Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Eternal Glory to Chairman Gonzalo!
“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 incarnated, and it is being incarnated, and it is generating Communist Parties to drive and lead this new great wave of the world proletarian revolution that is coming.” (Chairman Gonzalo’s Speech, 1992)
When, thirty years ago, Chairman Gonzalo delivered his masterly
speech on 24 September 1992, his enemies dreamed that this would be the
sunset of his work, but this fearless rallying cry was more a ray of
dawning sunshine. Today, thirty years after his speech, his stature and
importance in history has not stopped growing.
We are living
through an extraordinary period in world history, the result of this
confrontation between revolution and counter-revolution, the product of
the hard struggle of the international proletariat, past and present,
which we are fighting to impose Maoism as the sole command and guide of
the world revolution. Chairman Gonzalo pointed out that we are in the
stage of the Strategic Offensive of the World Proletarian Revolution,
and within it, we are in its defensive phase and that, therefore, it is
up to us to advance to the strategic balance, within the Stage of the
Strategic Offensive. We stress that the development of the contradiction
between revolution and counter-revolution takes place on the basis of
the general crisis of imperialism, because imperialism, being the last
stage of capitalism, also has phases and we are in the last of them.
This
is a context in which, as at few other moments in history, the
objective situation and the subjective conditions, which are prone to
development by leaps and bounds, converge. In the objective situation of
the unprecedented crisis of imperialism that formidably aggravates the
crisis of bureaucratic capitalism in the countries of the Third World,
it launches millions of masses in explosive revolts, characterised by an
uneven development of the revolutionary situation all over the world.
Three decades earlier, Chairman Gonzalo, analysing the world situation
of the general crisis of imperialism, said that a counter-revolutionary
offensive of a general character would be unleashed and saw, as an eagle
of the mountains, that imperialism needed such an offensive to extend
the exploitation and oppression of the proletariat and the nations and
peoples of the world to avert its collapse and the revolution, and that
this, as can already be seen, would generate the explosiveness of the
masses, in a new situation, and that the communists of the world should
strive to impose Maoism as the sole command and guide of the world
proletarian revolution, through reconstituting/constituting militarised
communist parties, arming the international proletariat with the
strategy of unleashing more and more people’s wars until they are
transformed into world people’ s war.
If we look at the
international situation as a whole, the decomposition of imperialism is
increasing with each passing day, confirming that it is in its final
collapse and is only to be swept away by the world revolution through
people’s war, when revolution has become the principal historical and
political trend in the world today and the world revolution has entered
the phase of its strategic offensive.
Imperialism, principally
Yankee imperialism, as the sole hegemonic superpower, in collusion and
struggle with its imperialist rivals, extends and deepens more and more
its war of aggression and plunder for the spoils of the oppressed
nations and to conquer positions in order to secure its world hegemony.
But imperialism only marches from failure to failure in the face of the
resistance of the oppressed peoples and nations in struggle for
revolution, liberation and sovereignty, as was demonstrated by the
expulsion of its invading troops and allies with iron and fire from
Afghan territory by the forces of national resistance and by the
increased explosiveness of the masses. Additionally, the persistence of
the resistance wars in the occupied countries of the Middle East, Asia
and Africa and the people’s wars in India, Peru, the Philippines and
Turkey.
Analysing the crisis of imperialism in the early 2020s as
symptoms of an unprecedented leap in its decomposition and the
confluence of all these factors, we conceive that world history has
entered a particular situation in which a new period of revolutions has
opened, a new moment of the World Proletarian Revolution, which falls
within the “50 to 100 years” foreseen by Chairman Mao and highlighted by
Chairman Gonzalo.
In this situation and at the juncture of the coming years and
decades, Maoism will advance to lead the New Great Wave of the World
Proletarian Revolution, confronting the world counter-revolution,
preparing and unleashing more and more people’s wars, carrying this new
great wave to the heights to avert a new world war and in case it breaks
out, fighting to transform the people’s wars into a World People’s War
to smash it, in what we already preach as a powerful slogan of combat.
Starting from the law of the unequal development of matter and applying
it to the process of the world proletarian revolution, we understand
that in the process of the world revolution there is always the
successive transfer of the centre of the world revolution, where
problems and their solutions accumulate, where the leaders are produced
in accordance with the historical demands of each moment.
The
centre of the world revolution is constituted as the principal
contradiction, where the qualitative leap takes place; This does not
mean that there are not other points of tension and ruptures, minor and
secondary, but important, which are part of and can assume the
principality, according to the development of the class struggle, as was
presented at the time, the relation between the German Revolution and
the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia, between the defence of
the USSR during the Great Patriotic War and the Chinese Revolution and
as part of them, the anti-fascist wars in the Balkans, Spain, France,
Italy, etc. Throughout the last two decades, principally Latin America,
which being one of the revolutionary storm zones of the globe, is
becoming the weakest link in the chain of imperialist domination and
expressing in a concentrated form the world explosiveness of the masses
and the powerful centre of the world revolutionary storm.
Given
the depth and complexity of the crisis of bureaucratic capitalism in
Latin America and the fact that Latin America is the “backyard”
of the single hegemonic superpower USA, the situation is aggravated
with all the implications that these objective and subjective conditions
represent.
In Peru, the People’s War has become the centre of
the World Proletarian Revolution, the centre of the ideological struggle
between Marxism and revisionism, as the struggle to impose Maoism as
the new, third and higher stage of Marxism, fully valid throughout the
world, brilliantly established and led by Chairman Gonzalo. Concretely
in Peru, the most advanced ideology and the one that most threatens
imperialism, which is Gonzalo’s thought, and its universally valid
contributions, emerged and took shape.
The ideological question,
that is, the struggle between Marxism and revisionism, has become more
than ever the fundamental question in the struggle in the ICM and it is
for the raising of the understanding, assimilation and embodiment of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, with the universally valid
contributions of Chairman Gonzalo as a preparation for the greatest
ideological and political storms of the World Proletarian Revolution.
Was
this not also the case with the ideological struggle in the ICM over
the role of the great comrade Stalin after his death and over the
capitalist restoration unleashed by the coup of the Khrushchevite clique
and the 20th Congress of the CPSU? In order to attack Marxism-Leninism
the Soviet revisionists will impute to comrade Stalin the most infamous
crimes, accusing his firm leadership of “personality cult”,
“followership”, “sectarianism”, etc. With this, the Soviet revisionists
will throw sand in the eyes of the communists in order to revise
Marxism-Leninism and replace the Communist Programme with the bourgeois
slogans of liberty, equality and fraternity, hoisting their
rotten “Two Alls” and the “Three Peacefuls” and try to impose the rotten
revisionist, bourgeois and social-imperialist line on the ICM.
All these treacherous attacks were exposed and smashed by Chairman
Mao in the midst of the death struggle against the right-wing capitalist
roaders in the CCP led by the Chinese Khrushchev Liu Chao-shi. Chairman
Mao has firmly defended comrade Stalin and Marxism-Leninism and
formulated the General Political Line for the ICM, rejecting any
appeasement of the revisionist right wing. In this fight against
revisionism it has stressed that the slogan “against the cult of
personality” is opposed to Lenin’s comprehensive theory of the ”
interrelationship between leaders, party, class and masses” and
undermines the “principle of the democratic-centralism of the Party”.
(On The Question of Stalin – 1963). In this struggle, not a few parties
opportunistically maintained a certain defence of Stalin in order to
conceal the denial of the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism, which
they themselves soon revealed and then went on to attack Chairman Mao’s
positions. In chorus with the Soviet revisionists, such as the
treacherous revisionist Hohxa, whom these parties will pass over to
their worshippers.
Imperialism, reaction and revisionism had to
concentrate their most furious attacks against Comrade Stalin, because
he stood as the principal theoretical and practical leader of the ICM
and the World Proletarian Revolution. It was Comrade Stalin who in a
hard two-line struggle against revisionism and all the rightist
positions in the Communist Party of the USSR and in the Communist
International, against the rightist and revisionist positions which
sought to subtract Leninism from a Russian particularism, masterfully
defined, defended and applied Marxism-Leninism. Were there not others
who dared to postulate a position contrary to Comrade Stalin by
postulating their own definition of “Leninism”? Yes, like the infamous
acrobat Trotsky or the rat Zinoviev, when the great Comrade Stalin
defined that “Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the
proletarian revolution. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and
tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics
of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.”. This was
an ideological leap, a product of the class struggle for the
construction of socialism in the USSR and the two-line struggle in the
CPSU(B) against Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev and others, as well
as in the development of the International Communist Movement and the
development of the World Proletarian Revolution.
This definition,
among so many other universally valid contributions of the great
Stalin, has represented his principal contribution to the development of
the ideology of the international proletariat. Only through this
masterly theoretical and practical work could the international
proletariat recognise and assimilate the universal truths of Leninism.
Therefore, from this great leap it is only possible to be a
Marxist-Leninist (today, Marxism-Leninist-Maoist) by assuming the
theoretical and practical definition made by comrade Stalin and
recognising his great role in history.
We ask, is it possible for
any communist in the world to separate Leninism from Comrade Stalin’s
definition of Leninism? No true communist can deny the role that Comrade
Stalin played in the theoretical and practical defence of Leninism,
that is, Marxism-Leninism, today Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
In
relation to Maoism, the problem is the same. However, its establishment
as a new, third and higher stage does not take place within the CCP
itself. The highest point that this definition has reached in China was
with the glorious Ninth Congress, when it was established that the
ideology of the CCP was Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought. The Ninth
Congress in 1969, in the midst of the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution, corrected the rightist deviation of the CCP at its Eighth
Congress in October 1956, when the definition established by the Seventh
Congress in 1945, which defined the ideology of the CCP as
Marxism-Leninism, ideas of Mao Tsetung Thought, was abolished. Already
the Tenth Congress, held in 1973, represented a composition of
proletarian revolutionary positions with a certain recovery of
revisionist positions, a decline of the GPCR, and a return of Teng
Siao-ping’s power to the Central Committee. The Ninth Congress,
therefore, was the high point of the CCP’s own formulation of the
development that the ideology of the proletariat had produced.
Through
the influence of the GCR, many parties and organisations in the world
were those who have assumed themselves to be “Mao Tsetung Thought” or
even “Maoist”. Although the left line in the CCP has played an important
role in defending Maoism, especially comrade Chiang Ching and comrade
Chiang Chung-Chao, both arrested and killed in prison by the
social-fascist Teng dictatorship, they could not, in the midst of the
class struggle in socialism and the two-line struggle in the CCP,
establish Maoism as a new stage of the ideology of the international
proletariat.
Maoism, the work of Chairman Mao and the CCP, forged in the course of the glorious Chinese Revolution as part of and in the service of the world proletarian revolution and its stages, in the course of twenty-five years of armed struggle in the class struggle in the construction of socialism, of the unmasking of Khrushchev’s revisionism in the ICM and of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the highest milestone already reached by the proletariat in the course of luminous communism. Meanwhile its definition and establishment, as a great leap in the three constituent parts of Marxism as a unity, was a historical necessity, which was formulated by Chairman Gonzalo, the great leader of the PCP, in the midst of the Protracted People’s War in Peru.
The definition of Maoism as the new, third and higher stage of the ideology of the international proletariat was Chairman Gonzalo’s principal contribution of universal validity. It fell to Chairman Gonzalo, in a hard struggle against revisionism, inside and outside Peru, combating the emerging avakianist positions, to unravel the essence of Maoism, demonstrating that the essence of Maoism is Power: “The fundamental of Maoism is Power. Power for the proletariat, power for the dictatorship of the proletariat, power based on an armed force led by the Communist Party. More explicitly: 1) Power under the leadership of the proletariat, in the democratic revolution; 2) Power for the dictatorship of the proletariat, in the socialist and cultural revolutions; 3) Power based on an armed force led by the Communist Party, won and defended through people’s war”.
We start from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, with the universally valid contributions of Chairman Gonzalo, why principally Maoism? Because Maoism is the highest stage of the development of Marxism, it is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, without Marxism-Leninism there would be no Maoism. Maoism is the Marxism of today, defined by Chairman Gonzalo as the “elevation of Marxism-Leninism to a third, new and higher stage in the struggle for proletarian leadership in the democratic revolution, the development of the construction of socialism and the continuation of the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat as a proletarian cultural revolution; when imperialism is deepening its decomposition and revolution has become the principal trend of history, in the midst of the most complex and great wars ever seen and the relentless struggle against contemporary revisionism.
Meanwhile, some claim that Gonzalo’s thought is only the creative application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of Peru. This assertion is only part of the truth. Gonzalo Thought is the creative application of these universal truths to the concrete reality of Peru and its integration with the practice of the Peruvian revolution, which in eight years of people’s war could be sanctioned in the historic First Congress, the child of the PCP and the people’s war it leads. That is, Chairman Gonzalo creatively applied Marxism-Leninism, Mao Tsetung Thought to the particularity of Peru, defined Maoism and developed it, therefore Gonzalo Thought is part of and development of Maoism. This development is the universally valid contributions of Chairman Gonzalo.
Therefore, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, with the universally valid contributions of Chairman Gonzalo is the Marxism of the epoch of the most advanced decomposition of imperialism and people’s wars, of the most stormy epoch of world history, of the strategic offensive of the world proletarian revolution, of the most implacable and relentless struggle against all forms of revisionism and opportunism and of the most desperate and violent struggle of imperialism, in which it will be swept away with all reaction from the face of the earth by the world people’s war.
n synthesis it is the Marxism of the epoch of the people’s wars and the world people’s war. It is part of and a development of Maoism in the struggle for proletarian leadership in the restoration/counter-restoration confrontation specifically where the proletariat had established its dictatorship and joint dictatorship and in the revolutions of new democracy and in the socialist revolutions and successive cultural revolutions, when the decomposition of imperialism has reached an unprecedented degree and as such the degradation of the natural environment, when it is confirmed that revolution has become the principal historical and political trend, in the midst of the most complex wars of all kinds, when the world proletarian revolution has entered the moment of its strategic offensive and the deepening of the relentless struggle against revisionism of all kinds, within the period foretold by Chairman Mao of the “50-100 years” when imperialism and all reaction will be wiped off the face of the earth by the world proletarian revolution, as a world people’s war.
Therefore it was against Chairman Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Peru, like no other, that imperialism and reaction aimed and threw their fiercest weapons, counting on the sinister help of revisionism all over the world and principally the revisionist and capitulationist ROL, to attack Maoism and the World Revolution.
Those who want to ignore this fact, Chairman Gonzalo’s decisive role in defining Maoism, are inevitably being pushed to reduce Maoism to the Chinese particularity, just as all those who opposed Comrade Stalin’s definition of Leninism did, and therefore will not be able to understand and correctly apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Comrades,
One year ago, the indomitable and generous heart of the great titan of the international proletariat of the present epoch, the continuator of Marx, Lenin and Chairman Mao Tsetung, the greatest Marxist-Leninist-Maoist of our times, our respected, dear and forever beloved Chairman Gonzalo, Great Leader of the PCP and of the Peruvian Revolution, Leader of the international proletariat, of the Red Faction of the International Communist Movement and of the World Revolution, stopped beating. On this day, the proletariat and oppressed peoples of the whole world mourn, their hearts are beating with grief, their eyes full of tears, we, communists of the whole world, once again bow our red flags and our heads in solemn reverence of proletarian and revolutionary salute to our beloved great Leader.
On this day the henchmen of imperialism and reaction, hand in glove with the revisionists and capitulationists of the ROL, dreamed that they had defeated him, they were too late! When the terrible news of his death was heard all over the world, a fierce storm was unleashed, and the international proletariat, through its vanguard, raised a mighty war cry raising the red banner of Chairman Gonzalo against imperialism, all reaction and all revisionism, writing his name forever in the pantheon of the great titans of the international proletariat.
The twenty-nine years of absolute isolation at the hands of reaction and revisionism, the iron claws and atomic teeth of the US imperialist monster, added to all the terrorist bloodshed of fascism and all reaction, were not able to break this invincible giant of the international proletariat.
Chairman Gonzalo in his glorious course as a communist, for more than half a century, smashed all the plans of imperialism, reaction and revisionism. Chairman Gonzalo is still alive, invincible, his heart beats in the hearts of the communists of the whole world, of the international proletariat and the oppressed masses of the earth. His great mind continues to guide the international proletariat, absolute and incontestable, because he has forged his continuators, to the measure of his great tasks of the Revolution in the days of today. Chairman Gonzalo is invincible!
Eternal glory to Chairman Gonzalo!
Long live the all-powerful Gonzalo Thought!
Long live the Communist Party of Peru!
Long live the People’s War in Peru!
Down with revisionism!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, with the universally valid contributions of Chairman Gonzalo!
Long live the Unified Maoist International Conference!
Give birth to the New International Organisation of the Proletariat!
Death to imperialism! Long live the invincible People’s War!
Communist Party of Brazil (Red Fraccion)– P.C.B. (RF)
Communist Party of Peru – PCP