Peru: For a workers’ solution to the crisis! Constituent Assembly now!

By Alberto Giovanelli

We write these lines at a moment in which the Peruvian political crisis is in full swing and, therefore, it is an open escenario. Castillo was ousted and detained by a corrupt Congress, Dina Boluarte, former member of Peru Libre and vice president sworn in as the new president of the Republic.

The first measure of the new government was to “call for National Unity and form a broad-based Cabinet”, which means a distribution of ministries among the different sectors of the right wing that dismissed Castillo from Congress. Its model will not be modified in the slightest, asb Boluarte said again and again, trying to reassure and comfort theagaigeoisie, the U.S. and that coupist, racist and anti-popular parliamentary majority.

The political harassment that Castillo suffered for 16 months in Congress was encouraged by political benches linked to Fujimorism, the remnants of APRA and others more closely linked to specific business interests.

Castillo, as we have said on several occasions, was increasingly accommodating his government to the demands of Fujimorism and the entire congressional right wing. This radical change with respect to his government program and the abandonment of the proposals for which he was voted, explains nowadays the very weak popular defense of Castillo in the face of a Congress that even features a lower level of popularity than Castillo himself (6% popularity).

Once again, these attempts of Latin American “progressivism” are proving to be sterile as they do not dare to question the capitalist structure. This makes it possible to prolong the domination of the traditional powers over the daily life of our people.

These long institutional crisis encompass all the powers of the State which are deeply delegitimized, and cause permanent instability and the impossibility of clearly defining the future of this chronic crisis. When we define this process time and again as a “political crisis” of the regime we want to insist on its deep structural and terminal character.

However, and in spite of this situation, both the new president and the congressmen stated that their objective is to remain in office until 2026, so it is imperative to put an end to this absolutely decomposed regime.

It is imperative then that the workers, students, peasant communities and popular sectors begin to discuss the need for a broad convocation behind the call for a true Free and Sovereign Constituent Assembly that will impose itself through popular mobilization, overthrow the Fujimori Constitution and take all the necessary measures to lift the workers and the people out of poverty.

We do not acknowledge any legitimacy whatsoever in the new government, imposed by a coup Congress, and we demand the immediate release of Pedro Castillo. We also know that to overcome this permanent crisis with its oscillating cycles from the right to the false left it is imperative to contribute to the formation of an anti-capitalist, socialist and therefore revolutionary organization. One that proposes to change everything so that those who have never governed, the workers and the people, govern once and for all.