On the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the launching of the People's War in Peru, we raise the slogan "Learn from Chairman Gonzalo".
For this we publish an unnofficial translation of the excerpt from the unitary basis of the Communist Party of Peru:
The six aspects of the construction of the Party. The ideological construction. Militancy is forged in the base of party unity the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought, principally Gonzalo Thought; we say Marxism-Leninism-Maoism because it is the universal ideology of the proletariat, the last class of history, an ideology that must be applied to the concrete conditions of each revolution and generate its guiding thought, in our case, the Peruvian revolution has generated Gonzalo thought because Chairman Gonzalo is the highest expression of the fusion of universal ideology with the concrete practice of the Peruvian revolution.
The political construction. Militancy is forged in Program and Statutes; general political line and military line as the center, specific lines; general policy, specific policies; and, military plans of the Party. Politics should always be in charge and it is our strong point.
The organizational construction. The organiozational follows the political and taking into account that only the line is not enough simultaneously one have to assemble the organizational instruments taking the organizational structure, the organizational system and party work into account. Organizational structure, the Party is based on democratic centralism, principally on centralism; Two armed party networks are established, the territorial network that encompasses a jurisdiction and the mobile network whose structure is displaced. Organizational system is the distribution of forces depending on the principal and secondary points where revolution acts. Party work is the relationship between secret work that is principal and open work; importance of the five needs: democratic centralism, clandestinity, discipline, vigilance and secrecy, particularly democratic centralism.
The leadership. We are fully aware that no class has ever succeeded in establishing its dominance if it has not promoted its political leaders, its vanguard representatives, capable of organizing and leading the movement; and the Peruvian proletariat in the midst of the class struggle has generated the leadership of the revolution and its highest expression: the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo who manages the revolutionary theory, has a knowledge of history and a deep understanding of the practical movement; who in hard two lines struggle has defeated revisionism, the right and left liquidationism, the right opportunist line and the rightism; he has reconstituted the Party, he leads it in the People's War and has become the greatest living Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, great political and military strategist, philosopher; master of communists, center of party unification. The reaction has two principles to destroy the revolution: annihilate leadership and isolate the guerrillas from the masses, but in synthesis their problem is to annihilate the leadership because it is what allows to maintain the course and materialize it. Our Party has defined that leadership is key and it is the obligation of all militants to constantly strive to defend and preserve the leadership of the Party and especially the leadership of Chairman Gonzalo, our Great Leaderhip, against any attack inside and outside the Party and subject ourselves to its leadership and personal command raising the slogans of 'Learn from Chairman Gonzalo' and 'Embody the Gonzalo Thought'.
We base ourselves on collective leadership and one-man leadership and we take into account the role of the leaders and how, through the People's War, in the midst of the renewal of leadership, the leadership of the revolution is curdling and tempering. We maintain the principle that the command never dies. The Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, Gonzalo Thought, we subject ourselves to Chairman Gonzalo and we embody the Gonzalo Thought.
Two lines struggle. The Party is a contradiction where the class struggle is expressed as a two-line struggle between left and right. The two lines struggle is what impulses the development of the Party, its right and correct handling derives from the left imposing itself. We combat conciliation because it nurses the right; and the principle of criticism and self-criticism, all, militants, cadres, leaders must practice it, combatants and masses too, assuming the philosophy of the struggle and going against the current, bearing in mind that the Central Committee is the vortex of the storm , then, there is expressed the sharpest class conflict. The just and correct handling that Chairman Gonzalo makes of the two-line struggle has served to maintain the unity of the Party and develop the people's war; In general, it has revisionism as the main danger, although in the Party it continues to develop against the right criteria, opinions, attitudes and positions, as a struggle within the people. It is necessary to organize the struggle of two lines to impose the Party line, through a plan to develop it in an organized manner.
Mass Work. We apply the principle of: 'The masses make history'. The Party leads the mass struggle serving the Power that is the principal demand; we develop the mass work in and for the People's War based on the basic masses, mainly poor workers and peasants, on the petty bourgeoisie and neutralize or win the middle bourgeoisie according to the conditions. We are subject to the law of incorporation of the masses and to the only Marxist tactic of "going deep and deepest", educating them in revolutionary violence and in the relentless struggle against revisionism. The mass work of the Party is done through the Army and mobilizes, politicizes, organizes and arms the masses in new Power in the field and in the Revolutionary Movement for the Defense of the People in cities.
