Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:07:25 -0400
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: godenas-AT-mail.edgenet.net (Louis R. Godena)
Subject: Re: Article


    

>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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