![]() ![]() ![]() In the six aspects of Party construction in the General Political Line of the Communist Party of Peru-a document these comrades are thankfully studying well-the PCP takes the question of ideological construction as the basis for the other five aspects: Ideology is the basis of organization, and only a consolidated ideological and political line can guide the organic line. They express that the main task is fulfilling the organizational construction they are understandably mistaken in this, and we raise the question of ideological construction first. While the comrades are correct in understanding the importance of building organizationally instead of empty charity dressed as mass work, their revisionist training has resulted in some ideological missteps that persist. ![]() Directing militant energy at the class enemy to meet the basic needs of the population instead of just polishing their wheels means educating the masses in class combat, exposing the fact that all needs cannot be met under the present mode of production, and only with power for the proletariat can all needs be met through fighting every step of the way for socialism. We must stress that these are not the words of the bitter or dejected who are responding to some personal grievance, but a clear analysis of a false start moreover, it is a correction. The arrow here has hit the target it is precisely this, the capitalist class seeks the means to carry out social reproduction in numerous ways, often using well-meaning churches or activist organizations as an auxiliary pacification apparatus. That is, by intervening at the site of social reproduction, we, materially, carried out the function of the state apparatus or its NGO/charity auxiliary arm”. Our focus on an identified social need illustrates this failure by (correctly) recognizing that food access would quickly become limited for many workers across the city, we (incorrectly) focused our work on a secondary phenomenon without engaging in practical struggle around the contradictions which drove the crisis (for example, housing or the workers’ struggle). “Indeed, it should be noted that the formation of the mutual aid organization did not even attend to the (now clearly stillborn) economic struggle which the pandemic generated. This is a happy occasion in which a modest but important blow has been struck against revisionism, liberalism, and empty charity work. The FTP Boston website, and the comrades who wrote the article in question have hit the mark on many crucial points they have identified the role of NGOs, ascertaining the revolutionary approach to mass organizing, correctly insisting that the struggle for the day-to-day needs of the people is part of the struggle for power–this is a radical and fundamental break with the published views and the practice of their former network. We lack clarity on the organizational situation which has not been made public so we have limited our response. While this open letter is directed to the entire former national network and its supporters, we are focusing on the content of the document One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, issued by the FTP-Boston website. We will reserve our views on certain items in order to examine potential points of agreement with what is undeniably a positive development. Of course there are still issues in which we disagree and must raise struggle on these this is by no means complete in this letter, rather this open letter will serve as a response to the issues posed by the FTP Boston website. Recently a lengthy statement was released on the website of FTP Boston, which contains many of our views and provides what we consider a mainly correct analysis of the shortcomings of this project. Our fundamental opposition is to the ideology, history and founding of this organization, and the question of its bad leadership and the counter-revolutionary role of this leadership. Struggle Sessions has issued articles detailing our criticism of the ideology and working methods of the falsified “Maoist” organization “MCP-OC” and at no point do we intend to neglect this fact of history. Open Letter to the Former National Network of FTP Organizations and Their Supporters ![]()
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