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T The communist tactics employed

by the PKK

Communist tactics have generally been implemented resolutely by
communist leaders and regarded as essential to the permanent instal-

lation of communism. To put it another way, all possible means have
been used for the sake of establishing a powerful communist state. It
was obvious that Stalin would never support the churches and that
Lenin would never allow a capitalist economy. But when circumstances
so demanded, a mask was donned with the very greatest expertise.

The same tactic is now being employed by the PKK. The PKK real-
ized that the way to establish a communist Kurdistan, the first stage
in the objective of a communist world state, was to draw closer to the
West. It is perfectly well aware that maintaining an explicitly communist
identity will provoke a reaction from the USA, and that will inevitably

end in failure for them.
The word that is constantly being reiterated in the scope of this

tactical change is "autonomy". The term, which is in fact totally con-
demned in the Manifesto, is now employed day in and day out. Mean-
while, references in the Manifesto to the destruction of the Turkish
Republic being essential for the establishment of a communist Kurdistan
are glossed over; the organization is well aware of the fact that the term
"communism" will never be openly supported by the West. Autonomy,
however, is a highly emotive word for the USA and Europe; it also
bestows on the PKK the entirely false impression of being "an organi-
zation striving for the liberation of the Kurdish people" in the eyes of

the West. It is expected that the West would consider this demand as
a requisite of democracy and would certainly support it.

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