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Suppression of News in Peru and Political
Statements Prevented from Reaching the People

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      Some of the documents posted here are taken from the redspark.nu or maoists.org websites and we assume they are unmodified documents from the original sources, such as the Communist Party of Peru. Also, there seem to be several different trends which are now calling themselves the CPP. We do not always know which trend has originated the more recent documents posted below.

      If you know of other suppressed or difficult to find documents and news reports that should be posted here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net

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Government Censorship and the Suppression of Ideas in Peru

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Communist Party of Peru

• Collections:
  • [Book:] “Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru, Volume 1 — 1968-1987”, edited/published by Christophe Kistler and Josef Hallqvist, (Utrecht: 2016), 464 pages.   PDF format (11,352 KB)
  • [Book:] “Collected Works of the Communist Party of Peru, Volumes 1-4 — 1968-1999”, no publication info, not dated, 1,953 pages.   Epub format (1,119 KB)
  
  
• Documents:
  • “General Political Line of the Communist Party of Peru”, (1988), 96 pages. (Better formatted version.)   Searchable PDF format (394 KB)
  • “Two Documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru”, (Berkeley, California: The Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru), 43 pages. Includes: “Develop Guerrilla Warfare” (March 1982) and “Don’t Vote! Instead Expand the Guerrilla War to Seize Power for the People!” (Feb. 1985).   PDF format (1,783 KB)
  • “We Are the Initiators”, a document of the First Military School, Communist Party of Peru, April 19, 1980, 9 pages.   PDF format (267 KB);   MS Word (.docx) format (116 KB)
  
  
• Chairman Gonzalo and Gonzalo Thought:
  • [Book:] “Guerra Popular en el Peru: el Pensamiento Gonzalo”, ed. by Luis Arce Borja, (Bruxelles: June 1989), 423 pages. Has some underlining; our apologies.   Spanish: PDF format (21,281 KB)
    Separate scan of just volume 2 of this work (1994: 310 pages).   Spanish: Searchable PDF format (15,915 KB)
  • [Book:] “Chairman Gonzalo — On the Bourgeois-Democratic State”, (Germinal Publications, May 2022), 126 pages. This is the English translation of the thesis written by Abimael Guzmán (later known as Chairman Gonzalo) for his degree in Law. It was written in 1961 at the age of 27.   English: Searchable PDF format (11,708 KB)  
  
  
• Mariátegui:
  • “El Marxismo, Mariátegui y el Movimiento Femenino”, by the Movimientio Femenino Popular, (Lima, Peru: 2nd ed., April 1975, in Spanish, 82 pages. (With extensive underlining; our apologies.)   Searchable PDF format (8,914 KB)
    “Marxism, Mariátegui and the Feminist Movement”, a document attributed to the Communist Party of Peru, not dated, but probably originally from 1973 or 1975. (This is the first English language edition in India, April 2002, 34 pages.)   PDF format (2,996 KB)
  • [Book:] “Marxism, Mariategui and Latin American Marxist Theory”, by Marc Becker, (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, Latin America Series #20, 1993), 247 pages.   Searchable PDF format (10,580 KB)
  
  
• Statements:
  • 2016:
    • “Por el 88 Anniversario del Partido Communista del Perú ¡Viva el Partido y la Revolución!”, by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru, October 2016, 4 pages. [It is unclear which of the several existing fractions of the CPP published this document. —Ed.]   Spanish: PDF format (272 KB);   Spanish: MS Word format (.docx) (21 KB)

Peru People’s Movement [MPP]
This is (or was) one dogmatic faction of CPP members and supporters, mostly located outside of Peru, who—after the arrest of Chairman Gonzalo—refused to believe that he had called for an end to the People’s War. They may have gone on to constitute one of several factions of the current CPP.

• “Bombard the Bourgeois Headquarters of CoRIM”, by the MPP-Switzerland, July 1997, 4 pages. [From the Internet Archive, “Way Back Machine”.]   PDF format   (211 KB)

International Support for the Peruvian Revolution

• “Fire in the Andes”, a pamphlet consisting of 4 articles from the Revolutionary Worker in 1983, published by the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, (Berkeley, California: Revolution Books, 1983), 20 pages.   Searchable PDF format (1,394 KB)
• “La Revolucion en el Peru”, by El Comite de Apoyo a la Revolucion en el Perú   [“Revolution in Peru”], (Berkeley, California: Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru, 1985/1986).   English: Searchable PDF format (1985, 48 pages: 4,785 KB);   Spanish: PDF format (1986, 53 pages: 3,009 KB)

Academic Works on the Peruvian Revolution

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News Reports and Other Information

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