Proletarians of all countries, unite!
This First of May 2025, we, the International Communist League (ICL), with ardent communist fervor salutes our Class, the international proletariat, and all the Oppressed Nations and Peoples of the world. We salute our comrades in arms in the International Communist Movement as a whole, all the Communist Parties and Organizations struggling to raise the belligerent quest for our common end goal, Communism, to ever higher levels until our final victory. We salute the armed detachments of workers and peasants who fights heroically in the People’s Wars and the armed struggles unfolding under the leadership of the communists, based on the proletarian ideology. We salute the organs of people’s power in there various stage of development existing in the countries where the communists have arisen in arms and are destroying the old reactionary power. We salute all those revolutionaries and true democrats that all over the world make the highest sacrifices together with us in relentless struggle against imperialism, revisionism and reaction.
On this day we march shoulder to shoulder, under our flaming red banner with the hammer and sickle, more determined than ever to put and end to the millennial’s old exploitation of human by human, full with revolutionary optimism and with absolute conviction of the righteousness of our cause. Today is our day, when we rally our forces and before our eyes see the growing ranks of an international revolutionary contingent in formation decided to storm the heavens.
The conditions for the development of the world proletarian revolution are excellent, the winds blow our way, an a look of the world situation can nothing but confirm this.
US-imperialism, politically headed by the Trump-administration is currently desperately trying to reorganize its economy through imposing adjustments in the world market, to regain positions, tightening its grip on the Oppressed Nations and break up the alliances and coalitions of its imperialist competitors, with Chinese social-imperialism as the main target. Therefore it applies what can be described as economical “cannon-boat diplomacy” tactics, exploiting the fact that it is the main exporter of Capital in the world and “the world’s biggest consumer” (the biggest parasite). The political, economical and military measures of the Trump-administration, be it the increased negation of the institutions set up after the Second World War (like the UN), the stir in NATO or the Tariffs, are not expressions of the erratic character of the genocidal degenerate Trump, but of the conscious plan of the fraction of US Finance Capital represented politically by the Republican Party. However, Yankee imperialism is besieged by the peoples of the world, and his unbridled ambitions put him to a position of increasing isolation of the other imperialist countries; in fact is his power constantly reducing and the united front of the peoples of the world against the imperialists, headed by the United States, is and will expand constantly. Yankee Imperialism is the main enemy of the peoples of the world and acts like the world counterrevolutionary gendarme.
The communist must clearly show the Masses that to center on the Trump and the Apartheid descendant Musk and the supposed threat of the “oligarchs” (as if the imperialist State not always represent the interest of the Finance Oligarchy) and the “fascist danger,” is to tail the Democratic Party and whitewash US-imperialism. The so very “charming,” “democratic” and “progressive” Obama was no better than Trump; both are warmongering Mass Murders, both represent the interests of the most monstrous parasite that history have seen. Every US-administration will be just that, the political administration of the interests of the imperialist State, will serve its goals and objectives and will always be an arch-enemy of the Oppressed Nations and People’s of the world.
The strife among the imperialists are increasing to new heights, US imperialism is trying to maintain its eroding power in various ways and neutralize its growing rivals. Still none of the other imperialist Powers are in the short term capable of confronting the political, economical and military superiority of US imperialism, which dominates the imperialist system.
Particularly since the 2008 crisis, the imperialist system has been shaken by economic, political and military crises. Along with the tendency of decline of the hegemonic position of US-imperialism, new polarizations and alliances are emerging within the imperialist world system. Chinese social-imperialism tries more and more – within the dynamic of collusion and conflict – to enter in certain regions and sectors into competition with the US. Russian imperialism has increased its military moves against the expansion of “Western” imperialism under the leadership of US imperialism through NATO, and imperialist conflicts have reached a new dimension, especially with the war in Ukraine. While the imperialist powers within the EU (especially Germany and France) are part of US imperialism’s economic and military moves again with the war in Ukraine, they also try to gain more military prominence on their own.
Social-imperialist China, midst of its internal contradictions, is contained by the maneuvers of the Yankees and can not reach the growth levels they need to reach the level of an Super Power, raged by an crisis in the real estate sector and failing to stimulate it so needed internal consumption. The Japanese economy are more interrelated with the US one as ever, being Japan the biggest foreign investor in the country for the last five years, and its political and military capacities are minuscule in comparison to China, hence Japan is totally depended on US “protection.” Germany is in its third year of full-blown recession, its most important trade partner is the US and any disruption in the industrial export sector would have dire consequences for the “social peace” in the country, which is the main political concern of the German bourgeoisie; in the same time they are confronted by political problems to form a “stable” government and the necessity to “normalize” the ultra-rights of the AfD. France faces mounting economical problems, and desperately tries to use its relative military power as a barging tool in the EU and have severe internal problems with the conflict between the President and Parliament (going so far that in April banned an important candidate from running in the next presidential elections). The “European Union” as whole is a mess, impotent to solve any of its mayor issues due to its internal contradictions; the only thing it really has been able to achieve lately, apart from the continuing Mass-murders of immigrants in the Mediterranean See, is the outrageous intervention in the Romanian elections in a complete negation of the sovereignty of that country; the so-called “Re-arm Europe” project is based mainly on spending for which no founding have been cleared, 650 Billion Euros, of a total 800 Billion announced, has no coverage. Italy has a huge debt-problem and tries to keep a good as possible relation to the US, so use it for getting better conditions in the internal struggle in the “EU.” The only chance for the UK to maintain its current role in the world is by aligning with the US and can not achieve anything without acting in collusion with other imperialists. Canada can only protest when its sovereignty is openly questioned and are humiliated once and again by the US-administration. And finally Russia, the only imperialist Power which can put something up to the US when it comes to military strength, due to its nuclear arsenal, is bogged down for three years in its war of aggression against the Ukraine, and pays a high price in this unjust war.
In the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the struggle for influence between the imperialists has intensified and military interventions are widespread. These developments are leading to an intensification of contradictions between the imperialist powers. On the one hand, the NATO component, led by the US and its allies (Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc.), and on the other hand, the imperialist component centered on Russia and China. These components can be seen not only in Europe but also in the Asia-Pacific region. The US policy of containing China has led to military alliances with countries such as Japan, Australia, the UK and Canada. As China has emerged as one of the major players the US and its allies have defined it as a strategic threat and sought to contain it. The intensification of these contradictions poses the possibility of a new war hotspot in the Asia-Pacific region.
In short, the balance of power within the imperialist world order tend to change, but until now, none of the mayor imperialist Powers are in the condition to launch a new World War to challenge US-imperialism. Hence, alarmist propaganda solely diverts the attention from the main tendency which is the revolution. However, the situation of sharpening contradictions the danger of new and bigger imperialist wars (even a World War) has increased and the spark that will ignite it, can come at any moment of the actual situation. The communists must grasp revolution as the main tendency so to correctly grasp the needs of the hour.
The wars that imperialism ignites in the Oppressed Nations, as part of their contention and an expression of its drive to redivide the world, are primordially wars of plunder and for subjection of the countries subjected to direct or indirect aggression. The wars and armed conflicts that ranges in Africa, from Libya in the North to Mozambique in the South and from the Sahel in the West to Somalia in the East, are all of this character. The same goes for the Wars and armed conflicts that ranges from Palestine to Myanmar. Again we live in a period where more wars are being waged and prepared, imperialist aggression, military inventions and coups launched. These wars are modern colonial wars and the term “proxy wars” tries to cover this essence up. The believers in the imperialist lie of the “end of history” and the “victory of capitalism,” which was proclaimed by US-imperialism in the 90th of the last century, always “forget” the struggle of the nations and countries for their independence and liberation; in their assessments the main factor in History, the Masses, are not taken into account and so the desires of the peoples for revolution are ignored. But again and again reality blows up in the face of ivory tower thinkers.
The hugest general strike and peoples protest in the history of the country took place in Greece in April of this year. General strikes and strike movement in much more countries like Argentina, India or South Africa targeted the attacks of the ruling classes and its governments. Massive People’s Protests develop in Serbia. The popular uprising in Bangladesh that toppled the government. The mass struggles in Turkey that have brought the anger of broad sectors of the people on the streets. All of these are just some of the most recent examples. As the plunder and modern colonial wars intensifies and the population of oppressed nations grows, poverty increasing, the revolutionary potential of the masses will increase to the point where people will prefer to die fighting, rather than starve. This will be the basis for anti-imperialist struggles, wars of national liberation, resistance to aggression and revolutions in general.
Such attempts like the conspiracy to liquidate the heroic struggle of Kurdish Nation for self-determination, promoted by the Turkish State and its imperialist Masters, will never succeed. The struggle might go through complex twist and turns, but at the end the false leaders will be completely unmasked and the Masses follow those who are the true champions of their cause, the communists. The imperialist counter-insurgency tactic of the “peace accords” can create set-backs, as it did in Nepal, but will never be able to turn the tide of History. The issue is always the need of correct leadership.
The heroic struggle of the People of Palestine against the assault of the State of Israel, promoted and directed by US-imperialism, is a brilliant display not only of courage and determination, but of the fact that a oppressed People, as long as it holds a steady grip of the gun, rely on its own force and maintain a United Front against the aggressor, is able to resist and defeat every genocidal onslaught of Imperialism. But even if resistance is a precondition to liberation, it is not the same thing. In spite all its glory, the National Resistance Front of Palestine, in its current composition, will not be able to lead the struggle of the Palestinian people’s masses to complete victory and the full national and new-democratic liberation of Palestine. To smash and defeat the State of Israel and its imperialist Masters, a War of National Liberation that fulfill the tasks of the democratic revolution, is indispensable. In the Era of Imperialism and Proletarian Revolution, this task can only be fulfilled under the leadership of the Proletariat. Without the leadership of a Communist Party, that today necessarily must be a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Party, that develops a People’s War and effectively lead the United Front, the liberation of Palestine will not reach complete victory over the imperialist yoke. Only the Communist Party that applies creatively Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, by considering the historical moment and the national conditions, in the midst of War, will be able to solve the pending tasks of any revolution, regardless of it being democratic or socialist in its character, and this truth is universal and without any exception. All communist and revolutionaries must support the National Resistance Front of Palestine without any coward reservation, defend it against all treasonous opportunistic attacks and at the same time redouble our efforts to serve the struggle of the Communists of Palestine to constitute their Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Party.
The epic struggle of the National Resistance Front of Palestine have inflamed an upsurge of the anti-imperialist struggle in the whole world, ranging form the armed solidarity of the Peoples of Yemen and Iraq to the mobilizations of millions in the citadels of imperialism. This movement must and will fusion with the revolutionary movement of the international proletariat. In this aspect the vanguard struggles of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Parties leading People’s War plays a decisive role.
The Maoist People’s Wars are shinning beacons of hope that shows the way to follow, through which national liberation from the semi-colonial and semi-feudal yokes, imposed by imperialism, can by won through the victorious democratic revolution. We need more of these and that they converge with the ongoing struggles of the Oppressed Nations and Peoples for national liberation to a mighty storm that sweeps away imperialism from the faces of the Earth. In this context the situation in Latin America deserves special attention of the communist and revolutionaries in the world.
In South America, State of Emergency rule is in force in both in Ecuador and Peru. In Argentina the poverty levels are skyrocketing, the masses raise up in strong popular protest with increasing tendency. Venezuela do not come to rest and the border conflict with Guyana can escalate to armed confrontation at any moment. In Colombia the Petro regime – which in spite its demagogy represent nothing more than interests of the Bureaucrat Capitalists and Big Landowners in service of imperialism, mainly US – can not pacify the country and the flames of armed struggle have not vanished. In Bolivia the conflicts among the ruling classes are solved with violence and the moment in which the masses refuse to be put up against each other are getting closer day by day. In Paraguay the guerrilla struggle continues. In Chile the struggle for Land intensifies and armed struggle in in the country-side is already a reality. Most importantly in the current situation, in the country-side of Brazil a might upheaval has begun and the poor-peasants are fighting back the goons of the Big Landowners, as well as the Police and Armed Forces backing them, with the gun in their hands, in a general context of an increasing wave of popular protest all over the country. The reactionary government of the opportunist Luiz Inacio, servant of imperialism, mainly Yankee, could not reach more than to fail in the attempts to prevent the rebellion of the masses.
In Central America, State of Emergency rule is proclaimed in El Salvador and the ultra-reactionary regime have declared war on the poor. In Mexico, actual warlords, financed by the drug consumption in the imperialist countries, wage a war against the People and the meanest and most vicious warlord is the Federal State itself. The masses in Guatemala and the workers in Panama continuing struggling against the continuously deteriorating conditions, increasing poverty and misery.
In the Antilles (the Caribbean Islands), Haiti is plagued by a heinousness civil war between rival reactionaries, spurred on by the imperialist intervention. The Cuban regime cannot provide the basic need of electricity to the people and when the masses protest they are meet with fierce repression by the revisionists.
All this in the context of a profound crisis of Bureaucratic Capitalism and increasing aggression of US-imperialism, that accelerates turmoil and multiply the volatility of the whole Continent. In this region the struggle of the peasants, mainly the poor, is the main force of the democratic revolution. Currently the revolutionary situation in uneven development in the World is expressed in a concentrated form in the oppressed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
An important strategic strength of the International Communist Movement today are the Parties and Organizations of the ICL operating from the Rio Grande to the Tierra del Fuego. It would not be enough to say that in Latin America the prairie is dry, it would be more precises to say that the whole regions is a Powder keg ready to explode in revolutionary tempest. On this foundation, the Maoists act by mobilizing, politicizing, organizing and, increasingly, arming the Masses, mainly the poor peasants, the main forces in the democratic revolution, with the unwavering perspective of initiating the People’s War. Without doubt in this resides currently the most important support possible to give to the comrades fighting in the People’s Wars in Asia today.
The reactionary Marcos regime in the Philippines, lackey of Imperialism, while selling out the country and trying to turn it into a base area of imperialist war-preparation, intensifies the war against the people with counter-revolutionary campaigns, mainly targeting the communists. The toiling and revolutionary masses under its leadership, the Communist Party of the Philippines, and the New People‘s Army (NPA), waging protracted people‘s war since more than 56 years are the biggest inner threat for the plans of plunder and war of the bureaucratic-capitalist rulers. Wrong promises and announced concessions on “amnesty” were unmasked as one of dozens of tall tales, which the ruling Marcos-clique uses to spread confusion among the masses. The “plan to defeat the Communist Party” is failing, like the ones before, and the intensification of the counterrevolutionary campaigns is already leading to an intensification of the people’s war, an rectification movement which give an impulse to advance in different aspects of the democratic revolution, mainly the Agrarian revolution. We also strongly condemn the murderous “Operation Kagaar” that the old bureaucratic-capitalist and ultra-reactionary state is developing against the peoples masses in India. Counter-revolutionary campaigns like “Operation Kagaar” are intensified, a further war against the people, and campaign of annihilation, while raising the general militarization and corporatization of the brahmanic-hindufascist state. Their aim to “destroy the people’s war” will suffer defeat – as was shown powerfully in “Operation Green Hunt.” In full spirit of proletarian internationalism we call to defend and support the peoples wars in India and the Philippines by all possible means. We express our full conviction that all plans of enemy will be crushed and the people’s wars, with the strong support of the masses of the countries, and the solidarity of the communists and revolutionaries in the world, will develop and smash the old order and will establish the new democratic power of the peoples.
In the imperialist countries, the bourgeoisie is waging a campaign against hard-won democratic and workers” rights. The dumping of the burden of the crisis on the shoulders of the working class and broad popular strata is being met with increasing workers” struggles and strikes, while the anger and rejection of these false “democracies” is deepening the crisis of parliamentarism, in which the imperialists” inherent tendency towards Fascism and reactionarization is gradually coming more and more openly to the fore. Censorship and repression against democratic and anti-imperialist movements, as for example in France or Ireland, is met with protests and the unmasking of the alleged “democratic” order. The campaign for the release of the well-known anti-imperialist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah mobilizes thousands throughout the country, in-midst the communist take an important role. Imperialist militarization and the export of war equipment to Ukraine or Israel was met with blockades and strikes by workers in England and Italy. In Belgium, workers fought in a general strike against the raising of the retirement age as part of a “pension reform.” Massive protests against mass redundancies and deindustrialization, particularly in car- and other industrial production, developed in the USA, England, Germany or Austria. In Spain the workers and masses raised against the “crisis management” of the bourgeoisie, which caused a murder on hundreds of people by the floods mainly in Valencia, where not only the bourgeois parties, but also the king was rejected militantly by the masses. The clearly measurable increase in labor struggles and mass movements in the imperialist countries exposes the opportunist and revisionist lie of the “inactivity” and “passivity” of the working class and the denial of its revolutionary role in the imperialist countries. The old force for containing and integrating the working class – social democracy – is in deep crisis and is increasingly unable to play its role for the imperialist bourgeoisie, which is also why right-wing parties in particular are being prepared as option for “stabilization.” The opportunists and so call “liberal-left” unmasks itself as rotten tail of the old “bourgeois-democratic” order, by supporting the dominant factions of the bourgeoisie against “fascism.” The election results and the dynamics within the workers- and peoples movements, show that social democracy and opportunism is increasingly losing or has already lost its hegemonic position within the labor movement, and also more and more fails to contain the mass movements, which leads to a certain “vacuum” and thus increasing “wild” strikes and other independent actions of the oppressed. The potential for the communists to expand their roots within the working class and peoples masses is favorable, they have to organize and gain deep roots within the class of the proletariat, those who have nothing to loose but their chains, and forge this most consequent revolutionary class, in order being able taking its historical task of leading the Proletarian World Revolution. This will lead undoubtedly to advance in the process of the reconstitution of the respective communist parties and the development of the socialist revolutions.
We are definitely in the beginning of a new period of revolutions in the World, the decomposition of imperialism advances day by day. The ground for the proletarian world revolution is ripening, especially the necessity for the leaderships of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties is becoming increasingly apparent. The deepening contradictions between the imperialists, the increasing imperialist aggression and reactionarization are increasing the anger of the oppressed world rights and the international proletariat, and this anger is looking for channels to realize itself. All communists and revolutionaries must focus on the inevitable course of history and transform the objective conditions into political and organizational foundations for the development of the proletarian world revolution. The turbulent process in the world and the intensifying contradictions offer us the opportunity to draw hope and not despair. As Chairman Mao said, “There is chaos in the sky: the conditions are favorable.” All communist and revolutionaries must fulfill their responsibility.
The struggle for the reconstitution of the Communist Parties must be grasped firmly, with initiative, responsibility and proletarian ambition. By applying the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism creatively, fully understanding Maoism as the third, new and higher stage of its development, according to the historical and national conditions of each revolution, the communist must advance in forging the General Political Line and Program of the revolution they must lead, in the midst of the two-line-struggle and the class-struggle for the conquest of Power, with can only be accomplished by means of revolutionary war, and simultaneously construct the forms of organization that corresponds to the forms of struggle. The communist must go to the deepest and broadest sectors of the Masses, educate them in revolutionary violence and the struggle against revisionism and opportunism, breaking with bourgeoisie “legality” and parliamentary cretinism, understanding that the development of the revolution in the world is defined by the poorest, who constitute the majority and who are the most disposed to rebel. Only so can the “colossal heap of rubbish” be swept away, part for part, and the communists correctly handle the relationship between the struggle for daily demands and the struggle for Power, understanding that the Power is the first and foremost demand of the Masses. Only so can the Workers and Peasant Alliance arise that is the guarantee for the hegemony of the proletariat in the Front for the democratic revolution and only so can the hegemony of the proletariat be maintained also in the socialist revolution. With this orientation we must organize the most consequent revolutionary class, the proletariat, in addition with the main revolutionary class in the oppressed countries, the peasants, and to form a strong unity front with all other revolutionary strata of the oppressed and exploited masses, the women, the intellectuals, the poor masses in the cities, the youth, the children and all other classes and strata of the People.
The proletariat can only conquest the Political Power through revolutionary violence, hence the main form of struggle is the armed struggle and the main form of organization is the revolutionary armed forces. Before the outbreak of a revolutionary war, all the struggles and organization should serve to prepare it, after its initiation, everything must serve its development until victory.
The objective conditions for developing People’s War is magnificent and all recent lessons of the armed confrontation between imperialism and the Peoples of the world confirms the validity of the military theory of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoists. That man is the decisive factor in war was proven once again in the sounding military defeat of the forces led by US-imperialism in Iraq and Afghanistan. The experiences of the National Resistance Front in Palestine shows that prolonged Guerrilla Warfare can be successfully sustained even in urban environment under the harshest of condition, as long as it counts on the support of the Masses and draws its strength from them. The experiences from the battle fields of Palestine or the Ukraine makes the strategists of the imperialists reverse their theory and now again they recognize the decisiveness of Land Warfare, and within it the Tunnel Warfare is given again more importance. Even the development of such weapons such as Drones, can, once the People’s Combatants learn who to handle them, become a useful part of the arsenal of the revolutionary Army.
All the stated makes us more convinced, more determined and more ambitious to serve the reunification of the communist of the world, with the perspective of the reconstitution of the Communist International. This struggle is long, complex and the constant attacks of the enemy make it even more difficult, but we communists exist precisely to solve the problems that the world proletarian revolution confront us with. Communist are superior to all difficulties and nothing or no one can stop us. We will prevail.
While many “anti-imperialist” discourses present parliamentary or reformist struggles as a solution, historical experience has shown that these methods do nothing more than intensify the exploitation of the peoples and legitimize exploitation. At this point, the construction of a revolutionary, class-based and international anti-imperialist struggle is an urgent necessity. It is necessary to organize the revolutionary violence and people’s wars of the oppressed peoples of the world and the international proletariat, without ever forgetting that counter-revolutionary violence is overcome by revolutionary violence. Parliamentary- or reformist opportunism serves to ensure the continuity of the existing system and make the oppressed rights even more vulnerable. Therefore, ideological clarity, political initiative and the development of national and international organizations to strengthen the foundations of the proletarian world revolution are not an option, but a necessity. The concrete equivalent of this necessity will become more important today with the strengthening of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties, the advancement of the reconstruction processes and the development of anti-imperialist international organizations).
The urgent task before us today is to give form to the International Anti-Imperialist Front, whose main aim is to raise the support for people’s wars to a higher level. In this sense, we reaffirm our rock-solid support for the Communist Party of Peru, the Communist Party of the Philippines, the TKP/ML and the struggle of our comrades of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who are fighting heroically today to defeat the “Operation Kagaar” (siege and annihilation operation) of the armed forces of the old reactionary Indian state, to remain on the path of people’s war and to hold high the red flag. We are confident that our comrades will crush the counterrevolutionary encirclement campaign and that people’s war will triumph in the end.
We call on all communist and revolutionaries of the world to unite with us under the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the unforgiving struggle against imperialism, revisionism and world reaction, in service of the world proletarian revolution.
LONG LIVE THE FIRST OF MAY!
DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM, REVISIONISM AND REACTION!
VICTORY BELONGS TO THE RESISTING AND FIGHTING INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT AND THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!
WE WILL WIN, THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT AND THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD WILL WIN!
VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE’S WARS!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!
LONG LIVE THE ICL!
LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM!
FORWARD IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST FRONT!
PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!