TKP-ML held their second Congress this summer and the articulated their new direction going into the future.
They noted that the Congress was “convened under conditions where the signs of the Third Imperialist War” are increasingly becoming evident and could reach “full intensity” in the near future.
The organization noted “that the revolution in Turkey is at the stage of the People’s Democratic Revolution and that this revolution can only be realized through armed struggle. It affirmed that the revolution in Turkey will not follow the same line with as the successful revolutions of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world, and that it has its own specificities.”
Particularly since Turkey plays a specific role in the international capitalist system, has a large comprador class, and still has elements of feudal society.
TIKKO deduced that “work within the cities and the working class is primary; that work in the countryside and among the poor peasants has become secondary; that the revolutionary struggle will rise on the basis of armed struggle from the beginning to the end; that the guerrilla struggle, which aims at armed popular uprising but on the basis of ‘small groups, great daring,’ is applicable from the beginning to the end of the revolution.”
Importantly, the Congress affirmed the importance of the HBDH and KBDH alliance stating that the coalitions are of “are utmost important struggle fronts.”