Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Long Live March 8, International Women’s Day!

Communist Party of Peru

Peru, March 8, 2017¹

That, of course, involves systematic work among them. We must train those whom we arouse and win, and equip them for the proletarian class struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party. I am thinking not only of proletarian women, whether they work in the factory or at home. The poor peasant women, the petty bourgeois – they, too, are the prey of capitalism…²

— Lenin

In order to build a great socialist society it is most important to mobilize the masses of women to join in productive activity. In production men and women must receive equal pay for equal work. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.³

— Introductory note to Women Are Now on the Labour Front (September and December 1955), Editor’s Notes from “Socialist Upsurge in China’s Countryside.” Selected Works, Volume V.
Chairman Mao Zedong

We begin by expressing our greeting and full, voluntary, and determined adherence to our dear and respected Chairman Gonzalo, the leader of the Party and the revolution, our Leadership, the greatest Marxist-Leninist-Maoist living on the face of the earth, the center of party unification, and the guarantee of victory until communism, a great political and military strategist, philosopher, and teacher of communists. Likewise, we express our greeting and conscious and voluntary adherence to our almighty ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, principally Maoism as a new, third, and superior stage at the universal level, and specifically the principal Gonzalo Thought in Peru, the concrete and creative application of Maoism. We express our firm and voluntary greeting and adherence to the Communist Party of Peru, to the current leadership, and to its entire system of leadership, which in practice is forged and made by Chairman Gonzalo, the heroic combatant who leads our cause, the organized vanguard of the Peruvian proletariat. Greetings and adherence to the party events: The First Marxist Congress, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought Congress, sanctioned at the highest level and party instance, our Basis of Party Unity, the foundation that guides our action, with its triple content: 1) M-L-M-GT; 2) The Communist Program; 3) The General Political Line with its center, the Military Line. Greetings to the First, Second, and mainly to the glorious, historic, and transcendental Third Plenum. We salute the masterful and current Speech of Chairman Gonzalo, which shines forth vibrant and victorious before the world on September 24, 1992, the synthesis of the Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the PCP.

This March 8th, the month of commemorating the struggles for women’s emancipation worldwide, it is imperative to investigate and understand their condition and their only path to emancipation through the sole means of People’s War. Marxism addresses the women’s issue in relation to property, family, and the state (The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels); and Chairman Gonzalo concludes that women are conceived as a situation or condition derived from the structure of the society in which they develop, emphasizing the dynamic, changing nature of the female situation and highlighting the transformative role that work plays in a woman’s social position and perception.

Taking stock of the history of women’s condition, we find that in primitive communities there was a spontaneous equality between men and women, arising from the natural division of labor based on age and sex. Women participated in social decision-making and even held a privileged position. In slavery, the first class-based society in history, the situation of women changed drastically, as they were subjected to subjugation and devaluation. In feudal society, they were subjugated by both society and religion, seen as wretched beings and subservient to their husbands. In capitalism, despite their massive incorporation into the economic process as workers, their formation and development as part of the advanced class, separated from the exclusive realm of domestic tasks, they were unable to emancipate themselves. However, this period laid the foundation for their mobilization and demands for emancipation.

The revolutionary process of the bourgeoisie and its reactionary nature demonstrate that it will never emancipate women. On the contrary, it promotes the thesis of female liberation, bourgeois feminism, in order to confuse and divert the women’s struggle into a vulgar war of the sexes. While it is true that women in this semi-feudal and semi-colonial society are subjected to their husbands and men, this is not their primary chain. As we have already stated, this is a result of the property relations of this system. Therefore, the struggle should not be focused on fighting against men, as the bureaucratic and comprador bourgeoisie in our country would have us believe with their “ni una menos”⁴ movement, where the fascist and Yankee P.P. Kuczynski portrays himself as the champion of that struggle. While they condemn acts of violence against women, women should not lose sight of their true enemy: imperialism, primarily Yankee imperialism, bureaucrat-capitalism, and semi-feudalism are the three mountains that oppress them.

Chairman Gonzalo states regarding this, “On this particular, it suffices to say that the analysis of the condition of woman through history shows her as subject to tutelage and in a situation of submission with respect to the male, which makes woman a being who, while belonging to the same class as her husband or the man she has a relationship with, finds herself in a situation of inferiority with respect to him, an inferiority which the laws bless, sanctify and impose. Consistent with this situation of undervaluing throughout history we see the need to demand her rights to achieve a formal equality with man under capitalism, and how only the revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the proletariat is capable of setting up and fulfilling a genuine legal equality of men and women, though, as we saw, plentiful equality in life, as Lenin said, will develop as large-scale socialist production develops. These simple observations show the certainty of the thesis on women’s emancipation conceived as part of the liberation of the proletariat.”⁵ Therefore, as Lenin said, “…the emancipation of the workers must be the task of the workers themselves, and in the same way, the emancipation of women must be the task of women themselves.”

Therefore, it is necessary to create and develop organizations that contribute to this, such as women’s militias, popular women’s movements, incorporating themselves into the three instruments of the revolution: Party, Army, and Front/New State. The objective is to incorporate women into politics, class struggle, and People’s War, in Peru through the People’s Liberation Army (EPL), Gonzalo’s iron legions, and the People’s Women’s Movement (MFP), an organization of the PCP created and forged by the great comrade Norah. All of this under the all-powerful leadership of Maoist Communist Parties in and for the fiery People’s War, now in the Strategic Offensive of the World Proletarian Revolution. It is what corresponds, it is the authoritative voice and the call that Chairman Gonzalo made to us, and we must decisively assume it until Communism shines on earth and the true realm of harmony and freedom, of real happiness, is realized. That must be our communist conviction and decision.

In our country, the semi-feudal and semi-colonial nature, the condition of women workers, peasants, and traders is reduced to a much more miserable life than that of men. Often, it falls upon their shoulders not only to ensure their own survival but also that of the entire family. Throughout history, this has generated greater conditions of courage and rebellion, leading to their significant involvement in popular struggles and any social change. Their participation has been crucial towards their true emancipation.

On this date, we solemnly pay tribute to the great Comrade Norah, the greatest heroine of the Party and the revolution, a staunch anti-revisionist, an example of persistence, of going against the current, of overcoming difficulties. Along with Chairman Gonzalo, she was a member of the Red Fraction in the 1960s and 1970s. She burst onto the scene in ILA 80 with actions like the one in Chuschi and others. She was a great organizer, an example of merging with the deep masses. She was the creator and forger of the People’s Women’s Movement, a member of the First Congress of the PCP. Her example is imperishable; she is also the left wing of the Party and always closed ranks around Chairman Gonzalo and the red line. She fought against the 1979 ROL⁶ that opposed the beginning of the People’s War and the rightist elements that opposed advancing the PW and the future plan to Seize Power. Today, these wretched revisionist capitulators traffick with her precious blood and prestigious name, while Comrade Norah crushed them in the fierce two-line struggle and in revolutionary practice, leaving them like chicken dung, hiding their black heads and waiting for the opportune moment to raise their hand against the PCP, as the R and C⁷ ROL and LOL⁸ led by the mournful rat Miriam do today, along with the traitor José, who lead them and act as great leaders, but are actually puppets of the worst scum. The same goes for that politically weak M. Pantoja, repentant like M. Limaco, the capitulator and turncoat O. Morote, the utter faggot Coz, and the traitor Artemio from Huallaga, as well as the renegade Feliciano, etc.

We also pay tribute to Comrade Jiang Qing, a member of the Red Fraction and a driving force behind the GPCR, alongside Chairman Mao Zedong. She was a steadfast fighter against revisionism and gave her life in prison. When the counter-revolutionary fascist coup led by Deng Xiaoping accused her of being part of the Gang of Four, it was an infamous lie. She was always on the left.

These two great women, proletarian leaders, and communists, Comrade Norah in the PCP and Comrade Jiang Qing in the CPC, represent the highest expression in the process of the WPR.⁹ We also pay tribute to other communists and revolutionaries like Comrade Krupskaya (Lenin’s partner), Comrade Rosa Luxemburg, Comrade Yovanka Pardavé, Comrade Edith Lagos, Comrade Janet Talavera, and others in Peru. While they may not have reached the stature of the first two, their role is significant and invaluable in the revolution. They call on all women and workers to continue the victorious path of the People’s War, to carry out the tasks and fulfill the plans to achieve the goals and conquer the successes that are demanded, even if it means sacrificing our own luminous lives. In our minds, the slogan beats: “Everything is illusory except power!”

We also salute all the comrades of the shining People’s War in India, the Philippines, and Turkey, as well as all the comrades of the oppressed peoples who are on the way to the initiation of People’s War in their countries for their liberation and true emancipation.

Today, the revolution is the main historical and political trend, and it will be even more so. It’s the trend of the people, the voice of order, and it’s at the forefront of the agenda. In other words, People’s War is at the forefront of the agenda. It’s what summons and unites us, and through it, women’s emancipation will be achieved. In this difficult and complex turning point, it demands the General Reorganization of the Party and all its leadership bodies. It’s the obligation of all working women, peasants, workers, and students who hold up half the sky to participate in order to accomplish the pending task and thus definitively eliminate our chains and the exploiting class that oppresses us. We will sweep away and bury vile imperialism, global reaction, and fight the new revisionism with blood and fire until we completely defeat them, leaving no stone unturned.

LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO, LEADER OF THE PARTY AND THE REVOLUTION!

UPHOLD, DEFEND, AND APPLY MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, GONZALO THOUGHT, PRINCIPALLY GONZALO THOUGHT!

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!

LONG LIVE MARCH 8, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

HONOR AND GLORY TO COMRADE NORAH, THE GREATEST HEROINE OF THE PARTY AND THE REVOLUTION!

FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN, DEVELOP THE PEOPLE’S WAR!

DEFEND THE LIFE AND HEALTH OF CHAIRMAN GONZALO WITH PEOPLE’S WAR!

LONG LIVE THE GENERAL REORGANIZATION OF THE PARTY, IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE’S WAR!

THE PEOPLE’S WAR WILL INEVITABLY WIN!

LONG LIVE MAOISM! DOWN WITH REVISIONISM!

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S WARS IN PERU, INDIA, TURKEY, AND THE PHILIPPINES!

YANKEES OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH KOREA, AND VENEZUELA!

YANKEES OUT OF LATIN AMERICA AND PERU! YANKEES GO HOME!

FIGHT AND RESIST AGAINST THE FASCIST, GENOCIDAL AND HOMELAND-SELLING REGIME THAT TODAY IS HEADED BY THE YANKEE KUCZYNSKI, THE MOST UNBRIDLED LACKEY OF IMPERIALISM, MAINLY YANKEE IMPERIALISM!

HONOR AND GLORY TO THE HEROIC PERUVIAN PEOPLE!