From En Marcha
# 1562 January 5 to 13, 2012
VI Congress of Emek Partisi
Resolution
We support the peoples who have rebelled for their rights and their
freedom; we condemn the imperialist conspiracies against Syria and Iran.
Throughout 2011, the Arab peoples of North Africa and the Near East
have risen one after another. They do not want to be victims of the
consequences of the hegemony of monopoly capitalism nor to be subjected
to poverty and unemployment, and they rejected the repression of the
autocratic dictatorships that safeguarded such hegemony. The despotic
regimes that have lasted for 30 to 40 years have been the main reason
for the disorganization of the oppressed masses and have served as an
obstacle to their attaining consciousness. The peoples who have risen
up have achieved some victories but they have not been able to reap
important fruits of this struggle, such as for example to achieve their
own political power. Therefore, these reactionary bourgeois forces
supported by Western imperialism have maintained or have tried to
maintain their hegemony through the strengthening of their pillars with
new collaborators, seeing that their hegemony was in difficulty.
The Arab peoples, who have risen up, have realized their potential and
have tasted certain victories, which is why their struggles have still
not been repressed in any country except for Libya. Despite their low
level of consciousness and organization, the peoples are carrying
forward their uprisings with an effort to try to overcome their
weakness, and they insist on opposing the attacks by reactionary forces
that have been organized especially by elements of political Islam,
which has become more moderate and pro-American in almost all those
countries.
We understand that the communist parties and organizations that are
signing this document, gathered at the Sixth Congress of the Party of
Labor of Turkey, express our pride and solidarity with the struggles of
the masses of the people, not only in the Arab countries of North
Africa and the Near East, but also in Europe, from Spain to Greece, and
in Latin America, from Venezuela to Ecuador, for their social and
popular rights and freedoms; as well we proclaim our support for the
just struggle of the Palestinian people against the Zionist imperialism
of Israel.
However, we are aware of the fact that our main weakness is the
inadequate level of consciousness and organization of the peoples of
the world, with a view to any process of struggle. The imperialists and
their collaborators take advantage of this weakness in their efforts to
renovate the weakened bases of their hegemony and to repress those
struggles through ideological penetration and infiltration in those
struggles of the peoples that imperialism claims to support,
manipulating these struggles towards their own interests and
eliminating the popular features of these struggles.
Western imperialism, which maintains hegemony in its hands and tries to
strengthen its position in relation to the ascending imperialist
powers, not only aims to reinforce its hegemony in the countries under
its influence through the repression of the popular struggles, but also
tries to establish its hegemony by extending its influence on the
peoples and their struggles and using them as a tool in countries such
as Syria and Iran, which have not yet been subjugated.
We do not support the regimes of either Assad or Khamenei. However, we
stress the fact that the imperialist powers are intervening with the
support of the reactionary forces in the region such as Turkey and the
Saudis, in the name of support for the so-called "opposition" in Syria
and Iran under the pretext of the struggle for "democracy" and
"repression of the dictators"; these policies have nothing to do with
the right of self-determination of the peoples or the democratic and
social aspirations of peoples. We are opposed to imperialist
interventions – economic as well as political and military – for
whatever reason, whether they are called by their obliging
collaborators or not, and we condemn such policies that only lead to
war, bloodshed and suffering.
We call on the peoples of the world, especially the peoples of Syria
and Iran, to be alert to the interventions and imperialist tricks such
as those that have taken place in Libya, to show solidarity with the
struggles of the peoples of the region and to support the fight against
imperialism and its reactionary forces.
Ankara, December 2011
Communist Party of Albania
Communist Party of Benin
Party of Labor of Belgium
New Party of Cyprus
Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Communist Party of Spain (ML)
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia
Emek Partisi of Turkey
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