What’s Behind Hezbollah’s Legendary Resilience?

Despite the unprecedented scale of the challenges and the severe, successive blows inflicted on its leadership and military structure in recent times, Hezbollah has once again emerged at the forefront of the military and political landscape in the Middle East as an exceptional and unique model of dynamic adaptation and strategic resilience.

Amid the highly complex and turbulent regional and international environment currently surrounding Lebanon, Hezbollah has demonstrated that the concept of “resistance” is not merely a broad slogan or an emotional ideology, but rather an integrated institutional system and a deeply rooted combat doctrine that operational experience has proven to be resistant to collapse or elimination.

So what structural, geographical, and political factors have converged to make this resilience a reality that has imposed itself on the battlefield through force of arms and at regional and international political tables through the force of facts on the ground?

First: Organizational flexibility and decentralization (the adaptive mind of the Resistance)

Contemporary historical experience, particularly over the past two years, has demonstrated that the targeting and assassination of senior first-rank leaders—most notably former Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah—did not lead to the collapse of the command-and-control structure as its adversaries had expected and planned.

On the contrary, the party quickly absorbed the shock, and a number of structural developments emerged that enabled it to overcome the crisis and continue managing the battle with high efficiency. Among the most important were:

Flexible collective leadership: Through its consultative institutions and multiple leadership councils, Hezbollah succeeded in reorganizing its ranks, filling leadership vacuums with remarkable smoothness, and injecting experienced new blood under the leadership of Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem. This surprised global intelligence circles that had bet on the party’s fragmentation.

Operational military decentralization: The carefully planned shift toward smaller combat units with greater independence in field decision-making rendered the entire system less vulnerable to the effects of intensive aerial strikes.

As a result, every geographical area became capable of fighting and managing itself without the need for direct and continuous communication with the central leadership.

This structural transformation was achieved through close cooperation and accumulated shared expertise with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which possesses extensive experience in developing asymmetric warfare strategies.

A sophisticated reliance on guerrilla warfare: Hezbollah’s military ingenuity is evident in its complete avoidance of conventional confrontations that would favor the enemy’s air and technological superiority.

Instead, its strategy focused on well-planned and numerous ambushes, the use of anti-tank weapons (including Kornet missiles and their third-generation variants), the deployment of loitering attack drones, and the balanced use of both long- and short-range missiles. This has inflicted continuous human and material losses on Israeli forces and efficiently exhausted their offensive capabilities.

Second: Infrastructure and geostrategic acumen

This military resilience against one of the world’s most powerful military machines was not the product of chance or luck. Rather, it was the result of decades of painstaking engineering planning and exceptional strategic foresight regarding Lebanon’s geography, embodied in two key elements:

The network of tunnels and underground facilities: The fortified tunnel network and strategic storage facilities extending across complex terrain—particularly north of the Litani River and deep into the Bekaa Valley—constitute a formidable military fortress. This complex engineering system makes it nearly impossible for modern military technologies, including bunker-busting bombs and satellite surveillance, to penetrate or completely destroy it. It has provided a secure environment for storing ballistic missiles and launching drones.

Adaptation to disruptions in external supply lines: Despite the dramatic geopolitical changes that unfolded in Syria, including the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the subsequent loss of some traditional land-based logistical supply routes that had served as a vital artery, the Resistance demonstrated an exceptional capacity for innovation.

This was reflected in the activation of mechanisms for the local production of low-cost, highly effective drones and the domestic manufacture of short-range missiles, in addition to the intelligent utilization of alternative maritime routes and geographic workarounds. This self-reliance granted the party a degree of temporary military self-sufficiency sufficient to sustain a prolonged war of attrition.

Third: Popular depth and a solid social base

The true and enduring strength of any liberation or resistance movement in modern history is not measured solely by the size of its missile arsenal or military equipment, but first and foremost by the cohesion of its internal front and the extent of its roots in the consciousness of its people.

A bond forged through blood and sacrifice: In southern Lebanon, Beirut’s Southern Suburb, and the Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah continues to enjoy a solid historical popular base that has endured through hardship. This base views the party’s weapons and fighters as the only effective deterrent shield protecting it and defending Lebanese sovereignty against any external expansionist ambitions, believing that the cost of resistance remains far lower than the cost of surrender and external subjugation.

The social and institutional safety net: Despite severe financial restrictions and the harsh economic pressures facing Lebanon, the party’s service and civil institutions—such as the Islamic Health Authority, educational and relief organizations, and Jihad al-Binaa—have continued to provide direct and sustained support to displaced persons, the families of martyrs, and those affected by conflict. This active social presence has reinforced the resilience of its support base and preserved social cohesion behind the choice of resistance during the most difficult circumstances.

Fourth: Internal and regional political balance

Despite intense and ongoing local and international political and media campaigns aimed at disarming and isolating the party, political realities indicate that it continues to hold the stronger position within the broader equation, based on objective factors:

Strong political alliances: Hezbollah possesses an extensive network of influence and powerful allies with significant political weight in Lebanon’s complex political landscape. Foremost among them is the Amal Movement, led by Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, who leads the diplomatic and negotiating front in full coordination with developments on the ground. This prevents any attempt to isolate the party politically or impose terms of surrender upon it.

The prudence of state institutions and the military: The Lebanese Army’s leadership and the country’s official and security institutions understand that any armed confrontation or comprehensive clash with Hezbollah would only drag Lebanon into a devastating civil war with unpredictable consequences.

Accordingly, the official Lebanese position remains governed by delicate balances and by the prioritization of civil peace and internal stability above all else.

Sustained regional support from its ally: The Islamic Republic of Iran remains strategically and ideologically committed to providing all forms of financial, logistical, advisory, and diplomatic support to Hezbollah.

Iran views Hezbollah as the cornerstone and crown jewel of the “Axis of Resistance.” Preserving its strength and influence is considered a vital national security interest, ensuring the continued flow of critical resources and alternatives necessary for endurance and persistence in both the political and military arenas.

Conclusion

In the final analysis, it becomes clear that Hezbollah’s resilience in the face of fierce storms is neither a fleeting miracle nor a temporary anomaly. It is the inevitable outcome of a complex and realistic equation that combines a rigid yet flexible ideological organization, a loyal social base willing to make sacrifices, intelligent use of geography and tunnel networks, and a supportive regional strategic depth.

Despite the heavy costs and losses endured by Lebanon, developments on the ground continue to demonstrate day after day that the Resistance is capable of thwarting and breaking the enemy’s plans, and that no political settlement or future regional architecture can proceed without recognizing Hezbollah as a central force and a key actor—one that cannot be bypassed or removed from the regional chessboard.

source: Al Mayadeen

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Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Co-Founder of Black Liberation Army, Reflects on the Legacy of Assata Shakur and Revolutionary Sacrifice

On May 30, 2026, a Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur was held at the Riverside Church in New York City. Dhoruba Bin Wahad, co-founder of the Black Liberation Army, wrote these words of tribute, in hopes they would be included in the program.

Solidarity and Greetings to all gathered to commemorate and reflect on the Life and legacy of Assata Shakur.

I am indeed appreciative of this opportunity to address this momentous gathering of comrades, friends, and family of my comrade Assata.

I know that many of you gathered here today may not have known Assata, but are instilled with, and inspired by, her lifelong resistance and revolutionary struggle against the white supremacist settler construct that is the United States of America.

I also appreciate that some of you gathered here today actually knew Assata, aided and supported her during her long exile in Cuba, and to these comrades I salute you and express my profound gratitude.

Finally, to those gathered in this iconic Riverside Church in Harlem, who in their own way have struggled for the liberation of African people, oppressed people, the downtrodden, the disregarded “Wretched of the Earth”, I salute all of you.

We may seem as strangers to one another, but we are only comrades who have never met.

I’d like to take this opportunity to tell the unvarnished truth about my Comrade Assata. It was during the early 1970s when our retaliatory resistance against the armed agents of racist state terrorism assumed organized intensity. Police murder of Black youth, accompanied by the plague of heroin addiction, informed the legacy and legend of Assata, you now pay homage to.

Few of you gathered here today would have ever heard of Assata were it not for the emergence of the Black Liberation Army (BLA).

I say this because, despite scholarly deceitfulness surrounding the BLA, Assata Shakur was a soldier in the centuries-old war against African peoples, a war that began with the North Atlantic Slave Trade, a racist war that continues to this very moment by violent and non-violent means.

The scholarly deceit I speak of lies in the denial of this war, and the deception that Black people fought for Civil Rights, rather than for Human Rights, and that Human Rights can be granted by the inhumane, rather than appropriated by those criminalized and defamed.

This fact is important. Because Assata was not an innocent victim of police repression, shot wantonly with her hands raised in submission.  She was a revolutionary, and revolutionaries are never victims of injustice. How many freedom fighters were wantonly killed in the struggle for the liberation of their people? Medgar Evers, Amilcar Cabral, Che Guevara, some murdered even while surrendering?

Facts speak louder than fiction:  In 1971, Assata wasn’t a designated  FBI COINTELPRO target. She was a medical cadre of the National Committee to Combat Fascism in Washington Heights, Harlem, New York. NCCF chapters were formations of the original Black Panther Party.

Indeed, by 1972, COINTELPRO had already achieved some of its most significant achievements with the assassination of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the breakup of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Earlier in late 1971, COINTELPRO was reconfigured as NEWKILL and CHESIROB.  Both were acronyms for FBI repressive campaigns authorized by the Nixon White House specifically targeting the emergence of the BLA and its clandestine leadership, one of whom was Joanne Chesimard, hence the acronym CHESIROB for Chesimard Robberies.

I choose to remind everyone of these historical facts, rather than repeat historical fantasies of Assata’s victimhood. Why? Because Assata was a warrior in the tradition of Harriet Tubman, in the tradition of Denmark Vesey, and our ancestors who resisted the brutality, murder, and enslavement of African People for over 300 years.

In the struggle for freedom, revolutionaries are never victims, or innocents. Assata was not an unfortunate victim like George Floyd – or Clifford Glover – she was a conscious, committed, and revolutionary Freedom Fighter!

In this historical moment, we should be mindful that White Supremacy and the American Empire are in decline.

Besieged by the Global South’s emerging Unity, White America has become increasingly lawless.  And like a rabid dog backed into a corner, capitalist White supremacist state violence knows no limits.

The land that gave Assata refuge, Cuba, now faces imminent attack by the U.S. in its attempt to reassert the Monroe Doctrine of the 19th century in the Western Hemisphere.

The People of Iran are under attack by the U.S. and its Zionist White Supremacist cohort, Israel. We must demand peace in Western Asia and an end to Zionist settler expansionism.

My beloved comrades and friends, we should not merely eulogize Assata, we should live like her. In this historical moment, Revolutionary resistance to the racist, imperialistic, and violent enemies of humanity requires nothing less.

Long Live the Spirit of Assata Shakur!

Long Live the Independence of the Cuban People!

Dhoruba bin-Wahad is a former member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA). He was a leading member of the New York chapter of the BPP, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21.

source: Black Agenda Report

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US Puppet and Warmonger Marcos Jr Has No Place in the UN

Marcos Jr.’s campaign for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council is a profound insult to the thousands of victims of state violence, killings, and aerial bombings in the Philippines.

While Marcos Jr. seeks a position in the world’s highest intergovernmental body tasked with maintaining international peace and security, entire communities across the Philippine countryside continue to endure the consequences of his counterrevolutionary war marked by militarization, forced displacement, political persecution, and persistent violations of international humanitarian law.

Since assuming office in 2022, there have been at least 135 cases of extrajudicial killings and 48,247 documented victims of forced evacuations under the Marcos Jr. regime. At least 57,156 victims of relentless aerial bombing campaigns and 70,028 victims of indiscriminate firing have been documented.

Marcos Jr. also cannot credibly present itself as a government advancing peace. Under its leadership, the already fragile peace process between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines has reached a continuing impasse, marked by Marcos Jr.’s refusal to meaningfully re-engage with substantive negotiations on agrarian reform and national industrialization. Instead of advancing structural solutions to longstanding social, economic, and political grievances, the Marcos Jr. administration has continued to insist on a military-centered approach, persistently disregarding the need to address the root causes of the armed conflict.

His bid for a seat at the UN Security Council is made even more objectionable by his regime’s wholesale surrender of Philippine sovereignty. True to his puppet character, Marcos Jr has consistently aligned himself with US warmongering interests in the region by expanding EDCA (Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement) sites, allowing four new locations in Cagayan, Isabela and Palawan, bringing the total to nine. His willing participation in the US-led Pax Silica initiative will also surrender a massive 4,000-acre land in Central Luzon for the US to use as a critical minerals and tech manufacturing hub in support of Washington’s growing weapons supply chain.

Far from what he projects as an “independent administration,” his regime has allowed the unfettered encroachment of US military troops into Philippine soil through the largest-ever Balikatan exercises last April with at least 17,000 troops participating from the US, Australia, Japan, Canada, France and New Zealand. He recklessly risked the Filipino masses’ lives by firing a Tomahawk missile that passed through civilian areas from Tacloban, Leyte to Laur, Nueva Ecija last May 5.

The UN Security Council is widely recognized as a compromised body, where the veto power of a handful of imperialist states routinely paralyzes any form of meaningful action to protect peace. However, even within this deeply discredited framework, Marcos Jr.’s bid for a non-permanent seat sends a profoundly wrong signal. It suggests that regimes actively complicit in militarization of communities and repression can be elevated as “credible” arbiters of international peace and security.

A government that has failed to deliver justice and peace at home cannot credibly claim the mantle of peace abroad. A government associated with widespread bloodshed, repression, and impunity has no moral authority to help shape decisions affecting international peace and security matters.

It is only upon the victory of the national democratic revolution and the establishment of the People’s Democratic Government shall the Filipino people assume its rightful place and representation in the United Nations and the international community.

source: NDFP International Office

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Philippines: Why The NPA In Negros Island Will Never Be Defeated

Once again, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has dusted off its worn-out script, loudly proclaiming to the public that the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros has suffered an “irreversible collapse” and is “totally defeated.” Following the encounters in Toboso and Cauayan, the reactionary state is desperately trying to convince the public, and perhaps themselves, that the flame of the People’s War on the island has been extinguished, to appease their imperialist masters and its local toadies.

However, these premature victory celebrations are nothing new. As Comrade Jose Maria Sison said, the reactionary state suffers from a chronic, incurable blindness: it mistakes a temporary twist in the road for the end of the journey. For over fifty years, the ruling class has repeatedly declared the revolution dead, only to find themselves continuously haunted by its presence. Their declarations of “victory” are mere illusions, completely contradicted by the material conditions in Negros.

The fundamental error of the NTF-ELCAC’ analysis lies in their mechanical and bourgeois worldview. They foolishly believe that a revolutionary movement can be eradicated by targeting individual cadres or liquidating specific command structures.

The lifeblood of the revolutionary movement is drawn from the very social conditions of the island. So long as the farmers do not have land to till, workers suffer in poor working conditions, youth are denied of their right to education, and the national bourgeoisie are crushed by foreign corporations, a revolutionary will emerge in every corner of the society, especially in Negros which remains a classic picture of this exploitation. Negros is a social volcano and its crusts are cracking under the weight of severe class contradictions.

Moreover, if the armed movement on the island were truly a spent force, it would be impossible to sustain political and military operations. Yet, under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the NPA in Negros continues to carry out its three integral tasks: mass base building, agrarian revolution, and armed struggle.

Execution of these tasks requires deep integration with the masses. An organization that is “totally defeated” cannot maintain the logistical, political, and social fabric required to sustain guerrilla operations. The continuous activity of the NPA proves that its roots among the Negrosanon remain deep and unbreakable.

The reactionary state’s words and actions are in total contradiction. If the NPA in Negros is truly a phantom of the past, a simple mathematical question arises: Why does the island remain a top priority for the state’s counter-insurgency operations, requiring the permanent deployment of over seven military battalions?

This heavy concentration of state forces is an admission of fear and panic. The reactionary state knows that the social volcano of Negros is always on the verge of erupting. They deploy thousands of troops not because they are winning, but because they are terrified of the deep-seated anger of the masses. By pouring an overwhelming number of battalions into the island, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) inadvertently reveals the high regard it actually holds for the revolutionary strength of the Negrosanon people.

By relying on state terror, particularly on militarization of communities, the state only deepens the very grievances that drive the masses into the ranks of red fighters. The New People’s Army in Negros will continue to persist and advance because it is an army of the exploited, fighting for National Democratic Revolution with a Socialist Perspective.

Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/negros-as-a-social-volcano-why-the-npa-in-negros-will-never-be-defeated/

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Hamas Mourns Al-Qassam Commander Mohammad Odeh

The Hamas movement has announced the martyrdom of senior military commander Mohammad Odeh, also known as Abu Amro, a foundational figure in its armed wing who was martyred alongside his wife, three of his children.

In a statement, Hamas eulogized Odeh as a man who “rose steadfast and proud in the fields of struggle and giving, writing a new page of pride and dignity with his pure blood.” He was martyred along with his wife and his children, Yasser, Yahya, and Jamila.

Odeh is considered a member of the first generation of Hamas’s military wing and one of its earliest founders, and worked alongside key historical figures including commander Abu Muadh Al-Namrouti, Abu Khaled Al-Dayf, and Sheikh Salah Shehadeh.

He spent 30 years alongside senior martyrs, outliving many of them. Despite leaving behind what the movement called a “great legacy,” he remained largely unknown to the public. He lived his life of armed activism away from the spotlight. Aside from one well-known image, obtained by zionist forces after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, he was almost absent from media coverage.

A record of confrontation and leadership

Odeh was known for his bravery. In late 2000, when Palestinian Authority security forces came to arrest Sheikh Salah Shehadrh in the Al-Alami area of the Beit Lahia project, Odeh reportedly opened fire and confronted them.

He rose through the ranks of the military apparatus:

• 2001: Became head of a central department within the military manufacturing branch.
• 2009: Appointed commander of the Al-Khalifah Battalion (Central Camp), a position he held for two years.
• Later roles: Served as deputy commander of the Northern Brigade, head of combat intelligence at the central apparatus level, and from 2015 to 2020, served as commander of the Northern Brigade.

According to Hamas, his period of command oversaw a build-up of military capabilities and an ability to unify technical and specialized efforts. He was described as very close to the commander Mohammad Al-Dayf, who reportedly saw in him “trust, leadership, professionalism, and competence.”

Most Recent Roles and Strategic Influence

From 2020 to early 2022, Odeh served as commander of weapons support and combat services. From 2022, through Operation al-Aqsa Flood, until his martyrdom, he was commander of military intelligence within the armed wing and a member of the movement’s national security system, both internally and externally. He was leading one of the most sensitive files in the organization, Hamas stated.

He formulated strategic intelligence assessments with professionalism and wisdom, relying on specialists and experts. He signed documents submitted to the leadership with the codename “Yasser.”

Senior commanders reportedly viewed him as the future commander of the military wing. However, he was described as having shunned leadership roles, avoiding appointments and top positions on multiple occasions, most recently after Operation al-Aqsa Flood and even following the death of commander Abu Saib Al-Haddad.

Those close to him said Odeh preferred collective, technical, and specialized teamwork, focusing on rapid achievements, particularly in long-term strategic matters.

Below we publish the Hamas statement in full:

— In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. “Among the believers are men who have proven true to what they pledged to Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their vow to the death, and some still wait, and they have not altered the terms of their commitment by any alteration.” Press Statement: Mourning the Great Al-Qassam Commander, the Martyr Mohammed Odeh (Abu Amr) With all feelings of pride and honor, and with more faith, submission, patience, and steadfastness, and continuing the path of sacrifice and jihad, on the path of defending the land and the holy sites, we mourn to our Palestinian people, our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, the great Al-Qassam commander, the hero, the martyr: Mohammed Odeh (Abu Amr) He ascended to his Lord as a martyr yesterday evening, Tuesday, 26/05/2026, corresponding to the blessed day of Arafah, 9 Dhu al-Hijjah 1447 AH, along with his wife and two of his children in a treacherous zionist bombing that targeted a residential building in Gaza City, in a desperate attempt to undermine the steadfastness and will of our people and their resistance, and in a flagrant violation of all values, norms, laws, and divine religions. The great commander Abu Amr departed to his Lord as a martyr after a jihadist journey full of sacrifice, patience, and ribat, spanning more than three decades. He was of the first generation that founded the jihadist and military work, and he had clear fingerprints in all its blessed stages and milestones, even until the Al-Aqsa Flood, in terms of building, preparation, planning, and innovation, at all levels: professional, technical, and specialized academic. He was an example of a brilliant commander in planning, directing, and uniting efforts, expertise, and resources, and he worked with wisdom, competence, strength, and power, and in silence far from media exposure, until he attained the honor of the highest aspirations on the land of Gaza, on the blessed day of Arafah. The martyr commander fighter Mohammed Odeh, may Allah have mercy on him, lived accompanying the journey of the first founding generation, over three decades, ascetic, humble, noble, wise, and honest. He was a guard on the frontier of preparation, construction, and planning, and he had been wanted and pursued by the zionist occupation for many years, until the time of divine selection came, and he joined his companions on the path, the martyr commanders, leaving behind a great legacy, an influential mark, and a fragrant biography that will remain a source of inspiration and a role model for the generations of our Palestinian people, Allah willing. We confirm that the blood of the martyr commander Mohammed Odeh and his family, and all the blood of the martyrs from our leaders and the children of our steadfast people, who ascended on the path of liberating the land and the holy sites, will not go in vain, and will remain fuel that kindles in our people the strength and insistence to continue the path of struggle and steadfastness. The fascist occupation government’s escalation of its crimes in assassination, siege, and starvation in the Gaza Strip will not succeed in achieving their goals that they have failed at, nor in breaking the will of our people and their resistance. May Allah the Almighty have mercy on the great commander, the martyr fighter Mohammed Odeh, Abu Amr, forgive him, and dwell him in the highest paradise of Jannah, with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous, and excellent are those as companions. We ask Allah the Almighty in these blessed days to protect our people and our nation from the plots and danger of this brutal zionist entity. It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom. Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Wednesday: 27/05/2026 AD

Corresponding to: 10 Dhu al-Hijjah 1447 AH

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Communique Of The 6th NDFP International Theoretical Conference On Fascism And Imperialism In The 21st Century In The Neo-Colonies

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) International Theoretical Conference on Fascism and Imperialism in the 21st Century in the Neo-Colonies was successfully held on May 22-23 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The activity is the 6th from the series of theoretical conferences held in the past years.

The two-day conference deepened theoretical and historical understanding of fascism as a class phenomenon rooted in the contradictions of imperialism. The conference also discussed the importance of militant mass movements in providing the counter-current against fascism. In addition, the conference identified principles and strategies that can guide such movements and democratic sectors of society in the struggle to effectively confront and defeat fascism. The conference drew lessons from the contributions of Lenin, Stalin, Dimitrov, and Mao, including the lessons and knowledge gathered from the Fifth NDFP International Theoretical Conference, with the assembly examining how fascism has historically developed and adapted in the 21st century, particularly in the neo-colonial peripheries.

The sharing of theoretical papers and discussion marked the conference, elaborating on the current-day manifestations of fascism as they arise from specific historical conditions in the neo-colonies. The conditions for the rise of fascism, the intense economic crises experienced by the working people in both the imperialists heartlands and in the neo-colonial periphery, were discussed.

Particularly, the material basis for fascism was fleshed out during the sharing and discussion. Imperialism, in its rapidly declining state, paves the way for fascism in neo-colonies. The financial oligarchs continue their drive to expand and carve their spheres of influence to ensure the steady flow of resources, unhampered supply chains, and markets to export their capital. This is being met with resistance from peoples movements and armed struggle. To suppress the resistance, fascisation or the complete creation of a fascist state with compradors and landlords, at the beck and call of imperialists, develops.

Fascist puppet regimes naturally arise to further the objectives of sustaining imperialism. Through counter-insurgency (COIN) programs developed by neo-colonial states and supported by their masters, activists, progressive groups and individuals, and liberation armies are targeted. They face illegal arrests, torture, psychological war, and killings. This is the case with the brutal logic and actions done by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people and resistance.

At this historical and political juncture, it becomes strictly necessary to build the popular united front of movements, oppressed peoples, intellectuals, and other positive forces in society. It is critical for the proletarian and workers’ parties, revolutionary organizations, national liberation movements, peoples’ movements, women, youth, and all oppressed peoples to lead, mobilize, and educate the masses to fight against wars of aggression, and the economic policies of finance capital intensifying the exploitation, oppression and poverty of the working people. Mass mobilizations must be conducted against efforts of the ruling compradors and landlords to further erase the remaining democratic rights of the people. At the same time, narrow-mindedness and sectarianism must be avoided to be able to unite all people under the banner of pressing issues experienced by many today.

Two days of sharing and intense discussion marked the International Theoretical Conference on Fascism and Imperialism in the 21st Century in the Neo-Colonies, bringing together close to 200 participants, from 5 continents, from 17 countries, composed of proletarian and workers parties, pre-party formations, revolutionary organizations, national liberation movements and progressive organizations. The conference gave spotlight to 17 theoretical papers focused on the current iteration of fascism in the 21st century, with emphasis on its source and modalities in the neo-colonies.

The event is part of the NDFP International Theoretical Conference on Fascism in the 21st Century, exploring the following themes: 1.) Fascism in the imperialist heartlands and industrialized capitalist countries; and 2.) Fascism in the neo-colonies. The Fifth NDFP International Theoretical Conference focused on the first theme, the Sixth NDFP International Theoretical Conference gave attention to the second theme: 21st century Fascism in the neo-colonies.

The conference was capped with a synthesis of the proceedings, a tribute to the martyrs of peoples’ war and revolutions in the neo-colonies. The conference ended in a common voice, red salutes, honoring all the revolutionaries and the singing of The Internationale.

Source : https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/communique-of-the-6th-ndfp-international-theoretical-conference-on-fascism-and-imperialism-in-the-21stcentury-in-the-neocolonies/

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TKP-ML Joint Statement: Let’s Follow Kaypakkaya’s Path!

History Is Calling Us: Let’s Follow Kaypakkaya’s Path!

With rifles in hand, they traversed the rugged mountain trails with great boldness and conviction, fully aware that they were fundamentally shaking the course of history. As the leader representing the communist face of the 1971 armed revolutionary breakaway, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, through the theses he put forward, both captured a fundamental break and shattered all the untouchables of the fascist dictatorship; he also tore through the fifty-year-old veil of reformist capitulation with a knife and cast it into the dustbin of history.

Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, the indomitable bastion of theory and practice, of word and deed, personally led the way in walking the path of his own claims. In accordance with the historical role of the struggle, he was the first to take up arms and set out on the path through the mountains. By exposing the reformist, liquidationist essence of the struggle—which was being confined to magazine offices and conference halls—he resolutely demonstrated that liberation lies in the arming of the workers and peasants, and that the task of the class vanguard is to open the path to the class’s arming. Comrade Leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya proved that he was the communist intellectual of the working class by turning his words into action.

History, within its own cycle, has vindicated Comrade Leader; before long, workers and peasants flocked to the revolutionary struggle in droves. This was what could not be seen in the pitch-black darkness of March 12, and Comrade Leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya has slammed this reality in the face of every form of liquidationism.

Today, however, the historical cycle has created a new dilemma. Either a free world will be created through the power of necessity to create the new; or, swept into the vortex of reformism, pacifism, and every current that rejects the revolutionary option, we will become mere pillars of this decaying, obsolete order of the past. This is precisely the dilemma being imposed on the international communist movement and the international proletariat today.

The pillars of the imperialist capitalist system have eroded. The imperialist capitalist system is floundering in a crisis vortex. The widening and deepening of the rift between imperialist blocs has intensified the struggle for dominance over market areas and trade routes. Shrinking markets and losses of hegemony are pushing the imperialist bloc led by the U.S. and Britain into a more aggressive and belligerent stance against China and Russia.

At this stage, the doors to a new imperialist war of partition are being forced wide open. Conflicts and wars have become widespread, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, in line with imperialist competition.

Precisely for this reason, a comprehensive campaign of liquidation has been launched against the communist and resistance movements engaged in armed struggle, aimed at preventing the oppressed peoples of the world from turning to the revolutionary option in the face of this crisis. The concept of annihilation and destruction has been put into action through various means.

The rulers of the imperialist capitalist system have launched comprehensive military operations to physically annihilate the international communist and revolutionary movement; where they have failed, they are attempting to achieve this from within by imposing a line of surrender and betrayal. This is the role played by the traitors who emerged from within the CPI (Maoist). These traitors serve as tools of the imperialist capitalists’ concept of liquidation and annihilation.

In our country as well, the masses are searching for answers in the face of the poverty and misery they endure. The Turkish ruling classes are waging an intense offensive to keep the spontaneously developing mass movement within the bounds of the system. They have deployed every means to keep the masses’ reactions and anger within legal limits, attempting to suppress them through repression and violence. In line with their imperialist masters, while on one hand conducting military operations against the armed struggle front and ideologically propagating that “the era of arms has ended,” on the other hand, they are striving to narrow the actual legitimate arenas of struggle as much as possible.

And of course, reformists and other currents that reject the revolutionary struggle are coming to the aid of the Turkish ruling class. The fact that the Turkish Revolutionary Movement has been pushed back to the legal boundaries has left it facing a serious ideological siege.

Today, the masses’ need for a vanguard to clear the path is greater than ever. The illegal armed struggle front is the breakwater against the wave of liquidationism. Today, no line of struggle that does not strategically address the armed struggle can break through fascism and imperialist encirclement, nor can it mobilize the masses to fight against imperialist encirclement. If the masses are not organized around revolutionary violence, their descent into reactionary nationalist sentiments, chauvinism, and the poisonous circle of patriarchy will be inevitable. In this sense, while organizing the working class and the broad masses against the oppression of the AKP-MHP regime is one aspect of the task, the other aspect is the revolutionary duty of the moment: to keep the advanced masses vigilant against the reformist, revisionist, and pacifist currents clustered around the CHP. We can only advance the path opened by our Leader Comrade on this basis and prove worthy of the legacy he left us. To this end, the development of a united revolutionary struggle stands before us as an imperative task.

The path that our Leader Comrade İbrahim Kaypakkaya did not hesitate to walk remains relevant today. This is the only true path that will lead the working class and the oppressed laborers to liberation. It is within our power to embark on this path and break free from routines and entrenched habits. Marching forward and advancing through struggle is the tradition of our struggle. This tradition is the sole legacy left to us by our leader comrade.

We will not hesitate for a single moment to march forward through struggle on the path opened by our leader comrade; we will advance along the path he opened. This is the call of our leader comrade that reaches us today.

Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!

Long live Proletarian Internationalism!

Heed Kaypakkaya’s call, and advance along the path he has opened!

Maoist Communist Party

Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist Leninist

May 2026

Source : https://www.tkpml.com/joint-statement-history-is-calling-us-lets-follow-kaypakkayas-path/

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