Mücadele Birliği (Struggle Unity, Türkiye)
Dear Comrades,
The world is passing through a dizzying process of upheaval. We are in a period where decades are squeezed into weeks. We are in a revolutionary era. A Marxist fights for the “revolutionary transformation of the world.” To achieve this, we must grasp the fundamental characteristics of the current process and correctly identify the reality.
No matter what winds of lies the bourgeois ideologists blow, the naked truth is this: Imperialism is in an irreversible process of collapse!
The capitalist-imperialist system is in the grip of a structural crisis—a historical death struggle. This parasitic system, which can no longer promise humanity anything but destruction, hunger, poverty, and environmental catastrophe, has long since exhausted its historical lifetime. However, this collapse is not a spontaneous collapse. Precisely for this reason, the era of the collapse of imperialism is also, and inevitably, the era of the rise of socialism!
Workers and toilers all around the world are in revolt. From Latin America to the depths of Asia, from the metropolises of Europe to the colonial mines of Africa, the proletarian masses are waging an intense struggle to break the chains of capitalism. Palaces and reigns are cracking; squares and streets are shaking with the actions of millions. This revolutionary rage, accumulating in the heart of the peoples, is the greatest nightmare of collapsing imperialism.
Comrades;
As the League of Struggle has strongly emphasized, this historical phase of collapse has a very characteristic feature: the process of full economic subjugation.
To survive, imperialist finance capital goes beyond classical relations of dependency and transforms the economies of dependent nations into simple extensions of imperialist economies. The space for maneuver for economically and politically dependent countries has been almost completely eliminated. Relations of economic dependency have been replaced by total economic subjugation and plunder. But bourgeois barbarism does not stop there. Recently, the structure led primarily by US imperialism has been escalating this process of economic annexation to the point of defending de facto occupation and military-political annexation. What they call international law has turned into a system of banditry and piracy that violates even their own rules. They want to crush every point of resistance before them with military boots and redraw maps with blood.
The imperialists have raised their aggression to a level never seen before in history. Because they cannot stop their process of collapse! They can produce no solutions to the structural crisis of their system within capitalist limits. It is precisely because of this desperation that the imperialists are dragging the world toward a massive war of destruction. The bourgeois class, which has no future, can think of no other way than sacrificing humanity to a war of total annihilation! The fires lit in Ukraine, the Taiwan Strait, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Asia are the vanguard outposts of this global wildfire.
Precisely in such a period, NATO—the bloodiest war machine of imperialism, the murderer of peoples—is gathering in Ankara, Türkiye!
The answer to the question ‘Why Türkiye?’ is clear. The imperialists are preparing Türkiye for the war that is approaching at full speed. The comprador monopoly bourgeoisie and the fascist state are taking their active positions on the front lines of this looming great war of global destruction! Turkish capitalism sees its own survival in integrating itself into the plans of its imperialist masters. Indeed, when we look at today, we can see with the naked eye how Turkey is being used as a battering ram in the encirclement strategy carried out against Russia. In the Caucasus, Africa, Syria, Georgia, and Central Asian countries, Turkey acts as a highly active, highly aggressive subcontractor in line with the plans of British imperialism and the US.
The NATO summit in Ankara is the official registration of this subcontracting and the assignment of new bloody duties.
The religionist-fascist regime in Türkiye is trying to hide its actual practices behind false heroic speeches. With the crocodile tears it sheds for the Palestinian people and its fake defiance against the Zionist regime, it attempts to cover up its true comprador nature. It tries to market itself as the defender of the oppressed peoples. Especially in Western Asia, while the Palestinian people are groaning under the genocide of Zionist barbarism, the dimensions of this hypocrisy have reached a peak. In Western Asia, the country providing the most crucial contribution to the security and logistics of Zionist Israel—the arch-enemy of the regional peoples—is Türkiye!
This is not a mere claim; it is documented evidence of being caught in the act! While bombs are raining down on Palestinian babies, even the drinking water of the Israeli soldier throwing those bombs comes from Türkiye! The underwear they wear, their uniforms, are produced in factories in Türkiye and shipped by comprador capital. Military equipment, the jet fuel that enables Zionist jets to fly, the construction materials, cement, and steel used to build the occupation walls… all, absolutely all of it, departs from Turkish ports and is carried to Israel. The rulers who shout ‘murderer Israel’ in the public squares are the very compradors feeding the lifeblood of Zionism behind closed doors!
As a matter of fact, US imperialism largely wants to leave Western Asia to the joint management of the Turkey-Israel duo. While imperialism optimizes its direct military presence in the region, it entrusts the field to these two proxy forces. Turkey and Israel, as the two strategic partners and proxy forces of imperialism in the region, are assuming a much more active role to suppress the revolutionary struggle of the Western Asian peoples, crush revolutionary dynamics, and secure energy corridors. This is the essence of the regional scenario.
Comrades;
When viewed within this exact framework of totality, the true essence of the recent “process” initiated in Turkey with the National Liberation Movement is revealed clear as day.
This situation is neither a search for ‘peace’ nor a love for brotherhood. The approaching great imperialist war of division and the new duties assigned to the Turkish state in Western Asia have pushed the fascist state and the comprador monopoly bourgeoisie to seek to ‘secure the internal front.’ The rulers know very well that they cannot leave a massive breach behind them at home while acting as hitmen for the imperialists abroad. While heading into a great war, it is an absolute must to weaken the internal social revolution movement and, if possible, to crush and suppress it, even if only for a time. To absorb and liquidate the national demands and revolutionary potential of the Kurdish people within the limits of the system—this is the real intention!
In conclusion, we say this:
Against the war plans that imperialism wants to clarify with the NATO summit in Ankara, our answer is clear: We will not allow the war plans of the imperialists to pass! Revolutionary civil war against war!
It is an unalterable rule of history. Either revolutions prevent imperialist wars, or imperialist wars lead to revolutions! This slogan clearly expresses the revolutionary path to be taken in the face of imperialist war. For a successful struggle against war, there is no other way than to raise the struggle for revolution.
We will not allow the imperialist war plans to pass. We call upon the Turkish working class, the Kurdish people, and all the oppressed to become a barricade against these bloody plans of the rulers. It is the organized power of the working class and the unyielding struggle of the laboring peoples that will leave the ships feeding Zionism motionless in the ports, and that will bury imperialism’s NATO summit into the streets of Ankara.