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 Translation from the German original.

			        I. 

	NEUE EINHEIT to 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, but also about our position regarding the Communist
Party of Peru (Shining Path of Mariategui). For several months we
have been engaged in gaining a more detailed picture of
Latin-American affairs and in preparing a statement. We shall
answer these questions very soon, perhaps in January, 1997, and
in this context we shall also, as far as this was possible based
on the documents at hand, go into the foundations of the
Communist Party of Peru.

			        II.

	ABOUT THE BACKGROUNDS OF THE
          OCCUPATION OF THE EMBASSY IN LIMA

Presently an action has gained the attention of the worldwide
public, the action of hostage-taking in the Japanese embassy in
Lima by the MRTA. The MRTA is - to put it mildly - an utterly
unclear revolutionary organization which  is to be seen  in a
connection not only with Peruvian bourgeois parties like the
APRA, but also with circles of  US capitalism which are behind.
It can hardly be imagined that an action like an occupation of an
embassy will change the least of the social situation in Peru,
like it can be heard from the MRTA which in all seriousness
"demands" from the present government to change its policies into
the direction of the interests of the broad masses in Peru. As
far as the personal motive of many members of the MRTA is
concerned, the cruel ill-treatment of members in the Peruvian
dungeons makes understandable also a participation and a
partisanship in such an action.

But as far as the political significance of this matter is
concerned, the following essential characteristics become
apparent, not at all surprising. One has to start from the point
that the US is engaged in changing the situation which FROM THEIR
POINT OF VIEW has got bogged down, in order to move again into
the direction of the former parliamentary system, in order not to
have to rely on Fujimori and his gang alone. All the imperialists
prefer a flexible system, in which they can use different and
exchangeable personages and institutions.

Fujimori, like his predecessors, has yielded to the pressure of
the international finance capital which on its part as well - one
should never forget that - admittedly stands in decisive
connection with all the drugs machinations. But Fujimori has
allowed himself a series of highhanded actions. In 1992 he
brought more or less the whole apparatus of state under his thumb
and of his close "advisors" like Montesinos, and attempted to
push through, so to say, his own regime within the international
circumstances given by the pressure of the International Monetary
Fund, the World Bank and other decisive financial institutions.
On the other hand Montesinos in particular is suspected in public
to be in cahoots  with circles of the US. If things were to
develop according to the ideas of the finance oligarchy, this has
to be changed somewhat again. One should have more of a
"pluralistic system", by which finance capital could have various
levers in Peru and would be able to direct things according to
their unlimited desires. Also as far as the cocaine-connection is
concerned they want to direct things as they like. The periodical
El Diario, interestingly enough, points to several incidents
which indicate connections of the state administration in Peru
also to the Russian and (formerly) revisionist mafia. The
Peruvian government itself referred to the "blessing" for the
budget provided by the billions of dollars from the culture of
the raw material for cocaine, as it was necessary to do justice
to the debt extortion. 

An essential point is the rivalry between Japan and the US.
During the past years the Japanese have penetrated Peru like
never before. They penetrate also other countries like Brazil and
the US itself, but in Peru they might be able to gain something
like a position of dominance, just because of their own
administrative connections. The US is strictly opposed to the
Japanese getting a rather solid base on the southern Pacific
coast. The present occupation of the embassy, significantly
enough, hits the Japanese interests in the first place, not only
the embassy and the political reputation but also the commercial
interests of the Japanese.

Certainly several members who have put through the occupation of
the embassy are inspired by the wish to help their prisoners in
the dungeons of the Peruvian state. We think, however, that not
by coincidence this aspect during the further actions went into
the background, and that the actual endeavours, as described by
us, will come to the fore, because American imperialism has
always tried, in all of the countries, to gain a foothold not
only with the reactionaries but also to infiltrate the
revolutionary groups and make them active according to 
ITS OWN WISHES.

29.12.96 
Editorial staff of NEUE EINHEIT

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