HOW ARE THE WORKERS AND PEOPLE ORGANIZED IN THE CITIES AND POOR NEIGHBORHOODS?
With the People’s War, the PCP has crushed the fake “leftists” of the United Left and their ilk (“market socialists,” “democrats,” the PUM, Patria Roja, MRTA, etc.) and has developed true mass movements in the cities, mainly in poor neighborhoods. The masses are organized in People’s Committees of Struggle, the first form of New Power in the cities, reflecting a great leap in the incorporation of the masses in the People’s War, helping to prepare the transfer of the center of the war from the countryside to the city (see item 5. “The New State.”) In the cities, the PCP has developed Armed Strikes as the main form of people’s struggle. The Armed Strike is a new form of mobilization and struggle of the masses, similar to a general strike, with the variant that in the Armed Strike – which lasts several days in the capital and even weeks in some provinces – many political-military actions of various types are displayed, such as agitation, propaganda, sabotage to the imperialist enterprises
