Proletarians of all countries, unite!
On June 19 of each year, the Day of Heroism is celebrated in Peru and in the world. Established as International Day of Political Prisoners and Revolutionary Prisoners of War.
On June 19, communists and revolutionaries around the world celebrate this date, we commemorate the rebellion 39 years ago of the prisoners of war of the Communist Party of Peru. Those who rebelled in defense of the revolution and their lives against the plans of reaction to annihilate them and give a sure blow to the people’s war.
On this occasion of great historical significance for the communists and masses of Peru and the world, as a sign of our homage and commitment, we re-publish the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru, which establishes June 19 as the Day of Heroism, Peru June 1986.
On this day, we want to share with our comrades of Peru and the world the final words expressed by Chairman Gonzalo in Homage to the Heroes of the People, at the First Congress of the Communist Party of Peru (1988), where the Party solemnly assumes the commitment to never lay down its arms until communism, we quote:
We gather up those lives, that example, that blood (heroically shed by the heroes of the people) and we enter them into our own flesh, that it ignites our own mind and tightens our will more and more, so that that road opened with an effort never seen here and that will be the astonishment of the centuries, be the road that we continue until we fulfill that task in which they were engaged. The best homage we can pay them and we are paying them today is to persist on that road, on that course and we will not stop, comrades, as a Party, as a class, as masses, we will not stop together with the international proletariat, together with the Communist Parties and the immense masses of the people of the world, and we will not stop until communism. Let that be the serious commitment that we assume today, once again, in this Congress in homage to the heroes of the people.
Like that of all these heroes, the glorious belligerent death of the prisoners of war, on June 19, 1986, is covered with the blood already shed and before it the communists, the combatants and the sons of the people, armed, we assume the indeclinable commitment to follow their luminous example, to develop the people’s war to serve the world revolution until the unfading light of communism settles throughout the world under the undefeated banners of Marx, Lenin and Mao Tsetung, of the ever-living Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Glory to the fallen heroes, long live the revolution!
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
DAY OF HEROISM
RESOLUTION
Following the path of its predecessor, the reactionary Aprista government from the beginning applied genocide against the people’s war, covering it with high-flown demagogy with the complicit support of electoral opportunism as evidenced by Aqomarca, Umaru, Bellavista, and Llocllapampa; crimes perpetrated by the armed forces and police of the Peruvian State.
Reaction sinisterly targeted the prisoners of war, planning their genocidal annihilation, which materialized on October 4 of last year in the cowardly and brutal murder of thirty combatants in the Lurigancho prison; a nefarious crime also unpunished that only the victorious people will punish.
On June eighteenth, eighteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-six prisoners of war in El Frontón, Lurigancho, and Callao rose up in rebellion against the new genocide in progress, after publicly denouncing, before the courts and authorities themselves, repeatedly, the butchery that the government and its armed forces were plotting; they rebelled in defense of the revolution and their lives, demanding twenty-six very fair and rational demands.
On the nineteenth, the reactionary Aprista government headed by Alan García, after its grotesque farce manipulating the so-called “Peace Commission”, unleashed the most proterious and blackest extermination operation; mobilizing the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the police forces, under the Joint Command, it consummated the most infamous genocide, murdering hundreds of guerrillas and sons of the people, prisoners of war, bathing once again in the burning blood of the people. May Alan García, his Council of Ministers, the Joint Command, the armed forces, and the police fall upon the unforgettable disgrace that the people will not forget and that only he will sanction!
The fighters of the People’s Guerrilla Army, prisoners of war, under the banner “It is right to rebel” fought heroically and bravely, sealing a milestone of heroism, courage, and bravery that history will keep as an exemplary demonstration of the heroic men that only the people’s war is capable of generating.
Thus, the nineteenth of June is stamped imperishable as the DAY OF HEROISM, the blood of these heroes already fructifies the armed revolution setting it on fire more, rising as monumental tremolante flag and inexhaustible war cry that summons to the inevitable final triumph.
The glorious belligerent death of these prisoners of war is sheltered by the blood already shed and before it the communists, the combatants and the sons of the people, armed, we assume the indeclinable commitment to follow their luminous example, to develop the people’s war to serve the world revolution until the unfading light of communism settles throughout the world under the undefeated banners of Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tsetung, of the ever-living Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Glory to the fallen heroes, long live the revolution!
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU
Peru, June 1986