We publish the following unofficial translation of the statement from the Peru People’s Movement (MPP) to commemorate the Day of Heroism on June 19th.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
LONG LIVE THE XXXVII ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY OF HEROISM!
On June 19, the communists and revolutionaries in Peru and all over the world celebrate this day for the great Victory won 37 years ago by 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. The monstrous and infamous genocide by governmental mandate of the fascist García Perez crashed against the unbending, fierce resistance of the comrades, fighters and children of the masses who raised ideology, courage and heroism, boldly deployed in the fiery war challenge, embodied in the monumental trilogy of the luminous combat trenches of Frontón, Lurigancho and Callao, a historical milestone that will proclaim more and more the greatness of the Day of Heroism. Conquering a great political, military and moral victory for the Communist Party of Peru, for the class, for the Peruvian people and the peoples of the world. Historical milestone that we celebrate in Peru and throughout the world. Thus the heroes continue winning battles and serving the revolution. The proletariat and the peoples of the world always keep for them a well-deserved great respect and obligation: to continue the task in which they were engaged, firmly subject to the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo and his almighty Thought, center of party unification and guarantee of triumph that leads us to communism.
On this solemn occasion, we salute the International Communist League and our invincible and victorious People’s War and the current People’s Wars, which against all odds continue their invincible march, such as the People’s Wars in India, Turkey and the Philippines. People’s Wars that show the road to follow to those yet to be born, serving the World Revolution and to persist in raising, defending and applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism; People’s Wars, which are the shining beacon for the current armed struggles of liberation and others waged by the international proletariat and the peoples of the world to sweep imperialism and reaction from the face of the Earth.
This occasion is also propitious, once again, to distinguish, crush and sweep away the revisionist and capitulationist Right Opportunist Line (ROL) in Peru, as the head of the new revisionism at the world level, which denies the semi-colonial and semi-feudal character of the countries of the Third World, saying that these have ceased to be so because of “neo-liberalism” applied since the beginning of the ‘90s of the last century and in the case of Peru, that “the current struggle is for democratic rights, new constitution and sovereignty.” Furthermore, [they argue], because with the People’s War the semi-feudal relations were destroyed and Peru has become a dependent capitalist and “that the present struggle is for democratic rights, a new constitution and sovereignty,” these renegades deny what was established by Maoism and Gonzalo Thought, that as long as the democratic revolution is not completed with the seizure of power in the whole country, the domination of imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism and semi-feudalism will not have been destroyed. In Peru, where reaction has reestablished the old power, it has reestablished the old relations of production and their corresponding superstructure, that is, semi-feudalism. Therefore the character of Peruvian society continues to be semi-colonial and semi-feudal on which a bureaucratic capitalism develops. The new revisionism denies the revolutionary situation in development at the international level. Thus, the ROL denies revolution as the main trend, denies the new great wave of the world revolution, denies the strategic offensive of the revolution itself, denies the main contradiction, denies the democratic revolution, denies the land problem in the countries of the Third World and therefore denies the world proletarian revolution. They are counterrevolutionary renegades, they are anti-Maoist, they are anti-Gonzalo Thought. The ROL since 1993 to date serves all the governments of the old Peruvian State.
Our heroes are calling us, crushing the reaction and revisionism, to complete the general reorganization of the Party whose fulfillment will mean a great victory of the Party in all its levels, mainly in the development of the People’s War, so that its inextinguishable flame will continue burning, unstoppable, threatening, that in burning flames will spread everywhere, conquering a quantitative increase, so that it may make a qualitative leap, definitively overcoming the bend and the inflection, definitively coming out of the nook and cranny to culminate the democratic revolution with the seizure of power throughout the country, which is the central task of the revolution, sustained in our own armed hands against the desires of national and international reaction and its opportunist and revisionist servants. For, once the democratic revolution has been completed, to pass immediately and without interruption to develop the socialist revolution in march to the ever golden communism, which we will enter together with all humanity. Long live the Communist Party of Peru!
Long live the XXXVII Anniversary of the Day of Heroism!
Eternal honor and glory to the fallen heroes! Long live the revolution!
Unite under Maoism! Down with revisionism!
PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT PERU
June 19, 2023
