Statement of the Internationalist Trotskyist League of Peru

The rural workers and small farmers of Peru have risen against the plans of starvation, misery and spoliation by imperialism, the Fujimorist regime and the murderous government of Alan Garcia.

After a year of the massacre of more than 200 workers and farmers at the hands of the murderous police of Alan Garcia and FTA Fujimorist regime.
After 9 months of the imprisonment of Pedro Condori and the fighters of Casapalca mine
After 3 months of the massacre of five miners in Chala.
The leadership of Aidesep, CGTP and the reformist left seek to subjugate the masses through “reconciliation” by making them cry over the dead policemen, executed by the fighting masses, as if they were one of theirs. 
No reconciliation with the government and the regime, murderers of workers and farmers!
Free Pedro Condori, Claudio Boza, the mineworker’s leaders of Casapalca, the fighters of Bagua!
End the prosecution of Alberto Pizango and more than 1000 fighters! 
For the inalienable right of the workers and poor farmers to defend themselves from the government and the bourgeois state attack! The murderers, the  policemen, executed by the struggling masses are not our martyrs!
For Workers and Popular Tribunals to judge and condemn those responsible for the massacre of more than 100 farmers in Bagua!
The Bagua massacre
On June 5th, 2009, the Peruvian police burst into “Curva del Diablo” (Devil’s cave, N del T) and Station 6 of Petroperu in the department of Amazonas which were taken over by the workers and poor farmers since March of that year. One of those murderers’ detachments was disarmed by a farmers’ picket. With those weapons, the peasants defended the blockade in a brave and heroic action which shows the way forward for the Peruvian workers and exploited masses.
Facing the delivering of the forest to the Transnational Companies, in the framework of the FTA agreement between Fujimorist regime and American imperialism which ties the oppressed nation to US imperialism orders, the workers and poor farmers of Bagua, in a revolutionary alliance forged in the fight, waged a combat against the delivering of national natural resources to imperialism. For this, they made highways blockades, occupied oil wells, hitting against the Peruvian national bourgeois interests as well as those of its major partners, the imperialists from USA, UK, Spain and France with their oil companies Hunt Oil, Repsol and Total.
After June 5th, the Army entered into the region acting like in the days of the “dirty war”. During five days, the Army acted as if there were a “political-military zone”. This was so since the Bagua workers and farmers’ fight threatened to expand to the rest of Peru even to the capital city: Lima. Bagua opened a true civil war phase which was expanding to other departments and other sectors of workers in struggle. This action which threatened the capital city, also threatened to deepen and become an independent action of the masses and so open the Peruvian revolution. This acion of the workers and poor farmers of Bagua, had left the regime and Alan Garcia’s government in crisis. As a consequence of this he called the Army to reinforce it.
The battle between the poor farmers of Bagua and the Fujimorist regime murderer police killed more than 100 farmers and 23 of the murderers were executed by the farmers who acted upon their legitimate right to self defense to defend themselves from the attack of the Peruvian state’s “bull dogs”.
Imprisonment and prosecution of the Casapalca miners
In October 2008, while they were blocking the central highway, the workers of Casapalca mine faced the police that went to repress them. In the confrontation a rock slipped down killing a Captain of the police, while the miners were chased into the hills. For this reason the general secretary of the miners union, Pedro Condori, and the leader Claudio Boza have been in Aucallama’s jail since September 2009; that it is to say over 9 months. They were arrested in the street without any prior notice that they had been accused, after receiving a call for a meeting in the Ministry of Labour. In March of this year the assistant leader of the union of Casapalca, Antonio Quispe was imprisoned. They are being held far from their families (because of the distance where the jail is located), isolated from the support of the Mineworkers Federation because of its leadership, servant of the regime, as comrade Condori denounces, the imprisoned comrades’ health is worsening due to illtreatment and inhuman conditions in the jails of the Fujimorist FTA regime.   
The massacre of Chala
In April 2010 the artisan miners, grouped in Fenamurpe, came out to fight in defense of their jobs that were threatened by the government. They were left isolated by the national leadership of the Mineworkers Federation and the CGTP, who refused to support them, even when it was clear that bloody repression was planned since the government militarized the area, sending thousands of policemen and declaring a state of emergency a few days before. On July 4th, the miners were surrounded by the murderous police and were massacred in Chala, region of Arequipa, when they were peacefully blocking the PanAmerican highway. Five miners were murdered and 80 were wounded, only 10 months after the Bagua massacre.
The new repressive anti-worker decrees of the regime
Now the Government summons the ghost of Sendero Luminoso (Shining path guerillas) to impose on the workers and the people a number of Bonapartist decrees. The first one is, in fact, to annul University autonomy allowing the army and the police inside university grounds by government authorization. It will also modify the election and the running of the university governing structures, to oversee the privatization of public universities. Without any doubt, the following step will be stronger laws to repress workers, more freedom for actions of the army and the police to attain the bosses’ golden dream: to categorize “riots” as “terrorism” so they’ll be able to judge as “terrorist” the workers who participate in new uprisings of the class such as Bagua or Ilave, locking them up in jail for life. They are taking advantage of this moment thanks to the water spilled by the treacherous leaders over the fires of resistance. The government was saved from a general strike. The water thrown over the struggle is called “reconciliation”, which was launched by the leadership of the Aidesp, the CGTP and the reformist left at the beginning of June.
A “Reconciliation” with the executioners to pour water over the fire of the struggle against gas exploitation
On June 5th, 2010, one year after the Bagua massacre, the leadership of Aidesep (Asociacion Inter étnica de la Selva Peruana) Inter ethnic Association of the Peruvian Forest, which unifies the Amazonian ethnic groups, organized a ceremony where they declared both the natives and the policemen who lost their lives that day as “Martyrs for the defense of Life in the Peruvian Amazonia”.
Alan Garcia’s Government and all the institutions of the Fujimorist FTA regime, grouped together in the counterrevolutionary pacts imposed throughout the continent by imperialism and the Bolivarian bourgeoisies with Castro, Chavez, and Morales at the helm together with Stalinism and the fake Trotskyists on the left, are trying to impose reconciliation between the poor farmers and workers of the Peruvian Amazonia with the murderous police, by making the workers and peasants to view the murderers executed by the masses in struggle, as “their martyrs”. They downplay the role of the struggle of the workers and poor farmers from the south who were willing to start fighting against the imperialist plundering of Camisea’s gas (Cusco).
With this purpose in mind, the president of Aidesep, Alberto Pizango who had to seek political asylum in Nicaragua for eleven months after June 5th 2009, accused of “sedition” by the very same Peruvian Fujimorist regime, went to Bagua. He claimed “ I am very sorry about the life loss of both of my brothers and sisters: policemen and natives”.   
Two ends of the same rope to strangle the workers
It’s a fact that the Peruvian bourgeoisie wants to eliminate completely the struggle of the proletariat and the exploited people against the bourgeoisie and imperialism. For this purpose the bourgeoisie uses two agents. On the one hand semi-bonapartism with semi-fascist features, that is, the current regime and government that kill like in Bagua and Chala, imprison leaders and fighters, make judicial persecution, and decree new repressive, anti-labor laws.
On the other hand there’s the Bolivarian sector, conciliators, that tells the workers that the way to free the prisoners and the persecuted, to get justice for the killings and genocides in the 80’s and 90’s, is by subordinating themselves to bourgeois justice, the Office of the Ombudsman, to the ministries and the parliament, and of course, by voting Humala for president since they say “he’ll solve it all”. 
This is the same method used in Palestine: subordinating the exploited and the working class to the pacifists and Arab bourgeoisie led by Egypt, who tell the masses to accept the legitimacy of the Zionist-fascist state, because if they did not a new fascist attack will come, the resistance will be disarmed and the exploitation of the Palestinian territory by the Zionist-fascist usurper will remain. They did the same before the rebellion of workers and youth in Bariloche, raising a “multisectoral” (a “regional front”) with lawyers, the church and other bourgeois sectors, urging the masses not to take or burn more police stations but leave it all to the justice system.
Against  “reconciliation”, what is to be done?
The state is not an impartial arbiter, as the reformists want to portray it, but it is an instrument of the ruling class. As it has all the power in its hands, the bourgeoisie has mechanisms such as parliament, the justice system, and the army to defend its interests and crush its enemies. This was seen in Bagua: in the midst of the action, the bourgeois state slaughtered combatants raising white terror, wiping out 200 fighters.  
Revenge of the exploited is fair, sacred. The defense of our class brothers and sisters is beyond any illusion in capitalist “justice” and the “equilibrium” of the state and regime of the exploiters. We, the socialist revolutionaries, defend staunchly the sacred right of the exploited masses of defence against the bourgeois state. We defend without any hesitation the unrestricted right of the masses to rebellion. 
Against the policy of class conciliation of the reformists; against the former Trotskyists that infect the consciousness of the working class with the treacherous phraseology of “our fellow policemen”, “workers in uniform”, etc; we the Trotskyites fight for the liberation and discharge of Alberto Pizango and of all the leaders and fighters of Amazon, of Pedro Condori and the leaders of Casapalca and all the popular combatants of Peru. We defend staunchly the inalienable right of the workers and peasants in struggle to defend themselves against the murderous bourgeois state.
To free Condori and Boza and to stop the prosecution of thousands of fighters as Alberto Pizango, leader of Aidesep, by the Fujimorist regime of FTA  we have to make the broadest unity in action with labor and popular organizations. That’s why we think that the campaign promoted by the Conlutas and the Intersindical of Brasil, the UNT of Venezuela, the industrial workers of La Paz-Bolivia, Batay Ouvriye of Haiti, the Coordinator of the resistance of Honduras, unions of Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, France, Greece, grouped in the Conclat and its international meeting of workers that met July 2010, is important because of the support it received of many representatives of living organizations of workers; but it is not consistent -despite to the good intentions of the rank and file delegates at that congress. This is so, because that congress opposed the motion raised by the revolutionary industrial workers of La Paz which demanded they vote to condemn and to fight against the Bolivarian governments. This is to say, the congress refuses to fight against the two agents that the bourgeoisie and imperialism use to crush our struggle; in effect the Conclat leaders support the Bolivarian regimes.
We call all the rank and file unions which sent representatives to that meeting to follow the example of the industrial workers of La Paz: to unmask and fight the Bolivarian governments, which are none other than Evo Morales, Chávez, Lula, Kirchner, and their kind in the Middle East, Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Fatah, the collaborationist Iraqi bourgeoisie. That’s the only way to fight for the liberation of the prisoners in Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, the prisons in Israel, the secret prisons of the CIA and the thousands of fighters persecuted and killed by the Bolivarians, as Cristina Kirchner did in Bariloche.  
There is nothing that prevents these organizations from calling for mass action across the continent and even on an inter-continental level, for the release of the prisoners and persecuted for fighting against the rotten capitalist system, under the same banners raised by the workers of La Paz: Combat the Bolivarian governments!
But it will be necessary for decisive action in Peru, which takes aims at the central power, to see our brothers free and without charges against them. Only with a fierce combat against the Fujimorist FTA regime and its fourth government (Garcia), will the doors of the prisons be opened to Pedro Condori, the fighters of Bagua; it will stop the anti-working class offensive, the privatizations, the handover of the gas of Camisea to imperialism, and it will shut them to Alan Garcia, Toledo, Fujimori, the high command officers and its collaborators. This mass action is still on the table, it is the MASS GENERAL STRIKE.

Down with the repressive laws of the regime! No reconciliation with the government, the police and its officer caste, who  murder the workers and poor peasants! Down with the assassin government of Alan Garcia and the Fujimorist regime of FTA, that ties the nation to imperialism!
For the inalienable right of the workers and exploited in struggle to defend themselves from the attacks by the repressive forces! For a national committee of self-defense, calling rank and file soldiers to join up, with their weapons, to defeat the murderous officer caste! Dissolution of the assassin police! 
Down with the treacherous leadership of Federación Minera (Mineworkers Federation), of CGTP; out of our fighting organizations! For a national Congress of representatives of workers, poor peasants and students, that joins all the sectors in struggle that organizes and centralizes the forces for a general strike!
For the immediate release and dropping of all charges against the worker and peasant fighters! For worker and popular courts to judge and condemn those responsible of the killing of more than 200 workers and peasants in Bagua!
For a workers’ and peasants’ government based on the fighting organizations of the working class and the poor peasant, that, over the ruins of the bourgeois semi-colonial state servant of imperialism, ensures jobs, decent wages, health, education and land to the poor peasant! This is the only government that can ensure the agrarian revolution and break with the imperialism.

Liga Trotskista Internacionalista - Perú