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July 15, 2002, Nº 262

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LOS ANGELES

July 12

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

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

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

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...

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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

advance Maoism within those countries because their standards of living depend on
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of majority rule, on other questions of party line.

"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should

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."

- Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208.

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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

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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.

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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?

MIM Theory

calls for

articles,

testimonials

MIM's theory magazine is preparing

for future issues. We are looking for
well-researched articles on Nazi
Germany and eastern Germany,
especially in the 1945 to 1953 period.
Please follow some footnote format.

Another area we are working on is

research on psychics. If you stopped
paying psychics, please send us a letter
telling us how you did so and give us
your permission to use your statement
as a testimonial. We also would
appreciate any statistical research or
articles on the subject of the
effectiveness of psychics.

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sale and distribution.
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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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ASESINATO DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO

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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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