All revolutions, in their process of development, through the struggle of the proletariat as the leading class and, above all, the struggle of the Communist Party that raises their unrenounceable class interests, give rise to a group of leaders and principally one who represents and leads it, a leader with acknowledged authority and influence. In our reality this has taken shape, on account of historical necessity and causality, in Chairman Gonzalo, leader of the Party and of the revolution.
Moreover, and this is the basis upon which all leadership is formed, revolutions give rise to a thought that guides them, which is the result of the application of the universal truth of the ideology of the international proletariat to the concrete conditions of each revolution; a guiding thought indispensable to reach victory and to conquer power and, moreover, to continue the revolution and to maintain the course always towards the only, great goal: Communism; a guiding thought that, arriving at a qualitative leap of decisive importance for the revolutionary process which it leads, identifies itself with the name of the one who shaped it theoretically and practically. In our situation, this phenomenon specified itself first as guiding thought, then as Chairman Gonzalo’s guiding thought, and later, as Gonzalo Thought; because it is the Chairman who, creatively applying Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete conditions of Peruvian reality, has generated it; thus endowing the Party and the revolution with an indispensable weapon which is guarantee of victory.
Gonzalo Thought has been forged through long years of intense, tenacious, and incessant struggle to uphold, defend and apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, to retake Mariátegui’s path and to develop it, to reconstitute the Party and, principally, to initiate, maintain and develop the People’s War in Peru serving the world revolution, and that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism be, in theory and practice, its sole command and guide.
It is of substantive necessity for the party to study Gonzalo Thought for a more just and correct understanding of the general political line, and mainly of the military line, aiming at deepening the understanding of the particularities of the Peruvian revolution, what is specific and particular that Chairman Gonzalo has masterfully emphasized. In this way we serve “the great plan to develop base areas,” the development of the People’s War and the perspective of conquering power countrywide.
We must study Gonzalo Thought, starting from the historical context that generated it; examine the ideological base which sustains it; explain its content, more substantially expressed in the general political line and in the military line which is its center; aiming at what is fundamental within it, the problem of power, of the seizure of power in Peru, which is inextricably linked to the conquest of power by the proletariat in the whole world; and we must pay close attention to its forging in the two-line struggle.1
This being the case, let us think about the danger that the nation, the country, may be divided. The nation is at risk. They want to dismember it, they want to divide it. Who wants to do this! As always, the imperialists, those who exploit, those who rule. What should we do! What is our task now? It is time that we push forward the People’s Liberation Movement that we must develop through the People’s War because the people, it has always been the people, who have defended the country, who have defended the nation. The time to organize the People’s Liberation Front has arrived. It is time to constitute and develop the People’s Liberation Army taking as a basis the People’s Guerrilla Army. This is what we are doing now and that is what we shall do. You gentlemen shall be the witnesses.2
LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN GONZALO AND HIS ALL-POWERFUL GONZALO THOUGHT!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU!
LONG LIVE THE GENERAL REORGANIZATION OF THE PARTY IN AND FOR THE PEOPLE’S WAR!
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY!
THE PEOPLE’S WAR WILL INEVITABLY TRIUMPH!