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| native_name = Partido Comunista del Perú | | native_name = Partido Comunista del Perú | ||
| political_party = [[Communist Party of Peru]] | | political_party = [[Communist Party of Peru]] | ||
| abbreviation = CPP | | abbreviation = CPP<br>PCP{{Efn|Spanish.}} | ||
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The '''Communist Party of Peru''' ('''CPP'''){{Efn|Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú}} was founded on a [[Marxist-Leninist]] basis on October 7, 1928 by [[José Carlos Mariátegui]], who wrote its Program<ref>https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/program-of-the-peruvian-socialist-party.pdf</ref> and Charter.<ref>https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/act-of-constitution-of-the-peruvian-socialist-party.pdf</ref> Since May 17, 1980, it has been leading a [[people's war]] against the old Peruvian state. | The '''Communist Party of Peru''' ('''CPP'''){{Efn|Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú: '''PCP'''.}} was founded on a [[Marxist-Leninist]] basis on October 7, 1928 by [[José Carlos Mariátegui]], who wrote its Program<ref>https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/program-of-the-peruvian-socialist-party.pdf</ref> and Charter.<ref>https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/act-of-constitution-of-the-peruvian-socialist-party.pdf</ref> Since May 17, 1980, it has been leading a [[people's war]] against the old Peruvian state. | ||
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Communist Party of Peru Partido Comunista del Perú | |
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CPP PCP[a] |
| Chairman | Chairman Gonzalo |
| Founder | José Carlos Mariátegui |
| Founded | October 7, 1928 |
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Communism Anti-revisionism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Gonzalo Thought |
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The Communist Party of Peru (CPP)[b] was founded on a Marxist-Leninist basis on October 7, 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui, who wrote its Program[1] and Charter.[2] Since May 17, 1980, it has been leading a people's war against the old Peruvian state.
Ideology
The Communist Party of Peru upholds Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, Gonzalo Thought as its basis and guide.[3]
History
The Communist Party of Peru holds that it and contemporary Peruvian society have three moments:
In the first moment, from 1895 to 1945, the Communist Party of Peru is constituted and, concerning the military line, Mariátegui establishes the “Indication and outline of the road.” The heroic workers” struggles for better wages, the eight hour day, for decent working conditions, the peasant movements for lands and the agricultural proletarian movements of the southern Sierra, and the movements to reform the university, led to a complex sharpening of the class struggle in which the Peruvian proletariat matured and in which Mariátegui founded the Communist Party of Peru, on October 7, 1928, under the banner of Marxism-Leninism.
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In the second moment, from 1945 to 1980, The Communist Party of Peru is reconstituted, and with respect to the military line, Chairman Gonzalo establishes the “Definition and Basis of the Road.” This second moment has two parts: The first, in the period from 1945 to 1963, which is one of “New impulses for the development of the Party and the beginnings of the struggle against revisionism.” The second part, from 1963 to 1980, is one of the “Establishment of the general political line and reconstitution of the Party.”
In the first part of the second moment, by the mid-1950s, the struggle for reactivating the Party that had remained unfinished after Odría’s coup d’état begins. Afterwards, the Party starts the opening step in the struggle against revisionism. This process occurs in the midst of the repercussions of the Cuban revolution. At the same time, at the world level, the unfolding of the struggle between Marxism and revisionism begins. The revolutionary road is discussed, the armed struggle is discussed again and, in the Fourth Congress of the Party, in 1962, it is agreed that in Peru the so-called “two roads” are feasible: “The peaceful road and the violent one.” Also, “the revolution can follow the road of encircling the cities from the countryside or from the city to the countryside.” But in spite of this talk, the Party in essence was hanging on to the old electoral strategy then taking the form of the so-called “National Liberation Front.” This was Khrushchev’s revisionism. At this time the political positions of Chairman Gonzalo began to emerge, laying the foundations of the red line which adhered to the positions of Chairman Mao in the struggle between Marxism and revisionism.
In the second part of the second moment, from 1963 to 1980, we have the “Establishment of the general political line and reconstitution of the Party,” this task was carried forward by Chairman Gonzalo in constituting the red fraction of the Party in an intensive struggle of more than fifteen years and through three political strategies.
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In the third moment of the Party, from 1980 to present, the Party begins to lead the People’s War. Its military line is formed with the “Application and development of the Road.” This third moment has four milestones: 1) Definition; 2) Preparation; 3) Initiation; 4) Development of the guerrilla warfare.[4]
Program
The Communist Party of Peru is based on and guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism and, specifically, by Gonzalo Thought as creative application of the universal truth to the concrete conditions of the Peruvian revolution, as made by Chairman Gonzalo, leader of our Party.
The Communist Party of Peru, organized vanguard of the Peruvian proletariat and integral part of the international proletariat, especially upholds the following basic principles:
- Contradiction as the only fundamental law of the incessant transformation of eternal matter;
- The masses make history and “it is right to rebel”;
- Class struggle, dictatorship of the proletariat and proletarian internationalism;
- The need for a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party that firmly applies independence, autonomy, and self-reliance;
- Combat imperialism, revisionism, and reaction unbreakably and implacably;
- To conquer and defend power with the people’s war;
- Militarization of the Party and concentric building of the three instruments of the revolution;
- Two-line struggle as the driving force of Party development;
- Constant ideological transformation and to always put politics in command;
- Serve the people and the world proletarian revolution; and,
- An absolute selflessness and a just and correct style of work.
The Communist Party of Peru has communism as its final goal; given that the current Peruvian society is oppressed and exploited by imperialism, bureaucrat-capitalism, and semi-feudalism, the revolution has first a democratic stage, then a second socialist one that will later develop successive cultural revolutions. Presently with the people’s war the Party develops the democratic revolution, having as its immediate goal to conquer power countrywide. Because of this we raise the following objectives:
General Program of the Democratic Revolution
- Demolition of the Peruvian State, the dictatorship of the exploiters led by the big bourgeoisie, and of the armed forces and forces of repression that sustain it and of all its his bureaucratic apparatus.
- To sweep away all imperialist oppression, mainly Yankee, and that of Soviet social-imperialism and of any power or imperialist country. In general to confiscate their monopolies, companies, banks and all forms of their property including the external debt.
- To destroy bureaucrat-capitalism, private as well as state owned; to confiscate all their properties, goods and economic rights to benefit of new state, as well as those belonging to imperialism.
- Liquidation of semi-feudal property and everything subsisting on it, in the countryside as well as in the city.
- Respect the property and rights of the national bourgeoisie, or middle bourgeoisie, in the country as well as in the city.
- Fight for the setting-up of the People’s Republic of Peru, as a united front of classes based on the worker-peasant alliance led by the proletariat headed by its Communist Party; as a mold for the new democracy that carries forward a new economy, a new politics, and a new culture.
- Develop the people’s war that, through a revolutionary army of a new type under the absolute control of the Party, destroys the old power a piece at a time, mainly their armed forces and other repressive forces. This serves to build the new power for the proletariat and the people.
- To complete the formation of the Peruvian nation, truly unifying the country to defend it from all reactionary and imperialist aggression, safeguarding the rights of the minorities.
- To serve the development of the Peruvian proletariat as part of the international working class, and the formation and strengthening of real Communist Parties and their unification in a revived international Communist movement guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; all as a function of the proletariat fulfilling its great historical mission as the final class.
- To defend the freedoms, rights, benefits, and victories that the working class and the masses have achieved at the cost of their own blood, recognizing them and guaranteeing their authentic enforcement in a Declaration of the Rights of the People. To observe, particularly, the freedom of religious conscience, but in its widest sense, of believing as not to believe. Also to combat all arrangements harmful to the popular interest, especially any form of unpaid work or personal burden and the overwhelming taxes imposed on the masses.
- Real equality for women; a better future for the youth; protection for the mothers and the children; respect and support for the elderly.
- A new culture as a combat weapon to solidify the nation, that serves the popular masses and is guided by the scientific ideology of the proletariat. Special importance to education will be given.
- Support the struggles of the international proletariat, of the oppressed nations, and of the peoples of the world; fighting against the superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union, imperialism in general, and international reaction and revisionism of all types, conceiving the Peruvian revolution as part of the world proletarian revolution.
- Struggle tenaciously and heroically for the complete victory and of the democratic revolution nationwide and after completing this stage, at once, without pause, to begin the socialist revolution so that, together with the international proletariat, the oppressed nations and the peoples of the world, through cultural revolutions, will continue the march of humanity towards its final goal, communism.
But considering that the democratic revolution in the country crosses a period characterized by:
- Deepening of the general crisis of Peruvian society, mainly of bureaucrat-capitalism;
- Greater reactionarization of the State, today with an Aprista government, fascist and corporativist, headed by the genocidal García Pérez;
- Sharpening of the class struggle, with the masses accepting more and more the need for combating and resisting;
- The people’s war developing vigorously and growing; and,
- The people’s need for a People’s Republic built according to the principles of New Democracy.
Opportunist Lines
The first Right Opportunist Line emerged in the midst of the debate to initiate armed struggle. It opposed the initiation of armed struggle, denying the revolutionary situation and the conditions for the initiation. It was expelled from the Party at the 1979 Ninth Plenum, where it was decided to initiate armed struggle.[6]
The second Right Opportunist Line, the Revisionist and Capitulationist Right Opportunist Line, made itself known following the capture of Chairman Gonzalo, where they published a fraudulent peace accord letter allegedly authored by Chairman Gonzalo, which was presented by President Alberto Fujimori to the United Nations on October 1, 1993.[7] This line denies the conditions for people's war and declares an end to it, calling on combatants to lay down their arms in surrender in exchange for amnesty, all while proclaiming to uphold Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought.[8]
The third Right Opportunist Line, the "Left" Opportunist Line, is represented by the Militarized Communist Party of Peru, which, following Feliciano's capture on July 14, 1999, which they aided the effort of, used the blow to usurp the Main Regional Committee[9] of the Party. Today, the Militarized Communist Party of Peru upholds "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Xiism"[10] and openly rejects Chairman Gonzalo and Gonzalo Thought, holding him to be a traitor and the author of the peace accords.
Today, since 1995, the Communist Party of Peru is carrying out general reorganization[11] in order to overcome the setbacks posed by the second Right Opportunist Line and the "Left" Opportunist Line.
Further Reading
See also
References
- ↑ https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/program-of-the-peruvian-socialist-party.pdf
- ↑ https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/act-of-constitution-of-the-peruvian-socialist-party.pdf
- ↑ https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/program-and-statutes
- ↑ General Political Line: III. Military Line, https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/military-line.pdf
- ↑ Program and Statutes https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/program-and-statutes.pdf
- ↑ https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/problems-of-the-history-of-the-party-outline
- ↑ https://ci-ic.org/blog/2022/09/23/klassenstandpunkt-the-right-opportunist-line-in-peru-a-gang-of-traitors-and-collaborators-who-want-to-annihilate-the-peoples-war/
- ↑ http://www.pagina-libre.org/MPP-A/Textos/PCP1993/Asumir_Resumen.html
- ↑ https://vnd-peru.blogspot.com/2011/10/ubersetzung-des-dokument-english.html
- ↑ EL MUNDO ACTUAL EN EL HISTÓRICO Y REVOLUCIONARIO SIGLO XXI, https://www.facebook.com/download/1160187122039964/EL%20MUNDO%20ACTUAL%20EN%20EL%20HIST%C3%93RICO%20Y%20REVOLUCIONARIO%20SIGLO%20XXI.doc
- ↑ Overcome the Bend in the Road, Developing the People’s War!, https://redlibrary.info/works/pcp/overcome-the-bend-developing-the-peoples-war.pdf, page 2.