LONG LIVE THE 46TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU!
PEOPLE'S WAR UNTIL COMMUNISM!
“All that they told us, the empty, foolish chatter of the famous 'new era of peace'—what has become of it? What about Yugoslavia? What about other places? Everything was politicized; that's a lie. Today, the reality is this: the same combatants of World Wars I and II are generating, are preparing for World War III. We must know this, and we, as children of an oppressed country, are part of the spoils! We cannot allow it! Enough of imperialist exploitation! We must put an end to them! We are from the Third World, and the Third World is the base of the world proletarian revolution, on one condition: that the Communist Parties raise the banner and lead it. That is what must be done!”
President Gonzalo - President Gonzalo's Speech. 1992
“Peoples of the world, have courage, dare to fight, defy difficulties and advance in waves. Thus the whole world belongs to the people. Monsters of every kind will be eliminated.”
Chairman Mao Zedong - Declaration in support of the people of the Congo. 1964
“In class society, revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable; without them, it is impossible to make leaps in social development and overthrow the reactionary ruling classes, and therefore it is impossible for the people to conquer power.”
Chairman Mao Zedong - On Contradiction. 1937
The People's Movement of Peru, an organization created by the PCP for its work abroad, greets with great optimism and revolutionary jubilation, on this new anniversary of the people's war in Peru, Chairman Gonzalo and the Communist Party of Peru.
We extend our greetings to our class, to the oppressed peoples of the world; to the communists, fighters and masses who give their lives in people's wars and armed struggles under the banner of Maoism in Peru, India, Turkey and the Philippines and in the wars of national liberation against imperialism.
We reaffirm our great task of upholding, defending and applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, mainly Gonzalo Thought, the foundation of the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, the center of party unification and the greatest man of the present era; and his universal contributions to our universal ideology.
The beginning of the people's war in Peru is of transcendental importance for the masses and peoples of the world. With the start of the people's war in Peru on May 17, 1980, led entirely by the PCP (Communist Party of Peru), the stage of the strategic offensive of the world revolution begins, sweeping away the black flags of the revisionism of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Deng Xiaoping, and Hoxha—the "peaceful transition," "accumulation of forces," or third ways.
Experience that fully confirms the universal validity of Maoism as a new, third and superior stage of Marxism and the validity of people's war as the highest military theory of the proletariat "which has universal validity and applies to all types of countries, while needing to be specified to the conditions of each revolution" (International Line).
Today, the world is ablaze, confirming that imperialism is sinking into its final, ultimate crisis. Therefore, in their desperation, imperialism and reactionaries need imperialist war and fascism, clinging to the vain illusion of propping up this dying old system.
The recent aggressions of the US superpower against Venezuela and in the Middle East, along with the Zionist regime, against the Palestinian people, Lebanon, Syria, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Yemen, are part of the division of the world taking place through collusion and conflict between the superpowers (US, China, and Russia) and imperialist powers. It is a dispute over natural resources and spheres of influence. It is a genocidal war against the peoples of the developing world.
This reality highlights the continued relevance of the following quote from President Gonzalo:
“We must know this, and we, as children of an oppressed country, are part of the spoils! We cannot allow this! Enough of imperialist exploitation! We must put an end to them! We are from the Third World, and the Third World is the base of the world proletarian revolution, on one condition: that the Communist Parties raise the banner and lead it. That is what must be done!”
The intensification of the fundamental contradiction—between superpowers (the US, China, and Russia) and imperialist powers versus oppressed Third World countries—expressed in unjust wars and genocides, is clarifying the situation. With each passing day, the masses of the world increasingly recognize the hypocrisy of the imperialists and reactionaries, for the more they speak of “peace,” “democracy,” and “civilization,” the more murders and genocides they commit.
Furthermore, the open betrayal of the Venezuelan working class by Chavismo exposes the sinister role of "third ways," the sinister role of reformism and revisionism of both old and new stripes (all bearing the label of Maoism). This counterrevolutionary role seeks to prop up the old reactionary state in the service of imperialism.
In short, the deepening of the final crisis of imperialism makes it very clear to the masses what the field of revolution and the field of counter-revolution are.
At one pole are the oppressed and exploited masses who rise up against imperialism and reaction throughout the world, highlighting the people's wars and armed struggles that raise the banner of Maoism and the heroic struggles of national liberation and resistance as in Palestine, Lebanon or the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which the people have united against imperialist aggression and Zionism.
At the other pole are the imperialist bloodsuckers and their lackeys, those who legitimize the barbarity of imperialist war in the name of “democracy” or Western “civilization”.
The truth is that the illusion of a period of “peace” and “stability of the imperialist system” proclaimed by the old and new revisionism has been shattered by reactionary violence, imperialist war, and revolutionary violence that is spreading across the face of the Earth.
The masses do not want the peace of the graveyard, nor a “multipolar world”; the masses want revolution.
Therefore, we reaffirm Chairman Mao’s thesis that imperialism is a paper tiger, a giant with feet of clay.
We reaffirm that imperialism “is sinking and will continue to sink amidst a complex system of wars of the most varied kinds, but which synthesize just and unjust wars.”
We reaffirm that power comes from the gun . We believe in the universal validity of people's war: it is through the preparation, initiation, and development of people's war that the revolutionary situation unfolds and the masses are mobilized and organized.
We reaffirm the necessity of proletarian leadership of the revolution. It is necessary and urgent that the proletariat of each country establish or reconstitute the Communist Party if one does not already exist. This must be a militarized Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, with the primary task of initiating and waging people's war according to the specific conditions of each revolution. It must be a communist party based on its own strength.
We reaffirm what Chairman Gonzalo stated: that world people's war is the answer to imperialist world war.
“The people’s war, conceived in these waves, will lead to that world people’s war and that convergence of the iron legions of the international proletariat, of the peoples who, in the end, will fulfill the historical mission that has been so fortunately entrusted to us: to live through these decades in which imperialism and reaction will be swept away because what Chairman Mao foresaw will come to pass. If we don’t see it, those who follow will, because the legions are growing larger and larger.” (Interview with Chairman Gonzalo)
We reaffirm that we are within the 100 years that Chairman Mao spoke of; of which we have already traveled most of the way in sweeping imperialism from the face of the Earth:
“We will fulfill the historic mission that has been so fortunately entrusted to us, to live through these decades in which imperialism and reaction will be swept away because what Chairman Mao foresaw will come to pass. If we don't see it, those who follow will, because the legions are growing ever larger.” (Interview with Chairman Gonzalo)
The PCP, in the midst of its reorganization process, adhering to established plans and under the difficult conditions of the current situation, is developing mass mobilization efforts to recover what has been lost, addressing new problems with Gonzalo Thought. Combating imperialism and reaction as the red faction of the International Communist Movement, it is waging an implacable struggle against the LOD and the LOI, fighting all revisionism to guarantee the course of the people's war, its proletarian leadership to continue advancing and triumphing, through people's war until communism.
Finally, we reaffirm our task of upholding, defending and applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, primarily Gonzalo Thought, and imposing Maoism as the command and guide of the world revolution.
LONG LIVE THE ILA 80!
LONG LIVE PEOPLE'S WAR, THE MILITARY THEORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT!
LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!
LONG LIVE MAOISM! DOWN WITH REVISIONISM!
Popular Movement Peru
May 2026
