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n October 13th, U.N. Secretary-

General Kofi Annan condemned

the bombing in Bali that killed

at least 180 people, mostly young

Australian tourists out partying in two

nightclubs. Annan expressed his "utter

condemnation" of all indiscriminate

attacks on civilians, saying they "cannot

be justified by any cause or ideology."(1)

Kofi Annan is a good example of a

persyn in political limbo--the head of the

United Nations, notable but without mili-

tary power of his own. The United Na-

tions has served as a figleaf for terrorism

and has attacked it at other times, but it

does not have its own forces. Hence, for

Kofi Annan to condemn terrorism, there

is at least a case to be made that he is not

a hypocrite or that if he is a hypocrite, he

is so from ignorance or by mistake.

When it comes to the united $tates,

however, hypocrisy abounds. President

George Bush said, "We must together

Glass houses and throwing stones

Who has the right to condemn terrorism?

BUSH: `We

must

together

challenge

and defeat

the idea

that the

wanton killing

of innocents

advances any

cause or

supports any

aspirations.'

MIM:

`No

one has

killed more

unarmed

civilian

innocents

in the

years since

World War II

than the

U.$.A.'

challenge and defeat the idea that the

wanton killing of innocents advances any

cause or supports any aspirations."(2)

No organization has killed more

unarmed civilian innocents in the last

year, the last decade or the years since

World War II than the U.$. government.

Ask the surviving civilians of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki and re-read that sentence

from Bush above. Ask the "Secretary of

Defense" Robert McNamara who

admitted that the united $tates killed 3.8

million Vietnamese in the Vietnam War,

including the aerial bombing of

civilians.(3) That's why at MIM, where

our members come mostly from

imperialist countries carrying out

massive terrorism, we do not believe we

have the right to condemn other people's

"terrorism." If MIM had succeeded in

wiping out Amerikkkan and other major

imperialist terrorism, MIM could set

UMYN

RIGHTS

VIOLATIONS

AGAINST

ALESTINIANS

ARE

STAGGERING

y mid-October, MIM, SLALA

and RAIL comrades had

collected more than 830

signatures supporting our demands that

the University of California divest from

apartheid Israel. In Los Angeles, SLALA

and RAIL have made a strong start to the

school year. They have made our

demands known and generated some

controversy on the UCLA campus(1)

October 23, 2002

hilippine Professor Jose Maria

Sison has a long history of

activism on behalf of the ex-

ploited and oppressed and against U.$.

imperialism. He helped found the

Kabataan Makabayan (Patriotic Youth)

in 1964 and led some of the first protests

against Amerikan intervention in Viet-

nam--of particular relevance as the

United $tates used the Philippines as a

staging area for aggression in Southeast

Asia.

Sison went on to found the Communist

Party of the Philippines on December 26,

1968, the New People's Army on March

29, 1969 and the National Democratic

Front of the Philippines on April 24,

1973. He was captured by the Marcos

fascist regime on November 10, 1977 and

stayed in prison until he was released on

March 5, l986 soon after the fall of

Marcos. He rejoined the faculty of the

University of the Philippines. Then, he

left for abroad for a global university

lecture tour from September 1, 1986 to

Interview with Prof.

Jose Maria Sison

1988. He applied for political asylum in

The Netherlands on October 18, 1988

after the Aquino regime canceled his

Philippine passport.

QUESTION: The U.$. government

declared you to be a "terrorist" on August

12 and asked other governments to freeze

MIM builds momentum for

UC Divestment from Israel

with regular tabling and literature

distribution, and collecting more

signatures week by week. The University

of California has at least $1.4 billion

invested in companies that provide arms

and military technology to Israel.

MIM is not the only organization rais-

ing the demand that U.$. universities

withdraw their investments in Israel. At

the University of Texas, students have

collected between 500 and 700 signa-

tures asking their school to divest from

Israel and Wayne State University stu-

dents in Detroit have 50 to 70 signatures

on a similar petition. Harvard students

are targeting their university's $615 mil-

lion in investments, and students at the

Universities

of Michigan

and Texas

have learned

that their

schools invest

at least $155

million and

$90 million

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What is MIM?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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San Ysidro, California

19 October

A crowd of several hundred, mostly

young members of MEChA (Movimiento

Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan), gath-

ered on the U.$.-Mexico border today to

say "No!" to Operation Gatekeeper. Op-

eration Gatekeeper is the U.$. Immigra-

tion and Naturalization Service's brutal

military blockade along the border be-

tween California and Mexico. This pro-

gram and others like it in other south-

western states have killed over 3,000

people since 1993. Most died of dehy-

dration and exposure as they tried to

avoid border agents by crossing through

remote desert regions.

MIM and SLALA (Studies for the Lib-

eration of Aztlan and Latin America)

members attended the rally. They col-

lected several score signatures on a peti-

tion to the INS to end Operation

Gatekeeper and passed out MIM Notes.

They also collected signatures on a peti-

tion asking the Dutch government to re-

move Philippine Prof. Jose Maria Sison

from its list of "terrorists" and restore the

social benefits guaranteed him as a po-

litical refugee.

Although the issue of democratic rights

for political refugees was only tangen-

tially related to the focus of the rally, most

people readily signed the Sison petition.

A few even finished our pitch for us.

"Right, sure, if he gets deported as threat-

ened, he could be tried by one of these

military tribunals. I hate those things,

man. Of course I'll sign."

A few however refused to sign. At least

one admitted he would not sign because

MIM was circulating the petition. The

only way this could not be considered

sectarianism would be if this persyn or

his organization (if any) were also strug-

gling on behalf of Prof. Sison. This par-

ticular individual did not show much in-

terest in the content of the petition or

Prof. Sison's case.

October 6, 2002

MIM and RAIL joined several hundred

people in protest of Bush's push for war

against Iraq. The rally started in Copley

Square and marched through fancy shop-

ping districts and tourist areas. The pro-

test was organized by "Justice with

Peace" and was in solidarity with the

actions in other major cities like New

York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Many of the marchers were older (very

few were young students) peace activ-

ists who've undoubtedly protested many

wars over the years.

In contrast to other protests which also

demanded an end to detentions and

roundups of immigrants, the war on Iraq

was the sole focus of the Boston protest.

Some of the signs said things like: "We

gave Saddam his toys and now we want

to take them back" and "George Bush is

a Ridiculous Embarrassment". The

marchers alternated between chanting

"Drop Bush, Not Bombs" and "No At-

tack on Iraq". A few of the marchers held

Amerikan flags and held signs that said

that a preemptive strike against Iraq

would be "un-Amerikan". We say that it

would be totally in line with Amerikan

imperialism and Bush's war- mongering

agenda.

The crowd grew along the two-mile

walk, and many onlookers flashed peace

signs, honked their horns in agreement,

cheered and clapped, and thanked the

marchers for being a voice against the

war. Most people at the rally took a copy

of MIM Notes. The majority of onlook-

ers watched in silence. RAIL and MIM

were surprised more passersby didn't

express hostility toward the marchers.

One man screamed from the open win-

dow of his SUV to "get the fuck out of

here!" Another woman near the touristy

Granary Burying Ground, where Paul

Revere and signers of the Declaration of

Independence are buried, complained

that the march was interfering with her

sightseeing.

The latter complaint is typical of

Amerikans, who, along the same line of

reasoning, might say something such as,

"I'm for peace and justice, as long as at-

taining them doesn't inconvenience me."

Many Amerikans do not object to the

murder and torture perpetrated by their

government precisely because these gov-

ernment actions ensure Amerikans can

continue living their lives of conve-

nience.

MIM and RAIL ask all those who are

willing to sacrifice comfort and conve-

nience to work for revolutionary justice

to contact us. Oppose the unjust imperi-

alist war against Iraq!

Students denounce `Gatekeeper'

Support campaign in support of Prof. Joma Sison's democratic rights

Boston march against war

on Iraq draws hundreds

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 3

MIM Notes has seen a big spike in

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

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

chance to read MIM Notes. There are
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Washington DC,

6 October 2002

Well over 100,000 people converged

here to denounce the U.$. drive for war

on Iraq. Another 80,000 marched in San

Francisco. These rallies drew numbers

rarely seen in recent years for an objec-

tively anti-imperialist demand. There

were similar actions in Rome, Berlin,

Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Mexico City.

Speakers at the Washington rally hit

many of the same points MIM Notes has

been making in opposition to this war.

Veterans for Peace had a particularly

clear perspective on the issues. One vet-

eran acknowledged that war on Iraq

would only bring more attacks on U$ soil

and citizens. He also mentioned the ef-

fects on the estimated 200,000 to 500,000

Amerikans who would fight the war,

pointing to the 150,000 gulf war veter-

ans who are now on disability.

Bush's proposed war is not in the in-

terests of the Amerikan people in the

sense that it will only heighten the risk

for future wars, including more Septem-

ber 11-style attacks and possibly nuclear

war touched off by Middle East tensions.

As MIM Notes goes to press it is still not

clear whether the United $tates can win

Russia's support for a war on Iraq, or

whether Russia will back Iraq militarily.

Russia has business contracts with Iraq

worth tens of billions of dollars and wor-

ries that a post-war regime would flood

the oil market, driving down prices for

Russia's oil exports.

However, in another sense, "the

Amerikan way of life" needs this war

exactly because it needs that cheap oil.

Most people at the rally recognized this.

To claim otherwise--for example, to

opportunistically claim that the war "is

a Trojan Horse to attack the labor move-

ment"--is a slap in the face to the thou-

sands of Iraqis who die as a result of

sanctions every year, and the many thou-

sands more who will suffer the loss of

their own life, their mother's, brother's,

friend's etc. if there is a war.

While the Washington rally remained

tame, police repression was evident.

Freedom of speech was limited to the

"protestor pen" as is so common in ral-

lies in this country where a permit must

be obtained to speak one's mind. A RAIL

comrade was prevented from walking in

certain areas around the Vietnam War

memorial merely for having a stack of

fliers in hand. Meanwhile a law barring

people from covering their faces in pro-

test areas makes surveillance easier for

the pigs and keeps protestors from mak-

ing their points creatively via masks etc.

At the rally in San Francisco the crowd

cheered Senator Barbara Boxer the loud-

est, with chants of "Barbara, Barbara..."

A democrat, Boxer voted against the

resolution to give Bush war powers in Oc-

tober. She was introduced with a call for

people to ensure she is re-elected. Boxer

spoke about the significance of the sena-

tors and represetatives who voted against

the resolution to give Bush war powers

and she called for people to enact a

change in Washington, apparently by

electing more Democrats.

Her popularity as a speaker demon-

strates the general political position of the

majority of the crowd opposing the war

on Iraq. The call to elect more democrats

to office is far from anti-imperialist and

naïve even from a bourgeois vote-count-

ing perspective. The majority of demo-

crats approved Bush's war powers. The

Democratic party just represents a differ-

ent brand of imperialism where it is OK

to murder thousands of Iraqis every

month through sanctions, or even to at-

tack Iraq in pretend defense of Kuwait--

as long as these attacks are couched in

prettier words.

MIM supports allying with opponents

to the war in Iraq. But the mass support

for Boxer demonstrates the need for a

revolutionary voice at these rallies. MIM

activists, along with RAIL, distributed

hundreds of copies of MIM Notes and

talked to many people about the real

problem behind the war on Iraq:

Amerikan imperialism. We drew connec-

tions to the war on Palestine with our

petition for the University of California

schools to divest from Palestine. And we

struggled with those trying to opportu-

nistically tie the rally to demands of

Amerikan workers, pointing out that the

labor aristocracy in this country enjoys

such high wages at the expense of the

Iraqi people, among others.

Hundreds of thousands attend anti-war rallies

around the world

7 October 2002

Activists protested Governor Gray

Davis' prison policies outside his fund

raiser dinner at the San Francisco LGBT

Community Center tonight. California

prisons are notorious for their brutality

and lack of needed services. Rather than

addressing this problem, Davis budgeted

a 34% raise for California state prison

guards, receiving in return $251,000 from

the prison guard union for his campaign.

He also authorized a 25% pay raise for

the California Highway Patrol in ex-

change for $100,000 from the cops.(1)

In addition Davis habitually reverses

parole for lifers. Since January of 1999

140 people convicted of murder were rec-

ommended for parole and sent to Davis

for review. He approved only 2, revers-

ing parole for 127 and sending 11 to the

Board of Prison Terms for review.(2) This

is just one more way of keeping more

people locked up longer.

Attempting to play the friend of the

queer community, Davis obviously wants

to win the liberal vote. But even the Cen-

ter where he spoke, a recently opened

multi-million dollar facility, issued a writ-

ten statement expressing "extreme dis-

may" at Davis' veto of a foster care bill

that would have prohibited discrimination

against gay foster youth and parents.

The demonstration included a number

of Green party supporters carrying signs

promoting their candidate, Peter Camejo,

for governor. For MIM this is not just a

question of having a better candidate in

the position of governor. It is a problem

with the entire criminal injustice system,

and even larger, with imperialism as a

whole. MIM does not want to mislead

people in battles that cannot be won, to

get a candidate who truly opposes impe-

rialism into positions of power within

imperialism. But while we are stuck

within this system we do fight for win-

nable reforms. A MIM activist attending

the rally collected postcard signatures to

oppose censorship of political literature

in prison. The 30 postcards collected will

all be sent to Limestone Correctional

Facility in Alabama where they recently

issued a prison-wide ban on any litera-

ture sent by MIM.

We unite with the organizers of the pro-

test in demanding an end to the death

penalty in California, overturning of the

three strikes law, parole for lifers, an end

to prison construction, healthcare, and

money for education not prison guard

salaries. MIM is fighting for these rights

and more with prisoners across the coun-

try. To get involved in these campaigns

check out: http://www.etext.org/Politics/

MIM/agitation/prisons.

Notes:
1. Green Party flyer.
2. California Coalition for Battered Women in
Prison flyer (www.freebatterredwomen.org)

California queers protest Davis' prison state

The Boston rally.

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 4

Who has the right to condemn terrorism?

about judging Al-Qaeda or any

organization that is or is not allegedly

independent of the u.$. government.

Instead, from what we can see, Al-

Qaeda is composed of people from

nations suffering civilian deaths

especially at the hands of the united

$tates and its i$raeli puppet regime. We

cannot be surprised that predominantly

Islamic nations of the Third World strike

back in kind: Osama Bin Laden learned

everything he knows from the CIA and

obtained weapons from the same place

while fighting for the CIA against the

social-imperialist Soviet Union in

Afghanistan in the 1980s. There is no

chance for world peace with any ideology

that does not take this scientific fact into

account: the oppressed strike back. What

goes around comes around.

MIM does not include the president of

the united $tates amongst its members as

people will tell us, so why should we take

responsibility for Uncle $cam's

terrorism? Precisely because the battle

against terrorism is every civilian's duty,

we MIM comrades do take responsibility

for Uncle $cam, and also the Kanadian

government, the British government, the

French--in short most of imperialism--

because that's where our members--

civilians--are based. There is no one else

to take responsibility for it: surely we

cannot expect the government terrorists

to take responsibility for their own

terrorism.

These imperialisms also claim to be

"democratic," so that there is a link of

some kind between the civilians and their

terrorist governments. In fact, no terrorist

government can survive without support

from its citizens.

Some people we should think about

include First Nations in North America.

The people of some of the First Nations

may claim the right to condemn

terrorism, if some of their own

governments have not been carrying out

terrorism. There are also undocumented

workers inside U.$. borders, many of

whom speak Spanish and not English and

have no right to vote: some of these really

cannot be blamed for u.$. government

terrorism. The rest of the people are

generally a different story.

When citizens are sure their own

government is not carrying out terrorism

abroad, they gain the right to condemn

other peoples' terrorism without

hypocrisy. Otherwise, what happens is

that one nation's people ends up accusing

another of "terrorism." "Terrorism"

becomes a convenient type of name-

calling used by opportunists simply to

refer to "the other guy." When right-wing

citizens criticize other countries'

terrorism, while supporting their own, it

is called "patriotism," which is correctly

known as the "last refuge of a scoundrel."

When citizens using socialist rhetoric

accuse other nations of terrorism without

bringing down their own terrorist

governments, they are guilty of "social-

patriotism." Social-patriots will pay lip-

service to ending oppression, but their

weak criticisms are intentionally limited

and ineffective, while their criticisms of

other peoples' terrorism will have real

murderous, war-mongering impact.

Unfortunately, in the imperialist

countries, MIM is nearly alone as an

organization opposing both patriotism

and social-patriotism.

The U.$. government knows that

Filipino Joma Sison has not attacked any

U.$. civilians. In fact, he has been in

prison and exile, but the u.$. government

is trying to distract attention from its own

terrorist record, so it has recently labeled

Sison a "terrorist."

Colin Powell's statement on this is so

obviously criminal that we include it here

in its entirety for the public to evaluate

(see sidebar). People will notice that in

the entire statement there is no mention

of any unarmed civilian killed--not even

in "collateral damage," the kind of which

Powell himself partook in in the Gulf

War. The purpose of Powell's statement

is to label anyone the united $tates

disagrees with most a "terrorist." Before

the United $tates goes and calls Sison

"terrorist," it better pay reparations to the

Philippines for the more than 1 million

unarmed civilians it slaughtered in the

Philippines from 1899 to 1914. The U.$.

military has admitted and documented

that anyone over age 10 in the Philippines

was to die: "American soldiers killed

`men, women and children, prisoners and

captives, active insurgents and suspected

people, from lads of ten and up, an idea

prevailing that the Filipino . . . was little

better than a dog.'"(5) Readers should

understand that we just quoted a U.S.

military source and there are many more

for those really interested in fighting

terrorism.

What is true in the Philippines is true

in the rest of the world. Dig a little deeper

and you will find that in most cases the

U.S. Government is the number one

terrorist. Dutiful extension of the U.S.

Government CNN reported on the

October 12th nightclub bombings in Bali

that "The blasts were `the worst act of

terrorism in the country's history,'

according to Indonesian police Chief

Da'e Bakhtiar."(6)

Given CNN's poor reporting record,

we at MIM Notes are not surprised it

thinks 180 or even 400 people could

possibly be the worst terrorist attack in

Indonesian history. After all, CNN and

other mainstream U.$. media outlets

ignored almost completely the genocide

in East Timor perpetrated with U.$.

weapons and blessings that killed over

200,000 people, more than one-quarter

of the now independent nation.

In MIM Notes 249, MIM referred to

U.S. Government documents de-

classified about East Timor on December

6th 2001. Indonesia used to consider

"East Timor" as a province: "Fully

declassified U.$. government documents

published on the Internet December 6th

[2001] show that President Gerald Ford

and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

gave the go-ahead for Indonesia's attack

on East Timor that killed over 200,000

people, over a quarter and maybe a half

of the people of East Timor."(7)

Since 1975, the United $tates has lied

about its role in East Timor. Henry

Kissinger was still denying his role as

late as quotes obtained from him in 1996

and 1999 and he did not answer a phone

call from the Washington Post about the

released documents published on the

Internet December 6th, 2001.(8) After the

genocidal invasion of 1975, Kissinger

chastised his staff for preparing a memo

on cutting off military sales to Indonesia

in line with existing U.$. law. Apparently

the staff expected that the U.$.

government would be forced to follow

its own laws about offensive weapons

use.(9) (The United $tates supplied as

much as 90 percent of Indonesia's

weapons on the condition that they only

be used for defense.(10)) Instead,

Kissinger kept the arms pipeline open.

That's not the only six digit massacre

of unarmed civilians the united $tates

actively assisted in in Indonesia. We will

not mention the massacre of communists

of the early 1960s, because this is only a

news article and it's too long already.

Smokers should condemn smoking so

their children do not smoke, hypocritical

as it may be. However, MIM has decided

no imperialist country organization has

the right to condemn "terrorism" against

imperialist country civilians. We mourn

the losses of civilians and even young

servants in the imperialist military,

because they are all sacrificial offerings

of the capitalist system, but we know they

are being attacked because of the terrorist

violence of Anglo-Saxon imperialism. As

the New York Times pointed out, the

bombers did not attack just any

Indonesian nightclub: it was one that had

predominantly European and Australian

clients, one that turned away Indonesians

at the door.(11) Unlike smoking,

condemning terrorism by "the other guy"

involves provoking other nations and

war-mongering. When MIM and the

oppressed and exploited bring down

imperialist terrorism, we will condemn

smaller imitations as well--not before

that.

Notes:
1. http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/
southeast/10/13/bali.reax/index.html
2. Ibid.
3. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bookstore/
books/asia/mcnamara.html
5. http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/
people/grimsley.1/milhis/phil.htm MIM rarely
needs to quote a communist source for anything.
6. http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/
southeast/10/13/bali.blast.missing/index.html
Article falsely titled "Hundreds missing in Bali
bombings: Indonesia's `worst act of terrorism'"
See also CNN correspondent Atika Shubert say:
"And this is by far the worst terrorist attack
Indonesia has ever seen, and it could be the
deadliest attack since September 11." http://

asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/
10/13/otsc.shubert/index.html It goes to show
how ignorant one has to be able to tolerate
working for CNN.
7. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB62/
8. Washington Post reporting on this subject,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/
articles/A5291-2001Dec6.html
9. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB62/#doc4
10. Reuters, 6 Dec 2001.
11. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/
international/14BOMB.html

Continued from page 1...

Statement by U.$.

Secretary of State

Colin Powell

August 9, 2002

Today we are taking another important

step in our continuing efforts to combat
global terrorism. I am announcing the des-
ignation of the Communist Party of the
Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/
NPA) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,
as defined under U.S. law. I made this de-
cision in consultation with the Attorney
General and the Secretary of the Treasury
after an exhaustive review of this group's
violent activities.

The CPP, a Maoist group, was founded

in 1969 with the aim of overthrowing the
Philippine government through guerilla
warfare. CPP's military wing, the New
People's Army, strongly opposes any U.S.
presence in the Philippines and has killed
U.S. citizens there. The group has also
killed, injured, or kidnapped numerous
Philippine citizens, including government
officials.

By designating the CPP/NPA as a For-

eign Terrorist Organization and publishing
that decision in the Federal Register, we
impose measures against these terrorist
groups in accordance with section 219 of
the Immigration and Nationality Act, as
amended, which was originally enacted as
part of the Antiterrorism and Effective
Death Penalty Act. This law makes it ille-
gal for persons in the United States or sub-
ject to U.S. jurisdiction to provide mate-
rial support or resources to these terrorist
groups; it requires U.S. financial institu-
tions to block assets held by them or their
agents; and it makes representatives and
members of these groups, if they are aliens,
inadmissible to and, in certain circum-
stances, removable from the United States.

With today's designation, the number of

Foreign Terrorist Organizations is now 34.
FTO designations play a critical role in our
fight against terrorism and are an effective
means of curtailing support for terrorist
activities and pressuring groups to get out
of the terrorism business. I hope this list
will draw the attention of foreign govern-
ments around the world to this group and
to the other FTOs. I also hope it will en-
courage those governments to take action,
as we have, to isolate these terrorist orga-
nizations, to choke off their sources of fi-
nancial support, and to prevent their move-
ment across international borders."

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 5

Ancient writings of the Mayan civili-

zation appeared recently after a hurricane

uncovered some previously covered hi-

eroglyphics in Guatemala near Mexico.

The newly translated writings show that

there was the equivalent of a "world war"

that ruined Mayan civilization in the 8th

century.

An attack on the Mayan city of Tikal

established in 629 included a scene of

genocidal fury and skulls piled up accord-

ing to the 18 steps uncovered by the hur-

ricane.(1) Tikal struck back and it was

Calakmul's turn to suffer. The war was

so intense that authority broke down into

smaller localities and certain cities ended

up being abandoned completely.(2)

The history of the Mayans and many

other great civilizations--including those

no one knows about yet--shows that

humyns are not "rational" about their

war-fighting contrary to common apolo-

gists of the status quo. The Mayans de-

stroyed the great organization of society

and cities that they had going. Other civi-

lizations have done the same and with

such a ferocity in some cases that we do

not know of their achievements. There

is no reason for complacency about

"humyn nature" and its ability to see

through the disadvantages of war.

It is common to accuse communists of

believing in a perfect humyn nature.

Quite the contrary, it is possible that the

humyn-being is so inherently flawed that

other species from other planets deserve

this planet much more. There is no guar-

antee that the humyn-being will not com-

mit massive suicide as a species. As a

result those calling themselves "commu-

nists" and only talking about future

events in perfect circumstances of ideal

revolution are not scientific communists.

The gap between scientific communists

following Lenin, Stalin and Mao on the

one hand and idealist Trotskyists and

anarchists only gets larger with each

passing year.

What we scientific communists are

saying is that to take a flawed animal and

insert him/her in a profit-system is to

make that animal worse than s/he has to

be. Looking back on Mayan accomplish-

ments, we see that it's clear that the

Mayans themselves did not adequately

appreciate their own accomplishments

and possibilities. Rather than have con-

fidence in their evolving ways of orga-

nizing ever larger numbers of people to

work together, the Mayans settled con-

flicts through self-destructive wars.

Today the situation is even more gro-

tesque. The United $tates spends hun-

dreds of billions of dollars a year on mili-

tary preparations--more money than the

entire economy of most countries--when

the solutions to the most pressing prob-

lems of the world would cost much less.

What is more, there is plenty of slack in

the economies of the world that could be

used to put unemployed people to work

for food, clothing, shelter and other

things that make people happy.

Notes:

1. http://news.independent.co.uk/

world/americas/story.jsp?story=334858

2. AP in www.sunspot.net 29Sept2002

Mayan wars scarred whole continent

A panel of former U.$. legislators and

"security" experts concluded that the next

September 11-style attack will result in

"even greater casualties and widespread

disruption to daily life and the economy."

"The more we tighten up on external

threats, the higher the risk becomes at

home," said co-chair Gary Hart at a 25

October news conference releasing the

report. "We have to face up to that

threat."(1)

Hart is just restating a truth MIM has

emphasized since September 11: oppres-

sion breeds resistance. Attempts to break

that resistance militarily, using broad tac-

tics such as the bombing of Afghanistan

or the round up of thousands within U.$.

borders simply on the basis of their reli-

gion or apparent ethnicity, are bound only

to increase the resistance of the op-

pressed.

Hart's panel's take-home message was

not that the United $tates should work to

eliminate conflicts over resources or en-

sure that food gets to 6 million children

under the age of five who starve to death.

Rather, the panel took is as a given that

the United $tates would and should crack

down on "external threats"--that is,

make sure the United $tates has contin-

ued access to cheap oil and Amerikan

farmers keep those farm subsidies.(3)

Consequently the United $tates should

increase "security" measures around sea-

ports, energy plants and water supplies.

The panel also endorsed the proposed

Department of Homeland Security,

headed by former governor Tom "Hang

`em High" Ridge.

Such "security" measures will not pre-

vent future September 11-style attacks,

to say nothing of the violence of poverty

and war millions face daily due to the

U.$.-supported status quo. Bourgeois

politicians like Hart lack the intelligence

to recognize this or the courage to say it.

Instead they opportunistically use partial

truths to get funding for their pet projects

or further Amerikan warmongering.

(The report claimed that Saddam

Hussein would attack the U.$ mainland

with weapons of mass destruction if the

United $tates invades Iraq. The imperi-

alists' own spy agencies have discredited

this claim, saying Hussein has neither the

desire nor the ability to launch such an

attack.)

Socialism offers the best hope for re-

ducing the threat of war and other forms

of violence such as malnutrition due to

poverty.

Note:

1. Associated Press, 25 October 2002.

2. LA Times, 16 Oct 2002.

3. MIM Notes 261, 1 July 2002.

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?

`Security' panel

misses the point

There is no

guarantee that

the humyn-being

will not commit

massive suicide

as a species.

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 6

your assets. The Government of the

Netherlands, where you currently reside,

followed suit the next day. Could you

comment on the charge of terrorism

against you? Why does it come now?

SISON: The charge of terrorism

against me is pure rubbish. The U.S.

government has fabricated it in a vain

attempt to demonise and destroy me. It

calculates that by targeting and

discrediting me with the label "terrorist"

and applying repressive measures on me,

with the help of other imperialist

governments, it can terrorize the

progressive overseas Filipinos as well as

the people back home in the Philippines.

The attack on me is part of the U.S. drive

to destroy all the forces in the world that

stand up and fight against imperialism.

The United States is the super-terrorist

of the world. It has killed millions of

civilians in waging wars of aggression

and in directing puppet regimes of open

terror. It has killed a far greater number

of people through the daily violence of

imperialist exploitation. Those

responsible for the September 11 attacks

are former trainees of the United States

in terrorism and their acts are small scale

in comparison to the grand scale

terrorism of U.S. imperialism.

The United States is using the pretext

of waging a war on terrorism in order to

wage a war of terrorism against the

revolutionary movements of peoples and

against countries assertive of national

independence. A growing number of

people are outraged that the U.S. postures

as an avenger acting in the name of the

victims in the September attacks in order

to foment imperialist war and state

terrorism and to grab the sources of oil

and other natural resources, fields of

investment, markets and salient points for

military intervention.

Q: What do you see as the definition

of terrorism? Do you think Bush is using

a consistent definition of terrorism? What

do you see as the solution to terrorism?

SISON: Terrorism consists of willful

and systematic threats and acts to harm

or destroy the lives and properties of the

people mainly and essentially. To show

what is terrorism and how to stand

against it, we must know the principles,

conventions and standards of respect for

human rights under any condition and of

humanitarian conduct towards civilians

and incapacitated combatants under

conditions of war.

Bush uses terrorism as a catchall and

open-ended term for persecuting,

repressing and warring on any entity that

is opposed to U.S. imperialism. He uses

the word for whipping up war hysteria

and fascism within the United States and

elsewhere in the world and for actually

stepping up war production, launching

wars of aggression and pushing puppet

regimes of open terror.

The solution to terrorism is the resolute

and militant struggles of the proletariat

and people to defeat imperialism and all

reaction. The only way to get rid of

Interview with Prof. Jose Maria Sison

terrorism is for the people to get rid of

imperialism and achieve national

liberation, democracy and socialism.

Imperialism is super-terrorism as well as

the source of or stimulus for lesser

terrorists like Al Qaedda and the Abu

Sayyaf.

Q: Colin Powell also labeled the

Communist Party of the Philippines a

"terrorist" organization in August. At

about the same time, the government of

Macapagal-Arroyo declared all-out war

on the CPP, taking up a new "terrorist"

bogeyman after claiming that the Abu

Sayaaf group was defeated. Similarly, the

government in Nepal has called the

Communists waging people's war there

"terrorists" when appealing for military

aid from the United $tates, China and

others. Could you comment on the

difference between a people's war and

"terrorism"?

SISON: People's war is the

revolutionary mass undertaking of the

people for the purpose of national and

social liberation. It is diametrically

opposed to the counterrevolutionary

violence or terrorism of the imperialists

and their puppets. The imperialist wars

of aggression and the repressive regimes

of puppets clearly harm and destroy the

lives and properties of the people all over

the world.

Q: According to the latest reports we

have, the Dutch government has frozen

your bank account and canceled your

subsidies for food, housing, health

insurance, etc. Have any other official--

or unofficial--punitive measures been

taken against you? Members of the

Philippine government have made thinly

veiled threats against you--for example,

that your house might be raided or that

you could be deported to the Unites

$tates. [We even heard the baseless rumor

that you already had been deported to

Guantanamo.] What do you think are the

gravest threats against you right now?

What can be done to counter them?

SISON: I face several grave threats

which overshadow the freeze on my

small joint bank account with my wife

and the termination of social benefits

previously accorded to me as a

recognized refugee. I can be subjected

to a raid and arrest for the purpose of

humiliating and defaming me and even

for the purpose of planting evidence and

arresting me.

According to certain high officials of

the Manila government, the US is poised

to extradite me under the US-Dutch

extradition treaty by fabricating a

criminal charge. Supposedly I would be

brought to any US military base,

Guantanamo, Guam or Diego Garcia, to

make difficult or impossible my access

to a lawyer of choice for a long time.

A high military official of the Manila

government, who is known to be a CIA

asset, has been boasting that Bush is

likely to order my assassination by the

CIA if I do not push the National

Democratic Front of the Philippines to

capitulate by signing a "final peace

agreement" prepared by the reactionary

government.

What we can do to counter the punitive

actions and threats against me is to

expose the oppressive and exploitative

character of the imperialists, arouse,

organize and mobilize more people for

the struggle and pursue various forms of

struggle.

Q: You have said the charges against

you are also meant to intimidate "all the

panelists, consultants, staffers, and

supporters of the Europe-based NDFP

negotiating panel." Can you comment on

concrete intimidations panel members or

supporters of the NDFP have faced?

SISON: The panelists, consultants,

staffers and supporters of the NDFP

negotiating panel are well aware of the

actions and threats publicly and

discreetly directed against me. They also

know why these are being done. These

are intended to put me in a corner and

pressure me and thereby begin to put the

entire NDFP negotiating panel under

duress.

Just consider the intimidating effects

on others of the unjust acts already taken

against me, such as the criminalization

without due process, defamation or

demonisation, the consequent threats to

my life and liberty and the moral and

material damages.

I think that the United States and

Manila government actually want to

destroy the peace negotiations. They are

now doing everything to render

impossible the resumption of these

negotiations. These brats, Bush junior

and Gloria Macapagal, think childishly

that they can destroy the people's

democratic revolution by persecuting me

abroad and by intimidating the NDFP

negotiating panel.

Q: We have also noted that the charges

against you are meant to have a chilling

effect here in the United $tates. Now,

thanks to the "USA Patriot Act," people

who would support even just the

publication of the views of yourself or

the CPP in the name of a fully informed

public debate on something important,

say, direct U.$. intervention in the

Philippines--such people are meant to

wonder whether they will be punished

for supporting "terrorists."

SISON: It is true that the Bush

administration is trying to put the Filipino

community in the United States under a

climate of fear. The Patriot Act and other

related acts of the United States read like

the fascist decrees of Marcos. The

Filipinos and Filipino Americans must

review how the Filipino people fought

and prevailed against the deadly U.S.-

sponsored Marcos fascist dictatorship.

They must work and struggle hard in

the community and in cooperation with

the people of various nationalities against

the growing fascism and violent racism

in the United States. In the United States

and abroad, Bush is already known as a

blustering dumbo. The broad masses of

the people are muttering, "It's the

economy, stupid!" The progressive

forces, of course, are striving to spread

the message that imperialism is the

scourge to be extirpated.

Q: Moving on. George Bush claims

that the United $tates must go to war with

Iraq in order to stop the proliferation of

weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

What do you think of this claim? What

do you think can best be done to eliminate

the threat posed by WMD? SISON: It is

quite obvious that Iraq does not have the

weapons of mass destruction. The United

States knows this. That is why it is in a

rush to launch a war of aggression in

order to grab the oil resources of Iraq and

install a U.S. colonial administration.

The claim of Bush that the United

States must go to war to stop the

proliferation of weapons of mass

destruction is pure hogwash. His logic

and bravado should bring him to war with

India, Pakistan, China and Russia. But

he will not go to war with any of these

countries precisely because they have

nuclear weapons. The best way to

eliminate the threat posed by WMD is to

generate within imperialist countries

revolutionary movements of the people

that can paralyse the use of these

weapons by the imperialists and that can

ultimately do away with these upon the

global victory of socialism. The people

cannot be absolutely safe from WMD

until they can do away with the system

of the imperialists.

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 7

MIM Notes asks its readers to send the

following letter to the addresses listed

below. Please cc: mim4@mim.org or

send a copy of your letter to Defend JMS

c/o MIM, PO Box 29670, Los Angeles,

CA 90029-0670 so that we can keep track

of our effectiveness.

Philippine Prof. Jose Maria Sison is

living in the Netherlands as a recognized

political refugee under the protection of

the Refugee Convention and the Euro-

pean Convention for the Protection of

Human Rights and Fundamental Free-

doms.

Prof. Sison is the chief political con-

sultant of the National Democratic Front

of the Philippines (NDFP) in peace ne-

gotiations with the Government of the

Republic of the Philippines (GRP). These

negotiations have been facilitated by the

Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian govern-

ments.

On 9 August 2002, the US State De-

partment listed the Communist Party of

the Philippines (CPP) and the New

People's Army (NPA) as "foreign terror-

ist organizations," encouraging other

governments "to take action to isolate

these terrorist organizations, to choke off

their sources of financial support, and to

prevent their movement across interna-

tional borders." Since 12 August 2002,

the US Treasury Department has listed

Jose Maria Sison as a "terrorist" whose

assets must be frozen.

Subsequently, the Dutch government

has followed the bidding of the US by

issuing the "Sanctions ruling on terror-

ism 2002 III" on 13 August 2002,

criminalizing Jose Maria Sison as a "ter-

rorist" without benefit of due process and

subjecting him to punishment such as:

* The freezing of his Postbank current

account through which he receives so-

cial welfare payment to pay his bills.

According to the Belgian newspaper

"De Financieel-Ekonomische Tijd"

(page 34, 19 Oct 2002) Prof. Sison will

be added to the European Union list of

"terrorists" whose assets are to be fro-

zen. MIM Notes joins with others in ask-

ing that protest letters like that reprinted

here be sent to Lene Esperson and Bertel

Haarder, the Danish ministers who pre-

side the Council of Justice and Home

Affairs of the European Union. Please

cc: mim4@mim.org so that we can moni-

tor and communicate our effectiveness.

Lene Espersen (jm@jm.dk)

Chairman of the Council for Justice

and Home Affairs of the European Union

Minister for Justice, Denmark

Bertel Haarder (inm@inm.dk)

Chairman of the Council for Justice

and Home Affairs of the European Union

Minister for Refugees, Immigration

and Integration and for European Affairs,

Denmark

Re: "Anti-terrorist" measures

against Filipino organizations and in-

dividuals

Dear Madame, Dear Sir,

On August 9, US Secretary of State

Colin Powell announced the designation

of the Communist Party of the Philip-

pines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) as

a Foreign Terrorist Organization. He

called on foreign governments "to take

action to isolate these terrorist organiza-

tions, to choke off their sources of finan-

cial support, and to prevent their move-

ment across international borders".

On August 12, the CPP, the NPA and

Jose Maria Sison were listed as targets

for freezing of assets by the Office of

Foreign Asset Control of the US Depart-

ment of Treasury.

According to media reports, the Dutch

and British authorities would already

have taken steps to implement the mea-

sures as demanded by the United States

government. More so, the Dutch govern-

ment reportedly would ask the European

Union and the governments of its mem-

ber countries to take similar action.

May we remind you that the CPP and

the NPA are leading components of the

National Democratic Front of the Phil-

ippines (NDFP). Over the years, the gov-

ernments of the Netherlands, Belgium

and Norway have facilitated rounds of

peace negotiations between the NDFP

and the government of the Republic of

the Philippines (GRP). Prof. Jose Maria

Sison is the chief political consultant of

the NDFP Negotiating Panel.

The European Parliament has passed

resolutions endorsing the peace negotia-

tions between the NDFP and the Philip-

pine government. These are EP Resolu-

tion No. B4-0601, 0645 and 0686/97

dated 17 July 1997 and EP Resolution

No. B4-1096,1106,1147,1158 and 1160/

DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON

* The removal of all state subsidies for

food, housing, health insurance and other

basic necessities under a directive dated

10 September 2002 from the social wel-

fare agency of Utrecht's municipal gov-

ernment.

We, the undersigned, vow to help de-

fend the rights of Prof. Jose Maria

Sison.

We demand from the Dutch authorities:

* the full respect for the protection of

Jose Maria Sison as a recognized refu-

gee under the relevant international con-

ventions;

* the grant of his residence permit in

the Netherlands;

* the immediate de-listing of his name

and the unconditional and complete with-

drawal of the "Sanctieregeling terrorisme

2002 III;"

* the immediate, unconditional and

complete restoration of all the social ben-

efits to which he is entitled as a political

refugee (monthly allowance, insurance

and housing benefits);

* the refusal of any possible demand

for his extradition.

Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

Binnenhop 20

Postbus 20001

2500 EA The Hague

Tel. +31 70 356 41 00

Fax +31 70 356 46 83

Mr. J. G. de Hoop Scheffer

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Bezuidenhoutseweg 67

Postbus 20061

Consulate General of the Netherlands

9th floor, King's Court

Building 1, 2129 Chino Roces Avenue

Makati City, Philippines

98 dated 14 January 1999.

Both the NDFP and GRP have suc-

ceeded in forging the Comprehensive

Agreement on Respect for Human Rights

and International Humanitarian Law.

And now NDFP allied organizations

and consultants are being called "terror-

ist"!

We are also concerned that legitimate

political organizations and individuals,

including legitimate asylum seekers and

recognized political refugees, may be-

come the target of unjustified repressive

measures in the guise of fighting terror-

ism.

We demand that the European Union

does not follow the misguided advise of

the United States government and refrain

from including the CPP, the NPA and/or

other NDFP allied organizations and in-

dividuals in its list of `terrorist' organi-

zations.

We demand that the European Union

and its member states refrain from any

legislation or action that may hinder the

legitimate political activities of these or-

ganizations and individuals.

We demand that their democratic

rights, including the right to asylum, be

guaranteed and respected.

Sincerely yours,

EU threatens to place Sison on its `terrorist' list

ARYLAND

DEATH

PENALTY

MORATORIUM

by a Texas prisoner

Maryand Gov. Parris Glendening has

decided to stop all state executions in his

last eight months in office. Though he

supports the death penalty, he wants to

be sure that it is applied fairly, he says,

and not in a racially discriminatory man-

ner. He has appointed a group, led be a

criminologist and seven doctoral stu-

dents, to study how state executions are

applied.

If the governor wanted to really find

out if state executions are meted out

fairly, he should start with the statistics

of the Justice Department and the incar-

ceration and execution rate of Blacks,

whites, and Latinos, compared to their

populace in Amerika.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to fig-

ure out simple mathematical problems.

The fact that such death penalty morato-

riums are in fact progress just under-

scores the rottenness of a system that

sanctioned legal lynchings for decades.

The bourgeoisie sometimes feels a

need to speak out on human rights viola-

tions--but often in a chauvinistic way.

If they were really concerned about kill-

ing, the majority of Amerikkkans

wouldn't support the sanctions on Iraq,

which have killed millions since 1991,

or Bush's murder of civilians in Afghani-

stan, nor the detainment of "terrorist-

looking" people.

If people of "Middle Eastern descent"

were brought up on charges under the

U.$. Patriot Act and the penalty was

death, would governor Glendening de-

clare a moratorium then?

--Edited by MC206

Note: Jet, May 27, 2002

Another weekend,
another (yawn) cop
drama

City by the Sea (2002), Warner Bros.

Starring Robert De Niro

Drugs, violence, an experienced cop,

his son in criminal trouble--there is noth-

ing much new in this film. A cop has to

do his job that leads to his son as a sus-

pect, and he has to help his son. The fam-

ily versus professional duty angle is old.

The story based on a 1997 Esquire ar-

ticle while realistic has little redeeming

value. Politically, the one insight of the

film is the inner workings of police de-

partments. A younger scientific-minded

cop struggles with the older cops used to

doing things the "bullshit" way as they

themselves say. There is a rush to judg-

ment by cops pursuing a suspect and the

cops nearly kill an innocent man as a re-

sult. Meanwhile, there is the political

angle with the mayor's office getting in-

volved along with the television media.

The usual question arises of whether

crime stems from family problems or

whether everyone is a free-floating indi-

vidual responsible for his or her actions.

Yet, as usual, Amerikkkans obsess over

this question without going in any new

productive direction. The film points to

no real solutions to basic crime and drugs

problems but dramatizes one man's prob-

lem and solution.

There is nothing to comment on in this

movie from MIM's point of view because

it has little redeeming value. The acting

and artistic form may or may not be OK,

but the premise is fundamentally a waste

of time.

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 8

Jewish settlers in Gaza and the West

Bank are both the bleeding edge of the

Israeli land-grab and the raison d'etre for

military occupation. Explaining the

policy of defending the settlements, gov-

ernment officials have described these

people as "facts on the ground." In build-

ing houses, roads and schools for them-

selves the settlers are supposed to have

obviated the question of whose land they

are living on -- they are there, and now

the army must protect them from the in-

evitable Palestinian revolt.

The settlers right now embody the prin-

cipal obstacle to peace in the Middle

East. Israel's aggressive policy of settle-

ment makes its refusal to live in peace

with the Palestinians clear. In direct vio-

lation of international law, more than

200,000 settlers have established "civil-

ian" outposts in the territories occupied

since 1967,(1) with an extra thrust of

building activitysince the so-called peace

talks at Oslo in 1993.

Recent settler actions have included a

campaign against the Palestinian village

of Khirbat Yanoun in the West Bank,

which resulted in the villagers' evacua-

tion. Settlers from the occupation town

of Itamar built illegal outposts to sur-

round Khirbat Yanoun. A Khirbat

Yanoun resident said: "our problem was

not with Itamar until they began setting

up outposts near our villages ... Now they

have outposts on every hilltop here, and

are beginning to build between them."(1)

From their outposts settlers fired guns

and threw stones at the village and people

working the olive orchards, assaulted vil-

lagers and vandalized property. The con-

ditions got so dangerous that the villag-

ers evacuated, leaving only a couple of

men to guard against complete occupa-

tion by the settlers. This was the first time

any settlers had terrorized an entire com-

munity into exile.(2) After the situation

attracted international press, the Israeli

army (which had previously refused to

do anything for the villagers) moved in

and promised to protect the Khirbat

Yanoun residents if they would return.(3)

The setters have also become a wedge

driving Israeli society apart. Their actions

are an open rejection of peace, and it is

easy for anyone who believes in justice

to see the need for unity against this most

flagrant wing of the occupation. A re-

serve officer in the Israeli army and a

leader of the Refusenik movement notes

that "guarding settlers has become one

of the army's main jobs. We had more

soldiers protecting [a West Bank settle-

ment] than it had settlers." The officer

described cutting down stands of orange

trees "to make it harder for people to

crawl up to the [border] and sneak

through." Arguing against this policy he

asked his commander: "What happens if

we have to cut the orchards to a depth of

5km rather than 500m on the grounds that

the Palestinians are getting longer-range

rockets?"(4) The Palestinian Authority

says Israeli troops have uprooted more

than 130,000 olive trees since the intifada

Israeli settlers: paramilitary `facts on the ground'

began in November, 2000.(5)

The distasteful work of depriving peas-

ants of their livelihood and driving them

out of their homes is causing more Israe-

lis to reject military service, even if they

don't take a political stand in doing it.

All Israelis are required to do military

service, including reserve duty, but ac-

cording to the army only one-third of re-

servists showed up for duty in 2001 (most

found medical or other excuses rather

than refuse outright).(4)

The settlers are doing all they can to

turn more soldiers against the war. 90

people were injured when 400 settlers

fought soldiers and police dismantling

the illegal Havat Gilad outpost near

Nablus.(5) An army brigade commander

said outright: "We are tired of babysitting

extremist thugs and guarding illegal

settlements ... They weaken our society,

they weaken the rule of law."(1) In two

other demolitions, hundreds of settlers

confronted the army, but the troops

showed restraint they do not offer the

Palestinians and the scene ended with-

out violence.(6)

History has already harshly judged the

Christian crusaders who pursued a mer-

ciless policy of conquering the "Holy

Lands" and slaughtering "infidels." The

Israeli settlers are no different. They are

well represented by people like Ezra

Rosenfeld of the Yesha Council of Jew-

ish Communities who says: "the last

thing we can allow ourselves is to back

off on our legitimate claims to have Jews

live in their historical homeland."(5) All

sane people must reject this talk of some

ahistorical entitlement of the Jewish

people, as if the presence of Palestinians

on the land were irrelevant, or at best

secondary.

MIM reminds readers that Britain be-

fore 1948 and the U.$. mainly since 1967

are responsible for the intractable war in

the Middle East. If Amerika in particu-

lar could cough up $100 billion in aid to

Israel since 1967, it can certainly come

up with the resolve to deny aid to the Is-

raeli settler state from here on, and to

come up with a real peace solution, one

that involves land and genuine sover-

eignty for the Palestinian people. We fur-

ther point out that the war between Is-

rael and the Palestinians is a matter of

settling a few million people. It is worth

any amount of money and effort to see

that this conflict does not continue to feed

militarism and strife that could easily end

in nuclear armageddon.(7)

Notes:
1. Boston Globe 23 October, 2002.
2. New York Times 21 October, 2002.
3. New York Times 24 October, 2002.
4. The Guardian (London) 22 October, 2002;
for more on the refuseniks, see MIM Notes 261
1 July, 2002 and the Refuseniks' website:
www.yesh-gvul.org
5. Atlanta Journal and Constitution 21 October,
2002.
6. Los Angeles Times 17 October, 2002.
7. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/wim/cong/
mideastpeace2002.

respectively in companies that do busi-

ness with Israel.(2)

The Israeli apartheid state is in

violation of 70 UN resolutions

condemning it for unparalleled humyn

rights abuses, legalized torture and land

theft. In addition to divesting, MIM calls

on the University of California to make

its investment policy plain and public,

and to join the international community

in renouncing Israel's violation of humyn

rights and the laws of nations.(3)

MIM has said over and over that no

one is safe in a militarist society, so we

call on Israelis and their Amerikan

supporters both to seek peace with the

Palestinians for their own sakes, if not

for the sake of humanity. Ultimately it

will not be possible for Israelis or

Amerikans to reserve to themselves the

"right" to live in domestic peace and

safety while they deprive the Palestinians

of all basic survival rights. As an Israeli

army reservist said of his refusal to serve

the occupation of the West Bank and

Gaza: "if I'm in the army in the

territories, I'm not protecting people here

in Tel Aviv. Being a soldier increases the

danger to my family here You have to be

blind to think that people under

oppression won't rebel."(4)

The grinding oppression Palestinians

MIM builds momentum for UC Divestment from Israel

live under includes a system of pass cards

and curfews--much like in South Africa

under the pre-1994 Apartheid regime--

so that the Israeli army controls the basic

movements of the Palestinian people.

The constant curfews are onerous,

regularly confining people to their homes

until they run out of food, and for their

inability to get to work they run out of

money to buy food as well.(1) These

conditions, and the fact that the army

does not clearly state when a curfew is

beginning and ending, make it impossible

to abide the military rule. Since June of

this year, the military has killed 15 people

for violating curfews. 12 of these were

children under age 16. The Israeli humyn

rights group B'Tselem called the killings

"excessive use of force" and "a sweeping

means of collective punishment," which

violates international law.(5)

One adult and three of the children

killed for curfew violations died in Jenin

on June 21, when they and hundreds of

residents rushed to shops, mistakenly

believing that the army had lifted the

curfew. An Israeli tank fired on and killed

all four. Another adult, a widower with 7

children, was killed on August 11. A

municipal electric company worker, he

was legally exempt from the curfew, and

drove a truck that B'Tselem videotapes

showed to be clearly marked as that of a

municipal worker.(5)

Just as a military occupation cannot but

kill some innocents, "targeted actions"--

the name the Israeli military gives its

assassination operations-- will take

civilians with them. Two humyn rights

organizations in Israel report that

between November, 2000 and January

14, 2002, the Israeli army assassinated

53 Palestinians, killing 19 bystanders

including 5 children in the process. The

army also attempted and failed at 11 other

assassinations, and wounded a total of

57 bystanders in the successful and failed

assassinations. From January 14 through

the middle of October, Israel assassinated

another 51 people, killing 27 civilians.

To carry out assassinations, Israel uses

gunfire, missiles (helicopter-to-ground

and ground-to-ground), tank fire, and car

or phone booth bombs. It would be

shocking if Israel did not kill bystanders

by these methods. Israel's High Court has

so far rejected to petitions contesting the

legality of the assassination policy.(6)

Of course the ubiquity of "collateral

damage" extends beyond assassination

attempts. On October 13, a Palestinian

toddler in Rafah, Gaza, was killed by

falling debris during an Israeli military

raid. Also in Rafah during the same week,

six Palestinians were killed, including

two women and two children, and 50

others were wounded, all during a

firefight between Israeli soldiers and

Palestinians.(7)

While it was claiming credit in the

international press for not responding

militarily to a bus bombing, Israel

clamped down hard with bans on drilling

for water and olive picking in the West

Bank. This is the height of the olive

harvest, a vital link in Palestinian

agricultural economy.(8) The water ban

is an even more immediate danger. The

head of the Palestinian Water has said

that now 225 villages have no water

supply other than rainfall (occasional in

the winter months, but always scarce) and

the black market. "In the northern West

Bank, we have no more than three wells.

For example, Tubas has only one well

for 60,000 people, which means about 12

liters per family per day."(9)

In October, the United Snakes floated

a new co-called "peace plan." For the

immediate future, the plan would see

Israel retain all the land it had occupied

before November, 2000, along with all

the settlements and military outposts in

the West Bank and Gaza that helped

instigate the intifada. The November,

2000 Palestinian borders would be

"temporary" for two years. In 2005 a

Palestinian state could be established,

subject to Israeli conditions on its internal

operations and borders. After both

Sharon and Arafat rejected this plan,(10)

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MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 9

by a MIM Comrade

Bowling for Columbine, by satirical

documentary filmmaker Michael Moore,

is better than the documentary that made

him famous, Roger and Me, in which he

bemoaned the loss of Amerikan jobs to

poor countries. Bowling is also better

than his recent book Stupid White Men,

which was mostly just dumb.

Using the mass murder at Columbine

high school and the shooting of a six-

year-old by another six-year-old in Flint,

Michigan as starting points, Moore tack-

les the issues of gun violence and mur-

der in Amerika. He makes an argument

in three parts. The first is historical, made

through a cartoon by the animators from

Comedy Central's "South Park." The

white settlers who formed the country

were a violent, paranoid mob that was

shaped in conquest and domination. For

them, oppressing others was a way of life,

and personal violence was a central part

of their identity. They burned "witches,"

raped and killed slaves, then formed the

Ku Klux Klan--and the National Rifle

Association--to protect what they'd

won. Their savage murder spree contin-

ues to this day. He uses interviews with

the Michigan Militia and various other

gun nuts (including Charlton Heston) to

show that whites hypocritically pump

themselves up to be heroes, partly driven

by their racist fears of Blacks, and now

the "war on terrorism."

The second argument is also about

white violence, and he makes it through

an interview with Marilyn Manson.

Manson's music was blamed for the Col-

umbine massacre, because the killers lis-

tened to his music and dressed in black.

In the interview, Manson also says vio-

lence in Amerika results from fear. But

in addition to the media hyping crime and

violence, the culture constantly tells

people through advertising and celebrity

worship that they are not good enough,

and never will be. The fear and insecu-

rity drives them to ever higher levels of

consumption, and the alienation that re-

sults leads to outbreaks of violence like

Columbine. One of the South Park cre-

ators agrees, saying that kids at Colum-

bine clearly got the message that if they

were screw-ups in high school, they

would never amount to anything--and if

they conformed to all the expectations

of them, their "successful" lives would

be empty and meaningless anyway. The

murders took place right before gradua-

tion.

Finally, Moore argues that violence

among what MIM calls the oppressed

internal semi-colonies results from rac-

ism and lack of social support from the

state. Compared to Canada, which also

has a lot of guns but not a lot of gun

murder, Amerika lets its relatively poor

people suffer without education, health

care, decent housing, and so on, which

all contributes to violence. In the example

of the Flint shooting, he shows that the

Black womyn whose child committed the

killing was working 70 hours per week

at two "workfare" jobs -- which she was

forced to do by the welfare reform law.

Despite her efforts, she was evicted from

her house. That's why she and her son

were staying with relatives, where her

son (unsupervised because his mother

was taking the 40-mile bus ride to the

mall where she served rich white custom-

ers) found the gun he brought to school

that day.

(Under the kind of socialism MIM en-

visions, jobs, healthcare and education

will be guaranteed to all, which will

eradicate the roots of all sorts of intra-

persynal violence as Moore argues. We

differ from the social chauvinists who

often point to Canada as a positive ex-

ample in that we do not seek to imple-

ment socialist reforms for those within

First World borders at the cost of contin-

ued exploitation in the Third World.)

Moore argues against those who blame

Marilyn Manson and video games, by

showing that the biggest violent role

model in history is the U.$. government.

He goes to great lengths to show this, and

it's the best part of the movie. For ex-

ample, he says the day of the Columbine

massacre was the biggest day of bomb-

ing in the U.$. war in Kosovo, and many

civilians were killed when a school and

hospital were hit. He goes from there to

detail Amerikan wars and interventions

from Iran (and Iraq) to Guatemala and

Chile, from Vietnam to

Panama, naming the

Amerikan-installed dic-

tators and counting the

dead. He even shows that

there is a giant nuclear

missile plant near the

Columbine high school,

where many people in

that town work. To blame

video games while all

this is going on at the

highest levels is just dis-

honest.

These arguments are

reasonable partial expla-

nations for Amerika's

gun violence problem.

We find the movie to be

pretty internationalist,

especially compared to

Roger and Me. We are

also glad that Moore

does not call for a ban on

guns, though he clearly

favors much greater re-

strictions on gun ownership. MIM be-

lieves that although private guns are used

to kill many innocent people in Amerika,

the right to own guns is an important one

for resistance against the government.

Moore is a liberal reformist, to be sure,

and there is plenty here that is not cor-

rect or exciting politically. However, his

criticism of Amerikan culture, and espe-

cially the hypocrisy of its leaders and

supporters, is good enough to warrant a

recommendation. Also, there is a lot to

laugh at in the movie, which makes good

use of juxtaposing images and snippets,

and letting politicians and gun nuts em-

barrass themselves just by talking freely.

Columbine satires Amerikan culture of violence

the u.$. withdrew to the Israeli corner,

saying there can be no peace talks until

"terrorism and violence" against Israelis

stop.(11)

While the U.$. tells Palestinians to suck

up ongoing assaults, it is considering a

new request for $10 billion to help Israel

out of the economic rut its occupation of

the West Bank and Gaza, and the

subsequent intifada, has caused. A

Hebrew University economics professor

said that since the current intifada started

in November, 2000: "Tourism revenues

have halved. Foreign investment has

fallen by two-thirds since the start of the

intifada [though part of this is the

international slide in imperialist

economies]. I think nothing will improve

until something happens to the peace

process." Most of the aid package would

go to buying weapons from Amerikan

companies, like those the University of

California and others invest in. Though

the Israeli apologists suggest that letting

Israel buy weapons from its own

"defense" industry would enhance the

restorative benefits of the aid.(12)

Either way, ramping up Israeli

militarism a poor plan for stabilizing the

political situation in the Middle East and

insuring long-term economic growth.

The economics of war profiteering have

had their chance and failed big time. In

the end opposing the Israeli occupation

of Palestine is a matter of standing up

for survival rights of the humyn species,

not just Israelis and Amerikans--a basic

plank in any anti-imperialist's platform.

As "Electronic Intifada" website co-

founder Ali Abunimah has pointed out:

"There is an inability for the U.S. to deal

with the objective facts. Five times as

many Palestinians have been killed [as]

Israelis."(2) The Palestinian people have

taken up the struggle for statehood

because Israel has left them no options:

they can have death under occupation,

or make their own history for a chance at

survival.

The mounting numbers who are paying

attention to and signing on with the

campaign to divest from Israel are our

hope for some sanity in this country. Stay

up to date on the UC Divest campaign,

take up the demands on your own

campus, help stop the death march before

it's too late!

http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/

cal/DivestIsrael.htm

Notes:
1. MIM Notes 269, 1 November, 2002.
2. The Houston Chronicle 21 October, 2002.
3. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/cal/
DivestIsrael.htm
4. The Guardian (London) 22 October, 2002.
5. Financial Times (London) 17 October, 2002;
Los Angeles Times 17 October, 2002.
6. The Jerusalem Post 17 October, 2002.
7. Los Angeles Times 18 October, 2002.
8. The Guardian (London) 23 October, 2002.
9. The Jerusalem Post 23 October, 2002.
10. The Independent (London) 24 October,
2002.
11. The Guardian (London) 25 October, 2002.
12. The Guardian (London) 22 October, 2002

Israeli

`Defense'

Forces

assassination

methods

November 11, 2000 -

January 14, 2002

Gunfire, including snipers: 28

Missiles (fired from Apache or Cobra

combat helicopters): 22

Ground-to-ground missiles: 1

Tank fire: 2

Bomb in car or public phone booth: 11

Source: "Report slams `assassination'

policy," Jerusalem Post 17 October,

2002.

UC Divestment from Israel

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MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 10

MIM on

Prisons & Prisoners

MIM seeks to build public opinion

against Amerika's criminal injustice sys-

tem, and to eventually replace the bour-

geois injustice system with proletarian jus-

tice. The bourgeois injustice system im-

prisons and executes a disproportionately

large and growing number of oppressed

people while letting the biggest mass mur-

derers -- the imperialists and their lack-

eys -- roam free. Imperialism is not op-

posed to murder or theft, it only insists that

these crimes be committed in the interests

of the bourgeoisie.

"All U.S. citizens are criminals--

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

MIM does not advocate that all

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

Under Lock & Key

News from Prisons & Prisoners

Harrassment and
Censorship in Texas

I have previously reported to you that I am

litigating a case against Texas state prison

officials for their making arbitrary denials of
literature to prisoners. I am scheduled for an
evidentiary hearing in November.

On Sept. 1, a new property policy went into

effect in Texas prisons. In July, I had put in
for authorization to possess legal material that

would make my total property exceed the two
cubic feet maximum allowable volume be-
coming effective on Sep. 1. I was told by an

official who does the authorizations that as
long as my property fit into my oversized stor-
age space locker, I would not have a prob-

lem. However, after Sept. 1, I was told some-
thing different.

I put in for written authorization to have

the "excess legal material" on Sept. 12, but
by Sept. 17 I had not received authorization,
and my excess legal property was seized. On

Sept. 18, I received the required paperwork
that I had submitted back, with the notation
"Which Court?" I had written [the name of

the court] in the blank on the form. Obviously,
the officials who are supposed to authorize
extra legal property are up to no good.

In struggle,
--A Texas Prisoner, October 2002

MIM responds: This prisoner is one of

several comrades who are currently fighting
censorship in Texas prisons. As MIM's work
in Texas prisons -- including the campaign

against forced labor for prisoners who are sick
or injured -- continues to gain supporters,
and more prisoners read MIM Notes and get

involved, we expect more of this censorship
and harassment. Watch these pages for up-
dates on the labor campaign and these cen-

sorship fights -- and write to keep other read-
ers posted of relevant developments in your
own cases.

Excited to learn about MIM and
spread the news

Dear MIM:
I greet you today with lots of respect for

the movement that you all represent and for
the enlightenment that you all are bringing to
the people. I'm one who truly knows about

the wickedness of the oppressor. I'm very
serious about wanting to know more about
MIM. I'm also sending you the name of [an-

other prisoner in another state] that I write to
regularly and we're always debating on is-
sues that MIM talks about. [This other pris-

oner] feels that the only ones who are doing
something or even thinking about issues of
oppression, etc. are inmates. I tried to tell her

that the movement goes far beyond these
prison walls; that there's brothers and sisters
that aren't in prison who can see the struggles

and are doing something about it. I would like
to show her how true this is. Even though I
can't send any money to help I promise you

that I'll share all books and newspapers with
the brothers around me and she'll do the same
with the sisters around her.

--A North Carolina prisoner, September

2002

Communism doesn't
deserve bad rap

Revolutionary Greetings Comrades:
I am in receipt of your [introductory form]

letter. . . There wasn't one thing that I didn't

agree with in the six pages that were sent forth
to me. If that is the being and the great cause
of a communist then by all means sign me

up. . . Communism has gotten a bad jacket
because of the men and women in history who
betrayed its system in various times in his-

tory but I'm very much sold on the fact that

communism is what the world needs. I'm
ready to offer my two hands for the work of
the party but I must be educated so that my

work is not done to no effect. . . As I read the
papers of these imperialist controlled presses
I can see where their propaganda can be coun-

tered and so when I do come across issues as
such I'll save the article and write a piece on
the same issue from communist perspective

and send it to you. . .

I'm currently in a dorm environment so it

would be easy to "spread the news" and form

study groups. . . It's also my aim once I'm
released and have gathered up some funds to
purchase MIM Notes and disperse them to

key points.

--A Connecticut prisoner, October 2002

MIM responds: We are eager to have both

these comrades on board and look forward
to working together both inside and outside
the walls.

Illinois: Down with
Menard's seg quota

Menard Correctional Centers Segregation

Unit consists of one abnormally large cell

house, which has the capacity of 490 inmates.
Menard had only one major incident this year
and there's hardly anyone getting into trouble.

So in order to justify using so much space for
segregation, the staff issued quotas for each
population cell house on how many inmates

they need to send to segregation. So the staff
sets out to find reasons to place inmates in
segregation.

During quota filling time, correctional of-

ficers exaggerate disciplinary reports, by writ-
ing tickets for "intimidation and threat" be-

cause an inmate stared at them too long. Or
they charge people with "gang activity" when
six or seven people are standing in a small

group on the yard. Oftentimes, they can't ex-
aggerate tickets so they talk loudly and curse
at inmates to provoke a verbal or physical

response. If all else fails, they will utilize the
Internal Affairs Confidential Sources proce-
dure, which uses inmate trustees to lie on gang

members. Law advocates say that the inmates
are planning some outrageous security threat,
so that they can lock them in segregation any-

where from 30 to 60 days under "investiga-
tive status." I encourage any and all inmates
to remain dormant to force the staff here to

open at least half the segregation unit's build-
ing to the general population, and at the same
time neutralize Menard's Segregation quota

procedures.

-- an Illinois prisoner, June 2002

RAIL and MIM respond: The prisoner

is correct to expose the everyday injustice as
prisoncrats use their power to fix their stupid
mistakes. Like this prisoner, we also do not

encourage prisoners to fight the pigs since
they are currently armed and dangerous. The
demand to reduce the size of Menard's seg-

regation unit is a correct one. Segregation
brings with it such increased suffering for pris-
oners as sensory deprivation, reduced yard

time, highly restricted contact with other pris-
oners if any, denial of the ability to work, and
tighter controls on visitation. All this is in

addition to the loss of good time from tick-

ets, forcing prisoners to serve longer sen-

tences before getting the opportunity to pa-
role.

As we point out in every issue of MIM

Notes, the size of the U.$. prison population
is too big and growing, with more prisoners
per capita than any government since Stalin's

during World War II and more Black prison-
ers than Apartheid South Africa. While we
work to bring down this system in its entirety,

for the short term we look to fight winnable
battles that we can win by legal means. Bet-
tering prisoners' conditions now is a good

thing. Any honest persyn can see that getting
the Menard Correctional Center to stop manu-
facturing charges against prisoners is a posi-

tive reform that deserves support. To express
your views to the Warden, write or call (please
send MIM a copy of any correspondence):

Warden George Welborn
Menard Correctional Center

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

Tennessee censorship victory

Dear MIM,
I received this memorandum [from the

Warden stating that MIM can send in litera-
ture and he will review it]. What do you think
about it? Do I need to take further steps or

what? When I showed him the brown enve-
lope that was sent back to you, Mr. Warden
told me that he wasn't aware of that and that

somebody in the mailroom took it upon them-
selves to return the magazines. He told me
that he would personally see to it that all in-

coming magazines that you send he would
make sure they are routed to his office, and if
they are in the guidelines of police I would

get them. He asked me to hold on to the brown
envelope so he could make copies of it, and
that he would return it. I let him take it with

him. So have we won or do I need to fight on,
or are you gonna send the magazines that I
asked for earlier? I am sending three stamps

to donate to you because I know it costs to
send mail. I will try to send stamps every other
month.

--A prisoner in Tennessee (WTSP), Octo-

ber 2002

MIM responds: The warden at WTSP sent

MIM a letter claiming he had no record of
mail being sent to this prisoner as well as
another one. Both had been sent copies of

MIM Theory, which were returned to MIM
censored by the prison. After several protest
letters from MIM and the prisoner, which in-

cluded copies of the returned envelopes, the
Warden was forced to admit the censorship
violated prison policy. Although we reject the

idea that educational material sent to prison-
ers needs to be reviewed by the warden, we
consider this a victory over censorship. We

will resume sending in literature to the pris-
oners at WTSP and monitor the situation
closely.

Oregon censorship victory

Revolutionary greetings,
For the most part censorship of MIM ma-

terial has been stopped! I did pursue the cen-

sorship of MT7, as well as other MIM publi-
cations, and Kathy Stevens, and the rest of

the administrative assholes in the mailroom
bowed down real quick like. MIM will now
be able to send any material it publishes it-

self, however, non-MIM published material
will continue to be rejected.

I patiently and triumphantly await MT7 so

that I might continue with my education and
work.

In struggle,

--A prisoner in Oregon (SRCI), October

2002

New York censorship battle
continues

Greetings Comrades,
I must inform all comrades that on my side

of the globe, I continue to struggle in a plight

against one of the imperialist system's oppres-
sive soldiers for their confiscation of MIM's
publications and the constant censoring of our

correspondence. My studies regarding how
and what type of legal approach may be used
to challenge these oppressor's are coming

together well, however, any insight from a
fellow comrade is greatly appreciated. the

MIM Notes 270 · November 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.

publications confiscated are of May 1, 2002
(MN #257) and May 15, 2002 (MN #258). I

will keep you posted on the results.

--a prisoner in New York, October 2002

Tennessee: Warehousing inmates

The iron fist of Shelby County JustUs sys-

tem, under which mostly young black men
fall prey, conspiratorially warehouses its in-

mates not only causing jail overcrowding,
unfit living conditions, and overlapping trial
budgets, but also forces many inmates to serve

more time or charges than the actual sentence
ranges requires. This entire warehousing pro-
cess begins with the arresting officers who

frequently apprehend so-called suspects and
overcharge them with crimes. For example,
there are several inmates who were charged

with aggravated robbery, when the police re-
ports as well as the circumstances of the
charges clearly constitute theft. By the per-

son being charged with aggravated robbery,
by the arresting officer, he has to meanwhile
be placed in an already overcrowded court

system, which if he refuses to `cop out', he
will be given the bond of an aggravated rob-
bery charge and forced to either make an ex-

tremely high bond or wait at the rear end of
the crowded court dockets until he can con-
test his bogus charges, which can sometimes

begin with months and other times turn into
years. All of this can no doubt be simply
avoided if the arresting officer properly

charges the so-called suspect instead of ac-
cusing him of bogus offenses, which wastes
unnecessary time and money, and further in-

tensifies court docket and jail overcrowding.
The repetition of this process is "warehous-
ing."

One of the contradictions of the warehous-

ing scheme is that on the one hand the crimi-
nal JustUs system is successfully incarcerat-

ing its prey, young black men, at a record high
of 200 to 400 a month. And the courts conse-
quently issue excessively high bonds as well

as resetting trial dates off at 6 to 9 months
intervals. On the other hand, special courts
have been adopted to subside the over-

crowded dockets and overcrowding of the jail.
The epicenter of the contradiction lies with
the question is how can court dockets and jail

overcrowding be eased when the sheriff's
department allows officers to arrest and over-
charge suspects with bogus charges (in the

name of zero tolerance), which adds to the
burden of the courts to clear dockets, prop-
erty charge, sentence, and close out cases. As

the old saying goes..." actions speak louder
than words." The only actions occurring are
young black men being disproportionately

incarcerated, given excessively high bonds,
and being forced to reside in the county jail
for periods ranging from 2 to 4 years, which

is far too long to wait for a trial.

I have forwarded complaints to the new

sheriff (Mark Lutrell), the federal courts,

mayor and congressman. If there are no broth-

ers stressing these issues instead of `bucking'
about losing institutional `privileges' not

`rights', then the power of the pen would be
more effective. Unfortunately, Shelby County
is not only a blatant racially oppressive

county, but also shelters young black men who
see no benefit or future in becoming politi-
cally conscious.

In struggle,
-- a prisoner in TN, October 2002

Incarceration vs. social
programs: What should be done?

Over the last two years we've seen deep

financial cuts made in every social service
here in Washington state. The only exception

to this has been the department of correctional
operations which got by without having any-
thing slashed and has managed to do so for

many years now.

When you've read the facts presented

herein you may question whether this is jus-

tifiable. If so, we urge you to join with us in
pushing for correctional reforms which would
result in a cheaper better way of dealing with

crime and produce a savings of millions that
could be used by people for social programs.

Facts

There's a total of 17 prisons in Washing-

ton State. Fourteen of those were added since
1980 and we have 15, 000 prisoners presently

incarcerated. Along with that, we've seen a
corresponding rise in the prison budget.
Which is close to 1 billion dollars and one of

the state's highest.

No purpose has been served by this because

our approach to crime and punishment failed

over 20 years to produce permanent decreases
in the crime rate. A temporary drop here or
there is the best we can point to in any given

category. And evidence of this sort makes it
necessary to consider new methods which
address these problems without a waste of

money.

Solution
To this end we need to shift the approach

we've taken from long term incarceration to
crime victim compensation. Reliance on the
former has justified big budgets for correc-

tions without producing any real solution. Our
emphasis requires a stay in jail or prison un-
til a debt is paid by the offender. Only non-

violent drug or property related offenses
would qualify under the program but this cov-
ers half the inmate population.

This of course makes it possible for you

and others to recover your loses any time
someone is convicted of those crimes. Once

paid, the offender would be free to go be-
cause they were punished to the fullest under
our laws.

Under our plan, prisoners don't simply sit

in prison watching TV when they're locked
up. They pay for their crime in a real way

that helps both victims and taxpayers alike.
By restoring a victims property and empty-
ing cells once their debt's paid off, when a

person's made compensation no one benefits
by having them in prisons using up money

needed for programs hard hit by cuts in our
budget.

We seek to pass legislation making this a

law.

-- a prisoner in WA, August 2002

This article was submitted by a prisoner

in Washington building a movement for
schools not prisons. MIM has been fighting
for similar reforms for years and we unite

with this battle in Washington state. To get a
copy of the MIM petition for this struggle,
which is an adapted version of the one de-

veloped by this prisoner (reprinted below)
you can visit MIM's web site at www.etext.org/
Politics/MIM/agitation/prisons. If you would

like more materials on the work this prisoner
is doing you can contact him at: Mark LaRue
629174, Washington Correction Center, PO

Box 900, Shelton, WA 98584

MIM replies: We unite with this prisoner

in harshly condemning the high state and fed-

eral prison budgets. And we agree that this
outrageous spending on prisons has done
nothing to deter crime. In fact, prison build-

ing works as a capacity driven system as the
incarceration rate has gone up steadily over
the past 30 years. As this prisoner points out,

this should be no surprise with the concur-
rent budget cuts to social services. With over
half the prison population locked up for non-

violent drug or property crimes, with the dis-
proportionate imprisonment of Blacks and
Latinos, and with most prisoners coming into

the system with little money or resources, the
correlation should be clear.

The change to the system of incarceration

proposed by this prisoner would be progress
for the criminal injustice system because it
would reduce the sentences served in prison.

MIM would add to this proposed solution that
the Amerikan criminal injustice system is
behind the problem, not just incorrect sen-

tencing of non-violent offenders, or misplaced
spending. This solution does not address the
injustice of the entire system, from arrest, to

the courts to sentencing to prisons where re-
pression and national oppression are the
norm. The same people currently being

locked up would still be imprisoned, while
the biggest property criminals, the imperial-
ists who steal huge amounts of wealth from

the Third World peoples, go free running the
country. Prisons would still be used as a tool
of social control by the imperialists, even if

they couldn't lock people up for the same ri-
diculous sentences.

MIM envisions a system that would serve

the people rather than serving the Amerikan
imperialists. As a part of our fight for reforms
that will improve the conditions of the op-

pressed, we need to make clear to the people
that without revolutionary change the oppres-
sive system will remain. We must frame our

reformist battles in this context as a part of
our work to build public opinion.

The concept of retribution also misses the

bigger picture. Property crimes are fueled by

poverty, and locking people up until they
make retribution will not do anything to ad-
dress the problem of poverty. MIM does not

see a way to address this problem under im-
perialism and this is why we put our work to
reform the criminal injustice system in the

context of the battle to overthrow imperial-
ism. We work to build a society run by the
people for the people. This system, after capi-

talism is overthrown, is called socialism and
is run by a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Socialism will still require prisons, but pris-

ons will be used to re-educate those who com-
mit crimes against the people. The goal won't
be retribution, though certainly prisoners may

be made to work while locked up. Rather the
goal will be to create productive members of
society who can go back out and make last-

ing contributions. As a model for this we look
to revolutionary China under Mao. We rec-
ommend the book Prisoners of Liberation for

a more detailed description of the use of pris-
ons for real rehabilitation in China at that time.

Incarceration vs. education: A
stacked Deck

Evergreen State College $2,000,000 --

Prisons $800,000,000

We, the undersigned, object to cuts in our

educational budget when no money at all was
taken from the budget for correctional opera-
tions. Based upon the facts which follow we

believe correctional reforms should be pur-
sued. And the savings made on this should
be used for educational purposes.

There are a total of 17 prisons in our state

and fourteen of these were brought on line
since 1980. The prison population now stands

at 15,000. And the rise in our correctional
budget makes it one of the highest in Wash-
ington State at close to one billion dollars.

In spite of all this, our approach to crime

and punishment served no purpose over the
last 20 years. Aside from temporary declines

which never last there has been no perma-
nent decrease in our crime rate during this
time. And a record of this sort requires us to

review alternatives. Rather than spending
money to lock up more people, without of-
fering them any rehabilitative services, pre-

vention of crime should include increased
spending on education in our state.

In our view there's a priority here which is

being over looked. All of us feel our current
approach is misguided. And urge you to set
us on a better course by pursuing these mat-

ters in a different way and shifting money
from prisons to education.

Name, address, phone

________________________________

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 12

Notas Rojas

nov 15, 2002, Nº 217 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis

¿Que es el MIM?

El Movimiento Internacionalista Maoísta (MIM) es un partido revolucionario

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

El MIM saca

conclusiones y

calcula la

trayectoria

terrorista

[Octubre 2001]
El clímax que hoy día se presencia en la

historia, aclara muy bien la política yanqui.
Según las encuestas, el 92% de los yanquis
están a favor de la guerra mientras que el 8%
está en contra de la misma. Un solo miembro
del Congreso se opone a la guerra. El entero
partido Demócrata y el partido Republicano
se han unido.

La unidad de los partidos Republicano y

Demócrata demuestra que el sistema está a
punto de quebrar. La estupidez de los
republicanos y los demócratas en el poder
saltará a la vista del pueblo de una vez por
todas.

En EE.UU., la clase gobernante ha asumido

un gran riesgo, del cual tal vez no va a poder
recuperarse. Cuanto más dure la alianza en-
tre los Demócratas y los Republicanos, la
probabilidad de que el pueblo estadounidense
tenga que enfrentar la incometencia por parte
de la clase gobernante en su esfuerzo por
lograr la paz y la justicia, será mayor.

La clase gobernante actual va a gastar 105

mil millones de dólares no más para retirar
los escombros del World Trade Center. Otras
pérdidas económicas relacionadas al
terrorismo alcanzan cientos de miles de
millones de dólares, mientras que las pérdidas
en la bolsa de valores han llegado a los 1.4

trillones de dólares. (1) El dinero que EE.UU.
han perdido en el conflicto hasta el momento-
sin contar los miles de millones de dólares
otorgados anualmente a Israel en forma de
ayuda militar- pudo haberles alcanzado para
comprar la región entera de Long Island con
fin de fundar un estado de Israel. Hoy en día,
gracias al creciente número de policias
federales a bordo de los aviones y guardias
de seguridad por todos lados, la economía
está brindando mucha seguridad pero menos
servicios y mercancías. Esta pérdida de vidas
humanas que se desgastan guardando cosas
en vez de producirlas, es resultado de la
incapacidad del gobierno actual para lograr
la paz y una armonía económica. Sin em-
bargo, desde el punto de vista de nuestro
gobierno actual y el presente sistema
económico, estas pérdidas no afectan el lucro
capitalista; de hecho, es posible sacar
ganancias incluso con establecer compañías
de seguridad. Es por eso que los capitalistas
no se oponen a este tipo de gastos e
ineficiencia. Los socialistas son los únicos
capaces de cuestionar si los arreglos políticos
actuales están malgastando la labor humana.

En cuanto al caso ántrax, durante las dos

primeras semanas en octubre, se reportaron
2300 incidentes de ántrax. (2) El MIM
denomina esto como el principio del señuelo
ofensivo. El ataque de tipo señuelo ofensivo
es particularmente eficaz contra rivales de alta
tecnología y gigantes financieros, como es el
caso del gobierno estadounidense.

Para explicar porqué es poco probable que

una facción terrorista (los yanquis) derrote
por completo a otra alegada facción
"terrorista" (por ejemplo, Osama bin Laden
patrocinado por la CIA) por vía militar, o

porqué es imposible alcanzar aunque sea un
cierto grado de la paz mediante una
liquidación de la "mayor parte" de otras
facciones terroristas, algunos reporteros de
la Internet cubriendo el caso ántrax han
aclarado cómo funciona el ántrax falso sin
que sean captados los responsables de su
difusión. La gente compra guantes y evita
dejar huellas o su DNI, o compra guantes con
1000 huellas dactilares. Lo peor es que las
cartas destinadas a agencias del gobierno
estdounidense pueden ser mandadas de
cualquier lugar del mundo. Cuando la
posibilidad de recibir un sobre con una
verdadera amenaza de ántrax es 1 entre 1000,
la clase dominante no se las puede arreglar.
Por lo tanto, un solo ataque es acompañado
por 999 ataques de tipo señuelo ofensivo.

Una falsa amenaza a la Agencia de

Protección de Medio Ambiente de Connecti-
cut ha costado 1.5 millones de dólares. (3)
Aún con 2300 amenazas recibidas hasta el
momento, a la clase gobernante no se le
ocurre ser honesta con su pueblo y decirle
que es imposible ganar esta guerra y que la
única solución viable consiste en tomar pasos
hacia una armonía económica y social en vez
de dar la bienvenida a la expansión del
dominio estadounidense. Es imposible
defenderse contra un señuelo ofensivo bien
planeado, pero nuestra clase gobernante no
alcanza a comprender que aun teniendo las
fuerzas militares más poderosas y unos
servicios de inteligencia de la más alta
tecnología, es imposible ganar a personas que
posean armas nucleares en forma de maletines
y que implementan tácticas acompañadas por
ataques de tipo señuelo ofensivo. Por ahora,
los casos de ántrax falso son relativamente
escasos. Si los servicios gubernamentales de
China y Rusia decidieran mandar a EE.UU.
correo con polvo blanco o llevar a cabo
amenazas más sofisticadas, ¿se podría
imaginar lo sobrecargado que estaría el FBI?
Por otro lado, dentro de EE.UU. parece haber
cierta confusión. Ya en junio de 2000, una
página web sobre materiales peligrosos
aseguró que era casi imposible trasmitir
ántrax por vía de correo.(4) Este tipo de
confusión sin duda aumenta los gastos del
gobierno estadounidense, y una de las
condiciones de la caída de un gobierno es su
inhabilidad de conseguir más prestamos.

¿Se imaginan lo fácil que sería bloquear

los mecanismos de espionaje con tan sólo
establecer redes telefónicas y electrónicas
capaces de originar señales falsos? ¿Cuánto
tiempo tardarían "los terroristas" a los que el
imperialismo estadounidense les está jugando
una pala pasada, en adaptar la misma táctica?
El uso de esta táctica- el señuelo defensivo -
agobia hasta a los servicios de inteligencia
de la más alta teconología. Es por eso que la
presente retórica en torno a la "seguridad" e
"inteligencia" no puede tener éxito. Cuando
los imperialistas prosiguen con sus planes de
espionaje, señuelos defensivos aseguran que
la mayor parte de la información obtenida sea
falsa. Al contrario, el señuelo ofensivo
contiene falsa información contribuyendo a
que un solo ataque acompañado por 999
amenazas resulte exitoso sin haber sido

impedido.

No es ningún secreto que el estado de

Florida tiene una tasa impresionante de
desemlpleo porque la industria turística ha
sido minada. Según unos rumores en la
Internet, puede que se lleve a cabo un
bombardeo de DisneyWorld para acabar con
la economía de Florida. Wall Street está aún
más horrorizada que el resto de la economía:
"Muchos inversionistas están diciendo: `No
vemos luz al final del túnel. No han ningunas
señas que indiquen el fin de la presente
recesión económica'".(5)

La lista sigue. Por ahora es el ántrax, pero

existe un sinfín de otras amenazas semejantes,
cada una de las cuales será acompañada por
señuelos ofensivos o defensivos.

Desde luego, EE.UU. tiene la capacidad

militar para matar a todo el mundo, en cuyo
caso ya no habrá señuelos ofensivos ni
defensivos. Sin embargo, según comprueban
los recientes casos terroristas, una economía
en expansión requiere un mínimo de
colaboración global. Es irónico que los
gobernantes de un país dedicado al indiviuo,
no logren comprender que el poder
destructivo del individuo ha alcanzado una
fase en la que la única posibilidad de
sobrevivir y seguir con la expansión
económica a largo plazo se plasma en la
necesidad del comunismo. "Otorgarle el
poder al idividuo"- ¿Acaso no ha sido este el
lema de los fundadores yanquis? Es mejor
que tomemos medidas para llegar al
comunismo antes de que los individuos que
han obtenido el poder acaben con todos
nosotros.

El propio ex-presidente Clinton señaló que

EE.UU. tenía que reducir el campo que
origina terrorismo. Esto significa liquidar las
raíces del terrorismo, sobre todo, el
terrorismo estadounidense que compone la
mayor parte del terrorsmo mundial.

Instamos a todo el pueblo estadounidense

y a toda la gente del mundo que se encuentra
bajo peligro u oprimida por el gobierno
yanqui, a que dejen de tolerar la estupidez de
los Republicanos y los Demócratas que
proponen "soluciones" en forma de
bombardeos, "seguridad" o "inteligencia".
Estos gobernantes están arriesgando las vidas
de ustedes en una guerra que jamás podrá ser
ganada, y ustedes no tienen que aguantarlo.

Notas:
1. www.nytimes.com, 4Oct2001. "Una

semana brutal en Wall Street," http://
cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/09/21/markets/
markets_newyork/ ; además, según Edward
Said, (http://www.newleftreview.net/
NLR24502.shtml) a partir de 1967, el
gobierno estadounidense ya ha gastado 92 mil
millones de dólares en ayuda a Israel.

2. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/

mueller101601.htm

3. http://www.marketplace.org/shows/

2001/10/16_mpp.html

4. http://www.emergency.com/

hzmtpage.htm

5. http://www.foxnews.com/story/

0,2933,36863,00.html

¿Porqué la facción terrorista estadounidense no puede ganar?