THE PARTAI ACOMA
In the stormy and confused developments since Indonesia fought through independence from Dutch imperialism, Indonesian Stalinism has played its usual zigzagging role, diametrical shifts in accordance change in Kremlin foreign policy. Strong prestige of the October Revolution, dealing with human material which, in its vast majority, was politically inexperienced and hence ready to accept the Stalinist spellbinders' conflicting statements as revealed truth, the Kremlinite leadership soon had in the PK I a mass party that seemed ready to follow blindly its shifting directives.
But in real life-and-death struggles, like those in Indonesia during the stormy days of the war of liberation and the hardly less stormy period that has succeeded it, the most advanced sectors of the masses learn fast from their own experience. Instinctively, contrasting the political and social reality with the Stalinist "theory," various groups and currents have formed, seeking with sound class instinct a true revolutionary line.
One of these currents was the "Communist Youth Army,
• FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CY I (Acoma)," founded June 10th 1946. In a recent • * document, it recalls :
With astonishing rapidity the names of Marx and
Lenin conquered their place in the thoughts of the people of this country and suddenly became very popular in the struggle. [...]
[ But | the enemies of Marxism and Leninism also to cry: "Long live Marx and
Marxism and Leninism were used [...] in order to cheat and distort the thoughts of the vanguard.
watchmen of imperialism these usurpers of the August Revolution, who offered themin all kinds of ways to the colonial oppressors, at the same time of being the only group entitled to use the names of Marx and Lenin. Under
"Marx and Lenin" they succeeded in corrupting the mass of the people, in disarming the movement of the people, in order to make them give back all the factories, mines, and plantations
Linggardjati, Renville, preceding the K MB, MSA, and other agreements which injured the freedom of the republic and the people.
In view of the need of the worker and farmer masses
69 for a genuine revolutionary leadership which would hold to the original direction of the popular revolution during the terror of imperialist agents who camouflaged themselves with the names of Marx and Lenin as socialists and communists, but who despicably and cruelly persecuted, kidnapped, and killed their revolutionary opponents, the CY L, Communist Youth Army (Acoma)
was created on June 10th 1946.
After many develøpments and vicissitudes, the CYL on August 8th 1952 published a founding resolution and constituted itself as a party, the Angkatan Communis Indonesia (Indonesian Communist Group of Struggle ), firmly adding to it the old and honored abbreviation "ACOMA '
Learning from its day-by-day struggles, the Angkatan Communis Indonesia has pulled farther and farther away from such false Stalinist theories as revolution by class stages and the "peaceful" "parliamentary" paths to socialism, and fought ever more strongly against bureaucratism. Some weeks ago its Comite Purat ( Central Committee ) sent its programme and other important documents, for fraternal under study.
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