Resolution of
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
In Support
of the People's War in Peru Led by the Communist Party of Peru and
in Defence of the Life of Chairman Gonzalo
From its very formation,
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement has been proud to count
the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) in its ranks and has considered
the glorious People's War led by the PCP as the foremost struggle
against imperialism and reaction in the world today.
Beginning with small
forces in May 1980, the armed forces of the Peruvian people led
by the PCP have grown in the stormy sea of class struggle. By relying
on the masses, especially the poor peasantry, following the road
of surrounding the city from the countryside and fearing no sacrifice
or hardship, the Communist Party of Peru has led in winning great
victories, establishing the rule of the people in vast areas of
the countryside and reaching the stage of strategic equilibrium
in the war with the reactionary regime.
The PCP has fought
with absolute confidence in the final victory of the new democratic
revolution with the goal of ushering in the socialist revolution
in Peru and transforming the country into a base area for the advance
of the world revolution and the ultimate triumph of communism worldwide.
Like all things in
nature and society, the revolution in Peru has not developed in
a straight line. It has advanced amidst arduous struggle, in the
face of fierce counter-offensives of the enemy, and through twists
and turns. This process has served to temper and steel the Party,
to render it more capable of carrying through the revolution until
victory.
The advances and victories
of the People's War are testimony to the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and the PCP Central Committee. By
creatively applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete situation
in Peru, the PCP under the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo not only
enabled the Peruvian revolution to advance but made important contributions
to the understanding of proletarian revolutionaries throughout the
world.
In September 1992,
Chairman Gonzalo was captured by the reactionary regime aided by
U.S. imperialism. Since Chairman Gonzalo's capture, the entire Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement has taken up the call "Move Heaven and
Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo!" Hundreds of
thousands of workers, peasants and revolutionary intellectuals and
progressive forces on every continent have participated in a powerful,
coordinated international campaign. Chairman Gonzalo gave heart
to the people and astounded his captors with his stirring revolutionary
call from his prison cage. The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
once again affirms its determination to carry through to the end
the struggle to defend the life of Chairman Gonzalo.
Today the revolution
in Peru faces new challenges as it marches forward toward nation-wide
power. Armed with the invincible ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
and tempered by thirteen years of revolutionary warfare, the Communist
Party of Peru has proven that it is capable of confronting and defeating
every kind of enemy attack, correctly analysing and acting upon
new situations as they arise, remaining firm in principle and flexible
in tactics and overcoming all difficulties to achieve victory.
The Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement pledges its unreserved support to the campaign to Defend
the Life of Chairman Gonzalo, to the Communist Party of Peru and
to the heroic combatants of the People's War and the struggling
masses of Peru.
26 December 1993
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