Take Up and Fight for the New Decision and the New Definition! (Asumir)
This document
was originally published in La Republica in Peru, January
1993 and circulated abroad by pro-negotiations forces. All underlining
is from the original document, however, the notation "io",
for "italics ours", has been left wherever it appeared in the La
Republica edition. Any explanations by AWTW are given
in brackets [ ]. The translation retains the feel of the original
as much as possible (abbreviations, elliptic references, etc.).
- AWTW
GUIDING
IDEAS
1. MLM,GT
[Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought] is invincible and untarnishable
(never defeated), reason: it is the ideology of the last class in
history.
2. We are
communists, Maoists, soldiers of the proletariat, our essence is
Maoism; wherever we may fight, we fight with the arms we have.
Very much
keep in mind what Chairman Mao taught: "The next 50-100 years...
new things, new problems, which must be resolved."
It is necessary
to continue playing our role; there is a certain fear in the face
of taking a decision.
Those who
have always fought against us are doing so now, why? (io)
3. MLM,GT
is our special weapon... Keep in mind what was agreed in the Third
Plenary Session (III P.S.). We are facing new problems, resolve
them by applying Gonzalo Thought (GT).
4. Take responsibility
for and fight for the New Decision and the New Definition.
These guiding
ideas should preside over our outlook.
TEXTS
AND DOCUMENTS
We base ourselves
on our ideological outlook: Marxism. Apply it to our concrete conditions.
* Quotations
from Chairman Mao
* Chapter
V ("War and Peace") study and apply.
* "...This
ML revolutionary principle is universally valid".
The principle
is not in question. The question is its application according to
concrete conditions. (Keep in mind the experience of the
1960s and '70s). (io)
This application
is what gave rise, within the Party, to the Organized Masses and
Public Opinion, to the conditions for Initiating the Armed Struggle
(IAS).
Quote no 1
from Chapter 5: "War is the highest form of struggle for resolving
class contradictions...."
War is initiated
and develops according to concrete conditions, and as these
change, the forms of struggle must change.
Quote no 3
from Chapter 5: "The division of wars into just wars and unjust
wars... what should be done when an unjust war breaks out... The
way to oppose it is to prevent it before it breaks out, and if it
breaks out, to oppose unjust war with just war, whenever possible."
"Whenever possible" also applies to us when we face an unjust war
as a reply to a just war (including as a reply to our actions; don't
read this in an abstract way, but understand its application).
* Quote
no 2 from Chapter 5: Relationship between war and politics. "If
the obstacle is not completely swept away, the war will have to
continue" (Text from 1934, in 1937 analyze the contradictions).
Look at Chungking talks in 1945, volume IV: implies not finishing
the democratic revolution.
Did Chairman
Mao negate this principle? No, he applied it in a creative way to
the end of the war with Japan: public opinion was for peace. Chairman
Mao strove to take public opinion into account, and that led him
to these talks. There were big concessions. What was the problem?
After the agreement was signed by Chairman Mao in the name of the
CCP and the KMT headed by Chiang Kai-shek, the latter violated the
agreement and launched a counteroffensive. Mao didn't violate
any principles. We should not read in a general way but rather
see the application to reality. Thus it can be said that politics
is war without bloodshed, just as war is politics with bloodshed.
(io)
The people's
law, "Struggle, fail, ...provoke, make trouble".
This is
a Great Law of the Class Struggle, describing the laws of imperialism
and reaction, and the people.
The Class
Struggle is a great and constant class war directed by political
leaders. It has two forms:
1. Bloodless:
"Politics is war without bloodshed."
2. Bloody:
"War is politics with bloodshed."
Both are forms
of the great political war that is the class struggle, and the latter
is the development of the contradiction between Revolution and Counterrevolution,
whose essence is: Fight and make trouble. The two laws are a Great
Law of the Class Struggle, a contradiction whose terms are: on the
one side, make trouble, which inevitably leads to ruin, and on the
other side, fight, which inevitably leads to victory. Both processes
pass through failures; while the old leads to ruin, the new leads
to victory. This is a great, inexorable Law. Do not fear failure;
the problem is to struggle, and thus the importance of the great
Marxist truth: "It's right to make revolution." Study it and apply
it. Very important.
* Quotes
page 237.
* Quotes
page 221. Don't be subjective, one-sided, superficial. Very important.
Being
subjective means not weighing the circumstances. See things in an
all-around way.
* Chapter
7, "Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder": "The Communists
of today are communists because throughout all the intermediate
stages and all the compromises created, not by them but by the forward
march of the process of history, they clearly and precisely
see and constantly pursue their final objective; thus, the abolition
of classes and the creation of a society in which there will be
neither private ownership of land nor private ownership of the means
of production."
6
SLOGANS
1. Struggle
for a Peace Agreement! (principal, and political guide)
2. Uphold
and Apply the Call!
3. Take Up
and Fight for a New Great Decision and Great Definition!
4. Close
ranks around CG and the Central Leadership!
5. Uphold
the New Great Decision and Definition!
6. Glory
to MLM!
WHAT
IS A COMMUNIST?
Do we or do
we not grasp this historical process; are we objective or subjective?
Either we deal with reality, or it will deal with us. Communist
see things clearly (there can be disconcerting confusion).
"The 33 Blanquists
are communists because they think they can skip intermediate stages...
and that the seizure of power will begin in the next few days -
they are completely certain of that - and once power is seized,
that communism will be established the day after. If this proves
impossible to do immediately, they are not communists."
What childish
disingenuousness it is to present impatience as a convincing theoretical
argument!
Naturally,
very young and inexperienced revolutionaries, as well as petty-bourgeois
revolutionaries who may even have attained a respectable age and
accumulated much experience, consider it extremely dangerous, incomprehensible
and erroneous to "grant compromises".
Many sophists,
politicians, etc., think the same way, but what do they do every
day? They make capitulationist compromises.
"Nevertheless,
the proletarians have undergone the schooling of numerous strikes...
they assimilate the profound truth."
"PHILOSOPHICAL
TRUTH": In conformity with contradiction, the road is full of twists
and turns.
"HISTORICAL
TRUTH": In the process of development of revolutions, the class
struggle is the same.
"POLITICAL
TRUTH": The daily struggle for political power expresses this necessity.
"PSYCHOLOGICAL
TRUTH": How to understand things from the class point of view, to
see the differences that imply compromises demanded by objective
conditions... compromises that in no way diminish our revolutionary
abnegation, nor our determination to continue the struggle by means
of the compromises obtained by the Workers. Differentiate these
from subjective compromises serving private interests, from traitors
pursuing their own interests....
Strikebreakers
also undertake compromises! Their cowardliness, their desire to
adulate the capitalists... before crumbs... they seek to flatter
the capitalists.
- Not all
compromises are so simple; there are international and national
compromises. In our case, we should see the two situations! -- that's
what Lenin says, a direct application to our case. "No compromise"
is absurd.
What does
it mean to speak of a mature Party of the Class, that merits the
name, and leaders who deserve to be considered as such?... It means,
in reality, acquiring, through prolonged efforts, all the representatives
of a given class capable of thinking. Lenin: in every class there
are and always will be... representatives of the class who don't
think, who are incapable of thinking for themselves; if it weren't
like that, imperialism would not be the class oppressor that it
is. The leaders are those who have the knowledge, the experience,
and the political wisdom necessary for a prompt and just solution
to complex political problems (have commitment and enough decisiveness
to do it, not just to understand, but to decide).
Volume IV
- 151 CM pages 430-443
The El Diario
Interview given by CG:
- Thought,
lessons of the People's War, the question of leadership:
"The forging of a leadership, clearly, can't be improvised... Leadership
of the People's War". Page 8 (El Diario edition). Heads and Headquarters,
there are groups, heads and headquarters - page 11 (idem).
- Experience
of the Commune. Don't strike the flag, uphold it gloriously until
victory, no matter what the cost. Page 20 (idem).
- Page
32 (idem) on dialogue: this refers to the final part of the war,
don't apply this mechanically.
I.
NEW DECISION AND NEW DEFINITION.
1. A stage
of the Revolution has ended. Fight for a future wave of the World
Proletarian Revolution (WPR)!
A grandiose
and indelible stage of the WPR has ended.
There is
a World Political Ebb (It is strategic and global); this stage
has left us three great banners: Marx-Lenin-Mao, which are concretized
in the fact that MLM is unconquerable and untarnishable.
In 1891, Engels,
in the "Introduction to The Civil War in France", taught that there
would be an ebb in the WPR and that it was not possible to seize
power. It was necessary to resolve the problem of new forms of struggle
and organization, principally military questions. He makes a summation
of 50 years of the WPR: there was a general political ebb (GPE);
Marx himself referred to this when he founded the First International
(International Working Men's Association). There is a difference
between the Manifesto of the Communist Party and the basic
argument for the International Workingmen's Association.
In 1891, imperialism
was undergoing a restructuring; a new division of the world was
underway. For 30 years it was not possible to seize power, nor resolve
the problem of forms of struggle and organization. It is not the
same today. In 1917, Lenin resolved it, and in 1949 Chairman Mao
resolved the problem of the road to revolution in semifeudal, semicolonial
and bureaucrat capitalist countries, and in the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), he resolved the problem of the
continuation of the socialist revolution under the dictatorship
of the proletariat.
- Chairman
Mao: Chapter on Cadres, in the 1st quote where he speaks about training
successors.
Thus, previously
we held that the Strategic Offensive of the World Revolution (SOWR)
began in the 1980s; today we have developed and we consider that
the period 1976-1980 represents only a few years. The SOWR began
with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, because it is the
highest peak reached by the WPR and the National Liberation Movement
(NLM) under the leadership of the proletariat. Thus Chairman Mao
sought to develop and deepen the WPR.
See Chairman
Mao's Quotations, chapter on imperialism, page 72: There are two
winds, the east wind is prevailing. In 1957, page 77: "Imperialism
will not last long."
Strive to
grasp the great stages, recall Chairman Mao: "the next 50-100 years...".
This means 2010 to 2060; therefore, a new wave is gestating, understand
it as part of the development of the contradiction between restoration
and counter-restoration. Keep in mind historical experience, the
law of the development of the Class Struggle. The Bourgeois Revolution
took 300 years to consolidate itself. In the sixteenth century,
the revolution took place in Holland, which was smashed by Spain
in the seventeenth century. In England, the triumph of the Bourgeois
Revolution took place in two parts: the revolution led by O. Cromwell
in 1640 failed, and in 1688 the "Glorious Revolution" triumphed,
with 48 years between the two. In the eighteenth century, the emancipation
of the United States occurred in 1776; the Revolution triumphed
in France in 1789. England became the world's leading power after
the defeat of the "Invincible Armada" (Naval Battle), so that it
took England almost 90 years before the bourgeoisie won out and
consolidated.
If the bourgeoisie
as a class needed 300 years to consolidate its power, it cannot
be demanded that the proletariat resolve it in the 66 years (2/3
of a century) that it has exercised its dictatorship in a State,
leading Socialist Revolution.
There is a
difference with the GPE of 1891 (Engels summed it up).
The present
GPE derives from the process of restoration, from the creation of
unfavourable public opinion of this whole stage of the Revolution
(140 years). So far, the GPE has lasted 3 years. In the light of
Marxism - and this is decisive and key in order to sketch out the
strategy of the WPR in the New Great Wave - we understand why this
period is a hinge between the culmination of a stage of the WPR
and the future Great Wave of the WPR. This is the argument for the
general political withdrawal, among other questions.
LENIN: "Karl
Marx taught the analysis of the problem of tactics". Dare to think,
dare to act, dare to decide, going against the tide is a Marxist
principle. Does everything we have analyzed go against what we've
been upholding, that "Revolution is the main trend"? We must make
a distinction.
1. TENDENCY.
From the historical point of view, it is incontrovertible and
inexorable that revolution is the main trend; it's enough to invoke
the process of development of the new, of contradiction; take into
account the example: the Pampas River arises and through a long,
zigzagging course full of bends and setbacks, it always reaches
the sea. We have to understand that history cannot go backwards,
development takes place in spirals and is uneven. Time is counted
in decades, not years; historical steps are not so brief. See the
accompanying general diagram.
2. REVOLUTION
AS A POLITICAL TENDENCY (Study very well). It will take at
least 5 to 6 years for the international situation and panorama
to clear up. (io) How is the United States' unshared
hegemony being concretized? How is the disintegration of Russia
being concretized? The strengthening and role of the other powers,
Japan and Germany? As for the camp of revolution, how is the General
Political Ebb (GPE) of the Revolution manifesting itself? What is
the opinion of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM)
regarding these questions? Chairman Mao teaches us that there are
100 paper communist parties. How is this manifesting itself today?
See what is the situation of the proletariat's parties and organizations.
What is the situation of the unions? These are realities that we
must thoroughly analyze. What is the situation of the class organizations,
the peasant organizations, of national and world public opinion?
The key is the leadership of the Communist Parties, the question
of the class, of the Anti-imperialist Movement.
IN SYNTHESIS,
thoroughly analyze the development of the class struggle, its laws,
tendencies and perspectives. The old mole, as Marx taught, has not
disappeared, he continues his work.
If the
political tendency doesn't exist, the historical tendency doesn't
exist. Today it is underground; we have to be able to understand
this. (io)
It has fallen
on us, and we are carrying the rubble of the disintegrations, the
restorations (USSR and China), but it exists daily within the Communist
Parties, in the communists, in the class, in the anti-imperialist
struggle. Socialism has existed, we've seen it, the main right is
the right to seize political power: it's right to rebel! And as
a consequence, it does not disappear, it is an underlying political
tendency. Marx analyzed this process; he taught us about the "deep
waters", "the old mole once again [grubs] the earth", thus it manifests
itself politically as underground waters; the political question
is decisive: the leadership of the Communist Parties. It's necessary
to go back and study this; it is very important to reaffirm revolution
as the main historical trend; politically it is operating daily.
On the world level, there is a new redivision of the loot, new contradictions
are gestating.
Slowly but
surely imperialism is dying - Third Plenary Session (IIIP.S.).
How is this
manifesting itself today? It continues unfolding, slowly but inexorably
dying. (Keep in mind the IIIP.S. on the sinking of the various imperialists);
but at the same time, there is a transitory recovery. What
Lenin taught in "Imperialism Highest Stage", "Social... and Imp...",
"Revis... and Imp..." is correct and fully valid.
How should
we see the question of imperialism today? We see it in the light
of MLM to resolve the new problems.
What are the
material bases of this situation? The economic base that determined
it was the oil, coal and steel industries. Today new sources of
economic work are developing, some very advanced: there are computers,
electronic communications, these are great processes of development,
genetics, the monopolies are paying attention to genetic modifications
(manipulation in plants and animals), even in new varieties; this
is a new line of oppression and exploitation. Always see the two
sides of a contradiction. All oppression gives rise to a class movement
against oppression.
If we look
at the question of war, the development of strategic weapons generates
a greater militarization of industry, greater investments linked
to electronic warfare, armament that is expensive to produce and
maintain and which rapidly becomes obsolescent. Their problems with
economic recession and its restrictions lead to the development
of conventional weapons. The privatization of the means of production
accumulated by the state is another worldwide phenomenon. How much
have the states accumulated with the means of production in their
hands? All this is being passed to the monopolies, to strengthen
their power. All these are questions that determine the bases for
this transitory economic recovery.
If we look
at the question of the state in particular, we see a tendency to
decrease its social functions. Who will assume its functions? In
the imperialist countries, the monopolies, for example, are taking
on the organization of insurance (in this country, the AFP), health
care, and educational services. A similar phenomenon is taking place
in regard to security, not only in terms of armament but also to
thwart or carry out industrial espionage. All this poses the question
of the various situations that form the context of the process of
the reactionary state of the dictatorship of the big bourgeoisie
(in our case, the big bourgeoisie and the landlords subjugated by
imperialism). Today their Armed Forces are being strengthened
and have a greater capacity to take political decisions. (io)
See the role
being taken on by the monopolies. Yesterday they divided up the
world; today they take on state functions.
Regarding
the international situation, the superpowers have not changed. Russia
continues to be a superpower based on its military capacity, its
strategic atomic power. It has problems in terms of its influence
abroad; its national problems are escalating, along with external
security problems. In Japan, Yeltsin told them not to claim the
four disputed islands. Russia continues to be a pole of influence.
See its international policy as undergoing a process of readjustment
and how it's going to back U.S. hegemony. Japan is becoming the
second power - it pays growing attention to its military weakness
and seeks to become more powerful, aiming to develop its own military
power. Germany is sinking France (its famous ally) to strengthen
its own currency.
Ideologically,
they are not erecting a new ideology, they are expressing its decrepitude.
They increasingly make use of the "failure of socialism", and with
this shore up their economic recovery; they say they have no ideology,
but they uphold liberalism. These are old banners they are dusting
off and using to manipulate public opinion.
Pay a lot
of attention to and be concerned with seeing their slow agony and
transitory recovery. The question of ebb -- if it is not seen in
this way, imperialism can't be fought. Lenin taught that imperialism
overall holds back the development of the productive forces. This
is a general law, it will be determinate at the end of the day.
On one side we see great abundance, and on the other side of the
contradiction we see 15 million children die every year before their
first birthday. Both questions can't be surmounted, they form a
contradictory unity.
How are the
empires sinking? (III.PS.) We analyze that this process takes place
through long periods, not short ones. Under slavery, the most developed
imperialism was Rome, and it sank through a process that lasted
over five centuries; under feudalism, the most outstanding imperialism,
Spain, also sank over the course of two centuries; under capitalism,
England did the same through a long period, over a century; Yankee
imperialism consolidated its position as a superpower after the
second world war, in a process that lasted five decades. Consequently,
one can predict that the process will be long, but obviously it
will be briefer than the previous ones, though clearly these are
long periods.
Revisionism
and Revolution: we have fought two revisionisms, the old one that
opposed the seizure of power after the second world war, and the
revisionism we are fighting now whose essence is restoration. In
synthesis, we always fight revisionism. (io)
* CONCLUSION.
Fight for the future wave of the World Revolution; Guide: Maoism!
2. The
bureaucrat road is laying a foundation for itself and becoming viable.
* Our starting
point is the analysis of how they are laying the bases and developing
a coherent strategy in the face of the People's War. Economically,
clearly they are establishing a basis, not only passing laws,
but applying them.
Since 1988,
there have been five years of recession. In 1993, the GDP grew by
6% after five years of growing recession. Inflation is also being
reduced. If we look at '82 to '93 from a strategic perspective,
the GDP fell by 26% and the population grew by 30%, so that they
still need to recover by 20% even without taking the population
increment into account. We must strive to see the steps being taken,
the increments obtained, as objective facts.
Regarding
Politics and State, they've elected their constitutional
councils, worked out the Constitution, they won the referendum,
the way is being opened for his re-election. This means establishing
the basis for the restructuring of the state.
Regarding
Pacification, their countersubversive war, they began with
civic action, then they proceeded to control the population, then
the rondas, their psy ops and intelligence operations that led to
the captures.
This whole
period of bureaucrat capitalism is going in a particular direction.
The concentration of political power. That's a necessity of this
process: A long-term plan and long-term government to push it forward,
lead it and apply it. Therefore bureaucrat capitalism is being jump-started.
(io)
* With the
capture of the Headquarters and the Central Leadership, imperialism
did not consider it necessary to intervene.
* On 24
September, Chairman Gonzalo, in his Speech, derived the Programme,
the PLF, the PLA, the New State and its relative stability; regarding
the people's war, the shift of the centre and all which that implies,
and he laid the basis for the masterful plan for a general political
withdrawal.
* The whole
process of the counter-revolutionary war led it to be successful.
* The jump-starting
of bureaucrat capitalism entrains a greater imperialist domination:
"Reinsertion".
* The border
problems with Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Brazil are putting the
Nation in peril.
In synthesis,
what is the situation with bureaucrat capitalism today?
There is no
powerful liberation movement, the struggle of the proletariat and
the people is weakened, and consequently is neither powerful nor
strong. Therefore, bureaucrat capitalism is being given a new impulse
and its plan is becoming viable, political and social rights are
becoming more restricted, all this is leading to the fact that the
deep class struggle will nourish the old mole.
Know how to
get one's bearings and deal with the laws of a process, see it in
perspective, the direction things are going in.
The strong
point, the most developed aspect of the democratic road: the People's
War. (io)
3. THE
PEOPLE'S WAR CANNOT DEVELOP BUT ONLY MAINTAIN ITSELF. (io)
There are six indispensable questions for victory in people's war:
1. Proletarian
leadership,
2. Base amongst
the masses,
3. Strategic
centralization,
4. Army of
a new type,
5. Protracted
people's war,
6. Favourable
international conditions.
Number six
does not exist; it's not principal, but it is necessary. The principal
question is no. 1, that it maintains a just and correct political
line, that it is capable of developing the people's war, giving
it a direction and the leadership of the Class.
We have problems
with numbers 1 and 3. They (the leadership outside) do not analyze
the new problems, the direction; number 4 needs to be built and
developed, "PLA" is not just a name; number 2 is not being taken
up and led as it should be under the new conditions. Who represents
the people in the elections? No one... Thus it all comes back
to protracted people's war, the problem is proletarian leadership.
(io)
* What have
we achieved?
- First,
we worked for a long time to launch the Armed Struggle and develop
the people's war, the Revolutionary Peasants' war led by the Party,
relying on its own bases, forces and on the masses, with class independence
-- the people's war has lasted 13 years.
- We have
dealt blows at the three mountains, there is more sweeping away
of semifeudalism, tearing apart of the system, we've fought bureaucrat
capitalism, we've shown what it means to evolutionize semifeudalism:
run the Peruvian state in opposition to revolution.
- We've
fought Imperialism in head-on struggle, the development of our war
has been a security problem for the U.S. since 1989.
- The
People's War has generated an Army of a New Type. (io)
- We have
formed a State of a New Type, that the class can lead, which never
happened before.
- Its repercussions
are enormous.
- In
synthesis: the people's war has given us five successes. (io)
1. The
people's war is the greatest revolutionary social movement in all
of Peruvian history, in terms of its programme, development and
duration. (io)
2. It has
served to defend Maoism as a third, new and higher stage, fundamentally
for strategic development on a world level.
3. It has
raised the Party's prestige to the highest level in its history,
with greater impact on the world.
4. We have
accumulated the most enormous revolutionary experience in Peru and
Latin America and one of the greatest in today's world.
5. It is
a great support to the proletarian world revolution, recognized
by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) as a vanguard
theatre of the World Proletarian Revolution; it is a moment when
the revolution is ending a great period. It is a hinge between two
waves.
It is an
example of how to base yourself on your own efforts and it has shown
that people's war is invincible. (io)
4. THE
PROBLEM OF LEADERSHIP CANNOT BE RESOLVED IN GOOD TIME.
5. NEW
GREAT DECISION, NEW GREAT DEFINITION: STRUGGLE FOR A PEACE AGREEMENT
AND LAY THE BASES FOR THE SECOND CONGRESS.
CONCRETE
TASKS
Uphold still
higher MLM,GT, struggle for a Peace Agreement and its application;
define the far-reaching impact of the people's war: the great Revolutionary
Social Movement in Peruvian history; link ourselves more deeply
to the broad masses, develop proletarian internationalism more.
Quote from Chairman Mao: "If a Revolutionary Party..." this is the
single axis and the great strength, defend it and strengthen it
against wind and tide, persist in taking the ideological-political
line as decisive for the people's war.
Culminate
the propaganda.
6. AS
LONG AS THERE ARE MASSES AND A PARTY, ALL MIRACLES WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED.
SO LET'S DEAL WITH THE GENERAL MILITARY PULLBACK, WHICH IS A CONSEQUENCE
OF THE GENERAL POLITICAL EBB. IT IS COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT BUT NECESSARY.
DEVELOP OTHER
FORMS OF STRUGGLE UNDER NEW CONDITIONS.
II.
ROUND OF TALKS.
1. First
contacts.
2. Rounds
of conversations. Ceremonies, peace agreements, first letter, general
outline, second letter.
3. Present
situation.
4. Circulation
of petition for an agreement.
5. Perspectives.
III
CONCLUSIONS AND TASKS.
1. Take up
and fight for a New Great Decision and Definition... Struggle for
a peace agreement and lay the basis...
2. Concrete
Party tasks.
3. Specific
tasks.
BASES
ON WHICH TO DEVELOP PEACE AGREEMENT.
1. Peruvian
public opinion is for peace. "It has become a necessity...."
2. Public
opinion is in favour of a diplomatic resolution. It is a necessity
for imperialism and the other imperialist powers.
3. It is
a necessity for the State and the government, so that they can continue
developing their evolutionary road. Problems of its present cost:
terms, re-election and long-term plan.
4. The Party's
actions: how does it take this up and carry it forward? Its ability
to put forward conditions depends on this. Commission of Delegates.
(io)
POLICY
TO BE CARRIED OUT.
1. No confrontations,
neutralize and respond measure for measure.
2. Change
our language, we are involved in diplomacy, which doesn't mean
tailing it. (io)
3. Distinguish
the main target to attack today, at this conjuncture.
4. The question
is the wise handling of the field of objective convergences.
R' [=] Rx'. (io)
5. This
is a Peace Agreement between the PCP and the Armed Forces by means
of the Government. Our political positions are confirmed, we said
how to resolve the contradictions between the Communist Party and
the Armed Forces and that is what is happening. (io)
- Develop
the two-line struggle, aiming to unite, fight so that there is as
little dispersal as possible; the Party is strong in politics, but
we are willing to have it that only a few remain; we will be the
most tested, the best defence is to attack. Let the membership be
seen as a relay mirror in the infamous attacks of the enemy; not
even the Armed Forces act like that.
- The other
hill also has its clear objective: that we never raise our heads
again and that the people's war is never repeated; and it can't
be denied that it is using this to win the referendum today and
tomorrow win re-election, because as the Peruvian state what it
needs is a long-term plan to restructure and restart. Demarcate
and be alert to alien machinations. (io)
- "Let
us trade a present of uncertain possibilities for a future with
real and certain perspectives."
QUOTATIONS
FROM CHAIRMAN GONZALO
1. "We Communists
struggle with absolute conviction in our goal, communism,
no matter how many battles we fight nor how many setbacks and difficulties
and even defeats we suffer in the twists and turns of the road to
victory."
2. "Risk
doesn't stop us, danger doesn't scare us. What must be done is done."
3. "We Communists
expect nothing and want everything; we want nothing for ourselves
as individuals and everything for humanity. Let communism shine
upon the Earth."
4. "We Communists
have only one interest, communism, and for it we would give the
only thing we have: our lives."
5. "Outside
of the Party we are nothing; inside the Party we are everything."
6. "A clear
mind, a resolute will and an inextinguishable passion" (Trilogy).
7. "We Communists
are free men because we deal with the laws with which we will transform
reality."
8. "We Communists
fight unflinchingly, even though we know that as individuals we
will be ground up, and extinguished in terms of the class from which
we arose."
9. "Man will
be truly man when communism is established upon the Earth."
10."We Communists
are the mortar of communism."
11. "Know
how to see sudden changes and take great decisions."
QUOTATIONS
FROM CHAIRMAN MAO
1. "Thoroughgoing
materialists are fearless. We hope that all those who struggle beside
us will valiantly assume their responsibilities, overcome difficulties
and have no fear of setbacks or mockery, and not hesitate to criticize
us communists and give us their suggestions."
2. "He who
does not fear the death of a thousand cuts dares to unhorse the
Emperor. This is the intrepid spirit we need in our struggle for
socialism and communism."
3. "Going
against the tide is a Marxist principle."
4. "Dare
to think, dare to speak, and dare to act."
OTHER
IDEAS
- "You
must have the courage to look at the bitter truth in the face."
- "Tell
the truth though you burst."
- "To know
men and deeds, you have to know them close up and judge them from
a distance" (Bolívar).
- "Men
come and go but deeds remain."
- "The
most effective weapon against the enemy is the unity of the leadership
and the led." (io)
- "It would
be easy to undertake a battle with the absolute assurance of winning
it" (Marx).
SLOGANS
TO BE USED
- "Struggle
for a Peace Agreement!" (This is the principal slogan and political
guide).
- "Uphold
and apply the call!"
- "Assume
the Responsibility and Fight for a New Great Decision and New Great
Definition!"
- "Glory
to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!"
- "The
PCP wants Peace, no more repression!"
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