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The funeral for Edith Lagos, a fighter in the Peruvian Communist Party, her funeral was attended by over 30,000 people, mostly peasants.

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Portrait of Augusta La Torre

Augusta Deyanira La Torre Carrasco, also known as Comrade Nora. Was the wife of Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán, second in command of the nascent movement.

She is credited with increasing the role of women in the group in regards to political and militant action. She also led the very first attack by the Shining Path against the Peruvian State.

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Every country should have a small remnant of leftist guerilla fighters that control an otherwise negligible slice of their territory I think

#my gf forced me to post this to tumblr instead of just discord #i will KILL HER /lh #zapatistas #naxalites #shining path #sendero luminoso #didn't thailand have one too #nvm was thinking of myanmar #KNPLF #myanmar civil war #burmacivilwar #new people's army #philippines #rojava #late night post #kinda #there's just so many of them #but not enough.......

Communist Party of the Philippines

By Marco Valbuena

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) expresses deepest sympathies to the workers, peasants and all the oppressed classes and sectors of Peru over the demise of revolutionary leader Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, the renowned Presidente Gonzalo, founder and leader of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). Comrade Gonzalo died in prison at the age of 86.

We denounce the Peruvian government for having subjected Comrade Gonzalo to prolonged persecution through physical and mental torture since capturing him in 1992. He and his comrades were made to undergo repeated illegal trials. The reactionaries refused to heed the clamor to release him despite his nearly 30 years of imprisonment inside the fascist dungeons. His lifetime imprisonment was cruel and extreme punishment for having founded the PCP and initiated and led the people’s armed resistance against the reactionary ruling system in Peru and the fascist Fujimori regime. He is a martyr to the just revolutionary cause and struggle of the Peruvian people, especially the toiling masses of workers and peasants, for new democracy and the socialist cause.

While the CPP does not fully subscribe to the ideas propounded by Gonzalo and his followers, we believe he deserves recognition for his promotion and defense of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. He gave the best years of his life and sacrificed for the proletariat and oppressed masses of Peru, and their aspirations for national and social liberation. During the 1980s, the Sendero Luminoso—the Shining Path—was one of the brightest stars of armed resistance around the world.

Comrade Gonzalo was emphatic about the indispensable role of the Communist Party, the people’s army and the united front, especially with the peasantry and the most progressive elements of the intelligentsia. He, however, made an overestimation by 1990 of the strength of the people’s army and the potential for urban uprisings. The PCP was also unable to use the united front to split the ranks of the middle bourgeoisie and reactionaries. It was only after Comrade Gonzalo’s capture that his party tried to avail of the full scale of the united front policy and tactics.