Peru - May 5, 2022
Echoes of May 1, 2022
This May 1st, in a class collaboration action…
The Stalinist leadership of the CGTP performed an act together with Pedro Castillo, who is an IMF agent and defender of the Fujimorista regime
Out of our organizations of struggle the whole workers' bureaucracy of Patria Roja and the Communist Party, servants of the bourgeoisie!
Only a provisional government of workers and peasants will be capable of disarming the police and the Armed Forces, and on the rubble of this rotten Fujimorista regime it will be able of conquering a true revolutionary, free and sovereign Constituent Assembly.
This May 1, there were different marches called by the CGTP in all regions of the country in which different construction unions, health workers from FENUTSSA, education workers from SUTE, among others, participated. But the commemoration that stood out without a doubt was the event carried out in the square on May 2 in which the CGTP put President Pedro Castillo as the main speaker, who made announcements of a miserable increase in the minimum wage from 930 soles to 1025 soles (increase of a little more than 3 soles per day) that does not favor working-class families at all. Likewise, he mentioned that a "popular consultation" would be carried out to convalidate the bourgeois trap of the Constituent Assembly, which in reality will not touch a millimeter of the businesses of the bourgeoisie and the transnationals that will be defended with the sabers of the army and the police, while inflation has skyrocketed and hunger runs through working class and peasant families. However, the bill for the "Constituent Assembly" of Castillo has been already rejected by Congress and for now the open political crisis continues.
Once that act of class collaboration was over, a group of health workers harangued against Castillo and there were struggles with those related to Castillo. And the more the leadership of the CGTP ties us to the bourgeoisie, the more they divide the workers and make us confront each other.
Thus, once again the treacherous leadership of the CGTP saves the bourgeoisie from the embers of the hungry masses' hate, who for weeks have been asking for the head of Castillo that is a mere servant of the IMF, CONFIEP (bosses' chamber, NT) and the transnationals.
Unfortunately, as an echo of that counterrevolutionary policy of demanding the bourgeois government of Castillo that has the Stalinist leadership of Patria Roja (Red Homeland, Maoists, NT) and the Communist Party in the leadership of the CGTP, organizations of former Trotskyists emerged, such as those of Enrique Fernández Chacón's UIT-CI/Unios that for this May 1st they issued a call to set up a free and sovereign Constituent Assembly and a Workers' Government.
One day before the May 1 event in the Ayacucho region, Unite participated in an act of a "Defense Front of the people of Ayacucho" that included organizations such as the SUTE (Single Union of Education Workers) and the retirees, among others, where from Uníos they stated that the solution to the hunger of the people must be fighting for a new Constitution and that from the streets it should be exerted a pressure so that it approves the recovery of our natural resources, in the style of the Constitutional Convention trap in Chile, which leaves intact the businesses of the bourgeoisie and the caste of Pinochet officers who steal part of the copper profits.
But it is not only the ITU-CI, but organizations such as the PTS of Argentina or the LIT/PST, which claim that a new Constitution proposed by Castillo can give something favorable to the workers. All of them are part of the social democratic left that clearly support the politics of the CP. Well, how could there be a democratic, free and sovereign Constituent Assembly without disarming the caste of officers of the Armed Forces, without dissolving the repressive forces of the murderous police and without expelling the Gringo military bases from the country? That is, without breaking the economic, political and military agreements that the capitalists imposed with the Fujimorista regime in order to subject the nation to imperialist plunder, like the FTA? It is indeed a great trap that they want to impose on the Peruvian workers and peasants.
Contrariwise, only a provisional revolutionary government of workers and poor peasants in Peru, based on the self-defense organizations and worker and peasant militias of the workers, will be the one that can achieve all our demands. Moreover, only this government of rupture with the bourgeoisie will be able to conquer a revolutionary, free, sovereign and democratic Constituent Assembly, because with the Committees of rank-and-file soldiers of workers and peasants, it will be possible to dissolve the caste of army officers and the murderous police, and by expelling the Gringo military bases from the country, we will be able to give, from that government, a revolutionary solution to all our hardships. |