Yankee Go Home!
1991
-- Year of International Solidarity with the People's War in Peru
A
Call by the Committee of the RIM for a World-Wide Campaign
The towering
granite and steel wall of oppression that girds the world is being
breached in the mountains of Peru. There the poor have risen up,
guns in hand, and their guns are thundering a challenge to the imperialist
rulers of the U.S. and other countries. Now these imperialists are
seeking to blast them back into submission. Now is the time for
all those who hate the world order to come to the aid of the people's
war in Peru.
Peru
is where the world revolution is breaking through today. Those at
the very bottom of society, led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP)
and its Chairman Gonzalo, have formed a People's Guerrilla Army
whose soldiers and commanders alike are mostly peasant men and women.
They get their weapons by capturing them from the enemy, so they
owe nothing to any power. Though this revolutionary army started
very small and is growing step by step, its strength comes from
relying on the masses of people for everything, from supplying bread
and military intelligence to steadily swelling the ranks of fighters.
They are defeating the army of the centuries-old order of domination,
murder, rape and humiliation.
These
revolutionary military victories have made it possible for the People's
Committees to flourish. In these villages, it is the formerly downtrodden
who now rule. They are seizing the land, replacing exploitation
with voluntary cooperation and transforming the old social relations,
habits and ideas accumulated through centuries of subjugation. Their
red flag --our red flag -- is now flying defiantly in the light
of day above many villages where once the peasants' backs were stooped
and broken by landlords and despots.
This
war centred in the countryside can never be blockaded into surrender.
Instead, it is the ruling classes, barricaded in the big cities,
that are being encircled by this war drawing tighter and tighter
around their strongholds each day. In Peru's shantytowns, the clandestine
armed platoons of the poor are dealing blows, contributing to developing
the people's war and preparing for the time when this war advances
to the point where the cities themselves can be captured through
urban insurrection.
The PCP
is a participant in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement,
formed by Maoist parties and organisations in many countries as
a step towards enabling the international proletariat to lead humanity
to emancipation. These parties are waging revolutionary war or carrying
out revolutionary work to prepare for waging such a war according
to the conditions of their particular countries. Their goal is not
a half-way revolution where a new set of exploiters emerge, but
rather continuing the revolution until communism, the creation of
a world without oppressors or exploiters in any form. In Peru today,
after 10 years of people's war, the seizure of nationwide political
power can now be seen on the horizon. This is irrefutable proof
of the power of a revolutionary war waged by the masses of people,
relying on themselves and led by a proletarian party wielding the
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology, a people's war fought not in the
manner of reactionary armies but in a way that gives full play to
the strengths of the masses of dispossessed.
The very
success of the Peruvian revolution has set it on a collision course
with the U.S. The Yankee rulers, despite their
bloated bragging
at the moment, are well aware of the danger of getting bogged down
in what they fear will be "another Vietnam", a war that
was a disaster for them, including within the U.S. itself. But they
cannot allow the People's Republic of Peru to
be born without
a fight. U.S. exploitation of Latin America is the dirty secret
behind much of Yankee wealth. Though the people who run the U.S.
arrogantly consider Latin America their "back yard", hundreds
of millions of Latin Americans long to break free of them. With
a Maoist revolution Yankee power would begin to unravel.
The U.S.
armed forces and CIA have been fighting secretly in Peru since the
start of this war in 1980. Now the U.S. government is openly sending
Green Beret "advisors", pilots and other armed personnel,
along with helicopter gunships, jet bombers and river patrol boats.
Pentagon planners are drawing up the charts for future large-scale
moves under the pretext of "the war on drugs". They are
also making political preparations, including preparing public opinion,
for the possibility of massive intervention by the U.S. armed forces
directly and/or through the U.S.-commanded armed forces of a neighbouring
country.
In this,
the U.S. can count on the backing or complicity of the world's governments.
The Peruvian revolution has nothing to rely on but its own strength
and the support of the world's proletariat and peoples.
The Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement has declared an international year of
solidarity with the people's war, starting December 26th 1990. The
parties and organisations of the Movement will be taking responsibility
for implementing this campaign in their countries, according to
the conditions and their tasks. The need for this campaign stands
out even more strongly in the wake of the Gulf war, which gave proof
of the imperialists' appetite for intervention and also of the crucial
importance of the political content, ideology and military strategy
of any struggle which claims to oppose them. Already many people
opposed to U.S. intervention in Peru have stepped forward to push
this campaign out in other oppressed countries of Latin America,
Asia and Africa and within the belly of the imperialist monsters,
including the U.S. itself, and many more can be united in the course
of this year of solidarity.
The cry
"Yankee Go Home" will find an echo amongst all of the
world's people who see in this revolution the embodiment of their
own hopes for a completely different world, and among all those
opposed to imperialist aggression. The Yankee imperialists can and
will be stopped!
March 9th
1991
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