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August 15, 2002, Nº 264

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by MC17 & MC45

n late July I$rael used U.$-made and

paid for F-16 fighter jets to drop a

one-ton "smart" laser guided bomb

into a densely packed Gaza City

neighborhood just after midnight. This

so-called "precision strike" succeeded in

killing 15 people, including nine

children, and wounded at least 145 more.

I$raelis praised the assault widely as

Sheikh Salah Shehada, founder of

Hamas's paramilitary Tanzim, was

among the dead.

Add this most egregious act to the stack

of evidence for I$rael's opposition to

peace with the Palestinian people. At the

time of the attack, Tanzim was preparing

to announce a unilateral cease-fire. Other

Palestinian groups were ready to honor

the cease-fire if Israel withdrew from

areas it recently seized in the West Bank.

European diplomats had worked out the

text of the cease-fire just 90 minutes

before the bombing, and I$raeli defense

officials knew about the progress of the

talks.

In spite of having quashed anew any

chance of peace, Prime Minister Ariel

Sharon quickly proclaimed the air strike

"one of our major successes." I$raeli

officials later backpedaled in response to

international criticism, saying the army

would not have made the strike had it

known what the consequences would be.

MIM's

perspective on

the Mideast

situation in the

year 2002

The Maoist Internationalist Movement

passed the following resolution at its

2002 Congress.

he United $tates and England

should shoulder the blame for the

Mideast crisis today. England is

to blame more for the period leading up

to the formation of I$rael in the Mideast

as the colonial power there and the

United $tates is more to blame since then.

Without the $100 billion in aid from the

United $tates since 1967, I$rael would

have ceased to exist. The Jewish people

would have been too afraid to settle there

and fend for themselves against the world

without U.$. aid.

The Soviet Union's leader from 1924

to 1953, Stalin attempted to establish a

Jewish state on Soviet territory, but the

one currently occupying Palestinian land

was more popular. Non-Zionist Jewish

Contemporary fascism was a hot topic

at this year's party Congress. In this issue

we publish the resolutions MIM passed

on the issue, including a definition of

fascism (see page 4) and class alliances

in the struggle against fascism (page 5).

The victory of fascism in our

times by filthy scum that rose to

power in Italy and Austria, the

commemorations of Nazis and Nazi

collaborators in the Baltic countries, Le

Pen's run-off victory for president in

France in 2002, and the fascist surge in

Belgium and Denmark demonstrates that

contrary to bourgeois propagandists, the

capitalist countries did not learn any

lessons against fascism during World

War II. Rather fascism arises as a sign of

the decay of imperialism that the world

continues to suffer under, because

capitalism as a system is incapable of

learning the true lessons of peace.

The pivot for fighting fascism and anti-

Amerika makes the hardware, I

rael

kills Palestinian children -- again

Israel, under current leader Sharon, or whomever, dances to Amerika's tune.

President Moshe Katsav went so far as

to tell Israel Army Radio that "the

intelligence was apparently not

complete," as if advanced surveillance

is required to uncover the presence of

noncombatants in a crowded residential

neighborhood. The daily Ma'ariv was

more direct and more glib, calling the

attack "the assassination and the

MIM Congress

Theses on fascism in 2002

Semitism is grasping the global pattern

and local dynamics of parasitism. Those

political leaders and movements which

seek to increase imperialist country

parasitism whether from the "left" or the

"right" are feeding the flames of fascism.

Whether stirred from the "left" or

"right," parasitic movements give birth

to ultra-nationalism as a simple answer

to alleged immigration "problems" and

oppressor nation joblessness. It hardly

matters what exact program stirs these

fascist forces to life, because fascist

activists and supporters are not politically

conscious in a detailed way in most cases

anyway. Today, those contending for

parliamentary power, including fascists,

are more or less synonymous with

parasitism and for this reason there is a

special meaning to opposing

"democracy," by which we mean

majority rule within imperialist

countries. It is in "democracy" where

outsiders like Le Pen can posture their

way into power only by offering more

parasitism than the current elected

officials like Chirac or Jospin.

Since neither Chirac's nor Le Pen's

coalition in France opposes parasitism,

the question of who to side with if any-

one can only be strategic or tactical. It is

not a question of ideological principle to

support either. The proletariat of France

should seek advantage however it can in

the struggle between Le Pen and Chirac.

During World War II, siding against

fascism automatically was part of a larger

calculation of the global balance of

forces. Today, if France and much of

Europe goes fascist but the United $tates

does not, there may be positive or

negative impacts overall for the

proletariat. Opposing fascism in the

united $tates is perhaps more urgent

strategically for the international

proletariat than the rise of fascism in

Europe.

2. MIM approves the following

resolution for release as part of Congress

documents. A more detailed analysis will

appear in MIM Theory.

Imperialism has been overthrown in

one country. It was not France in 1968.

It was in the Soviet-occupied zone of

Germany in 1945. In the imperialist

countries, it is not general strikes, large

wage increases or "30 for 40" that should

be studied. It is the example of the

downfall of Nazi Germany that is still the

most relevant example of revolutionary

history in the imperialist countries. It is

a measure of the chokehold of

revisionism in the imperialist countries,

that the Soviet occupation of a zone of

Germany is not widely upheld as an

example of the road forward.

Although the German communists

aided by the USSR during World War II

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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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Revolutionary
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with Marx

Greetings comrades,

Let me start off by giving a clenched

fist salute to all sincere revolutionaries

no matter your class, color, or even your

ideology because I love dialectical

debates. And also most praise to MIM,

without a doubt the vanguard party for

the proletariat here in North Amerika. I

can truly say this because as I constantly

go over, re-read and study the conditions

of the world and its exploitation by

imperialism and the solutions to

revolutionizing these ills, MIM's analysis

is on point more than any other. Believe

that. And if you don't let's talk about it.

Back in August 1999 I was sent a copy

of the Communist Manifesto by Karl

Marx from MIM, and when I got it I said,

"Man, they sent me some trash." I've

always known about it and I'm not

closed-minded, so I read it though I was

expecting something by Huey Newton,

George Jackson, or the Black Panther

Party. But as one of the prerequisite steps

in a revolution: study!

So as I continued to research the

analysis of Marx, Lenin and Mao as well

as MIM's applying it with the problems

of today, it became ever more clear as I

started to understand the labor

aristocracy, the lumpen proletariat and

revisionism, I see how MIM comes

correct. Maoism brings more culture and

self-determination to the table than

nationalism if you only knew.

What's more important, as a party MIM

is not afraid to debate the critical issues

nor afraid to admit ignorance of a fact.

Any true soldier for the masses should

always analyze and accept self-critique.

It's a good ego check and a constant focus

point for the overall goal ... welfare of

the masses!

So to all revolutionaries worldwide and

the ever-growing prison population, a

salute from inside the Texas prison

system.

--A Texas Prisoner

July 2002

Correction to MIM Notes article on Le Pen

The article on Le Pen in MIM Notes (MN258, May 15, 2002) was wrong for

saying Le Pen was honest. As Dimitrov said in the 7th Congress of the COMINTERN,

"fascism hypocritically denounces corruption." Corruption is inevitable under

capitalism and until the day money is abolished, so since Le Pen delivers up the

masses disenchanted with parliamentary democracy to capitalism of the fascist sort,

he is going to perpetuate corruption. Le Pen cannot show a capitalist society that

was not corrupted and so his own stance is dishonest.

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By MC12

The growing sport of competitive

eating just marked several milestones,

indicating new depths of decadence for

imperialist culture.

At the annual July Fourth hot dog

contest, a key event on the tour, Japanese

champion Takeru "The Tsunami"

Kobayashi broke his own world record

by eating 50 and one-half hot dogs, with

buns, in the allotted 12 minutes, easily

defeating the American runner-up, who

only ate 26.(1)

But two accusations dogged

Kobayashi's victory. First, in the final

moments he appeared to be regurgitating,

which is an automatic disqualification.

As ESPN.com reported, "Footage

captured by ESPN confirms that some

hot dog slush did spill through

Kobayashi's fingers and pieces of liquid

bun spouted out of his nose." However,

they said the puke did not occur until

time had expired.

So competitive eating, as supervised

by the International Federation of

Competitive Eating, may be forced to

enter the new era of televised sports,

allowing judges to use replays in the case

of puke timing disputes.

More serious, perhaps, is the

possibility that doping is contributing to

the new spate of world records. Jealous

competitors complain that Kobayashi,

who is tiny at 113 pounds (before the

contest; 120 after), uses muscle relaxants

to keep his stomach muscles from heaving

as he eats. If true, this would go well

beyond the debate over which method of

hot dog eating is most effective (such as

whether to dip the buns in water and eat

them separately, or whether to eat two

dogs at a time), and bring the sport into

the debates over unethical doping versus

necessary medication.

The sport of competitive eating

represents new lows for imperialist

culture in a world still filled with hunger

and starvation. It is the logical successor

to such sports as the combine demolition

derby -- held annually in Lind,

Washington -- in which Amerikan

farmers destroy each other's obsolete but

still functional farm equipment.(2)

The possibilities are endless. MIM

wonders when there will be televised

water pollution contests, sweatshop

overwork competitions, rape races, and

weapons of mass destruction design

trials. All of these competitions already

take place under imperialism -- they just

need to be defined as sports and brought

to a wider audience.

Notes:
1. ESPN.com, at http://www.espn.go.com/
page2/s/rovell/020704.html
2. NPR, 5 July 2002. See also http://
www.lindwa.com.

Competitive eating marks decadent milestone

A few months ago billionaire Warren

Buffet said that a nuclear attack on the

United $tates was "virtually a

certainty."(1) Now he has published an

editorial in the New York Times saying

that illegal accounting practices at Enron

and WorldCom which overestimated

their earnings pale beside widespread

legal subterfuges. Buffet runs a large

insurance company, so he has an interest

in accurately assessing the risks built in

to the capitalist system.(2)

Buffet considers stock-option

accounting and overestimates of pension-

fund returns the two "most flagrant

deceptions." "The aggregate

misrepresentation in these two areas

dwarfs the lies of Enron and

WorldCom.(2)

"In calculating the pension costs that

directly affect their earnings, companies

in the Standard & Poor's index of 500

stocks are today using assumptions about

investment return rates that go as high as

11 percent. The rate chosen is important:

in many cases, an upward change of a

single percentage point will increase the

annual earnings of a company by more

than $100 million. It's no surprise,

therefore, that many chief executives opt

for assumptions that are wildly

optimistic, even as their pension assets

perform miserably. These CEOs simply

ignore this unpleasant reality and their

obliging realtors bless whatever rate the

company selects. ...

"All that is bad, but the far greater sin

has been option accounting. Options are

a huge cost for many corporations and a

huge benefit to executives. No wonder,

then, that they have fought ferociously

to avoid making a charge against their

earnings. Without blushing, almost all

CEOs have told their shareholders that

options are cost free." Companies could

(and do) sell these options, or they could

keep them and cash them in later

themselves. By giving them to employees

they pass up this possible revenue--

which is why there is a cost to stock

options.

What Buffet is saying is that reality

contradicts all the dusty old bourgeois

economic theories, which assume

everybody has equal access to

information and the market is

"frictionless" (that is, corruption-free).

Corruption and subterfuge are built into

capitalism. They are natural outgrowths

of dog-eat-dog competition.

Furthermore, the Enron and

WorldCom scandals, Martha Stewart's

insider trading, and the speculation-

driven shady accounting Buffet points

out all illustrate what Lenin called the

parasitic, decadent and moribund nature

of imperialism. Capitalism has always

been about taking money and turning it

into more money. The fact that some

useful object gets produced along the

way is, for the capitalist, coincidental.

"I don't know what rice is," goes the

joke, "I only know it's price."

Imperialism--driven by the merger of

banking and commercial capital--

exaggerates the gap between the money

to more money cycle and real

production. Large fortunes can be made

strictly by speculation--with other

people's money, both in the sense that

big investors usually control small

investors' money and in the more

fundamental sense that this surplus

capital is the fruit of exploitation. Most

of what goes on in the stock market is

thieves trying to scam other thieves out

of stolen money.

For example, the Asian economic

crash in the late 90s was triggered in part

by speculation in currency markets. But

it was the oppressed masses who paid

the biggest price, as prices for daily

necessities soared and imperialists took

a firmer grip on their economies. MIM

supports an international reform which

would tie a currency's value to the cost

of a fixed basket of goods to cut down

on this kind of speculation.

Plagued by the crisis of relative

overproduction and the falling rate of

profit, capitalists gamble on the stock

market. This represents a massive waste

of humyn resources. According to the

WHO and the World Bank, pre-natal and

communicable childhood diseases are the

most expensive diseases in the world, in

terms of work-years lost. The return to

the humyn species as a whole on

resources invested in combating these

diseases would be immense. But because

the bourgeoisie either won't see these

returns itself or won't see them quick

enough, it would rather blow it's money

on the lottery.

To get back to Buffet: his proposed

solution to the problem of dishonest

accounting is... to ask CEOs to be honest.

This after writing a column showing that

dishonesty is the rule (not just a matter

of a few bad apples as president Bush

pretends) and built in to the system. Just

as with nuclear war, Buffet sees the

problem but because he can't think

outside of the capitalist box, he can't

propose any viable solution.

MIM favors stiff penalties against

corruption under socialism. The planned

nature of the economy will also make

these easier to enforce. Some non-party

experts might be paid more for their

services in the initial phases of socialism,

but they won't be able to buy the means

of production, land, etc. Party members

in management will have smaller-than-

average salaries and face stiff penalties

for corruption--including the death

penalty, if people die as a result of a

comrade's corruption or incompetence.

MIM can't promise the Amerikan labor

aristocracy and petit-bourgeoisie steady

returns on their mutual funds, but we can

promise government by competent

individuals dedicated to the elimination

of worldwide poverty, disease, and the

threat of war.

Notes:

1. MIM Notes 260, 15 Jun 2002.

2. New York Times, 24 Jul 2002.

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Capitalists lie about their earnings

MIM Notes 264 · August 15, 2002· Page 4

Here MIM culls some of the defining

characteristics of fascism from classic

texts of the Third International:

Dimitrov's report to the 7th world

congress of the COMINTERN (1) and

Dutt's "Fascism and Social

Revolution."(2) Applying these

principles today, we can say that even

though the imperialists have not

implemented fascist measures against the

exploiter majority in First World

countries, the imperialists are the

principal prop of fascism in the oppressed

nations. This is why MIM wages a

concerted fight against nationalist

social-democracy and fascism in Europe.

Both are strains of militant parasitism;

both support the status quo of oppression

in the Third World.

1. Fascism is "the open terroristic

dictatorship of the most reactionary, most

chauvinistic, and most imperialist

elements of finance capital."(Dimitrov,

p. 2)

2. Fascism is an extreme measure taken

by the bourgeoisie to forestall proletarian

revolution; it "expresses the weakness of

the bourgeoisie itself, afraid of the

realization of a united struggle of the

working class, afraid of revolution, and

no longer in a position to maintain its

dictatorship over the masses by the old

means of bourgeois democracy and

parliamentarianism."(Dimitrov, p. 2)

"The conditions [which give rise to

fascism] are: instability of capitalist

relationships; the existence of

considerable declassed social elements,

the pauperization of broad strata of the

urban petit-bourgeoisie and of the

intelligentsia; discontent among the rural

petit-bourgeoisie, and finally, the

constant menace of mass proletarian

action."(Dutt, p. 88)

3. Fascism concentrates each

imperialist bloc into a single economic

unit while at the same time increasing

between-bloc antagonisms and

advancing towards war. (Dutt, pp. 72-73)

4. Fascism promotes chauvinist

demagogy (e.g. reducing the problem of

parasitism to the "Jewish Question") and

anti-science obscuratinism (e.g. Dutt, pp.

54-58 or any Jerry Bruckheimer film).

Fascism hypocritically adopts Marxist

critiques of capitalism, and bourgeois

democracy.(Dimitrov, pp. 6-7) It does this

to "utilize the discontent of the petit-

bourgeois, the intellectual, and other

strata in society."(Dutt, p. 89)

5. Still, fascism may not completely

dispense with bourgeois democracy--

e.g. banning revolutionary parties or even

competing bourgeois parties--depending

on "historical, social and economic

conditions."(Dimitrov, p. 4)

6. Both bourgeois democracy and

fascism are forms of the class

dictatorship of finance or comprador

capital (in imperialist and semi-colonial

countries, respectively)--that is, both use

organized violence to maintain the class

rule of the oppressors over the oppressed.

Hence, any differentiation between

bourgeois democracy and fascism is a

strategic or tactical matter--not a matter

of Marxist principles.

7. The difference between bourgeois

democracy and fascism is a matter of

quantitative changes leading to a quali-

tative change. The qualitative differences

are relevant to us in terms of their effect

on our policies towards non-proletarian

classes. "The accession to power of fas-

cism is not an ordinary succession of one

bourgeois government by another, but a

substitution of one state form of class

domination of the bourgeoisie--bour-

geois democracy--by another form--

open terrorist dictatorship. It would be a

serious mistake to ignore this distinction,

a mistake liable to prevent the revolution-

ary proletariat from mobilizing the wid-

est strata of the working people of town

and country for the struggle against the

menace of seizure of power by the fas-

cists, and from taking advantage of the

contradictions which exist in the camp

of the bourgeoisie itself. But it is a mis-

take, no less serious and dangerous, to

underrate the importance of, for the es-

tablishment of fascist dictatorship, of the

reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie

at present increasingly developing in

bourgeois-democratic countries--mea-

sures which suppress the democratic lib-

erties of the working people, falsify and

curtail the rights of parliament and in-

tensify the repression of the revolution-

ary movement." (Dimitrov, pp. 4-5; em-

phasis in the original)

8. Social democrats of the Second

International ilk paved the way for the

fascists by closely identifying itself with

the national interests of their respective

imperialists states, denying

internationalism, placing their faith in

MIM Congress: Fascism Defined

bourgeois democracy and scuttling the

extra-legal struggle for state power.

Hence they earned the epithet "social

fascists."

9. The COMINTERN United Front

policy was based on its assessment that

"[f]ascism is the most vicious enemy of

the working class and working people,

who constitute nine-tenths of the people

in [the] fascist [and proto-fascist]

countries."(p. 12) Furthermore, the

working class in these countries

constituted a unified proletariat. Fascism

was eroding the material basis for

differences between communist and

social-democratic workers.(E.g.

Dimitrov, pp. 24-34)

10. The labor aristocracy is majority

in the imperialist countries and not

proletarian. The fact that the imperialist

allow the labor aristocracy bourgeois

democracy is an example of the alliance

between these two classes and consistent

with the following observation from

Dutt: "Fascism strives to establish

political and organizational unity among

all the governing classes of capitalist

society (the bankers, the big industrialists

and the agrarians), and to establish their

undivided, open and consistent

dictatorship."(Dutt, p 89; emphasis

added)

Notes:
1. George Dimitrov, Against Fascism and War,
New York: International Publishers, 1986.
2. R Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social
Revolution, New York: International Publishers,
1934.

MIM Congress

Relationship between fascism in

oppressor and oppressed countries

The fight against fascism for the world's majority of people is principally ad-

vanced by the fight against U.$. imperialism. Even though Unkle $am may not

implement fascist measures against the exploiter majority within U.$. borders,

the United $tates is the main prop for fascism in the oppressed nations. The U.$.-

led New World Order holds that Amerikkkans have the right to arrest nationals

of other countries, including government leaders such as Manuel Noriega of

Panama. The Amerikkkan New World Order regularly violates the sovereignty

of other nations through bombings, invasions and assassinations. In various coun-

tries in the Third World, the United $tates arms, trains and otherwise aids fas-

cists in power who suspend parliaments, carry out coups and execute opponents.

Within U.$. borders, the rulers imprison the lumpenproletariat which it treats in

the same way roughly speaking as the Third World. For the majority of people

within U.$. borders, U.$.-style fascism is happy to allow the candidates of their

choice to contest for seats in the Congress. It will be a measure of the success of

the Third World proletariat when Unkle $am feels compelled to suspend the

currently meaningless "democratic" contests held within the Amerikkkan major-

ity, because it would mean that the class struggle has created a crack in the social

base of imperialism. Things such as the "proliferation of weapons of mass de-

struction" mean that the rulers will indeed face challenges from the Third World

proletariat that may go so far as to change economic conditions in the United

$tates, some day. Likewise, I$rael may not suspend parliament for the exploiter

majority, but it certainly seeks pro-I$rael puppets amongst Palestinians and des-

perately wishes for fascist puppets who would kill their own people on behalf of

I$rael, to quell the intifadah.

UC Divest

From I$rael!

Israeli settlers and storm troopers alike are armed to the teeth with

the latest killing technology provided by the U.S. government and

companies doing business in I$rael -- companies the University of

California supports financially. The UC should take a stand for peace

in the Middle East by withdrawing its financial stake from the Israeli

killing machine.

The UC should cease to support a regime that is internationally

recognized as one of the most brutal, annexationist regimes in his-

tory. From its genocidal inception to the present day, 70 UN resolu-

tions have condemned the state of I$rael for unparalleled humyn rights

abuses, legalized torture and land theft.

In 1986 one of the biggest victories in the South Africa divestment

movement came when the UC divested itself of all $3.1 billion of its

stock in companies active in South Africa. A well-organized group

of students and faculty can lead the UC to help bring down I$raeli

apartheid too.

Get involved: sign and circulate our petition demanding UC di-

vestment. Organize a group on your campus to get others involved.

Write a letter to your campus newspaper. Bring MIM or SLALA to

speak about the campaign and all the reasons the UC must divest.

Get a copy of the petition at: http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/

cal/ For more information on the UC Divest campaign, see MIM

Notes 259, 1 June, 2002.

MIM Notes 264 · August 15, 2002· Page 5

Theses on fascism

set up anti-militarist and anti-Hitler

committees, anti-militarism never took

hold amongst a majority of Germans and

the vast majority of the German

population had to be persuaded by

weapons instead of reason. Although

Stalin considered the idea that the war

should slow down in order to give the

German people yet another few months

to change their minds, in the end the only

correct decision was to hasten the

military conflict and thereby bring an end

to much genocide.

3. In the essence of U.S. Government

activity outside U.$. borders, the united

$tates carries out a combination of

genocide against the people and bribery

of local ruling class lackeys. It is

elementary that any proletarian

movement in the imperialist countries

must oppose their own governments'

oppression in the Third World, not least

of all because any peaceful world will

require that genocide be relinquished as

a tool of "foreign policy." Today there

remain a majority of elected

"democratic" politicians in the

imperialist country who are too spineless

or backward to say openly that those who

commit genocide in the Third World will

find that the oppressed people will "kill

them back." It is the duty of communist

parties in the imperialist countries to

cultivate the truth that contrary to the

Amerikkkans who killed almost all the

Native peoples in North America and

contrary to Hitler who systematically

killed many peoples and planned to kill

many more, genocide does not bring

lasting peace. Even in the killing of the

most militarily defenseless victims as in

the white settlers who killed Indians, the

history of violence lasts to this day to

produce the likes of the Columbine

tragedy, where serial killers run amok

spraying bullets everywhere--at a

frequency not seen in countries without

that history of genocide by gun-toting

cowboys.

Today, the proletariat must be merciless

to any politician who continues like the

ostrich with its head in the sand to believe

that modern weapons of militarism will

not spread to the victims of genocide.

Quite the contrary, the profit-system

guarantees that where there is demand,

there will be supply.

Whether it is Iraq, Afghanistan or the

West Bank, it is clear that without openly

adopting fascism, the essence of u.$.

imperialism and its allies today is

genocide and any tally of the victims of

U.$. imperialism will show that it has

implemented much more of Hitler's

genocidal plans than Hitler did.

4. For tactics of opposing fascism, it is

important to cultivate the scientific non-

voter, who is often maligned by so-called

"democratic" forces as "apathetic." The

scientific non-voter is often conscious

that s/he has not investigated a political

situation and therefore does not vote--

and in this way believes he or she is

demonstrating minimal responsibility.

The scientific non-voter is often

disgusted by politicians who posture for

votes and bribery. In contrast with

"democracy" activists who believe that

the votes of willfully ignorant but

decadent people will somehow add up to

social progress, the scientific non-voter

is one reason why we communists should

not pander to those who want "majority

rule" in the imperialist countries. If

communists do not make it clear that they

believe politics requires strong scientific

and leadership efforts, the scientific non-

voter is liable to turn to hard-line fascism.

As communists we should already

know that there is no way to prevent a

general distrust and disgust regarding

parliamentary politics. The only question

is whether those disgusted with

politicians posturing for votes without

standing for principles and difficult

solutions will be diverted by fascists,

brow-beaten by parliamentary cretins or

won over by communists. We

communists are here to say that politics

is like any other area of life in that science

really does matter and it is not a matter

that the truth will arise through a majority

vote of those who know very well that

they do not pay much attention to the

subject at hand. Majority input can only

be helpful in most times in imperialist

countries when the majority recognizes

that it does not put in enough effort to be

worthy of deciding whether someone

should live or die in the West Bank for

example. When the majority has realized

clearly that only in exceptional political

turmoil do the people themselves study

political and social matters closely, the

majority may decide to fall behind

principled scientific leaders and support

them in those areas where the majority

does have knowledge and other kinds of

power.

5. [Passed as amendment] Since U.$.

imperialism is enemy #1 in the world,

various tactical or strategic alliances

cannot be ruled out as being contrary to

proletarian interests, although each has

limited usefulness to the international

proletariat. One related road of conflict

will involve the European Union (EU)

in opposition to the Amerikkkan New

World order, with the EU speaking as a

whole. We suspect that this would be an

imperialist reform movement within the

New World Order; although other forces

could also hide behind an EU conflict

with the United $tates. Since

overthrowing European imperialism

entirely is not on the agenda, for now,

MIM is pro-EU as a matter of opposing

extreme European nationalism and old-

style fascism. We point out that the New

World Order can never be unified or

peaceful.

Continued from page 1...

Despite trying hard to sound like MIM

on the question of identity politics, the

"RCP-USA" could not help using post-

modernism and identity politics to do the

ruling class's work on

www.2changetheworld.info. In July, the

"RCP-USA" said that the only difference

between our positions on the Black

nation's right to self- determination,

despite previous arguments contrary on

the www.2changetheworld.info is that

the "RCP-USA" actually has Black

members. Having baited MIM this way,

the "RCP-USA" on July 22nd, then goes

on to ask the racial background of all

MIM members, saying "correct me if I'm

wrong." The "RCP-USA" then cut off the

thread including postings from a MIM

supporter--as if to leave the impression

that MIM supporters were speechless

after such comments. (Postings

continued on www.yahoogroups.com/

group/Maoism )

It is always the approach of the post-

modernists and identity politics people

to care about individual demographics

instead of scientific line struggle. The

police find this very useful, especially in

public forums like

www.2changetheworld.info. It is one

way to stir up resentment within

organizations and cause them to split

with college-educated on one side against

those who don't have college education,

gay versus heterosexual, young versus

old etc., etc.

Later, in regard to an interview with

Bob Avakian about whether white

proletarians exist or not, the "RCP-USA"

could not help pointing out that the

individual doing the interview was Black.

There was a special message just on that

point, all the while claiming to oppose

identity politics.

By the way, even if the "RCP-USA"

adopted MIM's line on national self-

determination, which it has not, the

"RCP-USA" would still oppose what we

have called the "re-civilization stage" of

the dictatorship of the proletariat or

preparation for such dictatorship of the

proletariat. We at MIM believe state

power is necessary to undercut the

chauvinism of the white oppressor

nation, by erasing the super-profits that

have caused the white population to be

an enemy of the international proletariat.

In contrast, the "RCP-USA" believes that

the people who let off Vincent Chin's

killer, the people who let off Rodney

King's attackers and the people who in

their 90% have favored bombing Libya,

war on Iraq and destruction of

Afghanistan can really change their

minds by "public opinion" or cultural

work without first erasing the super-

profits and other aspects of the relations

of production that give rise to their

chauvinism. That's why we call the

"RCP-USA" New Age idealists along

with their bolder version, the

"Progressive Labor Party." They do not

think state power is necessary to make

these people truly revolutionary and they

ignore what Stalin told the Germans after

World War II, that they were not ready

or qualified to build socialism right away.

Both the PLP and "RCP-USA" will

simply end up re-labeling reactionary

phenomena as revolution, putting some

new oppressor faces in power and

establishing social-imperialism.

The "RCP-USA" cannot emerge from

identity politics. There are many too

many obstacles for it. One is that it needs

to go on talking about a minority of white

workers in order to justify its overall line

that the majority is exploited. Any real

facts about the white majority would

quickly prove the MIM line, so the "RCP-

USA" needs to tell long and tall tales

about individual oppressed whites.

Secondly, it has always been the "RCP-

USA"'s practice to use the struggles of

Third World peoples to shield their own

revisionism. That is how RIM has

functioned and the "RCP-USA" has

found success in recruiting philistines

this way, people who want to use other

militant struggles for their own ends. The

"RCP-USA" is so used to this approach

that twice in trying to change the subject

from the u.$. class structure in

www.2changetheworld.info, the "RCP-

USA" raised questions about the Russian

Maoist Party. Finally, since the Black

Panther Party already proved the validity

of its approach, the "RCP-USA" needs

to sidestep that history and attack those

whites backing the Black Panther

approach while raising more pragmatist-

empiricist criteria such as whether or not

MIM is small or all-white.

As MIM has pointed out before, in its

web page FAQ, it is a cop tactic to divide

organizations based on identity politics

and demographic differences. People

who cannot keep their mouth shut when

baited with cop-tactics and people who

do not know how to promote unity in

such situations are ready prey for the

ruling class. MIM teaches people this,

while the "RCP-USA" ignores history

and practices something

indistinguishable from what cops have

always done against revolutionaries.

`RCP-USA' identity politics

include security risk

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The U.$. rulers are overhauling their

government supposedly to focus better

on fighting terrorism. In a mostly secret

review of the CIA and FBI, the Congress

has come forward with its opinions, and

what the rulers can get away with saying

proves the political backwardness of the

Amerikkkan public.

According to the rulers, Osama Bin

Laden and his organization were behind

the September 11th attacks. Yet it was

the CIA that trained and funded Osama

Bin Laden when he was fighting the So-

viet Union in the 1980s as part of a Holy

War in Afghanistan. Before that Osama

Bin Laden was just another hereditary

millionaire.

Now Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala-

bama) is proposing more of the same as

the solution to the problem! "`Often

times we have to dig down and deal with

terrorists or would-be terrorists, someone

probably as bad as these people.'"(1) Not

only is he saying this, but he is saying

this in public for CNN to hear and report

as the loyal media lap-dogs they are.

CNN explains the situation that the

rulers are trying to change: "The guide-

lines against the United States using

people with criminal backgrounds as

sources were implemented following al-

legations made in the 1990s that several

CIA agents in Guatemala ordered or took

part in human rights abuses."(1)

We can infer from what the CIA is say-

ing that the politicians are lying. The CIA

director said: "`CIA headquarters has

never turned down a field request to re-

cruit an asset in a terrorist organization,'

CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said

Tuesday. `The agency does not avoid

contact with individuals, regardless of

their past, who may have information

about terrorist activities.'"(2) In other

words, the usual crap about the CIA hav-

ing its "hands tied" is just that--crap.

The politicians want to paint the situa-

tion as one where they did not have

enough power and where they were abid-

ing by humyn-rights guidelines as the

reason they allowed the Sepember 11th

attack on U.$. soil. The fact that Shelby

and others posture in public this way is a

discredit to the entire U.$. public, which

these politicians obviously feel they can

fool.

It's a basic problem of logic. The

people who were in charge when this

happened want more power to do things,

just more of the same as in the past. Al-

though the CIA created Osama Bin

Laden, these politicians want to use the

CIA on the "offensive" to stop Osama

Bin Laden. Real change cannot come in

this way, not least of all 911 proved to

the "terrorists" what can be done, and

they will also be doing "more of the

same."

Notes:
1. http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/17/
attacks.intelligence/index.html
2. http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/17/
attacks.intelligence.ap/index.html

Rulers: CIA was too lax in recruiting "unsavoury" people

Shelby wants more Osama Bin Ladens

You have been tired all week. Today you

don't even have the energy to work, and

you've started to slur your speech. Your

father decides its time to take the trip to

the local clinic--15 miles away by foot.

Your cousin comes along to help support

you while you walk. At the clinic, you

father's fears are confirmed: you have

the sleeping sickness.

You will have to stay at the hospital

for a week for treatment. The treatment

is so toxic that 5% of patients die from

its side effects. It's an old medicine, you

see. Pharmaceutical companies haven't

invested much in sleeping sickness re-

search for more than 50 years. After all,

how are they to make a profit off of you,

a penniless, 12-year-old African boy?

This story is similar to the role-play-

ing visitors go through at the Access to

Essential Medicines exhibit put on by

Doctors Without Borders (or MSF for

Medecins Sans Frontieres). The exhibits

focuses on five diseases with huge pub-

lic health impact internationally: Sleep-

ing sickness (African trypanosomiasis),

tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and

kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis). These

diseases account for 6.8-9.1 million of

the 14 million who die every year of in-

fectious disease--90% of them in the

Third World.

Yearly fatalities due to the diseases

in MSF's Access to Essential Medi-

cines expo

Sleeping sickness

300,000-

500,000

Kala azar

500,000

Malaria

1,000,000-

2,000,000

Tuberculosis

2,000,000

AIDS

3,000,000

Despite the death toll, less than 1% of

medicines developed over the last 25

years were for diseases like malaria,

sleeping sickness, tuberculosis and kala

azar. (Many of the "new" drugs are

simple modifications of existing treat-

ments--often of questionable medical

utility--designed to avoid other compa-

nies' patents and break into their mar-

kets.) The people affected by these ne-

glected diseases are overwhelmingly

poor, so drug companies consider treat-

ments for them unprofitable. In the case

of AIDS, new drugs are developed--of-

ten with the help of patients from poor

countries like South Africa who volun-

teer for clinical trials--but are priced too

high for people from poor countries.

One of the pamphlets MSF passes out

at its exhibit illustrates the lack of afford-

able medicine in the Third World with

the following ironic anecdote:

Melarsopol is the only treatment cur-

rently available for second-stage sleep-

ing sickness [when the parasite that

causes the disease has invaded the

brain]. Developed in 1949, it is an ar-

senic derivative so toxic that it kills up

to one in 10 patients. Eflornithine, a far

more effective medicine, was discontin-

ued in 1995 because it was not consid-

ered profitable by the manufacturer. Pro-

duction was restarted in 2001 after a

cosmetic use was found--the elimination

of facial hair. Even then it took intense

lobbying to make eflornithine available

as a treatment for sleeping sickness.

MSF launched the Access to Essential

Medicines tour in support of two peti-

tions urging research into neglected dis-

eases and affordable treatments for

them--one to go to the Amerikan gov-

ernment and the other to the pharmaceu-

tical industry. Aside from this moral and

negative publicity pressure--to which

the drug industry might be particularly

sensitive, as they try to portray them-

selves as helping people--MSF encour-

ages poor countries to use their "free

trade" rights guaranteed them under the

WTO to produce cheaper versions of

drugs patented by First World countries.

MSF points to language in recent WTO

resolutions on "intellectual property

rights" (patents) which says that these

"rights" should not get in the way of a

country's efforts to secure its citizen's

health.

An MSF volunteer MIM spoke to at

the expo in Los Angeles also suggested

that First World cosmetic and leisure time

drugs like Viagra could be taxed to pay

for price supports for life-saving drugs

in the Third World.

Under socialism, the state will organize

production to meet humyn needs, not

profit. Similarly, nobody will be able to

own and profit off of scientific knowl-

edge. People who make noteworthy dis-

coveries which will alleviate humyn suf-

fering and increase life expectancies will

receive a one time monetary reward--

until the distant future when we reach

communism and working for the com-

mon good becomes "natural." Further-

more, in return for years of exploitation

DWB fights for Access to Essential Medicines

and theft of natural resources, the First

World will pay the Third reparations--

certainly a large portion of which will

take the form of medicines and the tech-

nology to produce them.

But until we reach socialism, reforms

like those MSF fights for are very im-

portant. MSF is a potential First World

ally for the proletarian movement and

another example of what MIM calls "in-

ternationalist social democrats." We like

the idea of using the imperialists' own

WTO and their rhetoric of "free trade"

to allow bourgeois governments in the

poor countries meet their peoples' health

needs. We also like the idea of having

First World consumers (or taxpayers)

paying for Third World access to medi-

cine.

The Access to Essential Medicines

expo will tour North America until next

March. For a schedule, go to http://

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/out-

reach/expo/schedule.shtml or http://

www.accessmed-msf.org/index.asp. For

the petitions to the Amerikan government

and pharmaceutical industry, go to http:/

/www.msfusa.org/petition/.

MIM Notes 264 · August 15, 2002· Page 7

by a prisoner in Tennessee

On June 5, Colin Powell delivered the

U.$. State Department's second annual

Trafficking Persons Report. Powell pub-

licly declared his so-called commitment

to ending world wide humyn trafficking

as "an appalling assault on the dignity of

men, women, and children." He said that

approximately 50,000 people are traf-

ficked into the united $tates every year,

and that victims of trafficking "toil un-

der inhuman conditions in brothels,

sweatshops, fields, and even in private

homes." Near the closing of his presen-

tation, he said that by next year the United

$tates will penalize countries that make

no effort to halt trafficking.

How can Powell be truly against

humyn trafficking when the U.S. supports

the trafficking of over half the popula-

tion of Black men in and out of prisons

throughout this country? By ignoring the

number one prison state in the world, Mr.

Powell has confined the word "traffick-

ing" to mean "smuggling" as in the un-

lawful smuggling of men, women and

children into this and other countries for

the purposes of subjecting them to

inhumyn conditions and being exploited

for profit. This amounts to the same para-

sitic practices the United $tates and its

officials sanction for a small minority of

their own citizens.

If Powell is an advocate against the

unlawful trafficking of humyns, he

should first confront the criminal injus-

tice system for the blatant predatory traf-

ficking of Black peoples throughout u.$.

prisons. One should ask Powell why has

no effort been made to halt the criminal

injustice system's preying upon Black

people as a means of maintaining social

control and power? Why are massive

numbers of Blacks in the united $tates

being trafficked in and out of penitentia-

ries while being forced to toil under "in-

human conditions" within prison?

Colin Powell's line on humyn traffick-

ing reflects the contradictory results of

the mixture of capitalism, imperialism

and bourgeois democracy. Powell, like

all other senior U.$. officials, hypocriti-

cally exposes the ways of other oppres-

sive governments while condoning the

exact same oppressive policies prevalent

within his own borders. His desire to

penalize other countries for trafficking

creates the supposition that he has a se-

cret agenda for certain countries and

thereby is adopting humyn trafficking as

a cover for some other u.$. motive.

MIM adds: The United $tates benefits

from this humyn trafficking that Powell

is condemning. The workers in sweat-

shops around the world are sewing cloth-

ing for export to Amerika. Many of the

corporations employing these workers

are Amerikan multinationals. The U.$.

government speaks out of two sides of

its mouth on this. First it condemns

humyn trafficking, then it props up pup-

pet regimes in Third World countries that

enforce inhumyn conditions and unliv-

able pay for their people. Amerikan cor-

porations enjoy the right to do business

in many of these countries, free from the

labor and environmental regulations that

fetter them within U.$. borders.

Two-faced U.$. lies on humyn trafficking

The Maoist Internationalist Movement

passed the following resolution at its

2002 Congress.

We of MIM believe that the

Amerikkkan reaction to September 11th

has increased the likelihood of the ex-

plosion of nuclear weapons by those at-

tacking the United $tates. Rather than

seeing themselves as part of a long-stand-

ing war, Amerikkkans reacted to Septem-

ber 11th with what they knew about poli-

tics and history, which isn't much--and

thereby angered the rest of the world even

more. Frankly speaking, this is a weak-

ness in the whole global situation that the

communists must face.

The Japanese population knows the

horrors of facing nuclear weapons explo-

sions and today any such explosions are

apt to be a thousand times worse because

of advances in weaponry. In contrast,

Amerikkkans really do not know what

the devastation of war is all about.

Amerikkkans know the most about the

benefits of pillage and war in the past

one hundred years, and only suffered a

small number of casualties relative to

other countries in those wars.

The oppressed will not and should not

have to wait for Amerikkkans to grasp

the evil of war. For this reason, the war-

mongering and chauvinism we have seen

from Amerikkkans since September 11th

has only increased the likelihood that

someone will try to teach Amerikkkans

a lesson they will not forget. Try as they

might, there is no way for Amerikkkan

security agencies to trace millions or bil-

lions of people effectively. The scale of

the problem is too big for that. The gen-

erosity of the oppressed and super- ex-

ploited toward the willfully ignorant ex-

ploiters of Amerikkka will not last for-

ever.

MIM will do its best to expand its in-

fluence within U.$. borders in a last ditch

effort to avoid what is probably inevi-

table. Those who see the weaknesses of

Amerikkkans should see to it that MIM

gets financial support to expand. Even

those who focus on more "moderate"

activities should realize that changing

Amerikkkan public opinion is a multi-

faceted task, and what is most lacking is

the determined, uncompromising but

highly visible presence of MIM in favor

of the global rights of nations to self-

determination. Without MIM to blaze the

way, there is no one who is able to look

"moderate" in the current state of

Amerikkkan opinion. The proletariat

must play its leading role to untwist the

minds of the Amerikkkan public so that

the Amerikkkan population can get along

with the rest of the world.

On the dangers of nuclear holocaust

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?

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

MIM Notes 264 · August 15, 2002· Page 8

by Studies for the Liberation of

Aztlan and Latin America (SLALA)

Two weeks before the 4th of July

while amerikans prepared for fireworks

displays and "holiday getaways" 30

people, including a 2 year old child, died

crossing into the u.$. through deserts in

order to bypass the militarized areas of

the u.$.-Mexico border in search of

work.(1) These tragic and preventable

deaths are only the latest in a 7 year trend

of increasing numbers of deaths along the

u.$.-Mexico border as a result of the

INS's brutal military blockade-style op-

erations along the border with Mexico

from California through Arizona and

Texas.

INS policy militarizing the control of

civilian traffic across the u.$.-Mexico

border under various ill-named opera-

tions involves the construction of a con-

crete-and-razor-wire "Triple Wall" from

San Diego to Yuma and into Texas, arm-

ing Border Patrol agents with high-pow-

ered rifles and night vision equipment

and sending them off to hunt immigrants.

The overall effect is the movement of

immigrant foot-traffic from the relative

safety of the cities and into the deserts of

the Southwestern states where they are

exposed to the elements and are victim-

ized by smugglers and settler vigilantes.

Five months prior to September 2001

MIM reported that under domestic pres-

sure Mexican President Vicente Fox

pushed to increase the number of Mexi-

cans admitted into the u.$. as "guest

workers" and that some amerikan capi-

talists supported the idea because of their

need for exploitable labor.(2) While the

amerikans favored expanding temporary

work visas and refused to drop immigra-

tion restrictions altogether Vicente Fox

did bring up the issue of legalizing un-

documented immigrants currently in the

u.$.(3) But after the September 11 attacks

when amerikans gave up on paying lip-

service to "constitutional rights" and

threw out some of their most prized "civil

liberties," all plans for progressive reform

by way of lifting immigration restrictions

went out the door as well.

In Tijuana, for instance, for those

people who live in Mexico and work in

San Diego conditions have worsened

(with daily checkpoint crossing, storm

trooper intimidation, long waits and

longer working hours) since the initial

paranoid border closings and emergency

foot-traffic measures implemented in

September. A person living in the area

reported that automobile traffic crossings

average 4 hours (up from 2 to 3) and foot-

traffic lines number 1000 people on

weekdays, and up to 3000 on weekends

(up from 60-100). Undocumented immi-

grants also face increased repression in

the wake of September 11 as the u.$. au-

thorized the re-deployment of armed

marines to border areas, a practice they

had stopped in 1997 pending an "inves-

tigation" into the murder of a Chicano

youth on his family's ranch by marines.

Since 1993, 3000 deaths along the bor-

der are directly attributable to INS op-

erations.(1) With an attitude very differ-

ent from the concern expressed over the

death toll resulting from the World Trade

Center attacks, Amerikan authorities and

the INS did not bother to record cases of

immigrant deaths in Arizona and Texas

until 1996 and did not begin to do so thor-

oughly all along the border until 1998.(4)

As a result they claim that 1300 immi-

grants have died crossing the border since

1995.(1) A more accurate figure is pro-

vided by Mexico's Foreign Relations

Office which cites 2228 total deaths since

1995.(4)

Economically, amerikans depend on

the depressed wages in Third World

countries. Isabel Garcia, co-chair of

Derechos Humanos, an immigrants'

rights organization echoes what MIM has

been saying all along. In a radio debate

with a voice box for the reactionary anti-

immigrant Federation for American Im-

migration Reform she said that immi-

grants come to the u.$. out of sheer des-

peration because Mexican companies

cannot survive because of u.$. trade

agreements. She correctly pointed out

that immigration is not a "law-enforce-

ment" problem because "immigrants pro-

vide the 4th leg" to amerikan social se-

curity. Mexico cannot be "bailed out" by

the u.$. so long as the u.$. extracts more

from Mexico than what amerikans want

to admit.(1)

Its really more than a "4th" leg. The

brutal super-exploitation of billions of

workers in the Third World not only con-

tributes to "social security" but to the

high standard of living for hundreds of

millions living in oppressor countries,

accounting for imperialist profits. No

amount of stock references to "social

security" can cover up for the fact that

Third World proletarians average $0.48

per hour, while u.$. so-called "workers"

earn $16.40.(5) Billions of proletarians

in the Third World live under u.$.-sup-

ported death-squad governments, which

use military force to fix wage rates and

attack union organizers.

MIM Advances
Petition Campaign

Beginning in 1993 when the military-

style blockades began, MIM has been

reporting on the human rights abuses and

dangers faced by Latin American immi-

grants due to Operation Gatekeeper (the

three-barrier blockade stretching from

San Ysidro, CA to San Luis, AZ) (6) and

in April of last year MIM launched a

petition (7) campaign demanding an the

end to Operation Gatekeeper and estab-

lishing an open border with Mexico.

So far MIM, RAIL and SLALA have

collected more than 1000 signatures from

all over the country and from within the

u.$. prison system. In 2001 MIM and

MIM-led activists collected signatures at

a border action rally in San Ysidro (7)

and at Harvard University. This year

MIM has collected signatures at a march

in Los Angeles on Mayday in support of

amnesty for some undocumented work-

ers, and at the Santa Barbara march for

"economic justice."

At the May Day rally in Los Angeles,

a MIM supporter approached a young

white womyn watching the crowd go by.

The womyn said she was happy to sup-

port legalization for those immigrants

who are already here, but would not sup-

port a call for open borders. When

pressed on this, she said that the freeways

in Orange County, CA are already too

crowded and would only be more so if

the borders were opened to anyone who

wants to enter the country. This typical

short-sighted amerikan "head-up-your-

ass" reasoning was countered by a MIM

comrade who pointed out that the people

who are dying to cross the border are too

poor to own cars and are not the ones

clogging the freeways and the polluting

air. In general the crowd at the May Day

rally was generally very friendly to

MIM's petition, and helped non-Spanish

speaking comrades circulating and trans-

lating the petition. Most individuals who

signed the petition insisted that everyone

in their marching group sign as well, and

people thanked us for being out there

with the petition and praised the demand

for open borders.

More recently SLALA has been col-

lecting signatures in an area a few blocks

away from the infamous "garment" (read

sweatshop) district in downtown Los

Angeles. On one occasion MIM ran into

one Chicano cultural activist who was

suspicious that MIM's position on the

u.$.-Mexico border is no different from

Bill Klinton's and the NAFTA treaty. The

activist said many things that MIM would

say about revolutionary politics and cul-

ture: it is no coincidence that Black and

Brown people fill the prisons of this

country while the white nation has the

run of it. Cultural forms for expressing

the righteous anger of the oppressed at

imperialism -- through posters and art,

poetry, slogans and street theater -- are

an important part of anti-imperialist re-

sistance.

The activist argued that Mexico is al-

ready dominated by Amerikan capital,

and that this would not change if people

are allowed to cross the border freely.

MIM grants that this is true: stopping

Operation Gatekeeper with its increased

militarization of the u.$.-Mexico border

will not topple imperialism. Even open-

ing the border completely won't do that.

MIM organizes for partial demands, like

stopping real people from dying by the

hundreds from Operation Gatekeeper, as

a part of building public opinion for the

overthrow of imperialism. Opening the

border to the free flow of labor would

save and improve the lives of many more

than hundreds of exploited people. This

is well in line with MIM's long-range

goals of socialist revolution to benefit

billions of the oppressed and exploited.

One of the most inspiring advances in

MIM's campaign has come from within

the u.$. prison system. One prisoner sent

back a petition with 44 signatures on it.

He apologizes for it having taken so long

to get it back to us because it's difficult

to collect signatures in lock-down units.

It took him 15 days to collect the signa-

tures. A MIM comrade asked: how many

of us on the outside are collecting 40+

signatures every two weeks?

Join the Struggle to Stop
Operation Gatekeeper and
Open the Border

In spite of the settler-inspired post-9/

11 paranoia about immigrants three u.$.

states are now majority non-white; oth-

ers are barely majority white. A large

percentage of people living in the u.$.

have cultural and economic ties on both

sides of the border. There is no reason

why the amount of signatures collected

in support of an open-border and against

Operation Gatekeeper should not go into

the thousands.

Follow the example of dedicated pris-

oners and inspired MIM comrades. To

do your part to put pressure on the u.$.

government copy, distribute and return

completed petitions to MIM. (Get a copy

of the petition here: http://www.etext.org/

Politics/MIM/cal/OpenBorder.htm)You

can also cite MIM's petition in protest

correspondence to Michael Nicley,

Deputy Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, 425

"I" Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20536.

Notes:
1. "Illegal Immigrants in Peril" NPR: Travis
Smiley Show, July 3, 2002. www.npr.org/
ramfiles/tavis/20020703.tavis.01.ram
2. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/cal/
OpenBorder.htm
3. The New York Times, April 8, 2002.
4. http://www.stopgatekeeper.org/deaths.htm
5. MC5, Imperialism and its class structure,
1997, section C.4.
6. MIM Notes 84, January, 1993.
7. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/cal/
Petition.PDF
8. MIM Notes 233, 1 May 2001.

Update: Amerikan terrorism claims 3,000 along border

Campaign to Stop Operation Gatekeeper and Open the U.$-Mexico Border advances

MIM Notes 264 · August 15, 2002· Page 9

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you try non-violence first? What is internationalism? Isn't hating white

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Amerika makes the hardware, I$rael

kills Palestinian children -- again

embarrassment." In truth, as every child

still living in Gaza and in the rest of

occupied Palestine knows, the only

consequences the I$raeli people will

respect are the withdrawal of U.$. aid and

military hardware.

But George Bush has no intention of

cutting off the gun supply, even after this

especially embarrassing attack. I$rael's

use of Amerikan weapons and planes to

kill Palestinian civilians is not unusual.

And Bush's response to the bombing

shows the Amerikan complicity in and

sometime direction of the I$raeli

occupation. Did he say the killing of

innocents was wrong? Did he say that the

Palestinian people must be able to sleep

in their beds without being killed in the

night? Of course not. He called the attack

"heavy handed." The leader of the

Amerikan people doesn't think that I$rael

shows a murderous face to the

Palestinians; he thinks the I$raelis are

clumsy.

The U.$. has created this war,

encouraging and aiding the I$raeli assault

on the Palestinian people. Now the

Amerikans stand by and watch as I$rael

conducts its own "Indian wars" --

continuing its drive to clear the

Palestinian land of people. The Amerikan

people are on notice. Just as the I$raeli

people are not allowed to live in peace

while they make war on the Palestinians,

so the Amerikan people will not be able

to enjoy their willful disregard for humyn

life. To the people of this country we say:

your government has brought violence to

the people in the Mideast, it is up to you

to push for a genuine peace by stopping

the flow of U.$. arms to I$rael.

MIM and SLALA are leading a

campaign to see the University of

California Divest from I$rael and help

dry up the gravy bowl. See Page 4 for

more information.

Sources: NYT, July 25, 2002; http://

www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/

mideast_07-24-02.html; http://

www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/

dsnews/257nd1.htm

Continued from page 1...

nationalists considered the Soviet terri-

tory and other places outside of Pales-

tine.

We should keep in mind that Stalin did

more than any Jewish statespersyn or

nationalist to create a secularized

territory and government for the Jewish

nation. Success would have done away

with the basis for the kind of mystical

chauvinism we now see backing the land

grab and total humiliation of the

Palestinians. We remind those in the left-

wing of the Zionist camp that outside of

the Soviet territory in Birobidzhan,

Jewish nationalists saw potential

homelands worth investigating in

Uganda and in the state of New York.

The survival of the Jewish nation does

not depend on making refugees and

orphans of the Palestinian people.

The question of the Zionist vs.

Palestinian conflict is one of locating a

few million people. While tens of

millions of Arabs and billions of Third

World people look on in anger at I$rael

and sympathy with the Palestinians, the

root problem is only a few million people.

With the U.$. military and economic

aid, the I$raelis have been encouraged

to look at Palestinians as First Nation

people who need to be pushed off their

land, by murderous force. Every

Amerikkkan today who says he or she

would have opposed killing off the First

Nations for their land in North America

should also oppose U.$. aid to I$rael.

Contrary to many foreign comrades

with an unrealistic view of the facts, the

MIM's perspective on the Mideast situation

Continued from page 1...

United $tates is not run by a Jewish

mafia. If a Jewish mafia were running

the united $tates, it would have taken

much more than $100 billion in aid since

1967. $100 billion -- about the damage

to the World Trade Center-- sounds like

a lot, but having a realistic view would

mean considering that the U.$. economy

runs in the several trillion a year and

could expand further if prodded.

If all Jews are bankers like many

deluded people seem to believe, then

those Jews surely know that $100 billion

is nothing, especially given the power to

print money and create credit under

capitalism. $100 billion would only be a

difficulty in a world with no unemployed

people. Creating that much credit on

paper or printing that much money for

the future to do some work with people

currently unemployed or moved from

other jobs--such a feat is actually trivial,

even within capitalism. Immigration and

economic expansion only angers the out-

of-luck "loser" minority of the labor

aristocracy hankering for closed borders

and an exclusive relationship with u.$.

monopoly bankers.

Although the United $tates is not run

by a Jewish mafia, it is true that aid to

I$rael surpasses the aid to any other

country. It is precisely the historical

extent of this aid that necessitates that

the United $tates go the extra mile for

peace in the Mideast.

The truth is that the United $tates also

backed the despicable apartheid regime

and related settler regime "Rhodesia" in

southern Africa ruled by former Nazis

and Nazi-sympathizers. In those regimes

white minorities ruled African majorities

without even granting those Africans the

usual capitalist or "democratic" rights.

There is nothing new about support for

I$rael and other settler societies: it's quite

Amerikkkan, and has nothing to do with

a Jewish mafia.

The example of I$rael contributes to

international instability and increases the

likelihood of a species-ending disaster.

In the back of their minds, even the most

apathetic Amerikkkans believe that the

Mideast could be the world's undoing,

even as they favor I$raeli imperialism.

The example of I$rael encourages all

nations in the world to catch the eye of

the united $tates and then take land from

people not lined up with Uncle $am's

interests in oil or other resources. The

example is receiving billions in rewards

each year for carrying out land-grabbing

war in the name of fighting "terrorism"

or other bugaboos. Such an example

sends the wrong message globally. What

may not have resulted in nuclear

catastrophe when President Andrew

Jackson led genocidal raids against First

Nations might very well end the species

in the year 2002. Against this backdrop,

Amerikkkans must summon a generosity,

courage and optimism to put the power

of economics to work for peace.

marx2mao.org

is a

security risk

A major website containing

documents from Marx, Lenin and

Mao contains an unusual security risk

for its users. A MIM investigation

has uncovered that

www.marx2mao.org has released

detailed reports on its

individual users, information

including the interests of the users.

MIM has never endorsed

www.marx2mao.org; although it has

obvious usefulness at least in concept.

The "RCP-USA" links to it from its

webpage, http://www.rwor.org/s/

mlm_arc.htm

We warn readers once again, that

they must see to their security first.

Not every website set up on the

Internet has good intentions. Some in

fact are meant to lure people to gather

information on them as individuals.

It is a challenge to the proletariat to

spread information as widely and

quickly as possible while keeping in

mind that not every MIM Notes

distributor, not every persyn calling

him or herself "Maoist" and not every

reference website can be counted on

as sincere. This is a typical

security challenge to the proletariat

when it is not in state power.

Comrades can read our security FAQ

on the web page for a little more help.

MIM Notes 264 · August 15, 2002· Page 10

Under Lock & Key

News from Prisons & Prisoners

Repression in Oregon

Thank you MIM, I am always

empowered by your newsletter and

resurrected into the movement daily.

I am working on the issue of

censorship. I am street wise, not book

smart, so any help from MIM will be of

service to the forwardness of success.

The mail here has become a vast issue.

I have received 4 mail violations in one

week. The institution says that the

violations are not reviewable, however I

have enclosed my review request to

program services which is also his

response. Both will be helpful dealing

with this matter from all sides.

One of the other issues we deal with

here is our phone system. Unlike other

Oregon prisons, we are only allowed to

use the phone between the hours of 5pm

after business hours until 11pm. And we

have only 3 phone sign up times for

usage: 6pm, 7:30pm and 9pm or after unit

count has been completed.

The phone for legal matters is only

accessible by communication form as

subject to the institution's choice of times

and answer of inmate request. Though it

is accessible 24 hours, it is set up for

EOCI to control. This makes it very

difficult for prisoners to communicate

during business hours.

Access to the institutions law books of

legal assistance [is also a problem]. Most

of the time a request for us of legal help

or books is a two week wait. And to

continue work you must request by kite

for more use of time.

The minority affairs lady is white.

Many inmates believe that if an issue

came up involving a white staff member

he or she would not get correct help

needed and like most other systematic

dealings, would be laid to the side until

forgotten. This has happened in times

past where an officer put a sheet over his

head to taunt Black inmates on the west

cell side of the institution.

In the revolution,

--a prisoner in Oregon,

March 2002

Wake Up and Unite

The real acts of terror is when those

who are oppressed fight, kill, and attack

one another, rather than those who

oppress them. Not only is it self-inflicted

terror but it is stupidity as well. I see it

all the time in the free world and on the

prison yards. How in the fuck are we

gonna overthrow our oppressors if we

can't get along long enough to complete

our mission? Foolish people! Either we

are with one another, or we are against

one another, either we want freedom,

justice, and equality or we want to remain

oppressed, there can't be an in between.

Black people need to wake up before

it's too late. North Carolina prisoners

need to wake up before it's too late,

because if we remain as a house divided

against itself, we will not be able to stand.

Is this so hard to understand?

We spend our time destroying

ourselves, while our open enemies use

us as tools and slaves to further their

cause of having total power over us. Is it

that you are so deaf, blind and dumb that

you can't comprehend this? Prisoners

know and understand that for as long as

we keep stabbing, fighting, stealing from,

spying on and snitching on one another,

the pigs will always have the upper hand

on us, they will always violate our rights,

they will always take more and more

from us, they will always abuse and

mistreat us, they will always subject us

to unfair sentencing guidelines, and they

will always exploit and manipulate us.

Just think about it, Amerikkka has over

2 million prisoners. If just half of us were

to come together or even a quarter of us,

then the prisoncrats who oppress us

would be shaking in their boots and wing

tips. We could have most of if not all of

our demands met if we came together in

unity. The oppressors would think twice

about playing us too close if they knew

we would unite on their asses like the

Power Rangers.

Now picture in your mind all 2 million

of us coming together proclaiming that

we are not doing any more work at all

until our demands are met. We will not

use prison phones until our demands are

met, we will not spend money in prison

canteen until our demands are met

(except stamps) and if these demands are

not met in a timely fashion we will

declare an official full-fledged hunger

and work strike.

We want the following:

1) No more mail and book censorship

2) Our law library back with daily access

3) Our right to wear jewelry

4) Reasonable medical care

5) Minimum wage jobs

6) We want to order our own shoes from

the outside

7) Reasonable phone prices

8) Lower canteen prices (same as street

prices)

9) No more control units (supermax) for

low custody inmates

10) Contact visits for max and I-Con

inmates

11) More education programs and grants

for correspondence courses

12) Elimination of mandatory minimums

13) Christmas packages from home

(food)

14) Mandatory reading and computer

training

15) Eliminate disciplinary fees ($10 per

write-up)

16) Eliminate medical charges ($3 to $5

per sick call) unless we get minimum

wage

17) Officers disciplined and fired for

abuse to inmates

18) No more punishment for religious

and political beliefs

These are just a few of the demands

that prisoners in N.C. and in other states

should strive to obtain. Prisoners do you

realize the power we would have is we

came together? If so, why are we not

together then? Don't come around me

complaining about prison conditions,

while you got a knife at your fellow

prisoners throat or in his back. This goes

for the oppressed everywhere. If you are

not gonna fight for a change then you get

what you deserve. If you want a change

then make one, if you want freedom then

do what needs to be done to be free and

if you want to remain oppressed then you

just keep giving your support to the

terrorists who keep us oppressed. You

know terrorists usually harbor terrorists.

Ain't that right Mr. Bush? He should

know! There is power in numbers -- give

it a try.

--A North Carolina prisoner,

April 2002

A Question of Strategy

To my beloved komrades at MIM:

I chant to the Almighty Yuiahu that

upon arrival of this missive all those who

are true to the struggle are found uplifted.

Today I received Jan and Feb MIM

Notes. As always it was enlightening to

read and share with the brothers in [this

prison].

I saw numerous articles in these notes

that are baffling. Now as for the brother

speaking of the Almighty pen, you need

to look and see the pen isn't working. I

am one who preaches this is a paper

prison & we need to push paper. I filed

suit on the Gang Unit issue. I have fought

for the abuse in ad-seg when they jump

people for no reason. I even have brothers

write their family & protests outside of

the prison.

We can't expect changes overnight.

They place all these cameras for their use.

Trust me I know, in '98 I was in yard,

when I came back someone got into a

fight and one kat was left in the stairs. I

requested the so-called video and the

response was there was none. Yet I got

an STG charge, sent to the Gang Unit and

got jumped by my own brothers. I tried

to appeal it in court by Nune Pro June

motion and it was denied by Judge Levy

for I took to long. I got the charge in

January, in April they sent me to the Gang

Unit and by the time I received my

property and got legal assistance I was

mailing it in June.

We prisoners are few in numbers, we

have a bunch of dick riding inmates

telling on everyone scared to do for the

cause. The pen has been pushed and

nothing so we must use violence to

express our grief.

They take 33 percent out of our state

pay, 10% every time you go to store, 5%

of all incoming money which your family

has paid taxes for. No food packages,

took our clothes and now they want to

charge us for state clothes and rent. Like

I tell everyone you get stuck with a pin it

isn't shit but the oppressor is sticking us

a million times; we are bleeding to death.

Everyone in [this prison] has "L's", life.

I have 25 with a 12 1/2 stipulation kid, in

a Super Max prison. I have done my part

yet we have kats that are going to die here

that don't do shit. You push the pen kid

for if you get the Bridge from the

Prisoners self help clinic you see the pen

has been pushed and suits have been

pressed; nothing.

People are picketing out front of the

prison while these duck ass kats play with

the orange ball. For those kats all I got to

say is Niggah, ya aren't no Kobe or Shaq,

they make millions while you make $0.38

an hour in their sweat shops. I seen the

paperwork, "Dept. Corp" made $57

million after all expenses paid we get

$0.38 an hour.

They even take our yard away so we

can work from 7:30 am til 12 if you quit

ad-seg, isn't that something? If we don't

fight for our rights who is? [This] is

supposed to be the big house, but in all

reality it's a fucking suckers house.

Organize brothers, Unity is the only

way, not dividing & getting conquered.

After you are finished pushing the pen

come to the real ride.

I bring this missive to a close as I came

with my sincere respect & love for the

cause & struggle.

Un solo amor!

--A NJ prisoner, June 2002

RAIL responds: Comrade, keep your

respect and love for the struggle and don't

let the frustrations of organizing get you

off track. The injustice cannot be beat out

of an unjust system, that is why we must

overthrow it and build anew. Sometimes

we can win battles from within, but we

can't get down when we don't because

we know justice will never be seen under

capitalism. We must try to pick the battles

we can win and keep struggling. Right

now we can win some battles in court,

but we cannot win in the use of violence

against the state. Keep Sun Tzu's Art of

War in mind, and only take on the enemy

when you've already got them beat. Even

when the people around us seem to not

care, we know we will win because the

oppressors must continue their

exploitation of the oppressed. And as the

ranks and experience of the oppressed

grow, there will be no stopping us. It is

our task to do all we can to educate and

organize people in preparation.

We oppose this comrade's derogatory

linkage of homosexuality and snitching

when s/he wrote: "we have a bunch of

dick riding inmates telling on everyone."

It is tempting to use attacks like this

against those who sell out the movement

or cower in silence. But as an

organization committed to fighting all

oppression, we can't let insults aimed at

one group be used to attack another. This

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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.

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.

language reinforces anti-gay sentiments

that divide people over arbitrary lines of

gender and promotes inequality between

groups.

Muslims under attack
in Alabama prison

Since September 11 many Muslims of

Arab descent and those thought to be of

Arab descent have been harassed, beaten

and murdered by those who supposedly

were so outraged by the destruction of

the WTC, Pentagon, and the lives lost in

the destruction. The perpetrators of the

krimes knew before committing these

racist kirmes that their victims weren't

the ones who destroyed the WTC and

Pentagon, but used this as a pretext to

practice their racist hatred.

When the federal building in

Oklahoma was blown up by Timothy

McVeigh, people didn't so much as

express hate as they did shock.

We've all heard on the news

"programs" during this period how much

mail Timothy McVeigh received while

in jail. Some letters even had marriage

proposals. Then, according to Marion

"Suge" Knight, the CEO of Death Row

Records (now, "Tha Row") who was

housed in the same jail as McVeigh stated

in an interview with the Source (March

issue) that McVeigh was treated like

some kind of heroic celebrity. He was

even asked by the jail pigs to sign

autographs.

The point is that no one targeted young

white male veterans of the Gulf War (of

aggression) or white supremacy groups

or their members. It's well known that

McVeigh had connections to these groups

and people.

But now, Sept. 11 is being used as an

excuse to curb the practice of Islam by

members of the Nation of Islam, Five

Percenter, Moorish Science, etc. in prison

(Limestone Correctional Facility).

A couple of months ago the Nation of

Islam was showing a video of Min. Louis

Farrakhan, conducted by civilian NOI

members in the prison gym. The brothers

of the NOI invited the entire population

out to view the video. Many prisoners

attended. In the middle of the video, two

pigs (Lts.) and one peon pig bombrushed

into the gym, snatched the video out of

the player, and told everyone that the

video will not be continued because it

was racist and incites terrorist violence.

Now they've confiscated all videos

belonging to the NOI in the chaplain's

office and installed cameras

(surveillance) in the Muslim's temple. No

cameras have been installed in the

Christian chapel.

The NOI has been hosting and inviting

the prison population out to video

screenings for years. Now, all of a sudden

its banned.

MIM Theory 2 and 3: Gender

and Revolutionary Feminism

MIM seeks to explain how it sees

gender oppresion, especially in the First

World.($5)

MIM Theory 4:

The Failure and Success of

Communist Development

The collapse of state-capitalist

governments in the Soviet Union and its

bloc of allies in Eastern Europe left many

people with the conclusion that

communism is a failure and capitalism a

success.($6)

MIM Theory 5: Diet for a

Small Red Planet

If the genuine communist forces are to

amount to anything, we must understand

the dialectical stages through which the

struggle passes.($6)

MIM Theory 6: The Stalin

Issue

Anti-communist propagandists around

the world opened up new offensives

against Josef Stalin when the Soviet

Union fell apart.($6)

MIM Theory 7: Proletarian

Feminist Revolutionary Na-

tionalist on the Communist

Road

Maoism holds that the principal

contradication in the world today is

between imperialism and oppressed

nations. MIM applies our line on the

national question to the specific

conditions of the oppressed internal

nations in North America.($6)

MIM Theory 8:

The Anarchist Ideal and

Communist Revolution

We offer our present and past critiques

of anarchist theory and practice,

specific anarchist groups, and great

MIM

Theory

moments in anarchist history.($6)

MIM Theory 9: Psychology

and Imperialism

Looking at the Chinese practice, our

own developing experience, and

learning from various critiques of

mainstream psychology, we begin to

find the answers to get people up and

active in the revolutionary struggle, and

to develop the theory we need to deal

with psychology and mental health.($6)

MIM Theory 10: Labor Aris-

tocracy

"At the expense of the plundered

colonial peoples capital corrupted its

wage slaves, created a community of

interest between the exploited and the

exploiters as against the oppressed

colonies ... and chained the European

and American working class to the

imperialist `fatherland.'" --Comintern,

1919($6)

MIM Theory 11: Amerikkkan

Prisons on Trial

Revolutionary analysis of Amerikan

injustice leads to the only reasonable

verdict. For the crime of oppression

and genocide, the people find this

imperialist system... GUILTY!($6)

MIM Theory 12:

Environment, Society, Revo-

lution

Read MIM's call for a revolutionary

environmentalism: Taking on both the

imperialists and the pseudo-environ-

mentalists who cover for them. No

green revolutionary should be without

it.($6)

MIM Theory 13: Culture in

Revolution

Includes MIM's call to study, criticize,

and create culture in the revolutionary

movement.(200 pp., $8)

Send cash, check, or stamps, or money order to:

MIM Distributors, PO Box 29670, Los Angeles CA 90029-0670

The pigs disregarded the objections of

the civilian NOI brothas and showed

them no respect. But they showed plenty

racist hatred.

And they wonder why people blow

their asses up!

--INACELL,

Alabama prisoner,

July 2002

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Notas Rojas

agosto 15, 2002, Nº 264 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 Células de Estudio para

la Liberación de Aztlán y América Latina

¿Cuál es la base
material del
neofascismo?

¿Cuál es la postura del Partido frente a

Le Pen y el crecimiento general de la

derecha en Europa? Según tengo

entendido, el Partido sostiene que el

crecimiento del fascismo es acompañado

de una caída de la socialdemocracia, es

decir, al ser agotadas/encogidas fuentes

de superganancias, la alianza entre la

clase obrera y el capital se ve en peligro

y el capital usa elementos de la clase

obrera como tropas de choque con fin de

controlar a la población mediante

ideologías nacionalistas, racistas, etc.

Pero según entiendo, el Partido sostiene

que esta alianza es muy fuerte y que,

desde luego, el flujo de superganancias

tiene el paso libre. Entonces, ¿a qué se

debe el crecimiento de la derecha?

Mi primera respuesta ha sido la idea

de que conforme progrese el

imperialismo y la clase obrera blanca

vaya en ascenso, aparece la necesidad de

mano de obra de inmigrantes (en su

mayoría de color). Pero para que los

inmigrantes se mantengan hundidos en

el fondo del mercado laboral y ya que

una discriminación racial legal es

demasiado obvia, se les mantiene

sumisos mediante el sistema jurídico

criminal (inmigrantes ilegales) y la

instigación de un racismo "natural" de

la nación blanca dominante a través de

varias rutas (por ejemplo, el racismo

institucional de las cortes y leyes, el

cambio hacia la derecha de partidos

laborales [socialdemocráticos], etc.) En

este caso, el crecimiento de la derecha

es una de las formas de controlar al

proletariado al situarlo entre el mal

policía del fascismo y el buen policía de

liberales.

Pero estos argumentos parecen basarse

en la conciencia falsa. Es decir, a la clase

obrera blanca le va bien, pero se le ha

engañado induciéndole pensar que los

inmigrantes le están quitando trabajo. La

postura del movimiento

antiglobalización es que la clase obrera

blanca está sufriendo; por lo tanto, a la

falsa conciencia se le opone un verdadero

mejoramiento de condiciones materiales.

Si bien dicha postura puede ser falsa, por

lo menos no carece de coherencia lógica.

Si a la clase obrera blanca le está yendo

mejor, igual o insignificativamente peor,

como sostiene el Partido, entonces ¿cómo

explicar el éxito de Buchanan, Le Pen

Haider, neonazis por toda Europa, etc.

desde el punto de vista materialista?

Obviamente, el crecimiento de la

derecha no constituye una vuelta al

fascismo y desde luego, lo que tenemos

en el poder no es el fascismo. Por lo

tanto, una respuesta podría ser que el lazo

entre el fascismo y la socialdemocracia

(todavía) no es la causa. Más bien los

altibajos del fascismo inmanente de la

socialdemocracia se dan dentro de ciertos

límites materialistas basados sobre todo

en cambios ideológicos/culturales. Por

lo tanto, aun si a la clase obrera blanca le

va bien, su chovinismo nacional hasta

cierto punto puede ser avivado sin que

se de un cambio significativo de

condiciones materiales.

Respuesta del MIM: Si bien

sostenemos que la alianza entre los

imperialistas y la aristocracia obrera aún

es fuerte, no sostenemos que entre ambas

clases no existen contradicciones o que

diferentes alas de la burguesía no están

haciendo maniobras para conseguir el

respaldo de la aristocracia obrera.

Tampoco sostenemos que en países

imperialistas, la situación económica de

cada "obrero" siempre está en ascenso.

Está claro que la tasa de desempleo de

"obreros" en ciertas industrias que se

encogen (por ejemplo, la industria del

acero en EE.UU.) sobrepasa la de otras.

Estos "obreros" están a favor de una

política económica nacionalista (tarifas

de protección con fin de proteger sus

trabajos). Los que están desempleados

creen que el acabar con la inmigración

les proporcionaría trabajo.

Buchanan, Le Pen y otros muchos no

solamente avivan una retórica racista,

sino que también abogan por propuestas

económicas y sociales concretas. De

semejante forma, Hítler no simplemente

logró incitar al frenesí al pueblo alemán

basándose en una supuesta

predisposición alemana hacia el

antisemitismo. También llevó a cabo un

programa económico basado en un

expansionismo, preparaciones bélicas y

algunas reformas socialdemocráticas que

reflejaron los intereses de la pequeña

burguesía y la aristocracia obrera

alemanas.

Entonces el impacto del parasitismo y

por lo tanto el éxito de neofascistas como

Le Pen quienes están dispuestos a tomar
fuertes medidas para preservarlo, es

material y no ideológico. Como decimos

en la página cuatro de este número, "Los
desempleados no viven en un vacío.

Tienen hermanos, tíos, etc. con vidas

cómodas características de la clase media.
Los desempleados de naciones opresoras

miran a su alrededor y ven que la gran

mayoría de gente blanca lleva este tipo de
vida debido a una explotación del tercer

mundo. Al darse cuenta de esta situación,

Le Pen calculó de una forma correcta los
sentimientos de los desempleados blancos

franceses. Este no es el caso de

desempleados de la nación opresora de
Francia que al mirar a su alrededor, vieron

una necesidad de un cambio radical de

sistemas. Lo que ellos creen como mucho
es que una expulsión de todos los

extranjeros les proporcionará trabajos que

ya tiene el resto de la nación opresora
francesa. Por lo tanto, el votador de Le

Pen, si bien aboga por un cambio, no cree

que tiene que ser un tipo de cambio que
eche abajo al entero carro político sino que

solamente al carro de los extranjeros. Es

por esa razón que los desempleados
acogieron el parasítico mensaje militar de

Le Pen".

Correspondencia

El MIM promociona
fronteras abiertas en

una marcha por la

legalización de

inmigrantes

Traducido por Células de Estudio para la

Liberación de Aztlán y América Latina

Los Ángeles

En una marcha del 1 de Mayo por la

legalización de inmigrantes indocumentados,
los respaldantes del MIM recogieron
alrededor de 100 firmas endosando nuestra
demanda de "Abrir la frontera
estadounidense" con México y oponerse a la
"Operación Guardián!" lanzada por el
Servicio de Inmigración yanqui (INS). Desde
su comienzo en 1994, la "Operación
Guardián!" ha asesinado a más de 740
inmigrantes que estaban tratando de cruzar
la frontera con fin de buscar empleo en
EE.UU. Son cientas de personas más que las
que murieron en un intento de cruzar la
frontera alemana entre el este y el oeste
durante más de 25 anos de su existencia- un
hecho que ha sido injuriado bastante por la
propaganda yanqui.

Casi todas las personas a las que nos

acercamos con la solicitud nos trataron con
simpatía y aprobación; muchos nos
aconsejaron que "siguiéramos con el
esfuerzo" y nos desearon suerte con las
firmas. Nuestros camaradas que no hablaban
espanol presentaron la solicitud tanto en
inglés como en espanol contando con el
apoyo de manifestantes biling?es y la
paciencia de la gente con fin de hace oídas
nuestras demandas.

Una muchacha blanca de Orange County

pensó que estaba bien extender el estatus legal
a trabajadores dentro del país pero no quiso
ver las fronteras abiertas para todos los
inmigrantes. Según su aserción, en California
del Sur ya había demasiada gente y el tráfico
era verdaderamente insoportable. Un
camarada del MIM senaló que ni siquiera los
inmigrantes dentro de EE.UU. tienen carros
porque se les paga muy mal y que la causa
del tráfico era el expansivo deseo yanqui de
obtener casas unifamiliares en las afueras de
centros urbanos. Este estilo de vida requiere
un aumento adicional de mano de obra barata
para construir casas, poner céspeds, cuidar a
los ninos y limpiar casas.

Unas brigadas antidisturbios del

Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles-
muchos vestidos de uniformes antidisturbio
y agarrandos a sus armas y palos- saludaban
a los manifestantes a lo largo del camino. En
el cuartel de policía, un escuadrón de
caballería de unas 25 personas- los caballos
con yelmos de cabeza- hizo su presencia.

La Red de Organización de Trabajadores

Inmigrantes Multiétnicos (MIWON) organizó
la marcha del 1 de Mayo con fin de exigir
"una verdadera legalización" de trabajadores
indocumentados "por medio de permanente
estatus legal y ciudadanía que no deben
limitarse a ningún país de origen o industria
de trabajo".