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.