But it may be worth thinking of the issues again, as the only way to help Afghanis to resist the domination of global finance capitalism and of the Empire, would be to focus on what would be the objectives of national reconstruction from the point of view of a new democratic coalition of classes and strata.
Chris Burford
At 07/01/02 10:45 -0800, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>Sholai Jawaid: [The Eternal Flame] The mouthpiece publication of the
>Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO). The revolutionary political current
>that was set in motion with the publication of 11 issues of Sholai Jawaid in
>1968 (and came to be known after the name of the weekly newspaper) advocated
>New Democracy (Mao Zedong Thought) and gained immediate and widespread
>support amongst urban workers and intelligentsia, becoming one of the major
>political currents of its time. After the dissolution of the PYO, the Sholai
>Jawaid political entity was carried on by a number of disunited successor
>revolutionary organisations and groupings.
>
>
> http://www.a-l-o.org/glossary.htm#Sholai%20J.
>
>Sholayi: ["Flame-ist"] A follower of, or pertaining to, the Sholai Jawaid
>political current. The Sholayis' endorsement of the line of the Communist
>Party of China in the ideological controversy between the communist parties
>of the Soviet Union and China earned them the accusation of being supported
>by China and serving Chinese interests in the same servile way that the PDPA
>was advocating Russian interests. Opponents believed that the Sholayis
>maintained links with China and the Chinese embassy in Kabul much on the
>same lines as the Khalqis and Parchamis maintained liaison with the Soviet
>Union and with the KGB representative in the Soviet embassy, but during the
>three decades since, and despite the opening up of secret archival
>intelligence records in Kabul --and notwithstanding the fact that Khalqis,
>Parchamis and Ikhwanis have spared no effort in befouling the image of the
>Sholayis-- there has yet been absolutely no substantiation of the
>accusation. History is the ultimate arbitrator. The cataclysm of the past
>two decades in Afghanistan have put the claims, beliefs, assertions and
>accusations of all political entities through a trial of fire and blood.
>China was a main arms contributor to the anti-Soviet war effort in
>Afghanistan, but the Sholayis' challenge to any and all to produce a shred
>of evidence that a single cent or a single bullet was supplied by the
>Chinese to a Sholayi grouping before or during the national liberation war
>of resistance is still open and unmet. Much to the chagrin of Sholayis, many
>a Sholayi stalwart has been laid low by Chinese-supplied arms in the hands
>of Islamic fundamentalists. The Chinese Communist Party failed miserably in
>its internationalist duty to succour Afghan revolutionary Marxists in the
>slightest way during the years of anti-social-imperialist struggle.
>http://www.a-l-o.org/glossary.htm
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=sholai+&btnG=Google+Search
>
>Historical Overview of THE MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN...
>... in the political climate, the PYO set out to publish a weekly
>mouthpiece, Sholai
>Jawaid [The Eternal Flame] which concentrated on introducing the principles
>of ...
>www.a-l-o.org/historical.htm
>Extensive history of the Afghan Left from a maoist perspective, from
>exiled(?) Afghans.
>M.P.