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Titolo: ¡UNIOS! Info #79en/es: 4/11 Lucha en el CIE, 1994 -

UNITE! Info #79en/es: 4/11 Struggle in IEC, 1994 -
¡UNIOS! Info #79en/es: 4/11 Lucha en el CIE, 1994 -
[Posted: 31.07.98]
[Continued from part 3/11]
DOCUMENT ¤05en:	Proposal 26.02.1995 by RM to convene a	    (*)	
		plenary meeting of SC of IEC (leaflet)	
*A Proposal to Convene a Plenary Meeting
Of the Steering Committee of the IEC*
By Rolf Martens, SC Member in Sweden, February 1995
To the other members of the Steering Committee of the Interna-
tional Emergency Committee to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael 
Guzman (IEC):
Also to all IEC activists, to all anti-imperialist organizations
and periodicals and to all adherents of the political line of 
Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong: 
Comrades and friends,
Since the last and so far only plenary meeting of the Steering 
Committee, the leading organ of the IEC, on 28 February 1993 in 
Duisburg, Germany, in connection with the IEC Founding Conferen-
ce, events have taken place which in my opinion make it neces-
sary that another plenary meeting be convened as soon as pos-
sible.
What in particular merits attention is: Not only have certain 
political organizations which are alleged "supporters" of the 
Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and "defenders" of the life of its
imprisoned chairman, comrade Gonzalo (Abimael Guzman), shown a 
certain seemingly very strange behaviour, but also, obviously in
connection with this, the IEC Coordinating Committee which was 
elected at the Duisburg meeting has committed a flagrantly il-
legal act and still continues committing it.
It’s necessary in the present situation for us IEC SC members to
contact each other and to reach agreement on joint action. The 
by-laws we decided on in Duisburg provide i.a. that a Steering 
Committee plenary session can be convened on the expressed de-
mand of one half of its members. According to my information, at
present there are 41 of us, in 21 countries in different parts 
of the world. (16 countries are represented by 2 members each, 
5 by 1 each and there are 4 at-large members.) Convening a ple-
nary meeting obviously is technically difficult but not impos-
sible.
I call on all other SC members to express their support for the 
present proposal. Other comrades and friends I ask, please con-
tribute towards making this proposal known, firstly, to those 
IEC SC members whom you can reach, secondly, to people in gene-
ral, in as many countries as possible.
What events of particular significance to us participants in the
international campaign to defend the life of comrade Gonzalo 
have taken place since February 1993?
The Fujimori ruling clique in Peru have continued to hold com-
rade Gonzalo in isolation, under severe conditions and under 
constant further threat to his life. In September 1993, they and
their US imperialist and other reactionary masters started the 
infamous massive "peace and negotiations" propaganda manoeuvre 
aimed at sowing confusion and capitulationism in Peru itself and
also internationally. Consistent supporters of the people’s war 
in Peru and consistent defenders of comrade Gonzalo’s life have 
fought a sharp struggle to unmask and beat that propaganda ma-
noeuvre.
While the people’s war led by the PCP no doubt has suffered se-
rious setbacks, it still continues. The recent reactionary "bor-
der war" waged against Ecuador by the Fujimori regime obviously 
is a further sign of that regime’s internal difficulties.
To a great extent, the international struggle caused by the 
"peace and negotiations" propaganda manoeuvre has been centred 
around the reactionaries’ attempts at suppressing all knowledge 
of the important declaration made by the Central Committee of 
the PCP on 7 October 1993.
This declaration sharply denounced Fujimori’s "new information"
of a "call from prison for negotiations and peace" allegedly 
made by comrade Gonzalo and other captured PCP leaders as a re-
actionary lie and stated the determination of the PCP to con-
tinue the people’s war. Mass media all over the world widely 
publicized the alleged "call" while completely omitting to men-
tion this declaration.
This silence was shared also by some political organizations 
which formerly had seemed strongly to support the PCP. Particu-
larly noteworthy was, and is, the total blackout concerning this
vital PCP declaration which has been effected by the group of 
parties and other organizations known as the RIM (Revolutionary 
Internationalist Movement). This group of organizations claims 
to adhere to the ideology of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. It’s 
joined together by a common declaration, of the year 1984. Since
that year also, the PCP has been a "participant" (as it’s cal-
led) of this group. 
Our united-front organization, the IEC, from its very beginning 
has had close ties to the RIM. Its executive organ, which since 
the IEC Founding Conference consists of the Coordinating Commit-
tee, and its organisational centre have all along, also before 
the formal founding of the IEC, had the same address, in London,
as the Information Bureau of the RIM and the (unofficial) press 
organ of the RIM. 
In its 1994 video "You must tell the world...." and in other in-
formation material, the IEC has portrayed the RIM as a staunch 
reliable defender of comrade Gonzalo’s life.
On 12.4.1994, I wrote a letter to the Coordinating Committee of 
the IEC suggesting that we, the IEC, publish, e.g. in one of our
Emergency Bulletins which each month are sent out to over 40 
countries, the vital 7.10.93 PCP CC declaration, in order final-
ly to get word about it out to many parts of the world where ob-
viously it was still quite unknown. I requested that this sug-
gestion be circulated to all other IEC SC members. 
To have suggestions thus circulated is explicitly stated by the 
IEC by-laws as one of the SC members’ rights. In this case, how-
ever, my suggestion was suppressed by the Coordinating Commit-
tee. Despite renewed requests it has not been circulated. 
But by this flagrant suppression the existing Coordinating Com-
mittee has made itself illegal. It no longer represents the IEC. 
Why was this suggestion prevented from reaching the other Stee-
ring Committee members?
Other bad, though not directly illegal, acts by the existing CC,
e.g. the suppression also of an important statement by our Bo-
livian chapter of 7.2.1994 which expressly supported the 7.10.
93 PCP declaration, point in the same direction: The friends 
whom we elected in Duisburg obviously are under extreme pressure
from forces which wish not only to liquidate the PCP and to cut 
it off from all genuine international support - which also means
further to endanger comrade Gonzalo’s life - but, even more, to 
prevent the RIM from deservedly coming under grave suspicion in 
all parts of the world. 
All who get word of the PCP declaration and compare it with the 
RIM’s deafening silence about it must ask themselves: What lies 
behind this foul betrayal, what causes this "Silence of the 
Sheep?", as an article about it was headlined in No. 23 (April 
’94) of  the magazine El Diario Internacional, or: "Why Does the
RIM Help U.S. Imperialism Encircle the PCP?", the question asked
in a leaflet by me of 12.8.1994. 
(El Diario Internacional, address: B.P. 705, 1000 Bruxelles 1, 
Belgium, telefax 32-2-6409715, states as its aim to support the 
oppressed masses in Peru and is edited by Luis Arce Borja, who 
is also at-large IEC SC member. During the last year or so, com-
munication to it has been heavily interfered with. Its No. 24 
/Nov. 1994/ reportedly analyzes "Operation Capitulation" in 
Peru.)
In fact, not only because of its recent action of flagrant be-
trayal must the RIM be viewed with grave suspicion. The very 
declaration, of 1984, on which it’s based and which today has 
been translated into more than 20 languages, does not reflect 
the ideology of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong, as everyone with 
somewhat closer knowledge of that ideology and of recent history
can clearly see, but represents such a distortion of that ideo-
logy and contains such untruths about the then recent past as it
has been very much in the interests of US imperialism and its 
partner/competitor Russian new tsarism to disseminate. 
How then could, 11 years ago, such an experienced Marxist as 
comrade Gonzalo fall into the trap of allowing the PCP to become
a signatory to this document? That is a difficult question. It 
will have to be put to him when he is liberated from prison or 
at least from isolation - an isolation which today among other 
things serves to help "protect" the RIM from that closer inves-
tigation of it which the Marxist-Leninists need.
The people’s war in Peru, initiated by the PCP and during more 
than 12 years led by comrade Gonzalo, undoubtedly is a just 
cause. This should not prevent true friends of the PCP from cri-
ticizing that party’s errors, including that quite grave one 
which today has become more clearly visible, and helping it, to
the best of their abilities, to correct them. 
What consequences should be drawn by the IEC from the actions of
the RIM? There’s no reason not to accept the signature of the 
RIM to the Call of the IEC. The same goes for all organizations 
and persons. But our executive and organisational centre must 
cease being, as in practice it is at present, a puppet or a hos-
tage to the RIM.
This is necessary, as long as there is no satisfactory answer to
the question which obviously poses itself: Is it the case, or is
it not, that the RIM in reality is essentially a decade-long in-
ternational operation by the CIA and/or other intelligence ser-
vices who, utilizing the almost complete absence of experienced 
Marxist-Leninist parties after the overthrow of socialism in 
China in 1976-78, aim to stem up against, subvert and deflect 
the inevitably re-emerging revolutionary movement in the world? 
As "hostage" to the RIM, an IEC CC today cannot be reliable.
The present ties to the RIM possibly also explain why the IEC so
far has refrained from demanding comrade Gonzalo’s freedom, a 
strange thing for any organization defending a political priso-
ner to do. Are there perhaps some people who fear "negative con-
sequences" to the RIM if, as a result (in part) of international
public-opinion pressure, liberation of comrade Gonzalo should 
possibly be achieved? 
In Duisburg, SC member from Germany Jens Scheer (who in July 
1994 unfortunately died of a heart attack) suggested that we put
forward this demand. This suggestion then was turned down. In my
opinion, it should be brought up again and now approved. 
Agenda suggested:	 
In the above are given some reasons why  a plenary meeting of 
the Steering Committee of  the IEC should be convened, with - 
I propose - the following points on its agenda: 
	1) Election of a new Coordinating Committee, 
	2) Transfer of the organisatorical centre of the IEC 
           away from that of the RIM, 
	3) Demand by the IEC for the liberation of comrade 
           Gonzalo, 
	4) Other questions - no doubt many need to be dicsussed.
I ask the other IEC SC members to contact me for discussion on 
how, where and when to convene such a plenum.
26.2.1995
Leaflet published by:  	
R. Martens, Box 17513, S - 200 10 Malmoe, Sweden                  
	    Tel. 
+46 - 40 - 12 48 32
DOCUMENT ¤06en:	Declaration 27.04.1995 by RM (letter to		
		El Diario Internacional, Brussels, and
		Liberación, Malmö; published as leaflet;
		posted on Net in Info #2en/de/es/se,
		28.12.1995)
 
To the Editors of El Diario Internacional, Brussels, and Libera-
ción, Malmö
DECLARATION CONCERNING CERTAIN SUSPICIONS
Starting in March ’95, I distribute El Diario Internacional in 
Malmö. I firmly support its important struggle against the "Ope-
ration Capitulation" of the U.S. CIA and the Peruvian SIN. 
However, in issue No. 24 of El Diario, one person, Javier E., 
Stockholm, was accused of being an agent of the SIN and of 
playing an important part in the "operation". I hold that, so 
far, this accusation has not been publicly proved. In the course
of a discussion in June ’94 on the so-called "peace letters", 
Javier E. gave me a strong impression of being an honest person,
although seriously led astray. This  of course is not proof of 
his innocence. 
In an article in the No. 25 issue, expulsion from the Steering 
Committee (SC) of the IEC of three of its members is demanded, 
on account of a certain letter to the embassy in Sweden of  
Fujimori’s miserable butcher government. I hold that it’s the 
task of the SC to decide on such a question. 
I hold that it’s important to combat the capitulation propaganda
which emanates from a group of persons in Stockholm, but even 
more so to combat that emanating from the RIM centre in London. 
Are the anonymous leaders of the RIM agents of the CIA or not? 
That’s a very important question today. 
Let’s convene a plenary session of the SC of the IEC! Let all 
persons accused speak in their defence! Let’s make decisions on 
the burning questions!
Malmö, Sweden, 27.4.1995	
Rolf Martens,
 
Member of the SC of the International Emergency Committee
to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael Guzman (IEC)
{NOTE: This declaration was not published in El Diario Interna-
cional or in Liberación. - RM '98}
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