This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
Maoist Internationalist Movement

May, 2003 Central Task Report

by PIRAO Chief, June 3, 2003

  • See also previous Web Minister reports
  • See also overall situation of prison censorship and prison struggle

    May saw our web traffic suffer a huge drop-off from the previous month, thanks mostly to the u.$. public's relaxation regarding the Iraq War. The report is also rather dismal-looking, because in comparison last year we had 150% growth on our web page, which was hard to build off in an impressive way.

    Iraq-related traffic dropoff affects our agitation and MIM Notes the most. To the extent that people are also not picking up the MIM Notes on the street at a rally, people are also asking fewer basic questions about MIM for our FAQ department.

    Summary statistics comparing May 2002 and May 2003

    Statistic May, 2002 May, 2003 % change (except where otherwise indicated)
    Number of different computers MIM served 28050 42949* +53.1%
    Avg. MIM pages served per day 2361 3180 +34.7%
    MIM data transferred 102.329 megabytes/day 120.46 megabytes/day +15.1%
    MIM Notes printed copies compared with pre-911=100 167
    MIM prison circulation averaged over two months Jan 2002=100 0
    Number of Art page users Unknown 4699
    Number of different MIM web page files actively chosen from 3495 4100 17.3%
    Amazon visitors sent from web page 355 814 +129%
    *This report excludes all art, and most robots and developer hits for 2003 but not 2002.

    Web traffic broken down by department: April vs. May 2003


    (ordered from high to low by March 2003 figure)
    Department April 2003 users May 2003 users % change
    Bookstore 10,764 10,169 -5.6%
    Agitation 7209 2683 -62.8%
    Art 6355 4669 -26.5%
    MIM Notes 6213 4755 -23.5%
    FAQ 5674 5120 -9.8%
    Black Panther page 5101 4868 -4.6%
    What is MIM? 5089 4935 -3.0%
    MIM Theory 2882 3240 +12.4%
    RAIL 2570 1915 -34.2%
    Movies 1995 3010 +50.9%
    Prisons agitation only 1668 1540 -7.7%
    Notas Rojas 1318 1450 +10.0%
    French 1103 931 -15.6%
    Contemporary controversies/countries page 1088 1129 +3.8%
    California 1062 928 -12.6%
    Chinese 1204 1977 +64.2%
    Classic quotes 763 949 +24.4%
    RAIL fliers (within RAIL page) 562 283 -49.6%
    Maoist Sojourner 248 261 +5.2%
    German 230 380 +65.2%
    Finnish 168 167 -0.6%
    Russian 135 157 +16.3%
    Study packs 118 115 -2.5%
    Albany 104 107 +2.8%
    Philadelphia N/A 98
    Turkish 86 77 -10.5%
    New York City 81 89 -9.9%

    As the sun is up more in the united $tates, we lose traffic after April in general. I'm sorry not to have implemented all our plans for countering the loss in traffic, but there is also an extent where we cannot overcome the fact that people do not like our topics during the good weather. A number of departments such as Chinese gained great ground but could not make up for the season and Iraq situation.

    This month, the Black Panther page had more hits than the home page. The above table counts the languages all the same way, based on number of visitors. It reveals that Chinese is now language number two, Spanish third and French fourth for our web page.