Proletarians of all countries, unite!
ETERNAL GLORY TO CHAIRMAN GONZALO!
„As a materialist I know that life will end some day. What is most important
to me is to be an optimist, with the conviction that others will continue the
work to which I am committed, and will carry it forward until they reach our
final goal, communism. Because the fear that I could have is that no one would
carry on, but that fear disappears when one has faith in the masses. I think
that the worst fear, in the end, is not to have faith in the masses, to believe
that you’re indispensable, the centre of the world. I think that’s the worst
fear and if you are forged by the Party, in proletarian ideology, in Maoism
mainly, you understand that the masses are the makers of history, that the
Party makes revolution, that the advance of history is certain, that revolution
is the main trend, and then your fear vanishes. What remains is the
satisfaction of contributing together with others to laying the foundation so
that some day communism may shine and illuminate the entire Earth.“ – Chairman
Gonzalo
On September 11th the vile assassination
of Chairman Gonzalo was consummated. The black heralds of reaction claim that
the man is dead and that he has already disappeared. But he is not,
Chairman Gonzalo lives in the communists and revolutionaries of Peru, in the
deepest bowels of the Peruvian proletariat and people; he lives in us, the
communists and revolutionaries of the world, in the hearts and minds of the
international proletariat and the peoples of the world. Chairman Gonzalo is not
dead because he is more than a man, he is a path, a thought, a luminous path
which millions follow with unshakable faith, raising the red flags of communism
with the hammer and sickle at the top, iron legions of workers and peasants are
forged under the leadership of the Communist Parties to storm the heaven.
As Chairman Gonzalo himself said at the moment he became a prisoner of war:
they came too late, their thoughts remain with the others. Chairman Gonzalo
cannot be disappeared.
Chairman Gonzalo was
an organic optimist, he had boundless confidence in the communists and the
masses, and he forged us to be so. Thus, at this moment when we
Marxist-Leninist-Maoists no longer have in flesh and blood among us the
greatest of us all and we feel the deepest sorrow, we will not allow tears to cloud
our eyes but our burning passion materialises into transformative power, fills
us with energy and further strengthens our resolve never to lay down our arms
until communism and to sweep with blood and fire with People’s War all
oppression and exploitation from the face of the earth. Let the cowardly
murderers know that the dreadful crime will not go unpunished, the people will
do justice as only the people know how to do it and revolutionary justice may
take time but it will come.
We all know who the
murderers are, they are the executioners of the people, they are the
imperialists, the reactionaries and the revisionists. They have names: Biden,
Castillo and Miriam. It is Yankee imperialism that has directed the
counter-revolutionary war in Peru, it is its nefarious CIA that has directed
the psychological warfare, as a key part of its so-called “low intensity
warfare”, against Chairman Gonzalo, the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and the
People’s War, and continues to do so. It has been the CIA, using its agents
such as Montesinos and Merino, who have fabricated the hoaxes against Chairman
Gonzalo and it is they who have directly directed the assassination; this is
the direct responsibility of the highest representative of US imperialism, the
genocidal war-monger Biden. The genocidal Armed Forces of the old Peruvian
state, who with their bloody claws directly executed the assassination, as part
of the genocide against the PCP and the Peruvian people. But, their insane
hyena hatred could only have free passage under the political cover of the
government of the rondero Castillo and his criminal gang of opportunists, of
sell-outs and fascists of all stripes; only under the cover of a “leftist”
government did the Armed Forces dare to carry out the crime that they did not
dare to do under all the previous governments. It has been the rat Miriam, who
is the head of the revisionist and capitulationist right-opportunist line, who
from the first moment, has lent her “prestige” to give “credibility” to the
hoax of the “peace agreement”; it has been she, who with her “phone call”, with
the video montages, the “poems” and the “mamotretos”, 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 arch-traitor; who,
following the example of Lin Piao, iconised Chairman Gonzalo in order to
overthrow and kill him, the most filthy revisionist who in vain tried 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
defeated all the plans of the counter-revolution. At no time, when we could
hear his voice, did he put forward anything other than his usual position: that
the People’s War will inevitably win and that his arrest was only a bend in the
long road of the Peruvian revolution to the conquest of power throughout the
country. He transformed the concentration camp of the Callao Naval Base into
the highest Shining Trench of Combat of the People’s War and, until
his last moment, fought ceaselessly for the triumph of the People’s War as part
of and in service of the proletarian world revolution, never betraying his
condition by going down on his knees in absolute isolation. Therefore, there has
never been and never will be any proof or basis for the absurd accusations
against him; the “peace agreement” remained ashes in the wind, the “retreat of
the world revolution” and “the fourth stage of the Party and Peruvian society”
as well as all the rest of the revisionist barbarities, never came
out of Chairman Gonzalo’s mind or mouth.
What remains for
eternity is his theoretical and practical work in the service of the struggle
for the true emancipation of humanity, for the struggle for communism. Although
it is only in time that we will be able to appreciate the full importance of
Chairman Gonzalo’s life and work, because this is always the case with
historical figures of his stature, only a brief review of the facts allows us
to see his gigantic role.
With a handful of
communists, Chairman Gonzalo initiated the reconstitution of the PCP, cleansed
the Party of revisionism and in a hard struggle for almost twenty years armed
it as a war machine, putting it in a position to initiate the People’s War on
May 17, 1980, culminating the reconstitution. The People’s War shook Peru,
Latin America and the world; Chairman Gonzalo formed the revolutionary armed
forces of the Peruvian people (today the People’s Liberation Army) and led the
construction of the New Power (People’s Committees and Revolutionary Support
Bases). Thus, he provided the Party, the class, with the main instrument of the
revolution for the people and gave the broadest and deepest masses, mainly the
poor peasantry, the possibility to exercise their power, to live their true
democracy and to enjoy for the first time the fruits of their sweat and blood.
Very particularly, we
stress that Chairman Gonzalo personally led the Marxist First Congress of the
PCP, fulfilling the task left pending by Mariátegui, where the Basis of Party
Unity of the PCP was established, which contains three elements: the ideology,
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, the Programme and the General
Political Line with its centre the Military Line, where in the highest form is
expressed Gonzalo Thought. This Basis of Party Unity is what today, more than
ever, unites the communists of Peru; whoever does not fully and completely
adhere to it is not a militant of the PCP. There has not been and will not be a
party event of the PCP that denies the First Congress, on the contrary all the
subsequent main events such as the three Plenums of the Central Committee of
the PCP, have been guided and subject to the First Congress. It is the task of
the Peruvian communists to solve all the pending problems of the revolution in
the country by adhering to the Basis of Party Unity and applying
it to the new conditions.
Since the death of
Chairman Mao and the revisionist coup in China in 1976, Chairman Gonzalo has
been the main protagonist of the red line within the International Communist
Movement. Proving with the People’s War in Peru the universal validity of
Maoism, he defined it as the third, new and higher stage of the ideology of the
international proletariat and it was he who put forward for the first time the
great truth that to be a Marxist today means to be a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist.
By creatively applying the universal truth of Maoism, he has endowed the
international proletariat with important contributions in the development of
its theory and practice, the importance of which no one can deny – it is enough
to see how with his profound understanding of the process of
bureaucratic capitalism he has decisively armed us to dismantle all
the revisionist machinations that seek to negate the democratic
revolution in the oppressed countries, denying semi-feudalism in order to put
forward a “socialist revolution” with “accumulation of forces” by legal means,
to understand the full relevance of its contributions, to
name just one example.
Today, when we strive
for the holding of the Unified Maoist International Conference to make a
decisive leap in the struggle for the reunification of the communists in the
world and to realize a New International Organization of the Proletariat, we
follow the example of Chairman Gonzalo who always fought for the unity of the
communists and taught us, that in this complex process we must start from the
common principles and agreements, based on them, to reach higher levels of
unity in the midst of the class struggle and the two-line struggle.
There can be no doubt
that the figure of Chairman Gonzalo is that of a giant of the international
proletariat, his work is immortal and will live forever.
Today the communists
of the world close the ranks around the PCP
and honour Chairman Gonzalo by lending all our efforts to support the
General Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Peru in order to give a great
impulse to the development of the People’s War. We know that our comrades, as
continuators of the revolution forged by Gonzalo, are struggling tenaciously
to accomplish that task in the midst of the People’s War and we are fully
convinced that the more they stick to what Chairman Gonzalo has established,
the more rapidly they will solve the pending problems. It is our red
flag that is flying in Peru and we defend it as such.
We raise our flags to
the top. We stand at Attention raising our clenched fists. To the sound of
the Internationale we pledge to follow the example of Chairman
Gonzalo, to learn from him and that he will live in us forever.
LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN
GONZALO!
LONG LIVE THE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!
THE PEOPLE’S
WAR IN PERU WILL INEVITABLY WIN!
DEATH TO REVISIONISM!
UNITE UNDER MAOISM!
ETERNAL HONOUR AND
GLORY TO CHAIRMAN GONZALO!
24 September 2021
Signatures:
Communist Party of
Peru
Communist Party of
Brazil (Red faction)
Communist Party of
Colombia (Red Faction)
Red Faction of the
Communist Party of Chile
Committee Red Flag –
FRG
Communist Party of
Ecuador – Red Sun
Committees for the
foundation of the (Maoist) Communist Party of Austria
Committee for the
Reconstitution of the Communist Party of the United States
Committee for the
Construction of the maoist Communist Party of Galicia
Serve the People –
Communist League of Norway
Maoist Committee in
Finland
Irish Socialist
Republicans
Proletarian Power –
MLM Party Organisation Colombia
(Marxist-Leninist)
Workers’ Party – Spanish State
More signatures
pending to be confirmed.