Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:20:21 +0100
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPORTUNISM IN THE MOVEMENT TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU TAKES ROOT IN THE WORKING CLASS 



THE STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM, OPPORTUNISM AND INFILTRATED AGENTS, TAKES
ROOT IN THE RADICAL SECTIONS OF THE WORKING CLASS ORGANISATIONS IN BRITAIN
AND ELSEWHERE.

We begin with a message Committee Sol Peru has just received via fax from
The Communist Party of Greece (Marxist Leninist):

Athens 16/04/96

The Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist) salutes the new intiative
for an International World Mobilisation Commission for supporting the
People's War in Peru.

Today we live in an era where imperialism and capitalism trying to overcome
the permanent crisis of the system, have escalated their attack against the
proletariat and the peoples around the world.  The imperialist crimes in
former Yugoslavia and recently in Lebanon reveal once again the actual
nature of capitalism.

The defeat of the Communist Movement, and the betrayal of revisionism have
left the proletariat and peoples impotent.  The fundamental pre-condition
for the reconstitution of a powerful movement against the inhuman capitalist
system is that the communists may regain the trust of the proletariat.

Therefore, the heroic struggle of the Peruvian people and its Communist
Party is a source of inspiration and hope for the whole international
communist movement.  It is the task of every real communist to support
actively by any means the revolutionary process in Peru.  That support comes
through the fight against American imperialist intervention, against the
criminal fascist Fujimori regime as well as against EVERY PLOT for capitulation.

The establishing of an International Organism that will be the direct link
between the People's War, the Communist Party of Peru, and the various local
committees is certainly a step forward for a strong international support
movement which is the only ally of the Peruvian revolution, and the real
tool for the defence of the life of the political and war prisoners of the
People's War.

Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist)


Below we also reproduce an important article in the same vein published by
the Indian Workers Association of Great Britain.  We will continue
publishing the growing support for the initiative of the MPP-Belgium, El
Diario Internatcional, Committee Sol-Peru Belgium and Committee Sol Peru -
London for the establishment of the WORLD MOBILISATION COMMISSION in support
and defence of the People's War and the revolution in Peru. 


>From LALKAR, organ of the INDIAN WORKERS ASSOCIATION (GREAT BRITAIN)

May/June 1966.  From the latest issue of the trade-unionist magazine Lalkar, the Official Organ of the Indian Workers Association of Great Britain,  just received by our Committee, we reproduce extracts from an extense article by their Editorial.

The work to update the working class in this country on the events of the People=FEs War, as well as dealing with the problems at the international level faced today by those genuinely wanting to develop International Solidarity with the Peruvian revolution has now for a number of years in Britain, counted with authentic and deep rooted support in the organisation and the press of the working class..

In Britain, solidarity with the Peruvian revolution long ago ceased to be the exclusive domain of  =FEPeruvian exiles=FE or people with =FEentire families in the PW=FE.  It is now a concern and a topic of debate and growing solidarity among the main stream working class movement, as evidenced by this publication in Lalkar.  Lalkar, a widely circulated paper of one of the most combative associations of immigrant workers with a long tradition going back to the 30s, carries articles on the People's War quite regularly, like quite a few other organs of the working class press in this country also do.   Extracts from Lalkar follow:


PERU: People's War Continues to Advance

The People's War in Peru, led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) continues to advance, notwithstanding a media blanket of silence that insinuates nothing is happening. Actually there has been no let up in the number of actions carried out by the liberation forces, or loss of influence by the revolutionary forces over vast areas of the country in which the government's writ simply does not run.

The reactionary Fujimori regime had been hoping that with the capture of Chairman Gonzalo, the People's War would come to a grinding halt. He overlooked the fact, however, that under Chairman Gonzalo's leadership the Party masses received training that would enable them to keep going, no matter what leaders were captured, no matter what leaders were killed.  The movement would go right on producing new leaders as an when it needed them.

The best card that Fujimori was able to play to try to defuse the revolutionary movement was his claim that after his capture Chairman Gonzalo had called for the People's War to be called off and for conciliation with the reactionary Fujimori regime.

In some way Fujimori and his advisers were able to rig up fake videos in which Chairman Gonzalo appeared to be calling for an end to the People's War.  Of course, Chairman Gonzalo was never produced physically in open court.  The explanation is simple: computer technology has enabled very sophisticated fakes to be made.

That this must be the case was obvious to anybody who had even a small acquaintance with Chairman Gonzalo's writings and with the whole thrust of the education given by the PCP under his leadership for the last 15 years.

There could be no conceivable reason for imagining that under the present circumstances Chairman Gonzalo would be calling for an end to the People=FEs War.  Such a thought was obviously quite impossible to anybody who had ever heard of principles and who had a gist of how one puts principles into practice.

Unfortunately, there are those in the left-wing movement, whom Chairman Mao used to castigate as "lazy bones", who NEVER THINK OF THINKING FOR THEMSELVES at all.  They fix on some leader or some foreign party, whose microphone they become. These people may even appear revolutionary so long as all goes well, and simply doing as they are told produces revolutionary results.

Communists, however, are supposed to give leadership to the masses throughout all the twists and turns of the revolutionary movement, including the most difficult times when enemies become  friends and friends become enemies, which does happen during the course of the struggle.

Communists, therefore, need to be guided by revolutionary principles.  They must know and understand these principles to apply in the new, changed situation.

At all times, their aim must be, subjectively and objectively, to defeat the class enemy, to overthrow the class enemy, to establish the rule of the progressive classes.  THEY CANNOT SERVE THE PEOPLE IF THEY ARE IGNORAMUSES AND LAZYBONES.

Certain MICROPHONES found themselves in control of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), an international organisation bringing together a number of parties who support,  in words at least, the revolutionary teachings of Chairman Mao.  Because of their control over this organisation, it found itself quite paralysed, when confronted with the fake video, and unable to make up their minds whether it was fake or not.

They wanted to hold everything up while they made investigations into the matter.  Regrettably they thereby betrayed their total lack of any acquaintance whatsoever with the concept of revolutionary principles.

Give them a correct slogan (and watch them like a hawk) and they can from time to time make themselves useful. But what is sad is that these people claim to be leaders of the working class movement!

The fact of the matter is that at the best of times, when things are going well, and there are not set backs occurring, they are followers.  And when things get tough, then even their following cannot be relied upon.



LALKAR, also reproduces extracts from the document by Luis Arce Borja, the Editor of El Diario, "A Response to the Investigators of RIM - In Defense of the Peruvian Revolution":




"The Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) is currently circulating two political documents that refer to the purported negotiation of the People's War in Peru.  One of these documents is dated June 1994, nine months after Fujimori published the first "peace letter" (1 October 1993).  The other document is more recent, dated 10 November last year.  According to their authors, these documents reflect "a very important process of investigation and study" in relation to the current situation in Peru........"

"Both documents pretend to be serious and claim to be based on a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist analysis.  These documents pretend to adopt an objective stand: They give equal importance to the political position of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru and the position of the capitulators and police agents propagating the "peace agreements". .....  "

"We believe that the opinions advanced in those documents seriously damage proletarian internationalism....... Our criticism essentially centres upon the following aspects:"

"First Aspect: The RIM Committee asserts that "since October 1993 a very important struggle is taking place within the PCP".  They affirm that this is a problem of a "two-line struggle"".


"It is a mistake to hold that the "peace letters" belong in essence to a process of two-line struggle within the PCP. .  If one is to adopt this position, it then becomes logical to draw the conclusion that it is not right to treat this as a police plot. ....."

"3.	The leaders of RIM hold that the "peace agreement" is a two-line struggle.  By doing this, they cast aside the analysis and position of the PCP's  Central Committee in relation to this issue.  The PCP, by means of various documents, characterised and denounced the "peace letters" as vile slander fabricated by the Fujimori regime and by US imperialism. ..... One of these PCP documents, dated February 1994, clearly states the following:"

"The purported letters presented by Fujimori, the bogus international telephone call, and all other subsequent concoctions are counter-revolutionary plots.  These are fabricated by US imperialism and the mass-murderers quisling dictatorship in combination with the sinister actions of the black gang of turncoats......."

4.	 To promote at international level the view that the "peace agreement" is a "two-line struggle" within the PCP, leads directly into the camp of the enemies of the Peruvian revolution.  The foreign media, at the service of the imperialist powers, permanently make propaganda about a purported "division of Shining Path into two factions".  According to them, "one is led by Feliciano and is a diehard ultra-Left line" and the other is headed by the "peace loving Gonzalo"......  In Peru, the armed struggle is the centre and the highest expression of the class struggle, leaving no room for doubt about the revolution's continuation. Thanks to the scope of the revolution, in Peru it was not difficult to smash this plot very rapidly......."
   

"5. 	Reducing the affair of the "peace letters" to a two-line struggle within the PCP amounts to opting out, avoiding to take up a position and evading the struggle against Fujimori's fraud.  Basing oneself upon this false premise, one ends up conciliating with all those in Peru and abroad who are promoting the "peace agreement"......  According to the point of view of the leaders of RIM, it is a bad and negative factor that many organisations and political parties abroad have taken position and are struggling against Fujimori's plot.  These comrades should have been labelled "irresponsible people" and held to account for "talking without investigating"!".

"Looking at it from this angle, the conduct of El Diario Internacional can be deemed as worse than "irresponsible".  We have dedicated several editions to the unmasking of Fujimori's fraud.  In this context, and since October 1993, some organisms closely linked with the leadership of RIM have initiated an underhand struggle against El Diario. In some cases, they have even prevented its distribution.......This explains why an important base of RIM in the USA in charge of translating El Diario into English stopped doing this work.  Moreover, they also suspended their sales of El Diario......." 

"Chairman Mao has said: "Whoever takes the side of the revolutionary people only in words, but not in deeds, is but a revolutionary in words.  Whoever takes the side of the revolutionary people not merely in words but also in deeds, is a real revolutionary".


Press Commission
Committee Sol-Peru
London UK =1A




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