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May 15, 2002, Nº 258

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he neo-fascist National Front came

in second in voting in the French

national primary and thus won the

chance to elect Jean-Marie Le Pen

president in a run-off election May

5th.(1) Conservative Jacques Chirac,

already known for broadly regressive

policies faced an even more aggressive

and regressive opponent.(2) [With 96

More analysis of the French

elections inside:

* Chirac wins big in runoff (p. 9)
* Unemployed voted for Le Pen (p.4)
* Algerian settlers support Le Pen (p.5)
* Abstainers look best to MIM (p.8)

Chinese

Regime

slanders Mao

Zedong on

Nepal

The state-capitalist regime in China

implementing "Deng Xiaoping Theory,"

has slandered Mao Zedong yet again.

According to the Nepalese Foreign

Secretary, Madhuraman Acharya the

Chinese government told him that the

People's War in Nepal was misusing the

name of Mao Zedong.(1)

Through its numerous publications, the

Chinese regime could have denied the

accusations, but it did not. In fact, it is

already in print referring to the People's

War in Nepal as "ultraleftist." The

Chinese regime also told Nepal that it

would not allow Tibet to be used by the

"ultraleftist" guerrillas fighting in Nepal.

Although it debated the question at

some length, the current regime in China

claims still to uphold "Mao Zedong

Thought" as a system of thought behind

"Deng Xiaoping Theory." Thus, the

regime in China is telling the

revolutionaries in Nepal that they are

fakes and they are doing this in the name

of Mao. At the same time, the Chinese

regime is not supporting any alternative

in Nepal that eliminates semi-

feudalism.(2)

Semi-feudalism is the system of land

ownership concentrating power in a few

landlords' hands that also puts the

peasants in a position of exploitation.

Farming under capitalism is done

through a wage system, but under semi-

feudalism, most peasants do not own

by MIM

IM, RAIL, and Studies for the

Liberation of Aztlan and Latin

America (SLALA) kicked off

a campaign to get the University of

California to pull its investments from

companies supporting Israeli aggression,

with an event at UC Los Angeles in early

May. A small but enthusiastic audience

listened to speakers from MIM and

SLALA lay out the rationale for the

campaign, and then participated in a

discussion about the issues raised.

The speakers explained the historically

progressive role played by student

divestment campaigns, especially in the

case of Vietnam in the 1970s, the 1980s

South African campaign (which MIM

participated in), and the anti-sweatshop

campaign of the 1990s. Once again,

students in Amerikan schools have a

chance to apply public pressure on

university officials to pull their support

from an oppressive, U.$.-backed regime.

The UC system is an ideal target, because

the system invests hundreds of millions

of dollars in companies like General

Dynamics Corp., General Electric Corp.,

Honeywell Corp., Lockheed Martin,

Raytheon and United Tech Corp., each

of which invests heavily in Israel and

provide it with helicopters, jet engines,

F-16 fighters, M1-A2 Tanks, avionics

control systems, rocket launchers,

aircraft missiles, launch systems, other

missiles and more.

The campaign calls on the UC system

to investigate the companies it invests in

and does business with for ties to the

Israeli apartheid state and divest from

those companies with large investments

in Israel -- especially those involved

with the Israeli military. This divestment

should continue at least as long as Israel

refuses to withdraw from the territory it

occupied in 1967.

Neo-fascist Le Pen advances through French primary

percent of the national vote counted on

the evening of the 5 May, Le Pen received

18% of the vote, Chirac 82%. See p. 9.]

The primary results for Chirac and Le

Pen respectively were 19.7% and

17.0%.(3) The ex-Trotskyist Jospin,

representing the pseudo left only won

about 16%(4)--and thus is excluded

from the final election. The so-called

French Communist Party led by Robert

Hue only won 3.5%(5) and will receive

no state funding, since a party must win

at least 5% in the primary to win state

subsidization.(6) Another fascist

candidate named Bruno Megret who

splintered away from Le Pen's political

party won another 2%. This means that

20% of French voters have already pulled

the lever for fascism and probably more

will in the second round of voting.

MIM sees the upset of Jospin by Le

Pen in a radically different light than the

mainstream news. Most of the

mainstream authorities presume that Le

Pen's votes are protest votes. But taking

second place in the national primary

means Le Pen has genuine supporters--

despite the denial of the republican

bourgeoisie.(8)

MIM sees the victory for Le Pen in the

primaries as proof positive of the labor

aristocracy thesis--that dominant-nation

"workers" in imperialist countries are in

fact a new petit-bourgeoisie, a labor

aristocracy. They support imperialism

because they benefit from it. The real

proletariat, on the other hand, resides

overwhelmingly in the so-called Third

World.(9)

Many self-styled "leftists" or

"communists" insist that the aristocracy

is exploited and hence revolutionary.

MIM and RAIL kick off UC divest campaign

Hey, soldier, where'dya get that gun? The University of California

invests in the Israeli war machine to the tune of billions of dollars.

As the SLALA speaker said: "With its

declaration of all-out war against the

people of Palestine, Israel's recent

military invasions into all the major cities

in the already occupied West Bank -

Including Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus

and Hebron - has meant mass dislocation,

unwarranted search, seizure, thousands

of arrests and detentions, and the deaths

of hundreds, many of whom died as

ambulances were prevented from

reaching them, or literally were left to

rot on the streets."

Audience members signed a petition

supporting the demands of the campaign,

and took postcards to distribute for others

to send to the UC administration.

The event also included a film

screening of a recent documentary

showing the continued expansion of

Israeli settlements on Palestinian land

after the so-called peace agreement

between Israel and the Palestinian

Authority brokered by former U.$.

President Bill Clinton. Palestinians

interviewed in the film showed how their

homes and land were seized as Israel

systematically expanded the areas of

greater Jerusalem that are under Israeli

control. One family, evicted from their

ancestral home by the city of Jerusalem

to make way for new settlements, fought

a long battle in the courts, and finally

won. But instead of getting their home

back, they were given a dilapidated bus

to live in as compensation.

Another man won a court battle saying

a certain piece of land seized by Israelis

was indeed his, but he was not allowed

to re-claim it.

Activists from Students for Justice in

Palestine (SJP), associated with the

International Socialist Organization

(ISO), are leading a campaign for UC

divestment from Israel on the Berkeley

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parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking
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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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What is the material
basis for neo-fascism?

What is the position of the Party on Le

Pen and the general rise of the right in

Europe? The line as I understand it is that

fascism rises as social democracy falls.

I.e. when sources of superprofits are cut

off/slowed the alliance btw. labour and

capital is threatened and capital uses

elements of the working class as shock

troops to control the population, using

ideologies of nationalism, racism, etc,

etc. But my understanding is that the

Party's line is that the alliance is very

strong and certainly the flow of

superprofits is unimpeded. So why the

rise in the right?

My first response is that as imperialism

develops and the white working classes

move upward, there is a need for (largely

nonwhite) immigrant labour. But to keep

these immigrants stuck at the bottom of

the labour market, since legal racial

segregation is too obvious, they are kept

there via the criminal justice system

(illegal immigrants) and through

encouraging the "natural" racism of the

dominant white nation through various

channels (e.g. institutional racism in the

courts/legislature, rightward drift of

[social democratic]/labour parties, etc.)

So the rise of the right is just one of the

channels of controlling the proletariat,

putting them btw. the bad cop of fascism

and the good cop of the liberals.

But these are arguments that seem to

rely on false consciousness. I.e. the white

workers are doing fine, but they are

tricked into thinking immigrants are

taking their jobs. The anti-globalization

movement position is that white workers

are suffering so the false consciousness

is countered to a real change in material

conditions. While this may be untrue, it

is at least logically consistent. If the white

workers, as the Party posits, are either

doing better than ever, doing the same,

or doing just marginally worse, then how

to explain the rise of Buchanan, Le Pen

Haider, neo-nazism all across Europe, etc

in a materialist way?

Obviously the rise of the right doesn't

constitute a return of fascism, and

certainly not fascism in power. So one

answer is that the link btw fascism and

social democracy is not (yet) the issue

here. Rather, the immanent fascism of

social democracy ebbs and flows within

certain materialist limits based on

primarily ideological/cultural shifts. So

even if white workers are doing fine, their

national chauvinism can be stoked to

some extent absent a significant change

in material conditions.

MIM responds: While we do say that

the alliance between the imperialists and

the labor aristocracy is still strong, we

do not say that there are no contradictions

between the two classes, or that different

wings of the bourgeoisie aren't

maneuvering for labor aristocracy

support. Nor do we say that the lot of

every imperialist country "worker" is

getting better all the time.

Clearly "workers" in some shrinking

industries (think steel in the United

$tates) have higher unemployment rates.

These "workers" favor a nationalistic

economic policy (protective tariffs to

protect their jobs). Those that are

unemployed believe that stopping

immigration will give them jobs.

Buchanan, Le Pen et al. do not just

spout racist rhetoric, they also put

forward concrete economic and social

proposals. For that matter, Hitler did not

just whip Germans into a frenzy based

on some supposed German propensity for

anti-Semitism. He also carried out an

economic program based on

expansionism, war preparations, and

some social-democratic reforms--which

appealed to the German petit bourgeoisie

and labor aristocracy.

So the pull of parasitism--and hence

of neo-fascists like Le Pen who are

willing to take strong steps to preserve

it--is material, not ideological. As we

write on page four of this issue,

"Unemployed people do not live in a

vacuum. They have brothers, sisters,

uncles etc. who are leading successful

middle-class lives. The oppressor nation

unemployed look around and see that the

vast majority of white people do live such

lives as exploiters of the Third World.

"When Le Pen saw this situation, he

correctly assessed how the white

unemployed of France feel. It is not a case

where the French oppressor nation

unemployed looked around and saw a

need for drastic change of systems. At

most they believe expelling all foreigners

will give them the jobs that the rest of

the French oppressor nation already has.

So the Le Pen voter, while wanting

change, does not believe the change is

so great that the whole apple-cart has to

be upset, just the apple-cart of the

foreigners. For this reason, the

unemployed took to the militant parasitic

message of Le Pen."

Atom-bomb lover
hates MIM

I was looking for photographs of the

dropping of little boy [an atomic bomb]

on Hiroshima, on google, and saw a photo

I liked. It brought me to your website. It

said the bombing was an atroccity [sic].

You [sic] what was an atroccity [sic]? The

Baton [sic] Death March. The Holocaust

was an atroccity [sic]. But what were we

going to do? Invade Japan? You blame

everything on evil capitalists dont [sic]

you? You need to get your facts straight

you crazy socialist, the USSR is dead!

And you arent [sic] gonna be

redistributing my paycheck as long as Im

[sic] alive. So go to China, you ccna [sic]

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May 4, 2002

MIM mourns the deaths of eight North

Carolina jail inmates who died in a fire

while locked in their cells on Friday, 3

May. They were: Edmond Banks, Danny

Johnson, Jesse Davis, Jeremiah Presnell,

Jason Boston, Joey Grindstaff, Tywain

Neal, and Mark Thomas. Their average

age was 29. There were 17 inmates in

the jail at the time of the fire, either

serving time for misdemeanors or

awaiting trial as is common in jails.

Those who survived the fire and three

state employees went to nearby hospitals

to be treated for injuries.

As we go to press we do not know what

caused the fire in the 47-year old

Mitchell County Jail in Bakersville. Nor

do we know if the building's status in

the National Register of Historic Places

contributed to its lack of modern fire-

protection measures. But we do know

what caused the deaths. Sheriff Ken Fox

said: "You don't know what to say You

can't find the words. It's just tragic."

Tragic and entirely culpable. The jail's

cells each had to be opened individually

and there were no sprinklers in the

building. It is criminal to forcibly hold

any persyn in a cell without basic safety

measures. Buildings catch fire and floods

happen, 21st century Amerika has the

technology to see that people do not die

for not being able to exit a jail cell.

While we do not know how many of

the inmates had yet to be tried it seems

that at least one of the dead was likely

awaiting trial, or bail, as he died while in

a holding cell on the first floor of the jail.

We can also say with certainty that none

of the inmates had been sentenced to die

for his crime. The Mitchell County

Sheriff's Department has blood on its

hands, and under socialism the proletariat

could demand blood to pay for this crime.

The Sheriff is a government official

charged with responsibility for citizens'

lives. The proletariat's message to such

officials is: if you don't want blood

responsibility for citizens' lives, don't

take the job! The leadership principle

dictates that the public does not need to

suffer any careerists who want the power

of life and death but are not prepared to

pay in kind for their own failures.

Notes: "Eight die in N.C. Jail Fire," Guardian
Unlimited, 4 May, 2002; "Weekend Edition,"
National Public Radio 4 May, 2002; http://
www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us/nrlist.htm

North Carolina Sheriff's incompetence kills eight

A newspaper billing itself as a daily

for "Russian-Americans" has reported

that there was a pogrom style attack on a

Ukrainian synagogue on April 13th. Such

an attack on Jews is nothing new in

Ukraine.

Soon after there was a swift arrest and

Jews reported satisfaction with the

cooperation of the government. What

was astonishing was the rally of

thousands chanting slogans for I$rael and

opposing Arafat and fascism for the 54th

anniversary of the foundation of I$rael.

The rally in downtown Kiev reputedly

had more than 10,000 participants.

Organized by the Ukrainian Jewish

Congress, the rally also heard greetings

sent by I$raeli ruler and mass-murderer

Ariel Sharon.

All those countries and leaders

attempting to gain Uncle Sam's support

on the "terrorism" question now face

internal questions in that light. Anti-

Semitism has had a long and strong

history in Ukraine, but the question of

"terrorism" has given Ukrainians

interesting choices.

Lumping Arafat in with fascism shows

that some are prepared to say that

defending Jews justifies anything done

by Jews. This is wrong and there can

never be peace if Jews take the Holocaust

as a carte blanche to commit genocide

themselves. The Palestinian people are

attacking Zionist occupiers-- both

troops and civilians who are occupiers.

It is a war of national liberation, not

"terrorism."

On the other hand, it is possible that

Jews in a synagogue do not support I$rael

themselves. Some Jews who become

victims may not be exploiters at all, but

rather poor people.

The fact that anti-Semitism is arising

around the globe while the Zionists are

murdering people on the West Bank raises

some challenging questions of sorting out

anti-Semitism and anti-imperialism, since

I$rael is one of the world's leading and

most vicious imperialists. MIM's May

Congress will take up the controversy.

Every year we hold votes on questions of

party line and then implement those lines

until the next Congress.

Source: New Russian Word April 20-

21, p. 11.

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Ukrainian violence against Jews creates new history

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MIM Notes 258 · May 15, 2002· Page 4

Thirty-eight percent of unemployed

French voters voted for Le Pen.(1) That

is a huge percentage given that no

candidate in the election garnered more

than 19% of the total and Le Pen received

17% overall.

This is not some foggy "false

consciousness" by the French

unemployed people. Le Pen has

campaigned in French politics forever--

four times for the presidency--and the

French know what he stands for very

well. It's been 30 years since he formed

his neo-Nazi "National Front" party and

Le Pen has served many years in both

French and European parliaments. By

1988 he had already won 14% of the

presidential vote and 15% in 1995.(2)

63% of Le Pen voters had decided on Le

Pen months before the election.(4)

After all, if the unemployed simply

demonstrated "false consciousness"

fogginess, there were seven "leftist"

candidates or three green candidates they

could vote for and four more "moderate"

right-wing candidates.(3) Hence, there

was nothing stupid, arbitrary or lucky

about Le Pen's victory in the first-round

amongst the unemployed. Although other

candidates blasted unemployment, Le

Pen received the overwhelming support

of the unemployed, and not just the

support that one of 16 candidates could

expect.

If "false consciousness" as the phony

Marxists say is the reason for the problem

of the Le Pen vote by the unemployed,

then we would expect Le Pen to obtain 1

in 16 votes, say 6% of unemployed votes.

Instead, Le Pen received 38% of the

unemployed vote and 30% of the

workers' vote while obtaining only 8%

of the so-called liberal professions'

voters--something closer to the

traditional petty-bourgeoisie.

Amongst the unemployed the next

closest candidate was Jospin at 13%.

Chirac was at 12%. The leading

candidate by far amongst the unemployed

was abstention, with 46% of all

unemployed people abstaining and Le

Pen winning 38% of the remaining 54%

of unemployed people who did vote.(4)

The rest of the candidates received so

little of the vote that overall it looks like

"false consciousness" could only apply

to those unemployed who did not vote

for Le Pen. Perhaps most embarrassing

to the phony communists is that the

"Communist Party" of France candidate

Hue received 0% of the unemployed vote

and 3.4% overall.

Looking at the economic status of the

voters, Le Pen got his lowest proportion

from students, but that was still a tie for

first place. For a fascist movement to

occur, students have to be a part and thus

his 15% amongst students is very bad

news. Also shocking to social-democratic

theorists, Le Pen received the highest

percentage of salaried public sector

professionals' votes with 17%. Jospin

was second amongst public sector

workers at 16%.

Amongst the "workers," the two

Trotskyists pulled 16% of the vote and

Jospin 15% of the vote. However, Le Pen

pulled 30% of the worker vote. Another

3% of "workers" pulled the lever for the

even nuttier fascist Megret. Combined

with the Chirac vote and other rightists,

48% of "worker" votes went to

unabashedly "conservative" or more

reactionary politicians. The definition

that the polling agency used for "worker"

excluded farmers, professionals,

"employees," traders and artisans. The

"worker" and unemployed voting results

in France could hardly be greater proof

of what MIM is saying: the left-wing

parasites do all the talking about the

"workers," but the fascists do all the

reaping of the fears and insecurities that

the left-wing parasite parties stir up. That

is why the MIM line is necessary, because

casual opportunism does make things

worse.

Amongst the reactionaries, lower

income reactionaries voted for Le Pen

and Megret and upper income people

voted for Chirac and Madelin. By

education level, Le Pen had his hardest

time amongst those with education above

a bachelor's degree, with only 8% of such

people voting for him. Higher education

people also abstained the most, with 29%

abstaining.

The fact that Le Pen received 38% of

the unemployed vote disproves the "false

consciousness" hypothesis. We have to

look at some other explanation.

As MIM has said all along, even

amongst isolated unemployed minorities

of oppressor nations in the imperialist

countries, the pull of parasitism is very

strong. That pull is material, not

ideological. Unemployed people do not

live in a vacuum. They have brothers,

sisters, uncles etc. who are leading

successful middle-class lives. The

oppressor nation unemployed look

around and see that the vast majority of

white people do live such lives as

exploiters of the Third World.

When Le Pen saw this situation, he

correctly assessed how the white

unemployed of France feel. It is not a case

where the French oppressor nation

unemployed looked around and saw a

need for drastic change of systems. At

most they believe expelling all foreigners

will give them the jobs that the rest of

the French oppressor nation already has.

So the Le Pen voter, while wanting

change, does not believe the change is

so great that the whole apple-cart has to

be upset, just the apple-cart of the

foreigners. For this reason, the

unemployed took to the militant parasitic

message of Le Pen. Clearly Jospin and

Chirac were already in power and not

going to do enough. Various green

candidates founded themselves on issues

of low priority for the unemployed and

so it was that the candidates most

aggressive about advancing parasitism

did best amongst the unemployed of

France. It goes to show that stirring up

the economic fears and concerns of the

imperialist country oppressor nation as

if it had a substantial proletariat will

backfire and produce fascist movements.

In contrast, in a Third World country,

there is no foreigner to expel that would

nearly equal the number of unemployed

people. The unemployed, the proletariat

and even the middle-classes share a

tenuousness of economic life not seen in

imperialist countries and hence the

proletariat exerts more influence and pull

on the lumpen-proletariat and the petty-

bourgeoisie in the Third World than it

does in imperialist countries like France.

Notes:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
europe/newsid_1946000/1946764.stm
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
europe/newsid_1943000/1943193.stm
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
europe/newsid_1946000/1946937.stm
4. The most informative web page on this whole
subject is: http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/poll/
7549.asp

French unemployed voted for Le Pen

They argue that the white worker is

merely bamboozled, hoodwinked, or

deceived into a "false consciousness."

Consequently, they attempt to out-race

Chirac and Le Pen in putting gravy on

the labor aristocracy's potatoes--and this

means contributing to the imperialist

drive for war and repression.

With the failure of the mainstream

candidates Jospin and Chirac, the labor

aristocracy is looking for someone more

aggressive in France. However, in

imperialist "democracy," no party gathers

much support for telling the population

that this competition to increase

parasitism leads to global repression, war

and environmental degradation. Among

other things it would mean bursting the

bubble of national pride about France's

global role as an imperialist--and this is

something that politicians do not do, the

equivalent of telling voters that they have

bad breath; even though it is the useful

truth that needs learning.

MIM stands for a global minimum

wage and reparations to the Third World

Neo-fascist Le Pen advances through French primary

with an eye to environmental protection

and sustainable development, and we do

not care how many votes we win for

promoting these basic planks of our

platform. Rather than participate in the

race to sell-out to parasitic classes, MIM

is glad to seek out and promote altruists

and scientists who are willing to accept

that part of the privilege of power will

be the responsibility to renounce profit

in a long term struggle to win public

opinion and change the world. In this way

MIM will build a credible alternative to

hypocrisy which will not ignite fascism

and another global inter-imperialist war.

If we have the negative examples of

Hue and Jospin, who show us that those

who argue for the "false consciousness"

and "revolutionary potential" of the white

working class in the first world are full

of crap, we can also look to the other side

of the political spectrum: Le Pen makes

arguments which look revolutionary. He

talks about empowering the voiceless,

listening to the little guy and getting the

votes of steelworkers.

Just as Jospin, Laguiller and Hue are

the proof of the failure of the "left" to

understand the labor aristocracy, so Le

Pen shows us that fascists are willing to

recognize the hard facts. Le Pen sees the

Trotskyists, social-democrats and phony

communists clamor for militant

parasitism--Le Pen does the same thing

with simpler solutions. Unemployment

going up? No problem: Deport the

foreigners stealing "our" jobs. (Never

mind that stolen Third World labor made

France rich to begin with.)

MIM reaches from this the uneasy

conclusion that Le Pen or someone from

his party could indeed win the French

presidency, if not today, then some day

soon. All the candidates of parasitism

more or less legitimize each other,

whether they subjectively intend to or

not. Not for nothing Le Pen is now

making a big deal out of his anti-

globalization stance, pushing for

withdrawal from the European Union and

thereby making a move for militant

parasitic voters on the "left" who did

spade work for Le Pen by taking the same

stance toward global trade, which is

traditionally associated with the

beginning of major wars amongst great

powers.(11)

President Chirac is basically seen,

correctly, as crooked. He is loved by no

one except those whom he has corrupted.

When Le Pen argues that he is honest and

Chirac isn't there is substance to his

statements: Le Pen is honest about his

neo-fascism, considering the holocaust a

detail of the history of the second world

war. He is also honest about his

militarism and about his enmity toward

immigration.(12) Le Pen seems to

recognize, correctly, that people respect

honesty and also acknowledges the

importance of placing material facts prior

to ideology.

Hitler was also very honest and

detailed clearly in "Mein Kampf" exactly

what he intended to do: exterminate the

Jewish minority in Germany if not all of

Europe, rearm for another imperialist war

and forge an alliance between a nascent

labor aristocracy and the imperialists.

Meanwhile, Le Pen has also promoted a

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MIM Notes 258 · May 15, 2002· Page 5

There is often a thesis from the

bourgeoisie that the far left and far right

meet at the extremes. President George

W. Bush spoke in this manner and

condemned anti-Semitism in France; the

major social-democratic French

newspaper Le Monde also did so by

condemning the "protest" votes of the left

and right.(1) When it comes to France

however, there is hardly any casual

switching between left and right in

France's parliamentary charades.

Fascist Megret received close to none

of his votes from the "extreme left"

Trotskyist and similar parties and also

received none of his votes from the voters

for these parties--thus blocking some

hypothesis of extreme protest voters. In

2002, Megret received 0% of the 1997

voters who chose the "Communist Party"

of France.

Likewise Le Pen was confined to 6, 7

or 8% of "extreme left" or green voters

of the past in his 2002 bid. In contrast,

18% of the 1997 voters for mainstream

reactionary parties such as Chirac's

"Rally for the Republic" voted for Le Pen

this time. If Jospin and Chirac are the

"responsible" moderates then it is those

"responsible" moderate voters giving the

largest portion of votes to Le Pen.

Even if we go back to 1995 elections,

only 3 to 5% of the left-wing parasite

voters voted for Le Pen this time. The

"extreme left" voter was much more

likely to abstain in 2002 than vote for Le

Pen (see "Abstaining voters look best to

MIM," this issue).

As for Le Pen voters, they are very

consciously anti-left. In all elections

since 1995, Le Pen voters have ranged

from 0 to 2% support for any of the seven

parties of the French left of 2002. In fact,

the 10 green and left parties combined

in 2002 received only 5% of Le Pen

voters of 1995.

The real danger is not amongst voters.

There is nothing to be done as an electoral

political party to win over the Le Pen and

Megret voters. No amount of

opportunism will change their minds.

The countless left-wing parasite pundits

telling MIM to add some racism to our

message to fool Le Pen types have no

data to back their views. 10 French

parties tried in various ways to win Le

Pen voters to the left-parasitic or green

position, and they only obtained 5% of

those Le Pen voters from 1995.

Our real task is to win the abstentionists

over and not let the fascists have them.

Note:
1. http://elections.lemonde.fr/presidentielle/actu/
aujourdhui/0,,910795,00.html
2. http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/poll/7549.asp

Electoral candidates do not meet at far right and left

On May 2nd Jean-Marie Le Pen

returned to Marseilles where 3000

gathered to hear his last rally speech of

the campaign for the presidency with

elections coming up on May 5th. The

providence which contains Marseilles--

Provence--gave Le Pen 23% in the first

round.(3) Provence is filled with French

settlers kicked out of Algeria by forceful

revolution. It does not surprise MIM that

a major candidate for the political

leadership of an imperialist country gets

his strongest support from former settlers

on Arab land.

Algeria is composed of 99% Arabic

population by ethnicity. However, until

1954 when the final guerrilla war for

independence started, France occupied

Algeria as a colony. By 1962, Algeria was

free. The war was a horrible but

necessary and hence beautiful one in

which civilians on both sides died--

something referred to as "terrorism,"(2)

but which is really war over land. One of

the soldiers in the war was Jean-Marie

Le Pen.

While other French soldiers such as Le

Pen's superior officer remember him

well, the Algerian people do not.

Algerians remember Le Pen as

"extremely violent" and a "torturer."(4)

Ironically, one proposed settler solution

to that war at the time appeared to be

making all the Muslims there French

citizens with France thereby annexing the

land across the sea from France in

northern Africa. This would have left Le

Pen and others living with even more

Africans that they object to than they do

today.

Although Le Pen called the Nazi

genocide of Jews "a detail of history,"

and although Le Pen echoes Hitler in

many ways, there is another imperialist

politician who derives political support

from settlers on Arab land: his name is

Ariel Sharon. Whether it is English

settlers killing Indians in Amerikkka,

French settlers killing Algerians in

Algeria, Australian settlers killing

indigenous people in Australia or I$raeli

settlers killing Palestinians in the West

Bank, the most reactionary people are

colonialists tainted by the theft of land

from other peoples. Allied with

imperialist ruling classes, the settlers

know no limits to their irrationality and

petty property-oriented vindictiveness.

Notes:
1. Mort Rosenblum, "Le Pen criticizes Chirac. .
.," Associated Press, May 2nd http://
www.globe.com/dailynews/122/world/
Le_Pen_criticizes_Chirac_befor:.shtml
2. http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/evans/
his135/MODULES/events/algeria62.htm is an
example referring to French settlers and
Algerian nationalists both as "terrorists" in this
conflict
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
europe/newsid_1946000/1946764.stm
4. http://elections.lemonde.fr/presidentielle/actu/
aujourdhui/0,,910771,00.html

Le Pen's final rally gains French settler support

MIM would point out that it refers to

"left" and "right" in politics in these Le
Pen articles to refer to the various wings
of the parasitic political ideology of
imperialism. MIM is neither left nor right
in this regard, because MIM opposes
parasitism altogether. Left-wing parasites
want to spread the super-profits more
evenly amongst the exploiters while
right-wing parasites want greater class
differentiation within the exploiter camp.

The terms "left" and "right" mean

something else when referring to lines
within MIM. "Ultra-left" lines assume
advanced conditions which do not exist
and thus cause damage--an
overestimation of what is possible.
"Rightist" lines underestimate what can
be achieved in today's existing conditions
and also cause damage.

Within a communist party, and its

vocabulary, sometimes the "left" is
considered the best and sometimes
neither "left" nor "right" line is the
correct line doing the most that can be
done in existing conditions. Mao stated
polemically and perhaps sardonically that

he was "center-left" in China especially
relative to his wife and the "Gang of
Four" of the "left" and those further "left"
who were "ultra-left." This is not to say
that "centrist" is considered a good thing
in the communist movement either.

The complication arises in

distinguishing simple talk of ideological
principles and the actual strategic
situation of any given day. Generally
communists seek to be genuine left within
the communist movement and correct
overall. The "correct" approach has
neither left nor right deviations and also
does not "split the difference." The
correct approach to achieving ideological
goals or implementing ideological
principles is simply scientifically correct.

When it comes to relatively timeless

ideological principles communists favor
classless society, while socialists do not
and seek to ameliorate class differences
without eliminating them. Next are those
conservatives who prefer to keep class
differences as they are and finally there
are reactionaries who support increasing

ruling class privileges perhaps by going
back to earlier times in humyn history
when there were slave-owners or feudal
lords for instance. Thus we have
described a range going from "left" to
"right" in which "left" is best. Often it
makes little sense to talk about
achievements or implementation with
people who do not share your ideological
goals at all, which is why there is some
value to talking about "left" and "right."

However, talk of timeless ideological

principles and goals can only refer to
"nominal left" and "nominal right." What
is more important than dogma is who
actually delivers progress toward
classlessness. Sometimes people hiding
behind "leftist" verbiage are actually
sabotaging the communist movement in
practice. This is known as "making the
perfect the enemy of the good" and thus
destroying the good without achieving
the perfect. Thus, it is simply best to be
"correct" in practice, because mistakes
can come from both the "left" and
"right."

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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?

campus. There, after a successful sit-in

protest led to many arrests, the UC

administration has pressed serious

criminal charges against student and

community activists, and also suspended

SJP from campus activities under a brand

new "zero tolerance" policy against

dissent. (See "No free speech for pro-

Palestine group at UC Berkeley," in this

issue.) Although the MIM-led movement

is not affiliated with SJP or ISO, we

support their call for divestment, and also

support them in their struggles against

repression by the UC administration.

To find out to get involved in the UC

divest campaign, visit www.etext.org/

Politics/MIM/cal.

UC divest

campaign

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP),

a student group at UC Berkeley, was

suspended by the University after helping

to organize a demonstration on April 9th

in solidarity with the Palestinian people

and demanding that the University of

California divest from Israel. More than

a thousand students participated in the

demonstration which culminated in a sit-

in in Wheeler Hall. Seventy-nine people

were arrested, and all are facing criminal

charges. The 41 students arrested are also

facing student conduct charges and

potential suspension for up to one year.

The suspension of Students for Justice

in Palestine, pending an investigation,

means that SJP is barred from holding

events on campus, tabling, distributing

literature, and organizing. The

investigation may conclude that SJP

should be banned as a student

organization at Berkeley.

As SJP has pointed out: "No other

student group that has participated in

non-violent civil disobedience has been

suspended and no students have faced

charges of this severity in the past several

years at UC Berkeley. We believe that

this is a systematic attempt to silence pro-

Palestinian voices on campus and to

intimidate students from being

activists...In fact, the policy that makes

SJP subject to these charges (the

Chancellor's so-called `zero tolerance'

policy) was implemented only a few days

before the protest, specifically to make

SJP subject to higher standards and

harsher consequences."

In another statement the SJP points out:

"the Chancellor's so-called `zero

tolerance' policy, threatens students and

student groups with expulsion for

participating in actions. The interesting

thing about the `zero tolerance' policy is

its sudden appearance, without oversight,

and without student or faculty review.

This policy, along with the targeting of

SJP, have the effect of chilling speech,

especially speech by activists in defense

of reforms and change in university

policy."

In response to protest letters in support

of SJP, the Assistant Chancellor's office

sent a form letter stating that the

suspension of the SJP is not punishment

for political demonstrations, it is

punishment for "taking over classroom

buildings and depriving the right of other

students to an education." What this fails

to recognize is that education is not

devoid of political content. In fact the

political organizations on campuses

provide much needed education to

students who are otherwise inundated

with mainstream media and textbook

Amerikan chauvinist information.

Perhaps anticipating the current

standoff with SJP, Chancellor Robert M.

Berdahl made a statement on April 8, the

day before the building occupation: "This

University has a proud history in the

defense of free expression. It is our

responsibility to provide a neutral forum

for individuals and groups to advocate

their cause. ... Most importantly, it is our

responsibility to protect the rights of all

members of the campus community to

pursue their reason for being here - the

work of teaching, learning, and research

- uninterrupted by anyone."

Again MIM points out, there is no such

thing as a "neutral forum" in the context

of imperialist educational institutions.

The Chancellor makes this clear by

passing judgment on what counts as

education by suspending SJP while

continuing to supervise nuclear weapons

development at Lawrence-Livermore and

Los Alamos labs. (See also "UCLA

professor defends `Black Book of

Communism' lies," in this issue.) Taking

part in organizing for social change,

fighting to save lives around the world,

and educating the general public about

issues of life and death are crucial

elements of teaching and learning.

Protecting the rights of all members of

the campus community to pursue these

activities should mean not only allowing

political organizing, but promoting and

protecting it.

Further, as the SJP points out, the UC's

view of education rights are limited to

the privileged few who live in this

country: "the University of California's

investments in Israel have done nothing

but interrupt the education of thousands

of students in Palestine, whose

universities and colleges and schools

have been closed as a result of the Israeli

occupation." They go on in another

statement: "Berkeley's sister school,

Bethlehem University, lies in ruins. Bir

Zeit University has been closed for

months. Thousands of students in

Palestine have had their education

disrupted by the Israeli occupation.

Meanwhile, the Chancellor and the

Assistant Chancellor continue to pretend

as if `uninterrupted education' is

something more than a fiction financed

by the Israeli occupation and the US

support of it."

On April 29, in defiance of the

suspension, SJP set up a table in the

center of campus. About 40 students

turned out to stand by the table and

distribute literature while other student

groups tabling in the area also displayed

signs reading "We are all Student for

Justice in Palestine." Within an hour of

setting up the table, Student Judicial

Affairs Director Neal Rajmaira hand-

delivered a letter that threatened the

group with "further and additional"

sanctions if they continued to table.

SJP is associated with the International

Socialist Organization (ISO). Although

the MIM-launched divestment campaign

(see page one) is not affiliated with SJP

or ISO, we urge readers to fight against

this crackdown on free speech at

Berkeley continues and send protest

letters to the administration at the

addresses below (also send a copy to

MIM).

Chancellor Robert Berdahl

MAIL: 200 California Hall #1500

Berkeley, CA 94720-1500

TEL: (510) 642-7464

FAX: (510) 643-5499

Assistant Chancellor John

Cummins

EMAIL:

jcummins@uclink4.berkeley.edu

MAIL: Office of the Chancellor

200 California Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-1500

TEL: (510) 642-7516

FAX: (510) 643-5499

No free speech for pro-Palestine group at UC Berkeley

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MIM Notes 258 · May 15, 2002· Page 7

by mim3@mim.org

In the April 1, 2002 MIM Notes we

reviewed the Global Exchange website

and mentioned its program of taking

people to Afghanistan to meet Afghans

on the subject of wimmin's status. After

repeated questioning, the tour guide for

that Afghanistan program has refused to

deny working with the CIA.

To MIM, this project all along sounded

suspiciously like an ideal CIA project.

[Global Exchange has also sponsored a

speaking tour by a Tibetan Monk with

ties to the CIA. See page seven.] On

March 30th, the press including CNN

discovered that the Bush administration

had pressed Black TV talk show host

Oprah Winfrey to tour Afghanistan

herself and she refused, citing scheduling

problems.

So we interviewed Global Exchange.

On March 7th, we sent an email to the

tour coordinator Nilufar Shuja

nilufar@globalexchange.org and we

asked for answers to our questions within

two days. There was no response.

Later, an Afghan tour volunteer from

Global Exchange contacted MIM on

March 14th, to say that Nilufar Shuja had

gone to Afghanistan and will answer our

questions upon return on March 17th;

although we have the impression that the

trip was after she received our questions.

On March 20th, we queried again and

this time we received a response, not

from Nilufar Shuja, but from the Global

Exchange Communications Director. At

no time between March 7th and March

30th did we actually hear from the tour

guide.

MIM Notes: Do you or your tour

receive any funding from the U.S.

Government? Has Global Exchange

received any U.S. government grants or

contracts or other sources of money?

Jason Mark for Global Exchange:

Global Exchange does not receive any

money from the U.S. government or from

multinational corporations. Nor do we

receive and U.S. government contracts

or other sources of money.

MIM Notes: The same above questions

apply to Afghanistan government

funding.

Jason Mark: We don't received any

money or funding from the Afghan

government.

MIM Notes: How did you establish

your ties with the Afghanistan

government?

Jason Mark: We don't really have any

formal ties with the Afghan government.

We have met with several government

minister, including interim president

Hamid Karzai and the Women's Affairs

minister Sima Simar, but we have no

formal relationships with the provisional

government there.

MIM Notes: Where does scholarship

money come from?

Jason Mark: Scholarship money comes

from our general support budget. We also

use a portion of every paid participant's

contribution to support the scholarships

we give out.

MIM Notes: Are you receiving any

assistance from the CIA?

Jason Mark: No, we do not receive any

assistance from the CIA.

MIM Notes: How will participants fly

to Afghanistan? Are there regular

commercial flights yet?

Jason Mark: So far our participants

have flown on commercial flights from

London to Islamabad and then on UN

flights (Global Exchange has UN

observer status) from Islamabad to

Kabul. We look forward to the

resumption of commercial flights.

Conclusions

Jason Mark further informed us that

Global Exchange was not giving us one

answer for itself and another from the

Afghan coordinator, and said that the

answers would be the same except that

the Afghan coordinator has only been

with Global Exchange for two months.

Since most CIA agents are "former"

CIA agents anyway, and do not announce

themselves, we pressed further. Although

Jason Mark claims that the Global

Exchange is not currently receiving U.S.

Government funding or working with the

CIA, we pressed him further: "Prior to

being with Global Exchange has Nilufar

formerly worked as employee, contractor

or consultant or received money in any

way from the U.S. Government?

Specifically did she work with any

intelligence agency, the Department of

Defense or the State Department?"

Jason Mark said, "I highly doubt it,"

but he advised to ask the tour guide

ourselves. So we did. It is now March

30th and she still has not replied. We are

left wondering how it is that Global

Exchange just so happens to know the

president of Afghanistan installed by

George Bush.

The Global Exchange brags about

bringing Jennifer Harbury on staff in

1998. The CIA killed Harbury's husband

in Guatemala. Other things from Global

Exchange could have been lifted from the

MIM website, but it's important to realize

that the CIA can use all such covers if it

so needs.

CIA shenanigans muddy the waters in Afghanistan

Would-be progressives must aggressively demarcate themselves from the CIA

Lately the "Free Tibet" movement is

making a stink about Palden Gyatso, who

had a book come out in 1997 about his

imprisonment in China. According to his

own book, Palden Gyatso was told his

teacher Gyen Rigzin Tenpa was a spy for

India, but he denied the charges and

according to Palden Gyatso himself,

other Tibetans saying that he deserved

to die beat and tortured him from 1959

onwards till his release/escape in 1992.

From MIM's point of view, it is not

surprising that former slaves and serfs in

Tibet have bitterness about people like

Palden Gyatso who wanted to go back.

Such bitterness is typical in any society

undergoing major change.

As of March 30th, a Google search

shows that Global Exchange is in first

place on the subject of Palden Gyatso for

sponsoring his speaking tour in 2000.(1)

From reading various sources, it

continues to be apparent that the "Free

Tibet" movement has no serious

intentions of leading Tibet forward. In

his autobiography, Palden Gyatso admits

that when the Chinese came to question

him in 1959, he and his colleagues did

not know what the word "exploitation"

meant. He had a hard time talking with

the Chinese about "oppression" and so

on, or so he said. Given the education

situation in Tibet at the time and the fact

that even many top lamas were illiterate,

his statement does in fact ring true.

Palden Gyatso's statement is actually

a fairly accurate picture of what the

problem in Tibet is. Fifty years ago a

movement arose to free Tibet of slavery,

serfdom and economic backwardness.

Young monks joined, but the defenders

of the system killed people like Lama

Geda for favoring change and peace with

China. Naturally, such events created

bitter divisions within Tibet.

Fifty years later, a country that just

elected George Bush and has as an

Attorney General someone actively

defending flying of the Confederate

Flag--that country is again supporting

people like Palden Gyatso. Why not? The

Confederacy is back in vogue in the

United $tates, so people defending

serfdom and slavery in Tibet should not

get a bad shake.

Palden Gyatso should have realized

that there was a problem that he did not

know what "exploitation" was. At the

very least, that left him open to being

used by pro-slavery activists. We do not

understand how he can be righteous

about the conflicts in his life after

admitting something like that. He should

be honest that he participated in the

rebellion in 1959 without much

knowledge of what he was doing.

Global Exchange and some of the

people sounding like John Birch Society

activists refer to Palden Gyatso as the

"Venerable Palden Gyatso." The Global

Exchange web page advertising Palden

Gyatso spews out the typical "Free Tibet"

confusion: "In 1959, Palden was jailed

along with thousands of other religious."

Yet as Palden Gyatso himself admits,

he was not accused of religion but of

activity in connection to a spy and a

violent uprising in Tibet. Of course, there

are going to be thousands of people in

jail in a country as large as China who

happen to be religious. However, religion

has nothing to do with Palden Gyatso's

case. The highest spiritual authority,

(maybe second highest if you count the

Dalai Lama as first) the Panchen Lama

was in harmony and peace with the

Maoist government in Beijing in 1959

when Palden Gyatso took a wrong turn.

The Dalai Lama himself was busy calling

off demonstrations that people like

Palden Gyatso pushed too far and too

violently. Unless the Panchen Lama was

not Buddhist, people should not say

Palden Gyatso went to prison for his

religion. If people want to dispute

whether or not Gyen Rigzin Tenpa was

really a spy, that's one thing, but turning

Palden Gyatso into a religious prisoner

is an example of lying propaganda.

Palden Gyatso himself admits he

organized a large group of monks at one

of the temples and that 100 English rifles

were distributed. He himself had charge

of guarding one portion of the temple.

There is also no factual conflict over who

started the fighting in 1959: it was the

reactionary Tibetans calling for China out

of Tibet. The fighting started much

earlier, and it is now evident in both Dalai

Lama documents and U.S. Government

documents that the CIA was already

involved militarily.

While the Dalai Lama was writing

poetry in homage to Mao Zedong in the

mid-1950s, his elder brothers started

contacts with the CIA at least as early as

1956. Those contacts included weapons

support for rebellions in Tibet already

under way. Describing the CIA, even the

Dalai Lama's brother running the

contacts said it was "dirty business." Yet

despite these known facts and the Dalai

Lama's admission of them, the "Free

Tibet" movement repeatedly

characterizes the movement in Tibet as

"non-violent" and "religious."

When Palden Gyatso arrived in the

United $tates, he organized a march/

demonstration with none other than the

same brother of the Dalai Lama Thubten

Jigme Norbu connected with the CIA as

his co-leader. As it turns out, Global

Exchange took its description of Palden

Gyatso from an organization created by

this same CIA-affiliated brother of the

Dalai Lama, called the "International

Tibet Independence Movement." There

Palden Gyatso is listed as one of four

leaders of the marches for Tibet.(4)

While almost all books published in the

West are slavishly pro-Dalai Lama or

Global Exchange honors CIA-tied colleague

Continued on page 9...

MIM Notes 258 · May 15, 2002· Page 8

book, "The Black Book of Communism"

now published with all its bone-headed

mistakes by Harvard University Press

and it's no accident that this book became

wildly popular in France at the same that

Le Pen and the Trotskyists criticizing

Stalin were on the rise in France. As

before, it is the attack on communism that

precedes the success of fascism.

The fact that Le Pen could come to

power in France illustrates several

interesting facts about imperialism, the

conflicts which it necessarily generates,

and the parasitical "workers" in the first

world. Despite much clamor to the

contrary, the imperialist countries did not

learn the lesson of World War II about

fascism, and that is why fascists have

come to power in Italy and Austria

already and why they are now moving

up in Denmark, Belgium and France as

well.

Notes:
1. The Economist, 22 Apr 2002.
2. Reuters (Fr.), 22 Apr 2002.
3. BBC, 22 Apr 2002.
4. BBC, 22 Apr 2002.
5. Agence France Presse, 22 Apr 2002.
6. Agence France Presse, 21 Apr 2002.
8. In fact the bourgeoisie is now whining that
the left and right should or will make a coalition

against Le Pen! Just as in World War II crypto-
fascists come crawling like cockroaches out
from under the rotten planks of social-
democracy and vote for Le Pen. Both Chirac
and Le Pen are imperialists and neither is the
answer to the problems facing the world.
Joining a large republican coalition to defeat Le
Pen risks confusing the advanced who are ready
to move beyond parliamentary democracy. On
the other hand, it is not clear which candidate of
parasitism--Chirac or Le Pen-- will actually be
better or worse. Le Pen will presumably do
more against immigrant workers and this is a
concern of MIM's. He also says he will abandon
the European Union, and such a move must be
evaluated for its likelihood to trigger further
world war.
9. MIM Theory 1, "A White Proletariat?"
11. fr.news.yahoo.com/020418/5/2jzon.html
12. "Socially, I am left, economically I am right,
nationally I am French" Le Pen, quoted in
Liberation, 22 Apr 2002.
Liberation notes: "Avec ce score, se retrouvent
les défenseurs de Vichy, les activistes de l'OAS,
les nostalgiques de l'Algérie française et les
soldats perdus de l'empire colonial." [This score
unites the defenders of Vichy, the activists of the
Secret Army Organization, those nostalgic for
French Algeria and the lost soldiers of the
colonial empire

Neo-fascist Le Pen advances

land and cannot choose their exploiters.

The second largest political party in

Nepal's parliament, the "Communist

Party of Nepal-United Marxist-Leninist"

(CPN-UML)(3) has the same ideology as

the government in China. In the past it

was the largest party and held state

power, but it has never eliminated semi-

feudalism or the monarchy disgracing

Nepal today.

From the point of view of the ordinary

citizen in the imperialist countries this

may come as a shock. People calling

themselves "communist" followers of

Mao win the elections and they wage

People's War in Nepal. Those not calling

themselves "communist" are in the

minority in Nepal and have been for some

time. It is clear that a large majority of

people in Nepal are friendly in at least a

foggy way toward Mao, communism and

socialism.

Nepal is a lesson against those who

think differences amongst those calling

themselves "socialist" do not matter. Not

surprisingly, it is more difficult to see this

in imperialist countries where no

"communist" party is about to seize

power. It is much easier to see differences

in Nepal, because both the fake pro-Deng

communists and the Maoists hold

considerable power.

In Nepal, even unity behind the

"communist" banner is not precise

enough to bring about the end of the

economic system of semi-feudalism.

Today, as in Mao's day, those waging

People's War are the ones bringing about

an end to semi-feudalism. In contrast, the

party that China ties itself to in Nepal

continues to speak of "reform,"

opposition to the April general strike and

the damages done by revolution like

petty-bourgeois shop-owners afraid of a

little broken glass and landowners afraid

of peasant violence.(4)

Meanwhile in China, the regime is

selling Mao's name in exchange for

support from Nepal on the questions of

Tibet and Taiwan. The deal announced

April 16 appears to be that Nepal will

not support the Dalai Lama or the like

while the Dengist regime in China will

not support what it calls the "ultraleftists"

in Nepal.(5)

The British BBC announced May 2nd

that Maoists in Nepal have offered the

tottering feudal monarchy in Nepal

renewed peace negotiations.(6) MIM is

unable to confirm the truth behind that

statement. What is more important is that

the BBC says that Nepal's Prime Minister

Sher Bahadur Deuba is going to meet the

U.S. Government about increasing

military aid. Yet there is not a word

against such aid from the U.S.

Government from the "communists" of

Nepal the CPN-UML or their supporters

abroad like "Workers World."(7)

In fact, the CPN-UML website links

to both the watery "Communist Party-

USA" and "Workers World Party" while

denouncing the general strike in April in

Nepal. We call on "CP-USA" and

"Workers World" parties to denounce the

CPN- UML or at least demand that the

CPN-UML publicly and urgently oppose

U.S. military aid to Nepal.

Mao Zedong liberated China from

semi-feudalism through People's War. If

liberating Nepal from semi-feudalism

through People's War is not Maoist, then

nothing is.

Notes:

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/

world/south_asia/newsid_1959000/

1959726.stm

2. http://www.cpnuml.org/

pressreleases.html#14 is an example of

the work of those calling themselves

"communist" in Nepal

3. http://www.cpnuml.org/

partyinparliament.html has election

results.

4. http://www.cpnuml.org/

pressreleases.html#11

5. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/

200204/17/eng20020417_94198.shtml

6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/

world/south_asia/newsid_1964000/

1964132.stm

7. http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/

briefs0118.html shows the U.$. "Workers

World Party" support for the CPN-UML.

Chinese Regime slanders Mao Zedong on Nepal

Continued from page 4...

Abstaining
voters
look best
to MIM

The unemployed made up the

highest percentage of abstaining

voters in French presidential

elections with 46% of the

unemployed not voting. 39% of students also did not vote. We do not have the

figures broken down by race or nationality, but we suspect that the unemployed

is where there might be an immigrant proletarian influence.

Also based on elections in the past, 2002 non-voters most likely came from

what the experts call the "extreme left" or the environmentalists. For example,

41% of voters in 1997 elections who picked "extreme left" candidates for the

legislature abstained in the 2002 presidential election. Overall, only 27% of

French voters abstained.

The students and the lumpen, people who have considered "extreme left"

parties in the past and people who are environmentalist--these are the people

who abstained and who MIM regards as typical revolutionary material in the

imperialist countries--a minority to be sure.

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MIM Notes 258 · May 15, 2002· Page 9

even more reactionary, a couple started

to come out otherwise. Thomas Laird has

written how the CIA was already

conducting operations in 1949-1950 in

Tibet, thus further justifying the Maoist

charge that lackeys in Tibet worked

militarily with Yankee and British

imperialism. Let's not forget that India

was an outright colony of England until

1947 and it did not immediately

transform its government by 1949 either.

In another recent book, we can judge

how difficult conditions were for the

Dalai Lama's slaves and serfs by looking

at what one named Tashi Tsering had to

do to escape: "Tsering developed a strong

dislike of his country's theocratic ruling

elite. As a 13-year-old member of the

Dalai Lama's personal dance troupe, he

was frequently whipped or beaten by

teachers for minor infractions. A

heterosexual, he escaped by becoming a

drombo, or homosexual passive partner

and sex-toy, for a well-connected monk,"

according to Publishers Weekly.(5)

In other words, the most ardent

defenders of slavery and serfdom went

to prison 50 years ago, after rebelling to

defend a system like the one that made

Tashi Tsering a sex-toy for a monk. These

reactionary activists were too radically

reactionary even for the Panchen Lama

and the Dalai Lama at the time, but after

passage of 50 years of time, these people

come out of prison and lo-and-behold

they are "Venerable" to the lightly read

and historically nonchalant "human-

rights" activists, John Birchers and petty-

bourgeois non-profits like "Global

Exchange."

Unlike Palden Gyatso, the Panchen

Lama took a peaceful road to dealing

with the Han Chinese. More importantly,

unlike today's apologists for slavery and

serfdom, who deny such conditions

existed, the Panchen Lama said in 1960

a year after the violent counter-

revolutionary rebellion: "the past year

has seen in Tibet earthshaking changes.

Former slaves have become masters of

Global Exchange honors CIA-tied colleague

their destiny."(6)

Today the Dalai Lama likes to say that

the Panchen Lama changed his mind on

some things about Tibet's relationship to

China, but in 1987, the Panchen Lama

still said, "In 1959 there were rebellions

in Tibet. Forces were dispatched to quell

the disorder, which was a right decision

and should not be gainsaid."(7)

Although countless members of the

"Free Tibet" movement are in deep denial

as much as the pro-Confederacy

movement in the united $tates, the

Panchen Lama's words cannot be burned

and buried. The Panchen Lama,

recognized by the Dalai Lama, was an

unquestioned authority of Tibetan

Buddhism. He is not "rehashing myths"

as the Dalai Lama's website of denial

would say about the slavery and serfdom

problem, which existed in most countries

in the world.

One can only wonder how much

further along world peace would be if

people like Palden Gyatso had

cooperated with the Panchen Lama at the

time. Instead, Tibet has endured more

frustration and less development than

possible thanks to the energy-wasting

activities of the backward activists

representing the old ruling classes.

Note:
1. http://www.globalexchange.org/education/
speakers/PaldenGyatso.html
2. http://www.southern-partisan.com/
johnashcroft.html http://www.halfbakery.com/
idea/
Confederate_20Flag_20_22Heritage_22_20Program
has another discussion of the neo-confederate
movement
3. http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/
white4.html
4. www.rangzen.com
5. http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/
1563249502/qid=1017560775/sr=1-1/
ref=sr_1_0_1/402-3739726-4479322
6. Anna Louise Strong, When Serfs Stood up in
Tibet (Red Sun Publishers, 1976), p. 307.
7. The Dalai Lama's official website,
www.tibet.com http://www.tibet.com/PL/
warning.html

Continued from page 7...

hang u [sic] with the fre [sic] people

there. But get out of the US.

MC206 responds: "Little Boy"

(dropped on Hiroshima on August 6,

1945) and "Fat Boy" (dropped on

Nagasaki on August 9) killed over

200,000 civilians, and wounded and

poisoned many many more. This writer

implies that the bombings were necessary

to force Japan to surrender, but there is

clear evidence that the Amerikan

government knew that Japan was

planning to surrender as soon as the

USSR declared war on Japan--which

was scheduled to happen several days

after the bombings.(1)

The United $tates dropped the bombs

anyway to send a clear message: don't

fuck with us or this is what you'll get.

This brutality and arrogance will

actually help bring about Amerika's

downfall, by isolating the United $tates

from the peoples of the world and stoking

the fires of resistance to Amerikan

imperialism. As Chairman Mao liked to

say, the Amerikan imperialists "are lifting

a rock in order to drop it on their feet."

The letter writer should ponder the

September 11 attacks and reconsider h

"not while I'm alive" bluster, lest it

become self-fulfilling prophecy.

And we never said the Bataan Death

March and the Holocaust weren't

atrocities. They were terribly predictable

atrocities under a system which thrives

on war and genocide: capitalism.

As for the "free country" crap: the

United $tates has been the world's

leading prison-state per capita for the last

25 years.(2) People like this letter writer

live in a fantasy Orwellian world where

freedom is imprisonment.

Notes:
1. See e.g. http://www.doug-long.com/
letter.htm.
2. 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.

Letters

Continued from page 2...

The President of France Jacques

Chirac won re-election on May 5th by
an 82% to 18% margin over fascist Jean-
Marie Le Pen. Analysis of voters showed
that so-called workers gave Le Pen his
highest support with 31%. The liberal
professions and people with higher
educations gave Le Pen the least votes--
9%. Men gave 26% of their votes to Le
Pen and wimmin only 11%.

Overall, the results mean that the

French people support bourgeois
democracy, because only about one more
percent of voters turned out for Le Pen
in the second round. Had Le Pen gained
30% of the vote, many analysts would
have concluded that there was a long-
existing reservoir of opposition to
bourgeois-democracy, people ready for
fascism.

The best news was that students did

not support Le Pen as much as they had
in the first round. Only 2% of students
voted for Le Pen in the second round.

Also the unemployed cut back their

support for Le Pen for unknown reasons
from 38% to 11%. The surveys for the
two figures regarding the unemployed
had over 4000 and 2000 respondents
respectively and unemployment runs at
about 9% in France. If we presume there
was not some kind of bungling by the
bourgeois pollsters in their counting, it
gives support to the idea that at least
students and unemployed people are
"protest" voters. Once they "protested"
and put Le Pen into the run-off for May
5th, other social groups in France turned
to give Le Pen their votes, the "workers"
being most steady in so doing.

Based on the small rallies that Le Pen

held prior to the May 5th election and
the depressed turnout amongst students
and unemployed people, it seems likely
that Le Pen will not be able to mount
street battles of the Nazi kind any time
soon--despite his "worker" support.

Amongst all voters who voted for

candidates calling themselves "socialist"
or "communist," no more than 5% voted
for Le Pen in the run-off second round
vote of May 5th. What the pundits call
"extreme left" did not produce support
for Le Pen.

Even more interesting is the fact that

41% of people who abstained in the first
round of voting voted for Chirac in the
second round. 3% of abstainers voted for
Le Pen. The meaning of this is that
French voting and politics is actually very
well defined and predictable without
large reservoirs of undefined voters.

About 90% of the French public voted

in either the first or second rounds. There
is not a huge untapped apathetic layer
waiting for a chance to vote for fascist
Le Pen. Moreover, amongst those who
cast null ballots in the first round, 56%
voted for Chirac in the second round
according to the pollsters.

Not many Trotskyist voters voted for

Le Pen in the second round. That means
that militant parasitic politics come in
two varieties in France--a "left" and
"right" and they do not mix that much;
even though militant parasites both
criticize the parties in power and oppose
globalization for their own anti-
immigrant reasons. There is very little to
speculate on with French voters. As the

situation exists in France, the parasitic
"left" and "right" are fairly evenly
matched and leaders simply prove their
value by mobilizing a few percentage
points more or less than usual.

The Chirac and Le Pen election results

teach MIM again what the social basis
of fascism is in the European Union--
the oppressor nation labor aristocracy,
wage-workers, manual workers who wish
an exclusive relationship with their
imperialists, without immigrants. In
contrast, the traditional petty-
bourgeoisie is less vicious politically.

Neither manual wage workers nor
traditional petty-bourgeois professionals
are a firm basis for a real communist
party in the imperialist countries. Without
recognition of this fact, our line and
strategy is bound to converge with Le
Pen's whether we know it or not. For this
reason, MIM spells it out that people
seeking a majority of Chirac's and Le
Pen's voters are sell-outs to proletarian
internationalism.

Note: http://www.ipsos.fr/CanalIpsos/

poll/7553.asp

Chirac wins big election victory in France

MIM Notes 258 · May 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

U.$. Prisons, making
outlaws of inmates

Greetings comrades,
I am a revolutionary who's been back out

here almost one year. Since I've been on this
side of the colony, I've had odd menial labor
jobs, which I'm sure you know don't pay
much. No matter how many applications I fill
out, this is the only kind of work I've been
able to get. I'm currently living with my
mother and her husband, who can't seem to
understand why I can't get and keep a decent
job.

There's a ban in Illinois now that bars "ex-

felons" from working in the field of 56 jobs,
and those are mostly skilled positions. So
even if brothers/sisters get educated inside the
micro-colonies, they're still run up against the
barrier. This is along with other obstacles and
temptations that are bound to push them back
on the block: paper chasin' and living the
life of an outlaw. Which is what the state of
imperialism wants anyway. Crime pays for
them, not for us -- the lumpen and proletariat.

-- an ex-prisoner in Illinois, 21 April, 2002

Illinois DOC: Stop the
attack on dreadlocked
prisoners

I send my greeting to the brothers and

sisters who are a part of the struggle.

I write from the confinement of a cage, in

my quest to expose the injustices and
inhumane treatment of African prisoners upon
my transfer from a Northern district facility
(Stateville) to the Southern district of Illinois
and Menard Correctional Center. I was placed
in segregation behind a steel door with poor
ventilation, denied my fan and, can you
imagine not being able to take a shower and
given a cellie. I am denied all movement
outside my cell. Doctor call line, showers,
yard and visits.

Officials at this facility told me that my

dreadlocks pose a potential threat to the
security of this facility and I have been placed
in segregation since my arrival in January. I
have filed a number of grievances, due to the
fact that dreadlocks are an essential tenet of
my religious beliefs as a Rastafarian.

There's a small number of African

prisoners in the Illinois Department of
Corrections with dreadlocks. Most of them
are in Stateville, where they are not being
oppressed for the exercise of their religious
or cultural practices in the wearing of locks.
Menard has traditionally shown no respect
or regard for African prisoners. This facility
has installed token negroes in positions of
authority to give the appearance of fair play.
This policy has no lawful authority on a state-
wide basis. The officials here at the Menard
Correctional Center must create various
reasons to conceal their true motivation. They
are in the business of breaking African souls.

-- a prisoner in Illinois, 2 April, 2002

People of the world:

There is a critical cycle of hate and

prejudice being committed under the shield
of law, against Blacks who are incarcerated
in the Illinois Department of Corrections. In
September and November, 2001, I exposed a
cadre of racist prison officials in The Chicago

Defender. These officials dressed up in orange
suits and armed themselves with billy clubs
while forcefully cutting the hair of Black men
with dreadlocks. They threatened to attack
every prisoner with dreadlocks in like fashion.

I wrote these articles while I was

incarcerated at Hill Correctional Center, in
Galesburg, IL. Our struggle to end the attacks
and terror seemed successful until the month
of November, 2001. A Black man with
dreadlocks was scheduled to transfer out of
Hill. But the racist administration led by
Warden Mark Pierson decided that they
wouldn't pass up the opportunity to
dismember this brother's dreadlocks (to them
it is like a metaphoric castration). They
promise to continue doing this until we stop
them.

They are creating arbitrary and non-existent

security issues to cloak their discontent and
hate of Blacks who express their cultural pride
and self-respect. To this day, these attacks
against Blacks with dreadlocks are being
perpetrated at Hill C.C.

Back in 2001, I had an opportunity to

question Warden Mark Pierson about the
legality of these attacks. He stated: "A law
does not exist that says we cannot [attack
Black prisoners and forcibly cut their
dreadlocks]." Pierson's statement sounds
much like the 1853 Dred Scott opinion that:
"a black man has no rights that a white man
is bound to respect." The dignity and rights
of Blacks can be abused and neglected so long
as no one is bound by any written law to
protect them.

Because of my efforts to expose the racists

at Hill, I was able to transfer to another facility
without them trying to dismember my
dreadlocks. However, after I was transferred
here to Jacksonville Correctional Center,
another cadre of racists within this
administration began the attacks where the
ones at Hill left off.

Jacksonville's Warden, Raymond Bensko,

maintains that he will be enforcing haircuts
on individuals with "multiple parts" (i.e.,
braids and dreadlocks). I even witnessed Mr.
Bensko threatening a Black man who sports
his hair in a long ponytail, a very nubian look.
Bensko said this man is going to have
problems and will have to cut his hair. He
also said that dreadlocks, braids and long hair
pose a safety and security risk, jeopardizing
himself and his staff.

At Hill, the administration tried the same

line, saying that they could not effectively
search dreadlocks. This was their explanation
of the alleged security threat. But we know
that this was a hoax because every facility in
the Illinois Department of Corrections has
hand-held metal detectors and thousands of
pairs of search gloves.

I have had my dreadlocks for over five

years. We know that the only way to take them
down is to cut them out. So how can searching
be an issue? If the dreads cannot come down,
I cannot hide anything in them. It would be

easier for a white man with medium to long
hair to conceal something in his hair than it
would be for someone with dreadlocks. No
whites have been attacked, approached,
accosted or threatened about their hair.

So why is it that they only target Blacks

with dreadlocks now? We have worn braids
and dreadlocks in the IDOC for decades.
These racists cannot cite a single incident in
which dreadlocks or braids have presented
anyone with any danger or disrupted anyone's
security. The only security that is being
threatened is the insecurity of white racists
who fear that strong, conscious Black men
threaten their survival. The only safety at risk
is mine and that of others like me who have
dreadlocks and are under attack.

I urge everyone to call and write to the

people listed below. Let these people know
that you are not in agreement with the conduct
of these prison officials and that this situation
should immediately change for the
preservation of justice.

-- a prisoner in Illinois, 22 February, 2002

Notes: "Deadlocked on Dreadlocks," The

Chicago Defender 29 September, 2001;
"Castration of the African Culture," The
Chicago Defender 16 October, 2001.

Raymond Bensko, Warden, Jacksonville

Correctional Center, 2268 E. Morton Ave.,
Jacksonville, IL 62650, Phone: (217) 245-
1481

Mark Pierson, Warden, Hill Correctional

Center, 600 South Linwood, Galesburg,
Illinois 61402, Phone: (309) 343-4212

Jonathan R. Walls, Warden, Menard

Correctional Center, 711 Kaskaskia Street,
Menard, Illinois 62259, Phone: (618) 826-
5071

Donald R. Snyder, Director, Illinois

Department of Corrections, 1301 Concordia
Court, Springfield, IL 62794, email:
Director@idoc.state.il.us

IL prisoner sez `Don't
censor MIM Notes'

For the past 34 years I have served time in

Illinois prisons. In all my years of prison life
I have never been involved in a violent
incident with prison staff or inmates. I had a
few fights but they were all fisticuffs. I have
been a regular reader of MIM Notes for three
or four years. I find MIM Notes to be
informative and educational. MIM Notes is
a newspaper that allows poor prisoners, like
me, to express themselves. At least two of
my poems have been printed in MIM Notes,
names: "Drugs" and "Prison".

MIM Notes has given me permission to use

material from their paper in my book on the
game of Chess. All in all, I conclude by saying
MIM Notes is a great friend to prisoners that
are seeking to make themselves (ourselves)
better people while in prison.

-- an Illinois prisoner, 4 February, 2002

Hunger strike in
New Jersey

Dear MIM,
I would like to make you guys aware of a

situation that occurred here on the gang unit
at Northern State Prison in New Jersey on
April 17, 2002. All organizations decided on
that day to start a food strike due to the
conditions and negligence that the institution
have failed to provide. Once the food strike
took place for that day, we finally got the
attention of the administration. As they came
around to speak to mostly every individual
who decided to stop them, I could hear that
the inmates were arguing for things like
showers, food, recreation, linen and law
library. The administration claimed they had
no idea that we were being denied such things.

I'm on Phase I, I've been on that level since

July because I refuse to sign any document
and refuse to submit to this system. Phase I
does not take showers every day and this the
administrator promised to give us. As the
administration came to my door to speak to

MIM Notes 258 · May 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.

me, I started to complain not only of the things
that are a must under the inmate handbook
but of the contradictions of this so-called gang
unit.

Around dinner time, many inmates from

other organizations started to fall and submit
and started to get food and showers. This right
here threw me off. So I decided to call a tier
meeting during the night shift with all
organization on all three floor. As I started
the meeting I told everyone that we shouldn't
be content with a shower every day, especially
when a shower is a must. I stated when
something is started I like to finish it and go
all the way. I spoke to them to see if they were
willing to start another hunger strike to stop
all movement and most importantly for Phase
II and III to stop programming. Now is the
time for us to make things happen because at
this moment they are re-doing the rules and
regulation of this program. I tried to make
these individuals aware of the main objectives
trying to make this program change its policy.
But they were not willing and felt content with
a shower everyday.

Before I ended that meeting I specifically

told them that we cannot claim victory,
especially when we still carry this label,
victory will be claimed when we all walk out
of here without anymore labels and we won't
have to worry about being targeted anymore.
One more thing I told them that the
administration can say anything out of their
mouths but if it isn't on paper then it does not
mean shit.

Just as I predicted, it is April 22 and the

food is still coming cold, showers for Phase I
have gone back to every other day, no
cleaning supplies what so ever for these cells.
I had written a couple of demands in case
everyone was willing to sacrifice. They are
printed below.

Platform for Demands

1. We want showers for Phase I everyday.
2. We want the food to be hot upon arrival.
3. We want cleaning materials.
4. We want access to the law library and

paralegal assistance when requested. We want
a list to be made by the tier sergeant or housing
officer so we can utilize this access as soon
as possible. We want to utilize the law library
at least 3 days out of the week and we want
the handcuffs removed while in the law
library.

5. We want recreation as scheduled. We

want to utilize the regular yards, we don't
want to be caged up. There should be no
reason for us to be caged up when we can
utilize the regular yard.

6. We want the medical department to take

every call that's made seriously and to come
as soon as an issue is brought to their
attention.

7. We want a different document to be made

concerning the completion of the program,
stating that we no longer are affiliated with
any organizations. This will end the targeting
of individuals who have completed the
program and go to other prisons.

8. We want visits every week. Not only

from our immediate family members but from
anyone.

9. STGMU (gang unit) uniforms should not

be a must to be worn when going to recreation.

10. We should no longer be handcuffed

from the back.

11. We want rubber mats to be used outside

of the showers, to avoid any slip or fall caused
by puddles.

12. We want new linen every month.
13. We want all ventilations from each cell

to be cleaned.

14. We want tier recreation as previously

provided to Phase II and III.

15. We want a literature cart to pass around

every month.

16. We want to be able to participate any

school program regardless of our age for
those who choose to enroll in school.

17. We don't want those who refuse to enter

Phase II to be segregated from this regular
unit.

18. We want canteen to arrive the following

week prior to the submission of our slips.

19. We want each floor to be provided with

3 phones so that each individual in each
catwalk will be able to use the phone. There
are 52 inmates in each floor which is too many
for 1 phone.

Corcoran SHU:
massive search
and seizure

On February 14, 2002 there was a sweeping

search of the prison. Almost all prisoner
property was confiscated including important
legal documents from some prisoners, myself
included.

The purpose of this massive search was to

"bring you prisoners up to code." The only
personal property admitted in the SHU is one
personal book, a magazine and six envelopes
of legal property. In a move to bring a bit of
camp X-Ray to Corcoran prisoners are
escorted to doctors' and other appointments
in full restraint gear, including leg shackles!

There are signs that prisoners are at least

willing to voice their discontent with this
brutal form of open oppression and
disrespect. In our particular section/building

prisoners are refusing to perform the usual
tasks, such as cleaning the showers and
accepting canteen unless it is processed
according to the rules. And prisoners are
lending support to each other by filing group
appeals. We are attempting to put together a
multi-racial legal team to address the
systematic abuses and other conditions we are
all subjected to on a daily basis. Of course,
there is much work to be done, especially so
when most prisoners are conditioned to look
at each other as the enemy!

However, as a group themselves, prisoners

possess a wealth of power. Nothing that is
being done to us today could be successful if
we didn't in some way contribute to it. The
rise of the "rat and the stoolie" demands that
we double our efforts.

The Bush War on Terrorism only validates

comrade George's piece on fascism: everyone
oppressed anywhere in the world has the right
to resist, by any means necessary. So get up,
stand up. Stand up for your rights. Fascism
won't relent even if you do. Keep pushin.

-- a prisoner in Corcoran SHU, 14 April,

2002

MIM responds: The only answer to the

problem of "the rat and the stoolie" is as Lenin
said: comrades earn our trust and their own
proletarian prestige by their practice. There
is a lifetime of revolutionary activism to be
done by anyone with the will, and we as
leaders must know our priorities and be
prepared to put younger (or greener)
organizers directly to work.

George Jackson knew that study was key

to advancing the national revolution and that
without advanced theory the revolutionary
army he envisioned would be led down a blind
alley. "To seize power for the people and
relegate fascism to the history books the
vanguard must change the basic patterns of
thought. We are going to have to study the
principles of people's movements. We are
going to have to study them where they took
place and interpret them to fit our situation
here. We have yet to discover the meaning of
people's war, people's army." Still, this
analysis could not be mistaken for a mindless
acceptance of violence as a tactic: "It may
serve our purpose to claim nonviolence, but
we must never delude ourselves into thinking
that we can seize power from a position of
weakness, with half measures, polite
programs, righteous indignation, loud
entreaties."

MIM knows that for us in the First World,

it is not our turn yet for revolutionary armed
struggle. That task still falls to the people of
the neo-colonies in Asia, Africa and Latin
America. Imperialism remains too strong

within these borders, and our subjective
conditions with the overwhelming majority
of u.$. citizens belonging to the exploiting
and allied classes are very wrong for armed
struggle. We must advance our struggle
through building public opinion in opposition
to imperialism, and through winnable battles
like this prisoner describes. Readers can
investigate and protest the situation at
Corcoran SHU by writing or calling: Warden
George M. Galaza, 4001 King Avenue, P.O.
Box 8800, Corcoran, CA 93212-8309, (559)
992-8800

Lockdown at
Corcoran CSATF

I am on lockdown and have been since

December (Crips since December and the rest
of population since January 7th). They claim
that we (Crips) were plotting something so
they could place us on a lockdown. Then on
January 7th they let us off, until they claimed
that a large number of Black inmates assaulted
several pigs. I don't know exactly what
happened because they never got around to
releasing my building. But I do know that not
a single shot was fired, and Corcoran is a
trigger-happy facility. So to me this story
simply doesn't add up.

-- a prisoner in CA Substance Abuse

Facility 14 April, 2002

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?

MIM Notes 258 · May 15, 2002· Page 12

Notas Rojas

mayo 15, 2002, Nº 258 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis

¿Que es el MIM?

El Movimiento Internacionalista Maoísta (MIM) es un partido revolucionario

comunista que ejerce el Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoísmo. El MIM es una organización
internacionalista que trabaja desde el punto de vista del proletariado del Tercer Mundo;
es por esto que sus miembros no son amerikanos sino ciudadanos del mundo.

El MIM lucha para acabar con la opresión de todos los grupos sobre cualquier otro,

naciones por naciones, clases por clases, y géneros por géneros. La revolución es una
realidad para los Estados Unidos mientras su ejército continúa extendiendose en su
esfuerzo por asegurar la hegemonía mundial.

El MIM difiere de otros partidos en tres puntos basicos: (1) El MIM sostiene que

después que el proletariado conquiste el poder estatal, existira aún el potencial para una
restauración de tipo capitalista, bajo la dirección de una burguesía nueva dentro del
mismo partido comunista. En el caso de la Unión Soviética, la burguesía se apoderó del
gobierno después de la muerte de Stalin, en 1953; y en China después de la muerte de
Mao y del derrocamiento de la llamada "banda de los cuatro' en 1976. (2) El MIM
sostiene que la Revolución Cultural en China es la fase ms avanzada a la que llegó el
comunismo en la historia. (3) El MIM afirma que la clase trabajadora blanca de los
EE.UU. es primordialmente, una élite trabajadora no revolucionaria en el presente. Es
por esto que no es el principal vehículo para avanzar el Maoísmo en este país.

El MIM acepta como miembro a cualquier individuo que esté de acuerdo con estos

tres puntos basicos, y que acepte al centralismo democrtico, el método de gobierno por
la mayoría en lo que se refiere a cuestiones de línea del partido. El MIM es un partido
clandestino que no publica los nombres de sus miembros para evitar la represión estatal
dirigida históricamente contra los movimientos revolucionarios comunistas, y anti-
imperialistas. Si Ud. desea una suscripción para cualquiera de nuestros periódicos o
libros teóricos, en español o en inglés, por favor mandar dinero en efectivo o un cheque
al nombre de MIM a esta dirección:

MIM · P.O. Box 29670 · Los Angeles CA 90029-0670

Traducido por un preso de Tejas y

Células de Estudio para la Liberación
de Aztlán y América Latina.

Se tomo uno días pero finalmente una

fuente de información imperialista dijó
que la metodología vaquera de los
yanquis puede entreguar armas nucleares
a nuevos usuarios en Pakistán. Al mismo
tiempo que Bush dijó que Ben Laden se
busca vivo o muerto y descaradamente
decia que tomó la idea del viejo oeste, el
periódico Los Angeles Times publicó una
pieza con algo de lógica el día 18 de
Septiembre: "El Comodin Nuclear de
Pakistán" por Paul Richter.

El articulo señaló que puede haber 30

armas nucleares en Pakistán. No ayuda
para nada a la estabilidad en Pakistán y
mundial el llamado de Bush para una
"guerra" prolongada contra un enemigo
disperso que acabará con "los países."
Todos los portavoces ya han dichó que
las fuerzas pro-Talibanes en Pakistán
pueden derrocar al gobierno Pakistaní. Es
una gran irresponsabilidad por parte de
los gobernantes que le dan forma a la
opinión pública por medio de sus
portavoces el hecho de que sólo el Los
Angeles Times a relacionado la posible
derrota del gobierno de Pakistán con las
armas nucleares.

Es decir que el gobierno yanqui ya ha

provocado algunos musulmanes hacia la
guerra y ahora juega con la posibilidad
de que en medio de la guerra en contra

de EE.UU., las armas nucleares de
Pakistán lleguen a manos de las fuerzas
pro-Talibanes. Cómo dijó la revista Time,
esto viene de parte del mismo gobierno
yanqui que sabe que Osama Ben Laden
intentó comprar armas nucleares rusas en
los años 90. Por lo tanto, desde el punto
de vista de la definición yanqui de "los
buenos" y "los malos", de nuevo el
gobierno yanqui juega con nuestras
vidas, y cuando trata de armas químicas
y nucleares no sólo se ponen en peligro a
vidas yanqis.

El ex-funcionario del gobierno yanqui

y ayudante de la secretaduría de la
seguridad nacional, Ivo Daalder ya
admitió que se trata de una "situación de
pesadilla" que merece la mayor atención.
Los especialistas academicos en esta área
han dichó que no pueden dormir gracias
a la cuestión de las armas nucleares en
Pakistán.

Hasta el reverendo Pat Robertson

demostró más razon y dijó que los
"terroristas" ya tienen armas nucleares.
La cuestión se presenta: Sí este
predicador de Yale entiende la situación,
¿porqué sigue mintiendole al público
sobre los riesgos el gobierno yanqui? Un
líder responsible enfrentaría al pueblo y
diría que en el año 2001, el poder
destructivo y militar de cualquier persona
supera todo lo que se podía imaginar en
la historia anterior, de tal modo de que
puede ser un golpe de estado o unos
cuantos terroristas quienes ocasionas una

guerra nuclear.

Mientras tanto, un oficial yanqui no

identificado dijó que si existía un riesgo
pero lo único que pudo decir a favor del
gobierno fue que ése riesgo no se debería
"exagerar". El MIM se pregunta ¿porqué
les parece aceptable hasta el menor riesgo
en este caso a los líderes yanquis? Hay
dos razones por cuales juegan con las
vidas de otras gentes. En el primer lugar
arriesgan sus propias vidas porque
pueden sacarle ganancias. En segundo
lugar es que esta gente son iguales que
los locos exaltados de Ohio quienes
conducieron su auto a alta velocidad (130
km/h) y lo estallaron contra una mezquita
el día 17 de Septiembre.

Lo que le occurrió al World Trade

Center puede repetirse donde sea. La
incapacidad de lograr la paz mundial le
otorga a todos los ciudadanos del mundo
el derecho a pedir respuestas.

William R, Arkin, escritor de

espionage militar y reportero del
Washington Post hizó lo correcto cuando
dijó en su artículo el día 16 de Septiembre
titulado "La Primera Guerra del Siglo":
"Señor preisdente, debemos preguntar:
¿De verdad ha protegido al pueblo
Americano esta información? Es decir,
"¿Del modo en el que opera el viejo
sistema? Y además: Mientras nos
preparams para luchar contra este
enemigo, ¿debemos comportarnos del
mismo modo de siempre?"

Estos líderes que se preocupan por la

"seguridad" con sus téorias fracasadas,
los mismos quienes dijieron que la Unión
Soviética nunca cabiaría dentro de si
misma si no por fuera porque dentro de
si era "autoritaria" -estos mismo líderes
ponen en peligro a todo el mundo y nadie
debería aguantarlo. Ahora dicen que ellos
fracasaron porque el pueblo no les tuvó
suficiente confianza, y por lo tanto deben
realizar sus maneobras militares de
formas más secretas que antes y necesitan
más vigilancia sobre toda la población y
deben gastar más dinero haciendo todo
esto. Arkin le pegó la cola al burro
cuando dijó: "Cuando sugieren que
rindamos nuestros derechos
fundamentales debemos acordarnos que
la sugerencia nace de las mismas
instituciones que se han probado
incapaces de realizar su función básica,
el proteger a sus ciudadanos"

¡Campaña para aumentar la circulación

de MIM Notes! Nueva York, El Paso,
Chapel Hill/Greensboro Carolina del
Norte, Madison Wisconsin, Champaign/
Urbana Illinois: ¡No dejen de recibir la
cantidad de MIM Notes que les
corresponde!

Desde el comienzo de la "guerra contra el

terrorismo" la circulación de MIM Notes ha
aumentado rápidamente. El hecho no es
sorprendente: MIM Notes es un periódico
gratis e independiente. Claro, en estos
tiempos hay más patriotas impulsivos que se
tragan todo lo que dice Bush, y se les pasa la
oportunidad de leer MIM Notes. Pero hay
otros patriotas e internacionalistas que se dan
cuenta de que ahora periódicos como MIM
Notes pueden desenmascarar el gran
espectáculo que el Tío Sam está poniendo a
su favor.

Claro, Uds. han visto MIM Notes en las

calles pero MIM Notes requiere que las masas
hagan dos cosas fáciles: 1) sostener el
periódico (pagar por su imprenta y envío) y
2) ¡distribuir el periódico!

Buscamos a personas para concretar los

avances en la circulación por todo el país y
estamos dispuestos a dialogar con gentes
fuera del país para extender la distribuición
al extranjero. Dentro de las fronteras de
EE.UU., ¡la ciudad de Nueva York puede
mejorar su distribuición! Y todos los demas
también deben tomar un paso adelante para
distribuir en su área porque Uds. pueden
garantizar que se cumpla el trabajo.

El MIM busca patrocinadores y

distribuidores. Los patrocinadores pagan por
los periódicos y los distribuidores los llevan
a las calles mientras los oficiales hacen las
dos cosas.

# Cantidad de

MIM Notes para Costo

distribuir anual

-------------- -------

12 (Correo de Prioridad) $120

25 (Correo de Prioridad) $150

50 (Correo de Prioridad) $280

100 $380

200 $750

900 (Correo Expressl!) $3,840

900(8-10 días)

$2,200

Si Uds. conocen algún lugar bueno para la

distribuición les sugerimos empezar con 200
ejemplares y avanzar desde ahí. Si no están
dispuesto a ditribuir, sólo mándennos dinero.
Si no quiere Ud. pagar, solicite ejemplares
después de demostrarle al partido de una
manera u otra que de veras está Ud. interesado
(¡las palabras no valen!). Los que juntan el
dinero para distribuir 900 ejemplares de cada
edición son los que avanzan al partido.

Dirijan giros postales anónimos hechos a

la orden de "MIM":

MIM, Atención: Rama de Cambridge, P.O.

Box 400559, Cambridge, MA 02140.

Para más información, o para dirigir sus

preguntas: mim@mim.org.

La ineptitud de la clase dominante yanqui pone en peligro a todo el mundo:

el pueblo no debe aguantar más las mismas excusas de siempre