Spanish State: Censorship against Servir al Pueblo
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a note that we received from the revolutionary newspaper Servir al Pueblo which has been recently repressed and its webpage has been closed:
Dear readers, friends, and comrades,
Today, on 17th of May, 2025, we have published an article marking the 45th anniversary of the start of the People’s War in Peru. In the article, we not only discussed the historical significance of May 17, 1980, for the class struggle in Peru and worldwide, but we also asserted that this People’s War continues so far. Although the Peruvian revolution is of great importance to revolutionaries and progressive democrats around the world, it remains largely unknown in the Spanish State. For this reason, we have always spread and supported it with the best and most of our efforts.
This has not pleased Yankee imperialism. Shortly after the publication of our article, the WordPress server—part of the technological monopoly of Yankee imperialism—abruptly shut down our website. After more than three years, they closed our site, claiming violations of the terms of service due to “illegal activities.” Without further explanation, it is clear that they consider the dissemination of ongoing People’s Wars to be an “illegal activity.” Since our founding in April 2022, we have spread information about revolutionary struggles worldwide, including in Peru. The timing of this censorship is no coincidence. We are living in a historical moment of great decomposition of global imperialism and a crisis of bureaucratic capitalism in Peru, and our press has become a small but important part of the network for those seeking information about the People’s Wars in Peru, Turkey, India, and the Philippines.
Since our inception, we have not aimed to be just a news blog. We have tried to merge with the people and serve the struggles of the class. Around 16 printed issues and several special supplements attest to our work, where we have given a voice to some of the poorest and most exploited workers in our class (such as the seamstresses in Elche or seasonal workers in Albacete), documented evictions of social centers (like the Bankarrota in Madrid or Ca Caixeta in Valencia), and created reports where it was necessary to tell the truth (such as the report on Paiporta after the “DANA”). Additionally, we have contributed to theoretical discussions among revolutionaries on crucial topics such as the necessity of a boycott of elections, militarization, State reaction and fascization, the freedom of all political prisoners, and police infiltration in protest camps for Palestine.
Neither censorship nor repression will stop our goals. We will continue to spread revolutionary and mass struggles in every possible way.
If our appeals do not succeed, we will work on a new website. For now, we remain active on social media X (@serviralpueblo_) and can be reached via our email address (serviralpueblo@protonmail.com). As for our printed issues, they will continue to be distributed and can be obtained at some demonstrations in the State or at our distribution points in Madrid, Valencia, and Albacete.
Revolutionary Greetings
Servir al Pueblo
