REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN PERU
By Hugo Blanco
The peasantry and the other exploited classes begin their struggle for freedom without a clear understanding of the task they have undertaken, the methods that must be employed, and the nature of the enemies they have to Tight.
The exploiting classes not only exercise material domination over the exploited, but, derived from thisand as guarantee for its continuation, they sway the ‘minds of the exploited, particularly by means. of the radio, the press, the clergy, the educational system, etc,
They try to convince the people that the social system in which they live is the best, that it is eternal, indestructible. They seek to convinee them that the authorities, the whole state apparatus and the laws represent the interests of the people and not solely the ruling classes, These mental chains guarantee the material slavery in which they seek: to keep the people,
The popular classes, impelled. by need, begin to confront their enemies more or less intuitively, but still imprisoned - by many concepts imposed by the exploiters, .
Hence it is indispensable to have a revolutionary organization == based on. Marxism-Leninism-Trotskyism -- conscious of the role which history has destined the peasant movement to play in the liberation of our country. A revolutionary organization, based on a study of the national and international reality, will orient the peasant movement, Linking it to the struggle of the proletariat and the rest of the people for a workers and peasants power.
Such ..an organization must face not only the oligarchy but also the reactionary ideas disseminated in the popular movement, :
In our country many parties and groups of the left exist. This atome ization of the political vanguard is of enormous benefit to the oligarchy. It is therefore necessary to get rid of all sectarianism in order to achieve the unification of the forces of the left, We must head ‘toward — organization of the Party of the Peruvian Revolution. A beginning has ‘been made in this effort by the Frente de Izquierda hevol Izquierda Revolucionario (FIR) - [Revolutionary Left Front],
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It is necessary to state, however, that this union will not be gained | by tea parties among leaders, but through revolutionary action which will teach us the correct line. Arequipa jail, 1963