December 21, 2022
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Report on the Situation in Peru
The need to have a correct understanding of the situation is of the utmost
importance in the present political situation, of the most aggravated political
crisis of the old Peruvian State as a concentrated expression of the general
crisis of Peruvian society, since 1980, which began with the start of the
people’s war by the PCP, even more so, when the collusion and inter-reactionary
struggle has worsened, with the attempted “self-coup” of the president, the
counterrevolutionary rondero Pedro Castillo, yesterday, followed by the
“parliamentary” “counter-coup” given by the forces of both fractions
represented in parliament with the participation of the reactionary and
genocidal armed forces.
This clear understanding is necessary to lead, to orient the struggle of
the masses, so that they do not allow themselves to be tied to the cart of
reaction and revisionism, which want to tie them behind the program of the big
comprador bourgeoisie or the bureaucratic bourgeoisie to carry out their failed
three reactionary tasks.
Reaction and revisionism, especially the revisionist and capitulationist
ROL, try to hide the true class character of the inter-reactionary
contradictions, calling it in different ways, to drag the masses after a
reactionary exit to the crisis of all orders that corrodes their agonizing
system mortally wounded. Reactionary solutions such as those witnessed, the
“self-coup” of the reactionary government headed by Castillo who has been left
alone with the support of the Modavef or “teachers’ bloc”, i.e. the ROL, in
parliament and in the streets, and those of the so-called parliamentary
“counter-coup” by a conjunction of forces of both factions where there are
Fujimorists, Peru Libre with the Cerróns at the head and also the ex-premier
Bellido, etc.
Since 1980, the semi-feudal and semi-colonial Peruvian society on which
bureaucratic capitalism develops, is in its third moment, of general crisis of
bureaucratic capitalism and its final destruction, a moment that begins with
the people’s war led by the Communist Party of Peru. As a dying beast it will
defend itself seeking to crush the revolution. This old society is sustained
and defended by the old reactionary state, whose class character is that of a
joint dictatorship of landowners and big bourgeoisie, bureaucrats or compradors
who in collusion and struggle for the leadership of the State; the historical
tendency in Peru being for the bureaucratic bourgeoisie to impose itself, which
will necessarily imply a very sharp and long struggle.
This could been seen throughout the last century and so far this century,
as expressed in the recent political struggle, which has led to the replacement
of the reactionary government, the government of the counterrevolutionary Pedro
Castillo Terrones, executioner of Chairman Gonzalo, by the counterrevolutionary
government of Dina Boluarte that expresses in the midst of the struggle the
collusion of the two reactionary factions, represented in parliament (that of
the big comprador bourgeoisie and of the big bureaucratic bourgeoisie).
“Boluarte called for a truce and announced a government of national unity
with the participation of “all political forces”. Minutes before her swearing
in, the Congress had dismissed Castillo with 101 votes in favor, only 6 against
and 10 abstentions, for having attempted the unconstitutional closing of the
Congress, which was qualified as an attempted coup d’état. While Boluarte was
sworn in as president in Congress, Castillo was detained in a police station.
There were demonstrations, not very well attended, for and against Castillo.
There were clashes between the two groups. Demonstrators demanded that the
Congress and the newly sworn-in president leave and that early general
elections be called.”
All this dispute, what does it lead to? To a situation of ever greater
conflict between Castillo and the Parliament, to a situation in which Castillo
wants to close the parliament and the parliament wants to dismiss Castillo. Who
is going to decide? The armed forces through the manifestation of its Joint
Command.
Both sides were knocking on the doors of the barracks. This has been
consummated. Days before, Castillo’s failure to get the backing of the armed
forces became known, which was evidenced by the resignation of his Minister of
Defense. This had already been decided in the previous days, but the three
hours of waiting on both sides shows that they were waiting for what they call
“the reaction of the street”. As this was quite scarce on both sides, due to
the discredit of all institutions and representatives of the old State, the
military spoke out, that is to say, they openly participated in the
“parliamentary” coup, which is demonstrated by the forces that detained the
counterrevolutionary ex-president Castillo, the presidential security forces themselves
detained him when he was on his way to the Mexican embassy.
Bare in mind: This is the social system that the ruling classes and their
Yankee imperialist master, through their landlord-bureaucratic state sustained
by their reactionary armed force, constantly exercise their class dictatorship
(of the big bourgeoisie and landlords), either through a de facto military
government or by means of governments arising from the military dictatorship or
by means of governments arising from elections and so-called constitutional
governments. The outdated system of dominant exploitation destroys and stifles
the powerful creative forces of the people, the only forces capable of the
deepest revolutionary transformation.
And differentiate between the system of state and the system of government,
which are parts of a unity; the first being the place occupied by the classes
within the State and the second the form in which the Power is organized, as
Chairman Mao teaches. The main thing is to define the class character of a
State since the forms of government they introduce can be civil or military,
with elections or de facto, demo-liberal or fascist, and they will always
represent the dictatorship of the reactionary classes. Not seeing the old State
in this way, one falls into the error of identifying dictatorship with military
regime and thinking that a civilian government is not a dictatorship, putting
oneself on the tail of one of the factions of the big bourgeoisie, behind the
story of “defending democracy” or “guarding against military coups” or
“struggling against fascism” positions that instead of destroying the old State
sustain and defend it, such is the case of various revisionists and
opportunists.
Now, there will be a reactionary government of Dina Boluarte – Boluarte
was, together with Roberto Sánchez, the only minister who maintained her
position in the five cabinets of the Castillo “era” – that has been held
captive by the armed forces and the majority parliament of the comprador
faction. Once again it will be a weak government, with similar conditions and
characteristics of a deposed one, condemned to fail in its three reactionary
tasks: to restructure the old state, to re-impulse bureaucratic capitalism and
to annihilate the people’s war. Therefore, the deep political crisis of the old
state will be accentuated.
Keep in mind that what has facilitated the coup d’état is the fact that the
masses are beginning to move strongly, as in the past in the face of high
prices and ever rising prices. The masses are therefore entering into
effervescence, all this under a weak, failed government like that of Castillo,
which did not fulfill, nor could it fulfill its electoral promises. But, the
situation does not change much for reaction, its difficulties will increase.
This is good for the revolution, it is good to advance in the task of the
general reorganization of the party in and for the people’s war. In situations
like this, with a change of government, knowing that the new government will be
much worse for the masses, it is necessary to mobilize them for the struggle
for the defense of their rights, liberties and benefits won with blood to raise
it to a political struggle, that is to fulfill the pending task and continue
developing the revolution of new democracy with people’s war.
The political analysts of the reactionary media, summarise: Boluarte begins
her presidential administration in a complicated situation. She and the
Executive as well as the Parliament are totally discredited.
We must not forget how reaction used the rats of the ROL to center the
teachers in the elections and bring to the government, “Professor Castillo”, “a
teacher like you”, wanting to drag the progressives and revolutionaries behind
the reactionary elections, with the mandate of Yankee-imperialism and reaction
to finally annihilate Chairman Gonzalo.
What the reactionaries, opportunists and revisionists want are elections.
Any of the reactionary exits, which are chanted in the demonstrations, belong
to the bureaucratic road, it is up to the communists to persist in the
democratic road, i.e. in the road of the people’s war.
With his attempted “self-coup” the counterrevolutionary rondero was looking
for a way out, a reactionary way out, with the sponsorship and intervention of
Yankee imperialism, to become the “Evo Morales of Peru”. Morales, agreed with
him being kicked out of the government, after the scandalous attempt of
re-election with tremendous electoral fraud, and his exile in Mexico, in order
to be able to return to Bolivia with a new government, after the necessary
interrengo of the government of the Anez coup.
Many have commented that Castillo’s message was very like the message that
Fujimori read during his self-coup on April 5, 1992. Among them was Gustavo
Gorriti, the notorious agent of Yankee imperialism; but although that is true,
we cannot allow this to serve as a cover to hide the hand of Yankee
imperialism, which develops a greater intervention in the internal affairs of
Peru at the request of its lackey Pedro Castillo Terrones with the support of
the rats of the ROL.
What Yankee-imperialism, its embassy in Lima, and its agent Gorriti are
trying to hide is that the latter, in October, announced the position of Yankee
imperialism on the political crisis in Peru and its solution to it, through an
article published in ‘IDL-Reportero’, where each of the proposed measures is
based. Therein is what has been offered to Castillo to get out of his desperate
situation, in exchange for the greatest surrender of the country to the main
imperialism that oppresses and exploits it, the very same exit as Morales, guaranteeing
his integrity and abandonment of the country towards Mexico, paving the way for
the Yankee-plan of “political reforms”, which encompasses “all forces” with new
elections and a possible call for a constituent assembly for the restructuring
of the old Peruvian state.
The genocidal Dina Boluarte already having bloody hands, the new president
of the old State, the new opportunist head of the fascist, genocidal and
country-selling regime, is also in the pillory. Yankee-imperialism uses the
rulers when they suit, once they have reached such a degree of discredit, it
simply gets rid of them. As we have seen, it is the same lackey of Yankee
imperialism who cried out in despair for imperialist intervention through the
OAS.
Report worked out based on the latest declarations of the MPP until the 16th of december.
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