Socorro Popular del Peru

Communist Party of Peru Partido Comunista del Perú
Abbreviation	PCP
Leader	Abimael Guzmán
Founded	Late 1960s
Armed wing	People's Guerrilla Army
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Anti-Revisionism Gonzalo Thought
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Colours	Red
Slogan	¡Viva la Guerra Popular! ¡Guerra Popular hasta el comunismo! Long live the People's War! People's War until Communism!
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People's Guerilla Army
Ejército Guerrillero Popular Participant in the Internal conflict in Peru
Active	3 December 1982 – present
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism-Maoism
Area of operations	Peru
Size	350
Part of	Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path
Opponents	Peru
Battles and wars	Tarata bombing Hatun Asha ambush Lucanamarca massacre

The Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú - Sendero Luminoso ), more commonly known as the Shining Path (Spanish: Sendero Luminoso), is a Maoist guerrilla group in Peru. When it first launched the internal conflict in Peru in 1980, its goal was to overthrow the state and replace it with "New Democracy". The Shining Path believed that by establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat, inducing cultural revolution, and eventually sparking world revolution, they could arrive at full communism. Their representatives stated that existing socialist countries were revisionist, and that the Shining Path was the vanguard of the world communist movement. The Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential among other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated organizations.

The Shining Path is classified by the Peruvian government, the U.S., the European Union, and Canada as a terrorist organisation. Since the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992, the Shining Path has declined in activity.