World Affairs:
Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Without a Communist Party and an
organized PeoPle, there is no revolution
In the periods when there are
high points in the class struggle,
political demonstrations of all kinds
generally arise; on the one hand
deviations from the left that seek
an “accelerated change” or a quick
solution without having a solid
program or an organization that can
take up the leadership of the
popular movement; or a deviation
from the right that awaits a
bourgeois solution to the crisis and
assumes the position of spectator
of the process of change.
Faced with these deviations,
the PCP (M-L) points out its position
vis-à-vis the current panorama and
defines the tasks that its membership
must carry out in order to channel
popular indignation and be the
reference point of the social struggle
for the transformation of the country.
The events that have taken
place since December 2017
The pardon for the genocidal,
robber and corrupt Alberto Fujimori,
the declaration of the places where
the popular protests are taking
place as emergency zones, the
determination of the amounts of
dollars given as bribes from
ODEBRECHT
to
Peruvian
politicians, the negotiations to
avoid the presidential vacancy, the
laws that Congress has enacted to
criminalize popular protest, the
approval of the Juvenile Slavery Bill,
the exemption from the payment of
taxes to the big transnational
corporations, the law that prevents
audits of Parliament for its expenses
and contracts, the authorization of
the entry of U.S. troops, etc., have
shown the Peruvian people more
clearly how the country has been
led. The CONFIEP1 is the body that
January - 2019
represents the interests of the
intermediary bourgeoisie and the
transnationals; they are the true
holders of the political power of the
State and the various rulers and
parliamentarians have been no
more than their puppets. This is
also true of the Police, Army, Navy
and Air Force, who are also
defenders of their neoliberal
constitutional order; they are not,
as they say, defenders of national
sovereignty and the interests of the
Peruvian people.
“Bourgeois representative
democracy” has been shown to be
a farce by which the working people
are deceived and kept under wage
slavery. They claim: “the people
elect their rulers,” “the people are
the rulers and the presidents and
congressional representatives
interpret their highest aspirations.”
We have always said. This is false,
and now the people are more
conscious of this since it is the
CONFIEP which, by different
means that money permits,
ensures the election of its
candidate, taking into account the
various situations that the country
is going through. It has at its
disposition “radicals” such as
Ollanta Humala who later was
tamed to ensure the continuous
flow of foreign investments, or the
purer representatives of the
neoliberal model such as the
corrupt former president Pedro
Pablo Kuczynski. At one time the
Peruvian State represented the
interests of the feudal aristocracy
and now it represents the interests
of the intermediary bourgeoisie,
the figureheads of imperialism and
not of any other class. It is not a
“State of all the Peruvians”; it is the
State of the bourgeoisie that
exercises its organized violence
against the working class.
The bourgeoisie maintains its
system in force with the buying and
selling of votes in Congress to
change sides of the parliamentarians
and in the general elections it buys
the voters in the poorest areas with
money or “sealed envelopes,” as
is the custom of Fujimorist drug-
trafficking politicians. They also
ensure the election of their
candidates with the use of television
mercenaries who divert the attention
of the people, such as: Jaime Bayli,
Aldo Mariategui, Jaime de Althaus,
among other hack writers who serve
as journalists, but whose mission is
to guide the people’s intention to
vote and divert their attention from
their true interests. This is played
out in each electoral contest and
each legislative period. In this
framework, the people choose
among the most propagandized
options imposed by their national
and foreign henchmen.
Important expressions of
popular opposition have been noted
There have been demonstrations
against the pardon, with the
demand that all the corrupt and
exploiters must go!, against the
generalized corruption, against the
Law of youth exploitation N ° 1215.
Along with these important forms of
popular struggle there have also
been the still low levels of indignation
of a large sector of the population
that, lulled by television propaganda,
sees no alternative but to maintain
the current system and resign itself
to living in the same way.
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