Communique of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist Leninist)
AtmJt>CII'C THE Recently the Special Consultative Confer In the years after the formation of the ence of the Communist Party of Ireland CPI(M-L), the young comrades fought hard (Marxist-Leninist) was convened to discuss to build the party, disseminate the Marxist the Report of the Central Committee, which Leninist line, politically organise and had been adopted by the historic Plenums of mobilise the working class and the patriotic March and May 1982. The Conference militant Irish people for revolution. By dint of hard ly approved the conclusions of the Central work and self-sacrifice including arrests Committee Report , which are summarised as and imprisonment, resolutely standing up follows :- for Marxism-Leninism and proletarian inter nationalism, for national liberation for the 1 )THE FOU~II'C AN) BUILDII'C OF CPI (M-L) Irish people and for proletarian socialist A HISTORIC REVOLUTIONARY ACHIEVEWENT revolution, the comrades gradually strength ened and matured the Party step by step, The Communist Party of Irela~Marxis~ instilling profound communist convictions Leninist), founded on Ju!r 4th 1970, was in the Party and making headway to popular 'foPmed to provide the revolutionary prolet ise CPI(M-L) as the genuine Marxlst-Leninist ariat of Ireland with its essential genuine revolutionary party cf the working class Marxist-Leninist headquarters, its revolut and to expose the revisionist 11 Conmunist 11 ionary communist Party. Without such a Party of Ireland as a sham and a traitor party it is impossible for the working class to the workers and to the Irish people. The to organise itself politically for the rev work of those years since the foundation olution to achieve socialism and communism, of the Party was a great achievement, made to end the domination of the oppressed in the teeth of complex and adverse condit. nations by imperialism and the very exploit ions -- attacks by British imperialism and ation of man by man itself. the Irish bourgeoisie and their state powers, The conditions for the creation of the as well as from the social-democrats and CPf(M-L) had been prepared by the heroic the revisionists, not least from Chinese pathfinding work of the Internationalists, revisionism. It was this achievement which the Marxist-Leninist Youth and Student stood the Party in great stead and ensured . Movement, which had originated in Canada that CPI (M-L) has been able to overcome :from 1963 and spread to a number of other both the adverse effects of Maoism and the cou~tries, including Ireland from 1945. concerted attempts by revisionist cliques taking up the great struggle against imp amongst the former leaders of the CPI (M-L) t.}ialism and revisionism -'- which the revis: to subvert and liquidate our Party over the ion!sts hod criminally thrown down since last three year~ or so, and turn CPI(M-L) ihe Kruschevite betrayal. From the historic into yet another revisionist Party, to wipe decision of the Necessity for Change Confer out once again the essential Marxist-Lenin ence of 1967 in London, the Internationalists ist headquarters of the Irish working class. had worked towards the refounding of gen uine Marxist-Leninist parties in their res 11 2) REPlDIATI~ OF MAO ZECX:N:; Tli)UQff" pective countries. The founding of CPI(M-L) in 1970 was a Under the deception that Mao Zedong tremendous achievement for the young Irish Thought and the Communist Party of China Marxist-Leninists, marking, for the Irish were Marxist-Leninists, and were fighting working class, a decisive break with the both U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism domination of revisionism and social-democ and social -imperialism, at the time of its racy. The revisionists had subverted and founding our Party adopted the theory of liquidated the old Communist Party of Ireland 11Mao Zedong Thought 11 alongside Marxism during the 1940s, and turned it into o Lenini~.as part of the ideological basis of headquarters of Kruschevite revisionism CPI{M-L). Viewed in the historical context during the 1950s by following Kruschev's of that period, when this was a deception line of the "peaceful, patJliamentary road to common to many other new Marxist-Leninist socialism in the capitalist countries", parties being founded around the world, this supporting the transformation of the Soviet was an understandable mistake, but nonethe Union into an aggressive social imperialist less a serious mistake. The main thing was power, supporting its policies of content that it was essential, with the exposure of ion against U.S. imperialism towards world the anti-Marxist-Leninist character of war and its policies of collusion Wlth ~~~ 0 Zedong Thought 11 in the International U.S. imperialism for the suppression of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Movement, heroic- revolutions for national liberation and socialism. P. 11 ally led by the Party of Labour of Albania The Special Consultative Conference headed by Comrade Enver Hoxho, for our discussed and apProved the detailed Report Party to learn the lessons most seriously, of the Central Conmi ttee, which provided a as was the case for all the genuine Marx comprehensive account and analysis of the ist -Leninist parties. principled struggle which has been waged In fact, the CPI(M-L) proved its genuine by the Central Committee to overcome this, Marxist-Leninist character, forged in the the most serious internal revisionist attack years of class struggle since its foundation, on the very existence of CPI (M-L) as thr when it step by step took up the struggle Marxist-Leninist Party of the Irish pro~et to repudiate modern Chinese revisionism ariat. In this struggle, the Central Comm alongside the other genuine Marxist-Leninist ittee has hod the particular, important assis parties. Our Party militantly hailed the tance of our fraternal parties, the historic Report of the Central Committee Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain of the Party of Labour of Albania of Comrade (Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party Enver Hoxho to the Seventh Congress of the of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), as well as the PLA, in November 197 6, and repudiated the profound inspiration of the growing strength bogus anti-Leninist "Three Worlds Theory" and unity of the International Marxist-Leninist and the anti-Bolshevik theory of the "two Communist Movement and the heroic example line struggle in the party". Our Party of the struggle of the Party of Labour of militantly denounced the Chinese revisionists Albania, headed by Comrade Enver Hoxho, against as a new aggressive social-imperialist power, against revisionism -- against the Titoites, when China launched its perfidious and Kruschevites, Maoists, Eurocammunists etc. hostile attack on the People 1 s Socialist which were brilliantly summed up in ~rode Republic of Albania and the PLA, by cutting Enver Hoxho 1 s Books -- "Imperialism and the 11 off oll internationalist aid and all trade Revolution", "Reflections on China , "The with socialist Albania in July 1978. Our Kruschevites 11 etc. Party denounced the origin of Chinese rev Through this complex and long drawn-out isionism in the anti-Marxist theory of struggle over the last two years or 301 the "Mao Zedong Thought 11 in September 1979. Central Committee step by step got to grips The Special Consultative Conference of with the problems posed by the revisionist the CPI(M-L) restated and further elaborated lines and activities of these former the Party 1 s denunciation of "Mao Zedong leading cadres, and has brought the Party to Thought" and repudiated its adverse effects the point where it has militantly exposed on the life, building, activity and work of and repudiated these revisionists, and the our Party. Despite the fact that Maoism erroneous lines and revisionist positions was adopted by our Party alongside Marxism which they temporarily managed to impose Leninism at its foundation, CPI(M-L) has on our Party for a period. This has been a vindicated the basic integrity of the Marx great victory for the science of Marxism ist-Leninist spine implanted and strengthened Leninism and proletarian internationalism, in the Party since its foundation. The over for Irish Mcrxist-Leninists and the Inter throw of Maoism and its adverse effects has national Morxist-Leninist COmmunist Move been a great achievement which has ensured ment, ensuring the revolutionary advance of that the Party could advance and play its CPI(M-L) in the future. revolutionary role all the more effectively In particular, the Central Committee in the future. repudiated :- 3) (X)t()Et..tiATI~ OF THE REVISIC»>ISTS WHO ATTEMPTED a) ANTI-INTERNATIONALIST LINES TO USE THE QUESTIC»> OF THE REPUDIATIC»> OF 11 The hostile and anti-internationalist lines "MAO ~ Tlil.IQiT AS A TROJAN t«JRSE TO and provocations of these revisionist against DESTROY CPI(M-L). . our fraternal parties in the International But, despite the strong Marxist-Leninist Communist Movement , especially against other sentiment of the comrades of the CPI(M-L) to parties which hod emerged fran the pathfind repudiate "Mao Zedong Thought", to thoroughly ing work of the Internationalists such as eliminate the adverse effects of Maoism on the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Len our Party and advance the revolutionary work inist) and the Revolutionary Communist Party of CPI (M-L), in the period since late 19n, of Britain (Mcrxist-Leninist). Asserting certain former leading cadres of our Party - that they were "fighting against the Chinese revisionist line of interference namely C.Orole Evans ( formerly Reakes), Alan 11 Evans and David Vipond formed revisionist in fraternal parties 1 these revisionists, factions which both colluded and contended former leaders of CPI(M-L), attacked our with one another, and which attempted to use fraternal canrades and tried to lay the the opportunity of the repudiation of "Mao blame for the mistakes which our own Party 11 had made, including the adoption of • Zedong Thought as a Trojan horse to smuggle 11 revisionism into the heart of the Party, so "Mao Zedong Thought , on the close relations as to eliminate everything revolutionary and which we hod hod with such parties and our Marxist-Leninist which had been established common origins in the Internationalists. in CPI(M-L) since its foundation, on the But the so-called "independence 11 of CPI (M-L) hoax that this, indeed , was "carrying · which these revisionists asserted had throug~ the repudiation of Maoism and its nothing in common with the line of the Int effects on CPI (M-L) 11 ernational Marxist-Leninist Communist Move- I P. Iil ment of parties genuinely standing on their positions : own feet on Marxist-Leninist positions *** that CPI(M-L) should adopt the pro- Brit and strengthening the unity of the parties ish imperialist theory of the anti-commun- in the International communist Movement. ist "British and Irish Communist Organis 11 This so-called "independence" was n.:>thing ation " that Ireland contains"two notions • but independence from Marxism-Leninism and *** that CPI{M-L) should adopt the similar proletarian internationalism themselves, pro-British imperialist theory of the and o treacherous attempt by these revision anti-communist and Soviet revisionist ists to ovoid taking up a serious , self "Socialist Party of Ireland " ( no~ merged critical attitude on the part of our Party into the anti-national Democratic ~ociol- and its leadership in the crucial struggle ist Party of Kenmy) that the "Irish revol against Maoist revisionism and its adverse ution " - as they called it - was a "socialist effects on CPI(M-L), as well as carrying revolution in the two states, with national through the struggle against the other unity not o priority ". currents of modern revisionism, social-democ *** that CPI(M-L) should adopt the common racy and opportunism of all kinds. Trotskyite theory that "the protestant The Central Committee repudiated :- workers are fascist " and that the Irish working class is irrevocably divided on b) ANTI-~~TIONAL LINES. sectarian lines with the workers of prot estant background being indissolubly 11 united The hostile, anti-patriotic and counter with the Unionist bourgeoisie in o Unionist revolutionary lines which these revision monolith supporting British imperialism ". ists tried to impose on our Party~ in During 1980, the Central Committee res particular the articles published in the isted and prevented the Party adopting these Party's central organ "Red Patriot" positions which the revisionists demanded, during 1979, which took up the revisionist the only publication coming in a local pamph line of the so-called "Communist" (Kruschev let on the H-Block struggle which was illeg ite) Party of Ireland of attacking the ally issued in violation of the line of the patriotic Irish freedom fighters os 11 petty Central Committee and which was immediately bourgeois terrorists '1 and their just withdrawn. struggle as "terrorist ." But all these positions amounted to on Having already taken this treacherous all out attack on the just democratic step into revisionist positions, during struggle of the Irish people and the revolut rr 1979 these revisionists plunged the Cent ionary patriotic line which the CPI(M-L) ral Committee into a disasterous, react had always formerly upheld with credit. It ionary so-called "internal debate", on tne was an attempt to liquidate the healthy hoax that "CPI(M-L) 's former line of and essential revolutionary activity of active support for the pqtriotic struggle CPI(M-L), bring the Party to a complete hod been dictated by the~influence of halt through this reactionary "debate", and Mao's bourgeois nationalism " . They advanced through liquidationism create the internal a whole plethora of different " theories" conditions most favourable for the revision which were designed to completely wipe out ists to to lead the CPI(M-L) down the path of the revolutionary line of CPI(M-L) for the the revisionists of the so-called "communist revolutionary overthrow of British imperial Party of Ireland and the "British and Irish ism, under the hoax that "CPI(M-L)'S line Communist Organisation " towards the betrayal former line hod been leftist and had not of the working class and the Irish people dealt with the objective problems of the and the Irish revolution itself -- revision ~rish revolution, such as the division ist lines which CPI(M-L) had always resol of the country into two states, the "success utely fought since its foundation. ful" - as they alleged - division of the working class against each other by The Central Conmittee repudiated ·- British imperialism, the creation of a c) REVISIONIST LINES OF BOURGEOIS TP~ 11 monolithic 11 100ss opposition amongst the protestant workers against national re UNI0NISM AND REFORMISM. unification and independence". These revis The promotion of revisionist lines to ionists in turn advanced a number of diff conciliate and collaborate with the revis erent theories" which actually boiled down ionists, social-democrats and opportunists, to a repetition of the various stock revis and, in general, with the labour aristoc ionist positions ( summarised as follows) , racy controlling the trade unions, under but tried to hide their revisionist charact the hoax that this was "repudiating the main er by the claim that these were "not to error of CPI(M-L)'s post under the Maoist change CPI(M-L) 's line;• but merely to 11create influence, "left sectarianism ", which more detailed tactics to deal with the became a trend in articles on the workers' realities which ~~d not been formerly dealt struggles in"Red Patriot " during 1979, in with " - so they alleged. Thus it was in particular for a shod time support for the o most deceptive fashion that these revis slogan of the labour aristocracy in the ionists presented their so-called "new campaign against the burden of P.A.Y.E. ideas", but - in the end - through the • income tax, "Tax the Greedy , not the Needy 11 struggle of the Central Committee it became which had been developed by the revisionist clear that their lines were totally revis so-called "Sinn Fe in the Workers' Party ". ionist and boiled down to the following Such positions also appeared '- the replace- P.IV ment newspaper which the revisionists imposed on the Party after the closure of EXPULSION OF THE REVISIONISTS FROM CPI(~L) "Red Patriot " during 1980. This so-called "repudiation of left The Special Consultative Conference of the sectarianism " and their so-called "new line" Commuist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist of"integrating with the mass struggles " militantly approved the struggle of the Central was an attempt by these revisionists to Committee and the important assistance of the wipe out the revolutionary position of the fraternal parties in this struggle, which was Marxist-Leninist Party in the working class elaborated in the Central Commi .tee Report, and set CPI (M-L) on the same course as the and applauded the decision of the Central revisionist "C"PI i.e. to transform CPI (M-L) Commdttee to formally expel these revisionists - into another reformist trade unionist party Carole Evans, Alan Evans and Dlvid Vipond - of the labour aristocracy. from the Central Committee and from the Marxist Leninist Party for their criminal splittism d) BETRAYAL OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST REVCl..UTI -- formerly -- most respected leading cadres oniol wars by proxy, through the use of Cuban of the Party , is a great victory for the Cent and other puppet troops in various African ral Committee and for the Communist ~arty of countries etc. Ireland (Morxist-Leninist). This struggle, mode e) CPI(M- L) denounces and fights the Chinese with the valuable assistance of our fraternal revisionists and their whole anti-Marxist-Len Marxist-Leninist parties, has enabled the Cent ininst theory of "Mao-Zedong Thought", and ral eomndttee and the Special Consultative their policy to advance Olina os ~nother social Conference to militantly repudiate the various imperialist contender for super-power status revisionist deviations imposed temporarily by and for world hegemony, presently basing their these revisionists which has been essential 1 advance on their alliance with U.S. imperialism to the full re-establishment of the revolutionary while they hypocritically try to camouflage internationalist Bolshevik character of CPI(M-L) their pretensions and actual aggression ( for and its re-launching into the class struggle instance against the Vietnamese people) with along the Party's historically correct and revol demagogic "Marxist-Leninist" verbiage, sometimes utionary Marxist-Leninist political line . declaring their so-colled"opposition to the two superpowers " etc. Likewise CPI(M-L) fights all other trends of 4) BASIC PRHCIPLES »V PRCX;RN.tAE OF CPI (M-L). revisionism, such as titoite revisionism, Euro communism etc., social democracy, Trotskyism and opportunism of all hues -- whilst CPI(M-L) The Special Consultative Conference thoroughly considers, along with the other Marxist-Leninist discussed and mili tontly approved the detailed parties, that right revisionism, in particular re-statement and further elaboration of the Kruschevite revisionism , constitutes the main Marxist-Leninist positions of the CPI(M-L) in danger to the communist movement today. the Central Committee Report, now that these rev isionist lines have been fully purged. In summ f) CPI(M-L) opposes and fights against U.S. imp ory these positions ore os follows :- erialism and Soviet social-imperialism as the two superpowers who head the coalition of NATO a) CPI(M-L) is based on Marxism-Leninism, the and the Warsaw Poet, and in one way of another universal principles of the proletarian science have divided all the countries of the world - and ideology developed by the great leaders and with the exception of Socialist Albania - into teachers of the world's proletariat- Marx, Engels, two contending blocs in preparation for another Lenin and Stalin. It is the task and responsibility world war for total hegemony, and who ore behind of CPI(M-L) to integrate these universal principles the constant local wars to suppress the people's in revolutionary practice in the concrete condit and the workers' struggles and incitement of ions of the revolution in Ireland. The organisat notions to attack one another throughout the ional line of CPI(M-L) is Bolshevik democratic world. centralism. g) CPI(M-L) actively supports the struggle of the b) CPI(M-L) upholds proletarian internationalism working class of all countries and the peoples and the unity of the international working class and nations who ore militantly fighting against on the line of Marxism Leninism and embodied in imperialism and the two superpowers for notional the unity of the fraternal parties of the Inter and social liberation, and fighting to stay the national Marxist-Leninist Communist Movement. hand of the imperialist warmongers from launch c) CPI(M-L) upholds the struggle of the proletar ing another world war. iat to achieve world proletarian socialist CPI(M-L) recognises the disturbed, complicated revolution, embodied in the great achievement of and tense situation in the world today, where the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, led the revolutionary forces throughout the world by the Party of Labour of Albania, headed by ore confronting the reactionary forces ever more Comrade Enver Hoxho. Socialist Albania is the vigorously and resolutely, where there can be only genuine and successful socialist country in no room for pessimism, while on the other hand the world and is the bastion of socialism in the there con be no euphoria, for the dangers of war, fascism and reaction are very grove indeed. world today, and is defended by CPI(M-L) as The views of CPI(M-L) are in accord with the by all the genuine communists and working class assessment of the international situation of the world. outlined in the Report of the 8th Congress of d) CPI(M-L) denounces and fights the Soviet rev the PLA of No...,ember 1981 of Comrade Enver Hoxha, isionists, led by the Kruschev/Brezhnev clique, where he says : who overthrew the genuine socialist system of "Ever thi indicates that the Lenin and Stalin in the Soviet Union and in the in t country's of people's democracy in Eastern Europe { except where it was successfully resisted a re"Vo tion. ve opment o events wi in Albania) ; who split the world communist show Whether £~perialism will be able to lead movement and turned most of the old communist the world to a new catastrophe or whether the parties ( such os the"Communist" Party of Ire peoples will prevent the war and save mankind. " land ) into revisionist parties with their onti Specifically, CPI(M-L) makes its own contribut• Leninist line of "the peaceful parliamentary ion to the world proletarian socialist revolution rood to socialism", "the Olilean ex,:;eriment c. f and the overthrow of imperialism, without which Allende" etc.; and who transformed the Soviet imperialist exploitation and the threat of local or Union and the Wbrsaw Pact into on aggressive world wor cannot be ended, through its work to social-imperialist superpower, attacking and politically organise the working class and the suppressing the democratic rights of the peoples people of Ireland for the revolution to over and working class of Czechoslovakia , Poland etc. throw British imperialism and establish the and launching wars of colonial aggression agonist socialist system in an genuinely free, independ against the people of AfQhoniston, and neo-col- ent and united Irish notion state. P.VI h) CPI(M-L) as the party of the Irish proletariat and exploitation etc.; for the rights of women stands for revolution , as opposed to the revision 4 against discrimination, exploitation and oppress ist illusions of reformism, as the only means to .ion and for the emancipation of women ; for the achieve both national and social emancipation rights of the youth against their criminalisation, and works at all times in a revolutionary way to degeneration and the attempts of the bourgeoisie prepare the conditions for the revolution, ex and the i~perialists to mobilise them for imper - ploiting all methods and forms of struggle, ialist war and for reaction ; for the democrat- both legal and illegal, such as parliamentary ic rights of the working class and the people struggle where the tactics ore appropriate. but of Ireland and all other countries ago~nst the basing the party on its illegal work as a part of daily development of fascism by the monopoly revolutionary action. bourgeoisie, the denial of their democratic and The goal of the working class is to achieve trade union rights, against the incitement of socialism through the establishment of the Dict racism, national chauvinism and sectarianism atorship of the Proletariat , and CPI(M-L) org a nd other forms of reaction and fascism to divide anises the working class around this revolutionary and suppress the people etc. line and with the perspective of this goal in all · T.~ Special Consultative Conference also dis the day to day struggles of the workers against cussed and approved the basic tasks of the Party exploitation and oppression, including the revol elaborated by the Central Committee, for the coming period, including the decision to hold utionary patriotic struggle. 1 CPI (M-L) recognises the central importance of CPl(M-L) s First Congress in the course of the the revolutionary, democratic, patriotic struggle next two years. for national liberation against British imperial The Special Consultative Conference warmly ism in the Irish revolution. The Party works to welcomed a delegation from the Revolutionary unite the Irish people around the most revolution Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) ary class, the working class, building its Marx which took part in the proceedings of the ist-Leninist party, in the course of the struggle conference. A speech by a representative of the to overthrow British imperialism and its evil central committee of the British party was colonial rule in the north, to overthrow partition enthusiastically received by the conference. and re-unite the whole Irish nation and the F.inally, on behalf of the Party, the Central country in genuine independence. In this struggle Committee of the COmmunist Party of Ireland against the age-old national oppressor of the (Marxist-Leninist) gives a red salute to the Irish people, British imperialism, CPI(M-L) Party of Labour of Albania, the Revolutionary opposes the collaborationist Irish monopoly COmmunist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist),the capitalist bourgeoisie, who assist the British Communist Party of Ganada(Marxist-Leninist) and to i~rialists in their stock tactic of "divide all the other fraternal parties of the Internation and rule" to divide the Irish people and set al Marxist-Leninist COmmunist Movement, on the them at loggerheads with each other on the sect occasion of CPI(M-L) 1 s 12th Anniversary ! arian lines which British imperialism has incit ed by indoctrination and fascist terror, and The CPI(M-L) gives a red salute to the struggles who assist the British imperialists in suppress of the working class and the peoples and nations ~ the patriotic struggle, north and south, as for revolution, for both national and social lib well as the struggle of the working class to eration, in Ireland and throughout the world;It achieve socialism. pledges that our Party will work militantly to The revolutionary patriotic struggle is the make our contribution to the revolution in Ire central democtatic struggle and is central to land and throughout the world, working for the preparing the candltions for the proletarian unity of the proletariat and the revolutionary soc.ialist revolution in I re land, M\ile the estab• peoples and nations through strengthening the lishnent df socialism under the Dictatorship of unity of the International Marxist-Leninist ~ t~ Proletariat is itself, in the final analysis unist Movement, and through.waging the patriotic ~ only sure guarantee for the consolidation and class struggles in Ireland! of notlOnr:Jl independence for the Irish people, LCN:i LIVE Tl£ ca.t.tiNIST PARTY OF IRELAI'O (MARX as this is the only means to cut off the roots~ IST-LENINIST) ! · of ~ive sell-out and foreign imperialist DEATH TO BRITISH IMPERIALISM ! VICTORY TO THE enslavement and exploitation, through the elim IRISH REVOLUTION ! ination of the capitalist system and the exploit LCJI.G LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNA TI()W.I SM ! ing bourgeoisie in Ireland. LGG LIVE Tl£ INTERNATIONAL MARXIST-LENINIST The ~rxist-Leninist line of CPI(M-L) is to co.t.tlJNI ST M:NB.ENT ! provide leadership and actively fight in both the LCJI.G LIVE THE PEOPLE'S SOClALIST REPUBLIC OF democratic national struggle and the class strugg ALBANIA ! le of the proletariat for socialism, ensuring that G..ORY TO MARXISM-LENINISM I in these two struggles -- the questions of nation \\ORKERS OF THE \\ORLD UNITE ! al liberation and socialism are neither, on the one hand, eclectically fused together, nor, on the other hand, are they seperoted by a Chinese wall. THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND In addition, CPI(M-L) is active in all the (~RXIST-LENINIST) mass demo~rotic struggles, works in the various mass organisations and also to create revol CONTACTABLE AT THE FOLLOWING utionary mass organisations, against imperialist ACORESS : war and the monopoly bourgoisie 1 s incitement of world war ; against the policy of the imperial P.O. BOX 695 ists and the Irish bourgeoisie to impose the DUBLIN burden of their crisis on the backs of the working people through unemployment, higher taxation P.VI h) CPI(M-L) os the party of the Irish proletariat and exploitation etc.; for the rights of women stands for revolution , os opposed to the revision• against discrimination, exploitation and oppress ist illusions of reformdsm, os the only means to ion and for the emancipation of women ; for the achieve both notional and social ell1Jncipotion rights of the youth against their criminolisotion, and works at all times in a revolutionary way to degeneration and the attempts of the bourgeoisie prepare the conditions for the revolution, ex and the i~periolists to mobilise them for imper - ploiting all methods and forms of struggle, iolist war and for reaction ; for the democrat- both legal and illegal, such os parliamentary ic rights of the working class and the people struggle where the tactics ore appropriate. but of Ireland and all other countries ogo~nst the bosing the party on its illegal work os a port of doily development of fascism by the monopoly revolutionary action. bourgeoisie, the denial of their democratic and The goal of the working class is to achieve trade union rights, against the incitement of socialism through the establishment of the Dict racism, national chauvinism and sectarianism atorship of the Proletariat , and CPI(M-L) org a nd other forms of reaction and fascism to divide anises the working class around this revolutionary and suppress the people etc. line and with the perspective of this goal in all · T.~ Special Consultative Conference also dis the day to day struggles of the workers against cussed and approved the basic tasks of the Party exploitation and oppression, including the revol elaborated by the Central Cornnittee, for the utionary patriotic struggle. coming period, including the decision to hold CPI(M-L) recognises the central importance of CP 1 (M-L) 's First Congress in the course of the the revolutionary, democratic, patriotic struggle next two years. for notional liberation against British imperial The Special Consultative Conference warmly ism in the Irish revolution. The Party works to welcomed a delegation from the Revolutionary unite the Irish people around the most revolution Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) ary class, the working class, building its Marx which took port in the proceedings of the ist-Leninist party, in the course of the struggle conference. A speech by a representative of the to overthrow British imperialism and its evil central committee of the British party was colonial rule in the north, to overthrow partition enthusiastically received by the conference. and re-unite the whole Irish notion and the F.inolly, on behalf of the Party, the Central country in genuine independence. In this struggle Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland against the age-old notional oppressor of the (Marxist-Leninist) gives a red salute to the Irish people, British imperialism, CPI(M-L) Party of Labour of Albania, the Revolutionary opposes the colloborotionist Irish monopoly Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist),the capitalist bourgeoisie, who assist the British 11 Communist Party of Ganodo(Marxist-Leninist) and to i•riolists in their stock tactic of divide all the other fraternal parties of the Internation and rule'' to divide the Irish people and set al Marxist-Leninist Communist Movement, on the them at loggerheads with each other on the sect occasion of CPI(M-L)'s 12th Anniversary ! arian lines which British imperialism has incit ed by indoctrination and fascist terror, and The CPI(M-L) gives a red salute to the struggles who assist the British imperialists in suppress of the working class and the peoples and notions ~ the patriotic struggle, north and south, os for revolution, for both notional and social lib well as the struggle of the working class to eration, in Ireland and throughout the world; It achieve socialism. pledges that our Party will work militantly to The revolutionary patriotic struggle is the IIDke our contribution to the revolution in Ire central ~c~tic struggle and is central to land and throughout the world, working for the preparing the candltions for the proletarian unity of the proletariat and the revolutionary sodalist revolution in Ireland, while the estab• peoples and nations through strengthening the lishnent of socialism under the Dictatorship of unity of the International Marxist-Leninist ~ the Proletariat is itself, in the final analysis unist Movement, and through,waging the patriotic ~ aniJ sure guarantee for the consolidation and class struggles in Ireland~ of natianal independence for the Irish people, LCN:i LIVE TJ£ CXJ..t.«.JNIST PARTY OF IRE~.»{) (WI.RX os this is the only means to cut off the roots IST-LENINIST) ! · of native sell-out and foreign imperialist CEATH TO BRITISH I~PERIALIS~ ~ VICTORY TO THE enslavement and exploitation, through the elim IRISH REVOLUTION ! ination of the capitalist system and the exploit LCH:i LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM ! ing bourgeoisie in Ireland. LCN:i LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL WI.RXIST-LENINIST The ~rxist-Leninist line of CPI(M-L) is to co.t.tuNIST MJVB.ENT ! provide leadership and actively fight in both the LCH:i LIVE THE PEOPLE'S SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF democratic national struggle and the class strugg ALBANIA ! le of the proletariat for socialism, ensuring that G...ORY TO Mo\RXISt.f-LENINISM I in these two struggles -- the questions of nation \'.ORKERS OF THE \'.ORLD UNITE ! al liberation and socialism are neither, on the one hand, eclecticolly fused together, nor, on the other hand, are they seperated by a Chinese wall. THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRE~.»{) In addition, CPI(M-L) is active in all the (M4RXIST-LENINIST) mass demo~rotic struggles, works in the various mass organisations and also to create revol OONT ACT ABLE AT THE F