The CIA murder of Ernesto Che Guevara

This month’s fortieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara has revealed an enormous and growing interest in his life and its meaning. In response, we are reprinting the following article published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary, in 1997, in the Revolutionary Worker, the newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, since succeeded by Revolution (www.revcom.us). While a decade-old article of such a sweeping character may not fully reflect developments in the party’s thinking today, it helps fill a need that has become even more urgent now.
Thirty years ago, on 8 October 1967, gunfire echoed through a steep ravine of the Andes Mountains in southern Bolivia. The guerrilla band led by Ernesto “Che” Guevara was pinned down and surrounded by Bolivian Army Rangers. Less than a year earlier, Guevara and a team of cadres had secretly travelled from Cuba to Bolivia to launch a guerrilla war, hoping to topple Bolivia’s pro-U.S. military government. Guevara had gone up into the mountains with about 50 supporters. Within months they were discovered by Bolivian troops. And an intense pursuit started. Trying to escape the government forces, Guevara divided his supporters into two groups, and was never able to reunite them. His diary records that, by late August, his group was exhausted, demoralized and down to 22 men. On 31 August the other group was ambushed and wiped out crossing a river.On 26 September, Bolivian army units ambushed Che’s remaining forces near the isolated mountain huts of La Higuera. The guerrillas found no way out of the encirclement. Several died in the shooting. Guevara himself was wounded in the leg. He and two other fighters were captured on 8 October and taken to an old one-room schoolhouse in La Higuera.The next day, 9 October, a helicopter flew in a man called “Felix Ramos” who wore the uniform of a Bolivian officer. “Ramos” took charge of the prisoner. Two hours later, Che Guevara and both other guerrillas were executed in cold blood. A look around the peasant village of La Higuera that day would have left no doubt who was responsible.The U.S. handThe weapons and equipment of the killers were “Made in the U.S.A”. The Bolivian officer who took Guevara prisoner had been trained at Fort Bragg – at a U.S. school for army coups, murder and counterinsurgency. And the man in charge at the scene, “Captain Ramos”, was a veteran CIA field agent, Felix Rodriguez. …………

भूल सुधार

हमने कुछ दिन पहले नरेश सक्सेना की कविता जिंदा लोग इस ब्लॉग मे प्रेषित की थी इस कविता को देने मे हमसे कुछ भूलें हो गई थी. इसके कुछ अंश छूट गए थे.हमने अब उन अंशों के साथ कविता को फ़िर से सही रूप मे प्रेषित कर दिया है.
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ज़िन्दा लोग

नरेश सक्सेना

ज़िन्दा लोग ज्यादा देर इन्तज़ार नहीं करते
इन्तज़ार तो लाशें भी नहीं करती
एक दिन
हद से हद दो
बस
उसके बाद तो वे हवा में उड़ने लगती हैं
पीछा करती घेरती सीने पर हो जाती हैं सवार
वसूल कर लेती हैं
अपने सब जायज़ नाजायज़ हकों को
लाशों को हम से ज़्यादा हवा चाहिए
उन्हें हम से ज़्यादा पानी चाहिए
उन्हें हम से ज़्यादा बर्फ चाहिए
उन्हें हम से ज़्यादा आग चाहिए
उन्हें चाहिए इतिहास मे हम से ज़्यादा जगह
इससे पहले कि वे घेर लें सारी जगह
मैं कहता हूँ कि
इन्तज़ार करती होंगी नदिया बारिश का वर्ष भर
बसन्त का इन्तज़ार करते होंगे वृक्ष
लेकिन लोग
जिंदा लोग ज़्यादा देर इन्तज़ार नहीं करते
मुश्किलें मुसीबतें और मौत तो आती ही हैं
इससे पहले की कोई संकट उन्हें चुने
वे चुन लेते हैं
अपना मनचाहा संकट
वे चुन लेते हैं अपने मरने की सही जगह और वक़्त
बार बार नही मरते जिंदा लोग
ज्यादा देर इंतजार नहीं करते

Nepal constituent assembly elections suspended amid turmoil

A World to Win News Service.

With the indefinite postponement of the elections for a Constituent Assembly, the political crisis that began when the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) walked out of the interim government in September has sharply intensified.

The election of a Constituent Assembly to decide the country’s form of government and the future of the monarchy was the centrepiece of the November 2006 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. That agreement brought a ceasefire in the people’s war and eventually took CPN(M) into an interim government in early 2007. Originally the election was expected shortly after that. Eventually it was scheduled for last June and then postponed until 22 November. This date, too, fell by the wayside in early October when the CPN(M) put forward two demands: that the monarchy be abolished immediately, before the election of the Constituent Assembly, and that elections to that Assembly be held on a proportional basis to ensure the representation of the country’s oppressed nationalities and others. While the party expressed its wish that the CA be held on time, it said unless a “special session of parliament takes a decision on the declaration of a republic and a fully proportional election procedure,” holding an election on 22 November would be impossible.

The party’s decision to take this path came at its Fifth Expanded Central Committee meeting in August. In September its ministers resigned from the government. At a mass rally held in Kathmandu, a CPN(M) leader declared, “We will struggle for the purpose of having a real election, not this hypocritical drama.” “We will not accept the code of conduct announced by the election commission and we will disrupt all ongoing election plans,” Baburam Bhattarai told the mass demonstration. “We will launch peaceful protests, but we have the right to counter those who try to suppress our peaceful programme.”

Most political figures in Nepal recognized that the elections – at least thoroughly nationwide elections widely seen as legitimate – could not be held in the face of this kind of opposition. On 5 October, the CPN(M) and the parties active in the former parliament under the monarchy jointly asked the Prime Minister to put off the election until an as-yet unspecified date.

Then Nepal’s House of Parliament convened a special session to consider the CPN(M)’s two demands. The Nepali Congress Party, the dominant political party in recent Nepali history, its two rival wings now reunited, said it would agree to the abolition of the monarchy, but only after the CA election, and that it would not accept proportional representation. The UML (Communist Party of Nepal United Marxist-Leninist), the other leading parliamentary party, called for a compromise: declaring a republic (and therefore the end of the monarchy) immediately, but leaving the declaration’s implementation until the election of the CA. The session was suspended for several days for negotiations. They evidently ended in an impasse, because when parliament reconvened, after only three minutes it again adjourned until 29 October, after the end of Nepal’s religious festival season.

In other words, with the country “at the frontier of a big revolutionary possibility and an awful accident”, as CPN(M) Chairman Prachanda said in his report on the August meeting (www.cpnm.org), a parliament that has done very little in its existence thought it best to do absolutely nothing, because any decisive decisions and changes in the basic political scenario are going to be made elsewhere.

Some observers conclude that one way out is an army coup – either openly in favour of the king or in the more neutral guise of restoring “stability”. BBC, for instance, opines, “The king’s standing, from a position of rock-bottom unpopularity, is beginning to pick up… Many people [presumably this includes important members of the British ruling class BBC executives represent] have begun to talk about Nepal entering an era of either ultra-right (military or military-backed) or ultraleftist (Maoist) dictatorship. They are not ruling out bloodshed between the army and the Maoists, who have concentrated a large number of their members in Kathmandu… [A] final showdown between the army and the Maoists in Kathmandu is more likely than ever.” …………

On Stalin

Some months before we posted an excellent article of Joseph Ball “Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?” the article was very much appreciated by our readers. it countered the propaganda of western imperialists on the roll of Mao.we asked Mr Joseph if he had done similar work on Stalin.he replied us through mail as following.

Dear Parisar
I have researched the issue of Stalin. I’m not convinced by the so-called ‘archival’ evidence that Stalin had so many executed in the Purges. This evidence seems to have emerged during political campaigns by Khruschev, Gorbachov and Yeltsin against Stalin’s legacy (e.g. Khruschev circulated archival ‘evidence’ that Stalin had killed such large numbers when he was fighting his power struggle against those perceived to be more pro-Stalin). However, I am not in a position to come up with anything definitive about this, as I don’t speak Russian and can’t go through the archives. (One person who can-the academic Grover Furr has pointed out that some of the documents found in the Russian archives are falsified-though he has not tried to authenticate the documents I am mainly discussing.) What I am in the process of doing is addressing some questions to (the less right-wing) Russian archival researchers. I hope to publish an article about this next year.

Needless to say whatever the status of different documents in the archives this business of Stalin having murdered millions is rubbish and there was never any evidence for it. We are challenging the notion that he was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths as he prepared the country for a war against imperialism and Fascism that led to the deaths of tens of millions of Soviet citizens and would have led to the complete enslavement of the rest, not to speak of the destruction of world civilisation-but for the Soviet peoples victory against Germany.
Best Joseph.

Communist Party of Pakistan to launch armed struggle

Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) has decided and announced publicly that it would launch arms struggle against the Government, if Martial Law is now imposed by the Army and General Musharraf in Pakistan.

This was stated in a policy statement by the Central Chairman of the Communist Party of Pakistan, Engineer Jameel Ahmad Malik here today.

He said that if the Army and General Pervaz Musharraf would follow unconstitutional steps by imposing Martial Law in the country in the coming days, the Communist Party would then leave the path of democratic norms and would resist the Martial Law tooth and nail by launching arms struggle against the Martial Law in whole of Pakistan.

The CPP Chairman vehemently stressed and said that the Army and General Musharraf, who are ruling this country on one pretext or the others for almost 35 years out of 60 years since independence of Pakistan from British Empire in 1947, has now in fact lost the credibility in the eyes of the down trodden and poor masses of Pakistan.

They are now ruling the country with the help of elites and those politicians, who are in fact traders and ‘turn coats’ politicians, for whom people have no respect for them at all.

The turn coats politicians like the President Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Federal Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad and others, who are supporting Military regimes and General Musharraf are warning the public that if the Supreme Court gives an anti judgment concerning the controversial Presidential election of General Musharraf, martial law would be imposed in Pakistan.

In fact by such like statements, they want to pressurize the Supreme Court of Pakistan for deciding the Musharraf’s case in his favour keeping the law of necessity. It is a message to Supreme Court by them not to decide the Justice (Retd) Wajid-ud-din Ahmad petition’s against General Musharraf on merits.

Engineer Jameel requested the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of such contemptuous statements by Federal Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad and others immediately.

CPP fully supports the armed struggle launched by the communists in various countries of the world. Engineer Jameel said that the arms struggle by the communists in Nepal against the monarchy is near to end now and the communists will soon over throw the monarchy for ever in Nepal.

Bizarre Exchange Between Oliver Kamm And Joseph Ball

Press Release

Prominent New Labour supporter and author Oliver Kamm has recently been involved in a bizarre email exchange with pro-Mao author Joseph Ball, which included allegations from Oliver Kamm that Ball had threatened to sue him for libel. Extracts from this email exchange have been published on Oliver Kamm’s blog. Joseph Ball is the writer of the article ‘Did Mao Really Kill Millions In The Great Leap Forward?’, which was published in the ‘Commentary’ section of the US published Monthly Review
magazine’s website (www.monthlyreview.org). Oliver Kamm compared Ball’s article to the work of the racist, holocaust denier David Irving .

Oliver Kamm describes himself as ‘an author, columnist and banker’. He writes regularly for The Times and The Guardian. He wrote Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy, which was published in 2005. He has worked at the Bank of England, HSBC Securities and Commerzbank Securities, and is a founder of an asset management and advisory firm, WMG Advisors LLP, based in London.

Kamm has devoted a surprising amount of time and column inches on his blog to attacks on the hitherto little known, left-wing writer Joseph Ball. Initially tempers were heated on both sides during the exchanges. However, Kamm continued to send bitter e-mails even after Ball had asked Oliver to send him no more e-mails unless they had ‘a proper purpose’.

Kamm has attempted to represent the exchange as an attempt to defend himself from the threat of a libel writ, despite publishing extracts from Ball’s e-mails on his blog that seemed to indicate that Ball had never planned to issue a writ. …………..

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