Proletarians of all countries,
unite!
Firmly
subject to the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and his almighty Gonzalo
Thought to strive for the completion of the GRP!
Today we
celebrate the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Peru
by José Carlos Mariátegui on October 7, 1928. This year, the celebration is
part of and serves the International Campaign for the Defence of Chairman
Gonzalo’s Great Leadership and his Almighty Gonzalo Thought being carried out
by the Maoist Parties and Organisations of the World.
The
communists, revolutionaries and peoples of the world are mobilising powerfully
and combatively in the different continents and countries highlighting the
great deed of the sacrifice of one’s own life by Chairman Gonzalo (September
11, 2021), winning a great political, military and moral victory for Maoism,
the Communist Party of Peru, the people’s war, the democratic revolution on the
uninterrupted march to socialism and communism, for the class, for the Peruvian
people and the peoples of the world, for the international communist movement.
September 11 will be remembered by all the communists of the world for this
great historical significance of universal scope.
With
grandiose actions the proletariat and the peoples of the world take up in
theory and practice the defence of the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and
his almighty Gonzalo Thought. With ever increasing anger and the deepest class
hatred they are demonstrating their crushing, condemnation and rejection of
this horrendous and ignominious crime against Chairman Gonzalo committed on the
orders of the head of US imperialism, the genocidal Biden and consummated by
the president of the old Peruvian state Pedro Castillo Terrones with the
service of the rats of the revisionist and capitulationist right opportunist
line (ROL). The reactionary government headed by opportunism with the
participation of the rats of the ROL (Modavef) has covered itself with
counterrevolutionary genocidal infamy showing its true fascist entrails as the
new head of the regime inaugurated by Fujimori with the “self-coup of 1992”. On
September 24, in an official act for the day of the reactionary army, the
genocidal Castillo has justified the genocide committed by the Armed Forces of
the old landlord-bureaucratic state, at the service of imperialism, mainly
Yankee, against the Peruvian people in the counterrevolutionary war since 1980
to date.
We
reiterate, that the people and only the people with people’s war will apply due
punishment for the immense and ignominious crime to all these miserable
imperialists; reactionaries and traitorous rats of the ROL.
The heroic
death of Chairman Gonzalo must serve to give a more powerful impulse to the
still pending task of overcoming the complex and difficult situation into which
the people’s war entered after his arrest and mainly because of the treason of
the rats of the revisionist and capitulationist right opportunist line (ROL),
which was structured in prisons with the help of the Yankee CIA and the
Peruvian reaction, headed by the rat Miriam. ROL, which called to end the
people’s war, that is, to betray the people’s war, to disown Chairman Gonzalo
and Maoism and Gonzalo Thought, the BPU approved at the First Congress of the
PCP, all in exchange for better prison conditions and to serve the plans of
imperialism and reaction to destroy the Great Leadership of the party and
Gonzalo Thought, serving the absolute and perpetual isolation of the Chairman.
The rat Miriam, the head of the ROL, from the beginning has lent herself to
trying to give “credibility” to the hoax of the CIA-Peruvian reaction-ROL
“peace agreement”; it has been she, who with her “phone call”, with the video
montages, the “poems” and the monstrosities, 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 Lin Piao-style
arch-traitor, the most filthy revisionist who tried in vain 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 has paid his dues to serve the development of the people’s war demands,
which demands the realization of the overdue task of the general reorganization
of the Party by smashing the low-intensity counterrevolutionary war led by US
imperialism and the rats of the revisionist and capitulationist ROL.
As a
revealing mirror of revisionism and to serve the task of the general
reorganisation of the Party, in this celebration of the 93rd anniversary of the
founding of the PCP, the heroic fighter leading the revolution, we transcribe
below the outline on Problems of the History of the Party, as seen in the 1st
Congress of the Party, that we have three moments in our process: that of the
Constitution, Reconstitution and Leadership of the People’s War. Within these
three parts of the party process, since it was founded by Mariátegui and its
background, we take some problems:
I CONSTITUTION.
We pose the
following problems:
– struggle
for the constitution of the Party.
We consider
this point to be very important. First, our position that Mariátegui founded
the Communist Party of Peru must be made clear; we reject that Ravinez founded
it because historically it is not so, it was Mariátegui himself who proposed
the change of name of the Party and that it be called the Communist Party of
Peru, that was his proposal, only that he died and Mariátegui’s proposal was
sanctioned in a party meeting after his death, that is the problem, but the
Party was not founded by Ravinez, that is not true…
To make the
struggle very clear, particularly the struggle waged against Haya de la Torre
and his ideas of nascent aprismo. We are only interested in the struggle of
Mariátegui against the criteria and positions of Haya de la Torre; more so now,
because it is not only being said that there is a Haya-Mariateguism, even
putting Haya ahead, not only that, some even claim that there is a
Haya-Leninism, we cannot allow that. That is to say, it is a current, burning
problem; what we want to deal with are problems that serve us, we do not want a
history in which we inform ourselves, we want a weapon of struggle, that is why
we deal with problems, that is the reason.
– Well, a
second problem within this first question would be: the role of Mariátegui.
That is
another question. It must be very clear that Mariátegui is the founder of the
Party, what Mariátegui has done, what is Mariátegui’s role, especially because
Mariátegui is being trafficked, or is he not?, we cannot consent, we cannot
allow, then, that there is a PUM (Mariateguist Unified Party, translator’s
note) that traffics. Then, it is a problem of the history of Marxism in Peru,
of course; beyond that, it is a problem of the new ideas in Peru, is it not?,
it is a problem of the class in Peru, it is not an unimportant thing, this must
be very clear.
– Another
problem: abandonment of the line and opportunism.
What do we
want to see here? Not only that the line that Mariátegui established was made
in struggle, but that his line was abandoned, it was denied and where did all
this lead to: to opportunism. Scandalous examples: the bastard electoralism of
’39, the frentismo of ’45 when they said “the thesis that the elections should
be used only as propaganda has expired, the program today is to win seats”,
these are the textual words of the Party Secretary himself, Jorge Acosta. Why
do we use this, why do we need this problem, what does abandoning a line imply,
where does it lead to: historically our Party shows that it leads to
opportunism, does it not?, that is the case. To abandon Marxism-Leninism and
its application here in Peru -because Mariátegui made that and in a creative
way, nobody can deny it-, to abandon that led to opportunism, it led to
browderism, an antecedent of contemporary revisionism. So, it is a good lesson,
is it not?, of course, our own history gives us great lessons.
These three
problems we consider that we can deal with in the point concerning the
Constitution, the first part.
II Reconstitution.
Here we have
to deal with two problems:
– the
struggle against contemporary revisionism
– the other
problem: the reconstitution of the Party. The Communist Party of Peru.
Why we raise
these two problems: it is linked to the above. To abandon the just and correct,
Marxist-Leninist position of Mariátegui and its creative application in Peru,
to abandon that line led to opportunism and we sank into the mire, to get out
of it we had to wage a struggle against contemporary revisionism, is it linked
to the above or not? Opportunism sinks us, to save ourselves we have to fight
against revisionism; it is an easy lesson to understand, isn’t it? Just as the
history of the Party shows that abandoning Marxism leads to sinking, it also
tells us that by taking up Marxism and fighting revisionism we develop, we
stand up again, we get out of the mire. That is the reason for this problem.
And the
Reconstitution, and why do we underline the Communist Party of Peru?: because
it must be clear that the Party exists: and it proves it because it has opened
in reality, with weapons in hand, with a vigorous people’s war, the true and
real road of the democratic revolution to conquer power. This is being
demonstrated here, what the Chairman says when he analyses the experience of
Russia, of the old Russia, of the Bolshevik Party, and the experience of China,
of the C.P.Ch., comparing it with India; he says: “why is it that in the old
Tsarist Russia there was revolution?: because there was a Party; why was there
in China?: because there was a Party; why is there not in India when there are
similar conditions to those in China?: because there is no Party”. So this is
another key problem, not only for us communists, but also for the struggle in
this country.
III. DIRECTION OF THE PEOPLE’S WAR.
Here, deal
with three problems:
– Initiation
and development of the People’s War. The People’s Guerrilla Army and the New
Power.
– Second
problem: the Party and the current ideological dynamics. Combating revisionism
as the principal danger
– Third
problem: the task of the Party at present: to lead the conquest of power
throughout the country.
These are
three problems. Well, it is threaded with the previous: we have a Party. Having
the Party, what did we do?, we initiated and developed the people’s war,
without the Party there is no beginning and there is no people’s war; and the
people’s war, what has it given us?, a People’s Guerrilla Army, otherwise such
a war could not have been carried out; and it has given us something else, the
New Power, we are solving the central problem of the revolution, we are
demolishing the old order and generating the bases of what has to be the new in
a brilliant perspective towards the future, that is another problem. This must
be very clear.
The second,
why are we dealing with it?, because the class struggle is sharpening, in the
world the class struggle is intensifying, there is polarization, there is a
great ideological struggle, it is going to develop, we are seeing how a
revisionist offensive is developing once again, whether it is Albania, whether
it is China as an imperialist power, whether it is the Soviet Union, an
imperialist power or superpower that is competing for world hegemony; not only
them, but also the imperialist powers, all of imperialism, all world reaction
points against Marxism, points against Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and makes
claims that it has expired. All of this deals blows, it is what we call the
current ideological dynamics and we have to confront it, and there is the key.
What is it?: to combat revisionism as the principal danger, in the Party, in
the country, in the world, against whoever it is then, power of the tenth
order, it is all the same to us, whether it is social-imperialism, it is all
the same to us, whoever it is that points against Marxism. Because the partners
collude and fight for world hegemony, but they help each other to crush the
revolution, they are dreaming. So, this problem is very important. Remember
what we have said about differentiation, it is necessary, does it have to do
with the rectification campaign?, of course it has to do with it. This prepares
us, arms us, for what?, to fulfill the task that falls to the Party; what is
that task?: our problem, then, is to lead the conquest of power in the whole
country, to complete the democratic revolution and uninterruptedly pass on,
then, to the socialist revolution and then, when the conditions are given, the
great revolution or the proletarian cultural revolution will be expressed and
will take place and then we will go on our way.
So, we are aiming
at problems that are weapons to fight. That is what we need, not a simple
document from which someone can read, get information, that does not interest
us; what interests us is to arm ourselves with our own experience, with our own
problems, to draw our own lessons, positive or negative, whatever it may be.
So, that is how we understand this problem of history. On these questions we
have discussed many times; but we want a brief, clear, understandable document,
that the masses can handle, the proletariat, the people, obviously the
communists, them first of all. Thinking about the type of militancy we have,
what do we need today?: that the history of the Party with its problems be,
then, one more weapon of struggle, that is the idea that guides us to raise
this type of problems, they can be these or others.
These are
the Problems of the History of the Party, in schematic form.
Firmly
subject to the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and his almighty Gonzalo
Thought and armed with the teachings of the history of the Party with its
problems, following the luminous example of our Leader let us strive to
culminate the general reorganization of the Party to give a powerful impulse to
the People’s War in Peru serving the world proletarian revolution.
Eternal
honor and glory to Chairman Gonzalo!
People’s war
until communism!
Chairman
Gonzalo lives in his almighty Gonzalo Thought!
Long live
the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Peru!
Peru Peoples
Movement
October 2021