NEW PERU NEWSLETTER SOME POINTS ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN PERU (PG. 2) NEW DOCUMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PCP: PERUVIAN PEOPLE! LONG LIVE THE 78TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE HEROIC COMBATANT, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU! UNITE UNDER MAOISM, APPLING GONZALO THOUGHT! (PG. 12) FROM RED SUN #29: ACTIONS OF THE PEOPLE‘S LIBERATION ARMY (PG. 18) ISSUE #3 / JAN. 2008 EDITORIAL This third edition of the newsletter is being published following a very successful international conference held in Madrid on Sept. 29, organized by the Peru People’s Movement together with some other revolutionary organizations in Spain held in celebration of the 15th Anniversary of Chairman Gonzalo’s Speech Which Shines Victoriously and Powerfully Before the World as a Combat Weapon. We were honoured to have had the opportunity to participate and it has given us a new jumpstart for continuing our work with new energy here in the US to support the People’s War in Peru as a way of also serving the World Proletarian Revolution underway. It has been over two years since our last edition, during which time we have seen a greater necessity to publish our newsletter more regularly, as the revisionists and opportunists in the US have completely abandoned every last ounce of support for not only the People’s War in Peru, but even the revolutionary struggles in the world, including the popular struggle here in the US. We find the need to mention one of them by name at this time, since not only have they committed the above errors, but they have now sunk to an even lower level by joining up with one faction of the big imperialist bourgeoisie to “oppose” the other, while having the audacity to call themselves “Maoists”. They go by the name of “RCP (USA”, headed by that black chieftain, Bob Avakian. Well enough about revisionism; more importantly we see the further development of the People’s War in Peru led by the Communist Party of Peru. The Party has solved the difficult problem of leadership, the quantity and quality of PLA actions have increased, the New Power expanded, and more and more masses have joined the People’s War. Strikes have swept the country, and the enemy complains that they all have the mark of the Party. Meanwhile, in the world, the communists of Turkey continue on with the people’s war, while the armed struggles in India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, etc., led by communist parties continue. At the same time the imperialist wars of aggression and occupation go from one defeat to another facing the heroic resistance of the Iraqi, Afghani and Lebanese people (who left the Israeli army in utter defeat, forming part of the Yankee strategy and with Yankee weapons). Meanwhile, the sons and 2 daughters of the American working class are sent to the slaughter, fighting a war that goes against their class interests. And as far as the imperialist countries go, one example shines brighter than all the rest. At the end of 2005 an unparalleled rebellion occurred spontaneously coming from the deepest and broadest masses, the sons of the French proletariat, beginning in Paris and quickly spreading across the whole landscape of France. It was an explosion which rocked the whole imperialist system to its foundations, an expression of class hatred of the whole imperialist State; all this in a spontaneous way, with no revisionist or opportunist in sight. It was another confirmation that what is on the order of the day is people’s war in every country, from the Third World and imperialist countries alike, which must be led by their respective communist parties of a new type, with a basis of party unity and a guiding thought. We here, in the US, promise to do our part, our day’s work to further our work in support of the People’s War in Peru, our shining light which shows us the road to take, which in this way serves the World Proletarian Revolution now underway. New York City, 2006 VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE! WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/NPFAUSA 3 SOME POINTS ON THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN PERU Due to widespread confusion about what is taking place in Peru, mostly thanks to those who oppose the Revolution in Peru who write volumes to confuse things, we find it necessary to clarify some basic points on what exactly the Communist Party of Peru is trying to achieve over the past 27 years of uninterrupted people’s war. The People’s War is a War of the Masses Under the Leadership of the Communist Party In Peru, as is the case with most countries belonging to the Third World (which the overwhelming majority of the world population belongs to), it is not a question of a “developing nation” or “under- developed nation”, but of a country which is semi-feudal and semi- colonial, trapped under the boot of imperialism, mainly Yankee imperialism in Peru and Latin America in general. These are countries that haven’t been able to develop since the classes who hold power are the landlords and the bureaucrat capitalists. To put it briefly, bureaucrat capitalism is a capitalism “that generates imperialism in the backward countries, tied to the feudality which is rotten and submitted to imperialism, which is the final phase of capitalism”. So first we will deal with the land question, which is the essence of the problem of the landlord-peasant system. The country has never been transformed from its age-old system where the land is owned by the landlords, while the powerless peasants work the land. So the land is tilled by those who don’t own it nor do they have any say in what crops are planted nor their income. The vast majority of the Peruvian population live in the countryside. As mentioned, the landlords share state power, they basically ARE the state in the countryside. This fundamental problem remains regardless of “military” or “civilian” regime, “neo-liberal”, or whatever form it might take. So the land question is fundamental in a semi-feudal country like Peru. A system of bureaucrat capitalism, meanwhile, determines that the entire country is subservient to its imperialist master; in Peru’s case, mostly Yankee imperialism. The Yankees, for example, “invest” in Peru, while Peru exports a great percentage of its products to the “investor” countries, often as raw materials (mining, agriculture, etc.) with little or no part played by industrial production, leaving this to countries with a higher level of industry, often but not always in imperialist countries, who have a much higher level of industrial production. 4 Products like coffee and cocoa are obviously not agricultural products needed by the Peruvian people to address the problem of starvation, for example, but for export. Even the prices are controlled by the dominant markets or, once again, the “investor” countries (imperialist countries). Again, bureaucrat-capitalism is “a capitalism that generates imperialism in the backward countries, tied to the feudality which is rotten and submitted to imperialism, which is the final phase of capitalism”. So the needs of the Peruvian people therefore, are to destroy this Old State, the landlord-bureaucrat state, and replace it with a new one. But what kind of State? The “New State”, as the Communist Party of Peru so often refers to, is a joint dictatorship of the proletariat, peasantry and petty bourgeoisie, all under the leadership of the proletariat. It takes the form of Support Bases in the People’s War, areas which have been won by the People’s War and where they institute a new economy, new politics and new culture. The land is seized from the landlord and a People’s Committee is formed to exercise Power. The land is transformed to serve the needs of the people and self-reliance is developed, planting crops needed to feed the people. The People’s War in Peru led by the PCP in this way solves the land question, and therefore is carrying out the New Democratic Revolution: not a bourgeois democratic revolution of the old type, which was led by the bourgeoisie—who are neither able nor willing to fundamentally change anything today—but one that is led by the proletariat, the one truly revolutionary class which holds the interests of the people. And at the moment that state Power is taken in the whole country, the Party carries out the socialist revolution, on the march to communism through successive cultural revolutions. It is important to explain more about the role of imperialism in this whole process. Being that Peru is a semi-colonial country, the entire Old Peruvian State is in the service of the interests of imperialism. We have shown how this occurs economically. But as in every society, economics is the base, and so politics derive from this. Yankee imperialism, principally, is very much interested in the fate of Peruvian politics, as they have in the country plenty of “investments” to worry about. Whether it takes the form of direct ownership by US monopolies in Peru, or through Peruvian state-owned enterprises, the logic is the same, since the old Peruvian state is entirely subservient and serves the interests of their imperialist master, “puppets”, if you will. So the whirlwind of People’s War sweeping through the country, expelling landlords and defeating the landlord-bureaucrat state, battle-for-battle, is doing more than raising eyebrows in Washington, it threatens their entire Power structure and dominance in not just the region of Latin 5 America, but even their status in the whole world, since the People’s War in Peru has an enormous impact on the working class and peoples of the world, just as the October Revolution did—and even more so today.