Proletarians of all countries, unite!
In defence of the life of Chairman Gonzalo, hoist higher the flag of Maoism!
Finally now, listen to this. As we see in the world, Maoism is marching unstoppably to lead the new wave of world proletarian revolution. Listen well and understand! Those who have ears, use them. Those who have understanding - and we all have it - use it! Enough of this nonsense. Enough of these obscurities! Let us understand that! What is unfolding in the world? What do we need? We need Maoism to be embodied, and it is being embodied, and by generating Communist Parties it shall drive and lead this new great wave of the world proletarian revolution that is coming. (Speech of Chairman Gonzalo, Sep. 1992)
We,
the signing Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organizations, reaffirm
ourselves, in this solemn celebration of the 26th year of the
historical and transcendental speech of Chairman Gonzalo, in its full
validity and especially in defending the life of this Titan of Thought
and Action, the Great Leader of the Communist Party of Peru and the
Peruvian Revolution; who has defined Maoism as the new, third and
superior stage of Marxism and who established, that to be a Marxist
today is to be a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, principally Maoist. We
understand that the defence of Chairman Gonzalo implies to struggle in
the most consequent way to impose Maoism as the sole command and guide
of the New Great Wave of the Proletarian World Revolution, which is
already developing. We understand that this struggle is part of the task
to reunite the communists of the world, which implies to put the
principles of Marxism, the class interests of the international
proletariat, the struggle for liberation of the oppressed peoples and
nations, and in the end, the struggle for Communism, in the first place.
The
campaign for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of
the great Karl Marx – that was preceded by the celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Culutral Revolution and the 100th
Anniversary of the October Revolution - has marked a leap in the
struggle to unite the communists in the world. It is a campaign,
principally propelled by the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and
Organizations of Latin America, which is demonstrating a higher
ideological, political and organizational unity of a significant part of
the International Communist Movement (ICM) and in its development, new
forces are joining. Since the campaign for the celebration of the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao Tsetung, there was no similar
campaign in the ICM. For no one to be confused: the campaigns to support
the People’s Wars have obviously not been of the same character, as
this is a campaign of Parties and Organizations with an explicit
communist character – this fact calls for serious reflection, because it
is an expression of how the struggle for unity is developed on
practice, putting Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, the
struggle against revisionism and serving the world revolution as a
starting point, in summary, how the slogan Unite under Maoism!
Manifests.
It
is also important to highlight, for everyone who is willing to see,
that an important impulse in the ICM was given in the last years. In
many countries where the communist forces were on a very underdeveloped
stage, Parties and Organizations that uphold Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
reemerged and who struggle to reconstitute their Communist Parties that
were destroyed by revisionism. The majority of these forces took clear
position for the definition of Maoism made by Chairman Gonzalo. This
makes some people, aloof from any Marxist criteria, label them as
“Gonzaloists” and impute the left to be “sectarian and dogmatic”. Apart
from the obvious – that opportunism and revisionism have always branded
Marxists this way – it reveals that they have not understood that we are
in the period of struggle to impose Maoism as the sole command and
guide of the Proletarian World Revolution and that when assuming Maoism
as the third stage of development of the ideology of the international
proletariat, many parties and organizations, in essence, have only seen
it as changing one formulation, that to speak of Maoism was a “more
modern” form to speak about Mao Tsetung Thought.
So
the problem in the ICM is not principally rooted in that Maoism is not
formally acknowledged, but how some understand it, and this is why it is
important to start with who defined Maoism as the new, third and
superior stage of our ideology; because it is only by starting from what
was scientifically established by Chairman Gonzalo that we can
understand Maoism as one unit, as one harmonic system. If one does not
take the work of Chairman Gonzalo as a starting point, one falls into
eclecticism, counterposing quotes but not understanding the ideas. If we
understand this, we can understand the reason why there are not few
Parties and Organizations that, while taking longer time, have become
stuck and have not made leaps in their processes, while those who put
the most effort into learning from Chairman Gonzalo are, in general,
advancing principally in qualitative terms, but also in quantitative
terms. We advice those who rush to give labels to open their eyes to the
material truth instead of getting carried away by their imaginations.
If
we see the real state of the struggle for the reunification of the
communists in the world we can see that in many aspects we are much
better off than we were during the best moments of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement (RIM), because although the RIM was correctly
characterized by Chairman Gonzalo as a “step forward”, he also pointed
out - with his proper precision – that “as long as it follows a just and
correct ideological-political line” the RIM will be a step forward, and
it was, and it served to unite the communists on the basis of the red
line and this could be no other than the line of Chairman Gonzalo. That
is to say, the principal in the evaluation of the RIM is to state that
it served the Proletarian World Revolution – and particularly the
struggle to reunite the communists, while it served the struggle to
impose Maoism as its sole command and guide - that is to say, the
struggle which was led by Chairman Gonzalo - and that it ceased to play a
positive role when the revisionists of the “RCP” from United States -
taking advantage of the problematic situation of the left due to the
bend in the People’s War in Peru – turned to totally hegemonize it. We
must never forget that the unity is to serve the revolution and it only
serves it, if the interest of the proletariat is imposed. The unity of
the communists today in the world can only be achieved on the basis of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, or else it is not a unity
of communists but a kind of “front” with revisionism and opportunism.
RIM
was liquidated by revisionism’s handling of the two-line struggle. The
maneuver of Avakian was, to state - as a starting point of his
“criticism” of the second Right Opportunist Line, revisionist and
capitulationist, in Peru – that supposedly “the author would not matter,
only the line”, which precisely led to centering the debate on who “the
author” was. Or did this miserable not know that the communists of the
world would rise when their Great Leadership was questioned? This is how
the two-line struggle was derailed. The Problem for the left in the ICM
was the hard and complex situation in which the PCP entered after the
arrest of Chairman Gonzalo.
Despite
everything, the PCP continued fulfilling its role as the Red Fraction
in the ICM and the People’s War continued to be beacon and guide of PWR.
Because the life of the party can never be detained and the People’s
War was not stopped for even a moment. However, situations like the lack
of the Great Leader caused problems in the left. The right could then
state their positions (the attacks on the dictatorship of the
proletariat, the “justification of peace negotiations as tactics”, the
negation of semifeudality and evolution of bureaucratic capitalism, the
negation of the three characteristics of imperialism, etc.) and all this
remained in second place because the attention was centered on
“debating” the maneuvers of the psychological warfare of imperialism and
the sinister actions of traitors. Around the turning of the century,
the struggle was sharpened. Then the left went into trouble and a great
part fell into Avakian’s trap, the initiative fell into the hands of the
right and they could lead the two-line struggle into exploding and thus
revisionism liquidated the RIM.
No
one can blame the Marxists for revisionism’s crimes, but this
self-critical evaluation of the left is indeed necessary, its leadership
lacked the necessary maturity and foresight to prevent the intrigues of
revisionism, a problem that was extremely worsened by infiltration and
usurpation of whole apparatuses by secret services and police of the
reaction.
Prachanda
has even formally renegated Marxism-Leninism-Maoism while uniting with
the revisionists of UML, proving once again that he never was a Maoist,
that he was never the “great leader” that those who wanted to negate
what was put forward by Chairman Gonzalo and the PCP claimed so much,
unmasking himself before the world as the most miserable upstart,
trafficker and intriguer that has been seen in the last few decades in
the ICM. This miserable can not be qualified as a traitor anymore
because he has shown that in his whole life he was never a communist,
but the only thing he was interested in was his personal power and this
is why they have no choice but to call executioners of Nepalese
revolution, such as the rats of UML, “comrades”.
Years
have already passed since the gallant Avakian catapulted himself out of
the ranks of the ICM. His “new synthesis” is a rupture with Marxism,
is an absolute demarcation with the ideology of the international
proletariat, is an open and shameless negation of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Avakian, just like Alexander, proclaimed
himself god, the difference is that the latter did so to maintain his
empire and to control his new forces, while the former did it to
maintain his small degenerated court and to be able to continue
vegetating in the mud.
Although
the revisionist positions of both - principally the one of Avakian, for
being the head of the right - are still repercussing and the struggle
against them can not be declared finished, due to the fact that both
fled from the internal struggle in the ICM they can not be taken as the
center of the two-line struggle. To state that the center of the
struggle is to criticize those two miserables is to put forward the
conciliation with revisionism and is to leave the empty field to the
right.
The
principal problem is not with those who have gone away, the renegades,
but the ones that are part of the ICM. Yes, their poisonous line must be
dismantled and crushed, but that must be done particularly to further
unite on the base of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, with
the contributions of universal validity of Chairman Gonzalo and this
implies to debate the central points and particularly to achieve a
generalized understanding of Maoism as a unit.
There
are those that until now insist on spreading the counterrevolutionary
hoax (that Chairman Gonzalo is the head of the opportunist, revisionist
and capitulationist right opportunist line,).They argue with what was
stated by traitors (“he told me” or “he embraced me” and other gossip),
with what is controlled by imperialism and the psychological warfare of
the reaction (“courts” and “filtered” videos). Anything that comes from
whoever wants to throw mud at Chairman Gonzalo supposedly has to be
taken very seriously, has to be “analyzed” and has to break our heads to
enter into a discussion “whether or not it is him”. They are wrong,
because they do not understand that “the debate” has already been
closed, the communists have already taken a position and the matter is
settled: It was demonstrated that Chairman Gonzalo has not denied the
Party Unity Base of the PCP for a moment. He is the Great Leader of the
Party and the revolution, the greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist on
the face of earth, keeping on struggling to transform the concentration
camp of Callao Navy Base into the most Shining Trench of Combat of the
People’s War. What corresponds is to defend his life with People’s War.
26 years have already passed in which Chairman Gonzalo could not
directly communicate with the Party or the ICM; 26 years of absolute
isolation, this is what it concretely is. That imperialism, the reaction
and revisionism will continue to plot intrigues is clear, the contrary
would be that they have changed their nature (a thesis of the disciples
of the sacred Avakian, which is impossible), but we must not allow that
these intrigues stop the advance of the communists.
To
be clear: We communists reaffirm ourselves in the principle of
criticism and self-criticism and the seriousness of a Party that, as
Lenin taught us, is measured by its capability to assume self-criticism.
This is why we do not close the door to anyone, except to those who
stained their hands with the blood of the masses. Hence, if those who
committed grave mistakes and errors really want to correct themselves
they are very welcome; for this they have to demonstrate their condition
as communists and close ranks with the left, understand that to be a
Great Leader you have to move more than your “close and dear ones”, that
a proletarian Great Leader is not a ridiculous big shot but someone who
knows how to lead the transformation of the world.
On
this occasion of celebrating a new anniversary of the Speech of
Chairman Gonzalo, we particularly want to greet the comrades from the
Communist Party of Peru who are advancing through firm steps in the
general reorganization of the Party, that is already approaching the
days of its culmination; a process that is made in the midst of the
People’s War, proven one again with the recent forceful actions of the
People’s Liberation Army that maintains the People’s Committees and Base
Areas. We communists of the world acknowledge the extraordinary role of
the PCP and no one can doubt that the culmination of the reorganization
of this Party will mean a significant impulse for the Proletarian World
Revolution and will be a decisive piece in the struggle for the
reunification of the ICM.
We
must understand that what Chairman Gonzalo said on September 24, 1992,
is being fulfilled: Maoism is being embodied by the peoples of the
world, is generating Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Parties, is
starting to lead the New Great Wave of the Proletarian World Revolution.
What is up to us is to struggle for it to be further embodied, that the
ongoing People’s Wars advance, that the People’s War is as soon as
possible initiated in each country where there are Communist Parties,
that the struggle for the reconstitution of the Parties in those
countries were none of them exist gets propelled further, so that they
become Parties to initiate the People’s War. Understanding Maoism as a
unit, we will march with ever more clarity and firmness towards the
reunification of the communists on world level, smashing imperialism,
the reaction and revisionism, learning from Chairman Gonzalo.
Long live Chairman Gonzalo!
Unite under Maoism!
People’s War will inevitably win!
Unite under Maoism!
People’s War will inevitably win!
Signatures:
Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
Communist Party of Brazil (Red Faction)
Peru People's Movement (Reorganisation Committee)
Red Faction of the Communist Party of Chile
Maoist Organization for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of Columbia
Nucleus for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of Mexico
Committee Red Flag – FRG
Committees for the Founding of the (Maoist) Communist Party, Austria
US Red Guards
Serve the People – Communist League of Norway
Red Flag Collective (Finland)