Marxism Consists of One Thousand Truths,
But in the Final Analysis They All Boil Down to One:
It Is Right to Rebel!
-Mao Tsetung
By the Leading Committee of the Union of Communists of Iran (Sarbedaran) (UICS)
"This people's war has served the world proletarian revolution from the very start and will continue to do so; it enjoys the support of the international working class and the world's peoples, of the genuine revolutionaries and communists, and very especially of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement to which the party belongs..." ("Develop People's War to Serve the World Revolution", Communist Party of Peru (PCP) Central Committee, August 1986, in AWTW 1987/#8)
Comrades:
| Part 1: In Peru Today Revolutionary Politics Means Revolutionary War
Part 2: Twists and Turns in the People's War Part 3: The Strategy of Protracted People's War Part 4: Know the Enemy, Know Yourself Part 5: Dialectics of Maintaining and Developing People's War Part 6: Without a People's Army, The People Have Nothing Part 7: World Situation and the Revolution in Peru Part 9: The Problem of Leadership
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We are honoured to present this document which has been prepared in response to the request made by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (CoRIM) and hope that this small step will serve the task that has been called for.
The general orientation set by the CoRIM has guided this undertaking. Contributions of parties of the RIM have helped to deepen our understanding of the issue. We believe CoRIM's assessment of the importance of this two-line struggle, what is at stake, the responsibility and role of our Movement in the face of it, and the line of approach that it has formulated, are all important and correct.
This struggle is inextricably linked to the development of our Movement and the whole course of the world proletarian revolution. This is not only because the communist movement has always been an international movement but also specifically because of the role that the PCP and the People's War under its leadership has played in the development of our Movement and the World Proletarian Revolution at this stage. In the days when the reactionary Islamic Republic of Iran with the aid of Yankee imperialists and Soviet social-imperialists were drowning the revolution in the blood of the best sons and daughters of our people, the initiation of the People's War in Peru gave us heart. In the process of its ideological, political and organizational restructuring in the aftermath of the defeat of the revolution, and suffering severe blows at the hands of the comprador-feudal Islamic Republic of Iran, the UICS has learned tremendously from the experience of the PCP.
The CoRIM and our Movement have the responsibility of rendering the full political and ideological assistance of the international communist movement (ICM) to the PCP and the People's War. Our Movement has recently arrived at higher unity, and our glorious Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism document, and other resolutions of the Movement, such as the one on the world situation, are invaluable aids in carrying out this task.
The goal of this two-line struggle is to help keep our red flag flying in Peru and open the way even further for other red flags to be raised by other parties of our Movement. We must arrive at a deep grasp of the nature of different alternatives which are presented as the future course for the PCP and the People's War under its leadership and give support to the correct line and fight the wrong line. If the wrong line comes to dominate the process of revolution in Peru, it will be a serious setback not only for the People's War but also for our Movement. On the other hand, if the correct line can win out and continue to determine the course of the Peruvian revolution, it will be a great advance. In order to ensure a correct outcome it is essential to develop a two-line struggle, establish what is correct and what is wrong, and give unwavering support to the correct line and those forces who represent the correct line.
Under the guidance of the CoRIM, we have carefully studied different documents and reexamined the proletariat's historical experiences, reviewing available PCP documents, and deepening our own understanding of MLM principles on relevant issues, while once again looking back at our own experience. Within the limits of our abilities, we have been following the objective situation in Peru in order to increase our knowledge of the objective realities there-in this, we believe the PCP comrades have a central role to play; without their efforts it will not be possible to investigate the objective situation in such a way as to enable us to arrive at a complete understanding of what is a correct analysis of the specific situation there and on that basis what is a correct line- not just what is a correct strategic orientation overall but, more concretely, for waging the People s War successfully under present conditions.
As a contribution to this process, we have taken up a critical evaluation of a pro-peace negotiations line mainly reflected in an article which is called, "Take Up and Fight for the New Decision and the New Definition" [Asumir - Combatir por la Nueva Decision y Nueva Definicion or Asumir in Spanish]. This was the first major document that came to our attention which attempted to elaborate on the "peace negotiations" line coming out of the prisons. We will also refer to another document signed by the "Prisoners of the shining trenches of combat" (for short we will call it "the prison article") as a complementary source for this line.
In addition to the task of criticizing the line reflected in these articles, we have looked upon this as an opportunity to dig more deeply into some of the important questions of revolution and deepen our understanding of them.
