Day of Heroism: To Give One’s Life for the Party and the Revolution!
We hereby share a collection of art and a statement from Chairman Gonzalo published on Dem Volke Dienen on the 16th of June.
To Give One’s Life for the Party and the Revolution!
It was from the inexhaustible masses of people that they received their first frugal nourishment and learned to walk;
the class struggle shaped their thinking;
and the Party, the principal and highest form of social organization, raised their political consciousness by arming them with Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Guiding Thought,
gave strength to their fighting spirit by organizing them into the People’s Guerrilla Army,
and by fusing them with the masses of poor peasants steeled their body and spirit in the inextinguishable forge of People’s War.
When they became prisoners of war, they never went down on their knees
but persisted in combating, mobilizing and producing,
and through arduous battles transformed the sordid dungeons of the outworn and rotten Peruvian State into Shining Trenches of Combat.
The strong, accurate and implacable blows made by the People’s War and its uncontainable advance shook the innards of the hyenas of reaction.
The rebellion of the prisoners of war is the unmasking and public condemnation of these sinister plans for mass murder before the world, in defense of the revolution and their own lives.
Giving shape to the monumental trilogy of the shining trenches of combat of El Fronton, Lurigancho and Callao, an historic milestone which will ever increasingly proclaim the greatness of the Day of Heroism.
The devastating and decisive blow they sought to deliver backfired in their faces – sinking the fascist and corporativist government of the APRA Party and the man who pretends to be president in violation of the laws of their own State – into a still unresolved grave political crisis and disgrace;
thus the rebellion of the prisoners of war, though it cost them their lives, brought about a great moral, political and military triumph for the Party and the revolution, and, what is more, greatly contributed to the successful culmination of the great leap with a seal of gold and laid the foundation for the new plan to develop base areas,
whose first campaign has shaken the Peruvian State more deeply than ever before, giving the People’s War its greatest impact so far in Peru and abroad.
Thus the prisoners of war, like legends of old, are winning battles from beyond the grave, because they live and combat within us as we win new victories; feel the beating of their robust and permanent presence, shining and teaching us, today, tomorrow and forever, to give our lives for the Party and the revolution.
Chairman Gonzalo
