September 30, 2021
Proletarians of all countries,
peoples and oppressed nations, unite!
Glory and Eternity to Chairman Gonzalo
The son and the Great leader of the world proletariat!
* We are living historic moments, each of us
knows that this is the case, let us not fool ourselves. In these moments we
must strengthen all forces to confront difficulties and continue carrying out
our tasks. And we must conquer the goals! The successes! The victory! That is
what is to be done..
* We are here in these circumstances. Some think
this is a great defeat. They are dreaming! We tell them to keep on dreaming. It
is simply a bend, nothing more, a bend in the road. The road is long and we
shall arrive. We shall triumph! You shall see it.
.(Speech by Chairman Gonzalo, September 24, 1992.)
On September 11, 2021, Chairman Gonzalo gave his life to defend
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. On September 11, 2021, this great proletarian
communist leader who spent the last 29 years of his life in total isolation. He
was a prisoner of war in the cellars of the enemy prison of the reactionary
Peruvian comprador state puppet of American imperialism in the midst of leading
the New Democracy Revolution and the Peruvian People’s War and as part of the
world proletarian revolution, on that day Comrade Gonzalo fell as a martyr,
destroying all plans of imperialism and reaction and all the
counter-revolutionary forces which sought by his isolation to deal a severe
blow to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and to liquidate all the great contributions of
Gonzalo’s thought.
Chairman Gonzalo was martyred days before the commemoration of the 29th
anniversary of his inspirational speech he gave behind bars in his captivity
the day after his arrest in September 1992. This speech was a torch that
transcended all the darkness of reactionary, revisionist and opportunist
propaganda. It was a weapon of combat and guide for all communists of the
world, for all Marxist-Leninist-Maoists of the world and revolutionaries and
oppressed masses and peoples to persevere and insist on the struggle until the
bright future of humanity is reached: Communism.
Today we commemorate this speech just as we bid farewell to comrade Gonzalo as
a martyr … but if the Communists die, Communism will never die!
We commemorate this inspiring speech and which is a guide and a combat weapon
in the hands of the Communists to overcome the difficulties and obstacles of
this period of the counterrevolutionary attack carried out by class enemies of
all types, to break the siege of the enemy, liquidation attacks and
capitulation. To crush all attempts to hinder the achievement of the essential
tasks entrusted to us: to build (or rebuild) the Communist Parties – as Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
parties, mainly Maoist and inspired by the luminous contributions of Gonzalo
thought, and to build the three magical weapons, tools of the revolution to
start and wage the people’s war the only way to impose the power of the
proletarian dictatorship through the new democratic revolutions in the colonial
/ semi-colonial and semi-feudal countries and through the socialist revolutions
in the imperialist countries, and the continuation of the revolution until the
establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat and to defend it by
cultural revolutions, arms in hands, until reaching the ultimate final goal of
humanity: communist society.
Comrade Gonzalo’s speech represented the fruit and the result of the long and
tenacious struggle against the class enemies: imperialism, the comprador and
feudalism, as well as against the current of modern revisionism. The speech is
the result of the two-line struggle waged to impose the reconstruction of the
Communist Party and to start and guide the people’s war, to crush the rotten
power of class oppression and to build on its ruins the new state of new
democracy by the creative application of the laws of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism on
the concrete and specific conditions of Peruvian society, showing to the whole
world the universal validity of Maoism as a new and superior third stage of
Marxism, and from leading the fight to the international scale against modern
revisionism in all its forms and colors after the revisionist coup in China
after the death of comrade Mao and after the betrayal of Hoxha in Albania, as
well as against the counter-revolutionary attack launched by imperialism,
reaction and opportunists of all types, and the crushing of reactionary
ideological propaganda against the Communism in the 80s and 90s of the last
century.
Marxism has not taken a single step forward without making enormous sacrifices,
passing through obstacles and engaging in a bitter struggle. The great leaps in
the development of Marxism and the world proletarian revolution have been
revered by the struggles, sacrifices and contributions of the great proletarian
communists. Marxism took a step forward only in the midst of the class struggle
and the struggle against revisionism as one of the main fronts of the class
struggle. This was the case during the Great October Revolution and Leninism,
when, under the leadership of Comrade Lenin, the revisionists of the Second
International were confronted, exposed and crushed. The same happened with the
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and Maoism, when Comrade Mao Zedong led
the struggle against modern Khrushchevite revisionism which ended the first
proletarian dictatorship after the death of Comrade Stalin. Today, the struggle
to impose Maoism as the leader and Guide of the world proletarian revolution in
its two types: the new democratic revolutions in the colonial / semi-colonial
and semi-feudal countries and the socialist revolutions in the imperialist
countries, and what Comrade Gonzalo has constantly pursued and strived for.
To wage the bitter struggle between Marxism and revisionism and all the
opportunist theses is not “a bad thing” or “harmful” or a “destroyer of rank
unity” or “luxury of intellectualism”, as some demand it, on the contrary, it
is the opposite and this is precisely what is required and the duty of genuine
communists for the advancement of the wave of international proletarian
revolution and the development of Marxism itself. This is exactly the path to
be taken and the fight to be waged in order to realize the true unity of the
communists at the local level and on the world scale and for the victory of the
proletarian revolutions. This struggle is being waged today, even among the
ranks that raise the banner of Maoism, as emerging theses that attempt, openly
or in a camouflaged manner, to revise the principles and laws of Marxism at the
time of counter-revolutionary attack and in the face of the local and
international situation and at the time of the structural crisis experienced by
the imperialist system and the accentuation and intensification of the
fundamental contradictions in the world today (the contradiction between
imperialism and the peoples and oppressed nations, the inter-imperialist
contradiction and the contradiction between capital and labor), in the era of
imperialism and proletarian revolutions.
In order to be able to lead the struggle to accomplish our strategic tasks and
defeat the reactionary comprador and feudal imperialist enemy campaigns, we
cannot let ourselves be carried away by the imperialist propaganda which only
serves its class profits and its purpose and to drown the revolutionaries in
the tide of despair, surrender and betrayal.
Chairman Mao warns us that during the important stages and moments of the
revolution, we must understand all things and events, from our own point of
view, from the point of view of the proletariat, never to forget the class
struggle, in applying the law of contradiction to practice. And if we fail in
the firm application of this, revisionist ideas and theses hostile to M-L-M
will spread and be expressed through multiple tactics and appearances.
Chairman Gonzalo was well aware of this basic truth of the danger of the lack
of materialist and dialectical understanding of important events and obstacles
that arise in the course of the revolution. This is what his immortal words
alert us to when he describes the situation at the time of his arrest and the
reactionary attacks against the Communist Party of Peru and the glorious
People’s War by imperialism, he declares and repeats it loud and clear: ” We
are here in these circumstances. Some think this is a great defeat. They are
dreaming! We tell them to keep on dreaming. It is simply a bend, nothing more,
a bend in the road ! “.
Despite the harsh attacks, encirclement and annihilation, despite
capitulationism and liquidationism, despite the weakness of the subjective
factor and its uneven development or even its absence of action or completely
in some countries, revolution is the main tendency. So, in analyzing and trying
to realize an understanding of the development of the class struggle at the
local national and international level, we must take as a premise what Lenin
said when he considered imperialism to be a parasitic and dying monopoly, and
this is the highest and last stage of capitalism, and matures the conditions
for revolution.
Commenting on the Suez Canal incident in 1956, Chairman Mao Zedong said: “The
pressure imposed by the United States was great, and they (British imperialism)
had lost their leadership in their quest to dominate the Middle-East and push
back the United States”. Then he concludes: “By this incident, we can
accurately determine the center of conflict in the world today … The
imperialist countries compete to dominate many regions under the pretext of
confronting communism. Which regions they compete to dominate? These are the
regions of Asia and Africa with a population of 1000 million people. Currently,
their conflict revolves around the Middle-East, a region of great strategic importance,
in particular the region around the Suez Canal in Egypt. In the Middle-East
there are two kinds of contradictions and three kinds of conflicting forces.
The two kinds of contradictions are: First, the contradiction between the
imperialist powers, the United States and the Great Britain – the United States
and France. Secondly, between the imperialism and oppressed nations. The three
types of power are: First, the United States, the greatest imperialist power,
second Great Britain and France, imperialist powers of second degree. And
third, the oppressed nations. National liberation movements are spreading in
these regions. The methods the United States uses are violent and non-violent,
and that is the game they are playing in the Middle East. “
This situation which prevailed in the middle of the last century that Comrade
Mao commented on is still valid to describe the current situation. The only
change is the identity of which competing imperialists and the motives
(pretext) for their maneuvering. Thus, today’s inter-imperialist competition in
this region is essentially between: Russian imperialism and the ascending
Chinese social-imperialism on the one hand, and mainly American imperialism and
the rest of the imperialists on the other… This inter-imperialist struggle is
aimed at securing the seizure and control of the energy corridors and the oil
and gas energy resources of the region and the control of this strategic area
of the world. The contradiction: world imperialist powers on one hand, and the
masses of peoples and oppressed nations (the Arab nation, Afghanistan…) on the
other hand, is intensifying. The form of their inter-imperialist struggle –
that is, between the imperialist powers – remains at the direct, peaceful and
non-violent non-military level. And due to the economic situation of recent
years characterized by the general crisis of the capitalist system which is
accentuated, and after imperialism has exhausted its resources in its wars of
aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq mainly and in other countries of the world,
she (the imperialists) is changing tactics and slogans. The imperialists today
wage their wars of aggression and oppression under the banner of “promoting
democracy and political freedoms, and citizenships”. On the ground, and as
weapons of combat of reactionaries of all types, opportunists, NGO’S, the
Zionist entity, ISIS and Nosra, are manipulated to lead the violent form of
this inter-imperialist struggle and aggression against the oppressed people and
nations under the form of “civil wars” as well as by imposing the embargo and
sanctions by means of its international “diplomatic” tools (UN., EU …), against
any rebel force by alternating military force by their puppets on the spot and
military violence (air strikes, naval bombardments, etc.) against the masses
and forces in the region who refuse to submit to the dictates of the oppressor
and slavery. However, in this war of aggression imperialism does not have a
free hand to implement its policies and plans, as it faces the stubborn
resistance and steadfastness of the forces and masses of this region of the
world – and the Arab people are waging a valiant struggle and resistance even
being under the command of non-proletarian class forces which struggle
according to their vision, class limits and class interests and marked weakness
or lack of genuine proletarian organization: a communist party, to lead the
struggle according to the strategy and tactics and interest of the proletariat.
It is a general attack because, in addition to being carried out by
imperialism, revisionism and international reaction, it extends into the
ideological, political and economic field. Despite this general character of
the counterrevolutionary attack, some of those who brandish the banner of Maoism
adopt out of conscience or “ unconsciously ” the imperialist theses and
propaganda, so they adopt analyzes and positions which reflect this genre of
theses, as during the evaluation of this so-called “Arab Spring”: this
unchained reactionary imperialist attack is seen as a revolutionary tide and a
historic victory !! .. without proletarian leadership .. without revolutionary
program.. nor people’s war.. This position which can only sow illusion and
confusion and attack the M-L-M line, aborting the process of its construction
(or reconstruction) and prevents the masses from clearly distinguishing their
enemies and allies and the true path for its emancipation, that is to say the
people’s war, the most complete strategy, and the most superior for our class.
Some abandon the revolutionary program of the revolution of new democracy and
the path of people’s war for a reformist program by adopting the tactic of the
“program for the establishment of political freedoms: parliamentary
competition, legalism …” as an essential condition to prepare for the
revolution, under the pretext of realizing “the conditions of struggle,
mobilization and training of the masses in practice and legality !!” in “peace”
as they claim, the peaceful way to “seize” political power. A program of
blatant reformism whose essence is to adopt the “parliamentary path”, a program
of capitulation, a program to abandon the MLM and the way of People’s war the
only way for the radical revolutionary transformation and the annihilation of
the semi-feudal and reactionary relations and mode of production and the
imperialist oppression and the conquest of political power.
Some, by theorizing and justifying ‘’spontaneism’’ under the guise of uniting
with the mass movement separating the masses from their vanguard while
neglecting the real role of this vanguard.
Other deviationist positions are manifested by revising the position on the
nature of society – of the social structure and the negation of the domination
of semi-feudal relations in the colonies / semi-colonies to say that the
contradiction in this type of societies and the contradiction between capital
and labor, and deny the role of the communists in solving the national question
in the oppressed countries and nations (denying the existence of an oppressed
nation: the Arab nation) and reducing this revolutionary task – in the era of
imperialism and proletarian revolutions – to a simple “removal of traces of
colonial intervention and the abolition of imperialist interests” or even to
consider that these oppressed nations have become free nations and have had
their independence!!
Other deviations which claim by the reduction of limits and distances with the
revisionist, Trotskyist and anti-Maoist forces under the pretext “For the unity
of the left” or to attack the thesis of guiding thought as result and product
inevitable of the creative application of the general truth of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the specific reality of each country and the
negation of this concept …
It is no coincidence that in tribute to Chairman Gonzalo, this great communist
leader and fighter and beloved son of the international proletariat, that we
take the opportunity to highlight some aspects of deviations that are
manifested in the international communist movement and more particularly in the
Arab communist movement.
The fight against Revisionism and the deviations that emerge throughout the
course of the revolution side by side with the fight against imperialism and
its lackeys is the path that comrade Gonzalo practiced while leading the
process of reconstitution of the Communist Party of Peru and creating the
foundations for the initiation and outbreak of People’s War in that country. He
practiced it internationally in the face of revisionism and within the
international communist movement and the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement and urged us to lead it.
The history of the world proletarian revolution and the situation of the
international communist movement today clearly highlight the need to lead the
struggle against revisionism as a major danger, a struggle which, as we have
said, emerges from the contradiction between revolution and counter-revolution,
and it is at the center of the fundamental question of Maoism: the question of
the conquest and the defense of political power. Although revisionism today has
circumstantial successes in hampering revolutions and spreading mistrust and
skepticism in M-L-M to hamper the advancement of the revolution – as assured by
the right opportunist line (LOD) in Peru – Communists must cling to Marxist
principles, adhere to the masses and reality, apply the principles of M-L-M,
mainly Maoism, and rely on the contributions of Comrade Gonzalo, on the
conditions of each country to accomplish the great task incumbent on all Communists:
Parties, organizations and individuals, which is to combat and unmask the
subversive role of the revisionist and opportunist forces which obstruct the
task of building or reconstitution of the Communist Parties, and in order to
prepare, launch and develop people’s war according to the concrete conditions
of each country.
The struggle against revisionism and opportunism will only reach its full
extent by uniting and leading the masses in the face of the reactionary
imperialist oppression which is being waged against them.
On September 24, 1992, the imperialists and their puppet of the reactionary
regime in Peru wanted to make the presentation of Comrade Gonzalo in a cage an
opportunity to humiliate him and the international proletariat to claim victory
over communism. However, his cry shattered their black dream. Comrade Gonzalo
cried out to the whole world with a raised fist, pointing out the power of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and showing the only way to achieve emancipation from
class slavery: protracted people’s war.
Glory and eternity to Chairman Gonzalo!
Let us raise high the flag of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism!
Let’s apply the luminous contributions of Comrade Gonzalo!
People’s war until communism!
Long live communism, crush revisionism, opportunism and liquidationism!
ARAB Maoists
September 24, 2021
