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UNITE! Info #104en: 3/3 Rattlesnake "NE" & the Congo
[Posted: 14.07.99]

[Continued from part 2/3 - "NEWS ON CONGO 028"]


Here are reproduced, for the attention of others, in the DR
Congo and in the international movement to support the struggle
of the Congolese people, two recent e-mails:

I.) From Uwe Mueller of the "Verlag Neue Einheit", Germany, to
Bony Ndjov-a-Shamalo, chairman of the DR Congo Committee in
Sweden, on 05.07.1999

II.) From Rolf Martens, member of the DR Congo Committee in
Sweden, to Hartmut Dicke, owner of the "Verlag Neue Einheit",
Germany, on 14.07.1999 (today) 


I.

From: 		"Verlag Neue Einheit" <verlag@neue-einheit.com>  
Reply-To: 	verlag@neue-einheit.com
To: 		congocomse@hotmail.com
Subject: 	Request
Date: 		Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:59:04 +0200


Bony Ndjov-a-Shamalo
Chairman of DR Congo Committee
Box 17513
SE - 200 10 Malm� Sweden
via E-mail: congocomse@hotmail.com


Dear Bony Ndjov-a-Shamalo,

we`d like to ask you a question concerning the English transla-
tion by your committee of L.-D.Kabila`s speech of 21st of Ja-
nuary 1999.

We ourselves have just translated this important speech of the
President of DR Congo from the French original into German and
published it. In the Internet you will find it on our homepage,
http://www.neue-einheit.com/docus/kabila.htm.

We also have put a link on our homepage for the French original
version on DR Congo`s homepage.

As we are considering to put the English version on our homepage
too, we ask you if you agree. Please answer as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely

Uwe Mueller,
webmaster of Verlag Neue Einheit



II.

To Mr Hartmut Dicke concerning a request 

An e-mail from Rolf Martens to Mr Hartmut Dicke, owner of the 
"Verlag (Publishing House) Neue Einheit", Germany, 14.07.99


Mr Dicke,

One of your collaborators, Mr Uwe Mueller, recently sent an 
e-mail to the chairman of our DR Congo Committee here in Sweden,
Mr Bony Ndjov-a-Shamalo, asking for his permission to put our
committee's English-language translation of the important speech
on 21.01.1999 by the DR Congo's President Laurent-D�sir� Kabila,
"Create Committees of the People's Power Everywhere", on to the
website of the publishing house owned by you, at <www.neue-
einheit.com>. The mail was sent to him at our committee's ad-
dress, <congocomse@hotmail.com>, on 5 July.

Concerning this request, I, as another member of the DR Congo 
Committee in Sweden, would like make the following preliminary 
reply to you:


1. Mr Ndjov-a-Shamalo at present is away and cannot be reached.
He's expected back in a few weeks. Our committee will await his
return before discussing your request and - as a whole, of
course - replying to it.


2. Contrary to what you (respectively Mr Mueller) seem(s) to 
think, or at least are/is implying by your/his addressing such a 
request solely to our committee's chairman instead of to the 
committee as a whole, the DR Congo Committee in Sweden in its 
work does *not* apply the so-called "Fuehrerprinzip" or "Leader 
Principle" (according to which a leader, a chairperson, an owner 
or whatever decides on matters while others have no say and just 
are supposed to carry out the orders of that leader etc). 

We on the contrary, which as you should know is the normal thing
for such an organization as ours, are applying organizational 
democracy. This means that all members have a say in what de-
cisions to take - irrespective of whether this means direct dis-
cussions among all members or whether some decisions are dele-
gated. So the relevant reply to your request which you'll get 
of course will be one from the committee as such.

Perhaps our chairman will want to add a personal reply too, 
since Mr Mueller did address him directly - on orders from you,
then, if your outfit, the Verlag Neue Einheit, *is* using that
"Fuehrerprinzip" which, somewhat strangely, it was implied that 
we would use. He may want to comment, for instance, on that man-
ner of yours of making this request. But that's another matter. 


3. Concerning your request itself, I of course don't want to
"pre-empt" our committee's reply. I cannot forecast what that
reply will be. But I think it's useful to tell you and, above
all, others - this mail to you will be published as part of a
posting "NEWS ON CONGO 029" - a couple of things in this con-
text:

Firstly, it must be a good thing of course if the English trans-
lation of that important speech of President Kabila's gets on to
as many websites as possible (directly or by way of a link - our
committee by the way doesn't yet have a website of its own).
This clearly speaks in favour of our committee's complying with
your request. We naturally want this speech to be easily avail-
able to as many people as possible.

But secondly, there is one fact concerning precisely *your*
website, concerning the particular group of people led by you,
which I happen to know of and which entails that there would be 
a *drawback* too if our committee would be perceived as *having 
any connection whatsoever* to your group.

I intend to bring that matter up in our committee's discussions
concerning your request. It actually already has been discussed
a little, in general terms, in our committee.

This is the fact that your group by its actions since several
years back has clearly proved itself to be *a very nasty reac-
tionary rattlesnake*, a false "friend" and real fanatical enemy
of the peoples of the world, in fact since long engaging in
doing some very dirty work for the CIA of the US imperialists
and since a year back also teaming up quite directly with pub-
licly exposed agents of the reactionary intelligence services,
for rabidly suppressing certain important international dis-
cussions (I'm referring of course to some also publicly in-
famous events involving you which started in June 1998).

You now "want to start supporting the just struggle of the Con-
golese people"? You've recently published "Internet Statement
No. 19/99" by the "Group NEUE EINHEIT", for the first time indi-
cating such support on your part, have put a German translation
of President Kabila's 21.01 speech on to your website, a link
to the Congolese ACP's French-language version too, and want to
help people find that speech in English as well, you're saying. 

This all looks well and good, on the surface. And all such 
things will be of some help for the Congolese people too. But 
since I happen to know the particular character which your group
has, I find it necessary to warn all that you in reality are do-
ing such things only out of a desire to camouflage yourselves
and, if possible, to gain the confidence of those who really
want to support the struggle of the Congolese people, in order
later, at the "appropriate" moment, to create trouble of some
kind and to stab that struggle in the back.


4. Concerning the background of your group and how it has acted,
for instance, in another and similar context not so long ago, I
find it necessary to bring to everybody's attention the fol-
lowing:

In Peru, there's a party called the PCP which has the support
of rather many people in that country and which since 1980 is
leading what it calls a people's war, to overthrow the reac-
tionary regime in Peru. As is known internationally, the PCP 
does have some negative sides to its character too, but despite
this, its struggle has justly received considerable support from
people also in other countries. Now what have been your group's
standpoint and actions concerning this?

You knew about this struggle since some 10-15 years back, when 
more detailed news about it reached Europe, and you (as it later 
turned out) at that time even had access to several documents of
the PCP's. But during more than a decade, you said nothing about
it in public. This silence was a seemingly strange thing, consi-
dering that the PCP precisely said that it adhered to the poli-
tical line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong, the same line to which
also your group - or, to be exact, the party which existed in 
Germany then and which was later transformed into your present
"group" - stated its adherence.

Finally, in 1996-97 when international political discussions via
the Internet had become an important reality, people in many
countries who could follow these discussions had to notice this
strange fact: Why isn't the "NEUE EINHEIT" saying anything about
the struggle led by the PCP, which - seemingly at least - is so
close to it ideologically? And then there occurred something
even more noticeable, concerning your character:

In February 1997, your group finally "spoke up", saying quite
clearly that it "did support" the armed struggle of the PCP. But
then, only six months later, in August 1997, you suddenly, and
with no explanation whatsoever, turned around completely on this
and publicly *attacked* this struggle. In an Internet posting on
5 August of that year, you equated it with "outrages", and in 
another on 15 August you even advanced as one of several "accu-
sations" against me the fact that I publicly supported it. 

Now that your group - at long last - has come forward "in sup-
port of" the struggle of the Congolese people, this behaviour
of yours in another and similar context should be noted. Who
knows what you'll do and say concerning the Congo in six months'
time from now? 

You wrote in your recent message to us (to our chairman) also:
"Please answer as soon as possible". Our committee in fact al-
ways has replied to questions and requests as soon as this has
been possible for it. Your now indicating that "you're in a hur-
ry" to extend some support to the Congolese people does contrast
somewhat, doesn't it, to your not having expressed any such sup-
port before, for instance in the time from late 1996 on, when
the AFDL started its armed struggle against the Mobutu dictator-
ship, or from August 1998 on, when the imperialist-instigated
aggression against the reborn DR Congo started. Under those cir-
cumstances your sudden "hurry" now does look somewhat hypocriti-
cical, doesn't it. But this is typical too of your group's "ap-
proach". 

Our committee's reply will reach you in due time, I'm certain - 
and if you by then perhaps have already made such an about-turn
as you did concerning Peru, and are publicly vilifying the armed
struggle of the Congolese people as "outrages", that will not be
our fault.


5. On the background of your group, I want to tell others just a 
few other things in this context. It so happens that you and I
know each other rather well since some 25 years back, isn't
that so, Mr Dicke?

Your present "group" in fact are the completely degenerated and
traitorous remains of a party in Germany which, from its start
in 1970 and for more than a decade on, was a very important
vanguard for, and representative of, the common interests of the
workers and the oppressed peoples in the world (despite its al-
ways being quite small), the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) - led by you
under the pseudonym "Klaus Sender". I was in close contact with
that party and learned very much from it, not least from you 
personally, for 16 years from 1974 on (when you were in exile
for some years here in Malmoe because of reactionary persecution
in Germany then), but in 1990 had to criticize it as a then de-
generated and in fact bourgeois party, at which point a sharp 
break between us necessarily ensued. The facts on this can be
seen in various earlier Net postings by me.

Your present "group" on its part is bringing, on its website
for instance, various ridiculous lies concerning this conflict
and ridiculous mendacious attacks against me, since I've been
the one who've publicly exposed your - very tragic - degenera-
tion and treason. 

Now if the very good speech by the DR Congo's President Kabila 
gets on to that website, this would have that certain drawback 
too - as seen from the standpoint of the peoples of the world - 
that it would make some positive propaganda for that website and
thus also for those very reactionary lies of yours. As I already
wrote, I shall bring that matter up in our committee. It's pos-
sible that we, as a committee of the united-front type, will 
consider this drawback to be irrelevant, in the context of our 
common efforts, or to be only a minor one.


6. On the context in which our committee made the English trans-
lation of President Kabila's speech, and on a website which is
already bringing it:

As you know, there already exists a certain international move-
ment supporting the just struggle of the Congolese people. The 
various participants in this movement - organizations and indi-
viduals - of course have often differing standpoints on other 
issues; co-operation among them for this common aim can be en-
gaged in and should be engaged in, despite this. 

(Even in those particular cases, such as yours, where there are
strong reasons to doubt a certain participant's sincerity, 
others should not because of this from the start exclude exten-
ding such co-operation to that participant, in my opinion, but
should try to utilize its/his/her - suspected - hypocrisy too, 
turning a possible poisonous snake's venom as far as can be done
into a beneficial serum, so to speak.)

Our translation was the result of some such co-operation within
the support movement. On this, I'm quoting from an Intro Note, 
by our committee, to this translation (as first posted by me in
"NEWS ON CONGO" 021-023 on 10.02.1999): 

	"The following translation of an important speech by 
	President Kabila, made by the DR Congo Committee in Swe-
	den, is intended above all for the English-language part
	of the website Solidarit� avec le nouveau Congo, at 
	<http://194.78.3.66/congo>. We've been requested by our
	friends the managers of that site in Belgium to make it.
	Comparing an edited version of the text sent us by them
	to the verbatim one published by the Agence Congolaise 
	de Presse <http://rdcongo.org/frames/acp/BQ.htm>, we've
	proceeded mainly from the ACP French-language text, thus
	not avoiding some repetitions but reproducing better, we
	think, the original's vivacity. Subtitles added in the 
	edited version have been kept. This translation may be
	said to be the result of some closer co-operation within
	the international movement for support of the just 
	struggle of the DR Congo. - DR Congo Committe, Sweden"

This translation, since that time, can be found too at: 
<http://194.78.3.66/congo>.

So, one possibility for you to bring people's attention to that
speech in English, one way of doing this to which our committee
can raise no objection, would be to simply put a link to that
website on to yours. "Netiquette" would require you to ask our 
friends in Belgium who're managing that site for permission to
do so, of course. After the text of the translation, they on
this site have a note, similar to the above, on its origins.

In its later reply to you, our committee perhaps will suggest
that you proceed in this manner. It's also possible, I think,
that it will give you permission - despite what I on my part
above am warning people about concerning you, and/or perhaps 
considering this posting of mine to be a sufficient warning on 
this - to put our translation directly on to your website. If 
so, our committee will probably at least make it a condition 
that you reproduce the above Intro Note too.


Yours sincerely,
Rolf Martens 


[For a note with some addresses i.a. to websites with infor-
mation on the DR Congo - see end of part 2/3]



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