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MIM Notes

December 2004, Nº 311

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NO-ALTERNATIVE

DEMS CODDLE

BACKWARDS

VOTERS, SHARE

POWER WITH WAR-

MONGERS

The nature of the Bu$h victory

demonstrates some very clear points

about the united $tates. Our candidate

"none of the above" has to make a

concession speech for the nation

commonly known as whites in the united

$tates; even though our candidate won

over 50 million votes from among

registered voters who number 173.6

million.(1) 57% of whites voted for Bu$h.

More than 89% of Blacks, 55% of

Hispanics and 59% of Asians voted

against Bush and large numbers stayed

home with us.(2)

Something that MIM has never done is

claim that it has majority support in

Amerika. If we were like former

president Richard Nixon, we would say

we are the "silent majority," because

generally the majority does not vote

except in presidential elections and

candidates like Bu$h brag about winning

with 48% of 55% of the population voting

as in 2000 or maybe something like 51%

of 59% this time.

Something that this election reveals and

we've said before is that reactionary

white politics does have reserves in

Amerika. In 2002, there were just under

193 million people eligible to vote in the

united $tates.(3) About another 18 million

people the U.S. Census found but can't

vote because they're not citizens. The

imperialists must have really turned up

their game to register 173.6 million and

leaving only about 20 million not registered

but eligible. It appears 50 million just

registered in the last two years.

The smoking gun in our observation on

the reactionary nature of Amerika is that

voter turnout did increase from the year

2000. They're at 114 million up from 105

million in 2000, and not all the votes are

counted yet, so we may get as high as

120 million.(4) Nonetheless, Bu$h won

by a bigger margin than in 2000. So though

Crackers get their man

It's lifestyle politics, stupid

By MC12

In a report on a news conference held

by Air Force Gen. Richard Myers,

chairman of the U.$. military's Joint

Chiefs of Staff, Reuters quoted him as

saying that "hundreds and hundreds of

insurgents" killed or captured in Fallujah,

but "hardly any, if any, civilian casualties

so far."(1)

In a report from an "embedded"

reporter in Fallujah, the Washington Post

quoted an Amerikan sergeant as saying,

"It's a great thing blowing stuff up" and

pointing to a 155mm round for his cannon.

"Three of these and I can take out a

whole building. As long as no civilians are

out there, we're doing all right."(2)

Surely an independent media would

point out such obvious lies. Instead,

Reuters went on to talk about wounded

Amerikan troops, and the Post went on

to talk about how cool the cannon was.

In fact, neither of these reports mentioned

any civilian deaths, even though there are

known to be many.

Civilian deaths are reported here and

there, but they are not part of the main

narrative of the Amerikan press. In a

separate story we have a quote from a

man saying "I saw a man carrying my

son Mustafa, who is 14 months old. He

was bleeding, with his left leg amputated,

and then I looked for my wife and found

her wounded with multiple fractures in

the arms and legs. I used to sell sheep in

Fallujah, and now I am a jobless man

staying in hospital with a handicapped

child and dying wife." The Iraqi Red

Crescent spokesperson is quoted as

saying, "There's no medicine, no water,

no electricity," and describing a situation

where "a woman died after miscarrying

in a refugee camp where no doctor was

present. A boy died of a snake bite

because there was no antidote available.

A clinic used as an emergency hospital

Amerikan militarism turns

Iraq into a bloody mess

`FREE' MEDIA LOOKS THE OTHER WAY

was hit by a bomb, killing many doctors,

nurses and patients, medical staff said."(3)

A Scottish newspaper reported:

"Fallujah residents today claimed US jets

had destroyed a clinic that had been

On September 12, 1992, fascist

Peruvian police captured the greatest

revolutionary of our hemisphere,

Comrade Gonzalo, the leader of the PCP

(Communist Party of Peru). The alleged

appearance of Comrade Gonzalo in a

Peru courtroom November 5 2004 is a

bittersweet reminder of the twists and

turns of revolutionary struggle in Peru.

Beloved by the people of Peru,

President Gonzalo was not perynally able

to bring Peru a happy ending in its story

of revolution. It remains up to the masses

of Peru to bring the reality of revolution

into being. The study of Marxism-

Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo Thought is

essential for revolution in all of Latin

America.

When the fascists arrested Gonzalo,

conservative estimates put the

percentage of Peru under PCP control at

between 25 and 40 percent.(1) By that

time, the PCP had coordinated far more

armed struggle than Fidel Castro ever

had. In a handful of small battles, Fidel

Castro came to power in Cuba. The PCP

showed how a thorough revolution could

sweep Latin America under more difficult

conditions.

Though the PCP did not overthrow the

fascist regime before the capture of

Gonzalo, the success it did have was still

the greatest revolutionary success in the

hemisphere since World War II. MIM has

spoken with academics who cannot

imagine what sustained revolution in Peru

for 12 years. There is no theory for it in

the academic world, but in Marxism-

Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo Thought we

The fascists captured Comrade Gonzalo, but

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought is free!

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MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · 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.

Editor, MC206; Production, MC12

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Ex-soldier sees

the light

I'm a 39 year old First Nations combat

vet who has finally seen the light. I grew

up in Occupied First Nations land

surrounded by poverty, alcoholism, and

racism. As a young person it was made

clear to me that the only way to escape

was to join the military and make a career

of it. So, at 17 I joined the military of the

country that had tried so hard to destroy

my people, just so I might escape. Over

a 12 year career I participated in many

conflicts against people who were just like

my people. I fought and killed people who

refused to give in to the demands of the

Amerikan empire. I saw more poverty

than I had ever known yet these people

still resisted. Year after year all over the

world I saw many people who were just

like my people trying to survive yet still

resisting. I related to the resistors more

than the empire I served. I felt I was

betraying my people and myself. I was

the Native scout that was used against

other Natives. I remember talking to my

clan mother about the guilt and shame I

felt. She suggested I leave the military

and find a way to help the people not just

here but all over the world. I tried to find

a philosophy that matched what I thought

was the correct path in life. After trial

and error, I finally found Maoism. The

only answer to the problems of the world

is through truly International efforts to

bring down the system of oppression that

destroys people, cultures, and the earth:

the system of capitalism.

--First Nations veteran

Dump the spectating,

get off your asses

Dear MIM:

Those were some good comments

about the idiotic phenomenon of

commercial spectator sports [our article

in the last MIM Notes on the shooting

death of a Boston Red Sox fan].

The very term "spectator sports" seems

like an oxymoron. It's really quite pathetic

to see an entire region of the United $tates

get worked up into a frenzy over the

supposed virtues of its local team--only

to see that team repay the devotion by

pulling up stakes and moving to

Albuquerque for an extra two bucks per

year. That stuff is also very heavily

subsidized by local and state governments,

which constantly find themselves shelling

out for a new stadium in order to keep

the monopoly capitalist in town. They

should tell the damn team to get lost and

instead use some of their funds to build

more parks and athletic facilities for the

people, who wouldn't have so much time

for raising hell after large commercial

productions if they took part in sports

themselves. Amerikkkans need to put

down the remote control and get off their

asses anyway.

--HC123

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 Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 3

Armored personnel

carriers show up at

Los Angeles demo

Los Angeles,

9 November, 2004

MIM handed out about 100 copies of

MIM Notes to a rush hour demonstration

to protest the renewed Amerikan attack

on Fallujah. The ANSWER Coalition,

which called the demo at the Westwood

Federal Building, claimed a crowd of a

few hundred took part.

For the most part, the LA organizers

did a better job of keeping the focus on

Iraq than did the organizers of the San

Francisco demonstration on the same

night (see accompanying article). The

better signs were homemade--calling for

an end to the "illegal occupation" and for

support for the "brave fighters" in Iraq.

MIM is all in favor of reminding the

Amerikan people of the lesson the Iraqis

are giving the u.$. military every day:

technology alone will never subdue the

will of a people to fight off an occupier.

Amerika has many times the population

of Iraq, and so can choose to keep

throwing soldiers at the problem, but the

Iraqis will exact their price for the

suffering the u.$. inflicts.

The Westwood demonstration had its

share of chauvinism too. One official

ANSWER sign we saw called for equal

rights for the lesbian/gay/bi/trans people

-- discrimination is really not an issue to

put up alongside the rights of Iraqi people

to survival. And the activist leading chants

took a lengthy detour into parasitism when

he started calling for money for jobs,

healthcare, and unions of all things,

instead of for war. The bit about the

unions made us laugh the hardest--as if

now funding labor bureaucrats, who are

paid out of the superprofits Amerika sucks

out of the Third World, is supposed to be

this great argument against imperialist

expansionism!

After MIM left, two armored

vehicles--apparently Marine APCs--

showed up on Wilshire Blvd. in front of

the demonstration. We don't know why

they were there, or if their presence had

anything to do with the demonstration, but

one activist reported that a few of the

soldiers gave the demonstrators a thumbs

up and seemed friendly, then they drove

off.

It's no secret that the military ranks are

disproportionately filled with oppressed

nationality youth. MIM also notes that the

u.$. troops are becoming discouraged at

the combination of their own lengthening

tours and the seeming inevitability of a

draft, the fact that the Amerikan

government and military leaders obviously

either didn't know what to expect in Iraq

or lied about it, and most importantly the

fierce resistance of the Iraqi people. We

do not target our recruiting efforts at the

military, but we welcome any disaffected

military members to get in touch and use

our press as a platform for voicing your

new-found anti-imperialist views.

Sources: www.boingboing.net;

www.la.indymedia.org.

San Francisco

9 November, 2004

International ANSWER sponsored an

emergency rally to protest the u.$.

invasion of Fallujah, Iraq, which brought

out thousands of supporters. So far, the

news reports are saying scores of civilians

have been killed in the first two days of

the attack. These numbers are sure to

increase as the united $tates has bombed

medical facilities in Fallujah and reportedly

arrested and detained medical staff. (1)

One speaker at the rally told the story of

a man who watched his child die from

wounds caused by an explosion because

he knew if he brought her to the hospital

she would be killed. This is all within the

context of the recent estimate of over

100,000 Iraqi deaths, making violence the

leading cause of death in Iraq these days.

(2)

With this imperialist slaughter being

conducted by the u.$. military, we rally

condemn the leadership (International

ANSWER and associates) that ended up

leading a march to all of the downtown

hotels to support workers that are striking

for a contract. ANSWER baited those

who are rightly outraged by the slaughter

in Fallujah to join what became a rally for

guaranteed wealth for the relatively

wealthy (see below). Judging by the

enthusiastic chants ("What do we want?

Contracts!"), the crowd was more

excited about the hotel struggle than the

war on Iraq. However, the hotel strikers

have not been able to rally a crowd big

enough to block Market Street in

downtown San Francisco as we did this

night. The loud chanting at the hotels may

have happened because it was a break

from the monotonous march and chant

routine and not an indication that the

crowd thought the hotel strike was a more

important cause. While clearly in the

minority, MIM and RAIL were not the

only ones that seemed uninterested

during the hotel stops.

The hotel workers make at least $8.00

an hour, which at 40 hours a week for 50

weeks a year is $16,000 per year not

including benefits. (3) This puts the lowest

paid hotel worker in the top 12% of the

richest people in the world. (4) The hotel

workers have legitimate complaints

regarding questions of job security and

health care, both of which would be

guaranteed under socialism. But these

are questions that we can deal with after

the rest of the world has food, shelter

and clean water and certainly after we

put an end to mass genocide in Iraq,

Palestine and elsewhere around the

globe. Not only are these issues more

pressing, but it is only the struggle of those

who have nothing to lose that will lead

us to a peaceful and equitable future.

Of course, the people leading the rally

argued that the money being spent on war

could better go to health care and fat

contracts for workers in the united $tates.

On the contrary, the demands of the hotel

workers in the current economy amount

to calling for more imperialist exploitation

to pay them off, in other words more

slaughter of Third World people. It is the

chauvinism of Amerikans that allows them

to think that the billions of dollars spent

on war was wealth that rightfully belongs

to them in the first place. Until

International ANSWER and 90% of the

anti-war movement recognize the

economic realities of imperialism, the

struggles of the oppressed will continue

to be used as window dressing for the

struggle of the oppressors and oppressor

wannabes. (5)

Notes:

1. Flashpoints news radio. 8 November

2004.

2. 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says

study. The Guardian. 29 October 2004.

3. indybay.org/labor/

4. www.globalrichlist.com

5. for MIM's analysis of the economic

realities of imperialism check out

"Imperialism and its Class Structure in

1997"

ANSWER suckers MIM, RAIL and others into oinkfest

Slaughter in Iraq is the real issue

By MC12

10 November 2004

The first substantive comment on

Arafat that we can find MIM making is

from MIM Notes 23, on April 28, 1986:

"MIM would like to ask various long-

standing cheerleaders of the PLO: who

are they waving the flag for now? Nothing

could cause greater disorientation than

hitching one's cart whole-heartedly to this

opportunist-led organization. Arafat has

done everything short of taking an Israeli

salary and appears to realize his value to

Israel and the United States as a potential

ally relative to more pro-Soviet leaders in

the PLO. He is left to holding out for the

best deal until the day he gets one or is

assassinated by impatient Israelis. While

the PLO's cause deserves support, its

factionalization and opportunism points up

that it was not always the perfect vehicle

of revolutionary nationalism it was

cracked up to be by its tag-along

supporters. The Palestinian people

deserve better leadership."

The most recent, in response to a letter

about Nelson Mandela and Yassir Arafat

from a Texas prisoner, was from MIM

Notes 267, on October 1 of this year. We

said:

"Fifteen years ago, the movements they

[Mandela and Arafat] led--the Palestine

Liberation Organization (PLO) and the

African National Congress (ANC), along

with their allied movements in Nicaragua

and El Salvador and a few

others--represented to

some people the cutting

edge of anti-imperialism

and the future of socialist

movements. Those of us

who disagreed at the

time- -including MIM--

were clearly vindicated in

the 1990s when all of

these organizations gave

up the revolutionary

cause for good and went

over into negotiated

capitulation whole hog. To

MIM, this history holds

valuable lessons,

including two major ones.

First, national liberation

from imperialism without

a socialist program and

leadership leads to

neocolonialism. This we

already knew, but these

cases underscored it.

Second, national

liberation movements tied

too heavily to external

great- power support--in

this case the social-

imperialist ex-USSR--

are not independently

sustainable. Whatever

was revolutionary in the

A few reflections on Yasser Arafat's death

MIM looks back at past statements on the Palestinian leader

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MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 4

have an answer of how to make

revolution in much of Latin America.

MIM never undertakes to answer a

question without a thorough investigation.

We can say we do not know about the

man who appeared November 5 2004 in

that Peru courtroom. It is the job of the

Peruvian revolutionaries and masses to

know who that was and what the struggle

is concerning him in the details. It would

be wrong for MIM to read what the

Associated Press reporter has to say

about it and take it literally and then draw

MIM's own conclusion. That's why MIM

describes itself as based in imperialist

countries and their internal semi-colonies.

As MIM has explained before in its

U.$. tactics for working "at arm's length,"

the enemy's strength and weakness is the

individual approach. The enemy does

police work on the individual, but we of

the larger class, the exploited proletariat

with allies in the exploited peasantry have

a different approach.

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Gonzalo Thought is free!

So while MIM does not know what

happened November 5 in Peru, what we

do know is that the approach described

in Comrade Gonzalo's books is correct.

The writings of Comrade Gonzalo are

based not just on valuable and bloody

struggle in Peru but also the experience

of China.

Comrade Gonzalo led 12 years of the

most successful People's War in Latin

America. Now it is also 12 years since

the arrest of Gonzalo, but official

unemployment in Peru is 10.1% according

to the Miami Herald and expected to

increase in the coming year.(2) According

to BBC, a World Food Program "study

found that up to 91% of children under

age five in Puno were suffering from

malnutrition. The area also has been

struck by drought and floods.

"More than half of Peru's population

live . . . below the poverty line and some

6.5 million people, 25% of the population,

are classified as extremely poor, living on

an income of less than $1 per day."(3)

The reactionaries in Peru strive to

demoralize us by making us remember

the capture of the individual Gonzalo. Yet,

we will direct the people internationally

to remember that Peru did not accomplish

anything under capitalism and semi-

feudalism these past 12 years.

The excuses are gone. It used to be

the excuse that Peru was too social-

democratic, so it found new u.$. lackey

leaders. Then the excuse was that

Comrade Gonzalo was nearly bringing

down the regime. So they captured

Gonzalo. Then the excuse became that

the regime was corrupt and tied up with

narco-trafficking. So they imprisoned

Montesinos and exiled Fujimori.

What we must learn is that each time

there is a different excuse, but the

underlying problem is always the same.

While capitalism may be a "success" for

whites in the united $tates and some other

imperialist countries, most countries in the

world share Peru's fate. They are

partners with Washington but make no

progress in the supposedly successful

capitalist system, which backs semi-

feudalism in Peru. While Uncle $am wars

on the people of Iraq for their resources

and Amerikans get richer on oil and

military contracts, the people of Peru and

most countries in the world suffer

relentless oppression and exploitation. The

wealthy Amerikan "success" stories are

only 294 million people, while the rest of

the world is over 6 billion people opposing

u.$. imperialism. It's been 12 years since

the capture of Gonzalo and the people of

Peru know that capitalism is still a failure

for them, just as it is for most of the

world's people.

Notes:

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

mn/mn.php?issue=070

2. http://www.miami.com/mld/

miamiherald/business/special_packages/

business_monday/9949073.htm?1c

3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/

3757150.stm

Continued from page 1...

By MC12

Even though the official crime rate is

still lower than it was in the 1990s, the

number of prisoners continues to

increase, because harsher sentencing

rules introduced in previous years reduced

the number of people leaving prison. The

latest report from the Bureau of Justice

Statistics shows that the mean time

served for current prisoners increased

from 23 months in 1995 to 30 months in

2002. So even with a slower rate of

prisoners coming in, the population

increases because fewer people are

leaving.

The total number of prisoners in state,

federal, and local custody was 2,085,620

at the end of 2003, up 2.6% over the

previous year. The annual average rate

of growth from 1995 to 2003 was 3.5%.

If the number of prisoners keeps

increasing at a 3.5% annual rate, it will

reach 3 million in 2014 and 4 million in

2022. If it grows at the slower rate of

last year alone, it will reach 3 million in

2018.

As the population also grows, it's

important to look at the imprisonment

rate, or the number of people out of every

100,000 that is in prison. That's the

number that shows how much the prison

craze is impacting the internal Black and

Latino colonies by removing whole

segments of the productive population.

The overall imprisonment rate increased

from 601 per 100,000 population in 1995

to 701 in 2002, and 714 in 2003. The rate

for Black men, however, was 3,405,

compared with 1,231 for Latino men and

465 for White men. At the most extreme,

the rate reached 9,262--or 9.3%--for

Black men ages 25-29. At that age, Black

men are 8.5-times more likely to be in

prison than White men. Overall, the

prison population in 2003 was 44% Black

and 19% Latino.

One other number to watch is the

number of prisoners under the jurisdiction

of the Bureau of Immigration and

Customs Enforcement, which increased

12% from 2002 to 2003. More importantly,

that number has increased by 186% from

1995 to 2003 (8,177 to 23,514). That

shows the continuing reach and

U.$. prison population keeps climbing

repressive capacity of the police-state

border authorities, which are charged

with regulating the flow of labor from the

oppressed nations in the U.$.A.

The Amerikan injustice system and its

prison operations are fundamental aspects

of the national oppression of Amerika's

internal colonies, and increasingly of non-

U.$. citizens as well. The giant prison

industry is also a source of construction

projects and employment for the labor

aristocracy, especially in white rural areas

where many prisoners are located. To get

involved with MIM's anti-prison

agitation--against censorship, control

units, and the imperialists' death penalty--

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

agitation/prisons.

Source: "Prisoners in 2003" (NCJ

205335). See: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/

bjs/abstract/p03.htm

programs of these movements was

quickly sacrificed when they could no

longer leverage Soviet support against the

U.$. empire. When the ex-USSR

collapsed, they had no one to lean on, so

they quickly cut the best deals they could

with imperialism, and declared victory.

Before the collapse of the ex-USSR,

Arafat and Mandela were more likely to

end up in the Soviet camp. That was how

they played their hands. Now, to MIM

that is not as big a difference as it is to

some others, because we understand that

the Soviet Union had become social-

imperialist after the development of state

capitalism in the 1950s. So this was a

choice between imperialist powers. It is

not inherently wrong to play one imperialist

power off another, but revolutionary

movements need to maintain their

independence and self-sufficiency in such

situations (look at formerly-Soviet-

dependent Cuba, too).These guys were

the two leaders supposedly representing

the most visible unresolved colonial

legacies post- WWII. These cases posed

international political problems for

imperialism in the neocolonial era, because

they undermined the imperialist

propaganda that the current era is "post-

colonial," the "former" imperialists having

given up their colonies out of their own

largesse or political savvy. So maybe it is

fitting (from the imperialist's perspective)

that when these two guys finally gave it

up, they got the Nobel Prize. The

revolutionary aspirations of the people

they represented were a major thorn in

the side of imperialism. Which brings us

to your final question: why do the masses

put up with this? On that we urge you to

take a longer view. In the long run, the

masses do not put up with this.

Developing revolutionary organizations

and leaders takes time and requires

capitalizing on the historical moment.

Already in both Palestine and Azania

(South Africa) there are growing mass

movements which see Arafat and

Mandela/Mbeki for what they are:

imperialist running dogs. You won't catch

imperialist mouthpieces reporting on these

movements though; the myths they've

built up around Arafat and Mandela are

important propaganda."

We need to be clear about neocolonial

nature of Arafat's leadership, but that

doesn't mean we side with those liberal

Zionists like the New York Times who

blame Arafat for "rejecting peace" when

he refused to accept the force-feeding

U.$. President Bill Clinton and I$raeli

Prime Minister Ehud Barak attempted to

give him at Camp David in 2000. As we

said in MIM Notes 254, March 15 2002,

"When Yassir Arafat rejected the plan,

he was falsely accused of choosing war

over peace." Rejecting that deal --

which would have formalized the

dismemberment of the existing paltry

Palestinian territory, leaving I$rael in

control over its borders, water, and

maintaining Jewish settlements all over

the West Bank -- was one of the better

things Arafat did in the last 20 years,

though it seems to have been only because

of pressure from the Palestinian masses

that he was compelled to reject it.

A few reflections on Yasser Arafat's death

MIM looks back at past statements on the Palestinian leader

Continued from page 3...

MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 5

receiving casualties after US forces

seized the city's main hospital, where

rebels had been hiding. Some medical

staff and patients had been killed at the

Popular Clinic in a central district, they

added. Sami al-Jumaili, a doctor at the

main hospital, said: `There is not a single

surgeon in Fallujah. We had one

ambulance hit by US fire and a doctor

wounded. There are scores of injured

civilians in their homes who we can't

move. `A 13-year-old child just died in

my arms.' Doctors said at least 15

civilians had been killed since the assault

on Fallujah began."(6)

But the products of Amerikan

journalism schools blandly quote generals

saying there are "hardly any, if any,

Amerikan militarism turns Iraq into a bloody mess

civilian casualties" without even offering

the contrasting evidence.

While CNN and other media show

brave-looking Amerikan troops going

building to building (actually much of that

footage is from training grounds), they

spend a lot less time talking about the

Amerikan practice of leveling parts of the

city, known as "softening up the

battlespace" before moving in.(4) Maybe

the brave soldiers with the 155mm canons

can some day run for president, talking

about how their "covering fire" saved

Amerikan lives.

MIM readers know Amerika is killing

thousands of civilians in Iraq, having

already killed hundreds of thousands

through a decade of sanctions after first

round of the war in 1991, including half a

million children under age 5.(5)

We also know that we can't rely on

the imperialists' media to learn the truth

about this and other Amerikan wars of

aggression. MIM doesn't have reporters

on the ground in Iraq, but we do know

how to prioritize the information that we

can gather, and use a political theory

directed at overcoming imperialism in our

strategy of building public opinion to end

these wars for good.

Notes:

1. "General Says 18 U.S. Troops Killed

in Falluja," Reuters, Nov. 11, 2004.

2. "Artillerymen Clear Path for the

Infantry," Washington Post, November

11, 2004. p. A33.

3. "Refugees claim that civilian

casualties left to die." November 11, 2004.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/

0,,7374-1353856,00.html.

4. "Assault on Falluja: Go kick some

butt and make history, Vietnam-style, US

troops urged." The Guardian (London),

Nov. 9, 2004, p. 3.

5. "New evidence of Iraqi suffering

under sanctions: U.$. blames Iraq; blocks

delegation from visiting." MIM Notes

194, September 15, 1999. http://

www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/mn/

mn194/iraq.txt.

6. "Fierce fighting as rebels dig in

against U.S. troops." Evening Times

Online, http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/

print/news/5032337.shtml.

Continued from page 1...

By MC12

A completely accurate count of war

dead in Iraq is impossible. Even if you

could count up all the reports of deaths

made to the press and hospitals, as the

iraqbodycount.org site tries to do, you

miss many, as devastated families may

sometimes be forced to bury loved-ones

in the garden--if they can--before they

flee the destruction of Amerikan

bombardment.

And we don't need to know the exact

number of dead to know that we oppose

this and all other imperialist wars of

aggression. However, it is important to

get a sense of the magnitude of the death

and destruction, for purposes of public

education and also for making strategic

decisions. To that end, MIM welcomes

the recent report in the journal The

Lancet, the journal of the British Medical

Association, which attempted a scientific

assessment of mortality in Iraq before and

after the most recent Amerikan invasion.

Researchers led by people at Johns

Hopkins University selected a random

sample of 33 residential locations in the

country, and interviewed residents of a

cluster of 30 households around each

location. They asked people to list the

births and deaths tat occurred within each

household, by date, for a period before

and after the invasion. Using probability

theory, if the population interviewed is a

random sample, then the mortality rates

from before and after the invasion can

be extrapolated to the whole population,

with a measurable likelihood that the

estimates are correct.

They used Arabic-speaking medical

doctors to conduct the interviews, and had

a very high cooperation rate among the

residents they interviewed. They also

requested death certificates for a small

number of cases to see if many had gone

unreported. They had to make some

adjustments from perfect randomness, to

cut down on travel time and expenses,

and because some areas were too

dangerous to go, but they got pretty close,

and did the best job we've seen under

the current circumstances.

In 15 out of the 33 sites they visited,

the researchers encountered households

that had experienced at least one violent

death, the majority of them

noncombatants.

Their survey locations included one

area of extreme violence in Fallujah,

which heavily influenced the results.

When they exclude the Fallujah cite, they

conclude with 95% confidence that the

overall mortality rate in the country has

increased by between 1.1-times and 2.3-

times, accounting for 8,000 to 194,000

"excess" deaths, or deaths that would not

have occurred at the mortality rate before

the invasion. That makes the best

conservative guess 98,000 excess deaths,

most of them attributable to violence. That

estimate is conservative because it

excludes the Fallujah site, thus excluding

one area where many people were killed.

A population-based survey is a good

way to estimate war dead, especially in

cases where the news media is restricted

from moving around and their output is

so controlled by the aggressor in the war.

Estimates of war dead in Iraq: 100,000 and counting

This information puts the recent round

of the Iraq war on the scale of other major

Amerikan acts of aggression, and far

outdistances any acts of so- called

terrorism perpetrated against Amerikans.

Critics of the study either dismiss

statistical methods out-of-hand or nitpick

small problems in the design or result

without having an alternative at hand.

These critics expose themselves as

apologists for the war in Iraq and

supporters of the status quo.(2) MIM

supports the use of statistics, even while

recognizing the drawbacks in particular

studies. We do not "make the perfect the

enemy of the good"--especially when the

alternative is just making shit up. That

might work if you're trying to win a

popularity contest, but not if you're trying

to make revolutionary change to

eradicate war, hunger and poverty.

Notes:

1. The Lancet study is available with

free registration at http://

www.thelancet.com/journal.

2. Boston Globe, 7 Nov 2004, p. D5.

In Afghanistan the U.$. occupation has

given rise to armed struggle by the Afghan

people. We now have a report below of

a hostage-taking, this time Filipinos.

This particular hostage-taking is the

responsibility of Uncle $am both because

the Philippines is a U.$-puppet regime that

is in the "coalition" and because U.$.

violence has caused the Afghan people

to strike back.

We would say there is a general

difference between U.$. hostages and

Third World hostages. In Iraq and

Afghanistan, U.$. contractors are there

to make money from the occupation--

and those contracts will be so lucrative

that we can classify the contractors as

exploiters profiting from the oppression

of Iraqis and Afghans. In the case of

Third World contractors or UN workers,

the general economic position is not as

clear.

There is always the risk that innocent

people will be mistaken as running dogs

of u.$. imperialism, but as some Filipinos

have pointed out, the Filipinos run that risk

till they run the u.$. lackey regime off the

islands.

CPP statement on hostage-taking

of Filipino UN worker in

Afghanistan

November 3, 2004

The Communist Party of the Philippines

(CPP) joins the Filipino people in calling

for the safe release of Filipino UN worker

Angelito Nayan and other hostages

currently being held in Afghanistan.

The CPP holds the US government,

principally, and the Arroyo regime

responsible for the fate that has befallen

Nayan. The Afghan people and

resistance groups have been driven to

carry out such unacceptable methods of

struggle by the viciousness and barbarity

with which US imperialism has conducted

its war of aggression against Afghanistan

and suppressed the Afghan people's

Amerikan aggression in Afghanistan

to blame for kidnapping of Filipino

freedom and human rights.

The unjust and murderous US war of

aggression against Afghanistan has dealt

widespread destruction and grave

suffering on the Afghan people. The

thickly veiled US neocolonial rule of

Afghanistan has fired up the Afghan

people's desire for national freedom.

The Arroyo regime is condemnable for

blindly supporting US imperialism in its

wars of aggression against Afghanistan

and Iraq.

In the final analysis, it is its acts of

servility to US imperialism that has put

Angelito Nayan and other Filipinos like

him in harm's way.

MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 6

our candidate "none of the above" won

more votes than Bush total, we cannot

infer from that that whites are a majority

progressive. If we asked people to vote

for any of their choices but forced them

to vote, a large portion would still vote

for Bu$h. Bush proved that he could eat

into our candidate's support and combined

with the Kerry war-mongering vote, even

excluding some deluded youth and

oppressed nationalities, our candidate

"none of the above" clearly lost among

the whites, so call this a concession

speech.

If we assume our candidate received

100% of the non-citizens who can't vote

(and that's not true, because some are

definitely lackeys taken from other

countries as rewards for serving as

puppets), the Republicrats still beat us by

approximately 119 million to 93 million.

What one might think is that new voters

are voting with some delusion of changing

the status quo. One might think that's why

they bothered to register for the first time.

That turns out to be true with over 60%

of people who did not vote in 2000 voting

for Kerry,(5) because Bu$h did politicize

some people and caused others to

compromise themselves to vote for Kerry.

However, the new-voter effect was not

overwhelming, which means that we

cannot put the "deluded" label on a large

portion of the new voters. The new voters

also came to the polls to vote against gay

marriage and preserve the status quo.

Meanwhile the repeat voters hardened

and increased in their support for Bu$h,

going for Bu$h 50% to 45% for Kerry

according to NBC. Democrats who think

getting people into the electoral horse race

helps people politically obviously do not

see that trend.

Voting for Bu$h in this election is a very

clear action. The president and the media

pounded home their message. Sometimes

we Marxists find the exploited in a

condition of "false consciousness," where

the exploited ineptly pursue their own

interests and simply do not know what is

going on. That is not really the correct

paradigm in this case when as many well-

publicized wars are going on as the united

$tates is involved in. We as Marxists

cannot say simultaneously that the

capitalist class is dominating the media

and then also say that the whites do not

know Bu$h is carrying out a war in Iraq.

We have to let go one of those assertions.

Paying for the wars and then voting for

Bu$h, failing to organize demonstrations

and sending children to war-- these are

actions that have to be distinguished from

the concept of mere consciousness, unless

we are to fall into a Trotskyist trap making

the entire goal one's mental state of

political purity as opposed to action.

It is not just that false consciousness is

blocking tens of millions from recognizing

their vanguard party. Over 60 million

people just took action for Bu$h, who is a

very clearly defined political quantity.

The mark of the white nationalist "left"

Crackers get their man

is that it denies that those who voted for

Bu$h and all his wars are stabbing the

oppressed nationalities in the back. The

white nationalist "left" makes elaborate

excuses for the whites of this country--

boiling down to a verbally crafted

dreamstate carefully nurtured--as if

everything were a matter of debate and

not bombers, missiles, and tanks.

At a more local level, Alabama whites

also took action, with a majority voting to

keep language in the Alabama constitution

that requires segregation of schools and

poll taxes historically used to keep Blacks

from voting. The governors and ex-

governors of Alabama told the crackers

it was time for change, but the Christian

Coalition said changing the constitution

would raise taxes--a complete falsehood

and the thinnest of disguises for racism.

The Chrisitan Coalition action shows that

it is not "moral values" holding together

their political coalition, but in fact racism

and a total lack of integrity.

Even if a recount shows that the

Constitution should in fact remove the

language, it won't change the fact that a

majority of whites voted to keep

segregation in the Alabama constitution.

The same jack-ass Chief Justice of

Alabama who lost his job for illegally

putting a stone tablet with the 10

Commandments in the court opposed

changing the Constitution in the name of

the Christians.

"There were 688,927 votes against it,

and 685,508 votes for it"(6) as we write

this. It's also another reason why we have

to be for a strong central government--

dictatorship of the proletariat of the

oppressed nations. Left to themselves, the

Alabama whites would still be segregated

in 2004, which is why the re-civilizing and

de-parasitizing stage of the dictatorship

of the proletariat of the oppressed nations

is necessary for humyn harmony.

That's not all for Alabama. The

crackers also elected a Confederate

activist to be the Supreme Court justice.

New judge Tom Parker hands out mini-

Confederate flags and associates with

the League of the South.(6)

Anyone who follows that and can't

make a judgment on u.$. whites needs to

take some Geritol and get a gonads

implant. The white nationalist "left"

(which includes many lackeys from

among the oppressed nationalities) can

make excuses for anything. What it is is

adjustment to the powers-that-be, the

cracker labor aristocracy imperialist

alliance. Instead of hiding what happened

in Alabama, the duty of the progressive

forces is to make the whole world know

the extent of the white attack.

While it is true that within u.$. borders

the truth is in the minority, that is no reason

not to hold out and allow the rest of the

world to batter the crackers into their

senses. On the global scale, they are a

tiny minority. About 119 million voted for

Bu$h or Kerry, but there are 6 billion

people in this world. The overwhelming

majority of the world hates Bu$h and the

Amerikan wars and an increasing majority

of the world is learning to hate Amerika

outright--and that is what gives us for

change in Amerika real hope. The

election of Bush as opposed to Kerry will

help to strip away global illusions about

Amerikkka. For this we can even

celebrate, because by raising the stakes

and with a little luck for the international

proletariat, whites may not get a second

chance to back down into a Kerry-Clinton

"equal opportunity exploitation" routine.

Of the 114 million voters counted so

far, less than 1 million were for alternative

parties. It's very hard to say anything good

about 113 million voters for Bush and

Kerry, who is a descendant of "Ivan the

Terrible."(7) The voters we most want

to cut some slack for are the first-time

voters for Kerry, especially the youth

voters. Youth went overwhelmingly for

Kerry, at least 56% according to NBC

exit polls. Even in Alabama, the majority

of youth supported Kerry while 63% of

the state went for Bu$h in the largest

victory margin in Alabama presidential

elections in 20 years.(8) The youth saw

they didn't like the status quo and tried to

change it. They need to draw a number

of lessons on how severe the problem is

in Amerika and not imagine that they can

drop politics after pulling a lever every

two years. At the same time, we want

youth to see how public opinion has

changed since Iraqis started fighting

Amerikans. At first, 80% of whites

supported the Iraq war.(9) That figure is

the crucial figure on whites, their natural

state given all the historical struggles prior

to the Iraq war and that is about how

much support among whites there is for

any imperialist war that is a cake-walk,

such as in invading the small island of

Grenada in 1983 or occupying Haiti today.

Now white support for the Iraq war is

down to 58%,(10) thanks to the Arab

people, and the Arab people are not done

fighting yet. The point is that we for real

change have important international

support and the Amerikans themselves

are just a small minority.

The Alabama and war issues are all

connected together. Attitudes like these will
not change without major defeats in war or
the equivalent kind of disaster which Bu$h
may just have in store. That is why watering
down the truth in an attempt to kiss white
butt will not work. Kissing white butt only
emboldens whites to become even more crazy
and confuses the people in our own camp.
As Malcolm X pointed out, when someone
has a knife in your back, it's not time for
conciliatory words. Right now the Amerikan
white has a knife in the international
proletariat's back, but the oppressed
nationalities will not have confidence in
themselves unless they take an internationalist
view. If they remember their homelands in
Mexico, El Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, Africa,
the Philippines etc., then the oppressed
na

tionalities will have some perspective.

Our critics spend all their time worrying

about what the white majority of Amerika is
going to do. They're afraid MIM "alienates"
whites, instead of worrying how whites may
be deceiving the world's majority into letting

them get away with their rampaging. First of
all, an enemy cannot back down unless s/he
is told s/he is enemy. So to expect a major
change of political consciousness coming
from the vegetarians, hippies, post-modernists
and other neutered white nationalist leftists
in their efforts to get to the hard-core crackers
is not even pragmatic.

In the second place, Amerikkkans are

already going all-out in war, borrowing money
from the world to do it. The fact that they may
initiate even more wars now with Bu$h's
victory does not change the capacities of
whites to fight very much. It's still a situation
where Amerikkkans are the global minority
going into debt. In fact, the Bu$h victory is
going to tip more Europeans into the
progressive camp. That is the objective
situation and no election or white nationalist
rally or gay-bashing can change that.

In other words, in looking at the two sides

of conflict, the Amerikan troglodytes and the
international proletariat, it is our camp that
has much more potential to ramp up the fight.
It is our side fooling around, often staring in
disbelief at how bad Amerikans can be. MIM
is here in North America and we're tellling
you of the world the details: yes, it is that
bad; believe it.

The danger is not that MIM is going to

provoke these Amerikkkan whites into doing
more damage. They're much closer to maxing
out than we are.

Notes:
1. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/
news/politics/10083337.htm?1c ; The MIM
campaign has much reason to doubt this figure,
but it is cited in numerous bourgeois outlets, e.g.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/
5065804.html and we certainly do not doubt
that the Republicrats soundly defeated us in
2004.
2. USA Today 3November2004, web page
graphic titled "exit polls" but with no separate
url. www.usatoday.com By the way, the
Washington Post poll before the election
predicted the 57% white vote for Bu$h
perfectly.
3. http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/
voting/p20-552/tab02-1.pdf
4. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/
11/03/voter.turnout.ap/index.html
5. New York Times article here: http://
www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/nation/
10084740.htm
6. http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/
index.ssf?/base/politics-0/
109950086233420.xml&storylist=alabamanews
; http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/
04/alabama.segregation/index.html http://
www.foxnews.com/story/
0,2933,137746,00.html for the bit on the League
of the South
7. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5723115/
8. Alabama margin of victory historically here:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/
mercurynews/news/special_packages/
election2004/10090262.htm?1c
9. The original Gallup press release has been
removed from the Gallup web page, but it is still
cited all over the web including here: http://
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/
chronicle/archive/2003/04/01/MN170852.DTL
10. The 42% of whites now opposing the Iraq
War is a figure available from Gallup in the paid
section of its web page.

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MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 7

We're hearing a lot of talk about

depression, psychiatrists and suicide

among the people who thought more of

their country. Citing the election of Bu$h

to friends and family, a 25-year-old

Georgian committed a dramatic suicide

at the World Trade Center remains called

"ground zero" on November 6.(1)

Many Democrats and other Amerikans

never really had to deal with the fact that

Bu$h might have real support. They just

blamed Nader and the Supreme Court. It

says a lot about how people prior to now

escaped all the signs. They apparently

managed to live with a Supreme Court,

Congress and 47% of the public that was

Republican as of 2000 without drawing

any conclusions.

Evidence says that Amerikans are more

political now than since the 1960s. In 2000,

Bush was just a Texas governor and

people could have voted for him sleep-

walking. But ever since 911, there is no

way to deny that politics has been in

Amerikans' face daily--just at that very

low Amerikan level. There can be no

doubt what Bu$h is doing and yet he

increased his vote by millions, even if we

leave aside the exact percentage.

In 1968, some Democrats had

something of an escapist attitude because

Wallace ran against Democratic

candidate for president Humphrey, and

that caused a lot of "what-ifs" about what

would have happened had Wallace not

run. They wonder if Humphrey would

have beaten Nixon if Wallace had not run.

The problem again was not looking

squarely at whites and seeing that the

combined Nixon/Wallace white vote was

unambiguous in meaning.

One perysn said, "This country means

nothing to me anymore, nothing." The

trouble is that that is exactly the right

conclusion, but now we need to get to

the next step of commitment to a new

idea. We need to get to the stage that

when traveling abroad and someone

mutters "fucking Amerikans," we agree

and keep moving. In fact, we perk up,

because we know that means people

abroad are working on the Amerikan

problem and that may one day mean

progress for the Amerikans. We

progressives need the help.

Contrary to the Buddhists for example,

MIM would say that not all egoisms are

equal. Persynal egoism can put pride

before progress in one's own thought.

National egoism can become stodgy and

stiff, but in the world today, the egoism of

the imperialist countries is conservative

and even backwards-looking, whereas the

pride of Iraqis spurs them on to learn new

things to defeat the aggressor. So we

differ from the Buddhists because we

have a concrete and general theory about

where the worst egoisms are to be found

holding back humyn thinking.

For Amerikans to progress as a

population, pride in the status quo must

be punctured. That means giving up

patriotism unless it's Thomas Jefferson's

definition of patriotism which is simply

participation in the country's politics.

Puncturing white nationalism also means

giving credit to those who puncture it,

especially in Iraq today. It cannot be more

evident when we see all the backward

yahoo patriots running around saying

"America is great!" and nothing else for

why they support the Iraq war and

everything else Bu$h does.

Kanada's immigration department had

110,000 Amerikan hits in the day after

the election.(2) That's a better idea than

suicide, but some Democrats are no doubt

in a good place to put up a better fight

than before.

Becoming cynical enough to think Bu$h

stole the election is also better than total

apathy or suicide. Such people may stay

in politics to fix it.

On the other hand, the "stolen

elections" approach prolongs one's

difficulties in another sense in not having

an accurate view of the country. Seeing

that Alabama whites just elected a

Confederate activist Supreme Court

justice, a justice who spoke for keeping

language of segregation in the Alabama

Constitution, what exactly did these people

expect from Amerika we are wondering

and how different did they think those

rural whites bordering Alabama in Florida

are anyway.

Liberal white patriots make a big

mistake. The proper time for nationalist

pride is after the whites have

accomplished something worth being

proud of--and we're saying that's not in

the foreseeable future. The achievements

along with their genocide and slavery

belong to the generations of Washington

and Lincoln. Today nothing moves

forward in Amerika: it's only oppression

and repression. The white man

contributes nothing to the world but

genocide and nothing to himself anymore

except stolen riches.

Another danger is pure cynicism. Pure

cynicism can also lead to taking jobs in

the Bush administration and an eventual

adjustment to the power structure as it

is. The adage "if you can't beat `em, join

`em" ends up applying to the pure cynics.

Depression, cynicism and escapism

Keep the faith but make it internationalist

That possibility is one reason it is important

to have properly placed hopes--not just

to hope randomly as Jesse Jackson and

Bill Clinton would tell us, but to really look

around the world and see why hope might

be justified.

In Amerika, we can see this: Nixon won

re-election in 1972 and he had to resign

by 1974. In the meantime, he lost the

Vietnam War completely. That was the

single largest plus for pushing white

thinking along in the last 40 years-- all

credit to the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese

could have rolled over and played dead

and the world would be an even more

horrible place. If you lived in 1968, and

looked for hope, you should have seen it

in the Vietnamese.

Today, the vast majority of the world's

population has already spoken against

Amerikan politics.(3) Iraqis are taking the

most visible action, because they have the

honor of fighting the bulk of the Yankee

beast face-to-face. If we are stuck

looking for progress just among

Amerikans all the time, we're going to

become cynical and give up hope for

progress. Some will commit suicide,

others waste more time with

psychiatrists. Internationalism is the only

secure basis for a progressive outlook in

Amerika and similar countries.

Notes:

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/

nyregion/07suicide.html

2. http://www.smh.com.au/news/US-

Elections/Many-look-north-and-south-

f o r - r e f u g e / 2 0 0 4 / 1 1 / 0 5 /

1099547388553.html?oneclick=true

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

agitation/iraq/antiamerikanism.html

by PIRAO chief 3 November 2004

MIM did not run anyone for office, but

we can learn something from the

sidelines looking at the 2004 elections.

MIM expenses vs. Democrat

expenses

It looks like the Democrats outspent the

Republicans for the first time in recent

history. The total campaign spending of

the races for Congress and the presidency

was $1.8 billion.(1) Democrats spent $250

million themselves and friendly

organizations spent another $70 million on

radio and TV ads just for the

presidency.(2)

That's about $6 per voter that Kerry

had voting for him. In reality, the figure is

much higher, because only 17 states really

had any competition and ad buys. Even

within those 17 states, the ads can only

target a certain minority of "persuadable"

voters. The true cost per voter persuaded

is probably more than $50 per voter,

maybe much more.

MIM estimates that delivering MIM

Notes to five people for two years costs

less than $6. We believe we could deliver

MIM Notes to the entire public for two

years for less than what Democrats just

spent on Kerry.

The difference is that MIM engages

people on the issues and builds an

offensive in a certain direction, which

lasts whether or not individuals fail or

succeed in their bids for office. Ads for a

Kerry detract or do little to contribute to

political consciousness and if the

candidate loses, the wastage is even

greater.

The other difference is that MIM Notes

is connected to what the campaigns call

a "ground game." Radio and television

commercials aim at a fleeting impact. In

contrast, MIM efforts can focus 100%

on driving up the truth quotient in

politics--with no watering down. For all

these reasons, we think there is no

comparison in the effectiveness of MIM

on the one hand and Move-on.org or the

like. If the people can be moved politically,

the politicians will follow.

There are many people in MIM circles

who work more cost effectively than any

shoe-string operation of the Democratic

Party. One reason is that we have no

professionals. The proletariat has this

relative advantage in the majority-exploiter

countries in being able to fight desperately

but without stodginess and pampering.

Money talks

In Congress in 2004, the turnover rate

compares unfavorably with Politburos in

any era of the Soviet Union. "The winners

of a handful of congressional races are

still unknown [as of November 2], but one

thing is certain: Money won big in the 2004

elections.

"In 96 percent of House races and 91

percent of Senate races that had been

decided by mid-day today, the candidate

who spent the most money won, according

to a post-election analysis by the

nonpartisan Center for Responsive

Politics. The findings are based on figures

reported Oct. 13 to the Federal Election

Commission."(3)

Demographics and polls

The embodiment of another lesson we

need to learn is Karl Rove. He is in charge

of Bush's political intelligence and

ultimately he is the one who made Bush

president in both 2000 and 2004. Today,

candidates do not put their energies into

learning to debate better. Kerry won all

three debates according to polls, but he

lost the election, because the Republicans

are the equals of the Democrats in having

basic appeal to small exploiters.

It is a beginner's mistake in politics to

assume that the more rational-appearing

candidate will win. People like Karl Rove

How to fight for change

Learning assorted lessons about money and demographics

Continued on page 9...

MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 8

"`I want to bring back the aloha

spirit,' she told reporters. `That means

when you're out on the ocean and

you're paddling for a wave and you

see someone else is already up riding

it, you know what you do? You pull

out.

"`You step back and you let him go.

You let people be themselves. It's called

sharing, it's called caring, it's called

working together for the common

good.'"(1)

--Donna Frye, the apparent

winner of the San Diego mayor's

contest via write-in vote

The media is approximately treating an

important question by talking about the

cultural divide between the South and

Rocky Mountain "red states" on the one

hand that voted for Bu$h and the two

coasts of "blue states" that voted for

Kerry. We need to push into that deeper,

because the key is understanding that

issues do not divide the public, and that is

a major reason why progressives always

seem to be overly intellectual to the voting

public.

One of the questions that the bourgeois

political consultants pose over and over

again in Amerikan politics is whether

Democrats should get religion.(2) This

serves as a rationale for why they lost in

2004 and why Gore picked Lieberman in

2000. The surface truth to this is that

evangelical Protestants voted 3 to 1 for

Bu$h and the largest single bloc of voters

(21%) said "moral values" is their number

one issue, with Iraq falling to fourth place.

Within bourgeois logic, the Democrats

should split themselves into two parties,

with the new party taking up religion and

based in churches, but able to work with

Democrats on non-social issues. Within

a two-party system, attacking

Republicans would require replacing the

Republicans with a different party to

contend with. Yet, most Democrats are

so much in love with Republicans and

wedded to "lesser evil" thinking that they

would not think of splitting into two parties;

even though they have nothing to lose at

this point from doing so.

The whole question of theocratic politics

should be a clue that electoral politics is a

dead-end. When we work within the

confines of the electoral system, it's only

rational that we get stuck on such

questions and that the reactionaries feed

them to us non-stop. That has to be taken

into account when people like Howard

Dean draw activists into their system.

The religion "issue" is another example

of how Amerikans are in their vast

majority, pre-political. 2400 Catholic

priests are now in a database for sexual

abuse of children accusations, but

donations to the Catholic Church

increased, while Clinton had oral sex with

an adult and Congress impeached him.

So it's important to rational and

progressive Democrats to look at this and

not take "moral values" literally. When

we hear "moral values" we should hear

more along these lines: "I like the people

I know who go to church every week

and I like my friends who go to the same

church and are married and stay married.

We're all Republicans and like each other,

the people we are familiar with."

That's why, if you go to those people

with a Democrat who says s/he is also

Baptist, it's not going to work. It worked

for Carter, because those of a born-again

lifestyle decided their lifestyle was more

similar to Carter's than Michigan

Republican Gerald Ford's. Had Carter

run against another southern rural white

Christian, the outcome would have been

different as we see in Bush vs. Gore,

where Gore lost his home state. Bu$h

moved around brush on his ranch while

Gore sat in Washington DC.

It's not really the issues, but the lifestyle.

The pre-political voter has to decide that

the candidate is one of the people from

his/her lifestyle. It's such a joke that

Amerika has made itself that Kerry's

windsurfing off Nantucket counted

against him in the heartland. Increasingly,

Republicans realize that Democrats are

single wimmin living in cities while they

themselves are married church-goers of

the rural areas. When they do meet

Democrats in the rural areas, the

Republicans do not get along with them.

The issues do not matter.

To think of this from a reverse angle,

the true outlet for the pre-political should

be in church dissension and splitting. They

should be getting up and going over to

Clinton's church to denounce whoever

raised him to stain Monica Lewinsky's

dress. They should be fighting their

neighbors whose lifestyles they don't like,

but instead, they take that to the

government. A Kennedy recently took up

city politics because he got a ticket for

his hedges. It's all lifestyle clutter filling

in where politics should be.

Now in the first place, for all the social-

democrats taking bourgeois democracy

at face-value, those exit poll numbers on

the moral values voting bloc are important.

The entire economy came behind the

"moral values" question as an issue, and

even "moral values" is a small plurality.

That's not to mention that when people

say "economy," they are talking about a

variety of different things that may not

be what social-democrats have in mind.

All this is to point out how dogmatic

social-democrats have to be to look at

this and not learn a lesson: Bu$h was

indeed the first president since Herbert

Hoover to have a net loss of jobs during

his term. The difference between the

Clinton years and the Bush Sr. and Bush

Jr. years was incredibly stark to anyone

who looks at facts. Moreover, Ohio lost

22% of its manufacturing jobs under

Bu$h. That's all true, (but we would

never emphasize it because it's not

pointing to a road forward) and the

population even heard it on major media

to the tune of $320 million in radio and

television ads. Media outlets on Wall

Street such as Bloomberg also admitted

the facts. The facts were everywhere.

OK, social-democrats, so if we take

democracy at face-value, it's time to learn

a lesson. Your "issue" does not float

many boats. In the last 60 years of u.$.

history, it's never been put this clearly to

you by the facts themselves; though, MIM

has been telling you for a long time that

your white-working class strategy is not

going to bring progress. All this dreaming

about the white working class rising up

on economic issues and taxes is pure

reformist dogma. If social-democrats

cannot see that now, they are as stupid

as the people who think they voted against

Gore for Monica Lewinsky's stained

dress.

Fundamentally, elections are not a

rational process, but because they are a

divisive and irrational process what ends

up asserting itself is raw white nationalist

interest. The lifestyles are so divisive and

break people down into such small

groups, that the only group interests that

really can assert themselves are the big

ones such as race/nationality--and

choices that lead to that are all conscious.

For example, one "issue" that elected

Bu$h is gun ownership. It's another

example where an "issue" has a guise, in

this case the Second Amendment of the

Constitution. The crackers who own guns

have no idea about the revolutionary ideas

of the founding fathers, else these same

crackers would not be complaining so

much about "liberalism" when all the

founding fathers who wrote the

Constitution and Bill of Rights were

Liberals and wanted gun ownership for

Liberal reasons.

As H.W. Edwards proved, the white

gun ownership issue is really a labor

aristocracy thing completely detached

from its original Liberal intellectual history

around 1776. Historically, gun ownership

is not for the creation of disorder to keep

the government honest the way the

founding fathers intended but to keep

order among frightful settler-minded

people--to kill First Nations people and

now to keep out Blacks and others that

the crackers are afraid of. That's the

underlying historical and statistical truth,

but no one has to know. Hence, anyone

who raises the 2nd Amendment or hunting

taps into that. The reason for that again,

is that only 10% of the public--more in

some places and time, less in others--

taps into issues at all. If we've become

very fortunate that figure gets up to 20%,

and both Lenin with the "vanguard party"

and W.E.B. DuBois with his "talented

tenth" tapped into that approximately with

"elitism."

If you really want to talk issues--and

progressive Democrats are a large portion

of that 10%--you have to limit yourself

to 10% of the population. The trouble is

that in a close election, Democrats will

feel compelled to talk with other issues-

oriented people, because it will make

some difference for those people. Many

may not realize how few actually process

issues and how few among issues-

oriented people actually disagree with

them. That's why it's important to look at

the overall numbers and see what drawing

people into the electoral system does--

which is frustrate them with the prospects

for change. If we are going to keep

people motivated for change, we have to

accurately downgrade people's hopes in

the white working class while keeping

them posted on the international situation.

We've already pointed out in another

article that voters from 2000 broke 50 to

45 for Bu$h,(3) so by most progressive

Democrats' own standards, bringing

people to the electoral system makes them

even more reactionary. We cannot say

it's just an advantage of incumbency,

because 60% of first-time voters went

the Democrats' way. What it means is

that in fighting the status quo of

Republican power, the Democrats are

feeding people with intentions of change

into the system and making them more

reactionary.

When it comes to co-optation, the

progressive Democrats share the greatest

blame for starting a Deaniac in New

Hampshire and leading him/her to Copley

Square to hear Kerry concede and say

we have to "succeed in Iraq and win the

war on terror." Republicans can't do that.

They only benefit when four years later,

more Democrats convert to Republicans.

This is not a surprising result, because

frustration leads to conservatism and it's

"can't do it" attitude and Democrats have

no way to tap into the power of progress

that exists in this world. The underlying

reason is that the people who are the

source of progress cannot vote in the

united $tates, so any strategy with

nationalist blinders is going to fail to bring

progress. It's only that Maoist road that

is going to fully account for the power of

the Third World.

The facts about only 10% dealing with

issues is a pretty major disadvantage one

might think and it is, but without getting

used to that fact, frustration is the only

result and that means carrying out

wasteful patterns of action. In truth, this

fact is also a great disadvantage to the

imperialists. When they want to go in a

particular direction, the settler nature of

the economy with each persyn having his

or her own lifestyle on his or her own

piece of the economy (land) is a

disadvantage. The labor aristocracy was

for anti-communism, and even when a

vast majority of elected imperialists and

military intelligence officials knew from

the beginning of the 1960s that there was

no way to "win" the war in Vietnam, the

imperialists had to stay in Vietnam and

let the crackers die till they changed their

minds. That whole process was bad for

the imperialists too, so it's not just we at

MIM and the international proletariat who

have a disadvantage from the nature of

the Amerikan population as pre-political.

Overwhelming violence is the only thing

that can steer a lifestyle-oriented country

like Amerika, but Osama Bin Laden's

strike had only a one-time effect. What

It's not really politics; It's the lifestyle, stupid

Continued on next page...

MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 9

can predict how large groups of voters

are going to vote, no matter what those

individual voters may think of their "free

will." By knowing just race, marital status

and religion--Republicans can easily find

places where 75% or more of voters will

vote for them. In fact, Karl Rove studies

much more than that, the same way Stalin

studied the demographics of each district

the Nazis invaded or that the Soviets

claimed for themselves. In fact, within

their own logic, the imperialists are

catching up with Marxism on the study

of demographics.

Bush's margin of victory would be

expected for an incumbent president.

Nonetheless, there was both a youth vote

and first-time voter effect that threatened

to wipe the president out. Karl Rove

countered with Ralph Reed of the

Christian Coalition, who literally parked

himself down in Orlando, Florida.

The enemy studies reams and reams

of polling data, being careful never to

show their candidate doing it. This study

How to fight for change

at the county and precinct level has given

the enemy some knowledge. In each state

and county, they know how their

candidates have done in the past and they

can even determine what might have

changed. For example, Karl Rove

attributed Al Gore's victory in 9 Iowa

counties to his riverboat tour in those

counties.

Self-defeating goals

There is a minority of progressive

Democrats which needs to think hard

about whether MIM is right that they are

currently supporting a white nationalist

"left." Perhaps this is the real reason for

their fundamental frustration with

Amerikan politics--not accounting for

Amerikan politics in comparison with

nations globally.

For Kerry's part, winning the debates

did not matter. And for Bu$h, he was not

able to capitalize on the unity produced in

the oppressor nation by the World Trade

Center collapse. People fell back into their

social groups and this tells us something

about Amerika as a collection of settler

individuals. It's wrong to think that there

is anything fundamentally rational in

Amerikan choices other than white nation

exploiter self-interest.

Many poured out their hearts and

pocketbooks for Kerry and when Kerry

lost, it all looked like a gigantic tactical

maneuver to support the Iraq War. In his

concession speech November 3rd Kerry

said we must all unite as Americans to

"succeed in Iraq and win the war on

terror." So the net effect and appearance

of the Kerry campaign is that 113+ million

Amerikans voted for the Iraq War and

even linked them in the same breath the

same way all anti-Arab racists do. That's

exactly how the white nationalists are the

Trojan horse in the anti-war movement.

They must be defeated before the war-

mongering nuts can be defeated. In other

words, we have to know what is what

and make judgments about others that

some are not used to making in an effort

to be "nice."

The "X factor" in the Amerikan

elections is not the "security moms," the

"white Catholics" or the youth vote.

Progress simply cannot win within the

limited logic of Amerikan elections. We

have to think globally or we are going to

give up fighting and we are going to fight

in the wrong direction. When we think

internationally in terms of what has to

happen for the Amerikan population to

get along with other nations, we realize

that there is a big job to do and that MIM

is the right choice for effective action.

Notes:

1. http://news.scotsman.com/

latest.cfm?id=3705593

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

story/0,1282,-4587807,00.html

3. http://www.opensecrets.org/

pressreleases/04results.asp. The source

for this is funded by the Ford Foundation

among other corporate giants.

Continued from page 7...

we have now is a residual fear from that,

but large groups of people are making a

mistake in assessing the impact.

Over and over again we hear in

Amerika the sense of wonder that Bu$h

did not unite the country after 911. Even

as the television commentators praised

Bu$h, they raised this question and

wondered. The one theory for that is that

Bu$h is not the caliber of leader to be

able to do that. That became the

Democratic Party mantra. Republicans

did not really have an answer for that,

but they did not have to. The reason again

is that the Democrats only tapped into

underlying lifestyle divisions with their

question. That is why to all bourgeois

amazement, the red states and blue states

stayed pretty much the same in 2004. The

question of why there is no post-911

Amerikan unity or global unity is a big

clue. The fact that 150,000 young

Amerikans have their asses on the line in

Iraq and the plurality of voters still felt

they had the luxury to decide the elections

based on gay marriage is another clue: it

would take very steady and very serious

violence to raise an "issue" to prominence

in Amerika.

This hurts the many Amerikans who

think they are "patriots" and that issues

matter. It brings them right up to the edge

of the truth--which is that there is no

"free will" whereby each individual

declares him/herself a part of "united we

stand." Everyone can wave the flag, but

that's as far as it goes in highly

individualistic settler-petty-bourgeois-

dominated societies. We can decide that

hurts our feelings or we can recognize it

as truth and work from there.

Osama Bin Laden need not fear the

united $tates would ever truly unite. If it

did unite, it would surely do it in such a

self-destructive manner that it would be

the end of the settler-oriented "way of

life." In the process of that destruction,

MIM would get its chance to take power.

Short of that, as Osama Bin Laden said

in his most recent video statement, he and

Bu$h are working "as one." Bu$h wanted

to send 150,000 people to Iraq to get an

education, and Al-Qaeda along with other

Iraqis are educating them steadily. That's

how we got from 20% white opposition

to the war to 42%, while Amerikans have

hardly a peep to utter against the

occupation of Haiti because of the lack

of anti-U.$. violence there. Iraqis may

even teach themselves Mao's art of

People's War in the process. That's the

real X-factor in Amerikan politics, not

getting Democrats to take up religion.

It's very difficult to win a write-in

candidacy in the united $tates, especially

in larger places where people do not

know each other already, but Donna Frye

put up a very good showing in the seventh

largest city in the united $tates, San

Diego. By all rights, the mayor of San

Diego should be a major imperialist, but

Frye managed an effective appeal to the

petty-bourgeoisie on lifestyle, something

that is generally possible in the Amerikan

economy. Hence, we should take the

quote at the top of this article seriously.

Every word is the word of an Amerikan

winner, a concentrated expression of

Amerikan ideology. The surfing appeal is

obvious, but the metaphor will appeal to

stodgy middle-class people who are too

old to be be surfing, because underlying

it is a middle-class sense of space and

civility--not to worry, not some

communist idea about "sharing." For the

settler economies, the Frye metaphor

works. Each individual should have his

or her own wave.

There is very little that we can do as

communists to win in Amerikan politics

within its own terms. Those of us who

are Trotskyists (who think the West has

the most progressive culture) or anarchists

(who believe in non-collective

communism as if it were possible to touch

any aspect of the u.$. economy without

parasitic taint) have more to work with,

but those of us following Lenin's theory

of imperialism about the decadence of

Amerikan society are not going to be

latching onto lifestyle political waves. For

us, the Buddhists, the vegetarians, the

surfers--the various lifestyle advocates

attempt to blunt the impact of the

Amerikan mainstream, but they are in fact

an expression of the same thing. These

kinds of people should be organized and

that's why we recently suggested to some

other lifestyle individualists that they

cease calling themselves Leninists and

work full time on organizing these sorts

of people in anti-war groups with a non-

issues approach.

At this moment there are a number of

people who see the Democratic Party as

a tactical vehicle for progress and they

are very frustrated. It's not just the losing

in the Supreme Court, Congress and the

presidency but the reasons people give

for voting Republican that are frustrating

Democrats. Those reasons are frustrating

because they are taken too literally and

because rational issue discussion is not

the point.

MIM is here to say that rational

progressive people have to give up the

Democratic Party and work through why

joining MIM is the right thing for thinking

people. The underlying assumption of

incremental progress through the

Democratic Party is wrong. It's not

religion or gun ownership "issues" that

are going to break the impasse for

progressives, but staying inside the

electoral system inevitably leads to such

conclusions.

Notes:

1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/

article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/11/

03/politics1901EST0466.DTL

2. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/

2004/11/04/politics/main653667.shtml

3. "How to fight for change," this issue.

Lifestyle

Continued from previous page...

Amerika:

Banana republic

Florida in 2000 was bad enough, but

the fact that given four years, Amerika

still could not arrange fair elections is utter

self-condemnation and proves that MIM

was correct all along that the u$a was

never a free country. Aside from

Democrats campaigning hard to keep

Ralph Nader off the ballot, the wide

discrepancies between exit polls and the

final vote tallies raise the possibility of

fraud: either Democrats tampered with

the polls, or Republicans tampered with

vote counts, or both. It's important to

acknowledge this possibility--especially

considering the United $tates has tried

its hand at electoral fraud abroad--

without overlooking the very real appeal

George Bu$h has for tens of millions of

Amerikans. We discuss exit polls, vote

tampering, and how to tell who's

defrauding who on our elections

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

MIM/elections/index.html

MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · 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

Seven Deaths in Oregon

Medical Unit in 2004

Greetings! I received your letter, thank you.

I don't know what was going on because I
have no one in this state to turn to for
information but Sunday (10/03/2004) we were
denied all the Oregonian newspapers. I don't
know what they didn't want us to see.

As for the hunger strike you inquired about,

I don't know what happened because I was
in IMU at the time. What I heard was that
everything went well and there was unity, but,
since I've been out of IMU, I have learned
that most of those around me are not to be
believed. The issues they do raise concern
things about which my five year old
granddaughter would ask. The important
issues concern being shown respect from
those over you, the way your loved ones are
treated when they come to see you, the way
your comrades are beaten and abused in DSU
and IMU, and your medical treatment. These
issues and those like them aren't mentioned,
but being able to wear red gym shorts in the
day room is. Go figure!

There have been seven people who died in

this unit so far this year who would be alive
today if they had received proper medical
treatment. Their names will be listed at the
end of this letter. To my knowledge, there has
been no mention of these comrades' deaths
in the public media other than what I have
tried to get out. Their deaths are a witness to
the inhuman treatment by SRCI medical field
and condoned by those in charge of the DOC
in the Oregon system. Let them speak load
and clear through their deaths of the
importance of change.

The orderlies that work in the medical unit

here, whose job it is to sweep, mop, clean
beds, pans, etc., are being made to sit and
monitor and wait on the terminally ill and other
patients. These people have no training in
the medical field! There is a comrade here who
hurt his knee very badly almost two weeks
ago. When taken to the medical unit, the
nurses on duty sent him back to the complex
where he lived without proper treatment. Now,
two days ago, a doctor finally saw him and
declared that they will have to do surgery on
his knee. The list of medical maltreatment
goes on and on.

Fallen comrades:
Hicks
Heath
Mathews
Gray (Died in the infirmary)
Batista
Belk (Died at the hospital)
Jenkins (Died in his cell)
-- An Oregon Prisoner, October 2004
RAIL responds: We mourn the deaths of

the fallen comrades listed above and will list
them on our upcoming re-release of the
Imperialist Deathtoll available online at
www.imperialismkills.org. This project is a
peoples' account of the millions of deaths
caused by imperialism each year and we
welcome any and all submissions to make this
accounting more complete.

If comrades are organized enough to lead a

united hunger strike than that is a good sign.
It is up to the more politically advanced
leaders to guide that organization into more
productive avenues. While those leaders may
not care about what color shorts they have

to wear, we should also recognize the
progressive character of united resistance to
even the simplest forms of repression like
controlling the way inmates dress. If this is
where the mass consciousness is at in your
facility than build from there.

We were unable to determine the cause for

the news block out on October 3, but welcome
further information on this if anyone knows
what happened.

Struggling in

solitary in Lousiana

Dear family in the struggle,
Because I am a Communist at heart, mind

and soul, and because of my efforts to resist
the oppression through legal forums, kourts,
I have been and remain a victim of crimes. I
have been deprived of over 300 days good
time and compelled to spend over 600 days
sleeping, lying, sitting, practically living on a
concrete slab, in a small cell only 6' x 7' having
no time out but 10 minutes to shower. I have
spent at least three and a half years in
"isolation" (extended lockdown).

But I will never give up, nor cease to

struggle. I am a product of revolutionaries,
who are willing to die for our cause.

--a Louisiana prisoner, October 2004

Virginia Control Unit

I greet you from a super-maximum security

prison lockdown 23 to 24 hours a day in what
is called the control unit. All the windows at
the prison are treated so we can't see out.
The side of the doors are sealed with a black
strip that has screws in it. There are short
chains on the doors at the top. A padlock
could be inserted to reinforce the doors. A
padlock can be used on the food port used
for feeding and cuffing prisoners. The food
is put in a solid steel box that has a handle on
both sides. The guards lifts the latch to the
food port, he have to push open the aperture,
reaches in and gets the tray. The guard lifts
the box upward to close the food port and
moves to the next cell.

We are confined to social isolation and

sensory deprivation. Social isolation is being
cut off from normal contact with people and
interactive methods with them that are
conducive to humanism. The majority of our
contact is with sadistic guards who do not
realize they are trapped too. When most
people have the authority to wield power over
people this becomes an intoxication that
knows no bounds -- a fixation to hurt people
and release one's aggressive pent-up nature.

Sensory deprivation is a loss of receptive

sensory input that is crucial to our nervous
system. Without these elements producing
positive contact with processes to one's
equilibrium and metabolism you are treading
on dangerous negativity. This is a method of
psychological and emotional impairment, in
other words, torture.

Prisoners are viciously beaten by guards

while chained hand and foot. Prisoners are
slammed into walls, floors, steps, tables and
outdoor yard cages. Prisoners are denied

sufficient diet, showers, and so called
recreation in dog-run cages when we don't
cringe and bow down to their terrorism.
Prisoners placed in chains in a cold cell in
only under shorts, no other clothes allowed,
for 48 hours or longer; all personal items
taken, mattress, sheets, and blankets too;
prisoners placed in five-point restraints,
strapped spread-eagle to a steel slab in only
underwear for days; prisoners gassed, broken
bones, shattered teeth. This is guard-on-
prisoner violence.

--A Virginia prisoner, May 2004
MIM responds: Publicizing the oppression

of prisoners in the Amerikan justice system is
an important part of our central task, and we
urge prisoners to make contributions to this
work such as this report. One beef: In the
long run, those working as prison guards will
be better off under a socialist system in which
people don't demean their own humanity by
participating in the oppression of others.
However, for strategic purposes we should
not consider prison guards "trapped" in the
same way that prisoners are. They can --
and should -- refuse this work, suffering at
most a loss of wages as a result.

Studying in KS Supermax

I currently have over two years in solitary

confinement Supermax segregation for my
efforts to organize the people. They have me
down here under so-called gang activity. I'm
currently trying to organize our fellow
comrades, many of whom are Aztlan and
natives of this land. Here we are locked down
23, usually 24 hours a day. I just recently
acquired the library porter job for this cell
house. Now I have more access to the other
comrades.

We have caged single person dog runs for

yard five days a week for close to 45 minutes.
I need to develop a program for body and
mind that is sufficient and enables us to talk
and work out. I believe, as do others, that
you must work both the mind and body
developing good work habits for the people.
These comrades in here only respect militant
ways that are for the people, they will only
acknowledge and accept discipline.

-- a Kansas prisoner, 20 October, 2004

War on Terror=

Censorship of MIM

I know it's been a very long time since you

have heard from me, but the reasons for not
keeping contact are that:

After the 9/11 incident, I was put on Mail

Watch (meaning they were reading my letters).
So I had to stop receiving your papers
because they start to give me problems about
"those kind of papers". Which will open
people's eyes to what's happening in the
world today!

The second reason was because I was

working on my cases, trying to free myself
from this hell hole!

So I would like to receive your papers again,

and I have someone who wants to write to
you too. Please start sending him your papers

so we can build on what's happening in
today's world.

-- A New York Prisoner, August 2004

Censorship victory

in California

Here is the complete 602 enclosed [for the

censorship of MIM Theory and the Mao
essay]. The other one's at the Director's level
review. The sergeant met with me on the issue
and we came to an agreement that MIM
Theory's were no threat, nor MIM Notes
pages. He said he could not find MT numbers
7 and 9 you forwarded, but he reimbursed me
with some useless novels which I immediately
trashed. As you know it's been on again off
again. It's okay now as he informed me to
contact him directly next time there are any
problems.

-- A Corcoran prisoner, November 2004
MIM adds: we have been fighting

increasing censorship this year in the

MIM Notes 311 · December 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.

California Security Housing Unit Prisons,
including Corcoran and Pelican Bay. With this
potential resolution in Corcoran, along with a
recent letter from the Warden of Pelican Bay
agreeing to follow their rules and allow our
publications into the facility, the hard work of
our comrades behind bars and on the streets
fighting this censorship may be paying off.

Report from NJ STG

Management Units

Have you ever felt like the walls around

you were closing in so fast that you thought
you were going to die? Well, that's what I felt
every day for almost two years.

In the state of New Jersey they have what

you call S.T.G.M.U.'s (Security Threat Groups
Management Units). When you hear that you
automatically think that these units would be
filled with the worst of the worst, right?
Wrong! How could that be, you say? Well,
let me tell you how I ended up in a Super-Max
Unit.

It started the day I got off the bus at the

reception center called C.R.A.F. After being
stripped of all my belongings, I was forced to
stand butt-ass-naked next to four other newly
branded slaves. As we stood there, there were
about six pigs watching over us as we were
told to lift this and open that, bend over,
cough, and all the other degrading things that
go along with the sexual assault, I mean strip
search. All of a sudden, out of the corner
comes a fat fuck of a pig, walking around and
looking at all of our tattoos. He stops when
he gets to me and asks what the "***" means
on my arm. With no hesitation, I tell him that
it is a dedication to a friend's death (which,
by the way, was the truth). He then tells me
that he is I.A. and that my tattoo was a symbol
used by the ____, which is a S.T.G. Group.

Now, I am a member of the organization to

which he referred, but I didn't tell him that.
He then walks me about ten feet into an office
and tells me that he has to take pictures of all
of my tattoos. Now, remember I am standing
there butterball naked, and there are two Pigs
in the doorway just waiting for me to step out
of line. So he takes the pictures and tells me
that he wants me to sign a paper stating that
I am a member of the ____. I told him I'm not
signing anything that will be held against me
at a later time. He gives me a little shit, but
eventually he realized that I m not going to
give in to his every command. He then tells
me that they (I.A.) will be waiting for me to
slip up and that I better not move a single hair
on [my] head too fast cause [he'll] be there to
put it back in place.

Now when he made that statement I did

not give it a seconds thought until I realized
that not only were they watching me like flies
on shit, but they then started to call me down
to see them every time something happened

with a Latino inmate. This went on for over
an eighteen month period until the day I was
charged with possession with of narcotics,
which were found in my cell amid a random
search. When I went before the court line
officer, I told him that those pills did not belong
to me, and they had the inmate's name on the
package that had just moved out of the cell
the day before the search. I was found guilty
of the charge and received 270 days Ad-Seg
for an antibiotic!

I was in Ad-Seg for about two weeks before

I was called out for a visit. Take a guess who
it was? That's right, the same old fat fuck
along with one of his co-workers. I was told

that the only way to help myself was if I agreed
to become an informant and that if I did not
help them I would on the next thing smoking

to Northern State Prison where the Security
Threat Group (AKA Super-Max Housing Unit)
is located. I told them that they had no proof

that I was part of any organization. Well, that
did not go over very well with them because
two days later I was being shipped to that

very place that they had been threatening me
with for a couple of years now.

So there I am in a place that I have been

avoiding for years. You hear so many stories
that it would have any individual a little
worried, but when I got there I was embraced

with nothing but love by individuals that have
been labeled "the worst of the worst". Now,
how could that be? I was not even twenty-

one years old and here I am in a Super-Max
Unit.

When you are placed in this unit you are

supposed to have a hearing that will show all
the evidence that they have against you, but
I did not see anyone for almost a month. When

I was finally brought in to have my hearing,
the evidence was a bunch of fabricated
bullshit. First I was told the reason I was there

was because I was previously identified as a
member of the ____! The thing I wanted to
know was how that is possible when I have

never been caught with any type of literature
or was I ever caught engaging in gang activity.
Still to this day, that's a fact!

So now here comes the bullshit, I was told

that I signed a self-admission form, and that I
have a S.T.G. tattoo. I have already stated that

I never, never signed any self-admission form
or anything of the sort. I was told that it was
in the best interest of everybody that I be

placed in the S.T.G.M.U. program. The problem
I had with that was that they still had no
concrete evidence that pointed to me being a

threat to the New Jersey State prison system.
To this day, I still really don't understand how
they got away with it.

However, I do know that it was one of the

best things that could have happened to me,
and not because they rehabilitated me. It was

the fact that that's where I became what I am
today and this is a strong revolutionary! I
was introduced to Karl Marx and Mao, the

Blank Panther Party along with all the other

great revolutionaries before my time. I have
since then took all of the teachings I learned

and have implemented them into my everyday
living as a Konvict! I no longer live for myself
alone. I have found something to truly live

for and that's the people!

I thank all the strong brothers who took

the time to give me the guidance to become a

better man in my struggles, and for giving me
the opportunity to be their student. I want to
say thank you to: Arch Angel, Half Pint, Killer

Bee, Honesty, and all those other who gave
me the jewels to become what I am. Without
any of you, I don't know where I would be

today.

Please don't think that I am glorifying the

conditions that I was subjected to live under

or would I want to see anyone else be faced
with the abuse that was handed out in that
facility. I don't believe any man or wymmin

should ever have to be treated in such a
manner, and all the time I spent back there
was not fun in any way whatsoever.

The living conditions alone were horrible:

air vents that have not been cleaned in years,
showers that were disgusting, and that was if

you got one. You had one phone for about
fifty prisoners, and at times there was no
phone at all. We had very limited access to

any type of law library, and sometimes would
go days without any yard movement. Those
are just some of the things that we were faced

with while we were housed in the Security
Threat Group Management Unit.

The only reason I said it was the best thing

that could have happened to me was because
that was where the fire I have in my heart was
first sparked, and since then I have never been

the same. I will continue to fight for the people
no matter what the repercussions to my
actions will be! So I now say to the world, we

must do anything in our power to stop the
placing of prisoners into these units of
torment. I was only one of many to make it

out of the darkness with something to live
for, but for the majority, they are either still
trapped behind those walls or are lost in all

the negativity that they are faced with. But
that does not mean that they belong there. I
have seen many prisoners placed in that unit

for no other reason but to take up space. Half
of them are not even a threat to themselves,
never mind to the administration! In no way

am I trying to belittle anyone that is in the
Gang Unit, but I'm trying to make others aware
of the situation that you and I were faced

with. It's not right!

So to all of the tax players of the State of

New Jersey and anywhere else that these

facilities are located, it's time to stop the
housing of prisoners in these units. To the
D.O.C.: you will not get away with the

exploitation in silence as long as I and my
comrades have voices. We will continue to
bring the T.R.U.T.H.!

- A New Jersey prisoner (The Fallen

Angel), July 2004

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?

MIM Notes 311 · December 2004 · Page 12

Notas Rojas

deciembre 2004, Nº 311 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis

Escrito por mim3@mim.org y

mousnonya

Traducido por Células de Estudio para la

Liberación de Aztlán y América Latina

El 24 de mayo, Bush salió en la tele con fin

de preparar al público para las semanas y los
meses que tocan en Irak. "Nuestros
comandantes han estimado que menos de
115,000 tropas resultarían suficientes en este
momento del conflicto"- dijo Bush. "Dado el
reciente crecimiento de la violencia,
mantendremos el actual nivel de tropas-
138,000- por el tiempo que sea necesario".

"Si los comandantes necesitan más

tropas"- dijo Bush,- "las mandaré". (1) El
mismo día el senador demócrata Joe
Lieberman se puso del lado del presidente
diciendo en el CNN que la guerra en Irak era
"una prueba generacional". En vez de señalar
que esta guerra ha fomentado el odio hacia el
imperialismo estadounidense, Lieberman
declaró que habría más ataques en el suelo
estadounidense si las tropas no se quedan
en Irak.

Mientras tanto, los senadores Hillary

Clinton (D-NY) y Lindsey Grahan (R-SC)
hicieron un llamado abogando por unas
"fuerzas militares más amplias". Hillary
Clinton expresó dudas en cuanto al
financiamiento de las mismas pero dijo que
no había otra opción. (2) Es posible que
Grahan vea la guerra como una oportunidad
de trabajo para los blancos jóvenes rurales
de su estado, ya que Carolina del Sur ha
perdido muchos puestos de trabajo, pero se
niega a implementar cambios.

Los múltiples escándalos alrededor del

tema de torturas de los prisioneros en Irak y
Afganistán significan que otros imperialistas
como la ONU están en una mejor posición
para negociar. En este momento los
gobernantes estadounidenses están tratando
de aparentar flexibles ante el público.
Nosotros pensamos que esta apariencia se
dirige más que nada hacia la opinión pública
estadounidense, y no tanto hacia otros líderes
estatales.

La diplomática de Hillary Clinton, Madeleine

Albright, dijo que apreciaba el reconocimiento
del valor de la ONU por parte de Bush el 24 de
mayo. El hecho de que Bush está dispuesto a
fomentar las ilusiones de la población
electoral demócrata indica que existe una
unidad bipartidista.

El MIM anticipa la introducción de un

servicio militar obligatorio después de las
elecciones a menos que los iraquíes u otros
luchadores del Medio Oriente obtengan una
enorme victoria militar o a menos que haya
una desesperada lucha radical en contra del
servicio militar obligatorio durante los meses
que vienen. Por el momento paree que la
posibilidad de sacar a EE. UU. de Irak es mejor
que nunca: 1) Bush está "recibiendo palizas"
a nivel internacional y hasta cierto punto
dentro de EE.UU.; 2) Bush y Blair aparecieron
ante la ONU buscando una bendición para la
ocupación. Hay que enfatizar que si bien es

cierto que EE. UU. están recibiendo palizas
militares y latigazos verbales por parte de la
opinión pública internacional, y que pronto
Bush se enfrentará a las elecciones, es posible
que dicha búsqueda del apoyo de la ONU
tenga como su meta una consolidación de la
opinión pública estadounidense con respecto
al tema del servicio militar obligatorio. A los
imperialistas les gusta decir que ellos
"hicieron un intento" con la ONU y fallaron,
de modo que necesitan implementar un
servicio militar obligatorio. (Desde nuestro
punto de vista, no importa si el Tío Sam decide
arruinar el país mediante gastos de déficit para
expandir las fuerzas militares o implementar el
servicio militar obligatorio. De cualquier
manera el imperialismo estadounidense está
condenado a ser parte del basurero de la
historia. Cuanto más luchan los iraquíes y los
afganos, menos eficaces serán los
mercenarios que llevan a cabo
reclutamientos.)

Los imperialistas jugarán las cartas de la

ONU. Otra carta podría ser la Liga Árabe, una
asociación de lacayos gubernamentales
árabes. El 23 de mayo, los lacayos árabes
sugirieron la idea de mandar tropas a Irak como
parte de la fuerza internacional respaldada por
la ONU. (3) Un milagro diplomático llevaría
tropas árabes a Irak, y Bush podría lanzar un
grito de victoria para las elecciones de
noviembre.

Nosotros pensamos que es muy probable

que todos estos esquemas se implementen
con el fin de demostrar al público
estadounidense que Bush "hizo el intento",
y de darles a los senadores Clinton y
Lieberman las excusas que necesitan para
respaldar diseños más agresivos. Es posible
que Inglaterra sea uno de los pocos países
que se nieguen a contribuir muchas tropas a
los imperialistas estadounidenses. Un 66%
del público electoral inglés se opone a que se
manden ni siquiera 3000 tropas más a Irak. (4)
Los imperialistas estadounidenses carecen de
personal militar hasta tal grado que no son
capaces de continuar sus operaciones
ofensivas contra Irán, Siria o Corea del Norte.
Cuatro hechos sobre los movimientos de
tropas enemigas y la "estructura de sus
fuerzas" demuestran porqué la capacidad
militar de los imperialistas ha llegado al
extremo, dada la ausencia de un reclutamiento
militar obligatorio.

En primer lugar, las tres divisiones

(alrededor de 50,000 soldados) recientemente
retirados de Irak están clasificadas como "no
preparadas para luchar". (5) Hasta que no se
reemplace o se repare su armamento, en lo
cual se tardarán unos cuantos meses, estas
tropas no estarán disponibles para su uso en
el extranjero. Estas divisiones han sido
reemplazadas por reservistas y guardias
nacionales. Con menos entrenamiento y un
armamento inferior estos soldados serán
menos eficaces.

En segundo lugar, el enemigo ha tomado la

decisión de retirar sus tropas del Corea del
Sur para mandarlas a Irak, y no es para que
los soldados del frente coreano obtengan una
"auténtica" experiencia de combate. (6) La
desesperación del enemigo es suficiente para
que éste arriesgue un frente (Corea) por otro
(Irak).

En tercer lugar, EE. UU. han empezado a

buscar miembros de la Reserva Individual, en
otras palabras, soldados que durante los
últimos ocho años han estado en servicio
activo o pasivo. Están sujetos a la posibilidad
de una movilización a base de aviso, aunque
no estén pasando por un entrenamiento junto
con la guardia activa o unidades de la reserva
pasiva. (7) Si bien los funcionarios
frecuentemente se han negado a dar de baja a
personal militar en servicio activo de acuerdo
con el programa "paremos las pérdidas", una
activación de la Reserva Individual es el último
paso que el gobierno puede dar para
incrementar el número de tropas, si se evita la
introducción del servicio militar obligatorio.
En cuarto lugar, EE. UU. también están
planeando mandar a Irak sus unidades de
entrenamiento de la fuerza de oposición
("OpFor"). (8) OpFor son los mejores
soldados de las fuerzas militares. Su trabajo
consiste en entrenar nuevas unidades de
acuerdo con los estándares más altos. La
presencia de estas unidades en Irak significa
que los reclutas recién entrenados no tendrán
ni idea sobre cómo pelear, de modo que logros
a largo plazo (algunos de los mejores soldados
de las fuerzas armadas en Irak) resultan en
pérdidas a largo plazo (reclutas no entrenados
serán aplastados como moscas el año que
viene, y sus compañeros fastidiados o
indispuestos a luchar terminarán matando a
oficiales).

Estos cuatro hechos indican que EE. UU.

no tienen el personal adecuado para llevar a
cabo sus planes, lo cual implica la
introducción de un servicio militar obligatorio
después de las elecciones,
independientemente de que facción
imperialista obtenga el poder estatal. El
servicio militar obligatorio no es más que otra
forma de opresión de los jóvenes, aún en
países imperialistas. Los imperialistas
estadounidenses se han dado cuenta de que
no obtendrán apoyo material de los
imperialistas alemanes y franceses, y ni
siquiera de la ONU. Los socios de un crimen
con derechos iguales se respetan a sí mismos.
Así que EE. UU. implementarán un
reclutamiento obligatorio: los problemas
presupuestarios apuntan a la misma
posibilidad.

El capitalismo promociona una actitud de

"vivir en el momento". Este hecho envenena
el razonamiento capitalista en cuanto a la
guerra. Esta es una de las múltiples razones
por la cual el MIM tiene confianza estratégica
en el proletariado mundial. Los imperialistas
siguen cometiendo errores en esta guerra (9)
debido a una sobreestimación de su poder y

no pueden admitir la verdad- el hecho de que
su imperio está construido sobre el sudor y la
sangre de la mano de obra tercermundista
robada por los imperialistas.

Sin considerar el insano tratamiento de los

prisioneros y los abusos de los civiles
documentados en previos artículos de MIM
Notes, está claro que nuestros enemigos están
extendidos más allá de su capacidad y están
cometiendo errores. Si se suman sus cálculos
erróneos de fuerzas militares y sus
atrocidades contra el pueblo de Irak, se
obtendrá un resultado claro: los imperialistas
perderán la guerra en Irak. Cuanto antes sea
la derrota, mejor para todos nosotros.

Estos hechos confirman la predicción del

MIM de que los países imperialistas
desesperadamente necesitados de recursos
tercermundistas, terminarán expandiéndose
más allá de su capacidad e involucrándose
en difíciles guerras por recursos
tercermundistas. El enemigo está cometiendo
graves errores diarios. Pero nuestra victoria
no será rápida: desafortunadamente, los
imperialistas matarán a muchos proletarios
antes de que sus errores estratégicos se
manifiesten en sus propios países. Tenemos
que minimizar nuestras pérdidas hasta el
máximo grado posible mediante la
organización de una resistencia a la guerra.
No tarden en oponerse al imperialismo: la vida
que Uds. salven puede ser la suya.

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

ALLPOLITICS/05/24/bush.iraq/index.html

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

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3. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/

story/0,4386,252691,00.html

4. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/

0,12956,1224003,00.html 45%

5. 15 de mayo, 2004, por Esther Schrader

http://www.latimes.com/news/

nationworld/iraq/compl ete/la-

naready15may15,0,7845126.story?coll=lairaq-

complete
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L.GALLOWAY Detroit Free Press http://

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www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/
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100ctzvm.asp
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2004 http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/

FE21Ak02.html

Bush reitera lo mismo: es posible

un aumento de tropas en Irak