ASALA - ARMENIAN SECRET ARMY FOR THE LIBERATION OF ARMENIA

THE POLITICAL PROGRAM:
AN OUTLINEARMENIAN SECRET ARMY FOR THE LIBERATION OF ARMENIA
The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) became known for the first time when it undertook its first military operation which was directed against an institution (The World Council of Churches) that serves the interests of international imperialism and its reactionary sponsors. This act and our declaration on its occasion demonstrated our understanding of the nature of our problem and the nature of our enemy and its supporters. It also shows our political line with relation to other struggles in the world. Our organization believes that it is impossible to overcome our problem, the struggle of the Armenian people, and the oppression of the proletariat unless we adopt revolutionary struggle. We are convinced that organized armed struggle is the principal means, and that it is impossible to achieve victory without the guidance of a revolutionary theory that defends the interests of the exploited classes from the enemy and its conspirators. At the same time the Armenian case will be brought to the surface of international events through our activities all over the world. The world today is witnessing the explosion of the revolution of oppressed nations and peoples who are achieving victory against imperialism, the expansion of the revolution of the proletariat against the capitalist mechanism, the gradual stability of socialist regimes as they widen their influence through progressive social and economic strides, and finally the intensifying crises for international imperialism. Our organization has as its enemy the Turkish regime which is a dependent of the reaction and imperialism and which represents a continuation of the previous regime whose reactionary chauvinistic ideology led to the occupation of our land and other oppressed peoples' lands leaving the defeated populations without their most basic national and human rights. Our organization is a part of the international revolutionary movement since our struggle against this enemy constitutes a part of the international revolution. The strengthening of relations between and coalitions among the peoples' movements and the revolutionary classes serves in widening the revolutionary front and in the coordination of blows to the exploitive and oppressive enemy. Every revolutionary movement has its unique conditions and experiences. For this reason mutual support and close relations among all international revolutionary movements will lead in the end to the success of the struggle through the sharing of the wisdom and experience of each revolutionary case. Every development in the opposition of the reaction is in the interests of liberty, independence, progress and socialism. The victory of any revolutionary movement in any part of the world is a victory for the universal revolution and a death blow to the exploitative and oppressive camp. Our organization has drafted its political line over a long period of preparation, organization, and a range of military operations directed against a number of Turkish ruling class interests which are connected to many international imperialist powers:1. The ASALA is a political organization that works through all means of struggle for the liberation of occupied Armenian territories from Turkish imperialism which is tied to local reactionary forces and sponsored by international imperialism.2. Our organization intends to realise the aspirations of the Armanian people who reject the authority of the oppressing classes coordinated by the chauvinist Turkish leadership.3. Our organization is directed by the axioms of scientific revolution.4. Without the exclusion of other means of struggle, our organization believes that revolutionary violence is the principal means and correct path in facing the exploitation, oppression and terror of Turkish colonialism.5. Our organization is a part of the international revolutionary movement, and as such we strive for the strengthening and expanding of coalitions within that movement because it is our conviction that the unity of revolutionaries throughout the world is a necessity for the victory of the exploited and oppressed masses.6. The liberation of occupied Armenian territories from Turkish fascist overlords will be followed by the unity of these territories with other Armenian territories which border them in the eventual creation of a democratic, socialist and-revolutionary system.7. The battlefield of our struggle is the diaspora of our people and any position where our enemies or its sponsors exist.8. We shall strive for the solidarity of the Soviet Union and socialist countries, and the recognition by them of the just character of our struggle, and their cooperation with our people in Soviet Armenia in the transformation of Soviet Armenia into a revolutionary base for the long people's war against Turkish colonialism, reactionary collaborators ands imperialism.
ARMENIAN SECRET ARMY FOR THE LIBERATION OF ARMENIA

Miguel Angel Nalpatian(1942).- Mar del Plata.- Buenos Aires.- Rca Argentina.-