Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s analysis of 29 June 1996
In the march to freedom, peoples societies, nations, in their most vital cause and work, the initial approach determines the whole outcome. If the style of approach, its content, its seriousness and the appropriateness of its effort, are scientifically settled in the conditions of time and space; Even if it starts with a person and a small group at the beginning, success comes. No, if the beginning is not in place, not scientifically correct, and if the style and the effort it requires are burdened with inadequacies, this work has been lost from the beginning. If you want to start with a hundred thousand people, if you want a nation, and the whole world to rebound in total, defeat is inevitable.
According to this definition, the PKK march must have an explanation. If those who initiate the PKK in their own personality are based on an initiation according to this definition, it improves the PKK’s victory, whether it be a person or a group. It is inevitable for the PKK to lose everything, even if it is an army, on the brink of victory, if it is not in accordance with the requirements. For example, even if he had a general secretary or, in a number of important missions, a few weak leaders, this party would go upside down, roll over, and the rest would be crushed. Trouble on its own, as seen in the history of these real-socialist country parties.
Peoples have a cause; there are cases of classes, nations, even individuals. These cases need their parties to make sense. Lawsuits are not without parties. One should also know the need for our party in this aspect. If I put up a case because I have a case, that is not enough. Especially in our age, every case requires the means of organizations or a class, and the case of a nation requires the means of solid parties. There is no chance of success in any case that is not based on a robust party as a tool. So the more holy you believe your cause is, the more holy it will mean your vehicle is. So you need to be a party. If you have one, you’ll call yourself a respectable, little success.
This is the simplest truth of our time. When developing the definition of a party, the need for such a tool must be taken into account. The party should be understood again; the basic vital interests of a person, of that class or of that nation are to be brought to a line under the name of politics.
What is a policy or party line? They are vital interests of the people. It means getting rid of colonialism, imperialism in the national liberation stage and breaking away from its internal reactionary connections. In a bit more detail, it expresses the program, prediction, and plan of the socialist order, if it wants to free itself from oppression and exploitation whether it is an oppressed, exploited class, or democracy of the people or class: this is the line.
Kurdistan and the PKK are the most organized and the biggest fighters in reality
So the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to the party is the line. What am I against, what do I want to do? You’re going to give the party your name – that’s not enough! And we need the line. Regardless of how accurate the line is, if it does not have its organization, there is absolutely no such thing as progressing, taking action. The righteousness of the line can only walk in an organized way and lead itself to success.
In this respect, an integral part of the definition of the party is organizing, without organizing, no case, no party; no line can go to success. Especially if this is a shredded society like Kurdistan, if its case is discredited, if it has no party, and its existing parties cannot go beyond being a simple agent and a means of crippling, there is no solid line and especially without a steel organization to be imposed on shredded mass-society ties. Without multi-disciplinary organizational ties, it is impossible to maintain the party. Of course, after not protecting this party, the case cannot save itself from corruption. In this sense, organization is everything in the reality of Kurdistan.
In Kurdistan, the PKK is the most organized, biggest warrior.
She is the best-organized person, the most powerful person.
The reality of PKK organization is the fact of leadership in this sense.
The PKK leadership has actually demonstrated its strength by organizing itself. It has made the organization that no one can create, on behalf of the class. It takes its power from this, what is this organization? It has embodied the Kurdish people and their cadres. Organization is the development of interdependence of mass and cadre bonds.
The PKK collected this in her own person. All enemy attacks, all internal and external reaction are hit and stretched, repulsed. Beware, the PKK, is not kept alive through weapons, financial incentives, these activities, as most of you think. Investigate, the most important aspect of your approach is to investigate it. Here, the organization’s strength is the greatest organising.
Organization is leadership, leadership is organization. It is intertwined. Of course, organizing has a relationship with effort. What are these organizational efforts? Consciousness is needed to organize. You will make consciousness and constant propaganda for the organization, you will bring consciousness to the people. You will carry it with propaganda, you will carry the consciousness of the small groups to the interests of the people constantly. You’re going to create public ties and instil a small group. If you address large communities with this agitation, there will be public ties. If you address narrow groups with propaganda, this will be staff ties, and so you channel your activity. You can’t organize unless you’re a great carrier of consciousness.
You will make many speeches to organize; such as an agitator, orator who appeals to a wider audience, or a propagandist who constantly infuses ideas into a small group, no matter how skilful you do the two, you are the owner of the greatest action. Whether it is legal, illegal, armed or mass-oriented, this work of organizing consciousness, its agitation; is essential. Agitation is a provocation, uprising abolition or organizing of the cadre, that is, constantly propagating it. This is the greatest action.
The masters say: “Organization itself is equal to action”. The person who develops such an organization creates the greatest action. As a matter of fact, after a solid organizational bond is formed, that organization spontaneously walks into action. Military, political, economic, social targets many. Because organized power does not stand empty, organized power is an established mechanism, it is like a bomb. Wherever he goes, he explodes and gets results.
If there is no successful action in a place, there are not enough organizations. If there is a mistake, there is a serious mistake in organizing. If action is dangerous in one place and leads to losses, the level of organizing there has never been considered. If there is solid action in place, there are solid organizations. If it brings tremendous success, there is a highly organized administration. They are so interconnected.
So, if all of this is true, they contain the definition of a party, if you have reached such a party understanding, if you understand participation as such, you have added yourself to the party on this basis with both understanding and efforts, and have made it into life itself, your whole march is the march of a party, the march of success. If you do not have some misfortune in every task you take, success will come. If you don’t have much success in your practice, know that your march is not based on the definition of the party; you are either a right-sectarian, a left-sectarian, an inadequacy of effort, or a suicidal departure. Therefore, it is inevitable for you to harm the environment with yourself and the organization against your will.
Organizing is collectivism
You can say, “I had good intentions, I worked hard, I worked hard”. But you didn’t work as a party. Are there people in the world working as much as our people? But is there any other people as poor and deprived of their rights as our people? Why is that? Because there is no party, no organization, no administration. It is the commander of the lines of other organizations. Therefore, he works for them and cannot manage himself. The fact that your walk is on behalf of others outweighs objectively. Unorganizedness is embedded in your brain.
Organizationalism is collectivism. You are bored with it, or rather, such collectivism is shattered. You want to be an individualist, you want to walk on your own. Because this is what you adopt as life, as philosophy, as practice, and you enjoy it. This is a denial of organization, a denial of collectivism. After all, this walk is a disaster. As a matter of fact, the main reason that you do not expect in your practices and which astonishes you is that you do not conduct yourself according to the definition of a real party and that you are not organized in the first place.
