Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:02:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: Declaration concerning an impermissible "WMC communique"


This is the first time *ever* that i must absolutely support Rolf on
something. A palace coup has taken place (my suspicions, from London) which
are both unprincipled and backstabbing of one of the people whom from the
start was involved in this stuff. Naturally this does not mean that i
support the WMC which certainly
is far from being anything near a *real* solidarity movement Internationally
for Peru.

I think that the "unity" people should watch this struggle! I am quite sure
that you can learn some new tricks for a new charter or another rewrite of
the new charter!

Bob Malecki

PS: Rolf can I put your declaration in Cockroach along with my letter?

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>Declaration concerning an impermissible "WMC communique"
>
>By Rolf Martens, Malmoe, Sweden, 17.09.1996
>
>Yesterday, 16.09.96, there was put out on the Internet,
>by <hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk>, a statement said to be
>"another article translated from the latest El Diario
>Internacional (Number 35 - August 96 edition)". The
>statement was headed:
>
>"WORLD MOBILISATION COMMISSION (WMC)
>
>COMMUNIQUE No. 1",
>
>dated "Brussels, August 1996"
>
>and signed, or purportedly signed, by a number of
>organizations, among them "Emergency Committee -
>Malmo - Sweden".
>
>
>I hereby declare that
>
>A) I am in no way co-responsible for this statement.
>B) I repudiate it, not because of its contents, which I,
>as far as these confusingly presented contents are
>understandable, absolutely support, but because of the
>manner and circumstances in which this statement is
>presented.
>C) The signature to this statement of the Emergency
>Committee - Malmoe - Sweden is not a genuine one.
>
>I'm making this declaration in my capacity as
>1) representative and propagandist of the political line of
>Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong since 1974,
>2) member of the Emergency Committee - Malmoe -
>Sweden since its foundation on 23.10.1992 and member,
>since the Founding Conference of the IEC in February 1993,
>of the Steering Committee of the IEC,
>3) contributor since March 1995 to the dissemination of
>El Diario Internacional,
>4) co-endorser since March 1996 of the Call for the WMC.
>
>I call on the other co-endorsers of the Call for the WMC
>likewise to repudiate this so-called communique.
>
>Why is this necessary?
>Why is this statement not acceptable?
>
>I would like to call your attention to the following 5 points,
>for an explanation of this.
>
>=A41. The heading of this communique seems to indicate that
>a WMC - a World Mobilisation Commission to defend the
>revolution in Peru - has already been formed, although this
>is not clear either, since, at the end, individual signatories
>appear.
>
>If it is to be taken as meaning that there already is a WMC,
>this WMC would then have been formed in a completely
>impermissible manner. There was put out a Call for a WMC
>in March of this year. Several organizations and some
>individuals including myself endorsed this Call. When a WMC
>is to be formed, then obviously, the endorsers of the Call
>for it must have a say on this formation. But I at least have
>received no information whatsoever on this communique prior
>to its being published. 
>
>If it is not to be taken as meaning that there already is a
>WMC, then what is the point of it? It cannot but spread
>public confusion concerning this question.
>
>=A42. Mysteriously, the communique starts out with six points
>in the infinitive. Those six points are approximately the same
>as those which the Call for the WMC states would be the
>tasks of the WMC, but not exactly the same - two of them
>are somewhat abbreviated as compared to the Call. I on
>my part absolutely would endorse the contents of them.
>
>Only, I in no way have been asked to do so in this manner,
>and therefore must protest against this "August 1996
>communique" which bears the signatures of some of those
>other signatories to the original Call which I know of, but
>does not bear my signature.
>
>=A43. It isn't clear what the communique means by its simply
>stating, initially, "to do this, to do that". Is it the case that
>a text originally in Spanish, calling on people to do this and
>that, has been mistranslated into English? If so, this would
>clear up that particular mystery and would leave instead a
>criticism to be directed against the translator.
>
>=A44. When among the signatories of this communique there
>appears one local IEC group of which I am a member, it
>must be pointed out that this local group, the Emergency
>Committee - Malmoe - Sweden, has held no meeting
>whatsoever to endorse it, at least none to which I have
>been called, and a meeting without all members being
>called beforehand of course would have been an illegal
>one.
>
>In fact I did propose, in April of this year, a meeting of our
>local IEC group with a view to our endorsing, as a group,
>the Call for the WMC, but because of certain circumstances,
>in connection with expulsion threats here among other things,
>such a meeting has so far not come about.
>
>On 10.06.96, comrade Luis Arce Borja, the editor of El Diario
>Internacional, directly asked me whether my endorsement of
>the WMC had been on the part of some organization or other.
>I replied in the negative. My e-mail endorsement, on 30.03.96,
>also made clear that it represented nobody but myself as an
>individual.
>
>=A45. To the efforts really to create a WMC, efforts which I hold
>are very important - not least since task point 4 of the Call for it,
>"To defend Maoism as the new, third and superior stage of
>Marxism, within the context of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
>taken as a unity in development" - implies the possibility of
>the WMC:s giving genuine guidance to the international
>proletariat - this complely impermissible and confusing
>"Communique No. 1, of August 1996" cannot but do grave
>harm.
>
>This declaration will be sent by e-mail to the Jefferson
>Village Virginia Marxism list and by mail to El Diario
>Internacional.
>
>[Reposted now, 11.35 hrs CET, since the first posting,
>at 10.30 CET, doesn't seem to have come through.]
>
>
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