From: detcom-AT-sprynet.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:29:28 -0700
Subject: Dissecting the New Flag




On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Rubyg580-AT-aol.com wrote:
>
>If Jay or Adolfo thinks not, let them take an article from NF that 
>exposes the line of RCP on the "peace talks" hoax, and dissect 
>it paragraph by paragraph, like I did with the WMC call, and show 
>that its not *really* opposing RCP's line.  Let them "prove" that NF 
>really supports Avakian and the Fujimori regime, if that's what they 
>think.  In fact, they cannot do any such thing because the evidence 
>they will "expose" can only prove the opposite.
>
>Gina/ Detroit

Fine, Gina.  Let's see, I'll start with issue #2, oh, here is 
a good one!  It's on page 9, entitled "The Silence of the Lambs".
You're right, it is opposing Avakian and Fujimori.  But wait a
minite, that one is written by Luis Arce Borja, who the New Flaggers
are now denouncing as a traitor to the revolution and calling for
his overthrow.  Hmmm...guess that doesn't really prove your point,
does it?  Actually it serves to prove that NF DOES support Avakian
and Fujimori, since your new line on Borja who wrote this article
matches up with Avakian/CoRIM and Fujimoris line on Borja identical!

Maybe I'll start with the first issue that came out after we met
the New Flag, that's the `July/Aug.95 edition.  Hmmm...dang!  
Can't find a single word against the  RCP or Avakian written by
NF.  There is an article on page 18 entitled:  Last Hope of Opportunism
Swept Away: RIM's Call For The Defense Of Our Red Flag Waving In Peru 
Reinforces Our Struggle."

It looks very supportive of CoRIM and Avakian to me, Gina.  It
states:

>"On the 26th of March, 1995, the Revolutionary Internationalist
>Movement (RIM) has finally issued a call for a struggle against
>the handfill of opportunists who advocate capitulation.  The RIM
>statement reaffirmed the defense of the Peoples's War in Peru and
>support the Communist Party of Peru.  In this call RIM published
>the conclusions of its "investigation" they have been carrying
>out since Fujimori's hoax of "peace accords" on October 1993. 
>Although there are visible ideological limitations and some 
>erronous assumptions in its analysis, the RIM statements is a step
>in the right direction."

Okay, it does mention "limitations" and "assumptions" but it clearly
states that Avakian/CoRIM's statement is a step in the right direction.
And we know that this CoRIM statement says that the peace accords originated
within the Party, and this is not true, it is Fujimori's lies, it is
the same hoax, it DID NOT originate within the PCP. The CoRIM statement
clearly says:

>"Yet today the greatest challenge the People's War faces does not 
>come from such assaults by the enemy.  It comes from a line, or
>strategy for the revolution, which emerged from within the ranks
>of the PCP, calling for peace negotiations with the US-backed Peruvian
>government."

CoRIM's statement is NOT a step in the right direction, it is just 
a continuation of the HOAX.  New Flag here, after some earlier articles
critical of Avakian in previous issues, is kissing back up to Avakian
and CoRIM.  By the time we met up with these guys, Gina, they were back
in Avakian's camp big-time and they mislead us to the contrary.  Ask 
Dan about the trip to Sweden.  What orders did they give NF?  To stop
attacking Avakian and CoRIM.  Here in this article is the carrying out
of those orders by New Flag.

>"The differences the PCP maintains with RIM are clearly established in
>the Party's documents.  For now it is sufficient to add that it refers
>to the decisive question of what is Maoism, and why it is principally
>Maoism.  The comprehension of this problem requires that we persist in
>a major struggle to assimilate and understand the significance of the
>principal contribution of President Gonzalo, which has established
>Maoism as the new, third and superior stage of Marxism, especially
>the significance of the superior stage, which allows us to understand
>the development of Marxism and why Maoism is primary."

>"We must note that the "peace accords", in other words treason, are
>shipwrecked everywhere, specially in the Third World and its condition
>as a stormy area, as oppressed nations that are the bases of the world
>proletarian revolution."

I think this is just some fancy way of talking about the differences
PCP has with RIM. It's not very clear what NF is saying.

This issue was a big disapointment to me when it came out, Gina.  The
New Flaggers had told us it was going to have the Anti-avakian article
we discussed with them and that funny picture of Avakian with a light
bulb over his head.  But there was no article, NF was soft on Avakianism.
The explanation was just that some comrades didn't want it in there.  
Which "comrades" were those, I wonder.  Dan and You and I were all for
its inclusion, was it the other phony MPP's that vetoed it?  Those
phony European MPP's that are Avakianists were directing the content of
the New Flag.

Okay, let me go on to the next issue put out by NF after we started 
working with them.  Okay, again no articles at all, only a small
weak comment in a reply to a letter from France on page 45/46.  It
merely says that NF thinks RCP has had a shift to the right in the
last 2-3 years.  Then there is a lie (typical) that RCP rank and file
members had sent internal documents to the NF.  It all comes together
with the moral of the story being that there is still hopes for RCP
to "change line and be transformed into a potential revolutionary Party
of the proletariat in the US".  Don't hold your breath waiting for that.

Well, that was educational.  I liked that, Gina, I'll dissect more of 
the New Flag nonsense in coming days. Of course not everything in NF
is crud.  There used to be good articles and letters by Adolfo Olaechea,
Luis Arce Borja, Godena, PSC/RI and PSC/Detroit, and El Diario.  Those
were the things we saw of value in it. Won't be much of interest anymore,
I would imagine.   By the way, "Quispe" has posted
that the new edition is out now.  I looked for it in the usual places
but haven't seen it yet.  Is it really out or was that just another
"editorial cartoons" of the New Flag Fujimori Agency?

Jay Miles / Detroit



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