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- Subject: Peru Can't Jail the Revolution
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)
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- MIM Notes, Issue 69: October, 1992
-
- You can jail the revolutionary,
- but you can't jail the revolution
-
- by MC12
-
- The imperialist media called it a "stunning blow" to the
- revolution in Peru. Peruvian storm troopers arrested Comrade
- Gonzalo, the chairperson of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) --
- also know as Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path -- and other party
- leaders.(1) The PCP is the most powerful Maoist party in the world
- today, controlling more than half of Peru, and closing in on Lima
- and other cities in preparation for a final seizure of power by
- the people.
-
- A movement destroyed by the death or imprisonment of one person or
- a small number of leaders is not yet a revolution. The people of
- Peru have demonstrated that their revolution, under the leadership
- of the PCP, has advanced well beyond this point. The revolution
- has been, and remains, in the hands of the people themselves.
- That's why it is called a People's War.
-
- The same old lies
-
- The occasion of Gonzalo's arrest was another opportunity to spread
- the same old lies about the PCP and the Peruvian revolution.
-
- UPI noted that the PCP has "been blamed for more than 27,000
- deaths and property damage estimated at $21 billion, equal to the
- foreign debt of this poor South American nation."(2) The bourgeois
- press is not compelled to report that the vast majority of those
- deaths were at the hands of the government and its "civilian
- militias," whose desperate fight to stem the tide of the people
- requires indiscriminate mass killing and the worst atrocities.
- Likewise, these misleaders insist, if only the revolutionaries
- would lay off the violence and destruction, Peru probably wouldn't
- even have a foreign debt right now. One need only look at any
- other underdeveloped Third World country to see the stupidity of
- this equation. (For a more complete review, order MIM's hefty Peru
- Study Pack for $15 post-paid).
-
- While describing the course of the revolution as a "Path of
- Terror," the New York Times does in the last paragraph of four
- stories on the arrest note that "Among the human rights abuses
- attributed to the Peruvian authorities in recent years are
- sporadic mass killings in Indian communities and torture in
- prisons."(3)
-
- MIM has explained previously that the majority of PCP members are
- from indigenous communities, who in this 500th year anniversary of
- the invasion of these continents are leading the way in the
- struggle out of the cesspool of imperialism. The arrest of
- Comrade Gonzalo and the other leaders, and their possible trial
- and execution, are setbacks for the People's War in Peru. But the
- revolution has survived many harder tests in its long growth and
- development. The people of Peru have come too far to see their
- movement destroyed by the arrest of even these important leaders.
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. New York Times 9/14/92, p. A1.
- 2. UPI wire 9/13/92.
- 3. NYT 9/14/92 p. A8.
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