May
Day 1995
Dig
the Graves of the Imperialists or Make Peace with Them:
Two
Opposing Roads of Accommodation vs. Revolution
- Statement
by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
In the jungles
and the mountains of Peru an uncompromising revolutionary war of
the people led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) is challenging
the old order. The decrepit state and its reactionary classes and
imperialist advisors have combined their efforts to destroy it,
yet the bright red flag of revolution is being energetically and
courageously defended and bright red sparks of the communist future
crackle in their faces, defiantly demonstrating to the tune of gunfire
that for the masses of the people worldwide the road of the international
proletariat, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist road, is the only way out
of their swamp of misery and oppression.
Compare this
bold, liberating path to the series of imperialist-sponsored so-called
"peaceful settlements" trying to snuff out the masses' rebellions
in many places around the world today. With the aid of capitulating
leaders of reformist movements, the imperialists are actively seeking
to defuse longstanding conflicts in order to stabilize their decaying
world order in the midst of growing global crisis, now that their
Soviet bloc has melted as a major rival. From the tiny chip of land
sold as Palestine to the most ingratiating PLO bidders, who now
fire rubber bullets at the masses, to colonial South Africa, where
a black elite has agreed to help round the edges of raw colonial
white supremacist rule, the bitter truth is that the masses have
been totally sold out and sections of the people at the bottom of
society are likely to be pushed down even further.
Although this
road of accommodation and "peace" is sometimes perfumed with wisps
of bourgeois democratic reforms to cover the stench of the exploitation
and oppression the masses already know well and struggle against
daily, it is not a new way out of the imperialist swamp.
Fundamentally it offers nothing but further suffering for
the people: it is a road for drowning in that swamp, as the disastrous
situations in these explosive places graphically show more every
day. Nowhere is this clearer than in crisis-ridden Mexico, where
only a real revolutionary strategy can stop the imperialists
and their client state from literally crushing the people under
their heel. They are trying to sell the livelihood of millions of
rural masses and others to fatten Yankee banks using the dual tactics
of half-hearted "peace talks" and the sending of the brutal neocolonial
army against the rebel peasants.
The revolutionary
fighters of the people's army in Peru began with small forces and
are armed only with a correct Marxist-Leninist-Maoist line and the
weapons they have captured from the enemy or made themselves, and
they are fed by the peasants and the labouring masses, yet they
have been able to stand up against all odds because they are supported
by and rely upon the people. They are hewing a whole different road
on behalf of our class, the international proletariat. This army
and the Party that leads it are different from the nationalists
and armed revisionists who seek better terms at the bargaining table,
because they are led by a different class ideology. The PCP leadership
has strongly rejected the call to make peace with the ruling class,
a call that emerged within the Party's ranks after the capture of
Chairman Gonzalo. This call is a dangerous and illusory path that
betrays the fundamental interests of the people - in Peru and worldwide.
The Central Committee of the PCP is boldly surmounting the twists
and turns that this kind of revolutionary war inevitably confronts
in the face of the united force of the world's dirtiest armies,
its lying media, and its pro-imperialist "peace" traps that are
set to lure in former revolutionaries.
The PCP is
part of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), and the
People's War in Peru is the most important and far-reaching revolutionary
struggle in the world today. It is based on the same vision that
May Day, International Workers Day, represents to the oppressed
the world over - a future without wage slavery and class divisions,
without imperialism and its bloodthirsty reactionary servants. In
today's world, which is indeed marked by favourable revolutionary
opportunities, begging mercy from the world's weakening vampire-rulers
instead of going all out to overthrow them and their vicious system
amounts to helping stifle the masses' revolutionary energy and
greatly exaggerates the imperialists' strength. Choosing the road
of revolution over that of accommodation calls for wholeheartedly
supporting the PCP and the People's War they are waging, while helping
to lay the groundwork to follow their example by planting the red
flag of Maoist revolution, which is now flying in the Andes, amidst
the turmoil and rebellions erupting throughout the world.
Step up
the Struggle for Revolution throughout the World!
Rally to
the Defence of our Red Flag Flying in Peru!
Support
the Communist Party of Peru!
Long Live
Proletarian Internationalism!
Long Live
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Defend
the Life of Chairman Gonzalo! Fight to Break the Isolation!
Long Live
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!
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