MIM Notes 192 August 15 1999

The Capture of Comrade Feliciano does not hold back the People's 
War in Peru

Editorial reprinted from El Diario Internacional N. 51, July 1999 
Translated by MIM

On July 14 the security forces of the Peruvian state captured 
Comrade Feliciano, a member of the Central Committee of the 
Communist Party of Peru (PCP). Immediately after, the Peruvian 
government working with the media of the country, mounted a circus 
spectacle with two concrete objectives: 1) To plan to present the 
capture of this leader as they would treat a great military and 
political victory for the Peruvian State and 2) To portray this 
capture as a catastrophic event for the PCP, and as a fact that 
will aid in the definitive defeat of the Maoist guerrillas. Under 
these two aims, Fujimori and his henchmen, edit with some 
variations, the same sham constructed in September of 1992 when 
the police arrested Chairpersyn Gonzalo. Part of this sham is the 
immediate possibility that comrade Feliciano, "handled" in the 
sinister laboratories of the National Intelligence Service (SIN) 
will be presented in the fraudulent Peruvian television repenting 
and calling for a "peace accord."

Face to face with this situation we note the following:

1. The detention of comrade Feliciano does not stop the People's 
War. Our affirmation is based in two fundamental factors: a) Upon 
the moment of the capture of the leader mentioned, the Communist 
Party of Peru and its system of leadership at base, local, 
regional and national levels had been completely restructured and 
reinforced. As is known, in September of 1992, Chairpersyn Gonzalo 
and a part of the high leadership were captured, and that 
naturally debilitated the direction of the guerillas. Starting 
from this date, the free leaders, with communist militance, began 
the arduous work of reorganizing and consolidating the structure 
of the national leadership and base of the Party. This work, as 
was demonstrated by hundreds and thousands of guerilla actions in 
recent years and the political work among the common people, was 
completed with success in the application of the campaign named 
"Overcome the Bend Developing the Peoples War." b) The Central 
Committee and other high positions in the structure of the PCP 
rely on the participation of several tens of militant activists of 
a high level, whose system of leadership excludes the personal 
direction in the political and military affairs of the Party. As 
part of this same structure, and of internal direction, the actual 
leaders of the Party run various risks, and between them some fall 
in the hands of the repressive forces of the State, and in some 
cases die in combat. Therefore, the capture of a leader, on the 
fringe of the high position that s/he occupies in the 
organization, does not diminish nor detain the rhythm of the 
revolution.

2. What results is a manipulation of reality, promoting the idea 
that the capture of comrade Feliciano can have the same heavy 
political weight on the Party and the development of the People's 
War that the capture of Chairpersyn Gonzalo had in September of 
1992. Both facts are different as much in the political as in the 
historical aspect. It is enough to record that the Communist Party 
of Peru is guided by the knowledgeable teachings and leadership of 
Chairpersyn Gonzalo, whose ideological-political link with the 
Party and the militant guerillas has not been cut, not even by 
prison and absolute isolation of the leader of the People's War. 
This fact has to signal the indestructibility of the PCP, founded 
on its ideological base whose essence is Gonzalo Thought (the 
application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the concrete situation 
in Peru). In synthesis, the leadership of Chairpersyn Gonzalo and 
his extraordinary thought, following fundamental factors in the 
march of the People's War in the development of the Party, the 
People's Liberation Army (EPL), and the United Front of the class. 
These arguments are completely valid against any campaign by the 
Peruvian government, which attempts to present the capture of 
comrade Feliciano, as if it were a question of beheading the PCP 
and the People's War.

3. The best form of solidarity with comrade Feliciano is defense 
of the Communist Party of Peru and the People's War. For this we 
call on the organizations and revolutionary forces to redouble 
your support for the war to liberate Peru, rejecting at the same 
time any political sham that has as its objective debilitating the 
direction of the armed struggle. All the conditions, political, 
social and economic in Peru, provide a bright perspective for the 
advance of the fight for power. The Peruvian state, the Fujimori 
regime and the official political system are headed towards a 
cliff, and it will not be possible to save them from falling off, 
not even with the most brutal repression against the oppressed 
masses. Within this declining reality of the official social 
order, the Maoist guerillas collect new drive as much in the 
political as in the military. A test of this situation has to be 
seen with the recent guerrilla actions in Alto Huallaga, in Junin, 
Ayachucho and other regions of Peru, whose revolutionary advance 
obliged the government to carry out a huge military deployment of 
the Armed Forces of Peru.

Brussels, July 20, 1999

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