This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Maoist Internationalist Movement
This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Free the Cuban Five!

See an official Cuban website for the Cuban Five

We of the Maoist Internationalist Party of Amerika believe that Fidel Castro is one of the handful of most blameworthy individuals in the world for causing the degeneration of the international communist movement, but we believe the "Cuban Five" should go free. They are five Cubans in U.$. prisons sentenced in December 2001 for espionage for terms ranging from 15 years to more than life.

Since before the "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba under President John F. Kennedy, Uncle $am has supported anti-communist Cubans, mostly of the upper classes, in their attacks on Cuba from Miami. The "Bay of Pigs" invasion and more recent attacks by sea and air are not in dispute by the u.$. side.

MIM would like to add that the efforts of the Cuban Five to monitor and disrupt Cuban terrorist activities contributed to the defense of democracy in the united $tates. While it is true that this matter is an internal Cuban one and Uncle $am should if anything side with another government in preventing terrorism to be consistent with its own stated goals, the fact is that the Cuban extremist community in Miami is a violent danger to non-Cubans as well.

The political atmosphere in Miami is such that it is impossible to hold a demonstration, and even a judge noted over 20 police felonies at a single demonstration in November 2003.(1) MIM Notes distributors are arrested for delivering free MIM Notes in Miami as well--a distinction that only Miami held until the Democratic National Convention of 2004.

Before the Cuban Five case came to light, a National Organization of Women (NOW) president Patricia Ireland also pointed out the Cuban violence in Miami destroying democracy in the years that she was there. She noted several bombings in the 1970s aimed at political goals. There was also the assassination of a lawyer who expressed pro-Castro views. One of the basic problems is that the extremist Cuban community intimidated Miami out of democracy long before the current 9/11 furor. So the point is that the problems MIM faces and the anti- Free Trade Area of the America (FTAA) demonstration of November 2003 faced are not new.(2) The permanent u.$. war with Cuba has degraded political conditions inside the united $tates as well.

The Cuban Five are just five patriotic Cubans who should go free.

Notes:
1. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-1220ftaajudge,0,42767.story?coll=sfla-news-miami
2. Patricia Ireland, What Women Want (NY: Penguin Group, 1996), pp. 140-1.