Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 22:02:19 -0500
Subject: M-G: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward!


EDITORIAL

                              One Step Back, Two Steps Forward.	

Facts have confirmed what was established by the Communist Party of Peru
(PCP.)  The most important news of 1996 was the confirmation that the
effects of the "bend in the road" of the People's War  (the capture of
President Gonzalo), has been overcome.  This is truly fabulous because
this is no longer September 1992 but the end of 1996.  It has been four
years of intense struggle for the Party to build organizations superior
to those of the reactionaries.  This construction refers principally to
the three instruments of the revolution: the Party, the People's Army
and the People's Front. The revolution continues the armed struggle to
achieve the strategic offensive which is approaching closer each day.
This is the stage in which insurrections in the cities will be initiated
to conquer power countrywide.

With respect to the old State, the economy is undergoing a  profound
crisis as a result of the application of their neoliberal program.  In
1995, Fujimori, after the fraud in which he was elected with 18 percent
of the vote, had to readjust his neoliberal program and it has burst. He
persists on an exhausted program that has gone from failure to failure
in all parts of the world. For the government, 1996 was a year of
crisis, conflicts, more intervention of Yankee imperialism, and
widespread corruption and narcotrafficking in the armed forces and the
government, including  Fujimori himself, and his traitorous advisor
Montesinos.

Facts have also demonstrated that their three counterrevolutionary
goals: to reinvigorate bureaucratic capitalism, restructure the old
state and annihilate the People's War, are historically and politically
impossible to achieve.  Privatization is strongly repudiated by the
people;
the trade deficit is widening; the so-called "modernization" of the
State is repeated like a bad joke.  On the People's War, they talk about
the return of "Sendero," and increase  the military repression against
unarmed civilians; even dissidents in the armed forces are being
murdered or jailed (e.g., General Robles.) At the same time, the U.S.
Pentagon has sent additional military reinforcements to fight the
insurgency in the Huallaga Valley, under the same old disguise of: "war
on drugs."

On the world level, the general counter-revolutionary offensive led by
U.S. imperialism, along with its appendices (IMF, World Bank, AID and
UN) who impose their worn out neoliberal policies on the oppressed
countries, have failed to achieve their goals. What marks the world
situation today is the beginning of a New Great Wave of the World
Proletarian Revolution, whose seeds can be seen in every corner of the
world. That's why the PCP upholds that: Revolution is the principal
historical and political trend in today's world!

The Party has said that the counter-revolutionary offensive is
sharpening the class struggle at the world level, and this in turn, is
intensifying the fundamental contradictions at the world level,
especially the contradiction between oppressed nations and imperialism,
as well as the contradictions between the imperialist powers and
superpowers for hegemony, and the contradiction between the proletariat
and bourgeoise. The working class in Europe, Australia and the United
States, for example, is emerging from its lethargy.  

Thus, we see the decrepitude and putrefaction of imperialism which is in
decline and rotting along with its worshipers, the revisionists and
renegades like the moribund Teng Xiaoping and Boris Yeltsin. Can
imperialism today deny that its so-called neoliberalism, is collapsing
everywhere? This fact is expressed by the growth of unemployment, hunger
and the belligerence of the masses. Beyond that, the imperialists are
preparing for a new world war, which is where the trade war, the
formation of blocks and alliances, and the growing militarization is
leading.

On the other hand, the Marxist counter-offensive is advancing. The
initiation of the People's War in Nepal is a blow to imperialism on
another flank. In Peru, as on the world level, things are improving for
the revolution and getting worse for them. We ask: what is driving and
spurring on this entire process both at the national and world level? 
Without a doubt, it is the advance of the People's War in Peru.

On the military level, the contradiction between revolution and
counter-revolution is expressed as the People's War vs.
Counter-Insurgency War. In the case of Peru, it is a counter-insurgency
war led directly by U.S. imperialism since April 1992, vs. the People's
War led by the PCP..

It is important to understand what the Party says: that with Fujimori's
coup in 1992, there was a turn in the situation because at that point,
Yankee imperialism took over the direct command of the
counter-insurgency war. So far, they have applied the strategy of
low-intensity conflict, but the advance of the People's War, is pushing
them towards an open military escalation.

To the extent that the People's War advances, large Yankee military
intervention or by way of third parties, becomes a fact.  For that
reason, the PCP says that since April 1992, the principal contradiction
has begun to change. It is entering a situation in which the principal
contradiction of today, the masses vs. feudalism, is gradually becoming
the contradiction between nation and imperialism, which will be seen
even more clearly through a direct invasion, or an invasion by third
parties.

Finally, we present our most comprehensive issue yet to make available
to supporters of the revolution worldwide and progressive people
interested in Peru. We hope that this information will help to clear up
the fog of disinformation that has been spread around by the imperialist
media, its lackeys, and revisionists. We also seek unity with all
revolutionary forces, supporters of the People's War, and with the Peru
People's Movements (MPPs) in accordance with the International Directive
of the PCP, the Party accords, the First Congress, the Second and Third
Plenum, the milestone following the Congress, and the speech [from the
cage--Trans.] which condenses the Third Plenum, and the current
documents of the Party.


The Editors.
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