UNITE! Info #106en: 2/7 More rattler "NE" writhings
Rolf Martens
[Posted: 30.07.99]
[Continued from part 1/7]
3. WHO HAS BEEN IN WHOSE CORNER REGARDING INFORMATION,
IN LATER YEARS AND VIA THE NET, ON THE REACTIONARY
4-GANG IN CHINA AND ITS ROLE IN THE OVERTHROW OF
SOCIALISM IN THAT COUNTRY IN 1976/78? [ctd.]
Now what information on all this, and in particular concerning
the role of the 4-gang, has been brought in later years, via the
Net, by the "Group Neue Einheit" - which pretends to be "a con-
tinuation of" the earlier revolutionary party in Germany?
As good as *none*. After having started posting on the Net in
April 1996, that present "group" during some two years even
failed to repudiate the 4-gang or as much as mention it, this
also after it had been publicly asked by others, what was its
standpoint on that gang. On 31.12.1996 it wrote, for instance,
under subject "NEUE EINHEIT on several questions":
'In connection to a statement about the action of Rolf
Martens which we published in the middle of August,
1996, whereby we also dealt with THE HISTORY OF OUR
ORGANIZATION, several questions have been sent to our
organization about our position regarding questions of
the People's Republic of China and several political
forces there [meaning, above all, the 4-gang of course
- RM], but also about our position regarding the Com-
munist Party of Peru (Shining Path of Mariategui).
......
We shall answer these questions very soon, perhaps in
January, 1997.....'
And then, in February 1997, there *was* an answer by that group
concerning the PCP in Peru (one stating support for its armed
struggle). But none whatsoever came from those people on those
"several political forces" in China, at no time in the whole of
1997, not in 1998 either. And still today, no such answer by
them has been seen, with that small and indirect exception that
in one statement on various questions, in the spring of 1998 if
I remember correctly, this group did casually and in passing say
something, in one sentence, against the 4-gang.
On the "Neue Einheit" website, are there any of those still
today quite important documents from the CPC as led by Mao Ze-
dong? No, not one, neither in English nor in German. Is there
even one of those articles in which that "group's" revolutionary
"predecessor" in 1976-79 so well analysed events in China then,
and so importantly informed about the international aspects of
these events too - in particular regarding that *subversion
against the international Marxist-Leninist movement* which was
engaged in both by the Deng Xiaoping clique and, not least, the
4-gang, as agents of imperialism and of social-imperialism at
that time? No.
In his telegram on 30.10.1976 to Hua Guofeng (who then still at
least in words was upholding Mao Zedong's line) congratulating
him on the (correct) striking-down of the 4-gang, the "NE"
chairman Klaus Sender wrote i.a. the following (as reproduced
by me in translation in Infos #22en and #40en), which you can
see is still of importance today:
'...With the victory over the Gang of Four, a quite ex-
traordinarily important victory against revisionism has
been achieved, a point of departure for an entire new
epoch of battles. With it, the most dangerous grouping
at the present time has been hit.
They are representatives of phony"Marxism" and capitula-
tion. They indeed are typical representatives of the
bourgeoisie within the Party. They stand in connection
with the very worst reaction and have committed enormous
crimes. The subversion which emanates from them consti-
tutes a considerable danger to the international prole-
tariat, to the Communist world movement,...
Their plots and international machinations, their inter-
vention in favour of phony"Marxism" and revisionism have
caused most serious damage internationally and must be
smashed completely...'
[NOTE, 03.08.99, after this was first posted: This telegram al-
so, towards its end, said on the international context:
'...To carry the great criticism further to the annihi-
lation of this clique is a great common task, to free
both China and the Marxist-Leninist movement in the
world from an evil....']
That *subversion*, quite rightly spoken of here, against the
Communist world movement, precisely has continued in later years
too, in the form of the "RIM" and other swindler forces. And
why is the "Group Neue Einheit" today so *silent* on all this?
Because today, that very group itself *represents* this very
subversion, as already seen in connection with its long-time
covering-up of the "RIM".
On the still today not unimportant question, thus, of the 4-gang
(and on what was actually Mao Zedong's line), *I've* taken up a
position very clearly "in the corner of" the Marxists, while the
"Group Neue Einheit" during a long time has been seen to stand,
"at best", in a so-called "neutral" corner, only at a very late
point in time and very shyly "edging towards" that in which the
truth is. Those people haven't wanted to "offend" the CIA, on
this either, more than "absolutely necessary", you see.
4. WHO HAS BEEN, AND IS TODAY, IN WHOSE CORNER
REGARDING (CRITICAL) SUPPORT OF THE PCP IN
PERU AND THE PEOPLE'S WAR LED BY THAT PARTY
SINCE 1980 AGAINST THE REACTIONARY REGIME?
On the PCP (Partido Comunista del Perú, sometimes referred to
as "Sendero Luminoso") and its armed insurrection against the
regime in Peru - this must be noted first of all - it has been
and still remains somewhat difficult for people here in Europe,
for instance, to pass a well-founded judgement.
I since 1992 have publicly supported, and still am supporting,
that armed struggle, while at the same time (always) critici-
zing certain quite important negative sides of the line of the
PCP, namely in particular its internationally so harmful endor-
sement, since 1984, of the reactionary "RIM Declaration", which
still continues.
Should information reach me which would show this to have been,
and/or to be today, an error on my part, in that case I of
course would reconsider and would recognize having made such an
error. And the same of course applies to all other matters on
which I've taken up and am taking up certain standpoints. But
the facts as far as I know them certainly do support the con-
clusion that that struggle in Peru is really a basically ge-
nuine revolutionary people's war.
The behaviour of the "Group Neue Einheit" concerning this armed
struggle in Peru is really *extremely* revealing as to the cha-
racter of that "group" - see below.
In 1992 I got into contact here in Sweden with some purported
or genuine supporters of the PCP in Peru. I since then have
always taken up that standpoint, in relation to those, in Swe-
den or elsewhere, who've said or are saying that they support
the PCP, of striving to unite with them, on a united-front
basis, on the question of supporting the people's war in Peru,
while at the same time always clearly distancing myself from
all such supporters on the question of Marxism and a genuinely
proletarian party as long as they continue to support the vile
"RIM Declaration" or are taking other anti-Marxist stands.
On these activities of mine, of such united-front support and,
at the same time, criticism on my part from the standpoint of
the actual line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong, I've written in
several earlier Infos: #2en/de/es/se, #3en, #3es, #8en, #15en,
#21en, #38en and #79en/es.
In particular, precisely I have also exposed, from April 1994
on, some very nasty reactionary small mobs here in Sweden who
have been posing as "PCP supporters" in order massively to
combat and discredit Marxism in this country. And in the ex-
posing of various similar mobs in other countries I've taken an
active part too, for instance and not least in the internatio-
nal so-called "Quispe" fight in mid-1996, exposing the so-cal-
led "MPP"-USA.
In mid-1996, I supported the basically correct international
call, by some people who justly attacked the "RIM" leaders'
back-stabbing the people's war in Peru, for a World Mobiliza-
tion Commission (WMC) to defend the revolution in Peru and to
defend internationally "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism", as it was
called. When in August 1996 such a "Commission" however was
"founded" in a completely impermissible manner by a few people
acting on their own and excluding practically all other endor-
sers of the call from participation, I repudiated this and the
"resulting" "WMC" (as recounted in detail in Info #79en/es).
As can be seen in a number of earlier Infos (#37en, #38en and
in particular #42en and #43en), I in mid-1997 exposed as a
reactionary swindler the purported "PCP supporter" Adolfo Olae-
chea, London, who had taken up a basically correct standpoint
in the mid-1996 "Quispe" fight but who one year later started a
massive attack against the correct line of Marx, Lenin and Mao
Zedong as represented by me, and who in this also teamed up
precisely with the "Group Neue Einheit".
Still today, I'm continuing to contribute, as I've done since
March 1995, to the dissemination here in Sweden of the Spanish-
langage monthly El Diario Internacional, which states as its
aim to serve the oppressed masses in Peru and which is pub-
lished in Brussels, Belgium, by Luis Arce Borja.
I also, since February 1993, am one of (some) 41 members of the
Steering Committee (international "parliament") of the united-
front organization the IEC (International Emergency Committee
to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael Guzman [the captured PCP
chairman, comrade Gonzalo]), and am continuing to call for the
convocation of that "parliament" in order to depose the IEC's
"government" which since 1994 has made itself illegal. I'm con-
tinuing to oppose those liquidation measures against the IEC
in which those "RIM"-inspired forces who created it in the
first place are engaging and which have already gone quite far.
What has been the behaviour of the "Group Neue Einheit" in re-
lation to the PCP and the armed struggle led by it in Peru?
This extremely revealing matter, concerning that group, I've
already written about in detail in Info #50en and again, re-
cently, in #105en:
First, during more than decade from 1985/87 on, when they no
doubt already had seen quite a number of PCP documents, for
instance, the people of that "group" and its predecessor party
said *nothing at all* in public about this.
Then, in February 1997, they finally - and quite clearly -
spoke out *in support of* that armed struggle, with a posting
on 11.02.1997, subject line "NEUE EINHEIT: Chairman Gonzalo of
the PCP about MRTA and about efforts to trade upon the revolu-
tionary party in Peru".
But only 5-6 months later, they suddenly turned around 180 de-
grees on this and, with no explanation whatsoever of why, very
clearly instead *attacked* that same struggle, in two postings
on 14.07.1997 respectively 15.08.1997.
After I exposed this vile back-stabbing in my Info #50en, on
22.08.1997, the "Group Neue Einheit" during two years main-
tained a complete silence concerning the PCP and its struggle
in Peru.
This silence was only "broken" by them quite recently, when one
representative of that group in his "reply" on 23.07 (also the
group's "Internet Statement No. 20/1999") to my again pointing
to this 180-degrees-turn and backstabbing of theirs, in my Info
#104en, flatly denied that this had ever taken place.
However, still the "Group Neue Einheit" *absolutely refuses*
to say what *is* its standpoint on this struggle in Peru.
Very notably, this question is being avoided completely in its
latest posting "counter-attacking" me, for instance, its "In-
ternet Statement No. 21/1999" ("Who is Rolf Martens..."), pos-
ted in English to newsgroups on 26.07.
*Only* the - of course very reactionary respectively suspect -
actions of certain people in Europe and North America who *say*
they support this struggle in Peru does the "group" talk about
in that statement, trying also to turn things upside-down and
"blame me" for its own long-time help to those people. They
*don't* want to talk at all about that struggle in Peru itself,
which of course is another and different matter.
Can you think of a more revealing behaviour, by a group which
calls itself "Marxist" or "revolutionary"?
On this question too, that of the PCP and the armed struggle
it's leading, I consistently (from that time on when I held I
had sufficient information on this) have been "in the corner
of" the Marxists, while those people, the "Group Neue Einheit",
have been *running around all over the place* and still today
*don't want to* "take a stand" even in words.
And those miserable swindlers and long-time helpers of the CIA
have the gall to "complain about" my now warning the supporters
of the DR Congo's struggle, for instance, against them!
So far just a few bits of recent "M-L" history.
[Continued in part 3/7]