33rd ANNIVERSARY

Lima Base
Communist Party of Peru
1992

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CHAIRMAN GONZALO’S SPEECH!
33rd ANNIVERSARY

Comrades of the Communist Party of Peru!

Combatants of the People’s Guerrilla Army!

Peruvian people!:

We are living through historic events, each one of us knows this is the case. Let’s not fool ourselves. In these moments, we must ready all our forces to confront difficulties and continue accomplishing our tasks and achieving our goals, successes, and victory! This must be done.

We are here as the sons and daughters of the people, we are combating in these trenches, which are also trenches of combat, and we do this because we are Communists! Because we defend the interests of the people, the principles of the Party, and the People’s War. That is what we do, we are doing it, and we will continue doing it!

We are here in these circumstances. Some think that this is a great defeat. They are dreaming! We tell them to keep dreaming. It is simply a bend, nothing more! A bend in the road! The road is long and with it we shall arrive. We shall triumph! You shall see it! You shall see it!

We must continue with the tasks laid out in the Third Plenum of the Central Committee. A glorious Plenum! Let it be known that these accords are already in motion, and this will continue. We will continue to apply the Fourth Strategic Development Plan of the People’s War to Conquer Power, we will continue to develop the Sixth Military Plan to Build the Conquest of Power. This will continue. This is our task! We will carry it out because of what we are and because of the obligation we have with the proletariat and the people!

We clearly state that today, the democratic road has begun to unfold as a road to liberation, as a people’s road of liberation! This is the circumstance in which we are unfolding. We should examine this with a sense of history. Let us stop closing our eyes, let us look at reality. Let us look at the history of Peru. Let us look at the last three centuries of Peru. We must think about that. Look at the 18th century, the 19th century, the 20th century and understand them! Those who don’t understand will be blind, the blind do not serve the country, they do not serve Peru!

We believe that the 18th century was a very clear lesson. Let’s examine this. There was one dominator. It was Spain, and where did that bloodsucking domination bring us? To a very deep crisis, and as a result Peru was divided. From there come the origins of today’s Bolivia. This is not our question; these are facts.

Then, in the last century: English domination. Where did their contention with France lead us? To another great Crisis: The 1870s; the result? War with Chile. We must not forget this! What happened? We lost territory. In spite of the blood spilled by the heroes and the people, our homeland suffers a schism. We must learn a lesson!

The 20th century. How are we doing? In the 20th century we are dominated by imperialism, mainly American imperialism. This is real and everyone knows it. And where has this brought us? Without even recalling those years of the twenties, here and now, to the worst crisis in the entire history of the Peruvian people. Drawing a lesson from the past centuries, what can we think? Once again the nation is at risk, once again the Republic is at risk, once again the territory is at risk; it can easily be lost, and because of interests. This is the situation. They brought us up to this point. But we have a fact, a Peruvian revolution, a People’s War, it continues and will continue to advance. Where have we arrived with that? To a strategic equilibrium! This we must understand well. It is a strategic equilibrium, which is concretized in an essential situation. What have twelve years served for? To show plainly before the world and mainly before the Peruvian people, that the Peruvian state is a paper tiger. It is rotten to the core. This has been demonstrated!

With this being the case, let us think about the danger that the nation, the country, may be divided. The nation is at risk. They want to tear it apart, they want to divide it. Who wants to do this? As always, the imperialists, those who exploit, those who rule. What should we do? What corresponds now? What corresponds is that we strengthen the People’s Liberation Movement and we will develop it, handled in People’s War because the people have always been the ones who have defended the homeland, who have defended the nation. It corresponds to form the People’s Liberation Front. It corresponds to form and develop, beginning from the People’s Guerrilla Army, a People’s Liberation Army. That is what corresponds! And that is what we will do! And this is what we are doing and that is what we are going to do! You gentlemen shall be the witnesses.

Finally, now let us listen to this. As we see in the world, Maoism is marching relentlessly forward to lead the new wave of the world proletarian revolution. Understand well and comprehend. Those who have ears, use them. Those who have understanding — and we all have it — use it! Enough nonsense! Enough darkness! Understand this! What is unfolding in the world? What do we need!? We need Maoism to be embodied, and it is doing so, and for it to go on generating Communist Parties, to handle, to lead, that new great wave of the world proletarian revolution that is coming upon us.

What has become of everything they told us, the empty and foolish chatter of the famous “new stage of peace”? What about Yugoslavia? What about other places? Everything became politicized; that is a lie. Today there is one reality, the same contenders of World Wars I and II are generating, are preparing the new world war III. We should know this and we, as the sons of an oppressed country, are part of the booty. We cannot consent to this! Enough imperialist exploitation! We must finish with them! We are of the third world and the third world is the base of the world proletarian revolution, with one condition, that the Communist parties uphold and lead! That is what must be done!

We believe the following; Next year will be the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao. We must celebrate these 100 years! We are organizing it with the Communist Parties. We want a new manner, a celebration which will be the conscious comprehension of the importance of Chairman Mao in the world revolution, and we shall begin the celebration this year and we shall finish it next year. It will be a great process of celebration. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to salute the international proletariat, the oppressed nations of the world, and the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!

THE PEOPLE’S WAR WILL INEVITABLY WIN!

WE SALUTE FROM HERE THE FUTURE BIRTH OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF PERU!

We say: GLORY TO MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!!

And finally we say, HONOR AND GLORY TO THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE!!

September 1992

PCP-LIMA BASE