Support the Revolution in Peru!

October 1983

We came across this in our archives. It's probably the first leaflet produced by the soon-to-be CSRP. - CSRP, June 2000

"Viva la Lucha Armada Partido Comunista del Peru 1980-1983" (click for large 78k image)

The fire of revolution is burning in the Andes. Led by the Communist Party of Peru (known as Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path in the bourgeois press), a revolutionary war is being waged against the Peruvian government, a government backed by various imperialists, especially the U.S. Despite brutal attacks and vicious counterrevolutionary repression, the revolution has grown in strength and vigor in the three years since the armed struggle was started. This is indeed a very welcome development and inspirational example to all oppressed people throughout the world. And this, of course, is terrible news to the imperialists and their flunkeys. All sort of attacks and slanders have been thrown at the Communist Party of Peru and the revolutionary Peruvian people. "Terrorists massacring innocent people" cries the bourgeois press in this country and in Peru, while the legal "left" in Peru sings the tune, "Time is not ripe, by taking up arms they are driving people away" - something Peruvian reactionaries and the imperialists wish were true. For those of us who live in the U.S., in the belly of the main oppressor of the Persian people, we have a special duty to refute these slanders, expose these attacks, and support the Peruvian revolution and the Communist Party of Peru.

The Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru is being formed in the San Francisco Bay Area exactly for this purpose. It will develop literature, conduct forums and programs, and broadly expose the imperialist plunder of Peru, the oppression of the Peruvian people, as well as popularize the development of revolutionary struggle there. All progressive and revolutionary-minded people are encouraged to join the Committee, to participate in its various activities, and to support the Committee's efforts in any number of ways.

Contact the Committee for further information right away. Our address is…

Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru
PO Box 1246, Berkeley, California 94701
415-252-5786 * Fax: 415-252-7414
www.csrp.org