Speech by Peru People’s Movement at the International Conference organized by the Maoist Communist Party (Turkey & North Kurdistan)

Speech by the Peru People?s Movement at the International Conference organized 
by the Maoist Communist Party (Turkey & North Kurdistan) in Frankfurt, Germany, 
January 10th/11th 2004

http://www.redsun.org/mpp_doc/mpp_200401Conf_en.htm


Proletarians of all countries, unite!

UNITE UNDER MAOISM!

This slogan, which heads our intervention in this conference, expresses the 
necessity for us to unite on the basis of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally 
Maoism. This means that the communists of the world have to unite 
internationally in order to place Maoism in the position of being the sole 
command and guide of world revolution. We must unite in order for Maoism to 
lead the new great wave of world proletarian revolution, which we have entered.

Concerning this, next month, in February, it will be 156 years since the 
publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx and Engels, a 
document which is the birth certificate of the international communist 
movement; the common program for all communists of the world; and the official 
announcement of the shining final goal of the class struggle that the 
proletariat leads: the communist society. In the last line of the text of the 
Manifesto, the slogan of the international communist movement is established: 
PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! This means that the unity of the 
international proletariat is indispensable for the triumph of the Communist 
Revolution. Our slogan and motto is ? in addition ? the formal synthesis of the 
content of the Manifesto. Therefore, every organization or person that upholds 
this slogan is, if it is CONSISTENT, upholding the content of the Manifesto. 
And this is what the Communist Party of Peru does; our I Congress reaffirmed 
itself in the
 full validity of the Manifesto and in the final goal: the forever golden 
communism. Since the very moment when we came forth as a class conscious of its 
historical role, as the last class in world history, an indispensable task has 
been established for us for the triumph of our cause and in order to obtain our 
shining final goal. This task is to struggle for the unity of the international 
proletariat, of the international communist movement. In order to do this, it 
is necessary for the proletariat to constitute itself in the form of Communist 
Party. With the Manifesto, Marxism comes forth as the complete ideology of the 
class, with a program and one sole final goal, on the basis of which it 
constitutes itself as a separate party, opposed to all others, in order to 
struggle for the unity of the international proletariat so as to obtain the 
triumph of communism. Because ? as Chairman Gonzalo repeats ? ?either we will 
all arrive at communism, or no one will arrive at it?. Today, our
 ideology has become Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism. Today we must 
more than ever struggle tirelessly to attain the unity of our international 
movement on the basis of our universally valid ideology, of our program and of 
the final goal that is established for us.

With Marxism, the proletariat constitutes itself as class conscious of its 
historical role ? in the form of the Communist Party ? whereby world 
proletarian revolution begins. The latter has a beginning and thereafter, 
during the course of its development with the triumph of the October Revolution 
led by Lenin, it entered into the era of the world proletarian revolution. This 
has a great current importance for various reasons: 1. The era of the bourgeois 
revolution has reached its end, it has become decrepit. 2. We are in the era of 
world proletarian revolution and ever revolution has this character. 3. The 
democratic revolution that is unfulfilled in the oppressed countries belongs to 
or forms part of world proletarian revolution; it is a new-democratic 
revolution. Every struggle of the peoples to solve the democratic question and 
the national question, in the colonial or semi-colonial countries, is, 
independently of and even against the will of those who lead these struggles, as
 part of the national liberation movement of the oppressed peoples and 
countries, an indispensable part of world proletarian revolution, which is the 
sole revolution that is possible and valid in this historical epoch of world 
class struggle and the class struggle of the proletariat for its emancipation, 
and thus for the emancipation of the whole of mankind. 4. There can be no 
intermediary stage, nor any stage prior to the new-democratic revolution. This 
revolution begins with the foundation of Communist Party, and with the 
initiation of the people?s war begins the sweeping away of the old 
landlord-bureaucrat state in order to culminate the democratic revolution with 
the countrywide seizure of state power. The people?s war is initiated in order 
to culminate the democratic revolution with the countrywide seizure of state 
power in order to, without any interruption whatsoever, proceed to establish 
the dictatorship of the proletariat and thus begin the socialist revolution 
and, through
 successive cultural revolutions, together with the whole of mankind, arrive at 
communism. 5. If it is stopped or postponed, if you abandon arms and the new 
political power, this amounts to having made the masses work for nothing. Thus, 
you only postpone revolution and the chains of oppression and exploitation of 
the masses are strengthened; the most that you could achieve by this, would be 
to open up a wider breach for capitalism, that is, for bureaucrat capitalism. 
6. As Chairman Mao has established, the war of national liberation, the 
national liberation movement, the national unity to stop or confront the 
imperialist aggression, demands Communist Party, People?s Liberation Army and 
new political power, with its system of support bases and people?s committees. 
Thus, the war does not stop with the change of contradiction but advances, 
uniting the immense majority and concentrating its attack on the aggressor and 
his lackeys in order to, after having triumphed, throwing out the
 aggressor, the imperialist occupant, establish the People?s Republic and with 
it socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat.

 

LONG LIVE THE NEW GREAT WAVE OF WORLD PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION

With the triumph of the October Revolution, in 1917, the class established the 
dictatorship of the proletariat and a new era begins. With this triumph, an 
extraordinary milestone is set in world history: the end of bourgeois 
revolution and the beginning of world proletarian revolution. 

There are three moments in the process of world revolution sweeping away 
imperialism and reaction from the face of the Earth: The first, the strategic 
defensive of world revolution opposed to the offensive of counterrevolution, 
starts in 1871 with the Paris Commune and ends in the Second World War. The 
second, the strategic equilibrium, takes place around the triumph of the 
Chinese revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the 
development of the powerful national liberation movement. The third is the 
strategic offensive; this moment can be situated around 1980, when we see signs 
like the war between Iran and Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and the initiation 
of the People?s War. This epoch lies within the ?next 50 to 100 years?; 
henceforth will develop the contradiction between capitalism and socialism, the 
solution of which will bring us to communism. It is in this way that Chairman 
Gonzalo sees the long years to come.

With this great communist vision that characterizes our Great Leader, Chairman 
Gonzalo, he established that revolution is the main historical and political 
trend of world history. He teaches that contradiction develops progress, the 
majority is in favor of advance in order to have elementary living conditions 
and of being able to develop as persons, as human beings, in accordance with 
the advance of the times. Fabulous riches have been created, determined 
conditions exist on a higher level and the masses cannot keep living side by 
side with a world where there are subhuman conditions in disaccord with the 
enormous riches and insulting waste. The world has to advance, progress, 
development and revolution is the direction of history; this is why the 
bourgeois and their petty-bourgeois lackeys sustain the negation of progress, 
of development, of advance. We conceive of progress as being the consequence of 
the revolutionary transformation of the class struggle that generates more
 advanced classes, a more combative people. History has a direction that goes 
toward the wider liberty of man. This is undeniable, but it is being denied, it 
is being said that these are pseudo-Marxist ideas, but the contradiction 
between the new and the old exists and this gives rise to the fact that 
revolution is the main trend. Chairman Mao said that the road is tortuous, but 
the future is bright. Either this reflects a contradiction, a reality, or it is 
just a useless play with brilliant words. Historically and politically 
revolution is the main trend, and the rest is transitory retrogression. When 
there are problems, this generates pessimism, people say ?so much struggle and 
for what,? but what has been done is never lost. The positive and the negative 
contend, the new will impose itself because it is superior. We must see the 
contradiction, history, the interest of the masses, which is going to define 
the future of society, the socialist future. We must see what the masses
 want; this defines the historical and political direction.

Imperialism ripens the objective conditions for revolution or the revolutionary 
situation in unequal development in the world, Lenin asserted this. This means 
that in the world, there is oppression of the lower classes and crisis for the 
upper classes. As we said in the previous paragraph, the masses no longer want 
to continue living in conditions of misery inappropriate for the situation of 
progress in the world today. On the other hand, the upper classes can no longer 
continue governing like before, reaction?s old order is creaking, it is 
collapsing in a desperate form, in the imperialist countries as well as in the 
oppressed countries. But nobody can expect imperialism and reaction to withdraw 
benevolently, they plot great, sinister massacres. The sole hegemonic 
superpower, the US, the other nuclear superpower, Russia, and the other powers 
invade, penetrate, occupy, undermine and destroy with their ?unlimited war?, 
they seek to plunge everything into a state of horror. But, as
 Chairman Mao says, when they attack, aggress and launch their offensives, they 
are scattered and enter into the powerful entrails of the people; and the 
people are enraged, they arm themselves and rising in rebellion, they put the 
hangman?s noose around the neck of imperialism and of the reactionaries, take 
them by the throat, grasp it and will necessarily strangle them. In the world 
today, we see how the peoples are rising in rebellion against imperialism in 
Asia, Africa and Latin America; and we also see how the masses struggle and 
combat in the imperialist countries themselves, against the oppression in their 
own countries and against the imperialist aggression, against the imperialist 
war. It can also be seen in the massive protests for instance in USA, Germany, 
Italy, Russia, France, etc and, as a higher expression, in the armed struggles 
in Europe and China, which is an undeniable proof of the fact that the 
contradiction between proletariat and bourgeoisie is sharpening as
 well. And this has to be so, for it corresponds to the law that has been 
established, that the imperialist war accelerates all contradictions, spurring 
revolution. But logically, this is expressed with greater force in our 
countries in the people?s wars (in Peru and Nepal) and in the armed struggles 
against the imperialist occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya, 
etc. All this taken together has determined the fact that we have entered a new 
great wave of world proletarian revolution, a new great wave of world 
revolution, the coming of which was announced by Chairman Gonzalo in his Speech 
in September 1992, when he called us to impose Maoism as its sole command and 
guide, as its guarantee of triumph, reconstituting or constituting militarized 
Communist Parties in order to initiate the people?s war.

This concerning one side, the side of the people. On the other, there is since 
the beginning of the nineties a general counterrevolutionary offensive that 
Yankee imperialism is leading in its role of being sole hegemonist and world 
gendarme. It is a counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism, reaction and 
revisionism against world revolution, in order to prevent the latter, and it 
has developed in the midst of accelerated preparations by the imperialists for 
a third world war. Today, they are propelling it in the midst of their 
imperialist war of aggression like in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc., or subjecting 
countries by means of covert military action Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, etc and 
military blackmail as is the case in Iran and Libya, just to name the most 
recent examples. It is an imperialist war of aggression that Yankee imperialism 
unleashes in order to be the one who divides up the cake, the booty of the 
imperialist pillage and which it puts up against the other imperialists who
 also want to decide on this division, which leads to their inevitable 
confrontation over their interests on all continents. It is an imperialist war, 
the development of which will inevitably lead them to a new world war. This 
thus takes place in the midst of the sharpening of all contradictions in the 
world. Further, ?either revolution prevents the war, or the world war incites 
revolution? (Chairman Mao). This is the state of the world today.

 

THE WORLD PEOPLE?S WAR IS ON THE AGENDA

Chairman Gonzalo tells us: ?In the face of a counterrevolutionary offensive, 
men have to act, and we communists are even more obliged to do so, we have to 
transform this offensive into a revolutionary counteroffensive. The 
transforming activity of man is necessary in order for the character of 
revolution of being the main trend to express itself, and we communists have to 
concretize the people?s war, specifying it to the concrete conditions of each 
revolution.? And this is what is needed in order for the full might of our 
ideology, of Maoism, to express itself. For as he himself says: ?A 
revolutionary situation or objective conditions of the revolution, are thus not 
the same as the subjective conditions. The latter are the class and the 
instruments capable of converting the revolutionary situation into 
revolutionary violence?. In the present moment, this implies a revolutionary 
army, a united front and a Party that controls both; i.e., people?s war. The 
people?s war is a war of the
 masses led by the Communist Party; with the necessity of the Party based on 
the ideology of the proletariat, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, which must be 
specified as a guiding thought; a people?s war specified according to the type 
of country; a people?s war that as its essence has the support bases or the new 
political power. A protracted people?s war, for this derives from the 
correlation of the enemy?s and our factors; we go from the being weak in 
appearance to being strong and the enemy from being strong in appearance to 
being weak. Chairman Gonzalo teaches us that the people?s war is long and 
bloody but victorious and he warns us against rightism as the main danger that 
can cause serious setbacks for the war. It is a people?s war that, waged 
country by country, comes to encompass all the continents in order to converge 
into a single torrent in the world people?s war.

Chairman Gonzalo calls the communists to prepare themselves to convert the 
imperialist aggressions or interventions, the interimperialist war or the 
imperialist world war into peoples war, or to wage it in order to prepare 
ourselves, even without there being an imperialist war; to uphold the people?s 
war and dare to combat without there being a direct aggression of imperialism, 
this is what was done in Peru on May 17, 1980. Others call to center on mass 
movements and say that the only contradiction being sharpened is the one 
existing between the oppressed nations, on one hand, against the imperialist 
superpowers and imperialist powers, on the other; this contradiction is the 
first and principal one, but it is not the only one at work. These other 
persons say that in the imperialist countries of North America, Europe and 
Asia, there is no revolutionary situation, from which they conclude this talk 
of ?there is no big crisis, there is no danger of an interimperialist war or 
imperialist
 world war?; they say that, in the imperialist countries, you must follow the 
?road of October?. They center on the plan of reaction and not on the 
development of revolution. There must be full clarity concerning the necessity 
of revolutionary violence in order to transform the world, we uphold the 
omnipotence of the revolutionary war, which means of the people?s war, as the 
highest military theory, the one of the proletariat which the class has 
concretized in a full and compete form only with Chairman Mao Tsetung and that 
has to be specified to each type of country, be they imperialist or backward. 
In what resides the trickiness of some people? It lies in confounding the 
people?s as the concretization of revolutionary violence with universal 
validity with the road that this has to follow in accordance with the type of 
country, be it imperialist or backward.

These tricky ones that we have made reference to above defend the possibility 
and necessity of ?parliamentary participation?, of a ?long period of peaceful 
development?. This said in the epoch of the definite crisis of the bourgeois 
state and of parliament, when this has become merely a part of the decoration; 
in the midst of the world process of the reactionarization of the state via the 
absolute centralization ? by means of presidential absolutism or of fascism ? 
when the laws and all the important measures are decided ?over or under the 
heads of the parliaments?, where each corruption scandal with full clarity 
reveals what Lenin established, that ?the monopolies have robbed the citizens 
of all political freedom?, for these so-called election campaign financing 
scandals reveal who is playing the role of ?great elector?. What this new 
version of the old ?parliamentary cretinism? is seeking, under the pretext of 
the ?accumulation of forces during a long period which passes through
 parliamentary struggle?, is to strengthen the old bourgeois state, the old and 
rotten imperialist states, which are riddled with cancer to the bone; these 
states and governments whose delegitimization is advancing, drums beating. They 
are unable to attract the majority of the masses to participating in elections, 
the electoral participation is, despite the massive fraud and all the massive, 
million-dollar propaganda, always under 60 or 50% in the majority of these 
countries, the electoral participation is most miserable in the United States 
and Russia, where it does not even reach 40%. Thus, against the sense of what 
the masses want, against the spontaneous rejection of parliamentarianism and of 
their elections, of the parties and politicians of the old imperialist order of 
oppression that this manifests, they want to pour water on the reactionary 
mill. This accumulation of forces favors the enemy and belongs to the tactics 
of Kautsky?s old revisionism, repeated by the modern
 revisionism of Khrushchev & Co. This tactics does not belong to the Maoists 
for it leads to confounding the two roads, to confounding the proletarian road 
in the imperialist countries (the road of the people?s war) with the 
imperialist dead-end road of votes. This belongs to the ?peaceful road?.

We are in favor of revolutionary violence, for it is only with arms that you 
change the world. For the communists, the people?s war is the form in which 
revolutionary violence is concretized in the imperialist as well as in the 
backward countries. Being a Maoist, applying the outlook of the proletariat in 
theory and in praxis, in accordance with the concrete conditions of each 
revolution, demands subjecting yourself to the people?s war and thus, center 
the activity on initiating it, if it has not begun, and on developing it, if it 
has been initiated. Even more so as we have entered a new great wave of world 
proletarian revolution. This sets the terms for the debate and it is up to all 
communists and all revolutionaries to act.

Those who talk of ?...participation...? under the pretext of following ?the 
road of October?, on other opportunities talk of ?people?s war?; but ?without 
support bases?. The entire work that these people develop serves to oppose the 
people?s war, and they use their hegemonistic connections and their support to 
certain groups in order to achieve this. This is why they throw themselves up 
against Gonzalo Thought. We unmask these persons and put forward that they 
stubbornly oppose the initiation of people?s war in the imperialist countries. 
What these people do is to see the burning bonfire of the people?s war of Peru 
and Nepal as cats and meow, for nobody can deny the advances obtained by the 
Maoists in these countries. We do not agree with the splitting practice of 
these cheap hegemonists. We do not agree with the attempts to isolate the 
People?s War of Peru and of trying to prevent the voice of the Communist Party 
of Peru to reach all the revolutionary Parties and organizations of
 the world in a clear form. We do not need any kind of intermediaries; we want 
to have direct relations with the communists of the world and their Parties. We 
have to do this, because it is a necessity now. The Communist Party of Peru 
needs to make known its experience of developing people?s war in the service of 
world revolution, crushing all the plans of imperialism, of reaction and of 
revisionism, specifically of the rats of the revisionist and capitulationist 
right-opportunist line (ROL). The Communist Party of Peru needs the advance of 
world revolution, of proletarian internationalism.
What do we need? We need Maoism to, embodying itself in the peoples of the 
world, go over to generate Communist Parties, militarized, of a new type, with 
Great Leadership and guiding thought, in order for them to initiate people?s 
wars to sweep away imperialism, reaction and revisionism from the face of the 
Earth. As we have pointed out in our December 26 leaflet, LONG LIVE 
MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, PRINCIPALLY MAOISM! ?The communists of the world must 
already now reconstitute the Parties; it is not a question of accumulating 
forces or merging small groups of every ilk: the question lies in, counting on 
a handful of communists and taking the very example of Chairman Mao and of 
Chairman Gonzalo, constituting or reconstituting the Party in order to as soon 
as possible initiate the people?s war in all countries, be it in the West or in 
the East, from South to North, in a cold country or in a warm country; the 
world people?s war is on the agenda everywhere. To constitute or reconstitute
 the Parties and initiate the people?s war; this is task of the communists, 
it?s as simple as that?.
We are in favor of the reconstitution of the Communist International, and we 
consider the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement as being a step in this 
direction, to which it will serve insofar as it bases itself on and follows a 
just and correct ideological and political line. We are in favor of a correct 
and wise two-line struggle in order to make our movement advance in the midst 
of world class struggle.
Finally, we are in favor of imposing Maoism as sole command and guide of world 
revolution, of the new great wave of world proletarian revolution, as the sole 
guarantee of its victorious development. We believe that this will be a 
long-lasting, complex and hard struggle, but in the end, we Maoists of the 
Earth will impose it, for Marxism has not taken a single step in its life 
without struggle. We believe that the defense the life of Chairman Gonzalo, the 
greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist on the face of the Earth, is a task of 
great strategic significance, inseparable from the task of struggling to impose 
Maoism as the command and guide of world proletarian revolution. We call to 
uphold, defend and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism!


Glory to the international proletariat!
Long live world proletarian revolution!


Peru People?s Movement
January 2004



                
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