The best two book on the PCP aka Sandero Luminoso are by Peruvian journalist, Gustavo Gorrati (Duke Univ. Press, I think) and Steve Stern's collection, "Shining and Other Paths, " which I'm sure is from Duke. From a former cadre of the Democratic Workers Party (remember Marlene Dixon and the journal, "Contemporary Marxism." Some of the same academic lefties are on the editorial bd. of, "Social Justice, " which had a good Christian Parenti piece recently.The best writer on Guatemala, Susanne Jonas was in the DWP which had substantial strenth here in SF, two decades ago. Three former cadre wrote a crit/self-crit for SR circa '87 or so.) Michael Pugliese
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THE "AMBASSADORS" OF FUJIMORI: ARCE BORJA AND OLAECHEA ARE BOGUS
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PCP AND TRAFFICKERS WITH THE PEOPLE'S WAR.
> ...What is the background of these individuals? Olaechea was never
> accepted into the ranks of the PCP-generated organizations Peru People's
> Movements (MPP) abroad because of his known eccentric and liberal
> tendencies, and his lack of mass work, which are incompatible with the
> Party. Arce, a former militant of the United Left in Peru, who advanced
> to a progressive political position with El Diarioof Lima in the late
> 80's, emigrated to Europe and worked closely with Bob Avakian's
> Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and Committee of the Revolutionary
> Internationalist Movement (Co-RIM.) The RCP along with the government of
> Fujimori was instrumental in inflating his supposed "leadership" in the
> PCP. It is important to understand that Arce's El Diario
> Internacional(EDI) should not be confused with El Diarioof Lima. In Peru,
> after 1988, Arce's name as Editor of El Diario, was used as a rubber
> stamp or figurehead only.
The RCP and Arce used their "support" for the PCP as a political capital
and to cover themselves with political legitimacy, and tried to build
themselves up as a the real leaders of the world revolution, while they
were objectively spreading demoralization and defeatism about the People's
War. The alliance of Arce (who was acting on behalf of the capitulator
Javier Esparza and of Sol Peru-Paris) and the leaders of the RCP came to an
end only in early 1994, when Arce published in his EDIa mild critique, "The
Silence of the Lambs" against his former patrons [English version,The New
FlagVol. 1, No. 2, p. 9] He, who now claims to be a 100% anti-Avakianist,
was indeed an agent of Avakian himself at least until 1994. For example, on
November 3, 1993, because the MPP had been criticizing the opportunist line
of the Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru (CSRP), a RCP
organization, Arce, on behalf of the RCP, attacked the comrades of the MPP
in the U.S. (clandestine), threatening to reveal their identities in his
EDIand in the reactionary Peruvian press, so that their relatives in Peru
can be taken care of by the death squads of the murderous regime of
Fujimori. a public reply from the MPP was issued on November 12, 1993 which
prevented Arce's reprehensible threat. Why do Arce and Olaechea attack and
openly slander the Peru People's Movements, whose international tasks
follow the International Directives of the Party and are guided by Marxism-
Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought? The slanderous allegations of these
individuals against the MPPs are the same ones used by Peruvian reaction
and the regime's agents, known as Senderologists. No wonder there is a
close alliance between Olaechea and Senderologists such as a Simon Strong!
They pretend to raise the red flag to attack and oppose the red flag of the
Party. Their anti-Avakianism is a smokescreen to cover up their alliance
with the capitulators, whose ideological positions have not been criticized
by EDIat all, during the last three years. They try to fool the supporters
of the revolution abroad by claiming that the capitulators are only members
of the "police," period! Thus, they also avoid the ideological analysis of
this sinister force that was wiped out from inside the Party by February
1994 but whose remnants are still active in Peru and abroad. They slander
the MPPs as a being "impostors", "fake," "Avakianist agents," "SIN,", etc.
These are exactly the same weapons used by imperialism and reaction to
discredit the People's War and its supporters abroad. In addition, the
tactic of suddenly creating a fake MPP-Belgium and Sol Peru-Belgium, whose
only active member is Arce himself, has the purpose of confusing the
people, and has already been unmasked. This "MPP-Belgium" is the originator
of the WMC. The opportunists Arce and Olaechea have a long history of
trafficking with false support for the People's War and at the same time
actively discrediting the Peruvian Maoists organized in the MPPs, as a well
as a our foreign supporters. Their methods are old and vicious. Their main
goal is to isolate the MPPs, create confusion and doubt in the masses by
claiming that the MPPs do not belong organically to the Party, and they
seek to weaken and split them. These are exactly the same goals of the
Peruvian regime and of Yankee imperialism. Have they ever said a word about
the old MPP in Paris that capitulated? Never. They never criticize them.
Why? Because Arce was a protégé of these traitors. He trafficked under the
wings of Sol Peru Paris and the "individual of Sweden." Why have his
articles hardly even mentioned his former buddies (compinches) of Sol Peru
Paris? Has he ever stated that all of them were police agents? However,
Arce and Olaechea make all types of unsubstantiated allegations and
diatribes against honest supporters of the People's War. Should we allow
this? No. We must criticize them with facts. <SNIP>
--
Michael Pugliese, Deng Xsio Ping In Cheek
"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to
each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that
we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted
at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy