Intro to messages to PCP
on 10th anniversary of P.W.:
The Committee
of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement issued a statement
on the 10th anniversary of the launching of the people's war, and
a number of parties and organisations did so as well. Following
are those messages of support to the PCP that so far have reached
our hands and been translated.
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Order of messages:
in alphabetical order by name of group, as in Dec (tho not all are
listed in Dec), with Rim first, and NCP-cc last (since it is not
exactly a message to pcp) and perhaps typographically or otherwise
slightly distinct from others in section (maybe -- somewhat up to
you).
RIM
Ceylon
CP
Committee
for a RCPAustralia
Committee
of Propa and Agit etc Afg.
Committee
of Rev In'ls austrlaia
Communist
Org of Colombia
(Communist
Party of Spain -- still to come....)
NCP-COC
ORCA
Proletarian
Party Purba Bangla
Revolutionary
Communist Group Colombia
RCP,
USA
UIC
ncp-cc
Dear comrades,
We take this
opportunity to wish the Central Committee of the PCP, the proletariat
and the oppressed people of Peru all strength and success in the
glorious people's war you are waging in the face of mounting life-and-death
challenges.
We are aware that the people's war you are waging has arrived at
a most decisive conjuncture. The very success of the revolutionary
war, which you have been waging for over a decade, and which has
already liberated two thirds of the country, is rapidly bringing
about the total collapse of the neocolonial regime in your country,
making it both possible and necessary to capture nation-wide state
power and establish the People's Republic of Peru.
In the face of the victorious forward march of the people's war,
U.S. imperialism is taking concrete steps to commit military aggression
against Peru so as to drown the revolution in a river of blood.
U.S. imperialism, along with the rest of the imperialist powers,
simply will not allow the people's revolution to continue to establish
and expand the liberated red base areas under the New Democratic
state power of the people any further. This is because the development
of the people's war in your country has already had, and will continue
to have, the most decisive impact on the development of the world
proletarian socialist revolution, which can and will spell the doom
of world imperialism.
As a founding member of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement,
the PCP today, under the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and guided
by Chairman Gonzalo, is playing a most crucial historical role in
the current world conjuncture.
Following the loss of Red China, the PCP mounted the stage of world
history with exemplary proletarian courage and determination on
behalf of the international proletariat by beginning the people's
war in your country on March 17th, 1980, thereby raising high the
invincible banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, through the thunder
of revolutionary war itself. This thunder of the people's war echoing
from the peaks of the mighty Andean mountains has spread hope, joy,
inspiration and courage to revolutionaries across the world. It
has shattered the vile schemes of world imperialism and international
revisionism in their concerted effort to distort and bury the immortal
revolutionary legacy and the living critical scientific essence
of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Through the blood of tens of thousands
of revolutionary martyrs, the people's war in your country provides
living testimony to the invincible truth and all-conquering power
of the science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
At the same time, the people's war in your country continues to
provide many crucial revolutionary lessons theoretically and practically
to the international proletariat and revolutionaries across the
world in mastering, applying and advancing the science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Our party is making a serious study of the historical experience
of the people's war in your country as part of our preparations
to develop the line and path of the revolutionary armed seizure
of power in our country.
Brothers and sisters of Peru, your heroic struggle and sacrifice
is shining the path towards our goal of communism. You stand in
the forefront of the struggle of our class, the international proletariat,
in accomplishing the historic mission of destroying world imperialism
and ushering in the bright new world of communism.
Our country too is undergoing a most profound revolutionary crisis,
and our people are accumulating crucial experience in waging war
against imperialism and the neocolonial state. Based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
and drawing from the rich lessons and experiences of the revolution
in your country and worldwide, we are confident that we can develop
the correct political and organisational line and step forward to
accomplish our revolutionary internationalist tasks in this most
momentous period in history. In unity with the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement, our party is making efforts to rally the anti-imperialist
progressive forces in our country with the aim of exposing and opposing
U.S. imperialist aggression and spreading the lessons and experience
of the revolutionary war in your country to the broad masses.
As Mao said, "The path is tortuous, but the future is bright. Nothing
is impossible if you dare to scale the heights." Your struggle today
represents and concentrates the glorious path and future of the
world proletarian revolution! The dawning of the new world is affirmed
by your heroism, by your blood and sacrifice! In unity with the
international proletariat and the oppressed people of the world,
guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and led by Chairman Gonzalo and
the PCP, the proletariat and the people of Peru will surely meet
the deadly challenges ahead, continue to develop revolutionary strength
and experience, defeat the vile schemes of world imperialism and
go on to establish the People's Republic of Peru in the service
of the world revolution.
"Tis the final
conflict, let each stand in his place, The
international working class shall be the human race."
25 September
1990
The Committee
for a Revolutionary Communist Party in Australia sends fraternal
greetings to the Communist Party of Peru to mark the 10th anniversary
of the launching of the people's war in Peru. Peru is the centre
of the world revolutionary movement. The people's war in Peru, under
the leadership of the line of the Communist Party of Peru Chairman
Gonzalo, is of worldwide significance to the people of the world
in their struggle for communism, and is another death blow to the
imperialist system.
The struggle of the PCP is a beacon shining through the fog of imperialist
lies and distortion that "communism is dead" and is an inspiration
to comrades who may, temporarily, face difficulties.
The Communist Party of Peru's unquenchable determination to fight
to the end, apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete situation
in Peru, to identify themselves with the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement and the worldwide struggle for communism, urges us to redouble
our efforts to carry the message of their struggle to the four corners
of Australia.
Long Live
the Armed Struggle!
Glory to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Ten years
ago, on May 17th, 1980, the heroic people of Peru launched an armed
struggle against the reactionary forces of Peru. The struggle that
was prepared for and led by the Communist Party of Peru opened a
new chapter in the history of the international proletariat and
oppressed people around the world. Despite the twists and turns
in the people's war, and despite the atrocities and crimes that
are committed by U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, the Communist
Party of Peru has led the people's war victoriously for a decade.
As the phony communism of Soviet social imperialism and Chinese
revisionism dies, the red banner of genuine communism is raised
and hoisted up high on the peaks of the Andes. As the genuine sons
and daughters of the Peruvian people fan the heat of revolutionary
armed struggle deep into the valleys and cities of Peru, the Yankee
leadership organises to suppress the people's war in the name of
the "War on Drugs". The "War on Drugs" is nothing but a sham pretext
to cover up U.S. aggression against the people. The hypocritical
leaders of the U.S., who foster, prop up and support the ring-leaders
of drug cartels as their political surrogates, organised a summit
with their Latin American counterparts earlier this year. George
Bush, whose connection with Noriega and other drug lords has a long
history, approved a $35 million increase in military aid to the
Peruvian government. The aid is used to send American troops, Green
Berets, to Peru's Upper Huallaga River Valley in order to set up
a new U.S. military base. As the people's war in Peru enters into
a new stage, the Bush administration is planning to ask the U.S.
Congress for another $35 million aid in 1991. All this U.S. military
aid, which will amount to approximately $100 million by the end
of 1991, will be spent on military bases, guns and attack planes.
It is obvious that the imperialists' "War on Drugs" is a war on
the revolutionary people.
The U.S. support for the Islamic parties of Afghanistan, which are
heavily involved in smuggling drugs from the border regions of Afghanistan
and Pakistan, is another example of the U.S. "War on Drugs". Since
the Islamic parties carry out U.S. policy and safeguard the interests
of the Western imperialists in the region, the U.S. remains a faithful
supporter of the Islamic parties. Heavy involvement of the Islamic
parties with the Pakistani drug lords is ignored by the policy makers.
Truckloads of heroin smuggled by the Islamic parties, in return
for the arms delivered to the Islamic parties through CIA channels,
is overlooked by the U.S. authorities. Fostering, propping up and
supporting the Islamic parties of Afghanistan, which are the major
drug traffickers in the region, is not war on drugs. Rather, it
is war on the people - war on the revolutionary people who oppose
the Islamic parties just as much as they do the Soviet puppet regime.
Thus, the demagogic slogan of "War on Drugs" cannot deceive the
revolutionary people of Afghanistan. In the case of Latin America
and Peru, it is clearly understood that the "War on Drugs" is war
on the people of Latin America. It is a reactionary war against
the revolutionary war of the Peruvian people.
The people's war in Peru is the war of all oppressed people against
imperialism and reaction. The conscious revolutionary forces cannot
and will not tolerate the U.S. aggression against the Peruvian comrades.
The PAC (MLM), as a part of the Maoist movement of Afghanistan,
strongly condemns the U.S. intervention in Peru. We demand an unconditional
withdrawal of American troops from Peru, and demand that the Yankee
imperialists stop their murderous moves against the Peruvian people
once and for all.
Victory to
the People's War in Peru!
Down with
the U.S. Intervention in Peru!
Long Live
the Communist Party of Peru!
17 May 1990
We send our
greetings and congratulations in honour of the 10th anniversary
of your launching people's war in Peru on May 17th 1980. In doing
so we aim to defend firmly the revolutionary science of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
and link the advances that your party has led in the last ten years
in fighting the people's war in Peru with our worldwide struggle
against imperialism and reaction.
Even though there are victories still to be won by the oppressed
of Peru, progress made by your party and the class it stands for
mean that defeat stares in the face of the forces of imperialism
and reaction in Peru. Your party has shown the world that a decisive
break can be made with imperialist domination through mobilising
the masses in a people's war and waging a New Democratic Revolution,
overturning the old state powers, the old social system preparing
to make way for the blooming of a new society in a way only last
seen in revolutionary China. The people's war in Peru is the sharpest
expression today of the worldwide struggle to create a world free
of class distinctions and oppression, and the armed struggle your
party is leading is a massive material force on the side of, and
as part of, this struggle. Your party in fighting ten years of people's
war has illuminated the invincible truth of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
As a part of the international communist movement, we in Australia
compare ourselves to you who ten years ago launched forward on your
historic task because we also are committed to treading the same
path of your resolute fighters who dare to create the future. We
often turn to the part of the Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement where it says, "...if one's line is correct, even if one
has not a single soldier at first there will be soldiers and even
if there is no political power, power will be gained. This is borne
out by the historical experience of the international communist
movement since the time of Marx." This reminds us that you like
ourselves once faced the tasks we now confront and are determined
to overcome as we fight ahead for the forces necessary to end Australian
imperialism and all it stands for. Your struggle in Peru and especially
the events of May 17th are a concentrated demonstration of the truth
which makes us strive even more toward our responsibilities in Australia
and contribute to the development of world revolution.
Our task of building a genuine Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party is
inseparable from our support for the people's war in Peru and is
part of ending all imperialism worldwide. Our proletarian internationalism
isn't simply a unity of workers against all the oppressive conditions
in oppressed countries but reflects the fact that we are part of
a single class worldwide facing a world system of imperialism where
we are all charged with the duty of our class of liberating all
of humanity. Political preparation and organising forces for revolution
is our task in Australia where nothing short of revolution is urgently
needed, as it is in Peru. We are part, as the Declaration of the
RIM says, of "the strategic alliance between the revolutionary proletarian
movement in the advanced countries and the national-democratic revolutions
in the oppressed countries." Revolution in Peru belongs to the international
proletariat, as does revolution in Australia. The oppressed of Peru
can't be free if exploiting and oppressing imperialist countries
like Australia are left to continue their domination in the world.
We do not just aim to eliminate its control from certain areas of
the world, because Peru and other countries oppressed by imperialism
cannot be truly free if the foundations of imperialism are left
intact, but while it is true the Australian monopoly capitalists
aren't one of the major imperialists directly exploiting Peru, they
have gone on the political, economic and diplomatic offensive in
South America, and as a very close ally of the U.S., are likely
to stand right beside U.S. intervention in Peru. Australia is going
through a period of chauvinist resurgence creating new and enforcing
old relationships and imperialist order of the kind the U.S.A. enforces
in Peru. To fully contribute to support for the revolution in Peru
and highlight the launching of people's war in Peru, we must at
the same time fight very hard to bring down Australian imperialism.
We have a lot to learn and a long way to go but those fighters who
launched out on May 17th in Peru remind us we can do it and we can
win. n
The people's
war in Peru which began ten years ago, on the 17th of May 1980,
is today advancing victoriously under the leadership of the Maoist
Communist Party of Peru, a participating party of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement. This heroic deed took place "in the very
bowels of your centuries-old, unbearable poverty and burning rebellion
-- hope was unfurled, defiant, calling out, in the concrete form
of gunfire -- the armed struggle. A handful of sons and daughters
of our fatherland, flesh of your flesh, dared to take up arms to
overthrow the old order of exploitation and create a new world that
will truly be for the people, where up until now there has only
been misery and growing oppression"... "Thus, everything is growing
out of the barrel of a gun, the armed struggle is giving rise to
things that are new and serve the people and destroying everything
old and reactionary."
The Peruvian revolution, the people's war, not only serves the Peruvian
people, but also the world proletarian revolution and in this sense
it is a light of revolutionary hope, encouragement and optimism
for all the world's oppressed. In these times when the imperialists
and reactionaries are shouting that "communism is dead", spreading
scepticism, surrender, capitulation and conciliation, the people's
war in Peru fully demonstrates the shining vitality of authentic
communism and the universal validity of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
the only theory that guarantees the triumph of the liberation of
the class and the people. The people's war in Peru shows that it
is revisionism that has failed!
The surging people's war in Peru gives concrete proof of the correctness
of Chairman Mao's guidance: to make revolution, there must be a
Maoist party, the most advanced organisation of the proletariat;
a guerrilla army, the main mass organisation, and a united front
of the revolutionary classes, tools with which to carry out the
democratic revolution to overthrow the exploitation and oppression
of imperialism and bureaucrat capital and the continuing existence
of semifeudalism; and a people's war whose essence is the building
of revolutionary base areas.
The people's war in Peru also shows the crucial importance of focusing
the whole party on "one single idea": the omnipotence of revolutionary
warfare! Courage, combativity, fighting spirit and daring are all
products of a correct ideological stand centred on the orientation
given by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism: Revolutionary violence, violent
revolution, is the only way to win political power and transform
the world. In the case of the nations oppressed by imperialism,
this principle takes the form of people's war, to culminate the
democratic revolution, advance to socialism and keep going towards
communism by means of several cultural revolutions under the dictatorship
of the proletariat.
Today, in 1990, the sinister plans of all the imperialists, especially
the U.S., in collusion with the Peruvian and other Latin American
ruling classes, are taking aim at the revolution in Peru. The U.S.,
with its "war on drugs" strategy, means to fight the people's war
in Peru by means of an invasion. That is what they are now preparing,
wiping out any possibility of people's uprisings in Latin America,
and even of opposition to the regimes in power. Colombia is an example
of what the imperialists and the ruling classes are ready to do
to prevent popular and revolutionary movements. With blood, steel
and "political negotiations" they are backing down the people's
movements!
While in Colombia the reactionary classes unleash brutal white terror,
while the guerrilla movements here give themselves up for a bowl
of beans -- legality and a few votes -- in Peru the people are advancing
in the building of a New Democratic Republic, burying the rotten
old Peruvian state as they go. These are the two poles of a single
truth: political power is born out of the barrel of a gun, and not
from votes! Those who take up arms must continue on to communism
and never give up or bury their weapons!
It is most urgent to denounce the imperialists' plots, their preparations
to invade Peru to try and smash the people's war. We must support
that war and prepare to stop the Yankee offensive in Latin America.
On this occasion marking ten years of heroic deeds, the Communist
Organisation of Colombia/Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (OCC/MLM) salutes
the Communist Party of Peru and its Chairman, Comrade Gonzalo, its
men and women Party comrades and all its fighters. We give homage
to the heroic fighters and comrades who have given their lives and
with their blood sown the seeds of the Peruvian people's emancipation.
Long Live
Maoism!
Long Live
the Communist Party of Peru!
Support the
People's War in Peru!
Long Live
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!
17 May 1990
It has been
ten years since the Communist Party of Peru, now truly glorious,
assumed its role of heroic combatant and unleashed the great storm
of the revolution. Consistently upholding, defending and applying
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and concretising it in Gonzalo Thought,
today that small spark has been transformed, through the work of
guns, into a roaring bonfire lighting up the world with the example
of its liberating action.
The class struggle, international action and the struggles of the
proletariat and peasants allowed Marxism to strike deep roots in
Peru, bearing fruit, the Communist Party of Peru, first with J.
Carlos Mariategui and today with Chairman Gonzalo.
Centuries of poverty, suffering and exploitation began to give way
May 17th 1980 with the launching of the people's war. Guerrilla
fighters, guns in hand, began to open a new road from the Andes
to the sea, unfolding thousands of actions that have splashed red
all over Peru, forging the base areas which now shine openly in
the countryside, in the light of day.
The People's Guerrilla Army has been tempered in the course of hard-fought,
fierce battles, in constant combat with no quarter against the Army,
the police and the vigilantes of the reaction who have tried to
set sections of the people against each other, and today against
the forces of Yankee imperialism as well, developing the New Democratic
revolution, destroying imperialist domination, semifeudalism and
bureaucrat capitalism and bringing into being the new state of the
workers, peasants and progressive people, the People's New Democratic
Republic.
These ten years of people's war are showing the world's proletariat
and masses that the rights of the people can be won and defended
only by force of arms, and that imperialism and its flunkies will
stop at nothing to defend the old, rotten reactionary state and
the outmoded, decrepit world of which they are lord and master:
massacres, genocide, disappearances, mass detentions and imprisonment,
hunger and misery. We can expect nothing from this world of horrors.
Under the pretext of fighting narcotics traffic, Yankee imperialism
is hastening to intervene directly in Peru. Its only objective is
to fight the people's war. This manoeuvre against the revolution
has been joined by the Spanish imperialist state and its current
government through the Trilateral pact, in this way once again revealing
their true nature to the proletariat and masses of people in the
Spanish state.
The press in the service of the state and the government, especially
El Pais, have been dedicating themselves lately to spreading slander
against the people's war in Peru, echoing the psychological warfare
campaign waged by the Peruvian Army, claiming that the PCP "have
temporarily laid down their arms" and that "they are divided on
the question of the armed struggle". The reactionaries cannot understand
that when the proletariat takes up arms, under the leadership of
its party, following Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, it will never put
them down until winning victory. What is the purpose of such campaigns?
World reaction grasps the significance of the Peruvian revolution,
it knows the living example of the people's war is knocking down
their reactionary counteroffensive against the ideology of the proletariat
and its most lofty aspirations, a counteroffensive involving the
converging participation of revisionism, imperialism and all churches
and religions, and they are not about to give in to this revolution.
We communists of the Spanish state are proud to count the Communist
Party of Peru amongst our comrades; the teachings of Chairman Gonzalo
and the example he has given us of heroic dedication to the proletariat
and masses serve as our guide to take up the tasks that history
and the class have set before us. From here, I would like to express
to you, in my own name and in the name of the Communist Party of
Spain, our firm and unshakable support. We uphold the banner "the
Peruvian Revolution is Our Revolution", and just as we have pledged
our lives to the Party and the revolution in Spain we also express
our resolution to do the same in defence of the Peruvian revolution
if it were necessary to do so.
Long Live
the 10th Anniversary of the People's War in Peru!
Long Live
the Communist Party of Peru and Its Leadership, Chairman Gonzalo!
Uphold, Defend
and Apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism!
May 1990
Dear Comrades,
On behalf of the revolutionary proletariat and the broad masses
of people in Turkey, we are proud to hail the people's war in Peru
and to express our revolutionary joy and greetings to your Party
and its Chairman Comrade Gonzalo who for a decade has been leading
the heroic sons and daughters of our class and the oppressed masses
in Peru in a resounding revolutionary war from victory to victory.
Ten years after its launching, the people's war in Peru stands as
formidable testimony to the strength and vitality of our class's
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology and to the inexhaustible creative
fighting power and collective wisdom of the oppressed masses armed
with and led by the ideology of the international proletariat.
On 17th May 1980, the first salvoes bursting from the gunbarrels
of your handful of heroic fighters was the declaration of war by
the oppressed in Peru on the reactionary Peruvian state and the
imperialist world order that backs it. Firmly upholding Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
ideology, your Party "put daring above everything and boldly aroused
the masses", as Mao taught our class. In ten years of revolutionary
warfare filled with brilliant victories and inspiring sacrifices,
the proletariat and masses of people in Peru stand tall and proud
-- they are full of revolutionary exuberance and optimism and confident
of their ability to put a decisive end to the vicious rule of imperialism,
bureaucrat capitalism and feudalism, in the service of the world
proletarian revolution. These are most heart-lifting, inspiring
achievements for our class and the oppressed all over the world.
The oppressed masses of Peru, who had been treated as "nothing"
by the reactionary ruling class in Peru and by the imperialists
East and West, are now in a position to be able to dictate to these
reactionaries that "they shall be all"!
Under the leadership of your Party and in the furnace of people's
war, the People's Guerrilla Army has developed by leaps and bounds
and today fields a mighty force of tens of thousands of warriors
who bit by bit are driving the reactionary armed forces of the state
out of the countryside and increasingly surrounding them near Lima.
Even there their rule can no longer escape being the target of the
revolution, because the military and political power of the revolution
has spread deep roots and developed in the countryside, conquering
the mighty Andes, descending onto the plains and into the valleys,
and rallying around the red flag millions who already have their
eyes and minds fixed on the strategic offensive. The dawn has already
risen for the People's Republic of Peru, which is exercising its
own political power in a number of areas in the Peruvian countryside.
Our teacher Mao said, "So long as there are people under the leadership
of the communist party every miracle is possible." The victorious
unfolding of the people's war in Peru underscores not only your
Party's genuine and resolute defence and practice of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
ideology and science but also that the final countrywide seizure
of power that will hoist the red flag of world proletarian revolution
all over Peru is indeed no longer just a distant possibility. Your
Party ideologically, politically and militarily "dared to struggle
and dared to win", it fully seized upon the truth that "among all
things, people are the most precious" and it drew the lesson from
Mao's teaching that "without a people's army the people have nothing".
Hence we are confident that the people of Peru "have nothing" to
doubt about the final victory of the people's war in Peru, because
they have not only a mighty revolutionary army but also an experienced
genuine Maoist Communist Party, the PCP, leading them and their
revolutionary army inexorably towards the complete defeat of their
oppressors.
The TKP/ML Maoist Party Centre has learned and continues to learn
from the invaluable experiences of the struggles and achievements
of your Party and the people's war it is leading, in order to carry
out the strategy of people's war in Turkey of encircling the cities
from the countryside, as part of the world proletarian revolution.
We are united by our common cause of achieving worldwide communism
and our common Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology, and we are also
proud to be united with your Party within the ranks of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement, which was formed to heighten the growing
strength and ability of the Maoist parties and organisations to
achieve our common goal. The advance of the people's war in Peru
under the leadership of your Party and its Chairman Gonzalo also
has made crucial contributions to the fighting unity of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement.
While the advances of the people's war in Peru bring joy to the
world's oppressed, they threaten the imperialists and all the world's
reactionaries. The U.S. imperialists in particular have gone on
record for their preparations to carry out a major aggression against
the Maoist revolution in Peru and the mortal threat it poses to
their imperialist interests in Latin America and beyond. Knowing
the vicious, criminal nature of the U.S. imperialists, we believe
that they will step up their already thinly disguised political,
economic and military intervention in Peru in a major way, possibly
even by a full-scale counter-insurgency war deploying Yankee troops
against the people's war. For they fear the armed forces of the
reactionary Peruvian state will not hold out for long against the
might of your people's war.
In such a case, our Party will carry out its tasks in an all-round
way to expose and fight the renewed criminal aggression of our common
enemy, the imperialists, and the U.S. imperialists in particular,
in order to stand more firmly shoulder to shoulder with our comrades
in Peru and to foil the enemy's desperate aggression against the
shining trench of world proletarian revolution in Peru.
Again, we are confident that the Yankee and other imperialists,
by launching such a criminal attack, will only harvest a bitter,
mortal defeat at the hands of the heroic masses of Peru led by your
Party. In the final analysis, they will only provide an opportunity
for the people and the proletariat of Peru to make even bigger contributions
under the leadership of your Party and its Chairman Gonzalo to the
cause of world proletarian revolution. n
Today, the
revolutionary communists worldwide are facing a serious attack from
various reactionary forces and rightist opportunist elements. Especially
citing the example of the open declaration of capitalism in the
so-called socialist countries of Eastern Europe, bourgeois-imperialist
forces are making a huge noise, saying Marxism has failed. In such
a situation, the communists throughout the world have to shoulder
the serious responsibility of holding high the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Mao
Tsetung Thought by firmly leading the people in the struggle against
imperialism on a world scale and domestic reaction in each country,
exposing all sorts of revisionist elements.
In the context when communists are not in possession of state power
in any country in the world since the counter-revolution in China
that occurred with the death of Chairman Mao Tsetung, it is very
necessary for the revolutionary communists to march ahead in leading
the international communist movement in a planned way. The formation
of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) is an encouraging
step in this line, and our party heartily supports the process of
further strengthening it and extending its contacts further.
Comrades: When the reactionaries and right opportunists worldwide
are intensifying attacks on the revolutionary communists, the people's
war in Peru, which has been firmly forging ahead under the leadership
of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), has provided a new source
of inspiration. Our Party firmly supports the revolutionary movement
in Peru and extends its revolutionary greetings to the heroic Peruvian
revolutionaries. Also, while taking lessons from this revolutionary
movement, we promise to take steps in concretely preparing for New
Democratic Revolution in the concrete conditions of our own country.
Today, as the Peruvian revolutionary war is marching towards victory
day after day, the danger of imperialist intervention against the
revolution has also been increasing. By exposing and resisting these
deplorable designs of American imperialism, our Party promises to
fulfill its proletarian internationalist duty towards the Communist
Party of Peru and the revolutionary Peruvian people. In this very
context, the Party heartily supports the "Yankee Go Home!" campaign
called by RIM, and decides to take full initiative in spreading
this campaign, especially in Nepal and India.
Long Live
Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought!
Long Live
Proletarian Internationalism!
Long Live
the People's War in Peru!
Down with
American Imperialism!
Yankee Go
Home!
October 1990
Comrades!
On the occasion
of the 10th anniversary of the people's war in Peru, the Organisation
of Revolutionary Communists of Afghanistan (ORCA) sends its comradely
salutes and greetings to the leaders and members of the Communist
Party of Peru. Your success in waging and developing ten years of
people's war inspires the Maoist forces worldwide -- including our
organisation -- and it is a source of hope. This has been achieved
with the dear blood of thousands of the people's sons and daughters.
The Position Document of our organisation states on this question:
"The struggles of the peoples of Latin America in the past years
occupy an important place in the struggle of the oppressed peoples
of the world. The revolutionary war of the people of Peru, under
the leadership of the (Maoist) communist party of that country,
which is under the leadership of Comrade Gonzalo, has been going
on for a decade and has liberated a quarter of the country from
the claws of the imperialists and reactionaries. It is a source
of inspiration for the peoples of all other countries, and the revolutionaries
of the world long for its complete victory."
The savage intervention of the U.S. imperialists in South and Central
America is not a war on drugs, it is a war on the people. As the
fundamental goal of this intervention is to suppress the people's
war in Peru, the resistance of the people of Peru will, in turn,
stand at the forefront of the resistance of the peoples of the region.
Our Position Document states on this question: "While U.S. imperialism
has turned parts of South and Central America into a parade ground
for its troops and has occupied Panama and sent forces into Colombia,
Bolivia and Peru, it is very likely that the north of South America
and parts of Central America will be turned into a battleground
of the peoples against U.S. imperialism's rapacious activity. In
this situation, the struggle of the people of Peru will certainly
have a role of the highest importance, for the conscious and revolutionary
proletarian leadership in that country has the potential to organise
the people's war in Peru in such a way that it will stand at the
fore of the wars of resistance of the other peoples of the region."
Comrades!
The Organisation of Revolutionary Communists of Afghanistan, as
a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organisation, approves the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
political-ideological line of the Communist Party of Peru and admires
your vanguard role in hoisting the flag of Maoism. Our Position
Document states on this question: "The term Maoism' was used for
the first time by the Communist Party of Peru. This party in its
numerous documents published since the formation of RIM have used
the term Maoism'." We are looking for ways to establish closer
relationships with you comrades and together to lay the grounds
for raising our present level of ideological and political unity.
From our point of view, this should be done on the basis of proletarian
internationalism and by relying on the line put forward in the Declaration
of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, through the common
struggle of all the participants of our movement and in close links
with its Committee. "...The ideological-political line presented
in the Declaration of RIM is a solid basis for carrying forward
the reunification of the international communist movement and is
the pivot around which we can advance the regrouping of the genuine
communist forces worldwide toward the formation of the new communist
international." (from the Position Document of ORCA)
Comrades!
Afghanistan is a country under the domination of the social-imperialists,
the imperialists and different kinds of reactionaries. Like Peru,
it is a semi-(neo-)colonial, semifeudal country. For almost ten
years a bloody war of resistance has been waged against the Soviet
social-imperialists. Our people have paid dearly for this war --
thousands of villages and towns have been totally destroyed; one
third of the population of the country have become refugees, scattered
in 25 countries on five continents; one and a half million people
have died, thousands are crippled, and the best sons and daughters
of the people have become its victims. Yet this heroic resistance
did not lead our people towards the destruction of the reactionary
semi-(neo-)colonial semifeudal system, towards New Democratic Revolution.
Even though "the aggressor army of social imperialism has withdrawn
from the country and the occupation of Afghanistan by the social-imperialist
invaders has ended, the military and administrative rule of its
ally, the Kabul regime, the regime of the bureaucrat comprador bourgeoisie
and the feudals, is still in power. Further, feudal and comprador
bourgeois classes which are dependent on Western imperialism rule
over a great part of the countryside and some small cities." (From
the Position Document of ORCA)
For a number of reasons, the war of resistance of the people of
Afghanistan did not advance as a stage of protracted people's war
against social-imperialism, imperialism and reaction. In other words,
it did not advance as a stage of the New Democratic Revolution in
the country. One major reason for this failure was that a Maoist
communist party did not exist in Afghanistan -- a shortcoming still
to be solved. Our organisation is striving seriously to resolve
this problem as soon as possible and, in the most principled way,
to form the vanguard proletarian party of Afghanistan. We think
this is the most fundamental step to be taken in preparation for
initiating the people's war in this country.
We have learnt much from you comrades, and will continue to do so.
We admire your heroic war and we support it. The best and most effective
support we can give to the glorious battle in Peru is to hasten
our own efforts to begin the people's war in Afghanistan so that
the blood of the martyrs of the "Andes" will also blossom and bear
fruit in the valleys of the "Anduz"!
Warm comradely
salutes!
20 September 1990
On the occasion
of the tenth anniversary of the people's war of Peru led by the
Communist Party of Peru, we are sending our warmest revolutionary
congratulations to the leaders and cadres of PCP and to the revolutionary
masses on behalf of the entire cadres, sympathisers and leadership
of the Proletarian Party of Purba Bangla (PBSP).
The spark of the revolutionary war kindled by your Party ten years
ago under the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo has turned today into
a prairie fire. The blazing up of this prairie fire of people's
war has been made possible by firmly upholding Marxism-Leninism-Mao
Tsetung Thought, the guide to the emancipation of the people of
the whole world, by applying it creatively to the concrete conditions
of Peru, and by sticking unremittingly to arduous struggle, keeping
the deepest faith in and relying on the people in order to surmount
all sort of difficulties. And it is through all this that, since
the beginning of people's war ten years ago, your small force has
developed tremendously both qualitatively and quantitatively, that
a strong Party has been built up and has achieved its ideological-political
and practical enrichment and maturity, that the People's Guerrilla
Army has taken shape and has been continuously becoming stronger
and stronger, and that it has been and is possible to organise the
Peruvian revolutionary masses at an increasing rate under the banner
of people's war led by your Party. Hence, today, your Party is able
to more efficiently lead the People's Guerrilla Army and the Peruvian
revolutionary masses to advance in spirited strides like waves towards
the final victory. And it is on this basis that a number of base
areas have been built up. These base areas have started to be linked
up, which in turn is expanding the Andes red base area in length
as well as width; its light is shining increasingly in all corners
of the country. These advances of the revolutionary struggle in
your country have placed the people's war in Peru at the forefront
of the world proletarian revolutionary movement.
Our two Parties are united by the same ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Mao
Tsetung Thought, by our common commitment to achieving socialism
and communism throughout the world and by our common participation
in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.
Our two Parties face a common enemy, i.e., all kinds of imperialism,
especially U.S. imperialism. Both of our Parties, at the present
time, are waging struggles to perform the New Democratic Revolution
in our own countries. Our Party, like yours, is leading the people's
revolutionary armed struggle in our country -- although we have
not yet been able to raise this armed revolutionary struggle to
such a developed stage as the people's war in Peru.
In 1988 and 1989, the American fascist puppet Ershad government
launched an all-out suppression campaign against our struggling
areas with a view to rooting out the people's armed struggle led
by our Party. But in this situation we failed to confront this suppression
campaign of the government by raising our armed struggle to a higher
phase. Hence we were compelled to make an overall retreat. In this
way we lost an excellent opportunity to rouse a forceful people's
war in our country. At the moment we are summing up the experience,
and in this case the people's war in Peru led by your Party is rendering
valuable lessons and experience to us, as it is doing to all the
revolutionary communists of the world.
Comrades,
Your Party and the people's war in Peru led by your Party is contributing
moral and material assistance to us by developing the revolutionary
struggle continuously and by weakening the strong grip of our common
enemy, American imperialism. In the same way, our Party too is striving
hard to continue its moral and material assistance to the people's
war in Peru, so as to enable it to grow gradually stronger and stronger,
by making a fresh advance in the revolutionary armed struggle in
our country and thus weakening American and Russian imperialism
along with all other imperialism and reaction and by doing propaganda
work and creating public opinion in favour of the people's war in
Peru. We firmly believe that, having summed up the experiences of
our past disasters, we will surely be able to rouse armed struggle
afresh in the coming future and thus prepare ourselves in order
to render the best possible assistance to the Peruvian revolution
as well as to world revolution.
Comrades,
It is our resolute faith that the great people's war in Peru, led
by the Communist Party of Peru, will be able to continue its advance
not only as before but in larger strides and thus attain final victory,
by confronting all adversities, including direct and indirect, continuous
and increasing, American aggression. It is through the continuous
victorious advances of the people's war in Peru that the Communist
Party of Peru is making a great contribution to the further advance
of the world revolution and to the final achievement of Socialism
and Communism.
With great revolutionary warmth.
16 November 1990
"The rebellion
is snowballing, becoming an unstoppable landslide that will bury
oppression and keep growing until communism" -- Chairman Gonzalo
This 17th of May marks the tenth anniversary of the people's war
in Peru. In the ten years of the revolution's victorious advance,
it has come to control a third of Peru's territory. The achievements
of the Peruvian masses led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP,
called Shining Path in the daily press) fill the world's oppressed
with joy, and they see this revolutionary deed as a great source
of inspiration.
Amidst the current offensive of world reaction, which is attempting
to pass off the bankruptcy of revisionism, of phony communism, as
the "failure" of communism, and thus try to portray their system
of exploitation and oppression as the only alternative for the world's
peoples, the people's war in Peru is demonstrating the oppressed's
real alternative, to put a real end to the spiritual and material
suffering of the masses under this system. What makes this revolution
different from other recent revolutions is that it is being led
by an authentic communist party, a party that has taken as its guide
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the philosophy and politics of the international
proletariat, which has developed as a living science amidst class
struggle (a philosophy, a world outlook, through which the proletarian
revolution, unlike all others, seeks to put an end to all exploitation
and oppression and not just replace one system of oppression with
another). Amidst the confusion created by all kinds of revisionists,
the PCP, under the correct guidance of its leader, Chairman Gonzalo,
has been able to defend Mao's legacy in deeds and enabled it to
take root amongst the masses. As the Declaration of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement says, "The principle involved is nothing
less than whether or not to uphold and build upon the decisive contributions
to the proletarian revolution and the science of Marxism-Leninism
made by Mao Tsetung.... Mao Tsetung Thought is a new stage in the
development of Marxism-Leninism. Without upholding and building
upon Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought it is not possible to
defeat revisionism, imperialism and reaction in general."
Creatively taking up Mao Tsetung's great contributions to Marxism-Leninism,
the PCP has fought for the application of this science to the conditions
of the Peruvian revolution, for the investigation of society, for
the knowledge of reality the proletariat must acquire, in order
to equip the Peruvian masses with an understanding of the character
of the revolution and the revolutionary road, people's war, forging
a line and leadership amidst ideological struggle against right
and left opportunism, achieving and fighting to maintain a correct
orientation and a leadership capable of leading the people's war
in order to guide the armed masses until communism, guiding them
so that this revolutionary deed they are carrying out serves the
world proletarian revolution and becomes a base area for that revolution.
The PCP has built the party with revolutionary violence as its centre,
preparing the masses around the central task and highest form of
revolution: the seizure of political power through war. The Peruvian
communists have been guided by Mao's teaching that the main form
of struggle is warfare and the main mass organisation is the guerrilla
army; all other forms of mass organisation and mass struggles are
also indispensable and in no way can be cast aside, but the objective
of all of these is to serve the war. Before the outbreak of war,
the purpose of all organisations and struggles is to prepare for
it; after the outbreak of war, all organisations and struggles are
directly or indirectly coordinated with the war. The PCP guides
everything to serve the war, and the centre of the war is the building
of political power by and for the masses of people, giving concrete
reality to Chairman Gonzalo's words, "Nothing in this world, absolutely
nothing at all, disappears by itself, and exploitation and oppression
will only disappear when the class forces them to disappear."
To centre on the omnipotence of war does not mean that the gun rules
in the PCP. The Party leads the gun, and not the other way around;
the PCP puts politics in command. People and not weapons are the
main thing in people's war. The centre of this war is the seizure
of political power and its defence, and the building of the new
political power must go through the building of revolutionary base
areas in which the masses exercise this power (in the case of the
PCP, through clandestine People's Committees). The masses of workers
and poor peasants themselves have arisen to put an end to centuries
of oppression. They have arisen to put an end to the domination
of imperialism, the bureaucrat bourgeoisie and the landlords. They
have arisen consciously, under the leadership of the authentic party
of their class, the proletariat.
We communists take as our starting point that the masses and the
masses alone make history. This truth put forward by Marxism since
the very beginning and emphasised by Mao Tsetung is bursting through
in each and every action of the PCP, and this is a valuable lesson
for revolutionaries around the world. If the masses do not rise
up, or if their struggles are channeled by forces foreign to the
proletariat and under narrow banners, it is not the masses who bear
the blame, but the communists who have not been able to lead them
correctly. Those who do not have full confidence in the masses'
potential and strike a messianic pose are destined to fail or become
simple agents of reaction. Those who see hope in the present system
or who think that the suffering of the masses is only due to problems
with part of the bourgeoisie or with individuals are destined to
fail. Around us now, chiming in with the chorus of world reaction,
the ruling classes and forces of the petite bourgeoisie and the
national bourgeoisie are striving to show that revolutionary violence
has failed. But the masses of workers and peasants are learning
from the example of our brothers and sisters in Peru who are constructing
the new, guns in hand. Their revolution is something new in Latin
America, where especially since the victory of the Cuban revolution,
armed struggle and guerrilla warfare have been associated with a
revisionist outlook opposed to people's war, which is a war of the
masses guided by a party that relies upon them, develops their initiative,
bases itself on their will and with them builds political power.
The comrades of the PCP drew a dividing line between themselves
and those who think that Maoism can be reduced to simply military
strategies and tactics. With the military line of the proletariat
Mao Tsetung has left us, the PCP is guiding the Peruvian masses
in a New Democratic revolution, which will go over to socialism,
but they want even more -- they are fighting for communism. For
this reason the Peruvian revolution is based on serving the world
proletarian revolution, and as part of this line, the PCP together
with other Maoist forces from all over the world formed the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement six years ago, in order to build towards
an International of a new type based on Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung
Thought.
The advances achieved by the Peruvian masses have driven the Peruvian
ruling classes and imperialism itself to desperation. That's why
the U.S. imperialists, with the consent of all the other imperialists,
including the USSR, are preparing for large-scale intervention to
try and prevent the U.S. from losing control in a country they consider
part of their "back yard". The U.S. is constructing military bases
and sending Green Berets under the pretext of "the war on drugs",
but in reality they are trying to beat down the masses who have
arisen against the system. The real communists and the oppressed
in general, and all those who really seek to put an end to the present
rotten state of affairs, must denounce and oppose these manoeuvres
by the imperialists who, together with the local oppressors, want
to drown the people's achievements in blood.
Support the
People's War in Peru!
Oppose Imperialist
Intervention in Peru and Latin America!
Down with
the Lies and Slanders Against the Peruvian Revolution!
Forward Along
the Path Charted by Mao Tsetung!
Strengthen
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!
May 1990
Dear Comrades,
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the people's war led
by the Communist Party of Peru, we send you our revolutionary salute
on behalf of the entire membership and leadership of the Revolutionary
Communist Party, USA.
Ten years ago your Party, under the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo,
took the daring revolutionary step of initiating the people's war.
Although your forces were small at the beginning, by grasping the
universal truth of Marxism- Leninism-Maoism and applying it to the
concrete situation in your country, by continually relying on the
masses, by persevering in arduous struggle and overcoming all difficulties,
your Party has led the People's Guerrilla Army and the revolutionary
masses in advancing wave upon wave.
The first revolutionary sparks of ten years ago have led to the
vast red base areas beginning to link up all along the length of
the Andes and whose light is shining increasingly in all corners
of the country. These advances have placed the revolutionary struggle
in your country at the forefront of the world proletarian revolutionary
movement.
Our two Parties are united by our ideology of Marxism- Leninism-Maoism,
by our common commitment to achieving communism throughout the world
and by our common participation in the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement. Our Party, like other revolutionary communists throughout
the world, has striven to learn from the advanced experience achieved
in Peru so as to better prepare to carry out the revolution in the
U.S. which, while taking a different road than in Peru, will share
the fundamental feature of being a people's war, led by the proletariat
and its communist vanguard.
Our two Parties face a common enemy -- U.S. imperialism -- which
in addition to ruling over the masses of exploited and oppressed
in the U.S. has built a worldwide empire of robbery and murder.
U.S. imperialism has arrogantly declared Latin America its "back
yard" where it is free to run roughshod as it wishes. Today the
U.S. has escalated its aggression, direct and indirect, under the
cover of the so-called "war on drugs". The possibilities of even
further intensified U.S. intervention against the people's war is
real indeed. Our Party will shoulder its internationalist duty of
struggling against U.S. imperialist aggression in Peru, just as
the blows you are delivering against U.S. imperialism in your country
weakens our common foe and helps hasten its final defeat.
Comrades,
Our Party is convinced that, despite whatever criminal attacks are
launched by U.S. imperialism and the Peruvian reactionaries, final
victory will belong to the people of Peru. By persisting in the
difficult but glorious path of people's war your Party is making
a great contribution to the further advance of the world revolution
and the final achievement of communism. n
Dear Comrades:
First we would
like to send our warmest communist salutes to Comrade Gonzalo, Chairman
of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), under whose leadership the
heroic detachment of the international proletariat in Peru, the
PCP, have been able to arouse the downtrodden of Peru wave upon
wave in a people's war and have scored great victories for the world
revolution; we want to send our heartfelt communist greetings to
the PCP Central Committee, to the members of the party and to the
fighters of the People's Guerrilla Army. We would like to ask you
to convey our revolutionary sentiments to the invincible masses
of Peru, the workers and peasants who have taken their destiny into
their own hands and are toiling hard, with blood and sweat, for
the final victory of revolution in Peru. They should know that they
give a sense of confidence, pride and power to all revolutionaries
and oppressed the world over and that the Peruvian revolution is
in the forefront of the world revolution. We declare our resolute
support of the people's war in Peru in general but also, specifically
against the sinister plans of the Yankee imperialists which are
designed to crush the people's war.
Under the leadership of the PCP, the people's war has made great
achievements: bit by bit destroying the old state and its corresponding
relations on the one hand and, on the other hand, giving birth to
and building step by step the New Political Power and new social
relations, increasingly strengthening this new revolutionary state,
with the emergence of the perspective of the country-wide seizure
of political power; these are indeed extremely important and heart-lifting
victories for the international communist movement, and specifically
for our Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. Especially in the
context of the new worldwide anti-communist offensive by the revisionists,
imperialists and all reactionaries, these achievements of the proletariat
in Peru constitute a strong, concrete counter-offensive and bring
into play the power of our science and ideology: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
A new society is being born in the Andes mountains and this proves
that our setback in China after the death of Chairman Mao and the
restoration of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and of capitalism
there was only a temporary setback in our long march along the tortuous
path of world revolution towards worldwide communism.
We communists of Iran have learnt much from your party and will
learn more: on firmness regarding our ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism;
on doggedness in constituting a revolutionary party, because there
can be no revolution without a revolutionary party; on deeply grasping
and acting upon the central task of communists to seize power through
people's war, and that "without a people's army the people have
nothing".
Today, the proletariat and oppressed masses of the Middle East burn
with the desire to drown the occupying forces of the Yankee imperialists
and their allies in the hot waters of the Gulf and to send to hell
all the reactionary states of the region which have been forged
by the imperialists as bases for their domination of the region's
oppressed. And this can only be achieved through people's wars under
the red banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; so the proletariat and
masses of this region urgently need communist parties based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
The masses of the Middle East have risen to make revolution more
than once, but even though they have dealt important blows to the
imperialists and reactionaries, every time most of their revolutionary
energy has been wasted by revisionists, reactionary nationalists
and religious demagogues, and their hopes have been betrayed. The
establishment of the hated Islamic Republic of Iran is one of these
bitter experiences. It is high time to put an end to this vicious
circle. This is the task of the communists here. The shining torch
of people's war in Peru is a great help to these efforts.
The international bourgeoisie try to black-out the news of the advances
of the people's war in Peru or spread sinister lies about it in
order to prevent the oppressed and exploited of the world from seeing
their shining torch in that part of the world. It is clear that
the U.S. imperialists shiver at the thought of the final victory
of the revolution under the leadership of the PCP, because they
know that it will not only uproot them from Peru but will shake
their rule in Latin America and will give a new impetus to the world
revolution. Thus they conspire and hatch plans to destroy the people's
war in Peru, including their preparation of the option of massive
intervention of Yankee military forces.
We believe that the vast, deep valleys of Peru can be turned into
fitting burial ditches for the Yankee army or any other reactionary
army which comes to crush the people's war. And we are absolutely
confident that the heroic masses of Peru, the valiant fighters of
the People's Guerrilla Army, under the leadership of the PCP, will
lure the invading reactionary and imperialist armed force
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