ICMLPO: Declaration of the Marxist-Leninist Parties of Latin America
By the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO/CIPOML) | July 2024 | Translated for the Red Phoenix by Camilo Lazo–
We, the Latin American parties of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO), held a productive meeting in which we analyzed the economic, political and social scenarios unfolding in the region; we evaluated our revolutionary political activity in each of our countries; and, we defined our activities for the immediate future:
Latin America is one of the regions in which exists the most intense poverty, social inequality, unemployment and underemployment and other manifestations resulting from capitalist exploitation and oppression. The forecasts of economic growth for this year (2.1%) are below the world average, which announces that these problems will persist and, in some cases, worsen.
The region is a victim of inter-imperialist disputes and of struggles to win niches for the investment of foreign capital, a phenomenon that mainly occurs between American imperialism, Chinese imperialism, and the imperialist countries of the European Union. All have encouraged bourgeois policies and factions that exert pressure in order to privilege or maintain the links with one or another power or capitalist bloc. The United States imperialism maintains, today, the predominance of investment capital in the region.
In recent years there has been a change in the correlation of forces policies in governments. The so-called “progressivism,” which is nothing more than a social democratic expression of the same bourgeoisie, has been displaced from government in some countries and those spaces occupied by the traditional right. In economic management, there is little difference between “progressives” and the traditional right. They are protected by neoliberal policies. At most, what differentiates them in some way is in the coverage of welfare and populist policies.
The growth of the right—a phenomenon which is also present on other continents—does not imply that all these forces are an expression of fascism. There is a range that goes from the liberal right to conservative, neoliberal, ultraconservative, fascist and anarcho-capitalist-libertarianism. The more reactionary, fascist right had expression in the Bolsonaro government in Brazil and continues to act there. In Argentina, Xavier Milei is a clear exponent of anarcho-libertarian-capitalism. In both countries, the struggle of the workers, the youth, women and the people in general provides an example of how these governments and regimes should be faced.
The workers of the city and the countryside, the youth and women of the popular sectors, the native peoples, the semi-proletariat are actors of important actions in the fight against the anti-popular policies of governments. Discontent is present in all of them due to the difficult living conditions, and expresses the desire for change. Latin America nests rebellious, dissatisfied peoples which have expressed themselves through combative popular uprisings.
Our parties are present in the struggle of workers, of youth, and in the towns and the villages. They strive to improve their ties with the social movement, to give political perspective to the fight for the material demands of the masses, and to work to spread the ideas of revolution and socialism. We are fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities that the organization of the revolution demands. We are aware of our limitations and we work to overcome them.
Our commitment is to the proletarian revolution and socialism. To those purposes we dedicate our best efforts.
Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil
Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist)
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist)
Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of Labor of the Dominican Republic
Quito, Ecuador. July 2024.