From: SCIENCE@mitvma.BITNET
Subject:      gonzalo speaks from prison in peru
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:06:35 GMT




FYI, the Maoist Internationalist Movement
PO Box 3576
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3576
Chairperson Gonzalo's speech

"The People's War Will Be Victorious, 'You Shall See It!'"
Speech from Headquarters of the Anti-terrorist Police of
Peru, September 24, 1992

[Gonzalo made the following speech after arrest on September 24.]

Comrades of the Communist Party of Peru, fighters of the People's
Guerilla Army, Peruvian people: we are living through historic
events; each one of us knows this to be the case. Let us not
deceive ourselves. At this particular moment we must ready all
our forces in order to continue accomplishing our tasks.
Let us win new victories including the final one, too!

We are fighting in these trenches because we are communists!
We fight, too, because we defend the people's interests, the
principles of the Party and the ideals of the People's War!
That is what we do, what we are doing and what we will
continue to do! We are here in circumstances which some think
to be a great defeat. They are dreaming. Today we say to them
this is barely a bend in the road. Nothing else! A bend along
the road. And though the road is long we shall traverse it
completely. We shall arrive at our goal and we shall win!
You shall see it!

We must continue with the tasks laid down in the Third Plenary
Session of the Central Committee, a glorious event! This Third
Plenary Session has already started and it will continue. We
shall continue to carry out the plans of the People's War for the
seizure of power. We will continue the development of the Sixth
Military Plan. That is our task! We shall carry it out, together
with the proletariat and the people!

Today the democratic road has begun to unfold as the road of
people's liberation! These are the circumstances in which
we are developing our actions. Where are we now along this
road? At a strategic equilibrium!

It is useless to continue to deny this evidence. Let us look
at the history of Peru. Specifically let us examine the 18th,
19th and 20th centuries and understand their lessons! If you
do not understand this you will remain blind. There was
first Spanish domination, and this Spanish domination, where
did it lead us? To an extremely deep crisis! As a consequence,
Peru became a house divided. It is here where you can identify
the source of the state's current policies.

Then, in the last century, what? British domination. Where did
that lead us? To another great crisis and its consequence, the
war with Chile. Let us not forget this! What was the result?
Peru lost territories!

In the 20th Century how are we faring? There is an imperialism
dominating us, US imperialism. This is something real and every
one knows it! Where has this led us? Here and now, to the worst
crisis in our entire history, a crisis the like of which has
never been endured by our people.

These past 12 years of struggle have served to demonstrate
and show clearly to the people that the Peruvian state and the
Peruvian army are evidently rotten to the core. That they are
paper tigers!

What should we do? We must give impetus to the people's liberation
movement and develop the people's war. The time to set up a
National Liberation Front has arrived. It is time to form and
develop a Popular Front of Liberation with the People's
Guerilla Army as its core. That is what we will do; that is
what we are already doing; that is what we are going to be doing!

Maoism is marching relentlessly forward in its task of
forging the new wave of the world proletarian revolution.
This must be well understood and everyone must become well
aware of it! Those who have ears must use them well, those
who have understanding--we all have it--use it well, too!
Let us do away with this cant!

The same opposing forces behind the First and the Second
World Wars are now preparing the Third. This is something
that must be made known! We can't allow this to happen!
Enough is enough!

100 Years of Chairperson Mao

Next year it will be one hundred years since the birth of
Chairperson Mao. We must celebrate it! We want an
unforgetable celebration! We shall start celebrating this
year and we shall culminate this celebration the next year.

I want to take the opportunity to salute the international
proletariat, the great oppressed majorities. To all the
communists of Peru: The People's War will inevitably be
victorious!

We must have faith in the future birth of the People's
Republic of Peru.

Glory to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Honour and Glory to the People of Peru!
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