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Entire Issue in One Large Searchable PDF ti*.**_c{"'" ,..+#4\ .; €t //3s f, ,,i I iJ R,ED POTMCAL POWER {. iv/:i: {.,rt"^*.*- Kurdistan 198615 Kurdiston Kurdistan And ProsPects for For decades Kurdistan has been rising up in arms against national Red Political Power subjugation; now it faces a new conjuncture: what will it take to Ibrahim Kaypakkaya on the Kurdish hoist the red flag, what dif- National l4 ference will it make to the op- Question pressed the world around to set the Kurdish prairie afire with a formidable red peshmerga army? Bonglo Desh Nejimeh Siavush discusses these crucial questions. The Tinderbox of Purba Bangla 27 Why Did Colombia's Government Bomb Its Own Palace of Justice t6 RIM Committee Message to RCP,USA 22 RCP,USA Celebrates 1Oth Anniversary 23 Seizing the Imperialist Citadels 40 Britain: Excerpts from Maniftsto of the Revolutionory Internationalist Contingent 41 Italy: Excerpts.from For the Revolutionary Communist Workers Orgonisation 4l An analysis of the last few years ol growing political ferment in Bangladesh (Purba Bangla), where the U.S.-backed regime is A World lo Win is a quarterly published by World to Win, whose address is: confronted by a broad range of BCM World to Win opposition forces from diverse London WCIN 3XX, U.K. classes. This issue was printed by Russell Press, Bertrand Russell House, Forest Road West, Nottingham, U K February,1986 Subscribe to A World to Win From Kurdiston to Colombio - people oll oround the world reod a&' t: t:acy1y1;4.4,u,. A World to Win. Avoiloble in English, Forsi, Sponish, ltolion, ond Turkish. 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And it continues to be a a familiar feature of the Kurdish national and regional significance of major current that can play an in- landscape which spreads through the Kurdistan, and thus the complgxity dispensable role in initiating and car- countries of Iran, Iraq, Syria and of the struggle there, onto a decided- rying out the final ushering in of (a) Turkey. Not only has this been the ly higher plane. This is what compels truly revolutionary state(s) in the native territory of the Kurdish na- veteran executioners of the Kurdish region. Its historical development tional movement for decades, but it people like the French imperialists to has been conditioned by and intert- has also provided favourable scurry around with a garish pretense wined with the momentous interna- political and military terrain for the of concern for the rights of the tional events that have punctuated revolutionary forces fighting to Kurds while the bloc leader, the this century. The First and Second overthrow the reactionary vassal U.S., and its trusted hangmen prefer World Wars and both the inspiring states whose borders divide Kur- genocidal suppression campaigns. victories and the bitter setbacks the distan. And of course, the Soviet social- international proletariat has ex- Since the First World War, the imperialists never pass up an oppor- perienced, particularly in the Soviet Kurdish question has figured pro- tunity to support the Kurds. .like a Union and in China, have exerted a minently in the calculations of the rope supports a hanging man, as profound influence' over the imperialists and their commissioned Lenin once said in another context. development of the movement in puppets to establish and hold on to Clearly the more that objective Kurdistan. their seats of power throughout the developments hurl the Kurdish peo- Furthermore, Lenin's statement Middle East. Although such calcula- ple towards the centre stage of con- that "One of the main features of tions have invariably called for flicts in the region, the more imperialism is that it accelerates vicious national oppression of the variegated becomes the motley array capitalist development in the most Kurds, executed by the lackeys of of "the concerned." This is, at once, backward countries and thereby ex- imperialism and later on of social- both a reflection and a cause of the tends and intensifies the struggle imperialism, they ironically only greatly heightened prospects and against national oppression" ("The helped to create and train a for- difficulties the current situation Military Programme of the Pro- midable enemy with a long history holds for the revolutionary forces in letarian Revolution," CW 23) has of waging armed struggle against Kurdistan. proved to be a valid assessment of oppression and enslavement, in all For many decades now a the historical impetus propelling the parts of Kurdistan. No small credit relentless struggle has held sway revolutionary and national move- will go to the reactionaries when the across the Kurdish landscape. It ment in Kurdistan, which has not armies of red peshmergas charge flares up amidst thunder and gunfire lost but gained momentum in the down the mountains and across the and retreats only to suddenly erupt face of the suppression and annihila- plains from four directions singing again where the enemy expects it tion campaigns Ied against it. their "best songs to the tune of least. A bold revolutionary initiative rifles," orchestrated this time The revolutionary struggle of the based on a critical evaluation of the around by the class-conscious pro- Kurdish people has been on a long movement, of its specific historical letariat. march. It has outlasted many of its character, is urgently demanded of 6 the revolutionary internationalist and therefore unsuccessful, revolu- cipal actors capable of exerting proletariat. This is essential if the tionary movements that the masses powerful influence in determining opening that is greatly magnified by gain experience, acquire knowledge, the resolution of the worldwide con- the increasing instability of the gather strength, and get to know tradictions in the region. crisis-ridden reactionary states, their real leaders, the socialist Considering the highly charged within the overall crisis of the world Irevolutionary communist terrain in Kurdistan, where all con- imperialist system, by the Iraq-Iran AWTA proletarians, and in this tending political forces with their war and by the rapidly intensifying way prepare for the general corresponding ideologies are being rivalry between the war-bound im- onslaught...." (' 'Self- compelled to deploy and manoeuvre perialist and social-imperialist blocs, Determination Sumrned Up," CW troops amid increasing tension and is going to be seized for the revolu- 22) Without overlooking or where issues have a long history of tionary cause of the oppressed. legitimising the past shortcomings being settled by force of arms even With respect to this task and and weaknesses of the international though not often commanded by obligation of the revolutionary com- communist movement and the na- revolutionary proletarian politics, it munist forces in the region, it is in- tional movement in Kurdistan, it can has become absolutely imperative structive to recall one of Lenin's be said that the revolutionary strug- for the genuine proletarian forces to remarks: "The dialectics of history gle has accumulated immeasurable establish and fortify a decisively are such that small nations, valuable experience and acquired the stronger presence.
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