Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path

Peruvian Communist Party Partido Comunista del Perú
Flag of the PCP
Abbreviation	PCP
Founder	Abimael Guzmán
Founded	1969
Split from	Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
Succeeded by	Militarized Communist Party of Peru
International affiliation	Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Slogan	¡Viva la Guerra Popular! ¡Guerra Popular hasta el comunismo! ("Long live the People's War! People's War until communism!")

The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP), more commonly known as the Shining Path, is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party in Peru. Its militant wing, the People's Guerrilla Army, is currently waging a Protracted People's War against the government to install a Socialist state.