Next May 17th is the fifteenth anniversary of the victorious and invincible People's War in Perú, which is a blazing bonfire of armed rebellion that is being carried out against wind and tide, opening and developing the road of definitive and authentic liberation of our beloved and heroic people.
People's War irrigated with the blood of inumerable martyrs of the Party, the People's Army and the masses. It is being waged and continues firm toward the conquest of Power, in order to achieve a new and true democracy, that is a People's Republic of Perú in the first stage of the revolution and the construction of Socialism in the second stage.
The People's War, which was planned, initiated and led by President Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Perú, is always supported by the masses of people, and developed by the People's Army of Liberation. Today, in almost 15 years of development through campaigns and counter-campaigns of "encirclement and annihilation" (the principal form of the Civil War) it continues victoriously, despite some temporary reverses or zig zags that may have taken place. After all, the People's War must necessarily unfold in a process of victories and setbacks, but our setbacks have been totally transitory and partial. What President Mao Tsetung taught must be understood: "Strategically speaking, there is a defeat only when a counter-campaign against 'encirclement and suppression' fails completely, but even then, the defeat is only partial and temporary. Only the total destruction of the Red Army can be considered a complete defeat in the Civil War; but this has never happened." Therefore, the boasting and the dark dreams of imperialism, reaction and revisionism [that we are already defeated] turn to smoke before the steadiness of the heroic People's War, which today [1995] is overcoming its difficult and complex bend in the road, and it will surely triumph, without a doubt!
II
THE BASIS OF PARTY UNITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL OUR ACTIONS! At the time we greet this new anniversary of the invincible People's War, we want to reaffirm ourselves in its ideological and political foundation (the point of departure of all our actions): The Basis of Party Unity with its three elements is the following:
This reaffirmation is necessary today more than ever because we face, not only in our country, but at a world level, a sinister general counter-revolutionary offensive commanded by imperialism, reaction and revisionism. Concretely, it is important because of what pertains to our Party, that is, a new clique of shameful followers of a revisionist and capitulationist Right Opportunist Line has reappeared. They had rabidly opened their mouths, totally and completely negating the Basis of Party Unity. They were breast-fed and sponsored by the armed forces and the puppet Fujimori, and who have squeaked from their rat-holes calling for the realization of a so-called "Second Congress..." to revoke the First Congress, babbling that "the struggle" for a Peace Accord with the genocidal and sell out [regime] is going to be defined, therefore, endorsing their masters' black hoaxes of "surrender" and "repentance," and trafficking with the name of President Gonzalo.
- 1. Ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought.
- 2. The Program; and
- 3. The General Political Line and its center (the Military Line), approved by the First Congress of the Party, which was a Marxist Congress, a Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought Congress.
We repudiate and condemn these miserable rats. They are nothing more than creeping old chiefs [caudillejos] who were incapable of dealing with a work-related accident, even less to give their lives for the Party and the Revolution. Today, they sell themselves in exchange `for a bowl of lentil soup,' trying to undermine the morale of the class and the Party. This will never be achieved.
As part of their revisionist nature, these traitors have openly expressed their spliting activities. They were incapable of carrying out a debate or explain their positions in the internal struggle, and they fled like cowards. From outside the ranks, they have raised their black and rotten banners, while their leaders hide like shameful ostriches. That's the way they have been acting trying to foul the unwary; but we should know them well, because opportunists and revisionists have existed during the long years of Party life. However, they were not as perfidious and reptilians like the traitors of today. They have reached the extreme of committing such monstrous crimes like having propitiated the arrest of our leader, President Gonzalo, Comrade Miriam and some other valuable leaders, cadre, militants, combatants and masses. Many of them were assassinated as soon as they were arrested. But from now on we say that the damage they have caused, and continue to cause to the revolution will not remain impune. Accordingly, they, along with their masters, will pay for all the crimes they have committed.
Finally, there is something more on this breed [of traitors: During the Third Plenum of the Central Committee, President Gonzalo warned us about the danger of the rise of a revisionist line, hence at the time, there was some indication that an opportunist line opposed to the conquest of Power was being hatched. He reminded us that if for the Initiation of the Armed Struggle (ILA-80) a hard struggle against the right opportunist line of these times were waged, for the conquest of Power (a greater leap than ILA), it was required (there was a better reason) to think about an even greater struggle, an earth-shaking struggle. The facts have once more proven him right. But the outcome of what we have just experienced in our Party has been less important (un parto de los montes) than the previous ones, because this revisionist abortion has been incapable of sustaining its ideological and political positions in the internal struggle. From the outset it simply sought to split the Party [and from outside] with the help of reaction itself and probably by infiltrated agents. Thus, they galloped wildly after the arrest of President Gonzalo.
III
THE CURRENT SITUATION AND THE TASKS OF THE PARTY. Each time the facts confirm that revolution is the principal tendency in the world, but this is concretized through turns and obstacles (vueltas y revueltas). The end of the so-called "cold war" with the drowning of Russian social-imperialism did not mean the "beginning of a new era of peace and stability" as imperialism (principally Yankee imperialism) proclaimed, repeating what the Chinese revisionists have been saying for years. The same thing is repeated in our country by a servile reaction, and revisionism. The reality shows, however, that there is neither economic nor political stability anywhere. At the end of the XX century, the world is evolving in the midst of wars of all types and an increasing militarization.
There isn't even peace in Europe itself, where Yugoslavia continues to disintegrate with more than 200,000 dead in less than three years of war, while in Chechnya, Russian imperialism continues to unfold a barbaric genocide; and what can be said about Rwanda? It is a backward country where over 500,000 died in only three months. What happened with the "Peace" signed between Israel and the PLO with the endorsement of Yankee imperialism? to say nothing of the problems which are breaking out in Mexico, on the flank of the "international gendarme" itself, or the war between Peru and Ecuador, etc.
Essentially what is happening today, as President Mao and the Communist Party of China said in the 1960s: Once more there is a great disorder under heaven, and on another side, a New Wave of the World Revolution has begun to unfold. The Communist Parties must militarize themselves and fulfill their role, putting Maoism in command and applying the People's War to the conditions of their own countries.
With regard to the situation of our country: hunger, poverty, unemployment, repression, genocide, the sale of national sovereignty, etc. are only some of the worsening calamities that have been ocurring because of the genocidal and country selling dictatorship, in reality headed by Hemoza Ríos, the apprentice of Pinochet, of which the puppet Fujimori is only a cheap and vulgar figurehead.
It is a national problem, which shows on the one hand, a revolutionary situation in development strengthened by much better revolutionary conditions than in 1980. On the other hand, it shows once again what President Gonzalo and the Party has established in the General Political Line and how it is being fulfilled, particularly with respect to the general crisis of Bureaucratic Capitalism and its inexorable process of decomposition. This is a very important question especially now that we have entered the second half of the decade in which, as in the previous ones, its critical situation is being worsened. This is an objective situation which not only smashes to pieces the mind products of the genocidal gang about the "new Asian tiger" or the "Peruvian miracle", but also the shameless revisionists and capitulationists who brag (in Spanish cacarean) that "bureaucratic capitalism is becoming viable." As always, they are confusing the appearance with the essence, thus seeking to fool our people by exalting whatever is no more than passing blossoms, within the process of the inevitable drowning of bureaucratic capitalism.
Another aspect of the current situation is the forthcoming elections, which again are crucial for the reactionaries because they find themselves riddled with contradictions, particularly in the situation in which they carry out their three tasks, which are already bogged down. Thus, in the economic sphere the greatest general crisis in the history of the republic is unfolding and will continue to worsen, despite fleeting and limited recoveries, which don't even imply the overcoming of the recession nor inflation, to say nothing of unemployment, which as they themselves say, "has reached historic levels." We can see how industry continues to decrease and the cost of living continues to rise, despite what the crafty manipulators of statistics claim. Meanwhile, agriculture continues its extreme deterioration, made even worse by the millionaire shady deals in food imports done by those close to the ruling clique. In addition, we all know that the foreign debt has grown under this government from $19 billion to over $25 billion. The ruling clique boasts about how "the economy is growing", but as almost everything that they say, this is also false because the norm of this government is cynicism and deception. Growth is not the demagogic and electorally motivated misconstruction of schools for students and teachers with empty stomachs, to say nothing of the extremely high indicators of truancy and drop out rates reached under this government; growth is not repairing roads nor is it opening a few trails with borrowed dollars for which high interest will have to be paid to imperialism; and growth is not depredating the Peruvian sea to benefit the entourage ??? of a voracious clique close to the regime; nor is growth the cheap selling off of state enterprises in order to practically give them away to imperialist capital, and firing thousands of workers with the aggravation of not having settled accounts with anyone regarding the money from that sale.
With regard to the restructuring of the old state, toward the end of 1990, President Gonzalo and the Central Committee of the Party stated that the government in place, was unfolding a process of absolute centralization and presidential absolutism obliged by the People's War, and it was in accordance with their counter-subversive war. Today everyone is talking about this like a broken record, "forgetting" what the Party said in 1990. On April 5, 1992 a coup d'etat took place as part of this reactionary process and specifically as a response to the Strategic Equilibrium reached by the People's War. It implemented a sinister plan designed by imperialism, principally, Yankee imperialism and its followers. This coup was led by a military clique with Hermoza Rios at the head, and as always, it was carried out by the genocidal and country selling armed forces. And once more we have seen how they have been trampling on their own constitution and all legal order to better serve their counter-revolutionary war. They adopted positions which are more and more clearly fascist. Furthermore, we have witnessed for the umpteenth time (once again),a shameless electoral fraud manipulated by the dictatorship in order to approve one of the most reactionary and retrograde constitutions in the history of the Peruvian state. This took place when the previous one was questioned by Tyrians and Trojans alike, but the current one was even worse. Now in the pre-electoral contention, we see the announcements by the representatives of the diverse groups of the factions of the big bourgeoisie who say that if they are elected, they will modify it anyway.
What they have done with their so-called "judicial branch" and their judicial power? Desperate and terrified in the face of the advance of the People's War, they have not only made a clean slate of their own "universal" judicial principles, but they have reached the point of denying the right to defense, and have annulled by decree the non-retroactive character of their laws. They have approved the sentencing of minors, condemned freedom of opinion and thought by punishing any mild criticism as apology for "terrorism" etc., to say nothing of their draconian military tribunals in which the genocidal military is not satisfied to be judge and party, but also acts as magistrate. These dark men in uniform know as much about law as a butcher would know about sculpture, where their norm is a life sentence to whoever falls into their hands. The violation of their judicial order is so serious that even the United Nations, a known annex (celestina) for imperialism, principally Yankee imperialism, had no other choice but to recommend that they need to slow down their barbaric atrocities.
Therefore, merely by looking at issues related to the regime's plan of restructuring the old State, we can say beyond a reasonable doubt that this reactionary task has failed.
With regard to the third task of reaction, which is to annihilate the People's War, they have boasted "victory" too soon with their characteristic, an empty triumphalism. They were even too gratious to give us a date of defunction [July 1995, TNF.] But on this matter as well as in many others, they were wrong from head to toe (de cabo a rabo), because the People's War, after resisting a vicious nationwide offensive, continues its unstoppable march toward victory. This reactionary offensive unleashed since the April 5, 1992-coup (conceived and planned by Yankee imperialism itself within its so-called "Low Intensity Warfare" strategy and carried out by the genocidal and country selling armed forces,) was a response to the Strategic Equilibrium reached by the People's War. It was one of Yankee imperialism's final cards before intervening more directly.
Toward this end, they mobilized and brought thousands of troops deployed on the border with other countries (putting the national sovereignty at grave risk) in order to use them on the campaigns of "encirclement and annihilation" against the Support Bases and the Guerrilla Zones. They utilized for this purpose not only 120 mm. mortars and heavily armed helicopters, but also light artillery for conventional warfare, such as cannons with a 12 Km. range and bombs dropped from combat airplanes. Simultaneously, in the cities they carried out a brutal repression, a bloody manhunt, rounding up hundreds of sons and daughters of the people who were jailed, after being tortured and harassed. Thus, they began to vomit their genocidal guts on May 9, 1992 by first gorging themselves with those who have their hands chained (the Prisoners of War) carrying out a cowardly and merciless massacre. This time the mass graves and the disappearances, like the "La Cantuta" case, were carried out in the same capital (Lima), which clearly showed that this dictatorship is more genocidal than that of Belaúnde and García Pérez. Furthermore, as an ingredient to this genocide they introduced cunning "psychological warfare" hoaxes, always promoting that old trick of Yankee imperialism: capitulation. They launched grotesque farces, which have blown up in their faces like the one demonstrated in December 1993, with the earth-shaking and powerful celebration of President Mao Tsetung's birthday, when as a bold response to the reactionaries in Lima alone, 16 car bombs were detonated that month. All of this was in addition to the regime's well-known actions for population control through the formation of paramilitary ("mesnadas",) increased use of informants and snitches, and the so-called "intelligence" and "civic action" activities which were intensified.
Against all of this sinister offensive and all their crowing and black forecasts, the People's War and the Strategic Equilibrium continue their course. If not, why isn't it an important occasion in which the apprentice of Pinochet (Hermoza) or the puppet Fujimori or some hack of "senderologists", reactionaries, revisionists, opportunists, mercenary writers or even informer priests or promoters of genocide like Cipriani, Durand, or Vargas Alzamora among others, don't have to talk about the so-called "terrorism" or about "pacification"? But if they talk so much about how "they have pacified the country", why do they maintain the state of emergency in more than 50% of the national territory? Why do they keep thousands of their armed forces trapped at the so-called "counter-subversive bases"? Why have they been enrolling and arming under threat of death thousands of peasants in the so-called peasant "rondas?" And why do they continue to fill the prisons with hundreds of the sons and daughters of the people under suspicion of being "terrorists"?
The People's War persists and will continue to persist, despite the fact that it had temporary and partial setbacks. It will achieve its glorious objectives demolishing the Yankee strategy of "Low Intensity Warfare," and whatever other strategy it will face. This is possible because it bases itself on the greatest ideology the world has seen: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought. It will succeed because there is a Party which leads and energizes it with a just and correct political line, because the masses of our people support it, irrigating it with their blood and sweat, since it is the continuation of their struggle with arms in hand.
For all of these reasons, we affirm that the third task of the reactionaries, like the other two previously described, has also failed.
In synthesis, we can see that bureaucratic capitalism has no way out. It will continue on its inexorable sinking, and it will be totally demolished in the midst of the genocide with which it defends itself like a mortally wounded beast. That is the reason why these forthcoming elections are crucial for reaction, and particularly for the clique in power today who are desperate to keep it. They imposed the approval of the "reelection" by any means necessary, now preparing a shameless fraud, and even using the conflict with Ecuador to achieve their bastard objectives. With regard to the so-called UPP (bogus opposition "Union Por el Peru") it doesn't go beyond the framework of defending the interests of the big comprador bourgeoisie, since the dubious individual (sujetillo) [Javier Perez de Cuellar- Bush's puppet at the UN, TNF], who leads it is yet another known quisling (felipillo) of imperialism, mainly Yankee imperialism. One only has to recall his ominous role in the UN against the oppressed nations, being an accomplice in the monstrous imperialist genocide against Iraq and the Palestinian people, for example.
One problem that needs to be analyzed from the proletarian position, is the problem of our country's borders, because the conflict with Ecuador is only part of a very delicate situation which has been mishandled by each successive reactionary government. On the other hand, the reactionary armed forces have never defended either the national integrity or the national sovereignty, because they have always been experts in defeats as it is shown by the loss of Arica and Tarapacá in the war with Chile or the despoliation (despojo) from the "El Trapecio de Leticia" by Colombia. It has always been the masses of people who were the real defenders of our national territory, and we must keep this truth in mind because it is once more being confirmed.
A factor which is being systematically swept under the rag (escamoteado) in this problem is the ominous role of imperialism in general, and particularly Yankee imperialism, whose interests stir up this or that conflict at their convenience. Behind the scenes, it pulls the strings as the grand puppeteer. In this respect, aside from the ever greater domination that it exercises with the foreign debt by way of the IMF, International Development Bank, World Bank, etc., we must bear in mind the "advisory" role of the Yankee armed forces. They frequently send their hierarchs such as that haughty and arrogant chief of the Southern Command who came in November 1994 to control his lackeys. Furthermore, there is the "training" of the genocidal hordes on a permanent basis, and the insolent intervention of their ambassadors in all the internal matters of Perú, or the sleazy individual Alexander Watson, Secretary of inter-American affairs of the USA, who with total effrontery stated: "Fujimori is a good salesman of Peruvian products" [vendepatria], which was taken as an eulogy by the puppet.
Today, Perú is at risk again of losing a part of its territory because of the current dictatorship, because it is the most genocidal and country selling dictatorship we have seen to date. First, they began by putting the Peruvian nationality up for sale for a few miserable dollars; later they offered South Korea a coastal fringe of territory north of Lima; afterwards they turned over part of the national territory in the province of Ilo to Bolivia; then they offered Chile a series of concessions in the so-called "Lima Convention", which was not signed because of the people's protest. Furthermore, with the so-called "privatization" they have begun to put on the auction block a series of state enterprises at bargain prices without caring that some are known as "strategic" like the petroleum or electrical industry, the latter even sold to Chilean capitalists. Who is doing all this? It is imperialism behind the scenes, and the genocidal and country selling armed forces, more directly and openly with the clique headed by Hermoza Ríos, because it is the armed forces who are ruling the country since the coup d'etat of April 5, 1992. But this doesn't acquit the puppet Fujimori, because he gleefully dances to whatever tune his masters play for him!.
In the case of Ecuador, everyone knows that the ruling classes of that country have systematically unfurled a policy of negating the "1942 Protocol", not recently but for some time. As far back as 1981, during the second government of Belaúnde, the "False Paquisha" incident occurred and they were dislodged from Peruvian territory, but the viceroy, far from demanding the demarcation of the 78 Km of the border which was pending, opted to look the other in order to leave a future card to play, which would give Yankee imperialism and Peruvian reaction an excuse to create problems for a people's government which could take power through the People's War. But it is during the current government that the genocidal country sellers consented that in 1991 Ecuador would invade Peruvian territory, and their only response was to reach a "gentleman's agreement", which obviously our neighbors took advantage of.
Furthermore, the same puppet was commissioned by those wearing the shroud [the military - trans.] to go to Ecuador and offer them a "sovereign" outlet to the Amazon region, as the ex-dictator of Ecuador Rodríguez Borja has said, even threatening his partner with publicizing the letters he received. To date the reptile hasn't even denied this, but even worse, in 1992 in order to unleash their sinister but doomed genocidal offensive against the People's War, they removed troops from the border leaving them stripped and leaving them at the mercy of any aggressor or invader. This is how the belly of these country sellers are, for them it is a thousand times preferable to see our country dismembered before losing their position as blood-suckers and oppressors of the people; and in saying this we refer not only to the guard dogs of the repressive forces, but also to their imperialists master, mainly Yankee, the big bourgeoisie and the feudal landlords.
Thus, by January 1995 the Ecuadorian armed forces had been occupying part of Peru's territory for some time, and had prepared ahead of time to face any effort to dislodge them. But, why did the genocidal and country selling dictatorship suddenly decide to unleash this conflict at that moment? Because the military clique sought to be "reelected" through the puppet Fujimori, but they were not certain of achieving it, and their problems have continued to grow and become aggravated as we have seen. Even worse, if we recall the results of the referendum where they almost suffered a serious setback, despite the open fraud they carried out by making the armed forces and police "vote" again, with thousands of "Identity and Electoral Cards" expedited by the National Election Board. Keep in mind also the problem of runaway corruption at their bosom, in which hundreds of officers including some even in their clique are compromised in the drug trade and even facing trials for that crime. Add to this the problems of the little puppet and his ex-consort, who aired out a lot of his dirty laundry: by keeping in mind all this and other questions we can understand the reasons for his desires. In this way the genocidal country sellers thought they could raise their stock in what doesn't belong to them and feigning to be what they are not, they went to action dreaming about an easy victory and in the worst case if they didn't get it they could launch a new hoax to try and fool the people. But like the experts in defeat they are, it has backfired and the hoax didn't convince anyone, beyond which the problem was aggravated and now they are stuck in a mess from which they cannot get out so easily because our people, today more conscious than before, will not allow themselves to be surprised or fooled.
In dealing with this problem we should bear in mind the words of Chairman Gonzalo in the Speech of September 1992 from prison:
We clearly say that today the democratic road has begun to develop as a road of liberation, as a road of people's liberation!" "We believe that the 18th century was a very clear lesson. Think about this. There was a dominator. It was Spain and where did that bloodsucking domination bring us? To a very profound crisis, as a consequence of which Peru, that at that time was a viceroyalty and today is our motherland, Peru was divided. From there come the origins of today's Bolivia. It is not our invention but facts."
"Fine, the last century, English domination. Where did their rivalry with France take us? To another big crisis: 70 of the past century. The result? War with Chile. We must not forget it! And what happened? We lost territory. Our nation suffered a schism despite the blood shed by heroes and the people. We must draw lessons from this!"
"The 20th century. How are we doing? In the 20th century we are dominated by imperialism, principally North American, this is real, everyone knows it and no one can silence it. And where has it brought us? Even without reminding the 1920's, here and now, to the worst crisis of the entire history of the Peruvian nation. Learning the lesson of past centuries, what can we think? Once more the nation is at risk, once more the republic is at risk, once more our territory is at risk. It can easily be lost, and by interests. That we have to se; that is the situation; thas is where they have brought us. But we have a fact, a Peruvian revolution, a People's War that burns powerfully, that is advancing, and will continue to do so. Where have we gotten with this? To a Strategic Equilibrium! And we must understand this well. It is a Strategic Equilibrium! It solidifies itself in an essential situation. What have 12 years served for? To plainly show before the third world and principally before the Peruvian people, that the Peruvian state, the old Peruvian state, is a paper tiger that is rotten to the core. That has been proven!"
"Things being that way, let us think of the danger that the nation, that the country, can be divided, that the nation is at risk. They want to dismember it; they want to divide it. Who wants to do this? As always, imperialism, those who exploit, those who rule. And what should we do? What is to be done? It is appropriate that we push forward the People's Liberation Movement and that we develop it through the People's War because the people, always the people, have been the ones who defend the country, who have defended the nation."
"It corresponds to form a People's Liberation Front, it corresponds to form and develop from the People's Guerrilla Army a People's Army of Liberation..."
And this is being accomplished, today, concretely, Ecuador remains ensconced in Peruvian territory and should be dislodged. Other borders are also in danger. Our people must remain alert.
The motherland is at risk and the only fitting thing is to defend it with guns in hand, but precisely because of this imperialism and reaction seek to annihilate the People's War, because it is the true barrier against their dreams and sinister appetites. Our people know that the only path is People's War to conquer the People's Republic of Perú, even more so in the current circumstances where they seek to sell our country to imperialism's and their lackeys capital, opening the black but real possibility of tearing it apart to benefit a clique and their cronies, who have no patriotic spirit whatsoever. Because of this it is confirmed that we have begun to unfold a path of people's liberation for the defense and liberation of our motherland.
Thus, in this complex national and international situation, it befalls to the Peruvian proletariat, as yesterday, to lead the revolution and guarantee its path through the Communist Party of Peru, because the Party is the detachment, it is the conscious and organized vanguard, it is the leadership of the revolution, of the People's War. Some leaders, cadres or militants might be missing or even disappear, but even with the immense pain and consternation that this may cause, the duty and the obligation of the Party is to continue its unyielding battle, even if only one faction or in the final analysis only one Communist remained, they would have to fulfill their role, struggling to raise whatever new and better thing is needed, even more so with an invincible and all-powerful ideology, a proletariat and masses which generate everything, the revolution will necessarily advance and triumph. But these things are not new questions, they are old truths known by the International Communist Movement, but which today the rotten revisionism of the ROL again seek to twist and obscure in order to traffic and brood under the skirts of imperialism and reaction. Thus, cleverly using the problems which have occurred they have come to negate the role and capacity of the Party as the Leadership of the revolution. For this reason the Central Committee reaffirms itself in: The Communist Party of Peru, guiding itself with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, is a heroic combatant which leads and guarantees the path of the revolution!
It is within this framework that the tasks of the Party are being accomplished according to the agreements of the First Congress, the First, Second and Third Plenum, and the two Work Sessions of the Central Committee.
Since the problem of the internal struggle is a question of cardinal importance in Party life, it is relevant to add the following question: Revisionism is the principal danger for the Party and the Revolution, and for this reason it must be implacably combated and crushed. Our Party has purged itself but the struggle must continue, in the final analysis the armed struggle in our country would never have been initiated nor developed without first sweeping away the right opportunist line of that time, and today we can say that without sweeping away the capitulationists and revisionists totally and completely we could not conquer power countrywide. We know well that internal causes are definitive, and for that reason it should remain clear, that if the reaction could do some damage to the revolution in our country since 1992, it was because revisionism helped it, served it, it facilitated things. This is a very serious lesson which we must never forget. Therefore, if we totally sweep away revisionism and finish purging our ranks, embodying to the root the Basis of Party Unity in the midst of the People's War, we will be fortified and we will be invincible.
The People's War has not been detained for a moment no matter what the imperialists, the reactionaries, the revisionists or the traitors say. Already the celebration of the President Mao's Centennial throughout 1993, especially in December of that year, a celebration coordinated with the RIM, was earth-shaking and powerful, realized with successful armed actions. The reaction dreamed of conjuring it away by launching the hoax of the supposed "surrender", which exploded in their cynical faces. Subsequently the 2nd and 3rd campaigns of the 6th Military Plan have been unfolding successfully.
For all that has been said, the Central Committee calls on the Party, the combatants of the Peoples Army of Liberation and the masses of the New State, and all our people to celebrate the XV Anniversary of the invincible People's War as is due.
Finally, in the face of the forthcoming reactionary elections, the only just and correct political line before this fraudulent process is to repudiate it applying the tactics of the boycott.
LONG LIVE PRESIDENT GONZALO!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!
LONG LIVE THE OPEN PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES!
BUILD THE CONQUEST OF POWER!
ELECTIONS, NO! PEOPLE'S WAR, YES!
Perú, March 1995. Ediciones Bandera Roja Comité Central del Partido Comunista del Perú
Translated and Reproduced by Peru People's Movement and The New Flag Magazine.