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n September 15th, the ruling

class of Saudi Arabia blinked in

public. The Foreign Minister

said it would allow the united $tates to

use Saudi bases to attack Iraq, with the

justification that Iraq should allow

weapons inspectors onto its territory.

Iraq claims that it has passed all the

previous weapons inspections and still the

United Nations did not eliminate

economic sanctions on Iraq that are killing

the people there. Iraq also has not

received a guarantee that the united

$tates would not attack if it did allow

weapons inspections.

We agree with Iraq that the murderous

sanctions must end and that they should

have ended by the UN's own logic long

ago. The sanctions remain in place thanks

to genocidal rulers in the United $tates,

England and France.

Because of the secrecy of diplomacy,

MIM does not know if the Saudi rulers

had promised cooperation with the united

$tates long ago. It appears likely that that

is the pattern in relations with the united

$tates.

The Saudi decision removes the

possibility of any immediate crystallization

of new trade blocs excluding the united

$tates. Until the day when the Saudis or

other Arabs demonstrate the presence

of powerful non-U.$. militaries on their

soil, we can expect that the Saudis will

continue to capitulate to U.$. imperialism.

If we suddenly saw Russian troops on

Iraqi soil or French, Chinese or Russian

weapons inspectors unilaterally visit Iraq

and give Iraq a passing grade, we might

expect some major changes in business

patterns soon. We cannot expect to see

diplomacy bring forward the

crystallization of trade blocs by itself.

There likely has to be a military threat

involved in disrupting the status quo.

As of September 11th, with France

backing war for inspections and the

Saudis allowing use of their military bases,

Uncle $am has some momentum on his

side.

From: Revolutionary Worker

#1167, September 22, 2002

http://www.rwor.org

"The surviving police personnel

from the incident at Area Police

Office at Bhiman, Sindhuli

district last Saturday night are

undergoing immense mental

trauma..."

-- Kathmandu Post,

September 10, 2002

rishna Prasad Parajuli, Assistant

Sub-Inspector of Police,

survived the raid and told the

Kathmandu Post that he escaped by

jumping over a narrow gorge near the post

and climbing a tree in the nearby jungle.

Another survivor, a police constable,

said he hid by covering himself with earth

9/11:

One year

later

he global public opinion battle

over whether the United $tates

should step up its already

simmering war in Iraq is a sign of the

global change of opinion since September

11th 2001. While the u.$. imperialists

hoped to ride sympathy to greater

hegemony, global opinion has finally

shown that the possibility exists for new

divisions. The only question is whether

any of the major imperialists are prepared

to manipulate public opinion in a way so

as to form decisive new trade blocs to

the exclusion of the united $tates.

George Bush has called for war based

on the "gathering danger" of Iraq. He and

his administration officials say that Iraq

is getting better biological weapons,

improving its nuclear capacity and hiding

its long-range missiles successfully.(1)

Thus, the whole conflict that English

and Amerikkkan rulers see revolves

around weapons proliferation. In a

capitalist world where it is profitable to

Tide turning against Uncle $cam

AUDI

RULERS

CAPITULATE

SERVE

GOOD

LACKEYS

have wars and sell weapons, there is

nothing that can stop the proliferation of

weapons anymore than the proliferation

of drugs. The same rulers who cannot

end the drug problem now bring us their

equally backward ideas about war and

weapons. Even if they bomb Iraq back

into the Stone Age, the system guarantees

that sooner or later U.$. troops and people

will be nuked and this much is already

admitted by the rulers themselves.

The rulers may catch this or that

weapon or assassinate this or that leader

just as they catch this or that drug dealer,

but they have no chance of maintaining a

East-West Raids in Nepal People's War

with only his head peeping out in a paddy

field.

A district member of the ruling Nepali

Congress Party said, "I saved myself by

hiding underneath the bed."

Trying not to break down in sobs,

Krishna Kumar Parajuli, assistant sub-

inspector in Bhiman, Sindhuli told the

Kathmandu Post from his hospital bed,

"Bullets flew on either side of us. We hid

in a trench. But, we couldn't stay there...

So we worked our way up to the

commanding post. After a lot of firing

there was a pause. Our Inspector, who

was in command, thought we had won.

`Nepal prahari jindabadh!' (long live

Nepal Police) he shouted." But then the

firing began again.

Saturday Night: Bhimad

The People's

Liberation Army

launched a

daring raid late

Saturday night,

September 7, on

a police post in

Bhimad in the

eastern Sindhuli

district, about 100 miles southeast of the

capital city of Kathmandu.

There were 74 police in the station at

the time and 49 were killed and 21

wounded. The few who were able to

survive had fled into the dense jungle

surrounding the town.

This is the first major rebel offensive

since the 10-month-long State of

Emergency was lifted on August 28.

Police officials said around 1,000 to

1,500 rebels were involved in the five-

hour operation.

It has become common practice at

government outposts for the police to

leave the barracks at night. Fearing

attacks, they routinely sleep in trenches

in the surrounding forest. When the attack

began, the police came out from the

trenches in a panic--only to face a volley

of bullets.

Eyewitnesses said the guerrillas came

in three batches and encircled the police

station. Local people told reporters that

the rebels rained bullets and socket bombs

like hailstones.

The guerrillas set almost all government

facilities on fire except the district hospital.

The police post was completely destroyed,

Continued on page 4...

Continued on page 6...

Unkle $cam proves once again he can't learn from his mistakes.

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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
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and Lenin formulated and MIM has reiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts
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regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of
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Dear MIM:
I wanted to write and let you know that

I have read a lot of your last two
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--Massachusetts reader,
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Dear comrade, Why is it necessary to

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same with the soldier and older woman.
Analysis of the gun shows it clearly
pointing to something or someone behind
the woman. I find it hard to believe that
these false impressions are needed to
pursue your beliefs. Lies are lies and if a
photo says 1,000 words than you are guilty
of trying to say 1,000 lies X 2. Please for
everything you believe in, please try to
avoid false propaganda in the future.

Sincerely,
--A Texas Prisoner, August 2002

MIM responds: Thank you for your

letter. We take very seriously the content
of the photos and artwork we use in MIM
Notes and other publications, and welcome
the chance to struggle over it. For MIM,
art is a tool for revolutionary education,
just like the printed word. The photos you

describe show members of the Palestinian
nation living under the guns of Israeli
soldiers in their daily lives.

Those soldiers, at that time, may not have

been shooting at those civilians. However,
Israeli soldiers do shoot at Palestinian
civilians very often, whether enforcing
curfews in Palestinian cities or in the
supposed pursuit of Palestinian "terrorists."
We don't need to exaggerate these facts,
because they are obvious, well
documented, and appalling to most of the
world. Being forced to live under the armed
military occupation of Israel would be an
egregious violation of the lives of the
Palestinians shown in these pictures, even
if that soldier never even fired that gun.

What if we showed a picture of a

prisoner in a cell with the door closed, but
it turned out the prisoner actually chose to
be in the cell at that time, instead of in the
library or the yard? Would that picture be
misleading? He is still a prisoner, living in
captivity, even if there are times when he
exercises some minimal choice over his
actions. Likewise, living under the gun is
living under the gun. If the soldier did shoot
some other civilian, right in front of the
child, would that be better?

MIM uses these photos to illustrate the

reality of life in Palestine, not to identify
the individual soldiers in the photos as
taking an individual action that is wrong
(i.e. shooting the child in the picture). There
are plenty of real photos of real Israeli
military personnel shooting children and
older women. These pictures used in MIM
Notes do not mislead or misinform. They
accurately convey a political point about
what is happening in Palestine. Similarly
MIM prints collages showing Bush holding
puppet strings over Sharon. Bush doesn't
actually have strings tied to Sharon, but
the political point we illustrate is correct.

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 3

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MIM interviewer: We would like to

congratulate you on the publication of

your article on the Chechens'

Kavkaz.org. It was the first time they

published a communist. We hope it will

be the first of many inter-ethnic

cooperations.

We have a number of questions about

Chechnya.

The questions are answered by Dar

Zhutayev, Chairpersyn of the Russian

Maoist Party, and Denis Seliverstov,

member of the RMP Central Committee.

1. Do you think it is the will of the

Chechen people to be independent?

Have you seen Chechen people who

feel otherwise?

Dar: The answer to the first part of

the question is a strong yes. Of course,

in the present situation of military

occupation and guerrilla warfare, it is

impossible to hold any sort of a

meaningful referendum in Chechnya, but

the very persistence of this guerrilla

warfare and the total inability of the

Russian authorities to quell it or to find

any credible Chechen persynalities to

occupy posts in their puppet "indigenous"

administrative bodies speak for

themselves. The Russian military--both

in media interviews and in numerous

conversations I've had with soldiers and

officers--complain that they are unable

to distinguish between "peaceful" civilian

Chechens and militants. In an

overwhelming majority of cases, the

situation is such that a given persyn is a

peaceful civilian by day and a guerrilla

fighter by night. The Russian Army

carries out its "cleansing operation" (anti-

"terrorist" crackdown) in a given

Chechen town or village, smokes out all

the insurgents, takes away all their

weapons--and then has to repeat the

operation for a second, third, seventh time.

The "terrorists" just pop out from

nowhere. The Chechen people vote for

independence with their arms--with their

weapons.

I'd like to stress that the Russian

campaigns in Chechnya and their inhumyn

brutality have contributed a lot to this: for

instance, indiscriminate bombings have

veritably bombed much of Chechnya,

including its capital city of Dzhokhar

(Grozny) that had considerable industry

and scientific research institutions of all-

Union importance in the Soviet times, into

stone age. All this has embittered and

radicalized the people. Before, or even

during, the First Chechen War (1994-

1996), the Dzhokhar Dudayev regime

was not all that popular with the masses.

There was a pronounced political

opposition. People in general used to

complain of Dudayev's inability to curb

crime or to create a working state

apparatus. But the Russian military

operations have resulted in a consolidation

of a quasi-totality of the Chechen people

around Dudayev and his successors and,

What is behind the war in Chechnya?

Russian Maoist Party analyzes Russian conditions

Continued on page 8...

ICK

COUNTRY

NEEDS

SOME

STERN

BUT

NEW

LEARNING

This summer saw the u.$. media focus

on kidnapping of children. Police shot and

killed an abductor to recover Tamara

Brooks and Jacqueline Marris who

disappeared August 1; kidnappers killed

Cassandra Williamson, 6, on July 26; Erica

Pratt, 7, disappeared on July 22 but freed

herself from duct tape and crawled out a

window; and August 13th someone

caught on videotape snatched a baby in a

Wal-Mart parking lot in Texas but the next

day the baby returned to her parents.

In the month of May alone, 1,602

additional children were missing, not just

lost and quickly found, but missing. Their

names are now part of a larger database.

There are three main categories for the

1,602 new cases in May. One is

kidnapping, which is probably the smallest

part but still much larger proportionately

speaking than in other countries. Two is

custody battles over children by divorced

parents. Three is runaway children.

From MIM's point of view, the issue

of missing children is near the top of the

feminist agenda in the united $tates. We

hear often about glass ceilings and sexual

harassment at work and school, but we

almost never hear from the pseudo-

feminists about the property dispute going

on when two parents finish a custody

dispute with one of the parents abducting

a child. Yet, more than two-thirds of

abductions involve female children, and

there can be nothing that compares with

the sexual exploitation and murder of

children.

Amerikkkans have a very ideological

idea of private property and its importance,

and even the pseudo-feminists dare not

touch it. Divorce is OK by Amerikkkans

and that's one reason there are so many

custody battles. Yet the intensity of those

battles is worse than in other countries

because Amerikkkans don't give up their

property without a gun battle, as at the

edge of a farm demarcated by a wooden

fence.

Children are not property. Fucked-up

Amerikkkan parents are making it hard

to distinguish child abductors from the red-

white-and-blue. Right now the parents

think they have the "right" to take their

children and disappear without regard for

how that creates a decoy situation for real

kidnappers, like pulling a false fire alarm.

When it comes to any social problem,

Amerikkkans think the solution is up to

each individual. As long as they continue

with these backward ideas, the

Amerikkkans will have the highest crime

rate in the world, the most people in prison

per capita and more innocent people's

lives being ruined by everything from

abduction-murders to false imprisonment

by a system overwhelmed by Amerikkkan

crime.

Amerikkkans have hardened and

inaccurate ideas harmful to their own

people and their relations with the rest of

the world. For this reason, the solution to

the crime and prison craze will not come

from within the Amerikkkan population.

At best, we can convince some

Amerikkkans to be more objective about

the rest of the world and learn from it more

why the united $tates leads the world in

crime and false imprisonment.

Note: USA Today 15Aug2002, p. 3a.

Belgian Green

outdoes countless

`communists'

A Flemish Green Agalev party member

and Health and Environment Minister in

the Belgian government resigned over the

shipment of 5500 machine guns to the

landlord-backed regime in Nepal. The

Belgian government decided to send the

weapons on August 23rd.

Germany had refused to send weapons

and the Belgian constitution prohibits

shipment of weapons to countries in the

midst of civil war. Magda Aelvoet quit

as a matter of conscience.(1)

Nepal may be the second poorest

country in the world, but the imperialists

cannot leave it alone. Rather imperialism

raises a hoopla about "terrorists" and uses

tax money to enrich arms manufacturers.

Another positive development in the

resistance to imperialist militarism is that

the U.$.-based Workers World Party did

some exposure of U.$. aid to the regime

in Nepal and started to distance itself from

the "Communist Party of Nepal(United

Marxist-Leninist) CPN(UML), which has

yet to denounce imperialist military aid to

the landlord-backed regime in Nepal as

MIM reported in previous issues,

including #258, May 15th, 2002.(2) The

CPN(UML) is Nepal's second largest

party, a real contender in the

parliamentary government.

The supposed "Communist Party of the

USA" has yet to mention the issue of U.$.

military aid going to Nepal. It's not

surprising because it's sister party the

"CPN(UML) (that the "CP-USA" links

to on its web page) has not opposed U.$.

military aid to Nepal either. In fact, the

only mention of Nepal on the "CP-USA"

website is the link to the "CPN(UML)."

Thus we can see more opposition to

imperialism in some Greens than amongst

the phony communists.

Notes: 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/
2220116.stm. 2. http://www.workers.org/ww/
2002/briefs0523.php. 3. www.pww.org ;
www.cpusa.org

Child abductions fill the u.$. headlines

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 4

and the rebels captured whatever arms

were at the post.

The guerrillas had blocked approaches

to the town with huge boulders and felled

trees--preventing the arrival of

reinforcements until the morning. The

battle site is only an hour's drive from

the district headquarters, but newly

deployed security forces arrived six hours

later--and by this time, the guerrillas had

already completed their operation and left

the area.

News reports said two security

personnel on their way to the battle site

were injured in a landmine detonated by

the rebels. And according to a Captain

of the Royal Nepal Army, his men had to

fight the rebels for about an hour before

they were able to get to the destroyed

police post.

Sunday Night: Sandhikharka

"It was around 3 p.m. on Sunday

night. A silent small valley in the hills

of Arghakhanchi in west Nepal

suddenly went berserk when the

Maoists, numbering in the

thousands, attacked the district

headquarters of Sandhikharka.

"Bharat Pyakurel, an Armed

Police Force personnel, speaking

from the hospital bed, told The

Kathmandu Post, "The

reinforcements sent in by the

helicopters were not allowed to land

on time and we were soon

overwhelmed by the Maoists."

-- Kathmandu Post,

September 10, 2002

Only 24 hours after the raid on Bhimad,

the People's Liberation Army launched

another daring raid on a police post--this

time 185 miles west of Kathmandu, in the

remote town of Sandhikharka, the district

headquarters of Argakachi.

About 200 police and soldiers were

posted in the town. And according to

news reports, 85 security personnel were

killed and 22 were wounded. All the

government buildings and a prison were

set on fire and destroyed.

Eyewitnesses said the attack began

about 10 p.m. when thousands of rebels

(some reports say 4,000) entered the town

chanting Maoist slogans. The guerrillas

attacked an army barrack, the office of

the armed police, and the civilian district

post of the civilian police. One police

official said that a large number of young

guerrillas set government buildings on fire

while other groups of rebels attacked the

security bases with sophisticated

weapons.The attack continued until

Monday morning.

Officials said the Maoists seized cash

from local banks and exploded bombs at

government installations including the

district police office, army barracks, the

district administration office.

Nepal television quoted one policeman

saying the Maoist guerrillas attacked from

all sides with very sophisticated automatic

weapons. Bal Jung Tamang, an official

East-West Raids in Nepal People's War

of the

Armed

Police

Force,

t o l d

t h e

p r e s s

f r o m

h i s

hospital

b e d ,

"They

s e e m

to be

w e l l

trained

a n d

deadly

guerrillas...

T h e

rebels fled the scene at about 6 in the

morning after the joint reinforcements of

Royal Nepal Army and police arrived at

the scene. But by that time, most of our

men were killed and weapons were

taken."

Eyewitnesses told reporters that, after

the rebels took over the town, they held

an impromptu victory parade, delivered a

short speech, and then left with the

weapons taken from the military and the

police.

Afterwards, local people told reporters

that Maoist guerrillas had been building

their positions around the neighboring

villages of the district headquarters two

to three days ahead of the attack. News

reports said that in preparation, the

Maoists also built health camps at nine

places. And like with the raid in Bhimad,

guerrillas set up blockades on the trails

and roads leading into the district

headquarters.

Government Emergency

The reactionary Nepalese regime,

reeling from these two successful attacks

by the People's Liberation Army, is

considering reimposing the State of

Emergency.

A State of Emergency had been in

effect for nine months and was only lifted

on August 28. It gave security forces

sweeping search and detention powers,

and all kinds of constitutional rights were

suspended. Under the State of

Emergency, the Royal Nepalese Army

and police have carried out murder, rape

and torture against the civilian population

in the countryside, and carried out "search

and destroy" campaigns against the

guerrillas. A huge disinformation

campaign has censored the press,

allowing them only to report information

released by the government. Some 130

journalists have been detained, pro-Maoist

newspapers have been shut down and

Krishna Sen, who was the editor of the

Maoist newspaper Janadesh, was

murdered while in custody.

Prime Minister Deuba's aides have said

that all the security chiefs are now

recommending that the State of

Emergency be reimposed. And Nepal's

minister of state for home affairs told

Reuters news that "Emergency rule has

now become inevitable. We must

reimpose it."

As we go to press, the Maoists are

getting ready for a nationwide bandh on

Monday, September 16. The "general

shutdown" has been called for by the

United Revoutionary People's Council,

under the slogan: "Mount Unified

Resistance against Royal Military

Dictatorship!" Things are sure to intensify

even further as the People's War in Nepal

advances.

International Minister comments for

MIM: The article above is by a petty-

bourgeois organization seeking to use

the Third World People's Wars for the

economic demands of the labor

aristocracy, just as the "rebels" in

Paris, 1968 used the image of Vietnam.

However, since the article focuses on

Nepal, we find it useful and accurate

to the extent that MIM can determine

from this great distance: it appears that

Continued from page 1...

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

Nationalist on the Commu-

nist 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

September, 2002 is seeing a powerful

Maoist offensive supported by the

people of Nepal.

Among some other sources people

may check are http://news.bbc.co.uk/

2/hi/south_asia/2243838.stm and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/

2245607.stm , which spells one

location in question as

"Sandikharka." More than one

spelling is common.

Some will ask as always why we

publish an article from a petty-

bourgeois organization: it's a matter

of fighting sectarianism. The truth is

the truth no matter who says it. This

article is true, makes no mention of

labor aristocracy demands, and sticks

to reporting facts which we could

rewrite only at the expense of time. If

we had already done the article

ourselves on the same topic, we would

not have published it.

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 5

It costs more money to set up logging

sales than the logging companies pay for

the rights to take the mature trees from

federal lands for timber. This has not

stopped President George W. Bush from

naming loggers the solution to the brush-

fires that swept western regions of North

America in recent months.

Bush says a former logging industry

official now heading the U.$. Forest

Service should be in charge of requiring

the logging companies to remove brush

in zones hazardous to humyn habitation

in exchange for logging. That's his

"Healthy Forests" plan.

Economist Paul Krugman has pointed

out these facts and also the fact that 82%

of logging campaign donations go to the

Republican Party that George W. Bush

heads. That's one way that under

capitalism business interests bribe the

government. Another way is by giving

people high-paying private sector jobs

after doing business favors while in

government.

There is nothing illegal about Bush's

seeking votes and campaign contributions

in exchange for corporate welfare. That's

why MIM condemns dumbocracy on

basic issues of survival rights such as the

environment. Even though logging

workers are "productive sector" workers,

we do not hesitate to condemn their

specific interests when they come in

conflict with the environment--especially

in the united $tates where such jobs are

NOT necessary for survival. Even in very

poor countries, under socialism all able-

bodied adults will have a job and there

won't be a shortage of jobs causing

people to look for the nearest

environment-destroying occupation they

An investment in the Japanese stock

market has returned 0% since 1983 in

Japan--thanks to a 19-year low in stocks

on the Nikkei index. Averaged over the

last ten years, the Japanese and Austrian

stock markets are the only ones out of 23

developed countries measured that show

losses.

Since Japan has the world's second

largest economy, weakness there is

important to the overall health of the global

capitalist system. Either new capitalist

countries will have to develop and grow

Money makes the national question.

The Pacific Island of Nauru with a

population of 10,000 has stopped visits by

Taiwanese officials in exchange for a

$203 million package from Beijing.

Taiwan tries to act like a separate country

from the People's Republic of China.

Both sides bribe various countries to

recognize themselves as legitimate

countries. Taiwan extends "foreign aid"

and the People's Republic of China "does

business."

Recently Taiwan claims to be more

"democratic" than the People's Republic

of China and attempts to shame

"democracies" into supporting Taiwan

instead of or in addition to the People's

Republic of China as a legitimate country.

Only 27 countries recognize Taiwan as

the "Republic of China" that it claims to

be.

When Mao Zedong liberated China in

can find. What may be sustainable for

some "workers" at one moment may not

be sustainable to the species as a whole.

What the Libertarians and anarcho-

capitalists do not understand is that the

power of wealth inequalities are never

just created by the state, so selling off

public forests and cutting back the

government is not a solution. Air for

example is a public good and has to

remain so, because of our species-needs;

trees replenish the vital characteristics of

the air by removing carbon. There is no

way to chop up the environment into bits

and sell it off to private stewards who

will supposedly guard it. MIM says that

no one has a "right" (usually called

"private property") to destroy the air,

water and land more than the minimal

amount for humyn development. People

who believe they do have such a "right"

need to be repressed by dictatorship and

any other stance at this time involves

complicity in mass murder--murder by

pollution, which kills far more people each

year by itself than Stalin and Mao ever

executed.

More than 1% of the public is already

hired as private security guards in addition

to the huge employment of the

government. Whatever government does

not do, the wealthy can hire Pinkerton

thugs to do, and there is little difference

between a private security force and a

government. The government just usually

has more clients. The only solution is

where people do not have economic or

government power over each other--

communism.

Note: Paul Krugman, "Bush on fire,"

New York Times, 27Aug02, p. a17.

From time to time, as in close games in

the Olympics, one had to wonder how

much of the NBA (National Basketball

Association) is hype and how much is

talent and teamwork. After losing to

Spain, Yugoslavia and Argentina in the

World Championship games, the U.$.

team showed us the answer.

Basketball is nowhere in the world a

multi-billion dollar industry other than the

United $tates. With that industry comes

endless television, radio and newspaper

hype about its stars--a fact that we

communists believe contributes to couch

potato spectator life and an epidemic of

obesity. We blame capitalism's effect for

ruining pure sports.

Athletically, there is nowhere in the

world that full-time trainers, medical

doctors and gymnasia are set up as well

for a sport. Yet, the team representing

the United $tates lost to a team

representing a country less than a tenth

its size.

Although the handful of very top U.$.

players did not play, the U.$. team was

full of All-Star multi-millionaires and it lost

in the 2002 championships. In the past,

any criticism of the stars in the NBA

bordered on sacrilege, and even "racism."

Now the U.$. team has lost to three

countries. "The money and greed of the

NBA, does that have an effect on our

competitive nature?" asked the coach of

the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. "Yeah, you

can write that."(1)

For those saying that money has not

ruined the sport, we point to one fact: the

U.$. team played nine games in which it

averaged 63% from the foul line. The

U.$. players can say the "refs" were out

to get them or whatever they want, but

that kind of record from the foul line is so

bad that one can only hope the players

were betting on their own losses on the

side. (Betting also ruins sports.)

In the future, the united $tates will spend

more time preparing the team play of its

national team, says the head of the NBA,

David Stern. It will be interesting to see

if the NBA manages to require the

players' union to commit to free

preparations for the Olympics and World

Championship games. Otherwise, Stern

can call for more preparation by players,

but he may not get it.

Notes:

1. Globe and Mail, 9 Sep 2002, p. s4.

2. National Post, 9 Sep 2002, p. b4.

Logging contracts make no money for Uncle $am

U.$. NBA stars lose

basketball championships

to offset Japan or the possibility exists that

the whole capitalist system could careen

into depression everywhere, not just the

Third World. Another series of military

events such as September 11th could ruin

the civilian golden goose of the imperialist

countries.

The results in Japan also underscore

how investors there need to go abroad

for profits--the basic impulse of

imperialism.

Note: Eric Kirzner, "Markets react to events real
and imagined" Financial Post 9Sept2002

Nikkei hits 19-year low; Japanese bourgeoisie suffers

1949 from Japanese, U.$. and other

imperialisms, the reactionary upper

classes headed by Chiang Kai-shek

headed off to Taiwan where they claimed

to be the official China. Recently, with

the older generation dying off, many

Taiwanese thinking they are more like the

51st U.$. state want to be thought of as a

separate country from the People's

Republic of China. The United $tates

defended Taiwan and raises the costs to

the People's Republic of China of an

attack that would reintegrate Taiwan with

the rest of China.

MIM takes the line that there is no value

to a Taiwanese independence movement.

Both countries have capitalist systems.

We also believe that exploited and super-

exploited people should not fight amongst

themselves to the benefit of imperialism.

That goes for Tibet too.

Note: Globe and Mail, 9 Sep 2002, p. a9.

Beijing buys Nauru for $203 million

Don't believe
the h ype:
Jermaine
O'Neal (left)
made 42% of
his free throws,
and Baron
Davis made just
40%, as the
U$A was
trounced.

The last five years of the Nikkei index (MIM artist's rendition).

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 6

On September 12th, a charter jet

company based in Manchester, England

called My Travel threw four British

citizens off a flight for racial reasons when

24 other people said they would not fly

with them out of fear of terrorism. This

was not an act of the imperialist

government. It was the decision of a pilot

to throw off the four instead of the 24

who refused to fly with the four men of

Indian ethnicity. Since the men were not

even Arab, MIM refers to this case as

"racism," a typical and purely visual

mistake.

Police had searched the four

passengers for weapons and the baggage

check went through twice, but still they

did not fly. In other words, there were no

grounds for fear and yet even oppressive

searches could not calm the racists. My

Travel found alternative arrangements for

the men, but they were 10 hours late as a

result.(1)

MIM previously reported at the end of

December, 2001 that even Bush's own

Secret Service agents are not immune to

labor aristocracy action. One pilot threw

one of Bush's protectors off a flight for

his Arab origins. Obviously, this was not

imperialist-sanctioned racism. It was the

labor aristocracy demonstrating its own

class's relative independence.(2)

While they probably cannot admit that

they are racists, the 24 passengers and

pilot of the My Travel flight should at least

notice that they live in an awful situation

where this happens. Yet, instead, the

oppressor nation petty-bourgeoisie

supports no movement for change that

could actually solve the problems and

fears caused by the problems.

MIM attacks racism and national

chauvinism and in no way excuses such

"wildcat" expressions by the oppressor

nation petty-bourgeoisie often mistaken

as a proletariat. There are so many such

incidents and support for war by the

Amerikkkan and English populations is so

strong, that these populations will not be

able to proceed straight to building

socialism after revolution brings down

imperialism. Our party calls for a whole

stage of history in which the Amerikkkan

and English people prepare themselves

for internationalist brotherhood under the

tutelage of the international proletariat.

Note:
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/
0,11017,792057,00.html
2. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/mn/
sept112001/hatecrimes2.TXT

Labor aristocracy in charge: no flying while Arab

monopoly on nuclear weapons or

biological weapons of mass destruction.

There is no choice but to go another

route--to cut off the motivations for

having such weapons by pushing forward

with the communist movement as quickly

as possible. That is the only sensible route

for the humyn species.

Despite Bush's clarion call for war in

front of the United Nations on September

12th, Germany has held firm in public

saying it will not participate in the war,

even if the Security Council votes for one.

We cannot help thinking that this means

the Germans see their interests as slightly

out-of-step with Amerikan oil company

interests. Polls show that 80% of

Germans oppose any military attack on

Iraq.(2)

China for its part did not even speak of

passing new UN resolutions, but spoke

of enforcing old ones. The meaning for

Iraq and the United $tates was that no

new statements were necessary, just

action on old UN resolutions. China met

with EU (European Union) leaders to

state publicly that it would like to see a

return of weapons inspectors to Iraq,

which have not been there since 1998.(3)

On September 8th, the deputy prime

minister of Canada John Manley said,

"`We haven't been in the camp with Tony

Blair and others who say there should be

a pre-emptive attack.'"(4)

More importantly, the Russians said on

September 11th that military action

against Iraq would be "absolutely

unacceptable."(5) The Russians have

little to gain from a new U.$. lackey being

in charge of Iraq, since such a lackey may

cut off various Russian business deals in

motion with Iraq. Meanwhile, an English

newspaper, the Guardian, speculated that

Putin may exchange allowing a war on

Iraq for allowing a Russian war on

Georgia. MIM speculates that various

countries may decide to send weapons

inspectors to Iraq and give Iraq a clean

bill of health.

The warmongering leaders of the world

live in the United $tates with 60% of the

population giving "Secretary of Defense"

Donald Rumsfeld a positive rating in

Tide turning against Uncle $cam

August, with only 29% giving a negative

rating.(6) This is despite the fact that

amongst government officials it is

Rumsfeld most often talking about

attacking more than 60 countries at once.

Amerikkkan militarism has polluted the

atmosphere so long, that MIM holds that

the Amerikkkan population is not ready

to build socialism right away and must go

through a separate stage of development

to prepare for harmony with the other

peoples of the world, especially the Third

World.

Polls also show that Amerikkkans are

fair-weather friends of liberty. When life

is simple, they want the choice between

Coke and Pepsi. A year after September

11th, Amerikkkans are less in support of

repression than they were. Support for

government monitoring of the Internet fell

to 42% (off by 21 percentage points)

since September 11th. Only 32% now

favor more monitoring of email and

cellphones, down 22 points since last

year.(7)

Obviously, when the united $tates

comes under attack, all talk of liberty goes

out the window in the united $tates. If

there should be more spectacular events,

public support for liberty will erode

further.

In New York, 44% of the public still

says it is more suspicious of Arab New

Yorkers.(8) That compares with 11% of

Kanadians who said they were now more

suspicious of Arabs or other minorities.(9)

As far as we know, Kanadians as a

population are most supportive of U.$.

war plans. 61% support Bush's actions

since September 11th in a poll of 1008,

compared with 51% in Spain, 45% in

Britain and 41% in Italy.(10)

Even in England, 52% as against 42%

oppose a U.$. land invasion of Iraq and

59% oppose helping such an invasion with

British troops. Kanada is the only country

where a bare majority (52%) supports a

war with Iraq other than the United $tates

and presumably I$rael.(10)

July comments from the Prime Minister

of Canada Chretien broadcast on

September 11th started a controversy in

Kanada. "`You cannot exercise your

powers to the point of humiliation for the

others,' he said. `That is what the

Western world -- not only the Americans,

the Western world -- has to realize.'"(11)

The Prime Minister even pointed to the

expanding gap between the North and

South (of the world) for the source of

problems. President of France J. Chirac

made similar comments.

Meanwhile, a front page story in the

Montreal Gazette September 7th reveals

that students ranging from middle school

age to college believe that President Bush

arranged the attacks of September 11th

for reasons ranging from the economy to

increasing his powers of repression to

solidifying his support vis-a-vis Al Gore.

"`I think it was the U.S. that did it--they

wanted to go to war,' said Kyle Choma,

13, who's in Grade 8 at FACE, a

downtown Montreal high school across

the street from McGill University."(12)

In fact, the poll showing majority

Kanadian support for war against Iraq

faced criticism for being done by

Amerikkkans of Gallup. A Kanadian poll

by another company showed that a 54%

majority of Kanadians did not agree with

Bush's justifications for war as of August

20th to 25th.(13) However, the dates of

the polls were separate and there is

nothing to prevent Kanadians from saying

the justifications are wrong while still

supporting the war, so it may not be the

case that the polls are in contradiction.

The Leger poll also showed that 57% of

Kanadians fear a reprisal against Kanada

if it supports a U.$. war against Iraq.(13)

MIM cannot say at this point how far

various capitalist governments are willing

to go in finding themselves in contradiction

with the united $tates. In the most

advanced form of imperialist re-division

of the world, we see the possibility of a

German-Russian-Chinese-Saudi alliance

to the exclusion of U.$. and British oil

companies. On the other hand, it may be

unlikely to see such a redivision created

so quickly with any firmness, especially

given all the business ties linking Germans,

Russians, Chinese and Saudis with the

United $tates.

Notes:
1. See for example USA Today 9Sept2002, p.
1a.
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/
0,2763,791994,00.html
3. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/13/
eng20020913_103149.shtml
4. Globe and Mail 9Sept2002, p. a13.
5. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/
0,2763,790535,00.html
6. Wall Street Journal 22Aug2002.
7. Wall Street Journal 9Sept2002.
8. http://www.732-2m2m.com/tt/
2002March_articles.htm
9. Globe and Mail 9Sept2002, p. a6.
10. The Gazette, Montreal, 9Sept2002, p. a7.
11. www.nationalpost.com/national/
story.html?id={B9C54637-A0A5-4114-9A53-
3BFFFEF05CC9}
12. Jeff Heinrich, "Rumors are out there,"
7Sept2002, http://www.canada.com/search/site/
story.asp?id=1A9178B2-28FA-4348-91D9-
289C7E887286
13. http://www.canada.com/search/site/
story.asp?id=69D415F5-A6D8-4EC5-B31F-
D3CB46E8B508

Continued from page 1...

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 7

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?

Ever since the Amerikkkans killed the

indigenous people by the millions for their

land, real estate has had a hallowed status

in the law and economy of the united

$tates. In the first eight months of 2002,

U.$. home values increased $620 billion.

By comparison, the 10th largest economy

in the world, Spain, had a Gross National

Product (GNP) of $552 billion in 1999.

Despite this overwhelming fact of

parasitism where the 68% of

Amerikkkans owning homes saw their

wealth increase by more than all the labor

of Spain (and its share of imperialist loot

if any) put together in a year, out of the

countless parties calling themselves

"Marxist" in the United $tates, only a

handful have correctly concluded that the

white population is parasitic, not

proletarian. Out of the parties calling

themselves "Maoist" only MIM's

fraternal parties like the Russian Maoist

Party and the Ghetto Liberation Political

Party have managed to state even the

most obvious facts of life. Globally our

communist movement is so backward and

unprepared for the tasks ahead of it that

almost all of the parties calling themselves

"Marxist" and even "Maoist" cannot

fathom this.

The increase in Amerikkkan wealth is

not a result of a sudden output of labor

by Amerikkkans on their homes that

dwarfs the Spanish economy. No, it is part

of a spasmodic but huge growth of wealth

accomplished by exploiting most of the

world's people, the Third World.

True, since the end of 1999 the stock

market crash has wiped out $5.5 trillion

in investors' wealth. However, in the past

100 years, all such crashes have been

temporary. Averaged out over more

years, the U.$. stock market has always

managed to demonstrate its great

parasitic prowess.

MIM has concluded that the

Amerikkkan people have gotten

something for nothing (other people's

labor in return for merely owning things)

so long, that it will take a whole stage of

society called the "re-civilization" stage

before the Amerikkkan people will be

prepared to build socialism. The other

"Marxist" parties are avoiding the simple

economic facts of life.

Note:
Patrick Barta, "Rising U.S. home prices ease
stock market losses," Wall Street Journal 9 Sep
2002.

U.$. home wealth, settler surplus-value

MIM Theory calls for

articles, testimonials

MIM's theory magazine is preparing

for future issues. We are looking for
well-researched articles on Nazi
Germany and eastern Germany,
especially in the 1945 to 1953 period.
Please follow some footnote format.

Another area we are working on is

research on psychics. If you stopped
paying psychics, please send us a letter
telling us how you did so and give us
your permission to use your statement
as a testimonial. We also would
appreciate any statistical research or
articles on the subject of the
effectiveness of psychics.

80% of Kanadians believe their culture

is no different than Amerikkkan culture

according to a poll of 1048 Kanadians run

by a Kanadian newspaper, the National

Post on August 8th and August 15th.

According to the definition laid down

by Lenin and Stalin, a nation has a

contiguous territory, a connected

economy, a common language and a

common culture. Thus, it's not surprising

that Kanadians think they have the same

culture as Amerikkkans. The largest

obstacle to being one nation is the tariffs

at the borders, but even so, the economies

are largely intertwined, probably more

than many island nations' economies. The

material facts of life point to there being

one united oppressor nation of North

Amerika.

In contrast, the people of Aztlan are

often super-exploited or exploited, speak

Spanish and traverse territories south of

the U.$. borders. We do not deny that

the U.$. empire tries to form a multi-

national petty-bourgeoisie of sorts, but

there is much more reality to an Aztlan

nation than a Kanadian nation. Kanadians

mostly live within a few miles of the U.$.

border. The First Nations surrounded by

Kanada and some immigrants are the

exceptions.

The vast majority of "Marxist" parties

do not account for this fact. They speak

of separate Italian, English, French and

Kanadian "working classes," but they see

a multi-national "proletariat" within U.$.

borders. They are slaves of the imperialist

borders and not the sentiments and

economic realities of the peoples. There

is much more justification for lumping an

Amerikan and Kanadian population

together than a multi-national "proletariat"

within U.$. borders.

What connects Kanadians together as

Kanadians is the health-care system

(cited by 19%), Canada's history (16%),

hockey (13%) and geography (12.6%).

In other words, there is very little reason

for Kanada to be apart from the United

$tates.

A co-sponsor of the poll bemoaned the

loss of British identity: "`This poll confirms

the complete and utter extinction of a

Canadian identity based upon British

traditions and a British connection.'"

MIM would add that there is not much

separating England from the United $tates

either.

Readers should make no mistake. MIM

does not advocate unifying the imperialist

populations of Kanada and Amerikkka

and we take advantage of whatever

differences can be mustered between

Kanada and the United $tates just as we

would between Texas and New York. We

only acknowledge the scientific reality of

their unity and we address the people of

Kanada and Amerikkka both as parasitic

populations in the main. At the same time,

we excoriate our alleged comrades calling

themselves "Maoist" globally who are so

far out of step with the times as not to

recognize the basic facts of imperialist

country economic and cultural life.

Note: National Post 9Sept2002, p. a1.

Tortured into signing a confession by

lying cops and lawyers, Eddie Joe Lloyd

found himself freed thanks to DNA

evidence. He was in prison for a rape-

murder conviction.

"Barry Scheck, an attorney with the

Innocence Project, and Saul Green,

former U.S. attorney for the Eastern

District of Michigan, will ask federal

officials to investigate Detroit police in the

Lloyd case."

Until cops and prosecutors start getting

murder and attempted murder convictions

for falsely convicting people we are going

to continue to see unnecessary life lost in

prison. Too many cops and prosecutors

go on to become mayors and governors,

and it should be illegal. Bill Clinton was a

prosecutor early in his career. Both Bill

Clinton and George Bush are former

governors who won popularity with their

"get tough" images for the death penalty

among other things. To them, it did not

matter who they punished as long as they

found someone to punish, and some help

from lying cops and prosecutors also

trying to appear effective.

Eddie Joe Lloyd is the 110th prisoner

freed on DNA evidence. MIM is also

wondering in his case, what took so long

to do the DNA.

Note:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/26/

dna.evidence.ap/index.html

Kanada knows it

is Amerikkkan

Eddie Joe Lloyd released from

prison after 17 innocent years

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of course, around the cause of

independence. During the first war, there

was even an entire Cossack stanitsa

(village)--and you must bear in mind the

ages-old bitter hostility between Cossacks

and Chechens (see, e. g., stories by Leo

Tolstoy)--that rose up in arms on the

Chechen side.

Yes, we've met Chechens who are

anti-independence. I would classify the

ones we've met into two categories: (a)

Chechen businesspeople in Moscow and

other large cities who are concerned with

the atrocities committed in their homeland

and want the war stopped, but feel that

Chechens (first of all, bourgeois like

themselves doing business in Russia)

would be better off without breaking the

connection with Russia; and (b) Russified,

assimilated Chechens brought up in the

(fake) late Soviet tradition of "friendship

between the peoples." There must be

others, but I don't know what they are

like and especially how many of them

there are in Chechnya proper.

Den: I'd like to make a remark on the

side here. Currently Chechnya is being

used by the Russian bourgeoisie for

pressuring the sovereign and independent

state of Georgia under the pretext of there

being large numbers (hundreds) of

Chechen militants present in Pankissi

Gorge on the territory of Georgia. The

Russian General Staff understands that

it has lost the information war against

Chechnya and it is trying to gain revenge

by using the Pankissi Gorge issue as its

consolation prize.

2. What is the economic root of this

war going on in Chechnya. In the

West we have heard that politicians

wax and wane on Chechnya, but what

is really economically at stake?

Dar, Den: The main natural wealth of

Chechnya lies in its oil, which is of

comparatively good quality. Oil drilling in

Chechnya peaked in the early 1970s,

when it reached ca. 20 mil. tons per year.

After that it was steadily decreasing due

to the exhaustion of the oil wells and

amounted to 7 mil. tons per year in the

late eighties. As of now, the known oil

wells have been exhausted by 90% and

more. At present, independent Russian

experts estimate illegal oil drilling in

Chechnya at 1 mil. tons yearly (financially,

the yearly turnover of illegal oil trade in

Chechnya is estimated at $100,000,000)

plus 0.5 mil. tons per year is extracted

by the "state"-owned (i. e. controlled by

pro-Moscow quislings) company

Grozneftegaz (formed in April 2001, i.e.

a year and a half after the beginning of

the second Chechen war). Compare this

to the ca. 300 mil. tons extracted yearly

in the whole of Russia and, e. g., the 20

mil. tons drilled in the republic of Tatarstan

alone. The prospected oil reserves in

Chechnya are estimated at 50 mil. tons.

Therefore oil production in Chechnya is

What is behind the war in Chechnya?

Russian Maoist Party analyzes Russian conditions

on the scale of that of a small-sized

Russian oil company.

The oil processing industry in Chechnya

has been almost totally destroyed by the

war. There is not much sense for anyone

in restoring it now, since the neighboring

regions of mainland Russia (Stavropol

Territory, Daghestan etc.) have oil

processing plants that are in full working

order and whose facilities are not loaded

100%.

We believe that oil did play a part in the

unleashing of the first Chechen campaign.

Even before Russian troops entered

Chechnya in December 1994, there was

an abortive coup attempt in October 1994

on behalf of the pro-Moscow Chechen

opposition (Bislan Gantamirov, Ruslan

Khasbulatov, etc.) that, in our opinion, was

really about the re-distribution of oil

revenues between different clans of the

Chechen national bourgeoisie. This

attempt was actively supported by

Moscow. The scenario played out in 1994

was really similar to that of Afghanistan

in the late 1970s, with the difference that

the coup attempt failed in Chechnya.

However, the Kremlin chose to ignore the

lessons of history and pulled in troops

anyway. As can be seen from the above,

there was even no real pressing economic

need for the Russian oligarchy to do so.

Just like in the case of Afghanistan, the

Russian authorities underestimated the

Chechen people's will for independence,

which resulted in their shameful defeat

in the first Chechen campaign in 1996.

As to the second campaign, we regard

its motives as purely political. It was part

of the massive PR campaign to get

Vladimir Putin elected President and thus

to preserve in power the old oligarchy in

the Kremlin--with a different program

and resorting to open dictatorial methods

instead of the "democratic" facade of the

Yeltsin era. Resorting to tactics similar

to those of Hitler in the beginning of

WWII, the Russian authorities provoked

an invasion of Daghestan by Chechen

Wahhabi volunteer forces in 1999 and

used it as a pretext to invade Chechnya

themselves. In contrast both to the first

Chechen campaign and to the present-

day situation, there were no serious

attempts in 1999-2000 on the part of the

Russian bourgeoisie to play on the

differences within the Chechen national

bourgeoisie and on the differing vested

interests of its various sectors.

The current situation with oil in

Chechnya is one of an ongoing re-division

of the oil market. Although, we repeat,

the sums concerned are comparatively

insignificant for Russia as a whole, they

are not so by the standards of Chechnya.

The Russian occupying forces extract

heavy profits from illegal oil drilling, in

escorting oil caravans to processing

facilities outside Chechnya and also in

carrying out the above-mentioned

"cleansing operations," a major part of

which is believed to be concerned with

settling scores among Chechens involved

in the black oil market. Grozneftegaz head

Baudin Khamidov said the Russian army

pockets as much as 10% of the profits

from illegal trade (we believe that in

reality this share can be several times

larger, the major roads in Chechnya being

totally controlled by the Russian military).

Therefore the occupying army has a very

real economic interest in the continuation

of that trade. For the guerrilla leaders and

those sections of the national bourgeoisie

standing behind them, illegally drilled oil

is also a major source of revenue. The

creation of the "state"-owned company

Grozneftegaz can be seen as a

compromise solution, attempting both to

cut the economic ground from under the

separatists and to elevate a certain section

of the Chechen bourgeoisie that could be,

relatively speaking, called "pro-Moscow"

(or not openly separatist). All this, by the

way, explains the tension existing between

the Russian military command and the

puppet pro-Russian administration of

Ahmad Kadyrov.

In this connection, the allegations by

pro-government Russian media about the

guerrillas being exclusively financed from

Arab sources seem laughable, given the

tens of millions of dollars involved in the

domestic Chechen illegal oil trade.

3. How do you evaluate the u.$.

imperialist role in Chechnya?

Dar, Den: We don't know all the facts,

but our feeling is it is negligible. True, there

is an Amerikan committee for Chechnya

consisting of all kinds of reactionary

creeps, such as P.J. O'Rourke and

Zbigniew Brzezinsky, and, true, some

state officials of the Chechen Republic

were given official receptions in

Washington. But that's pretty much it. We

regard these things as an attempt to put a

slight pressure on Putin, to show him his

place, so to speak--nothing more.

There are no weapon deliveries from

the u.$. to the Chechen separatists, it

being much, much easier for the latter to

lay their hands on weapons arsenals left

behind by the Soviet Army or to

"clandestinely" buy arms'n'ammo from

the present-day Russian troops (a

situation ubiquitous in Chechnya). You

can actually buy arms in broad daylight

in the bazaar of the capital city of Grozny.

The guerrillas have no financial assistance

and virtually no diplomatic support from

the united $tates. There are no

Amerikkkan vested interests in Chechnya

and it is easier for the united $tates to

realize its geopolitical interests in the

region through Georgia and other

independent states of the Transcaucasia.

This is in contradistinction to some

European states, primarily England and

to some extent Germany, that do have

some geopolitical stakes in Chechnya

proper. The theory of the neo-Trotskyite

International Leninist Current (ILC)

which they used to propound before

September 11--that the Kosova

Liberation Army, the Chechen movement

and the Taliban were three wedges being

driven by the united $tates into the body

of Russia to undermine its geostrategic

stability--is a perfect example of wishful

thinking.

Also, the recent propaganda of the

Chechens themselves, especially with the

beginning of the Intifadah and after

September 11, has been vehemently anti-

Western, anti-Amerikan and pro-Arab.

4. In the West, we have heard that

Chechens are rather wealthy. Is it

true, that they run a large portion of

the black market within Russia? Is it

possible to characterize Russian

political forces based on whether they

demonize Jews or Chechens first?

How do the so-called communists

fare in Russia on these questions?

Are there any alleged followers of

Stalin taking what you deem to be an

internationalist stance?

Dar: Some Chechens, especially

Chechen expats in Russia, are quite rich.

There are Chechen billionaires, such as

the notorious Umar Dzhabrailov who ran

for Russian president in 2000. People

from the Chechen diaspora do play a

significant part in the Russian black

market: thus it is alleged that a large

portion of the Moscow gambling business

is controlled by Chechens. Media stories

and rumors about the "Chechen mafia"

were especially rampant in the early 90s.

We cannot really say how significant that

part is and whether it has decreased since

the early 90s or not. I'd like to stress,

however, that the people we're talking

about here are really more part of the

Russian than of the Chechnya scene; the

relation between them and Chechens in

Chechnya is like that between Chicanos

and Mexicans.

Within Chechnya itself, given the

turmoil of the war situation, there is, of

course, a lot of war profiteering, arms

trade, drugs trade and similar phenomena.

However, Chechnya as a whole is

overwhelmingly a peasant society. The

industry developed during the Soviet times

has been largely destroyed by the war

(and it was disproportionately serviced by

Russians and Russian-speaking people--

Jews, Armenians, etc.--when it existed).

The war has ravaged the entire Chechen

infrastructure; every village is being

systematically subjected to "anti-terrorist

cleansings," so the average Chechen is

not a very rich, but a very poor and

miserable persyn. There are streams of

refugees from Chechnya in the

neighboring regions of Russia and

Georgia.

Anti-Chechen (and generally anti-

Caucasian) hysteria is a newer and more

widely accepted, more "mainstream"

phenomenon than anti-Semitism.

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MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 9

Whereas it would be impossible to preach

open anti-Semitism on TV here, you can

see "reputable" TV shows that are

rampantly racist and represent the

guerrillas and Chechens in general as

subhuman savages (Mikhail Leontyev in

his "Odnako" show that existed for a long

time on the principal Russian state-owned

TV channel ORT; a TV serial called

"Muzhskaya Rabota" ["Men's Work"]

extolling the delights of "cleansing

operations" etc.). The prominent post-

Marxist thinker Alexander Tarasov

correctly points out that, in contrast to

anti-Semitism, the current anti-Caucasian

sentiments, slogans and actual pogroms

(which have intensified lately, just as the

skinhead movement has grown in size and

virulence) have tangible economic roots

in the Russian middle and small

bourgeoisie. In sum, both Russian fascism

and the more "acceptable" right-wing

forces can be primarily defined through

their demonizing the Chechens (as

"terrorists") and all the other nations of

the Caucasus (as "rootless" "aliens" in

Russia, imposing "their own rules" here

and that have to be pushed out or "shown

their place" by violence, if necessary),

not through their anti-Semitism.

The so-called "Communists" in Russia

have been steadily degenerating with

respect to their positions on Chechnya.

During the first war, even Zyuganov's

CPRF exhibited something faintly

resembling an antiwar stance and the left-

of-Zyuganov "Communists" (such as

Tyulkin or Nina Andreyeva, especially the

latter) held pretty much internationalist

positions. It has been downhill for them

ever since. Now Zyuganov criticizes

Putin for not being harsh enough in the

Caucasus, while the unified RCWP-RPC

and the new right-wing leadership of the

RYCL(b) call for the speediest liquidation

of the "bandit formations" in Chechnya

and for Russian victory there--and so on,

down the whole pseudo-Communist

spectrum.

The anti-Stalinist left--Trots,

Bordigians, "back-to-Lenin"

Khrushchevites in the tradition of the 20th

Congress--presents a brighter picture on

this particular issue, especially the

Trotskyite Revolutionary Workers' Party

(RWP, or RRP in Russian). But with all

of them the emphasis is more on "stop

the war" than on supporting the

Chechens' struggle for national liberation.

This logically follows from the Trotskyite

line that, basically, all nationalism is

reactionary.

As of now, the only exception (besides

our own party) among the organizations

upholding Stalin that takes an

internationalist stance on Chechnya is the

Hoxhaite group from Leningrad (St.

Petersburg) called the "Proletarskaya

Gazeta" ("Proletarian Newspaper"). It

is not a party or pre-party; just a collective

gathered together round a paper. Still, they

hold a number of rather impressive and

advanced views: e. g. they are quite hip

to the theory of Soviet social-imperialism.

But, of course, they have all the limitations

of dogmatic Stalinism, that is Hoxhaism.

5. Since the people of Russia have

seen the Russian Revolution, they

are not completely ignorant of the

theory of imperialism. Do they regard

Russia as imperialist? How

widespread is the attitude that since

Gorbachev, Russian leaders have

amounted to an extension of the

Pentagon, a line item within the

Pentagon's/State Department's

budget?

Dar: The perception of Russia as

imperialist is not very widespread here.

In leftist circles, it is mostly ultraleft

groups, such as Left Communists

(Bordigians) or some (but not all)

Trotskyists, that would call the present-

day Russia imperialist. From a different

angle, there is a lot of diffused sentiment

among the Russian petit-bourgeois

"democratic" intelligentsia (a not

inconsiderable stratum of the population)

that the "imperial traditions" are being

revived now, that the brief period of

"democratic reform" and relative

freedom has ended and that the Russian

Empire is again coming into its own. Such

people might even call Putin's Russia

imperialist. But these are, of course, pre-

scientific sentiments that have nothing to

do with the Leninist theory of imperialism.

Whereas the term "imperialism" is not

very current here, the term "Empire" is.

Again, very many people, of the most

varying political persuasions, believe that

Russia used to be, and/or should be, an

empire, but very few would agree that it

is one now.

Another facet of the problem, the word

"imperialism" has very bad connotations

here, inherited from the Soviet times. Yet

the traditions of the last two centuries,

both reactionary (the czarist Empire, the

late USSR) and revolutionary (the USSR

of Lenin and Stalin), have strongly

encouraged in our population a sense of

identifying with the state, of considering

it "our" state, of wishing it well. Therefore

few people would be so hostile to the state

as to call it "imperialist."

The second attitude that you mention--

that Russia is/was being run by the

$tates--is quite widespread, and this

situation is seen as a bad thing.

Gorbachev, whom you mention, is widely

regarded a traitor--not of socialism, of

course, but of the country. Putin, quite a

pro-Western, globalist politician at heart,

has cleverly exploited these feelings,

posing himself as an alleged alternative

to the shamelessly, openly pro-Western

regime of Yeltsin. He is seen as

somebody pursuing an independent

course, strengthening the State, "imposing

order" (a favorite Russian expression)--

and to some extent resisting Amerikan

pressure. It is not only the man in the

street, but also some quite prominent

thinkers, such as philosopher Alexander

Zinoviev, who have swallowed this bait.

6. Can you characterize to what

extent you believe the present

government in Russia is actually run/

bribed by u.$. imperialism as opposed

to a Russian bourgeoisie?

Den: The Russian government is an

independent (in the sense of distinct,

separate, not in the sense of genuine

independence ) actor in international

relations. Certain individual personages

on the Russian political scene may be well

lobbying the interests of Amerikkka

(Europe and so on), but on the whole, the

Russian bourgeoisie is very much

conscious of itself as a self-sufficient

entity. In contrast to the situation in the

early 90s, when one could speak (with

very many reservations) of the

government having been bought (e. g.

such ministers of that era as Yegor Gaidar

or Andrei Kozyrev), now the situation has

stabilized. The bourgeoisie is busy looking

for a "national idea," an "idea unifying

the whole nation"; the media are actively

pushing forward the idea of what a cool

thing it is to be Russian, a Russian citizen,

etc. An image of the Enemy is actively

being constructed. The candidates to this

post proposed by the media are NATO,

the united $tates, the IMF, the Jewish-

Masonic conspiracy, terrorists (including

Chechens).

At the very same time, the ruling

Russian bourgeoisie is fully aware of its

own economic weakness. An example

would be the fact of the united $tates

having recently unilaterally quit the 1972

ABM Treaty. The Russian press was

shouting from the housetops about giving

an asymmetrical answer to this

Amerikkkan measure: in response to the

creation of an ABM system on the u.$.

territory, there were threats of a

comeback of multiple-warhead nuclear

missiles and of the development of

technically advanced ways for these to

break through ABM systems. The actual

result was zero: the Russian Federation

is as of now simply incapable of

economically supporting more than 1,000

to 1,500 nuclear warheads (in Amerikkka,

the corresponding figure is 6 to 8

thousand). The situation is the same

everywhere--from the sports (soccer,

hockey) to the problem of Kaliningrad

(former Königsberg; a Russian enclave

in Eastern Europe) to the imports of

chicken meat from Amerikkka.

The inevitability of competing with the

West (for the markets of Russia, the CIS,

the former Soviet bloc countries) versus

the impossibility of living without it (the

main revenues the Russian Federation

gets come from raw materials exports)

is one of the principal contradictions faced

by the local bourgeoisie. Yes, the Russian

bourgeoisie may take money from the

West, but it doesn't mean it becomes

bought: if I borrow money from someone,

this doesn't mean that I sell myself.

Russia, as sub-imperialist power, is

conducting a policy of its own, heavily

limited by its economic capabilities.

7. As Leninist scientists, how would

you characterize Russia's export or

lack of export of capital? Does Russia

retain its own financial capitalist

abilities?

D e n: Russian imperialism is not a

fiction. It does exist. It is obviously much

weaker than its Amerikkkan or European

counterparts but it no different from them

in its nature

According to official Russian sources,

the total volume of investments by the

Russian bourgeoisie abroad amounted to

$3.7 billion in the first half of 2002.

However, the larger part of this sum is

represented by short-term investments,

related to financial and other speculations.

The overall volume of Russian long-term

investments abroad is estimated (I would

like to stress it once again: by official

sources) at $4 billion.

The sum is comparatively small, but it

doesn't take into account other forms of

export of capital, besides investments

proper. For example, debts of Asian and

African countries to the USSR (the

Russian Federation is the assignee of the

Soviet Union) may be written off in

exchange for Russian companies'

participating in the development of oil and

gas fields and ore deposits in these

countries. Thus, Iraq's debt to Russia

totals $7 billion, whereas the sum total

for which contracts have already been

signed for the development of Iraqi oil by

Russian companies (such as Lukoil and

others) reaches as high as $20 billion. The

long-term cooperation between Russia

represented by the Nuclear Power

Engineering Ministry (one of the state

ministries!) on the one hand, and, e. g.,

India and Iran on the other, in the field of

nuclear power engineering can in some

cases be regarded as capital export as

well.

The main spheres of interest of the

Russian capital abroad are the extraction

and primary processing of oil and gas, the

metal mining industry, as well as the

nuclear and military industries.

The countries looked upon by the

Russian bourgeoisie as their spheres of

influence include the CIS states, the

countries of the former "Socialist" bloc

and the Third World countries that used

to have a pro-Moscow orientation in the

'70s-80s.

As of now, we at the RMP have

specific data at our disposal about

Russia's export of capital (the sums total

are in the billions of dollars) to Vietnam,

Angola, Mongolia, Bulgaria, Ukraine,

Kazakhstan.

We do realize that this list is far from

being complete. Collecting exact and

more or less exhaustive data on the export

of capital by Russia's bourgeoisie is a

matter of the near future. We are working

on that.

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MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 10

MIM on

Prisons & Prisoners

MIM seeks to build public opinion

against Amerika's criminal injustice sys-

tem, and to eventually replace the bour-

geois injustice system with proletarian

justice. The bourgeois injustice system

imprisons and executes a disproportion-

ately large and growing number of op-

pressed people while letting the biggest

mass murderers -- the imperialists and

their lackeys -- roam free. Imperialism is

not opposed to murder or theft, it only

insists that these crimes be committed in

the interests of the bourgeoisie.

"All U.S. citizens are criminals--

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

MIM does not advocate that all

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

Under Lock & Key

News from Prisons & Prisoners

Georgia prisoner
spreads word of MIM

This is to inform you that I just received

my MIM Notes from January, February,
March and April, so now the only ones I
don't have are May and June. I had to file
an administrative grievance and three days
later [the prison administration] released
the Notes. Then the following week I was
shipped to another prison. . . Now that
I'm at another prison not in segregation at
the present time I will begin to get active. .
.I will stay busy as always being a voice
and encouraging study groups, petitions
and anything to help MIM in this cause. .
.Since being involved with MIM this is my
second transfer but it's all good because
the message is spreading!

--a prisoner in Georgia, June 2002
MIM responds: While we do not

support prisoners being transferred all over
the place because it is often used as further
punishment, we are pleased to hear that
this comrade is using the opportunity to
educate others about MIM. Also, please
be patient with the MIM Notes delivery-
we are using a new system and your issues
will take longer to get to you.

Rhode Island prisoner
can't get Notes in
segregation

Dear MIM,
I was in Maximum Security Segregation

where newspapers were permitted. Upon
coming back to High Security Segregation,
I learned all newspapers, including religious
ones, were prohibited, for reasons like fire,
flooding & trashing. Yet we all know it's
done out of spite. I've tried coming at them
from a religious point of view to no avail. .
.Newspapers are not allowed and any other
papers with this characteristic and texture
are not likely to become part of our right
to receive while in Segregation. However,
if there are any willing persons who would
xerox these MIM Notes they'd be
permitted and I'd have no problems
receiving at all. . . .

I want to contribute to a struggle of truth

at all cost. Because I feel it's a necessity in
which all of humanity should have the
chance to knowingly decide what side to
be on. . . Since coming to jail in 1999 I
earned my GED by 2001 outside of my
trips back and forth to segregation. . . I
hope to earn credits for college in the
future; right now they will not allow
segregation inmates any educational
opportunities. This again goes to show that
jail is made to keep us all ignorant--
shouldn't proper education be totally
encouraged at all cost?

--A prisoner in Rhode Island,

August 2002

Washington steps up
censorship

I am a Washington convict who recently

finished a 19 month trip through IMU. I
feel it is necessary to inform you and other
convicts in Washington of a rule imposed
in WCC-IMU that most are not aware of:

we can not receive books from "the
movement" or any other solidarity front
any longer. The only place the Empire of
Pigs will allow books to be sent from is
Barne$ and Noble$.

I filed a grievance against Carol Porter

(the warden) regarding this Decision and
pursued it all the way to headquarters, all
the way to no avail. I received my first
issues of MIM Notes this evening, so I am
informing you of the call to arms I've
initiated to end the regime of censorship
that is currently in effect at WCC, and
apparently CBCC. I was and will continue
to research Imperial Law to find another
venue of opposition, but in the mean time
requests/complaints regarding Frau
Porter's actions should be filed by MIM
and its subsidiaries as well as all other
concerned comrades out there.

Direct complaints to:
Carol Porter, Superintendent
Washington Corrections Center
PO Box 900
Shelton, WA 98584

-- a prisoner in Washington,

August 2002

DOC rules bypassed at
WCC

Whether you're in or out of American

dungeons, due process can be an illusive
ideal unless your wealth and privilege make
that possible. At the correction center in
Shelton, Washington prisoners in the
intensive management unit (IMU)
understand that reality all too well. Despite
prison rules that require a notice, charge,
hearing and a right to present evidence in
order to prove innocence prison lackeys
have devised a means of enforcing their
rule without resorting to these procedures.

Known as an observation report,

prisoners who receive one are
automatically guilty of any accusation made
by staff in the report. No one else has any
say as far as this goes and prisoners have
no right to review even when there's no
evidence of any guilt and the person can
produce proof which exonerates him by
showing there was a false allegation made.

Prisoners have been victimized in this

way and complained to prison
administrators about it when their rights
or privileges were arbitrarily taken. Unit
supervisors have allowed these minions to
carry out their dirty work without regard
for right or wrong, even if this is a violation
of prisoners rights under DOC policy.

In a society which proclaims justice for

all, oppressed people can expect even less
once they're locked away and unable to
pay for those rights guaranteed by our
country and the constitution.

--a prisoner in Washington state,

August 2002

Washington IMU
violates policy

During an emergency incident in IMU,

procedure dictates that appropriate steps
be taken to minimize the potential for other
offenders to become involved in the
incident. Magnetic covers are routinely
placed over cell windows to prevent those
offenders from acting out and becoming
further involved in a specific incident
involving someone else, and are only left
in place for the period of time that it is
necessary for staff to resolve the incident.
This is authorized and effective, and there
are no plans to change this practice at this
time.

I appealed that madness to the next level,

I was thus interviewed by the unit sergeant.
He tried to explain that inmates need not
witness incidents because the whole
incident was being videotaped. I have been
working to get the procedure changed. I
have done a little research with the limited
resources I have (i.e. law library). I have
reviewed WDOC policy directive DOC
320.255 under IMU/Seg unit operation
VIII. Visit by staff: (A) Staff assigned to
an IMU/Seg unit shall conduct a cell check
on an irregular schedule that is no longer
than 30 minutes apart to personally observe
offender. Bam! Violating their own policy.

The following incident happened

approximately 12:15am 8/18/02. A serious
situation occurred: seven inmates covered
their windows and broke up their cells. I
was asked to ride or participate but did not
feel reasons were justified enough to lose
all my stuff, and the things I have to do
with USW [United Struggle from Within],
just because a guy did not get linen
exchange, but there were other underlying
issues that made that the catalyst. By
5:30am they had sprayed four guys so far
with O.C. gas and cell extraction (actually
guys cuffed up before they came in.) Our
cell windows had been covered all that
time, plus water was turned off too.

Our water was off for over 12 hours,

and windows covered more than 10 hours,
we had not been feed for over 16 hours.
The administration compromised on the
rest of the group, they had never done that
many extractions in one incident. We had
headquarters attention. The
Superintendent, Associate Superintendent,
and Unit Supervisor, with extra staff, had
to come in on a weekend. So we had a
chance to have our issues heard.

Then on 8/19/02 at approximately 10pm

one of the guys that had participated but
did not get gassed destroyed his cell. They
gassed him for four hours straight using a
cattle prod to shock him through the door
port. He finally gave up and cuffed up. He's
back in the pod now, he's ok, but that
shock took the fight out of him. Windows
were covered 6 hours, water turned off,

but not long this time, two hours.

I have written to the ACLU, they said

they would document my complaint on file.
We need support and protest letters,
demanding that this practice be stopped
immediately. Here are some names and
addresses of head officials to be contacted:

Deputy of Corrections of DOC
Eldon Vail
PO Box 41118
Olympia, WA 98584-1118

Regional Administrator of DOC
Thomas Mackintyre
Office of Correctional Operations South

West Region

4318 6th Ave S.E.
Olympia, WA 98504-1120

Superintendent Douglas Waddington
SCCC
191 Constantine Way
Aberdeen, WA 98502

--a prisoner in Washington, August

2002

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 11

Facts on U$ imprisonment

The facts about imprisonment in the United $tates are that the United $tates has been the world's leading prison-state per capita for the last 25 years,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Internationalism is the ethical belief or scientific

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

We Maoists believe the nationalism of nations

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

"I must argue, not from the point of view of

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

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

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

What is internationalism?

From the MIM "Frequently Asked

Illinois prison slave
labor

What brings me to write this letter is to

ask for your assistance on a very important
matter. I and the rest of the kitchen
workers here are not familiar with Illinois
labor laws for prisoners, but our minds
tell us that they cannot work us seven days
a week with double shifts at their
discretion, which they refer to as
"mandating."

We are paid $1 per day and are told that

if we miss any days of work we can be
fired or written a disciplinary ticket which
could send us to segregation. Even Jewish
and Hebrew-Israelite prisoners are forced
to work on their religious sabbath day.

I understand that the penalty for me

writing this letter may be termination from
my kitchen assignment, but I felt that I
must uncover one of the many
contradictions of a country that prides itself
in speaking out against sweatshops and
slave labor in underdeveloped countries.
As long as America's prisons support slave
labor and this practice is backed by the
13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,
this country will never be "the land of the
free," but the "home of the slave."

We ask that all true freedom loving people

support us in our efforts to stop this
inhumane treatment of prisoners. Join us
in solidarity as we fight for our rights. To
protest these slave labor conditions, please
contact:

Warden Kenneth Briley, Stateville

Correctional Center

P.O. Box 112
Joliet, IL 60434
phone (815) 727-3607

Director of the Illinois Department of

Corrections

Donald N. Snyder
1301 Concordia Court
Springfield, IL 62794-9277
phone (217) 522-2666.

In closing I would also like to add that

every other prison assignment down here
works only five days a week with two days
off. The kitchen assignment is the only
detail that is forced to work seven days
without any days off. Dare to struggle!
Dare to win!

--an Illinois prisoner, August 2002

California prison
denies persynal
property

To add insult to our collective injury,

they've now brought in CD players and
Sony PlayStations to a maximum security
prison! Yet they've taken away (1) day of
law library time, free weights and musical
instruments. And now they've gone
through this particular gulag (unsure about
the others) and ransacked, stolen and
destroyed prisoners' personal property. All
this is under the guise of us having an
overabundance of property (i.e., political
and educational materials). I am unsure of
the specifics as I'm confined within the
bowels of the SHU, but I know that for us
in SHU the new rule denies us any
newspapers, magazines and personal
literature. They just bring around a cart-
full of magazines or fictional excrement
every week to further deaden our minds.

--a Federal prisoner in California,

August 2002

New Jersey prison
system defines gangs

A comrade sent us the following handout

given to prisoners in New Jersey.

THE ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY--

GANG AWARENESS

[...]
b. Prison gangs - (1.) Any ongoing

formal or informal organization, association
or group of the three (3) or more persons,
which has a common name or identifying
sign or symbol whose members and/or
associates engage or have engaged on
behalf of that organization; association or
group, in two or more activities which
include planning, organizing, threatening,
financing, soliciting, or committing
unlawful acts of misconduct classified as
serious. (2.) Gangs that originate that
within the prison system. (3.) "Disruptive
groups" refer to gangs which originate
outside of prison, such as street gangs,
white supremacists groups, right or left
wing revolutionary groups and gangs.
Prison gangs have within their own policy
a mandatory ruling that members must
participate in gang behavior, where the
disruptive groups do not have that
mandatory ruling.

Description
I. Prison gangs also attempt to control

the criminal enterprises of the prison
system and attempt to exercise unlawful

influence over the inmates to participate in
their behavior.

II. Gang affiliated prisoners are the "most

disruptive" to the day-to-day management
of a prisons system.

MIM comments: Gang labeling is

used in prisons across the country as a
means of further repressing those who
aren't going along with the program. In
prisons the definition of gangs is very
broad, as the prison population as a whole
has a strong potential to oppose the state.
The third category, "disruptive groups,"
is most notable in that it includes all those
pesky groups that don't actually plan or
engage in "unlawful acts." This category
is there to include those who work with
organizations such as MIM in this policy
of increased repression.

The definitions given above by the New

Jersey Prison officials expose the true
nature of prisons. They exist to repress
those groups that threaten opposition to
the state.

Labor crisis for Texas
prisoncrats

In August 7 and 8 unit operations at this

prison in Texas were suspended because
of lack of guards. The prison system is
continuously showing it's at a weak state
and prisoners statewide would hurt things
by laying it down. Even now we are not
getting our daily recreations; we only get
rec once a week and the law library only
delivers and picks up legal material once
or twice a week. Prisoners are being denied
these and other programs because the
administration is using staff where they can
do the most good for the benefit of
[creating] the oppressive conditions we are
in. For example, in the last two weeks on
both shifts a minimum of 12 cells were
searched on my wing alone, reason given
is a random search for contraband and/or
weapons, but they way it is done is
harassment. More importantly, the field
slave force continues to go to work, even
the prisoners housed in this control unit
-- but the claim is made always, "we're
short of staff."

The prisoncrats along with the capitalist

masters/backers are so greedy they
continue to refuse guards more benefits.
Good for them! They feel they can afford
to allow some to go down to the proletariat.
My question is, why do they refuse to
increase benefits for the guards? Are the
bureaucrats afraid of giving in to the guard

union and giving it leeway to becoming as
powerful as California's prison guard
union? Whatever the reason, TDCJ is
campaigning in Oklahoma, New Mexico
and Louisiana for more guards. While
officers are being fired, some are quitting
instead of working 12-hour shifts and then
having to do some overtime. This is the
only thing that would make this class even
think about becoming revolutionary - and
when they're given a few more bucks and
benefits it's back to the same old ways.

--A Texas Prisoner, August 2002
MIM responds: In general we think

it's better for the prison guards to be poorly
paid (relative to other labor aristocrats).
The more they get paid, the more they get
invested in the growth of the prison
system, and -- as in California -- they
become big advocates for more repressive
laws to lock more people up, so they can
have more jobs and job security. And even
poorly paid, these prison guards will not
become part of the proletariat. The
proletariat is a class of workers who
receive less than the value of their labor.
As MIM has demonstrated in its theory
journals (see MIM Theory 1 and MIM
Theory 10), the vast majority of Amerikan
citizens are petty bourgeois, not proletariat.

Texas prisons trying to make a few more

bucks by paying guards less may lead to
guards seeking work elsewhere, but will
not result in revolutionary class
consciousness from them. This is a good
example of how, even when the labor
aristocrats aren't getting the money they
want, they still can see clearly their stake
in the system. After all, who's in prison?
For this reason, it will take more than low
prison guard pay to turn these folks against
imperialism.

MIM Notes 268 · October 15, 2002· Page 12

Notas Rojas

octubre 15, 2002, Nº 268 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis

Para detallar el papel de EE.UU. en

Colombia y para explicar porqué Bush

decidió cazar organizaciones colombianas

como parte de la "guerra contra el

terrorismo" El MIM ha decidido imprimir

el siguiente artículo. El MIM piensa que

el pueblo colombiano debería tomar el

camino preparado por el Camarada

Gonzalo y el PCP. Y aunque tenemos

diferencias con las FARC-EP también

tenemos el deber de desenmascarar los

propósitos del Tío Sam, sin importar en

contra de quién los dirija.

Por Doug Stokes

Traducido por Células de Estudio

para la Liberación de Aztlán y

América Latina

.. viente de la edicón previa.

Al igual que Milford, el director de la

DEA reitera que al contrario de las

FARC, los grupos paramilitares

derechistas "generan ingresos por medio

de la extorsión o protección de

operaciones en los laboratorios del norte

y centro del país. La organización de

Carlos Castaño y quizás otros grupos

paramilitares parecen estar directamente

involucrados en la producción de cocaína.

Por lo menos uno de estos grupos parece

estar involucrado en la exportación de

cocaína desde Colombia."

El Senador Joseph Biden envió un

informe parecido al Comité de Relaciones

Extranjeras del Senado estadounidense

el cual decía que "la organización de

Castaño y quizás otros grupos

paramilitares parecen estar directamente

involucrados en la produccion y

exportacion de cocaína en Colombia."

Klaus Nyholm, el director de la agencia

para el control de drogas de las Naciones

Unidas en Colombia, la UNDCP, dijo que

"los guerrilleros se distinguen de los

narcotraficantes. Los frentes regionales

son autónomos. Pero an algunas regiones

no se involucran para nada. En otras

regiones les dicen a los campesinos que

no siembren coca." En cuanto a la ex-

zona no-militarizada (DMZ), Nyholm dijo

que "la producción de droga no ha bajado

pero tampoco ha aumentado" desde que

"las FARC tomaron el poder." De hecho,

Nyholm argumentó que antes de que

llegaran las fuerzas armadas colombianas

y antes de la campaña paramilitar en

contra de la DMZ, las FARC cooperaban

con un proyecto estimado en 6 millones

de dólares iniciado por las Naciones

Unidas para sustituir la siembra de coca

con otro típo de desarrollo no prohibido.

Queda bien claro que los rebeldes no

son los narcotraficantes internacionales

y que el míto de los narco-guerrilleros es

una propaganda y un pretexto útil para la

intervención norteamericana en el

conflicto colombiano.

Un distinguido especialista en

contrainsurgencia norteamericano John

Waghelstein explicó la importancia de la

idea de los "narcoguerrilleros" que sirve

para "hacer una conexión en la mente

del público norteamericano y el congreso

que resulte en apoyo esencial para

combatir a los narco-terroristas y

guerrilleros del hemisferio. Sería díficil

para el congreso tener que bloquearles a

nuestros aliados el entrenamiento, los

consejeros y la seguridad esencial para

lograr el objetivo. Dentro del debate ético

se encontrarían del lado equivocado

aquellos grupos religiosos y académicos

que vergonzosamente han apoyado a la

insurgencia en América Latina. Y sobre

todo tendríamos una intocable posición

moral para lanzar un ataque determinado

empleando los recursos del

Departamento de la Defensa y otros

medios."

Pero aun más importante es el hecho

de que EE.UU. confunde el lugar que

ocupan los paramilitares patrocinados por

la droga en su guerra sucia contra la

sociedad civil de Colombia por medio de

la asociación de los rebeldes con el

narcotráfico. El papel de EE.UU. en el

terror paramilitar contra la población civil

de Colombia resalta aún más si uno toma

en cuenta el hecho de que los asesores

militares norteamericanos viajaron a

Colombia en 1991 para renovar las redes

de inteligencia del país. Se supone que la

renovación debería ayudar a las fuerzas

armadas de Colombia en sus esfuerzos

contra el narcotráfico.

Una de las ONGs que investigan los

derechos humanos, Human Rights Watch,

consiguió una copia de las instrucciones.

El narcotráfico no se menciona ni una sóla

vez. La renovación secreta solamente

trataba de combatir lo que se llamaba "la

intesificación del terrorismo por la

subversión armada."

Con la renovación se concretó la

relación entre las fuerzas armadas

colombianas y las redes

narcoparamilitares, las cuales en realidad

consituyen "una red secreta que confía

en los paramilitares no unicamente para

conseguir inteligencia pero también para

llevar a cabo asesinatos". Las

intrucciones indicaban que al terminar la

renovación todo el "material escrito

deberá ser eliminado" y además los

paramilitares deberían "evitar contacto e

interacción con grupos militares."

Stan Goff, un ex-entrenador de las

fuerzas especiales estadounidenses de

Colombia ha dicho que cuando él

entrenaba a las fuerzas especiales de

Colombia en Tolemaide en el '92 su

equipo "estaba ahí supuestamente para

contribuir al esfuerzo contra el

narcotráfico." Él "enseñaba a las fuerzas

armadas la ciencia de la infantería

contrainsurgente" y "reconocía muy bien,

igual que los comandantes colombianos

que el narcotráfico no era más que un

pretexto para fortalecer la potencia de

las fuerzas armadas que al cabo de años

de excesos perdieron la confianza

popular."

No cabe duda que EE.UU. ha

fortalecido el enlace entre los terroristas

principales de Colombia, las fuerzas

armadas colombianas y sus aliados

paramilitares, estos últimos siendo

responsables de más del 80% de los

abusos de derechos humanos en el país.

Como ya hemos explicado, las mismas

agencias norteamericanas han dicho que

los paramilitares son unos de los

narcotraficantes más grandes que existen

hoy en Colombia. En realidad, el apoyo

militar norteamericano llega directo a las

principales redes terroristas de Colombia

las cuales exportan cocaína a EE.UU.

para juntar fondos para su operación y

para quienes EE.UU. han sido el eje para

perfeccionar la creación de lo que Human

Rights Watch ha nombrado un "aparato

sofisticado que permite que las fuerzas

armadas colombianas realicen una guerra

sucia al mismo tiempo que los oficiales la

niegan."

Como parte de la lucha mundial en

contra de la Unión Soviética, EE.UU.

lanzaron sus campañas contrainsurgentes

en contra de los socialdemócratas, los

socialistas, los nacionalistas

independientes y incluso la Iglesia

Católica durante la guerra fría. Para

poder vender su política imperialista

durante la época después de la guerra

fría, EE.UU. han tenido que adaptar una

nueva línea de relaciones públicas. Los

narcoguerrilleros y el contraterrorismo

sirven como salidas útiles para la

operación de relaciones públicas la cual

permite que EE.UU. confunda al

"enemgio oficial" con el terrorismo y el

narcotráfico.

Al fondo de estos mítos se encuentra

el hecho de que la combinación del estado

colombiano, su extensión particular (los

paramilitares) y el apoyo norteamericano

resulta en la muerte y desaparición de

miles de ciudadanos colombianos. La

guerra terrorista de Norteamérica contra

la sociedad civil de Colombia encaja en

el marco de la política estadounidense en

toda América Latina que ha causado la

muerte de cientos de miles de civiles.

¿Porqué hace EE.UU. estas cosas?

Entre otros elementos al fondo de la

política norteamericana está la

importancia del petróleo colombiano y

venezolano para la energía

norteamericana. Una delicada situación

en la región que acompañaría la victoria

de los rebeldes podría desnivelar el

balance de las potencias y poner en

peligro los intereses de grandes

compañías petroleras internacionales

norteamericanas. Todo esto se pone bien

claro si se considera que la adminstración

de Bush ha pedido $98 millones de dólares

para proteger las 500 millas de la tubería

petrolera Cano Limón que pertenece a la

compañía Occidental Petroleum con un

equipo militar colombiano especializado.

El senador republicano Paul D.

Coverdell explicó que "un desequilibrio

en Colombia tendrá consecuencias en

Venezuela que ahora se considera nuestro

proveedor principal del petróleo. De

hecho, hoy el panorama en América

Latina es parecido al del Medio Oriente

con la única excepción de que ahora

Colombia nos da más petróleo que el que

conseguíamos en Kuwait.

"Esta crisis, igual a la de Kuwait,

amenaza con extenderse a otros países

que son nuestros aliados." Entonces

resulta que la guerra en contra de los

rebeldes es parte de la estrategia clásica

de contrainusrgencia la cual destruye a

las fuerzas nacionalistas que amenazan

al monopolio estadounidense e intereses

privilegiados en toda América Latina.

El apoyo militar fortalece y justifica el

aparato represivo del estado colombiano

y su extensión clandestina, los

paramilitares. De esta manera el estado

colombiano puede silenciar y asesinar a

los que critican el status quo que condena

a la mayor parte de la población a la

pobreza y al 25% de todos los

colombianos a la miseria.

EE.UU. destruyen la posibilidad de un

plan de organización social y económica

alternativo y aumenta el precio de

organizaciones laborales y críticas a favor

de opciones de desarrollo alternativas. La

élite colombiana y norteamericana se vale

de cohesión y consenso para llevar a cabo

la guerra.

Para el público estadounidense e

internacional existen amplias campañas

de relaciones públicas y propaganda para

la manipulación de la opinión popular.

Pero el caso es muy distinto en Colombia

donde el ponerse de pie es un acto algo

peligroso que muchas veces termina con

una bala hecha en EE.UU.

El Plan Colombia y la propaganda: la manipulación de

la imagen de la guerra yanqui contra el terrorismo