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July 15, 2002, Nº 262
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LOS ANGELES
July 12
T
he human rights record of the
U.S.-Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
regime is worse than the deposed
fascist Estrada regime." That was the
message Marie Hilao-Enriquez,
Secretary General of KARAPATAN, or
the Philippine Alliance for People's
Rights, brought to a forum held here on
July 12th, the so-called Philippine
Independence Day.
"The number of political prisoners
increased to 350 under the U.S.-Arroyo
regime in less that two years from 150
under the U.S.-Estrada regime. Summary
executions, massacres, tortures and
illegal arrests also increased. An example
MIM reprints this article to describe
U.$. involvement in Colombia and
explain why Bush is going after
organizations in Colombia as part of the
"war on terror."
We at MIM believe that the people of
Colombia should get on the road
pioneered in Peru by Comrade Gonzalo
and the PCP. Still, while we have
disagreements with FARC-EP, we have a
duty to expose Uncle Sam's machinations
against any people or organization in the
world.
by Doug Stokes
D
uring the 1980s, U.S. counter-
insurgency took on a new form,
and became what is today known
as Low Intensity Conflict. With the
Vietnam experience behind them, U.S.
military planners recognized two crucial
lessons that led to this change.
First, the American public was not
prepared to tolerate heavy U.S. casualties
in its imperial wars within the developing
world. Amongst U.S. strategists this
became known as the "Vietnam-
syndrome"; the image of dead American
soldiers coming home in body-bags.
Second, and more crucially, U.S.
strategists recognized that military
victory is no longer the primary objective
in these new Low Intensity Campaigns.
The new objective is the political
delegitimization of the enemy and the
management of public opinion within
both international and national contexts.
Thus, U.S. psychological warfare
became crucial, and the management of
consent central to overall victory. Simply
stated, destroy popular support for the
enemy by discrediting them, and the
victory will follow. In Colombia today,
this new form of Low Intensity Conflict
Colombia and Turkey
by mim3@mim.org
I
n the past two months, European
imperialists have made substantial
steps toward unifying with U.$.
imperialism in regard to both Turkey and
Colombia. The European Union (EU),
which now consists of 15 countries and
has plans for including more, arose partly
as a desire by France and Germany in
particular to become more united in
Europe to serve as a counter-weight to
the United $tates, but now the EU is
serving as a vehicle to speed up the
unification of U.$. and European
imperialists.
First, as requested by the Bush
administration, the European Union (EU)
named FARC (Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia) a "terrorist"
organization. The Colombia Peace
Association in England had this to say
about it: "The inclusion of the FARC on
Amerikkkan
pledge to
God proves
immorality
of nation
T
he furor over the perfectly honest
court decision in the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals that the
government has no business forcing
children to recite "under God" in the
pledge of allegiance, proves that the
majority of Amerikkkan people have no
integrity, even amongst themselves. A
Newsweek survey in response to the
Court decision shows that only 36% of
the U.S. public believes that the
government should avoid promoting
religion in any way.(1)
Bourgeois political leaders set up the
U.S. political system with the idea of
"separation of church and state." Almost
every Amerikkkan knows that, but the
Newsweek poll shows that most
hypocritically oppose that same idea. The
First Amendment to the Constitution
says, "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion."
That means there can be no law like the
Philippine humyn-rights org. demands end to U.$.-backed abuse
is the killing of 24 BAYAN MUNA
["People First," an electoral party]
leaders all over the Philippines in a span
of three months. The killing of Benjaline
Hernandez, a student leaders and three
of her companions in Arakan valley,
Mindanao last April 5 highlights the
deteriorating human rights situation in
the Philippines."
Marie also reported on
KARAPATAN'a latest fact-finding
mission in Mindanao, where U.$. soldiers
have been deployed since January under
the pretense of "fighting terrorism."
"Artillery and air strikes were common
place in the area and most of the victims
are Muslim communities driven out of
Arrroyo conspires with the U.$.A to oppress the Filipino people.
Continued on page 6...
has found an active application.
Opinion polls conducted in 1987 found
that 76% of all Americans thought that
the Colombian government was corrupt,
and 80% wanted sanctions imposed upon
it. In 1991, amidst the refusal of the
Colombian State to hand over the
notorious drug-trafficker, Pablo Escobar,
the image of the Colombian State
suffered further setbacks. In response to
all this, the Colombian state embarked
on its own Low Intensity Conflict to win
the hearts and minds of the American
people.
It employed the services of a PR (Public
Relations) company, the Sawyer/Miller
Group, that earned nearly a million
dollars in fees and expenses in the first
half of 1991 alone. The PR specialists'
job was to transform the perceptions of
the Colombian state as a corrupt and
brutal abuser of human rights, to a
staunch ally of the United States in its
Propaganda and Plan Colombia
Perception management of the U.$. terror war
the EU list of terrorist organisations will
inflame an already incendiary situation
in Colombia, will remove a vital space
for dialogue when so few remain and will
seriously jeopardise any future possibility
of reopening peace negotiations. More
war simply spells more deaths, more
suffering, more poverty, more conflict.
Please speak out for peace, not war."
The FARC is a rebel group that MIM
has disagreements with. We believe that
the revolutionaries in Colombia should
get on the road charted by Comrade
Gonzalo of the PCP.
In the past the FARC has had some
success in doing business with European
imperialism as apart from U.$.
imperialism. On June 13th, a wire service
of Latin American and European
journalists reporting on the conflict
between FARC-EP and the U.$.-backed
regime and its death squads in Colombia
had this to say: "Carlos A. Lozano
European imperialists merge with
Uncle Sam's New World Order
Continued on page 4...
Continued on page 5...
Continued on page 8...
MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 2
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groups over other groups: classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possibly by
building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Revolution is a reality for
North America as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to
maintain world hegemony. MIM differs from other communist parties on three main
questions: (1) MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution, the
potential exists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within
the communist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the
death of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's death and the overthrow of the "Gang
of Four" in 1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural Revolution as the farthest advance
of communism in humyn history. (3) As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM has
reiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the Third
World and in part uses this wealth to buy off whole populations of oppressor nation so-
called workers. These so-called workers bought off by imperialism form a new petty-
bourgeoisie called the labor aristocracy. These classes are not the principal vehicles to
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of majority rule, on other questions of party line.
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regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of
learning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution."
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Amerikan forces had another banner day
in Afghanistan July 1, as they bombed a
wedding party and killed at least 30 people.
Local residents told the BBC that 120 died
in the attack. In May the Afghan press
reported that Amerikan planes bombed
another wedding in the village of Bul Khil.
An Afghan Defense Ministry official said
the "Americans have confessed that they
made a mistake," while U.$. military
representatives interviewed by Reuters "could
not confirm" the civilian deaths.(1) Some said
that the Amerikan planes came under anti-
aircraft fire.(2) Afghans traditionally fire off
guns in celebration at weddings.
According to Professor Marc Herold at the
University of New Hampshire over 3,000
Afghans died under Amerikan bombs from
October to December 2001. He arrives at this
figure from an extensive review of
international English-language media,
including the AP, the BBC, the India Times,
the Manila Times, etc.(3) The social-
democratic Project on Defense Alternatives
(PDA) uses similar methods to come up with
a more conservative estimate: 1,000-1,300 by
mid-January.(4)
The PDA also estimates that more than
3,000 civilians have died from indirect effects
of the bombing: starvation, exposure, illness
or injury suffered during flight from the war
zones.(5) Sadly this confirms the predictions
MIM and others made in September, when
"food-aid workers spoke of a `huge
catastrophe in the making' for the people of
Afghanistan. Food supplies are already scarce
in Afghanistan. Malnutrition gives
Afghanistan the highest child mortality rate
in the world, according to Save the Children-
USA. Hunger can only increase as tens of
thousands flee Amerikan attacks for refugee
camps in Iran and Pakistan -- to say nothing
of the effects of Amerikan bombing or ground
invasion themselves."(6)
According to these estimates between 1 1/
4 and 2 times as many Afghan civilians have
died in the Amerikan bombing campaign as
Amerikans died in the September 11 attacks.
Yet the commander of the U.$. air war
General Tommy Franks refers to it as "the
most accurate war ever fought." "I can't
imagine there's been a conflict in history
where there has been less collateral damage,
less unintended consequences."(7)
Good to see that such honest intellectual
heavyweights with a firm grasp on real world
events are in charge of the biggest killing
machine in the world. As the Boston Globe
dryly noted, "One need look no further back
than the estimated 500 civilian deaths in the
1999 Kosovo war to undercut that claim."(6)
And its not just a matter of more bombs being
dropped in Afghanistan; actually less
ordinance has been used.(4)
Aside from carpet bombing--hardly a
"most accurate" technique--the proximity of
civilian populations to alleged military targets
has contributed to civilian casualties. An
incident reported by the Boston Globe is
instructive:
"Much attention has been paid to the
bombing attack on a convoy in Paktia
province that the US military said carried
Taliban leaders -- but that survivors said
carried tribal elders en route to the
inauguration of the interim prime minister.
"Less attention has been paid to what
happened that same day to a cluster of homes
nearby and the village about six miles away.
"Ten minutes after hitting the convoy,
warplanes struck a house on a hill... Twelve
people were killed.
"By 3 a.m. the attack broadened to the
village of Bekhere, a half-hour drive away
along a riverbed in a sheltered valley. It lasted
until noon. Villagers say 63 people were
killed; an Afghan nongovernmental group that
tracked casualties in the region put the number
at 44."(7)
The Pentagon justified the strike saying the
area was "an active staging and coordinating
base for Al Qaeda activities." They hit the
caravan and lied about it, bombed hospitals
and lied about it--why should we believe
them? In any case, as we also reported in
September, the nefarious-sounding "Al Qaeda
training camps" are basically villages. In this
context surgical strikes are impossible--not
that the Amerikan military has shown any
inclination to spare the civilian population.
The Pentagon's repeated claim that the
campaign in Afghanistan has spared civilians
is a whopping lie. A little thought should bring
Amerikans to the conclusion that the
campaign must entail many casualties; a little
investigation will show that there are indeed
many civilian casualties. Amerikans need to
grasp not only that the campaign in
Afghanistan has done nothing to lessen the
immediate threat of Al Qaeda, but is also
indicative of why so many peoples around
the world are angry with the United $tates.
Amerika's leaders like "defense" secretary
Rumsfeld admit that future attacks like
September 11 are inevitable, but the only
solution they offer is the failed one which got
us here in the first place: higher "security"
measures and more military offensives which
don't work. Instead Amerikans need to break
with old thinking to get at the root causes of
humyn conflict -- production for profit, the
class system, conflicts over land etc. These
can only be addressed by communism, as
difficult as it will be to achieve.
Notes:
1. Reuters, 1 Jul 02.
2. The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, 1 Jul 2002.
3. pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/
4. www.comw.org/pda/0201oef.html
5. www.comw.org/pda/0201strangevic.html
6. MIM Notes 244.
7. The Boston Globe, 17 Feb 2002.
Amerikans bomb wedding in Afghanistan
MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 3
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The "Communist Party of
Nepal"(UML) as of this late June date
still has not issued a statement opposing
U.$. military aid to Nepal to prop up the
semi-feudal and semi-colonial regime.
Nor have many of its international allies
called the CPN(UML) to task for not
opposing Nepal's going to U.$.
imperialism for support. While the
CPN(UML) has not seen fit to oppose
U.$. military aid to Nepal, it has posted
two high profile statements opposing the
terror of September 11th, 2001, thereby
kissing up to u.$. imperialism.
President George W. Bush promised
Nepal $20 million in military aid.
England also pledged in June to increase
its military aid to $10 million a year.(1)
In June, rulers from India, China,
England and the United $tates met in
London to discuss unified aid against the
Maoist People's War in Nepal.(2) Yet,
while this was happening, there was no
word from the supposed "Communist
Party of Nepal(UML)" on the subject.
MIM does not expect to be able to stop
the imperialists from giving military aid
just yet. Nor does MIM expect it can stop
Indian, Chinese, English and U.$. rulers
from trembling over the prospect of
communist revolution, even in so remote
a place as Nepal.
However, MIM can expose those allies
of the Communist Party of Nepal(UML)
that always claim to be opposed to U.$.
imperialism. The CPN(UML) links its
own web page to that of the "Workers
World Party" in the United $tates and
the "CP-USA."(3) The "CP-USA" for its
part returns the favor.(4) These parties
should be first in line blasting the
CPN(UML).
The list of links for the CPN(UML)
reads like a who's who of phony
communism. Included is a link to a
phony website for the comrades in the
Communist Party of Peru (PCP).
Where are all these parties when it
comes to opposing U.$. military aid to
Nepal? Nowhere. They are worthless as
proletarian parties and in fact serve as
props to the semi-feudal and semi-
colonial regime in Nepal. They should be
openly condemning the organization that
endorses them. Any communist
organization that does not oppose U.$.
military aid to Nepal deserves to be
dissolved.
There are some organizations in an in-
between position when it comes to this
basic point of opposing U.$. imperialism.
The Workers Party of Belgium at least
does not link to the CPN(UML) on its web
page at www.ptb.be. However, the PTB
is friends with a number of the watery
organizations that have not opposed U.$.
military aid to Nepal, thanks in part to
their hope that the CPN(UML) will come
in to power there again and be the propped
up semi-feudal administrators.
When MIM has a disagreement with an
organization, like the FMLN in El
Salvador, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua,
the FARC-EP in Colombia etc., MIM still
opposes U.$. military aid to the regimes
`Communists': Where do you stand on U.$. aid to Nepal?
opposing them. MIM is far from saying
that the People's War in Nepal is a
cardinal question by itself. No one should
use the excuse of their disagreements
with the People's War in Nepal for failing
to oppose U.$. military aid there.
U.$. imperialism is the number one
enemy of the international proletariat.
Today a number of supposedly
communist organizations are flunking a
basic test concerning this question. Most
of the people flunking are those lazy and
older comrades who never straightened
out basic questions of socialism versus
capitalism. Today, the youth must take
note, obliterate these lackeys of U.$.
imperialism calling themselves
communist and form new organizations.
Notes:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
south_asia/newsid_2054000/2054866.stm
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
south_asia/newsid_2054000/2054699.stm
3. http://www.cpnuml.org/leftlink.html
4. http://www.cpusa.org/link/category/1/parent/0
MIM received the following news
update from our comrades at a Turkish
newspaper called Isci-Kyl Kurtulusu.
Memik Horoz has faced state repression
in Turkey before. A copy of U.N.
comments on an earlier case of
repression can be found at http://
wwwserver.law.wits.ac.za/humanrts/
commission/torture94/cat-turkey.htm
The journalist Memik Horoz, worker
of our newspaper who has been arrested
since the 18th of June 2001 was today
because of the statement by the spy Erol
Cetin sentenced to 15 years in prison.
This decision was made in Ankara at the
second court of the National Security
Court.
And also again he was charged
because of the documentation that was
made in the year 2000 under the name
"Two weeks in the mountains of the Black
Sea with TKP/ML - TIKKO." He is also
being charged of doing the interviews
himself. Even though there have been so
many evidences and proofs that Memik
was in Istanbul at the time the
documentation was made, the court only
accepted the statement made by the spy
Erol Cetin and charged Memik under the
168/2 law of the Turkish Republic
(member of an illegal organization) to
fifteen years of prison. The court also said
the punishment is made because he has
been on probation since 1991. This shows
us again the real face of the National
Security Court which has sentenced many
prisoners like that to many years in prison.
[Text removed here by MIM.]
That is how the complot of Memik
Horoz has ended, but it is not going to
bring the newspaper up from its line nor
will it put down our workers in the
newspaper. Memik Horoz has been in
prison to Sincan/ Ankara for one year in
an isolation cell. We are outside today and
we are protesting against the sentence of
Memik Horoz, and are calling all
revolutionaries, democrats, press,
associations to protest against this
Injustice sentence.
You can't silence the press!
MIM adds : Please FAX or EMAIL
your letters of concern to the Turkish
Embassy and consulates in the united
$tates:
* Washington D.C. Embassy Fax/
Email: 202-612-6744 info@turkey.org
* Washington D.C. Consulate Fax/
Email: 202-319-1639
tcwash.cons@erols.com
* Los Angeles Consulate Fax/Email:
323-932-0061 turkcgla@pacbell.net
* Chicago Consulate Fax/Email: 312-
263-1499 chicago@trconsulate.org
* New York Consulate Fax/Email: 212-
983-1293 tcbkny@worldnet.att.net
You can also send faxes to the
following authorities in Turkey:
* Ankara Interior Ministry Fax: 01190
312 418 1795
* Ankara Justice Ministry Fax: 01190
312 417 3954
Memik Horoz unjustly sentenced June 12
MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 4
Propaganda and Plan Colombia in terror war
so-called "war on drugs".
The director of Sawyer/Miller's
Colombia account explained that, "the
main mission is to educate the American
media about Colombia, get good
coverage, and nurture contacts with
journalists, columnists, and think tanks.
The message is that there are `bad' and
`good' people in Colombia and that the
government is the good guy."
In fostering these perceptions the
Sawyer/Miller group conducted opinion
poll surveys and focus group sessions to
evaluate public opinion. In 1991 alone,
Colombia gave over $3.1 million to an
advertising campaign. The campaign
placed newspaper ads and TV
commercials aimed at American
policymakers in Washington. The ads all
had a similar theme. They asked the
American people to remember the
bravery of the Colombian military in its
war against drugs, and attempted to
change perceptions of Colombia from
being a drug supplier to the United States
as drug consumer.
Media requests for interviews with
Colombian government officials went
through Sawyer/Miller. They steered
sympathetic reporters to key government
ministries and made sure that critics of
Colombia's appalling human rights
record were kept away. In one instance,
after a meeting with Warren Hoge, the
editor of the New York Times Magazine,
the Times printed a long and inaccurate
story glorifying the then Colombian
President, Cesar Trujillo, whose
campaign had been heavily funded with
drug money. The Colombian government
bought the reprinting rights to the article
and sent thousands of copies to U.S.
Journalists and Embassies.
Sawyer/Miller group regularly use the
American press to distribute pro-
Colombian government propaganda with
the routine production of pamphlets,
letters to editors signed by Colombian
officials, and ads placed in The New York
Times and The Washington Post.
However, it is the transformation of the
armed protagonists in Colombia's
conflict that has had the most effect. In
recently declassified documentation, the
U.S. Ambassador to Colombia in 1996,
Myle Frechette, admits that the
perception of the FARC [Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia] as narco-
guerrillas, "was put together by the
Colombian military, who considered it a
way to obtain U.S. assistance in the
counterinsurgency."
The PR job seems to have worked. The
United States has now made Colombia
the third largest recipient of U.S. military
aid in the world today. This aid is
allegedly for a counter-offensive against
what have been constructed as the
primary narco-terrorists in Colombia, the
FARC.
The Democrat Senator Joseph Biden,
stated in 2000 that never "before in recent
history has there been such an
opportunity to strike at all aspects of the
drug trade at the source. Helping
Colombia is squarely in America's
national interest. It is the source of many
of the drugs that are poisoning our
people." Clinton's Assistant Secretary of
State of the Western Hemisphere Affairs
Bureau, Peter F. Romero, stated that,
"Colombia must re-establish authority
over narcotics producing `sanctuaries.'
Any comprehensive solution to
Colombia's problems must include the
reestablishment of government authority
over these lawless areas. To achieve this,
we propose to give the Government of
Colombia the air mobility to reach deep
into these lawless zones and establish a
secure environment for GOC officials".
With the election of Bush, and after
September 11th, a new "anti-terror"
orientation has occurred in U.S. policy
toward Colombia. Colombia is now
squarely in the sights of the Bush
administration, with the U.S. Attorney
General, John Ashcroft stating that "the
State Department has called the FARC
the most dangerous international terrorist
group based in the Western Hemisphere"
who have "engaged in a campaign of
terror against Colombians and U.S.
citizens."
U.S. policy was originally sold as an
anti-drug campaign, but has now
switched to an anti-terror justification. In
fighting their anti-drug and anti-terror
wars in Colombia, Washington has given
Colombia $1.3 billion in 2001-2002 and
another $700 million has been lined up
for 2003. All this money finds its way
into the hands of Colombian state and
the Colombian military. The United
States has instructed the Colombian
military to concentrate its war against the
leftist FARC rebel insurgents in the South
of Colombia (what the United States has
termed a Southern Push). These "narco-
guerrillas" and "narco-terrorists" are to
be targeted, presumably because these are
the primary "terrorists" and drug-
traffickers.
In 1997, James Milford, the former
Deputy Administrator with the United
States's central drug eradication body the
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), stated
that Carlos Castaño, the chief of the
paramilitary AUC is a "major cocaine
trafficker in his own right" and has close
links to the North Valle drug syndicate
which is "among the most powerful drug
trafficking groups in Colombia." Milford
went on that to say "there is little to
indicate the insurgent groups are
trafficking in cocaine themselves, either
by producing cocaine and selling it to
Mexican syndicates, or by establishing
their own distribution networks in the
United States."
Donnie Marshall, the current
Administrator of the DEA, stated in 2001
before the subcommittee on Criminal
Justice, Drug Policy and Human
Resources, that "the FARC controls
certain areas of Colombia and the FARC
in those regions generate revenue by
`taxing' local drug related activities."
Marshall goes on to state categorically
that "at present, there is no corroborated
information that the FARC is involved
directly in the shipment of drugs from
Colombia to international markets."
Like Milford, the United States's DEA
Director, also stated that unlike the
FARC, the right-wing paramilitary
groups "raise funds through extortion, or
by protecting laboratory operations in
northern and central Colombia. The
Carlos Castaño organization, and
possibly other paramilitary groups
appears to be directly involved in
processing cocaine. At least one of these
paramilitary groups appears to be
involved in exporting cocaine from
Colombia."
In a similar report submitted by U.S.
Senator Joseph Biden to the U.S. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations it was
stated that "that Castaño's organization,
and possibly other paramilitary groups "
were directly involved in the processing
and export of Cocaine from Colombia."
Klaus Nyholm, the Director of the
UN's drug control agency in Colombia,
the UNDCP, stated that "The guerrillas
are something different than the
traffickers. The local fronts are quite
autonomous. But in some areas, they're
not involved at all. And in others, they
actively tell the farmers not to grow
coca." In the rebels' former Demilitarised
Zone, Nyholm stated that, "drug
cultivation has not increased or
decreased" once the "FARC took
control." Indeed, Nyholm argued that,
prior to the Colombian military and
paramilitary offensive against the DMZ,
the FARC were cooperating with a $6
million UN project to replace coca crops
with new forms of legal alternative
development.
The rebels then are clearly not
international drug traffickers, and the
narco-guerrilla myth serves a useful
propaganda pretext for U.S.
interventionism within Colombia's
conflict.
John Waghelstein, a leading U.S.
counterinsurgency specialist, explained
the PR value of the "narco-guerrilla"
concept with a "melding in the American
public's mind and in Congress of this
connection [leading] to the necessary
support to counter the guerrilla/narcotics
terrorists in this hemisphere. Congress
would find it difficult to stand in the way
of supporting our allies with the training,
advice and security assistance necessary
to do the job. Those church and academic
groups that have slavishly supported
insurgency in Latin America would find
themselves on the wrong side of the
moral issue. Above all, we would have
the unassailable moral position from
which to launch a concerted offensive
effort using Department of Defense
(DOD) and non-DOD assets."
More importantly however, by
associating the rebels with drugs, the
United States obscures the role that the
drug-funded paramilitaries play in its
dirty war against Colombia's civil
society. The role of the United States in
Colombia's paramilitary terror against
the Colombian civilian population is
made all the more stark considering the
fact that U.S. military advisers travelled
to Colombia in 1991 to re-shape
Colombian military intelligence
networks. This restructuring was
supposedly designed to aid the
Colombian military in their counter-
narcotics efforts.
Human Rights Watch obtained a copy
of the order. Nowhere within the order is
any mention made of drugs. Instead the
secret re-organization focused solely on
combating what was called "escalating
terrorism by armed subversion." The re-
organization solidified linkages between
the Colombian military and narco-
paramilitary networks that in effect
further consolidated a "secret network
that relied on paramilitaries not only for
intelligence, but to carry out murder."
Once the re-organization was complete,
all "written material was to be removed"
with "open contacts and interaction with
military installations" to be avoided by
paramilitaries.
Stan Goff, a former U.S. special forces
trainer in Colombia stated that when he
"was training Colombian Special Forces
in Tolemaida in 1992, my team was there
ostensibly to aid the counter-narcotics
effort." He was "giving military forces
training in infantry counterinsurgency
doctrine" and knew "perfectly well, as
did the host-nation commanders, that
narcotics was a flimsy cover story for
beefing up the capacity of armed forces
who had lost the confidence of the
population through years of abuse."
The United States, then, has clearly
participated in strengthening the ties
between the leading terrorists in
Colombia, the Colombian military and
their paramilitary allies, who are
responsible for over 80% of all human
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U.S. policy was
originally sold as
an anti-drug
campaign, but
has now
switched to an
anti-terror
justification...
The money goes
to the Colombian
state and its
military.
MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 5
rights abuses committed in Colombia
today.
Furthermore, as outlined above, the
paramilitaries, as stated by the United
States's own agencies, are amongst the
biggest drug traffickers in Colombia
today. In effect, U.S. military aid is going
directly to the major terrorist networks
throughout Colombia, who traffic
cocaine into U.S. markets to fund their
activities, and which the United States
has been instrumental in helping make
more effective in creating what Human
Rights Watch termed a "sophisticated
mechanism that allows the Colombian
military to fight a dirty war and
Colombian officialdom to deny it".
During the Cold War, the United States
sold its counter-insurgency campaigns
against social democrats, socialists,
independent nationalists and even the
Catholic Church, as part of a global
struggle against the Soviet Union. In the
post-Cold War era, the United States has
switched to new PR mechanisms to sell
its imperial policy. The narco-guerrilla
and counter-terrorist pretexts serves as a
useful PR mechanism for conflating U.S.
"official enemies" with drugs and
terrorism.
Underlying these myths is the reality
that the Colombian state and its
privatized arm, the paramilitaries,
combined with overt U.S. support,
continues to lead directly to the death and
disappearances of thousands of
Colombian civilians. The U.S. terror war
against Colombian civil society fits a
consistent pattern within U.S. policy
throughout Latin America, which has led
directly to the death of hundreds of
thousands of civilians.
Why is the U.S. doing these things?
Underlying U.S. policy are a number of
factors that include the importance of
Colombian and Venezuelan oil to U.S.
energy needs. The regional
destabilization that may occur as a result
of a potential rebel victory could
seriously alter the balance of forces
within the region and threaten the
interests of the United States's big oil
transnationals. The Bush
administration's new request for $98
million for a specially trained Colombian
military brigade devoted solely to
protecting Occidental Petroleum's 500-
mile long Cano Limon oil pipeline in
Colombia makes this even clearer.
Paul D. Coverdell, a Republican
Senator explained that the
"destabilization of Colombia directly
affects bordering Venezuela, now
generally regarded as our largest oil
supplier. In fact, the oil picture in Latin
America is strikingly similar to that of
the Middle East, except that Colombia
provides us more oil today than Kuwait
did then.
"This crisis, like the one in Kuwait,
threatens to spill over into many nations,
all of which are allies." The war on the
rebels, then, forms part of a classic
counter-insurgency strategy of destroying
nationalist forces that threaten U.S.
hegemony and elite interests throughout
Latin America.
The military aid both strengthens and
grants legitimacy to the repressive
apparatus of the Colombian state and its
clandestine arm, the paramilitaries. In so
doing, the Colombian state can continue
to silence and murder those who dare
question the status-quo in Colombia, a
status-quo that currently sees the majority
of Colombia's people in poverty, with
25% of all Colombians living in abject
misery.
The United States thus destroys the
potential of an alternative model of socio-
economic organisation, and escalates the
costs of organizing or speaking out in
favour of potential alternatives. In
prosecuting the war the U.S. and
Colombian elites rely on both coercive
and consensual means.
For U.S. and international audiences
there are vast PR propaganda campaigns
to manage perceptions. In Colombia
however it is a very different story where
to get off your knees and stand on your
feet is a risky business which all too often
leads to a bullet made in the U.S.A.
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Guillen, Director of Voz and former
member of the VIP Commission, said
from Geneva, Switzerland, that a firm
decision by the Foreign Office Ministers
of the European Union to include the
FARC-EP in the EU list of terrorist
organisations, on the recommendation of
the Committee of Permanent
Representatives in Brussels, will deal a
fatal blow to any possibility of a
humanitarian agreement to secure the
release of the officers and subofficers of
the Police and Army, the MPs, ex-
ministers, the Governor of Antioquia, the
deputies and the former presidential
candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who are
being held by the FARC and for whom
efforts are being made in different parts
of the world. When the FARC offices
were closed in Mexico, the contacts
moved to Europe, but now this option has
been closed with the decision of the EU,
pressured by the United States and the
sadly infamous Pastrana government. It
is a shame that Europe has decided to
support the warmongers."(1)
When the European Union (EU) labels
an organization "terrorist," it reserves
itself the right to seize or free the assets
of that organization in Europe. On May
2nd the imperialist news agency of
England called the BBC reported that the
EU declared the "PKK" of Turkey/
European imperialists merge with New World Order
Kurdistan "terrorist."
Meanwhile, the EU left itself an out
by saying the newly formed "Kurdistan
Freedom and Democracy Congress" or
Kadek would not be outlawed. According
to the BBC, many Turkish and Kurdish
activists warned that war would arise
from the European move, which also
included an attack on another highly
visible Turkish organization, the DHKP-
C,(2) which upholds Che Guevara and
Stalin in an eclectic way. Conforming to
the U.$. "list of terrorist organizations,"
the EU added the PCP ("Shining Path"),
which MIM esteems highly, and the
People's Mujahideen Organization
composed of Iranians.(3)
Republican Congress member Ron
Paul has done the most to explain what
is going on in Colombia: "`It just happens
that we have spread ourselves around the
world; we are now in nine countries of
the 15 countries that used to be part of
the Soviet Union. And every country has
something to do with oil. The Caspian
Sea, Georgia, and why are we in the
Persian Gulf? We are in the Persian Gulf
to protect `our' oil. Why are we involved
with making and interfering with the
democratically elected leader of
Venezuela? I thought we were for
democracy, and yet the reports are that
we may well have participated in the
attempt to have a democratically elected
official in Venezuela removed. I think
there is a little bit of oil in Venezuela as
well. Could that have been the
reason?"(4)
The same U.$. Congress member Ron
Paul also opposed extending the "War on
Terror" to include the FARC in
Colombia: "There is a world of
difference between a rebel group fighting
a civil war in a foreign country and the
kind of international terrorist
organization that targeted the United
States last September... The Colombian
civil war is now in its fourth decade;
pretending that the fighting there is
somehow related to our international war
on terrorism is to stretch the imagination
to the breaking point. It is unwise and
dangerous."(4) Ron Paul complained that
the more money Congress appropriated
to Colombia, the more drugs exported to
the united $tates increased.
As MIM has explained in its book on
the class structure of the imperialist
countries, there is a record
interpenetration of European and U.$.
capital. For this reason, the FARC
strategy of allying with European social-
democracy against Yankee imperialism
stands mostly on superstructural legacies,
not anything real in dynamics of wealth
accumulation. In other words, the U.$.
imperialists and European imperialists
are business partners that cut each other
in on any deals they have and only
vestiges of past practices gave the FARC
strategy any hope. That is not to say that
European and Amerikkkan imperialists
could not see major clashes of interest in
the future, just that there is nothing to
base a really good strategy on right now.
MIM believes that the next
contradiction to take advantage of arises
from assuming the New World Order as
fact, and not by seeking non-existent
social-democratic allies of the traditional
nationalist sort. New internationalist
social-democrats should favor global
regulation and reform demands of some
interest to the proletariat.
Notes:
1. http://www.anncol.com/June/
2106FORMER_PEACE_BROKER_CRITICIZES_EU.html
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
europe/newsid_1964000/1964954.stm
3. http://www.khilafah.com/home/
category.php?DocumentID=4017&TagID=2
4. http://www.anncol.com/June/
1106_TEXAS_CONGRESSMAN_SPEAKS_OUT_AGAINST_WAR.html
5. See "Conscious internationalist social-
democracy emerging," MIM Notes 261, 1 Jul
2002.
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Militarism is war-
mongering or the
advocacy of war or
actual carrying out of
war or its preparations.
While true pacifists
condemn all violence
as equally repugnant,
we Maoists do not
consider self-defense
or the violence of
oppressed nations
against imperialism to
be militarism.
Militarism is mostly
caused by imperialism
at this time.
Imperialism is the highest stage of
capitalism--seen in countries like the
United $tates, England and France.
Under capitalism, capitalists often
profit from war or its preparations.
Yet, it is the proletariat that does the
dying in the wars. The proletariat
wants a system in which people do not
have self-interest on the side of war-
profiteering or war for imperialism.
Militarism is one of the most
important reasons to overthrow
capitalism. It even infects oppressed
nations and causes them to fight each
other.
It is important not to let capitalists
risk our lives in their ideas about war
and peace or the environment. They
have already had two world wars
admitted by themselves in the last 100
years and they are conducting a third
right now against the Third World.
Even a one percent annual chance of
nuclear war destruction caused by
capitalist aggressiveness or "greed" as
the people call it should not be tolerated
by the proletariat. After playing
Russian Roulette (in which the bullet
chamber is different each time and not
related at all to the one that came up in
previous spins) with 100 chambers and
one bullet, the chance of survival is
only 60.5% after 50 turns. In other
words, a seemingly small one percent
annual chance of world war means
eventual doom. After 100 years or turns
of Russian Roulette, the chances of
survival are only 36.6%. After 200
years, survival has only a 13.4%
chance.
What is militarism?
their homes by wanton bombings by the
armed forces. Most Muslim men were
brutalized by troops and torture-like
beatings are so commonplace that it
reminds us of the martial law repression
during the Marcos years." The fact-
finding mission also discovered chili
pepper had been applied on the eyes, anus
and ears of prisoners, that boiling water
had been poured over captives and that
repeated punching and rifle-butt beatings
took place.Washington and Manila claim
that hundreds of U.$. military "advisors"
and increased military aid are needed to
fight the Abu Sayaaf kidnapping gang.
Yet even Macapagal-Arroyo admitted
that she is not so worried about the
immediate threat of the Abu Sayaaf as
she is about allowing continued
Amerikan access to the Philippines. She
said "the important thing is the strategic
alliance has been redefined and
reaffirmed ... The warmth is as it was in
the old days when we were unequivocal
allies."(1)
Mindanao is long-contested territory.
The United $tates is eyeing Mindanao as
the site for military bases granted it under
the Visiting Forces Agreement. U.$.-
based multi-national corporation Dole
also has huge pineapple plantations on
Mindanao. Reactionaries in the
Philippines have argued openly in the
past that the Amerikan military presence
would strengthen the war against the
protracted people's war of the NPA, led
by the Communist Party of the
Philippines.(2)
Marie talked about how the United
$tates seeks to use the Philippines as a
staging area for further military
campaigns into Indonesia. U.$. deputy
"defense" secretary Paul Wolfowitz
recently (June 3) visited the Philippines
and said that the government of
Macapagal-Arrollo "must" sign the
Mutual Supply and Logistics Agreement
(MSLA) designed to increase U.$.
military presence, range of activity and
mobility within the Philippines. In
November while visiting Washington
D.C., Gloria Macapagal-Arrollo denied
the existence of this agreement. Now she
has publicly signed it. These imperialist
agreements are designed to keep the
Filipino people under the command of
the U.$. government and its domestic
lackeys. They are used to crush domestic
opposition to a government that
irreverently inflicts abuses on its people
and crushes Philippine cultural and
economic development and forces people
to flee the country in desperation.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to
power on the back of a mass movement
against the corrupt U.$.-Estrada regime.
She posed as a democratic and "honest"
alternative--but her whole tenure has
been a smoke-and-mirrors affair.
For example, Marie explained how
Macapagal-Arroyo accepted a human
rights proposal before popular protest
ousted Estrada in January of 2001. The
proposal included talks with the NDF, a
125 peso wage increase for all and release
of all political prisoners. But early on in
her administration Macapagal-Arroyo
went back on her word and instead set
up a 30 peso minimum wage (the average
jeepney ride costs 4 pesos!), and only
released a handful of select political
prisoners. The U.$.-schooled daughter of
a former President and CIA agent has also
cozied up to the United $tates and is
arguably more of an Amgirl (Amerikan
girl) than Estrada was an Amboy.
During the Q&A part of the talk an
audience member asked about human
rights violations on the picket line. Marie
replied that the police are generally called
out to disperse picketers who go on strike
because of the devastating economic
crisis of the Philippines and who work
long hours with no overtime pay, no
health care and no contractual
guarantees. In the last year 100 Nissan
workers have "mysteriously"
disappeared and some have been
arrested. Marie's talk was hosted by the
International League of People's
Struggle, The People's Coalition Against
the War and Bayan International-USA
(see statement this page). The discussion
began with a member of Bayan
International-USA reminding everyone
Philippine humyn-rights org. demands end to U.$.-backed abuse
that although the day of independence is
celebrated on June 12th, imperialism is
still present in the Philippines. The
speaker explained the irony of how the
Philippines have gone through four
different official days of independence
but the people still suffer imperialism.
The first official day of independence
was June 12, 1890 from the Spaniards
This is a reprint of the joint statement
issued on June 12 by the International
League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS-US),
BAYAN International-US and People's
Coalition Against War (PCAW).
Today, June 12, 2002, Philippine
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will
raise the Philippine flag and celebrate the
104th Philippine Independence Day in
the island of Basilan. This symbolic
gesture is to rally the Armed Forces and
the Filipinos against the bandit group
Abu Sayyaf and justify the presence and
the longer stay of US troops in the
Philippines in the so called fight "against
terrorism."
As history repeats itself, in June 1898,
the First Philippine Republic welcomed
the presence of US troops supposedly as
an ally against Spanish colonialism.
Shortly after proclaiming
"independence," the bourgeois liberal
Aguinaldo government realized that the
"Humane North American Republic" did
not come to help liberate the Philippines
but rather colonize it. After nine months,
the Filipino-American War erupted and
the US forces "pacified" the Philippines
after 16 years from 1899 to 1916 at the
cost of more than 1.5 million Filipino
lives and a boundless estimate of
destruction in property.
Almost a century past, today, more than
1,000 US troops are stationed in the
Philippines. US functionaries are rushing
to get President Arroyo to sign a Mutual
Logistic and Supplies Agreement
(MSLA) to justify the "extended and
indefinite stay" of US troops in the
Philippines in the guise of "fighting the
war against terror."
Now, Arroyo and her ilk still have the
gall to celebrate independence when her
tottering puppet regime is so heavily
dependent on US imperialism from
simple economics up to the last military
boots that her soldiers wears. What kind
of independence that the Philippines have
when it cannot even decide what to teach
in schools, what products to sell and what
war materials it can buy for the inept
military?
We, Filipinos in US, condemn the gross
servility and brazen puppetry of Arroyo,
the outspoken martinet of US
imperialism in Southeast Asia. Arroyo is
the epitome of a number one bootlicker
of Bush. In the Philippines today, the
Filipinos are experiencing gross
corruption from high offices, spiraling
taxes, zooming price of commodities,
gross violation of human rights among
others.
Despite Arroyo's hogwash that the US
military deployment in the Philippines
"has the support of the Filipino people,"
a US think- tank, STRATFOR, said it
otherwise. In its recent analysis,
STRATFOR, said: "Arroyo is losing
people's support due to two things, one
is her outright support to US intervention,
and two, the corruption that pervades in
her administration."
US TROOPS OUT OF THE PHILIPPINES NOW!
and as U.$. protectorate. Next it was
October 23, 1943 from the Japanese and
then July 4, 1946 as a U.$. neo-colony.
Finally Macapagal-Arroyo's father
changed it back to June 12 so that it
wouldn't conflict with July 4 parties at
the Amerikan embassy.Notes:
1. MIM Notes 251, 1 Feb 2001.
2. MIM Notes 185, 1 May 1999.
Continued from page 1...
MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 7
La Commune
Directed by Peter
Watkins (2001)
This 345 minute long movie directed
by Peter Watkins is a creative attempt to
explore the short-lived history of the
1871 Paris Commune. The film is largely
shot in "you are there" style as if by
nineteenth-century journalists. It's a
collage of interviews, public debates,
high-society discussions, mainstream
media news coverage clips, etc. The
movie offers a dynamic and broad vision
of the Paris Commune in its historical
and political context.
The film covers a range of ideological
perspectives from the working class to
the bourgeoisie and explores tensions
within alliances formed during the
Commune. It captures debates within the
Commune over the role of media-
specifically, the importance of people's
media in shaping revolutionary politics.
The Commune also debates the
revolutionary feminism and how to
combat patriarchal ideas.
Perhaps one of the most important
issues raised by the movie are the
Commune's internal problems which led
to its slaughter by the French state. La
Commune exposes the bankruptcy of the
anarchist ideal of an immediate leap to
stateless society without seizing state
power to defend the revolution. This
criticism is voiced by one of the
participants of the last meeting of the
Commune who bitterly throws out his
disagreement with the fact that it is
anarcho-communist principles and not
the achievements of the revolution that
end up being defended [by not taking
authoritarian measures]. Another pitfall
of the Commune that becomes apparent
in the panic and organizational chaos
MAOIST MOVIE REVIEWS
Path to War
Directed by John
Frankenheimer (2002)
It seems the ruling class will not be
contented in churning out films extolling
their class virtues and painting their
enemies the grimmest black. They not
only turn out films, documentaries and
books rationalizing the mistakes of their
icons like Theodore Roosevelt, Truman,
Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon and
others, they also make special
"historical" feature films for television.
The latest HBO feature film "Path to
War" about Lyndon B. Johnson is one
these petty-bourgeois revisionist films.
The film tried very hard to humanize
Lyndon B. Johnson as a US president.
As all bourgeois revisionist films about
historical figures, they tried to make it
appear that Johnson was an unwilling
tool manipulated by his advisers--
notably former U.$. "Defense" Secretary
Robert McNamara. McNamara in turn is
portrayed as manipulated by Pentagon
generals running the war by remote
control from the comforts of their war
rooms in Washington.
"Path to War" vainly tried to portray
Johnson as a moderate policy maker and
an unwilling captive of Pentagon and the
State Department who was fed wrong
information about the conduct of the war
in Vietnam. Even if this were true--then
who is responsible for deceiving the
public if the highest policy maker got the
round-around? Maybe it's the Amerikan
public themselves who should be
blamed?
Appearing as a copycat of "Thirteen
Days", a recent Kevin Costner's film
about the Cuban Crisis, "Path to War"
made a sloppy carbon copy of how the
Kennedy administration dealt with the
Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Unlike the
"Thirteen Days" that showed the cracks
and the differences between different
camps in the bourgeois government,
"Path to War" shows Johnson as a
pathetic hostage to the complex military
situation.
[Either way--whether a clueless dupe
or conscious warmonger--Johnson bears
responsibility for the war. Like
McNamara's recent string of books,
"Path to War" is a facile attempt to
exonerate "the best and the brightest"
who led Amerika during the Vietnam
war. "If only we know now what we
know then," the story goes, "we would
never have gotten involved." Bullshit.
They knew everything then, yet chose to
get involved--out of a combination of
arrogance and the material dictates of
imperialism.]
The film's high point was to show
Johnson grew tired of personally writing
letters of condolences for the tens of
thousands of Amerikan soldiers killed in
combat. [Too bad he didn't have to write
a letter of apology and sign a reparations
check for every one of the millions of
people killed by Amerikan bullets and
bombs in Vietnam.]
The only remaining problem these
propagandists face is that these films
have no appeal to the public. The TV
audience would rather watch the
"Simpson's" [which at least comments
on contemporary issues in an entertaining
fashion.]
--MZ276, a friend of MIM
preceding its downfall is the absence of
a vanguard leadership armed with
revolutionary theory and a clear sense of
strategy, a centralized structure and a
mass support network outside the city.
"Everyone debates no one obeys," says
another member of the Commune that
finds itself increasingly paralyzed due to
a backlog of orders and counter-orders
and tensions between the Central
Committee of the National Guard on the
one hand and the administrative body of
the Commune, on the other hand.
The movie makes a point of reflecting
on the experience of the Paris Commune
within the context of the present day
world situation. At various instances
throughout the film actors start talking
as themselves, analyzing their characters'
acts, strategic issues as well as drawing
parallels and lessons from the
Commune's fall. Another actress talks
about the educational value of her casting
experience and mentions that the
dramatic outcome of the movie inspired
her to turn to Lenin's State and
Revolution in search for strategic
answers. Other issues that actors touch
upon in their discussions of the film are
the issue of undocumented immigrants
in contemporary France and police
brutality.
From the formal point of view, this self-
reference trick as well as the actors'
selection--a lot of them are unpaid
amateurs including undocumented
immigrants--gives the status quo view
of movie making an interesting twist.
Taking a cue from Brecht's experimental
"learning plays," the filming process
itself becomes an educational endeavor
where actors get to elaborate the script
based on individually conducted research
and study politics via debate and
discussion of political issues raised
throughout the movie.
`Path to War' or warpath?
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MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 8
Pledge to God proves immorality of nation
one that established the "pledge of
allegiance," plain and simple. Without
any such law, there can be no way a judge
could possibly "interpret" the "pledge of
allegiance" into existence either.
To change that fact or the fact for
instance that U.$. citizens are supposed
to have the right to bear arms or to
associate with whom they please, the rest
of the country is supposed to amend the
Constitution. Otherwise, these fascists
and theocrats are backstabbing the rest
of the people who thought they were
living under a constitution that was the
highest law of the land. At the very least,
the theocrats should secede from the
United $tates into their own country and
allow the rest of us to live in a capitalist
republic governed by the Constitution.
We're tired of fighting their hypocritical
interpretation of their own bourgeois
system.(6)
29% of Amerikkkans are saying that
the United $tates is a "Christian" nation
with another 16% saying "biblical
nation,"(1) a nod to Jews-- and many of
these same people have the nerve to
criticize the Taliban for mixing politics
and religion. People in northern and East
or West coast cities are most apt not to
realize that this fraction of the united
$tates exists at all, but these people really
do exist and drag the whole country
backward.
Far from being a source of morality,
these bible-thumping Amerikkkans are
often the most willing to twist anything.
The court case involved was by an atheist
who did not want his daughter forced into
reciting the pledge of allegiance in
school. We agree that his daughter should
not have to waste a minute of her precious
life doing so or even listening to others
doing so. The atheist and the court did
not say the Christians could not recite the
pledge on their own time as individuals.
However, the most active Christians
lied and presented the matter to their
followers as follows in a petition
sponsored by Jerry Falwell: "As an
American citizen and a person of faith, I
am deeply troubled that the Ninth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals has outlawed
the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
to our flag in American public schools.
This nation was founded upon the Judeo-
Christain ethic."(2) Quite the contrary,
the pledge was not outlawed. It was ruled
as unconstitutional for forced recitation
in public schools. There is a big
difference! The Christian petition did not
openly come out for forcing all children
to recite the pledge, and hence it was a
lie. It should have admitted nothing was
done to prevent children from reciting it
individually on the playground or in the
halls in their own spare time. The fact
that the Christians misrepresented the
issue in such a basic way shows the lack
of integrity in Amerikkka.
Patrick Robertson of the 700 Club, a
leading born-again Christian and former
right-wing candidate for president was
even more slick and dishonest than Jerry
Falwell. Robertson connected the issue
to the "war on terrorism." Once again he
said the court ruling "excluded"(3) God
from the schools. First of all, if God can
be excluded that way, He must be pretty
weak. Secondly, if He can be excluded
by a legal ruling, then that is an admission
that Pat Robertson's God is a God that
only exists when forced on atheist
children. Finally, Pat Robertson again
implied that September 11th was
punishment from God for not paying
enough attention to Him. That was a very
slick move to justify abandoning the
Constitution on behalf of the "War on
Terrorism," again without amending the
Constitution or seceding into the
"Biblical States of America."
In fact, "under God" was not in the
pledge until 1954. "`The appeals court
noted that when President Dwight D.
Eisenhower signed the act adding "under
God,' he said, `From this day forward,
the millions of our school children will
daily proclaim in every city and town,
every village and rural schoolhouse, the
dedication of our Nation and our people
to the Almighty.'"(4) People who cannot
see what is wrong with what Eisenhower
did despite what Amerikkka supposedly
stands for are fundamentally twisted.
They should either support "separation
of church and state" or oppose it, but not
support the "pledge of allegiance" as it
has been said since 1954 while claiming
to be for "separation of church and state"
and the "Bill of Rights" at the same time.
The Christian activists were not alone
in lacking integrity. As to be expected,
the professional politicians agreed with
them 100%. The U.S. Senate voted 99-0
to condemn the decision.(5) Democratic
Senator Byrd obscured the issue by
saying the judges would declare the
"Declaration of Independence"
unconstitutional too, but as any
schoolchild knows, the "Declaration of
Independence" is a statement by some
people for the justifications of revolution
against England. Those very same
revolutionaries believed that the law of
the land was a different matter than their
justifications for revolution. That's why
they also wrote a "Constitution," that is
the highest law of the land, whether or
not most people are too dishonest to
apply it.
What happened at Enron, WorldCom
etc. is not untypical in Amerikkka. The
morality of parasitism seeps through
every pore and no people will benefit
their thinking more from coming under
the dictatorship of the proletariat than the
Amerikkkan people themselves. It is
2002 and still the bourgeois people of
Amerikkka in their majority cannot read
a piece of paper like the Constitution
without twisting it. There could hardly
be better proof of the impossibility of any
decency arising from bourgeois society.
Notes:
1. http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/29/
poll.pledge/index.html
2. http://www.falwell.com/pledge_petition.php
3. http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/patrobertson/
PledgeofAllegiance.asp
4. http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/
pledge.allegiance/index.html?related
5. http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/06/26/
pledge.allegiance/index.html?related
6. http://www.americanhumanist.org/
pledge.html tackles the hypocrisy while still
upholding a bourgeois system
Continued from page 1...
About 500 people gathered outside a
U.$. military base in Uijongbu, south
Korea on 26 June to protest an incident
the earlier week in which a U.$. army
vehicle killed two girls. "Apologize for
the incident" "Punish those responsible!"
"Get down to the bedrock," shouted
demonstrators.
U.$. soldiers hit the protestors with
steel batons and shields. In turn the
demonstrators threw eggs and stones at
soldiers and riot police. Protestors also
tore down barbed wire around Camp Red
Cloud to get inside.
The commander of the U.$. 8th Army
previously promised to "vigorously
investigate" the incident. Past
investigations into wrongdoing by the
U.$. military have been white-washings.
Even where charges are found to be
true--such as when a U.$. base dumped
toxic chemicals into Seoul's main river--
those responsible have been exonerated.
The girls' deaths put a damper on
Koreans' celebrations of south Korea's
unprecedented success at the World Cup
soccer tournament. The Korean squad
outperformed both the United $tates and
Korea's former colonizer Japan by
advancing to the semi-finals, beating
European soccer powers Portugal, Italy
and Spain along the way. This was the
best performance in the tournament by a
team from Asia since the north Korean
"red mosquitoes" beat Italy in 1966.
South Korean fans known as "red
devils" acknowledged their compatriots'
achievement by hanging a banners which
read "1966 all over again" at the Italy
match. In turn north Korean soldiers were
heard cheering the south Korean's
successes across the armistice line still
manned by 35,000 Amerikan troops.
North Korean television also carried
broadcasts of the south Korean team's
knockout round matches--"pirated"
broadcasts, as they refused to pay FIFA
royalties. FIFA is international soccer's
governing body.
At the semifinal match the "red devils"
wanted to unfurl a giant "unification
flag"--a blue map of the Korean
peninsula on a white background--but
in a gutless move masquerading as
naiveté FIFA pressured them not to
"because the World Cup is not a place
Koreans protest girls' deaths at Amerikan military base
Incident undercuts World Cup success
for political statements." As if all those
sunburned yahoos chanting "U-S-A U-
S-A " were not making a political
statement.
The deaths of the two girls at the hands
of Amerikan troops and the obvious fact
that Korea remains divided--accentuated
by an apparent clash on the armistice line
on the last day of the World Cup--
naturally tempers the enthusiasm for the
Korean team's achievements. What use
is a world-class soccer team when the
36,000 U.$. troops on Korean soil can
provoke a war at the whim of the
Amerikan government?
Leave it to Amerikan imperialism to
spoil a good game.
Note: Reuters, 26 Jun 2002.
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MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 9
Peruvian courts convicted former CIA
asset Vladimiro Montesinos in early July
of "usurping office"--taking control of
the infamous National Intelligence
Service while serving as an adviser to
the agency. The judge gave fined
Montesinos $2.8 million and gave him a
prison term of nine years and four
months--apparently a heavy sentence for
the technicality he was convicted of but
terribly light compared to what he
deserves for the crimes he committed
while running martial law under former
president Alberto Fujimori. The Peruvian
government's genocidal war against the
revolutionary movement led by the
Communist Party of Peru (PCP) or
"Shining Path" killed tens of thousands.
Montesinos will go on trial this summer
for corruption, drug trafficking, arms
smuggling and homicide, including
accusations that Montesinos directed a
paramilitary death squad.
MIM and other PCP supporters
reported more than ten years ago that
CIA stooge Montesinos was involved
involvement in all of these activities. But
the Amerikan media and Amerikan
government remained silent--sometimes
even praised him for his bloody
"counter-insurgency efforts." We reprint
here an earlier MIM Notes article
describing the Amerikan government's
involvement with Montesinos and the
blind eye turned by the bourgeoisie's
media mouthpieces.
In the 1990s, the major imperialist
media outlets smeared the "Shining Path"
PCP led by Comrade Gonzalo for being
involved with drug traffickers. Now the
imperialists and the reactionaries in Peru
are admitting that it was the Peruvian
regime wrapped up in drugs, just as
"Sendero Luminoso" said.
In MIM Notes #216, we informed
readers that Uncle Sam had appeared to
grow tired of its lackey Peruvian spy-
master Vladimiro Montesinos. This is a
common fate of lackeys who do U.$. dirty
work only to find that they are no longer
necessary to the boss. The problem with
lackeys like Montesinos is that they
become exposed in front of their own
people--as in Peru in this example--and
then it becomes a matter of time before
Uncle Sam disowns its creatures. Of
course, the next lackey to come along will
raise his price for doing the biddings of
Uncle Sam.
In every country there are people
willing to be lackey-traitors like
Montesinos. Both Uncle Sam and his
lackeys deserve to be overthrown.
U.$. media cover-up
On July 10th 2001, CNN was able to
say: "Montesinos is himself a lawyer who
reportedly defended drug dealers after
being expelled from the army and serving
a brief stint in prison for selling secrets
to the CIA."(1) When CNN said this,
Montesinos had just ended his 9-day
hunger strike in Peruvian prison after
being turned over by Venezualan
authorities. Montesinos faces various
criminal charges now in Peru ranging
from drug dealing to murder.
Nonetheless, before Montesinos left
the country in 2000 -- that is before
Uncle Sam grew tired of him--there is
no mention by the supposedly so
objective CNN about Montesinos and
protection of drug-runners -- as proved
by a search under his name and the word
"drug" on the CNN site. For all the
difference it makes, CNN is an extension
of the U.$. government. When Uncle
Sam says praise, CNN praises. When it
says bite, CNN bites.
As late as May 19, 2000, CNN said this
about Fujimori and implicitly his right-
hand Montesinos: "Cutting Fujimori
loose would be a tough decision for the
U.S. in light of the high praise he earned
during his first two terms for eliminating
much of his country's cocaine
production, smashing the leftist guerrilla
insurgencies of the Shining Path and the
Tupac Amaru movements, and reining in
hyperinflation."(2) Once the U.$.
government decided to oppose Fujimori
and Montesinos completely, the tune in
CNN and the rest of the monopoly
capitalist press changed and it became
permissible to link Fujimori and
Montesinos to drug-dealing themselves.
Likewise a search on the New York
Times web site since 1996 shows that the
New York Times did not mention
Montesinos and drugs till after
imperialist government criticisms in
2000. Indeed, one of the few New York
Times articles to criticize Peruvian rulers
was based on sources by Israeli-owned
media in Peru.
In contrast, people who read MIM
Notes knew the whole picture as early as
1994 in MIM Notes 90 or by reading the
columns of Luis Arce Borja who went
into exile in Belgium. The media such
as the Christian Science Monitor, the
Houston Chronicle and Latin American
bourgeois publications such as
Venezuala's Caretas let out dribs and
drabs of information.
Only now that Uncle Sam has done
with Montesinos does most of the
imperialist and its lackey media dare to
report the essential facts as MIM does.
These imperialist and lackey media
outlets were previously afraid to
undermine Uncle Sam versus the Maoist
People's War in Peru led by Comrade
Gonzalo and his followers, but now the
People's War in Peru is supposedly
"dead," so the drug question comes to
the fore again.
In fact, the imperialist media now
reports the split and why the facts were
covered up. In the 1990s, the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) and CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency) of the U.S.
Government wanted to keep ties to
Montesinos while Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright and drug czar
Barry McCaffrey opposed keeping ties
to Montesinos -- or so the latter say now
after being good disciplined soldiers of
Uncle Sam's lying propaganda machine.
In fact, the CIA and DEA stood together
till the end, when it was the FBI that
helped bust Montesinos, by capturing
some associates of his in Miami.
Conscious Uncle Sam decision to
back cocaine traffickers
The Montesinos case not only
underscores the lack of reliability of the
U.$. media, because it also points to the
holes in the government that is supposed
to be stopping drugs from entering the
United $tates. The DEA was in favor of
dealing with Montesinos, which is itself
an outrage, but the top U.$. drug official,
McCaffrey found himself reduced to
internal lobbyist and had to labor on in
silence as the U.$. government supported
those exporting cocaine to the United
$tates.
Only now is this all in public as Knight
Ridder authors Kevin G. Hall and Lucien
Chauvin have exposed the details and
papers including the Boston Globe have
published them. Thus it is now that the
Prosecution of Vladimiro Montesinos vindicates People's War in Peru
Boston Globe admits that Montesinos
faces charges for operating death squads
and trafficking in drugs and arms. The
Boston Globe even reprinted the Knight
Ridder chain story that said Montesinos
was "the man many believed was the real
and unelected ruler of Peru from 1990 to
2000."(3) No wonder the Bush
administration has delayed releasing all
the sordid details of the Clinton
administration operation in Peru for fear
that the details will destabilize "Peru's
fledgling democratic government."(3)
"Democratic" in the mouths of the
imperialists is a code-word for drug-
trafficking, arms-dealing and otherwise
making the world safe for Amerikkkan
profits.
Notes:
1. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/
07/10/peru.montesinos.reut/index.html 2. http://
www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/05/19/
peru5_19.a.tm/index.html 3. Boston Globe
26June2001, p. a10.
MIM Theory 2 and 3: Gender
and Revolutionary Feminism
MIM seeks to explain how it sees
gender oppresion, especially in the First
World.($5)
MIM Theory 4:
The Failure and Success of
Communist Development
The collapse of state-capitalist
governments in the Soviet Union and its
bloc of allies in Eastern Europe left many
people with the conclusion that
communism is a failure and capitalism a
success.($6)
MIM Theory 5: Diet for a
Small Red Planet
If the genuine communist forces are to
amount to anything, we must understand
the dialectical stages through which the
struggle passes.($6)
MIM Theory 6: The Stalin
Issue
Anti-communist propagandists around
the world opened up new offensives
against Josef Stalin when the Soviet
Union fell apart.($6)
MIM Theory 7: Proletarian
Feminist Revolutionary Na-
tionalist on the Communist
Road
Maoism holds that the principal
contradication in the world today is
between imperialism and oppressed
nations. MIM applies our line on the
national question to the specific
conditions of the oppressed internal
nations in North America.($6)
MIM Theory 8:
The Anarchist Ideal and
Communist Revolution
We offer our present and past critiques
of anarchist theory and practice,
specific anarchist groups, and great
MIM
Theory
moments in anarchist history.($6)
MIM Theory 9: Psychology
and Imperialism
Looking at the Chinese practice, our
own developing experience, and
learning from various critiques of
mainstream psychology, we begin to
find the answers to get people up and
active in the revolutionary struggle, and
to develop the theory we need to deal
with psychology and mental health.($6)
MIM Theory 10: Labor Aris-
tocracy
"At the expense of the plundered
colonial peoples capital corrupted its
wage slaves, created a community of
interest between the exploited and the
exploiters as against the oppressed
colonies ... and chained the European
and American working class to the
imperialist `fatherland.'" --Comintern,
1919($6)
MIM Theory 11: Amerikkkan
Prisons on Trial
Revolutionary analysis of Amerikan
injustice leads to the only reasonable
verdict. For the crime of oppression
and genocide, the people find this
imperialist system... GUILTY!($6)
MIM Theory 12:
Environment, Society, Revo-
lution
Read MIM's call for a revolutionary
environmentalism: Taking on both the
imperialists and the pseudo-environ-
mentalists who cover for them. No
green revolutionary should be without
it.($6)
MIM Theory 13: Culture in
Revolution
Includes MIM's call to study, criticize,
and create culture in the revolutionary
movement.(200 pp., $8)
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MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 10
MIM on
Prisons & Prisoners
MIM seeks to build public opinion
against Amerika's criminal injustice sys-
tem, and to eventually replace the bour-
geois injustice system with proletarian jus-
tice. The bourgeois injustice system im-
prisons and executes a disproportionately
large and growing number of oppressed
people while letting the biggest mass mur-
derers -- the imperialists and their lack-
eys -- roam free. Imperialism is not op-
posed to murder or theft, it only insists that
these crimes be committed in the interests
of the bourgeoisie.
"All U.S. citizens are criminals--
accomplices and accessories to the crimes
of U.$. oppression globally until the day
U.$. imperialism is overcome. All U.S.
citizens should start from the point of view
that they are reforming criminals."
MIM does not advocate that all
prisoners go free today; we have a
more effective program for fighting
crime as was demonstrated in China
prior to the restoration of capitalism
there in 1976. We say that all prisoners
are political prisoners because under
the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, all
imprisonment is substantively
political. It is our responsibility to
exert revolutionary leadership and
conduct political agitation and
organization among prisoners --
whose material conditions make them
an overwhelmingly revolutionary
group. Some prisoners should and will
work on self-criticism under a future
dictatorship of the proletariat in those
cases in which prisoners really did do
something wrong by proletarian
standards.
Under Lock & Key
News from Prisons & Prisoners
Comrade sends advice
on fighting censorship
I'm writing you real quick because I wanted
to submit something in Under Lock and Key
to help a brother out who needed assistance
in the Dec. 1. 2001 #247 MIM Notes. The
prisoner was from Connecticut and he
submitted a lawsuit concerning censorship of
MIM Notes that got past the dismissal stage.
He said he needed any and all assistance. He
simply needs to refer to Thornburgh v. Abbott
490 U.S. 401, 109 S.Ct. 1874, 104 L.Ed.2d
459 (1989) a Supreme Court case that governs
the censoring of "incoming mail" such as
MIM Notes etc. He has to prove that the
prison official's actions weren't "reasonably
related to a legitimate penalogical interest."
Remember he's relying on this case and not
PROCUNIER v. MARTINEZ (416 U.S. 396)
which Thornburgh over-ruled in part. Please
print this in your next issue of MIM Notes so
that brother has access to this information.
We must continue to lay the building blocks
for a proletarian overthrow of the capitalist
regime that is a parasite to the people
Workers of the world unite!
--A New York prisoner, May 2002
Censorship protest
letters
Dear MIM:
I'm glad to see MIM Notes being delivered
again. ...Always willing to fight censorship, I
wrote two of the accompanying letters to other
institutions listed in the March issues. I'm not
a great letter writer but you may consider
cleaning up one of my letters and printing it
because I think it raises a good point. If other
inmates show these prison managers that we
receive MIM Notes and that it is not causing
riots or violence at our institutions then it's
hard for them to continue to claim that it may
cause violence at their institutions. MIM
might also consider supporting this with facts
such as approximately how long it has been
mailing to inmates, say per state, with no
disruptions being reported. ...
One other issue about the censorship.
Inmates with actual cases in court challenging
censorship should seek affidavits from those
inmates at institutions that receive MIM Notes
stating that is has not caused violence or riots
at their institutions.
MIM responds: These are great letters. If
there are others out there holding onto letters
for fear that they aren't good enough -- cough
`em up.
To: Conner Blaine Jr.
Superintendent, SCI Green
169 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA
Dear Superintenent Blaine:
I am writing concerning your censorship
policy, specifically MIM Notes. Your fears
are clearly unfounded. Texas Department of
Criminal Justice Institutional Division
inmates receive MIM Notes. There have been
no riots or acts of violence attributed to it.
Your fear of it is reasonable but only in light
of the inhumane way you treat your inmates
and the knowledge that anything that helps
them to become a better person is a threat to
ending your unjust system.
Please reconsider allowing MIM Notes into
your institution.
To: Warden Gerald Berge
Supermax Correctional Institution
PO Box 1000 Boscobel, WI 53805-1000
Dear Warden Berge,
[Same as above.]
Illinois: No talking in
Pontiac
I'm currently in a segregation prison called
Pontiac. They issued us a memo stating we
will be issued disciplinary reports for yelling
loudly. This is just a setup to stop us from
talking to one another. They charge us for
violating rules, for insolence, and now for
talking. Now our Constitutional right to
freedom of speech has been taken. I can't even
talk to my neighbor or the guy two cells down
without catching a ticket or having some pig
tell me: shut up, your conversation is over.
If we catch three of these tickets in one
month, they strip us out and take all our
property for three days. If we catch four, we
get moved behind a solid steel door. The only
time property should get stripped or us get
moved behind a door is if we are causing harm
to ourselves or to the institution's staff.
They are also giving more seg time and
taking away good time credits for these
talking tickets, just to keep this place full.
They gave a guy one month in seg for having
porn. My neighbor got one month extra seg
for a talking ticket. I was recently given three
months seg for a torn up state sheet, and I
was charged with damage and misuse of state
property. Never before would the state give
three months for this charge. The staff know
they have to keep the facility full of segregated
housing or they will be forced to open the
joint back up. It costs less to run these joints
this way.
--an Illinois prisoner, 29 May 2002
Support N.C.
censorship battle
In my last letter I informed you of current
difficulties in obtaining MIM Notes because
of the systematic manner the prison mailroom
staff is treating MIM. Twice during this month
of May (3rd and 16th) MIM's mail was
rejected.
Also I informed you that I received the
2001 Nov. and Dec. issues after your letter
of objection to the unfounded censorship of
MIM's newsletter addressed to the warden
and mailroom staff. Because of such minor
triumph at that time, I am requesting that you
write another letter but only this time to the
Director of Prisons. Make sure you ask him
why, after I was allowed to receive MIM
Notes for nearly eight months (May - Dec.
2001), that now for some peculiar reason it is
deemed a threat to security? Also, I will write
him a letter.
In addition, I am forwarding a duplicate
letter I appealed to the Director's Publication
Review Committee on 5-21-02 pertaining to
the rejection of MIM's mail on May 16, 2002.
If I decide to pursue legal action in violation
of my First Amendment rights, can MIM
assist me any at all? How about the ACLU?
--a North Carolina prisoner, 28 May 2002
Letter from prisoner to Publication
Review Committee in protest of MIM
Censorship
I object to the refusal to allow me to read
this material (MIM Notes) and urge you to
reconsider the censored mail sent from MIM
Distributors. Beginning in May 2001, I began
receiving MIM's newspaper. For eight
months I was allowed this publication at this
very facility. MIM Distributors does not
advocate the violation of any federal or state
laws and does not advocate the violation of
any rules within the correctional institution.
MIM is a political newspaper covering events
in this country and throughout the world. Just
because you may not agree with the content
of the reading material analysis, does not give
you legal justification for censoring it. And
since MIM does not promote racially
inflammatory accusation or advocate violence
or any other violation under section D.0109
in the Division of Prison policy, there can be
nothing to infer it as being detrimental to the
safety and security of the institution. This is
again supported by the fact that for eight
months I was allowed MIM mail at this
facility. So how come all of a sudden it is
now deemed a threat to security? What
specific reasons are you able to justify?
Unless this facility is opposed to the
rehabilitation and self-education of prisoners,
there can be no legitimate indication that
MIM Notes and Theory pose a danger or have
caused disruption within the prisons.
Therefore, it is my request that you reconsider
censoring MIM mail and allow me to receive
the mail in question as well as all future MIM
correspondence.
Thank you.
--A North Carolina prisoner, 16 May 2002
Express your opposition by writing to:
Mr. Boyd Bennett
Director of Prisons
POB 29540
Raleigh, NC 27626
RAIL adds: Neither RAIL nor MIM has
the resources at this time to assist in individual
legal cases. We do appeal the censorship to
institutional authorities, explaining why they
have no legal basis for censoring MIM Notes.
And we can help by publicizing the
censorship and rallying support to let the pigs
know that they cannot suspend prisoners'
basic Constitutional rights without at the very
least opposition from both inside and outside
the prison. In addition we send prisoners a
guide to fighting censorship, which
recommends the basic steps to follow. We
would also recommend contacting your local
ACLU or any other legal aid organization in
your area for more specific legal assistance.
U$ freedom is
freedom to torture
Life inside the Belly of the Beast is a
constant battle for survival, and it gets worse
by the day. The beatings, the censorship, poor
health conditions, sorry ass meals, 23-hr.
lockdown, new restrictions, and all the other
bullshit that these prisoncratical pigs can think
of to further oppress their victims, is what I'm
up against. Nothing really changes but the
number on the calendar for those of us in
North Carolina's Supermax Unit. This place
is not about rehabilitation, it is only preparing
tortured and battered minds to return back into
society. Is this really what the public wants?
The system is creating a bunch of monsters.
This sure is some Land of the Free that we
live in. When were my people (Blacks) ever
free in Amerikkka -- tell me that? The
honorable Marcus Garvey sure was right
when he said that Black people would never
be free in Amerikkka amongst our white
oppressors.
--a North Carolina prisoner, June 2002
RAIL adds: Marcus Garvey's enduring
appeal as a symbol of Black nationalism is
his success in mobilizing, by some counts,
millions of Blacks to build institutions and
economic independence from white Amerika.
But as a communist Party supporting
revolutionary nationalism, MIM struggles to
move forward with the most advanced
examples of activism which supersede
Garvey. MIM takes its lessons from the
Maoist vanguard of the Black nation of the
1960s-the Black Panther Party, not the
capitalist Garvey. (For more of MIM's
position on Garvey see the review of Afrikan
Frontline Network on MIM's website at http:/
/www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/afn.html.)
MIM Notes 262 · July 15, 2002· Page 11
afirma que el presidente Gonzalo le dijo
que la entrevista que hizo El Diario en
Julio de 1988 no existió y que todo se
debió a un montaje que él (Abimael
Guzmán) había autorizado para "probar
que existía". Montesinos cuenta de la
siguiente manera su supuesta
conversación con el jefe guerrillero:
"Mire, usted sacó el año 88 (la
entrevista), le hizo Arce Borja en El
Diario La Entrevista del Siglo...¿Eso es
verdad o no es verdad?. Bueno, -me dijo
(Gonzalo)- es una cosa que en realidad
no la hice yo, nunca la di sino autoricé
que la hicieran para poder hacer parecer
como que existía....". (Transcripción
audio realizado por el Congreso de la
República el 13 de octubre 2001). La
conversación Montesinos-Tudela, es un
ejemplo excepcional que muestra como
Montesinos ponía en boca del presidente
las más absurdas falsedades. Afirmar que
el jefe guerrillero había dicho que la
entrevista fue un cuento fabricado por El
Diario, correspondía en esos momentos
a las pretensiones del gobierno de borrar
del mapa todo el valioso legado teórico
realizado por el jefe de la guerrilla
peruana en un espacio de cerca de 30 años
de lucha social. La "Entrevista del Siglo",
como nosotros la calificamos, constituye
un auténtico documento de la revolución
peruana, y uno de los mejores aportes
hechos por el periodismo peruano.
Además, jamás se puede pensar que el
presidente Gonzalo (de seguir vivo)
podría negar una entrevista que se
concretizó en base a un acuerdo del I
Congreso del PCP realizado en 1988. La
negación de la "Entrevista del Siglo" por
parte de Montesinos, tuvo el mismo sello
de fábrica que las "cartas de paz". Estos
embustes se han manejado holgadamente
con la seguridad de que el presidente
Gonzalo desaparecido desde hace mucho
tiempo nada podría hacer para aclarar a
sus detractores.
Las cartas al contrario de lo que se dijo
oficialmente, no buscaron una
negociación política entre la guerrilla y
el gobierno. En Perú o en cualquier parte
del mundo, la negociación entre
subversión y el Estado son hechos que
ponen en evidencia dos partes en
contienda, que al margen del carácter
político de la negociación (capitulación,
tratos diplomáticos, etc.) discuten
planteamientos y pedidos. En el caso
peruano, la lucha armada nunca pudo
estar negociada por sus prisioneros, ni
siquiera por algunos de sus más altos
mandos que al ser apresados (por
seguridad del partido y en aplicación de
normas lógicas) se quedan al margen de
la dirección de la guerra. En el caso de
las "cartas de paz", como montaje y plan
antisubversivo, sólo otorgó beneficios a
sus inventores (el gobierno). El
presidente Gonzalo en el hipotético caso
de que hubiera negociado con
Montesinos por lo menos tenía la
posibilidad de reclamar un alivio en el
duro sistema carcelario en que lo
mantenían y que lo saquen de su encierro
a más de 6 metros bajo tierra. Eso ni
publicitariamente ha sido así, y resulta
absurdo creer que la negociación existió.
El más ingenuo de los mortales, sabe que
en el desarrollo de una negociación algo
se reclama, algo se gana. Tratándose de
una guerrilla como la peruana que en
1993 efectuaba cerca de 4 mil acciones
militares al año, las negociaciones de
haber existido, se presentaban mucho
más sustanciosas y negociables. En este
caso los negociadores (que se han
presentado como dirigentes de la
guerrilla) pudieron conseguir alguna
jugosa prebenda de tipo personal, y por
qué no incluso la libertad. Pero parece
que no ha sido así, y los capituladores,
como Morote, María Pantoja, Cox
Beuzeville, y otros que se pusieron como
alfombra persa a los pies de Montesinos,
siguen tan presos como antes y ahora sólo
atinan a realizar huelgas de hambre para
seguir vendiendo la baratija de la
capitulación.
Asesinato y vida virtual del
presidente Gonzalo
En la siniestra lógica de las "cartas de
paz", el presidente Gonzalo tenía que ser
asesinado para después "resucitar" y
pedir un "acuerdo de paz" con Fujimori.
Es en este capítulo de la historia secreta
de las "cartas de paz", donde Montesinos
asesorado por expertos de la CIA
Americana y respaldado por el gobierno
y las fuerzas armadas, se encarga de
construir la vida virtual del jefe
guerrillero. Ni técnicamente ni
políticamente había dificultad para armar
el tabladillo y presentar las "cartas paz"
como si ellas provendrían del presidente
Gonzalo. El dinero para este fin era
incalculable. Los dólares provenían del
narcotráfico, del saqueo del Estado y de
la "colaboración" directa
norteamericana. Tanto Montesinos como
Fujimori, obtenían más de MIL
MILLONES de dólares anuales del
negocio de la droga. Todo esto con el
beneplácito de la CIA. Como señala en
un artículo el periodista de los Estados
Unidos Karen de Young (publicado el 22
de septiembre 2002 en el Washington
Post), la CIA argumentó en varias
ocasiones que Montesinos era un buen
aliado de Estados Unidos y que las
acusaciones que existían en su contra en
materia de derechos humanos y
narcotráfico no habían sido probadas. En
efecto Montesinos era el ahijado
preferido de la CIA, y es con su apoyo
que el asesor de Fujimori se atreve
incluso a fabricar un montaje fílmico
manipulatorio contra el general Mac
Caffrey, el zar de la lucha anti antidrogas
de los Estados Unidos.
Entre 1990 y el 2000 la CIA (Central
Intelligence Agency) entregó
secretamente 10 millones de dólares a
Montesinos para sostener el trabajo de
inteligencia nacional. La mayor parte de
este dinero sirvió para financiar la
fabricación de las "cartas de paz". Aparte
del dinero, las clases políticas del Perú y
sus partidos, hundidos en un proceso de
descomposición total, se convirtieron en
dóciles "opositores" de un régimen que
tenía el completo control del Estado y la
sociedad civil. Como parte de este
control, el Servicio de Inteligencia
Nacional (SIN) controlaba la televisión,
la mayoría de diarios, revistas y emisoras
radiales del país. Como se conoce ahora,
Montesinos entregaba millones de
dólares a varios canales de televisión y
por lo menos a una docena de medios de
comunicación escritos. Bajo estas
condiciones, redactar algunas cartas con
la misma escritura del presidente
Gonzalo y fabricar uno o varios videos
para presentarlo a la televisión no
resultaba ningún problema para un
gobierno mafioso que imponía su
voluntad a través del crimen, la represión
y el chantaje.
La vida virtual del presidente Gonzalo,
como lo dijo Montesinos, resultó de la
"inspiración" de una película. Esta parte
de la historia sale a la luz cuando
Montesinos narra sus fechorías a Tudela
que en esos momentos era el embajador
fujimorista en las Naciones Unidas. Ahí
Montesinos hablando de las "cartas de
paz" dice lo siguiente: "Así es y sabes
donde saqué eso, de la película...Leyendo
el texto se me ocurrió el tema...Este
trabajo me duró un año, y después del
año el Presidente llega a las Naciones
Unidas con la carta que le pide un
Acuerdo de Paz. ¿Te acuerdas?, esa carta
me costó un año de trabajo, un año,
todo...". (Conversación Montesinos-
Tudela, transcripción audio realizado por
el Congreso de la República el 13 de
octubre 2001). En esa "vida virtual",
cinematográfica, el jefe guerrillero
desaparecía físicamente, pero volvía a la
vida a través de trucos fílmicos y por qué
no reemplazado por un actor cuando las
circunstancias lo demandaban.
Sobre esto último, hay una prueba
testimonial que conduce a la certeza de
que alguien desde 1993 a asumido el rol
teatral de reemplazar al jefe guerrillero.
Una prueba de mucho peso para llegar a
esta conclusión, fue la denuncia que
hicieron en un comunicado público
(marzo 2001) un grupo de prisioneros de
guerra del penal de Yanamayo y que
ningún medio de comunicación publicó.
Estos prisioneros señalan que el 22 de
noviembre del 2000 fueron conducidos
desde Yanamayo al penal de la Base
Naval en el callao con el propósito de
reunirse con el presidente Gonzalo. Ahí
fueron llevados a una sala donde al poco
rato entró un oficial de La Marina
acompañado de un individuo que
pretendió hacerlo pasar como el jefe de
la guerrilla maoísta. El marino les dijo
"ahí está su jefe" y se inició una corta
conversación entre los visitantes y el
supuesto presidente Gonzalo. La
conclusión que sacaron los prisioneros
de Yanamayo sobre el encuentro con el
"presidente Gonzalo" que encontraron en
la Base Naval, es que éste es un impostor
bastante rudimentario y con una nula
preparación política. Según la propia
narración de los prisioneros de
Yanamayo, la persona con la cual ellos
conversaron, "...demostró tener
desconocimiento de eventos y acuerdos
partidarios... La reacción ha pretendido
embaucarnos suplantando al Presidente
Gonzalo en su afán de seguir tapando la
realidad, y continuar engañando al
pueblo con ese engendro de acuerdo de
paz que ya fracasó...Analizando los
hechos nos lleva a concluir que existe la
posibilidad de que el Presidente Gonzalo
haya sido desaparecido...".(Prisioneros
de Guerra del penal de Yanamayo, marzo
2001).
Sin dudas, la fabricación de la vida
virtual del presidente Gonzalo, significó
para Montesinos uno de sus mayores
logros al frente del Servicio de
Inteligencia Nacional (SIN). Este hecho
puesto en la balanza antisubversiva tuvo
sin dudas, más peso que la misma captura
del jefe guerrillero en setiembre de 1992.
Esto no pasa desapercibido para
Montesinos que en octubre del 2000 (sin
que nadie le formulara la preguntara ) y
cuando se encontraba en plena desgracia
anunció telefónicamente a Radio
Programas del Perú, que él "salvó del
fusilamiento a Abimael Guzmán". Dijo
entonces que gracias a su gestión no se
aplicó un decreto ley que establecía que
el presidente Gonzalo fuera ejecutado
junto con la señora Myriam Iparraguirre
y un tercer dirigente del PCP. ¿Cómo
interpretar lo dicho por Montesinos? Era
claro que estaba transmitiendo un
mensaje a Fujimori, haciéndole recordar
que fue él (Montesinos) quien se encargó
de eliminar al presidente Gonzalo y
volverlo a la vida virtual a través de las
"cartas de paz".
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Notas Rojas
julio 15, 2002, Nº 262 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis
¿Que es el MIM?
El Movimiento Internacionalista Maoísta (MIM) es un partido revolucionario
comunista que ejerce el Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoísmo. El MIM es una organización
internacionalista que trabaja desde el punto de vista del proletariado del Tercer Mundo;
es por esto que sus miembros no son amerikanos sino ciudadanos del mundo.
El MIM lucha para acabar con la opresión de todos los grupos sobre cualquier otro,
naciones por naciones, clases por clases, y géneros por géneros. La revolución es una
realidad para los Estados Unidos mientras su ejército continúa extendiendose en su
esfuerzo por asegurar la hegemonía mundial.
El MIM difiere de otros partidos en tres puntos basicos: (1) El MIM sostiene que
después que el proletariado conquiste el poder estatal, existira aún el potencial para una
restauración de tipo capitalista, bajo la dirección de una burguesía nueva dentro del
mismo partido comunista. En el caso de la Unión Soviética, la burguesía se apoderó del
gobierno después de la muerte de Stalin, en 1953; y en China después de la muerte de
Mao y del derrocamiento de la llamada "banda de los cuatro' en 1976. (2) El MIM
sostiene que la Revolución Cultural en China es la fase ms avanzada a la que llegó el
comunismo en la historia. (3) El MIM afirma que la clase trabajadora blanca de los
EE.UU. es primordialmente, una élite trabajadora no revolucionaria en el presente. Es
por esto que no es el principal vehículo para avanzar el Maoísmo en este país.
El MIM acepta como miembro a cualquier individuo que esté de acuerdo con estos
tres puntos basicos, y que acepte al centralismo democrtico, el método de gobierno por
la mayoría en lo que se refiere a cuestiones de línea del partido. El MIM es un partido
clandestino que no publica los nombres de sus miembros para evitar la represión estatal
dirigida históricamente contra los movimientos revolucionarios comunistas, y anti-
imperialistas. Si Ud. desea una suscripción para cualquiera de nuestros periódicos o
libros teóricos, en español o en inglés, por favor mandar dinero en efectivo o un cheque
al nombre de MIM a esta dirección:
MIM · P.O. Box 29670 · Los Angeles CA 90029-0670
Por Luis Arce Borja
Viente de la edición previa.
Un paquete de montajes y
mentiras incoherentes
Bastaría hacer un seguimiento de las
absurdas mentiras y la incoherencia de
estas mismas, para dar por terminada
cualquier duda de que las "cartas de paz",
salieron del Servicio de Inteligencia
Nacional (SIN) y no de las manos del
presidente Gonzalo. Así por ejemplo, el
13 de setiembre de 1993 Fujimori
desmintió a través de canal 2 de
televisión (TV controlada por
Montesinos) que el gobierno hacia tratos
con el jefe de la guerrilla maoísta, de
quien dijo "no se logró la capitulación
de éste debido al marco mental muy
rígido del conductor de la guerra
subversiva". Agregando además que
"Abimael Guzmán no tiene radio ni
televisión. Tampoco se le da periódicos
ni revistas, solo posee una Biblia católica
que relee continuamente". (La República
13 de setiembre 1993). Curiosamente el
mismo día de la elocución televisiva de
Fujimori, el SIN estaba realizando la
primera grabación de la lectura de las
"cartas de paz" (así está consignado en
un documento titulado "Asumir y
combatir por la Nueva Gran decisión y
Definición", que el gobierno adjudicó al
presidente Gonzalo y que el SIN se
encargó de distribuir en Perú y en el
extranjero). ¿No conocía esto Fujimori?
Dos días después de estas
declaraciones, es decir el 15 de setiembre
y a sólo 48 horas de la negación de
capitulación del presidente Gonzalo,
Fujimori obtiene la primera "carta de
paz" mediante la cual se le solicita
"negociar la guerra popular". No hay que
olvidar el hecho curioso que la primera
"carta de paz", se hace publica el 1° de
octubre 93 en la sede de las Naciones
Unidas (ONU). En esta misma sala fue
donde en agosto de 1990, la
representación norteamericana presentó
un trucaje fílmico contra Irak (el
asesinato en Kuwait de 300 niños recién
nacidos) que sirvió como pretexto
"humanitario y moral" para que el
Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU,
aprobará la guerra contra el Estado iraquí.
¿Qué milagro ocurrió para que un
Gonzalo que leía solo la Biblia y
completamente aislado del mundo
exterior, como anunció Fujimori en la
televisión, acabara firmando una
declaración de capitulación?. Esta
incoherencia es más notoria aún, cuando
el 6 de octubre de 1993 (cerca de 20 días
de la primera carta) nuevamente el
Gonzalo encerrado en un hueco bajo
tierra y que sólo tenía ojos para la Biblia
envía la segunda carta en la cual es más
explícito y donde hace un "análisis
concreto de la situación concreta" del
país como se dice en dicha misiva,
afirmando la derrota de la guerra popular
y lanzando loas por los éxitos que venía
logrando Fujimori. ¿Cómo hizo este
Gonzalo para hacer su "análisis
concreto" sin mirar la realidad?. El
trucaje en este caso es evidente, y se ve
la autoría y procedencia del tal "análisis".
Sólo Fujimori y Montesinos, eran los
interesados en presentar la situación
peruana floreciente y color de rosas. Es
decir mostrar lo contrario de la brutal
realidad. En octubre de 1993, el sistema
político peruano estaba quebrado por el
golpe militar dirigido por Fujimori y
Montesinos, y en el Estado había
ingresado una corrupción sin límites. La
quiebra económica, social y política
estaba en pleno auge, cuya expresión más
significativa se refería a la indigencia de
más del 60% de la población peruana.
En este terreno, el repunte de la guerrilla
maoísta era más que evidente, situación
que se expresaba (según cifras del
gobierno), en 305 acciones guerrilleras
por mes.
Pero la irracionalidad y la incoherencia
en la historia de las "cartas de paz" no
proviene exclusivamente del ex
presidente peruano. Vladimiro
Montesinos y Rafael Merino que
reclaman la paternidad en la capitulación
de Gonzalo, incurren a cada momento en
grotescas contradicciones respecto a este
tema. Por ejemplo, Montesinos en una
conversación que mantiene el 14 de abril
de 1998 con agentes secretos de EE.UU,
señala que lograr la firma de las "cartas
de paz" le tomó un "año de trabajo", y
como dice él tenía que ir "todas las
noches" desde "las 10 de la noche hasta
las 3, 4 de la mañana" para convencer a
Abimael Guzmán. (Transcripción del
vladivideo 876, 14 de abril 1998). Por su
parte Rafael Merino Bartet, afirma
(Caretas 9 de mayo 2002) que doblegar
a Guzmán y llevarlo a la posición de
capitulación le bastó "tres o cuatro
reuniones", "le hice ver que no tenía
sentido continuar con la lucha armada",
dice Merino. Y así sucesivamente, uno
tras otro se turnan en la invención de las
más inverosímiles mentiras. Montesinos,
hablando de un vídeo donde se ve
imágenes del presidente Gonzalo
suscribiendo las "cartas de paz", dice que
hacer esta grabación le costó un trabajo
de un año. Sobre el mismo tema, Merino
dice que hizo una filmación semejante,
pero con la diferencia que este vídeo se
hizo desde lo primeros días de la reunión
con Gonzalo. Montesinos, hablando del
presidente Gonzalo dice de él: "es un
analista...es un tipo cerebral... el tipo es
un filósofo, no es un hombre cualquiera
o sea tiene una profundidad al hablar....es
un hombre pensante, un hombre muy
fino...un genio, un tipo brillante".
(Transcripción del vladivideo 876, 14 de
abril 1998). Por su parte Merino cuando
se refiere al nivel intelectual del
presidente Gonzalo dice: "Me
desilusionó profundamente. Pensé
encontrarme con un peso pesado y hallé
a un peso pluma. Me dio la impresión de
estar frente a un hombre de un sólo libro.
Abimael sólo conocía a Mao".
(Declaraciones a Caretas, 9 de mayo
2002).
¿Por qué tantas incoherencias en la
versión oficial sobre las "cartas de paz"
y el presidente Gonzalo?. ¿No bastaría
contar una sola historia y asunto
arreglado?. El método de propagandizar
distintas versiones para ocultar una
principal y verdadera, es un viejo truco
que utilizan los ejércitos y los aparatos
de inteligencia desde hace decenas de
años. En la jerga militar se denomina
"guerra psicosocial" o "guerra de
inteligencia". Las mentiras entrecruzadas
de Fujimori, Montesinos y Merino
buscan crear el caos en esta historia, y a
partir de ello ocultar la desaparición del
presidente Gonzalo y encubrir el montaje
en torno a las "cartas de paz". Estas
historietas, en apariencia inofensivas y
muchas veces hasta estúpidas, tienen un
propósito político bien determinado. Por
ejemplo, Merino cuenta (Caretas, 9 de
mayo 2002) que en una de las
"conversaciones con Guzmán", "le
preguntamos si nos hubiese matado en
el caso de haber tomado el poder. El
claro, respondió que no, y que al
contrario, el partido nos habría dado
cargos importantes. Le preguntamos
cuáles. Dijo que al doctor Montesinos le
habría dado el Ministerio del Interior y a
mí el Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional".
Aquí el invento de Merino, tiene un
propósito concreto: presentar al
presidente Gonzalo como un pobre
hombre, que bastó unas cuantas semanas
en prisión para que pierda toda referencia
del carácter de clase de la organización
de la sociedad socialista. ¡Que incluso,
podía nombrar como Ministro del Interior
a Montesinos en lugar de ajusticiarlo con
la pena capital!.
Así como el ejemplo que acabamos de
mencionar hay otros indicios que
muestran que las "cartas de paz" se
insertaron en un montaje que comenzó
en 1993 y que ahora con otros métodos
más sutiles continúa. En uno de los
vladivideos se puede ver con que cinismo
Montesinos a tratado este asunto y las
falsedades que éste trasmitía incluso a sus
más allegados. En la transcripción del
vladivideo A15-B8, Montesinos
conversa con Tuleda Van Breugel. Ahí
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