MIM NOTES No. 196        October 15, 1999	

The Hidden Hand of the RIM
reprinted from El Diario Internacional

Confidence Tricksters Conference

A call is being circulated inviting to a purported international 
conference. The event, according to the convenors, would be held 
in Germany and would aim "to defend the lives of Chairman Gonzalo 
and Comrade Feliciano." They also say that the Conference would 
celebrate the "50th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese 
revolution." Superficially, this event may appear unobjectionable, 
but in reality, and taking into account the revolting political 
morality of some of the organisers, it is but a vulgar attempt to 
traffic with the Peruvian revolution and the achievements of the 
Chinese revolutionaries.

Who are the organisers of the aforementioned conference?

They consist of two well known cliques that have for years 
dedicated themselves exclusively to trafficking the People's War 
in Peru. One of these groups is the self-proclaimed "Movimiento 
Popular Perú" (Peruvian People's Movement) (MPP) which was 
operating from Malmo (Sweden) up to the end of 1998 and which 
later moved to Denmark, where it continued it's work of 
infiltration of the organisations and support groups for the 
Peruvian revolution. This "MPP" borne from the same school as the 
Javier Esparza (1) practices political deception by presenting 
itself as representing the Communist Party of Peru. As it was 
explained in El Diario Internacional N°35, August 1996, this "MPP" 
has as "leaders" a couple of Peruvians (from which the male was 
already expelled from the Communist Party of Peru in 1984) who 
have resided in Sweden for over 12 years. This couple of political 
gypsies are but a spare tyre hitched behind the wagon of the 
"leaders" of the so-called Revolutionary Internationalist Movement 
(RIM), for whom they work and for whose interests they never cease 
to campaign for. The Danish "MPP," tries to portray itself as "the 
representative of the PCP," but it's negative work is aimed at the 
achievement of two concrete objectives: 1) To attack all those who 
support the revolution in Peru outside that country. In this, 
their immediate political objective is to isolate the PCP at 
international level; 2) To uphold and succour the counter-
revolutionary leadership of the RIM.

Another of the hosts in this conference is the Italian 
organisation ROSSOPERAIO. This small group which is also part of 
the RIM, is already well known because of their odd position vis-
à-vis the People's War in Peru. This group was linked to Javier 
Esparza, who, as it is already known, is one of the "chieftains" 
of the traitors and capitulators who abroad served to promote the 
police plots aimed against the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and 
the People's War. In 1993, Rossoperaio supported and campaigned in 
favour of the "peace letters" fraud. They even translated and 
published one of the documents issued by the Peruvian Secret 
Police with the aim of "justifying" the peace plot. Later, when 
they realised that the "peace letters," were untenable and that no 
political advantage could be derived from them, they changed tack. 
In 1993, when El Diario Internacional initiated a frontal struggle 
against the black propaganda emanating from the RIM leaders 
alleging that Chairman Gonzalo was the author of the "peace 
letters," ROSSOPERAIO, together with the capitulators and 
traitors, unleashed a rabid campaign against the political line 
upheld by El Diario Internacional. For quite a while this group 
took it upon themselves to blaze a trail all over Europe aiming to 
forestall El Diario's struggle against the RIM "leaders" and the 
capitulators.

These two groups (the "MPP" and Rossoperaio), like the RIM 
Committee, find themselves isolated and politically bankrupt. 
Their opportunist behaviour and their lumpen practice, have landed 
them in total bankruptcy. This is why they are desperately 
attempting to use once again both Chairman Gonzalo and comrade 
Feliciano as levers that may prise them out of their catastrophic 
situation. It is within this vulgar framework of political 
trafficking that these individuals are calling for a conference in 
which they can carry on ensnaring unaware foreigners.

What are the objectives of these confidence tricksters?

The aim of this conference is a million miles removed from any 
serious defence of the lives of Chairman Gonzalo and even farther 
concerned with that of comrade Feliciano. It's sole aim is to 
traffic with the People's War, and with that, serve the counter-
revolutionary aims of RIM, whose leaders in 1993 went entirely 
over to the side of the counter-revolution in Peru and abroad. 
That is why it is not surprising that the hosts of this conference 
say in their call: "we need to serve the development and progress 
of the RIM...". To speak of "development and progress of the RIM," 
is not only stupid, above all, it is an attempt to reactivate an 
already obsolete and notoriously opportunistic group that for over 
17 years has controlled what is know as the RIM. It is good to 
emphasise that the RIM, due to the nefarious political direction 
imposed by it's leaders, has ceased to constitute a possible 
platform for the unity of the International Communist Movement. On 
the contrary, any attempt to keep this bogus "revolutionary 
organisation" alive, constitutes a service to the interests of the 
enemies of revolution, principally, U.S. imperialism. To call for 
the unification of the Communists "around the RIM," as the 
organisers of this conference do, besides being a tomfoolery 
without the slightest basis in reality, is a vulgar and stinking 
political charade that all revolutionaries must reject without 
hesitation.

Finally, we should emphasise that the defence of the life of 
Chairman Gonzalo and the defence of the Peruvian revolution, are 
not tasks that should include opportunists or political gypsies. 
Moreover, if these gypsies are like the RIM leaders and the bogus 
Danish "MPP," people who when they had the responsibility of 
directing the campaign to defend the life of the leader of the 
Peruvian revolution, took it upon themselves to undermine the 
mobilisation in support of Chairman Gonzalo. The destruction of 
the International Emergency Committee to defend the life of 
Chairman Gonzalo (IEC), is clear and unanswerable proof of the 
nefarious and counter-productive action of these individuals. A 
true work of solidarity with the PCP, it's Chairman and leaders, 
is a task for true revolutionaries and honest sympathisers of the 
People's War in Peru. To defend the life of Chairman Gonzalo, is, 
above all, to defend the integrity of his political thought and 
his extraordinary revolutionary work, which are embodied in the 
initiation and development of the class war against exploitation 
and imperialism.

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