Anti-imperialist Struggle Conference of the Middle East - Declaration
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1) The discovery of oil and rise of its import-ance as a source of energy have turned the region into an important sphere of ongoing rivalry among the imperialist hegemonic forces. Having taken the role of gendarmerie of the capitalist world after the World War II, the US imperialism has become superior in the rivalry that they conducted with British and French imperialists over the Middle Eastern oil; the US imperialism has gradually started to be the dominant power in our region. And today also, the US Imperialism is trying to strengthen and deepen its domination.

2) The US imperialism, who wants to own the world economy without any rival, tries to make ineffective its rivals through its military and economic superiority. But, despite its superiority, the American imperialism feels just behind its nape the rivalry of other rival imperialist powers. It is equal with dreaming to think that the prominent imperialist powers; the EU as a whole and the im-perialist countries such as Germany and France within this economic integration, China, Russia or Japan would accept the unilateral US hegemony in the Middle East. These imperialist powers do want to have a word in the re-division of the world, and are trying to prevent the use of the region's energy resources against themselves by the USA. Therefore the inter-imperialist contradictions in our region are extremely sharpened.

3) The ongoing hegemonic fight upon the world markets and raw materials shows that the rivalry among the leading imperialist countries, the inner-imperialist contradictions is sharpened in certain regions: These regions are the Balkans, the Middle East and Caucasus/Caspian Basin and Latin America.

4) The hegemonic imperialist powers such as the USA, the EU (Germany and France at first), and other imperialist powers are mercilessly competing with each other to dominate the world markets and, at the same time, they are acting in common against the peoples and oppressed nations who resist them, who do not yield to the occupation and fight for national independence, and trying to take them under their yoke.

5) Because of their energy resources, the Middle East and Caspian Basin are essential regions for the imperialist powers. The geopolitical fictions that were/are prepared yesterday and today for the world hegemony suggest the occupation of these regions. We see that the world hegemony passes from the occupation of these regions in the recent geopolitics of Germany, Britain and France, in the current geopolitics of the USA and other imperialist powers and in the statements made by the most prominent geo-politicians.

6) The contradictions among the main imperialist countries are not yet sharpened at the level of turning into a direct war with each other. But, as the last 10-15 years have shown, they carry out their invasions serving their own strategies by forming coalitions or by benefiting from other's weaknesses. This hegemonic row, contradictions and conflicts will keep the Middle East face to face even for many years with new relations and balances of power, new alliances and separations, new conflicts and wars. Imperialists will not leave until the peoples of the region would kick them out.

7) The national liberation struggles did not lose their importance and rightness. The oppressed nations and peoples are continuing with their fight against the imperialist occupation, war, repression and plunder. The resistance of the Palestinian people against Zionism and imperialism, of the Iraqi people against the imperialist occupation and of the Kurdish nation against national yoke represent an experiment for all oppressed nations and peoples.

8) However its strength is, the imperialism is not invincible and it is not omnipotent. This is proven by the anti-imperialist resistances, the national liberation struggles of the oppressed nations and the social liberation struggles of the peoples and the proletariat. It has been shown by Vietnam in the past. And now Iraqi and Palestinian resistances are proving it. The announcement of organisations that fight for national liberation as "terrorists" by the imperialist forces does not chance anything in the essence of the problem. The revolution in Nepal, the resistance in Iraq, the Intifada in Palestine, the Serhildan s and the guerrilla of Kurdistan are inevitable and legitimate.

9) Nowhere the occupiers have been welcomed as they had hoped for and no one has considered them as liberators. This however is very meaningful. Occupation means being dependent of the foreign will-power. Occupation means being honourless. Therefore the peoples and nations who do not obey and who do not accept national dishonour have chosen and are still choosing the path of fighting against the occupiers together with their workers, peasants, youth and elderly, their dynamic forces in all.

10) Imperialism unites the struggle of the working class, labouring masses and the oppressed nations. Whatever its appearance may be, imperialism means reaction, aggression, occupation, war and plunder. Everywhere the peoples of the world are exposed to reaction, aggression, occupation, war, exploitation and plunder. These all show that our struggle is an international struggle and it is, therefore, a necessity to organise it commonly.

11) Our first task is to create Anti-imperialist Coordinations that would prove and produce itself within the struggle in practice, and would be capable of centralizing and leading anti-imperialist struggle in the Balkans, Middle East, Caucasus/Caspian Basin and Latin America which are the regions where the inter-imperialist contradictions have been sharpened at most. There exist the material conditions to form such coordination in all of the aforementioned regions. And such coordination has already been established in the Balkans.

12) Doubtlessly there exist anti-imperialist organisations, centres of resistance and platforms those who are active on the international and regional level. But, as life has shown, they are not in the position to practice the mission that they drew as their aim. The task to change the situation downs at first on the regions' progressive, anti-imperialist, revolutionary and communist forces. In this meaning; the creation of a regional coordination is again a necessity for revolutionary and communist forces to realize an active intervention to these platforms. As proven by the political developments in our region, this task can only be served through creation of a regional Anti-imperialist Coordination.

13) It is inevitable for the peoples of our region to act together to liberate the Middle East -the region where inter-imperialist contradictions sharpened at most and which involves both the occupation and the resistance- from the imperialist occupation and plunder, and to expel imperialism. Yes, this is an obligation, because the problems of the peoples, the Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians, have become the same.

The Middle East is continuing to occupy the world agenda through the oil, the rivalry and aggression upon the oil pipe lines; the occupation of Iraq, threatening of Iran and Syria by the USA and coalition forces; the Lebanon, Palestine and Kurdish questions; the anti-imperialist struggle, Islamic movement, and etc. And each of these problems is affecting the countries of the region directly or indirectly. In that case it is inevitability for each progressive and revolutionary party of our region to be prepared for a struggle on a reg-ional level with an increased spirit of solidarity.

14) It is the common problem of our peoples to make occupants leave our region. The common problem makes necessary the common struggle and organisation among our peoples.

The dynamics and opportunities of turning the anti-imperialist, revolutionary struggle on the regional level into a material force are growing; its political and social conditions are getting matured more and more. This situation points out the task to coordinate the progressive, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces' fight against imperialism, and to continue with it as a united struggle. Therefore, the Anti-Imperialist Struggle Coordination of the Middle East is a tool serving this purpose. The parties and organisations which are fighting against imperialism and their collaborators in our region should participate in this Coordination and support it.

15) The world reality facing us is increasing the level of international organisation and struggle of the anti-imperialist struggle. There is no doubt that the best one is to create an international anti-imperialist front. Formation of regional Anti-imperialist Co-ordinations, however, is a necessary step that should be taken from today in order to build such international coordination or front.

16) The 1st Middle East Conference has successfully been realized on 11-12 June, 2006. Thus, the patriotic, revolutionary and communist forces of the Middle East have taken the first step on the way to advance the anti-imperialist struggle in our region. The next task for the pro-independence, anti-imperialist, revolutionary and communist forces of Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Egypt or, to put it a nutshell, all countries considered in the Greater Middle East Project, are to take part in this platform; to increase the united and consistent anti-imperialist political struggle.

17) The anti-imperialist struggle, support and solidarity must be taken out from abstract, general and verbal levels and must be conducted with concrete, actual and practical task and goals and go beyond only protesting against something. It must target the militarist, political, economic and institutional presence of the imperialist forces. As well as actions against IMF, WB, G-8 and NATO, this could also be carried out in the form of organising militant actions to prevent the visits of imperialist chiefs to various countries, and the sale and transportation of weapons.

18) The anti-imperialist, anti-war struggle must be combined with the fight against the neo-liberal attacks. It is because the imperialist aggression and occupation reflect to the imperialist countries in the form of unemployment, restriction of freedoms, racism and chauvinism. The economic crisis, unemployment and cuts on the social rights in these countries are predicated on the existence of immigrants, and are being made a pretext for the new anti-terror laws and fascist-reactionary institutionalisations.

19) There are serious political and ideological illusions about anti-imperialist struggle in the world. For example, some "leftist" forces consider that the resistance and actions based on Islamic motives are not part of the anti-imperialist struggle. Or in the struggle against imperialist war, they avoid targeting NATO. A strong anti-imperialist struggle is making inevitable also the struggle against such understandings.

20) The anti-imperialist struggle cannot be considered without the anti-capitalist struggle. But the two are not the same and identical. Regarding their components, the anti-imperialist platforms are more flexible and require diversity and colourfulness.

21) There is no doubt that the anti-imperialist struggle will benefit from indirect reserves. But it shall take as the main its own power and inner dynamics.

22) Regional Anti-imperialist Coordination means a strong coordination of the regional struggle.

23) The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Coordination of the Middle East will help to strengthen and advance the anti-imperialist struggle on a national and international level.

24) Through the Coordination, both the resistance is going to reach active internationalist support in the region and the steps of developing a consistent and united anti-imperialist struggle are going to be taken.

25) It is going to end the estrangement among the revolutionary and communist parties, and cause them to come closer by intervening within the political developments.

26) It is going to develop an active intervention in various platforms that are established on international scale -such as the ESF and WSF- through a revolutionary centre.

27) The Coordination will practice a principled stance against the anti-imperialist illusions, chauvinism and social chauvinism and the reactionary forces in the process of fight against imperialist war and occupation, and will undertake an influential political and ideological struggle.

28) In order to convert the anti-imperialist struggle in our region in a real force, to "Middle Easternize" the anti-imperialist fight, a secretariat must be founded for the Coordination.

29) A central bureau has to be found in a country which is considered as appropriate. The bureau should be equipped with necessary technology in order to ensure communication, and friends who know different languages should be placed there.

12 June 2006
Anti-imperialist Struggle Conference
of the Middle East
 

 

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Anti-imperialist Struggle Conference of the Middle East - Declaration
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1) The discovery of oil and rise of its import-ance as a source of energy have turned the region into an important sphere of ongoing rivalry among the imperialist hegemonic forces. Having taken the role of gendarmerie of the capitalist world after the World War II, the US imperialism has become superior in the rivalry that they conducted with British and French imperialists over the Middle Eastern oil; the US imperialism has gradually started to be the dominant power in our region. And today also, the US Imperialism is trying to strengthen and deepen its domination.

2) The US imperialism, who wants to own the world economy without any rival, tries to make ineffective its rivals through its military and economic superiority. But, despite its superiority, the American imperialism feels just behind its nape the rivalry of other rival imperialist powers. It is equal with dreaming to think that the prominent imperialist powers; the EU as a whole and the im-perialist countries such as Germany and France within this economic integration, China, Russia or Japan would accept the unilateral US hegemony in the Middle East. These imperialist powers do want to have a word in the re-division of the world, and are trying to prevent the use of the region's energy resources against themselves by the USA. Therefore the inter-imperialist contradictions in our region are extremely sharpened.

3) The ongoing hegemonic fight upon the world markets and raw materials shows that the rivalry among the leading imperialist countries, the inner-imperialist contradictions is sharpened in certain regions: These regions are the Balkans, the Middle East and Caucasus/Caspian Basin and Latin America.

4) The hegemonic imperialist powers such as the USA, the EU (Germany and France at first), and other imperialist powers are mercilessly competing with each other to dominate the world markets and, at the same time, they are acting in common against the peoples and oppressed nations who resist them, who do not yield to the occupation and fight for national independence, and trying to take them under their yoke.

5) Because of their energy resources, the Middle East and Caspian Basin are essential regions for the imperialist powers. The geopolitical fictions that were/are prepared yesterday and today for the world hegemony suggest the occupation of these regions. We see that the world hegemony passes from the occupation of these regions in the recent geopolitics of Germany, Britain and France, in the current geopolitics of the USA and other imperialist powers and in the statements made by the most prominent geo-politicians.

6) The contradictions among the main imperialist countries are not yet sharpened at the level of turning into a direct war with each other. But, as the last 10-15 years have shown, they carry out their invasions serving their own strategies by forming coalitions or by benefiting from other's weaknesses. This hegemonic row, contradictions and conflicts will keep the Middle East face to face even for many years with new relations and balances of power, new alliances and separations, new conflicts and wars. Imperialists will not leave until the peoples of the region would kick them out.

7) The national liberation struggles did not lose their importance and rightness. The oppressed nations and peoples are continuing with their fight against the imperialist occupation, war, repression and plunder. The resistance of the Palestinian people against Zionism and imperialism, of the Iraqi people against the imperialist occupation and of the Kurdish nation against national yoke represent an experiment for all oppressed nations and peoples.

8) However its strength is, the imperialism is not invincible and it is not omnipotent. This is proven by the anti-imperialist resistances, the national liberation struggles of the oppressed nations and the social liberation struggles of the peoples and the proletariat. It has been shown by Vietnam in the past. And now Iraqi and Palestinian resistances are proving it. The announcement of organisations that fight for national liberation as "terrorists" by the imperialist forces does not chance anything in the essence of the problem. The revolution in Nepal, the resistance in Iraq, the Intifada in Palestine, the Serhildan s and the guerrilla of Kurdistan are inevitable and legitimate.

9) Nowhere the occupiers have been welcomed as they had hoped for and no one has considered them as liberators. This however is very meaningful. Occupation means being dependent of the foreign will-power. Occupation means being honourless. Therefore the peoples and nations who do not obey and who do not accept national dishonour have chosen and are still choosing the path of fighting against the occupiers together with their workers, peasants, youth and elderly, their dynamic forces in all.

10) Imperialism unites the struggle of the working class, labouring masses and the oppressed nations. Whatever its appearance may be, imperialism means reaction, aggression, occupation, war and plunder. Everywhere the peoples of the world are exposed to reaction, aggression, occupation, war, exploitation and plunder. These all show that our struggle is an international struggle and it is, therefore, a necessity to organise it commonly.

11) Our first task is to create Anti-imperialist Coordinations that would prove and produce itself within the struggle in practice, and would be capable of centralizing and leading anti-imperialist struggle in the Balkans, Middle East, Caucasus/Caspian Basin and Latin America which are the regions where the inter-imperialist contradictions have been sharpened at most. There exist the material conditions to form such coordination in all of the aforementioned regions. And such coordination has already been established in the Balkans.

12) Doubtlessly there exist anti-imperialist organisations, centres of resistance and platforms those who are active on the international and regional level. But, as life has shown, they are not in the position to practice the mission that they drew as their aim. The task to change the situation downs at first on the regions' progressive, anti-imperialist, revolutionary and communist forces. In this meaning; the creation of a regional coordination is again a necessity for revolutionary and communist forces to realize an active intervention to these platforms. As proven by the political developments in our region, this task can only be served through creation of a regional Anti-imperialist Coordination.

13) It is inevitable for the peoples of our region to act together to liberate the Middle East -the region where inter-imperialist contradictions sharpened at most and which involves both the occupation and the resistance- from the imperialist occupation and plunder, and to expel imperialism. Yes, this is an obligation, because the problems of the peoples, the Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians, have become the same.

The Middle East is continuing to occupy the world agenda through the oil, the rivalry and aggression upon the oil pipe lines; the occupation of Iraq, threatening of Iran and Syria by the USA and coalition forces; the Lebanon, Palestine and Kurdish questions; the anti-imperialist struggle, Islamic movement, and etc. And each of these problems is affecting the countries of the region directly or indirectly. In that case it is inevitability for each progressive and revolutionary party of our region to be prepared for a struggle on a reg-ional level with an increased spirit of solidarity.

14) It is the common problem of our peoples to make occupants leave our region. The common problem makes necessary the common struggle and organisation among our peoples.

The dynamics and opportunities of turning the anti-imperialist, revolutionary struggle on the regional level into a material force are growing; its political and social conditions are getting matured more and more. This situation points out the task to coordinate the progressive, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces' fight against imperialism, and to continue with it as a united struggle. Therefore, the Anti-Imperialist Struggle Coordination of the Middle East is a tool serving this purpose. The parties and organisations which are fighting against imperialism and their collaborators in our region should participate in this Coordination and support it.

15) The world reality facing us is increasing the level of international organisation and struggle of the anti-imperialist struggle. There is no doubt that the best one is to create an international anti-imperialist front. Formation of regional Anti-imperialist Co-ordinations, however, is a necessary step that should be taken from today in order to build such international coordination or front.

16) The 1st Middle East Conference has successfully been realized on 11-12 June, 2006. Thus, the patriotic, revolutionary and communist forces of the Middle East have taken the first step on the way to advance the anti-imperialist struggle in our region. The next task for the pro-independence, anti-imperialist, revolutionary and communist forces of Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Egypt or, to put it a nutshell, all countries considered in the Greater Middle East Project, are to take part in this platform; to increase the united and consistent anti-imperialist political struggle.

17) The anti-imperialist struggle, support and solidarity must be taken out from abstract, general and verbal levels and must be conducted with concrete, actual and practical task and goals and go beyond only protesting against something. It must target the militarist, political, economic and institutional presence of the imperialist forces. As well as actions against IMF, WB, G-8 and NATO, this could also be carried out in the form of organising militant actions to prevent the visits of imperialist chiefs to various countries, and the sale and transportation of weapons.

18) The anti-imperialist, anti-war struggle must be combined with the fight against the neo-liberal attacks. It is because the imperialist aggression and occupation reflect to the imperialist countries in the form of unemployment, restriction of freedoms, racism and chauvinism. The economic crisis, unemployment and cuts on the social rights in these countries are predicated on the existence of immigrants, and are being made a pretext for the new anti-terror laws and fascist-reactionary institutionalisations.

19) There are serious political and ideological illusions about anti-imperialist struggle in the world. For example, some "leftist" forces consider that the resistance and actions based on Islamic motives are not part of the anti-imperialist struggle. Or in the struggle against imperialist war, they avoid targeting NATO. A strong anti-imperialist struggle is making inevitable also the struggle against such understandings.

20) The anti-imperialist struggle cannot be considered without the anti-capitalist struggle. But the two are not the same and identical. Regarding their components, the anti-imperialist platforms are more flexible and require diversity and colourfulness.

21) There is no doubt that the anti-imperialist struggle will benefit from indirect reserves. But it shall take as the main its own power and inner dynamics.

22) Regional Anti-imperialist Coordination means a strong coordination of the regional struggle.

23) The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Coordination of the Middle East will help to strengthen and advance the anti-imperialist struggle on a national and international level.

24) Through the Coordination, both the resistance is going to reach active internationalist support in the region and the steps of developing a consistent and united anti-imperialist struggle are going to be taken.

25) It is going to end the estrangement among the revolutionary and communist parties, and cause them to come closer by intervening within the political developments.

26) It is going to develop an active intervention in various platforms that are established on international scale -such as the ESF and WSF- through a revolutionary centre.

27) The Coordination will practice a principled stance against the anti-imperialist illusions, chauvinism and social chauvinism and the reactionary forces in the process of fight against imperialist war and occupation, and will undertake an influential political and ideological struggle.

28) In order to convert the anti-imperialist struggle in our region in a real force, to "Middle Easternize" the anti-imperialist fight, a secretariat must be founded for the Coordination.

29) A central bureau has to be found in a country which is considered as appropriate. The bureau should be equipped with necessary technology in order to ensure communication, and friends who know different languages should be placed there.

12 June 2006
Anti-imperialist Struggle Conference
of the Middle East