The following is the full text of the statement of the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement: Issued on May 1, 1996:
This May First, the revolutionary masses have a new reason to celebrate as the sparks of People's War kindled on February 13th leap across the Himalayas of Nepal and begin to catch fire amongst the workers and peasants. 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. This inspiring development has great implications for the South Asia region and indeed the whole world by once again reaffirming the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principle that the masses can liberate themselves only through armed revolutionary struggle.
The revolutionary thunder in the Himalayas come as a welcome reinforcement to
the struggling people of Peru, whose vanguard the Communist Party of Peru, also
a participant in RIM, has been carrying the struggle forward valiantly despite
fierce attack not only from the reactionary Fujimori regime but also from a
right opportunist line which has called for ending the People's War through a
negotiated settlement. 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. The issues at stake in the two-line struggle are vital not only
for the pursuit of the People's War In Peru but for the advance of the
revolution in other countries and on a world scale. We must also continue to
fight the outrageous isolation of imprisoned Chairman Gonzalo.
For the great majority of people on this earth, conditions are intolerable.
At a time when the capacity to produce has reached previously unimaginable
heights, hundreds of millions of people remain prisoners of starvation.
The world imperialist system has nothing to offer the immense majority except
heightened exploitation, fiercer repression, deeper crises and reactionary war.
And this is not only true in the countries oppressed by imperialism: the
imperialist citadels themselves are also the site of sharpening class
antagonism. History has shown that people will continue to rise up again and
again until the conditions which spawn their revolt have been eliminated. 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.
Only the class with no stake in preserving any vestige of exploitation, the
proletariat, is qualified and capable of leading the struggle of the people
forward toward a classless society. Those who remain focused on the final goal
of communism and how to get there, the Marxists-Leninists-Maoists, are also
those who fight most resolutely in the revolutionary struggles of today. They
are waging or preparing to wage People's War against imperialism and reaction
according to the concrete conditions In different countries. The revisionist and
opportunists who obstruct, compromise, betray, or falter in this task cannot see
beyond the narrow horizon of the system of wage slavery - their talk of
socialism and communism is but a smokescreen used like the "paradise" of priests
and mullahs to befuddle the masses.
The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement is the embryonic center of the
world's genuine communist forces and is struggling for the formation of a
Communist International of a new type based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Those
who are serious about revolution must be serious about supporting, joining or
helping to forge genuine vanguard parties, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and
united in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.
Hail the Initiation Of People's War In Nepal!