Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian)

Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian) Vanguardia Revolucionaria (Proletario Comunista)
Abbreviation	VR-PC
Leader	Julio César Mezzich
General Secretary	Eduardo Figari
Founded	1977
Split from	VR
Newspaper	El Proletario Comunista
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism Maoism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	UNIR
Politics of Peru Political parties Elections

Revolutionary Vanguard (Communist Proletarian) (in Spanish: Vanguardia Revolucionaria (Proletario Comunista), abbreviated VR-PC) was a Maoist-oriented political party in Peru founded in 1977 by Eduardo Figari and Julio César Mezzich. It was formed through a split in Revolutionary Vanguard. In 1978 a faction mainly active in the peasant movement around Mezzich and Lino Quintanillo left the VR-PC and most of its members joined individually the Shining Path.[1]

Figari served as the general secretary of the VR-PC.[2] In October 1979 VR-PC was a co-founder of the electoral coalition Revolutionary Left Union (UNIR).[3][4] El Proletario Comunista was the organ of the Central Committee of VR-PC.[5]

References

1. Caro Cárdenas, Ricardo Segundo (2015). Demonios encarnados. Izquierda, gremio y campesinado en los orígenes. Tesis para optar el grado de Magister en Historia [Incarnate demons. Left, guild and peasantry in the origins. Thesis to qualify for the Master's degree in History] (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima. p. 154.
2. The Andean Report. 1985. p. 5.
3. Perú, cronología política [Peru, political chronology] (in Spanish). Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo, Area de Estudios Políticos. 1982. p. 3982.
4. William C Banks (5 May 1995). Political Handbook of the World 1994-95. CQ Press. p. 691. ISBN 978-0-933199-10-1.
5. Tarea. Editada por el Centro de Publicaciones Educativas Tarea. 1980. p. 57.