From: mao_docs-AT-blythe.org
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:05:13 +0000
Subject: M-I: Statement from Revolutionary Prisoners in Peru


PRONOUNCEMENT

"The People's War has not been stopped one minute; the Party will
never be paralyzed, it is clear about the path to follow, because it
has unity in great leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, in the Basis of
Party Unity, in the Strategic Plan of Development and the People's
War....

Always keep in mind the glorious work of 11 years of People's War; the
People's War cannot be stopped" Chairman Gonzalo

On this historic moment, the 17th of May, anniversary of the
Initiation of the Armed Struggle, marks 17 years of irrepressible
People's War in Peru which burns powerfully and victoriously, which
continues and will continue to advance.  The wheel of history cannot
be detained, and this is known consciously and completely by our
people who continue struggling heroically alongside the PCP, striving
for a new dawn.

The People's War is continuing to undermine and demolish the old state
and their reactionary, opportunist and revisionist bedfellows, who are
blindly lashing out in desperation with their dark dreams of detaining
and impeding the development of the People's War.  Chairman Gonzalo,
great leader of the PCP, at the initiation of the Armed Struggle
called on all the Party to: "Never drop the banners of the revolution
until Communism.  Even if the superpowers and powers come, armed to
the teeth with their powerful weapons, we Communists know what we want
and why we fight; nothing can nor should detain us in the completion
of the Party's objectives to serve the people, the proletariat and the
World Revolution."  

Following his example and his ideas formed as Gonzalo Thought, the
People's War is marching unstoppably to conquer power and its
development is inevitable.

The People's War has advanced and so too have the genocidal armed
forces who dream of annihilating us, who dream of drowning us and the
revolution in blood.  The old state is expressing its desperation in
its low intensity war, carrying out their plans of genocide, their
bombardment of the so-called "SL bunkers," the rocket attacks against
the People's Committees, "final battles," "senderois split," "sendero
is no longer a threat to the state," etc.  The fact is that they
couldn't and won't be able to stop the invincible People's War, which
is confronting and crushing all the cackling of the genocidal and
sellout dictatorship, the genocidal armed forces and the puppet
Fujimori, the most unchecked servant of imperialism, mainly Yankee
imperialism.  They also dreamed that the class would sell out its
Party; they launched a sinister counterrevolutionary hoax, slandering
Chairman Gonzalo that he was calling for a "peace accord," and in
collusion with this hoax a revisionist and capitulationist Right
Opportunist Line pretended that the Party would derail and abandon the
path of the People's War.  They have been reduced to a handful of
revisionists and capitulators, asking the reactionaries for
reconciliation and liberty to preserve the old state and continue
being exploited and oppressed.

This has served for the Party to reaffirm itself in the Great
Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, in revolutionary violence, in our
Basis of Party Unity, and for the PCP to be purged and fortified. 
Thus it is very important to keep in mind and greet with revolutionary
jubilation the heroism and the unyielding struggle of the masses in
the Base Areas to maintain the New Power.  It is an example for the
Peruvian people, the organized masses are the only and true power on
the face of the earth, as long as they are led by the Communist Party.
 The advance of the People's War, overcoming the bend in the road,
developing the People's War, is stirring up the polarization of the
class struggle.  The struggle of the masses with massive, violent
demonstrations of the workers, street vendors, construction workers,
etc., the polarization of the contradictions within the big
bourgeoisie between the comprador and bureaucratic factions and among
their own internal groups, a complex and bitter struggle within the
heart of the big bourgeoisie, expresses a very profound crisis, the
worst in the history of the old Peruvian state which it cannot escape.
 All these are clear proof of the revolutionary situation in growing
development and that we are marching toward the revolutionary crisis. 
Finally we say that the People's War will inevitably triumph and will
be an important contribution to the development of the World
Proletarian Revolution, always guiding ourselves with
Marxism-Leninism- Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, keeping the banners of the
People's War on high, and overcoming the difficulties, we will conquer
victory after victory and imperialism, reaction and revisionism will
be swept away and converted into a few, dark ashes by the omnipotent,
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought People's War of the broad
masses of people.

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

UPHOLD, DEFEND AND APPLY MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, GONZALO THOUGHT!

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S WAR, GUIDING LIGHT OF THE WORLD PROLETARIAN
REVOLUTION!

LONG LIVE THE XVII YEARS OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR!

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

HONOR AND GLORY TO THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE!

Political prisoners and prisoners of war of the Communist Party of
Peru Shining Trench of Combat of Canto Grande

May 17, 1997
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