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LONG LIVE THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVINCIBLE PEOPLE’S WAR IN PERU!

“As Chairman Mao said: "The storm draws near and the wind roars in the tower." Thus, the vortex draws near, the vortex begins, and the invincible flame of the revolution grows, converting itself into lead and steel. And from the din of battle with its inextinguishable fires will come forth the light. From the darkness a light will appear and a new world will be born. The old order of reaction creaks, its old boat takes on water and desperately sinks. But comrades, nobody can expect reaction to retreat graciously. Marx warned us: Even while drowning, the reactionaries were capable of inflicting glancing blows and desperate swipes to see if we go down. But that is impossible. Reaction has the hyena's dreams of blood. Convulsive dreams shake their somber nights. Their hearts scheme sinister hecatombs. They arm themselves to the teeth but they cannot prevail. Their destiny is weighed and measured. The time has come for the settling of accounts.
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Thus, we must understand that the revolutionary struggle will be hard, violent and cruelly contested by reaction. They will send their sinister army armed to the teeth to fight us, assaulting the working class, the peasants and popular masses, spreading their sinister and bloody claws, that is how it will be. They will try to encircle, isolate, crush and wipe us out. But we are the future, the strength, and the history.
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The Party is a Party of a new type. The purpose of this Party of a new type is to seize power for the working class and the people of this country. Now the Party cannot develop any further without weapons, through armed struggle. That is the hard lesson we have learned in 50 years, a great lesson that we should never forget: We have no power because we have no guns. Like Chairman Mao has written, whoever has more guns has more power. Whoever wants to seize power must forge an army, and whoever wants to keep power must have a powerful army. This is what we will accomplish. The Party has embarked to develop itself through armed struggle, our historical course. We cannot go backwards.”

(Communist Party of Peru—Expanded Central Committee; We Are the Initiators, 1980)

Today we celebrate the 39th Anniversary of the initiation of our glorious and invincible people’s war in Peru, on May 17th, 1980. At that moment, led by our Great Leadership Chairman Gonzalo and forged in hard and implacable struggles against revisionism, the reconstituted and militarized Party went from times of peace to times of war; leading the masses of the people in armed struggle to destroy the old system of exploitation and oppression: to sweep away imperialism, bureaucrat capitalism and semi-feudalism with democratic revolution, continuing it without any interval as socialist revolution and to continue the march with cultural revolutions until Communism.

During the early years of the people’s war, destroying the semi-feudal relations of exploitation in the countryside, the first Support Bases and People’s Committees were established: the New Power, which the reaction with all its counterrevolutionary violence has still never been able to destroy. Applying the path of surrounding the cities from the countryside and the principle of a unified people’s war—countryside principal, city complementary—also the work in the cities was developed preparing the revolutionary crisis and the insurrection. “The creation of a powerful, united counterrevolution” as Marx said, the people’s war advanced, achieving the great conquest of the Open People’s Committees in 1990 and reaching strategic equilibrium in 1991. This is how it was, applying the universal ideology of the proletariat to the concrete conditions, in people’s war, that the Party in 1981 arrived at defining Maoism as the third, new and superior stage of Marxism, and its concrete application to the conditions of the Peruvian Revolution as Gonzalo Thought.

The historical importance of the initiation and development of the people’s war in Peru is beyond measure. In the moment when the revisionist coup and the restoration of capitalism in China had generated confusion inside the Communist Parties of the world, when so many communists vacillated and the revisionists took the opportunity to spread capitulation and treason, the Communist Party of Peru did the opposite: under the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, the Party firmly unleashed the struggle against revisionism as the main danger, purifying and forging the Party for its main task—the initiation and development of people’s war—and unfolding the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought, counteroffensive against the general counterrevolutionary offensive and against the triple revisionist attack of Teng, Hoxha and Brezhnev. Thus, the people’s war in Peru was established as a decisive and unfading inspiration for the proletariat and all the oppressed, giving a new impulse to the communists and revolutionaries of different countries in the world to assume and apply Maoism, build or rebuild their Parties and initiate people’s war.

Today although some revisionists and traitors—like Avakian, Prachanda and a handful of followers—have attempted to use the detention of Chairman Gonzalo, the bend and the complex situation of our people’s war as a pretext for negating the validity of Gonzalo Thought and/ or the universal validity of Maoism, what is concrete and undeniable is that what Chairman Gonzalo defined in his masterful Speech is coming true: that Maoism is marching unstoppably to lead the new wave of world proletarian revolution. Although some continue boasting of the hoaxes of reaction—that “the Party doesn’t exist”, that “the people’s war has been defeated”, and some others believed to be “called upon” to lead from abroad, the reality is that the Communist Party of Peru and its Central Committee continue leading the people’s war omnimodally, developing the mass work for retaking what was lost and fulfill the plans established by its Great Leadership Chairman Gonzalo, while also continuing to act as red faction in the International Communist Movement in the implacable struggle against revisionism. Although there are some, even under the label of Maoism, who converge with the lousy rats of the ROL, spreading capitulation, opportunism and confusion and want to revise Maoism, concretely there are thousands of Communists and revolutionaries in the world are learning from Chairman Gonzalo, the PCP and the People’s War in Peru, and thousands of proletarians and peasants are already heroically fighting in their people’s wars and armed struggles under the glorious red banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism. And we are convinced that applying the lessons of the People’s War in Peru, the left of each Party will firmly take on the struggle against revisionism as the main danger, reject conciliation and crush all contrary lines in order to bring the revolution to final victory.

LONG LIVE THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVINCIBLE PEOPLE’S WAR IN PERU!
LONG LIVE THE INVINCIBLE PEOPLE’S WAR IN PERU, BEACON AND GUIDE OF THE WORLD PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, GONZALO THOUGHT, PRINCIPALLY GONZALO THOUGHT!
LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO AND HIS UNIVERSAL CONTRIBUTIONS!
LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!
PEOPLE’S WAR UNTIL COMMUNISM!

Peru People’s Movement
May 17, 2019