Proletarians of all countries, unite!
LONG LIVE THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVINCIBLE PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU!
In the midst of heroic struggles, the proletariat of Peru, with José Carlos Mariátegui, has come to establish the Communist Party of Peru, as our founder said “Marxist-Leninist, convicted and confessed.” In the shocking class struggle and the storm of revolution, the international proletariat has built socialism in what was the USSR, with Lenin and Stalin. Through the people’s war, the proletariat of China has formed the People’s Republic of Workers and Peasants, uninterruptedly the socialist construction of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to stay the course and prevent capitalist restoration. Our undefeated ideology was established as Marxism- Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and later, as consequence of the beginning and development of the people’s war in Peru, has better understood its application and has made a qualitative leap in its development, becoming Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Maoism being the Third, New and Superior stage of the ideology of the proletariat and therefore what is decisive for the world proletarian revolution; consequently, the ideology of the international proletariat is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, mainly Maoism as third, new and superior stage.
The people’s war that began in May 1980 constitutes a historical milestone of struggle, has ignited luminous hopes for the construction of the People’s Republic of Peru, has summoned the communists, combatants and masses of Peru to this great epic that will crown its victory with the seizure of power throughout the country and the triumph of the revolution, whatever the circumstances that have to pass and pay. Together with our comrades, in heroic fight, we offer and we will continue to offer our blood and our lives, to maintain the path of the people’s war that leads to the kingdom of eternal harmony, communism, final goal of all humanity.
The class struggle, the heroic struggles of the Peruvian proletariat, in hard struggle have generated Chairman Gonzalo and Gonzalo Thought, which is the creative application of Maoism to the Peruvian revolution; in years of intense, tenacious and incessant struggle to uphold, defend and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, resuming the path of Mariátegui, reconstituting the Party and initiating, maintaining, and developing the people’s war; our leadership [jefatura] with recognized authority and ascendancy.
In Peru, the armed revolution, the working class, as the leading class and the Communist Party as the Party of the working class, that is, our own reality of the revolution, of the class and of the Party have generated Gonzalo Thought, by historical necessity and chance. You can’t conceive Marxism-Leninism-Maoism without Gonzalo Thought, the essence of Gonzalo Thought being the creative application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to our reality; the key is the understanding of the process of development of the ideology of the proletariat in its three moments or stages, that of Marx, that of Lenin and that of Chairman Mao Zedong. So, we reiterate, the essential thing is the application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as universal truth to the concrete conditions of the Peruvian revolution.
Chairman Gonzalo, a “man of thought and action” [hombre pensante y operante] has endorsed, from the dungeons of this outdated order, his communist spirit, his quality as a teacher of communists, tireless combatant, manifesting: “I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, and I will be one until death.” The theory and ideology of the proletariat have forged us, “the hero reaches his goal bloodied and torn: only at this price he reaches the fullness of his heroism.” And our final sentence: “today like yesterday, no political order can be changed without men determined to resist prison or exile… for a revolutionary, a prison is simply a work accident.”
Chairman Gonzalo, Head [Jefe] of the Party, the First Congress, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought Congress, the Party, the class and the revolution warn us: Fight imperialism, revisionism and reaction inextricably and relentlessly. Fight revisionism as the main danger in the Party and in the national and international class struggle.
Imperialism, whether called American, Russian, or whatever, is a parasite that sucks the blood of the people. We don’t need this parasite; to end this plague, there is only one way, the people’s war. In the not too distant future, when this parasite called imperialism has been swept away from all corners of the earth, when the exploitation of man by man has died, parties, classes, states and wars will have reached their extinction, that is, all instruments of oppression disappeared, the entire humanity will enter the kingdom of Great Harmony, communist society, unalterable final goal of humanity, the kingdom of humanity. The people’s war in Peru is a step forward in this inexorable path that all humanity is traveling and will continue to travel.
Numerous combatants and masses have offered their lives. Many families have seen the lives of young people cut short, whose smile, effort and sacrifice encourage our people. The blood poured out by our heroes will not be in vain, the armed revolution is already bearing fruit, history will put in its pages the price the revolution demands and the life of a communist belongs entirely to the Party. The hour of triumph is not far away, let us transform our tears and pain into a burning cry of war, since the oppressors cannot boast of their perpetuation on the face of the earth. Their time has arrived and we call for this heroic feat as only with the rifle can the world be transformed.
The Communist Party of Peru, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought, the Party of the working class is the standard bearer of our revolution, it is the heroic combatant who will lead us to the inevitable final triumph over the oppressors, the conquest of power throughout Peru and our unalterable goal: communism. “Proletarians of all countries, unite”, armed with your undefeated and all-powerful ideology, Marxism- Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, constituting or reconstituting Communist Parties, we, your communist children, will not fail you, tested in a thousand battles, by offering our blood and our lives we must complete our journey so that the unfading light of communism may shine upon the earth. The path of the people’s war is open, the people of the world must travel through it, workers, peasants, petty bourgeoisie and even the national bourgeoisie. One path, the people’s war; a single objective, the People’s Republic; a single unalterable goal, communism.
The writer Don Miguel de Unamuno says in one of his poems: “There are eyes that look, there are eyes that Dream, there are eyes that call, there are eyes that wait”, but the eyes of the people look, they dream, they call and wait for the undefeated and all-powerful ideology of the proletariat and they get to work for the People’s Republic of New Democracy, uninterruptedly for Socialism and the final goal of humanity, communism.
We reiterate, once again, our firm commitment to give our lives alongside the masses, creators of everything new and to fight until the last drop of blood in defense of the Party and the revolution. We proclaim from here our decision to fight as children of the party, children of the revolution and, with great honor, children of Chairman Gonzalo
GLORY AND HONOR TO THE HEROES OF THE PEOPLE!
The People’s Movement of Peru (MPP)
May 17, 2026
Note: The content of our document on this new anniversary of ILA 80 belongs entirely to C. Laura, it is part of her proclamation from the mountains of Vizcatán.