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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