Actions for the 45th Anniversary of ILA in Different Countries
Nuevo Perú has recently published an important historical document of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) in occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Initiation of Armed Struggle (ILA). Additionally, in several countries statements and actions were done. Hereby we share the PCP document:
PCP: GENERAL BALANCE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN TO START THE ARMED STRUGGLE 80
Proletarians from all countries, unite!
Towards Guerrilla Warfare!
The first part of this meeting gives us essential conclusions:
(I) The Plan of Initiation, its application and the conclusion
of the first actions, are brilliant and all-round success of
transcendental importance, with great repercussions that have kindled
the ever living flames of the People’s War in our country.
(II)
Summarizing the experiences of the General Balance of the first actions
has led to further develop the Party’s military line, and advanced its
consolidation, crushing the right wing tendency which proposed
militarist positions tending to evolve into a bourgeois militarist line.
(III) The Party fortified in the forging of its first actions is on a war footing ready to march toward the initiation of guerrilla warfare.
The first stands out as a brilliant and clear success obtained by the Party, which has a great historical repercussion.
The
second indicates that in the balance of the first actions, the military
line of the Party has developed and advanced. It has consolidated by
combating militarist positions that tend to evolve as a bourgeois
military line. In this manner, we have obtained a major development and
consolidation. The military line, like all lines, only develops and
consolidates itself in struggle.
The third establishes and highlights that the Party is prepared to march towards the beginning of guerrilla warfare.
We
have finished the first phase, which is essential and the basis of this
meeting of the Extended Central Committee. Upon these solid bases, we
can draw the national and international context and lay out the plan to
begin the guerrilla war. We should be very conscious of the
brilliant and great success of the application of the Plan of Initiation
of the armed struggle. This plan is of historic transcendence and has
shaken the country, placing the Party in the center of the class
struggle and political contention.
The constant struggle of communist militants as the expression of
proletarian class struggle and the masses of our country has been
historically molded and defined in the countryside. We have embarked upon a superior form of struggle, armed struggle, to destroy the old order and construct a new society.
From now on, the
People’s War dwells in us and inhabits the nation. Its ever-burning
flames kindle and inflame our people. Its flames will be invincible,
trembling and demolishing the rotten dominant society, flames from whose
hearts will be born the most potent bonfire of the future.
It has befallen to us the historical mission of initiating the armed
struggle in our country and to develop it and sustain it as part of the
struggles of Latin America, the international proletariat, the peoples
of the world and world revolution, which we serve by adhering faithfully
to the principle of proletarian internationalism.
The struggle
will be long but fruitful, bloody but brilliant, and hard but vigorous
and omnipotent. It has been said that the world will be transformed with
arms, and that is what we are doing now. From the barrels of guns
everything will grow. We are already living it and we will see it more
as the People’s War develops.
To the communists members of this
Party, in this country, who have broken the stonewall of more than fifty
years, their spirits must be no less than vibrant today with the
realization of this great balance which proves and tests the achievements, counting, measuring and weighing the future. We
are very conscious of and responsible for our actions. We have nothing
to be vain about except to fulfill our duty. We have nothing to brag
about, since glory is for the class, the people and the Party.
Nevertheless, we need to be optimists, assured that the pebbles of the
new order begin to fall into place. The future begins to be written. We
will write the new history with flowers of stone in bronze forever more.
We will tame the hills, we will write a new history with the points of
swords, the light of fire, tearing down iniquity and giving birth to the
future.
For every Communist Party that assumes
its role as the armed vanguard of the proletariat, there comes a time
to tear away the centuries of oppression. It lets out its war cries and
storms the heaven, the shadows and the night. It begins to tear down
the old and rotten reactionary walls, it begins to rattle and crackle
like dry leaves before new and tender flames, before young but crackling
bonfires. The People’s War begins to sweep away the old order
in order to inevitably destroy it. From the old, the new shall be born.
And finally, like the pure and glorious phoenix bird, Communism will
arise for all time.
We should uphold optimism and
overflow with enthusiasm, furthermore thinking that we serve to carry
out a task that will last forevermore. We humans are mere fragments of
time and heart beats, but our deeds will remain for centuries stamped on
generation after generation. Men march inevitably towards their end,
but humanity, the working class and their creations will never end. We
will people the Earth with light and happiness.
With us, with our
armed struggle, the authentic and only true liberty begins to be born.
We are trumpets of the future, the inextinguishable fire that crackles
in the stormy present.
Long Live The Irresistible March Towards Guerrilla Warfare!
Extended Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru
August 24, 1980
Hereby we share other statements and reports published:
In the Spanish State, Servir al Pueblo has published an statement, after which they suffered repression:
¡Viva el 45º aniversario de la Guerra Popular en Perú! La guerra popular no “fracasó”, continua existiendo en 2025
17/05/2025
Artículo enviado por un colaborador
El 17 de mayo de 1980, comunistas peruanos realizaron una acción de boicot electoral en la localidad de Chusqui (Cangallo, Ayacucho). Los revolucionarios entraron en el lugar de votación y lanzaron consingas revolucionarias contra la farsa electoral burguesa mientras quemaban ánforas y padrones electorales. Este evento es conocido como ILA-80 (Iniciar Lucha Armada – 1980), y con él, comenzó la epoya revolucionaria de la Guerra Popular en Perú.
“El
17 de Mayo de 1980 se inició la guerra popular en el Perú, “fue un
desafiante golpe político de gran trascendencia que desplegando rebeldes
banderas rojas e izando hoces y martillos proclamaba “La rebelión se
justifica” y “El Poder nace del fusil”,
convocando al pueblo, al campesinado pobre en especial a ponerse en pie
armadamente, a encender la hoguera y estremecer los Andes, a escribir la
nueva Historia en los campos y entresijos de nuestra tumultuosa
geografía, a derrumbar los podridos muros del orden opresor, a
conquistar las cumbres, a asaltar los cielos con fusiles para abrir la
nueva aurora. Los comienzos fueron modestos, casi sin armas modernas, se
combatió, se avanzó y construyò de lo pequeño a lo grande y del
material débil, fuego inicial, devino el gran incendio turbulento y
rugiente que se expande sembrando revolución y explosionando más
impetuosa guerra popular”. (Línea Militar, PCP, 1988).
La Guerra Popular en Perú encontró dificultades en su camino, pero continua activa a día de hoy. Es importante remarcarlo, pues gracias la propaganda reaccionaria del imperialismo yanqui y la CIA, junto a la colaboración de la Línea Oportunista de Derecha (LOD) de la “rata Miriam”, se ha extendido la falsa idea de que la revolución fracasó. Los revisionistas y oportunistas de toda clase, en España1 y en el mundo, se sumaron al tren de la reacción. Incluso hay compañeros honestos del movimiento político y movimiento de masas que, por desconocimiento y por influencia de la propaganda revisionista, creen que la guerra popular dejó de existir.
Hay que se firmes y no dejar espacio alguno a la duda. Sí, el PCP continua existiendo en 2025. Sí, el Nuevo Poder, aunque débil en estos momentos, continua existiendo en 2025. Sí, masas armadas bajo dirección de los comunistas, continúan luchando en 2025. Animamos a todos los lectores de este artículo a informarse sobre la actualidad de la guerra popular, a defender al PCP y la guerra popular que dirigen.
¡Viva la Guerra Popular en Perú!