Proletarians of all countries, unite!

LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO AND HIS ALL-POWERFUL THOUGHT!

Central Committee
Communist Party of Peru

19941

Specifications on Chairman Gonzalo, the General Political Line and the Contributions to the World Revolution:

“Without Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought cannot be conceived, because the latter is the creative application of the former to our reality. The key question on this point lies in the understanding of the historical process of the development of the proletarian ideology, of its three stages shaped in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and with Maoism as principal; and, principally, it is the application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as a universal truth to the concrete conditions of the Peruvian Revolution; hence Gonzalo Thought is specifically principal for the Communist Party of Peru and the revolution it leads”.2

“The most substantive and developed part of Gonzalo Thought is found in the Party’s general political line; this thought directly sustains, therefore, the line and its five elements, with the point of departure being how it understands and maintains the Program firmly on course”.3

“To study, and principally to apply, Gonzalo Thought is decisive in order to better serve the Party, the development of the People’s War and the World Revolution. Likewise, to learn from Chairman Gonzalo is decisive in order to wholeheartedly serve the people”.4

First Congress of the Communist Party of Peru

I. INTERNATIONAL LINE

  1. Struggle to impose Maoism as the new, third and higher stage of Marxism.

  2. World People’s War as a response to imperialist World War.

  3. The fundamental contradictions and their solution: The principal contradiction.

  4. The three moments of the world revolution: strategic offensive in the world revolution.

  5. Develop bases for strategy and tactics in the world revolution.

  6. The process of Marxism.

  7. Definition of the total and complete bankruptcy of contemporary revisionism.

  8. Combat imperialism, revisionism and world reaction implacably and unstoppably.

II. LINE OF DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

  1. How the Peruvian revolution is conceived: Democratic revolution, socialist revolution, and proletarian cultural revolution until Communism (proposed as a third type of revolution.)

  2. Generalization of bureaucratic capitalism.

  3. The character of Peruvian society, its fundamental contradictions and the principal contradiction.

  4. On the State: Old State and New State.

  5. The essence of the democratic revolution: Peasant war led by the Communist Party by means of people’s war.

III. MILITARY LINE

  1. Reaffirmation in the principal of revolutionary violence as a universal law concretized in people’s war.

  2. Unified people’s war and the importance of the Initiation.

  3. Specification of the Support Base.5

  4. Strategic Development. Strategic Plan of Developemnt.

  5. The five parts of a campaign.

  6. The five phases of action.

  7. The Strategic Operational Plans.

  8. Mass work through the Army.

IV. LINE OF BUILDING THE THREE INSTRUMENTS OF THE REVOLUTION

  1. Principle of construction.

  2. Militarization of the Communist Parties and concentric construction.

  3. Construction of the People’s Guerrilla Army. Incorporation of the militia.

  4. The front in the countryside: New State (People’s Committees, support Bases6 and Democratic People’s Republic in formation towards the People’s Republic of Peru). The front in the cities, MRDP.7

  5. The six forms of New Power: Organizational Committee of the People’s Power, People’s Committees of Parallel Power, People’s Committee, Open People’s Committees and Committee of People’s Struggle.

  6. Militancy: Communists first and foremost, combatant and administrator.

  7. Strategy of Construction.

V. MASS LINE

  1. Reaffirming the principle “the masses make history” and “it is right to rebel”.

  2. The specific weight of the masses in the world revolution (serving to define it).

  3. Mass work in and for the People’s War. The countryside. Leadership in the cities.

  4. The struggle for wages and living conditons serving the seizure of power.

  5. The generated organisms, militarized in the countryside and specification for the cities.

  6. Law of incorporation of the masses in the People’s War.

  7. The only Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought tactic.

  8. Scientific organization of poverty.

  9. Armed sea of masses.

February, 1994

PCP-CENTRAL COMMITTEE8

  1. https://banderaroja.org/2025/09/27/viva-el-presidente-gonzalo-y-su-todopoderoso-pensamiento/↩︎

  2. Red Library: Concerning Gonzalo Thought, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru, 1988. Translation from Prairie Fire Publishing edition, page 224.↩︎

  3. Red Library: Concerning Gonzalo Thought, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru, 1988. Translation from Prairie Fire Publishing edition, page 225.↩︎

  4. Red Library: Concerning Gonzalo Thought, Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru, 1988. Translation from Prairie Fire Publishing edition, page 227.↩︎

  5. Red Library: Also translates to “Base Area.”↩︎

  6. Red Library: Also translates to “Base areas.”↩︎

  7. Red Library: People’s Revolutionary Defense Movement.↩︎

  8. Red Library: Communist Party of Peru-Central Committee.↩︎