REACTION IS DROWNING IN ITS OWN CONTRADICTIONS

That's the case of the municipalities, which are crumbling on a national level, facing blows at the hands of the People's War the People's Committees, the army of the new power, and the People's Republic of Peru.

The municipality of Lima, headed by Alberto Andrade, a representative of bureaucratic capitalism [a faction of the big bourgeoisie], tries to solve its differences with the comprador bourgeoisie [TNF: Fujimori and his cronies.] Among other things, Andrade is trying to lessen the resentment caused by his support to the failed military coup of November 13, 1992 [TNF: this was a coup led by General Salinas seven months after the military self-coup of April 5, 1992. At the time, Fujimori ran into the Japanese Embassy.] How does Andrade satisfy Fujimori? By firing more than 2,000 municipal workers, by expanding and strengthening his own municipal police and by engaging in night watching (paramilitary). By evicting residents from their crumbling rental dwellings, as well as by brutally repressing thousands of ambulatory peddlers.

The combative ESMIL workers [TNF: Workers and Employees Union of the Municipality of Lima], despite their uncompromising struggle in defense of their jobs and social benefits, have been cornered and humiliated. Their peaceful protests have been mercilessly and savagely repressed by the genocidal "serenazgos" [TNF: paramilitary nightwatchmen organized by the military in the cities]. The daily repression against ESMIL workers shows how harshly the class enemy treats them. The workers have shown their potential for holding on, showing cohesiveness, as they carry out their daily struggle. They have nothing else to lose and have everything to win. In the course of the struggle, they have assumed political class consciousness. The support they get from some opportunists in Congress, is just a part and parcel of the contradictions among the various bourgeois currents.

The 1992 self-coup brought as a result of the dismantling of Congress, and those "defenders of constitutionality," who colluded with the coup, were given State employment. This was a payment for the potential trouble to be found along the way for embarking themselves in such an adventure. That is the reason why Andrade [Mayor of Lima] hired in the Miraflores Municipal Police [the Lima District where he served previously as Mayor], notorious criminals who were well known by the people, such as the murderer Ricardo Falc'on Alvarez, one of the direct participants in the genocide of Barrios Altos, or the commander Enrique Aguilar Benalcazar, responsible for finishing off the victims, who is now the Director of the Miraflores Municipal Police. He also hired that notorious butcher, Commander Walter Bonilla Herald, who together with the brother of Ricardo Falconi Alvarez, is Andrade's advisor in matters of security at the municipality of Lima. Therefore, the direct participation of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie in the genocide against the people, is obvious!

The illegal ingredient is introduced by drug runners and their allies in the higher military ranks. They make a lot of money as a result of that charade that they call the "war on drugs," while Andean peasants only get meager earnings, barely enough to feed their families.

Once again, the PCP points out to the bourgeoisie that the problem of drug trafficking will not be solved by military or police repression, even less by the so-called alternative crops. The only way to solve that plague that lashes out to the human race, is by changing the relations of production: going from private ownership of the means of production to their collective ownership by society at large; that is, going from a capitalist society to a socialist society. But now, after several years, the reactionary press brandishes slander against the PCP. It comes to light, in their own media, what we have all known for a long time: The real alliance is between drug kingpins and government, with the latter trying by all means to hide their drug business partners, in their endeavor to contain the victorious People's Army of Liberation (EPL).

The alliance described above is seen not only in the quotas drug runners pay to individual army or police officers for the logistical support and even transportation of drugs in military craft, but also reaches the highest levels of the government. An example of this is the case of the current presidential advisor to the genocidal Fujimori, former captain Vladimiro Montesinos, who now seeks desperately to cover up the denunciations against him done by his ex-partner, the drug trafficker Demetrio Peña Herrera, "Vaticano."

We witnessed how the entire government bare their claws in defense of Montesinos: from the pseudo-prosecutor for the nation, who should be the first one investigating this matter,( not covering up) to the Prime Minister and members of Congress, who could not find any arguments to sweep under the rag the evidence against the genocidal Montesinos.

They are attempting to cover up with a finger the close relationship between Montesinos and the well-known drug kingpins, as well as the relationship with members of the military who have been judicially processed for drug trafficking. Something else that they are trying to do, is to silence the mouth of Montesino's main accomplice, "Vaticano," pretending that he really had ties to the People's Army of Liberation. They can't admit to themselves that at this point nobody believes their worn out tales any longer. They make mockery out of their own laws and judicial system, by urging and pressuring judges not to summon Montesinos to the witness stand in order to sentence "Vaticano" quickly and even torture him so that he retract himself. So, what's going on, don't they trust their "reformed" judicial system?

From all of this we draw important conclusions: that the "war on drugs" is nothing more than a pantomime and vulgar word mongering. This State will never be able to or willing to do anything against drug trafficking because it relies primarily on its share of profits from the drug trade. Furthermore, the purported government's war on drugs is just a hoax, a farce, and that their true war is against the People's Army of Liberation (EPL) and the peasantry (mainly against the EPL) which day after day is demolishing this rotten and obsolete old Peruvian State.

[Three photos are included at the end of this article.) The most visible one is an immense painting of the Lima Municipal Workers Union, with red ink on a wall of the Panamerican Highway in Lima, which reads: "ESMIL IN AN INDEFINITE STRIKE: AGAINST THE MASSIVE LAY OFFS, FUJIMORI-ANDRADE LIARS!] The cartoon below is from The New Flag: