Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 04:36:30 +0100 (MET)
Subject: M-G: CNN-"MRTA"-"RCP"- - - "The more we are together..."


CNN-"MRTA"-"RCP"- - - "The more we are together..."
[Posted: 10.01.96]

Perhaps many are getting bored with postings about the "MRTA" 
Lima hostage-taking action. And of course this is not one of the
really important events in the class struggle of today. But it is, 
in my opinion, one which people can learn quite a bit from,
concerning the methods of some reactionaries and not least,
concerning the nature of various forces which are describing
themselves as "leftist". 

How are they thinking on this event which has gotten considerable 
publicity on the part of the openly-reactionary, bourgeois mass 
media? How are they trying to analyse it, what standpoints have 
they taken up in public on it? How have these standpoints perhaps 
changed as the situation and/or discussion on it have/has progressed, 
etc, etc.

Here there's already quite a lot of material for study so far.
Just now I've posted and commented on a statement by the
so-called "CSRP", USA. This time not in order to show the 
character of that organization, but as a further argument, 
because that character is already known, for suspicions in a 
certain direction concerning the "prime mover" of this much-
televised event. (See subject line "Avakianist US muppet....")

With this present posting I'm inviting the other M-G subscribers
to join me in the singing of another old syrupy schlager song
(than the one I just hummed a line from in that other post) - and
this one I think is an internationally well-known one.

The text you can infer from the CNN home page, its part about
the ongoing Lima action. ( http://cnn.com - as comrade Jay of
the Detcom, Detroit, told us; thanks again for that) The 
interesting thing here is that not only does it feature a link to
the "MRTA" home page - nothing unnatural in itself in that - but
also to the home page of the miserable long-since-exposed 
phoney the "CSRP" (see the other posting I mentioned) - and
says that THIS is the "HOME PAGE" of the "SHINING PATH"!

Meaning, "the home page" of the PCP, which since 1980 has
led a *genuine* (in the main at least) people's war against the
reactionary regime in Peru, which has *nothing* whatever to do
with that hostage-taking and whose spokesmen (unofficial, but
presumably as well-informed as anyone can be, among those
whose voices we can hear) are saying that this action in 
essence does *not* help the masses in Peru but instead has a 
counter-revolutionary character.

The "CSRP" page of course is *not* a "PCP page" at all; it's a
site managed by some people who since four years now quite
openly have been stabbing the struggle of the PCP in the back!

Perhaps the CNN people are ignorant of this? No, that can
hardly be the case. And I confess I don't know how really
"independent of", or to what more precise degree dependent of,
the US governmental circles is the CNN. I think it would be
strange if that well-known and important news chain didn't
represent the intersts of the US bourgeoisie in general.

So here we have it: That bourgeoisie's news chain the CNN is
quite openly trying, via the "CSRP" (whose true character some
but of course far from all today know about), to "chain" the PCP
to that hostage taking action too! (See my other posting)

It's really they, not me, who want everybody to join in that old
schlager melody. But I thought that we M-G list subscribers
could join in anyway, only ironically:

"The more we are together, together, together,
The more we are together,
The merrier we'll be!" 

Since I myself missed out on one of Louis "Nobleman" P.:s
ironies(?) once (which made Doug Leftie Biz call me a "moron"
once more), perhaps I should make clear to all that the lines
immediately above *are* supposed to be ironical and that I
of course really intend to say:

The more we all *oppose* those forces, the leading reactionaries
in the world, the more we *see through* their muppets, puppets 
and dummies too, the better will it be for a positive development 
in the world, the more will we be of some use to people in general.

Rolf M.






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