I find Anak Perelih's criticism of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe disgusting.

Robert Mugabe s call for workers to go on a three-day general strike in the capital Harare which the MDC controls and this strongly suggests that the council is controlled by people pursuing their own agendas, rather than serving the interests of the workers and peasants in Zimbabwe.

Furthermore, Tsvangirai and his MDC have the support of Western imperialist powers including Britain and the United States which along with international speculator George Soros have come out against the electoral victory of Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party and which question the integrity of the Zimbabwe people's decision. So much for their respect for bourgeois-democratic elections.

In its March 20 article Continued Western threats against Zimbabwe in The Guardian , newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia said, "The victory of Robert Mugabe in the Zimbabwe elections has not brought an end to the virulent campaign aimed to bring his government down and replace him with a pro-colonialist regime in the form of the Movement for Democratic Change.

"The mass media and Australia's 'election observers' have continued to use the most emotive language lie sheets (i.e. media), governments and NGOs are so opposed to President Robert Mugabe and the Zanu PF party and with western, especially US-imperialism on an imperialist rampage in Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Philippines and elsewhere, they will only get bolder and more aggressive in pursuing their imperialist neo-colonial objectives.

Meanwhile, according to The Herald (a Harare paper), Prof Moyo, Zimbabwe minister of state for information and publicity criticised the MDC's hypocrisy when they accepted the results of the Harare and Chitungwiza mayoral elections which went in their favour, but refused to accept the result of the presidential poll which did not.

"They have been spoiled by foreigners to think that democracy means that we should keep holding elections until they win. The notion that an election is democratic only if the MDC or Tsvangirai wins is horribly foolish," Moyo said.

"They know we lost the referendum in February 2000 and accepted the results. They know we lost 56 seats in the June 2000 parliamentary elections and accepted the results. They know we lost the mayoral election and some council elections in Bulawayo last year and accepted the results.

"They know we lost the mayoral election in Masvingo and accepted the results. They know we lost the mayorship of Chegutu and accepted the results. They know we lost the mayoral election in Chitungwiza and accepted the results. We have lost the Harare mayoral and council elections, except in one ward, and have accepted the results.

"The MDC is in control of Harare. Harare is in Zimbabwe and it's the capital of government. Surely we want to engage them in dialogue and make sure that those elected to run Harare do so on behalf of the people and that they don't shortchange them.

"Why are they not talking of having a re-election for the mayor of Harare or councillors? Its because they know the elections were free and fair. They say their stronghold is Harare. Our stronghold is Zimbabwe and that's why we won the Presidential election," Moyo concluded.

Meanwhile, I haven't seen any Malaysian newspapers carrying these reports, since for international news, they usually regurgitate syndicated rubbish from western imperialist news sources, so it's not surprising that Anak Perelih holds such views about President Mugabe.

Also, pro-western NGOs and Trotskyite parties like the Democratic Socialist Party in Australia and the International Socialist Organisation support Tsvangirai and his MDC, thus serving imperialism from the left, as the Trotskyites have always done in the past, and the Trotskyites in Australia have managed to extend their influence among unprincipled left political groups and NGOs in Southeast Asia.