Proletarians of all countries, unite!
First Milestone. Defense of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
Second Milestone. Uphold, Defend, and Apply Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
Third Milestone. Maoism. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Guiding Thought.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, is embodied in the Party. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (M-L-M) is being applied and developed, making the guiding thought of the Party the conception that guides the Peruvian revolution.
First Milestone. Definition of initiating the armed struggle.
Second Milestone. Establishment of the General Political Line and Military Line as its center.
Third Milestone. Third Moment and development of the militarization of the Party through actions.
Fourth Milestone. General crisis of bureaucrat-capitalism and democratic path began to rise in armed struggle developing guerrilla warfare and seizing base areas. Main contradiction: New State Old State.
The general political line and military line as a center are developed in the Third Moment of Peruvian society in the midst of the general crisis of bureaucrat-capitalism, initiating and developing guerrilla warfare and seizing base areas.
Combat the neglect of the General Political Line and the Military Line as a center that denies the objective and subjective conditions to develop armed struggle and realize the central task of the revolution which is the seizure of power by structuring base areas.
First Milestone. Lesson of peasant struggle: Without armed struggle directed by the Party, action results in evolution within agrarian laws.
Second Milestone. Agrarian tactic: fight the evolution of feudalism aiming at associative property and conjuring the non-associative property. Neutralize the rich peasantry, win over the middle peasantry, and support the poor peasantry. Overflow, invasions.
Third Milestone. Class struggle in the countryside: Relationship between the peasant problem–the land problem–armed struggle–Power. All under the direction of the Party. Harvests, invasions.
Fourth Milestone. Agrarian tactics in the armed struggle: Land for those who work it through confiscation, clearing land and establishing base areas with armed struggle.
Throughout the armed struggle, peasant labor has been used as the basis and military work as a guide. Agrarian policy, tactics and the class line in the agrarian war have been applied. Harvesting, invasion and collective sowing. Destroying semi-feudal relations by applying devastation, directing the spearhead to dislocate the power of the bosses, striking bosses. Taking into account the polarization in the countryside.
Fighting to see the countryside flat [ver el campo plano], not hitting the associative property, changing the target, being in favor of land seizures and distribution, for the cereal strike and price increase of the products.
First Milestone. Rethinking the organizational system.
Second Milestone. Strategic Plan for the Militarization of the Communist Parties.
Third Milestone. Organizational guideline. General readjustment of the Party to focus on the military.
Fourth Milestone. Development of the Strategic Plan for the Militarization of the Communist Parties.
Building development plan, the two networks in the countryside and the city.
Guerrilla zone systems and base area system.
All-powerful Party leadership and concentric management of the three instruments. General Party reorganization. Need for ideological, political, and organizational consolidation.
The organizational level has been raised to the level of political leadership, the Party as the axis of everything and centered on the military, successfully fulfilling the development of the militarization of the Party through actions and concretizing the all-powerful leadership of the Party in the three instruments of the revolution (Party, Force of Armed Struggle, and United Front).
Combating the neglect of the Party, the opposition to militarization expressed in wanting a lax Party, liberalism, bureaucracy, anarchism, artisanal forms. Failure to adjust to the building of the two networks and concentric management. Problems in the five needs, democratic centralism, clandestinity, secrecy, vigilance, and discipline.
Second Milestone. Approaches of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and the United Front.
Third Milestone. Committee for the Distribution of Power. People’s Committee. Area where Power is questioned. Guerrilla Zone, Operations Zone, action points, Base Areas.
Fourth Milestone. Clandestine People’s Committee. Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People. Organizing Committee of the base and New-Democratic People’s Republic. Three functions and five positions.
At the end of the Stir [Plan], December 1982, the Party created the United Front linked to the building of the new State through armed struggle and with the main form of organization under the direction of the Party. It has implemented Systems of Government: People’s Assembly. It conceives a Fluid State according to the fluidity of the war. We went from a Government of Workers and Peasants to a New-Democratic People’s Republic. Need for a land law, a law of People’s Rights, a family law. Today we have a Grassroots Organizing Committee and an Organizing Committee of the Republic with three functions: leadership, planning, and building. People’s Committees with five positions. Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People in the countryside, (Resistance Centers) in the city. Generated Organizations.
Fight the disconnection of the United Front from the State, the Party and the armed struggle; not seeing the class character of the United Front, its basis the worker-peasant alliance, worrying about the middle bourgeoisie and rich peasantry, ignoring the organizations generated mainly by the Poor Peasants Movement and the Classist Workers and Workers Movement and the erroneous application of the three-thirds policy. Applying dictatorship, coercion and popular violence. Overcoming insufficient mass work and developing the Revolutionary Movement for the Defense of the People (Resistance Centers).
First Milestone. Chairmanship of the Political Bureau and the Central Committee.
Second Milestone. The leadership of Comrade Gonzalo is sanctioned.
Third Milestone. Law of leadership.
Fourth Milestone. One-person leadership and collective leadership. Dictatorship of the proletariat. Chairmanship of the Party, Chairmanship of the Military Commission and Chairmanship of the Organizing Committee of the New-Democratic People’s Republic.
Strengthening of the Chairmanship of Comrade Gonzalo, guarantee of victory, the leadership of the armed struggle is forged. The leadership system is strengthened: Permanent Committee, Political Bureau, Central Committee, Three recommendations: do not let yourself be pressured, apply coercion and exercise dictatorship.
Fight any circumvention of leadership. Treat the leadership problem as a key issue of the two-line struggle.
First Milestone. Commitment of the Ninth Plenum: defend and apply the agreements, crush any attempt to recall and sweep away all opposition within or outside the Party. Crush the right opportunist line:
Second Milestone. Fight against the right-wing line in gestation and development.
Third Milestone. Fight against headless rightism. Cure the disease to save the patient.
Fourth Milestone. Contradictions within the people Root of the problems: the new and remnants of the old. Rightism as the main danger.
The good dialectical handling of the two-line struggle has allowed us to avoid the split in the Party, the structuring of opportunist lines, making 90% of the membership advance by applying decapitation and resolving the contradictions between right and left and the divergences on the left as contradictions within the people.
Fight the neglect of the two-line struggle and the reduction to a single right-left contraction in order to appear to enlarge the right and antagonize the struggle by labeling the two-line struggle as ultra. Do not lower your guard against the tactics used by the right: maneuvering, revoking agreements, surprise attacks, intrigues and conspiracies, ganging up, changing targets, absolving yourself of your responsibility, making a dirty fight by lowering it to a personal level and not as a struggle of ideas.
First Milestone. Political Strategy: Agreement to Initiate the Armed Struggle.
Second Milestone. Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and the People’s War in the country. Political Strategy.
Third Milestone. The three elements of the military line. Laws of the beginning of the armed struggle. Main policy.
Fourth Milestone. Develop guerrilla warfare by opening and developing Guerrilla Zones and seizing Base Areas. Laws of the development of guerrilla warfare and Laws of the Base Area. Its main policies. Development of the broad, highly mobile guerrilla warfare.
Development of the Military Line as the center.
The Definition. Defining and deciding, party of a new type to take power. Party decision on new goal, new stage. Agreement to begin armed struggle.
The preparation. Establishment of the bases of the path of the People’s War in the country.
The initiation. Great struggle to initiate armed struggle generating armed actions and armed forces linked to the peasantry. Main form of struggle and main form of organization.
The development of guerrilla warfare. Through three steps: 1) Opening Guerrilla Zones. 2) Developing Guerrilla Zones and 3) Concretization of the New Order specified in People’s Committees. Laws of Guerrilla Warfare, development of guerrilla warfare as a strategy, is the longest period through which our forces go from weak to strong by creating Base Areas and annihilating the enemy’s forces. Restoration and counter-restoration.
Fight the opposition to the Military Line that accuses it of militarism, Hoxhaism, adventurism, mechanism, denying the opening and development of Guerrilla Zones and the seizure of Base Areas, Slowing down the pace, opposing leaps and capitulating due to overestimating the enemy and focusing on weapons first, modalities that point to a bourgeois military line.
Second Milestone. Military Strategic Plan and defensive strategy: Countryside; main, city complement. Revolutionary war as a unit.
Third Milestone. Plan for the initiation of the armed struggle, mainly guerrilla.
Fourth Milestone. - Guerrilla Warfare Development Plan. Opening guerrilla zones based on Base Areas.
Guerrilla Warfare Deployment Plan. The three moments: 1) Seizing weapons and means. 2) Clearing the countryside by promoting guerrilla action. 3) Stir to advance towards Base Areas. Link.
Important specifications of the V Plenary Session on the tactics to be applied depending on whether the police forces and/or the armed forces participate in their different possibilities.
Plan on the escape policy.
Plan to Stir the First and Second Campaigns.
Three-part plan in cities.
Great Plan to Seize Bases.
Zonal Plans. Reestablishment, counter-establishment.
Development of strategy and tactics, maintaining at all times a strategy superior to the enemy.
Implementation of strategically centralized and tactically decentralized plans that promote the development of the armed struggle through quantitative and qualitative leaps from the simple to the complex, applied with initiative, flexibility and planning. Taking into account the carrying out of offensive operations within the defensive war, quick decision battles within the protracted war and exterior lines operations within the interior lines. Managing Chairman Mao’s guerrilla tactics and today the superior form of civil war: encirclement and annihilation campaigns and counter-campaigns of encirclement and annihilation.
Combat the underestimation of our forces, the failure to adhere to the centralization of the plans by citing particularities, criteria of High Plan and retreat in the fact; rigidity, narrowness, partial vision, not putting politics in charge, prolongation in execution and lack of bellicosity. Not planning the entire counter-campaign as a whole and varying the tactic of going around in circles with avoiding confrontations, tendency to flee and retreat. Overcome poor management of axes, movements, platoons, retreat points, concentration and dispersion that leads to actions outside the guerrilla zone or base area. In the city, overcome the disorganization of the three-part plan.
First Milestone. Form military cadres. Form own groups for armed action.
Second Milestone. Commitment to forge the First Company in practice.
Third Milestone. From groups to direct crowds to detachments and platoons in function of Companies. Organize the militias.
Fourth Milestone. Action of the Companies targeting battalions Special detachments in function of urban guerrilla.
People’s Guerrilla Army: main forces, local forces, and base forces.
At the Initiation, IAS 80,2 the Party entered to resolve the Party–Armed Forces contradiction, concretizing the main form of organization, developing the new type Army as a pillar of the new State and through leaps from unarmed groups to lead crowds [muchedumbre] to the People’s Guerrilla Army under the absolute direction of the Party and following the principle “the Party commands the gun.” Formed by workers and peasants, mainly poor peasants, subject to the ideological, political, and military building of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, guiding thought. Complies with combat, mobilize the masses and produce. Supported by the masses and with great intrepid spirit, thus demonstrating that what is decisive is the man and not the weapons.
Combat the tendency to ignore the ideological, political, and military building of the People’s Guerrilla Army, which threatens the character of the new type of Army and the absolute leadership of the Party; sweep away conservatism in the incorporation of mainly poor peasants and poor selection; demand the fulfillment of three functions and advance in the good management of the main, local, and base forces, overcome the amorphous formation of companies, the lack of direction, the dismantling of platoons and the postponement of battalions. Resolve training.
Collective harvests and sowing:
Advances
Airabamba, Tancayllo, Aizarca and collective sowing protected by the People’s Guerrilla Army and led by the People’s Committee.
Limitation: Don’t move the Pampas axis.
Assault:
Advances
On police posts Luricocha, Quinua, Tambo, Totos, Vilcashuaman. Disarmament.
Limitation: Do not make the breakthrough Naña, Ricardo Palma.
Ambushes:
Advances
Leap in the First Campaign to Defend, Develop, and Build Sivia, Minascucho. Ambush on Armed Forces vehicles. Surprise attacks.
Limitation: Develop more, no counterambush is applied; aim at patrols; forces are surprised: Omasi, Manallascac, Tuco.
Taking of towns:
Advances.
Qualitative and quantitative leaps from the beginning (Push [Pujas]) to the seizure of Bases; from small to medium.
Limitation: Vinchos (Central Regional Committee) let reactionaries group together and arrest them for not camouflaging themselves and not doing good reconnaissance, they failed to annihilate.
Confrontations:
Advances.
Reverence for the Armed Forces is beginning to be lost and responce with great decision. Andahuylas, Aranhuay, Milucha, Sacsamarca, Huacasancos. Combined forces or troops.
Limitation: They are surprised and do not make response plans, they disband. Ocoril, Pujas.
Destructions and counter-restorations; strikes at critical points and overtakings:
Advances
The guerrilla begins to handle itself with wide mobility, encirclement and annihilation campaigns and counter-campaigns of encirclement and annihilation. Umaru.
Limitation: Strike and escape; avoid strikes at the main point of the Base; manifestation of wandering Lucanas. Develop further the wide guerrilla war of high mobility. Resolve movements in stealth and by platoons.
Encirclement and annihilation campaigns and counter-encirclement and annihilation campaigns
Escape
Advances
CRAS Ayacucho escape policy
Limitation: Problems with the basic principle of high-level war planning, lack of understanding.
Riots, street fighting tactics
Advances
In the capital of the country, simultaneously at 13 points and a wide area with successive blows. There has been progress in uniting armed struggle with the people’s struggle for rights.
Resistance centers.
Limitation: Develop them around proletarian struggles.
Sabotages:
Advances
Strong blows to the country’s economy, bureaucrat-capitalism, imperialism and social-imperialism. Application in series.
San Martín de Porres, Southern, Oil pipeline, light and microwave towers, Hogar SA, Bayer, cotton bales, sugarcane fields. Three-part plan.
Limitation: Not hitting social-imperialism, greater sabotage is needed. More roadblocks.
Execution of people’s trials:
Advances
Execution of authorities and snitches.
Limitation: not executing higher-level authorities.
Agitation:
Advances
Armed propaganda centered in the peasantry as principal.
200,000 documents of Let’s Develop the Guerrilla Warfare!; 100,000 posters; graphic flyers, 150,000 the first and 100,000 the second.
Psychological warfare.
Limitation: In the city, the proletariat is not targeted.
Mobilization:
Advances:
From mobilizing hundreds of people to mobilizing 50,000 peasants only in the Main Regional Committee during the “Defeat”
It is mainly armed
Limitation: Proletariat and poor masses of the city.
Actions
Advances: We have entered the main form of civil war, campaigns and countercampaigns of encirclement and annihilation. Campaign management. The five steps.
Failures: Failure of plan, Ñaña, Tambo 2, Chumbes, Failure of reconnaissance, investigation; fixing terrain. Failure of information. They do not see two hills. Lircay, Ricardo Palma. -
Detachments
Advances: People’s Guerrilla Army three forces:
Night march, regular march and forced march.
Failures: Problems in force management, problems in concentration and dispersion. Company: direction does not work; amorphous without platoons. Displacement, mobility by road during the day. They are surprised: Tuco, Manallasac, etc. Failures of surveillance, Failure of coordination.
Planning
Advances: Withdrawal at night, with shelter, in stages. One point, two sides, main point, Containment, breakthrough. Three groups: attack, support, security.
Means: achievement and distribution. Where to hit the weakest point. Never between two flanks.
Problems: Improvisation; anticipate success, failure, casualties. Starting point, retreat, concentration. Rehearsals, command voice. Start signal; signs, links. Task control. Thoroughness.
Execution
Advances: Objective is achieved. Key assaults breakthrough if it fails they surrender with fire.
Problems: Achievement of the objective: Ricardo Palme; Vilcashuaman, Ayacucho CRAS.3 (weapons) Bellicosity, audacity, quick decision. Most important moment.
Evaluation
Advance: Zone assessments.
Problems: It is ignored, positive and negative lessons are not learned in platoons, detachments, etc.
In the political ideology. We are based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, guiding thought. Guiding thought is the main thing because it is the application and development of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. With guiding thought we have reconstituted the party, we have started the armed struggle and today we are unleashing it by seizing base areas through main policies, general political line and military line as a center.
In building: Concentric building of the three instruments of the revolution: Party–Armed Forces–United Front through the development of armed struggle.
In Party. With a new type of party, the militarization of the party is developed through actions directing the revolutionary war and handling the three instruments.
In Armed Forces, emerging from the main form of struggle, the actions and the main form of organization, the People’s Guerrilla Army as an Army of a new type.
In Front, creation and seizure based on support, People’s Committees, Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People, Revolutionary Movement for the Defense of the People, People’s Republic of New Democracy.
In Leadership, establishment of the direction of the revolution with the presidency of Comrade Gonzalo, which is a guarantee of triumph and expression of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Plan, correct establishment and management of the plans of armed struggle maintaining superior strategy. Today, specification of the campaigns of encirclement and annihilation and counter-campaigns of encirclement and annihilation. Five steps.
Armed Action, we specify the specific laws of the People’s War breaking political and military plans of the enemy, Police Forces and one year with the Armed Forces. Based on our own efforts and supporting ourselves in the struggle of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world.
On the Two-Line Struggle, we handle the contradictions between the Left and the Right, the divergences in the Left as contradictions within the people, averting the split and making 90% of the militancy advance through the rectification campaign, raising the unity of the Party in function of the armed struggle. Fight rightism as the main danger.
Fourth Milestone
Maoism-Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, guiding thought.
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, is embodied in the party. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is being applied and developed, making the guiding thought of the party a conception that guides the Peruvian revolution.
The need to strengthen the enthronement of the guiding thought.
General crisis of bureaucrat-capitalism and democratic path begins to rise in armed struggle, developing guerrilla warfare and seizing base areas. Main contradiction. New state. Old state.
The general political line and military line as the center develops in the third moment of Peruvian society, in the midst of the general crisis of bureaucrat-capitalism, initiating and developing guerrilla warfare and seizing base areas.
Fight the neglect of the general political line and the military line as the center that denies the objective conditions to develop the armed struggle and to realize the central task of the revolution, which is the seizure of power by structuring base areas.
Agrarian tactics in the armed struggle: land for those who work it through confiscation, clearing land and establishing base areas with armed struggle.
Raze: Destroy feudal relations to dismantle the productive process, harvests, invasions with mainly guerrilla actions.
Polarization: Problem of politics, revolutionary peasantry and conservative peasantry, collective sowing.
Throughout the process of the armed struggle, peasant work has been applied as a base and military work as a guide, agrarian policy, tactics and the class line were applied in the agrarian war, harvesting, invasion and collective sowing. Destroy semi-feudal relations by applying devastation, directing the spearhead to dislodge the power of the gamonal, strike at gamonalism.4 Taking into account the polarization in the countryside.
Fight to see the countryside flat [ver el campo plano], not to hit the associative property, change target, be for the land seizures and distribution, for the cereal strike and price increase of the products.
Development of the strategic plan of communist militarization.
Construction development plan.
The two networks in the countryside and city.
System of guerrilla zones and system of base areas.
Omnipotent direction of the party and concentric management of the three instruments, general reorganization of the party, need for ideological, political, and organizational consolidation.
The organization has been raised to the level of political leadership, the party as the axis of everything and centered on the military, successfully fulfilling the development of the militarization of the party through actions and contracting the all-powerful leadership of the party in the three instruments of the revolution.
Fighting the neglect of the party, the opposition to militarization expressed in wanting a lax party, liberalism, bureaucracy, anarchism, artisanal forms.
Failure to adjust to the construction of the two networks and concentric management. Problems in the 5 needs: democratic centralism, clandestinity, secrecy, surveillance and discipline. Preparation and establishment of the bases for the path of the people’s war in the country.
The beginning. Great struggle to begin the armed struggle generating armed actions and armed forces linked to the peasantry. Main form of struggle and main form of organization.
The development of guerrilla warfare through three steps:
1) Opening guerrilla zones
2) Developing guerrilla zones
3) Concretization of the new order specified in people’s committees, laws of guerrilla warfare, development of guerrilla warfare as a strategy.
In the longest period through which our weak forces become strong by creating base areas and annihilating the enemy’s forces.
Restoration and counter-restoration.
Fighting the opposition to the military line that accuses it of militarism, Hoxhaism, adventurism, mechanism, denying the opening and development of guerrilla zones and the seizure of base areas. Slow down the pace, oppose the leaps and capitulate due to overestimation of the enemy and focus on weapons first, modalities that aim at a bourgeois military line.
Plan to develop guerrilla warfare, open guerrilla zones based on base areas.
Plan to deploy guerrilla warfare. The three moments:
1) Seize weapons and means
2) Remove the countryside by promoting guerrilla actions.
3) Stir to advance towards Base Areas, link
Important specifications of the Fifth Plenary Session on the tactics to be applied according to the participation of the police forces and/or armed forces in their different possibilities.
Plan on the policy of escape
Plan to stir the First and Second Campaigns
Three-part plan in cities
Great plan to seize bases
Zonal plan, reestablishment and counter-reestablishment.
Development of strategy and tactics, maintaining at all times a strategy superior to the enemy. Implementation of strategically centralized and tactically decentralized plans that (boost) the development of the armed struggle through quantitative and qualitative leaps from the simple to the complex, applying with initiative, flexibility and planning. Taking into account the realization of offensive operations within the defensive war, quick decision battles within the protracted war and operations on exterior lines within interior lines, managing the guerrilla tactics of Chairman MAO and today the superior form of civil war: encirclement and annihilation campaigns and counter-campaigns of encirclement and annihilation.
Combat the underestimation of our forces, the failure to adhere to the centralization of the plans by citing particularities, criteria of High Plan and retreat in the fact, rigidity, narrowness, partial vision, not putting politics in charge, prolongation in execution and lack of bellicosity. Not planning the counter-campaign as a whole and varying the tactic of going around in circles with avoiding confrontations, tendency to flee and retreat. Overcoming poor management of axes. Movements, platoons, retreat points, concentration and dispersion that leads to actions outside the guerrilla zone or base area. In the city, overcome the disorganization of the three-part plan.
Action of the companies targeting battalions. Detachments
People’s guerrilla army: main force, local force, and base force.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the party began to resolve the contradiction between the party and the armed forces by specifying the main form of organization, developing the new type of army as the pillar of the new State and through the leaps of unarmed groups to lead the masses to the people’s guerrilla army under the absolute direction of the party following the principle “the Party commands the gun.” Formed by workers and peasants, mainly poor peasants, subject to the ideological, political, and military construction of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, guiding thought. It fulfills its duty to fight, mobilize the masses and produce. Supported by the masses and with great intrepid spirit, thus demonstrating that what decides is the man and not the weapons.
Fight the tendency to ignore the ideological, political, and military building of the army of a new type and the absolute leadership of the party; sweep away conservatism in the incorporation of mainly poor peasants and poor selection; demand the fulfillment of three functions and advance in the good management of the main forces, local and base, overcome amorphous formation of companies, the lack of march of their direction, the dismantling of platoons and the postponement of battalions. Resolve training.
Collective harvests and sowing
Assault
Ambushes
Taking of towns
Confrontations
Destructions and counter-restorations, strikes at critical points and overtakings.
Campaigns of encirclement and annihilation and counter-campaigns of encirclement and annihilation.
Escape
Disturbances, tactics of fighting in the streets.
Sabotages
Executions, people’s trials
Agitation
Mobilization
Actions
Detachments
Planning
Execution
Evaluation
We are based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, guiding thought. The guiding thought is the main thing because it is the application and development of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. With the guiding thought we have reconstituted the party, we have started armed struggle and today we develop it by seizing base areas through top politicians. General political line and military line as the center.
Concentric construction of the first three instruments of the revolution: Party-Armed Forces-United Front through the development of armed struggle.
In the party, with PNT the militarization of the party is developed through actions directing the revolutionary war and handling the three instruments.
In the armed forces, emergence of the main form of struggle, the actions and the main form of organization, the people’s guerrilla exercise as a new type of army.
In the front, creation and seizure of base areas, people’s committees, revolutionary front for the defense of the people, New-Democratic People’s Republic.
Establishment of the direction of the revolution with the presidency of c. Gonzalo which is a guarantee of triumph and expression of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Correct establishment and management of the plans of armed struggle, maintaining superior strategy, today specification of the encirclement and annihilation campaigns and counter-campaigns of encirclement and annihilation. Five steps.
Let us concretize the specific laws of the people’s war by breaking the political and military plans of the enemy, police forces and… with the armed forces. Basing ourselves on our own efforts and relying on the struggle of the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world.
We handle the contradictions between left and right and the divergences on the left as contradictions within the people, averting the split and making 90% of the M(ilitants) advance through the rectification campaign, raising the unity of the party in function of the armed struggle, combating rightism as the main danger.
We are committed to solving the problem of war. The problem of power, of revolutionary power, is not just any power, it is that of the proletariat, the class of which we are the vanguard, in whose ideology we are based, the class which we serve and serve and will serve.
This revolutionary war for which the blood of the people and communists is running in torrents, this people’s war is but a part, a piece of the world revolution, because as Marx taught us, we fight in various parts of the world and we will do so within and in function of the world revolution.
These are our orientations and they will continue to be so. We emphasize this, the inseparable link with the world revolution because the historical circumstances, the concatenation of events that is history itself, has placed on our shoulders the communists in Peru, raising, defending and applying Maoism, fighting in the first line as the advance guard of this glorious revolutionary process that the proletariat leads.
The facts themselves have determined that our revolution is an example, a torch, a great bonfire that is showing the face of the earth the power of our invincible ideology: M-L-M, principally Maoism (The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China fulfilled an infinitely greater task: they were the center and base of the world revolution) this to better understand our greater and higher responsibility.
We are not only changing our country but we are real hope, filled with the invincibility of the ideology of the proletariat. Two reasons that we must take into account:
We are the true transformers of our country
We are the shock brigade of the world revolution
Very important.
About the Quota: “The seal of commitment to our revolution, to the world revolution, to the blood of the people that runs in our country destroying the old and building the new.”
The quota is a small part of the Peruvian revolution and of the world revolution, it is our revolution, the greater part is caused by the reaction and the lesser part by us. They form lakes, we soak only handkerchiefs.
The Third Round is a complete success, in this way what we agreed has become a shocking fact that deeply shakes the foundations of the reactionary state of Peru and at the same time its persecution in other lands is ever greater and growing. The main thing has surpassed the inflection and is superior to the 2nd Round.
On historical optimism (see IISP)
Our starting point must endorse the historical optimism that we as the Party of the proletariat must always express because being creators of the new order is nascent freedom that we have shaped by destroying the old through thousands of newly concrete actions in almost all our country in facts that have hit the reaction hard that have made this Government tremble particularly, the most starvation and most genocidal Government, the most demagogic Government, which we with armed action are demonstrating for what it is.
We communists do not believe in a reactionary dictatorship, we only believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat created and sustained by arms and directed by the Communist Party of Peru (CPP).
Our predictions are being fulfilled (see IIISP) and success for the Third Campaign, Third Campaign part of the PC of the GS within the great PE of CB.5
Chairman Mao. “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” “All things grow out of the barrel of a gun.”
We start from a single ideological base which is historical optimism, which is at the same time concretized, embodied, converted into a developed fact as a transforming action that is demolishing more and more the old order and generating the new order, the new power guided by the Party in representation of the proletariat and linked to the poor peasantry and the petty bourgeoisie in synthesis a joint dictatorship with the other classes that concur to the same goal, it is not about historical optimism in the abstract but in a concrete fact with our hands mainly with our conception of M-L-M, principally Maoism and guided by the guiding thought, which is the application of this universal truth to the specific condition of our reality of this homeland of ours that is Peru.
One of the objectives is to unite ourselves by strengthening historical optimism, promoting optimism as a transformative weapon of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Guiding Thought class optimism. We are carrying out the most profound upheaval (as some reactionaries say, deep upheavals that have not been seen since the times of Viceroy Toledo, 400 years ago). We need to start from that opt historical optimism made concrete, embodied, reverberating throughout the world, far from us all weakness; opt historical optimism with our ardent growth, beating, reverberating throughout the world.
It is a difficult and complex problem, easy to understand and difficult to apply.
Marx: “The masses make history.” The Party directs them, it cannot do more, the masses must be moved in order to sweep away the old order and not the haggling that constrains them to oppression, to break the vicious cycle of exploitation:
Marx: Easy union in the economic struggle, difficult [hierra] in the political struggle.
In more than 90 years of movements, criteria of opportunism, revisionism, of the W (work) of masses have been generated. However, because we develop the people’s war, we must open the way in a resolute way towards the proletariat, towards the working class, because it is our class to expand IM (incorporation of the masses) with peasants, mainly poor peasants, to open the way to the petty bourgeoisie, particularly the intelligentsia. Chairman Mao “Without the participation of the intellectuals victory in the revolution is impossible.”6 Lenin said: “Mass work is the constant, violence is exercised when appropriate,” but we must see the context, more than 60 years ago, Lenin was not alive during the SOWR (strategic offensive of the world revolution), but he is the initiator of the new times and warned us that the old world was going to sink into the most diverse wars, we develop in the period of 50-100 years; thus speaks Chairman Mao. The problem of war is more on the agenda and in the coming years it will be more and more.
Chairman Mao, this powerfully proletarian who is not only an individual contribution, but a M-L condensation, has given us the laws of people’s war.
Our modest experience, which is not individual either and which is in the depths of the post-war period, WWII, leads us to the Countryside–City War, the unique Marxist tactic.
Differentiating the superficial crust from the deep masses that emerge from the bottom, blowing to smithereens everything that opposes it.
Our experience poses questions for us. We are advancing in this. It is not going to be resolved overnight. It is going to require enormous efforts. The new is born in the midst of difficulties and is not born complete and perfect. We can go blindly groping. There is no need to lament, analyze the problems. Apply solutions and then see how reality, life denies or affirms them, corrects or eliminates them.
We are considering the need for an investigation of the mass work of the Party in the people’s war.
We are moving forward in the face of a complex problem, this is decisive, the entire proletariat will never be able to be organized under capitalism, but we have to open ourselves to the proletariat in order to win over the mind, the action of a part of us, if we do not develop peasant work, if we do not open ourselves to the PB, to the intelligentsia, more so now that there is so much demagogy, we will not be able to develop the people’s war.
In summary: the party work, the 3rd and 4th round, has advanced and has developed and poses a problem for us, how to develop and develop party life in people’s war, we have the task of RGP, we are in ideological-political-organizational consolidation. The idea of mass work in the Party must strengthen us in the people’s war.
A great step also in the incorporation into the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) because we are rejoining the International Communist Movement more directly, the problem is MLthought or MLM. The PCI7 proposes a campaign to support the CPP’s people’s war, and proposes that the RIM publish CPP documents during the armed struggle. The RIM proposes to study CPP documents during the reconstitution and Military Junta Government. The CPP proposes to debate and study the CPP document 5 Years of People’s War. We win, that is beneficial.
Problem, that is not true, everything has its process, our people’s war has great prestige. In the world the revisionists spread that to maintain the revolution we must be linked to “Socialism” (of the USSR) we are demonstrating that this is false (because we have self-sustenance and self-determination) we are demonstrating that there is a need to develop our own thought, the facts show that there is a need to apply MLM and to generate our own thought, a guiding thought that is the application of the universal conception to reality itself. History shows that guiding thought has always been generated, although not as a universal development like MLM.
The problems are ideological and political and they translate into leadership problems, we have experienced it in small parts…
Importance of having a single correct line and guiding thought that we must take care of like the iris of our eye.
Resonance that our revolution has better understanding in backward countries and in advanced countries other questions are asked. But there are also people there, there are fighters, that opens the way to our ideology that MLM is the axis of all communists on earth.
Feeling the internationalism of countries so far away that it extends from Asia through Europe to the U.S.
No revolution develops without proletarian internationalism, which is not a problem of solidarity, being part of a unit, a class, the proletariat, an ideology, Marxism, which is only a process developing in great struggles. On the international level. We have advanced, it is the rumble of the cannons that makes the deaf hear and the blind see.
Recognition to the PCI, the RIM and to those who support the campaign. The most important achievement is the Third Campaign8 we do not underestimate the achievement of internal life nor the international contribution, we say that this is completely of armed action.
This is a slightly revised version of the translation hosted at https://theworker.news/2024/12/04/in-celebration-of-chairman-gonzalos-birthday-and-pla-day-peru-peoples-movement/. Edits have been made for readability.↩︎
Translator, The Worker: Initiation of Armed Struggle 1980.↩︎
RedLibrary: “CRAS” stands for Social Readaptation Center [Centro de Readaptación Social].↩︎
Translator, The Worker: feudal landlord power.↩︎
RedLibrary: What the acronyms PC, GS, PE, CB, and IISP/IIISP stand for are unknown. As such, they are left in Spanish.↩︎
RedLibrary: Chairman Mao Zedong, Recruit Large Numbers of Intellectuals, December 1, 1939.↩︎
RedLibrary: What PCI stands for is unknown, potentially Communist Party of India.↩︎
Peru People’s Movement: Third Great Leap Campaign, part of the Plan to Seize Bases, which was being finalized in April 1986.↩︎