Celebrate
the Mao Tsetung Centenary in an Unforgettable Way!
- Statement
by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
December 1992
The year 1993
is one hundred years since the birth of Mao Tsetung, the great leader
and teacher of the international proletariat and the oppressed masses
the world over. The Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement calls upon parties and organisations of our movement, upon
our sympathizers and upon the revolutionary people to celebrate
the Mao Tsetung Centenary in a grand and unforgettable way. We must
use this Centenary to wage a powerful ideological counteroffensive
against the imperialists and reactionaries of the world.
Mao Tsetung
stands for the uncompromising and self-reliant struggle of the masses
of people. His very name continues to strike fear into the hearts
of the class enemies. He represents the aspirations of the oppressed
to rise above the mud of class oppression, to break with the whole
system of thought based on narrow self interest, and to aim at nothing
less than the liberation of all humanity.
On September
24th of this year Comrade Gonzalo, the imprisoned Chairman of the
Communist Party of Peru, was presented in a cage to the howling
press. On this occasion he made a stirring defence of revolutionary
communism and called on the people of the world to make the Mao
Centenary a year-long unforgettable celebration. In taking up this
call we are also honouring Chairman Gonzalo and linking the celebration
of the Mao Centenary with the ongoing struggle to defend the life
of Chairman Gonzalo.
Today the Western
imperialists have declared that the defeat of the revisionist Soviet
social imperialists in the "Cold War" meant the "death of communism".
Many struggles of the oppressed peoples are being derailed and sabotaged
as part of the ideological offensive against communism and revolution.
Standing in sharp contrast has been the People's War in Peru which
has made great advances over its twelve year history, arousing and
mobilizing millions of people and dealing sharp blows to the enemy.
These advances have been due to the correct leadership of the PCP,
a genuine Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party. This is an important reason
why the imperialist powers led by U.S. imperialism have spearheaded
an attack against the People's War in Peru and its leader, Chairman
Gonzalo.
Today the U.S.
imperialists are declaring a "new world order" to last one hundred
years under their domination. To accomplish this they attack the
people with the force of arms and they also aim at the very morale
and hopes of the masses. They hope to rob the new generation of
proletarians and revolutionary people of the glorious history and
lessons of the great revolutionary struggles of the oppressed during
the last one and one half centuries, from the Paris Commune to the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. And they use their
powerful propaganda machine in hopes of robbing the revolutionaries
of the invincible ideology forged by Marx, Lenin and Mao in the
course of these great struggles. As Comrade Gonzalo put it, "Dream
on!"
The crimes
of the imperialists, and especially the U.S. imperialists, and their
flunkies around the world are so evident, so naked, the daily consequences
so painful, that the majority of the people of the world hate them,
and this hatred is spreading even within the imperialist countries
themselves where class polarization, class struggle and crisis are
increasing.
But the hatred
and suffering of the people need to be transformed into strength
and determination to build a revolutionary struggle which will overthrow
the imperialists and their lackeys, overthrow the existing rotten
social system and will set about building a new world without injustice,
deception, and exploitation of man by man. For this struggle to
succeed it must be guided by the proletarian revolutionary ideology
of Marx, Lenin and Mao Tsetung.
In this spirit,
we must carry the truth of Mao Tsetung and spread it among millions
and millions of people. In this process we can train new contingents
of proletarian revolutionaries in different countries. Let the Mao
Tsetung Centenary sow the red seeds of revolution in every corner
of the globe!
Raise
High the Banner of Marx, Lenin and Mao Tsetung!
Move
Heaven and Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo!
Long
Live the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!
Celebrate
the Mao Tsetung Centenary in an Unforgettable Way!
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