Popular Intellectual Movement

Popular Intellectual Movement
Movimiento Intelectual Popular
AbbreviationPIM
Formation1979; 45 years ago (1979)
PurposeIntellectual dissemination, political propaganda
Director
Hugo Muñoz Sánchez
AffiliationsShining Path

The Popular Intellectual Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Intelectual Popular, MIP) was an academic-based mass organization created by the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path in 1979 as part of the party's Fourth Expanded Plenary Session, which defined the structure and duties of various legal fronts to serve recruitment of the united front.[1]

The MIP was directed by Hugo Muñoz Sánchez and targeted students, professors, writers, artists, and journalists.[2][3] The organization had influence in both universities and pro-Sendero neighborhoods, which would be used to form an ideological justification for the party's subversive actions, including its terrorist attacks.[4][5] MIP was involved with the propaganda of other mass organizations, such as the Popular Women's Movement, The Front of Mariateguist Artists and Intellectuals (FAIM), The Pink School (in France), and The Ayacucho Study Circle (in Sweden).[6] Like many public fronts associated with the Shining Path, the MIP fell in significance with the relative decline and collapse of the central party body.

Reference

  1. ^ "Los actores armados" (PDF).
  2. ^ "La Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle «La Cantuta»" (PDF).
  3. ^ "El ABC de Sendero Luminoso Tomo i Edición 2000 Autor Benedicto Jiménez by Benedicto Jiménez 1509 - Issuu". issuu.com. 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  4. ^ "El olvido está lleno de memoria. Juventud, universitaria y violencia política en el Perú: la matanza de estudiantes de La Cantuta _ Cap3". sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  5. ^ "Interrogatorio realizado a Manuel Juan Angulo Andia (a) Camarada "Javier" o "Ivan"" (PDF).
  6. ^ República, La (2003-07-12). "Mientras SL se fracciona, sus líderes se pierden en pleitos de callejón Por el Sendero de la div". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-29.