A WORLD TO WIN    #19   (1993)

Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru

Today, when our beloved leader is in a difficult situation, resulting from an extremely unfortunate occupational hazard, we firmly take up his courageous and resolute September 24th call from prison:

"This is an historic moment, and all of us must be clear on that. Let's not fool ourselves. Right now we have to bring all favourable factors into play in order to face these difficulties and continue carrying out our tasks, to achieve our goals, score successes, and win victory! This is what we must do!"

And this is what our Party has been doing, leading the unstoppable People's War to win country-wide political power; further developing the strategic equilibrium, building up the new political power; today organizing the People's Liberation Front, whose main organizational form is the People's Liberation Army; resolutely carrying out the agreements of the glorious, historic and far-reaching Third Plenum of the Central Committee. We are now in the midst of carrying out the Fourth Plan for the Strategic Development of the People's War to Seize Political Power and the Sixth Military Plan. "Organize the Seizure of Power!", with its First Campaign "In Defence of Our Leadership, Against the Genocidal Dictatorship!", in the form of resounding armed actions that are provoking fear and trembling among the imperialists, the big bourgeoisie and the landowners, as well as their revisionist and opportunist flunkies and hack writers who are uselessly trying to hide an obvious reality.

We energetically repudiate the vile lies being spread by the genocidal traitor to the fatherland and the whole pack of scavenger dogs who seek to defend the old order by heaping slander on the leader of the Party and the revolution. Chairman Gonzalo is the greatest example of what a communist is. At the very beginning of the invincible People's War he went into clandestinity, and remained there during more than twelve years of heroic, tenacious and intrepid struggle, leading the revolution step by step. These are the circumstances under which he was captured on 12 September by the secret agents of the "Dincote". But our people should know that this capture was advised and directed by Yankee imperialism acting through the sinister CIA. U.S. imperialism is going all-out to unleash so-called "low-intensity warfare" in our country.

We firmly warn the genocidal national traitor Fugimori; his cowardly and genocidal Armed Forces, specialists in suffering defeat and in gorging themselves on the blood of the unarmed masses; the Church hierarchy, judges and bureaucrats who back genocide; and the puppet-master itself, imperialism, especially U.S. imperialism, that they will have to answer for the life and health of our Leader. If something should happen to him, they will pay with their lives and the lives of all those of their ilk, no matter what it may cost us. We demand respect for the rights of prisoners of war -- and we demand that a position be taken by the international organizations that supposedly safeguard the application of these basic treaties and legal norms which the reaction itself has established and claims to respect.

We alert our heroic people -- don't let yourself be misled by the hateful schemes being hatched by the genocidal dictatorship, as it follows the dictates of its Yankee imperialist bosses in carrying out "low-intensity warfare". We condemn the so-called "repentance" law decreed by these genocides, which they have used to mount a whole lying, ridiculous farce according to which "hundreds of subversives have turned themselves in", as well as the alleged "mass arrests of Senderists" or the "bombardment and destruction of Senderist strongholds in Ayacucho (Vizcatán, Waripata), Huallaga, etc". We reaffirm that our Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought People's War is invincible and that its victory is inevitable. This does not depend on the wishes of an upstart puppet who can't even count on completing his "mandate", nor does it depend on the wishes of the genocidal Armed Forces, nor those of Yankee imperialism, which has so often been beaten by People's War. What they are trying to cover up with their plotting is the extremely serious situation facing the old state, a situation from which there is no way out. What they are seeking to cover up is the desertion by the dozens of soldiers tired of being used as cannon-fodder and the hundreds of casualties the People's Liberation Army has been dealing the Armed Forces. What they are seeking to cover up is the acute contradictions breaking out today between the two factions of the big bourgeoisie, contradictions reflected within their own rotten Armed Forces.

We express our gratitude for the solidarity and support that has been extended by the international proletariat, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the communist parties and people's organizations and the peoples of the world, who have raised their voices in protest and their strong fists to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo, through statements, mass meetings, demonstrations and armed actions. We call for continuing to push forward these tasks but linked to the Long Live Maoism! campaign.

In the Third Plenum of the Central Committee, Chairman Gonzalo said, "Maoism, as it becomes embodied by the peoples of the world, is moving to take the lead of the new great wave of the World Proletarian Revolution." And in his speech on 24 September he said, "What do we need? We need Marxism to be embodied -- as it is, and for this to give rise to communist parties that can direct and lead this approaching great wave of the World Proletarian revolution." "The coming year will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao. We should celebrate this hundredth anniversary, and we are organizing it with the other communist parties." We have taken this up because Maoism is the third, new and highest stage of the international proletariat's ideology, and it is decisive.

Finally, we reaffirm our unshakable determination to give our lives for Chairman Gonzalo, for the Party and the Revolution. We reaffirm our unshakable determination to develop the People's War to seize political power countrywide by applying faithfully, tenaciously and vigourously, our untarnishable and all-powerful ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought.

December 1992         

Resolution

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru fervently salutes our beloved, heroic and masterful leader, Chairman Gonzalo, the greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, great political and military strategist, philosopher, teacher of communists, centre of our Party's unification, who by creatively applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of the Peruvian revolution has given rise to Gonzalo Thought, guarantee of the revolution's victory.

The PCP Central Committee reaffirms its full, conscious and unconditional submission to the single leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and to the whole system of Party leadership.

The PCP Central Committee reaffirms the historic motion of recognition adopted in the First Party Congress:

"We members of the Congress express our recognition of Chairman Gonzalo as the continuator of Marx, Lenin and Chairman Mao Tsetung, who has guaranteed the concretization of the Party's principal historical milestone. With communist joy we also salute him for having launched and led the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought counteroffensive that will smash the new counterrevolutionary offensive headed by Gorbachev and Deng, developing it so as to establish Maoism as the new, third and highest stage of Marxism which will lead to a new development of Marxism in the service of the world proletarian revolution until communism."

June 1, 1989