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PEOPLE FROM

EX-FASCIST

COUNTRIES

CRITICIZE

UNITED $TATES

NEW YORK CITY

August 31

New York City police "just plucked him

out of the crowd," said an older German

man of a young Black man carried away

by police while marching near Union

Square. The German was in Union

Square filming the demonstrations against

the Republican National Convention.

"It's just like it was in my country before

the war," he said; then adding, "I'm from

Germany."

Numerous people such as this German

stopped by to talk to MIM with the hope

that MIM would know what to do about

such an arrest or had further information.

Others stopped by to tell MIM what they

knew. We told the German comrade that

the U.$. people were acting "scared" and

"stupid" and he agreed.

Demonstrators all over the city were

comparing notes and using text messages

to figure out what was happening and

every time MIM picked up an extra flyer

with a schedule on it, another

demonstrator wanted to take our copy of

it.

Some New Yorkers hit back hard. A

judge ordered a mass release of protestors

and massive fines for detaining them.(1)

(It remains to be seen how that all works

out.) Even the New York Times

recognized that what police were doing

is "preventive detention."

HOW BU$H

DE-STABILIZED

THE WHOLE

WORLD

"States that harbor terror, as the

President has made clear, will be held

accountable."

--White House Press Secretary

Scott McClellan September 16 2003 (1)

"Nations that continue to support

terrorism, continue to harbor terrorist

groups will be considered hostile."

--State Department spokesman

Richard Boucher October 3 2001 (2)

"With respect to the war on terrorism

across the globe, the task is to see that

terrorist networks are rooted out, and

that the countries that harbor terrorists

no longer harbor terrorist networks."

--Secretary of Defense Donald

Rumsfeld," January 8 2002 (3)

"The United States draws no

distinction between the terrorists and

the regimes that feed, train, supply and

harbor them."

--Condoleeza Rice, Jan. 31 2002 (4)

After promising to "roll back" and

"destroy" regimes that "harbor terrorists"

such as the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,

the Bush administration now condemns

terrorism in Russia's Beslan, the actions

that killed more than 326 people,

approximately half children at a school.

At the same time, the United $tates and

England called on Putin to negotiate with

the "terrorists."

According to Russian President Putin,

the United $tates and England are

harboring terrorists. Putin has asked for

extradition of the "terrorists" Akhmed

The "land of the free" and the "home

of the brave" ate up George Bush's

words backing his pre-emptive strike on

Iraq. Survey tested words appeared in

his prime-time television speech

accepting the nomination of the

Republican Party for president:

"BUSH: Do I forget the lessons of

September 11th and take the word of a

madman...

"AUDIENCE: No.

"BUSH: ... or do I take action to defend

our country? Faced with that choice, I

will defend America every time."

There are a lot of "madmen" in this

world. There can be continuous war if

no one has the courage to wait for the

perceived enemy to attack. It takes even

more courage to admit one's own actions

has provoked others to want to attack.

The Amerikans are cowardly types

who aided I$rael with military and

This demonstrator at the

Republican National

Convention in New York

City 2004 got it right. The

"cowardly lion" is from a

children's story, the "Wizard

of Oz." This Cowardly Lion

features U$ Secretary of

"Defense" Don Rumsfeld's

face.

Arrests at the Republican National Convention

Bu$h: Cowardly leader

of cowardly country

financial aid to

attack Arabs

and then

attacked Iraq

with a pre-

emptive strike.

As usual, they

bomb from the

air tens of

thousands of

feet up and then consider themselves

honorable warriors.

The leaders of Amerika are as cowardly

as the Amerikan population. It takes

courage to wait for a war instead of

launching bombs and it takes courage to

protect civil liberties in a capitalist country

that boasts day-and-night about those

liberties. The reason Kerry co-wrote the

"Patriot Act" and Bush signed it and both

endorsed the war on Iraq is the same

underlying cowardice of the Amerikan

population.

Note:http://www.cnn.com/2004/

ALLPOLITICS/09/02/

gop.bush.transcript/index.html

Continued on page 7...

Continued on page 4...

Inside: The national question

in the ex-Soviet bloc

The massacre of schoolchildren in Beslan highlights the bloody inter-ethnic

strife that has blossomed with the rise of Liberal capitalism in eastern Europe.

As proletarian internationalists, we detest both great-Russian chauvinism and

the kind of narrow nationalism that pits proletarians against other proletarians.

We develop these points and others in a series of articles in this issue.

* How Bu$h de-stabilized the world (p.1)

* Stalin and Chechens topic comes up on U.$. streets (p. 4)

* Putin admits he cannot police borders (p. 5)

* Straight talk on the Russian elite (p.5)

* Yes, there were Nazi collaborators (p.6)

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, f2004 · 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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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.

Today, there are two kinds of

internationalism, bourgeois

internationalism and proletarian

internationalism. In the bourgeois

internationalist view, peoples of all

countries should have a chance to become

exploiters. In the proletarian

internationalist view, exploitation

inevitably leads to violent conflict, so

peace amongst nations depends on a

global view not defending private property.

"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.

"The Communists are distinguished

from the other working-class parties by

this only: 1. In the national struggles of

the proletarians of the different countries,

they point out and bring to the front the

common interests of the entire proletariat,

independently of all nationality. 2. In the

various stages of development which the

struggle of the working class against the

bourgeiosie has to pass through, they

always and everywhere represent the

interests of the movement as a whole."

--Karl Marx, "Communist Manifesto,"

section II "Proletarians and Communists"

"There is one, and only one, kind of real

internationalism, and that is -- working

whole- heartedly for the development of

the revolutionary movement and the

revolutionary struggle in one's own

country, and supporting (by propaganda,

sympathy, and material aid) this struggle,

this, and only this, line, in every country

without exception."

--V.I. Lenin, about World War I in "The

Tasks of the Proletariat in Our

Revolution"

What is the

dictatorship of the

proletariat?

The proletariat is the group of people

who are propertyless and thus have

"nothing to lose but their chains." The

proletariat is the least conservative

element of society. The bourgeoisie is the

class of people who appropriate the labor

of wage workers through their control of

the means of production.

Dictatorship is organized force.

According to Marxism, all governments

are dictatorships. When classes are

abolished, it may be possible to have no

dictatorships because governments will

be abolished and replaced by voluntary

cooperation. We communists admit to

having dictatorship governments until we

achieve our goal of classlessness. It's a

matter of accountability.

Dictatorship of the proletariat is the

government of socialism. Dictatorship of

the bourgeoisie is the government of

capitalism.

Concretely and with reference to North

Amerikan ideas, dictatorship of the

proletariat is government implementation

of "survival rights" above "property

rights."

The realization that the right to life itself

can not be negotiable favors the

proletariat. Along with that realization

comes the notion that a non-negotiable

"right" implies the use of force to protect

it from those who profit abusing those so-

called rights. The use of force or law

backed by force (government) to feed,

clothe, shelter and otherwise protect

survival rights is dictatorship of the

proletariat.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is the

most central question of socialism. We

do not water it down or evade it. The

whole Cultural Revolution in China (1966-

1976) was about how to maintain and

strengthen the dictatorship of the

proletariat so that it would not be

corrupted. We communists are not

Liberal. We do not tolerate those who put

profit or such goals above survival rights.

We favor repression or control of such

people until the causes of their twisted

thought have been removed and

bourgeois thought has become completely

impossible to the whole people. That will

only happen under advanced stages of

communism.

Because there is no exploited white

working class in North Amerika, MIM

favors the joint dictatorship of the

proletariat of the oppressed nations

(JDPON). This amounts to putting u.$.

imperialism into receivership by

something like a proletarian United

Nations. The whole dictatorship of the

proletariat idea or its current form required

as JDPON is a strategy for advance from

capitalism toward communism, in which

dictatorship is only a stage existing until

certain tasks eliminating classes are done.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is internationalism?

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, 2004 · Page 3

As knowledge of the obesity epidemic

and its causes improves, the British public

is calling for a ban of junk food ads during

children's TV programs. 76% of the

British people polled said they favored the

banning idea.

"A third of those questioned felt parents

who consistently failed to provide their

children with a healthy diet should

ultimately face prosecution." MIM would

agree and that is just another reason we

Brits want junk food ads banned

are not big fans of leaving all parenting

choices to two individuals who may be

quite erratic.

MIM has always said that capitalism

is an indiscriminate motivator. From

MIM's point of view, the tobacco

situation is similar and involves a class

struggle. The class struggle is to curtail

the tobacco industry for the benefit of

the people. The battle against tobacco

ads aimed at children appears won to

some substantial degree, but there is

always another battle to win thanks to

capitalism.

It is important to admit that the abilities

to trade in slaves, sell substances with

nicotine and bombard children with

advertisements are examples of a kind of

"freedom." The fact that it is necessary

to take away such freedoms for the well-

being of the proletariat is why we call our

proposed form of government

"dictatorship of the proletariat."

Eventually in the advanced stages of

communism of the future, the entire

population will give up any idea of trading

in slaves, manufacturing cigarettes or

pushing potato chips on television and then

dictatorship of the proletariat won't be

necessary anymore.

Note:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/

3638714.stm

Dictatorship of the proletariat in

education needed

Cobb County of Georgia faces a lawsuit

for putting stickers in textbooks that say

Darwin's theory of evolution is "`a theory

not a fact'" and should be "`critically

considered.'"(1) Many of the same

reactionaries in favor of creationism

would also jump up and attack Stalin for

taking a stand in controversies engaging

Lysenko in biology. We would point out

that Lysenko was a lot closer to being

right than these creationists in the United

Creationist Cobb County Georgia labors in medieval times

$tates, for those who think science is

better off in Amerika than under Soviet

dictatorship.

The many disputes about creationism

in the United $tates and the regular

political battles over research funding

demonstrate that science production is

political. Ultimately what children learn

in school depends on what political

authority believes. Instead of denying this

the way most Amerikans do, we Maoists

accept the truth and struggle to be sure

that our politics does the most to promote

science and the specific science that is

correct. Of course we will err sometimes

but that is no reason to confuse religion

and science.

As of September 8 2004, reactionaries

are still in control of Cobb County

education. The web page for the school

board highlights the issue by giving

creationism and evolution equal footing.(2)

For MIM this is a clear-cut issue of the

dictatorship of the proletariat. The

"freedom" to preach creationism in school

has to be smashed. We also believe that

any parent who leaves his/her child

ignorant of sex education should face

attempted murder charges if that child

subsequently has asexually transmitted

disease. The parents' "right" to their

spiritual beliefs is not higher than the right

of people to survive or have a proper

education. Nor is there a right to spread

STDs in the name of the Bible.

Notes:

1. New York Times 7April2004, p. a 15.

2. http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/news/

originpolicy.htm.

Lobbyists in

Washington DC spent

over $1 billion in the

last six months of 2003

alone

In such an atmosphere, it is inevitable

that the influence of corporations with

concentrated economic power increases.

The sooner we get used to this fact, the

sooner we realize that the choice is not

between a Naderite "take America back"

fantasy of a small business world and

imperialism, but between the

concentrated power of capitalist

imperialism and the concentrated power

of socialism.

Note:

USA Today 2June2004, p. 6a.

When we tell the Liberals there has to

be a party or body of scientists deciding

what is good or bad for society in terms

of art and music, they say, "who are you

to decide?" We should throw back in their

face, "who are you to decide that mega-

corporations should decide?" The whole

question of "totalitarianism" is based on

an illusion that someone is not deciding

currently.

Advertising works, which is why

corporations spend billions each year on

it. If advertising did not work, our critics

might have a point, but billions of dollars

spent prove otherwise. Advertising is also

the reason that looks are crucially

important in establishing Britney Spears,

Mariah Carey, Beyonce etc.

It is not true that consumers assess the

world and then come up with their

choices. Consumers do not wander from

business establishment to business

establishment analyzing how products are

produced and what is available. We are

also convinced the consumers would

rather that the government regulate foods

and drugs--do an analysis of what is in

these drugs and under what conditions

food and drugs are produced. Anyone who

assumes that consumers really want to

do the analysis of the products they buy

themselves is badly deluded, probably a

professional bourgeois economist.

Consumers go to a store and based on

prior ads they buy what is available. It is

not an arbitrary process covering all the

bases. Walmart stores are big but not so

big as to allow every commodity anyone

anywhere could think of producing. A few

corporations decide on the vast majority

of merchandise.

Mega-corporations choose and then

spend money on ads. If a product makes

less profit than others, the mega-

corporation simply stops selling it. They

make the choices. That is the truth even

if the commodity sold is completely

harmful as with cigarettes or junk food.

Once we get over our "free will"

illusions and realize that people by their

millions have been brainwashed into

smoking and getting fat, we can start to

debate the topic correctly. When it

comes to the "who are you to decide"

question, MIM is better to decide than

the mega-corporations, because mega-

corporations profit from their products

and are not objective about them as a

result. Both MIM and mega-corporations

will make mistakes in what is good for

consumers, but when something harmful

like cigarettes come along, MIM has no

vested interest in lying in their defense.

We also have no vested interest in

spreading ads for potato chips. Even if it

is not profitable, MIM in power can

propagate a product that substitutes for

cigarettes while not harming the public.

Such did not happen under capitalism for

decades until doctors starting getting

tougher on their patients and ordering this

and that type of therapy.

That is an example why MIM is better

than the mega-corporations in deciding

"what" to produce in the first place. Their

goal is to make profit which simply

depends on what is easily available and

easy to advertise. The goals of the

Who are you to decide what food to eat, what art to ban?

international proletariat include a

sustainable environment, enough food to

eat, adequate shelter, clothing to wear and

ever-improving medical science.

Who are we to decide? Better us than

Frito-Lay or R.J. Reynolds or Playboy

Magazine. People in the wealthiest

capitalist countries are the most

brainwashed because they think they are

not. Anyone who has thought for five

seconds about advertising's effects on

children knows there is a Western form

of brainwashing. It would be better that

MIM does the brainwashing.

GOD?

WHO MADE YOU

Better us than Frito-Lay or

R.J. Reynolds or Playboy

Magazine.

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, f2004 · Page 4

Zakayev (asylum in England) and Ilyas

Akhmadov (asylum in the United

$tates).(5) By Bush's logic, Putin would

also be right to attack the United $tates

and England for giving political asylum to

aides to the "terrorist" leaders.

Putin is testing whether the West sees

him as a co-imperialist or not. The

Washington Post has been quite critical

lately. The New York Times and Boston

Globe are too, to a lesser degree. The

Boston Globe defended Aslan

Maskhadov,(6) now deemed a "terrorist"

by Putin. In the same editorial the Boston

Globe gave Putin no credit for his election

victory--this coming from the country

with the banana republic election in Florida

2000.

So far the English imperialists are

verbally backing Putin's right to pre-

emptive strikes against terrorists, but they

are saying they need evidence to extradite

the supposed Chechen terrorist. It

reminds us of what the Taliban said about

extraditing Osama Bin Laden.

Although Russian imperialism holds no

promise for the Russian people, it can

have the effect of holding up a mirror to

the Amerikan people and this helps those

of us trying to spread internationalism a

little bit here. At the same time, it may

mean that Putin will copy Bush and start

dropping bombs on Georgia or other

neighbors.

Macedonia is another place that has

jumped in on the Bush logic with

disastrous consequences. "Macedonian

police gunned down seven innocent

immigrants, then contended that they

were terrorists, in a killing staged to show

they were participating in the US-led

campaign against terrorism."(7) The

police smuggled the seven Pakistanis into

Macedonia from Bulgaria and then killed

them in 2002--all in an attempt to please

Bu$h.

Notes:
1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/
2003/09/20 030916-6.html
2. http://telaviv.usembassy.gov/publish/peace/
archive s/2001/october/100411.html
3. http://islamabad.usembassy.gov/
wwwh02011004.html
4. http://usembassy- australia.state.gov/hyper/
2002/0131/epf407.htm
5. http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/
0,2763,13 01219,00.html
6. "Putin's Potemkin Election," Boston Sunday
Globe 14Mar2004, p. h10.
7. Boston Globe 1May2004, p. a8.

HOW BU$H DE-STABILIZED THE

WHOLE WORLD

Continued from page 1...

Ironically, at both the Democratic

National Convention and the Republican

National Convention, and before the

massacre of schoolchildren at Beslan,

many topics came up, but one was the

Chechens. One persyn said that Stalin's

deportation of the Chechens during World

War II was a "human rights violation."

We pointed out to our critic that our

sister party the Russian Maoist Party was

the only one doing anything to oppose the

war on the Chechens. Few other parties

would get out of step with Russian

nationalism; even though Lenin is still

regarded as the greatest Russian leader

of recent times and he called Russia

imperialist at a time when Russia was less

powerful than today.

We should also say that deportations in

Stalin's day were rough affairs. Both

supplies and train power were in short

supply as the battle against the Nazis

raged. Some people deported to new

places died in the difficulties they faced.

If it had been any other time but World

War II, these deaths would have stood

out more. Overemphasizing these deaths

is a way of whitewashing Hitler and

blaming the Russians for their relative

backwardness, which is why even some

families deported did not disagree or at

least their children or grandchildren came

to understand.

According to writers on the editorial

page of the Boston Globe, 25 or 30% of

the Chechens died in the deportation by

Stalin, "the highest of any of the nations

deported under Stalin."(1) This is likely

an irresponsible charge. MIM has seen

no evidence for it. We have seen a lot of

evidence that each nationality has its

writers who think their particular

nationality sacrificed or suffered the most

under Stalin. Such stories sell well in the

West.

That is not to mention another important

consideration: the vast majority of Stalin's

purges and the Chechen deportation

happened in the midst of the worst single

war in world history. According to some

English phony communists, "In 1940 a

nationalist revolt broke out which climaxed

in 1942, with the Nazi army just 300 miles

away. Chechen nationalist leaders Hassan

Israilov and Mairbek Sheripov issued an

appeal declaring that the Nazis would be

welcomed as guests, providing, of course,

they were prepared to support

Chechnya's independence."(2)

Islamics aimed at a republic of some

small administrative units that would be

called "counties" in the United $tates

today. Like many other county-sized

countries or provinces in the ex-Soviet

bloc, some Chechens have the illusion that

they could have established a country

independent of both the Soviet Union and

Germany during World War II. That is

something that not even Poland with its

tens of millions was able to do. Like the

other Nazi collaborators, some Chechens

today are still talking about how the 1940

insurrection occurred while Stalin and

Hitler had a pact; although it is very clear

that the Chechen insurrection in 1940

affected Soviet geopolitical interests

negatively. That's not to mention the 1942

insurrection of Chechens followed by the

1943-4 deportation of six nationalities in

the region. Leaders who cannot

understand how the 1940 insurrection

adversely affected Soviet interests via the

Germans only demonstrate their

incompetence to offer political leadership.

Those Chechen leaders and their Liberal

allies talking about this to this day

demonstrate an unrealistic attitude akin

to having one's head in the sand.

For MIM, the failure to understand Nazi

goals and ideology during World War II

is the tell-tale sign of an ignorant and

provincialist outlook. Had the many

ethnicities won fabulous success in their

insurrections in the Caucasus or Eastern

Europe, the Nazis would have rolled over

them and exterminated them before these

county-sized units would have had time

to put up anti-Soviet statues glorifying

their war heroes. Now all these ethnicities

are in an endless cycle of revenge and

while we side with them against Russia,

we at MIM are not going to encourage a

misreading of Nazi history to do it.

We do the same thing in the United

$tates. We support county-sized units--

many First Nations for instance--in their

national struggles against U.$.

imperialism. Their struggle is realistic

because there are many other nations

oppressed by imperialism who are their

objective allies. We do not support First

Nations in looking down on Blacks or in

supporting imperialism. That's how the

struggle in the United $tates is completely

different than when Nazis are rampaging

through Europe.

Countless political leaders of the

countries and provinces squeezed

between Berlin and Moscow never

accounted for the global forces at work

and thereby failed their peoples entirely.

Today they have to fight battles against

Nazi statues--an indication of just how

poor the nationalist leadership of these

county-sized units was during World War

II. Instead of refighting the battles of

failed political leaders during World War

II, the countries and provinces between

Berlin and Moscow today should disown

the failed leaders of the past, celebrate

the Chechens and others who fought the

Nazis and move on. Russia is in peacetime

in 2004, so it's hard to imagine why these

ethnic cleansings still go on. As hard as it

is to imagine, we do have to account for

it.

In the case of Chechens and Ingushes,

Khruschev let them back into the

Caucasus after their deportation to

Central Asia. This supposedly closes the

case on Stalin's supposed criminal nature.

Yet, today we see Chechens and Ingushes

fighting neighbors they did not used to

have thanks to Stalin's deportation. We

do not know if the Chechens are right

that Putin is responsible for a six digit

figure of deaths in Chechnya. Khruschev

let the Chechens back in, but now the

political children of Khruschev and the

Russian partners of Bush in the "war on

terrorism" have leveled Grozny. The

evidence for that is indisputable--with

pictures in all the Western papers. MIM

fails to see much humynitarianism in

letting the Chechens and Ingushes come

back just to fight more. The leaders since

Stalin either did not know what they were

doing in the relation of class and national

forces or they wanted to stir up ethnic

fighting to generate Liberal capitalism.

In the 1920s, the Chechens waged

Holy Wars.(3) A scene in the movie

"Reds" alludes to such battles after 1917

and insinuates that the Bolsheviks allied

with Islamic sentiments for Holy War in

some circumstances to defeat the Whites.

The United $tates was all in favor of

Islamic holy wars until the collapse of the

Soviet Union. Now with the "war on

terror," the West claims to be against jihad

interpreted as "terrorism." How the unity

of the United $tates and Russia against

the world's oppressed plays out remains

to be seen.

The whole anti-Stalin story falls apart

when we ask the critics what they would

have done in Stalin's place. Hitler

marched eastward and found a "fifth

column" to help him among disgruntled

peoples of the Soviet Union.

In Yugoslavia, the Pope sanctioned

genocide against the Serbs during World

War II. Of course the Jews and Gypsies

suffered genocide as well. In Hungary, a

fifth column arose to support Hitler.

The road of Lenin and Stalin had

brought great progress to the Soviet

Union, but Stalin knew that he was not

walking on water. There would be at least

some of what happened in Yugoslavia,

Hungary, Norway and France happening

in the Soviet Union too--a fifth column

supporting Hitler. Stalin's critics never

account for that and that is why they

always end up supporting worse violations

of humyn-rights than what Stalin did.

The point is that on almost every stop

along the way in his march eastward to

Stalingrad, Hitler found some support

from the ignorant and twisted. These

backward elements took advantage of

Hitler's appearance to slaughter

neighbors they deemed ethnically inferior.

Such was possible because the

administrative units corresponded to a time

On the streets:

Chechens come up in discussion

Continued on page 6...

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"`As of now (and, remember, 13 years

have elapsed since the collapse of the

Soviet system!), 38 per cent of the current

elite are alumni of the former Soviet

nomenklatura. In the regions, this figure

is as high as 61 per cent,' says Olga

Kryshtanovskaya, head of the Center for

the Study of Elites of the Institute of

Sociology of the Russian Academy of

Sciences." (1)

MIM also came across a World Bank

study of the actual oligarchs controlling

oil, gas and other major industries

privatized. The names that came up from

the World Bank are Deripaska,

Abramovich, Kadannikov, Mordashov,

Potanin, Prokhorov, Alekperov, Maganov,

Kukura, Abramov, Popov, Melnichenko,

Pumpiansky, Makhmudov, Kazitzin,

Bodanov, Khodorkovsky, Lebedev, Lisin,

Zuzin, Smushkin, Zingarevich, Rashnikov,

Vekselberg, Balaeskul, Blavatnik,

Bendukidze, Fridman, Khan, Tahaudinov,

Evtushenkov, Novitsky, Goncharuk,

Plastinin & Dubinin. Together they have

1.44 million employees.

The 23 individuals or groups that these

names are associated with have control

of over one third of industrial sales in

Russia. The federal government has

another 20 percent of industrial sales in

business it is connected with.(2) Small and

medium size businesses account for the

rest--less than half of industrial sales.

In any case, by our very inexact

method of looking at the names, we would

say less than half the oligarchs are Jews.

That's not to mention the government

under Russian control. Hence, imagining

some Russian national struggle that would

simultaneously solve the class question

in Russia is completely off-base. Because

of a few Jewish names in the oligarchy,

some minority of Russians has continued

in the Brezhnev social-fascist tradition of

narrow nationalist resentment. The

difference between Brezhnev's day and

today is that today the various kooky

nationalisms are all in the open.

Worst of all are the many people who

used to be supporters of Gorbachev or

Yeltsin and who now sing an anti-Semitic

song. People who wanted Liberal

capitalism should not be complaining now

about the Jews in the oligarchy.

Capitalism combined with attacks on the

Jews is a formula for fascism.

It is important to understand that 80%

of Russians oppose the privatization of

assets of the Soviet Union--or at least

the way that it happened. 43% of

Russians as of 2003 want another

Bolshevik Revolution;(3) though we have

to admit that the energy, youth and vitality

needed for a revolutionary movement is

not there yet. As a result, resentment

regarding privatization and the economic

destruction of the Soviet Union planned

by the CIA and implemented by the

oligarchs has bubbled up as anti-Semitism.

Some Russians have gone so far as to

become confused about the national

question by distinguishing between

Russian-speaking Jews and other

Russians.

According to Stalin in his essays on the

national question, a nation has a contiguous

territory, economy, language and culture.

Russian Jews do not deprive other

Russians of their language or territory and

they share the same economy and culture

as Russians. That should make it clear

that seeing Russians as an oppressed

nation oppressed by Jews is not what

Stalin had in mind.

There is also no race question. Jews

are not a race to begin with, but if the

question is to what extent discrimination

occurs, then again the Jews do not belong

in that discussion either. Jews do not

control the Russian government or have

sufficient power to discriminate against

Russians.

There are many situations in the world

where a social minority does

disproportionately well in business. In

Marxism we look at the national and race

questions, but we focus our fire where

conflict can lead to progress. In those

situations where a national struggle can

advance the mode of production

simultaneously, we favor national struggle.

That tends to be the case of all peoples in

non-imperialist countries facing Western

super-exploitation.

In Russia today, the failure of

Khruschev-Brezhnev revisionism has led

to various crackpot ideologies to fill in

where Marxism supposedly failed.

According to the various narrow

nationalist and racist ideologies circulating,

last week it would be the Jews. This week

it is the Chechens. The Ingushes are

probably next.(4) These ideas take

advantage of feudal provincialism that

leads to intra-proletarian strife in Eastern

Europe and the former Soviet Union. In

other cases, the ethnicities are involved

in intra-bourgeois strife that benefits one

group of capitalists over another.

As far as the international proletariat is

concerned, we do not have a socialist

government in Russia or Chechnya or

anywhere else in the former Soviet Union

or Eastern Europe. Putin and nationalist

Russians may see the breakup of the

Soviet Union or the attempted breakup

of Russia as something to resist

desperately, but we internationalists do

not become alarmed except by intra-

proletarian strife. Alliances with U.$.

imperialism and intra-proletarian strife are

wrong, but there is no saying what course

the national struggle and class struggle

will have to take to reforge a new and

advanced Bolshevism of steel in the ex-

Soviet Union. If Russia has to fall apart

before political consciousness strikes the

proletariat and people learn how to

cooperate anew, so be it. We Marxist-

Leninist-Maoists make no fetish of the

bourgeois Russian nation-state.

In the former Soviet Union, if there is a

national question, it is still the threat posed

by Russians to other nationalities. Unlike

the oppressor white nations of the West

though, there is a Russian proletariat that

has proven its internationalism before in

the 20th century.

As Mao said in the 1920s, at first

glance, some of the violent struggles of

then Chinese peasants appear "terrible."

Then he became used to them and

realized that they portended revolutionary

change in China and he called them

"fine." At MIM we oppose the Russian

nationalist struggles aimed at Jews,

Chechens and now the Ingush people.

The people of Beslan in North Ossetia

have paid a terrible price for Russia's

turning away from the road of Stalin. The

solution is not futile intra-proletarian strife

One thing about going to a money

economy and abandoning socialism is

limiting Putin's options regarding North

Ossetia. His military and security forces

are corrupt in a way that Stalin's were

not.

In a capitalist economy, the solution to

corruption is to outbid possible

competitors. In a country like the United

$tates, where super-profits flow in like

water at Niagara Falls, most government

officials have good pay. Even so,

occasionally a government official gets

into debt for an ostentatious lifestyle or is

too junior and finds him or herself bribed

by someone who can eliminate financial

worry. Such openings for bribery are 50

times worse in Russia.

Putin admitted that a factor in the

Chechnya and North Ossetia questions

is the corruption at the borders. Under

Stalin and Mao, cash transactions came

under suspicion. The gains possible from

corruption were less and the possible

punishments greater. That goes for drugs,

a black market in weapons or just planning

terrorist attacks. Someone who took a

bribe of say $10,000 under Stalin or Mao

Straight talk on the Russian elite

and a cycle of revenge but proletarian

internationalism.

Notes:

1. "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, No.

63 (963), August 30--Sep 1, 2004.

2. Financial Times 7April2004, p. 7.

3. Jean-Marie Chauvier, "Russia:

Nostalgic for the Soviet Era," Socialist

Viewpoint 15May2004, p. 36.

4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/

europe/3635722.stm

Dar Zhutayev assisted the research of

this article.

would have few places to spend it and

would only end up being caught. True,

smaller items such as cigarettes did

abound in matters of corruption, but few

Russians or Chinese would deny that

corruption was much less under Stalin or

Mao respectively.

It is popular among the Russian people

to blame the smaller nationalities for being

"backward," being narrow, needing

subsidies and causing the collapse of the

Soviet Union. Yet it was the Russians as

a people who had the most blame for

putting Khruschev in power and making

narrow self-interest the watchword of

society. Once the pursuit of profit, bribes

and selfish ends started in the economy,

there was no reasonable expectation that

the nationalities would not start looking

to their narrow goals as well. In contrast,

when the Russians crack down on

Russian corruption within a Russian

socialist society, only then will other

neighboring nationalities tend to think they

have a chance of fostering positive

economic relations with the Russians.

Note:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/

story/0,1280,-4473664,00.html

Putin admits he

cannot police borders

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, f2004 · Page 6

in history when economic surpluses were

lower and governmental units smaller--

the delight of the original Green theorists

like Leopold Kohr. Industrial revolution

makes larger trading and government

units possible and even makes global

thinking a greater likelihood-- with more

advanced communications and transport.

That is why relative to Western Europe,

the more economically backward parts

of Eastern Europe and the Middle East

fall victim to provincialism. Contrary to

the Greens, we would say the ethnic

cleansing in former Yugoslavia was every

bit as bad as the wars cooked up by larger

industrial states.

The real question is: given that context,

what was the solution? Obviously Stalin

could not just leave the Jews and Gypsies

in place to face massacre if Hitler took

control of a civilian population.

Deportation is not a universal violation of

humyn-rights. In that context, deporting

Hitler's next victims is life-saving. For that

matter, in that context of Hitler's invasion,

some old national grudges would come

to the fore just as we see in the 1990s

and 2000s in the ex-Soviet Union.

Our critic of Stalin claimed he did not

have to have a better solution to criticize

Stalin for human rights violations. We hope

we convinced him he was wrong and that

such a posture is idealism. Today we see

what happens when the Balkans and

Caucasus get off the road of Lenin and

Stalin. In the Soviet days, all peoples had

citizenship. Now there are separate

militaries and trade barriers. Under Stalin

the economy was moving forward, and

that greatly reduces inter-ethnic sniping.

Today in an economy that never

recovered from the collapse of the Soviet

Union, we have various resentments

about the "mafias" of other ethnicities.

After we have seen the suffering of

people in Chechnya today or the killing

of schoolchildren in Beslan, it is obvious

that deportation is not the worst thing that

has happened or could happen. In times

of war and inflamed passions, the most

enlightened option available can be

separation of peoples who are not going

to get along. We are convinced that Stalin

was an "equal opportunity dictator." All

the various nationalities suffered and

sacrificed under his rule and all the various

nationalities made progress under Stalin

like they had never seen before.

Today we see an ongoing war in

Azerbaijan between Armenians and

Azeris. Each side has created more than

a million refugees on the other. There was

ethnic cleansing that involved both killings

and deportations--this in the late 1980s

and early 1990s. North Ossetia and

Ingushetia also had fighting in 1992.

Before the events of Beslan in September

2004, we told our critic on Chechens that

the people of the region would kill each

other if given the chance, and we stressed

"kill each other, throw people in fires."

Beslan makes it clear MIM was right.

Stalin had a plan to prevent ethnic

cleansing. His critics still don't despite

living in easier times today.

The event kicking off the recent ethnic

cleansing was the political Liberalism of

Gorbachev. So the point is that if we are

to blame Stalin for some problems, then

we must also account for the even greater

problems created by his critics. Without

a Stalin, the peoples go backward and they

gradually come to believe they can pull

off a Beslan. Once we have seen a Beslan

in the year 2004, we should know what

Stalin was dealing with among the

nationalities before he died in 1953. There

was not going to be a perfect society in

1944, only fewer problems under Stalin

than the alternatives.

Notes:

1. Zaindi Choltaev & Michaela Pohl,

"Russia's `purge' of Chechens," Boston

Sunday Globe 14Mar2004, p. h11.

2. http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/

20000126chechmstar.php

3. Geoffrey Hosking The First Socialist

Society: A History of the Soviet Union

from Within (Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 1985), p. 240.

In all of Stalin's repressions during

World War II, which did not start with

the bombing of Pearl Harbor but with the

invasion of Ethiopia by Italy and the

Spanish Civil War, we hear Liberal

historians and journalists continue the Cold

War refrain that Stalin invented all the

Nazi collaborators. Yet, today there is a

continuous stream of news proving

Stalin's critics wrong, but the Liberals

keep on singing the same old song. We

will talk about just two struggles that came

up in August and September of not 1944

but 2004.

An example: memorials to Nazi

collaborators head to be torn down against

the objection of villagers in Sveti Rok in

Croatia. This would not be a news item

except it was in August, 2004. Funded by

Croatians in Australia and Canada who

fled their country when the Nazis got beat

in 1945, the mementoes to fascism that

have gone up in recent times included a

plaque to Mile Budak and a statue to

fascist Ustasha leader Jure Francetic (1)

responsible for mass slaughters of Serbs,

Jews and Gypsies. Hitler had given these

Croats an extremely rare honor by

officially counting all Croats as part of

the supposed Aryan super-race of people.

The fascist statue had already stood for

years when under pressure from the

Roman Catholic Church and others, the

Croatian government realized it had to

come down--in August 2004. In doing

so, the Croatian government adopted

crypto-fascism by condemning "both"

communism and fascism. Considering

that the government officials carrying out

the orders were former Ustasha fascists

themselves, it is not surprising.

There were only two sides in World War

II and the Liberals will never get over it.

There is no "middle ground" with which

to tolerate fascism. Many of the Liberals

criticizing us today would have spouted

historically revisionist Black Book of

Communism garbage and fought on the

Nazi side had they been there. Stalin

deported 4% of Estonians in 1941 to

Central Asia and Siberia according to

bourgeois writer Geoffrey Hosking.(2)

Their story is very similar to the

deportation of Chechens except that a

much larger portion of Chechens went.

Thus, we can say Stalin had experience

with deportations before the Chechens.

In Estonia today, they have gone a step

further than the Croats and erected a

whole monument to an Estonian SS

Division that fought with the Nazis. The

Jerusalem Post noted, "The establishment

of such a monument in Estonia was hardly

surprising in a country that has failed to

prosecute a single Estonian Nazi war

criminal to date, and in which a public

opinion poll revealed that 93% of the

Estonian public opposes the establishment

of a memorial day for the victims of the

Holocaust."(3) We should point out that

the Jerusalem Post is hypocritical to

complain about these facts, because it has

contributed a great deal to anti-

communism globally. In kissing up to the

United $tates, Zionists have taken up anti-

communism and thus contributed to

whitewashing the history of the

Holocaust.

On September 2nd, the government of

Estonia managed to remove the

monument. Nonetheless, the Baltic Times

referred to it as featuring "Estonia's World

War II freedom fighters." The Baltic

Times said this despite admitting that the

statue was a soldier in a German uniform.

Stupid Liberals try to tell us Stalin was

cracking down on nobody but figments

of his paranoid imagination, but here is

what happened in 2004: "The officials

were forced to use batons and pepper

gas to tame a crowd of over 300 locals

who showed up to oppose the decision,

many of whom threw stones at both the

demolition crew and police vehicles. The

project's crane operator was injured, and

11 police and rescue department vehicles

sustained damage from thrown stones.

In the end, 44 police managed to fight off

the angry crowd, including Estonia's K-

commando-a SWAT-type unit-and one

dog. The government issued a statement

proclaiming that the Lihula monument,

erected on Aug. 20, was illegal as it stood

on state-owned land and was erected

without the owner's consent."(4) If this

is what it is like to tear down a Nazi

monument in 2004, we can only imagine

what Stalin was dealing with in 1944.

The large imperialist states of Germany

and Italy mark the Western border of a

territory ranging to Russia in the Ural

Mountains. Excluding Russia, Germany

and Italy, this territory of Eastern Europe

and the beginnings of the Middle East is

composed of countries where the

population is a majority of exploited

people. Yet, the entire region is stuck in a

Medieval provincialism, which is why to

this day there continue to be wannabe

Nazi collaborators there. Whether we talk

about the Azeris on one side of the region

or the Estonians on the other, the lack of

a global perspective is holding back the

proletariat of the region. It is the job of

the Marxists to show that economic

problems there do not stem from one's

neighboring ethnicity. In the United $tates

we must do our part by talking about

where the real gravy goes--super-profits

to the Western imperialists and labor

aristocracy.

Notes:

1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/

3605236.stm

2. Geoffrey Hosking The First Socialist

Society: A History of the Soviet Union

from Within (Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press, 1985), p. 252.

3. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/

Satellite?pagename=JP ost/JPArticle/

ShowFull&cid=1093587048913&p=1006688

055060

4. http://www.baltictimes.com/

art.php?art_id=10835

Chechens come up in discussion

Continued from page 4...

Vindication of Stalin in Croatia and Estonia

Yes, there were Nazi

collaborators

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, 2004 · Page 7

Meanwhile, a poll of New Yorkers

shocked pollsters: 49.3% of New York

residents believe that the government

"knew in advance that attacks were

planned on or around September 11, 2001,

and that they consciously failed to act."

Majorities of New Yorkers also do not

believe the existing reports on the subject

hit the nail on the head and 75% of both

Blacks and Latinos want another deeper

probe.(2)

The poll shows a real opening for the

revolutionary truth--that the U.$.

government is the most dangerous factor

against peace both in New York and

globally. Bush and Bloomberg are pushing

the public hard, but trying to blame

demonstrators or staging political ads to

take advantage of 911 may eventually

backfire on the rulers.

On the negative side, the relative

complacency of New Yorkers has allowed

New York police to become the most

aggressive in attacking demonstrators out

of the major cities in the Northeast. At

previous anti-war demonstrations, police

succeeded in preventing demonstrators

from carrying signs and in preventing their

even walking on certain sidewalks.

It is clear that Mayor Bloomberg wants

to convince New York City and the

country consuming New York media that

demonstrations contain the seeds of

terrorism. That is the only explanation for

all the cops on the street harassing

demonstrators, other than the fact that

New York City has too much money to

waste on cop services. Every time a siren

goes off--and it was all day long for three

days--a portion of the public will accept

that something legitimately "criminal"

happened. On the other hand, hundreds

of thousands of people in New York

learned first-hand that the state is not what

it says it is in this "free country."

The RNC was a long week of siren

abuse--something that many people are

already aware of. That fact alone

required that the demonstrators who

remained be stout of stomach. Scaring

people away from politics while

criminalizing the demonstrators--that

was the political goal of the vast police

expenditure.

The New York Post, official newspaper

of the labor aristocracy, obliged the mayor

with disgusting fiction stories about

violence and demonstrators' plans that

turned out to be untrue.(3) Others hyped

the "anarchist" threat, whatever that is.

It is unfortunate that the public has not

entirely learned that that is just how the

New York Post et. al. sensationalize or

invent stories to make a profit.

One thing we did not see in the labor

aristocracy media--a comparison of how

much violence has been carried out by

police as compared with demonstrators.

The reason we do not hear that subject

talked about is that police riots against

the public are much more common than

violent riots by demonstrators. Hiring

fewer cops and providing existing ones

something else to do is the surest road to

reducing violence.

Despite the fact that Amerikans are

ready to throw in the towel on civil

liberties, thanks only in part to 911, it won't

be just U.$. citizens who observe what is

happening. A few minutes after the older

German fellow approached MIM Notes

about the arrest of the Black youth in

Union Square, a Japanese youth stopped

to speak to MIM as well. He told us what

he saw using his hand as a wall to

represent a wall of police and how they

shut down a street for demonstrators

trying to march. "Police can't do that in

Japan," he said.

After so many decades of bragging

about being a "free country" and looking

down at other countries with supposedly

less freedom, the United $tates had a

banana republic style election in 2000.

Now increasing numbers of foreigners

are seeing that "free speech" and

"freedom of association" are not what

they are cracked up to be in the United

$tates.

"Can they do that?" is the question of

astonishment that we heard from those

who do not know the United $tates better.

There were at least 1821 arrests of

protestors (1) and the many thousands

there to see it happen learned something

important.

The current ruling class thinks that hiring

cops and spending Homeland Security

money harassing demonstrators is a great

unemployment program. Someone needs

to tell the capitalist rulers that no, the

economy has not enjoyed any benefit

from having legions of cops following

marchers around. Such a "service" makes

no one better off. Quite the contrary, the

more the public sees such a service, the

Arrests at the Republican National Convention

more it wants to stay away from the city

involved.

As if in response, and after seeing

Boston make very little money off the

Democratic National Convention, Mayor

Bloomberg tried to drown out the

demonstrators by offering coupons to

demonstrators who are "peaceful."(3) He

succeeded in getting the courts to allow

him to keep Central Park off-limits to an

anti-Bush protest, but t-shirts and slogans

mocked him for trying to buy them off

with 20% off at Applebee's.

Notes:

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/

06/nyregion/06matters.html

2. http://www.zogby.com/news/

ReadNews.dbm?ID=855

3. The New York Post (and echoed by

the Washington Times) said that the long-

dead Weather Underground had

resurrected itself for bombings in New

York during the RNC. More intelligently,

the Village Voice did not take it seriously

and realized people were reliving their

Vietnam era conflicts, a la Kerry, McCain

and "Swift Boat Veterans for blah,

blah."http://www.villagevoice.com/

issues/0435/hoberman.php

4. "Michael Bloomberg, the Republican

mayor, is making his own contribution

towards keeping the peace by offering

protesters discount coupons for cruises

and a free glass of chardonnay in selected

upmarket restaurants."http://

n e w s . s c o t s m a n . c o m /

international.cfm?id=1002512004

Continued from page 1...

"I saw their [Soviet] tanks in the

streets. I saw Communism with my own

eyes,"(1) said Governor Schwarzenegger

in his speech August 31st at the

Republican National Convention, of his

native Austria and not for the first time

either. He's made similar remarks in

speeches before and the major media

outlets simply do not correct him, which

is why dumb-ass conservative voters put

him in power. Even the relatively few

media outlets who do talk about

Schwarzenegger's inaccuracies do not

mention the connection to Nazi ideology.

"`As a child he could not have seen a

Soviet tank in Styria,' Stefan Karner told

the Vienna newspaper Kurier.

"Mr Schwarzenegger, now a US citizen,

was born on 30 July 1947, when Styria

and neighbouring Carinthia belonged to

the British zone. Austria was occupied

by the Allies, including the US, the Soviet

Union and France.

"The Soviets left Styria in July 1945,

less than three months after the end of

the war,' Mr Karner noted.

"Another sceptic, Franz Nitsch, said:

`Let me tell you this: as a boy, I lived for

many years across the street from where

the Russians were based in Vienna --

and I never saw a Russian tank. He said

it all on purpose -- and that's bad.'

"Mr Schwarzenegger also said in his

convention address: `As a kid, I saw the

socialist country that Austria became

after the Soviets left.'

"Austria regained its independence in

1955 after the departure of Soviet forces.

But Martin Polaschek, of Graz University,

pointed out in Kurier that the country was

governed by coalitions, including the

conservative People's Party and the

Social Democratic Party. Between 1945

and 1970, all the nation's chancellors were

conservatives -- not socialists."(2)

Listening to Schwarzenegger, one

would have thought Austria was behind

the "Iron Curtain." Instead, he lived in

the British zone of occupation and likely

not allowed out of it. The Soviet

occupation was relatively light in Austria

and all Soviet troops were gone by

Schwarzenegger's age eight. This brings

us to the point. A boy ranging from age 1

to 8 does not know he is looking at Soviet

tanks unless an adult told him.

Schwarzenegger's father belonged to the

Nazi Party as a stormtrooper.(3)

Schwarzenegger is great proof why

MIM is right and there has to be a joint

dictatorship of the proletariat of the

oppressed nations (JDPON). Even in a

dramatic change like the collapse of

Nazism, an imperialist country like

Germany (which had annexed Austria)

in 1945 does not go through immediate

revolutionary transformation. Children

such as Arnold do not receive proper

education without JDPON and the whole

world is still paying for that in 2004.

In countries where the "workers" are

infected with parasitism, the people

continue trying to sponge off the rest of

the world through colonialism/imperialism.

In such a context, it becomes possible to

buy the old Nazi propaganda equating

Jews, capitalist Allies and Soviets. The

key is making an accurate judgment of

the old social material--the Nazis in this

case. The Nazis were simply not ready

as people to go forward and communist

strategy must take that into account.

In 1941, the outlines for propaganda

work written by the Nazis said that

propagandists should stress that Jewry "is

ready to turn all of Europe over to

Bolshevism, its only goal being to destroy

Adolf Hitler and his people."(4) Taken in

this light, Schwarzenegger's comments

about communism in Austria make more

sense. It's 2004 and pitiful dinosaur Arnold

Schwarzenegger still thinks someone

turned over Austria to Bolshevism (and

we say: if only!)

The day after Schwarzenegger's

speech, radio talk-show and TV host

Rush Limbaugh defended

Schwarzenegger, although we did not

hear the Soviet tanks subject brought up.

Limbaugh said the speech was

"conservative" and not "moderate" and

went so far as to defend the speech

against reactionaries from California who

oppose Schwarzenegger as a "liberal."

Likewise, on Sean Hannity talk radio

we heard praise. Since Schwarzenegger

rehabilitated Nixon in his speech, the

"Soviet tanks in the street"

Nazi propaganda worked on Schwarzenegger, Limbaugh & Hannity

Continued on page 9...

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, f2004 · Page 8

What questions do YOU have?

Wasn't Mao a butcher? Why do you spell it "Amerika"? Shouldn't
you try non-violence first? What is internationalism? Isn't hating white
people reverse racism? Why don't you leftists work together? Why
don't you tone it down? What is a cardinal principle? What is your
program? What is necessary to join MIM? What concrete actions can I
take? How do I write articles for MIM? What is your copyright policy?

Go to http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/faq

and get real answers to these and other questions.

Militarism is war-mongering or the

advocacy of war or actual carrying out

of war or its preparations.

While true pacifists condemn all

violence as equally repugnant, we

Maoists do not consider self-defense

or the violence of oppressed nations

against imperialism to be militarism.

Militarism is mostly caused by

imperialism at this time. Imperialism

is the highest stage of capitalism--

seen in countries like the United

$tates, England and France.

Under capitalism, capitalists often

profit from war or its preparations.

Yet, it is the proletariat that does the

dying in the wars. The proletariat

wants a system in which people do not

have self-interest on the side of war-

profiteering or war for imperialism.

Militarism is one of the most

important reasons to overthrow

capitalism. It even infects oppressed

nations and causes them to fight each

other.

It is important not to let capitalists

risk our lives in their ideas about war

and peace or the environment. They

have already had two world wars

admitted by themselves in the last 100

years and they are conducting a third

right now against the Third World.

Even a one percent annual chance

of nuclear war destruction caused by

capitalist aggressiveness or "greed" as

the people call it should not be tolerated

by the proletariat. After playing

Russian Roulette (in which the bullet

chamber is different each time and not

related at all to the one that came up in

previous spins) with 100 chambers and

one bullet, the chance of survival is

only 60.5% after 50 turns. In other

words, a seemingly small one percent

annual chance of world war means

eventual doom. After 100 years or turns

of Russian Roulette, the chances of

survival are only 36.6%. After 200

years, survival has only a 13.4%

chance.

What is militarism?

MIM recently received a lengthy

article from members of the Almighty

Latin Kings and Queens Nation

opposing the "neo-colonial mentality,

sectarianism, petty capitalism and

outright anti-revolutionary attitudes"

that they claim "have infected major

and regional leadership, as well as our

growing portion of the membership."

This "has greatly affected our ability

to serve our oppressed communities

and has prevented us from doing our

best to maintain a uniform ideology

and philosophy," they argue. They also

point out that police COINTELPRO-

style psy-war operations have led to

the arrest of veteran leaders and

contributed to infighting

To correct these problems, the

authors call on the ALKQN to unite

around a "revitalize[d] anti-imperialist

revolutionary kingism." The authors

favorably quote Mao Zedong: "This

army is powerful because all its

members have a discipline based on

political consciousness; they have

come together and they fight not for

private interests [but for the interests]

of the broad masses and of the whole

Nation."

The authors call on members to set

aside their "self-interested or small-

group concerns" and "take action...

for the benefit of the third world

oppressed masses--remember them!??!

"Our true purpose for existence

can't be put as a second priority."

Concretely, they suggest the ALKQN

improve communication, adopt a

unified, elected national leadership,

and "create a news organ, perhaps a

newsletter or newspaper so that the

United ALKQN voice can be heard and

where we can hear the voices of the

masses we serve lead us to where the

struggle should be."

MIM agrees that the key to unity

among the oppressed is unity in the

revolutionary anti-imperialist

movement. We would add that a

movement with a socialist perspective

is even better, as it eliminates the

temptation to sell out one's own (or

another) people for crumbs from the

imperialists' table. The fact that the pigs

have spent so much energy locking up

the ALKQN leadership and demonizing

the ALKQN in the press only shows

how much they fear the ALKQN's

revolutionary potential.

We print below another response to

the ALKQN "State of Emergency"

article from the Noble Young Lords

Party.

The Noble Young Lords Party/Latino

Nations North America (NYLP/LNNA)

was given a pre-published copy of the

State of Emergency article. We support

the WU-KNIGHTS and Original Crown

Council Society's effort to regain anti-

imperialist influence within the ALKQN.

[The authors of the "State of Emergency"

article called themselves the WU-

KNIGHTS and Original Crown Council

Society.]

Some of our members were formerly

Latin Kings/Queens but they now have a

practice wherein they keep politics in

command. This stands in contrast to the

semi-religious principles of the ALKQN.

However, we have a great respect for

the past political efforts of the ALKQN

and we would like to see it take on a

stronger anti-imperialist tone.

Lord Grim has been an integral part in

the development of our soon to be

published primer the NYLP's Political

Compendium Manual (PCM) and he has

aided in the re-birth of the NYLP,

therefore, we have a deep understanding

of what the ALKQN is struggling with.

We have witnessed how the Federal/

State pigs classified the ALKQN as

Public Enemy #1 once their political

activism was positively affecting the

oppressed communities in Amerika. We

have witnessed how pigs have exploited

divisions and criminal leaders to further

disrupt the ALKQN and its time to see

the ALKQN opposing these attacks by

regulating active and passive defenses as

well as regulating internal preparations.

Some things to oppose in the spirit of Mao:

1) Oppose criminal ways and uphold

strict political discipline.

2) Oppose bully warlord ways and favor

both democracy within proper limits and

authoritative discipline in the ALKQN.

3) Oppose incorrect, sectarian policy

on leadership and uphold the correct

policy on leadership.

4) Oppose the policy of isolation and

affirm the policy of winning over all

possible allies.

5) Oppose keeping the ALKQN at its

old stage and strive to develop it to a new

stage.

The OCC Society and WU-KNIGHTS

Society are attempting to oppose chaos,

corruption and imperialism with this state

of emergency article. The time has come

for the ALKQN to come together in one

voice and say "They're right, we need to

consolidate Revolutionary Kingism!" The

potential effectiveness of a nationally

united ALKQN would bring greater

material/financial resources, greater anti-

imperialist progress, and a more effective

concentration on your long/short term

objectives. The Lion Tribe, Tiger Tribe,

and Bulldog Tribe need to set aside their

perceived differences and come into one

Networking Nucleus.

The NYLP believes in the practice of

Democratic-Centralism. This means that

all qualified members, whether they obtain

rank or no, have a voice in the

implementation of policy as long as it does

not go against our established anti-

imperialist stand. It is a way to ensure

that the leadership is in check and in tune

with the membership it represents and the

oppressed Third World communities it

serves. But once the majority decides

upon an issue, the entire party must uphold

that policy whether they agree with it in

the course of debate or not. This is called

External Unity - Internal Debate. The

State of Emergency article is a step

forward in reaching such advanced

practices as Democratic-Centralism.

It is the NYLP's hope to see such a

righteous organization as the ALKQN

fulfill its promise to the Third World

people. We have told the Ghost King and

Red Cloud [individual authors named in

the "State of Emergency" article] that they

are free to leave messages to/from

members via our e-mail addy

nylp@mim.org and we'll send them to

LG to be delivered to the OCC.

Our hands are open to all lumpen

organizations that are making a sincere

effort to focus on the anti-imperialist

struggle and those that desire to learn more

about the NYLP/LNNA can purchase

our NYLP Political Compendium manual

which is soon to be published. Contact us

at our e-mail or the following address for

more information.

Noble Love!

nylp@mim.org

NYLP c/o MIM

PO Box 40799

San Francisco, CA 94140

"One must do in each moment what is

necessary in each moment. Time should

not be wasted in attempting what there is

good reason for believing is not to be

achieved. To postpone is never to decide,

above all since now neither palpitating

memories, nor painful resentments, nor

serious impending catastrophes permit

another opportunity. To foresee is a duty

of those who undertake to lead. To go

ahead of others requires seeing more than

they do." -- Jose Marti

Latin King/Queens call for revitalized anti-imperialism

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, 2004 · Page 9

reactionary talking heads were eating that

up too.

Mushing together socialism, Jews and

Western democracy--that is a Nazi

propaganda trick that treats everything

outside Nazi ideology as the same.

Speaking of pre-Nazi Germany, the Nazis

said, "Its constitution was based on the

political doctrines of foreign peoples,

particularly Western democracies, and

were strongly influenced by the Jewish

spirit."(5)

The most sophisticated Nazi

propaganda distinguished among Western

"democracies" and the Soviet Union by

referring to "the plutocratic-Jewish-

Bolshevist world coalition."(6) In 1944,

warning Germans to fight hard even as

the tide had turned in World War II, the

Nazi propagandists said that a Jewish

journalist favored by Stalin said: "The

remains of the European peoples who

escape our tanks and flame-throwers--

and not only the Germans--will be sent

to work as slaves in the mines of

Nazi propaganda

Continued from page 7...

Siberia."(6) That comment was typical

of how the Nazis prepared their own

people in 1944. It is not a mere

coincidence that Schwarzenegger has

made speeches talking about Soviet tanks

sending Austrians to work in Soviet labor

camps. The Nazis are the originals putting

such talk in the air. The Nazis'

accusations and fantasies about the Soviet

Union lived on in young Arnold.

Of course, MIM is not the only one to

denounce Schwarzenegger for calling

parliamentary democracies "socialist." A

law history professor in Austria pointed

out how Schwarzenegger was mushing

things together before defending him as

just a "politician." What the media does

not do is explain who it was that originally

referred to everything as communist and

all of Europe under communist power--

the Nazis.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has become

a big donor to Jewish Holocaust

causes,(3) but taking the Jewish part out

of Nazi propaganda and leaving the rest

the same is not correct either.

Today reactionaries are doing the same

thing as the Nazis--calling everything

"socialism" including conservatism in

Austria. As is typical for reactionaries,

they justify this, because they believe all

politics is lies and spin anyway.(7) This is

not surprising, because most reactionaries

in the West base themselves in

Christianity and assume that politics is just

another fairy-tale like the Bible. For them,

consistent use of words like "socialism"

is not necessary. If they like something,

they call it "conservatism." Otherwise, if

something bad happens, it's supposed to

be "socialism's" fault according to these

pre-scientific reactionaries. It becomes

pointless to discuss with them--another

reason that force is the only thing that

educates people like Arnold

Schwarzenegger's father. Try to avoid the

truth of the necessity of the joint

dictatorship of the proletariat of the

oppressed nations and the children turn

out like Arnold--damn confused politically

and historically.

Notes:

1. http://www.cnn.com/2004/

A L L P O L I T I C S / 0 8 / 3 1 /

gop.schwarzenegger.transcript/

index.html See also, http://hnn.us/articles/

911.html#tanks11-26-03

2. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/

international.cfm?id=1040052004

3. http://www.usatoday.com/news/

politicselections/2003-08-24-arnold-

father_x.htm

4. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/

cas/gpa/salzburg1.htm

5. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/

cas/gpa/du.htm

6. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/

cas/gpa/niemals.htm

7. A Schwarzenegger defender said

this:"He did not speak as a historian, after

all, but as a politician." http://

edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/

09/03/schwarzenegger.ap/

June 2004 issue

So, Grandpa and Grandpa used to make

a good living as upright and enterprising

citizens selling toilet seats to the U.S.

Army at $1500 a pop from the family base

in Shanghai. Life was good but your

political leader Chiang Kai-shek had 20

years to fix China and instead he blew

his chance-- politics, dirty stuff you know.

Then tyrant Mao came to power and

your grandparents high-tailed it for

Taiwan with the accumulated wealth of

decades of toilet seat contracts, but your

parents made so much money supplying

the U.S. Army squatting in Korea that

you ended up going to college in the

United $tates while living in a paid-off

condo in DC. Now you write articles for

Asian Fortune and you've even seen

Donald Rumsfeld at a dinner-party.

You heard about some campaign

against the Black Book of Communism

errors, so you said Mao's killing 20 million

in the Great Leap is not a "typo." Well

golly be, then saying Mao died in 1977 in

the same story(p. 26) is probably not a

typo either.

Mommy and Daddy made good money,

ahem, arranging visits of U.$. soldiers to

enterprising young wimmin in Saigon. You

had started attending good Catholic

schools and everything was swell. Rice,

vegetables and meat were in good supply

when Ho Chi Minh's followers took over.

It took a good chunk of the family

savings, but you got on one of the last

helicopters out of Vietnam. You reckon

that lots of people move as kids without

even remembering much of their first

home, but it must be hard on your parents

to leave after so many years in the

country they loved. So now you live in

Northern Virginia where no Vietnamese

communists are allowed. ("Orange

County CA Considering `No-Communist

Zones'", p. 27) Naturally, you write for

Asian Fortune with the special mission

of showing the Amerikans that not all East

Asians are communists, which is why

they fully deserve another million green

cards a year. Daddy was a teacher with

a bit of farm land and uncle was an officer

in the Vietnamese army, well at least for

7 weeks.

Sister says Kerry is her man, having

proven himself by running off the swift

boat to kill a teenage Viet Cong member.

Even though you are not so sure about

Kerry, you're happy that your sister sports

a Kerry button, because secretly you're

afraid that respectable people will realize

that your fellow "Asian-Americans" do

not vote much. You work for Asian

Fortune to raise political consciousness

among your fellow "Asian-Americans."

Lucky for you the 1960 and 2000

presidential elections were so close, you

definitely have a point: even the "Asian-

Americans" could choose the next

Amerikan president. ("Janelle Hu:

Harnessing the APIA Voter Power," p.

You married an Amerikan Vietnam

veteran and edit his stories for Asian

Fortune. ("Uncle Ho--Enron

Accountant?" p. 15) You notice he sleeps

better at night after staying up all day

writing articles for you. When will he ever

learn to just forget all the people calling

him a war criminal and monster when he

got back from Vietnam? You even resent

a little bit that your good love has not

completely steered him straight yet. Why

does he care about the protesters more

than you?

Your sister says Kerry was wrong to

oppose the war when he came back to

the united $tates, but he did more to fight

communism than Bush did. You argue

back that if Kerry and others had kept

their mouths shut, they wouldn't have

needed an army or navy of people like

him in Vietnam: bombing millions of

communists to death from 30,000 feet up

in B-52s would have done just fine.

Whatever, you're modern now, not like

your parents' generation and that was a

long time ago, but if your husband does

succeed in justifying another bombing

campaign in Vietnam, the Congress will

probably hand out some more green cards

to prove how great Amerika is compared

with bomb craters run by communists.

That's what you like about Amerikans,

so generous with their freedoms.

Mommy and Daddy had a clothing shop

next to a discotheque in the shopping

district closest to U.$. soldiers in Seoul.

If those tens of thousands of troops had

not landed to fight off the evil communists,

there's no telling if that shopping district

ever would have gotten anywhere.

Now it's so bad in North Korea that

people run into burning houses to save

their pictures of "Dear Leader" Kim Il

Sung only to die in the effort.(p. 12) It's

so much better in a Christian capitalist

country where after Sylvia Ewing killed

her 8-year-old and 4-year-old children with

a baseball bat and left a note saying "Jesus

is coming . . . Jesus loves the kids" and

after Christian Texan Andrea Yates

drowned her five children aged 2 to 7 to

save them from demon possession, we

can still turn on the TV in freedom and

call a 1-800 number to donate to Jesus.

Well, Yee-haw Asian Fortune, may you

fully vanquish your competitor, the

Twinkie Herald. And don't worry, we'll

back you up on immigration and your hero

General Taguba and his exposure of Abu

Ghraib anyway.

Maoist review of Asian Fortune, a mag for `Asian-Americans'

`Where East Meets West: Serving the Asian American Multicultural Community Since 1993'

Does the Twinkie

Herald support

General Taguba,

too?

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, f2004 · 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

MO's Crossroads CC:

Conditions stink

Please note the following inhumane living

conditions that constitute a form of cruel and
unusual punishment and deny equal
protection being perpetrated on the offender

population by Administrative Officials at the
Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron,
Missouri.

The offender population at CRCC is

double-celled with 65 square-feet per cell to
be shared between offenders sometimes for a

total of 22 hours and 45 minutes a day without
being out of the cell. Though the general
population at CRCC is not under any

punishment per se, or emergency conditions,
CRCC has been on modified lock-down status
since 1997 and there is no liberal out-of-cell

time afforded to offenders. Please take into
account that:

1. No offenders have jobs or go to programs

that have them out of their cells.

2. Recreation periods average two hours

and 15 minutes per day. However, recreation

is not every day and may be just four times
per week.

3. Offenders are given three 30 minute

periods daily out-of-cell, but according to
policy they cannot come out of their cells
unless they are: using the phone, in the

shower, or cleaning their cells. Therefore, if
they have no one to call, have already
showered or cleaned their cells they may have

as little as 30 minutes out-of-cell time once a
day, or none at all!

4. Offenders are only allowed 15 minutes

three times daily to go to the dining room,
eat, and return to their cells, totaling 45
minutes per day.

5. There are several days a week when two

offenders are kept confined in a 65 square-
foot cell for as much as 22 hours and 45

minutes, with out-of-cell time totaling one
hour and 15 minutes!

6. Offenders in Administrative Segregation

status (the Hole) are allowed even less out-
of-cell time and are forcibly double-celled
with other offenders even though they are

supposed to be segregated and housed
alone. (The CRCC policy is to mace offenders
three times daily if they do not want a cell-

mate (celly)).

These conditions are representative of an

arbitrary punishment with no "equal

protection" and are cruel and unusual when
you take into account a person's mental state
in constant close quarters confinement. There

have been two incidents in 2004 when an
offender was killed by his celly, both
attributed to these conditions. There have

also been several assaults, including on Ad.
Seg. where an offender's not supposed to
have a celly. This is also a health hazard, being

exposed to others' illnesses (colds, flus, TB,
etc.), and inhaling the odor of defecation for
prolonged periods of time without relief, and

most of all the lack of physical exercise. No
other Level 5 institutions in Missouri limit
out-of-cell time to such a small amount,

including Potosi (death row)! Most have
single and double-man cells.

Your efforts in investigating this matter and

asking that these conditions be changed to
humane ones of single-man cells or sufficient
out-of-cell time would be of help and greatly

appreciated.

-- a Crossroads CC prisoner, June 2004

Sexual Humiliation

and Terrorism at

Southport

Correctional Facility

I am writing to you about a grave and

ongoing problem in Southport Correctional
Facility. Corrections officers, their supervisors
and administrators are engaged in a

systematic program of oppression of
prisoners by sexual humiliation and terrorism
doing patfrisk.

Purpose: to humiliate and degrade a

prisoner while he is being patfrisked
(handcuffed, hands on the wall, legs spread

apart, facing the wall) with the intention and
objective of provoking a prisoner into coming
out of this position, which affords corrections

officers in Southport Correctional Facility
with the opportunity, under the guise of
physically restraining said prisoner(s), to

assault and brutalize a prisoner.

Purpose: to desensitize prisoners to sexual

molestation and abuse, such as having their

testicles, buttocks and penis touched,
caressed and grabbed by another man.

Purpose: to instill a level of anxiety and

fear in a prisoner at the prospect of being
sexually molested, abused and/or assaulted
by corrections officers during this humiliating

patfrisk; that prisoners fear to leave their cells
for showers or attend their court-mandated
one hour of recreation.

Purpose: to diminish the morale of prisoners

by creating a systematic atmosphere of fear,
helplessness, anger and depression within

prisoners being subjected to such sexual
humiliation and terrorism.

Southport Correctional Facility is a

maximum security special housing unit facility,
located in the state of New York, in Chemung
County. Prisoners in this facility (excluding

the inmate cadre workers) are confined to their
cells twenty-three hours a day, minus the
court-mandated one hour of recreation. There

are three levels of prisoners in Southport:
Level I, II and III. Level I prisoners must wear
a belt chain and handcuffs during their one

hour of recreation. Level II prisoners are like
Level I prisoners, with the exception that when
Level II prisoners enter the yard cage, the

handcuffs and belt chain come off. Level III
prisoners wear only handcuffs and these are
removed once the prisoner is secured in the

recreation cage. All prisoners on Level I, II
and III attend their one hour of recreation in
single, one-man cages.

When a prisoner on any level (I, II, III)

wishes to attend their one hour of recreation,
they inform the officer who does the

recreation list as he passes their cell. When
recreation is running, those prisoners who
signed up are then handcuffed and/or belt

chained according to which floor (level) they
are on. Once the cell is opened, he then
proceeds down toward the company entrance,

wherein the prisoner must face a blank wall
with hands up on the wall (if only handcuffed)
and allow two officers to conduct a patfrisk.

One waves a metal detector wand over the
front and back of the prisoner's body and
their shoes. The other officer then proceeds

to conduct the actual patfrisk.

There are three blocks: A, B and C. There

are three floors on each block and four
companies on each floor, totaling 252

prisoners in each block and 756 prisoners in
this facility under twenty-three hour lock
down in their cell. Of the twenty-one prisoners

in each company, a minimum of ten prisoners
per company is being sexually molested--
their testicles, buttocks and/or penis is being

caressed and/or grabbed by the patfrisk
officer--each and every day of the week. Out
of this ten prisoners per company, at least

two prisoners every three months are being
physically assaulted by correction officers
for allegedly raising off the wall. I say

"allegedly" because in most instances, the
prisoners didn't raise off the wall but the
particular patfrisk officer and their

surrounding officers had it on their agenda
to assault and brutalize that prisoner by
claiming the prisoner came off the wall.

All of this is taking place right before

various and numerous video cameras. These
video tapes will show the patfrisk officer

yanking a prisoners pants up so high and so
violently that you can see the prisoner jump
from the amount of force being used, as his

pant seams cuff his testicles and the crack of
his buttocks. These video cameras will show
the patfrisk officers patting a prisoner or

rubbing a prisoner's buttocks at the
conclusion of the patfrisk. These video tapes
will show the patfrisk officer pulling the

waistband of the prisoner's pants away from
his body and momentarily just standing
behind the prisoner--looking at his buttocks.

These video tapes will show the patfrisk
officer reaching around the front zipper area
of a prisoner's pants and grabbing the

prisoner's penis. These video tapes will show
patfrisk officers conducting illegal patfrisks
that are contrary to New York State's

Department of Correctional Services Directive
#4910 Section III, B, governing patfrisk
procedure, as well as violating penal law and

the 8th and 14th Constitutional amendments.

A flood of grievances have been submitted

and filed on this issue against these sexually

deviant correction officers--for years.
However, Superintendent Michael McGinnis
and Director Thomas G. Eagen of the Inmate

Grievance Program never see or find any
violations or wrong-doings by any correction
officers. Therefore, our attempts to redress is

being subverted from the Superintendent of
this facility down to the grievance supervisor
of this facility, Jeff Hale, and his boss, Thomas

G. Eagen.

Prisoners are afraid to leave their cells. As

a result, prisoners are confined to their cells

for twenty-four hours a day--deprivation is
deprivation, be it by order or by terrorism.
Our mail is being withheld, throw away or

confiscated under trumped up charges of
correspondence violation. Nurses refuse to
provide medication refills, all in the supportive

retaliation on behalf of the correction officers.
Showers are purposely shortened or items
that are not allowed in your cell but are

supposed to be in your shower pail turn up
missing. Being set up for contraband in your
cell or being falsely accused of threatening

an employee is commonplace. All of this and

more is the result of prisoners grieving and

objecting to being sexually humiliated and
terrorized by correction officers in this facility.

If you were to obtain copies of the filed

grievances in the past five years against
correction officers J. Castleberry, D. White
and W. Ellis, among many other officers, you

will easily see a pattern and history of sexual
abuse and molestation against prisoners:
physical violence and assaults against

prisoners. You will also see that the
superintendent of this facility, Michael
McGinnis, never finds any of these officers

guilty of committing any wrong-doing. Thus,
he supports and encourages the continuation
of such sexually deviant behavior by

correction officers against prisoners and
ongoing acts of violence against prisoners
guised as subduing prisoners. The grievance

director in Albany, New York, Thomas G.
Eagen, and the head of the C.O.R.C. never
finds fault or wrong-doing by any New York

State Department of Corrections officers or

MIM Notes 308 · October 1-14, 2004 · 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.

Join the fight against

the injustice system

While we fight to end the criminal

injustice system MIM engages in

reformist battles to improve the lives

of prisoners. Below are some of the

campaigns we are currently waging,

and ways people behind the bars and

on the outside can get involved. More

info can be found on our prison web

site: http://www.etext.org/Politics/

MIM/agitation/prisons

Stop Censorship in Prison: Prisons

frequently censor books, newspapers

and magazines coming from MIM's

books for prisoners program. We need

help from lawyers, paralegals and

jailhouse lawyers to fight this

censorship.

Books for Prisoners: This program

focuses on political education of

prisoners. Send donations of books and

money for our Books for Prisoners

program.

End the Three Strikes laws: This

campaign is actively fighting the

repressive California laws, but similar

laws exist in other states. Write to us

to request a petition to collect

signatures. Send articles and

information on three strike laws.

Shut Down the Control Units: Across

the country there are a growing number

of prison control units. These are

permanently designated prisons or cells

in prisons that lock prisoners up in

solitary or small group confinement for

22 or more hours a day with no

congregate dining, exercise or other

services, and virtually no programs for

prisoners. Prisoners are placed in

control units for extended periods of

time. These units cause both mental and

physical problems for prisoners.

Write to us to request a petition to

collect signatures. Get your

organization to sign the statement

demanding control units be shut down.

Send us information about where there

are control units in your state. Include

the names of the prisons as well as the

number of control unit beds/cells in

each prison if that is known. Send us

anti-control unit artwork.

MIM's Re-Lease on Life Program:

This program provides support for our

comrades who have been recently

released from the prison system, to help

them meet their basic needs and also

continue with their revolutionary

organizing on the outside. We need

funds, housing, and job resources. We

also need prisoner's input on the

following survey questions:

1. What are the biggest challenges

you face being released from prison?

2. How can these problems be

addressed?

3. What are the important elements

of a successful release program?

employees for such inhumane and criminally
violative acts.

It is my hope that this letter will assist you

in shedding light on what is really happening
inside these prisons in the United States--

contrary to President Bush's claim that such
savage brutality by the upholders of the law
(prison guards) is not tolerated in this country.

-- A New York Prisoner, June 2004

NY State Uses Plexi-

Glass to Control

Prisoners

In addition to the conditions of solitary

confinement, one of the most sadistic and
torturous methods that New York prison
officials use against inmates is plexi-glass

sheilds. These are transparent plexi-glass and
are used to cover a prisoner's whole cell door
so that he's incapable of breathing if the

ventilation isn't functioning. The shields,
coupled with the lack of space in a cell--48
square feet--works a hardship on inmates'

health. In the company I'm in now, the CO's
use plexi-glass shields for any minor thing:
talking loud, indecent exposure and calling

them names, among other things. This is how
CO's control prisoners.

-- A New York Prisoner, July 2004

Texas update: God

Don't Like Liars

My lawsuit about literature mailed to

prisoners being denied under false pretext

that it was written "solely" to cause prison
disturbances was dismissed. The Texas
Department of Criminal Justice had filed a

motion for summary judgment. In my
response, I proved that their claims that the
literature was denied because it could cause

fights or riots because it has the word
"nigger" in it is contradicted by the facts that
there are books in the prison libraries that

have the word, and phrases and sentences of
the same type in radio and television shows
and newspapers and letters admitted to

prisoners. The judge granted the defendant's
motion, ruling the three publications named
in my suit were "racially inflammatory."

Meanwhile, my anti-4 Stepping project has

not produced any positive results yet. I have
written to 8 Prison Ministries, sending each a

write-up explaining that the TDCJ's use of a
"lead row" prisoner is a vestige of the slave
drivers and violates TDCJ rules and state law.

Only two Ministries responded, and they said
all they can do is pray for us. I wrote them
back and let them know that is not all they

can do -- and that "God don't like liars."

--A Texas Prisoner, May 1, 2004

California guards

retaliate for court

settlement

It seems like ever since the Castillo case

[which settled out of court winning some

concessions for SHU prisoners in California]
finished up these cops have begun to be extra
petty around here (at Pelican Bay State

Prison). They are writing people up like crazy.
They've even begun to take our yard and
showers as well. For those of us who they

can't label as "gang members" in order to
keep us back here, they just claim that we're
what they consider "program failures." That

allows them to give us indeterminate SHU
sentences. We are also no longer able to even
pass a magazine, newspaper, or anything for

that matter, to any other inmate! But we
expected these bastard pigs to intensify their
oppressive campaign against us. They fail to

realize just how strong and determined one
can be in the pursuit of justice, equality, and
every other things, we the downtrodden lack.

I also want to say we also scored a minor

victory with respect to restitution. They are
no longer going to raise it to 55%, they are

going to leave it at 33%. I guess for a few
more years. For those of us who get $10, to
$15 a month from our families, this is good.

-- a California prisoner, August 2004

Torture in SHU causes mental illness

Prisoners are subject to an extraction fire

extinguishers full of O.C. pepper spray,

sprayed into the small 8 by 10 cell through a
slot in the door. After spraying two and
sometimes up to five of those huge canisters,

five to seven staff members get attired in
helmets, padding for knees and elbows and
thick gloves and the door is opened and they

charge in with a shield commence to twist
your arms, legs, hands and ankles and to put
virtually all they're bodies on top of you.

Afterwards you are rinsed off with water

and then placed back into the cell or a
management cell with no bunk, no shelves,

and sometimes no toilet. You are given no
linens, not even clothes to put on for 72 hours.
Your body burns all over from the pepper

spray. To go to sleep you ball up in a fetal
position or simply spend the nights pacing
the floor. The cells are often filthy so when

you sit down you risk contaminating your
rectum.

Men who receive this treatment over long

durations become disturbed. Blood sport
fights have been staged and some have been
shot by guards upon being involved or

defending themselves. If one is ever accused
of attempting to pull away in the handcuffs
while being un-cuffed you get put on triangle

restriction. Then a huge triangle bar is attached
to the handcuffs and if you pull forward they

pull you back with such force sometimes to
jerk and break your arms or seriously dislocate

them.

They have these metal/iron mesh cages that

resemble small booths and you can be left

standing in them for hours. In these SHU
chambers you get showers every two days.
They are only five minutes and then water

can be turned off. For recreation you are sent
to 8 by 10 mesh cages year round for 10 hours
a week. No additional clothing is provided

for the cold months. You go out even when it
rains in just boxers, socks and t-shirts.

On an average torturous day you are

subjected to Reduced Environmental
Stimulus (R.E.S.) and sensory deprivation
cutting off (sight, sound, sense, smell, and

taste). Your bed area in the SHU unit is
composed of concrete slabs, you are provided
a thin mattress and sometimes it is cut into

three sections. There are no windows and
when there are they are painted shut. On the
inside there are no mirrors so you're denied a

look at your own image. At meal times you
get just enough food for a bowel movement.
Food is always cold.

You can be subject to taser shocks and

hog tying when being extracted. I've also
observed concussion grenades being used.

Upon leaving the cell you are subjected to
incessant cavity searches, every time you
leave. There are constant loud noises from

slamming tray ports and flushing toilets which
are idled high and noises from P.A. system.
During the night you have count checks

where a flash light is shined right in your face,
periodically every 2 hours.

Upon being subject to this year in and year

out, some get put on medication which causes
them to sleep all day just after breakfast until
dinner. One has anxiety attacks, gets paranoid,

asocial, and some sexually sick. The treatment
I've described causes torturous shattering
of men's and women's and even children's

minds. Those who don't believe torture is
happening in America just as in Iraq are
naively and sadly misinformed.

-- a California prisoner at Corcoran, July

2004

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Notas Rojas

oct 1-14 2004, Nº 308 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista

Gratis

Traducido por Células de Estudio para la

Liberación de Aztlán y América Latina

El MIM aprovecha la oportunidad para

publicar la entrevista con Pablo Pueblo, uno
de los líderes del Partido Noble Young Lords
(NYLP). Llevamos muchos años colaborado
con los fundadores de esta organización y
conocemos la solidez de la teoría y práctica
revolucionarias detrás de su trabajo. La
formación del NYLP es un paso hacia adelante
para el movimiento revolucionario dentro de
las fronteras estadounidenses, y una
culminación de años de duro trabajo y lucha
por parte de Pablo Pueblo y otros líderes.
Consideramos al NYLP una organización
fraterna que respalda la revolución cultural
en China, que se opone al revisionismo
postestalinista y que reconoce correctamente
el hecho de que la mayoría de trabajadores
euroamericanos constituyen una pequeña
burguesía objetivamente no aliada con la
revolución proletaria. En la actualidad, el MIM
es un partido multinacional. Sin embargo, el
MIM reconoce el hecho de que durante
ciertas épocas las fuerzas vanguardistas de
nacionalidades oprimidas tienen la necesidad
de partidos vanguardistas compuestos por
gente de sus propias naciones. El MIM
reconoce su derecho a formar partidos
separados como parte de la lucha de las
naciones oprimidas por su autodeterminación.
En nuestra opinión, la validez de movimientos
compuestos por una sola nación ha sido
comprobada a lo largo de la historia
comunista.

... viente de la edición previa.

WB: ¿Qué tan importante es la afiliación

del MIM con el NYLP?

PP: Diríamos que el MIM ha sido

INTEGRAL para nuestro desarrollo. Muchos
de nosotros descubrimos el materialismo
dialéctico y el centralismo democrático gracias
al MIM. Los conozco desde mi época
estudiantil y siempre he respetado su onda.
Permíteme cambiar de tema para retomar algo
que mencionaste hace un rato.

WB: Adelante.
PP: Comparaste el NYLP/LNNA con otras

organizaciones lumpen. Hay que aclarar que
a pesar de que el NYLP/LNNA se compone
mayormente de elementos lumpen, desde
luego en la actualidad hemos superado la
táctica de hacer guerra en la calle. Nosotros
distinguimos entre organizaciones lumpen y
partidos de vanguardia. El MIM es un partido
de vanguardia y nosotros también lo somos.
La diferencia es un compromiso político 100%.
La diferencia no tiene nada que ver con el
ego, sino con la práctica.

WB: Hablando de organizaciones lumpen,

¿crees que tu previa participación en otra
organización controversial afectará tu
prestigio como líder socialista legítimo?

PP: En un momento dado antes del NYLP,

pensé que una creación de otra organización
implicaría una traición de mis previas

afiliaciones. Pero conforme iba madurando,
me di cuenta de que esta visión no era más
que un subterfugio psicológico. Si profeso
una lealtad más que nada hacia los pueblos
oprimidos del tercer mundo, entonces mi
deber y mi derecho consisten en servirles de
la manera más avanzada posible. Esto
significa que si en la actualidad soy parte de
una organización que funciona a base de
tácticas parciales o que se ha vuelto sectaria,
y si me niego a unirme a un miembro o una
organización cuyos servicios a los camaradas
de naciones oprimidas son más avanzados,
entonces ESTO SÍ QUE ES UNA
VERDADERA TRAICIÓN a nuestro pueblo.
Ningún revolucionario jamás debería permitir
que una identidad sea más importante que
"La Lucha". Nosotros sabemos que lo que
hacemos es correcto. En cuanto a la
controversia, le debo reparaciones a mi
pueblo por crímenes trágicos cometidos por
ignorancia, a causa de una mentalidad
neocolonial, de modo que una parte de mi
dedicación surge de la redención. Las calles
pueden joderlo a uno. Pero una enorme razón
por la que yo hago esto, por la que nosotros
hacemos esto, es el amor que sentimos por la
Fuerza de Color y la esperanza de verla un día
libre de cadenas imperialistas. Lo jod*@* de
esta historia es que hay personas más
educadas y con más recursos que nosotros,
y nosotros aún seguimos esperando que ellas
asuman el liderazgo de la lucha. ¿Qué carajo
vamos a hacer?.. ¿Vamos a esperar a que
tengamos 50 años? ¡Claro que no! En este
sentido seguimos siendo bien chingones.
Nos prepararemos para hacer el trabajo
renunciado por "la mayoría de los que de
hecho están preparados". Eso es lo que
hicimos. Conseguimos que esto pasara.
Nuestra mente y nuestros corazones están
dedicados 100% al servicio y al aprendizaje
de las masas a la larga.

WB: Qué profundo. Tienes carisma.
PP: Ya lo he visto antes, Bear, así que

déjame aclararte una cosa. No se trata de "mí".
No me interesa promover un "culto a la
personalidad". Estoy hablando por mí, por
Beto Puñala (nuestro Ministro Nacional de
Defensa), y el resto del Comité Central
Nacional, así como por nuestros miembros.
El encabezar el partido no es más que una
función, una pieza en el enorme mecanismo
comunal que se está construyendo a nivel
internacional. El NYLP es una pequeña pieza
que forma parte de un rompecabezas de
resistencia más grande. Si se me permite
acudir a mi "carisma" para promover las metas
del partido, pues que sea así, pero un líder
tiene que entender que el/ella no es más que
una función. El/ella no constituye la
revolución, sino que forma parte de la misma.
Tráeme a un campesino tercermundista o a
un obrero que trabaja en una maquiladora, y
te enseñaré qué tipo de hombres y mujeres
deberían alabarse. ¿Quién carajo soy al lado
de ellos?

WB: ¿Ves a lo que me refiero?
PP: ¡Vete al diablo! (se ríe).
WB: No, ¡tú vete al diablo, Cabecilla!
PP: Ah, ¿estás evocando mi posición

superior al llamarme "cabecilla"? (sonríe).

WB: Mira, como sabes, soy de origen

indígena. Quizás entre los que están leyendo
esta entrevista haya gente que se identifica
con este movimiento pero que no son mexicas,
boricuas o latinos de ninguna manera. ¿Cuál
es la postura del NYLP en relación a otras
naciones aplastadas por el imperialismo, como
por ejemplo los indígenas americanos?

PP: Bueno, no nos importan sus problemas

(silencio incómodo, sonríe). Pero hablando
en serio, el Partido comparte la aserción de
Mao Tse Tung que el nacionalismo es un
internacionalismo aplicado. Queremos
enfocarnos en naciones latinas para que el
efecto entero de nuestros esfuerzos y
recursos de hecho pueda crear y mantener
una división entre los rangos del enemigo. Si
desde el principio gastamos nuestros
esfuerzos y recursos en una serie de
problemas dispersos que forman parte de una
gama más amplia de intereses nacionales,
entonces nuestro impacto será menos tajante.
Una vez que establezcamos una red de
conexiones estable, podremos actuar como
una base sólida para los futuros intereses
internacionales compartidos por otras
naciones oprimidas. Hemos discutido
seriamente la necesidad de reforzar nuestra
base, cuanto antes mejor, con el fin de acelerar
el proceso de formación de bases gemelas,
por ejemplo el NYLP/Naciones Indígenas de
Norteamérica, etc. Lo mencionamos en el
MCP.

WB: ¿El Manual Compendio Político (MCP)

es considerado su primer manifiesto, no es
cierto?

PP: Es un motor sin gasolina. Está a punto

de ser publicado.

WB: ¿Dirías que es un Volvo o un Ferrari?
PP: ¿Cómo crees? Ningún socialista va a

comparar literatura revolucionaria con
productos imperialistas. Si tuviera que usar
una analogía, diría que es un vehículo militar
que sirve para cualquier terreno. Nosotros
no le damos la prioridad al aspecto físico ni a
la velocidad; lo que nos importa es la
estabilidad, la duración y la eficiencia.

WB: A lo que me refiero es que como

autor...

PP: Yo no soy el autor, fui el editor y el

director del proyecto. Los miembros del
partido y el CCN me dieron su confianza
escogiéndome para que escribiera la mayoría
de las leyes, la legislación y los protocolos,
pero también me ayudaron el Pantera de Allah,
G. Good, Kulclan, Beto Puñala, MIM y Don
Pacho. El MIM, ALKQN [All Mighty Latin
King and Queen Nation- La Toda Poderosa
Nación de Reyes y Reinas Latinas- SLALA]
y NAIM, así como el YLP y el BPP [Black
Panther Party- Partido de la Pantera Negra],
sirvieron de modelos.

WB: No creo que un manual corporativo

pudiera haber sido escrito con tanto éxito.

PP: Nos sigues comparando con productos

u organizaciones capitalistas. Eso está mal,
güey.

WB: Reconozco el error. Como sabes, no

me considero un socialista, sólo un anti-
marrano, de modo que mi conocimiento de
este campo deja mucho que desear.

PP: Entiendo. Te voy a escribir cartas para

recordarte de vez en cuando que en el corazón
de cada persona circula sangre "roja"...y que
en el tuyo también debería circular. Pero
entiendo tu punto de vista. Pienso que la
mayoría de la gente no espera que los
argumentos de los inmigrantes y los caribeños
tengan mucha lógica. De modo que cuando
ven este tipo de manual exhumado de las
calles sucias y del cementerio de los vivos
que son las cárceles, están impresionados.
Pero para nosotros es perfectamente normal,
son temas de conversación que se discuten
todo el tiempo. Sólo que no nos dábamos
cuenta de que personas como Mao y Lenin
habían elaborado teorías científicas a base
de nuestra experiencia. Una vez que nos dimos
cuenta de esto, sabíamos que teníamos que
elaborar claramente y esperar a que la semilla
diera frutos. El Manual Compendio Político
no es ninguna obra maestra, pero a nosotros-
y espero a los que lo compren- nos servirá de
sostén, al igual que un esqueleto que sostiene
el cuerpo mientras éste funciona, ¿entiendes?
No estamos promoviendo un producto con
defectos.

WB: Bueno, Pueblo, gracias por tu tiempo.

Estoy seguro de que el movimiento se
beneficiará de la participación de
revolucionarios como tú.

PP: Gracias, Bear. Oye, antes de irme quiero

agradecer a varias personas cuya ayuda nos
ha sido útil como un soplo de viento fresco.
¿Te importa que sea en español?

WB: Adelante.
PP: Quiero enviarle saludos y gracias por

su apoyo a Dona Carmen, a nuestro hermano
C. Maroma el amante de las turistas de Machu
Piccu, Keila la heroína de los hermanos
condenados, Ailene la Sabrosa, y Dense A.;
sangre de mi sangre. Saludos especiales van
para Gloria, madre de un general. Invitamos a
que todos Uds.- estudiantes rebeldes,
camaradas encarcelados que buscan un
portavoz de sus intereses comunes, y todos
los revolucionarios potenciales (como el
camarada Nafi)- nos ayuden con el crecimiento
del Partido y que se conviertan en Noble
Young Lords. Por cierto, para nosotros la
palabra "Lord" ("Señor") es de género neutral,
de modo que invitamos a que todas Uds.-
Hermanas Lord- también nos ayuden en esta
lucha.

Si Uds. desean ponerse en contacto con el

portavoz del NYLP/LNNA Maldito Green
Eyes, comuníquense con: NYLP/MIM, PO
Box 40799, San Francisco, CA 94140. E-mail:
NYLP@mim.org, atención- M.G.E.

La resurrección de un viejo legado revolucionario

Habla el Partido Noble Young Lords