{"id":1618,"date":"2009-01-14T01:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2009-01-14T01:40:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T15:40:59","slug":"defend-the-great-leadership-of-chairman-gonzalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Defend the Great Leadership of Chairman Gonzalo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>Read the Great Works of Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1147\">\u017di\u017eek<\/a>!<\/ul>\n<p>As the trial of former President Fujimori draws to a close (<em>see<\/em> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.falloffujimori.com\/\">The Fall of Fujimori<\/a><\/em> by Ellen Perry), remnants of the Shining Path remain at large. In fact, just a few weeks ago, according to the BBC, the Peruvian army &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSN29316009\">said<\/a> the Shining Path &#8212; which moved into cocaine trafficking after its bloody war against the state collapsed in 1992 &#8212; killed at least 25 police or soldiers this year in a series of brazen ambushes, including one that blew up a military convoy with dynamite&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>NTDTV, October 14, 2008:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rHNPUIJsw7w&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Fujimori is accused of being one of the principal authors of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7825568.stm\">a state terrorist campaign<\/a> to destroy Shining Path in the late &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. Specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>1991 Barrios Altos killings: 15 dead<br \/>\n1992 La Cantuta killings: 10 dead<br \/>\n1992 illegal detention: journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer<br \/>\nSeparate trial on corruption and illegal wiretapping charges<\/ul>\n<p>His trial is the subject of a Major Motion Picture:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CgOPVfDFBIc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Captured in 1992, Chairman Gonzalo &#8212; <em>aka<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightslantern.ca\/prison\/guzman.htm\">Manuel Rub\u00e9n Abimael Guzm\u00e1n Reynoso<\/a> (b. December 3, 1934) &#8212; was sentenced to life in prison in 2006.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peru&#8217;s Shining Path founder sentenced to life for terrorism, murder<br \/>\nBBC<br \/>\nOctober 14, 2006<\/p>\n<p>A court in Peru has sentenced the founder of the Shining Path Maoist guerillas, Abimael Guzman, to life in prison for terrorism, murder and other crimes. The sentence was for leading an uprising in which about 70,000 people were killed during the 1980s and 1990s. In sentencing Guzman to life imprisonment, three judges listed the charges of terrorism and murder in a verdict that lasted more than six hours. In his second retrial the former Shining Path leader stood impassively as he received his sentence. His partner and second-in-command, Elena Iparraguirre, also received a life sentence. During the trial, Guzman rejected being called a terrorist and described himself as a revolutionary combatant. Most Peruvians revile him, particularly in the poor rural areas, which bore the brunt of the violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bourgeois, he left the philosophising behind to become a General in a People&#8217;s Army, fighting a People&#8217;s War, in Peru. This insurgency against the Peruvian state was conducted in the name of the Communist Party of Peru, aka <em>Sendero Luminoso<\/em>, <em>aka<\/em> Shining Path. (NB. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laht.com\/article.asp?CategoryId=14095&#038;ArticleId=200941\">Bloody Peruvian terrorist also had fuzzy side<\/a>: &#8220;LIMA (EFE) \u2013 Peru\u2019s Abim\u00e1el Guzm\u00e1n, the founder of a Maoist guerrilla movement-cum-death cult that sometimes dynamited the bodies of just-murdered functionaries and hanged canines from lamposts as warnings to \u201ccapitalist dogs,\u201d also had his soft, sappy and romantically poetic side&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>When Gonzalo was finally arrested, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement issued a big fat statement. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aworldtowin.org\/back_issues\/1992-18\/defend_the_Life_of_Chairman_Gonzalo.htm\">&#8220;Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo&#8221; : The Battle-cry Resounds on Every Continent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the September 12th capture of Comrade Gonzalo, Chairman of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), a fierce and complex struggle has been unfolding. On the one side, the Fujimori regime backed by U.S. imperialism and egged on by reactionaries the world over. On the other side, Chairman Gonzalo, the People&#8217;s War in Peru, the world&#8217;s proletarian revolutionary forces centred around the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and a broad and growing front of people opposed to imperialism and reaction and united in the demand to save the life of Dr Abimael Guzm\u00e1n (Chairman Gonzalo&#8217;s given name).<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Gonzalo was hauled before a military tribunal with breakneck speed. The reactionaries planned to present the people with a settled question before much could be done about it. But on September 15th, the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement issued a call to &#8220;Move Heaven and Earth to Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo&#8221;. In only a few days, a movement to defend his life had already begun to spring up, with an unprecedented rapidity and a broad social scope and international character.<\/p>\n<p>A broad array of people from all over the world stepped forward to form the International Emergency Committee to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael Guzm\u00e1n (IEC). By September 20th, the IEC began issuing regular bulletins and other messages by fax to the local defence committees that were being established in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North and South America. Among them was a letter from Alfredo Crespo, Chairman Gonzalo&#8217;s lawyer, who wrote, &#8220;My client is aware of the concern of your organization and appreciates all of the efforts that are being undertaken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EQzUK7qjxXo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gonzalo was associated with RIM. Another, US-based Maoist mob, the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1614\">Maoist Internationalist Movement<\/a>, was opinionated, and has remained so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again on the arrest of comrade Gonzalo<br \/>\nMIM<br \/>\nFebruary 5, 2008<\/p>\n<p>With death threats against MIM, it is imperative that we attempt once again to address the greatest blow to communist hopes since 1976, the arrest of Comrade Gonzalo in Peru. A CIA agent involved in contributing to Gonzalo&#8217;s arrest was a white male speaking Spanish and with knowledge of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist teachings&#8211;and as of now we have verified this with one source. The main blame for Gonzalo&#8217;s capture lies with the imperialists and their lackeys, because of the &#8220;occupational hazards&#8221; of revolution. Nonetheless, Gonzalo shares partial blame for his own capture by disarming his own security ideologically.<\/p>\n<p>It was the hope of many in the 1980s and early 1990s that Gonzalo in Peru would turn out to be both a genuine communist and successful revolutionary. He did have the most successful communist movement of his time, but he ended up captured and put in prison for life in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, the &#8220;Covert Action Information Bulletin&#8221; available and distributed by Gonzalo&#8217;s comrades published a CIA document on how &#8220;deep cover&#8221; is arranged. The 1980 article specifically mentioned the space services of other countries and communist parties as two targets for infiltration:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a Western service, penetration into an Orbit installation or the leadership of a Communist party are types of missions for which deep cover of indefinite durability may be required.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Now it is time to criticize the Peruvian comrades ruthlessly for their own contribution to enabling the CIA.<\/p>\n<p># MIM raised the struggle against Trotskyism and its single world party idea since before there was the RIM single party Gonzalo joined. Gonzalo lightly joked on the topic the same way that RCP=CIA has all this time.<br \/>\n# Even after the arrest of Gonzalo, Peruvians could be found saying &#8220;only&#8221; MIM talks about crypto-Trotskyism.<br \/>\n# When MIM published on Internet Mao&#8217;s words on dissolving the Comintern, a Peruvian cursed us as &#8220;academic.&#8221; No Peruvians we met were aware of Stalin&#8217;s and Mao&#8217;s position.<br \/>\n# No Peruvian we met was familiar with Lenin on the &#8220;seal of parasitism&#8221; being on whole countries.<br \/>\n# No Peruvian we met was familiar with what Mao said in the Selected Works about armed struggle in imperialist countries. Only after struggle was this finally grudgingly admitted, only because it was in black-and-white from Mao.<br \/>\n# No Peruvian disowned Avakian for his attacks on &#8220;Lin Biaoism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, Gonzalo did sit his Central Committee down and have them discuss hegemonism within the RIM and he published a document from that. Gonzalo also had his Central Committee discuss whether there should be a world party, but he never evidenced any knowledge of what Stalin and Mao had said or reasons why Trotsky&#8217;s position should be resuscitated. Nor was there any discussion how the CIA builds cover from inside the u$a first in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>Without Gonzalo&#8217;s being decisively correct on this question, there were bound to be problems in a military situation where the main force was peasants. In lower levels of the organization, MIM found military rigidity and aridness, and an inability to connect line and strategy, an inability to reason concretely.<\/p>\n<p>Reinforcing this problem was the RCP=CIA. It held that 90% of the U.$. population was &#8220;objectively revolutionary.&#8221; The Peruvians in exile went out into France to conduct canvassing work as if Avakian and Gonzalo knew what they were talking about. They did not. No revolution came about in France.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of white males imminently about to become revolutionary, such that Avakian&#8217;s slogan was &#8220;Revolution in the &#8217;80s, Go for it!&#8221;&#8211;the Peruvians in fact encountered Amerikan white males from the CIA. Having been told that 90% of Amerikans were objectively revolutionary, the Peruvians were disarmed when it came to dealing with the reality of deep cover and international operations. The CIA was on a mission exactly at that time to have agents spend years in the united $tates building business or hobby covers for international operations.<\/p>\n<p>The lying sacks of shit from the RCP=CIA told people of distant lands to expect 90% revolutionaries from the united $tates. They swindled many people of peasant background with little education and no thorough concrete knowledge of the imperialist countries. Reality was that in the 1960s, chances would have been better IF those white males Peruvians were meeting had been youth, because in the 1960s there were that many young people thinking about revolution even in the united $tates. By the 1980s and early 1990s, spies outnumbered communists by far in the united $tates, but instead of expecting exploiters, Peruvians expected benevolent white males as exemplified by Avakian&#8217;s omnipresent picture. Everywhere the RCP=CIA newspaper went, the masses received the wrong impression, a completely upside-down distortion of the general facts. Ideologically disarmed, the Peruvian masses and their allies south of the U.$. border could not contribute to the defense of comrade Gonzalo.<\/p>\n<p>Every step of the way, before RIM even existed, MIM was there saying RCP=CIA was wrong. So these crimes of the RCP=CIA cannot be excused for &#8220;not knowing better.&#8221; We told them their &#8220;Conquer the World&#8221; document was wrong. We told them they were Trotskyists in our very foundation struggle. The Covert Action Information Bulletin they themselves distributed told them that the CIA used U.$.-based covers before going to the Third World. Nonetheless, Gonzalo and Avakian kept to Trotskyism, Gonzalo going so far as to admit that the RIM was &#8220;principally&#8221; a U.$.-led phenomenon. In the late 1980s, the Peruvians noted MIM as &#8220;coming on strong,&#8221; but they did not listen to us that the majority of Amerikans are exploiters. Instead of preparing the masses, the PCP ended up with Gonzalo captured&#8211;with the help of an Amerikan white male CIA agent enabled by the RCP=CIA. Contact with the masses is a disadvantage to the revolutionary struggle, if the supposed revolutionaries feed the masses incorrect information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for Gonzalo Thought, this precious commodity is preserved at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsun.org\">redsun.org<\/a>. An archive of earlier materials may be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blythe.org\/peru-pcp\/index.html\">The People&#8217;s War in Per\u00fa Archive<\/a> (&#8216;Information about the Communist Party of Per\u00fa (PCP)&#8217;). Some of the flavour of His Thought and its impact may be viewed in the form of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KknF_ceK-M\">Peruvian Revolutionary Women of Canto Grande Prison<\/a>; apparently, murdered at some point following this footage.<\/p>\n<p>More recently (January 12, 2009), a schmuck called Josh Rushing of AlJazeera has compiled a report on the path that still shines: &#8220;The Shining Path is on the move again. The formerly idealistic Maoist guerrilla force now models itself on the Farc in Colombia. It supports its operations by drug trafficking. Josh Rushing embeds with the Peruvian military as it goes on raids to flush out guerrillas and destroy the cocaine labs that fund them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vG7--BM6aI8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Jo-Marie Burt is a scholar who has written extensively on Peru. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Rj_vFVHcRg\">Here<\/a> she talks about inequality, human rights, democracy and the Fujimori trial. She&#8217;s also written a book on Peru, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/products\/title.aspx?PID=281307\">Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru : Silencing Civil Society<\/a> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008): &#8220;The Shining Path was one of the most brutal insurgencies ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. <em>Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru<\/em> explores the devastating effects of insurgent violence and the state&#8217;s brutal counterinsurgency methods on Peruvian civil society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul><strong>Communism in Peru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriaroja.org.pe\/\">Communist Party of Peru &#8211; Red Fatherland<\/a> (Partido Comunista del Per\u00fa &#8211; Patria Roja)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apra.org.pe\/\">Peruvian Aprista Party<\/a> (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pcp.miarroba.com\/\">Peruvian Communist Party<\/a> (Partido Comunista Peruano \/ PCP-Unidad)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ppdelperu.org\">Proletarian Party of Peru<\/a> (El Partido Proletario del Per\u00fa). &#8220;Es un Partido Marxista-Leninista cuyo objetivo final es el Comunismo.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.partidosocialistaperu.com\">Socialist Party of Peru<\/a> (Partido Socialista del Per\u00fa)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pstperu.org\">Socialist Workers Party<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litci.org\/Ingles\/InicialIN.aspx\">International Workers League &#8212; Fourth Interrnational<\/a> (Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focep.blogspot.com\/\">Worker Peasant Student and Popular Front<\/a> (Frente Obrero Campesino Estudiantil y Popular)<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party of Peru (Marxist-Leninist) (Partido Communista del Peru (Marxista-Leninista) \/ PC del Peru(ML)) participated in the ninth International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations in December 2007. Note that this ICMLPO is Maoist; the other International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations is <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1466\">Hoxhaist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEFEND MARXISM-LENINISM AND MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT!<\/ul>\n<h2>Bonus!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsun.org\/mpp_doc\/mpp_200709_Madrid_En.htm\">TAKE UP THE MASTERFUL SPEECH OF OUR GREAT LEADERSHIP!<\/a><br \/>\nTODAY THE PARTY, CONTINUING ITS APPLICATION, GOES TOWARDS A NEW CONGRESS IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE\u2019S WAR<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are living historic moments, each of us knows that this is the case, let us not fool ourselves. In these moments we must strengthen all forces to confront difficulties and continue carrying out our tasks. And we must conquer the goals! The successes! The victory! That is what is to be done. We are here as children of the people and we are fighting in these trenches, they are also trenches of combat, and we do it because we are Communists! Because here we are defending the interests of the people, the principles of the Party, and the People&#8217;s War. That is what we do, we are doing it and will continue to do so!\u201d ~ Chairman Gonzalo, 24th of September 1992<\/p>\n<p>LONG LIVE THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASTERFUL SPEECH OF OUR GREAT LEADERSHIP THAT SHINES VICTORIOUS AND POWERFUL BEFORE THE WORLD AS A COMBAT WEAPON! FOR THE NEW PARTY CONGRESS IN THE MIDST OF THE PEOPLE\u2019S WAR!<br \/>\nLONG LIVE THE VICTORIOUS AND INVINCIBLE PEOPLE\u2019S WAR!<br \/>\nLONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO!<br \/>\nLONG LIVE THE BPU!<br \/>\nLONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM, GONZALO THOUGHT, PRINCIPALLY GONZALO THOUGHT!<br \/>\nLONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the Great Works of Secretary \u017di\u017eek! As the trial of former President Fujimori draws to a close (see The Fall of Fujimori by Ellen Perry), remnants of the Shining Path remain at large. 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