By Alternativa Socialista – Peru

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Peru is experiencing a situation marked by the political decomposition of the regime and the deepening of social barbarism. Two recent events, which at first glance might seem disconnected, reveal the true nature of the Peruvian state and its servitude to capital: the promulgation of the amnesty law that exempts from all criminal responsibility the military and police responsible for human rights violations during the Fujimorista dictatorship, and the escalation of organized crime that subjects entire neighborhoods and labor sectors — such as transportation — to systematic extortion. Both processes are not isolated phenomena: they are expressions of the same social order based on impunity, corruption and structural violence against working people.

The amnesty law approved by Congress and promulgated by the Boluarte government is an open impunity pact, which enshrines the official memory of the regime: the State crimes committed in the 1980s and 1990s do not deserve justice, nor do the victims deserve the right to reparation. It is the confirmation that, for the ruling class, the military and police can massacre, torture and disappear, as long as it is in defense of the interests of the large economic groups and the neoliberal model. This amnesty not only erases the past, but legitimizes present and future repression: it is a license to kill.

At the same time, Peru is plunged into an unprecedented crime crisis, where extortion mafias impose their law in markets, in popular neighborhoods and in urban transport. The government, unable to guarantee the safety of the population, responds with states of emergency and militarization of the streets, but does not attack the networks of power that feed organized crime: corruption in the forces of order, money laundering and the collusion of authorities with the mafias. The result is that the popular sectors are caught between two fires: state repression and the violence of organized crime.

Both military impunity and the expansion of the mafias are two sides of the same decaying bourgeois state. The armed apparatus of the state, represented in a National Police of Peru that should “protect” the citizens according to the official discourse, is shown as a machinery of impunity and violence against the people. And that same institutional rot feeds organized crime, which takes advantage of police corruption, judicial complicity and the absence of social policies. The message that the working masses receive is the same: there is no justice or protection, only abuse, violence and abandonment.

Therefore, in front of those who present these crises as separate problems — “citizen security“ on the one hand, ”human rights” on the other — we must affirm that they are part of the same system of domination. Impunity for military genocidaires legitimizes a repressive state that does not protect the people, while the proliferation of organized crime is a direct consequence of that structural decomposition. In both cases, the working class is the main victim: massacred yesterday by state terrorism, and extorted today by the terrorism of the mafias, under the complicity of the institutions.

The Boluarte regime is sustained solely by repression. Dina Boluarte is directly responsible for the massacre against the people, and together with her mafia Congress she must leave now. This bourgeois democracy ceased to be one a long time ago: it is nothing more than an empty shell at the service of big businessmen. No amount of electoral makeup will be able to save this decaying capitalist system, which only offers more poverty, more violence and more plundering of our resources.

The way out will not come from more police, more military or superficial reforms to the judicial system. The only real answer lies in the organization of the working class, the peasants, the youth and the indigenous peoples to sweep away this corrupt regime. It is urgent to raise a socialist program that includes: trial and punishment of those responsible for crimes against humanity, democratic purification of the armed and police forces, workers’ and popular control over security in neighborhoods and workplaces, and the construction of an alternative power based on self-defense committees and community organization. That is why we propose the call for a Constituent Assembly, arising from below, to throw the current Fujimorista Constitution into the dustbin of history, so that the people as a whole can democratically discuss how to organize a substantive way out that begins to respond to an increasingly dramatic reality.

But this organization cannot be limited to spontaneous resistance. We need to make a political leap: to build a revolutionary tool of the working class, a party that challenges the regime’s power and confronts the mafias. They want to convince us that all parties are equal in order to demobilize, but that’s a lie. The only way to conquer a different society is to assume militancy and conscious political organization, without fear of disputing the future.

Our struggle does not end in Peru. The crisis we are experiencing is part of the collapse of capitalism throughout Latin America. That is why, more than ever, we need to raise up a regional, socialist and internationalist movement, which confronts the local bourgeoisies and imperialism. Only with a united and socialist Latin America will we be able to conquer a dignified future for our peoples.

From Socialist Alternative Peru, as the Peruvian section of the International Socialist League (ISL), we fully join this denunciation and we commit ourselves to promote, together with the working class and the peoples in struggle, a revolutionary alternative to put an end to impunity and capitalist barbarism. We reaffirm that the only possible way out is the construction of a workers’ government that, supported by popular mobilization, confronts both criminal mafias and state repression. We call on the militant youth, the grassroots unions, the feminist collectives, the peasant and indigenous communities and all those who claim to be anti-capitalist to strengthen a socialist, internationalist and revolutionary political tool that prepares the people for the decisive battles that are coming.

Socialist Alternative Peru, for a future without impunity or mafias, for revolutionary socialism!

Trial and punishment of the genocidaires, neither amnesty nor forgiveness!

Out with Dina Boluarte and her Mafia Congress!

Out with the mafias, out with the corrupt, workers’ and people’s power now!

For a socialist and revolutionary Latin America!