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Nov. 1, 2003, Nº 290

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he talk show circuit in Amerikkka

currently features a conservative

and liberal talking about hate for

President George W. Bush. The

supposedly remarkable thing is that a 31-

year-old writer for the New Republic

named Jonathan Chait admitted that he

can't stand how Bush walks and talks in

an article posted by the New Republic

magazine September 22, 2003.

Supposedly, the subject of Bush's

stupidity is now "out of the closet." In

MIM Notes 271, MIM showed that at

least at one Boston rally where we

conducted a poll, there was a number of

Democrats who thought the war on Iraq

was the "dumbest" thing. These sorts of

Democrats dominate in the rallies. They

are astonished by Bush's "foreign policy"

actions and do not see a system of

imperialism, just actions carried out by the

Bush administration liable to leave

Amerikkka looking "terrorist" itself.

Regarding the discussion of Jonathan

Chait, The Washington Post even

acknowledged a website that pointed out

the Bush family's doing business with

Nazis. Of course, The Washington Post

did not elaborate on that or other top U.S.

officials doing business with the Nazis.(1)

In September 2002, other facts came

out published in a new book based on U.$.

Government archives about how the

Democratic President Franklin D.

oward Dean, a medical doctor

and Governor of Vermont, is a

surprise early breakaway

Democratic candidate for president. He

has attracted many people previously

uninvolved in Presidential politics. His

progressive appearance appeals to liberal

Democrats, Dean remains firmly in the

imperialist camp.

Last month MIM reviewed Dennis

Kucinich, another Democrat running for

president who appeals to progressives and

activists. We pointed out that it is people

like him who can be the most dangerous

as they fool otherwise progressive people

into serving imperialist goals. Dean also

enjoys a significant following among anti-

war activists and other progressives, so

MIM now turns to review Dean.

Dean's opening statement on his web

site jumps right in to addressing foreign

policy: "I have serious concerns about the

increasingly unilateralist approach to

foreign policy we have seen from the

current Administration, particularly in the

President's posture toward Iraq. Any

President must be prepared to use force

in defense of our nation's interests. Had

I been in Congress, however, I would have

voted against the resolution providing the

President sweeping authority to wage war

against Iraq, because I did not believe the

President made the case that war was

justified. I am also concerned about the

President's foreign policy priorities. The

war on terror--against an enemy that has

killed over three thousand innocents on

our soil--is far from over, yet the

President's decision to lead us into war

in Iraq has distracted us from pursuing

the known threat of Al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, serious emerging threats--

like North Korea's quest to become a

But umph for

revolution lacking

in British anti-war

movement

ew have noticed (including those in

the international communist

movement), but since the Iraq War

started, England has pushed itself to the

brink of a revolutionary opportunity. The

number of troops currently left "at home"

to defend against a revolutionary

movement is minuscule.

One officer in England said, "`we have

not only taken everything out of the

cupboards, we've stripped all the shelves

bare.'"(1) In one move in early 2003, the

British sent over a quarter of the Army

to the Gulf. Another 19,000 troops were

covering for the fire department workers

on strike, a fact that gives the fire

workers' strike an objectively

revolutionary character.

Mindful of this difficulty, England

quietly cut back on its troop deployment

to the Gulf. Of 30,000 sent in one move

to confront Saddam Hussein, only

approximately 11,000 remain on the

ground in Iraq. More are in the

neighboring countries. All told, 46,000

Howard Dean represents Amerika

DESPITE WEAK

INTERNATIONALIST

RHETORIC, DEAN

SUPPORTS

IMPERIALISM

British personnel were sent to the Middle

East to handle Saddam Hussein.(2)

To address U.$. concerns, England sent

another 1200 troops back to Iraq in

September 2003. Here is how the British

military is still talking about the situation.

"Defence Analyst Garth Whitty, a former

Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army

and weapons inspector in Iraq in 1992,

says it may be all that the Army had to

offer in the wake of their recent efforts

in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"GARTH WHITTY: I think the British

Armed Forces are probably already

overstretched, but the reality is there is

no alternative but to maintain a presence

until such time as Iraq is stabilized and

that could take as long as five years."(3)

According to the British Army itself, it

is "deployed in over 80 countries around

the world."(4) With about a total of

107,000 Army troops probably since

decreased from lack of re-enlistment,

there are 5500 in Kosovo, almost 3,000 in

Bosnia, 500 in the Falklands islands, about

27,000 "headquartered" in Germany and

approximately 15,000 in Ireland--to name

a few. In Afghanistan, Britain has 100

troops, but it has 4000 on stand-by as of

October 2003. They would be there

already except that the Northern Alliance

England faces quasi-

revolutionary opportunity

Tolerating the

intolerable

NO DEMOCRATS

TRULY HATE

BUSH

Kobe case brings
out Amerikkka

The preliminary hearings for the Kobe

Bryant rape case have already brought

out the hopelessness of the dominant

Amerikkkan views on crime, gender and

race relations. As usual, MIM cannot

guarantee that the media is reporting any

factual truth in connection to the trial, or

even more importantly, whether it has

bothered to digest the facts in an intelligent

way. However, we can speak as if the

facts reported were true and we can also

speak to the media's presentation in its

own right.

We mean no disservice to the accused

or accuser, but public opinion in this case,

like similar ones, deserves dissection. Our

Colorado: the intersection

of insanity and irrationality

starting point has to be

how individualism

utterly fails to reduce

crime.

These past few days,

the fireworks in the case

are reportedly about

"shield law" logic and

the evidence. On the one hand,

Amerikkkans believe they can individually

ascertain the truth about rape cases like

this one and bring about justice. On the

other hand, their laws are so self-

contradictory thanks to their underlying

ideology based on fantasy instead of

reality that it is apparent that such an

endeavor is impossible.

Under the "shield law" logic operating

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MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 2

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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Lifelong
revolutionary

Revolutionary greetings,
Upon receiving your letter I was

pleased to see the support you offer to us

prisoners so we can better ourselves --
or at least try -- and also come to

understand that imperialism is the highest

form of capitalism and the United Snakes
is all about capitalism.

I am originally a Mayan Indian from

the Pipil tribe in El Salvador. I lived through
12 years of war in my country. The

struggle of our armed movement (FMLN

[Farabundo Marti National Liberation
Front -ed]) became so powerful with the

help of the people, we were ready to

overthrow the corrupt government run by
the oligarchy in my country, until the United

Snakes came into the picture under the

leadership of Carter and later Reagan.

My whole life I've studied communism

and socialism. I've involved myself in

youth parties and marches. I've been
incarcerated for almost 5 years now. I

have continued to study my political

beliefs, but it's been much harder due to
the lack of literature and money. I have

also paid a great price by being put in the

hole on false charges just because I refuse
to shut my mouth . . ..

I like and enjoy sharing knowledge with

people and the more I talk and discuss

politics, the better I understand it. I will

also try to encourage other people to try
and involve themselves with your

movement, but I cannot make any

promises.

-- A Virginia prisoner, April 2003

MIM responds: We are glad to work

with someone with your experience and
knowledge. It is important to understand

that without the United $tates the

oligarchy in El Salvador would have been
overthrown a long time ago, as you say.

Of course, without the influence of

colonialism in the first place the oligarchy
never would have come to rule the

country. On the other hand, El Salvador

was also squeezed between the U.$. and
Soviet Union-backed neocolonialism --

or social imperialism -- leaving the

revolutionary movement there to face the
difficult choice of siding with the Soviets

or going the independent road. We think

history shows their decision to side with
the ex-USSR was a mistake, as their

collapse brought down the FMLN also.

Nevertheless, there were many dedicated
revolutionaries in El Salvador committed

to liberating their people, and many of

them gave their lives in the struggle. We
are glad to see this struggle contributed

to your own commitment, and look

forward to working with you to advance
the cause of liberation from imperialism.

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 3

October 18 -- In solidarity with other

prison activist organizations, MIM, RAIL,

the Barrio Defense Committee (BDC)

and the Prison Reform Unity Project held

a four-hour rally in San Francisco

demanding the Security Housing Units

(SHUs) in California prisons be shut

down. October 18 was the day of rallies

across the country called for by the Prison

Reform Unity Project. MIM and RAIL

have been on the streets in San Francisco

and Oakland most Saturdays protesting

the SHU, collecting petition signatures and

distributing literature. We organized this

protest on the 18th as a part of our

ongoing work around this issue.

The SHU is another name for a control

unit. Internationally condemned as a form

of torture by the UN, Control Units are

prisons within a prison. Prisoners are

locked in these cells for years at a time

under conditions that include solitary

confinement, 23+ hours a day in a tiny

cell, sensory deprivation, no education, no

job training, and little exercise. Under

these conditions many prisoners have

serious mental and physical health

problems. In California, close to 3000

prisoners are locked in the SHU,

disproportionately Blacks and Latinos.

Many of these prisoners are put in the

SHU as punishment for their political

activism behind the bars. California SHU

prisons are notorious for their human

rights violations.

This demonstration was effective in

reaching large numbers of people on the

streets of San Francisco on a busy

Saturday afternoon. MIM, RAIL, the

BDC, and the African Peoples Solidarity

Committee (APSC) committed members

to spending the afternoon at the rally. We

were joined by members of a few other

prison activist organizations who helped

collect petition signatures or just stopped

by to show support and talk about

organizing work.

We set up a literature table, some big

banners and a cardboard replica of a

SHU cell at the protest. Signs around the

outside condemned these torture units. A

wooden SHU replica built by the APSC

has worked well at rallies in the past but

is very difficult to transport. Activists in

San Francisco have been experimenting

with other models and we would welcome

design input. The set up at this protest was

very effective at getting people's

attention. A 6 by 8 cell is very small and

the visual provides an excellent reference

for people on the streets while we explain

the conditions prisoners face in the SHU.

Many copies of MIM Notes were

distributed with a cover story on the SHU

hearings in Los Angeles. And hundreds

of petition signatures were gathered from

passers by who stopped to learn more

about the SHU prisons. Several people

asked incredulously if these were really

in the United $tates and were shocked to

hear that we were talking about California

prisons. This education work is one of the

important reasons we hold protests like

San Fran rally to shut down the Security Housing Units

this one.

A member of the Barrio Defense

Committee whose son is locked up in the

SHU spoke eloquently about the need to

hold these protests: "The legal battles in

the courts of the U.S. government are

not enough to seek justice. [T]he people

must be informed and won over to shut

down these institutions of repression.

These actions will not only free my son

Jose Luis but all of our gente from these

prisons of hell!" Props also go to the BDC

activists whose primary language is

Spanish but who struggled with English

speaking people walking by and engaged

in some heated arguments refusing to let

the language barrier stop them from doing

this important work.

Activists at this rally agreed more

regular actions like this one are needed.

We need help from people throughout the

Bay Area who would like to help organize

a rally in their city. It doesn't take

hundreds of people to make a big impact.

George W. Bush
before the Iraq war

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and

improving facilities that were used for

the production of biological

weapons."

--United Nations Address,

September 12, 2002

"Iraq has stockpiled biological and

chemical weapons, and is rebuilding

the facilities used to make more of

those weapons."

"We have sources that tell us that

Saddam Hussein recently authorized

Iraqi field commanders to use

chemical weapons -- the very

weapons the dictator tells us he does

not have."

--Radio Address, October 5, 2002

"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses

and produces chemical and biological

weapons. It is seeking nuclear

weapons."

"We know that the regime has

produced thousands of tons of

chemical agents, including mustard

gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

"We've also discovered through

intelligence that Iraq has a growing

fleet of manned and unmanned aerial

vehicles that could be used to

disperse chemical or biological

weapons across broad areas. We're

concerned that Iraq is exploring ways

of using these UAVS for missions

targeting the United States."

"The evidence indicates that Iraq

is reconstituting its nuclear weapons

program. Saddam Hussein has held

numerous meetings with Iraqi

nuclear scientists, a group he calls

his "nuclear mujahideen" - his

nuclear holy warriors. Satellite

photographs reveal that Iraq is

rebuilding facilities at sites that have

been part of its nuclear program in

the past. Iraq has attempted to

purchase high-strength aluminum

tubes and other equipment needed

for gas centrifuges, which are used

to enrich uranium for nuclear

weapons."

--Cincinnati, Ohio Speech,

October 7, 2002

"Our intelligence officials estimate

that Saddam Hussein had the

materials to produce as much as 500

tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve

agent."

--State of the Union Address,

January 28, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and

other governments leaves no doubt

that the Iraq regime continues to

possess and conceal some of the

most lethal weapons ever devised."

--Address to the Nation, March 17,

2003 (1)

George W. Bush after finding no
weapons of mass destruction.

"Let's get the words right. I said

Saddam had weapons of mass

destruction and he used them. Which

he did. And second I said he was a

gathering threat. And that's an

important distinction."(2)

The above refers to weapons that

may have been used by Saddam Hussein

before 1991. It is a continuous trick of

the spinmeisters Blair and Bush to jump

around from before 1991 to 1998 to

2003. Bush has said repeatedly that

Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass

destruction (WMD) in 2003. That is

what is important.

As we go to press, the Iraqi people

fighting for their freedom have killed

another two U.$. soldiers occupying their

country near Kirkuk. "With the latest

deaths, 338 U.S. troops have been killed

in the Iraq war since it began in March

-- 218 of those by hostile fire."(3)

Many of those who died knew before

they died that Saddam Hussein had told

the truth. He had had no weapons of mass

destruction for many years. It was the

product of the "democratic system" Bush

who lied. Those who believe in bourgeois

democracy will say that Bush is

undermining it while we Marxist-Leninist-

Maoists will say that political truth

production suffers where politicians

depend on corporations for campaign

contributions: secure dictators may in fact

tell more truth without fear of retaliation

for the good deed.

Before the war, the bourgeois

reformists said that U.$. troops could not

do any better job of inspecting for

weapons than the UN. In fact, as Putin

pointed out after the war started, no one

would believe U.$. weapons inspectors

unless the weapons had appeared right

away, which they didn't. Whereas UN

weapons inspectors would have some

bourgeois credibility, few would put it past

the CIA to plant some weapons of mass

destruction and then "discover" them.

Some of the people in charge of finding

WMD in Iraq have a vested interest in

finding them. David Kay had said the UN

could not find them: "For me, the real

change occurred in '94. By 1994 I was

no longer an inspector, but I was testifying

and writing on Iraq that `There is no

ultimate success that involves UNSCOM.

It's got to be a change of regime. It's got

to be a change of Saddam.'"(4)

Now with the U.$. invasion, we learn

further details of the real motivations for

the U.$. refusal to let UN sanctions on

Iraq die. "By that time [1994--

mim3@mim.org], all that was left of

Iraq's WMD programmes were reports,

memories and ruined establishments.

"Hussain Kamil, who headed all Iraqi

WMD programmes, had attested to that

in his testimony to Hans Blix, who was in

charge of UNSCOM in 1995.

"Kamil died in 1996 but his testimony

was suppressed for another seven

George Weasel Bush getting away with murder

Proletarians fight hard to oppose Iraq occupation

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Flashback to

MIM Notes

144 on the

Dulles

brothers

The Swedish family that owns half of

Sweden has long had a reputation in the

bourgeois media for helping the Jews
avoid the Holocaust. Now it turns out that

diplomat-legend Raoul Wallenberg's

family profited from the Nazi murder of
Dutch Jews.

The Swedish capitalists bought the

Nazi-stolen bonds of the Dutch Jews and
accepted Dutch Jewish gold in payment

for weapons. Assisting the Wallenberg

family was future Secretary of State and
past U.$. Government lawyer, John Foster

Dulles, who was the grandson of one

Secretary of State and the nephew of
another.

After the Nazi invasion of Poland, John

Foster Dulles arranged the legal work for
the Nazis to have Amerikan companies

front for them through a Swedish

intermediary, so that the Nazis could carry
out their war-time business without being

taken over.

John's brother Allen was instrumental

during World War II in starting a program

of infiltration of communist parties with

the aim of their "peaceful evolution" after
the war. He also helped Nazis escape and

join the precursor to the CIA once the

Nazis lost.

Both Stalin and Mao specifically

mentioned the Dulles brothers and their

strategy, but many at the time did not
believe these communist leaders. This

includes the petty-bourgeoisie in the party

of Mao, which eventually became the
new bourgeoisie of China. It is a stark

reminder how proletarian leaders must

deal with the petty-bourgeoisie and its
paralysis -- being lodged between the

two great classes -- right in the party.

Allen became director of the CIA and

John Foster Dulles became Secretary of

State in 1953.

We communists are fortunate that

some older Jews still living did not keep

their mouths shut till death. Many who

know the facts kept quiet while they sided
with the United $tates in the Cold War.

Now the truth is coming out thanks to the

collapse of the Soviet bloc and thanks to
the Jews' self-interest in the matter.

Now Sweden is being blamed in addition

to Switzerland for holding Nazi gold --
7.6 tons. The discussion of this matter

vindicates Stalin repeatedly.

Note: Boston Globe 6Jul97, pp. 1, A10.

Roosevelt was pursuing a separate peace

with Nazi Germany in World War II,

contrary to his open deal with Stalin which

aimed at Germany's unconditional

surrender to the Allies jointly. The picture

starts with the Nazi dealings of the Dulles

brothers, one who came to head the CIA

and the other who came to be Secretary

of State.

Since Allen Dulles was a father figure

for the CIA, it's not surprising that the

CIA whitewashes his business dealings

with the Nazis by giving him credit for

getting his law firm to shut down offices

in Berlin,(2) when most of his business

dealings with Nazis were in Switzerland

and Sweden anyway, including after the

Nazi invasion of Poland that caused

England and France to declare war.(3)

On the other hand, ever so obliquely, the

CIA has now admitted that Allen Dulles

was trying to negotiate a separate peace

with Nazi Germany and that "Operation

Sunrise" did at least come to fruition in

Italy, where the CIA claims at least a few

hundred lives were saved by negotiations

with officers in Germany other than Hitler,

one SS General named Karl Wolff being

named in particular.(2)

One reason we have not heard much

of these records before is that the CIA

was not to offend Stalin publicly while

the war was on. The negotiations had to

be in secret. Another reason we have not

heard much about these records until now

is that they proved the U.$. strategy to

be daffy to such an extent that they

proved what communists had always said

about Nazism arising from capitalism.

Release of the truth damages liberal

capitalism's claim to being highly opposed

to fascism.

It turns out that the CIA's and FDR's

idea for a leader for a more "moderate"

Tolerating the intolerable

NO DEMOCRATS TRULY HATE BUSH

Germany was SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich

Himmler.(4) The Democratic

administration sought to make deals with

Himmler to end the war and turn him

against the Soviet Union. This in itself

would have made huge Cold War

propaganda, which is why the United

$tates did not admit this before the fall of

the Berlin Wall.

There should not be a single Jew, Gypsy

or persyn of Roma, Russian or Slavic

descent who is unclear about this. The

Democrats in power in the quintessential

liberal Democratic administration did not

care about the above list of peoples

anymore than the Republicans. In

principle the Democrats had not a whit

of concern if Himmler managed to wipe

out every last one of those peoples

wedged between Germany and the Soviet

Union, as long as Himmler fought the

Soviet Union. We at MIM cannot

understand how any of the above mostly

white people could possibly not be

communists in the tradition of Stalin.

Just as we said in MIM Theory #6, the

facts give the lie to the various Trotskyists

and crypto-Trotskyists who said Stalin did

not have to worry about the imperialists

uniting to divide the Soviet Union. Even

the FDR administration that earned its

laurels lambasting the patriotism of

Republicans opposed to war against the

Nazis was itself trying to make a deal

with the Nazis. Had Stalin not been very

active on this front, FDR may have

succeeded. That's not to mention what

the German-leaning Republicans of the

time would have done had they been

elected.

A joke about the Democrats asks "do

you belong to an organized political

party?" And the answer is "No, I'm a

Democrat." However, if there is one thing

true about the Democrats, it is that they

alternate power with Republicans.

Whatever good things Democrats may

do in power can be undone by

Republicans. More likely, as the example

of the Dulles brothers working for FDR

proves, the Democrats just do the same

things as the Republicans.

That's why it's not true that any

Democrats truly hate Republicans or

even fascists. To truly hate Republicans,

one must fight for a system where a

President George W. Bush's failure to

oppose the Confederate flag flying in

South Carolina state government

buildings(5) would be as impossible as

slavery.

There are times in history when hatred

is justified. We live in one now just as

Abe Lincoln lived in one in his day. Try

as they might, the North and South were

not able to get along in Abe Lincoln's day.

It was intolerance, not tolerance that made

Abe Lincoln the most beloved president

in U.S. history. It's by eliminating

possibilities of backwardness that the

whole people move forward.

In Lincoln's day, intolerance of slavery

and the eventual abolition of slavery made

it possible for North and South to live

together again. It is unity around

intolerance of starvation, homelessness

and preventable disease that need to unite

the humyn race this time around.

Notes:
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A46805-2003Oct18.html
2. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/
art06.htm
3. Boston Globe 6Jul97, pp. 1, a10
4. Denver Post 01Sept2002. http://
www.denverpost.com/Stories/
0,1413,36%257E26%257E829420%257E,00.html
5. http://www.nctimes.net/news/042100/jj.html

Continued from page 1...

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 5

Throughout the campaign leading up to

the California recall election, numerous

print and TV "analysts" drew more or

less flimsy analogies between new

California governor-elect Arnold

Schwarzenegger and Adolf Hitler--

ranging from "they were both Austrian

emigrants" to "Arnold's dad was a Nazi

Party member" to "Arnold's movies are

reactionary." These charges do not justify

calling Arnold a fascist in MIM's view.

Or, if you're going to call Arnold a fascist

at least be consistent and drop that label

on his Democratic competitors--to say

nothing of the 25% of the Amerikan public

who said they would vote for Klansman

David Duke.(1)

Outside of a promise to lower "the car

tax"--which will likely be difficult to

implement(2)--Schwarzenegger

studiously avoided saying anything of

substance during the campaign, relying

instead on clichés about "puke politics,"

"biased media," etc., posing as Hercules

poised to clean out the Augean stables of

Sacramento. After he won the election,

Arnold appointed a transition team that

includes prominent Democrats like San

Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr., Los

Angeles Mayor James Hahn, and Susan

Estrich, who managed Michael Dukakis'

1988 presidential campaign.(3)

At the same time, backers of

Democrats Davis and Bustamante

principally relied on ad hominem attacks

on the big Austrian, calling him

inexperienced, a Nazi sympathizer and a

male chauvinist. Davis signed some

progressive legislation during the

campaign, including laws protecting

domestic partners' rights and a law

allowing undocumented immigrants to get

California drivers licenses, but it was a

case of too little, too late.(4)

There is a kernel of truth to the "Arnold

= Adolf" prattle, but it applies to many

more Amerikan politicians than just

Arnold: Democrats, Republicans and

Independents included. German

columnists have picked up on it. One

wrote, "The more confused we are by

what [politicians] say, the greater our

longing for a man or woman with simple

words. The only problem is that it's the

wrong ones who usually master simple

language." Another paper "voiced

concern about calls for straight-talking

leaders, noting that Hitler had attacked

German parliament as a `Talking Shop'

before abolishing it." An "ordinary

German" interviewed by Reuters got into

the Hollywood spirit of Amerikan politics:

"We need someone like that to clean up

the mess and blow away the lousy

politicians."(5)

Criticism of the corruption and lack of

accountability built into bourgeois

democracy was indeed part of Hitler's

strategy, as it was a part of Arnold's.

Hitler was correct to say that rulers should

be held responsible with their own money

and blood(6), as MIM does, but Hitler

wanted to replace one kind of bourgeois

leadership with another, not overthrow the

bourgeoisie altogether. On this issue and

others, Hitler stole or co-opted correct

aspects of Marxism to use to his

advantage or for camouflage. It would

be a mistake for proletarian

revolutionaries to defend bourgeois

democracy across the board (or particular

elected leaders) just because Hitlers and

Arnolds attack it--that would not only

concede an important point where we

have a natural advantage to our enemies,

it would also tarnish our reputation by

associating us with "dumbocracy."(7)

Furthermore, both Arnold and Hitler

used their image as "outsiders," while

they remained firmly inside the capitalist

system (and in Arnold's case, inside

mainstream Amerikan politics). MIM

sees most criticisms of Arnold as an

"inexperienced outsider" as an attempt

by bourgeois technocrats to hold on to

power--it's the flip side of Arnold's

"puke politics" line, and just as void of

substance, if not more. Don't be confused

by prep school pedigrees, fancy degrees

and long resumes. Bourgeois technocrats

are no more intelligent than the rest of

us--if they take their bourgeois training

seriously, they're arguably less intelligent

than most. MIM encourages

revolutionaries to apply the "us or them"

test: who would you rather have in

power? It's a question of line. No amount

of technical expertise can turn an

MAO ON

JOHN

FOSTER

DULLES

There is a silver lining to having

scumbag reactionaries like the Dulles

brothers in power. Few people give Dulles

enough credit for inspiring Mao to launch

the Cultural Revolution.

"Khruschov's revisionism entirely

caters to the policy of `peaceful evolution'

which U.S. imperialism is pursuing with

regard to the Soviet Union and other

socialist countries. John Foster Dulles

said:

`. . .there was evidence within the

Soviet Union forces toward greater

liberalism which, if they persisted, could

bring about a basic change within the

Soviet Union.'

"The liberal forces Dulles talked about

are capitalist forces. The basic change

Dulles hoped for is the degeneration of

socialism into capitalism."

--Mao, "On Khrushchov's Phoney

Communism and Its Historical Lessons

for the World: Comment on the Open

Letter of the Central Committee of the

CPSU (IX)," Foreign Languages Press,

Peking, July 14, 1964.

Mao was the first communist leader to

talk about the Dulles "peaceful evolution"

strategy as a real possibility. He was right:

the Soviet Union dissolved itself without

a civil war, contrary to other theorists

including Trotsky.

Lessons from the California recall

Harbingers of fascism: imagined and real

The next governor of California.

imperialist hawk into a proletarian dove.

So the specter of fascism did pop up

during California recall election, just not

where most pundits saw it. The danger

lies in the populist demagoguery adopted

by Arnold and others--rhetoric already

popular among more extreme national-

chauvinist forces. The challenge to

proletarian revolutionaries is to defeat this

demagoguery without becoming

apologists for bourgeois democracy. As

we wrote in our review of Hitler's Mein

Kampf: "If the party can avoid pacifist

and parliamentary errors, it might be able

to squelch the fascist movement before

it arises. On the other hand, the strength

of the labor aristocracy may guarantee

the fascist movement a foothold that we

cannot handle at this stage in history."(6)

Notes:

1. MIM Notes 98, Mar 1995.

2. Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct 2003;

h t t p : / / w w w . l a t i m e s . c o m / n e w s /

p r i n t e d i t i o n / a s e c t i o n / l a - m e -

cartax10oct10000431,1,5062449.story?coll=la-

news-a_section.

3. The Sacramento Bee, 10 Oct 2003.

4. Backers of the "realist," "lesser evil"

theory: take note! Davis only dared tear

himself away from the Amerikan center

and take these progressive steps when

his job was threatened by another centrist

bourgeois politician. Wouldn't he (or any

other bourgeois politician) be more likely

to enact progressive reforms when faced

with a strong radical movement?

5. Reuters, 10 Oct 2003.

6. "Hitler with an eye on today, " MIM

Theory 13, pp. 125-129.

7. While MIM has always criticized

bourgeois democracy in the strongest

terms--see the Frequently Asked

Questions page on our website--we

struggle for bourgeois-democratic rights,

such as freedom of speech and assembly.

In the words of Josef Stalin, "The

principle of equal rights for men and

nations has been trampled in the mud ...

The banner of bourgeois-democratic

liberties has been thrown overboard. I

think that it is you, the representatives of

the communist and democratic parties,

who will have to raise this banner and

carry it forward, if you want to gather

around you the majority of the people.

There is nobody else to raise it."

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 6

years."(4)

Blacks were right, whites wrong

We at MIM also believe it is important

to look at the U.$. population before and

after the war, not just Bush. Before the

war, the Amerikkkans said they would

support it even if there were no weapons

of mass destruction. Now with a steady

stream of U.$. casualties, the

Amerikkkans take a noticeably more

realistic view. Already in July the tide was

turning, "Less than a majority said the war

would be worth its costs if such weapons

were not found, down from 56 percent in

May."(5)

At the beginning of the war, "Sixty-one

percent of African Americans who

responded to questions on the poll said

they opposed `the United States having

gone to war with Iraq,' compared with

20 percent of white Americans who

answered the poll."(6)

As MIM pointed out about polls before

the casualties mounted, "`If there are

hundreds of American casualties, support

for the war drops to 62%, while 35%

oppose it.' ... It's not that Amerikkkans

oppose the war in principle. They just want

their cheap gas and world dominance

without killing too many Marines. At some

George Weasel Bush getting away with murder

number in the thousands of Marines dead

and the war still going on, Amerikkkans

will want out of the war."(7) It is the

petty-bourgeoisie that is calculating this

way. It could be for the war or against it,

just depending on how much it costs in

blood, just as the gallon of gas at the gas

pump may be too much for a Sunday

drive. Most opposition to the war in the

United $tates is petty-bourgeois. The basis

for opposition to this imperialist war in

principle has to come from the

proletarians. Also indicative is sympathy

for the Iraqi freedom-fighters. People

more sympathetic to the freedom-fighters

than the U.$. troops are taking a rare

proletarian line in the imperialist countries.

As a proletarian party, MIM does not wait

for any tactical majority to support MIM's

views. MIM puts forward unpopular

views within the United $tates regardless

or it would be guilty of petty-bourgeois

vacillation against the interests of the

international proletariat.

Remembering the excuse for
sanction on Iraq

While U.$. views are slowly changing

and point to the effectiveness of the long-

term action of Iraqi freedom-fighters, it

would be a mistake to believe that the

main impact of the weapons of mass

destruction question is in the psyches of

Amerikkkans. It was the Iraqi people who

suffered years of economic embargo

enforced by the UN and not lifted after

1991 thanks to the U.$. and English

vetoes. "When Denis Halliday, the

courtly Irishman who spent 34 years with

the UN, resigned in 1998 as the UN's

Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq in

protest at the effects of the embargo on

the civilian population, he gave the

following explanation: `...the policy of

economic sanctions is totally bankrupt. We

are in the process of destroying an entire

society. It is as simple as that ... Five

thousand children are dying every month

... I don't want to administer a programme

that results in figures like these.'"(4)

Clinton's Secretary of State Madelaine

Albright admitted it. Asked whether the

embargo was worth the death of 500,000

Iraqi children, she responded on a May

11, 1996 "60 Minutes" (television news

show) that, "It is a very hard choice, but

I think, we think, the price is worth it."

Notes:
1. The above quotes collected by none other
than Richard Nixon's former lawyer John Dean,

a big part of the Watergate scandal. http://
writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html His
four months in prison seems to have improved
his integrity. To see what has become a popular
MIM article after the war started, http://
www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bookstore/books/
violence/ritter.html
2. Reported in the Associated Press in the
following context: "Asked if Americans should
feel deceived about his rationale for the war
because no weapons of mass destruction have
been found in the six months since major fighting
ended, Bush told Tribune Broadcasting," http://
www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-
3260507,00.html
3.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/10/
19/sprj.irq.main/index.html
4. http://English.aljazeera.net/special+reports/
circle+of+lies.htm (For an explanation why
Clinton sabotaged UN weapons inspections to
make it appear Saddam Hussein was not
complying with UN resolutions, read http://
www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/iraq/
ritter2.html )
5. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/national/
17VOIC.html
6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A21346-2003Mar24.html
7. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/
iraq/antiwarpolls.html

Illegally deported by Spain, long-time

Peruvian exile Adolfo Olaechea sits in

prison in Peru last we knew.

After attending yesterday's mammoth

march [in February prior to the war--

mim3@mim.org], reading the proposals

of certain groups taking part on it, and

later hearing Mr. Blair and other members

of his entourage haughtily dismiss as fools

the millions of people who have "spoken

for Britain" both in London and Glasgow,

the only conclusion one can derive is that

this government is actively seeking a

confrontation with the people. They are

infuriating them with a view of justifying

the entrenching of their dictatorship with

a pool of gore, either before, or during,

the war they are determined to

implement. If the masses will not listen

to their hare-brained reasons, they are

determined to follow Franco's dictum:

"the law is etched on people's minds by

blood shed!" (La ley con sangre entra).

There are plenty of starry eyed fools

around who--having seen the masses for

the first time "on their side"--in

consequence, will naturally derive such

conclusions as will deliver them into

Blair's hands. The masses of this country

are now awakened, and therefore they

must keep their cool and are quite capable

of doing so. They must be vigilant and

reject the faulty advice of all those who

so easily preach revolutionism as a

nostrum for every occasion. We are

indeed in a revolutionary situation, and,

moreover, there is a revolutionary crisis

approaching. War and revolution are two

sides of the same coin, and both are

approaching at increasing speed as

anyone who is not blind can see. Any

analyst worth its salt can demonstrate this

situation is indeed a fact. However,

precisely because of this, no one in the

people's camp should play at

"insurrectionism", or worse, call for a

General Strike, solely with the aim of

protesting the government's actions.

Every serious working person knows that

a General Strike should only occur for

the concrete purpose of overthrowing the

government and establishing a

government of the people. We are not

there yet! The people of Britain are

happily averse to "somersaulting goats"

bearing stupid proposals under

revolutionist banners! First, before any

acts of civil disobedience or strikes should

occur--no matter how justified--the

masses must exhaust every avenue to

obtain redress and the dismissal of a

government that mocks and incenses

them, by all possible peaceful means.

Petitioning the monarch to dismiss Blair,

is precisely the yet untried road the people

must follow in order to exhaust their

search to make their will prevail

peacefully. In Britain's concrete

conditions, this is the only truly

revolutionary road at present. And that is

what we, at Justice International, have

launched together with other

organisations, the NOT IN HER NAME

CAMPAIGN, who you, alongside the

entire press of the establishment in this

country, have seen fit to try to pigeonhole

and hide. This is no coincidence in my

opinion, and leads me to question how

sincere is the media's desire to preserve

the internal peace and the democracy of

this country!

mim3@mim.org comments : We

would not call that a revolutionary

situation, but a revolutionary opportunity

there was. The millions marching in

England were petty-bourgeois vacillators

who promptly shut up and swung behind

Blair when the war started.

In May, this same Peruvian Adolfo

Olaechea gave a speech on the same

issue without once using the phrase "labor

aristocracy" while also using repeatedly

the vacuous term "the Left." His speech

ended by saying, "Brother, you are being

deceived. Our interests are the same.

Whatever I demand, you want as well;

the emancipation which I claim, will be

yours too."

This is an example of staying within

bourgeois bounds and confusing

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism with the

petty-bourgeoisie. It is not that the English

population needs another lesson in the

lying nature of politicians. What needed

to happen was some of the petty-

bourgeois opposition to war needed to

convert to more militant proletarian forms.

While we agree with Adolfo Olaechea

that the tactic of petitioning the Queen to

set aside an illegal government would

have been better than demonstrating in

front of a Parliament already politically

exposed, what needs to happen is a

qualitative rise in political consciousness.

That cannot happen in England without a

party guided by Marxism-Leninism-

Maoism and MIM Thought able to

separate petty-bourgeois opposition to war

and proletarian opposition to war.

Adolfo Olaechea's speech reflects

poorly on those claiming to be influenced

by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo

Thought. To speak of a situation of "The

Left" as if the country had been split in

two waging battle in the street is social-

democratic illusion. It never happened.

Such a term can only have meaning in a

battle against fascism where the military

lines have already been drawn. Yet, "the

Left" failed even to provoke a military

clampdown within England; hence it was

improper to use the term "Left" without

a context, unless the context was the

whole country divided into two military

camps--which it certainly was not.

Source: http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/
chimu/message/44962.
See also http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2
B%22Adolfo+Olaechea%22+%2B%22revolutionary
+situation%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&oe=UTF-
8&selm=9c11b028.0305251936.3be8f
8a5%40posting.google.com&rnum=2.

Adolfo Olaechea's opinion on the

British situation in February 2003

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 7

Public

opinion on

the lies in

England

The mainstream bourgeois magazine

The Economist has admitted in retrospect

that the Bush-Blair combo "stretched" its

case for war.(1) The Economist supported

Bush and Blair's claims that Saddam

Hussein had weapons of mass

destruction.

"No actual WMD has come to light, let

alone the terrifying arsenal the world was

led to expect," admitted The

Economist.(1) At the same time, 59% of

the British public believes that Prime

Minister Tony Blair simply lied to the public

in order to get it to back war against

Iraq.(2) Despite everything that

happened, The Economist still says Blair

did not lie. It suggests at most that the

intelligence community failed, which is

known as passing the buck.

A proletarian party would be able to

put that kind of nonsense in perspective

fast, but the English population would

rather let its politicians slide. One of many

examples is Tony Blair's claim that

weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were

ready to launch within 45 minutes. It turns

out that Blair found someone willing to

make an uncorroborated claim based on

the word of a single Iraqi officer and Blair

was willing to use that. However, in the

intelligence world, especially in the exile

world, there will always be someone

willing to claim--without corroboration--

anything that the prime minister wants.

One of Blair's aides turns out to have

said of the intelligence that Blair received,

"`the dossier does nothing to demonstrate

a threat, let alone an imminent threat.'"(3)

The question is why Blair's aide and

various intelligence officials could

interpret the report but Blair could not. It

stretches belief.

The question arises, that if the rulers

knew that Iraq had weapons of mass

destruction, why is it that six months later

they still have not found them? Either they

had concrete information on the weapons

of mass destruction and where they were

or they did not. It is now evident that all

the talk about 45 minute launchings and

red zones was faked. The Iraqis did not

use any WMD and this is something that

the U.$. and British militaries have thus

far admitted. The case should be closed,

but in infinite tolerance, the chauvinist

English petty-bourgeoisie lets Blair live

on to another day in politics. A majority

says Blair lied on a matter of war and

peace, but only a minority wants him to

resign, never mind face a revolutionary

firing squad.

Notes:

1. The Economist 4Oct2003, p.13.

2. The Economist 4Oct2003, p. 14.

3. The Economist 4Oct2003, p. 24.

governing Afghanistan said they would

not be welcome.(5) Many speculate that

Afghanistan is already descending into

"chaos" and that it simply cannot be

managed. Of course, ending troop

involvements in Afghanistan cut back on

deployment problems, but they leave Blair

and Bush the political problem of a Taliban

comeback.

The British troop deployments and

shortages faced by U.$. and British

imperialism show that the Third World

does have strength in unity. The

imperialists cannot send enough troops to

keep the whole exploited and oppressed

world down. If the oppressed nations put

aside their own conflicts and follow

proletarian leaders, they can turn the

world upside-down.

We can say there was a revolutionary

opportunity in England in 2003, but there

was no revolutionary situation. That

means that physically the government

was stretched thin, but subjectively the

population of England--which benefits

from the super-exploitation of the Third

World by British imperialism--did not

want any revolutionary upsurge. It's not

just that it let itself be robbed and had to

learn political tactics. The population of

England is predominantly petty-bourgeois.

The same exact thing happened in Paris

in May 1968, except in a more intense

way. There was a definite physical

opportunity for revolution vastly better and

more clear-cut than the one in England in

2003. Yet, there was no proletarian pole

that could attract the petty-bourgeoisie.

There was no strong party guided by

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism MIM

Thought; thus there was never any chance

that a proletarian minority with

revolutionary desire could swing the

whole country in its direction.

In Iraq, a population of a mere 22 million

is holding down about 150,000 of the

world's best-armed imperialist troops and

causing about half of them to say they

won't be re-enlisting when their tours are

up. So the question arises, if the English

had the same determination to end the

war, how many troops would it take to

hold down 58 million English? The answer

is more than the troops available to

England, far more. For that matter Uncle

$am would not have enough spare troops

to quell an insurrection in England either.

The imperialists would have to make a

choice, and they would be forced to recall

troops from abroad in a hurry--no small

contribution to the international struggle

against imperialism. That is the minimum

success that a revolutionary movement

would have in England.

Of course, it is true that the English

people had no preparation for armed

struggle while Iraqis did. The fact remains

that had the English wanted an

England faces quasi-

revolutionary opportunity

insurrection to end the Iraq War or for

their own reasons, the numbers,

organization and communications

advantages the English revolutionaries

could bring to bear on the situation would

make up for their initial lack of weapons.

Thus, the problem in England was a lack

of revolutionary desire.

In England, most of those calling

themselves "communist" are some kind

of Trotskyist or another. They believe their

"workers" are among the most advanced

in the world, the way all national

chauvinists do. They had their chance for

revolution in 2003. Where is it?

The answer to this question lies in

economics, not political leadership and

military factors. The majority of England

is petty-bourgeois. When given the

chance for revolution it does not want it.

A determined proletarian minority must

form its own pole, fly its own banner and

give the petty-bourgeoisie another option

to vacillate toward.

Notes:

1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/21/

nirq21.xml The Telegraph is close to

British military intelligence

2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/

story/0,11816,1007936,00.html

3. http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/

2003/s941828.htm

4. http://www.army.mod.uk/

aroundtheworld/index.htm ; see also, http:/

/www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/

020324-attack01.htm

5. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

c m s . d l l / h t m l / u n c o m p /

articleshow?art_id=164203340

London demonstration, September 27 2003 (http://www.indymedia.org.uk).

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 8

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nuclear power--remain unaddressed."

Here Dean is being clear he is on board

with imperialism; he just has

disagreements with Bush and the

Republicans about who the main enemy

of Amerikan imperialism is at this time.

In other areas he lines up with the rest of

the imperialists, Democrats and

Republicans alike. For instance, Dean is

firmly in support of Zionist Israel.

Dean is as deluded (or as good at double

speak) as the rest of the imperialists,

claiming "The United States has a special

role to play in world affairs as an historic

inspiration to those around the world

seeking democracy, freedom, and

opportunity. Our own fight for

independence, democracy, and basic

human rights has allowed us to act as a

moral force in world affairs and a guiding

light for other nations." Amerikan

politicians love to take the high moral road

as if Amerika was not the biggest terrorist

in the world, setting the worst example

of supporting military dictatorships and

perpetuating humyn rights violations

around the world. Dean's goal to "restore

America's rightful place in the world and

its moral leadership in world affairs" will

never be possible, but we can look to the

day when imperialism in Amerika is

overthrown and the country will no longer

be the immoral leader in world affairs.

Dean does talk of "enlarg[ing] the circle

of beneficiaries of the growing world

economy" and puts in some good lip

service about "draw[ing] upon the genius

of our people to help societies who need

help in the battle against hunger and

illness, ignorance, and despair." Dean's

vision is clearly global. He is more

sophisticated than Kucinich who virtually

ignores the international situation to the

extent of joining the protectionist camp.

But Dean's vision is no more realistic.

Imperialism is a system that requires

poverty so that corporations can have

Howard Dean represents Amerika

resources and labor to

exploit to make a

profit. Amerika is

wealthy because of its

imperialist policies

throughout the world,

enforcing poverty and

terror on the Third

World so that its

corporations can bring

home the wealth.

Dean does put

forward some

relatively progressive

sounding domestic

policies but they are

just window dressing.

He says he will

oppose the expansion

of the Patriot Act and

the repeal of parts of

it that are

unconstitutional, but

he will otherwise

keep the existing

Patriot Act. He wants ex-felons to have

the right to vote, but does not address the

criminal injustice system as a whole. Dean

wants to expand DNA testing and access

to lawyers for those on Death Row, but

does not take a stance against the death

penalty, which can never be reformed

under capitalism. He will define racial

profiling as discrimination but does not

propose to do anything about the police

occupation of oppressed communities.

Within imperialism, for Amerikan

citizens, Dean promises to expand rights

to those already benefiting from

imperialist wealth. He stands for

expansion of gay rights, wimmin's right

to choose, and affirmative action. These

are all reforms that will not fundamentally

alter the nature of national oppression

within Amerika or Amerika's imperialist

domination of the oppressed nations of

the world.

Dean talks about balancing the budget

in Amerika, creating a system of simple
and fair taxation and funding education

programs, healthcare, Social Security and

Medicare but offers no facts on how he
will do this. The fact is that all Amerikan

programs are financed with the blood and

sweat of Third World workers. It is
definitely possible for an imperialist

country to have a balanced budget, but

this will not reduce the suffering of the
majority of the world's people who are

financing that budget.

Dean recognizes that the white

"working class" in Amerika is really the

middle class. He notes: "The American

labor movement has allowed millions of
hard-working Americans to move into the

middle class and create better lives for

themselves and their children." But he
goes on to say "It is the absence of labor

unions in many third world countries that

has caused the hemorrhaging of
manufacturing jobs from U.S.-based

What is militarism?

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.

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factories to offshore plants." This

absence of labor unions is a result of U$

terror policies in Third World countries
which backs dictators who eliminate labor

unions so that Amerikan corporations can

use cheap labor to bring wealth back
home.

At root Dean represents the liberal

wing of the imperialists. He is a viable
candidate for president as someone who

has realistic (within imperialism) domestic

and international policies. And he is

mobilizing mass support through the

Internet in a campaign that so far is fueled

by large numbers of regular Amerikans
taking up the work and raising the funds.

This is a good example of how far white

Amerika is willing to go: some
progressive-sounding rhetoric on

domestic policies that won't threaten the

fundamental order of national oppression
and dominance.

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 9

today, defense attorneys are not supposed

to question the sexual histories of the

accusers. On the other hand, defense

attorneys are supposed to have the right

to cross-examine evidence and not take

it at face value as reported by

prosecutors.

Let us assume that espn.com reported

the following correctly: "On Wednesday,

defense attorney Pamela Mackey got the

lead investigator to acknowledge the

panties the woman wore to the hospital

fewer than 24 hours after the alleged

assault had sperm and pubic hair that did

not match Bryant's."(1)

So now the defense is not supposed to

question sexual history other than with

the accused, but physical circumstantial

evidence obviously points to sexual history.

This case also raises another question:

why is physical evidence pointing to sexual

history accepted while other forms of

evidence are not?

According to "shield law"(2) theories,

a womyn is supposed to have the right to

individual consent even if she is "loose."

In any circumstance, no matter the prior

ones, she has that right.

However, this ideology as law comes

into conflict with other laws, because the

existing Injustice System was not meant

Kobe case: the intersection of insanity and irrationality

to be a place to carry out social justice. It

is not a place where problems affecting

entire groups of people can be solved.

The shield law itself in Colorado mentions

some of the difficulties, but it is

stereotyped legal practice that decides in

reality how such problems resolve

themselves. Hence, the judge reportedly

blasted the defense lawyers at first but

had to accept aggressive accusations from

the defense attorneys in the Kobe case

later.

The individual supposedly has the right

to point to other potential suspects in the

case. That's true in murder and other

crimes. In this case, Kobe Bryant may

succeed in making a strong case on the

physical evidence. What is left might be

"he said, she said." It is this possibility

that CNN has discussed.

CNN has put forward that it is perfectly

possible to prove "beyond a reasonable

doubt" just based on "he said, she said."

"Assuming the physical evidence does not

aid the jury in a `he said, she said' case,

how does it decide whom to believe? In

general, jurors can draw on everyday

experience to determine who is lying and

who is telling the truth -- a skill everyone

employs (with varying skill) in his or her

daily life. But jurors can also look to the

witnesses' motives to lie."(3)

No wonder the United $tates is the

leading prison-state in the world per capita

with attitudes like this backing up a sick

system.

The interpretation of "beyond a

reasonable doubt" should not be

"whoever is more credible." Outside an

open dictatorship, "beyond a reasonable

doubt" should be 95 or 99% certainty and

we at MIM doubt that anyone can accuse

anyone else of anything at that level

without third party witnesses. To believe

otherwise is to give in to a classic class

distinction, where one persyn can be so

much more highly regarded than the other.

The jury will consciously and

subconsciously choose on that basis.

The solution to rape is found by

addressing its causation, not by creating

pornographic court case spectacles. The

United $tates stands out in the world for

its rape problem, and CNN and the rest

of individualist Amerikkka is barking up

the wrong tree.

The real solution comes from looking

at the formation of social relations. We

find it unacceptable that CNN is willing

to put Kobe or anyone in prison just

because CNN finds one persyn "more

credible" than another. It is a lesser evil

to censor the media when it does not

contribute to socialist relations between

the genders. We should ban advertising

and other pornography that depict wimmin

as willing sex objects. Some wimmin we

call gender aristocracy may truly enjoy

that kind of message, but some men are

copycat morons and the rest will absorb

the message subconsciously and it surely

cannot be good for all wimmin.

We at MIM are also willing to say that

in the short-run, wimmin should give up

the right to visit men in their hotel rooms

if they expect to be able to accuse them

of rape later. Fighting for such a "right"

now is ultra-left (which means a dream

ahead of actually existing conditions),

because we still have a patriarchy, which

means that men cannot be trusted or

reformed on an individual basis. They can

only be revolutionized.

Notes:

1. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/

story?id=1639723

2. http://www.geocities.com/

CapitolHill/2269/CO18.html#18-3-407.

3. http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/07/

24/findlaw.analysis.dorf.kobe.bryant/

This year MIM initiated a statewide

study group in the California prisons

focusing on the criminal injustice system.

United Struggle from Within (USW)

leaders has run the study group, for the

most part. USW is a MIM-led prisoner

organization for political leaders behind

the bars. USW members in California

prisons took responsibility for writing up

an invitation letter, study questions, and

needed responses to questions posed by

participants. The participation has been

strong and members of the study group

have written enthusiastically about what

they are learning, their goals to turn the

education into action with effective

organizing, and their desire to continue

the study group. One of our participants

commented, "I'm pleased, ecstatic at the

growth of participant comrades." Many

others echoed this sentiment.

Education in prisons across the United

$tates is dismal. Prisons no longer even

put up the front of rehabilitation and so

education programs are few and library

books, when available, mostly consist of

trash novels. MIM runs one of the few

Books for Prisoners programs in the

country, and we focus on sending in

political literature. A lot of books,

magazines and newspapers we send in

are censored because the prisons

consider education "a threat to the security

of the institution" or some variation on

that excuse. In fact, several of the

prisoners who signed up for this California

study group were unable to participate

because their prison censored the reading

material.

In the introductory letter to study group

participants the USW leader quoted Karl

Marx: "The philosophers have only

interpreted the world, in various ways;

the point, however, is to change it." Much

of the heated discussion in the study group

has been focused on analysis of strategies.

Among many other topics, we have

discussed and debated the ideology of

focoism which uses sensational actions

to try to inspire the masses and build the

revolutionary struggle, the use of prison

labor under imperialism and in

revolutionary China, and the use of

criticism and self-criticism under the

imperialist system. Discussion of these

questions of theory have been related to

practice by many of the participants,

talking about legal battles we can and are

waging against the California Department

of Corruptions right now like the fight

against the Three Strikes law.

Relating these discussions to conditions

within California prisons some of the

discussion has focused on prison gangs

and the ways the CDC manipulates gang

classifications to create divisions between

prisoners. One study group participant

wrote: "I find that any time we can unite

to overcome these oppressive conditions

that these barriers come down. This can

be done with group grievances (group

602s) and sharing legal work and things

like MIM Notes or study books. I agree

... that even these study groups can help.

The more prisoners realize that these

gangs as they are structured only serve

to make prisoners puppets of this

imperialistic system, keep us divided, as

more prisoners come to realize that we

help to fashion more chains around our

own necks, we will find that enlightenment

serves show forth the truth. Truthful

analysis and correct political ideologies

will help us overcome these divisions. In

the mean time, we should use our common

oppression to forget bonds of unity in areas

of: grievances, sharing legal work and

solutions, and political literature. In

California, prisons are becoming more

oppressive each passing year. In the last

23 years conditions get worse every year.

I am strong believer that we must learn

to use this legal system to our advantage

and fight the imperialists with their own

system."

Running a study group with prisoners

is no easy task. Because of policies

banning prisoners from receiving mail

from other prisoners, MIM activists have

to support the study group by compiling

and typing up responses to circulate to

participants. And with frequent mail

censorship, several of our study group

members were cut off after the first

batch of questions because they never

received subsequent mailings. After

repeated attempts some of the mail got

through, but this resulted in a great delay

and increased cost. Because of the work

and cost required, participants in the study

group had to demonstrate commitment to

participation and were asked to help cover

mailing costs if they could. Several

prisoners sent more money than

requested to help cover those who could

not afford to send anything.

But the labor is paying off as we see

USW leaders stepping forward and

developing their political understanding

and then turning that knowledge into

organizing and action.

Reading materials for this study group,

along with study questions, are available

from MIM and include MIM Theory 11

"Amerikan Prisons on Trial" and a

selection of readings about prisons in

revolutionary China. If you are interested

in using these materials in a study group,

contact MIM for more information.

MIM runs successful education

program in California prisons

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MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · 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

Cover Up in
Washington

The Washington Department of

Corrections is literally involved in a cover-

up. Its Intensive Management Units (IMU)
are using a statewide practice of obstructing
justice by covering IMU inmates cell windows

with magnetic covers, so that inmates can
not see out of their cells during incidents that
happen within the IMU pods. This type of

practice obstructs and eliminates inmates to
view what's going on outside their cell door
as well as what correction officers can see

inside the cell at the time. It also is eliminating
any witnesses other than DOC staff on the
scene.

The following is a narrative of a grievance

filed and the response given to the complaint
by regional administrator Mr. Thomas D.

McIntyre, on 10/21/02:

The Stafford Creek Correctional Center F-

Unit staff is using a procedure of placing

magnetic covers over inmates cell windows
during emergencies, or otherwise. This is in
violation of their own Washington

Administrative Code policy, and an
obstruction of view into all inmates cell. On
numerous occasions magnetic covers have

been placed on windows for hours.

On July 23, 2002 for 4 hours, July 26, 2002

10 hours, August 17, 2002 8 hours, August

19, 2002 5 hours and August 29, 2002 for 7
hours without any staff looking in to cells for
visual observation. This violates their own

DOC 320.255 policy directive section VIII (8):
staff assigned to an IMU/seg unit shall
conduct cell checks on a regular schedule

that is no longer than 30 minutes apart to
personally observe inmates/offenders.

Action requested by grievant: That this

active practice be stopped immediately, staff
can not have visual observation or sight into
cells with this procedure. An inmate at the

scene of an incident has a right to be a
witness, and be able to report the incident.

Mr. Thomas McIntyre Department of

Corrections, office of correctional operations
response to complaint:

There is nothing to support your allegation

that covering cell windows during an incident
violates any Washington administrative code
or policy. Your argument that staff can not

cover the windows because offenders/
inmates are not allowed to do the same is
also not supported. The use of magnetic

covers during incidents in the IMUs is a
statewide practice and is a prudent practice
in regards to safety and security.

USW prisoner adds: This policy is

hypocritical; it is to be noted that when
inmates cover their cell windows in protest or

otherwise, they are infracted in violation of
320.255 sec. VIII (8) and other policies. That
can justify a cell extraction and use of force

supposedly to make sure an inmate is safe.
This practice gives the DOC IMU staff an
open invitation for excessive force, false

reporting and abuse of power. It eliminates
opposing statements from witnesses.

In 2002 Walla Walla police detective Mike

Boettches investigated an officer shooting
an inmate at Washington State Prison. When
a WSP lieutenant conveniently "forgot" to

hit the record button for the camera
monitoring the yard, however there was no
video tape of the shooting. Therefore

Boettcher was relegated to investigating via
interviews. Numerous prisoners witnesses
said the fight was but a mere wrestling match,

even so Jim Nagle the Walla Walla, county
prosecutor, refused to prosecute. Nagle
claimed that prisoner witnesses would not

be credible enough to get a manslaughter
conviction. Oddly Nagle's office has been

suing prisoners witnesses to convict other
prisoners of crimes committed at WSP.(1)

On May 28, 2002 John Anthony Brown, 31,

hanged himself in IMU at Washington
Correction center in Shelton. Brown allegedly
tied a sheet around the TV stand in his cell

and died of suffocation; two other prisoners
at WCC IMU attempted suicide the same ay
that month.(2)

The covering of cell windows practice is

also a torture tactic which enhances sensory
deprivation creating symptoms of

claustrophobia, anxiety attacks and
disillusionment. If you already suffer from
mental illness, these symptoms are even more

exacerbated. More than 95% of those who
take their own lives in correctional facilities
have a diagnosed treatable psychiatric

illness. According to federal surveys 16% of
those in prison or jail are classified as mentally
ill.(3)

It is ironic that this same tactic is used on

animals, especially birds. When you want to
put a caged bird to sleep you just cover up

their cages, and leave them in the dark.

I seek advice, and help with litigation in

this matter to stop this practice, because

without such efforts this obstructive policy
will continue. Please send letters of protest
to:

Deputy Secretary of DOC Eldon Vail
PO Box 41118

Olympia, WA 98584-1118
Thomas D. McIntyre

Southwest Region Administrator
OCO 4317 6th Ave S.E.
Olympia, WA 98504-1120

Fax: 360-407-0069

Superintendent Doug Waddinton

Stafford Creek Corr. Center
191 Constantine Way
Aberdeen, WA 98520

Fax: 360-537-1807

-- a Washington state prisoner, October

2003

Notes:
1. Prison Legal News, July 2003, Washington
Guards shoot now ask questions later.
2. PLN, August 2003.
3. Vol 4, No3. The Plages of Prison, Western
Prison Project, Winter 2002

Pennsylvania fight for
decent food

Today I am battling SCI at Albion in regards

to the quality of the food that I am being
served. You may be thinking that prisoners

have little to complain about, so the food is
first on the list. Well, many prisoners do
complain about the food because it is the first

thing that you need. If you don't eat you will
get weak, sick, starve and die. That is reality.

For many years now [this prison] has been

serving less and poor quality food. Oh,
except someone important comes to the prison.

Some rumors say that if a kitchen supervisor

can cut food cost they get what they saved
as a yearly bonus.

Once every so often, I don't know exactly

when, the Health Department comes to the
prison. We all know beforehand because the
employees work hard to get everything just

so. Oh, that's another day we get fed food
that you can eat.

As I am a prisoner, I must depend on these

prison employees to feed me. I need the food
to stay healthy and alive.

Now comes the fun part. I'm not allowed to

get a lot of fellow prisoners to complain. And
most won't in fear of retaliation. So I take this
step on my own.

Is there a way I can get the health

department to come and inspect without
forewarning the prison?

--A Pennsylvania prisoner

MIM adds: Prisoners have been reporting

in ULK for years that the prisons are either

cutting back on portions of food served, or
serving fewer meals on the weekends and
holidays to reduce staffing. The New York

Times recently noticed this trend as well,
reporting that some states are actively cutting
down on prisoner food as a means of reducing

budget deficits.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice

(TDCJ), whose captives often put in long

days of hard labor in the sun, has cut
prisoners' daily caloric allotment from the
Department of Agriculture-recommended

minimum of 2,800 for active men to 2,500.
North Carolina now gives 2,700 calories per
day, down from 3,300; and Virginia has cut

out breakfast on Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays.

Of course the states can be as cheap as

they want with prisoner food and it won't do
much to help their budgetary problems --
not with guards' salaries soaking up 80

percent of corrections allotments and the
courts and parole boards enforcing long and
often unreasonable sentences. If there are

food shortages under socialism we too would
cut allocations for prisoners before, say,
members of the people's army. But prisoners

would be enemies of the people, tried by
proletarian tribunals, their numbers would not
be swelled by oppressed nationals on petty

drug charges. And we would be reducing their
food allowances to feed others, not to make
prison a more profitable enterprise.

Source: "States Putting Inmates on Diets

to Trim Budgets" 30 Sept. 2003, NYT.

Struggle and study in
Massachusetts

Clenched fist salute! I am writing to let

people know about the struggle I am involved
in daily as a young revolutionary - in

Plymouth, Massachusetts. There are
approximately 500 of us state prisoners being
held hostage in the Plymouth County

Correctional Facility due to overcrowding in
the system. That this is a privately owned
facility only in operation to make money is

obvious in everything that happens here.
Dietary insufficiency, extortionate prices at
the canteen, forgery, useless and spiteful

caseworkers, and a blatant disregard for even
their own rules and regulations are all things

used to cut corners to increase the profit
margin at our expense. That it is located in a
rural area of Massachusetts, and most of the

staff are from this area, which with its low
percentage of minorities makes for a lot of
tension between the staff and us who are

doing time. . .

During my many trips to the hole I have

started a kind of informal study group, to

which anyone with a legitimately
revolutionary attitude or a real desire to learn
about the issues that really matter is welcome.

Most of us are "hole regulars" because the
COs will always find a way to segregate
politically minded prisoners. We pick an issue

in the morning at breakfast and take all day
to write or think about it, and the opinions
and ideas all get shared after 10 p.m. head

count because that's when it gets quieter. The
only drawback to this is that the COs and the
racist inmates use our meetings to mark for

retribution those who dare to express ideas
contrary to their own. Whether it be the COs
taking our one hour of recreation or another

prisoner trying to throw feces into our cells,

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 11

Facts on U$ imprisonment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the MIM "Frequently Asked

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

Internationalism is the ethical belief or

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

We Maoists believe the nationalism of

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

"I must argue, not from the point of view

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

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

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

What is internationalism?

we stay united and strong.

In closing, I would like to let all the

revolutionary prisoners out there, who are

being persecuted for their views, know that
they are not alone and it is necessary to keep
up the struggle for "each one to teach one."

--a prisoner in Massachusetts, September

2003

Oklahoma censors
"internet pages"

Dear MIM,
The mail guard sent me a note saying they

were stealing "internet pages" I was mailed

or could send them "home" or "to sender."
They deliberately sent the package these
pages came in to the wrong building and

delivered it with my other mail eight days
later. Today I found it was from you and that
they prohibit "internet pages," but I learned

nothing of these pages' content. The delay
was to help burn up 15 days, after which
protest is ruled waived. It also seeks to

prevent time enough for copying the
[rejection] notice, which must be attached to
the grievance and often vanishes while in

their hands, nullifying the grievance. Mail
won't go out again until Monday. I'll begin
the grievance procedure then, because Friday

they had no g-forms available.

Filing a grievance forces the guards to

forego destroying the mail until after the final

word is reached on the grievance. The most
likely result is I'll send your package out
somewhere and have someone write me a

description of its contents.

Sorry for the trouble. I have not had any

net pages stolen this way before. Hope we

can win this, since it's free speech, something
Americans think is allowed. Take care.

In struggle,

-- an Oklahoma prisoner 3 October, 2003

MIM adds: The offending "internet pages"

in this case were news articles from MIM's

website, some on the current situation in
Nepal and some on Peru.

Fighting repression in
California

I have been here in California's state prison

at Corcoran's segregated housing unit since
June 1995, I have been witness to countless

acts of brutality by prison officials, mainly
correctional sergeants and correctional
officers.

Just this past week a convict had a serious

medical problem, and requested aid. The
guards kept telling him there's no medical staff

etc., because they didn't feel like escorting
him to the acute care hospital. It was
Thursday and I know for a fact that there are

medical personnel here 365 days a year 24
hours a day.

This is just one example of the type of

neglect and such the medical and correctional
staff perpetuate, the above incident ended

by the sergeant's and their jackbooted friends
spraying over 9 cans of OC pepper spray and

three grenades exploding in the man's cell.
Procedure states such actions are supposed
to be recorded by motion video yet. No video

recording was made, they do this so that in
the event of legal ramifications they don't
incriminate themselves by video.

What needs to be done is convicts must

act in unison in order to ensure our rights
guaranteed by the constitution are not

violated period, regardless of the threats
made by these government whores! Stand
up and be counted as one of the truly

courageous! Stop speaking of battles fought
against one another when you won't even
take part in the most important battle of all.

Liberation!

-- a CA prisoner, September 2003

California guards set
up fights

On June 16, 2003 on C yard the white

inmates attacked the Black inmates. The day
before, on the 15th a white inmate took a knife

to the PoPo and told them the plan to attack
the Blacks. So these people here started
searching Blacks and no one else. They knew

what the whites were planning and they let it
happen. 20 white inmates with knifes attacked
the Blacks and 17 Blacks got stabbed. No

one died. A few whites got beat down pretty
bad.

We have been on lock-down for close to

three months. They let up upper C yard and
we were up for a week, then the Blacks
attacked the whites on September 6. I wasn't

on the yard so I really don't know what's up
with that incident yet. But the real fact of the
matter is that this prison knew what was up

and did nothing about it.

We are being manipulated by this prison.

They just finished a new hole here and they

need to fill it up and with the racial tension
here they will succeed. I hope you get this
letter because things have been happening

to our mail and 602's [appeal forms]. For the
last week since the incident happened they
have been coming taking Blacks to the hole.

PoPo have been saying that we will be on
lock-down for a year. Every day it seems like
the food is getting worse. We find hair in our

food. The PoPo are perspiring bad but they
don't care. They are planning on taking the
packages and have us buy from a vendor.

-- a California prisoner at High Desert,

September 2003

Inhuman conditions in
California SHU

The California Code of Regulations (CCR

Title 15) section 3331 mandates by law what
the "conditions of detention" should be. CCR

Title 15 Section 331 paragraph (h) dictates

the amount of "out of cell" exercise a prisoner
is allowed. It states in part, "inmates will be

permitted one hour per day, five days a week,
of exercise a week." Here in my unit inmates
receive 3 hours at a time, approximately once

every 10 days. This unit has two "S.H.U.
yards", and numerous "exercise cages"
available. However, the administration here

places so many prisoners on "walk alone"
status, that it is impossible to facilitate our
allowed yard time. It is clear that this

administration uses "walk alone" status as a
way to deny us yard. Extensive cell time is
not only detrimental to physical health, it

leads to mental depression, paranoia, and
panic attacks. It would be quite simple to
assign yard groups, but it is easier for the

staff to use "safety + security" issues, to not
do that.

Prisoners also are to be provided means to

keep themselves clean and well- groomed.
Each inmate is provided 1 roll of toilet paper,
1 bar of soap, and 2 teaspoons of tooth

powder per week. There is a canteen where
you can buy 5 bars of soap, shampoo,
deodorant, a comb once a month. Neither

combs nor deodorant are issued. You must
purchase these items. So if a prisoner is
indigent he has no comb. I don't recall my

sentencing judge saying I had to have money
to comb my hair.

Now on to what I feel is the largest problem

here at Corcoran. Reading material. By law
state supplied reading material will be
provided for prisoners undergoing

disciplinary detention. Such material will
represent a cross section of material available
to the general population. Here at Corcoran

that is laughable. There is a book cart of about
30 dilapidated romance novels for about 120
prisoners. You are allowed 1 book per week. I

think it goes without saying that the library
here is lacking.

Being in a 6x8 cell 24 hours a day, 7 days a

week, for extended period of times, without
something to read borders on cruel and
unusual punishment. Now some convicts are

fortunate enough to have TVs or books mailed
from the street, but most don't. Most only
have four concrete walls and a life sentence

to ponder.

Because there is no inmate movement the

staff are responsible for the sanitary

conditions of the unit. The simple fact is, the
staff does nothing to keep these units clean.
The showers are filthy, the tiers are never

swept nor mopped, the unit is infested with
insects and mice. Almost all prisoners keep
their own cells very clean. But the unit should

be kept sanitary also. It simply is not.

Now any human being will adapt to ones

environment. But the simple fact is, this SHU

is a warehouse for human animals. Animals
in pet stores are treated more humanly then
we are. There are almost 2000 prisoners here

in the SHU, all housed in "living coffins," fed
just enough to be kept alive, and not much

else. These conditions breed hard, bitter
people. Cut off from every one and

everything. The [prisoners] are human
product, for the business called the California
Department of Corrections.

-- a California prisoner at Corcoran,

September 2003

Fighting brutality in
California

I feel it is imperative to bring to further light

the corrupt regime that is commonly called
the California Department of Corrections and

their obvious abuses of civil rights and human
decency.

I have been in the Security Housing Unit

here in Corcoran since 1996 and have endured
and seen many wicked deeds perpetrated by
guards or COs [correctional officers], and

because of the low end education of most
inmates, retribution for these deeds aren't
productive, as they are usually violent and

in the long run do far more harm to the inmate
than the guard/CO.

What I have found is that every inmate

that is abused while in manacles/handcuffs
should and must file staff complaints every
time. Then file group civil suits against the

institution heads, individual civil suits are
useless. We must work in tandem if we are to
change the way the SHU is. These violations

are often blatant and done in the view of many
people. Inmates and correctional officers alike
are morally obligated to assist in the

prevention of torture; cowardly attacks, etc,
by guards etc. Whether you think the guard
will speak the truth or not is irrelevant. You

must endeavor to put them on the stand as
witnesses to the brutality of this
environment. We must use all tools at our

disposal.

-- a prisoner in California, August 2003

MIM Notes 290 · November 1, 2003 · Page 12

Notas Rojas

nov 1, 2003, Nº 290 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

Artículo revisado, 18 de julio de

2003

Traducido por Células de Estudio

para la Liberación de Aztlán y

América Latina.

Según los periódicos peruanos y la

publicación de Yahoo!, el Europe Press,

Adolfo Olaechea fue arrestado por las
autoridades españolas el 4 de julio de
2003. No disponemos de detalles

confiables pero, según varias fuentes,
Adolfo Olaechea estaba de viaje de
negocios en España.

El embajador peruano solicitó una

extradición de Adolfo Olaechea al Perú
denominando a éste un "terrorista" y

sosteniendo Olaechea había tenido lazos
con el Partido Comunista del Perú y la
guerra civil peruana desde el año 1980,

a pesar de que la guerra civil peruana
comenzó años después de la salida de
Olaechea del Perú.

El título del artículo que aparece en

Yahoo! dice: "El terrorista peruano

Adolfo Olaechea..." De modo que la
histeria gringa en torno al "terrorismo"
tiene resonancia en todo el mundo- algo

común entre la popular retórica
"antiterrorista" propagada por
gobernantes que buscan encubrir

cualquier tipo de oportunismo y fechoría.

Adolfo Olaechea lleva casi 40 años

fuera del Perú. Ha sido residente

permanente de Inglaterra durante los
últimos 25 años. Según una entrevista
realizada por El Comercio, Olaechea no

formaba parte del Partido Comunista del
Perú. Tenía un documento emitido por
la Embajada peruana que le permitía

viajar dentro del Perú, por lo tanto,
Olachea no tenía problemas con viajes
a Perú durante dos semanas. La

pregunta es ¿a qué se debe la acusación
reciente de "terrorismo", si los gringos
no están moviendo los hilos de los

títeres? Como señala la entrevista de El

Comercio, las personas que han acusado
a Olaechea en el pasado hoy en día están

presos por acusación de tráfico de
drogas, soborno y asesinato en masa.
El jefe del servicio de inteligencia V.

Montesinos, quien ocupó el cargo
durante la presidencia de Fujimori, se
encuentra encarcelado.

A la luz del reciente descontento con

el fallido régimen peruano, los resultados
de la encuesta sobre la popularidad de

Toledo quien había obtenido su
educación en la Universidad de
Stanford, y el descontento global con el

patrocinador de Toledo, los EE. UU.,
no nos sorprende el amplio alcance de
la búsqueda de chivos expiatorios,

aunque los detalles de tales noticias
siempre son muy raros. Mientras el
pueblo peruano organiza marchas en

contra del desempleo y se preguntan
porqué Toledo no lleva a cabo sus
promesas electorales, resulta fácil hacer

demagogia y distraer a la gente con la
aserción de que la guerra civil peruana
originó en Londres.

En su publicación, Caretas afirma que

Adolfo Olaechea "propaga a favor del
Sendero Luminoso". Burlándose de las

denuncias que Olaechea hizo en contra
del régimen peruano desde Londres,
Caretas lo llama un trabajador cultural

que debería ser castigado aunque
Olaechea no fuera "un líder histórico"
del Sendero Luminoso.

Les sugerimos a escritores tipo Caretas

que en vez de buscar respuestas fáciles
como la caza de refugiados en Londres,

amplíen su información, por ejemplo,
con una reseña de las condiciones en el
campo para entender a qué se debe el

origen de la lucha armada. Si un
gobierno no sabe aguantar ciertos
discursos o artículos escritos desde

Londres, a este gobierno le tocará caer
tarde o temprano; cuanto más pronto
se reconozca este hecho y se abandone

a este tipo de gobierno débil, menos
sangre será derramada.

Uno de los pasos tomados por

Adolfo Olaechea arrestado en

España: el chivo expiatorio de

lacayos estadounidenses en el Perú

Olaechea en Inglaterra antes de su

arresto fue el intento de asegurar el
apoyo de los Tories en contra de la
guerra con Irak. Olaechea instigó a

Inglaterra a que "salvara nuestra
democracia"- una posición afín a la
opinión inglesa, según la cual en un país

que tiene sus propios recursos
petrolíferos, la mayoría de la gente no
estaba a favor de la guerra, sino que fue

obligada a brindar su respaldo a favor
de la misma por Bush y su títere Blair.

Mao dijo una vez que un ataque del

enemigo es un honor y un hecho positivo.
En el caso de Adolfo Olaechea, el honor
de haber sido convertido en un chivo

expiatorio es extraño pero significativo.
¿Es posible que el régimen peruano tenga
tanto pánico a los escritos y los discursos

de Olaechea que decida correr el riesgo
de aparentar desesperado en público?

Surge la pregunta de qué tan eficaz es

el motor de la justicia. Aún está por verse
si lo que está pasando es un resto del
despotrique anterior de Fujimori, ahora

que existe una orden internacional de
arresto en contra del mismo. La imagen
que se crea en torno a Perú es la imagen

de una "república bananera" caprichosa
y arbitraria. Según la entrevista de El
Comercio, en una ocasión Perú le otorga

a Olaechea una entrada para su luna de
miel por dos semanas. En otra ocasión
se ordena un arresto de Fujimori/

Montesinos por cargos de corrupción,
tráfico de drogas y asesinatos en masa.
Encima de esto, el Perú parece actuar

según órdenes que tal vez hayan sido
emitidas por Fujimori.

El MIM espera obtener más detalles

sobre esta rara historia.