The defeat of Fujimori Jn and her fascist-leaning party in July
2021, by Pedro Castillo of Perú Libre, a middle-class electoral movement, part
of the right-wing reformist movement, was short lived. Dina Boluarte replaced Castillo as
President on December
7, 2022. She was sworn in as the country's first female
president following Congress's impeachment of Castillo, who was arrested after
attempting to dissolve the legislature. Boluarte set out to create a
Fujimorist regime of the far right that has continuously held power since, in
an attempt to prop-up the fiction of parliamentary democracy to prepare the way
for a fascist coup. By the end of 2025, the international situation had become
pre-revolutionary - the ruling classes must resort to fascism to survive, while
the working masses must take state power. Here we reprint two articles
from Permanent Revolution, Peru, which documents the impact on Peru
over this period of the relative decline of US imperialism and the task for
workers of the hemisphere to organize an international revolutionary party for
what we call the New American Revolution. (ILTT)
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Peru:
Down with Parliament and Down with Boluarte!
Boluarte replaces Castillo on 7 December 2022
[ILTT]
Just four days later, the shooting of two young
men by police in Andahuaylas became the bloody baptism of Dina Boluarte's
government. It didn't take long for her to resemble the successive presidents
known for their brutality. While Castillo had strengthened his already
neoliberal and repressive government with AnÃbal Torres, a Belaunde sympathizer
and former collaborator of dictator Fujimori at the University of San Marcos,
Boluarte decided to entrust the government to Pedro Angulo, an ultra-neoliberal
linked to Kuczynski's extremist circles, whose first task will be to intensify
repression through the regional states of emergency declared for this purpose,
in collaboration with Alberto Otárola, Humala's former minister.
The dictatorship sought by Castillo through his
failed coup of December 7th would have constituted another stage in this phase.
Gassing, beating, arresting, and killing are, for any government that
administers a capitalist state for the benefit of the bourgeoisie, an
unavoidable necessity. “The government will massacre
again, because its true allies are the military and police; the far right will
continue to impose the path of a coup d'état, a reactionary coup d'état that
will inevitably come about sooner or later, one way or another, if the
independent mobilization of workers fails to get rid of Castillo.” (Permanent
Revolution, May 24, 2022) And indeed, the attempted coup
took place.
A victim of despair, Castillo
was unable to confront two enemies more dangerous than the votes of the
Congressional majority: the exposure of the corrupt network of family
friendships he had fostered and the deteriorating living conditions of the
majority of the population. A 9% year-on-year inflation rate, entire sectors
with declining indices such as mining, agriculture, and fishing—all the
hallmarks of an inexorable slide toward poverty. In these circumstances,
Castillo opted for the policies of all his predecessors: in Washington, he
reaffirmed his loyalty to transnational magnates, declaring, "We
will give them peace of mind ", and praising "support
for private enterprise ", while simultaneously submitting
to Congress a "consensus" proposal that called
for greater police powers and the establishment of a bicameral legislature.
Confronted from the outset with
popular opposition to his obvious right-wing leanings, Castillo had to make
some minor concessions to the working class and regional minorities in order to
avoid alienating all sectors. This situation was exploited by the union and
political bureaucracy of the pseudo-left to indulge in a cynical Castillism,
which constituted a serious subjective and organizational obstacle for a
mobilized segment of the masses that rejected the worst reactionary forces
represented in Congress but failed to grasp the full reactionary dimension of
the government. It took these leaders fifteen months to change course. They did
voice some criticism of the executive branch, but they continued to defend it.
The threat of a fascist coup served as a pretext to paralyze the workers' and
people's movement and condemn it to repeated defeat at the hands of the
bourgeoisie and transnational bosses. Luis Villanueva, general secretary of the
FTCCP [the construction federation of the CGTP, the majority labor union] and
of the so-called Peruvian "Communist " Party, agreed
with Oscar Caipo, president of CONFIEP [the employers' organization], to
maintain the deplorable situation of workers at CADE [the class collaboration
organization]. The PCP and PC-Patria Roja leadership of the CGTP praised the
imperialist Organization of American States and its pseudo-democratic charade,
placing themselves at its service just as they had during the Fujimori
dictatorship. This entire pro-capitalist caste within the movement of the
exploited is the standard-bearer of the fallacious "participatory
democracy " and the enemy of the proletarian class.
Roadblocks, mobilizations, and
clashes are currently taking place in many regions against the far-right forces
that dominate Congress, seeking to paralyze this organ of capitalist domination
in order to force new general elections. But elections in this pseudo-democracy
will never bring about the real and historic political defeat of the class
enemy, and the workers do not yet have an organ to oppose the bourgeois
parliament. This organ must be a People's National Assembly that represents all
the oppressed and fights to seize power in the country. People's
assemblies, struggle committees, and self-defense committees in every district
and province are the means to build this power, without which there will be no
present or future with justice and freedom. Let us organize ourselves into a
revolutionary party and fight for a new workers' state!
An unlimited general strike to
seize a government of the workers, peasants and the people!
December 12, 2022
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Peru: Re-organising, confronting the Regime and
Defeating it!
By October 2025, the working peoples’ vanguard
and youth of the country had become exasperated by the Fujimorist regime under
Boluarte and her associates, and rose up in protests to bring down the
bourgeois regime. Highly discredited by the acute crisis, Congress dismissed
Boluarte and handed power to Jeri with the task of suppressing the masses and maintaining the same regime until the
change of government on July 28, now under growing pressure of the terminal
crisis and Trump’s regime attempts to counter China's inroads in the hemisphere,
regaining control of Peru, shutting the backdoor of the Americas to its BRIC rivals. (ILTT)
From Boluarte to JerÃ, the regime that emerged from the
Fujimorist coup celebrated its third anniversary by imposing a succession of
puppets on the people and extending the state of emergency in the capital for
30 days, as a guarantee against any popular response to its project of
widespread impoverishment.
The regime of corporate and
political mafias rules a country that has been mired for decades in plunder,
corruption, crime, toxic mining, drug trafficking, rampant deforestation, and
now extortion and mercenary activities, all at its whim. What concrete
responses does it offer to the worsening needs of the working masses? For
example, the imminent decree for a " definitive
restructuring " of the privatization of Petroperú,
dismantled in the 1990s by the dictatorship of Fujimori Sr., the precursor to
the current dictatorship. Petroperú was relentlessly sabotaged by the ruling
class to justify its privatization. For example, by spending billions of soles
on the purchase of vehicles and military equipment, such as aircraft and combat
submarines—the latter under a contract with South Korea, a key player in the
American imperialist order in Asia. This is something the upper class does not
neglect in order to maintain its power-sharing relationship with the corrupt
and murderous military establishment.
Trump himself sent a proposal
to the US Congress to designate Peru as a non-NATO strategic ally, in
accordance with agreements the United States has with Mexico, Colombia, Panama,
and Chile on security and defense, trade, drug trafficking, and migration.
Foreign Ministers Marco Rubio (United States) and Hugo de Zela (Peru) met in
Washington earlier this month to declare a “convergence of
regional security and defense priorities ” stemming from the
new national security strategy approved by the US government. The following
week, a US delegation of “security specialists” arrived in Lima
with the mission of “advising” the government of Jerà and
strengthening strategic cooperation.
In short, Trump and his fascist
team secured the active support of the Peruvian state for their intense policy
aimed at creating a scenario of world war between the Western (NATO) and
Eastern (China-Russia) imperialist blocs. " Deepening
economic and trade relations " and " promoting
new investment opportunities in strategic sectors such as critical minerals and
infrastructure " were logically part of this renewed
bourgeois subservience, according to the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
statement, while 2,000 kilometers from its own shores, the US Coast Guard
seized ships laden with Venezuelan oil and its air force had already murdered
over a hundred ship crew members with the direct complicity of the puppet
governments of the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and the
imperialist Netherlands through its overseas provinces (Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire).
The bourgeoisie and its
dominant far-right wing hope to easily boast of the constitutionality of their
regime after the elections next April, having resorted to the shameless trick
of restoring the bicameral system explicitly rejected in the 2018 referendum.
At the same time, they will seek to re-establish a clear majority in Congress,
which will continue to include a significant number of direct representatives
of its various mafias. But that's not all. The bourgeoisie also still needs an
institutional buffer for its reactionary plans, which the various leaderships
of the popular trade union bureaucracies and the proletarian and
petty-bourgeois political apparatuses provide with considerable opportunism.
Immersed, as always, in the electoral carnival, the entire pseudo-liberal left
vies with pathetic enjoyment for the attention of an oppressed people whom it
has deserted for almost a century, this time under three different neo-liberal
guises: neo-Ollantism, Castillism and progressivism.
The languishing vestiges of
traditional Stalinism, represented in the mass movement by the CGTP's high
bureaucracy, bear historical responsibility for the defeat of the uprising in
the South and other Central and Northern provinces in 2023. They refused, as
they have throughout their history of betrayal, to lead the working class and
the exploited toward the overthrow of the existing regime and the establishment
of a revolutionary proletarian power that would crush the murderous ruling
class. The indifference or rejection they have repeatedly faced from the most
conscious and combative sectors of the workforce is once again being expressed,
including at the ballot box.
Down with the Fujimori
dictatorship, lackey of imperialism.
Let us strengthen the mass
movement to build genuine organs of class power.
Unitary struggle committees,
popular assemblies, defense fronts, self-defense columns… towards a national
people's assembly.
Let us forge the revolutionary
party of the workers' vanguard.
Workers' and people's government!
December 30 2025
[Note: The ILTT does not use the term 'people' but rather
'workers' when referring to assemblies, or governments. For us, 'workers' is
inclusive of all those who labor for a living, (e.g., domestic workers, the
unemployed, peasants etc and, of course, those employed in wage labor.]
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