Today in Labor History February 4, 1979: Six workers were killed by police in the massacre of Cromotex, Lima Peru. The workers had taken over the factory after it went bankrupt and its owners tried to close it down. Led by a hardline revolutionary, Hemigidio Huertas, workers armed with sticks took the premises over. They held out for a week, killing a police captain in the process. When police later stormed the factory, they killed six workers including Huertas. One of the survivors, Nestor Cerpa, was arrested and jailed for 10 months. After his release, he went underground and started to organize the MRTA, or Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Peru, #tupacamaru #MRTA #massacre #policebrutality #tupac #union #strike #police #Revolutionary

1. Jahrestag der Besetzung der Botschaft in Lima

1998

#politicalposter #berlinposter #mrta #b1712 #keinvergebenkeinvergessen

🔒 „Länger inhaftiert als Nelson Mandela“
Víctor Polay, Mitgründer der MRTA, sitzt seit 35 Jahren im Gefängnis. Wird er 2026 freikommen?
Sein Anwalt César Oyola spricht über Haft, politische Aufarbeitung & Perus Umgang mit der Vergangenheit. 🇵🇪

#MRTA #Peru #Menschenrechte #Polay
https://lateinamerika-nachrichten.de/artikel/laenger-inhaftiert-als-nelson-mandela/

Today in Labor History February 4, 1979: Six workers were killed by police in the massacre of Cromotex, Lima Peru. The workers had taken over the factory after it went bankrupt and its owners tried to close it down. Led by a hardline revolutionary, Hemigidio Huertas, workers armed with sticks took the premises over. They held out for a week, killing a police captain in the process. When police later stormed the factory, they killed six workers including Huertas. One of the survivors, Nestor Cerpa, was arrested and jailed for 10 months. After his release, he went underground and started to organize the MRTA, or Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Peru, #tupacamaru #MRTA #massacre #policebrutality #tupac #union #strike #police #Revolutionary

(Chile) Ha muerto el compañero Alejandro Astorga
Recibido al mail

La noche del 1 de enero de éste año (2025) se informó la muerte del compañero revolucionario Alejandro Astorga Valdés, de 55 años, luego de ser diagnosticado hace cuatro meses con tres tumores cerebra
https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2025/01/09/chile-ha-muerto-el-companero-alejandro-astorga/
#General #AlejandroAstorga #Anticarcelario #Chile #MIR #MRTA #muerte #Prisin anarquista informativoanarquista

MRTA Statement on Death of Alejandro Astorga Valdés, Internationalist and Tupacamarista Comrade

Alejandro Astorga Valdés. An Internationalist at the Service of the Great Homeland

In resignation, there is only death; In resistance, there is the desire to live.
Alejandro Astorga Valdés

To the international community,
To the Peruvian people,
To the Tupacamaristas:

On January 1, 2025, the Tupacamarista comrade Alejandro Astorga Valdés, an internationalist who from a very young age embraced the cause of the Chilean proletariat, physically departed. He fought tirelessly against the dictatorship in his country together with his comrades from the Revolutionary Left Movement MIR. Later, moved by his proletarian ideological firmness and his commitment to justice, he decided to join the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement – MRTA, convinced that the liberation of Chile, Peru and all of Latin America should be a joint struggle against capitalist exploitation and imperialism.

Comrade Alejandro leaves us not only a legacy of struggle, but also an accumulation of victories that strengthen the new generations of Tupacamaristas, who continue to fight on the different fronts of struggle against the Peruvian oligarchy and U.S. imperialism, historical enemies of the peoples. His combative morale and revolutionary mystique will continue to illuminate the path of those who struggle for the emancipation of the peoples and the construction of a great socialist homeland, a project of national and social liberation that can only be achieved through the unity of the working and popular masses.

To his family and his fighting companions, we extend our most sincere revolutionary hug of solidarity. It is a pride to have shared with fellow Alejandro revolutionary tasks that marked milestones in popular resistance. His bravery was demonstrated by heroically resisting Fujimori’s corrupt dictatorship, without ever bending over adversities. In his revolutionary praxis, he embodied the love of social transformation and the spirit of proletarian internationalism, faithful to the Guevarista motto of homeland or death.

Alejandro’s example, his sacrifice and his firmness in the revolutionary struggle, are impregnated in the struggles of the countryside and the city. His immortal spirit will live on in every Tupacamarista, inspiring those who fight the oppression and plundering of our resources by transnational capital.

Neither the class enemy in Peru nor in Chile managed to bend his will to fight. His example will remain alive in the firmness and commitment of the new revolutionary generations, which will live up to the challenges imposed by history.

Until victory always, comrade Alejandro Astorga Valdés!
Alejandro Astorga Valdés… ¡Presente!
With your example… We will win!
When a Tupacamarista dies… He never dies!
With the masses and the weapons, homeland or death… we will win!

January 3, 2025

National Directorate
MRTA

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13539

#AlejandroAstorgaValdés #chile #latinAmerica #MRTA #peru #rip #southAmerica #Tupacamarismo

Peru. After 29 Years in Prison, MRTA Revolutionary Miguel Rincón Dies

COMMUNIQUÉ:

A revolutionary has died.

Long live the revolution.

Miguel Rincón R. was 2nd secretary general of the MRTA.

In his intense political life, at the time of being secretary general of the Peruvian communist youth, he led a tendency that proclaimed the political-military struggle, and joined the ranks of the MRTA with 80% of the communist youth. In 1980.
It was a substantial contribution that allowed Tupacamarismo to make the leap from armed struggle in the fields, jungles and mountains of Peru. Throughout the ’80s and much of the ’90s, he led the political front of the MRTA (People on the Move, and then Free Homeland) and was political advisor for the newspaper CAMBIO, an unofficial spokesman for Tupacamarismo.
After the fall into prison of the general commander of the MRTA, comrade Victor Polay Campos, in June 1992, Commander Nestor Cerpa Cartolini assumed the general command. And, Miguel the 2nd in command.
In this condition he was arrested on November 30, 1995, in Lima, after a whole night of combat, the most important urban combat in the history of the guerrillas in Peru. This happened when the party had an important military force of commandos concentrated in Lima, to take over the national congress, deal a hard blow to the Fujimori dictatorship and demand the release of all its brothers and sisters who were political and war prisoners. In number, approximately 500.
The imperialist bourgeois enemy frustrated this central task of the organization.
From prison, the comrade carried out an intense campaign of comprehensive training of cadres, preparing us for the next liberation that the party was preparing.
This was the seizure of the Japanese ambassador’s residence.
The story is known.

After this new tactical defeat of the revolutionaries, the comrade was transferred to the military prison of the Callao naval base.
There, together with Victor, they faced with dignity and consistency a brutal extermination prison of the Peruvian state.
This did not prevent them from continuing to develop revolutionary theory and write several books each, which will be a source of knowledge for our people and our militants.
Here is the result.
He died with 29 years in prison.
He was sentenced to 35.

Miguel, brother, you are one of the dead who never die.
An example of integral revolutionary.
COMMANDER MIGUEL RINCÓN, YOUR CONDORS ARE WAITING FOR YOU SINGING SONGS OF STRUGGLE AND VICTORY.

UNTIL VICTORY ALWAYS‼️‼️

Santiago, 11 December 2024

Resumen Latinoamericano, December 11, 2024.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13089

#armedStruggle #MiguelRincón #MRTA #peru #PoliticalPrisoners #rip #southAmerica #Tupacamarismo

Today in Labor History February 4, 1979: Six workers were killed by police in the massacre of Cromotex, Lima Peru. The workers had taken over the factory after it went bankrupt and its owners tried to close it down. Led by a hardline revolutionary, Hemigidio Huertas, workers armed with sticks took the premises over. They held out for a week, killing a police captain in the process. When police later stormed the factory, they killed six workers including Huertas. One of the survivors, Nestor Cerpa, was arrested and jailed for 10 months. After his release, he went underground and started to organize the MRTA, or Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Peru, #tupacamaru #MRTA #massacre #policebrutality #tupac #union #strike #police #Revolutionary