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 Communist Party Link - NEPAL REVOLUTIONARY STUDENTS' UNION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany - 1930 essay by Trotsky on "Third Period" Stalinist ultraleftism by the German Communist Party and its inability to combat the threat of Nazism.
International Communist League - Publishers of Workers' Vanguard and The Spartacist, the ICL is organised as the Spartacist League in several countries and the Trotskyist League/Lige Trotskyiste in Canada and France.
Communist Party of Great Britain - A rump of the old CPGB and smaller than the other groups that split from the original party in the 1970s and 80s.
www.nrsu.com.np /link.php   (1554 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Publications: Americas : Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Throughout Peru’s twelve-year internal war, women have been the targets of sustained, frequently brutal violence committed by both parties to the armed conflict often for the purpose of punishing or dominating those believed to be sympathetic to the opposing side.
The people of Peru are caught in a deadly crossfire between government forces and a brutal insurgent movement, chiefly Sendero Luminoso, as they battle for control of the country.
Peru’s citizens now live under a sustained state of emergency: in effect governed by the military, they lack basic protections against arbitrary arrest, incarceration, or extrajudicial execution by the armed and police forces or the paramilitary groups that are tolerated.
hrw.org /reports/world/peru-pubs.php   (1534 words)

  
 Shining Path Heats Up Peru
Insurgents of the Communist Party of Peru, better known in the press as Sendero Luminoso, which means "Shining Path," have established base areas in the Southern province of Ayacucho.
The rise of Sendero Luminoso is the latest in a series of guerilla uprisings in Peru which began with a widespread anarcho-syndicalist movement which led to the successful struggle for an 8 hour day at the turn of the century.
These parties were aligned against the traditional agro-mining interests who held state power at the expense of workers, peasants and industrialists.
nwo.media.xs2.net /articles/83_07shiningpath.html   (1258 words)

  
 International Line
The Workers' and Communist parties met in Moscow in 1957 and 1960 after the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1956, in which Khrushchev had already usurped the dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR, and assaulted it under the pretext of combating Comrade Stalin.
The "party of the whole people" was another monstrosity which denied the class character of the Party as the party of the proletariat.
The authentic Communists were waiting for the CPC to define Maoism as the third stage of Marxism, but with the death of Chairman Mao in September 1976, the Chinese revisionists pulled off a counter-revolutionary coup aimed at Chairman Mao and his thought.
www.blythe.org /peru-pcp/docs_en/internat.htm   (6312 words)

  
 Peru's Tarnished Path
In 1970 (Guzman was in jail at the time) the pro-China party was convulsed by an inner-party struggle (in part over the question of whether or not a "revolutionary situation" existed in Peru), and as part of this struggle, Guzman and his "Red Faction" were expelled.
This document was given to a PLP delegation in February, 1992 by representatives of the CPP leadership as an authoritative document of the CPP.
The CPP actually embodies many elements of the most Left-wing version of the old international communist movement's fatally flawed strategy of "revolution for socialism." That strategy had a lot of truth and latent strength buried in it.
www.plp.org /communist/sp.html   (8735 words)

  
 A South American revolutionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The official Communist Party of Peru claims his legacy, on the grounds that he was its virtual founder.
It seems clear that Mariátegui sought to build a revolutionary party, and that he had differences with the international movement, but the details are unlikely never to be entirely clarified, for lack of a clear statement from him about his views and intentions.
However Peru was located on the wrong coast to benefit greatly from trade with Britain, and remained a backwater except for a temporary boom in sales of guano (excrement of seafowl, used as manure).
www.marxists.org /archive/mariateg/biography/biography.htm   (4905 words)

  
 Peru
Peru's constitution provides for autonomous public bodies to ensure that legislation complies with constitutional principles and that justice is administered fairly and in accordance with the law and human rights principles.
The use of torture in Peru predates the outbreak of guerrilla violence in the 1980's and is not restricted purely to counterinsurgency operations.
Peru has a vigorous opposition press, and reports of official misconduct and sharp critiques of government policy are frequently aired.
www.hrw.org /reports/1997/peru   (20110 words)

  
 ZNet | Latin America | The Left in Peru
Both parties are coming from the same base, but were ideologically divided in the 60’s, during the separation of the Soviet and Chinese ideologies.
Worker’s movements in Peru were already organized in the 30’s, they have great experience in the struggle, and it has qualified cadres.
We have cooperation with all Communist parties of Latin America and with all democratic parties.
www.zmag.org /content/LatinAmerica/vltchek_peru-communists.cfm   (3050 words)

  
 The Warring Factions /Caught in the Crossfire / g c i 275
In 1980, the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), known to the rest of the world as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), gave a violent tug on the frayed fabric of impoverished Ayacucho and the snag was felt throughout the woof and warp of Peru.
In more comprehendible terms, Peru is an underdeveloped, Third World country in which power is still wielded through semi-feudal means (control of the land as a political lever) and subordinated to imperialistic powers.
In Sendero's thinking, what distinguishes Peru is that the conditions have matured for staging armed struggle and the one missing factor over the past 100 years -- a revolutionary leadership in the form of the Communist Party of Peru -- has fit into place.
www.gci275.com /crossfire/section2.shtml   (5928 words)

  
 Peru: Women's human rights: In memory of Maria Elena Moyano - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This report, Peru: Women's Human Rights - In Memory of María Elena Moyano, aims to recall the voice of María Elena Moyano, killed five years ago by members of the Partido Comunista del Peru (Sendero Luminoso), Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path), and her important struggle to ensure that women's rights are respected.
Peru has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women.
Hundreds of women and men in Peru remain unjustly imprisoned for terrorism-related crimes, thousands more have not received a fair trial, the use of torture continues to be systematic and cases of "disappearance" and possible extrajudicial execution continue to be documented by the organization.
www.web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/index/AMR460031997   (4540 words)

  
 List of Communist Parties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The formation of communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the formation of the communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks.
Some communist parties have names such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers' Party, etc. The parties on this list are mostly those that were aligned with either Moscow or Beijing during the Cold War and their offshoots.
Denmark - Communist Party of Denmark, Communist Party in Denmark, Communist Party of Denmark/Marxist-Leninist
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Communist_parties   (1269 words)

  
 Workers World July 5, 2001: No justice in Peru's courts
At the time of her arrest, dictator Alberto Fujimori and his right-hand man, secret police boss Vladimiro Montesinos, were prosecuting a bloody war against the MRTA and the Communist Party of Peru.
Peru's ruling class and its U.S. masters may no longer feel the need for Fujimori's iron handed tactics, preferring a more "democratic" veneer for their exploitation.
She deserves to be released along with the thousands of Peruvian political prisoners who are in jail for their struggle for revolutionary change in Peru, for a Peru of the workers and oppressed.
www.workers.org /ww/2001/peru0705.php   (802 words)

  
 Peru 10.559
When the events under investigation by the Commission occurred, the Political Constitution of 1979 was in effect in Peru; this Constitution restricted application of the death penalty to cases of high treason in the case of international war (Article 235).
The States Parties to this Convention undertake to respect the rights and freedoms recognized herein and to ensure to all persons subject to their jurisdiction the free and full exercise of those rights and freedoms, without any discrimination...
Where the acts of private parties that violate the Convention are not seriously investigated, those parties are aided in a sense by the government, thereby making the State responsible on the international plane.
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/95eng/Peru10559.htm   (4656 words)

  
 Communist Party of Peru Programme
The Communist Party of Peru bases itself on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, and, specifically, on Gonzalo Thought as the creative application of this universal truth to the concrete conditions of the Peruvian revolution by Chairman Gonzalo, leader of our Party.
Fight to establish the People's Republic of Peru as a united front of classes based on the alliance of the working class and peasantry led by the proletariat headed by its Communist Party; this is the formation of the New Democracy which will carry forward a new economy, a new politics, and a new culture.
Foster the development of the Peruvian proletariat as part of the international working class, the formation and strengthening of communist parties and their unification in a revived international communist movement guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; all of this so that the proletariat can fulfill its great and historic mission as the final class.
csrp.org /program.htm   (797 words)

  
 Chumbivilcas v. Perú, Case 10.559, Report No. 1/96, Inter-Am.C.H.R., OEA/Ser.L/V/II.91 Doc. 7 at 136 (1996).
From analysis of the information submitted to the Commission, it is apparent that in the case of the Chumbivilcas events the Army Patrol acted outside of regular operating procedures that would reasonably have justified the use of force by means of its firearms.
Where the acts of private parties that violate the Convention are not seriously investigated, those parties are aided in a sense by the government, thereby making the State responsible on the international plane.[12]
(4)The State of Peru is an obligated party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and also to their Additional Protocols of 1977.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/1996/peru1-96.htm   (5082 words)

  
 Post-electoral situation in Peru
Information about the institution, the electoral legislation in Peru, interesting data for the voters and the members of the electoral tables, and history and statistics of the electoral processes in the country since 1821 to 2000 can be found in this site.
The communist party of Peru is a Maoist organization leaded by Abimail Guzmán (alias Gonzalo) ideologicaly close to Sendero Luminoso's guerrilla.
This political party that ruled Peru from 1963 to 1969 and from 1980 to 1985 presents its history, ideology and documents, as well as a news section and links of interest.
www.diplomaticnet.com /uk/act/act4.html   (741 words)

  
 Shining Path - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sendero Luminoso, Peruvian Communist guerrilla force, officially the Communist party of Peru.
Founded in 1970 by Abimael Guzmán Reynoso as an orthodox Marxist-Leninist offshoot of the Peruvian Communist party, the Shining Path turned to terrorism in 1980.
Peru's Shining Path Maoists: Leaderless, Decimated, Divided; Fujimori Vow to Defeat Rebels Gains Credibility
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-shininp1a.html   (378 words)

  
 De politiek & Economie - Peru. Amauta Spanish School
At the point of entering government for the third time Fujimori’s team were faced by civil and military resistance that brought the country to the brink of collapse.
Almost all of the opposition parties and civil organizations (as diverse as those representing Hindus), united and formed a resistance that obliged Fujimori to renounce the presidency and call new elections.
The economist Alejandro Toledo and his party “Peru Posible” obtained an ample majority of the votes and took office.
www.amautaspanish.com /amautaspanish/dutch/peru/peru_economy.asp   (306 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Developing the People's War in Peru
This document, dated February 1998, is from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP).
The Armed Forces are run by a clique headed by Hermoza Ríos and Montesinos, a vulgar CIA agent expelled from the reactionary army for treason to the motherland.
There is partial advance...a purging...revisionism is fought as the main danger.
rwor.org /a/v20/980-89/988/peru.htm   (1357 words)

  
 Peruvian Communist Party (Red Flag) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peruvian Communist Party (Red Flag) (in Spanish: Partido Comunista Peruano (Bandera Roja)), was a political party in Peru founded in 1964 following a split in the Peruvian Communist Party.
PCP(BR) sided with China in the Sino-Soviet split.
This page was last modified 00:41, 3 December 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peruvian_Communist_Party_(Red_Flag)   (110 words)

  
 Shining Path Links
The country of Peru has been locked in civil war known as "the People's War" since 1980 when the Communist Party of Peru (or the PCP as it will be referred to from now on) declared it so.
The article begins with a lamentation of sorts on the modern conditions in Peru (many good statistics are available about the Indian population), followed shortly by a history of the Shining Path movement (much more detailed than this web page's).
She writes of how the Revolution in Peru is the first Latin American Revolution that women have played such a vital part in the movement, thereby breaking the "boys-only" club "forged in the Che Guevara mold".
www2.truman.edu /~marc/webpages/revsfall99/peru   (848 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Byname of COMMUNIST PARTY OF PERU, Spanish SENDERO LUMINOSO, OR PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE PERU, Peruvian revolutionary movement that employs guerrilla tactics and violent terrorism in the name of Maoism.
It was founded in 1970 in a multiple split in Peru's Communist Party (dating from the 1920s) and took its name in reference to the maxim of the founder of Peru's first Communist Party,
They gained control of poor rural and urban districts in central and southern Peru by violence and intimidation, meanwhile attracting sympathizers and supporters through their tight discipline, their organizing ability, and their emphasis on empowering Indians at the expense of Peru's traditional Spanish-speaking elite.
users.wpi.edu /~arivera/ho8.html   (371 words)

  
 Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru
This was the first time that Chairman Gonzalo has been allowed to appear in any way before the public and the media in the 12 years since he was convicted and locked away at Callao Naval Base in 1992.
The People's War is led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) -- often referred to as "Sendero Luminoso" or "Shining Path" by the media.
We distribute the writings of the PCP (Partido Comunista del Peru) and other materials that help people understand what this revolution is about.
www.csrp.org   (472 words)

  
 May Day Statement of the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), a participant in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, has dared to initiate a war which will no doubt be protracted and bitterly fought but that has already begun to transform Nepal from a backward and oppressed country to an advanced outpost of the world proletarian revolution.
Supporting the comrades of the Communist Party of Peru in pursuing the People's War and in fighting the right opportunist line remains an important task.
But history and contemporary events also show that unless the movement of the masses is led by a vanguard party based upon Marxism-Leninism-Maoism the sacrifice and heroism of the people will be cynically abused by exploiting classes and their political representatives.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/nepal/document/papers/may_day.htm   (592 words)

  
 The Revolution led by the Communist Party of Peru
The Fall of Peru's Bloody Dictator, Tales from Peru's Prisons of Torture, "Montesinos: Top CIA Hitman in Peru", The Fighting Women of Peru, the PCP and the Ashaninka Indians of the Andes, what was behind Maria Elana Moyano (a.k.a.
Our brothers and sisters in Peru need our political support as they continue to battle against injustice, the US-backed campaigns of terror, and now even a sellout call for "peace negotiations" that would sacrifice the people's interests and the whole revolution.
The text of this introduction is currently being distributed by the CSRP as a leaflet entitled "Support the People's War in Peru" (March 1996).
www.csrp.org /pwar.htm   (540 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Peru Defeats Chavez by Michael Radu
That said, his previous administration (1985-90) almost brought the country to its knees with rampant inflation (3,000 percent by 1990) and rampant corruption matched by the spectacular advance of South America's bloodthirsty Maoist insurgency in the form of the Communist Party of Peru (wrongly but melodiously known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path).
Second, widespread fears of a renewed insurgency were reawakened when Humala's father, a lawyer and former member of the Communist Party of Peru, advocated the release of Abimael Guzman, the founder of the terrorist Shining Path who is widely seen as the country's main public enemy.
His party has 13 seats in the Congress, and Keiko Fujimori, the former president's daughter, received the highest number of votes of any newly elected member.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22846   (1167 words)

  
 URGENT
On the morning of July 14, Peru's U.S.-backed dictator Alberto Fujimori announced to the media that the government military had captured Comrade Feliciano, who has been providing leadership to the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and the People's War.
The revolutionary sisters and brothers in Peru have been a source of great inspiration and strength for proletarians and oppressed people around the world.
Now is the time for people everywhere to step up support for the comrades of the Communist Party of Peru and the People's War they are leading.
members.tripod.com /Marxist_2/urgent.htm   (502 words)

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