Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:57:57 -0500
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings)
Subject: M-G: Castro deepens anti-proletarian solidarity with Fujimori regime


Yesterday we published the following:

CUBAN AMBASSADOR campaigns in Lima together with Fujimori in order to
butress the fascist regime while starving teachers demand their right to a
living wage. 

>From Peruvian Newspaper La Republica 14/11/97:

Fujimori says that state employees will not have salaries raised.

Catcalls and whistles forced Fujimori to cut short his speech inaugurating a
school

President Fujimori said yesterday that there will not be no immediate raise
in salaries for teachers or any other state employees.  A few moments
earlier a group of teachers had loudly demanded that salaries be raised thus
preventing Fujimori from carrying on with the ceremony of the Republic of
Cuba school in the popular district of Comas.

After hastily concluding his speech because of the disturbances the teachers
had created, Fujimori took his leave from the Ambassadors of Cuba, Benito
Perez Fernandez, and Venezuela, Rodrigo Ancaya, who had been accompaniting
him in his tour, and departed immediately in the direction of another school.

The teachers of the school interrupted Fujimori's alocution with deafening
catcalls and whistles loudly demanding a raise in their salaries. Once well
away in another school and speaking with the media Fujimori recognised that
there is no doubt that the salaries of state employees are too low.  He said
that the government knows this, but it cannot be irresponsible and just
print money because that would be inflacionary........ blah, blah,
blah.......etc., etc.

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ROCK AROUND THE BLOCKADE: GIVING TO CASTRO TO HELP FUJIMORI!

However, the eternal apologists for Castroite revisionism, have again tried
to justify this outrageous collusion with the Fujimori regime and US
imperialism by comparing apples with pears and lending a patina of "Marxist
internationalism" to this evidence of the fraudulent character of the so
called "solidarity with revolutionary Cuba" that they practice.

The apologists for Castroite revisionism allege that the contribution of the
Republic of Cuba to the school building programme of the Fujimori tyranny -
which was the motive for the Cuban ambassador Benito Perez Fernandez to
campaign together with Fujimori and set their faces against the exploited
teachers and the masses of Peru - is well within the character of the
solidarity among peoples of the Third world.  

They have, as usual and with complete disregard of time, place and concrete
condition, resorted to comparisons with the internationalist solidarity
practiced by the Soviet Union under Stalin and China under Chairman Mao vis
a vis the countries of the Third World, to justify this active collaboration
of the Castro regime with the fascist Fujimori tyranny and carried out for
eclusively counter-revolutionary political purposes.

The facts in Peru are clear.  There is a revolutionary war led by the
proletariat and its Party which for the last 17 years has been busy
demolishing the old Peruvian state, destroying its capacity to rope in the
masses and to harness the people behind the chariot of the imperialists and
their local flunkys.  
     
With the capture of Chairman Gonzalo, the international bourgeosie designed
a substantial rescue package to enable the Fujimori regime to recover and
consolidate its recently introduced new fascist regime following the coup of
April 5, 1992.  Support for the Fujimori regime was garnered from every big
and small player in the imperialist camp, and it took a many layered character:

Military, political, diplomatic and principally economic and social. In the
economic aspect, the main effort of many imperialist countries to shore up
the tottering Peruvian state of bureacrats and landlords has consistent in
lines of credit and fostering massive investments in the Peruvian economy
(both to open it up for further exploitation as well as to contribute to
facilitate the functioning of the state apparatus, including its prisons,
armed forces and police).

In the social aspect, a sustained campaign based on Fujimori's demagogy to
promote "education, education, education" (that is reactionary and
pro-imperialist fascistic style education in militarised universities and
schools) the imperialist have been also generous as well as encouraged the
generosity of other states such as Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, etc.
in helping to develop Fujimori "school building programme" that serves him
as a permanent "hearts and minds" campaign for counter-subversive activities
and also for his "re-electionist" charade.

It is in this context that one should understand the meaning of the genrous
donation of the Republic of Cuba school that Castro's ambassador was
assisting Fujimori to inaugurate: Cuba's contribution to the world wide
camapign of imperialism to shore up the fascist regime in Peru and defeat
the revolution of the workers and peasants.

To think that the great bulk of the "anti-imperialist solidarity" campaigns
implemented by revisionists and Trotskysts to "help Cuba break the US
blockade" ("Rock Around the Blockade" and other charity style collections of
funds, second hand materials, old clothes, and commodities of all sorts,
that are cadged from the working people in many countries, principally
Britain, Germany, the US, the Netherlands, France, Italy, etc.) consist of
bowl in hand beggary that insults the very concept of socialism and
international solidarity is in fact giving wherewithal for Castro to
transfer these funds givien to the "Cuban people" to Fujimori.

With one hand he receives the charity of the condescending saviour "left"
while with the other he uses it to enable Fujimori to shore up his fascist
state!


That, in synthesis, is the real meaning of social-fascist "solidarity":

Soldiraty of the reactionaries and the exploiters and oppressors of all
nations against the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses of the
world!

Adolfo Olaechea   



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