RIM CHARLATANS (Part 1)

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Trappist Monks Turn Into Village Charlatans
ANOTHER SOMERSAULT OF THE CIRCUS TUMBLERS OF RIM

by LUIS ARCE BORJA

The leadership of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM)
has published a new document on Peru.  This text was issued on 28 March
(95) this year under the bombastic title: 'Let Us All Rally to the Defense
of Our Red Flag Flying in Peru'.  The statement from RIM is nothing more
than a vulgar trick aimed at deceiving the unaware and adopting for
themselves the pose of consistent internationalist revolutionaries.  The
content of this document is not merely an error of analysis.  Objectively,
it is the political expression of an opportunist liine trying to smuggle
harmful ideas around the problems of the People's War and the so called
'Peace agreement' fraud.

This statement clearly shows again that the leaders of RIM are
persisting in veering towards callous opportunist positions.  Neither
their rhetorical flourish, not their bedraggled chattering, can hide
their close association with the capitulators and turncoats who have
deserted the People's War in Peru.  The statement has two aspects,
on one level it swings from self-redicule to comic relief.   On the
other, it is  also rather tendentious.   Therefore, we must forcefully
rebuke it .


There is a comic aspect - anthological, really:  When the RIM clique
calls people to arms in 'Defense of the People's War' and in 'struggle
against the erroneous line in support of the Peruvian revolution and
the Central Committee of the PCP'.  They put out this call after
nearly two years from the moment that the struggle against Fujimori's
fraud began  (October 1993).  This is to be like someone finally
volunteering to fight against the Hitler regime in 1947.

Like in the novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of
Solitude, time seems to have stood still under the feet of the RIM
leaders.  Unperturbed, they took up their positions to observe the
struggle led by the PCP to smash the so called 'peace letters' fraud
and their inspirers.  Comfortably seated in their theatre boxes,
>from time to time they mumbled aloud:  Long Live Chairman Gonzalo!.
>From the top of the fence they stood ready to jump onto the side of
the winners once the battle was over.  Their squeals in 'support of
the People's War and the Central Committee' are but vulgar hoopla.
Their aim is to bequile the political parties and groups that have
strongly criticised the conciliating oposition of the leaders of
RIM.

These 'courageous communists' only decide to take up this struggle
when, both in Peru and abroad, the police agents and their
capitulationists partners have already died a natural death.  They
only take up this struggle when the fraud aimed at splitting the
PCP has already been buried by the avalanche of the People's War
itself.

Here is another pearl deserving to feature in the most hilarious
vaudeville sketch:  Now, and as if they were making a momentous
discovery, the leaders of RIM say:  'The proposal for a peace
agreement to end the war can only lead to opportunism' .

No, gentlemen of RIM, the 'peace agreement' is not merely opportunism.
More than anything else, it is a police fraud, it is part and parcel
of US low intensity warfare and a despicable counter-revolutionary
action.  It is not, as you claim, something 'leading into opportunism'.

On the contrary, it is the opportunists themselves the ones who have
clambered aboard the broken down hearse of Fujimori's secret police.
These opportunists, who RIM depicts as followers of an 'erroneous line',
are the top representatives of the 'black gang' denounced by the
Communist Party of Peru.  They are umbillically linked to the political
police.

Moreover, unlike you, the most stupid and unaware of all politicians,
would hardly have needed two years to fiind out the reactionary
character of the 'peace letters' .  Any political illiterate would have
done better than the leaders of RIM.  He would have easily understood
that the 'peace agreement' was a monstrous fabrication designed by US
imperialism and not merely an 'eroneous line'

SOME BACKGROUND NOTES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR READERS

As an introduction to our critique of RIM's document, we would first
put to our readers a brief account of the most relevant facts of the
struggle against the 'peace agreement' :

On 1 October 1993, the Fujimori regime, in cahoots with US imperialism
started to publicise the 'peace letters'.  According to the imperialist
propaganda, these letters were written and signed by Chairman Gonzalo.
Immediately, on 7 October 1993, the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of Peru (PCP) issued a statement rejecting all kinds of
government frauds.  The CC reiterated the PCP's commitment to the
continuation of the People's War.

Abroad, diverse groups, parties and political organisations supporting
the Peruvian revolution, including El Diario Internacional, began a
firm struggle the capitulators and police agents propagandising the
'peace agreement' .  The PCP later elaborated on this problem by means
of various statements and resolutions.  In these documents the Party
characterised the 'peace letters' as a sinister police fraud aimed at
splitting the Party and assassinating Chairman Gonzalo, among
other objectives.  What was the position of the leaders of RIM during
the development of the struggle?:  As everybody knows, they kept
silent like Trappist Monks.  They were unable to speak in any
language and stubbornly refused to take up a position concerning the
counter-revolutionary fraud.  To explain away their silence, they kept
repeating like sick parrots:  'We are undergoing a process of
investigations' .

Under cover of their silence, they went on to act in complicity with
the enemies of the Peruvian revolution.  They banned distribution of
the official documents of the Communist Party of Peru, principally
those rejecting the 'peace letter' and guiding the struggle against
this fraud.  They also initiated a boycott against El Diario
Internacional, ordering their mignons in certain groups in the
USA, Mexico and other countries not to distribute this newspaper.

They absolutely ignored all international events and mobilisations
spearheaded against Fujimori's fraud.  Some organisms dependent of
the leadership of the RIM, began a campaign to propagate the documents
issued by the capitulatonists' gang supporting 'negotiations' with
Fujimori.

On the pretext of carrying out 'investigations'  the RIM leaders
held several clandestine meetings with those promoting the 'peace
agreement'.  Stockholm and London were the venues for the joint
scheming of the RIM leaders and the capitulationists in Europe.
Some activists of RIM took part in public events organized by the
promoter of the 'peace agreement'.

Glossing over this problem, and on the pretext of 'not giving
ammunition to the enemy', the RIM leaders attempted to smother
the struggle aginst the ringleaders of capitulation abroad.  They
carried out several attempts at hampering the struggle against the
counter-revolutionary elements.

Here,  at the offices of El Diario, we were sent a note from the
International Emergency Committee (IEC) .  In this note they
suggested that we should abstain from intervention in the 'peace
letters' affairs, and counselled as 'the best method to carry out
this debate':  They dragged out their tired old argument of 'not
being irresponsible in dealing with this problem' and that 'one
should first investigate' .  In that period, the usurpers of the
Peru People's Movement (MPPs) serving the regime and its secret
police, had not better objective allies than the RIM leaders.

Finally, in November 1994, after more than a year had elapsed,
the leaders of RIM, put out two semi-clandestiine documents.
The content of both documents clearly summed up the eclectic and
conciliating position of the 'investigators' of RIM.  In those
statements they gave a synthesis of their 'profound and wise
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist investigation':  They alleged that the
'peace letters'  were not a police plot, but rather 'a two-line
struggle within the ranks of the PCP' .

They smuggled in the idea that this problem was strictly a
non-antagonistic contradiction with the people.  They then held
that one should 'treat the sickkness to save the patient'.  In
practice, this was a call to conciliating with the interests of
the police agents and their stooges the capitulators.

Among other pearls of wisdom, they paraphrased Chairman Mao and
noted that 'without investigation there is not right to speak'.
They also held that 'one should not act hastily and irresponsible
in reaching conclusions before understanding the problem.  Without
further explanation they held that the 'peace agreement' was led
by 'a group of people who played an historical leadership role in
the PCP'.  They presented this as a contradictory line' .

In this simple fashion, the leaders of RIM advocated turning the
police plot of 'peace agreement' into a matter of two line struggle
within the PCP.

WHAT IS NEW IN THE LATEST STATEMENT OF RIM?

This is a long document in which they persist in their bogus
argument of 'two line struggle within the ranks of the PCP' .
In it the RIM  leaders also clearly reveal elements of their true
game.  The old peruvian sayiing 'the fish is caught by its own
mouth' fully applies here:

l.  The leaders of RIM say:  "THE MOST SERIOUS DANGER FACING THE
PARTY TODAY IS THE RIGHT-WING OPPORTUNIST LINE AND THE ACTIONS OF ITS
UPHOLDERS'.  'THE RESOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERUVIAN REVOLUTION'.

Is it true that the most serious danger facing the PCP today is the
'Right-wing opportunist line' ?  Is it true that the resolution of the
problem would decide the future of the war, as the leaders of RIM
proclaim?

Chairman Gonzalo holds that a Right-wing opportunist line is a
serious danger for the Party and the revolution only when it succeeds
in ESTABLISHING ITSELF WITHIN  the organization.  The danger exists
since this line aims at carrying out four changes:  1)  Changing the
character of the Party.  2)  Changing the general political line of
the revolution.  3)  Changing the leadership, especially the General
Headquarters.  4)  Changing and liquidating the People's War.

We ask this question:  Is this the case of the 'peace letters'?.
The 'peace letters' do not arise from any Party source.  The
'peace agreement' is fabricated and STRUCTURED in the headquarters
of the National Intelligence Services (SIN) of the Peruvian state
with the help of US experts.  This fraud is THEN combined with the
participation of capitulationist elements within the prisons who
have no influence whatever in the leadership of the party and
People's War.  The capitulationists, having become snitches and
police agents, had no possibility of influencing the Party's militants.

In February 1994, the Central Committee of the PCP referred to this
fact in the following fashion:
"THE PURPORTED LETTERS PRESENTED BY FUJIMORI, THE PURPORTED
INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE CALL AND ALL LATER SCHEMES ARE NOTHING BUT A
COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY PLOT ENGINEERED BY U.S. IMPERIALISM AND THE MASS
MURDERERS' QUISLING DICTATORSHIP IN COMBINATION WITH THE SINISTER
ACTIONS OF THE BLACK GANG......UPHOLDING A RIGHT WING OPPORTUNIST
LINE..... AND COMPOSED OF INFILTRATED AGENTS, TRAITORS,
CAPITULATIONISTS AND OLD REVISIONISTS".

On the other hand, the individuals (the capitulationists) in the
prisons, who went over to work for the police, are separated from
any relationship with the Party's organisations.  Thus, the black
gang and their foreign agents fail in their attempt.   They fail to
take advantage of the police plot to split the Party, destroy the
PCP and the People's War.  It is only within the heads of the
gentlemen of RIM that these individuals are still perceived as a
danger for the revolution.

IS THERE ANY VALIDITY IN RIM'S ARGUMENT?

If the 'analysis' of RIM is taken seriously, one would conclude
that the plot of 'peace agreement' is still alive and well.
That this plot continues to cause havoc within the ranks of the
Communist Party of Peru  (PCP) .   One would have to believe that
this continues to be an acute problem within the ranks of the
Party.  A problem that is still unresolved and that "THE
RESOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM WILL DECIDE THE DESTINY OF THE REVOLUTION'.

The gentlemen of RIM have the political objective of propagating an
idea:  That in nearly two years of struggle against the 'peace
agreement' , the Central Committee of the PCP has failed and is
still unable to defeat the 'right-wing opportunist line' .  This
is a bogus argument revealing a completely subjective viewpoint.  It
is not true that the fraud of 'peace agreement' continues to be a
danger for the advance of the armed struggle in Peru.  Admitting that
this counter-revolutionary plot once threatened the integrity of the
PCP, not one with the most elementary knowledge of Peruvian reality
could think that today this danger persists.

Even the Peruvian 'Senderologists' who most hate the PCP would not
now dare say that the destiny of the war depends upon the success
of the 'peace letters' plot.  On the contrary, most of the official
analysts in peru and abroad recognise today that Fujimori has failed
in using the letters.  The fraud of 'peace agreement' has lost all its
harmful effects within the PCP and among the masses of the poor in
Peru.  Its counter-revolutionary effect was short lived.

>From the very moment that the Peruvian regime and U.S. imperialism
began promoting the 'peace letters' ,  the PCP developed a determined
struggle at the political-ideological and at the military levels to
smash this plot.  Without a doubt, the most powerful weapon for
smashing the imperialist plot and defeating their supporters within
the prisons was the very development of the People's War.

In this respect, it is worth noting the comments of a well known
"Senderologist' .  This individual, does not, unlike the RIM leaders,
pretend to be a 'Marxist-Leninist-Maoist' .  However, he shows at
least a greater degree of clarity on the matter.  Analysing the
consequences of the capture of Chairman Gonzalo and the results of the
psycholgical warfare promoted by means of the 'peace agreement',
Gustavo Gorriti says the following:  "THE CAPTURE OF GUZMAN CAUSED THE
DIFFERENCES, BUT THE ERRORS IN USING THE PRISONERS' LETTERS HELPED THE
RECOMPOSITION (OF THE PCP) ....THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.  DESPITE SOME
SPECTACULAR ACHIEVEMENTS AND SOME APPARENT SUCCESSES, THE OFFENSIVE
OF THE LETTERS SEEMS NOT ONLY TO HAVE FAILED.  WHAT IS MORE DANGEROUS,
IT HAS COMPROMISED THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE FIRST STAGE.  HOW DANGEROUS
IS SHINING PATH TODAY?  FIRST, IT IS NOT LIQUIDATED, FAR FROM IT......
IT HAS A RECONSTITUTED CENTRAL COMMITTEE WITH EXPERIENCED LEADERS,
WITH THE CAPACITY TO COOORDINATE ACTIONS .........."  (CARETAS
MAGAZINE N.- 1312, MAY 1994, PAGES 28-30).

What is then the situation of the 'peace agreement' abroad?  The
individuals in the leading positions of the Peru People's Movement,
who had climbed aboard the police plot and the hearse of
capitulation, find themselves shunned and totally marginalised.
They have been spurned by the organizations and political parties
in those countries.

Let us see a few examples:  In Paris, there was a tiny handful
who on occasions attempted propaganda for the 'peace agreement'.
Now, due to lack of support, they have been forced to turn
their offices iinto a miserable canteen for drunken louts.

In Stockholm, the headquarters of the leader of the capitulationists
abroad, Javier Esparza, things are even worse.  This fellow and the
La Torre family, his relatives, are the only 'militants' upholding
the 'peace agreement' .  This family clan is very isolated,  So
isolated, that to promote their views they openly had to request the
Peruvian embassy's help (see El Diario N.-25) .

In Basel, Switzerland, nothing is left of the capitulationist 'MPP'.
In Hamburg, Germany, besides an individual and his wife, capitulation
has no other followers.  In Mexico things are even worse for them,
and anywhere else, there is nothing at all to report! .

Continued in Part two.




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