From: Rubyg580-AT-aol.com Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 17:21:02 -0500 Subject: re:Questions for PCP (about RCP, CSRP) I thought I'd fill you in on some information re RCP-USA. I was a member from 1980 until I was expelled in 1993 after refusing to go along with their increasingly un-Maoist way of operating. CSRP (Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru) is in effect, a "wholly owned subsiderary" of RCP. RCP created this organization in the early 80's , recruited the national spokesperson of CSRP (Heriberto Ocasio) by means of internal directives in the late 80's and aparently controls who may and may not affiliate with CSRP. For example, our Detroit group formally requested such affiliation in 1994. After talking with Detroit RCP, CSRP accused us of "misrepresenting ourselves," spreading false rumors about a new chairperson of PCP, attacking the RCP and various other offenses which Detroit RCP had accused us of. When we wrote a response refuting these charges, neither CSRP nor Detroit RCP ever answered our letter, even when we contacted them each a second time to try to get a response . This refusal to deal with the issue is typical of how RCP operates. A case in point is that criticisms of their position on the People's War in Peru have been put forward very openly, particularly by The New Flag, but also in other ways: by postings on the internet, locally distributed flyers, at least in Detroit, probably elsewhere. They have not made any attempt to respond to these criticisms. They have not mentioned the fact that their position is not accepted by other organizations in the RIM, or by other grups in the US supportive of the People's War. Far from being heroic or Maoist, they are revisionist cowards. The following are some thoughts on the issue of "Rally to the defense of our red flag flying in Peru", which is the slogan raised by RCP and the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (or rather, the International Committee of the RIM, which does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the participating organizations in the Movement. Bob Avakian, Chairman of the CC of RCP is also reportedly the leader of this Committee of the RIM) These thoughts were particularly in response to a translation I read of an interview from La Republica magazine, a reactionary Peruvian publication, where they interviewed Margie Clavo, who the RCP has promoted as an unrepentant revolutionary who withstood torture after she was captured. However, her reputation among Peruvian revolutionaries living in this country is that she has been a capitulator for some time. The RCP/CoRIM andCOINTELPRO What RCP-CoRIM (Revolutionary Communist Party, USA and the International Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement) is doing with the stuff around Margie Clavo aka Comrade Nancy is a COINTELPRO thing, but on a higher, more desperate and global level, bcause this isn't revolutionary organizing in the ghetto, it's revolutionary war approaching victory. And RCP/CoRIM is playing along for it's own ends, if not directly co-operating with this US/FujimoriCOINTELPRO scheme. 1. Setting up their agent among the revolutionary forces: presenting Clavo as a promoter of People's War even after torture. The Revolutionary Worker (RW; the weeklynewspaper of RCP) prints pictures of this, even though the MPP's have known Clavo is a capitulater and cooperator with police. 2. Then this "unrepentant revolutionary" claims to have talked with Chairman Gonzalo & he convinced her that "persisitance" was wrong: that the correct line is fight for peace negotiations (I guess IEC should declare a big victory, since according to Clavo, C.G. is not isolated anymore, but meets regularly with her and other imprisoned PCP leaders). This is how the FBI and other political police set up snitches & provocateurs in COINTELPRO:bust and brutalize their target very visibly to give them credibility among the revolutionary masses, then have them use that credibility to turn things to the advantage of the pigs, whether it was leading the people into a trap or ambush from which the snitch would be spared, or using their influence to prevent or sabotage an action against the old order (the movie "Panther" dramatizes such tactics using the character played by Kadeem Hardiston) 3. By accepting the original set-up of Clavo as "unrepentant under torture", the RW aided thissnitch scheme of the Peruvian authorities. THE "PEACE TALKS" LETTERS AND VIDEOS: 1. False "letters from the Panthers" were circulated in the late 60's, letters that spoke ill of other leftist groups. The goal was to disrupt comradely relations & cooperation between the Panthers and these other groups. 2. The Peruvian pigs circulated letters & videos supposedly showing C.G. calling for ending the PW & negotiating with Fujimori. The goal was to disrupt the unity and fighting will within the PCP and People's Army and to split the support of the masses, playing on pacifist sentiments that are definitely out there - especially among middle forces who live in imperialist countries. 3. By claiming that even though the letters and videos are false, they have had the desired effect of disrupting the unity of the PCP and Army ("they gave rise to a 2-liine struggle within PCP that continues today -2 1/2 years later¨) the RCP/CoRIM aids and promotes this demoralizing and splitting effect that is the goal of Fujimori and U.S. imperialists 4. Look at the facts: a.) by Oct. l993, the PCP had in fact defeated the "peace talks" line within its own ranks and had united behind continuing the PW to victory. Facts in the real world show this, by the fact that the PW has not died down but is continuing to advance. b.) look at the unity between what Clavo says in the "interview" printed in La Republica and what RCP/CoRIM say in their 'A World To Win' publication: that the PCP has not "split", but there is struggle within it over peace talks vs. People's War, and that the (still undecided) outcome of this "2 line struggle" is the critical thing for people to be concerned about. Even though Clavo and RCP/CoRIM seem to be taking opposite sides in this "2LS", in fact, they take the same side: they both give legitimacy to the fraud that there is disunity within the revolutionary forces in Peru over whether to continue the PW - the fraud that serves the forces of reaction and U.S. imperialism. What is the stand of revolutionaries? Victory to the People's War! Prepare the conquest of Power! Oppose U.S. intervention, including their Psychological Warfare that aims to erode support outside Peru and demoralize the fighters in Peru. What is the stand of CoRim and RCP? "Rally to the Defense" "The US fraud is having a big effect" "Psychological Warfare - what's that? All we see is two-line struggle"("which we worship on paper, but suppress in practice if it ever crops up in our members") As to Clavo´s claim that she meets "regularly with Chairman Gonzalo" in prison, there´s three possibilities: 1.)she´s lying;President Gonzalo is still in complete isolation and has not caved in to theemands of the old regime. 2.)She´s telling the truth: Pres. G. has caved in and taken a capitulationist stand and therefore has been allowed to exert his influence in this direction on the other PCP leaders in prison. (This is unlikely, since if it were true, the Fujimori regime would surely be making more use of it: putting Pres. G on TV in full view and with clear sound) 3.) She´s telling half a truth: a.) maybe she and other "ïmprisoned leaders¨ are meeting with Pres. G, but as part of the regime´s attempt to break him. b.) maybe they´ve gotten him to go along half'way, but not willing to go on TV and publicly call for peace talks c.) whatever... Whatever the real story is, the only reason the old regime would be permitting people like Clavo to meet with Pres. G. would be as part of promiting capitulation and demoralization. For RCP CoRIM to fail to expose this as vigorously as humanly possible is nothing less than their own capitulaiton to imperialism and betrayal of the interests of the people of Peru and the entire proletariat and oppressed peoples of the world. !Avakianismo no es Maoismo! --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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