“Real” or “fake” as the attempted coup d’état in Turkey and subsequent repression by Erdogan’s government (democratically elected and as such recognized by all the imperialist powers) may have been, one thing is clear: once again the hard material facts of the world economic crisis are making themselves felt within the bourgeois ruling class, too. With different implications and consequences, in Great Britain and in Turkey (to limit ourselves to just a few of the dramatic events opening this summer of 2016), there have been clashes between bourgeois factions in serious difficulty as they try to face up to an economic crisis which, in their countries as elsewhere, risks becoming – and has to some extent already become - social and political.
Turkey’s recent diplomatic dances (the tug-of-war with Europe, the truly cynical business deal at the cost of the migrants, the breaks and then attempted reconciliations with Russia, Israel, Syria) reveal the uncertainty in which the country’s ruling class is floundering, in an international context equally dominated by growing instability: the endless wars in Iraq, Syria, Lybia and Central Africa; the internal fractures within Europe with the conflict in Ukraine and the breakaways and nationalistic tendencies; the repositioning of NATO to the east; an explosive social situation in many Latin American countries; the increasingly keen social tensions in the United States…
The impossibility for the ruling classes in different nations to deal with the crisis except by preparing (through the constant tracing and retracing of precarious alliances) a new inter-imperialist world conflict is, however, always accompanied by an intensification of anti-proletarian repression, open democratic dictatorship towards all those who attempt to defend their living and working conditions. Proletarians in Turkey, of whatever origin, like proletarians all over the world, will not only have to abandon any reactionary national prospects by breaking with their own ruling class and refusing to let themselves be harnessed to one bourgeois faction or the other. They must also turn again to posing the issue of power – as an objective to be reached – today the only possible means of defence from the attacks of capital, and preparing a decisive and final counter-attack for tomorrow.
But to prevent this objective from being a mere vain hope and turning into the umpteenth proletarian bloodbath, it is necessary and urgent to put down firm roots all over the world for the revolutionary party, arising out of a solid theoretical basis and grounded on a now century-old tradition and experience of struggle and organization. We, the International Communist Party, an extreme minority moving against the current, work towards this, in the conviction, born of facts, that this perspective is the only one able to prevent a new and devastating inter-imperialist massacre and put an end once and for all to the bloody agony of a mode of production – that of capital – which has now turned into mere destruction.
July 27, 2016
Recent articles on the economic and social situation in Turkey published in “il programma comunista”:
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“Turchia oggi (I)” / “Turkey today (I)”, no.1/2014
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“Turchia oggi (II)” / “Turkey today (II)”, no.3-4/2014
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“Dalla Turchia, un episodio di genuina lotta proletaria” /”From Turkey, an episode of genuine proletarian struggle”, no.4/2015
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“Turchia. Dopo l’ennesima strage” / “Turkey. After the umpteenth massacre”, no.6/2015
