Only 1.5 million people have adequate employment, out of a work force of 12.5 million. Every year about 32,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition and poverty. As the PCP has analyzed, the basic cause of these problems is the rule of the comprador bourgeosie and big landlords and domination of imperialism, especially U.S. imperialism. The revolutionary base areas organized by the PCP in the countryside through the People's War have given a glimpse of a new society. These are areas where poor peasants join workers to organize communities with a whole new and liberating way of life.
People join together to collectively organize the economy and other aspects of life.
Women are no longer raped or abused. Education is organized in people's indigenous languages. Despite all that the imperialists and the Peruvian reactionaries have thrown at them, the PCP continues to persevere in the liberating path of People's War. The Maoist People's War in Peru continues to be of great concern to the U.S. imperialists. The PCP called on the people to boycott the recent elections.