WHAT IS THE PCP POSITION WITH RESPECT TO WOMEN AND ETHNIC GROUPS?
The PCP is outstanding for organizing and fully incorporating Peruvian women in the ranks of the party and the People’s War. To that end, it generated the People’s Women Movement with class conscious basis according to the line established by our funder J. C. Mariátegui: “Feminism did not appear in Perú artificially nor arbitrarily. It appeared as a consequence of the new forms of intellectual and manual work for women. The women of true feminist affiliation are the women who work. The women who study. feminist ideas prosper among women doing intellectual work or manual work: professors, college students, workers. They find a welcoming environment for the development of classrooms in the universities which attract Peruvian women more and more, and in labor unions, where factory women enroll and organize with the same rights and the same duties as men.” “There is, besides that, a bourgeois feminism of dilettantes, a little pedantic and a little mundane. Feminists of this kind turn femin
