Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 19:23:00 GMT
Subject: M-G: MRTA: A.OLAECHEA'S REPORT TO STALIN SOCIETY AND ARTICLE BY ARCE BORJA


REPORT TO THE STALIN SOCIETY - LONDON 02/02/97

At the annual General Meeting of the Stalin Society in London, the following
report was presented by Adolfo Olaechea, spokesman for Committee Sol Peru.
In it the article of Luis Arce Borja - "Revolutionaries or Vulgar Shysters"
- was included with the aims of clarifying before the many representatives
of the revolutionary proletarian press in the UK, and the members of the
Stalin Society in particular, the questions posited by the MRTA and its
counter-revolutionary and pro-imperialist activities in Peru.

Text of the Report follows:


Dear Comrades,

I would like to thank our Stalin Society once again for allowing me to
clarify the ongoing developments in the revolutionary process in Peru.  This
is all the more important given that recently the imperialist media - taking
as its cue the actions of the MRTA commando in seizing the Japanese Embassy
in Peru - has began a very loud, wide ranging, hypocritical, crafty,
insidious and systematic anti-communist campaign daringly geared to pull the
wool over peoples eyes, in particular, revolutionary and progressive minded
people.  

Their aim is to take advantage of the natural internationalist spirit of
solidarity and admiration we all have for rebellious action and use this as
a double edged anti-communist sword, sow dissent and confusion, isolate and
divide the authentic revolutionary forces, and thus serve strictly
counter-revolutionary and pro-imperialist objectives. 

And this is no danger affecting only those directly concerned with the
Peruvian situation. No. This problem inscribes itself within the present
moment being lived within our ICM.  Ours is still a situation in which,
having already undertaken most important strides in reversing the
stultifying legacy of revisionism, we still show some important lacks in our
work. 

It is precisely those gaps in our communist armour that the class enemy, by
way of its gigantic propaganda machine, intends to exploit so as to reverse
the trend which worries them no end: That increasingly the "spectre of
communism is haunting the world anew", whatever they may hammer about the
"death of communism" day in and day out.

Thus the reactionaries bank on taking advantage of the remnants of the
ideological bad habits still embedded in many class conscious comrades as a
result of the revisionist era.  

I think that now, we should pause to grasp well the implications of a little
understood Marxist dictum from the very inception of our movement. From the
time of the Manifesto, communists were enjoined by Marx and Engels to "look
chiefly towards Germany".
  
One may ask: What was this recommendation in aid of?  What relevance does
this have today?  Was this just some euro-centric bee in Marx's or Engels's
own bonnet, perhaps?  Had this something to do with Marx having been born in
Trier, or both Marx and Engels having their political roots and associates
in that country, or even because Germany was then an important country
developing capitalism at the centre of Europe?.  

Not at all, comrades. There was nothing in Marx or Engels of particularly
biased interest in their own country, an understandable trend among some
revolutionists in exile. Nor had our founders a single chauvinistic or
Eurocentric bone in them at all. 

The fundamental reason for Marx and Engels issuing this injunction to all
communists, was because, for proletarian internationalists, it was then in
Germany where proletarian revolutionary developments were already observed
and expected to further develop and bear fruit.  The paramount interests of
the movement demanded then that the communists chiefly set their eyes firmly
on these developments in Germany and effect their praxis in their own
countries accordingly.

Later, communists and revolutionary minded people - correctly - looked
towards the Soviet Union, and later also towards People's China, because, in
this century, the revolutionary developments and the important lessons for
the world proletariat were principally to be derived from the glorious and
earthshaking revolutionary waves led by comrades Lenin, Stalin and Mao
Tse-tung in those very countries.

However, within the process of ebb and flow of the proletarian revolution,
this very positive state of affairs of the working class holding power for
the first time in history in a number of countries, tended, understandably
at the time, to confuse some people into the nefarious practice of looking
for the revolutionary flow, there where the stagnant revisionist ebb had
already settled well in.  

Some comrades had, unfortunately and with negative consequences, overlooked
the real reason of Marx and Engels enjoining them with "looking chiefly at
Germany" - something which, in its right interpretation meant simply and for
all times: "looking chiefly at the revolution and at the perspective and
concrete reality of proletarian power". 

After the death first of great Stalin, and then of Chairman Mao, a
substantial root of the disorientation of the world's communists, can be
blamed on this habit of "looking chiefly" at the exterior manifestations -
the rhetoric and simple material gains of socialism - and not to its inner
content and the revolutionary tasks Marxism set before us in this context.  

This is a trend which we have still not totally overcome and, also a trend
that if unchecked, can most certainly lead into falling against our own most
dearly held Marxist principles, revolutionary sentiments and class
interests, into the traps set by the ever more subtle and crafty
anti-communist plots the reactionary bourgeoisie has of late learned to
concoct with increasing sophistication.  

Now, it is the imperialist bourgeoisie and its media who directly have taken
upon themselves the method used by the Trotskyst and revisionist schemers of
old,  "using the party card to oppose the revolution" - as Stalin put it -
or as Chairman Mao did - "waving the red flag in order to oppose the red flag".

We communists are privileged to be living through a new revolutionary wave
potentially far more powerful and definitive. A wave now at its very
inception - the strategic offensive of the world proletarian revolution,
developing in accordance with its own dialectical-materialist logic, and in
full correspondence with the concrete conditions of today, when the main
arena of the revolutionary struggle continues to be in the oppressed
countries of the world.  
Therefore, a firm grasp of these factors, is of paramount importance in
orienting ourselves correctly, unless we want to slide into a renewed
revisionist quagmire.  That, comrades, and this can never be emphasised
overmuch, continues to be the main danger confronting us all, here in this
Stalin society, as well as in the wider movement, in Great Britain, and in
the world at large.

Here in the Stalin society - and we could do no less without reneging of the
most basic ideological principles defended and promoted by the great
Marxist-Leninist leader under whose name we convene - we are all firm
supporters of the revolutionary struggle of the Peruvian people and justly
regard the Communist Party of Peru, PCP, as part and parcel of our own
International Communist Movement, our comrades in the forefront of the
struggle and the indisputable leader of that country's revolution.

However, on occasions we still fail to fully grasp the logical implications
of our own ideological convictions, and that lack gives rise to mistakes in
our praxis, allowing the class enemy to pull a fast one over the best and
most advanced comrades among us.   

We all know that in revolutionary times - like in Peru since May 17, 1980 or
in Russia in 1917 - the world of the people is, in the perceptive and famous
words of Gerald Winstanley, turned upside down, and many things which in
times of peaceful development are regarded as revolutionary, are turned into
their opposites in very few days, or even hours.   

To fail to grasp this leads into been taken unawares by
counter-revolutionaries mouthing blatant lies to disguise their services to
imperialism and world reaction. We all know it is something negative to lend
revolutionary platforms to the enemies of the revolution. That some good
comrades could fall - however briefly - for the tricks of mountebanks of
imperialism - the revisionists and the opportunists - who speak with both
sides of their mouths, shows that our work has not been as good as it should.
  
And that precisely has been the case with the seizure of the Japanese
embassy in Peru on the part of an organisation calling itself the MRTA.
While in Europe and the USA, obscure individuals claiming to speak for this
obscure organisation have circulated communiques and made press declarations
in which they say one thing, a very different tune is being sang in Peru by
the very people they are claiming to speak on behalf of.  

We read, for example, in an interview published in London by the magazine
Lalkar, that one Mrs Norma Velazco, a "representative of the MRTA" speaking
to the German magazine Junge Welt says: "The militants of the MRTA, however,
categorically reject peace talks with the government.....it is still
necessary to wage a revolutionary struggle for social change".

However, it has now become crystal clear even for the most innocent among
us, that this is nothing but a simple lie thrown in, so as to take good
comrades by surprise! It is nothing but a component part of the many tongued
and twisted psychological warfare apparatus accompanying an action that far
>from been either revolutionary or anti-imperialist, is precisely the action
of an anti-communist gang with a long standing, unadulterated
counter-revolutionary and pro-imperialist agenda.  

The facts in Peru are completely different, and that is the purpose of this
report.  You have here available an excellent article by comrade Luis Arce
Borja, who you all know as the director of El Diario Internacional, the
authentic voice of the revolutionary people of Peru. In this article,
comrade Arce Borja analyses the events that have monopolised public
attention all over the world for over a month now.  This is what comrade
Arce has to say: 

Revolutionaries, or Vulgar Shysters?.
MRTA: THE GUERILLA OF PEACE TALKS
By: Luis Arce Borja

On Tuesday December 17, an MRTA commando composed of 22 guerillas seized the
Japanese embassy in Lima. More than 900 people were taken hostages, among
them officials of international organisms, foreign diplomats, government
ministers, Police chiefs, parliamentarians, executives and businessmen. This
event took place during the reception to commemorate the birthday of the
current Japanese Emperor. 

More than 40 days have passed from this moment and little by little the
murky background of the Japanese embassy seizure has began to emerge into
the light of day. The abundant publicity surrounding this action has failed
to disguise the farcical and even ridiculous situation into which the
participants, both the raiders as well as the government itself, have mired
themselves into. 

This piece - without going into the issue of whatever the final outcome of
the seizure of the Japanese embassy may be -  aims to demonstrate that the
action of the MRTA has no revolutionary objectives at all, and, on the
contrary, it is principally an action serving the political-military plans
of the Peruvian regime and US imperialism.  

The MRTA action, despite all its showmanship, has the cynical objective of
promoting dialogue with - and capitulation before - the Peruvian government.
This capitulation hides behind the courtesan's veil of "lasting peace
agreement".

Dialogue, Peace Agreement and Capitulation

When Peruvians realised that one of the political planks of the group that
had seized the Japanese embassy in Peru was to demand that "the government
should change the direction of its economic policy" and that "peace with
social justice" should be established, they understood all too well that
they were faced with a new and farcical fraud staged by the MRTA.  

Ordinary folk, those who in Peru are suffering like martyrs on the cross,
know from their own experience that the Peruvian regime would change its
economic model is a feat as impossible as inserting a camel through the eye
of a needle, and, that peace with social justice could be achieved under the
present system and with the same rulers currently in power, is even more
unlikely. Aha! Peace and social justice with Fujimori in control?.
Remarkable sermon from those glib MRTA shysters. 

But this unique combination of clever-by-half political banality of the MRTA
leaders is even more clearly revealed in their first public communique
issued following their action of December 17.  In that document they
lachrymosely assert:  "the MRTA is an organisation that has always been
ready to hold talks, but we were always rejected and scorned by the
government...".  What a tragi-comical state of affairs!.  We have learned
somewhere in the Marxist Classics that only that which has been won in the
field of battle can be stamped in the negotiating table. In other words, if
one of the negotiating partners has no military strength in the ground at
all, it is little or nothing what they could demand or secure in any
negotiations. 

The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), having no strategy for the
seizure of power, and guiding themselves by a strange ideological cocktail
(Guevarism, Castrism, Aprism, Tupacamarism, etc.) has never been a serious
threat to the stability of the Peruvian State, and even less to that of the
imperialist interests in Peru.  This group tried to be taken notice of by
staging theatrical and movie-like activities which the Peruvian media has
always been happy to promote. 

The MRTA emerges in 1984 linked to the reactionary Apra regime of Alan
Garcia Perez and to the United Left (IU). From its very beginnings it
undertakes tasks geared at dispersing the forces within the people's camp
and "fighting against Shining Path". In its 12 years of activity, the MRTA
achieves no important development. In 1985, one year after having began its
armed actions, they entered into an alliance with the fascist regime led by
the Apra party. In 1990, the MRTA approached the Fujimori regime seeking
negotiations. This group, ever more isolated and riven by its internal
vendettas, has not and never has had, any significance in Peruvian politics. 

In their second communique the MRTA went even further. With little sense of
shame, they announced that their seizure of the Japanese embassy had the aim
of "taking the first steps for a global solution to the problem of political
violence by means of dialogue and a permanent peace agreement". Aha!, what
they really want is to sign a permanent peace agreement with one of the most
brutal and criminal regimes in Peruvian history.

"Dialogue", and "permanent peace agreement", are the key ideas synthesising
the political aims of the MRTA in seizing the Japanese embassy in Lima.
This action only serves them as a publicity stunt to drum up support for
"peace agreement" and to provide them with a minimal amount of clout in the
negotiating table. 

That is why the media in Peru and abroad has portrayed this affair with so
much spectacular glee and moving benevolence. Nestor Cerpa, "commander" of
the embassy raiding group was given access to radio talk shows, press and
Television. Uncharacteristically, the government, instead of censoring or
curtailing information about this event, rather encouraged and provided
ample leeway for the media to propagandise the "good egg character and
humane nature" of the guerillas of the MRTA. 

What Hides Behind the Seizure of the Japanese Embassy

Within the frame work of "peace agreement", the "set of demands" posited by
the MRTA in exchange for the lives of the hostages, is but a political sop
aimed at disguising the murky background of the seizure of the Japanese
embassy in Lima.  The MRTA synthesises its demands in the following four
points. 1) The release of MRTA prisoners; 2) That the regime changes its
economic policies; 3) A "war tax";  and  4) that the commando that took over
the embassy be transported to the Amazon jungle. 

These points - as a complement to capitulation - have a totally irrelevant
political content that can only serve the interests of the government. Let
us look into this in more detail: What would be the problem for the regime
in releasing 400 prisoners if these have previously capitulated, reneging
>from the armed struggle, and, moreover, "integrated themselves into the
political life of the country". 

Who would entertain any doubts that in such capacity those prisoners would
only serve to support the political and military plans of the regime?. We
can show similar examples all over Latin America when groups of similar aims
as the MRTA negotiated with and capitulated before the imperialist puppet
regimes of the region. In Ecuador, the nearly extinct "Alfaro Vive Carajo"
movement today only serves as Christmas decoration for the official
political system. 

In Colombia, the M-19 sold out its "armed struggle" so as to take part in
elections. In El Salvador, the former guerillas have become part of the
police forces of that state.  In Guatemala, the URNG guerillas, after 36
years of armed struggle, signed a peace treaty with the pro-imperialist
regime of Alvaro Arzu.  With this capitulation,  the URNG gives up its
weapons in order to become a "single party" and to "incorporate itself into
the democratic system". 

The demand of the MRTA for the government to change its economic policy, is
nothing but a "salute to the flag".  Its content is empty demagogy which
serves them only for publicity's sake.  Can anyone imagine that it would be
enough to seize an embassy and to lay hands on a few hundred hostages in
order to force a reactionary regime to change its sinister and anti-popular
economic policies?. 

If the MRTA had really in mind the promotion of the interests of the
Peruvian poor, why have they not demanded as a condition for releasing the
hostages that the government decrees a raise in wages and salaries for the
workers?. The two remaining points, (war tax, and the MRTA commando being
given transportation), could well be the demands of any vulgar gang of bank
raiders.  Easy to grant and without any major political implications. 

Who Benefits from the MRTA's Action?

To look into this issue it is sufficient to elucidate what are the aims and
what is being negotiated by the MRTA. What is the gist of the issue being
discussed between the Peruvian regime and the MRTA?. This group has
expressed its willingness to sign a "lasting peace agreement" with the
Peruvian regime. We have to take this as the basic element in order to see
exactly what are the political reasons for the raid and seizure of the
japanese embassy. 

Two are the direct beneficiaries of the peace proposals of the MRTA. The
first beneficiary is the Peruvian regime, and the second one is no other
than US imperialism itself. A "peace agreement" between the MRTA and the
government, leaving aside the political and military insignificance of this
group, serves for reinforcing the political plans and anti-insurgency
schemes being applied by this regime since 1990. There are several political
reasons which make of the "peace agreement", a god send for Fujimori. One of
this reasons is related to the adverse political situation engulfing the
regime. 

And what are the elements underpinning such an adverse situation?. Firstly,
there is the Maoist guerilla led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), which
despite the regime's silly propaganda about "defeat of Shining Path"
continues to be the number one problem besieging the Peruvian state.
Fujimori promised to liquidate ("erase from the map") subversion by the end
of July 1995. This propaganda slogan has turned into a sharp boomerang
against the government. 

The logic trend of the Maoist guerillas is towards its growth and
strengthening. Even the very enemies of the guerillas recognise this fact
today. Here is a recent expression of this:

"We are facing a reconstitution of Shining Path ... In other words, they
have been able to counteract the defeat inflicted upon them by the capture
of its top leadership, and are again experiencing growth, enroling new
people, training and setting them into action". (Fernando Rospigliosi,
Caretas magazine, May 23, 1996).

Another serious element in the national situation is the sharpening of the
economic crisis and the increase of poverty in Peru. Fujimori's ballyhooed
"economic spring" turned out to be less productive than a drop of water in
the middle of the desert. The auction of state enterprises has ended and now
there are more poor and unemployed people in Peru than they were in 1990. 

To these conundrums, we can add the direly felt aftermath of the shameful
defeat at the hands of Ecuador in the military clashes of January 1995.  Due
to this the state has embarked into an extravagant arms race further
weakening Peru's fragile economy.  This situation will exacerbate even more
social conflicts and poverty in the country. 

As a final ingredient, we must take note of the drugs trade, which if in the
one hand renders a substantial income for the State, has on the other
generated an atmosphere of generalised corruption within the military high
command, the police, the judiciary and within the top ranks of the
government itself. 

"Peace Agreements" and Counter-Insurgency Schemes

In the field of counter-insurgency, the "peace agreement" posited by the
MRTA has a concrete aim in mind: Attempting to isolate the Maoist guerillas.
It is a sure fire bet that in conjunction with the negotiations between the
MRTA and the government, the media will launch a gigantic misinformation
campaign directed to promote the civic and patriotic values of the
negotiating guerillas.  

Along side this, they will intensify their campaign to portray the guerilla
forces of the Communist Party of Peru as a gang of heartless cut-throats,
terrorists who kill the civilian population for sport. 

That is why it is not accidental that the MRTA, in the same communique in
which they propose the "lasting peace agreement" with Fujimori, hurls
hysterical mud against the Maoist guerilla. In their third communique issued
after December 17, they say: "We do not accept to be continuously likened to
Shining Path, an organisation we have condemned in various opportunities
because of their use of irrational violence against the people themselves". 

The punch-line of this communique is really worthy of Ripley.  It shows the
counter-revolutionary police-like role that the so-called followers of Tupac
Amaru aspire to undertake if the government would accept their "peace"
proposals. Barely bothering to conceal this role, they say:  "our request
should be granted and that would in the long term give rise to an inclusive
and lasting peace. Towards this aim we shall jointly and responsibly work for". 

The people of Peru, together with the peoples of all Latin America, have
abundant experience obtained at the cost of their own blood of the methods
(repression, crime, kidnapping, disappearances and inhuman imprisonment)
used by various regimes, civilian or military, in order to impose what is
known as "inclusive and lasting peace".  And towards this end the MRTA says
that it "shall jointly and responsibly work for".

The Yankees' Benefit

The Yankees doubly benefit here. On the one hand, the "lasting peace"
proposed by the MRTA buttresses their puppet regime in Peru, and that in
itself plays in favour of the economical and political interests of the
great US conglomerates whose tentacles strangle the country.  But the
greatest dividends for the USA are to be found in linking the actions of the
MRTA within the counter-insurgency "peace building" policies they are
implementing in Latin America. 

We should not overlook the fact that in Latin America and other parts of the
world, "dialogue" and "peace agreement", have become institutional tools in
the counter-insurgency plans and strategies rigged for imposing "peace"
within countries faced with internal wars.   "Peace agreements", real or
fraudulent,  render enormous political benefits for imperialism and
reactionary regimes alike. The only victims of these "agreements"
(capitulation) are the masses of the poor, those who during years and
decades have sacrificed themselves and contributed thousands of lives in
order to get nothing at all at the end of the day. 

In Peru, the fraudulent concoction known as the "peace letters from Shining
Path"  (a police plot launched in 1993)  has become the fundamental element
and basic premise of the regime's current anti-insurgency strategy. 

It is the MRTA itself who gives us proof of its intentions in serving US
imperialism. This proof was delivered and stamped as a veritable present of
love packaged with golden ribbons and every possible frill. We are referring
here to the release of Jose Maria Argot, Guatemala's ambassador in Peru who
was among the hostages in the Japanese embassy. This diplomat was, according
to the MRTA itself, set free in "recognition of the peace agreement, signed
on 29 December between the National Revolutionary Union of Guatemala (UNRG)
and the government of that country".  The release of this diplomat, was
interpreted by the Peruvian media itself as a "signal on the part of the
MRTA of its aim for achieving some kind of similar agreement with the
Peruvian government". 

However, it is not only the case of the release of the Guatemalan diplomat
what shows up how the MRTA beseeches the favours of the US government.
Showing little embarrassment the MRTA alleges in its communique number 1
that the seizure of the Japanese embassy is an action in "condemnation of
the interference of the Japanese government in our motherland's political
life by consistent support for the human rights violations inflicted by the
Peruvian government". 

So, now it is the Japanese empire the hand directing policy and governance
in the Peruvian regime?. And what role does US imperialism play?. 
It is clear that the Fujimori regime defends and defers to the interests of
Japanese imperialism, as well as those of other imperialist powers, be these
Great Britain, France, Germany, etc.   But the issue remains that it is
precisely US imperialism who is the main enemy of the Peruvian people. That
this empire is the one which decides, in accordance with its methods and
interests, what kind of regime and what kind of policies must predominate in
the country. 

Peru, like the majority of other Latin American countries, is part and
parcel of US imperialism's "backyard".  Within that "backyard" whatever the
Japanese, or any other imperialist power, may do, must have the consent and
imprimatur of the USA. 

What a great service for the US regime is rendered by the MRTA when they
affirm that it is Japan who is responsible for the "violations of human
rights" in Peru.  Even the most ignorant of analysts knows well that the
bloodthirsty counter-insurgency plans of the Peruvian regime, as well as its
economic policies, are manufactured and buttressed by the US government and
not by the Japanese. 

A Few Conclusions

Someone may attempt to gainsay us pointing out that it is not that clear
that the action of the MRTA favours the regime and imperialism. To advance
this thesis they would allege that the seizure of the Japanese embassy has
had world wide resonance and has brought to light the weakness of the state
and its police forces. That it has demonstrated that the Fujimori regime
keeps millions of Peruvians sunk in abject misery.  That in Peru prisoners
are kept in "tombs for the living" and that "human rights are violated".
And finally, that contrary to Fujimori's assertions, the guerilla forces are
active and have not been liquidated.

To all this we can only point out at two factors: 

Firstly, whatever negatives the MRTA and the media may have revealed about
the Fujimori regime, loses its impact since the main "complainant" (the
MRTA) is offering to sign a "lasting peace agreement" precisely with such a
government. The simple and logical question of any ordinary citizen is: How
is it possible to come to a "peace agreement" with the same regime you are
accusing of "violating human rights", of murdering prisoners in slow motion,
of starving to death millions of Peruvians?.  Wait a minute!: Here someone
is lying, would say to himself/herself the most naive of observers. 

Secondly, the seizure of the Japanese embassy, which at the onset was
presented as a dramatic event, has evolved, after more than 40 days into an
amusing and circus-like sideshow involving no major danger for the regime.
There are no casualties that may put pressure one way or another.  The
"rebels" from their "own free will" have released more than 80% of their
haul of captives, among them several war criminals, for example, the Chief
of the anti-terrorist police. 

It is a dead certainty that the action of the MRTA, aimed as it is to the
signing of a "peace agreement" with Fujimori, would in the end be promoted
as an event "officially marking the victory of the regime over subversion". 

Monday, January 27, 1997.
Brussels - Belgium
Translated, printed and published 
by Committee Sol Peru - London
Press Commission

Thus far, the words of Luis Arce Borja.

Now, that a serious and revolutionary magazine like Lalkar was taken into
publishing this piece of disguised counter-revolutionary propaganda should
be seen in the context of a gigantic counter-intel-pro operation in which
all sort of puppets wearing different labels are uttering a babel of
cleverly disguised anti-communist messages elaborated by the ventriloquists
of the Peruvian regime and its master, US imperialism.  

For example: Even the name of the Communist Party of Peru's organisations
abroad - the MPP - has been usurped by FBI/CIA "honey-trap" operators, most
notoriously, an outfit operating in Internet calling itself various names,
among others: "Luis Quispe", "The New Flag", "MPP-USA" and even the "PCP Web
Page". This outfit - behind which two Peruvian trotskyst police agents, the
brothers William and Wilfredo Palomino, hide, had even the chutzpa of
characterising the action of the MRTA as an anti-imperialist one. 

Taking, as these mountebanks do, the name of the PCP in vain, no wonder that
some revolutionary minded people, and even advanced communists, can be
confused and taken advantage of. Substantial amounts of imperialist money
are been invested in order to create such organs of confusion and
misguidance and no expenses are been spared in an attempt to give them a
luxury platform so that they can spit their venom against the revolution,
the Communist party and its leaders all the more.

Comrades should bear in mind the Trotskyst/revisionist/social democratic
origins of these counter-revolutionary anti-communist activities. Today the
revolutionary front in the world - and let us here remember the communist
slogan "Everything for the Front" - more than ever includes a substantial
element of psychological warfare.

Comrades, what is been said today in this Stalin Society, like yesterday,
and even more, will carry powerful weight throughout the movement, not only
in this country, but throughout the world.  We have to become ever more
conscious of that fact and that heavy responsibility, and assume our role in
the front of today's living revolution.

That has been the purpose of this report.  I thank you very much for your
internationalist solidarity and attention. Long live the revolution under
the leadership of the Communist Party of Peru, down with all imperialist and
reactionary "peace plots".   Down with all counter-revolutionary pests!

Adolfo Olaechea     



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