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April 15, 2002, Nº 256

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LOS ANGELES

Around three thousand people marched

here on March 30 to celebrate the

Palestinian day of the land and protest

the current Israeli offensive into

Palestinian territory. The boisterous

crowd waved hundreds of Palestinian

flags and chanted slogans, such as "Israel

out of Palestine now!" and "Sharon,

Bush, you will see; Palestine will soon

be free."

On the same day, U.$. Secretary of

State Colin Powell called on Palestinian

President Arafat to "do more to combat

terrorism"-- even though Israeli troops

had invaded and destroyed most of his

office compound the day before, cutting

off electricity and phone services. As

Powell well knew, Arafat couldn't have

ordered a pizza, let alone carried out a

complex political and military campaign

against so-called "terrorists." Powell was

just playing his role in a very old piece

of political theater: Claim the

Palestinians and/or Arab states are

unwilling to negotiate in order to cover

up the fact that the United $tates and

Thousands support Palestinian self-determination

Israel are unwilling to make peace -- by

ending Israeli occupation of the West

Bank and Gaza Strip.(1)

[President Bush and Powell initially

openly supported Israel's recent bloody

invasion of Palestinian territories. By the

end of the first week in April they called

the invasion "understandable" but "ill-

advised" -- without actually calling for

Israel to withdraw. This is another

hackneyed piece of theater. The United

$tates maintains the high ground calling

for peace negotiations while Israel makes

the outcome of those "negotiations" a fait

accompli by taking what it wants or

smashing any practical opposition.

Sharon said as much publicly, several

weeks before the most recent offensive,

on March 4. "If the Palestinians are not

being beaten, there will be no

negotiations." He went on, "The aim is

to increase the number of losses on the

other side. Only after they've been

battered will we be able to conduct talks."

Or, as the New York Times put it:

"Israeli officials were openly taking

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's

schedule for his emergency Middle East

trip as giving them a grace period of at

least a week to finish what they began...

"`We are finishing the operation we

started,' said Defense Minister Binyamin

Ben-Eliezer.(4)]

There was a strong international

presence at the rally. Several MIM

supporters talked at length with an

Palestinian flags blanket Westwood as the march passes near UCLA.

As we celebrate the 33rd anniversary

of the New People's Army, U.$.

imperialism is expanding its presence in

the Philippines, aided by the toady Gloria

Macapagal-Arroyo regime. 1,000 U.$.

troops arrived in January for the

Balikatan joint exercises; another 1,700

are now on their way, under the rubric of

"Operation Enduring Freedom."

The original excuse for sending U.$.

troops to the Philippines was to help the

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)

root out the Abu Sayaaf gang. Yet

Balikatan exercises are taking place in

at least ten different locations throughout

the Philippines while Abu Sayyaf exists

only on the small island of Basilan. This

is not to mention that 6,000 Philippine

troops have so far been sent out against

the 300 of the Abu Sayyaf. The problem

is not a lack of personnel, guns or know-

how, but of will on the part of the armed

forces. As the Kilusang Mayo Uno

writes: "the primordial issue of collusion

among military officials, local

politicians, self-styled negotiators and the

Abu Sayyaf has yet to be resolved."

Corruption within the AFP makes it ripe

for payoffs and utterly incompetent at

fighting even the smallest of enemies.

Troops deployed across Philippines

in name of "war on terror"

U$A and puppet regime attack

Philippine sovereignty

Philippine Air Force pilots have as

much as admitted that their own presence

on so-called training flights with the

Amerikans is a cover for Amerikan

operations. One official called joint

flights in the Amerikan planes "joy

rides," while a pilot complained that he

is not being trained but is only a

passenger in the operations. A

representative from the progressive

electoral party Bayan Muna was more

direct. He pointed out that if the Filipinos

never get trained, the two governments

can continue to claim that there is a need

for training and use this as an excuse to

keep U.$. troops in the country

indefinitely.

The Philippine constitution states that

foreign troops cannot fight on Philippine

soil, so the GMA regime called the

Balikatan ("shoulder-to-shoulder")

exercises a "training program" and U.$.

troops "advisors."

In an effort to distract attention from

her own illegal activities and the

military's disregard for law, Macapagal-

Arroyo has made much to-do over a

string of bombings throughout the urban

areas of the Philippines. The government

Amerikkka, the

wise warrior: not!

Pornography

creates

Dumbocracy

Bourgeois

media analysis

by PIRAO chief

oing to the newstands, we noticed that "Maxim" hit it big

recently and that womyn's magazine "Mademoiselle" folded

to be replaced by other manifestations of the same monopoly

capitalist corporation. Social scientists will have to examine it, but

we suspect that since September 11, 2001, the faces on the magazine

covers have been even more Aryan than usual and magazine covers

that did not have to have female models on them, now do.

Our readers may think MIM is out of touch with what Amerikkkans

want. Quite the contrary, MIM knows very well what Amerikkkans

want, and what they want is the problem. That's why MIM has kept a

careful eye on the magazine stands everywhere -- at the 7/11, the

supermarket, the CVS, the Osco Drug, Walmarts etc.

"Good Housekeeping" magazine has to have a model on the cover

to compete with the other magazine covers sporting the typical breasts-

and-up head shot. Moreover, we noticed that the magazine about men's

fashion "GQ" even seems to run wimmin on the cover sometimes.

What "Maxim" has done seems to be a business coup -- fill a new

niche with old material. For a long time we have known that the

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 2

MIM Notes

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What is MIM?

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is the collection of existing or emerging

Maoist internationalist parties in the English-speaking imperialist countries and their English-

speaking internal semi-colonies, as well as the existing or emerging Maoist Internationalist
parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking
Maoist Internationalist parties of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the U.$. Empire.

MIM Notes is the newspaper of MIM. Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-speaking
parties or emerging parties of MIM. MIM upholds the revolutionary communist ideology
of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and is an internationalist organization that works from the

vantage point of the Third World proletariat. MIM struggles to end the oppression of all
groups over other groups: classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possibly by
building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Revolution is a reality for

North America as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to
maintain world hegemony. MIM differs from other communist parties on three main
questions: (1) MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution, the

potential exists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within
the communist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the
death of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's death and the overthrow of the "Gang

of Four" in 1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural Revolution as the farthest advance
of communism in humyn history. (3) As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM has
reiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the Third

World and in part uses this wealth to buy off whole populations of oppressor nation so-
called workers. These so-called workers bought off by imperialism form a new petty-
bourgeoisie called the labor aristocracy. These classes are not the principal vehicles to

advance Maoism within those countries because their standards of living depend on
imperialism. At this time, imperialist super-profits create this situation in the Canada, Quebec,
the United $tates, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland,

Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and Denmark. MIM accepts people as
members who agree on these basic principles and accept democratic centralism, the system
of majority rule, on other questions of party line.

"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should

regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of
learning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution."

- Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208.

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Turning a bad thing
into a good thing

CAU$E expands anti-imperialist
work after 9/11

MIM comrades,

Revolutionary greetings! A CAU$E

[Coalition to Abolish the U.$. Empire]

comrade here. Wanted to send you a letter

after reading the most recent MIM Notes.

First, let me sum up our experiences

with anti-war organizing since 9-11... We

hit the streets the weekend after 9-11 with

anti-war leaflets in hand. The only other

group in town with as much rapid

response was the Catholic Worker

community. We then leafleted a different

neighborhood every other weekend until

a lot of our student members left town

on winter break. We never picked that

practice back up again when they came

back because we went into other projects.

People were not as hostile-and a lot

more willing to take our leaflets than we

expected. Yes, we'd say a majority were

pro-war, but not nearly as high as

corporate news polls were reporting;

we'd say 75-25% in favor rather than 95-

5%. Also, when we began to kick some

facts about U$ intervention in Arab,

Muslim and South Asian nations, a lot

of people were like "Oh, well, I didn't

know that. Maybe there's some basis to

people wanting to attack us." Of course,

there were those who said we should be

executed for treason and others who said

the U$ got what it deserved.

We were invited to send speakers to

forums on three different college

campuses. People responded so well to

the first forum we attended that our

numbers have doubled, and all those who

jumped on are very consistent in their

practices It is so good to have more

comrades to bear the work that so few

were doing before.

Most of the new members are

university students. Our focus on U$

imperialism as the world's greatest evil

and national oppression as the principal

contradiction (as opposed to the notion

that 1st & 3rd world workers are in the

same class) is what drew them to us,

which is a testament to MIM's line on

labor aristocracy. [CAU$E is not

officially affiliated with MIM like RAIL

or SLALA, but CAU$E leaders are

openly influenced by MIM and help with

MIM projects, such as distributing MIM

Notes.]

It the new year, we've focused on doing

solidarity actions with the Palestinian

intifadah and against extending this war

into new countries, especially Somalia.

We've been leafleting outside of

"Black Hawk Down" (with our own

flyer). There has been no hostile reaction,

most people will accept a flyer, and

people read most of it while they're

waiting for their tickets or the show to

start. We've been trying to get the Somali

community involved in the leafleting, but

with no success. However, a few Somalis

have agreed to go with us to senators and

reps offices to tell their staff why our so-

called representatives should not support

the U$ going to war with Somalia again.

If the reps disagree, then they give us a

good place to picket.

That's all on the anti-war front. There

is a question we want to pose to you: how

come we haven't seen any of the left

papers (MIM RCP, WWP, Natibn,

Progressive, and others) talk about all the

evidence of an "inside job" (U$

intelligence agencies involvement) on 9-

11?

We'd assume that you're as familiar

with the evidence as we are, and it keeps

piling up. If you're not familiar with it,

tell us so by e-mail and we'll send you

the web links.

The CAU$E line on this since day 1

has been: 1) it's just as or even more

plausible than the official explanation,,

2) you don't have to accept the "inside

job/conspiracy" theory to be anti-war, but

3) accepting it as hypothesis: a) answers

a whole lot of unanswerable questions

about the official explanation and b) will

eventually create more anti-Americans

within AmeriKKKa because it shows that

the ruling class of this nation is so

consumed with power and greed that it

has no loyalty to this nation, so neither

should the masses (even if they are labor

aristocrats). In other words, the

conspiracy theory could radicalize a good

portion of the otherwise complacent

white majority like Vietnam did. Not to

suggest by any means that this theory is

a "silver bullet."

Anyway, there are a lot of other things

we could tell you about, too. One is that

the local ACLU is fighting the local cops

on our behalf to uphold our right to

distribute anti-militarist lit in front of

military recruiters at the big July 4th

military-industrial, entertainment state

spectacle. We got threatened with arrest

last year (we left rather than be arrested),

and one of us was arrested the year before

on bogus charges (they actually charged

h. with violation of a national parks code

regulation even though we were on city

property, something we didn't realize

until after h plead guilty just to get the

fucking mess over with)

Unite all who can be united to smash

imperialism!

-- a CAU$E comrade

Continued on page 7...

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 3

MIM Notes has seen a big spike in

circulation since the "war on
terrorism" began. It's not surprising:
MIM Notes is a free and independent

newspaper. Yes, there are especially
now knee-jerk patriots who believe
everything Bush says and pass by a

chance to read MIM Notes. There are
other patriots and internationalists
who realize that at this time papers

like MIM Notes can undo the huge
spectacle that Uncle Sam is creating
for its own benefit.

Sure, you have seen MIM Notes

around, but MIM Notes needs people
to do two simple things: 1) Pay for it

(postage and printing), 2) Distribute
it!

MIM is looking for sponsors,

distributors and officers. Sponsors pay
for papers; distributors get them onto
the streets and officers do both

distribution and financial support.

Distribute # Cost per year

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100

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$2,200

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places to do distribution, we suggest
starting at 200 and working your way
up higher. If you are not willing to do

distribution, just send money. If you
are not willing to pay, then request
papers after somehow proving to the

party that you are serious (words
won't count). You who will cough up/
raise the money to distribute 900

papers each issue and then do the
distribution, you are what drives this
party forward.

A call for MIM Notes

sponsors and distributors!

Make anonymous money orders payable to "MIM." Send to MIM,

attn: Camb. branch, PO Box 400559, Cambridge, MA 02140. Contact

MIM in regards to this campaign by writing mim3@mim.org

by bosmim@mim.org

March 30, 2002

Massachusetts spends $1.3 billion a

year on "public safety," which means

incarceration. That excludes money for

the judiciary branch of government and

child protective services and other

aspects of "criminal law enforcement."

Yet, MIM attempted to interview 8

candidates for Massachusetts governor,

and none had anything to say about

censorship and literacy in Massachusetts

prisons.

Often times people ask MIM why we

do not just use our knowledge of politics

to lobby the government or run for office

ourselves. Although thousands of people

in Massachusetts read MIM Notes every

week, all the candidates felt they could

dodge the questions we asked. That in

itself is an important lesson in power and

politics to absorb.

Roughly half the budget goes to

health-- tobacco and other sources of

money that goes to stopping smoking and

addressing various health ills. Not all

states have such a huge medical complex

in their state budget. There is money for

Medicaid, AIDS and the like. Then

another quarter of the budget goes to

education. Finally, in Massachusetts,

prisons are the third largest item overall.

However, not a single candidate for

governor includes prison conditions in

his or her in-depth web page discussions

of "issues," with the exception of the

sensational "death penalty."

On March 20th, we sent the Democrats

and Republicans the following questions

and asked for answers by March 28th. By

the end of the 29th, none had answered.

Our letter

March 20, 2002

Dear Mitt Romney, Robert Reich,

Shannon O'Brien, Tom Birmigham,

Warren Tolman & Steve Grossman:

Hello, we seek to interview you about

prison conditions in Massachusetts. We

are MIM Notes, a newspaper of a

communist party that does not endorse

candidates or run for state or national

office. We have an especially strong

readership in Massachusetts in the

thousands.

We will be interviewing the candidates

for governor in three parts. This part is

about censorship in prisons. We

guarantee to print in MIM Notes each

candidate up to 2000 characters (possibly

more at our discretion) verbatim and

unedited. We guarantee to run all

comments written in full on our

website--verbatim. Unlike the Boston

Globe and other major papers, we prefer

unfiltered and uncut quotes. We regularly

print and run unfiltered denunciations of

Dodging prison condition questions

Candidates: answer the questions!

Continued on page 7...

The grueling and brutal death fast in

Turkish prisons continues in order to

protest changes in F-type prisons that

prisoners see as isolating prisoners in

order to arrange their assassination. MIM

received the following report:

"The DHKP-C prisoner Dogan

Tokmak was martyred this evening

(March 15, 2002) at 2100. Dogan

Tokmak had been removed to Sisli Etfal

Hospital (in Istanbul) two days

previously for forcible medical

intervention when his condition

worsened. A member of the 5th Death

Fast Team, Dogan Tokmak was

imprisoned in Kandira F-Type. Dogan

Tokmak is the 88th martyr of the

resistance which started on October 20,

2000. (Translated from a report on the

website of Halkin Sesi (Voice of the

People) television)"

The Turkish people face a semi-feudal

and semi-colonial regime that serves as

the U.$. imperialists willing lackey and

which represses the Kurdish people's

national aspirations. Real Maoists

conducting People's War exist in Turkey

and support the Cultural Revolution in

China (1966 to 1976) just like MIM

does.

Turkish prison death fast continues

New PIRAO campaigns on several

fronts are in motion. MIM Notes

circulation and web readership are still

up since September 11th. Current

experiments are aimed at figuring out how

much money and in what places it is best

to spend money to increase MIM

readership on a regular basis.

MIM studies what works and does not

work without sacrificing radicalism.

However, MIM would like to stress to

those who think they are more "moderate"

that it benefits all progressive causes to

have a large MIM presence. A movement

can only seem "moderate" next to

something that is not.

One thing for sure: MIM is more

effective than most organizations. Ross

Perot proved that if you want to change

public opinion in Amerikkka, you have

to pay for it, but the question is how much.

PIRAO campaigns move forward

The environmental movement spends $9

billion a year with little result because

of its apolitical and cross-cancelling

nature. MIM is much more directed and

if you manage to send $9 billion to MIM,

you can be sure a whole lot of earth-

shaking and change is on the way.

If you or anyone you know would like

to fund a MIM advertisement in your

favorite place, contact, mim3@mim.org,

the Web Minister. Instructions on how

to send secret messages appear at: http:/

/www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/faq/

security.html

If you have an ad in mind send it along,

or if you just want to send money, and

let MIM spend it, send anonymous

money orders to MIM, PO Box 290670,

Los Angeles, CA 90029. Keep the money

order stub for yourself.

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Another area we are working on is research on psychics. If you stopped paying

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MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 4

has drummed up the idea that these

bombings are making the climate unsafe

for the corruption trial of ex-President

Joseph Estrada, and is talking of moving

the trial, possibly out of the country.

There has even been an effort to create

an anthrax-esque hysteria, publicizing

that some "imported blue powder" was

found in some of the bombs. The story is

that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,

the New People's Army, or the

previously-unheard-of Federal

Indigenous Army is responsible for the

bombings. This publicity is only part of

the government's campaign to discredit

the revolutionary elements by associating

them with questionable organizations and

accusing them of random acts of

violence.

On March 28, the body of a regional

Bayan Muna leader was found dead near

a Philippine Army camp. This was the

leader for Isabela province, the fourth

largest in the Philippines. There is a clear

attack on the legal national democratic

movement. Nor can there be any

confusion about the true fascist

tendencies of the Macapagal-Arroyo

government and its eagerness to subvert

the will of the Filipino people at the

behest of Amerikan imperialism. Just as

the U.$.-Macapagal-Arroyo regime is

violating the terms of its peace talks with

the National Democratic Front (see

accompanying statement, "NDFP

Condemns GRP"), it is betraying every

democratic principle that it claims to

uphold.

Under the ideals of a bourgeois

democracy the rights of such a party's

leaders to organize, raise money and

agitate would be vigorously defended.

Indeed President Bush's claim that the

September 11 bombings were an attack

on Amerikan freedoms has become the

battle cry for all-out war in Afghanistan,

and any other country whose leaders will

not uphold the neo-colonial line. The

united snakes and its allies are supposed

to be fighting to spread basic civil

liberties around the world, right? But

Amerikan liberties are nestled closely

beside their opposite: poverty and

repression in the Philippines and

throughout the Third World. The

freedoms we enjoy here -- like eating

fresh pineapples in January -- are

purchased with the blood of the

oppressed.

The National Democratic Front of the

Philippines and its member and allied

organizations have been leading a

vigorous protest movement against the

illegal incursion of U.$. troops. Patriotic

groups in the Philippines "view the

arrival of American troops and Balikatan

as direct assaults on the national

sovereignty and territorial integrity of the

Filipino people." MIM calls on all people

in this country who uphold genuine

freedom and democracy to join us in

opposition to this latest attack on the right

to self-determination for the people of the

Philippines.

U.$. troops out of the Philippines!

Sources: "Protests welcome US troops,"
Correspondence (publication of the Kilusang
Mayo Uno (KMU)), November 2001-February
2002; "Grumblings surface during `Balikatan',"
Inquirer News Service 3 Feb. 2002 http://
www.inq7.net/nat/2002/feb/04/nat_2-1.htm

Troops deployed across Philippines in name of "war on terror"

U$A and puppet regime attack Philippine sovereignty

Continued from page 1...

The Maoist Internationalist Movement

(MIM) hails the 33rd anniversary of the

founding of the New People's Army. On
March 29, 1969 the Communist Party of

the Philippines organized the NPA with

60 Red fighters and scarcely enough guns
for all. Now the NPA has grown to

thousands of full-time guerrilla fighters

with automatic rifles. Its efforts are also
supported by the more numerous forces

of local guerrillas, militia and self-

defense units.

Under the leadership of the CPP and

the general line of New Democratic

Revolution, the NPA is waging a
protracted People's War to expel

imperialism from the Philippines. The

NPA is a model of revolutionary self-
sufficiency. Comrade Jose Maria Sison

has called the NPA the "mainstay of the

people's democratic state system" and

describes its tasks as turning "the most
backward areas in the countryside into

the most advanced political, military,

economic and cultural bastions of the
revolution." This people's army builds

its strength and influence by pursuing a

program of genuine land reform and
undertaking mass health and educational

work. The Filipino people have come to

cherish the NPA and to learn through its
work the continuing relevance of

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as a weapon

for their own liberation.

For comrades in the semi-feudal and

semi-colonial countries, the NPA is an

example that their own national
conditions are ripe for the development

of armed struggle under the leadership

of a Maoist party. These comrades share

the confidence that when foreign
imperialism is vanquished, the people can

rally to the cause of the proletariat and

eradicate the remaining twin oppressors
of domestic feudalism and bureaucratic

capitalism. For comrades in the

imperialist countries, where armed
struggle is not feasible at this time and

will not be until the imperialists are truly

helpless, the armed struggle led by the
CPP is a reminder that the seizure of

power by armed force is the highest form

of revolution - a reminder which keeps
us from straying into the swamp of

opportunism.

We look to the victories won by the

CPP-led revolutionary movement as

heroic blows landed against our common

enemy: Amerikan imperialism. MIM

takes this occasion to renew its
commitment to aiding the revolutionary

movement in the Philippines the best way

it can: By hastening the day when the
oppressed masses in North America

overthrow Amerikan imperialism and

enter into a dictatorship of the
international proletariat to ensure that

imperialism does not rise again.

Long live the New People's Army!
Long live the Communist Party of
the Philippines!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-
Maoism!

MIM statement on the 33rd anniversary of

the founding of the New People's Army

The following is a statement from our

comrades in the Philippines regarding

negotiations for a peace settlement

between the communist-led National

Dempcratic Front of the Philippines

(NDFP) on the one side and the

comprador Government of the Republic

of the Philippines (GRP) on the other.

The Macapagal-Arroyo regime is

trampling upon bilateral peace

agreements it said it would honor. By

arresting and detaining NDFP official

Edgardo Sacamay, it is violating the Joint

Agreement on Safety and Immunity

Guarantees (JASIG). The JASIG

stipulates that someone who is in transit

for consultations with a duly accredited

person is covered with safety guarantees;

he must be granted free and unhindered

passage (JASIG, Part I, No. 3). By

arresting and detaining Mr. Sacamay,

who was in transit for consultation with

NDFP Negotiating Panel Member, Mr.

Fidel Agcaoili, the military agents of the

Macapagal-Arroyo regime violated the

JASIG. Therefore, the demand of the

NDFP for the immediate and

unconditional release of Mr. Sacamay is

well-founded in the JASIG.

The Macapagal-Arroyo regime is also

violating the Comprehensive Agreement

on Respect for Human Rights and

International Humanitarian Law

(CARHRIHL). Part III, Article 6 of this

agreement states: The GRP shall abide

by its doctrine laid down in People vs.

Hernandez (July 18, 1956), as further

elaborated in People vs.Geronimo

(October 13, 1956), and shall forthwith

review the cases of all prisoners or

detainees who have been charged,

detained, or convicted contrary to this

doctrine, and shall immediately release

them. By filing charges of common

crimes of arson, murder, and robbery in

band against Mr. Sacamay, the Manila

government violates both the letter and

the spirit of this provision of

CARHRIHL.

The Macapagal-Arroyo regime

declared on 27 March 2001 its adherence

to the JASIG, the CARHRIHL and other

bilateral agreements with the NDFP. The

question now is what worth does it give

to its word.

Luis G. Jalandoni

Chairperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel

15 March 2002

NDFP CONDEMNS GRP FOR DETAINING NDFP OFFICIAL SACAMAY

AND FOR FILING CHARGES OF COMMON CRIMES AGAINST HIM

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MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 5

Israel invades West Bank,

commits summary

executions; Palestinians

destroy Israeli tank

by mousnonya@yahoo.com

The Israeli invasion of the West Bank

and Gaza [this refers to events before the

launch of "Operation Protective Wall"

and the siege of Ramallah -ed.],

purportedly to root out "terrorists," is in

fact but one element of the orchestrated

Israeli plan of annexation of the West

Bank for new settlement. The invaders

have made no secret about assassinating

"terrorists". In fact they have even been

caught on film executing an unarmed

dissident.(1)

In a great feat of courage the next day

the Palestinian resistance destroyed

another Israeli tank.(2) MIM salutes the

bravery of the Palestinians in their armed

struggle: ambushing and destroying a

tank on foot takes great courage.

Tactically the Israeli invasion of the

West Bank is just the latest in imperialist

mis-adventures. As Marx taught, the

international proletariat has nothing to

lose [but its chains. The Palestinians fight

with the spirit of a revolutionary people.]

MIM is skeptical about the prospects

of peace in the Middle East. Recent U.S.

proposals, backed by the U.N., to create

a puppet Palestine(3) belie the fact of

insecurity and violence which the Israelis

have perpetrated on the Palestinians for

the last decade. They also ignore the fact

"swimsuit" issue of "Sports Illustrated"

sold best. "Maxim" took men's interest

in 90% naked wimmin and managed to

create a flourishing business with ads

from all the same companies that support

wimmin's magazines galore. As we go

to press, the opening ad in "Maxim" is

the same as in any womyn's publication,

but it features a young man sprawled in

jeans.

We are pretty certain that social

scientists will figure out that "Maxim"

discovered that men wanted not

completely naked wimmin who are busty

but not heavy. If the womyn were

completely naked, too many men would

be embarrassed (and too many sales

outlets closed) we take it-- else there'd

be no reason to distinguish "Maxim"

from Playboy. Furthermore, unlike the

other magazines which show wimmin

usually standing as stiff as cardboard all

the better to cut out the picture to frame

the face, "Maxim" like "Sports

Illustrated," shows wimmin more in their

entirety kneeling or sitting with clothing

that emphasizes the breasts and not photo

cropping that emphasizes the face or the

hair.

From MIM's perspective, "Playboy"

magazine looks better and better all the

time. After getting to the point quickly

with 100% nudity, "Playboy" has pages

and pages of time to present serious

interviews on serious topics. Meanwhile,

countless "Cosmo" imitations are

nothing but soft pornography and smutty

talk of the most inane sort, fun for a little

while but no reason to go on and on for

issue after magazine issue. We cannot

help thinking if Amerikkkans of both

sexes could take care of their sexual

fantasies quicker, the magazines they

read could be better. Instead, the

magazines seem to flourish precisely to

the extent that there is a difference

between 90% "respectable" nudity and

100% nudity.

All of this is very important to MIM,

because we consider it our "principal task

to create public opinion and the

independent institutions of the

oppressed." The naive questioner of

MIM would ask why MIM cannot just

set up a newspaper and take subscriptions

and hit it big.

An examination of who hits it big and

why is important. Even imperialists fail

in their business ventures sometimes and

Amerikkka, the wise warrior: not!

it turns out that MIM's intuition about

"Maxim" finds validation in circulation

statistics. Out of the top 100 magazines

in 2000, "Maxim" had shown the fastest

growth of any, with 63.9% annual growth

in circulation, ahead of next-closest

competitor, the Internet-related magazine

Yahoo! which grew at a 35.1% clip but

only squeaked in at 100th place.(1)

Meanwhile, in the first six months of

2001 for which the latest data is available,

"Maxim" sustained its surge up the charts

getting 26th place up from 27th place,

about 20% ahead of "U.S. News & World

Report." Of course both lag behind

"Newsweek" and "Playboy" which are

almost exactly equal in circulation at 16th

and 17th place.(2)

So if you want to succeed in media in

Amerikkka, MIM has already told you

how in this story. Picking models and

photographers is the most important thing

to do. Sending reporters all over the world

and keeping tabs on news 24 hours a day

can only get so far--thanks to the tastes

of the majority here, the gender

aristocracy and labor aristocracy. In

theory, a magazine should be able to

cover topics and news in more depth and

with more perspectives than a newspaper

or TV news outlet, but reality is not so

favorable to serious thought and politics.

MIM is not going to say anything bad

about the top three magazines which are

for specialized audiences and often

delivered by mail through membership--

two for senior citizens and "Reader's

Digest." However, places 4 through 100

are filled with self-damnation to such an

extent, that it is tempting to view "U.S.

News & World Report" with

considerable sympathy. Fourth place goes

to "TV Guide." In the first six months of

2001, "Time Magazine" is up in

circulation, at 10th place with a

circulation of just over 4 million, more

than 2 million less than the direct users

of "nakednews.com"--and "Time

Magazine" is the biggest selling of the

news/politics magazines excluding the

newsletters for the elderly.

Now if "Time" merged with 36th place

"National Enquirer" and its circulation

over 2 million it could almost equal

nakednews.com, provided there was not

too much previous overlap of subscribers.

Another good merger would be soft

porno wimmin's magazines of the gender

aristocracy-- "Cosmopolitan" (23rd),

"Seventeen,"(28) "Redbook,"(29)

"YM,"(30), "Glamour"(31),

"Mademoiselle" (still 75th as of first-half

2001 statistics), "Vogue"(76),

"Allure,"(96) and "Marie Claire"(98).

Such a giant might only be hampered in

charging $30 a magazine to those

customers who used to buy all nine

separately.

At this point our reader might ask, "I

thought you said the masses were not

asses, MIM?" Not even MIM can make

the facts go away. Just as study of pre-

industrial tribes reveals something about

humyn nature, study of well-fed

Amerikkkans entertaining themselves

reveals something as well. Here it must

be admitted that people who have

reached a certain economic level who

focus on entertaining themselves so

narrowly as evidenced by the sales of

these trashy magazines become ignorant.

It's a calculated ignorance of people

happy with the political status quo. They

have the option not to be ignorant; they

have the money and the time, but they

choose to live a trashy existence. We have

spoken to many not living in imperialist

countries who find this depressing to

contemplate, but contemplate it we must.

Recently MIM spoke with an

immigrant distributing MIM Notes who

said she does not know if she would

distribute a similar paper in the home

country, "but if you don't give them

`MIM Notes' what will they

[Amerikkkans] read instead?" The

answer is appalling.

Looking at the numbers, MIM's web

site has 18,000 users a month compared

with nakednews.com's 6 million plus.

Many aspects of PIRAO's job are to get

MIM's circulation numbers up.

Judging from the circulation numbers,

the good news is that the bourgeoisie

rules more by the narrowness and

calculated ignorance of the gender

aristocracy and labor aristocracy than by

conscious explanation. At 500,000 users

a month MIM's website circulation

would be as respectable as any

mainstream outlet's. At a circulation of

1 million, anything connected to MIM

would have to be considered a wild

success; even though the country has 280

million people. Only Associated Press,

Knight-Ridder and the like have any

possibility of reaching a large portion of

the population--through their repeated

syndication.

The most shocking thing about these

circulation statistics just prior to

September 11th, 2001 is that they reveal

how little the Amerikkkan public knows

about anything. Yet, it is that calculated

ignorance that allowed the public to

pretend it was blindsided by an act of war,

instead of realizing that the "chickens

came home to roost" for support for U.$.

war against civilians all over the world,

including the Middle East. According to

the calculated ignorance of the majority

and its "plausible deniability," September

11th appears as an isolated act of war,

not one battle in the midst of a war it has

fought for decades in a massive terrorist

undertaking throughout the Third World.

Most of the people calling themselves

"communist" and "scientists" have yet

to admit that the culture of the

Amerikkkan people does not show the

vaguest hint of proletarian class

underpinnings. It is not a matter that the

majority of the population has vague

proletarian strivings that require class-

conscious leadership. Rather

Amerikkkans are an unhappy proof about

humyn nature and its inclination to rest,

self-entertainment, narrowness and yet

militarism. Nothing about prosperity

guarantees great advances in civilization.

"Majority" rule only works in the place

of rule of the enlightened scientist if the

majority raises its own consciousness and

believes it is important to do so. Any

examination of the magazines that

Amerikkkans read should prove why

"majority rule" in Amerika is

"dumbocracy"--of a self-satisfied,

arrogant, chauvinist and militarist sort

thanks to the imperialists elected by

dumbocracy. More importantly it is a

dumbocracy with the will to rule the

majority of the whole world by the will

of the majority of white people of North

Amerika.

Amerikkka, you "Cosmopolitan"-

"reading", nakednews.com-watching,

savage "people," you have no right to be

righteous about 911. You didn't know

anything before September 11th, and

after September 11th, you are not

suddenly the world's global "Batman"

setting wrongs to right. As passive

supporters of a racist war-machine, you

are too busy with Nintendo to know that

your terrorist government attacked first.

Notes:

1. http://www.magazine.org/resources/

fact_sheets/cs2_9_01.html

2. http://www.magazine.org/resources/

fact_sheets/cs9_14_01.html

that the Israeli government wants to evict

the Palestinians and seize their land. Real

peace can only come when the system of

profit and exploitation of war and misery

ends. Real lasting peace will only be

achieved when the international

proletariat chokes imperialism to death.

Notes:

1. BBC, 12 March, 2002

2. BBC, 14 March, 2002

3. The Economist 14 March, 2002

Continued from page 1...

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 6

Egyptian lawyer and an Indian student.

Both of these men interrupted and

correctly criticized a diatribe from

member of the Trotskyist Spartacist

League, who claimed that the Palestinian

national struggle was bankrupt. What

was really needed, according to the Spart,

was a joint struggle by the Israeli and

Palestinian proletariats for a socialist

federation.

The Egyptian pointed out that this was

pure idealism, as long as Israel occupied

lands in the West bank and Gaza, and

completely out of touch with the reality

that 46% of Israeli Jews favor "transfer"

-- that is, the ethnic cleansing of

Palestine of all Arabs.(2) The Indian also

correctly observed that the Israeli

proletariat is mostly Palestinian.

Palestinian workers face all kinds of legal

and extra-legal restrictions which drive

down their wages and make it difficult

for them organize.(3)

What Trotskyists and other so-called

Marxists fail to understand is that under

imperialism, the class struggle

principally manifests itself as a national

struggle. The Communist Party of China

led the Chinese people in a war to kick

out the Japanese occupiers, for example.

Of course, it welcomed the support

Japanese anti-imperialists and treated

Japanese prisoners of war humanely, so

as to show them that support for Japanese

imperialism was not in their best long-

term interests. But it did not put the

struggle against the Japanese occupiers

on the back burner in favor of joint action

between the Chinese and Japanese

proletariat. In fact, it grasped the war of

liberation as the key link pushing forward

the struggle for socialism in China and

in Japan. Similarly, today, MIM

recognizes that the struggles of oppressed

nations for liberation from imperialism

pushes forward the struggle for socialism

in those countries and in the imperialist

countries.

In further discussion, the Egyptian

lawyer argued that international

intervention via the United Nations was

the best hope for Palestinians. While

MIM recognizes the importance of

mobilizing international public opinion

and demonstrating how isolated the

United $tates and Israel are, we think the

United Nations' ineffective track record

speaks for itself. Resolution after

resolution has been passed against the

Israeli occupation of the West Bank and

Gaza since 1967, yet the United $tates

has repeatedly scuttled any practical

efforts to censure Israel. And the United

$tates has also used the United Nations

to take advantage of short memories and

cast itself as a "peacemaker": Witness the

recent U.$.-sponsored "land for peace"

resolution which simply reiterated a

principle the UN passed 30 years ago --

a principle the United $tates has

sabotaged in practice.

Rather than rely on the United Nations

or other outside help, the Palestinian

people need to rely on their own strength

in their struggle for self-determination.

The job of proletarian revolutionaries,

anti-imperialists, and peace-loving

people in the United $tates is to support

that struggle by opposing U.$. militarism

in the Middle East -- and prepare for the

day when we can offer the greatest

service to the oppressed peoples of the

world: The complete overthrow of U.$.

imperialism.

Notes:
1. See the Chapter `Rejectionism and
Accomodation' in Noam Chomsky's Fateful
Triangle (Cambridge: South End Press, 1999,
pp. 39-88). Chomsky argues that the United
$tates and Israel's refrain that Arab states and
major Palestinian groups refuse to recognize
Israel -- they are `rejectionist' -- has long been
a myth, whereas the United $tates and Israel
have long been the real `rejectionists,' in the
sense of denying Palestinian right to national
self-determination.
2. Fresh Air With Terry Grosz, 2 Apr 2002.
3. Chomsky, pp. 140-141. See also pp. 118-123
which describe how the Jewish "working class"
in Israel is fertile soil for fascism. "[Their]
primary hatred is directed against Arabs, their
competitors in the job market who agree to
accept work for very low wages or that Jews do
not want..."
4. New York Times, 7 Apr 2002.

Thousands support Palestinian self-determination

Continued from page 1...

When MIM reviewed The Black Book

of Communism last year,(1) we found that

besides the expected ideological and

methodological differences it contained

numerous boneheaded mathematical

errors that over-estimated death rates in

communist-led countries by at least a

factor of ten. We won a small victory after

we sent a letter to the book's publisher,

Harvard University Press, asking for a

public correction of these errors as a

matter of academic integrity and

intellectual honesty. Editor Mark Kramer

conceded that the death rates were

erroneously multiplied by ten.(2)

However, numerous other errors of a

factual nature persist. For example, the

authors underestimate the current

imprisonment rate in the United $tates

when comparing it to China's. One

chapter also makes the sweeping claim

that land reform was carried out in

Taiwan, south Korea, and Japan without

loss of life and adequate compensation.

This claim is horribly misinformed and

contradicts numerous academic accounts

without reference.(2,3)

MIM still demands that Harvard

University Press print an erratum to the

first edition. We recently gathered over

three dozen signatures on a petition

demanding that an academic committee

be appointed to review these errors (see

letter below). We seek tenured faculty,

student organizations and others to sign

on to this call. For more information,

contact mim3@mim.org.

April 3, 2002

Dear Harvard University Press and

Mark Kramer:

We have not heard from you in a while

about the "Black Book of Communism."

Through the regular mail we are sending

you 35 signatures on a petition

concerning that book asking you to

appoint an academic committee to review

it. Another three people wrote us by email

to be included on the petition.

Also, in casual review, we would point

out another error: on page 492 you say

Anhui is in north-central China. Actually,

it should be counted as southeastern

China.

Sincerely,

The Maoist Internationalist Movement

Notes:
1. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bookstore/
commie.html
2. MIM Notes 230, 15 Mar 2001.
3. MIM Notes 229, 1 Mar 2001.

Petition demands review of errors in The Black Book of Communism

But hey, he said he's sorry

He is only the most popular Christian

preacher of all time, an evangelist before

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, but

Billy Graham has been uncovered as a

vicious anti-Semite. Now that the

remarks from a tape with President Nixon

have been played, Billy Graham has

asked Jews for forgiveness.

Graham has spawned no fewer than

175 articles in the newspaper USA

Today, and the USA Today did not even

exist when Graham was most popular.

For some reason though, USA Today did

not do a story on the details of the 1972

tape between Nixon and Graham. Only

a columnist mentioned it and compared

Billy Graham's treatment with the

treatment the media gives Louis

Farrakhan who the British government

is trying to prevent from entering

England;(1) although we would point out

that Billy Graham immediately

apologized when confronted in public.

Although Graham is 83 now, and his

real heyday was in the 1970s when he

was the unchallenged leader of his niche,

today he still commands high poll ratings.

In 2002, he comes in fifth amongst men

mentioned as the one to look up to most,

right behind the Pope and ahead of Bill

Clinton, Tony Blair, Michael Jordan,

Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela.

However, since 1955, Graham has been

named in the top 10 39 times--more than

anyone else.

It turns out that not only is Graham anti-

Semitic but he lied in the past to cover

up his remarks when confronted that he

made them. While defending Graham,

ultra-reactionary William F. Buckley Jr.

nonetheless pointed out that his previous

denials were unbelievable.(3)

The same Billy Graham has now turned

out to recommend to Nixon that he take

an action that Nixon's military brass was

telling him would kill one million

Vietnamese -- bombing dikes. Graham

did this in 1969. It's significant because

Billy Graham was the pastor of

presidents, their moral advisor.

Many have quoted the relevant

passages of the 1972 tapes on Jews. Here

we will use Alexander Cockburn's

edition, starting where Graham replies to

Nixon who just said that 95% of the

media is Jewish:

"This stranglehold has got to be broken

or the country's going down the drain,"

the nation's best-known preacher

declares "You believe that?" Nixon says.

"Yes, sir," Graham says. "Oh, boy,"

replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say

that but I believe it." "No, but if you get

elected a second time, then we might be

able to do something," Graham replies.

Magnanimously Nixon concedes that this

does not mean "that all the Jews are bad"

but that most are left-wing radicals who

want "peace at any price except where

support for Israel is concerned. The best

Jews are actually the Israeli Jews."

"That's right," agrees Graham, who later

concurs with a Nixon assertion that a

"powerful bloc" of Jews confronts Nixon

in the media. "And they're the ones

putting out the pornographic stuff,"

Graham adds.(4)

There was someone else who believed

that Jews controlled the media and were

responsible for the spread of

pornography: "And I now began to

examine my beloved `world press' from

this point of view. . . the objectivity of

exposition now seemed to me more akin

to lies than honest truth; and the writers

were Jews."(5) There are at least 26

pages in Mein Kampf where Hitler refers

to the press as owned or run by Jews.

Notes:
1. http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/
columnists/wickham/2002-03-19-wickham.htm
2. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/
dec01/2001-12-27-bush-poll.htm

; http://

www.angelfire.com/zine/baptistsurfer/
BillyGraham.html which also has Billy
Graham's full press release on the subject.
3. http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/
buckley031902.shtml
4. http://www.counterpunch.org/
alexgraham.html ; http://www.suntimes.com/
output/steinberg/cst-nws-stein221.html ; see
also http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/
9612/09/briefs/index.shtml for another conflict
involving Jews, Nixon and Graham
5. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston, MA:
Houghton Mifflin, 1971), p. 58.

`Pastor to presidents' exposed as

an anti-Semitic, genocidal prick

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 7

Dodging prison condition questions

Candidates: answer the questions!

our party as well, if you find it necessary.

1. Are you aware of the censorship of

prisoners and Massachusetts citizens

writing to prisoners?

2. Do you believe there is any possible

just cause for withholding books,

magazines or newspapers from

prisoners? For instance, a very occasional

prisoner will use a book as a weapon. Do

you think that can be sufficient reason to

allow regulations to deny prisoners

books, magazines or newspapers?

3. Do you believe there are any

regulations that prison officials should be

able to make or have concerning prisoner

receipt of magazines, books and

newspapers? If so, what would they be?

4. Where do you stand on prisoner

literacy and upgrading skills for the

Massachusetts workforce? Do you agree

with us that the content of what is being

read should be up to prisoners: The

important thing is literacy? Do you agree

with us that withholding reading

materials should never be a form of

punishment?

5. What will you do to end censorship

of prisoners and those publications

censored by state authorities? The

deadline for replies for the newspaper is

March 28th. There is no deadline for

unfiltered comments to be placed on our

web page.

Sincerely,

bosmim@mim.org for MIM Notes

Replies

Mitt Romney: On March 27th,

Romney's office provided the most

calculated answer of all candidates:

"Thank you for your interest in the

Romney 2002 campaign. Please visit

www.romney2002.com for additional

information and updates on current

events. We would also encourage you to

which will provide information on the

latest campaign developments. Again,

thank you for your letter; we look forward

to hearing from you in the future.

Sincerely, The Office of Mitt Romney,

Elisabeth Calvert Smith "

Shannon O'Brien: No reply.

Robert Reich: No reply.

Tom Birmingham: No reply.

Warren Tolman: Warren Tolman's

campaign mailbox is effectively down.

After one week, the mail server bounced

the message completely. Yes, ineptitude

does play a role in politics, but it is not

the excuse for all candidates. Humyn

error is maybe 30% of the problem.

Steve Grossman: No reply.

Jill Stein: The Green Party candidate's

web address was also effectively down

and other Greens were unwilling or

unable to help. Thus, at least 2 out of 8

candidates had the pure humyn

breakdown thing going on.

Carla Howell: The Libertarian Party's

refusal to answer (after being asked

March 25th) is the most embarrassing to

both MIM and the Libertarian Party.

These questions should have been right

up their alley.

With the Libertarians not answering

and the five Democrats not answering, it

is pretty safe to say that there is a political

calculation that goes on why it is not

possible to answer MIM's questions in

public.

Although a big part of the governor's

job is prisons, the candidates do not like

to talk about them. None of them have

any real clue how to advance

rehabilitation in the event of prisoners

who really did commit a crime. None of

them care, because prisoners generally

do not have money to pose a threat to

gubernatorial candidates. Moreover, the

petty-bourgeois majority of Amerikkka

including in Massachusetts is generally

hostile in an emotional and distorted way

to the prison population, large as that

population may be.

To blame these politicians as

individuals for not answering the

question when all of them refused is like

trying to blame water when it flows

downhill. These politicians have all

calculated that they cannot afford to

ruffle any labor aristocracy feathers.

To talk about prison censorship is too

unpleasant. We the public have to

understand that politicians in a

dumbocracy only say what they find the

public wants to hear. Those candidates

who do not know what the public wants

Continued from page 3...

to hear will fail in electoral politics,

unless of course they have sufficient

money to run a powerful campaign

themselves, and even then it is only

possible to push so far. Ross Perot is the

best example of what is possible with

money. If a question is unpredictable,

difficult to comprehend or would involve

a difficult struggle of principle,

experienced politicians will not involve

themselves. That is up to others. It's one

of the reasons that there has to be a

vanguard party to speak unvarnished

truth no matter how unpopular.

Nonetheless, we urge our

Massachusetts readers to speak out, to

write the Boston Phoenix and the

candidates to make them answer the

questions:

Libertarians: media@carlahowell.org

mitt@romney2002.com -- Republican

Party

Republocrats:

campaign@RobertReich.org,

shannon@shannonobrien.com,

tom@tombirmingham.org,

warren@warrentolman.org,

steve@grossman2002.com

Green Party: adam@jillwill.org ,

info@jillwill.org

Boston Phoenix: letters@phx.com

Ask the candidates to answer the

questions and forward answers to

bosmim@mim.org.

MIM Responds : Actually, in our first

issue after September 11, we included a

discussion of the possibility that U.$. or

Israeli spy agencies might be behind the

attacks. It wouldn't be the first time they

committed a terrorist crime incognito or

incited another group to commit one.

They admit as much.

Former Prime Minister of Israel Moshe

Sharett wrote in his diary: "I have been

meditating on the long chain of false

incidents and hostilities we have

invented, and on the many clashes we

have provoked which cost us so much

blood, and on the violations of the law

by our men--all of which brought grave

disasters and determined the whole

course of events and contributed to the

security crisis."(1)

A recent Pentagon study evaluating

threats to a possible U.$. "peacekeeping

force" in Palestine had this to say about

the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence

service: "Wildcard. Ruthless and

cunning. Has capability to target U.S.

forces and make it look like a Palestinian/

Arab act."(2) Back in the day, Sharett

admitted that Western intelligence

believed Israel was staging incidents to

destabilize the Middle East and create

Letters

Continued from page 2...

pretexts for war that Israel was prepared

to win. In other shadowy incidents, Israel

hired Arab agents to do its dirty work,

some of whom may have turned around

and killed Israelis.

Regardless of what happened in any

particular terrorist incident, the fact is

that state agencies do carry out terrorist

incidents and the ordinary public cannot

usually know who is to blame. The

solution for this can only be the abolition

of governments in the distant future of

communism, when people cooperate

economically, culturally and politically,

so that no nation has secret services like

the CIA. These secret services are

themselves an irritant in relations

amongst nations and must be eradicated

for a completely secure world.

MIM has also regularly updated

readers on U.$. involvement with the

purported bombers in Al-Queda right up

to the attacks. The FBI complained that

the Bush administration's negotiations

over oil pipeline rights with the Taliban

hampered their investigation of Osama

bin Laden; the CIA met with bin Laden

in August. Whatever the U.$.

government's direct involvement in the

September attacks, it clearly tolerated an

atmosphere conducive to terrorism while

pursuing its own selfish goals: Profit and

political hegemony.

Congratulations your energetic anti-

war work and promoting your anti-

imperialist perspective.

Notes:

1. Livia Rokach, Israel's Sacred

Terrorism (Belmont, MA: Association of

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2. Washington Times, 5 Apr 2002.

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 8

Murder on a Sunday Morning
(2001)
Directed by Jean-Xavier Lestrade

This film won the 2002 Academy

Award for best documentary -- despite

having no distribution contract in the

United $tates. It follows the trial of a

fifteen-year-old, Jacksonville, Florida

Black man, who police falsely accuse of

murder. While police interrogate this

young man, they take him deep into the

woods at dusk and beat him. He then

signs a confession which they write for

him.

`Murder... ` does a passable job telling

this story in an entertaining manner,

making use of conventions of the

courtroom drama. It's helped in this

regard by an arrogant public defender --

we use the term `arrogant' in its positive

sense -- who relishes the idea of

`screwing' and publicly humiliating

corrupt cops.

And these typical Amerikan cops are

certainly corrupt. Faced with a difficult

crime to solve, they simply round up the

`usual suspects,' settling for a Black man

who didn't even fit the sole eyewitness'

original description. Leaving aside the

possibility that the eyewitness was a

racist cracker, the police present this

young man to him under suggestive

circumstances and then ignore

inconsistencies in his testimony. The

police also do not seriously follow up on

the young man's alibi. Nor do they even

try to find other witnesses to place the

suspect on the scene or back up their case

-- they are content to rely on their

eyewitness and forced confession. There

is nothing here viewers haven't seen on

`NYPD Blue' -- except `Murder'

correctly criticizes these underhanded

tactics as reprehensible attacks on the

liberties of innocent individuals.

In her closing arguments, the

prosecutor tells the jury that if they

believe the cops were as corrupt and inept

as the defense claimed, they should not

only find the defendant not guilty, but in

essence they should find the whole

Amerikan system guilty and corrupt.

Well, who are we to disagree with the

honorable prosecutor. Especially since

the problems highlighted in this one case

are endemic to the Amerikan (in)justice

system. For example, academic studies

have shown that eyewitness testimony is

notoriously unreliable and subject to

suggestion by cops and prosecutors

whose careers depend on a `tough on

crime' image. Yet eyewitness testimony

is often enough to convict somebody

`beyond a reasonable doubt'; in the mid-

90s over 80,000 trials relied on

eyewitness testimony.(1)

And we haven't even touched on the

bass-ackwards definition of crime in this

country, which throws young mothers in

prison for decades for possessing illegal

drugs, while mass murderers and mega-

thieves in the top ranks of the government

and industry live in luxurious peace --

or are held up as heroes.

Our biggest complaint with `Murder'

is that it doesn't make the explicit

connection between this case and the

broader problems with the Amerikan

(in)justice system. In fact, the film closes

with the stereotypical line that `the

system worked in the end.' There are

subtle hints that the filmmakers don't

believe this -- but too subtle for our taste.

We recommend the film as an eye-opener.

Viewers need to follow up and

investigate all aspects of the Amerikan

(in)justice system -- not just take this as

an isolated incident.

Notes:

1. MIM Notes 99, April 1995.

Award-winning film on typical Amerikan police

corruption deserves wider distribution

Presumed Guilty
World Premiere, March 10, 2002
San Francisco International Asian
American Film Festival
Directed by Pamela Yates

Presumed Guilty is a documentary

about the San Francisco Public

Defenders office. This topic, in and of

itself, is an important subject for activists

fighting the Criminal Injustice System.

But the film was made all the more timely

by the hotly contested San Francisco race

for the office of Public Defender which

was won by Jeff Adachi, who is featured

prominently in the film, just days before

the world premiere of the movie.

Public defenders are assigned as

lawyers to people who can not afford to

hire private attorneys. They receive low

pay and deal with some of the most

difficult cases, frequently burdened with

heavy caseloads and little assistance,

facing pro-prosecution judges and a

system slanted firmly against their

clients. Based on the public defenders

featured in Presumed Guilty MIM

concludes that San Francisco enjoys a

very dedicated office of lawyers working

on behalf of the people.

The movie does not attempt to present

statistics or even rhetoric about the

criminal injustice system and it's clear

bias in favor of the prosecution,

particularly of Blacks, Latinos and

Asians, but the title of the film reveals

the message the filmmakers expect to

convey to the audience. And by following

several cases defended by various

lawyers in the public defenders office,

the message comes through loud and

clear. One judge who upheld ridiculous

motions on behalf of the prosecution and

illegally held one defendant in contempt

Not all public defenders are public pretenders

But system wiorks against them and their clients

without a hearing was actually removed

from his criminal bench and moved to

civil cases after the public defenders

office challenged him in court. But

victories like this are few and far

between.

During filmed trials the audience sees

cops admitting to lying while trying to

coerce confessions, prosecutors making

it clear that they believe everyone

arrested is guilty (and with the slip of the

tongue encourage the jury to presume

guilt as well) and witnesses being paid

thousands of dollars to testify against

someone. Racial profiling is highlighted

with the arrest and prosecution of a Black

man whose crime was being out on the

streets early in the morning looking

sleepy. This was the basis for prosecuting

him for the crime of being on crack. Even

the highlighted cases in which the

defendants are found guilty leave the

audience with more than small doubt

about the correctness of their conviction.

The film also presents background on

the motivations of some of the public

defenders. Jeff Adachi's parents and

grandparents were put in internment

camps during the war with Japan.

Phoenix Streets' uncle was killed for

being Black and out on the streets after

dark in the south. These are men who

have seen injustice personally and were

motivated to fight it in a more systemic

way.

Certainly not a revolutionary film, this

movie still serves the anti-imperialist

struggle well by presenting the inherent

failures of the criminal injustice system.

And it does not fool the audience into

thinking that there is some easy reform

to fix the system. The public defenders

are up against a system they can not beat

from within, but they do an important job

until the day that this system can be

changed. And this is where MIM steps

in and offers a revolutionary alternative

and we argue that the entire system has

to be dismantled so that we can build a

system of real justice for the people of

the world.

During the filming of the movie the

elected head of the Public Defenders

office, Jeff Brown, resigned in January

2001. Mayor Willie Brown appointed his

goddaughter Kimiko Burton as interim

Public Defender, explaining in his speech

that it was almost like appointing family

to the position. Brown didn't even ask

for Jeff Adachi's (second in command to

Jeff Brown) resume or consider him for

the position. In an interview Brown stated

that he didn't consider any other

candidates, he had always thought Kim

Burton should be in that position. Adachi

had announced his candidacy for the

office of Public Defender a few years

prior so his aspirations were no secret.

And as a 15 year veteran of the office,

clearly devoted to his work and supported

by his colleagues, his experience was not

in question. Burton's first act was to fire

Jeff Adachi as a part of a "reorganization"

of the office.

Adachi responded to his firing by

waging a strong battle for the office of

Public Defender. He demonstrated his

devotion to defending the people most

in need of his services by attending

numerous radical political events

throughout the city. From anti-war rallies

where he collected signatures to get on

the ballot to public meetings to fight

police brutality in Hunters Point, Adachi

was truly out amongst the people working

for his campaign.

Kimiko Burton raised more than $1

million to defend her appointed post.

Adachi raised less than $250,000.

Burton's family has been a long time

force in San Francisco politics.

According to the San Francisco

Chronicle "Burton's father turned to

Sacramento lobbyists, political

committees and interest groups that often

have business before the state Senate to

raise more than $566,000 for his

daughter's race. Another $500,000-plus

came from soft money -- donations

exempt from the city's $500 limit on

individual donations."

One important political difference

between Adachi and Burton relates to the

issue of taking cases to trial. Burton is in

favor of plea bargains while Adachi

favors taking cases to trial. This may

sound like a small disagreement, but from

MIM's experience with the criminal

injustice system it is actually very

significant. Public defenders are pushed

to take plea bargains (and often push their

clients to accept a plea) to cut down on

their case work and the burden of the

courts. But MIM hears many stories from

prisoners who were pushed into a plea

bargain even though they were innocent

of charges or when going to court would

have likely resulted in a lower sentence.

Taking cases to trial is often the only way

to fight a biased criminal injustice

system. But it requires much more work

on the part of the public defenders.

Adachi's support for this demonstrates a

commitment to his clients rather than an

investment in the political injustice

system.

MIM is under no illusions that with

Adachi in the office of Public Defender

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the criminal injustice system will be

fundamentally changed. But it is very

much in the interests of anti-imperialists

to have public defenders working on the

side of the people as we fight battles

within the system while building for the

"Dune"
Directed by David Lynch
137 minutes, 1984

"Dune"
Directed by John Harrison
288 minutes, 2000

There are two adaptations of the

science-fiction book by Frank Herbert

called "Dune." The Harrison version is

much longer with more special effects.

The two versions reflect the politics of

the time. In 1984, the United $tates was

supporting Osama bin Laden, but by

2000 the Amerikan love of Islamic

freedom-fighters had died down with the

collapse of the Soviet Union.

That is why the first version actually

has more fanatic religious overtones than

the second version. In Lynch's version,

the last words are mouthed in a

surrealistic way and point to the religious

powers of the main character Paul

Atreides. In a scene missing from the

second version, Paul Atreides splits the

solid rock ground beneath him after

winning a fight, thus proving that his

powers go beyond merely mortal combat.

In the Harrision version, Paul Atreides

criticizes his own religion at various

points, has more dialogues about using

religion for his own ends and completes

the movie merely as someone retaking

the throne in family tradition. The last

scene is not about his great powers

splitting the earth and causing rain as in

the Lynch version but about tension in

his polygamous life regarding wimmin

characters.

In the first version, the bad guys are

homosexual blood-suckers, literally. The

second version tones down the

homophobia so that the two factions

seeking control of the planets seem closer

to being merely imperialist rivals. In the

second version the fighting ends with a

marriage between rival families. In any

case, the rulers come from outside the

planet. The political intrigues are more

like those of feudalism, with barons,

princes and house of this versus house

of that fighting. In both versions, Paul

Atreides turns to the indigenous peoples

for an alliance to oust the rival

imperialist--a perfect explanation for

how the United $tates aided Osama bin

Laden to overthrow Soviet influence in

Afghanistan.

MIM encourages readers to hear

"Iraq," when thinking of the planet where

the fighting happens- -"Arrakis." The

fighting over "spice" is fighting over oil

and "desert power" has to do with the

military strength of Mideast peoples. In

both films, there is no mistaking that the

power of the throne on Arrakis stems

from the control of oil and the potential

ability to blow it up and starve the whole

universe of this irreplaceable commodity.

[The book and both movies emphasize

the saying, "He who controls the spice,

controls the universe."]

Even containing a discussion of suicide

bombers, "Dune" is very contemporary

in its overtones. The political differences

in the two versions reflect approximately

the strategic differences in outlook of

U.$. imperialism in 1984 and 2000. The

U.$. rulers fancy themselves the rightful

rulers of the Mideast, bringing progress

to the oppressed people there who rose

up to put them on on the throne. Such is

the interpretation of Afghanistan today.

MIM says the Amerikkkans should learn

that they are dreaming and such dreams

do not even belong in science-fiction

movies.

The potential for a progressive thrust

in the movie is there, because not only

do the desert peoples fight for their

destiny, but also Paul Atreides has some

possibility to turn traitor to his own

imperiailist culture by taking up the

desert people's ways. It does not take

much to see Paul Atreides helping to

break the back of the whole empire but

whether or not he will truly serve the

interests of the oppressed people is still

left in the open at the end of both films.

The first film trails off into religious fog,

thus leaving us in doubt and the second

version ends with the mere victory of one

imperialist rival over another. Despite

these ambiguities, we mildly recommend

both films. They are quite entertaining

and the imagination should be exercised

enough by both films to provide a more

suitable ending for both films.

`He who controls the spice...':

Dune saga retains contemporary relevance

REVIEW: Brotherhood of the
Wolf (2002)
a.k.a. Le Pacte des Loups (2001)
Directed by Cristophe Gans

This fast-paced mix of French costume

drama, Western, horror and Hong Kong

martial arts flick met many of the

expectations we had for Crouching Tiger

Hidden Dragon. We had hoped the latter

would emphasize the progressive aspects

of martial arts films: Sympathy with the

oppressed, self-sacrifice in the struggle

to right wrongs, a recognition of the need

for armed struggle, etc. While

`Crouching Tiger' was technically

impressive and its fight scenes great fun,

the motivation for the fights was

individualistic and metaphorical. The

violence in `Brotherhood' on the other

hand is not rooted in ideas about honor,

rather the hard-nosed reality that

reactionary classes seek to cling to power

by even the most horrific means. And

although it's not quite at Crouching

Tiger's technical level, Brotherhood has

a nice look and some decent fight scenes.

Brotherhood also scores points for

giving wimmin fighting roles -- and not

apologizing for those wimmin who fight

on the wrong side. One of the

protagonists pays a heavy price for

hesitating to strike a womyn -- perhaps

out of feudal/pseudo-feminist chivalry,

desire, or a mistaken assessment of her

allegiance. Several plot twists like this

illustrate the importance of the principle

`know your enemy.'

And for viewers who think that the

clerico-fascist scheme in Brotherhood is

pure fantasy, we suggest you check out

the real life events behind the movie Z or

the tad tad (literally, `chop chop') sect

in the Philippines. As we said in our

review of Tales from the HOOD, "What

could make for better horror than the real-

life monsters created by imperialism,

capitalism and patriarchy?"

overthrow of imperialism. Adachi is an

ally in this battle.

MIM recommends the movie

Presumed Guilty, along with a heavy dose

of revolutionary politics to offer the

audience an alternative to the public

defenders and criminal injustice system

highlighted in the film.

From last page...

Militarism is war-mongering or the

advocacy of war or actual carrying out

of war or its preparations.

While true pacifists condemn all

violence as equally repugnant, we

Maoists do not consider self-defense

or the violence of oppressed nations

against imperialism to be militarism.

Militarism is mostly caused by

imperialism at this time. Imperialism

is the highest stage of capitalism--

seen in countries like the United

$tates, England and France.

Under capitalism, capitalists often

profit from war or its preparations.

Yet, it is the proletariat that does the

dying in the wars. The proletariat

wants a system in which people do not

have self-interest on the side of war-

profiteering or war for imperialism.

Militarism is one of the most

important reasons to overthrow

capitalism. It even infects oppressed

nations and causes them to fight each

other.

It is important not to let capitalists

risk our lives in their ideas about war

and peace or the environment. They

have already had two world wars

admitted by themselves in the last 100

years and they are conducting a third

right now against the Third World.

Even a one percent annual chance of

nuclear war destruction caused by

capitalist aggressiveness or "greed" as

the people call it should not be tolerated

by the proletariat. After playing

Russian Roulette (in which the bullet

chamber is different each time and not

related at all to the one that came up in

previous spins) with 100 chambers and

one bullet, the chance of survival is

only 60.5% after 50 turns. In other

words, a seemingly small one percent

annual chance of world war means

eventual doom. After 100 years or turns

of Russian Roulette, the chances of

survival are only 36.6%. After 200

years, survival has only a 13.4%

chance.

What is militarism?

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 10

MIM on

Prisons & Prisoners

MIM seeks to build public opinion

against Amerika's criminal injustice sys-

tem, and to eventually replace the bour-

geois injustice system with proletarian jus-

tice. The bourgeois injustice system im-

prisons and executes a disproportionately

large and growing number of oppressed

people while letting the biggest mass mur-

derers -- the imperialists and their lack-

eys -- roam free. Imperialism is not op-

posed to murder or theft, it only insists that

these crimes be committed in the interests

of the bourgeoisie.

"All U.S. citizens are criminals--

accomplices and accessories to the crimes
of U.$. oppression globally until the day
U.$. imperialism is overcome. All U.S.
citizens should start from the point of view
that they are reforming criminals."

MIM does not advocate that all

prisoners go free today; we have a
more effective program for fighting
crime as was demonstrated in China
prior to the restoration of capitalism
there in 1976. We say that all prisoners
are political prisoners because under
the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, all
imprisonment is substantively
political. It is our responsibility to
exert revolutionary leadership and
conduct political agitation and
organization among prisoners --
whose material conditions make them
an overwhelmingly revolutionary
group. Some prisoners should and will
work on self-criticism under a future
dictatorship of the proletariat in those
cases in which prisoners really did do
something wrong by proletarian
standards.

Under Lock & Key

News from Prisons & Prisoners

Oregon Intensive
Management Unit is
corrupt

I am an inmate at the Oregon State

Penitentiary and am housed in the

Intensive Management Unit (IMU). I

have a few things to bring to the attention

of MIM Notes readers.

1. In IMU there is a group of corrupt

employees called the Inmate Program

Committee (IPC). IPC meets once a week

and reviews certain inmates. I was the

subject of review in October 2001 for

reasons I will explain.

On September 29, 2001, I was demoted

to program level 1 for disrespect.

According to IMU procedure, I only had

to be on level 1 for 30 days before I could

be promoted to level 2, but only if I don't

have any misconduct reports. On October

3, I was written up for refusing to wear

dirty clothes. At my hearing it was

dismissed because the officers were

wrong. On 10-30-01 I was supposed to

be promoted, but the IPC refused to

promote me based on the misconduct

report I beat. I was told it doesn't matter

if I beat it or not because the formal

disciplinary process is separate from

program levels. I was punished for a

write-up I beat! I wrote numerous kites

to all levels of OSP hierarchy, and also

to the director of the ODOC. Nothing I

did got me promoted. I ended up doing

39 days on level 1.

2. While on level 1, IMU inmates are

not given any exercise periods. The

ODOC calls exercise/recreation a

"privilege" when it is actually a right.

Also, inmates on level 1 are not allowed

to have any hygiene items or property,

except ongoing legal work.

3. IMU is supposed to only be a six

month "program," but the IPC extends a

lot of people because they don't want

them in general population. Some people

stay in IMU for years at a time, even

though they have completed the program

and are staying out of trouble. Another

way they keep people in IMU for a long

time is to write them up for something

minor or petty. It could only be a minor

charge, yet the inmate will have to start

the whole program over.

These are just a few examples of the

corrupt acts going on in here.

-- a prisoner in Oregon, February 2002

Punished for
distributing
MIM Theory

Dear MIM,

I would like to thank you once again,

for sending the MIM Notes. I took the

MIM Theory you provided me with and

made a large amount of copies to provide

those that struggle from within. I just

received a misconduct report for

contraband III, and disobedience of an

order III, for sending other inmates copies

of MIM Theory. I was given 3 days lap

and a $25 fine, and was told if I did it

again I would be written up for

unauthorized organization I. The one

thing I can't understand is how the mail

room let it come into the prison and then

once it went to the segregation unit the

Sergeant wrote me up. This place is so

fucked up, TRCI officials are constantly

implementing rules not authorized by the

director. They fail to post such rules but

expect inmates to comply, well I'm going

to continue to send MIM Theory to those

that support what we stand for.

--a prisoner in Oregon, March 2002

U.S. prison officials
Use torture, biological
Weapons

By a New York Prisoner

State Prison officials [in New York] are

using food torture and chemical and

biological weapons on U.S. citizens and

foreign nationals currently confined in

solitary confinement units in this country,

which violates international humyn rights

treaties and promotes suicide.

The food torture, which prison officials

call a "restricted diet" or "loaf," consists

of only bread three times a day. The bread

is a solid form of gruel. Prison officials

use intervals of seven days torture and

two days regular food. Therefore, a 28-

day torture restricted food diet will take

34 days for a prisoner to complete.

This method of food torture is used as

punishment by prison officials and can

be used for days, weeks, months, years,

decades, until death sentence or sentence

of the state prisoner expires. The

prisoners who are subjected to this food

torture suffer from the following:

1. Starvation rage, severe mood swings,

despair, inability to concentrate or focus,

nightmares, hopelessness, headaches,

severe stomach pain, dehydration, severe

loss of body weight, light headedness,

loss of balance, extremely low sugar in

your blood count that can be lethal in a

week or less, delusion, immense stress,

assault on your immune system, all kinds

of medical complications whether you

are or are not on medications can occur.

All of the above can be extremely lethal.

2. It is also lethal when used on

prisoners who are currently on

psychotropic medications such as Hadol,

Merrielil, etc. due to severe fluctuations

of body temperature or delicate state of

mind of a prisoner. It can be lethal on

prisoners who suffer from AIDS,

Diabetes, heart conditions, pneumonia,

lactose intolerance, old age, those taking

medications or prisoners who have

recently lost a loved one.

3. Biological/chemical weapons -- in

addition to food torture, state prison

officials bombard prisoners in solitary

confinement with all sorts of chemical

spray weapons, gas grenades, stunguns,

stuns and rubber bullets in small enclosed

cells. Any of the above can be lethal in

itself or in combination.

4. Chemical weapons can be lethal

when used on prisoners who suffer from

asthma, any form of respiratory distress

or illness, heart condition, or a host of

other conditions or medical

complications.

5. The use of torture violates state,

federal and international laws, so does

the use of chemical weapons in small,

enclosed prison cells. And a prolonged

pattern of practice can be duly prosecuted

through state, federal or international

laws, for it promotes torture and death.

Steps that a prisoner must take in hopes

of stopping said practice:

1. File a grievance complaint at your

prison of confinement and appeal it at

every step, and explain what you have

been subjected to. 2. All state prisoners

can write to the following: Bill Lann Lee,

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Litigation

Section, Civil Rights Division,

Washington DC 20530. As well as to

your U.S. Senators, the UN and

appropriate consulates for foreign

nationals 3. Summarize your experience

for Under Lock & Key to help keep other

prisoners and activists on the outside

informed on what's going on.

Staff shortage and
crackdown in Texas

In this Texas Department of Criminal

Justice system the pigs are now being

faced with a dilemma - no one wants to

be a pig. On this plantation alone they

are over 30 pigs short; throughout the

system the number is over 2,000. I

recently read in a newspaper that they've

begun a recruitment campaign in

Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico.

In these states the pigs don't make near

as much as the pigs here do, yet they do

not have the shortage problem. The

majority of this new pig strata is either

very young (18-23) or over retirement

age. Here they have totally dropped

physical and mental requirements.

As the slave plantation we receive

much of the backlash. We get outside

"recreation" once a week if we're lucky.

We get to go to the gym in the morning

usually about four days a week - that is

if we don't have work or school; if you

do you're stuck. We "rack up" (have to

go to our cells) three times a day for count

(the other two counts during the day are

done wherever we are). Thus we rarely

get dayroom. Many times it takes so long

to clear count that as soon as they clear

it, it is time to count again. During count

time there is "no movement" meaning

you stay where you are until count clears.

Every day more pigs quit. We go on

"lockdown" frequently due to the

shortage of staff.

It is quite a spectacle to see this

ridiculously decadent system decay more

and more to the point that it can't even

efficiently maintain itself internally.

Power to the People!

--A Texas Prisoner

Repression and
resistance in
New Jersey

I come to you with a strong

revolutionary salute. I'm writing in

regards to an article in MIM Theory #11,

page 41 "modern slavery in full effect"

by comrade Prince Zakia.

I was mos deff feeling what the

comrade was talking about in the article

on how rehabilitation is a code word for

turning young Black and Hispanics into

old men before they are released from

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 11

Facts on U$ imprisonment

The facts about imprisonment in the United $tates are that the United $tates has been the world's leading prison-state per capita for the last

25 years, with a brief exception during Boris Yeltsin's declaration of a state of emergency.(1)

That means that while Reagan was talking about a Soviet "evil empire" he was the head of a state that imprisoned more people per capita.

In supposedly "hard-line" Bulgaria of the Soviet bloc of the 1980s, the imprisonment rate was less than half that of the United $tates.(2,3)

To find a comparison with U.$. imprisonment of Black people, there is no statistic in any country that compares including apartheid South

Africa of the era before Mandela was president. The last situation remotely comparable to the situation today was under Stalin during war
time. The majority of prisoners are non-violent offenders(4) and the U.S. Government now holds about a half million more prisoners than
China; even though China is four times our population.(5)

The rednecks tell MIM that we live in a "free country." They live in an Orwellian 1984 situation where freedom is imprisonment.

Notes: 1. Marc Mauer, "Americans Behind Bars: The International Use of Incarceration 1993," The Prison Sentencing Project, 918 F. St. NW, Suite

501, Washington, DC 20004 (202) 628-0871 Reference: SRI: R8965-2, 1994
2. Ibid., 1992 report.

3. United Nations Development Programme, "Human Development Report 1994,:" Oxford University Press, p. 186.

4. Figure of 51.2 percent for state prisoners there for non-violent offenses. Abstract of the United States 1993, p. 211.
5. Atlantic Monthly December, 1998.

From the MIM "Frequently Asked

Questions" page, http://www.etext.org/
Politics/MIM/faq.

Internationalism is the ethical belief or

scientific approach in which peoples of
different nations are held to be or assumed to
be equal. Internationalism is opposed to
racism and national chauvinism.

We Maoists believe the nationalism of

nations experiencing oppression of
imperialism is "applied internationalism." We
oppose nationalism of oppressed nations
directed at other oppressed nations, because
the economic content of such nationalism is
intra-proletarian conflict. We seek a united
front of oppressed nations led by the
international proletariat against imperialism.

"I must argue, not from the point of view

of `my' country (for that is the argument of a
wretched, stupid, petty-bourgeois nationalist
who does not realize that he is only a plaything
in the hands of the imperialist bourgeoisie),
but from the point of view of my share in the
preparation, in the propaganda, and in the
acceleration of the world proletarian
revolution. That is what internationalism
means, and that is the duty of the
internationalist, of the revolutionary worker,
of the genuine Socialist."

V. I. Lenin, "What Is Internationalism?"

The Proletarian Revolution and the
Renegade Kautsky (Peking: Foreign
Language Press, 1965), p. 80.

What is internationalism?

the U$ koncentration kamps (prisons). I

feel what he said cause I'm a young

comrade but a lot of the things I have

faced as a modern day slave have stolen

my youth from me as well as a lot of other

young comrades that are forced to come

thru these kamps. The funny part is since

I've been in these kamps I have not

received any of their so-called

rehabilitation. What I have seen is lack

of education, slaves fighting and killing

other slaves, or the Uncle Tom who turns

on all the other slaves (fucking snitches)

or the slave master (C.Os pigs, etc.)

brutally beating on the modern day slave.

But the United Snakes says they have

stopped slavery with the 13th

amendment. What a bunch of bullshit

because if you're locked in the Belly of

the beast and refuse to work they will

lock you away from all the other slaves,

beat you, take your property, lack of food

and whatever else they feel like doing to

the rebel slave. And if they really see you

as a threat they have made control units

and STG units. And they will place you

in these units with no real proof that you

are a 5%, Latin King, Blood, Crip, etc.

But I see it as a way to separate the

rebel slaves away from the slaves that

obey every law of their slave master. I'm

not saying all slaves in these kamps

should fight against these slave masters

(pigs) because not all of them have it in

their hearts. But what a lot of them law

obeying slaves need to know is how the

slave masters and the U$ are getting rich

off their slave labor and they never even

lift a hand. All they lift is the whip (that

pen and blue sheet) and the good slave

goes right back to work. But to them good

slaves I say keep working for that 13

cents an hour and keep getting fucked.

But to all my Nat Turners of 2002, stand

for what you believe because if you don't

stand for something you'll fall for

anything.

Power to All People,

Virtuous, STG prisoner, Newark NJ,

March 2002

MIM responds: While we strongly

condemn the use of prisoners as slave

labor, prisons are not yet getting rich off

this scam. Prisons still cost the state more

than they make back using prison labor.

But spending money on prisons, which

are used as a tool of social control, is a

good investment from the perspective of

the imperialists. This "expense" not only

keeps the oppressed nations under lock

and key, it is really just a redistribution

of wealth to the labor aristocracy pigs

who work in the prisons.

Prison threatened by
Anarchy symbol

I hope all is going well with you and

with all of the comrades who help make

this possible. I would like to thank you

for helping me out with one of my

problems here at the $nakepit. You

requested an administrative review with

Kathy Stevens from our mailroom,

regarding them denying me a MIM

Theory you sent to me. I guess they felt

that the Anarchy symbol was threatening

to the security of this imperialistic

institution. For some reason they didn't

find the literature threatening, they only

found the symbol to be a threat. Yet they

do not deny a Rolling Stone music

magazine, which happens to feature

musical groups wearing t-shirts or pants

with the anarchy symbol. You and I both

know that this institution as well as many

others, does not agree with MIM's

political beliefs. Therefore we will

continue to be discriminated against.

Now there is another issue here in the

ODOC. They are making everyone one

of us submit to a DNA collections. If we

do not comply with these demands we

will be sent straight to segregation for an

undisclosed amount of time. Plus there

are a variety of other disciplinary actions

they will also take against us. So if you

have any advice on this matter please let

me know what my rights are.

--a prisoner in Oregon, March 2002

Corruption in
Oregon DOC

Corruption within the department of

corrections is rampant. Oregon people

are very gullible when it comes to the

newspaper and TV, they will believe what

they see or hear and that's that. DOC

wouldn't lie or steal from them, their

respectful peace officers. But then who

stole all those millions? Now its all about

DNA being taken from inmates no matter

what crimes committed. Oregon already

has over 41, 357 people on parole and

over 10,000 in prison and now they try

to give you more time for anything they

can. More money for them and to heck

with any rights you have, you're just a

criminal.

I know I did the crimes, I never denied

that and never will, but there is such a

thing as giving someone too much time

and Oregon is doing just that and all the

money made by inmates working in

industries goes to only a few people and

almost none goes to the inmate workers.

And if you get hurt on the job, well you

just weren't paying attention to the safety

rules, so you get fired and end up with a

medical bill to boot. I used to work in

the canteen at one of the prisons here and

when items came up missing they would

fire the crews. But one of the officer

workers had been investigated for letting

the inmates eat, buy at a discount and buy

damaged or discontinued items plus it

was said he also took items. I was on a

crew that got fired and by keeping my

mouth shut I got screwed over pretty

good. But others told the investigator that

the officers took items all the time.

Nothing came about it one way or another

but when I seen one of the officers with

a pair of the so called missing shoes on I

made the mistake of saying "nice shoes"

and off I was sent to the new supermax.

--a prisoner in Oregon, March 2002

Freedom for all
oppressed

Loyal Greetings,

All our comrades need to know that

President George W. Bush has declared

war on all those that are "terrorists." With

this statement I find it very important that

our comrades be aware that all those who

do not comply with the conditions of this

oppressive government are considered

terrorists.

Comrade Huey P. Newton (RIP) once

stated: Politics is war without bloodshed.

War is politics with bloodshed. Politics

has its particular characteristics, which

differentiate it from war. When the

peaceful means of politics are exhausted

and the people do not get what they want,

politics are continued. We as a people

(Black & oppressed) lack political power,

because we are not free. Black

reconstruction failed because we did not

have political and military power.

Comrade Huey P. Newton (RIP) also

stated: When one operates in the political

arena, it is assumed that he has power or

represents power; he is symbolic of a

powerful force. There are approximately

three areas of power in the political arena:

economic power, land power (feudal

power) and military power.

Comrade, my question to you is, when

will us oppressed people be free?

Mentally and spiritually we know our end

goal. But, physically we are still prisoners

fighting for a revolution that will

eventually lead us to liberation. The

conditions we are subjected to live in of

course are against our will. Why I say

this is because, when we (oppressed) start

to organize and stand against those that

seek to continue to prey on the weak to

enslave, we are labeled as demonstrators

and arrested for applying our first

amendment for a cause that our

oppressors are against. I seek liberation

with all my heart even if it takes me to

my grave, I have strong confidence that

my goal will be reached through my loyal

comrades who as well seek liberation. I

look very forward for the day that all

oppressed bond as one and join hands in

unity to fight those that oppress the

people. We must be free.

Power to the people,

--A New York prisoner

MIM Notes 256 · April 15, 2002· Page 12

Notas Rojas

avril 15, 2002, Nº 256 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis

Por el MIM. Traducido por Células de

Estudio para la Liberación de Aztlán y
América Latina. Enero 2002.

Continúan las estrechas manifestaciones en

Argentina mientras que el pueblo demuestra
su ira hacia el sistema político que no promete
nada más que la misma porquería de siempre

bajo un nuevo disfraz y que ha dado turno a
5 presidentes en el mes pasado. Al ser impreso
este artículo (el día 15 de Febrero, 2002), el

Presidente Eduardo Duhalde anunció nuevas
medidas económicas que él espera rescaten
al país del caos económico. Pero hasta ahora

dichas medidas sólo han resultado en que un
mayor número de personas se encuentran en
apuros.

Los manifestantes han atacado bancos, han

protestado frente a edificios gubernamentales
y se han topado con la policía. En Buenos

Aires miles de personas golpeaban cacerolas
y cerraron las carreteras principales pidiendo
la devolución de dinero en cuentas de ahorro

congeladas. Los pelotones de asalto
dispersaron a las multitudes con gas
lacrimógeno y balas cubiertas de goma. (3)

Semejantes bloqueos de carreteras se llevaron
a cabo por todo el país donde la policía
dispersó a los manifestantes de una forma

violenta. Muchos de los que bloquearon las
carreteras exigían empleo o pago de sueldos
debidos. (4)

Tanto los pobres como la clase media

salieron a manifestar porque ambas clases
sufrieron el golpe de la austera política

económica nacional. El 18% de la población
argentina se encuentra desempleada. En las
empresas privadas los sueldos han sido

rebajados por un 20% mientras que los
sueldos y pensiones federales de más de 500
dólares han bajado un 13%. (3) Un tercio de

la población de 36 millones enfrenta la
pobreza. (2) La pequeña burguesía está
inquieta porque el gobierno ha congelado sus

cuentas de ahorro y ha impuesto límites sobre
los fondos en efectivo que pueden ser
retirados. La crisis de Argentina es resultado

de las contradicciones del capitalismo y no
se puede resolver dentro de los límites del
capitalismo. Por ejemplo, si las restricciones

bancarias fueran eliminadas, todo el mundo
sacaría su dinero y el sistema financiero se
vendría abajo. Pero si se mantienen las

restricciones la economía carecerá de dinero
en efectivo y los empleados no recibirán sus
sueldos.

¿A qué se debe el fracaso económico?

Los comentaristas políticos procapitalistas

dicen que la caída de Argentina que, habiendo
sido el décimo país más rico del mundo en
1913, bajó a la posición 36 en 1998, se debe

a "malas decisiones económicas y la inquietud
política." (1) Dichas aserciones están en lo
correcto si quieren decir que las malas

decisiones económicas las tomarion los
lacayos bajo la dirección del imperialismo.
La deuda de 132 mil millones de dólares

contraída por Argentina (que constituye una
séptima parte de la deuda total de los países
del tercer mundo), es resultado de su

dependencia del capital imperialista en forma
de préstamos por parte del FMI y otros
capitalistas financieros internacionales. (1)

De hecho este financiamiento lleva a los

países del tercer mundo hacia una

dependencia económica y la pobreza -una
situación beneficiosa para los imperialistas y
sus lacayos que mandan en el tercer mundo y

que castigan a la mayoría de la gente en estos
países. A partir de los años 80, muchos países
del tercer mundo han conseguido gigantescos

préstamos a través de EE.UU., Inglaterra,
Japón y otros países imperialistas, así como
por medio del Fondo Monetario Internacional

(FMI) y el Banco Mundial (BM) que
funcionan esencialmente como bancos
operados por los imperialistas. Los préstamos

imperialistas sobrepasan la capacidad de pago
de estos países. El MIM sostiene que los
países imperialistas que han robado a todo el

mundo son los que deben pagar reparaciones
y no al revés: que todo el mundo esté
adeudado a los imperialistas por préstamos

para recuperarse del pillage imperialista. Los
acreedores directos de la mitad de la deuda
de los países del tercer mundo son los

gobiernos imperialistas de EE.UU., Gran
Bretaña, Canadá, Francia, Alemania e Italia
(los G7). Los otros acreedores son el FMI y

el Banco Mundial. Un 10% se les debe a
bancos particulares. (5) Las sugerencias que
hacen los investigadores financieros

capitalistas para que Argentina supere la crisis
económica resultan contradictorias. Pero para
cualquier estudiante de la historia está bien

claro que las crisis como esta se repiten una
y otra vez bajo el capitalismo. La verdadera
solución para todos estos problemas es el

comunismo. Durante la década de los años
'20, cuando una gran crisis económica
destrozaba la económia de los países

imperialistas por todo el mundo, fue notable
que en la URSS la economía socialista seguía
estable y próspera. Esto se debe a que la

economía socialista se planifica sin someterse
a la anarquía de la producción capitalista ni a
la sobreproducción. Los granjeros capitalistas

echan comida al mar para proteger sus
ganancias aun cuando es posible fijar la
cantidad exacta de comida que se debe

producir. Está claro que este sistema ilógico
resultará en crisis de sobreproducción y
derrumbes económicos.

El gobierno de Argentina y los Peronistas

Muchas veces los peronistas se pintan de

líderes populares y muchos investigadores
imperialistas hablan del estado benefactor
como si fuera el socialismo. Algunos

investigadores de la economía culpan al tal
llamado estado benefactor por el fracaso
económico en Argentina y dicen que la

riqueza desapareció porque "una gran parte
del dinero se invertió en salarios y el estado
benefactor." (1) El pueblo debe reconocer que

los peronistas no son más que lacayos
imperialistas pintados de otro color y que no
representan los intereses de la mayoría de

gente argentina. El mero hecho de que
parecen menos represivos que algunos otros
dictadores militares que han controlado el

país en los últimos 50 años, no implica que
son campeones populares. En 1943, un
régimen militar se apoderó de Argentina e

instaló un gobierno profacista que apoyó al
Japón y Alemania. El coronel Juan Perón fue
uno de los líderes de este golpe de estado.

Más tarde el gobierno cortó las relaciones con

el Japón y con Alemania declarándoles guerra

en 1945. En 1946, Perón ganó las elecciones
presidenciales a base de la promesa de
aumentar los salarios y ofrecer un seguro

social a los trabajadores. Pero para el año
1949 su gobierno había implementado leyes
para encarcelar a toda la oposición. El

resultado fue la represión de los medios de
comunicación independientes y los activistas.
En el año 1955, un golpe de estado acabó

con el régimen de Perón. Y en 1973, los
peronistas ganaron las elecciones y Perón
volvió a asumir el cargo presidencial. En

1976, otro golpe de estado instaló un gobierno
más represivo resultando en una "guerra
sucia" que causó muerte o desaparición de

un incalculable número de personas. En 1989,
el peronista Ménem de nuevo fue elegido
presidente. Él realizó una política austera que

resultó en más del 900% de inflación. En
1992, se estableció un sistema de cambio fijo
del peso atado al dólar estadounidense. (6)

Entre los años 1974 y 1997, los ingresos del
30% de los más pobres del país bajaron en
un 25%, mientras que los ingresos del 10%

de los más ricos aumentaron en un 31.5%.
(7) El FMI supervisó una gran cantidad de la
política económica del país durante la última

década. No cabe duda que el imperialismo
internacional, los peronistas y los lacayos del
gobierno militar son responsables del fracaso

económico de Argentina.

El derrumbe estatal

En Argentina la recesión estalló en el año

1998. Para el año 1999 el país había
acumulado 114 mil millones de dólares en

deuda pública. Despúes, en el año 2000, hubo
una huelga así como estrechas
manifestaciones en contra de los impuestos

sobre el precio del combustible. El FMI
prestó a Argentina 40 mil millones de dólares
en forma de `ayuda'. En el mes de marzo del

2001, De La Rúa asumió presidencia
escogiendo en el transcurso de 3 semanas a
tres distintos ministros financieros a causa de

que las renuncias oficiales y las protestas en
contra de la política económica de la
austeridad azotaron a todo el país. En el mes

de julio del mismo año, se llevó acabo una
huelga general a nivel nacional en contra de
nuevos límites sobre el desembolso federal.

Para el mes de octubre, de nuevo ganaron los
peronistas y se apoderaron de ambas cámaras
del parlamento. (6)

En diciembre del 2001, el gobierno anunció

nuevas restricciones para prohibir el retiro de
dinero de los bancos. Al mismo tiempo el FMI

anunció que no soltaría los $1.3 mil millones
en ayuda para el mes. El día 13 de diciembre,
la huelga general de los empleados públicos

protestó las restricciones bancarias y los
atrasos de pagos de pensiones y otras medidas
económicas. Para el día 20 de diciembre,

Fernando de la Rúa se vio forzado a renunciar
el puesto después de estrechas
manifestaciones y un tumulto social en el cual

murieron 25 personas. El presidente del
senado, Ramón Puerta, fue presidente
suplente durante dos días hasta el 23 de

diciembre, cuando Adolfo Rodríguez Saa fue
nombrado presidente interino. Él instaló a
corruptos officiales en el gobierno y mantuvo

las restricciones bancarias hasta que también
se vio forzado a resignar el día 30 de
diciembre. Al rechazar Puerta el segundo

plazo presidencial, Eduardo Camaño asumió
el poder como presidente interino
manteniendo presidencia hasta el día 1 de

enero cuando el Congreso eligió al peronista

Eduardo Duhalde, quien fue derrotado por
de la Rúa en las elecciones del 1999, para
terminar los últimos dos años del plazo

presidencial de de la Rúa. (6) Duhalde
devaluó el peso y acabó con diez años de tipo
de cambio fijo atado al dólar estadounidense.

Además Duhalde cambió a pesos devaluados
todas las deudas calculadas en dólares- un
cambio que, según se calcula, costará a los

bancos y servicios extranjeros $6.2 mil
millones de dólares. (8)

El pueblo vencerá

El pueblo de Argentina está luchando por

un gobierno que verdaderamente lo

represente, pero lo único que se ha
conseguido hasta el momento ha sido ponerle
una nueva cara al mismo gobierno al servicio

de los imperialistas. Según el Partido
Comunista Revolucionario de Argentina que
se declara marxista-leninista-maoísta (pero

que sigue desorientado respecto a la cuestión
sobre la restauración del capitalismo en
China):

"Un puñado de dirigentes que fueron parte

y cómplices de los gobiernos de Menem y
De la Rúa- Cavallo, impusieron a Eduardo

Duhalde en la Presidencia de la Nación.
Ocultan que son ellos los que llevaron el país
a la quiebra sirviendo a minúsculos intereses

imperialistas y oligárquicos. Pretenden
preparar el terreno para aplicar `nuevas'
recetas para que el pueblo siga pagando la

crisis. Hablan de `unidad nacional', pero
trabajan para dividir al pueblo; y estudian
medidas represivas para acallar la rebeldía

obrera y popular."(9)

"Se ha abierto un nuevo round. En él, las

clases dominantes tratarán de revertir lo

avanzado por el pueblo; y éste, con sus luchas,
pugnará por avanzar hacia una resolución
popular y antiimperialista de la crisis,

multiplicando las multisectoriales, cabildos
abiertos, comités de crisis, asambleas
populares y demás organizaciones en los que

se va plasmando la unidad combativa, en la
lucha por imponer un gobierno de unidad
popular."(9)

Por medio de protestas espontáneas y sin

dirección es imposible lograr un gobierno al
servicio de los oprimidos. El ejemplo de

Argentina demuestra claramente que la clase
dominante no pierde el tiempo explotando al
pueblo y utilizando su descontento para

justificar el cambio del nombre de explotador
sin tener que acabar con la explotación. Este
hecho demuestra la necesidad de un partido

de vanguardia popular que dirija al pueblo
en su lucha contra el imperialismo. Un frente
unico de las clases en contra del imperialismo

bajo el liderazgo de un partido maoísta puede
sobrepasar la democracia burguesa e iniciar
un gobierno que verdaderamente esté al

servicio de los oprimidos y los explotados.

Notas:
1. BBC News, 15 de Enero, 2002.
2. New York Times, 14 de Enero, 2002.
3. Los Angeles Times, 11 de Enero, 2002.
4. Weekly News Update on the Americas No. 624, 13 de
Enero, 2002.
5. Para mayor información sobre el FMI y la deuda del tercer
mundo véase los archivos del MIM sobre el tema: http://
www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/#debt.
6. News.bbc.co.uk.
7. MIM Notes 141, 1o de Julio, 1997.
8. New York Times, 14 de Enero 2002.
9. Declaración del PCR 2/1/2002, http://www.pcr-arg.com.ar/.

Argentina: el capitalismo

fracasa de nuevo