Re: Adios Amigos

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> In June of last year I made a series of posts explaining why the
> left and progressive movements should oppose the imprisonment of
> Zhang Shanguang, a political activist in China.  Zhang was
> imprisoned for giving an interview (in which he described local
> peasant peasant protests against increasing taxes) to Radio Free
> Asia (which is, essentially, directly controlled by the CIA).
> Néstor (and many others) believe that the national contradiction
> between China and US imperialism is paramount and overshadows the
> significance than the internal class struggle in China.  I argued
> that workers and peasants in China should have the right to
> organize and to make their views known--and that this right
> should extend to making use of news outlets controlled by
> imperialism.  The principle at issue is that revolutionaries and
> political activists are not serfs and have the right to make use
> of contradictions between their enemies.  (More information on
> this can be found in the "notes" section below.)

I don't know all the specifics of this case, but if Mr. Zhang was giving
interviews to "RFA", to oppose that is indeed upholding the class struggle
and linking it with the national struggle. Do we still have doubts as to
what the nature of "Radio Free Europe" was (and is)? Think what one wants on
"independant organising in China, this is not representative of that idea.
It is more representative of building a fifth column. Less because the
national struggle of China is tied to socialism than that Imperial aims are
tied to RFA. With support from the RFA, there is no way that any thing
coming from that is more in tune with the needs of the Chinese peasants and
workers.

Macdonald