WHY DO PEASANTS SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION?
With the People’s War, the PCP upholds and applies the slogan: “LAND TO THOSE WHO TILL IT!” With the defeat of the big landlords, drug traffickers and their lackeys in the countryside, the New Power emerges and is given impetus by the development of the Support Bases, where the PCP leads the poor peasant masses so they themselves satisfy their needs and serve their own interests. This is achieved by developing the New Economy and the New State being formed. As the old Power and the old economy are demolished (the old relations of production and trade) the countryside is cleared and the New Economy can be built, based on self-sufficiency, self provisioning, and collective work according to the needs of the people and the People’s War. The New Economy is an economy of a new type. The peasants, mainly the poor peasants, and their families are assured housing and a parcel of land. The land is for those who till it, and it is not permitted to be leased or to be inherited. All those willing
