To the Proletariat and the People of Peru:

With great revolutionary joy, the Movimiento Clasista Barrial (Classist Movement of the Shantytowns) Lima Base, as part of the Peoples' Liberation Movement, salutes the heroic and revolutionary proletariat and the people of Peru, especially because we are celebrating the Thirteenth Anniversary of the Armed Struggle in our country, of the People's War, a war of the masses, led victoriously by the Communist Party of Peru. Thirteen years of glorious revolutionary advances which very clearly prove to the world the unquestionable validity of our Communist principles, the validity of Marxism, of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought; the validity of revolutionary violence as the only way in which the class and people can seize power, the validity of the class dictatorship, the validity of the Party, of the Communist Party, the validity of the masses are the makers of history and it's right to rebel. Because it is the masses led by the Communist Party who make history, who carry out People's War, who have brought People's War into being and developed it by turning their poverty into a tempered weapon of steel and illuminated this path with their inextinguishable struggle; who are developing Strategic Equilibrium in which the Democratic Revolution in our country is unfolding. We are living historic moments and we understand this clearly. The commemoration of the momentous milestone, the beginning of the Armed Struggle, takes place in the framework of the great celebration of the centenary of the birth of Chairman Mao Tsetung, and in the framework of Red May, a month with such important dates for the class and people as May Day, International Day of the Proletariat; and the First Anniversary of [the] Day of Heroic resistance, among others.

For its part, the reactionaries, the rotten and senile Peruvian State led by its principal master Yankee imperialism, the genocidal Armed Forces and police forces, the reactionary parties of all stripes including the revisionists, in their naked and vain attempts to prop up the old State, to restructure it and annihilate People's War and reinforce Bureaucrat Capitalism (which they have not been able to do), have developed new forms of genocide and broad repression against our people, absurdly attempting to drown the Revolution in blood and deny even more the rights of the class and of the people. This is why in the shantytowns, as part of their so-called "low intensity warfare", they are carrying out repression through widespread sweeps. They call it "raking", it is nothing more than military occupation of the shantytowns, with massive arrests, field interrogations, theft and plunder against disarmed people; all of which shows the cowardice with which they act. Now that the democratic road has begun to be developed as the road to Liberation, we accept the responsibility to contribute to forging the People's Liberation Front and to smash the filthy and insane dreams of imperialism and reaction, of the senile Peruvian State, of the genocidal Fujimori and his Armed Forces and police forces; and all reaction in general. The scheming murderer Fujimori, dangling like a prickly pear from the bloody bayonets of the genocidal Armed Forces, manipulated by Yankee imperialism, is carrying out joint genocide together with all the rest of the reactionaries, against our people. As part of this they have plotted a sinister and cowardly plan to assassinate our beloved and respected Chairman Gonzalo. We reaffirm the instructions of the Central Committee "We firmly warn the genocidal Fujimori, betrayer of the country, and the cowardly and genocidal Armed Forces which he directs, experts in defeats, and in feeding on the unarmed masses, the Church hierarchy; the judges and bureaucrats who prop up the genocide; and their great puppet master imperialism, mainly Yankee: You are responsible for the life and health of our leader and if anything happens to him, you and all your kind will pay with your lives, whatever the cost."

Thus, the People's Liberation Movement has issued a timely and correct call to the proletariat and the people, to begin now preparing for powerful days of struggle, and Armed Strike, May 17, 18, and 19. On these days we will reaffirm our revolutionary combativity, dealing a powerful and earth-shaking blow to the senile reactionary State, and in this way we will defend the rights and demands of the class and of the people against hunger, unemployment and the crisis, for land, wages and national production; against genocide and widespread repression, for the Rights of the People and People's War: against the old State and imperialism, for the People's Republic of Peru. Now that this old state, rotten to the core, is sinking deeper and deeper into the general crisis of contemporary Peruvian society, trying to dump it on the masses through greater impoverishment of our people and through denying the people's rights, the popular classes are more taking up the call to combat and resist. In the shanty towns we will go out to combat them, especially for our right to housing, water, and electricity, as part of the people's rights. For this reason the Classist Movement for the Shantytowns, an organization generated by the Party, salutes and upholds this timely and correct call for the Armed Strike on May the 17th, 18th, and 19th, from the MPL (People's Liberation Movement) led by the PCP, and calls on the proletariat and the people, especially the residents of the shantytowns, to take to the streets to combat and resist for the Rights of the People and the People's War, to in this way continue developing People's War, through which we come ever closer to the brilliant historical perspective of seizing power and advancing toward our unwavering goal, golden and forever radiant Communism.

This heroic Armed Strike on May 17, 18, and 19 is part of the struggles of the international proletariat and oppressed nations, within the great wave of the world Proletarian revolution in which Maoism is taking shape as the new, third and highest stage of the ideology of the international proletariat, as commander and guide of the world proletarian revolution. Especially it is in keeping with the momentous and historical international days of action, May 14 and 15, to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo, the greatest Communist living on Earth.

Therefore we salute this call, and we are convinced that in those days world imperialism and reaction will receive strong blows from the powerful fist of the class, from the international proletariat.

In summary: It is up to the proletariat and the people to develop these heroic days of struggle on the 17, 18, and 19 of May.