LONG LIVE THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVINCIBLE PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU!
Proletarians from all countries, units!
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 ac-
tions, 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
ac-
tions has led to further develop the Party’s military
line, and advanced
its consolidation, crushing the Rightism
which proposed militarist po-
sitions 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 launching 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
com-
bating 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 Expanded Central
Committee. Upon these solid bases, we can
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
pro-
letarian 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 launching 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 come. 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.
2It lets
out its war cries and assaults the heavens, 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 unfurl
optimism and overflow with enthusiasm, futhermore
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!
Expanded
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru
August 24, 1980
