The Chairman’s Politics: a selection of texts assuming and

applying the just and correct call of Chairman Gonzalo

The position of supporters and activists of the new direction are using the

words taken from texts and documents of the PCP posted on the (historic)

website of

http://www.pagina-

libre.org/MPP-A/MPP.html

Unlike much that is more readily available on the internet, it reaffirms that the policy of Fighting for

a Peace Agreement and Laying the Groundwork for the Second Congress , established by Chairman

Gonzalo in 1993, as the just and correct solution to the difficult, complex and risky situation that the

Communist Party of Peru faced due to problems, mainly, of leadership, derived from the arrest of

Chairman Gonzalo and the Central Directorate that implied a turn of strategic repercussion, which

saw demands to end the popular war started in 1980 through an agreement of Peace to preserve

the Party and conjure the defeat of the people's war!

The struggle for the political solution of the problems derived from the war has guided the general

policy of the PCP since 1993 and corresponds to the current development of the contradiction

between revolution and counter-revolution that has led to a situation in which neither party can

defeat the other definitely. Although the political solution is a necessity for the people, the nation

and Peruvian society as a whole, from the beginning there was opposition both from the reaction

Documents from the International Communist Movement

and within the Party itself, leading to the need to impose it in a long and complex struggle, which

continues until now. Part of this campaign is the fight for the freedom of political prisoners, and the

clarification of human rights violations at the time of the internal war,

BACKGROUND

After the arrest of Dr. Abimael Guzmán Reinoso (Chairman Gonzalo) and Professor

Elena Iparraguirre Revoredo and other members of the Communist Party of Peru -

September 12, 92 - they were detained in various prisons in ignominious and

degrading conditions of the human condition, subjected to isolation. Absolute as the

application of a systematic and sophisticated reduction and annihilation plan against

the revolutionaries, mainly against the communists.

I.- FIRST TRIAL IN THE MILITARY COURTS

Dr. Abimael Guzmán Reinoso and Professor Elena Iparraguirre were taken to the Isla

San Lorenzo Naval Station, Army or Air Force Military Bases, where a super summary

judgment was imposed on them in the "theater of operations in times of war" ,

accused of a non-existent crime of “treason to the homeland”, and on October 7, 1992 (Anniversary of the

Communist Party of Peru and in less than a month after their arrest), they were sentenced by a Military Court to

life imprisonment. The trial was conducted with the exclusive presence of military personnel, the accused caged

and framed, violating all principles and rules of due process and the fundamental rights of the person.

II.-SECOND TRIAL, IN BROKEN CIVIL COURT BY THE STATE.

On July 10, 2002, more than 5000 citizens grouped in the Popular Movement for Constitutional Control filed an

unconstitutionality action against the unconstitutional anti-subversive laws decrees before the Constitutional

Court, a lawsuit that was resolved by the Court in the judgment issued on January 3 In 2003, with which the trials

that were carried out in military courts and by faceless judges were annulled, this gave rise to new trials.

Dr. Abimael Guzmán and his co-defendants were brought to a second trial,

this time before a Civil Court, in the National Terrorism Chamber, an

exceptional forum created exclusively to try the accused for the so-called

crime of terrorism.

On November 5, 2004, the new trial began after a campaign against the

defendants was carried out, with the aim of discrediting, targeting Dr.

Abimael Guzmán, who for more than 12 years was locked up, isolated and

incommunicado in flagrant violation of his rights.

The accusation centred around the alleged creation of the pre-university

academy "Cesar Vallejo" as a source of financing and political indoctrination.

The pressures of the Executive against the Judiciary and the contradictions

between them were notorious, which worsened at the second hearing and

led to the bankruptcy of the trial because the judges supposedly did not

guarantee an exemplary sentence, the most severe possible.

Taking as a pretext the lives that the defendants made to their ideological conceptions, a fact that in no way

meant defiance or provocation, but rather a necessary reaffirmation of people who for many years are being

prevented from expressing or spreading their ideas, the government through In a message to the nation, the

President of the Republic issued more restrictive measures against the accused and demanded the most drastic

sanctions from the Judiciary, once again showing the open interference and the eminently political nature of the

trial.

III.-START AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE

CALL MEGAPROCESO

On September 26, 2005 the third trial

began. Twenty-four people are

included, between the non-existent

and the non-existent, several cases

have accumulated and for the first

time in the history of Peruvian

criminal law, the theory of mediated

authorship is introduced in the fiscal

accusation so that those implicated

are responsible for "all the facts” for

being members of the “leadership”,

life sentences are requested for 11

accused and 25 years from the rest.

In the trial, the State, through the Public Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General, systematically violate

legality, when it presents the accused as "terrorists" or enemies who must be destroyed, essentially seeking to

deny their status as persons with rights and dignity. Likewise, it is evident that the principles of due process are

not respected, since the issue is in the exceptional nature of the Chamber called today "National Criminal

Chamber" and the unconstitutional laws that are applied.

Of the prosecuted 12 are present, eleven of which have rejected the prosecution and have been silent.

Guzmán and Iparraguirre will spend the rest of their lives in prison

Antiterrorist Criminal Chamber sentenced the two leaders of the Shining Path to life in prison. Another nine

terrorist leaders received sentences of 24 to 35 years in prison. The accused appealed the verdict to the Supreme

Court. Prosecutor also did.

The National Criminal Chamber sentenced Abimael Guzman and Elena Iparraguirre to the maximum sentence of

life imprisonment, for the crime of aggravated terrorism and qualified homicide, as leaders of the Communist

Party of Peru – commonly referred to as the Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path].

The court decided that Guzmán and Iparraguirre ordered the massacre of 69 residents of Luccanamarca. In

addition, it considered that they had managerial responsibility in 26 murders and 14 car bomb attacks, which

occurred between May 1980 and June 1991.

The founder of the Sendero Luminoso and his partner were sentenced to life in prison by a military court after

their capture in 1992, but that sentence was overturned in 2003 when some anti-terrorism laws given by the

Alberto Fujimori government that did not respect due process were repealed.

The court indicated that in application of the current law when Guzmán and Iparraguirre serve 35 years in prison,

that is to say, in 21 years when they have been detained since 1992, their sentences will be reviewed to see if

they can be released or remain in prison. By then, September 2027, Abimael Guzmán will be 92 years old.

The Criminal Chamber also applied sentences of 24 to 35 years in prison to 10 other members of the Sendero

Luminoso Central Committee. The court found that their responsibility is less than that of the two main leaders

and that some have been in prison since before 1991, when the penalties for terrorism were increased.

The court upheld an earlier sentence of 24 years in prison for Óscar Ramírez Durand "Feliciano" because he was

the only one of the Sendero Luminoso leaders who testified at trial. Ramírez admitted his guilt, asked for

forgiveness and testified against his former comrades, especially about Guzmán.

Meanwhile, Rómulo Misaico Evanan and Judith Ramos Cuadros were acquitted for lack of evidence that they

were Sendero Luminoso militants.

Except for "Feliciano," all the convicts appealed to the Supreme Court. The same was done by the superior

prosecutor Luz Ibáñez because, she said, she hoped that everyone would receive a life sentence. The sentence

was read between 12 noon and 8.30 at night. In its arguments, the court specified that the PCP-SL and its ideology

were not tried, but rather the responsibility of each of its leaders and militants. Furthermore, he stressed that no

conflict justifies the killing of unarmed civilians.

The convictions

Abimael Guzmán. Life imprisonment.

Elena Iparraguirre. Life imprisonment.

Laura Zambrano padilla. 35 years. From September 12, 1992 to September 11, 2027.

María Pantoja Sánchez. 35 years. From September 12, 1992 to September 11, 2027.

Osmán Morote Barrionuevo. 25 years. From June 2, 1988 to June 12, 2013.

Víctor Zavala Cataño. 25 years. From June 22, 1991 to June 21, 2016.

Martha Huatay Ruiz. 25 years. October 17, 1992 to October 16, 2017.

Margie Clavo Peralta. 25 years. From March 22, 1995 to March 21, 2020.

Angelica Salas de la Cruz. 25 years. From August 15, 1993 to August 14, 2018.

Margot Liendo Gil. 25 years. From June 12, 1988 to June 11, 2013.

Obdulia Trujillo Agurto. 25 years. From August 28, 1989 to August 27, 2014.

Romulo Misaico Evanan. Acquitted.

Judith Ramos Pictures. Acquitted.

More recent postings purporting to being issued by the PCP, and published under the imprint of

Ediciones Bandera Roja, can be found at http://pcp71028.blogspot.com/search/label/English

Including Guzman’s declaration that “I have nothing to do with Tarata. When will you understand?”

and the PCP statement of March 2017 that

REPUDIATE THE FARCICAL TRIAL AGAINST CHAIRMAN

GONZALO, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERÚ AND PERUVIAN

REVOLUTION!

REPUDIATE THE FARCICAL TRIAL AGAINST

CHAIRMAN GONZALO, THE COMMUNIST PARTY

OF PERÚ AND PERUVIAN REVOLUTION!

COMMUNIST SOLIDARITY WITH OUR BELOVED

PEOPLE!

In our country, the political crisis is expressed by the increasing weakness of the Executive

Power and the destabilising plan that the Fujimorist Party has, the two factions of the extreme

right that contend and collude, operating against the background of the crisis of the Odebrecht

scandal, which involves all the Presidents of the past years since Fujimori.

Economically there is no reactivation, the risk of recession continues, there is no long-term

economic plan and an economic crisis without prospect of solution exists.

This is the capitalist system dependent on imperialism, which is based on the profit obtained

from the sweat and blood of the proletariat and the people! And over this is added the attack of

nature, which reveals that the Peruvian State has no forecast what so ever, has no strategic

vision, it will arrive at the bicentennial disclosing that it has neglected fundamental needs of

the masses. On the other hand, the proletarian image of Evangelina, the brave woman who

survived the mudslide, is the living proof that the people fights, overcomes its wounds and

rebuilds what has been destroyed.

In this context, the Communist Party of Perú speaks out before the proletariat and the peoples

of Perú and the world rejecting and unmasking the farcical trial of Tarata, case prepared by the

extreme right against Chairman Gonzalo, great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist historical leader and

Communist till the end, to attack and discredit him, against the leaders of the Party seeking to

bury them alive; against the Communist Party of Perú charging it with new and completely

false crimes “against humanity”, “abduction” and “drug trafficking”; against Peruvian

revolution to defame it and so that the people will never again rebel against capitalist

exploitation and oppression.

The people‘s war of Perú ended in 1992 and the CPP entered its fourth historical stage, the

political struggle without arms always serving the people wholeheartedly. In response the

Peruvian State, with historical reactionary blindness, has developed a policy of eternal

persecution, hatred and revenge against revolutionaries and Communists, a policy we

completely reject as well as resolutely reject the action of the mercenary group in the VRAE

that usurps the name of the CPP. And once more we reaffirm in the need to struggle for Political

Solution, General Amnesty and National Reconciliation!, fair and correct fundamental policy.

5 hearings have already taken place and in all of them the reactionary plan to mount a political

trial to discredit, and not to apply justice has manifested itself clearly. The same Prosecutor‘s

Office knows that neither Chairman Gonzalo nor the Central Committee ever ordered nor

planned, nor was it the Party‘s policy the action of Tarata nor kidnapping and having links with

drug trafficking.

This case has been investigated since 2005, 12 years of investigation! And already in 2006 the

Fiscal Court‘s Resolution of October 27 one can read:

“The bombing in Tarata Street was the product of particular circumstances”.

“It has been accredited that the main and regional bodies (of Shining Path) establish their goals

with absolute freedom and autonomy, proceeding later on to give account of the balance at the

Central Committee”

“Not existing … incrimination against the members of the Central Leadership, such as those

who ordered directly the car bombing in Tarata”.

“The Tarata Street bombing could not have been directed or ordered by the Central Committee

of Shining Path”.

Hence it resolves: “THERE IS NO REASON TO FORMALISE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT”

and orders its archiving.

However, later due to the complaint of the Attorney General, the Third Superior Prosecutor‘s

Office orders “to extend the preliminary investigation for 50 days” It says 50 days! And it‘s

been 12 years! Moreover, the same Third Superior Prosecutor‘s Office in its Resolution of

January 4, 2007 indicates that “it has not obtained the investigative statements of everyone

involved, breaking its legitimate exercise to the right of defence”.

All these facts show that it has violated the right to due process, to be tried within a reasonable

time, because a defendant cannot be indefinitely processed under prosecutor investigation. This

is further evidence that this trial is only for political interest of the reactionary Peruvian State

to discredit and punish without any evidence.

Thus, the only right thing is the extraordinary annulment of all the proceedings due to the

violation to due process and the right to a defence, but the judges responsible of the trial, do

not respect the due process, deny the right of the defendants, are violators of the right to a

defence, they deviate from the penal guarantees and apply the reactionary criminal law of the

enemy.

With deep indignation we denounce that our Chairman Gonzalo has been suddenly transferred

to Piedras Gordas I, Prison in Ancón, without allowing him to even take with him his personal

belongings, at present he is in isolation 23 hours per day, something that is forbidden for an

adult 82 years-old based on national and international regulations; he is in total misinformation

not allowing him to have newspapers or radio not having been specified by any judicial

authority, thus applying a cruel and degrading treatment added to the torture regime suffered

in the military prison of the Naval Base of Callao, still worse when he is going through trial

and has to assume his legal defence which seriously infringes the right of defence. Therefore,

in fair protest, the comrades leaders have refused to attend the 5th hearing of the farcical trial.

A trial in conditions where defence is nonexistent is lawfully null!

Abimael Guzman, married his fellow imprisoned Central Committee member and partner of many years, Elena Iparraguirre

in August 2010 .

We come forth in defence of Chairman Gonzalo, Head of the Party and revolution, in defence

of the 1980-1992 Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Gonzalo thought people‘s war, in defence of the

Peruvian revolution and the World Proletarian Revolution because they want to discredit them,

they seek to discredit Communism and the Communists and we reject that totally reaffirming

ourselves in that without a Communist revolution, the people will have nothing!

We deeply thank the expressions of solidarity from different revolutionary parties and

organisations, very especially those who in various parts of the world are impelling a campaign

for Chairman Gonzalo‘s life and health, expressing the great affection and respect for our

Chairman worldwide.

Finally the CPP expresses its solidarity with the workers, peasants, working people that are

suffering from the lack of foresight and oblivion of the Peruvian State in the face of the natural

disasters. The death toll, devastation of lands, homes and belongings, floods and other

calamities are typical of capitalism which focuses on obtaining profits and not on the welfare

of the people.

The Peruvian State has never foreseen, this has been historically recorded. Our history, from

the Inca times, has shown that these phenomena are handled, and why not now? Because profit

is their primacy. One can clearly see how brazenly they profit with the misfortune of the people.

Only in Socialism, with the creative force of the masses, these misfortunes can be prevented

and controlled dominating nature, as evidenced by the experience of 66 years of Socialist

construction in the USSR and China.

To you, beloved people, who have built with your strength, your sweat, what little you have,

we are here demonstrating our solidarity. We recognise your effort, your dedication: you‘ve

lost everything, but your supportive hands remain, your spirit of combat that neoliberalism did

not snatch away from you. Let‘s rebuild with the people and for the people fighting capitalist

exploitation.

WE CLOSE RANKS IN DEFENCE OF CHAIRMAN

GONZALO AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF

PERÚ!

DEFEND CHAIRMAN GONZALO‘S LIFE AND

HEALTH!

DOWN WITH THE POLITICS OF HATE AND

REVENGE OF THE PERUVIAN STATE AGAINST

COMMUNISTS!

DOWN WITH THE CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION!

March 2017 Communist Party of Perú