of a world inter-imperialist war does not seem to be imminent. This situation can change.


7) The armed national liberation struggles, the big popular struggles such as those in Latin America that have overthrown pro-imperialist governments, the huge demonstrations against the war, the struggles of the working class in the imperialist countries and in the world weaken the imperialist system.


8) The imperialists are the enemies of the peoples of the world. In joint struggle worldwide, the main thrust has to be directed at the USA as Number 1 imperialist power in the world of today.
In the imperialist countries, each Marxist-Leninist party must train the struggle of the working class and its allies on the imperialist bourgeoisie of its own country and support the anti-imperialist and revolutionary struggles of the oppressed peoples.
In the oppressed countries, on the other hand, the Marxist-Leninists must study each concrete situation and direct the revolutionary class struggle at the imperialist powers that are the most oppressive for their country and against the local ruling classes. The Marxist-Leninists of the oppressed countries are tasked with educating the proletariat and the people of their countries in the spirit of proletarian internationalism so that they unite with the proletariat of the imperialist countries.
In the countries occupied by imperialism, the most urgent task of the communists is to create the broadest possible unity in mobilizing against the occupiers. They must also discharge their historic responsibility to carry the national liberation struggle forward to the revolution and to socialism.
In the development of anti-imperialist movements, the communists have the essential task of raising up the political level of the broad mass movements from only protesting against war, or against ”globalization”, to denouncing imperialism as the source of war and plunder.
As Lenin taught, there is only one way out for the peoples of the world under imperialism: socialism. This is the way of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat based on the smashing of the international capitalist system and based on the military and political defeat of imperialism.
 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·        Partido Comunista Revolucionario, PCR Argentina

·        Workers´ Party of Bangladesh, WP Bangladesh

·        Partido Communista Colombia-Maoist, PCC-M, Colombia

·        Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD

·        Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L) Dom. Republic

·        CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·        CPI(ML) Red Flag, India

·        Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza - per il Comunismo, CARC, Italy

·        Communist Organization of Luxembourg, KOL Luxembourg

·        Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre-Mashal), NCP ( UC-Mashal), Nepal

·        GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·        Workers’ Communist Party, AKP, Norway

·        Partido Comunista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista), PC del Peru (M-L)

·        Communist Party of the Philippines, (CPP), Philippines

·        Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·        Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

         Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

·        Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey), BP ( NK-T ) ,  (reservations: not 2nd sentence of point 8)

·        Partido Communista Revolucionario, PCR Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USA

-       Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

 

Resolution Number 2

 

The Economic Crisis of Imperialism and its Effects

 

In the last 15 years we experience great changes in the economic and political development of the world imperialist system. It is characterized by a general intensification of all the contradictions and growing instability.

The current development underscores the continuing validity of Lenin’s analysis of imperialism. We live in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. Lenin’s work Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism continues to be a guidance for the concrete analysis of the current features and developments in imperialism.

The 8th International Conference agrees that there are important changes against the background of the internationalization of production.

There was an intense and controversial discussion carried out in solidarity about the question if, based on these changes, one can already speak of a new quality which could have introduced a new phase in the development of the imperialist world system or if these changes only constitute new forms of expressing well-known laws of the political economy of Marxism-Leninism.

The Conference agrees to continue the analysis and the discussion about these current features and developments of imperialism to determine the ideological, political and organizational tasks of the Marxists-Leninists all over the world.

 

On the Development of the World Economic Crisis

The world capitalist system was afflicted by the worst crisis of overproduction and financial crisis since the end of World War II. The crisis that broke out in Southeast Asia in 1997 turned out to be a worldwide, deep and long-lasting crisis. It spread to Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Argentina and Uruguay, and its repercussions hit Japan, the USA and Europe hard.

This exploded the myth of the so-called New Economy which was supposed to demonstrate that capitalism based on technological development can grow uninterruptedly.

In 2000, the NASDAQ index, which registers the development of the high-technology stocks in the USA, had its deepest fall in Wall Street since 1937. The driving force of the North American locomotive that had taken capitalist economy in tow since the so-called Southeast Asian crisis stopped. Then the crisis hit the three most important centers of capitalist economy: the USA, the European Union and Japan.

US imperialism tried to get out of the crisis started in March 2001 by setting course for war and trying to find a way out by raising external and internal debt. The 2003 US fiscal budget had a 475 billion dollar deficit, and that of 2004 will even be higher. In this way the U.S. government transfers the crisis to the rest of the world, excessively spending dollars to cover deficits, thus making use of its hegemonic position.

For this reason, Japan and China especially filled their Central Banks with dollars, to avoid the revaluation of their currencies versus the dollar, to keep their production cheap. In this situation, the Federal Reserve Bank lowered the interest rates and the government pushed forward an expansive tax policy by reducing and returning taxes. It raises arms expenditure and expenses for so-called national security by which it could reactivate the short cycle of US economy. On the other hand, it reduced expenditure for social benefits. This explains the growing fiscal deficit, which is covered by issuing treasury bonds; and as domestic savings are next to nothing, the major part of these bonds goes abroad. Japan and China in particular, but also Britain and Germany - though with a lower share  - invest a great deal of their growing dollar reserves in these bonds. The double deficit of the US, that is, of foreign trade and of the home budget, is financed by increased foreign debts, which is the background of the current weakness of the dollar. The relative recovery of the US and world economy is unstable in the framework of the world crisis of relative overproduction which has manifested itself since 1997, and the US deficit is one of the most dangerous elements for the world imperialist capitalist economy.

Japan, the country with the highest Gross Domestic Product per capita of the world, twice that of the USA, has been suffering from a crisis of relative overproduction for more than ten years. It has become the biggest creditor of the world, but the US is the biggest debtor which is why, on a long-term scale, the position of the Yen is uncertain.

The European Union consolidated its common market with the Euro, which became relatively strong due to the weakness of the dollar and the problems of the Yen, but it makes exports more difficult for the European imperialists. This led to the introduction of readjustment plans which intend to cut social achievements. By integrating ten countries, mainly from East Europe, into its sphere of economic and political influence, the EU has reinforced its initial position with respect to its imperialist rivals.

Russia and China have improved their relative position, both of them on the basis of the exploitation of cheap labor force. Russia also improved by using its energy potential of oil and gas to  obtain foreign currency. China became the main recipient of investments of "surplus" capital of Japan, USA and Europe for low-cost production of commodities. Low-cost service companies also settle there, like those producing software programs, and communication centers. In the future, this will cause the accumulation of factors for a deeper world crisis of relative overproduction.

In its efforts to overcome the crisis with openly colonial war policy as in the Iraq war, raising its war budget and its debts, US imperialism endangers the dollar and the entire system that depends on it, thus sharpening the contradictions with the rival powers.

 

On the Internationalization of Production

The internationalization of economy, already exposed by Marx as a general tendency of capitalism, has become more aggressive and voracious with the emergence of capitalism and of monopolies.

With the development of imperialism, the tendency towards the internationalization of production adopts a new quality. Lenin describes it in the following way:

"At a definite stage in the development of exchange, at a definite stage in the growth of large-scale production, namely, at the stage which was attained towards the turn of the century, exchange so internationalised economic relations and capital, and large-scale production assumed such proportions that monopoly began to replace free competition. (Lenin, ”Preface to N. Bukharin’s Pamphlet, Imperialism and the World Economy”, Collected Works, Vol. 22, p. 104)

In the last 15 – 20 years, there was an unprecedented process of cross-border concentration and centralization of capital in industry, agriculture, commerce and banking. Since the 1990s the merger of international corporations into international monopolies dominating the world market came into the fore. Thus, the 500 biggest international monopolies of the world made total sales of fourteen trillion dollars, approximately 45% of the gross world product. The leading international monopolies, as dominating finance capital, control the markets and the process of production and reproduction.

However, the flow of capital has largely and in increasing percentage gone to the industrialized countries. In 1990, 65 % of world foreign direct investments went to the developed countries, whereas in 2000, it had increased to 82.3 %. The export of surplus capital to the third world is not aimed at distributing productive capital, but mainly at financing the export of surplus goods of the imperialists and extracting superprofits from these developing countries. Lenin’s description of imperialism as spasmodic expansion and contraction of capital, boom and collapse, leaving in its wake the destruction of productive forces, applies to the conditions of neocolonies and dependent countries ravaged by the neoliberal policies of imperialism.

Currently, this development has increased with the centralization and concentration of capital in big monopolies which exploit the masses of workers, peasants and working people in general. Besides imperialism applies political, economic and military measures against dependent countries and thus seriously undermines their political and economic sovereignty. The changes in the last years, results of a higher development of the productive forces,  increased the profits of the imperialist monopolies and deepened the domination of the oppressed nations to such an extent that one can speak of returning to colonial methods under new conditions. In addition, hunger, misery, pauperization of millions of people all over the world increase in an unprecedented criminal way.

 

How the Crisis Manifests Itself in the Imperialist and the Neocolonially Exploited and Oppressed Countries

The contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production is intensifying more and more, but cannot be solved within the framework of capitalism.

The race of the individual capitalists for maximum profit creates an enormous over-production that cannot be consumed by the impoverished masses. Longing for a politics of social "globalization" without revolutionary transformation of the imperialist world order is an illusion against the background of exploding unemployment on a world-wide scale, mass misery and threat of war.

That is why, in this context, the 8th International Conference particularly underlines Lenin’s criticism of Kautsky:

"The essence of the matter is that Kautsky detaches the politics of imperialism from its economics.... It follows, then, that monopolies in the economy are compatible with non-monopolistic, non-violent, non-annexationist methods in politics.... The result is a slurring-over and a blunting of the most profound contradictions of the latest stage of capitalism, instead of an exposure of their depth; the result is bourgeois reformism instead of Marxism.” (Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 22, p. 270)

The international monopolies continue to need the imperialist nation state as an instrument of power and domination and as national basis for their international activities. In the framework of imperialism, no unitary political superstructure can take the place of the nation states. IMF, World Bank, WTO, UN, NATO, EU and other forms of organizations are political platforms of the leading imperialist countries in the interest of joint oppression and exploitation of the masses and of the neocolonially dependent and oppressed countries. Their agreements break down as soon as the contradictions between the imperialists and international monopolists increase, as was the case in the Iraq war. In the imperialist countries, the state's policy of redistribution is oriented to arm the international monopolies for their battle of annihilation in the world market. This involves subsidies and tax exemptions for the international monopolies at the expense of the whole of society as well as a far-reaching dismantling of the current social security system. Comprehensive privatization of state-owned companies and institutions is carried out on a world-wide scale.

So-called neoliberalism has devastating effects on the neocolonially dependent and oppressed countries and organized the transition from indirect to direct control of raw materials through the international monopolies. They no longer contented themselves with controlling the market, but took exploitation of and trade in raw materials into their own hands. In a certain way, this means reverting to the old method of neocolonialism - but on a new basis. The power over the sources of raw materials and locations of production lies directly in the hands of the imperialist powers and their monopolies.

The crisis of the capitalist-imperialist world system makes the class struggle in the exploited and oppressed countries a focal point of international class struggle.

The international proletariat has grown on a world-wide scale. This development underscores the task of the Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations to lead and to strengthen the role of the working class in the struggle against imperialism and for socialism .

It is necessary that the Marxists-Leninists and the working-class movement analyse the political economy of imperialism to draw conclusions for the determination of the current tasks in the struggle against imperialism and for socialism.

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·         Partido Comunista Revolucionario, PCR Argentina

·         Workers´ Party of Bangladesh, WP Bangladesh

·         Partido Communista Colombia-Maoist, PCC-M, Colombia

·         Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·         Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L) Dom. Republic

·         CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·         CPI(ML) Red Flag, India

·         Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza - per il Comunismo, CARC, Italy

·         Communist Organization of Luxembourg, KOL Luxembourg

·         Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre-Mashal), NCP ( UC-Mashal), Nepal

·         GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·         Workers’ Communist Party, AKP, Norway

·         Partido Comunista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista), PC del Peru (M-L)

·         Communist Party of the Philippines, (CPP), Philippines (with reservations)

·         Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·         Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·         Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey), BP(NK-T) (with comment)

·         Partido Communista Revolucionario, PCR Uruguay

·         Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USA

    Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

 

 

Resolution Number 3

 

Class Struggle of the International Working Class,Anti-Imperialist Struggle of the Peoples and International Solidarity Including the Improvement of Practical Cooperation

 

Despite the enormous inequality of technical and military resources, the resistance of the Iraqi people succeeded in bogging down US imperialism. It thereby demonstrates the possibility to confront and to defeat it, just as comrade Mao Zedong said: "A weak country can defeat a powerful one, a small country can defeat a big one.  If it dares to rise in struggle, take up arms and take its own destiny into its hands, it shall certainly be able to defeat the aggression of a big country.  That is a law of history”.(20th of May 1970).

The resistance of the Iraqi people, combined with the struggle of the Palestinian people and the continuing Afghan resistance, has led to a change in the international political situation.

The war preparations against Iraq, the attack of the United States and Great Britain against Iraq and the invasion, have unleashed  a huge wave of protest against war and against US imperialism throughout the world.

For the first time in history, on February 15, 2003, a worldwide day of action against the imperialist war was held with the militant participation of tens of millions of people in five continents.

 

The increasing struggles of the working class and the oppressed peoples in countries oppressed by imperialism

South America with the struggles of the workers, peasants, and people's struggles is a storm center against imperialism.

Among the main features of the struggles in Latin America, the following must be underscored: the Argentinazo, with its uprisings, barricades, occupations and start of production in the occupied factories.  The Argentinazo overthrew a government hated by the people. The uprising in Bolivia  to depose a puppet government of imperialism thus preventing the advance of privatization. The big anti-imperialist and popular struggles in Paraguay, which hindered the privatization of public enterprises. The massive mobilizations in Peru which climaxed in the uprising of Arequipa which blocked the advance of privatization. Huge peasant mobilizations in Brazil to occupy land and against big landlordism. The general strikes in the Dominican Republic and the political and mass struggles, which defeated the Referendum of the puppet Alvaro Uribe in Colombia.

The recent intensification of the blockade combined with the threats and provocation against Cuba, Plan Colombia and the pro-US coup attemps in Venezuela were firmly resisted by the peoples, with whom we actively show our solidarity.

The latest struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean for land, work, wages and against privatization outline the strategic unity of the masses of peasants, most of them indigenous, with the proletariat of the big urban centers. This unity is indispensable for the triumph of the revolution.

Therefore, the key is to strengthen and develop the Marxist-Leninist vanguard parties. Without this it will be impossible to achieve the triumph of the revolution.

In Korea, Japan, Philippines, Thailand in East Asia, Greece, Great Britain in Europe and other countries, there have been militant mass actions protesting against US military bases.

In some countries such as the Philippines, Palestine, Colombia, Iraq, Turkey, Nepal and others, armed struggles are being waged. Some of these struggles are led by Marxist-Leninist parties. They are combined with a large variety of anti-imperialist mass struggles and are important for the anti-imperialist movement. In other neo-colonial, exploited and oppressed countries, revolutionary forces are emerging who are preparing for armed revolution.  These forces need and deserve the support and the solidarity of Marxist-Leninist and of all anti-imperialist democratic and progressive parties and organizations all over the world.

 

Working class struggles in the advanced capitalist countries

Class struggle in imperialist countries is in continuous development. The imperialist bourgeoisie, its political forces and governments increasingly attack all that the workers have gained through their industrial and social actions since the end of the Second World War.

The bourgeoisie attack the workers on the labor market through flexibilization of work, extension of working hours without wage compensation, wage cuts, increasing of retirement age and cuts in the social welfare, health and education system. These anti-people economic policies have been adopted by all imperialist governments in the world.

 The resistance of the workers and toilers in imperialist countries against the deterioration of the working and living conditions and against the dismantling of the economic and democratic rights is developing.

Blockades of production, spontaneous strikes, pickets at the factory gates, blockades of railways are the fighting methods which have always been employed by the working class.

Public employees, transport and other workers uphold notable struggles in France. 

General strikes and other important mobilizations of the working class have taken place in Italy, Germany and Belgium. In the US, despite the disastrous role of the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), several sectors of the working class, among them dock and supermarket workers, resolutely fight for their rights. Also some trade unions are taking part in the anti-war movement.

 

To some extent these struggles are beyond, and display a tendency of breaking away from the control of the parties and unions of the bourgeois regime.

The communists of the imperialist countries have to create the unity in struggle of the workers of all countries against finance capital, monopolies and their imperialist states.  It is important for unifying the struggles of all workers under the leadership of the working class that the communists are struggling in the forefront in all these struggles against the policy of the bourgeois governments.  Aside from this, the communists in the imperialist countries have the task of educating the workers in the spirit of proletarian internationalism to struggle against chauvinism and to support the anti-imperialist struggles of the peoples of the world.

Since Seattle, in every international meeting of WTO, G-8, EU, FTAA, APEC and other such gatherings, big manifestations have been organized and have led to the situation that these forums increasingly must be held in places far from big population centers.  In many of these manifestations the 'anti-globalization' movement plays a leading role.  This movement has different sectors in its midst, and many of them neglect the national struggle.  But this movement has objectively played an anti-imperialist role. A better coordination of the revolutionary parties and movements of the masses is necessary to prevent Social Democracy and other reformist sectors from imposing their political line.

 

The struggle against reformism and opportunism

The parties of the working class are waging the struggle against reformism, revisionism and every kind of opportunism to advance decisively the struggle against imperialism.

Women hold up half the sky

The struggles for the liberation of women from oppression and exploitation including the struggle against patriarchy are part of the struggle against imperialism. In order to further develop the participation of working women in the revolutionary struggles, it is necessary to struggle against machismo within the working class, the masses and within the revolutionary ranks. In the last decades untiring participation of women in the political struggle has further developed. Thousands take to the streets. A notable mobilization of one million people for the right of women to decide about their own bodies recently took place in Washington. This was a blow to the Bush policy. Women spend days, weeks, months in picket lines. They care for children orphaned by the struggle. They join unions, organize and educate themselves. They also join the armed resistance in countries where there is an armed struggle, and often distinguish themselves in this field.

Their participation in the revolutionary struggle is essential for victory.

International Solidarity

In the current international situation it is more than ever necessary to raise the banners of proletarian internationalism, which has as one of its principal tasks worldwide solidarity with the struggles of the working class and all the movements of the colonial, semi-colonial and dependent countries as they struggle for their national and social liberation.

 

1.   It is the task of Marxist-Leninists to coordinate and to revolutionize the struggles of the international working class. The working class is the guarantee of proletarian internationalism

2.   Now more than ever we express our solidarity with the heroic people of Iraq, who resist the imperialist military occupation in an unequal struggle. We support the demand for the immediate withdrawal of US imperialist and all other foreign troops from Iraq.

3.   We support the anti-imperialist struggles of the Palestinian and Afghan peoples.  We support the struggles of the Basque, Irish, Puerto Rican and Chechnya peoples for their self-determination and independence.

4.   We support the struggles also by means of arms in the neocolonial countries by exploited and oppressed peoples where some of them take place under the leadership of Marxist-Leninist and revolutionary parties and organizations in the Philippines, Colombia, Palestine, Turkey, Nepal, India and in other countries.

5.   We express full solidarity with the struggles and revolts of the peoples of South America who struggle against imperialism and local reaction.

6.   We condemn the imperialist aggression and threats made on countries like Cuba (that resists imperialist blockade for more than forty years), the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran and others.  We demand the immediate withdrawal of the troops from Haiti.

7.   We reject the violation of the human rights of peoples and their revolutionary leaders and demand these violations be punished.  We demand the immediate release of all political prisoners in all countries especially in Peru, Turkey, Colombia, the Philippines, Nepal, Europe and the United States.

We demand an immediate end to the persecution of revolutionary forces and leaders such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Philippine revolutionary leader Jose Maria Sison, the Basque Patriotic Left mass leaders and other militants, who are unjustly branded terrorists.

We demand the recognition of the political and legal rights of all the political prisoners and prisoners of war in the world like the prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo, etc.

We reject the persecution of the immigrants in particular of Arab Islamic people from the Arab and Islamic countries in Europe and the United States.

8.   A key question for the higher development of the class struggle in the individual countries today is the strengthening of Marxist-Leninist party building. The 8th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations considers the stronger coordination of the common tasks of solidarity and initiatives in the struggle against the common enemy a priority task in the international field.

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·         Partido Comunista Revolucionario, PCR Argentina

·         Workers´ Party of Bangladesh, WP Bangladesh

·         Partido Communista Colombia-Maoist, PCC-M, Colombia

·         Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·         Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD (with reservations)

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L) Dom. Republic

·         CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·         CPI(ML) Red Flag, India (with reservations)

·         Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza - per il Comunismo, CARC, Italy

·         Communist Organization of Luxembourg, KOL Luxembourg

·         GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·         Workers’ Communist Party, AKP, Norway

·         Partido Comunista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista), PC del Peru (M-L)

·         Communist Party of the Philippines, (CPP), Philippines (with reservations)

·         Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·         Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·         Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey), BP(NK-T),  (with reservations)

·         Partido Communista Revolucionario, PCR Uruguay

·         Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USA

          Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

 

 

Resolution Number 4

On the Perspective of the 8th International Conference and the Preparation

of the 9th International Conference


1. The 8th International Conference was prepared and carried out very successfully.
A broad range of 29 organizations from Asia, Africa, America and Europe took part. Six further organizations participated in the preparations, but were unable to attend. There was a broad participation in the discussion of all the participants without exception and a fruitful exchange of experience. It was distinguished by a fraternal, open and lively debate conducted on a principled basis among all participating organizations. The differing views and positions were discussed with the aim of achieving unity and of advancing the Conference. The common conviction was strengthened to continue this path of deepening and advancing mutual understanding and increasing coordinated work. The participants emphasized the concept of multilateral organization. This also resulted in taking a greater collective responsibility and achieving better results in financing the Conference.
Four resolutions and a declaration of solidarity were adopted expressing the consensus in the respective items on the agenda:
• The aggressive and expansionist character of US imperialism, the intensification of the contradiction among the imperialist powers and the growing threat of war
• The economic crisis of imperialism and its consequences
• The struggle of the international working class, the anti-imperialist struggles of the peoples and international solidarity, including the improvement of practical cooperation
• On the perspective of the 8th International Conference and the preparation of the 9th International Conference
• Declaration in solidarity with the Iraqi people and condemnation of the US war of aggression


2. The Joint Coordinating Group (JCG) prepared the Conference well and in accordance with the principles of cooperation.
The JCG has systematically and in an all-around way informed the participants about all questions concerning the preparation of the 8th International Conference and organized a democratic exchange of views.
Altogether 59 written contributions were submitted to the Conference, including 23 country reports. All this material also will ensure a broad range of experiences and analyses which the participants can take advantage of afterwards.
The JCG could successfully prepare the 8th International Conference on the basis of the rules of the International Conference, with the assistance of a Multilateral Organizational Staff (MOS) securing the practical organizing of the Conference. The MOS reflected also the broad collective character behind the IC; numerous comrades from 11 organizations took part in the work and ensured that the Conference was carried out smoothly.
The Conference adopted the report of the JCG.
The principles adopted by the 7th International Conference for the cooperation of the Marxist-Leninist organizations had proved their worth and were also adopted as Conference rules now.

3. The 8th International Conference decides to prepare and hold a 9th International Conference within a period of two to three years.
For its preparation a new Joint Coordinating Group has been set up consisting of representatives from five parties and organizations; four of them are permanent members, one is a non-permanent member of the JCG. The JCG must find various forms for including the participating organizations in the process of preparing the 9th International Conference. The principle of rotating the main coordinator for the JCG was upheld. As mentioned in the report of the JCG to the 8th Conference, this promoted the collective responsibility of the participants of the IC. But the short period of six months for rotation, together with the strictness of equally sharing the periods, hampered the work of the JCG. The period was now extended for some months and also provides the possibility of temporarily handing over the responsibility to another organization in case other duties prevent the actual main coordinator from accomplishing his task.
The main coordinator will convene the JCG meetings and coordinate the work.
The JCG should take efforts to improve the exchange of information and also cooperation on practical issues initiated by different organizations in the period before the 9th IC. To realize this, the participating organizations also should be responsible to inform the JCG on such activities. The INL and the Homepage should be given priority in this respect, by announcing activities as well as special material of common interest.
The 8th International Conference calls on all Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations to take part in the preparation and holding of the 9th International Conference.
The International Conference is a forum of Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations.
Participation in the International Conference is based on the following main criteria:
• Adherence to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought and their creative application in the conduct of the class struggle in each country.
• Struggle against modern revisionism, and a positive attitude towards Stalin and Mao.
• Acceptance of the Rules of the Conference.
The 4th Conference adopted the following principles on which the cooperation of the participating Marxist-Leninist organizations is based, which were again adopted at the 8th Conference.
• Independence and equality, mutual respect, mutual support and cooperation.
• Non-interference in internal affairs as well as in the bilateral or regional relations of any party or organization with other parties and organizations. Every organization is sovereign in its conclusions.
• Consensus and unanimity in decision-making.
• Achieve gradual unity step by step; principled debate and cooperation among parties/organizations and no public attack by any party/organization on another.
• Obligation of all participating organizations to prepare and conduct the 9th International Conference jointly in accordance with their possibilities.
• Financial independence and self-financing of the common work according to the possibilities.

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·         Partido Comunista Revolucionario, PCR Argentina

·         Workers´ Party of Bangladesh, WP Bangladesh

·         Partido Communista Colombia-Maoist, PCC-M, Colombia

·         Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·         Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L) Dom. Republic

·         CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·         Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza - per il Comunismo, CARC, Italy

·         Communist Organization of Luxembourg, KOL Luxembourg

·         Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre-Mashal), NCP ( UC-Mashal), Nepal

·         GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·         Workers’ Communist Party, AKP, Norway (with comment)

·         Partido Comunista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista), PC del Peru (M-L)

·         Communist Party of the Philippines, (CPP), Philippines

·         Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·         Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·         Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey), BP(NK-T),  (with comment)

·         Partido Communista Revolucionario, PCR Uruguay

·         Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USA

          Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

 

 

 

Resolution No. 5

 

To All Workers and Peoples of the World  Declaration of the 8th International Conference  of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations

 

1. The currently biggest imperialist power, US imperialism, whose aggressive, belligerent and criminal character makes it at present the greatest enemy of the peoples of the world, unleashed a cruel war of mass murder against the people of the Iraq. That occurred under the blatant pretexts to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. This was an attempt to hide its true intentions by means of blatant pretexts:

·     Appropriation of the crude oil riches.

·     Assertion of its hegemony in the strategic region of the Middle East in order to decide the dispute with the other imperialist powers in its favor.

·     Installation of a puppet regime over the Iraqi people on behalf of the US interests.

·     Attempt to find a solution to the aggravated crisis of its economy in war.

 

2. US imperialism, blatant and arrogant as imperialism in general, thought that its aggression against the Iraqi people would be merely a ”military stroll”. But the people of the Iraq showed its resolve to fight and untiringly defend its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and its natural wealths. It ignited the fire of national liberation war to make the aggressor eat the dust of defeat. The resistance of the Iraqi people has caused US imperialism and its allies to get bogged down, resulting in an changed situation. The Yankees did not succeed to push through their ”colonial order”. The aggression arose strong and broad peoples masses in many imperialist countries especially in Spain, where Aznar, being one of the closest allies of Bush, was driven out. Baghdad, Faludja, Najaf, Kerbala already are becoming a second Vietnam for the Yankees.

 

3. The war of resistance conducted by the Iraqi people, which will definitely win sooner or later, has significant repercussions benefiting the heroic struggle of the people of Palestine for their national liberation and for the right to set up their own state, and on the struggle of the people of Afghanistan, which combats the imperialist aggressor to gain its independence, sovereignty and democratic freedom. We condemn the invasion of imperialism in Afghanistan under the leadership of the USA.

 

4. We welcome the unity the Iraqi resistance has achieved by overcoming ethnic and religious differences, in this manner thwarting the divisive maneuvers which the imperialist aggressors further with the assistance of a handful of traitors. With equal vigor we denounce the torture and abuse practiced with unprecedented brutality and cruelty by the US and British army of occupation against Iraqi, women, old people, men and children. That shows once again that the catchphrases of the imperialists on ”democracy”, ”human rights”, freedom” etc. are nothing else then hypocrisy.

 

5. We reject the occupation of the Iraq in any form, also as a so-called ”internationalized” occupation with the United Nations as the figurehead. The future of the Iraq should solely determined by the people of the Iraq.

 

6. We call upon all workers and peoples of the world to increase their support for the liberation struggle of the Iraqi people, and we demand the immediate withdrawal of the invaders’ troops; to increase their support of the struggle of the people of Palestine for the establishment of a sovereign state, of the resistance of the people of Afghanistan to drive out the imperialist invaders, and of all workers and peoples of the world who struggle for national independence, prosperity and democracy with the perspective of socialism.

Long Live the Liberation Struggle of the Iraqi People!We Demand the Immediate Withdrawal of All Troops of Occupation! Long Live the Struggles of Liberation and Resistance of the Peoples of Palestine and Afghanistan!

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·         Partido Comunista Revolucionario, PCR Argentina

·         Workers´ Party of Bangladesh, WP Bangladesh

·         Partido Communista Colombia-Maoist, PCC-M, Colombia

·         Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·         Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L) Dom. Republic

·         CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·         CPI(ML) Red Flag, India

·         Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza - per il Comunismo, CARC, Italy

·         Communist Organization of Luxembourg, KOL Luxembourg

·         Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre-Mashal), NCP ( UC-Mashal), Nepal

·         GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·         Workers’ Communist Party, AKP, Norway

·         Partido Comunista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista), PC del Peru (M-L)

·         Communist Party of the Philippines, (CPP), Philippines

·         Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·         Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·         Partido Communista Revolucionario, PCR Uruguay

·         Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USA

          Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

 

 

 

Resolution

submitted to the participants of the 8th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations by individual organizations to sign:

 

1.   We condemn the criminal, genocidal economic blockade which the imperialist government of the U.S.A. has maintained against the Cuban people for more than 40 years and demand it be lifted.

2.   We condemn and demand a stop to the plots, acts of sabotage and provocation which U.S. imperialism organizes and finances in the effort to overthrow the government of Cuba and install a puppet government.

3.   We demand freedom for the Cuban patriots who were kidnapped and tortured by the imperialist government and are to be condemned to more than 30 years in prison because they exercised their legitimate right to thwart the provocative acts and sabotage instigated by mercenary groups against Cuba.

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·         Marxist-Leninist Organization from Afghanistan, MLO Afghanistan

·         Partido Comunista Revolucionario, PCR Argentina

·         Workers´ Party of Bangladesh, WP Bangladesh

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) de Bolivia, PC(M-L) Bolivia

·         Partido Communista Colombia-Maoist, PCC-M, Colombia

·         Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·         Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD, Germany

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L) Dom. Republic

·         Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

·         CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·         CPI(ML) Red Flag, India

·         Comitati di Appoggio alla Resistenza - per il Comunismo, CARC, Italy

·         Communist Organization of Luxembourg, KOL Luxembourg

·         Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre-Mashal), NCP ( UC-Mashal), Nepal

·         GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·         Workers’ Communist Party, AKP, Norway

·         Partido Comunista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista), PC del Peru (M-L), Peru

·         Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) Panama, PC (M-L) Panama

·         Movimienteo Popular Revolucionario Paraguay Pyahura, M.P.R.P.P., Paraguay

·         Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), Philippines

·         Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·         Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·         Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist), CPSA (M-L) South Africa

·         TKP/ML, Turkey

·         Bolshevik Party (Northkurdistan-Turkey), BP ( NK-T) Turkey

·         Partido Communista Revolucionario, PCR Uruguay

·         Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USARevindo, Revolutionary Organization from Southeas

          Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece

 


 

Resolution submitted to the participants of the 8th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations  by individual organizationes to sign:

 

Resolution to Support All Political Prisoners

 

The struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie continues in every aspect of life. When the proletariat carries out its struggle for political power, the ruling classes mobilize every mechanism of the oppressive system. The ruling classes not only try to deprive the proletarian class and other toilers of their freedom of thought and organization, they also escalate the violence inflicted upon the toiling classes. When they realize that there is an attempt to take away their paradise, their reign, the ruling classes savagely attack the classes that dare to make such an attempt. 

The vanguard, the leaders of the working class are the first targets of their fury. They murder, kidnap, torture these leaders and cause their disappearance, or put them in dingy prisons with made up charges. In prison, under the most inhumane conditions, the fascists try to break their will and force them to give up. Depending on the level of the struggle, the ruling classes will not be satisfied, in showing their aggression at the leaders of the working classes, but they also launch a more widespread offensive affecting other sections of the oppressed classes.

Today, there are many people in the prisons throughout the world. They live under hard and inhumane conditions. One of these conditions is the cell type prisons, which were initially established in the imperialist countries.

Torture and detention centers, defying all forms of international laws and standards on humanright and agreements, such as the Guantanamo Prison of the USA, are especially established to crush any resistance to imperialism’s illegitimate policies of aggression and expansion.

Although mainly non-political, there are more than 2 million people in mostly privately owned and operated jails of the USA. Depending on the size of the population, the prison population in other countries are considerably large as well, an ever growing population that is maintained as a cheap labor source. In 1999, a Turkish capitalist, S. Aygun, for example, was smug enough to openly state the following: “We’ll either have to transform factories into prisons or turn prisons into factories.” Nowadays, privitization of prisons is a growing trend in Europe, as well.

As the proletariat and toilers carry out their struggle for political power, they will continue to be the targets of violent attacks by imperialists and their cohorts. Being thrown into these prisons is only one form of these attacks. Today, in many countries, mainly in Peru, Colombia, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Turkey, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Indonesia, etc. there are tens of thousands of political prisoners and large number of these prisoners are the democrats, revolutionaries, and communists of these countries.

The political prisoners in the USA, Europe, Russia, and China are often forgotten as if there were no political prisoners in these countries. Because of his political beliefs, Mumia Abu-Jamal has been unjustly accused, tried, and imprisoned for more than a decade now in the USA. There are still hundreds of political prisoners  in the cells of France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and England. These political prisoners are either the revolutionaries of their respective countries or are detained by these European countries in collaboration with the ruling classes of other imperialist or subservient countries. There are thousands of revolutionaries living in despicable conditions in captivity in Latin American and African countries’ prisons.

Prisons are an arena of class struggle. It is quite possible for any revolutionary to find him/herself in these prisons. It would be a huge mistake for revolutionary and communist movements to neglect this arena of the struggle and to neglect their comrades who have to live under these conditions. Abandoning the comrades to struggle alone, away from the dynamism of the struggle, would jeopardize the morale of these comrades, making it easier for the bourgeoisie to break down their resistance in many ways.

The inhumane conditions in the prisons must be dealt on by the revolutionary media. There must be strong solidarity with the political prisoners. The prison methods and systems of bourgeoisie must be exposed by all means. This is at the same time a part of the struggle for democracy.

We, the undersigned, will expose and condemn the harsh conditions faced by the political prisoners, and we declare our solidarity with the political prisoners throughout the world.

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·        Marxist-Leninist Organization from Afghanistan, MLO Afghanistan

·        Revolutionary Communist Party, PCR, Argentina

·        Workers' Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

·        Communist Party of Colombia-Maoist, PCC-Maoist, Colombia

·        Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD, Germany

·        Communist Party (Marxists-Leninists) Dominican Republic, PC(M-L)

·        Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way,

   OCML Voie proletarienne, France

·        CPI(ML) Janashakti, India

·        CPI(ML) Red Flag, India

·        Committee for the Support of Resistance – for Communism, CARC, Italy

·        Communist Organization  of Luxembourg, KOL, Luxemburg

·        Nepalese Communist Party (Unity Center-Mashal), NCP (Unity Center- Mashal), Nepal

·        GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·        Communist Workers' Party, AKP, Norway

·        Communist Party (Marxists-Leninists) Panama, PC (M-L), Panama

·        Movimiento Popular Revolucionario Paraguay Pyahura M.P.R.P.P., Paraguay

·        Communist Party of Peru (Marxists-Leninists), PC del Peru (M-L), Peru

·        Communist Party of the Philippines, (CPP), Philippines

·        Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·        Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·        Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

·        Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey), BP(NK-T)

·        TKP/ML, Turkey

·        Revolutionary Communist Party, P. C. R. Uruguay

·        Ray O. Light Group, ROL, USA

·        Revindo, Revolutionary Organization from South East Asia

  

 

 

Resolution submitted to the participants of the 8th International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties

and Organizations by individual organizationes to sign:

 

The struggle for the revolution and for socialism calls for the construction and reconstruction of steadfast and correct Marxist-Leninist parties. This becomes all the more urgent as imperialism, in particular the USA, the imperialist superpower, with the ruling classes as accomplices, unleashes a policy of aggression and predatory wars to conquer markets and raw materials and to assert its neocolonial rule over the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This task requires the cooperation, coordination and mutual support of the various Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations, especially today, where the disappearance of the socialist camp as a result of the betrayal by revisionism and the defeat this meant for the international proletariat and peoples of the world has made this work more difficult and arduous.

 

The demands on Marxist-Leninist literature, the training of revolutionary cadres, the investigative and analytical tasks that enable the formulation and enrichment of the programmatic proposals of the Marxist-Leninist parties are indeed the first and fundamental tasks of the Marxist-Leninist parties themselves. The formation of a Marxist-Leninist institute or a center for training and research can be an important supplement. For this reason we propose that a Marxist-Leninist institute or  training center be organized whose tasks could be:

 

Collaboration on the training of cadres in the theoretical, political and technical fields.

·      The systematizing, deepening and communicating of the experience which the Marxist-Leninist parties possess as a result of their theoretical and practical work.

·      Publication at six-month intervals of a journal which disseminates all these contributions and experiences.

·      Organizing of seminars, conferences and discussions on problems which interest the workers, the youth, women, and intellectuals among the people and effectively serve them.

 

A working committee shall be formed, which is tasked with planning this institute or center, drawing up rules and guidelines, and organizing it, seeing to all matters related to its financing and location.

 

Signing parties and organizations:

 

·        Marxist-Leninist Organization from Afghanistan, MLO Afghanistan

·        Workers' Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

·        Communist Party Marxists-Leninists Bolivia, PCML Bolivia

·        Revolutionary Organization  from the Congo, R.O. Congo

·        Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD, Germany

·        Communist Party (Marxists-Leninists) Dominican Republic

·        Committee for the Support of Resistance –for Communism, CARC, Italy

·        Communist Party of Colombia-Maoist, PCC-Maoist, Colombia

·        Russian Maoist Party (RMP), Russia

·        Nepalese Communist Party (Unity Center-Mashal), NCP, Nepal

·        GML/Rode Morgen, Netherlands

·        Communist Party (Marxists-Leninists) Panama, PC (M-L) Panama

·        Communist Party of Peru (Marxists-Leninists), PC del Peru (M-L), Peru

·        Partija Rada, Serbia and Montenegro

·        Communist Party of South Africa (Marxists-Leninists), CPSA (M-L), Southafrica                

         Communist Organization Greece, KOE, Greece