The Communist Party of Peru (PCP) declared in its Third Plenum: "In Peru, the ruling classes are passing through a period of disruption; the corresponding task for the people is to apply an audacious strategy, but always by laying solid foundations". Far from solving their problems, the ruling classes in Peru confront ever more difficult and complex problems that they are unable to resolve. The difficulties and contradictions of the reactionaries are agravated by the growing boundaries of the People's War which develops within the Strategic Equilibrium, reaching the point the process of the nation is defined by the PCP.
While things grow better day by day in the revolutionary camp, as the strategic offensive is prepared through "Build the Seizure of Power", in the counter-revolutionary camp things go from bad to worse. There is disunity among the reactionaries as we see a growing reactionarization of the State, a greater absolute centralism, today centralized in Fujimori in his role as puppet hooked on the bloody bayonet points of the military. This has been proven once again with the recent amnesty of his genocidal cohorts with the Law of Impunity of June 13, 1995. Furthermore, the discord among the reactionaries is clearly expressed within the armed forces themselves, inside of which there are some 8 or 9 groups that contend for control, but which for now are under the hegemony of the group around Nicolas de Bari Hermoza who controls the old Peruvian state. Obviously, this is under the baton of Yankee imperialism that commands the counterinsurgency war following the strategy of "low-intensity warfare".
INTERNATIONAL SITUATION: On the one hand, the main historical and political tendency in the world is revolution and this tendency grows ever stronger. The world proletarian revolution is on the strategic offensive since the 1980s, and we are actually entering into a Great New Wave of the World Proletarian Revolution.
On one side, the proletariat and the peoples of the world pay close attention to the confrontation of the two strategies in contention: The People's War versus the counter-revolutionary war. The most blatant Yankee intervention in the countries of the Third World has reached the point that it is creating a process of polarization that follows the principal contraction, that between imperialism and oppressed nations. In the specific case of Peru in which the actual contradiction is still masses against feudalism, it is rapidly passing over to one of nation-imperialism.
On the other side, the world counter-revolution is strategically on the defensive; imperialism is in general crisis and marches inexorably towards its collapse; revisionism has entered into total and complete bankruptcy. The same contenders of the previous world wars are preparing the third; all have grave and complex problems and through a trade war they seek a new repartition of the world, while world reaction unfolds a general counter-revolutionary offensive that is already in decline, led by the United States in its role as sole hegemonic power and chief gendarme. In reality, it is a giant with feet of clay with growing problems. President Gonzalo, in a paragraph in the report from the Third Plenum, explains to us the difference between the strategic offensive of the world revolution and the general counter-revolutionary offensive:
"They are on the defensive, but they want to make it seem as if it is not so; we are not going to believe them, and we will understand this if we start from a class position. What is certain is that there is a general counter-revolutionary offensive that will last several years. The stage of the strategic offensive will last decades, the general counter-revolutionary offensive will go on for years, fewer rather than more".
On the role of the People's War in Peru:
"We must understand the offensive on all levels; we must think, comrades, what does the triumph of the People's War here imply, the rising of the People's Republic of Peru that is nearer and more immediate, in order to shape everything that millions have struggled for during centuries of combat. We are nothing more that the most recent part, its material part, its forefront, the part that opens the breach like head of a river; we have the force of history behind us".
And summarizing the international situation:
"In synthesis, on an international level the struggle will intensify, it will develop. If we are a torch, a base, and a trench of combat they will never forgive us; but we do not ask for their pardon nor their permission. For this we will link the intensification of the class struggle to the People's War, to the Seizure of Power countrywide, that it will be specified as a two-line struggle within the Party, that it be expressed as a people's war against the counter-revolutionary war in the country , and a world revolution and counter-revolution. That is our perspective and the situation in which we are unfolding. Who among us will slacken in the pledge our Party has taken on?"
Yankee intervention, polarization, and the change in the contradiction. We must be clear that as the People's War of Liberation advances that the actual direct intervention in the command of the counter-insurgency war and the application of the strategy of "low-intensity warfare" will of necessity evolve into an "conventional" direct invasion, either alone or using third parties. This will imply a change in the contradiction and the agrarian war, today's civil war will be transformed into a war of national liberation, which will create a wider margin to unite the Peruvian people and generate global repudiation of imperialism by the people of the world, and create a greater support and solidarity with the People's War mainly among the Third World, the proletariat and people of North America, especially the Black and Latino population.
President Gonzalo tells us in the Third Plenum of the PCP:
"The contradictions have to be seen in another way because in Peru a polarization is occurring, I believe we must see this. This polarization implies that on one side is imperialism and Peruvian reaction, that is bureaucratic capitalism, the landlords and all the reactionaries, and on the other side are the people led by the Party as a representative of the proletariat. It is a problem of the class struggle agglutinating around a pole, with all the reactionaries and pro-imperialists headed up by the bourgeoisie on one side, and all the classes that make up the people headed up by the proletariat on the other; that is the problem".
World opinion must know, and is beginning to know, that the Peruvian people under the leadership of the PCP has decided to stand up and march victoriously to the beginning of the strategic counteroffensive, building the Seizure of Power, for the ever-closer establishment of the People's Republic of Peru, a future base area and trench of combat for the peoples of the world.