September 27, 2021
Proletarians of all countries,
unite!
ETERNAL GLORY TO CHAIRMAN GONZALO!
„As a materialist I know that life will end some day.
What is most important to me is to be an optimist, with the conviction that
others will continue the work to which I am committed, and will carry it
forward until they reach our final goal, communism. Because the fear that I
could have is that no one would carry on, but that fear disappears when one has
faith in the masses. I think that the worst fear, in the end, is not to have
faith in the masses, to believe that you’re indispensable, the centre of the world.
I think that’s the worst fear and if you are forged by the Party, in
proletarian ideology, in Maoism mainly, you understand that the masses are the
makers of history, that the Party makes revolution, that the advance of history
is certain, that revolution is the main trend, and then your fear vanishes.
What remains is the satisfaction of contributing together with others to laying
the foundation so that some day communism may shine and illuminate the entire
Earth.“ – Chairman
Gonzalo
On
September 11th the vile assassination of Chairman
Gonzalo was consummated. The black heralds of reaction claim that the man is
dead and that he has already disappeared. But he is not, Chairman
Gonzalo lives in the communists and revolutionaries of Peru, in the deepest
bowels of the Peruvian proletariat and people; he lives in us, the communists
and revolutionaries of the world, in the hearts and minds of the international
proletariat and the peoples of the world. Chairman Gonzalo is not dead because
he is more than a man, he is a path, a thought, a luminous path which millions
follow with unshakable faith, raising the red flags of communism with the
hammer and sickle at the top, iron legions of workers and peasants are forged
under the leadership of the Communist Parties to storm the heaven. As
Chairman Gonzalo himself said at the moment he became a prisoner of war: they
came too late, their thoughts remain with the others. Chairman Gonzalo cannot
be disappeared.
Chairman
Gonzalo was an organic optimist, he had boundless confidence in the communists
and the masses, and he forged us to be so. Thus, at this moment when we
Marxist-Leninist-Maoists no longer have in flesh and blood among us the
greatest of us all and we feel the deepest sorrow, we will not allow tears to cloud
our eyes but our burning passion materialises into transformative power, fills
us with energy and further strengthens our resolve never to lay down our arms
until communism and to sweep with blood and fire with People’s War all
oppression and exploitation from the face of the earth. Let the cowardly
murderers know that the dreadful crime will not go unpunished, the people will
do justice as only the people know how to do it and revolutionary justice may
take time but it will come.
We all know
who the murderers are, they are the executioners of the people, they are the
imperialists, the reactionaries and the revisionists. They have names: Biden,
Castillo and Miriam. It is Yankee imperialism that has directed the
counter-revolutionary war in Peru, it is its nefarious CIA that has directed
the psychological warfare, as a key part of its so-called “low intensity
warfare”, against Chairman Gonzalo, the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and the
People’s War, and continues to do so. It has been the CIA, using its agents
such as Montesinos and Merino, who have fabricated the hoaxes against Chairman
Gonzalo and it is they who have directly directed the assassination; this is
the direct responsibility of the highest representative of US imperialism, the
genocidal war-monger Biden. The genocidal Armed Forces of the old Peruvian
state, who with their bloody claws directly executed the assassination, as part
of the genocide against the PCP and the Peruvian people. But, their insane
hyena hatred could only have free passage under the political cover of the
government of the rondero Castillo and his criminal gang of opportunists, of
sell-outs and fascists of all stripes; only under the cover of a “leftist”
government did the Armed Forces dare to carry out the crime that they did not
dare to do under all the previous governments. It has been the rat Miriam, who
is the head of the revisionist and capitulationist right-opportunist line, who
from the first moment, has lent her “prestige” to give “credibility” to the
hoax of the “peace agreement”; it has been she, who with her “phone call”, with
the video montages, the “poems” and the “mamotretos”, who has made possible the
damage that the reactionary operatives have caused to the PCP and the People’s
War; that rat will go down in history as the most sinister arch-traitor; who,
following the example of Lin Piao, iconised Chairman Gonzalo in order to
overthrow and kill him, the most filthy revisionist who in vain tried to
liquidate the Party and the People’s War and ended up with her hands stained
with the sacred blood of Chairman Gonzalo.
Chairman
Gonzalo defeated all the plans of the counter-revolution. At no time, when we
could hear his voice, did he put forward anything other than his usual
position: that the People’s War will inevitably win and that his arrest was
only a bend in the long road of the Peruvian revolution to the conquest of
power throughout the country. He transformed the concentration camp of the
Callao Naval Base into the highest Shining Trench of Combat of the People’s
War and, until his last moment, fought ceaselessly for the triumph of the
People’s War as part of and in service of the proletarian world revolution,
never betraying his condition by going down on his knees in absolute isolation.
Therefore, there has never been and never will be any proof or basis for the
absurd accusations against him; the “peace agreement” remained ashes in the
wind, the “retreat of the world revolution” and “the fourth stage of the Party
and Peruvian society” as well as all the rest of the revisionist
barbarities, never came out of Chairman Gonzalo’s mind or mouth.
What remains
for eternity is his theoretical and practical work in the service of the
struggle for the true emancipation of humanity, for the struggle for communism.
Although it is only in time that we will be able to appreciate the full
importance of Chairman Gonzalo’s life and work, because this is always the case
with historical figures of his stature, only a brief review of the facts allows
us to see his gigantic role.
With a
handful of communists, Chairman Gonzalo initiated the reconstitution of the
PCP, cleansed the Party of revisionism and in a hard struggle for almost twenty
years armed it as a war machine, putting it in a position to initiate the
People’s War on May 17, 1980, culminating the reconstitution. The People’s War
shook Peru, Latin America and the world; Chairman Gonzalo formed the
revolutionary armed forces of the Peruvian people (today the People’s
Liberation Army) and led the construction of the New Power (People’s Committees
and Revolutionary Support Bases). Thus, he provided the Party, the class, with
the main instrument of the revolution for the people and gave the broadest and
deepest masses, mainly the poor peasantry, the possibility to exercise their
power, to live their true democracy and to enjoy for the first time the fruits
of their sweat and blood.
Very
particularly, we stress that Chairman Gonzalo personally led the Marxist First
Congress of the PCP, fulfilling the task left pending by Mariátegui, where the
Basis of Party Unity of the PCP was established, which contains three elements:
the ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, the Programme and the
General Political Line with its centre the Military Line, where in the highest
form is expressed Gonzalo Thought. This Basis of Party Unity is what today,
more than ever, unites the communists of Peru; whoever does not fully and
completely adhere to it is not a militant of the PCP. There has not been and
will not be a party event of the PCP that denies the First Congress, on the
contrary all the subsequent main events such as the three Plenums of the
Central Committee of the PCP, have been guided and subject to the First
Congress. It is the task of the Peruvian communists to solve all the pending
problems of the revolution in the country by adhering to the
Basis of Party Unity and applying it to the new conditions.
Since the
death of Chairman Mao and the revisionist coup in China in 1976, Chairman
Gonzalo has been the main protagonist of the red line within the International
Communist Movement. Proving with the People’s War in Peru the universal
validity of Maoism, he defined it as the third, new and higher stage of the
ideology of the international proletariat and it was he who put forward for the
first time the great truth that to be a Marxist today means to be a
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. By creatively applying the universal truth of Maoism,
he has endowed the international proletariat with important contributions in
the development of its theory and practice, the importance of which no one can
deny – it is enough to see how with his profound understanding of the
process of bureaucratic capitalism he has decisively armed us to
dismantle all the revisionist machinations that seek to negate the
democratic revolution in the oppressed countries, denying semi-feudalism in
order to put forward a “socialist revolution” with “accumulation of forces” by
legal means, to understand the full relevance of its contributions, to
name just one example.
Today, when
we strive for the holding of the Unified Maoist International Conference to
make a decisive leap in the struggle for the reunification of the communists in
the world and to realize a New International Organization of the Proletariat,
we follow the example of Chairman Gonzalo who always fought for the unity of
the communists and taught us, that in this complex process we must start from
the common principles and agreements, based on them, to reach higher levels of
unity in the midst of the class struggle and the two-line struggle.
There can be
no doubt that the figure of Chairman Gonzalo is that of a giant of the
international proletariat, his work is immortal and will live forever.
Today the
communists of the world close the ranks around the PCP
and honour Chairman Gonzalo by lending all our efforts to support the
General Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Peru in order to give a great
impulse to the development of the People’s War. We know that our comrades, as
continuators of the revolution forged by Gonzalo,
are struggling tenaciously to accomplish that task in the midst of
the People’s War and we are fully convinced that the more they stick to what
Chairman Gonzalo has established, the more rapidly they will solve
the pending problems. It is our red flag that is flying in Peru
and we defend it as such.
We raise our
flags to the top. We stand at Attention raising our clenched fists. To the
sound of the Internationale we pledge to follow the example of
Chairman Gonzalo, to learn from him and that he will live in us forever.
LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!
THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN PERU WILL INEVITABLY WIN!
DEATH TO REVISIONISM!
UNITE UNDER MAOISM!
ETERNAL HONOUR AND GLORY TO CHAIRMAN GONZALO!
24 September 2021
Signatures:
Communist
Party of Peru
Communist
Party of Brazil (Red faction)
Communist
Party of Colombia (Red Faction)
Red Faction
of the Communist Party of Chile
Committee
Red Flag – FRG
Communist
Party of Ecuador – Red Sun
Committees
for the foundation of the (Maoist) Communist Party of Austria
Committee
for the Reconstitution of the Communist Party of the United States
Committee
for the Construction of the maoist Communist Party of Galicia
Serve the
People – Communist League of Norway
Maoist
Committee in Finland
Irish
Socialist Republicans
Proletarian
Power – MLM Party Organisation Colombia
(Marxist-Leninist)
Workers’ Party – Spanish State
More
signatures pending to be confirmed.
