From: mao_docs-AT-blythe.org
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:53:11 +0000
Subject: M-G: Celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Chairman Gonzalo's Speech!


On September 24, 1992, the Peruvian reactionaries tried to capitalize
on their recent capture of Chairman Gonzalo, leader of the Communist
Party of Peru and the Peruvian revolution, by parading him in a tiger
cage before a howling mob of "journalists".

Chairman Gonzalo was able to turn this moment of "victory" for the
reactionaries into a sound political defeat for Fujimori and the
military whose bayonets prop up the tottering regime.  Chairman
Gonzalo was able to deliver a short, powerful speech that masterfully
encapsulated the political situation at that moment, describing his
own capture as only a "bend in the road".  Five years later, the
growth and development of the People's War within the framework of the
strategic and military plans established by Chairman Gonzalo have
shown how farsighted this speech has proven to be.

We at the Maoist Documentation Project are pleased to be adding an
updated translation of Chairman Gonzalo's historic speech, which can
be found at: 

English: http://www.blythe.org/mlm/misc/peru/docs_en/speech.htm 

Spanish: http://www.blythe.org/mlm/misc/peru/docs_sp/discurso.htm

We are also distributing an English translation of a new statement by 
the Peru People's Movement based in Europe.  It is our understanding 
that this statement was written under the guidance of the PCP.  It 
should not be confused with any statements made by the New Flag 
magazine or El Diario Internacional.

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Proletarians of all countries, Unite!

"CHAIRMAN GONZALO'S SPEECH SHINES POWERFULLY AND VICTORIOUSLY BEFORE
THE WORLD!"

"We are here in these circumstances.  Some think this is a great
defeat.  They are dreaming!  We tell them to keep on dreaming.  It is
simply a bend, nothing more, a bend in the road.  The road is long and
we shall arrive.  We shall triumph! You shall see it.  You shall see
it." (Speech by Chairman Gonzalo, September 24 1992.)

Five years since his pronouncement, the masterful Speech by Chairman
Gonzalo continues to shine strongly and powerfully before the world
and its clear validity and justice is once again confirmed.  The call
made by Chairman Gonzalo to the Communist Party of Peru, to the
combatants of the People's Liberation Army and the Peruvian people to
tighten all forces has been heeded not only in unison but with
crescendos.  Today we can prove beyond any doubt that the agreements
of the III Plenum, personally led by Chairman Gonzalo, are being
applied very successfully, agreements such as the IV Strategic Plan of
Development of the People's War and the VI Military Plan to Build the
Conquest of Power, and this will continue leaving noone any room for
doubt.

We also wish to use this opportunity to extend our most fervent
greeting and acknowledgment of the heroic combatant, the Communist
Party of Peru and all its system of leadership, which is leading more
than 17 years of powerful and victorious people's war which marches
unstoppably towards the Conquest of Power Countrywide.

CHAIRMAN GONZALO: LEADER OF THE PARTY AND THE REVOLUTION.
CHAIRMAN GONZALO AND GONZALO THOUGHT ARE UNBREAKABLY UNITED.

"All revolutions, in their process of development, through the
struggle of the proletariat as the leading class and, above all, the
struggle of the Communist Party that raises their unrenounceable class
interests, give rise to a group of leaders and principally one who
represents and leads it, a leader with acknowledged authority and
influence.  In our reality this has taken shape, on account of
historical necessity and causality, in President Gonzalo, leader of
the Party and of the revolution.

Moreover, and this is the basis upon which all leadership is formed,
revolutions give rise to a thought that guides them, which is the
result of the application of the universal truth of the ideology of
the international proletariat to the concrete conditions of each
revolution; a guiding thought indispensable to reach victory and to
conquer political power and, moreover, to continue the revolution and
to maintain the course always towards the only, great goal: Communism;
a guiding thought that, arriving at a qualitative leap of decisive
importance for the revolutionary process which it leads, identifies
itself with the name of the one who shaped it theoretically and
practically.  In our situation, this phenomenon specified itself first
as guiding thought, then as President Gonzalo's guiding thought, and
later, as Gonzalo Thought; because it is the President who, creatively
applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of
Peruvian reality, has generated it; thus endowing the Party and the
revolution with an indispensable weapon which is guarantee of
victory." (Fundamental Documents, Communist Party of Peru, 1988)

This is what the PCP has established concerning Chairman Gonzalo and
Gonzalo Thought.  Chairman Gonzalo is the leader of the Party and the
revolution the basis for this is Gonzalo Thought, a solid foundation. 
And this is the reason why the Party didn't doubt for a second that
the so-called "peace accord letters", which were attributed to him,
were nothing more than a hoax launched by imperialism, revisionism and
reaction which sought to slander Chairman Gonzalo in order to carry
out their premeditated, treacherous and insane plan to annihilate him.
 This was one more counter-revolutionary hoax in the many which they
have mounted and will continue to mount as part of their psychological
war within their so-called "low intensity warfare" with the vain
intention of annihilating the people's war.

Already in December 1992, in a public resolution of the Central
Committee, the Party had alerted the heroic Peruvian people to not be
fooled by the dark hoaxes periodically and systematically mounted by
the enemy with the intention of covering up the extremely grave
situation in which the old State finds itself, without any hope of
escape, the humiliating defeats suffered by their genocidal armed
forces at the hands of the People's Liberation Army and the sharp
contradictions, which today are inflamed even more and are rising
again, between the two factions of the big bourgeoisie and which are
clearly reflected among their rotten armed forces.

Once more the Party affirmed this, but not everyone wished to hear its
voice.  Among the latter, some swallowed the hoax whole while others
threw themselves into "investigating the different aspects involved",
only to later end up questioning Chairman Gonzalo himself and his
all-powerful thought, hinting about the existence of "signs" which
give cause to think that Chairman Gonzalo is behind the hoax of "peace
accords".

To give a basis for this they present, among other things, examples of
"leaders" in the history of the International Communist Movement,
which after having served and contributed to the ICM for years, have
crossed over to the other side, to counter-revolution.  But we will
not permit that anyone throw dirt in our eyes.  Consider, first: they
talk about leaders, and Chairman Gonzalo is leadership that is solidly
founded on Gonzalo Thought; and in the history of the ICM there is no
leadership which has crossed over to counter-revolution, not Marx, not
Lenin, nor Chairman Mao Tse-tung did so.  Second: what did the great
Lenin say about some of these so-called "leaders"?  On Plekhanov: "...
in the years 1905 to 1917, Plekhanov revealed himself as a
semi-doctrinaire and semi-philistine who, in politics, trailed in the
wake of the bourgeoisie."  On Kautsky: "... as we study the history of
Kautsky's latest betrayal of Marxism, his systematic deviation towards
opportunism... " (The State and Revolution, by Lenin).  Concerning
Chairman Gonzalo and his All-powerful Thought, can the same thing or
something similar be said?   NO.  Furthermore it is necessary to
recall and above all understand the Leninist thesis on the question of
the relation masses-classes-Party-leaders; that the revolution, the
Party, the class, all generate leaders; they generate a group of
leaders and especially one which stands out over the rest and that
heads them up.  That is how it has been and is in every revolution,
this corresponds to the completion of laws.  Thus everything has its
place.  Leadership is leadership and it must never be permitted that
anyone raise a hand against it.

CRUSH THE REVISIONIST AND CAPITULATIONIST ROL

The crushing of the revisionist and capitulationist ROL is one of the
objectives of the plan currently being applied: Overcome the Bend in
the Road by Developing the People's War (part of the VI Military
Plan), and like the other five objectives they have been fundamentally
completed; what remains is the finishing touch.  This, without any
doubt, is one more victory for Chairman Gonzalo, the Party and the
Peruvian People.  But it is necessary to see some important questions
with respect to the revisionist and capitulationist ROL and its
development.

The Party has indicated that the ROL is revisionist and
capitulationist, revisionist because it specifically revises Gonzalo
Thought and capitulationist because it openly and shamelessly
capitulates before imperialism and reaction.  It has had a special
development and this can be divided into three parts: before, during
and after the arrest of Chairman Gonzalo.  Before: already in the II
Plenum some presented serious problems which expressed themselves, in
synthesis, as strong opposition to sanctioning the view that the
Strategic Equilibrium had been reached, saying that this "had to be
built".  Chairman Gonzalo masterfully led the struggle and finally it
could be sanctioned that the Strategic Equilibrium had been achieved,
leaving those who opposed this "bare as the floor of the henhouse". 
During: it is in the final part of the III Plenum that Chairman
Gonzalo is arrested, and he had already indicated the existence of
signs of a ROL and foresaw that the struggle would be antagonistic. 
Some of those involved were making such positions their own and had
even altered Party documents.  It is at this point in the development
of the revisionist and capitulationist ROL that it becomes structured,
not inside the Party but outside, in the prisons, and this should be
made completely clear, that the ROL has never been in the Party nor in
the any leadership organ, much less in the Central Committee.  It is
in this part that the counter- revolutionary hoax of the "peace
accords" appears and the ROL, now structured, tries to infiltrate the
Party and utilizing agents they try to win over some bases, but the
Party's response was powerful, determining the annihilation of certain
"black heads" who served as the link between the prisons and their
work "outside", some of whom worked directly and in coordination with
DINCOTE.  This was a hard blow to the revisionist and capitulationist
ROL and ruined their plans.  How was it possible to prevent the ROL
from becoming structured within the Party?  It is the firm application
of Gonzalo Thought which has prevented the ROL from becoming
structured within the Party.  It is because the Central Committee has
remained firm in following the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, who
seconded by Comrade Feliciano and jointly with other comrades heads up
the red line, and this is key because it serves to maintain the course
and does not permit revisionism to act.  After: we find ourselves in
the final stretch of this third part and the Party hs given the
directive that in the two-line struggle we must center on the ROL to
crush and sweep away whatever vestiges that may remain no matter
where.  Aim at the points of convergence that may exist, don't
conciliate with them but assault them and demolish them like the Party
says: vaccinate against revisionism and don't allow the ROL to grow.

THE FUJIMORI GOVERNMENT IS GENOCIDAL, SELLOUT AND FASCIST

In Peru the old and rotten society is continuing to sink irremediably
into its general crisis, demolished by the People's War which marches
inexorably to complete the Democratic Revolution.  The Peruvian people
continues to suffer from the remorseless exploitation and oppression
of imperialism, principally Yankee imperialism, bureaucratic
capitalism and semi- feudalism, rotten mountains sustained by the old
landlord-bureaucratic State which is the organized reactionary
violence, the reactionary violence of the imperialists, big
bourgeoisie and landlords which they continue to discharge with
exacerbated class hatred against the people.  This has allowed the
People's War to sink deeper roots and develop even more.

On the other hand, their three tasks, as the Party has already
indicated, are a historical impossibility and reality is demonstrating
this: the restructuring of the old state is a complete failure, their
so-called "constitution" is leaking everywhere, it is violated by they
themselves and it is now as clear as water that it is nothing more
than an instrument of the so-called low intensity warfare.  The
reinvigoration of the economy, with their hackneyed "successes" and
everything, is nothing more than a blister on the point of bursting, a
transitory flowering that has reached its highest point.  What is
coming is another vertical drop from which no one will be able to save
them.  Their efforts to annihilate the People's War have been in vain,
they have not accomplished this will not accomplish it.  From another
side, the bend in the road, which happened as the product of
inflection, is being overcome and its overcoming is the primary
objective of the current plan being applied whose objectives have been
completed in the fundamentals, lacking only their completion.  Thus,
the People's War blazes victoriously throughout the country and there
is no force in the world which can detain it, it is more developed,
more deeply rooted and the Conquest of Power Countrywide presents
itself as a real and concrete perspective.  The revolutionary
situation in accelerating development continues to unfold
progressively and will necessarily reach the revolutionary crisis.  In
the face of this inevitable development the old state has become more
and more reactionary, seeing the need to apply fascism, but a fascism
adapted to combat the People's War.  This will not be able to stop the
People's War nor impede the Party from continuing to apply the IV Plan
of the Strategic Plan of Development of the People's War and the VI
Military Plan established by the III Plenum, because although this
increasing reactionarization signifies more oppression and genocide
for the proletariat and people of Peru, we know that blood doesn't
drown the revolution, it waters it.

CALL TO CELEBRATE THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASTERFUL SPEECH BY
CHAIRMAN GONZALO.

This year marks the end of five years since Chairman Gonzalo gave us
his masterful speech on the 24th of September, 1992.  This must be
celebrated and the Communist Party of Peru has made a call to do this
on a national level as well as internationally.  This must be a
celebration which expresses our reaffirmation in the Leadership of
Chairman Gonzalo and in Gonzalo Thought, which expresses our plain,
unconditional and voluntary subordination to him.  The MPP from here
assumes its promise to unfold a Celebration in accordance with what
has been proposed by the Communist Party of Peru and calls on all
Communist Parties and Organizations, the International Proletariat,
the Peoples of the World and all the revolutionary and progressive
forces to unite on this Fifth Anniversary of the Masterful Speech by
Chairman Gonzalo which shines strongly and powerfully before the
world.

LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO, LEADER OF THE PARTY AND THE REVOLUTION!

DEFEND THE LIFE OF CHAIRMAN GONZALO! 

LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, GONZALO THOUGHT, PRINCIPALLY 
GONZALO THOUGHT! 

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU! 

OVERCOME THE  BEND IN THE ROAD, DEVELOP THE PEOPLE'S WAR! 

CRUSH THE REVISIONIST AND CAPITULATIONIST ROL! 

LONG LIVE THE NEW GREAT WAVE OF THE WORLD PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION! 

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT! 

THE PEOPLE'S WAR WILL INEVITABLY TRIUMPH! 

NOTHING OR NO-ONE CAN DETAIN US: NOT IMPERIALISM, NOR THE 
REACTIONARIES, NOR REVISIONISM, NOR NATURE!

Peru People's Movement, September 1997


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