From: epetraki@.stern.nyu.edu (Emmanuel Petrakis)
Newsgroups: alt.news.macedonia
Subject: The Origins od VMRO
Date: 23 Jan 93 23:46:52 GMT
Organization: NYU Stern School of Business

The text of the resolution of he Communsit International on the
Macedonian Question, as published in the Bulgarian magazine
VREMENA in 1991 by historian Petko Boev (sp?).  (This has been
translated into English by Emmanuel Petrakis from the Greek
translation of the Bulgarian text that appeared in "Kathimerini"
on Sunday, Dece,ber 13, 1992, p. 8).  Perhaps a Bulgarian netter
should check the Bulgarian reference.  The COMINTERN resolution
has been in the Central Party Archives of the Central Committee
of the Soviet Communsit party since 1934.





Resolution on the Macedonian Question and VMRO (united)

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23/11/34 					25 February 1934

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Certified in the conference of the Political Secretariat

11 January 1934

Protocol 207



I. Under the conditions of growing international and class
conflicts, the immediate danger of new wars and the ripening of
the revolutionary crisis, macedonian national revolutionary
movement headed by VMRO plays the role of  an important
revolutionary factor and ally of the working class in its
struggle to destroy the domination of the bourgeoisie and of the
landowners in the three countries ruling Macedonia (Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia and Greece).



The division of Macedonia, that formed the foundation of the
agreement between Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece in their war
against Turkey (1912) and immediately resulted in friction that
caused a new war between Serbia, Greece and others against
Bulgaria (1913), in the post war period, appears to be the
permanent cause of the growing dispute and conflict between
these three countries for their domination all over Macedonia as
well as for access to the Aegean Sea.  On the other hand, the
big imperialist countries transformed Macedonia into a military
base during the imperialist world war and presently use the
macedonian question for strengthening their position in the
Balkans.  This way, Macedonia is one of the places of conflict
in the coming imperialist war.



The countries that dominate Macedonia follow a predatory
economic policy that drives the working classes to misery,
terrorizes and persecutes the population.  



The dominating nations of the three imperialist countries that
divided Macedonia support the persecution of the minorities in
their goal to negate the national peculiarities of the
macedonian people and to negate the existence of the macedonian
nation.  Greek chauvinism states that the original slavic
population in the Greek occupied part of Macedonia consists of
Greeks that became slavicized during the previous centuries and
who must "return" by force to the Greek civilization by
forbidding them to speak and be taught in their native tongue.



The Serb chauvinists, arguing on the basis of serbian idioms in
the language of the local macedonian population, declare that
population to be one of the "tribes" of the whole yugoslavian
nation and they "serbise" it by force.  Finally, the bulgarian
chauvinism, using the relation of the bulgarian and macedonian
languages, declares them Bulgarians and thus justifies the
occupationof the Petritsi area of Macedonia. and its predatory
policy against the whole of Macedonia.  Fighting against the
division and subjugation of the macedonian nation, against all
forms of national cultural, social and economic oppression, VMRO
(united) has to reveal the essence of all sophisms who refuse
Macedonians their nation's identity and to hinder the
proliferation of these sophisms in its circle.



The struggle for a united and independent macedonian republic of
the workers is not only an affair of the working masses of
Macedonia, but of all the working class and peasants under the
communist parties in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece.



II.  In its development and its actions, VMRO (united) has not
exhausted its capabilities for organizational control and
political direction of the national revolutionary movement and
the struggle of the workers in macedonia.



In Bulgaria, despite considerable progress, VMRO (united) delays
in influencing the ideology, falls behind the masses in their
activities while working in the circles of the macedonian
refugees, and does try hard enough to establish itself in the
Petritsi area.  In the greater, in terms of area and population,
Serbian part of macedonia, where the VMRO-affiliated
organizations were active and powerful, there was not enough
active and systematic work for the reformation of these
organizations and the restoration of the leadership relation
with them.



In the Greek part there is absolutely no effort.



Responsible for this condition are the communist parties,
without excepting the Bulgarian Communist party that basically
guides VMRO (united),  that underestimate the importance and
role of VMRO (united) as a national revolutionary organization
and have not been able to establish the necessary ties with it.



The Bulgarian Communist Party's direction of VMRO was
insufficient to transform it into a mass national revolutionary
organization, but did not assist it sufficiently to appear (?
e.p.), and the direction of the communist fractions in the first
level organizations of VMRO (united) was not efficient.   For a
long time the Yugoslavian and Greek Communist Party did not work
with VMRO (united).



The communist parties have to lend VMRO the necessary number of
macedonian members for work, to organize and direct the
communist fractions in the centers and in the provinces, without
using orders, and to supervise the adherence to the rules of an
underground operation and to explain to the parties the role of
VMRO (united), the national revolutionary movement, and to
simplify for the masses the macedonian national revolutionary
struggle.



III.  VMRO (united) has to become a mass organization of the
workers throughout Macedonia directing in their struggle towards
the national independence and unification against their
oppressors in the face of the bulgarian, serbian and greek
bourgeoisie, the landowners and their fascist governments.



VMRO (united) has to organize and struggle on a daily basis
against all and every type of national persecution, against
every legal discrimination, for the right of the mother tongue
in all national and social institutions, for the freedom of
schools, the publishing etc. in their mother tongue.  This
struggle against the national oppression has to be coordinated
closely with the struggle against the whole system of social
terrorism, the economic and social exploitation, the economic
burden, the colonization and the persecution of the macedonian
peasants, for the acquisition of the landowners' and state's
lands and its division among the peasants.  In this struggle,
the central slogan of VMRO (united) must be the right of a
nation for self determination until the separation and the
conquest of an independent and unified macedonian republic of
the workers.



Note:  It may be awkward, but this was the best i could do while
adhering to the Greek translation. (Emmanuel Petrakis)  



 

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