A. Wosni wrote: "Obviously there's a misunderstanding. I was not criticozing Nestor bacause he hailed Galtieri's 'antiimperialism'. In fact in the struggle between the bourgeois antiimperialism of an oppressed nation against imperialism me and "my friends belonging to the Trotzkyist ranks" support the oppressed, i.e. in a way that is for lack of a better word traditionally calles 'militarily'. We do this even in the case of such a brutal dictatorship as the Iraqi one."
A.Wosni is not stating the case as it actually was. It is not a matter of the "bourgeois antiimperialism of an oppressed nation" against "imperialism". It is an imperialist power, occupying land of a semi-colonial country, struggling against that semi-colonial country as a whole. This is all that matters from the point of view of the global scenario. Of course, we can also add that reactionary (not necessarily "bourgeois", Galtieri was not exactly a "bourgeois" military leader) leadership will bring about defeat rather than victory for the semicolonial country. But would it be too much to ask our cdes. in the metropolis to help us by stressing the reactionary role of their own bourgeoisies while leaving it to us to struggle against our own reactionaries _in the midst of the objectivelly progressive national war_? A.Wosni goes on: "What I was criticising is that Victor didn't even mention his (maybe secondary) role in the repression of the working class the importance of which he however stresses in his answer below. This is giving political support to a bougeois enemy of the working class, and this is something I can not accept. The fact that Galtieri may be treated unfair by the imperialists who ignore the crimes of others much more guilty than he was does not make his crimes against the workers much smaller, doesn't it?" The same people who were tear gassed in May Square on March 30th (me among them) were supporting Galtieri in May Square on April 2nd (me among them). Politics is always a concrete thing. General Ovando Candia, who nationalized the Bolivian oil company, had been the main leader of the campaign that ended up with the murder of Ernesto Guevara. History in Latin America is very complex. What one must not lose is the red thread, the national question. It is not a matter of "unfair treatment" of Galtieri by the imperialists. It is a matter of sending the Argentineans the following message: "Never rise your head against us again. If we did what we did with such a rogue as Galtieri, can you imagine what we have in our vaults for you?". This is why we don't need to recall Galtieri's crimes, which we know very well. But we need to recall imperialist perversion, which is seldom revealed. Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Aquel que no está orgulloso de su origen no valdrá nunca nada porque empieza por depreciarse a sí mismo". Pedro Albizu Campos, compatriota puertorriqueño de todos los latinoamericanos. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
