REPORT BY THE
PCP CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Reaffirm
Our Party Basis of Unity and Build the Seizure of Power
The page numbers
refer to the Spanish documents; where available, English references
are given in brackets. All italics etc are as in the original. The
first part of each quote in parts II and III refers to how the section
to be studied begins and the last part of each quote is where the
section ends. - AWTW
QUOTATIONS
FROM CHAIRMAN GONZALO
1.
"But, furthermore, and this is the basis of every headquarters,
revolutions give rise to a thinking that guides them, a result of
the application of the universal ideology of the international proletariat
to the concrete conditions of each revolution, a guiding thought
that is indispensable to achieve victory and seize power,
and, even more, to continue the revolution and always keep it
on course to the only great goal, communism, a guiding thought
that once it takes a qualitative leap of decisive importance for
the revolutionary process it leads, becomes identified with the
name of the person who worked it out in theory and practice. In
our situation, this phenomenon took the specific form, first of
guiding thought, then of the guiding thought of Chairman Gonzalo,
and later as Gonzalo Thought, because it is the Chairman
who by creatively applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete
conditions of Peruvian reality gave rise to it, thus supplying the
Party and the revolution with an indispensable arm that guarantees
victory."
- Ist Party Congress, "On Gonzalo Thought", p 3
2.
"We have held the First Congress of the Communist Party of Peru...
a Marxist Congress, a Congress of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo
Thought. This Congress... for the prospective seizure of power.
I reiterate prospective." ["Interview with Chairman Gonzalo", p
35, AWTW 1992/18, p 47.]
3.
"Finally, see that we could not carry forward everything the
Party is leading without guiding by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo
Thought, our ideology and the starting point of the Party's
Basis of Unity. We should reaffirm it today more than ever, because
it's under attack, it's the object of calumnies, it's being negated;
we should maintain the absolute conviction that it is all-powerful
because it is true, that is the reality, but simply, but as solid
as a rock, after all, all that idealist word-play will fade away
and what will remain will be incontrovertible facts. True, we
are going through hard times, but it is incontrovertible that the
main trend of history is revolution, and it will win out, communism
will win out and shine all over the world."
- Preparatory
Session for the II Plenum of the Central Committee, p 2
4.
"...it's time to think deeply, since the Party's struggle, by which
we mean the People's War it is leading, has never stopped
for even a moment, the Party is never paralyzed, because it is clear
on the road to follow, because it is united around the headquarters
of Chairman Gonzalo, the Party Basis of Unity, the People's War,
the Strategic Development Plan.
"Once again strategic centralization and tactical decentralization
is being given expression, we have plans made up of campaigns, and
this continues. A Party united by such elements is strong. We emphasize
strategic centralization and tactical decentralization because that's
communist practice, and our concrete experience. Always keep
in mind the glorious toil of eleven years of People's War, the
People's War cannot be halted. We should even see it this
way: the leadership could disappear, in part, not all of it,
but the leaders who remain should and can continue the plans, the
struggle, the People's War; we are steeled in the understanding
that the revolution cannot be stopped, cannot be paralyzed.
Chairman Mao taught us, 'We gather our dead, treat our wounded,
and continue fighting.'"
- "Build the
Seizure of Power Amidst People's War", II Plenum
5.
"... We have not yet experienced a big defeat, so that these minor
particular circumstances, this new phase in the war and this
sinister converging attack are part of the more complicated circumstances
we have to undergo until communism shines on the Earth. They are
part of the unevenness, and are testing our responsibility as communists;
the Party is showing that it can give rise to a leadership that
corresponds to our reality, to our necessity; we are sufficiently
steeled, the risks do not frighten us nor does the danger stop us;
this moment is just one more trial - let it be welcome! It is
part of the revolutionary process and we are handling it well, as
another step in our becoming steeled. The life of communists
is struggle, not pleasure. Once, when Marx's daughter asked,
what is happiness?, he answered, struggle. Years later Chairman
Mao taught that to work is to struggle. We hold tight to all of
this; our difficulties can be conquered because we are a new force
with a brilliant future."
- "Build the Seizure of Power Amidst People's War". II Plenum
6.
"This convergence of the new revisionist counter-revolutionary
offensive in collusion with imperialism dreams of the definitive
destruction of Marxism, dreams of sweeping away all that revolution
has done, all its achievements, all its heroic action; they want
to re-enthrone the old, the rotten domination of reaction during
the most obsolete and evil period of imperialism. This has its
repercussions, and we see capitulation and monstrous renegacy,
this is happening in the petite bourgeoisie, in the upper crust
of the working class. The MRTA, for example, is the preacher of
capitulation in this country; they spread 'peace', bourgeois democracy,
capitulation in the face of imperialism. Capitulationism expresses
itself in two aspects: capitulation in the face of Peruvian reaction,
and capitulation in the face of world reaction, that's how it
always is; their goal is to sell out the revolution. This is
pus, which must be wiped out by blood and fire, and that
requires strategy and tactics."
- Preparatory
Session for the II Plenum of the Central Committee, p 13.
7.
"The class, the people, the masses clamour for the development
of the People's War to seize power."
"Here the key thing is that the class, the proletariat, the masses,
demand the development of the People's War, the deepest interests
of the proletariat, the deepest and most real interests of the masses
here need People's War and we can't be deaf to the clamour of the
masses, the class, the people; the masses demand, command, want,
need the People's War; and we have dared to call upon them to rebel,
and we'll continue doing so today, tomorrow and forever, until we
fulfill our goal, communism: we have dared to develop a People's
War that is victorious, expanding, and threatening, and the masses
are increasingly conscious of this necessity because there is no
other in this world."
- "Under the Guidance of the Congress, Reorganize the Metropolitan Committee!"
I.
III CENTRAL COMMITTEE PLENUM.
CENTRAL DOCUMENT.
Reaffirmation
of the III Plenum: A glorious, historic and far-reaching Plenum
· Agreement
to publish the Report of the III Plenum. Central Document.
· Report
(III Plenum)
· Taking
a position on it and reaffirming it.
II.
ON THE APPLICATION OF THE WORK SESSION
1.
Keep in mind the Outline Summation of the Campaign, so as to prepare
summation reports on the IInd Campaign. Outline.
2.
On Yankee imperialism's indirect intervention
· Speech
by Chairman Gonzalo
· Document
"Build the Seizure of Power Amidst People's War"
pp 14-16 "Let's
pay attention to.... the counter-revolutionary action of imperialism
will itself generate the anti-imperialist action of the proletariat
and the people of the world." [AWTW 1995/20, p 18]
p 13 On ideology
as an arm of victory: "with such powerful and highly sophisticated...
but they havent achieved it even today."
p 10 "The
three stages... Thus if direct imperialist action were to occur
.... and at the same time international support grows and becomes
more powerful." [AWTW no. 20, p 16]
· "Let Strategic
Equilibrium Shake the Country Even More!"
p 36 Restudy
section on low-intensity warfare.
p 43 Point
2. Psy-ops. II Plenum, p 395-407
· May document.
"Elections No, People's War, Yes", p 7
(In special issue of El Diario)
· On U.S.
imperialism's "20 Year Plan" carried out by the armed forces and
the puppet Fujimori. Oiga magazine no. 647-648.
· Slogan:
Yankees, go home! Yankees Out of Peru!
· Let us
reaffirm what was laid down by the Work Session on contradictions,
principal contradiction and polarization.
· TACTICS:
Unite the people in defense of the Headquarters, against the genocidal
and national-sellout dictatorship!
3.
Report on the application of the work session.
· Introduction.
1) Communication
and hook-ups.
2) Principal
task. Specific measures.
3) Sending
down and applying the Session.
4) Struggle
against the counter-revolutionary hoax, and struggle against the
main danger, revisionism.
5) Archives,
publications, and finances.
6) Conclusions
and perspectives
· Approve
the report and salute the fulfillment of the task.
III.
ON THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY HOAX AND AGAINST
THE BLACK GROUPLET THAT IS RAISING A REVISIONIST AND CAPITULATIONIST
RIGHT OPPORTUNIST LINE
"Revisionism
has already lost out.... those traitors who try to do so or begin
to do so."
- Chairman
Gonzalo; "Interview with Chairman Gonzalo, p 17 [AWTW 1992/18,
p 42]
1.REAFFIRM
THE PARTY BASIS OF UNITY AND BUILD THE SEIZURE OF POWER AMIDST PEOPLE's
WAR!
a) "Build
the Seizure of Power Amidst People's War" II Plenum. Introductory
and final parts. Reproduce the document.
b) Our Party
Basis of Unity sanctioned in the First Party Congress.
· Reaffirm
it. Unleash a mass movement of reaffirmation of the Party Basis
of Unity in the whole Party. People's Liberation Army and the masses
of the New Political Power.
· "On the
Rectification Campaign based on the study of the document, Elections,
No! People's War, Yes!", p 17.
· The three
elements: Party Basis of Unity sanctioned in the Congress. Reproduce
the documents: Fundamental Documents.
c) Concretizations.
Document.
Put out the
document, "Long Live Chairman Gonzalo and his all-powerful thought."
d) The Party
Basis of Unity and the two-line struggle. Interview with Chairman
Gonzalo, pp 23-44 on the Party. [AWTW 1992/18, pp 43-50]
e) On the
Party's history, pp 37-41 of the Congress Summary Document.
f) Document,
"Under the Guidance of the Congress, Reorganize the Metropolitan
Committee!"
g) Document,
"Unite Around the Congress".
h) Summary
Document, p 72, role played by ideology, and p 83, on Foundations
of the Great Plan to Develop Base Areas for the Seizure of Power.
i) May Directives
for Metropolitan Lima. p 12 on entryism and infiltration.
j) "Build
the Seizure of Power Amidst People's War", p 22. On the People's
War, it is an achievement to maintain it; but if it takes
root in the masses and advances, it is a complete success; p 23
on the proportion between directly organized forces and the population.
2. CONTINUE
SMASHING THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY HOAX AND TEAR TO SHREDS THE BLACK
MONSTROSITIES OF YANKEE IMPERIALISM, THE GENOCIDAL AND NATIONAL-SELLOUT
DICTATORSHIP AND THE BLACK GROUPLET THAT IS RAISING A REVISIONIST
AND CAPITULATIONIST R.O.L.
· Previous
history.
· Where the
counter-revolutionary hoax is heading.
· Tear to
shreds the black monstrosities of Yankee imperialism, the genocidal
and national-sellout dictatorship and the black grouplet that is
raising a revisionist and capitulationist R.O.L.
3. CONCLUSION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWO-LINE STRUGGLE.
1) Let us
reaffirm the Declaration of the Central Committee: facts have correctly
and definitively confirmed the position it laid down in the face
of the counter-revolutionary plot.
2) The so-called
letters Fujimori has presented, the so-called phone call abroad
and the subsequent monstrosities are a counter-revolutionary plot
cooked up there by Yankee imperialism and the genocidal and national-sellout
dictatorship in combination with the evil action of the black grouplet.
A hoax to win the elections, block the celebration of the Centenary
in December and hide the La Cantuta case, in the short run, but
its essence is to seek to annihilate the People's War and within
that continue their plan to murder Chairman Gonzalo.
3) Denounce,
condemn and smash the black grouplet that is raising a revisionist
and capitulationist R.O.L., made up of infiltrators, traitors, capitulators
and old revisionists. Grouplet directly linked to the reaction.
Their monstrosities are a complete negation of the Party's Ist Congress,
a Marxist Congress, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought Congress,
of the Party Basis of Unity, the headquarters, the Party, the People's
War, and therefore they have removed themselves from the Party by
their own free will.
Keep
in mind that 1) What goes against principles cannot be accepted;
2) It is an international communist norm that one cannot lead from
inside prison and these monstrosities are in antagonistic opposition
to principles, especially all this business about the "peace agreement".....
4) Pay attention
to the two-line struggle, develop it to strengthen the People's
War, which is the main thing and which is and will be determinate.
It is necessary to go deeply into the background, the process, and
the present situation to determine the level of struggle in the
whole Party.....
5) ..............................................
6)
Reiterate that what is principal is People's War, and therefore
centre on our plan, because the internal is decisive. It is urgent
to bring the whole Party into conformity with the Party Basis of
Unity.
IV.
TASKS............................
ON TWO PROBLEMS.
I.
On Democratic Centralism, discipline and two-line struggle.
· Quotations
from Chairman Mao on discipline, p 270 [English Little Red Book,
p 254]
· Quotations
from Chairman Mao on Criticism, pp 279-280 [LRB, p 258]
· Necessity
of elevating the struggle to the level of line: Chairman Mao, Vol
5, p 561, on the dialectical method for the Party's internal unity.
[SW, Vol 5, p 514]
p 553. On
self-assessment. [Vol 5, p 507]
p 345. On
criticism and uniting with those who criticize you. [pp 317-318]
p 379 and
477. On a simple life-style and arduous struggle. [p 349, p 438]
· Three Cardinal
Rules and Eight Warnings.
II. On
how to understand personal relations subordinated to the Party Basis
of Unity.
· Selected
Works of Marx and Engels, pp 533-535
· Wedding
ceremony
· Quotations
by Chairman Mao on women
· Point 11
of the Programme of the Communist Party of Peru
Central
Committee,
Communist Party of Peru.
February
1994
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