Thanks John. Most is spot-on in my view. But your own perspective does not enable even a reasonable overall perspective.
You place Apu on a column of honour, but this is sadly incorrect - as are claims of his arising as MList. Yes they started there. But the PKKK under his leadership rapidly morphed into the most destructive anti-people and anti-MList parties - on a policy of individual assassinations directed left parties.. This is what you write: "Stalinism and its offshoot – Maoism – came to dominate the thinking among socialists… Arising from these groups and this orientation (i.e " a group of Kurdish students founded the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in 1978, led by then-student Abdullah Öcalan. Today Öcalan serves a life sentence for his courageous struggle, and he is widely respected as were other similar leaders in their day.” Reimann J; The Kurdish struggle and world revolution, Part 1: Turkey MARCH 28, 2026; at https://oaklandsocialist.com/2026/03/28/the-kurdish-struggle-and-world-revolution-part-1-turkey/ However Apu Ocalan was/is not ML-ist and I think you err in that and take an easier more convenient route. >From the start of his career Apu led the most enormous number of killings of >the left. Certainly hundreds, if not into the thousand mark. Exact “scores" >are tricky as the Turkish state were hunting and killing MLists at the same >time. While the PKK no doubt attacked the police and the army, this became >increaasingly difficult. The policy of individual assassinations of the MList >movement, including that of former Cmdes of the MLKP this took precedence over >other policy. His subsequent repetitive opportunisms included offers to Clinton - were rejected: "On October 13th, 1995, Öcalan sent a letter to US President Bill Clinton urging him to “exert his persuasive weight” on Turkey, and to assist in “stopping the massacre of a people.” In that letter, Öcalan also stressed that his party was “ideologically different from classical communist parties” and his party was: “not insisting on changing the frontiers of Turkey and were not for secession from that country.” The opportunism became fulfilled with his complete capitulation to Turkish state needs.” "On Ocalan’s call to disarm to the Kurdish national movement – republication and postscript on Iranian and Syrian Kurds”; March 4, 2026; at http://mlrg.online/current-events/on-ocalans-call-to-disarm-to-the-kurdish-national-movement-republication-and-postscript-on-iranian-and-syrian-kurds/ The latest episodes in the Turkish branch of the Kurdistanis, are described here. It contains also a short appendix reprising Ocalan’s career; and a post-script on the more recent developments in Syria. http://mlrg.online/current-events/on-ocalans-call-to-disarm-to-the-kurdish-national-movement-republication-and-postscript-on-iranian-and-syrian-kurds/ That also contains links to other quite extensive articles on the Kurds -> Part One:”Theses on Kurdistan – A Marxist-Leninist Framework, Part One“; at http://mlrg.online/history/theses-on-kurdistan-a-marxist-leninist-framework-part-one/ Part Two:”Theses on Kurdistan – A Marxist-Leninist Framework, Part Two“ http://mlrg.online/history/theses-on-kurdistan-a-marxist-leninist-framework-part-two/ You are right on your assertions about the CP Iran - the Tudeh. This rank organisation do that. But so did most of the Left. I am in the process of compeletnig view of this, but the work has been delayed by the complexity; and personal health. Cheers, H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41268): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41268 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118551936/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
