Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 07:35:40 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: PERU: MRTA Seeks Only Dialogue.


>               MRTA ARMED REVISIONISM
>      EVERYTHING FOR DIALOGUE NOTHING FOR REVOLUTION. 
>
>The world has witnessed the spectacular seizure of the Japanese
>Embassy by the MRTA, a small revisionist group that emerged in 1984
>from the remains of  "focoist"organizations of the 60's (followers of
>Che Guevara's foco theory) and sectors of APRA, a party of the
>Peruvian oligarchy. The attention of the world imperialist media is
>again on Peru to demonize the actions of the insurgency. However, it
>is helping to expose the farce of a "pacified country," "booming
>economy," and "defeated Sendero" at the time when even the "dead" and
>many times "buried" MRTA walks again.

Boy, it must be really bugging the shit out of our maoist friends that the 
MRTA has stepped on to the front stage in a most spectacular way.  

But despite all the flack from Mr. Quispe he does admit that the MRTA do 
actually have the guns pointed in the right direction. 

But to say that Mr. God Gonzalo and the PCP are real revolutionaries while 
the MRTA are class collaboraters who will make the deal with the enemy. 
Well, the truth is that the PCP PROGRAMATICALLY have already made the deal 
with the class enemy. In that you line is the line of the stage theory of 
revolution where you see that a block with the liberal Peruvian bougeoisioe 
in the struggle against the *real* imperialists is what you are both hoping 
for and politically fighting for!

Whereas the MRTA I doubt has any far fetched programatic conclusions on the 
stage theory of revolution. However I must admit that I have not seen any of 
their central programatic documents.

And in fact both the PCP and MRTA are the supporters of adventurist actions 
with small groups of armed people. The PCP with peasants in the countryside 
and the MRTA as I understand it being more of a "city gurreilla" movement. 
Both are types of petty bougeois adventurism of people who have not 
understood one word of Leninism. The PCP worship the Maoist gurreilla war 
theory and the MRTA the Cuban model. Both are completely bankrupt and will 
never lead to a new Cuba or China in present political reality. Perhaps in 
the wake of a third world war it would be possible. And then the only thing 
at best that could come out of this would be a deformed workers state.

Against the various wings of guerrillisn whether the Mao variant or the MRTA 
variant
is the idea of a Leninist vanguard party which arms the Working class with 
the politics and guns to seize power not only in Peru but through out Latin 
America!

Finally I attach the declaration I made about the MRTA action and say 
despite their politics I am on the MRTA's side in this.

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

Peru-Imperialism,MRTA, and the hostages!(Declaration)

It is very interesting for poor and working class people to observe the 
spectacular occupation of the Japanese Embassy in Peru by the MRTA, the 
reactions to this occupation by the imperialists and the hostage question!

In that the MRTA did not occupy and airplane or a train station with 
hundreds of hostages of normal people. But took 4 or 5 hundred darlings of 
the diplomatic corps, includind a bunch of "military attachees" (in reality 
spies) and a bunch of high placed business executives- we see that the 
normal reaction of imperialism of "No compromise with terrorism" and "we are 
preparing and anti-terrorist army to storm the building" have completely 
disappeared! Instead we hear the imperialist spokesman talking about a 
peaceful solution to the "crisis". 

How quaint that imperialism defends these hostages and darlings of their own 
class rule! If it had been poor and working class people who were held 
hostage then we would have seen a storming of the building and the 
possibility of a blood bath for innocent civilians to show the world that 
terrorism must be met with superior force.
However, Fujimora just might storm the embassy despite the "peaceful 
solutions" tone coming from the imperialists. Fujimora might decide that the 
Peruvian foreign minister is worth the price of a bloody storming. 

So the struggle against terrorism in reality depends on *who* is held 
hostage-Joe Blow poor and working class people or the darlings of the 
imperialist powers. Poor and working class people should have NO TEARS for 
these so called "innocent hostages" who in fgact are part and pack in giving 
money and political support to the Fujimora regime which has so much blood 
of poor and working class people in Peru on their hands! And if any blood is 
shed it is entirely because of the bloody regime that Fujimora represents 
and which drives militants to these kind of heroric suicidal actions.

At the same time we should support the just demands of the MRTA of releasing 
the political prisoners held in concentration like camps and live daily with 
torture and murder of opponents to this regime led by Fujimora and backed up 
by the military.
At the same time we should say to the people in MRTA that their adventurist 
actions of guerilla warfare and small groups of dedicated people with arms 
in hand taking on alone the military dictatorship of the Fujimora regime are 
completely bankrupted! Only by arming the Peruvian working class and 
perasantry both politically and with guns and setting up a real workers and 
peasants goverment can sweep away this rotten regime including the darlings 
(hostages) that are presently being held.

We should defend these militants despite their adventurist actions against 
the Peruvian regime. While at the same time condemning them for political 
bankruptcy. We do not need isolated groups of heroes who attack ambassies 
and take hostages. We need professional revolutionaries who can mobilize the 
working class and peasants who have the social power to sweep the Fujimora 
garbage on to the dustbin of history!

And we should no the deference between the MRTA which gets its inspiration 
>from the Cuban revolution and the terrorism that evolves out of Islamic 
fundementalism which wants to take society back to the middle ages!

We need Communist Bolshevik organosations thoughout Latin America that can 
link the struggles to a continental and world movement.

Victory for the MRTA militants and their just demands!

Meet the demands of the MRTA!

Free all militants from the Fujimora concentration camps!

No political support to MRTA's petty bougeois adventurism! 

Defend the MRTA from Fujimora and imperialist attack!

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki
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