The most advanced sector of
the popular movement is fighting
against corruption, capitalist
exploitation, abuse and imperialist
plunder, but they are not yet
fighting for a solid program, a real
solution to capitalist barbarism, and
this is because we have not yet
managed to defeat bourgeois
propaganda and spread the
proletarian program: to fight for
People’s Democracy and Socialism
in order to put an end to exploitation,
pollution, looting, unemployment,
corruption, among other evils from
which the working people suffer.
This is our task, which should be
carried out urgently in order to
develop the popular and
revolutionary solution to the
continual crises through which the
country has been going. The
constitutional solution that the
bourgeoisie has achieved, after the
resignation of Pedro Pablo
Kuczynski, does not in the least
ensure the winning of better
material and cultural conditions for
the working class.
Without
an
organized
Communist Party there is no
Revolution
The Communist Party is the
most important subjective factor of
the working class in its tasks of
organizing and carrying out the
revolution for national and social
liberation, it is its highest organized
expression of our class, its conscious
and fighting vanguard. In its ranks
are found the best sons and
daughters of the working people
who honestly, consistently and
selflessly strive to realize the historic
tasks of the working class. Based
on their own efforts and resources,
they seek to do away with the
bourgeois dictatorship and build
Socialism. They are the men and
women who faithfully take up the
organizational, political and
ideological principles of the working
class, Marxism-Leninism, the
Program and the Statute of the
Party. This voluntary adherence
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completes the process of training
in the class struggle of thousands
of social fighters who have been
able to see further and more clearly
than the rest of the people, who still
have not been able to shake off the
prejudices that the bourgeoisie has
inculcated in their minds or who
have difficulty taking up proletarian
discipline, necessary for a historic
party. Thus we state that there are
no Marxist-Leninist communists
outside the PCP (M-L). Outside
the party there are social fighters,
rebels, intellectuals who have read
Marxist and Leninist books, people
who fight in a consistent and
disinterested way; but they have
not been able to see beyond the
limits established by the capitalist
system; because they cannot, do
not want to or because we have not
managed to attract them to the
cause of the working class and our
ranks for true social change.
Of the communist cadres who
survived the massacre of Fujimori-
Montesino and Shining Path, there
are many who joyfully take our
central organ Bandera Roja [Red
Flag], who are carrying out
association, trade union and
electoral work but who are not
organized in cells of study and
work. They should be considered
as friends, not members, since the
communists are organized into
cells of study and work, they fulfill
specific tasks of organization,
leadership,
agitation
and
propaganda and give vitality to the
functioning of the party, by developing
within and disseminating outside
the party’s policy in the living sectors
of the social struggle. Anyone who
claims to be a cadre formed at some
point within the ranks of the Marxist-
Leninist Communist Party and is not
organized in a cell, in practice shies
away from party discipline and
cannot be considered as a member.
The communists have in the cell the
natural place of organization from
which they exercise collective
leadership
and
individual
responsibility, criticism and self-
criticism, from where they
participate in democratic centralism
and from where they assimilate and
disseminate Marxist-Leninist theory.
This does not fall from the sky nor
is it learned by rote; it must be
studied, verified and refined in
social practice.
The working people have
sectors where the critical
consciousness has had an important
development, that take up the
leadership of the social movement,
but that still have not managed to
lead the popular indignation
towards the revolutionary and
socialist torrents. We cannot accuse
them all of being renegades to
Socialism; for not every arena of
social struggle is under the control
of the local revisionism of “Patria
Roja” [Red Fatherland] or “Unity”.
However, we can say that they lack
clarity about the tasks of the
Revolution and the building of
Socialism, that this honest sector
is the one which we must urgently
reach with our revolutionary press
and provide them with a solid
program to fight for. Bandera Roja
is not a newspaper for sale to the
general public; it is a collective
organizer of the popular movement
to bring them closer to the position
of the working class represented by
its Communist Party; it is the organ
of our policy and its role will be
achieved to the extent that it reaches
the hands and understanding of
those social fighters who are for
change and whose actions we
communists should provide more
content.
The task of organizing the
Communist Party in the decisive
sectors of political, trade union and
popular activity is placed on the
order of the day so that there is a
body that leads the actions of
opposition and indignation with a
greater perspective and guides
them towards the positions of the
working class, towards the tasks of
building a People’s Democratic and
Socialist Republic in Peru.
Class Struggle