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RjEVOLUTiONARY Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA No. 951 /^/(Vol 19. No 48) April 5. 1998 Editions in English and Spanish published weekly S1.00 WASHINGTON, D. C. ONERS! Fed mshindon, O.C.. March RWOk phcto New People s Army In the Phllippines: Reporl from a GuerrHIa Front Parti: Africa' Benjamin Spocii The NPA Clinton's Colonial and the Roadshow Unruly Generation Page 2—Revolutionary VVtortcer—April 5,1998 Immg^ (AbimaelAs of March Guzman) 29.1998 has Chairman been lield Gonzalo in ^■JH ^ isolation for... |p* 5 Years, 166 Days COME VISIT y In October 1992, Chairman Gonzalo —leader of the Maoist *^2 52^ Communist Party of Peru—was sentenced to life imprisonment by sfyE hooded military judges of the KwJ U.S.-backed regime in Peru. The fascist regime in Peru is holding this The bilingual Internet website of ^ revolutionary leader of the Peruvian ^ people under very brutal conditions the Revolutionary Worker newspaper ^ underground concrete dungeon voice of the 9 at a naval base. He is being denied Revolutionary Communist Party,USA ^ visits by lawyers, doctors and relatives and deprived of proper medical cafe and reading materials. Peru's President Fujimori has publicly threatened to execute Chairman "Information as Weaponry/lnformacion como arma" Gonzalo and boasted of applying psychological torture on him. Fujimori changed Peru's constitution to legalize the death penalty, www.mcs.net/'-rwor which could be used against Chairman Gonzalo and other revolutionary prisoners. The Peruvian regime must be prevented from killing Chairman Gonialo through-the death penalty or by other means. FUNDS ARE NEEDED NOW Fujimori has repeatedly claimed that Chairman Gonzalo has made a call for negotiations from prison. In this situation, what possible to expand the bilingual website of the Revolutionary Worker, excuse can Fujimori now offer for continuing to deny Comrade Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA Gonzalo independent contact with lawyers, doctors and friendly and neutral visitors from outside the prison in a way that meets the basic Your donation will help make possible: international standards for treatment of political prisoners and • Upgrade of web site to accommodate a prisoners of war? It is vitally important for people in Peru and around the world to hear what Chairman Gonzalo's views are from Chairman search engine which will help visitors $100 setup Gonzalo himself—directly and unimpeded. This heightens the urgency locate Information they need on the site + $900/year of the fight to create an international political climate whir^h compels • A registered domain name for an $ 100 the Peruvian government to grant access to Comrade Gonzalo by his legal representatives and other friends who can meet and talk directly easy-to-remember "address" with him. • Faster computers $3,000 Suppoitthe People's War In Peru! • Color scanner $250 Support the Communist Party of Peru! Defend the Life of Chairmari Gonzalo, SEND DONATIONS TO: Fight to Break the Isolation! RW/OR Online, RCP Publications, Box 3486, Chicago, IL 60654 ^ GET THIS ISSUE OF THE RWOiM TO THE PEOPLE! To order bundles, contact the RCP Publications Public Relations Office This office provides a coordinating and organizing center that assists in expanding and • To send clippings or reports about signficant struggles, national conferences, and giving more national prominence to key fronts of the Revolutionary Communist Party's other developments in your area. We encourage people to contact us about the work and promotion. You shouid contact this office; overall battle against repression and against legal and politicai attacks on the RCP. • To arrange a radio or TV interview or a pubiic appearance with one of the RCP • To arrange to contact an RWcorrespondent Pubiications national spokespeopie. • To volunteer to assist with the office's activities, including media work, literature • To order copies of the Revolutionajy Worker or other RCP Publications literature for promotion and distribution, the Prisoners' Revolutionary Literature Fund, Spanish distribution. translation, and the design and production of materials. RCP Publications Public Relations Office, P.O. Box 3486, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654 Phone: (773) 227-4066 FAX: (773) 227-4497 MUCH MONEY IS NEEDED NOW TO STEP UP RIVCOVERAGE, DISTRIBUTION AND THE WORK OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE Send checks or money order marked for" RWReporters Emergency Travel Fund" or "RCP Publications Pubiic Relations." 2)'Many different groups will protest and rebel This Party has the vision, the program, the against things this sysfem does, and these leadership, and the organizational principles to Three Main Points protests and rebellions should be supported and unite those who must be united and enable them strengthened. Yet it is only those with nothing to by Bob Avakian to do what must be done. There is a challenge lose but their chains who can be the backbone of Chairman of the RCP,USA for all those who would like to see such a a struggle to actually overthrow this system and revolution, those with a burning desire to see a What do we in the Revolutionary Communist Party create a new system that will put an end to drastic change for the better, all those who dare want people to learn from all that is exposed and exploitation and help pave the way to a whole to dream and to act to bring about a completely revealed in this newspaper? Mainly, three things: new world. new and better world: Support this Party, join 1) The whole system we now live under is based 3) Such a revolutionary struggle is possible. this Party, spread its message and its organized on exploitation— here and all over the world. It There is a political Party that can lead such a strength, and prepare the ground for a is completely worthless and no basic change for struggle, a political Party that speaks and acts revolutionary rising that has a solid basis and a the better can come about until this system is for those with nothing to lose but their chains: real chance of winning. overthrown. The Revolutionary Communist Party. USA. Contact the Revolutionary Worker SUBSCRIBE NOW! Box 3486, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654 I want to subscribe to the Revolutionary Worker/Obrero Revoludonario. In your area call or write: California: □ Bill me later □ One year—$40 Lo3 Angeles; c/o Llbros Revoluclbn, 312 W. 8th Slroel. Los Angeles, CA 90014 213/488-1303 San Francisco: Vtfalch the RWfor new location. □ a months—$12 □ 1 year, U.S. institution—$52 Berkeley: c/o Revolution Books, 2425C Channlng V\,by, Berkeley. CA 94704 510/846-1196 Florida: Rovolullonafy Worker, P.O. Box 016065. 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And, in an addi tional outrage, their very existence is denied by the government of the United States. "We have no political prisoners," the U.S. rulers say—^whiJe their judges and jailers and parole boards slam the thick m steel prison doors on dozens and dozens of It men and women who are held for their beliefs and actions in the cause of libera tion.
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