Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 01:34:37 +0000
Subject: M-G: PERU: People's War Debunk Lies of Imperialism.


  PERU: REVOLUTION CRUSHES SLANDERS WITH MORE PEOPLE'S WAR
                     SWP: A Cult at the Service of  U.S. Imperialism.
                                Part 1 of 2  articles.

For the last few years, a Yankee cult named "Socialist Workers Party"
(SWP), historically engaged in the trafficking of international
"solidarity movements" and with a long history of COINTELPRO
infiltration, has been involved in an ignominious campaign of
spreading around the world the lies of the U.S. State Department and
the CIA against the Peruvian Revolution led by the Communist Party of
Peru (PCP). A summary of  the SWP's defamations, along with their
"reputable" sources are presented below:

SLANDER No. 1. "PCP crushes workers and their organizations. It keeps
them out of politics. Also kills leftists, priests, nuns, engineers,
and gays. It cuts off fingers, gouges eyes, cuts pieces of flesh off
living bodies, drinking people's blood."

SOURCE:
a) CIA World Fact Book 1992,
b) Testimony to U.S. Congress from former U.S. State Department felon
Elliot Abrams 3/90. c) Testimony to U.S. Congress from US State
Dept.'s Bernard Aronson 3/23/94.

FACT. PCP leads 16 year revolution of workers, peasants and
progressives against the 3 mountains oppressing the Peruvian people:
semi-feudalism, imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism. It's
destroying the old State to build the New Power: The People's Republic
of Peru. It is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Gonzalo Thought Party of new
type which has a mass character.

SLANDER No. 2. " PCP is terrorist. Fujimori's's regime is not a
dictatorship but a democracy."

SOURCE: Reagan, Bush and Clinton.

FACT. Even Senderologist David Scott Palmer (an anti-communist advisor
to the Clinton Administration) candidly admits, "Sendero uses terror
to further its revolutionary ends but it is not a terrorist
organization...they do not use indiscriminate violence and should not
be compared with Pol Pot." (P. 244, "Shining Path," 1992.)  It is
nothing new for U.S. imperialism to call "democracy" the murderous
regime of Fujimori hatched from a military coup and 18% of the
eligible vote. Fujimori's dictatorship has committed several crimes
against humanity: i) the assassination of 100 political prisoners at
the jail of Cantrogrande in May 1992, ii) the Cantuta killings of 9
students and one university professor by Fujimori's death squads, iii)
the Barrios Altos crimes in midtown Lima of 2 complete humble
families, iv) the murder of 12 students at the University of Huancayo,
v) since 1991, 600,00 Peruvians per year thrown into poverty, hunger
and misery because the worn out neoliberal economic policies and
privatizaciones. Peru has become known in the world as the country of
cholera and tuberculosis, vi) the slow annihilation of more than 7,500
political prisoners of war living in inhuman conditions in clear
violation of the U.N. Geneva Convention for human rights, the Peruvian
constitution and the international law. Women prisoners were raped and
torture by Fujimori's agents, many were injected with viruses,
according to their relatives two were injected with the HIV virus.
Many prisoners receive their meager meals with pulverized glass. These
are crimes against humanity that the imperialist press deliberately
hides. Where is President Gonzalo? Why the enemy is afraid to show him
in person?

MYTH No. 1. Fujimori's popularity remains high. He had 65% of the
vote. SOURCE: George Bush and Bill Clinton. FACT. U.S. puppet Kenyo
Fujimori is hated by the people. He obtained only 18% of registered
voters. This lackey is popular with his master US imperialism, the big
monopolies, big bankers and the financial blood suckers such as the
IMF and the World Bank. His popularity with the Peruvian people is
pure propaganda spread out by the yellow press in Peru which is
controlled by the intelligence services.

SLANDER No. 4. "PCP believes Fidel Castro is a U.S. lackey."
SOURCE: Bernard W. Aronson, State Dept., 3/23/92.
FACT: False. Actually Castro was a lackey of  Nikita Sergenovich
Khrushchev.

MYTH No. 2. At the U.S. military base of Santa Lucia  in Alto
Huallaga, a PCP stronghold, U.S. Green Berets and advisors fight
against drugs. SOURCE: Every U.S. government since Reagan's time,
Senderologists Scott Palmer and Cynthia McClintock. FACT: U.S.
military at the base leads the counterinsurgency war against the
People's Army. "War on Drugs" is a disguise. PCP lead Open People's
Committees  of Huallaga have more than 100,000 people who have risen
up in arms and are re-making their society, ending dependency on the
coca trade.

MYTH No. 3.  After Fujimori's self coup,  Bush cut him off of military
aid, Clinton resumed it. SOURCE: The New York Times. FACT: The
military coup was planned by Yankee imperialism to take command of the
war. Aronson was in Lima coordinating the coup. The "Cut in aid" was
purely rhetorical.

SLANDER No. 5.  During armed strikes, PCP orders workers (under death
threat) to go home.  PCP considers workers as enemies. SOURCE: "Peru's
Brutal Insurgency: SL", 1992  U.S. Dept. State Dispatch. FACT:
Complete lie. Workers and masses organized in PCP-led organizations in
the cities such as the MRDP and  MOTC, participate actively in armed
strikes; the proletariat is at the forefront of the battles. 

SLANDER No. 6. " PCP killed miners' leader Saul Santoral, textile
worker Enrique Castilla, U.S. journalist Todd Smith and others."
SOURCE: National Intelligence Services (SIN, the Peruvian CIA) FACT:
False. Former Army General Rodolfo Robles (an insider of the Peruvian
armed forces) denounced in 1994  that SIN death squads killed them.  

SLANDER No. 7. "PCP recruits frustrated women whose husbands left them
to seek jobs in the cities." SOURCE: Senderologists (agents of the
armed forces) Degregori, Raul Gonzales, Carlos Tapia and human rights
trafficker Robin Kirk. FACT: Women participate at all levels of the
Party and the People's army because their oppression and emancipation
will be solved only as part of the liberation of the working class
through People's War.

SLANDER No. 8. "PCP is like Pol Pot. It has killed 250 duly elected
authorities.  A Sendero victory would compare not to Cuba's Castro, El
Salvador's FMLN, Nicaragua's Sandinistas, the Vietnam's guerrillas,
but Cambodia under Pol Pot. Luis Arce Borja says over a million will
die." SOURCE: i) US State Department 3/23/92. B. Aronson, ii)  The
filthy "liberal" Robert Torricelli.

FACT:

 1) The PCP is a self-reliant and self-sufficient Communist Party that
 puts politics in command of the gun; the Khmer Rouge was a "movement"
 supported by the CIA and the Chinese. 2) The Vietnamese executed
 13,000 "authorities"; and compared with its populations the FMLN and
 Castro's revolution executed many more than the PCP.  That's part of
 revolutionary violence. In comparison, how many have killed the
 imperialists in the invasions to Iraq, Panama, Vietnam, etc. In Peru,
 the bloody reactionary army has so far murdered more than 30,000
 people. 3) Arce Borja is not a member of the PCP. He speaks only for
 himself and he never said such a thing.

MYTH No. 4. "At its best, PCP only had 5,000 militants active in 19
out of the 24 Departments SOURCE: CIA's World Fact Book.
Senderologists Raul Gonzales and Carlos Tapia and SIN. FACT: For the
CIA "facts" means "lies". On April 1996 (in the bourgeois magazine
Carets 1408), Senderologist Carlos Tapia, who is close to SIN, said:
"I have the hard drive of Guzman," they are 23,430 fighters not
counting the PCP Huallaga Base."  

SLANDER No. 9. "Sendero's leader Guzman is pleading for Peace Talks.
Sendero is split." SOURCE: CIA, SIN and a handful of capitulators in
prison. FACT: Counterrevolutionary hoax smashed with more People's
War. Party is strong and united as a steel.	 								

The above are but a few examples where the SWP helps to promote the
psychological operations of imperialism in order to hinder
international support for the People's War. In addition, SWP borrows
Troskyte innuendo to mischaracterize the PCP by calling it
"bonapartist', "Stalinist", even suggesting the crazy idea that the
Party is "anarchist"!  In its tabloids "The Militant" and "New
International," which are distributed in their Pathfinder Bookstores,
it defames as "terrorists" the heroic people of Peru, fighting an
armed struggle under the leadership of the PCP against the brutal
regime of dictator Fujimori.

Continued...

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