Maoism in the Andes: Sendero Luminoso and the contemporary guerrilla movement in Peru

This paper arises from a period of research spent inPeru between January 1980 and September 1982, when many of the events mentioned below were taking place. I would like to register my gratitude to Celia Brading, Andy Brown, and Francoise Barbira-Freedman, who supplied me with a variety of newspapers and magazines. Much of the data or. the early divisions within the Peruvian. Communist Party and Sendero Luminoso's origins relies on the account given by Mercado (1982). I should also like to thank the participants in the seminar at the Centre for Latin. American Studies at Liverpool University who passed comments on an earlier draft of this paper.