PERUVIAN LEFTISTS STATE COMMON AIMS
An important step toward united action was recently taken by three radical organizations in Peru; the National Liberation Front -[FLN], the Movement of the Revolutionary Left [MIR], and the Front of the Revolutionary Left LFIR]. The latter organization is a union of the Agrupacién Pro-Unificaci6én de la Izguierda Revolucionaria, the... Partido Comunista (Leninista) Peruano and the Partido Obrero Revolu- Gionario. The chairman of the FIR is Hugo Blanco, the peasant leader now held in prison at Arequipa,
The FLN, the MIR and the FIR joined in issuing a declaration on the present situation in Peru in which they state their common aims, The following extract from the statement appeared in No. 56 of Voz ‘Rebelde, organ of the MIR:
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The undersigned organizations of the left feel that it is their duty to address the people in a united way in order to clearly establish their point of view with respect to the grave events affecting the Republic. -
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Six months were sufficient to demonstrate the incapacity of the present executive and legislative authorities of the nation to solve the fundamental problems facing the country. These problems remain, even becoming worse, This is the case, for example, with the demand of the peasants for land; the demand for immediate nationalization of the oil industry; the need for higher wages; the need to meet the high cost of living; the free exercise of all civilian rights as well as a general amnesty for all political prisoners without exception, and full national sovereignty with regard to the foreign policy of Peru,
The traditional forces of the oligarchy and imperialism, and the agents in their service, above all the leadership of the APRA [Alianza Popular Revolucionario Americana] in collusion with Odrfa, are directly responsible for this unhappy state of affairs. They maintain things this way through their positions in parliament and the reactionary press, and through the vacillations, contradictions and complicity in practice of the present government of architect Fernando Belatinde Terry.
Still worse -- they are scheming to block a solution to these problems,
The lack of an adequate revolutionary political leadership in the people's struggles weakens, exhausts and in the final analysis cancels them out, Sectarianism, the division between the working class and the peasants on the one hand and the men and organizations of the left on the other, only aid reaction and imperialism and all the enemies of the Peruvian Revolution, United, the left is invincible.
The undersigned organizations of the left are now mobilizing for the following common objectives: .
- Oo Tmmediate nationalization of the oil industry and against any conciliation with the international oil trust.
© Genuine agrarian reform; against the reactionary law cooked up by parliament and the administration; for the liquidation of landlordism and for handing over the land to those who work it.
© For-raising wages and salaries and meeting the high cost of living.
°© Against the repression, the McCarthyite conspiracy and discriminatory laws such as Article 53 of the Constitution,
e For a general amnesty without any exceptions.
o For self-determination and the full sovereignty of Peru in international policy.
© For solidarity with all the peoples who are struggling for
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their national liberation and.particularly with the peoples of Cuba and Panama,
Long live the unity of the leftists for the Peruvian Revolution!
Long live Peru!
For the FLN [Frente de Liberacién National],
R. P. Salomén Bolo Hidalgo, chairman,
For the MIR [Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria],
Dr. Luis de la Puente Uceda, secretary general.
For the FIR [Frente de Izquierda Revolucionaria]
Apolinario Rojas, secretary general.
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