NEWS FROM THE FOURTH | IMGpapers 1980

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REVDLER SOCIMLIS Blanco popularity enjoyed immense 'the natural candidate of the hungry' January, the PRT's proposal led to the creation of Revolutionary Left Alliance (ARI), which included Maoist and centrist forces as various Trotskyist the The formation of the ARI was a big step forward - for example on 22 and 23 February took place in Chimbote, the country's most important mining centre.

Spontaneously, union members of the various AR. parties got together to run a joint slate, which received two-thirds of the vote.

success convinced of the more . sectallai Maoist groups that they would risk isolation if they refused to join ARI. The most important of these was the Revolutionary Left Union (UNIR).

There followed a period of in-fighting in the also ARI. The Maoists attempted to break with the line of class independence by fighting for their own slogan of 'for a non-aligned and democratic peoples Secure also attempted to disproportionate number of candidacies on the ARI slates for themselves at the Trotskyists. these disputes were settled, however, the ARI faced a further complication. use When ARI was set up it was supported by the POMR, the Peruvian group affiliated to the Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth But IOnOWIll: pressure from the 'Parity Committee', the new international grouping which the OCRFI supports, the POMR decided to pull out of the ARI. Thus ARI came under dual pressure of factionalism both the Maoists and the sectarian Trotskyist forces.

Division Finally, no agreement was reached on the division candidacies betweer the different parties and the ARI broke up.

PRT campaign As a result, the PRT has decided Howl campaign, with Hugo Blanco as presidential candidate. The campaign is supported by the POMR and PST, Socialist Workers Party, which supports the Parity Committee.

The two candidates for vice-president are Richard Napuri POMR and Enrique Fernandez of the PST The PRT is using the election campaign to help unify the workers' struggles and is centring the campaign on the demand for workers' government 'without generals or bosses.

A major theme of the PRT campaign is that the struggle of the workers and peasants wil not end when the elections are over, but that it is important to the for the consolidation and building of a revo utionar party the working class.