Proletarians of all countries, unite!
FIRST CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU
(Marxist
Congress, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought, Congress)
PREPARATORY SESSION:
GREETINGS
WITH THE PLETHORIC ENTHUSIASM THAT THE CONGRESS GIVES US1
After much toil we are gathered here to celebrate the First Congress of the
Communist Party of Peru, that is our main task, the centre that will endorse
the brilliant and victorious culmination that we have conquered in this Second
Campaign. All of us who are here for our honour and for one more triumph of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to establish one more triumph of the People’s War, all
of us present here, must feel deeply moved to be members of the First Congress
of the Communist Party of Peru. We assume the task of making this Congress a
Congress of victory, a triumphant Congress; this is our historical necessity,
it is the consequence of our long journey and it is personally up to each one
of us to decide to strive for the golden brilliance of this Congress.
This date will remain indelible and each one of us already has and must have in
the future the brilliant honour of having belonged to it, shaping decades of
ardent struggles of the proletariat and establishing a milestone that we have
only been able to achieve with the people’s war.
First of all, in the name of the Standing Committee, of the Political Bureau
and of your comrades, we express a greeting full of the enthusiasm that the
Congress gives us because this Congress, understandably in each one of us, sets
our souls on fire, raises them up, catapults them and the enthusiasm can only
be a red flag raised to the sky, a trembling flag, a flag full of light that
will mark the process of the Peruvian revolution for decades to come and thus
serve the world revolution, and thus raise to the top the unfading banners of
Marx, Lenin and Chairman Mao, three flags of victory that will always remain
firmly in the hands of the international proletariat of which we are a vibrant
part.
Please receive this greeting and in you we salute the leaders, cadres and
militants of our Party, the Communist Party of Peru, the ardent, thunderous
greeting as it is appropriate to salute the combatants of the People’s
Guerrilla Army and our grateful greeting as sons of the Peruvian proletariat
and the Peruvian people, I salute the masses of our homeland and the masses of
the world because it is they who have made, are making and will make the great
transformations, it is from these glorious hands that the new will always come
forth to guide humanity.
What a great occasion we are gathered here: how many dreams have come true
here, how many dreams of comrades who have given their blood so that we can be
here celebrating the Congress, how much it has cost our people for us to be here
because the people are the source from which we receive strength and throbbing
energy that allows us to fulfil what history disposes by transforming
necessity.
We are here first and foremost because of the undefeated ideology of the
international proletariat, because of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism;
we are here also as a concretisation of that great almighty truth by
application to our concrete reality from which the Gonzalothought comes.
Without Marx, Lenin and Chairman Mao we would not be here, without the
international proletariat plus the masses of the world we would not be here. Of
this we are profoundly convinced and acutely clear, with a penetrating
historical vision.
It is quite understandable that we greet you with the full enthusiasm that the
Congress gives us, the Congress imprints on us, renewing our communist souls.
May this greeting then be the greeting that the Central Leadership extends to
you from this crucible which today begins to burn and which will cradle the
victory, the triumph of the democratic revolution in this country serving the
world revolution and to persist in upholding, defending and applying
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism. Comrades, welcome to this historic
First Congress.
Long live the First Congress!
Long live the Marxist Congress!
Long live the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
Congress!
Long live the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist,
Gonzalo Thought, Congress!
Let us establish a historical milestone
of the Party!
Long live the Party!
There is nothing greater than being a
communist!
January 26, 1988
1Excerpted
from the Report presented by Chairman Gonzalo at the Preparatory Session of the
First Congress of the Communist Party of Peru.
The Manifesto
of the Communist Party is the Programme of the Communists until Communism