PERU IN A STATE OF NATIONAL INSURGENCY
Workers', peasants' and militant youth's combats up to date
Peru - Monday January 23rd 2023
New days of revolutionary combats in Lima and all over the country against the US-commanded Fujimorista regime
Between last night and this morning, the more than 200 comrades were released who had been arrested in the ferocious eviction from the University of San Marcos in Lima by the murderous police Last. Saturday, hundreds of police officers had entered the campus of the university with tanks, demolishing the entrance and carrying out a real hunt among the workers, peasants, and youth who came from the regions and the militant students from the capital.
The murderous government of Dina Boluarte was forced to release all the prisoners because the arrests had unleashed even more the fury of the workers and the masses of deep Peru and the militant youth and the exploited of Lima, who are also still clamoring for justice for the 53 murdered comrades.
Between Saturday and yesterday, huge actions of struggle for the freedom of the arrested comrades were carried out, with a forceful mobilization in Lima towards the police headquarters, where a massive rally was held to the cry of "Comrades, freedom!”
In the regions, road blocks were strengthened and clashes with the police intensified. In Puno, the local offices of Sunat (Customs) and Migration in the town of Yunguyo, a few meters from the Bolivian border, were burnt down. The most critical event took place in Arequipa after a comrade was arrested during a blockade. In response to this, hundreds surrounded and attacked the police station of El Triunfo, in the town of La Joya, confronting the repressive forces and taking hostage a non-commissioned police officer as a guarantee that the policemen would abstain from torturing the detained comrade and immediately release him.
While the masses are demonstrating how to fight to win the freedom of the prisoners for struggle, the traitors of the CGTP leadership only today issued a lukewarm communiqué condemning the eviction of the University of San Marcos, when the comrades had already been released, without these bureaucrats lifting a finger while they were savagely repressed, while the police had them lying on the ground face down and handcuffed for hours, while the comrades were humiliated, while they were held incommunicado, without even giving them the right to a lawyer or medical attention for the wounded, people with disabilities, etc.
The exploited of the deepest Peru are gathering in Lima to deepen their revolutionary struggle.
As much as the trade union bureaucracy may hate it, the masses continue to win the streets in spite of and against these traitors, and more delegates from the regions continue to arrive in Lima, where the citadel of bourgeois power is concentrated, to continue their revolutionary struggle until Boluarte leaves and the Fujimorista regime, a lackey of the US, is defeated.
Not only delegations from Cusco, Arequipa, Apurimac, Madre de Dios, Puno, and other southern regions continue to arrive, but also from the central and northern departments of Peru, such as Ancash and Lambayeque.
Today, large columns from the regions blocked the access routes to Lima. They marched to the Conos (Lima outskirts we're working-class and low middle clases live) not only to prevent entry to the capital but also to stir up the workers in the working-class neighborhoods, the vast majority of whom had come from the regions now in revolt to find some job in the capital.
After midday, they converged with more delegations on the Plaza Bolognesi in the center of Lima, where they were brutally repressed not only with tear gas bombs, but the police also began firing pellets at them, leaving several comrades wounded.
None of this undermined the fighting morale of the brave workers, peasants, and youth, but they regrouped and marched in their thousands to the Plaza San Martin to the cry "Come on people, the people won't fucking surrender!” One of the columns that aroused most enthusiasm was that of the army reservists (who have done their military service sometime algo and are part of the reserve of the Armed Forces) that are beginning to join the combats and marched shouting loudly "Combatants, reservists of Peru!” Once again, the Boluarte government, following the orders of the Fujimorista generals and the commanders of the US IV Fleet, sent its dogs of prey to savagely repress the mobilization. The viciousness of the police was concentrated in the Grau Oval, near the Palace of Justice, where they fired a hail of pellets and tear gas bombs to disperse the mobilization.
While the workers and peasants are showing who are that effectively produce the wealth of the nation, the sectors of the bourgeoisie and imperialism are shrieking about the losses.
According to the Chamber of Commerce of Cusco, the bosses have lost more than 40 million soles (about 10 million dollars) in these first days of the year due to the enormous struggle of the workers and peasants who, with their strikes and blockades, are attacking the capitalists where it hurts them most: in their profits.
The same is happening in the mining industry, where the imperialist transnationals that are bleeding the nation dry with their plunder are registering losses of 400 million soles (about 100 million dollars!) and mining companies like Las Bambas have announced that they will have to stop production due to lack of supplies.
Faced with the deepening of the mass uprising, murderous Boluarte will meet with the OAS, the commanders of the counterrevolutionary coup of the Fujimori regime, and the Armed Forces.
Next Wednesday, the Permanent Council of the OAS, headed by its Secretary General, Luis Almagro, will meet in Washington and communicate virtually with Boluarte to "analyze the political and social situation that is being experienced in Peru"… This means that the US imperialism will give new instructions to its manager in Lima against the revolutionary combat that is underway.
But the masses in a state of insurgency are going after all of them, they want Boluarte's head, they want no trace of the Fujimorista regime to remain, they want an end to the brutal imperialist plunder of the nation so that they can have a decent life.
LSTI-Peru Correspondent
Internationalist Workers' Tribune
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