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UNITE! Info #104en: 1/3 Rattlesnake "NE" & the Congo
[Posted: 14.07.99]

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INTRO NOTE: In this Info are reproduced, in parts 1-3, the
postings No. 027, 028 and 029, respectively, (likewise posted
today) of another series of mine, "NEWS ON CONGO". They con-
stitute 3 parts of that series which have the common title
'"Support" by a rattlesnake'. This refers to the so-called
"Group NEUE EINHEIT" in Germany, on whose character and pre-
history readers are referred to some earlier postings in the
"UNITE! (etc) Info" series.


NEWS ON CONGO 027: 1/3 "Support" by a rattlesnake
[Posted: 14.07.99]


"NOC" INTRO NOTE:

In this posting, and continuing in "NEWS ON CONGO" 028 and 029 
as parts 2 and 3, I'm bringing a quote from, respectively some
recent correspondence with and some comments on, a certain or-
ganization in Germany. It has not earlier come forward with 
any statements concerning the situation in the DR Congo. Re-
cently, however, on 02.07, it published an Internet Statement 
on this and also, on 05.07, sent a certain request to the DR 
Congo Committee in Sweden. It's called the "Group NEUE EIN-
HEIT". It publishes statements on various political matters on 
a website managed by the "Verlag (Publishing House) Neue Ein-
heit" at <http://www.neue-einheit.com>.

The fact that this Internet Statement by that group, its No.
19/99, has been written and published, in support - on the
face of it, at least - of the just struggle of the Congolese
people, absolutely is a good thing. It reflects the conside-
rable support which there is on the part of the German people 
for this struggle. At the same time, there are some facts
concerning this particular group which make it necessary to
warn everybody: 

Watch out! Here you have to do with a very nasty reactionary
rattlesnake, whose "support" is not in the least sincere but
is only a camouflage attempt - though a rather clever one;
this is typical of it too - engaged in so that it might get
a chance, at a "suitable" moment, to turn around and bite
you in the neck. Because of the particularly devious and
harmful character of that snake, I'm devoting as much as 3
posting parts to it, and to some questions concerning how to 
distinguish the false from the genuine in general too.

In part 3/3 ("NOC 029") will be shown some of those facts 
which I happen to know about, concerning this group, and
which make such a warning necessary.

Here, in part 1/3, I'm bringing an English translation (made 
by me) of that group's 02.07.1999 "Internet Statement No. 
19/99". On the whole - and on the face of it - this is a
rather good statement, as I think other readers will agree.
On a couple of points, it does state some untruths or half-
truths, trying, typically, to lead people astray somewhat in 
a certain direction. I shall insert some comments of mine on 
this, within brackets [ ]. 

In part 2/3, "NOC 028", is a comment by me (with quotes from 
some others) on why the adherents, in various parts of the
world, of the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong - 
among whom I'm counting myself - of course need to support 
such struggles as the one engaged in today by the people of 
the DR Congo, and on why there's a particular need for the 
peoples too to watch out for a certain "fauna" of rattle-
snakes falsely describing themselves as "Marxist" organiza-
tions or individuals while in fact, in part or completely, 
acting in an opposite direction. The present "Group NEUE 
EINHEIT" is one of the worst and most treacherous "speci-
mens" of this, internationally, rather "rich" "fauna".  

Here's its Internet Statement No. 19/99 of 02.07.1999, with
comments by me inserted within brackets [ ]:



Important Contemporary Document from Africa 
Published in German for the First Time


For the first time in German, we are publishing an important 
contemporary document, a speech by the President of the Democra-
tic Republic of Congo, L. Kabila, from early this year, in which
he puts forward to delegates from the whole country a plan for a
big tranformation of the country, based on the Congolese peop-
le's own forces, and illustrates it with graphic examples.

On our homepage, this document can be found at: <http://www.
neue-einheit.com/docus/kabila.htm>.

Exactly 39 years ago, on 30.06.1960, the then "Belgian Congo"
declared its independence. There followed immediately a period 
of putting that country under pressure, of intervention by fo-
reign powers and hired mercenary troops, of secessionist 
strivings encouraged also by foreign forces. Not without reason 
it is said: "It is not easy to abandon the Congo". This large 
African country is rich in precious natural resources: Copper, 
uranium, diamonds, precious rare earth metals...

The strivings to ultilize these natural riches for developing a
strong, independent country have been suppressed time and again.
Today too an important war is taking place concerning the Congo.
In the preface to the publishing of this article is stated, con-
cerning present events: The events in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, the former Za�re, once more shows with what aims and 
methods the USA and its supporters are acting. In the beginning,
they welcomed the rebellion by the AFDL led by L. Kabila against
Mobutu, since they hoped that it would bring a renewal of the 
Congo suited to their interests. (AFDL: Alliance des Forces D�-
mocratiques pour la Lib�ration du Congo-Za�re)


	[COMMENT: No, that which is stated in the last sentence
	here is *not* correct. The main forces of US imperia-
	lism, at least, by no means "welcomed" that rebellion,
	in late 1996 / early 1997, but made clear their utter 
	opposition to and fear of it from the very beginning, as
	can be seen in a large number of statements by politi-
	cians and media at the time. Certain less important
	forces among them, representing some companies etc which
	hoped to exploit the Congo "more efficiently", were not
	so much against it then, it's true, but on the 	whole, 
	the reactionaries in the world *hated* that rebellion 
	and from its start on brought vilification after vilifi-
	cation against it and not least against L-D Kabila per-
	sonally. Their shock and dismay at that rebellion's to-
	tal victory (so far) on 17.05.1997, after only some se-
	ven months of armed struggle, were very obvious. Se also
	my next comment. - RM] 
	  

Basically, they could no longer put this country to any use for
themselves under the rule of Mobutu, since, as far as could be
ascertained, the roads and the structures had decayed, and the
corruption of those who were enriching themselves had gone so
far that it went contrary to their aims [the US etc ones] of 
establishing a "prospering" capitalist zone in Africa. Then the
revolutionary movement of L. Kabila won out, but it refused to
go into a coalition government with the so-called opposition 
forces of the Mobutu period. And after it indeed had kept its 
promise to grant concessions to the big international mining 
companies, but at the same time set up rules entailing that at 
least a large portion of the profits from the mining would go to
the Democratic Republic of Congo, then the USA closed their book
of support, since this was not in their interest.


	[COMMENT: 

	The statement here that the main imperialists in the 
	world today (or in 1996-97) would want, even, 'a "pros-
	pering" capitalist zone in Africa', or in some other of
	the "underdeveloped", oppressed countries, is *not* true
	- anymore - and in fact contains a "prettifying" of what
	*present-day* imperialism is like.

	What do the main forces of international imperialism, 
	led by the USA, really want today concerning such coun-
	tries as those in Central Africa? Nothing else than
	*large-scale destruction*, and *mass murder*, in order
	*at all costs* to *keep the peoples down in utter 
	slavery*.

	People all over the world need to know about this. 
	Things in this respect are no longer even such as they
	were in earlier periods, when imperialism of course was
	very brutal too but when some of its main forces at
	least wanted a certain construction in these countries,
	in order to exploit the peoples there of course.

	In the DR Congo, for instance - then called "Zaire" -
	in 1983 was completed, in part financed by some interna-
	tional companies and institutions, the Inga dam in the
	River Congo, with its enormous hydropower plants to-
	talling over 40 Gigawatts of electric power production
	capacity, more than double that of the entire such pro-
	duction capacity in the small but highly-developed
	country where I'm writing this, Sweden, and with the 
	electricity from those plants being transported, still
	today, thousands of kilometres to make industries work
	in several countries neighbouring the DR Congo too.

	Would it be concievable - even given the "right" circum-
	stances of an "obedient" regime in the Congo, for in-
	stance, for those same international institutions to
	finance something similar today?

	No, such things today already are more or less "out of
	the question". Since several years back, the IMF and the
	World Bank are *prohibiting* all loans for construction
	of power plants using chemical fuels *and* all loans
        for construction of hydropower plants too (not to speak
	of nuclear power plants, of course) in "developing
	countries". A ban has been slapped on all such things,
	under various completely mendacious and hypocritical
	pretexts of "environmental protection" - in reality, in
	order to prevent all further industrialization of these
	countries and to engage in genocide on a large scale
	against the peoples living in them. This is the meaning
	of that present imperialist project misnamed "sustain-
	able development".

	To continue robbing the DR Congo of certain precious
	metals, above all, this they want - and are engaging in
	on a large scale in those territories which their pup-
	pets today are occupying. But the least bit of a "pros-
	perous" zone there, even a "capitalist" one - no, this
	the main forces of imperialism today are very much op-
	posed to, and this is one reason too why they so rabidly
	are seeking to bring down the present, legitimate go-
	vernment of the DR Congo which, they fear, might bring
	about such development, supporting itself on the coun-
	try's own forces - its natural riches and above all
	that enormous force which is its people, once it gets
	organized properly, which was precisely what was being
	started on in that short period before the country was
	attacked in August 1998.

        - RM]


Concretely, the Democratic Republic of Congo had decided to set
up an Exchange for valuable natural resources and thus no longer
allow the foreign company to make deals with the local corrupt
potentates and in this way freely engage in plundering the coun-
try.

And on this very concrete point, which was to restrict the 
rights of the international companies, suddenly the support en-
ded, and those forces who publicly are crying out concerning
"human rights" started their propaganda. From then on, suddenly, 
L. Kabila was no longer a democrat, no person who suited the 
Western propaganda. Since then, the Congo is engaging in a com-
pletely justified, and hopefully also successful, struggle of 
resistance against the criminal and mendacious military aggres-
sion, in which the US imperialists and the Tony Blair hypocrites
are pulling the strings and which is being supported propagan-
distically by the rattlesnakes of Amnesty International and 
other so-called human-rights organizations.


	[COMMENT: "Rattlesnakes" - yes, those organizations so
	designated by this group really are such. And an even
	more treacherous, and much "smarter", such is that
	"Group NEUE EINHEIT" itself. - RM]
 

And then something very notable occurred. Several African states
teamed up with the Congo in order jointly to combat that rebel-
lion, favoured by the USA, of so-called democrats, which was
combined with an invasion by Ugandan and Rwandan troops and now
made war against Kabila. Long before the Kosovo war, the USA and
Great Britain and the NATO states allied to them had to recog-
nize that precisely in Africa there was developing a determined
opposition against this criminal US imperialism and its auxi-
liary troops.

Against one of the most prominent promotors of the resistance,
Zimbawbe, machination after machination was started, economic
blackmail engaged in, and it was also attempted to create in-
ternal unrest in Zimbabwe, in order to cause that country to
leave the group of supporters. There were attempts to develop
the contradictions within this coalition of states, also e.g.
directed against Angola, in that a renewed rebellion by Savimbi
was instigated.


	[COMMENT: Quite correctly does the "Group NEUE EINHEIT"
	here point at certain "secret" machinations by US impe-
	rialism, whose real and criminal nature it also, it
	seems, is repudiating. In reality, this group, under 
	such a "smart" cover, since long is engaging in doing
	some very dirty work precisely for that imperialism. 
	- RM]

At present there are strivings, also African such, for a compro-
mise, since the war is a force-devouring matter. But it is real-
ly very advisable to be on one's guard against the compromise
concepts of these imperialist sharks, who cannot tolerate that
states anywhere are setting up restrictions against their abso-
lute dominance and absolute lawlessness.

Neue Einheit editors
Internet statement 19/99

E-mail: verlag@neue-einheit.com
Internet: http://www.neue-einheit.com

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[So far that "Internet Statement"]

[Continued in "NOC 028". For a note with some addresses i.a. to
websites with information on the DR Congo, see that posting]


[Continued in part 2/3]