From the
country where the "Arab Spring" took place, where the masses shook
and toppled down pro-imperialist regimes, our militant and internationalist
support reaches the People's War in India and the party leading it.
Although Tunisia is a small country of 10 million people
in North Africa, it gained, especially in
recent years, a considerable importance for the revolutionary development in
the region. After the first the miners' strike of Gafsa and Métlaoui in the
south of the country in 2008, on December 2010, the uprising against the
decades-long regime of Ben Ali broke out in Sidi Bouzid, again in the south of
the country. Since the days of Bourguiba, the first president of
"independent" Tunisia
tied to the French imperialist bourgeoisie, this area has been doomed to the
economic and social underdevelopment by the domestic comprador bourgeoisie
mainly base in Tunis
and the cities on the coast. Against this condition, the strikes by miners and other
people’s masses (mainly of the youth) in the South of the country, increasingly
extended to workers, youth, women across the country, including the petty and
middle bourgeoisie and the intellectuals. Massive strikes combined with
roadblocks and attacks on the hated army barracks and police stations across
the country led to the fall of the regime. All this recent history is well-known.
What is
perhaps less well known, even within our movement, is how varied the presence
of the Maoists in Tunisia
is. There are different groups and parties operating both in the biggest cities
and the countryside. These comrades together carry out revolutionary work among
the different sectors of society and are at the forefront in the support to the
PW in India
and the party that leads it. As he Maoist Communist Movement in Tunisia wrote
in the message to the International Conference in Hamburg: "We are proud
of the progress made by the CPI (Maoist), especially since 2004, year of its formation,
and we congratulate the militants and fighters who, thanks to their determination
and bravery, were able to free up one third of the "Indian" territory
and founded the people’s power, the new democratic power." And, as the Maoist
Communist Organization in Tunisia
wrote for the same occasion: "As Maoist Communist Organization in Tunisia we would have taken part in this
international conference to express our support for the People's War in India led by
our comrades of the Indian Communist Party (Maoist)."
This
solidarity consists not only of the words sent to Conference in Hamburg by
these organizations belonging of the wider Maoist Tunisian movement but also of
actions the comrades carry out in the daily struggles they lead.
For
example, the students front, particularly in the university, where the
organized form of the students, the student union UGET, is heavily influenced
by the social-democrat parties of the Popular Front, the support to the PW in India implies
a sharp theoretical and ideological struggle against those who advocate the peaceful
means and electoral road to socialism. Leafleting, solidarity messages from
students Tunisian, meetings in the have been organized in recent years with
this purpose. Some art students put their skills at the service of the latest
international campaigns, realizing hand-drawn posters.
Another
example is the support to political prisoners, whose struggle is all the more broad
and important in Tunisia, a country where the youth who participated in the
revolt against old regime and continue fearing even the current one, of
so-called "transition" (indeed restoration) and other opponents in
general are arrested, beaten and tortured. On the last day of June 19,
dedicated to Saibaba, chairman for the RDF arrested by the Indian regime, the comrades
of the MCM-T issued a message and a poster to create a "bridge" of
struggle against the suppression ongoing both in Tunisia
and India.
As in the words of the message sent to the Hamburg Conference: "We
understand the ferocity of imperialism and its servants against the
revolutionary movement and the people's war in particular, we understand why
they have done their utmost to derail the uprisings in the Arab countries in
their favour. Without revolutionary leadership, these spontaneous uprisings
could not go far, even if the masses continue to fight with teeth and nails."
Lenin said
that the best example of proletarian internationalism is to make revolution in own
country, In Tunisia as in India, the
revolutionary strategy is the Protracted People's War, with the creation of
liberated zones in the countryside to encircle the cities. Tunisia has vast areas of the
countryside and over the past few decades there have been experiences of armed
struggle, particularly in the North-west and South of the country, where
guerrilla units such as Fellagha led encirclement campaigns against the
colonial forces in the years of the national liberation struggle, 1952-1954.
Unfortunately, from these favorable objective conditions in Tunisia currently take advantage only the jihadist
groups which can easily move and realize actions through he porous borders with
Algeria and Libya. We must
also learn from the last revolt, that showed the rebel character and a prominent
role of young workers from outskirts and suburbs. Right two days ago, other youth
we can say "democrats" organized "the first demonstration
against the ISIL in an Arab and Muslim country." We do not know exactly
the nature of this protest. In any case, to develop a relentless struggle
against Islamic fascism represented by forces such as ISIS
is a necessity since they are an obstacle for the revolutionary forces. We have
to take into account all these elements in the application of the general
strategy of the PW.
The
Islamist hegemony is a problem that affects the entire Arab world, where
currently many armed groups turn to jihad and no revolutionary organization
develops armed struggle, excepted some forces in Iraq. It is obvious that in order
to assert the path of PPW in the countries of the North Africa and Middle East,
the first goal to achieve, it the theoretical and political defeat of Islamist
movements and groups, which often rely mass support (This problem is most evident
in Palestine with Hamas).
Secondly,
there is the struggle against neo-revisionist forces.
This work serves
the growth and strengthening of Maoist parties in the countries of the region
by joining the Maoists in the ideological struggle against existing deviations,
as the pan-Arabism, that looks at non-proletarian theories and forces disguised
as "anti-imperialist", as Baathism, Nasserism and even Islamism, arguing
a "united fronts"with reactionary forces such as Hezbollah or Hamas, holding
them as "nationalist".
It is a serious
issue. Particularly the contradiction within the people arising from the
influence that the Islamic religion on the masses of Middle East North Africa
region. For this reason, the interesting debate started in the International
Meeting "From the uprisings to the revolution in the Arab countries" held
in Paris on 2011
has to go on and be deepened.
The events
of the last few months concerning the ISIL show once again that the reactionary
religious movements are mirrors of imperialism. They both oppress the masses. Because
of the lacking of a Maoist leadership in the region, the fight against ISIS is waged
by a front including imperialists and Zionists, the same who sponsored the ISIL
in anti-Syrian function, the pro-imperialist Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga, the
Syrian Kurds of YPG, who claim to be anti-imperialist but welcomed the bombing
of imperialism on Syria. The victory of this front will not solve the problems
of the masses.
The Maoist
parties and organizations in Turkey,
Kurdistan and Iraq
can and must be a solution for this situation.
In Palestine, the hegemony
of Hamas on the one hand and, on the other hand, the revisionists do not allow
the Palestinian people to undertake the path of the PW.
The
People's War in India
and the party that leads it, whose tenth anniversary we celebrate today, as
well as other people's wars, are an ideological beacon for the development of
Maoism in the MENA region and to assert the path of the PW.
As put by
the comrades of the Maoist Communist Movement in Tunisia in the Conference in
Hamburg: "We state that the people's war in India is our war, because
imperialism and its lackeys launched a war on the workers, exploited and
oppressed peoples all-around the world, and in front of this violence of the
reactionary state, only the People's War led by the Maoist Communist Party can lead
to the victory, the liberation and the construction of people’s power, the new
democracy, opening the road to socialism."
We wish that
the anniversary of the formation of CPI (Maoist) be a good omen for the birth
of new Maoist parties which launch people’s wars in North Africa and the Middle East, historical necessary opportunity at the
service of the world proletarian revolution.
Maoist Communist Movement in Tunisia
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