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         THE MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT

  MIM Notes 79         			August, 1993 

MIM Notes speaks to and from the viewpoint of the 
world's oppressed majority, and against the 
imperialist-patriarchy. Pick it up and wield it in 
the service of the people. Support it, struggle 
with it and write for it.


IN THIS ISSUE:
1.  LETTERS
2.  SENECA NATION DECLARES NATIONAL HOLIDAY
3.  COP GETS OFF FOR KILLING WAMPANOAG MAN
4.  KURDS ESCALATE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
5.  NAFTA OPPONENTS PROTECT AMERIKAN PRIVILEGE
6.  EPA INCINERATES OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES
7.  PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT UNMASKED
8.  TUPAC AMARU ÒREVOLUTIONARIESÓ GIVE UP
9.  MAY STRIKE A SUCCESS
10. CHIVALRY SWEEPS SENATE: PIGS CLAIM TO PROTECT WOMEN
11. FIRST WORLD SLAMS THE DOOR ON IMMIGRATION
12. FRANCE IMPLEMENTS IMMIGRATION POLICY
13. LET FREEDOM RING
14. WHITE SUPREMACISTS THREATEN SENECAS
15. OKA MURDERS REMAIN UNSOLVED
16. BAD DEALINGS WITH PHONEY COMMUNISTS
17. REVIEW: THE FIRM
18. REVIEW: GUILTY AS SIN
19. REVIEW: INDECENT PROPOSAL
20. CORRECTION



The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is a 
revolutionary communist party that upholds 
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, comprising 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 
Spanish-speaking Maoist internationalist parties 
of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of 
the U.S. Empire. MIM Notes is the newspaper of 
MIM. Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-
speaking parties or emerging parties of MIM.

MIM is an internationalist organization that works 
from the vantage point of the Third World 
proletariat; thus, its members are not Amerikans, 
but world citizens.

MIM struggles to end the oppression of all groups 
over other groups: classes, genders, nations.  MIM 
knows this is only possible 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 
human history. (3) MIM believes the North American 
white-working-class is primarily a non-
revolutionary worker-elite at this time; thus, it 
is not the principal vehicle to advance Maoism in 
this country.

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


* * *


LETTERS

Dear Comrades,
Thanks for the last MIM Notes, the bit on Eritrea was quite 
interesting, being different from what IÕm used to reading.
I consider myself a Maoist in answer to your question, that was my 
reason for being in London, we donÕt have a Maoist group in 
Scotland (I donÕt think), we do have a high number of Stalinists 
however. These are mainly centered in Glasgow, our largest city. 
This part of Scotland has a long tradition of Marxist struggle. 
Lenin himself once argued that the Scottish proletariat during the 
20s was sufficiently class conscious to lead Britain to 
revolution. If the government hadnÕt engineered the death of John 
Maclean we might have got a crack at it. The Scottish Nationalist 
moves the country is going through at the moment arenÕt easy to 
explain. IÕll dig up some literature for you and if you have any 
questions just ask. 
As far as political movements go, since the death of Maclean, 
Scottish socialism has been led by the nose from England. When 
KruschevÕs treachery led to the Communist Party of Great Britain 
turning revisionist (not that it was initially a party of high 
quality), it deeply affected many Scottish communists who had 
always referred to Stalin as ÒUncle JoeÓ and although they went 
along with the party deep down they seem more comfortable with the 
Òold days.Ó I know this because many of them are still around. 
ThatÕs mostly the older generation, the youth are more commonly 
supporters of the many Trotskyite groups, most notably the S.W.P. 
[Separate from the Socialist Workers Party in the United States.]
In Britain the Irish struggle is treated much the same way as the 
Peruvian struggle with no information of any worth being given 
out, and the characteristic hysteria. It seems to be illegal in 
Britain to mention the IRA without the inclusion of words like 
Òterrorist, atrocities, fiends, etc.Ó We had an interesting 
article headline in a Scottish tabloid recently. It said: ÒScots 
Foil IRA Plot.Ó An interesting article as it involved nothing more 
than two men with Irish accents asking a group of roadworkers if 
they knew of any jobs going. The workers got suspicious and called 
the pigs. End of story. ItÕs a bit of a bastard as the IRA have a 
policy of only waging their war in England.
Anyway I have an article I wrote for the college magazine and 
didnÕt finish. IÕll finish it off and send it out to you as soon 
as possible; you may find it interesting. I might also be able to 
find some Irish bookshops that will take MIM Notes as I will be 
going over there soon anyway. Are you looking for permanent 
correspondents over there? You see I have some republican contacts 
who have often been after me for information on Maoism. However, 
IÕll sell some of your papers if you want. You can send about five 
with the next MIM Notes.

Revolutionary Greetings,
--A friend in Scotland
June 1993

MIM responds: There are also many vocal Trotskyist groups in the 
United States. Trotskyism in First World countries draws its 
strength from the privileged working class in those countries--
Trotskyism finds a ready social base among people here. Maoists 
turn people away from First World chauvinism by studying 
imperialism and the political strength of revolutionary movements 
in the Third World.
This is part of why we are so interested in Ireland and Scotland. 
People who think oppression is based on ÒraceÓ canÕt explain the 
national oppression of ÒwhiteÓ people like the Irish and Scottish. 
This lingering racial ideology dates back to the colonialists who 
first developed the theory of race as a prop for national 
oppression. The existence of ÒwhiteÓ oppressed nations serves as a 
chink in the armor of ÒracismÓ theoreticians.
We look forward to printing your article, and whatever news you 
can send us.

Free Norma Jean Croy!

Comrades:
I received de Spring 1993 edition of ÒBreakthrough,Ó a leftist 
political magazine [affiliated with the Prairie Fire Organizing 
Committee]. In it was an article Ôbout ÒFree Norma Jean Croy!Ó It 
gave this address for persons interested in keeping informed on 
future developments:

Norma Jean Croy Defense Committee
473 Jackson Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

De article was thus capsulated: ÒNorma Jean Croy, a Shasta Indian 
lesbian, has been serving time since 1979 for Ôconspiracy to 
murder,Ó even though she wasnÕt carrying a gun, never fired a 
shot, ITAL and it has been shown that no murder ever took place! 
ENDÕ
This was the first i ever heard of de Norma Jean Croy case and i 
think itÕs outlandish enough to deserve a mention and all of any 
kind of support and assistance We can manage despite our 
circumstances!

--Indiana prison comrade
May 1993


New York Times = imperialist oppressor media

Uhuru--
In response. Your June 1993 issue of MIM Notes carried a response 
to a review by Alice Walker and a counter-critique of WalkerÕs 
review by Elaine Brown. David Hilliard published both pieces in de 
New York Times on May 5. (If itÕs at all possible, would you 
comradely send me a copy of that article?) ...
Because i agree with de proposition that We should develop our 
awareness through de process of criticism and self-criticism and 
that none of us is above criticism, i do not support de implied 
position that de sista doesnÕt have de right to criticize de BPP, 
Huey or anyone or anything else she has a real or imagined 
complaint about.
But i am suspiciously critical of any (!) Nationally oppressed 
sista or brotha who takes their criticisms to de imperialist 
oppressor media for voicing their ill feelings or criticisms of 
other Nationally oppressed folks or their grassroots political 
organizations when there do exist within de Nationally oppressed 
community media institutions such as [NAPOÕs] By Any Means 
Necessary, or de [APSPÕs] Burning Spear, or de Indianapolis 
Recorder, just to name a few who are extensions of de community, 
who serve Our national/international interests.
So before us is not de question of whether or not one should or 
should not criticize, but whether We should or should not 
recognize any criticism printed through an imperialist institution 
as sincere.  For if We are on de same side but ÒchooseÓ to engage 
in criticism and self-criticism through enemy controlled 
institutions, then de question of sincerity arises.  So if Alice 
Walker wants to talk to Us, We invite her to do so through our 
institutions.

--the same comrade
June 1993

MC49 responds: MIM agrees with the Indiana prisoner that none of 
us is above criticism or self-criticism, and that criticism/self-
criticism is a valuable tool for learning from and correcting 
mistakes.

To clarify, it was David Hilliard, not Alice Walker, who submitted 
WalkerÕs slander of the BPP to the New York Times. Walker 
undoubtedly agreed to have her review printed in the Times, but 
she does not deserve the brunt of the blame for that decision.
Which brings us back to the real reason Walker deserves criticism:  
the counterrevolutionary, pseudo-feminist political line expressed 
in her review.

MIM does not argue that Walker and others should not raise 
criticisms of revolutionaries. MIM believes that such criticism 
should be raised. If such criticism is incorrect from a communist, 
proletarian feminist standpoint, as WalkerÕs certainly is, it 
needs to be criticized ruthlessly by those who have a more correct 
political line.

MIM has done exactly this with regard to WalkerÕs piece by 
exposing in the June 1993 MIM Notes how, in BrownÕs words, 
ÒWalkerÕs article attempts to wash away the trans-Atlantic slave 
trade, U.S. slavery, police brutality, disproportionate military 
service and structural injustice by delving into a psyche or two.Ó
Finally, MIM agrees that people who want to end oppression should 
not needlessly support oppressor institutions like the New York 
Times. That is precisely why MIM works to build the independent 
power of the oppressed in the form of institutions like MIM Notes 
and MIM Theory.

* * *

SENECA NATION DECLARES NATIONAL HOLIDAY

by MC5

SENECA NATION--Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder declared 
Friday, July 16 a national holiday, celebrating the anniversary of 
the Seneca takeover of a New York State highway. Offices closed to 
honor the protest of New York StateÕs effort to tax the Senecas. 
(See MIM Notes 67 on the highway takeover and 77 on the tax 
fight.)

The Senecas and other First Nations within New York State borders 
had other reasons to celebrate as well. Voting 6-0, a New York 
State court decided in June that New York could not tax the First 
Nations because that is the prerogative of the U.S. Congress, not 
the states.

The decision overturned a lower court decision and forced Gov. 
Mario Cuomo to establish a task force to study the issue and seek 
the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Chances are good that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide to hear 
the case, but the process will probably take at least 18 months. 
In the meantime, the Senecas and other peoples in the area have 
gained some respite, so that they may continue to trade in 
cigarettes, gasoline and so on without paying New York taxes.

The July 16 holiday is now a source of great pride to the Seneca 
people. The weekend that followed was the SenecasÕ annual pow-wow. 
People from all over North America go to the pow-wow to be in 
solidarity with their Seneca friends.

According to some cigarette shop workers, the takeover Òbrought 
back their pride. ... It showed people who they are. ... A lot of 
people arenÕt proud of what they are. They wish they were somebody 
else.Ó Another worker added about the takeover that Òeverybody had 
the same feelings; we went out there drug-freeÓ in harmony.

Organizing to relieve imperialist oppression does more to benefit 
the Seneca people than the work of a million psychiatrists or 
social workers. Whether it be alcohol or illegal drug use, it is 
the oppression of the First Nations by Amerika that drives the 
indigenous to despair, a feeling of powerlessness and addiction.

Psychiatrists and social workers can only teach hypocritical 
imperialist and chauvinist attitudes to the First Nations in an 
effort to make them assimilate. The real problem is not the 
attitudes or personal lifestyles of the First Nation peoples. The 
real problem is imperialism, the oppression of nations by other 
nations driven by advanced capitalistsÕ need to run other 
economies to their advantage.

Meanwhile, the struggle continues. Fourteen people arrested a year 
ago in connection with the highway protest have yet to be cleared 
of charges. In speaking with people in the area, MIM found several 
people who witnessed the events that challenged the police side of 
the story. The police have charged the Senecas with reckless 
endangerment, among other things.

Yet, the Senecas point out that it was the police who were 
recklessly endangering people. ÒWe didnÕt have any guns, no 
weapons. We went out there with nothing,Ó said one young woman. 
Meanwhile, the cops swung their clubs at car windows and the 
people inside while trying to hit people with their squad cars, 
according to numerous people that MIM spoke to.

At best, the police action to open the highway was a one-sided 
assertion of imperialist treaty rights. At worst it was a simple 
matter of chauvinism.

Since the highway passes through Seneca lands, New York should 
have realized that there was a treaty dispute and it should have 
found federal authorities to negotiate with the Senecas. Instead, 
when New York courts violated treaties in Seneca eyes and the 
Senecas responded by the highway takeover, New York resorted to 
violence on the highways.

Now New York recently finds itself being sued in court for back 
payment for the use of Seneca lands where New York highways pass 
through. The Seneca NationÕs civil suit may take 10 years to 
settle.

Like other oppressed nations, the Seneca Nation is faced with the 
task of creating public opinion to support and organize its own 
independent power. The only real solution to the problem of 
Amerikan internal colonialism is internationalism. That means that 
all the oppressed nations internally and in the Third World 
recognize each other as equals and coordinate themselves to take 
over U.S. imperialism so that it never oppresses another country 
again.

* * *

COP GETS OFF FOR KILLING WAMPANOAG MAN

Mashpee, MA--During the first weekend of July, the Mashpee 
Wampanoag held a successful pow-wow in Cape Cod with a hard 
political edge.  One committee sold t-shirts to raise funds to 
bring justice for a Mashpee Wampanoag murdered by police officer 
David H. Mace years ago.

ÒOn May 1, 1988, David H. Mace, a white police sergeant in the 
Cape Cod town of Mashpee, Massachusetts shot and killed David C. 
Hendricks, a 27 year old Mashpee Wampanoag, following his pursuit 
of HendricksÕ car for a traffic violation. Sergeant Mace fired 
eleven shots from his semi-automatic 9-millimeter pistol. Seven 
struck David Hendricks. ... The last five shots were fired at 
point-blank range through the driverÕs side window after the car 
had stopped. ... The Wampanoag and many of their supporters have 
suffered from police harassment and surveillance during memorial 
walks and demonstrations for justice concerning the Hendricks 
case.Ó(1) 

ÒIn June, 1992, it was confirmed in a civil suit that Sgt. Mace 
fired two volleys at DavidÕs car. Two of the six rounds fired in 
the first volley wounded David Hendricks in the left arm and left 
hand. While the car was stationary and David sat unmoving, Sgt. 
Mace walked over to the car and shot five more rounds through the 
driverÕs side window. ... The last four shots were fired through 
the empty window at David Hendricks as he lay helpless and 
bleeding on the front seat.Ó(2)

On July 1 of this year, Sgt. Mace received the beginning of 
payments to leave the police force. Mace had been paid for five 
years without serving on the police force and now he gets $75,000 
and a job recommendation to leave the Mashpee police force. This 
agreement between Mace and Mashpee town government came on May 11, 
1993 after betrayal by elected selectmen who had pledged to remove 
Mace through an arbitration procedure that never came about.

MIM spoke to Ramona Peters of the David Hendricks Committee for 
Human Rights for an update on the story. Peters explained that her 
community feels responsible for the well-being of other 
communities that may be faced with David Mace in the future when 
he gets a new job. Hence, the committee feels it is necessary to 
expose this case in full view of the public to whatever extent 
possible: ÒNative people are still at risk. ... We canÕt afford to 
pretend that injustice doesnÕt happen,Ó said Peters.

The Mashpee Wampanoag won a victory in 1992 in civil court when 
eyewitnesses came forward and rendered evidence that should have 
been in a murder trial. For himself, Mace said he could not recall 
what happened and the judge in the case told him to get 
psychological help.

The son of David Hendricks won $375,000 from Mace and the police 
union, but despite crushing testimony from at least seven 
eyewitnesses who saw the shooting, District Attorney Philip A. 
Rollins and the Attorney General of Massachusetts refused to open 
a criminal case against Mace. That means a jury never got the 
chance to decide if Mace murdered Hendricks.

This case shows the futility of seeking justice in U.S. courts. 
The relationship between prosecutors and police is too cozy 
everywhere in the United States. Prosecutors need the help of 
police in most cases to gain a winning record in court and to gain 
re-election. Hence, prosecutors tend to let police get away with 
murder without ever charging them in court. It is also the 
prosecutor who must notice when police are faking evidence against 
people they donÕt like. 

However, as four recent convictions for evidence tampering by New 
York State troopers proved, it is easy for cops to fake evidence 
in dozens of cases for years at a time without anyone noticing. In 
the Hendricks case as in others, the prosecutors simply made a 
political decision not to prosecute cops. 

The pressure of elections on prosecutors does not help in this 
country where the majority of the population is the white labor 
aristocracy. It is only AmerikaÕs anti-crime posture that says 
that oppressed minorities need to be kept under control by brutal, 
lying cops. If the white nation working class were not bought off, 
we would not see its persistent backing for fascist Òanti-crimeÓ 
measures against minorities, measures that justify beatings 
(Rodney King) and shootings (David Hendricks) for traffic 
violations.

The same class interests of the middle class in imperialist 
countries are also a reason that the WampanoagÕs appeal to Amnesty 
International will not work. Across the United States, people 
working to end internal colonialism have brought case after case 
to Amnesty International for action. However, these mostly 
brainwashed lawyers and other middle class people believe that 
there is universal freedom and democracy in the United States; and 
they donÕt concern themselves with the majority of human-rights 
like the food, shelter, clothing and medicine. 

The Hendricks committee is appealing to the Massachusetts state 
legislature for justice as well. No doubt this will not bring much 
immediate relief either. However, we do agree with the Hendricks 
committee that this case must be exposed widely.

One last point made by this case is the need for self-
determination of nations. ÒWhen Mace shot David it [the police 
force] was all white and they didnÕt even live here [Mashpee],Ó 
said Ramona Peters. The police force had been almost all Native 
until the Natives lost control of the land. After the federal 
government denied the Mashpee Wampanoag recognition as a tribe and 
after a court ruled that some Native land could be sold, white 
real estate owners took over the Mashpee municipal government. If 
not for the power lost by the Wampanoag nation in the last 20 
years, it is possible that Hendricks would still be alive.

Notes:
1. League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations ((301) 932-0808) in News 
from Indian Country, Vol. VII, number 10, Late May, 1993, p. 17.
2. Kristy Lindgren, ÒWhere Is Justice?Ó The Eagle, Vol. 11, #3, 
Early Summer, 1993, p. 14. (203) 729-0035.

* * *

KURDS ESCALATE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE

by MC17

On top of the existing state of emergency in the Kurdish areas of 
Turkey, the Turkish government is now threatening to enforce 
martial law in Kurdish regions of Turkey unless the Kurdistan 
WorkersÕ Party (PKK) is destroyed by the spring of 1994.(1)

As the Turkish state intensifies its military attack on the Kurds, 
their resistance remains strong. Turkey regularly attacks Kurds 
accused of ÒhelpingÓ the PKK by burning their homes and forcing 
them to abandon their land.

ÒEven when my house is burning down before my eyes, when IÕm a 
Kurdish man I will always support the PKK,Ó said one man. He added 
that when the guerrillas came looking for food in local villages, 
everyone in the village embraced them as heroes. Others 
interviewed with the guarantee of silence said ÒEveryone supports 
the PKK.Ó And ÒThis is the Kurdish peoplesÕ movement, and no one 
would turn against it.Ó(2)

Kurds currently live in parts of Iran, Iraq and Turkey and have 
been fighting for years for self-determination. The PKK is the 
revolutionary nationalist party most active in the struggle for 
Kurdish independence.

Tourists held by PKK

In the first week of July, PKK forces took into custody a British 
and an Australian tourist who entered the PKK region of Kurdistan 
in eastern Turkey, an area tourists had been advised not to enter. 
The PKK said they would release the tourists if international 
human rights groups such as the Red Cross Òprovide guarantees for 
their safe passageÓ out of the Kurdish south-east of Turkey. 
Without such guarantees ÒitÕs quite possible they would get shot 
[by Turkish forces] and [Kurds] would get the blame.Ó(3,4)

Kurdish protests in Europe

At the end of June, Kurds attacked Turkish targets in 29 European 
cities in Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Britain and 
Denmark. In Berlin Kurdish people attacked Turkish embassies 
demanding an end to Turkish military campaigns against them.

When Kurds stormed the Turkish Embassy in Switzerland, Turkish 
officials fired on them, killing 20-year-old Semsettin Kurt. More 
than 30 people were taken captive in Turkish diplomatic missions 
in France and Germany. Kurds hit Turkish-owned banks and travel 
offices in at least 13 cities, including London, Berlin, 
Stockholm, and Copenhagen.(5)

In the beginning of July, at least 5,000 Kurds peacefully 
demonstrated in Berne in memory Semsettin Kurt.(6)

Kurdish struggle advances

From March 20 to June 8, the PKK declared a unilateral cease fire. 
MIM spoke to a representative of the Kurdistan Information Centre 
in London, who said:

ÒThe aim of the unilateral cease fire was to force the Turkish 
state to make some kind of political response but Turkey made no 
response whatsoever. Apart from not making any response they 
continued to violate the cease fire by killing some 84 guerrillas 
during the cease fire and about 18 civilians together. They 
destroyed 22 villages, they completely destroyed them. The Turkish 
atrocities and brutality have continued right through the cease 
fire and aside from that they were also conducting a very large 
scale military operation in the Kurdish area. ...Ó

ÒSince then the cease fire has come to an end and the struggles 
have been widespread in all the areas. The armed struggle will 
intensify which will target mainly ... the economic and military 
installations of the Turkish state.Ó

The Kurdish people are responding to the Turkish government 
Òtargeting Kurdish civilians, Kurdish villages, they have 
destroyed tens of villages since the 8th of June and they have 
been destroying, burning forested area. What happened in Europe 
was a response to the gross violation of human rights in 
Kurdistan. When you have your relatives back in Kurdistan who are 
being killed, who are being gunned down in the middle of the 
street, whose homes are being destroyed and so on and they were 
just telling the world, especially the United States, Britain, 
France and Germany, those states are the main ones who have 
continuously supported the Turkish state militarily and 
financially as well. So they were saying you can not ignore the 
killings, the suffering of the Kurdish people and they called a 
demonstration in Europe to protest what was going on. It was just 
a reaction of the Kurdish people in Europe to the massacres that 
continue in Kurdistan.Ó

According the representative, none of the people involved in the 
recent actions in Europe was armed.

ÒEven with the question of the occupation of hostage taking in the 
Munich consulate there was not a single arm on the occupiers, it 
was only when they found a whole arsenal of machine guns and 
pistols in the consulate they took it from them so it wasnÕt armed 
before they went, it was something they got inside. You could see 
clearly that the Turkish state has taken its atrocities and state 
terrorism beyond the boundaries of the Turkish state, they have 
taken it to Europe as well. And the clearest example of that was 
when a number of the embassies fired on the peaceful Kurdish 
demonstrators.

ÒThe Kurdish people, they will continue to protest about the 
Turkish atrocities in Turkey. I think people have had enough of it 
because how long [are] the murders, the massacres of the Kurdish 
people going to continue? The world has to realize what they are 
doing.Ó

Despite daily casualties of Kurdish armies and Kurdish people, the 
Kurdish struggle, led by the PeopleÕs Liberation Army of Kurdistan 
(ARGK, the armed wing of the PKK) continues to advance.

ÒIt is quite obvious that the progress is in every ground. ... 
There are a few military bases wiped out or knocked down every day 
by the guerrillas. From time to time when you look at some of the 
Turkish press they could not in a way hide it sometimes, they were 
quite clearly warned by the government not to report anything 
which would be seen as a propaganda service for the PKK but it is 
definitely intensifying and it will intensify even further. And 
the aim is to kick out the enemy.Ó

Build Amerikan support

ÒWhat Kurdish people really need is the support and the sympathy 
of the international community to expose the double standard of 
about the Kurdish issues. Trying to bomb Iraqis and using excuses 
of the Iraqis killing the Kurds when Turkey is bombing daily and 
killing every day.Ó

The Kurdish people are a nation comprised of land occupied by 
three countries. In late 1992 the Kurdish people elected their own 
national assembly.

ITAL Keep up with the Kurdish struggle, subscribe to the Kurdistan 
Report, For a Free and Independent Kurdistan. Send £9 payable to 
the Kurdistan Information Centre for 6 issues. 11 Portland 
Gardens, London N4 1HU. END

Notes:
1. Agence France Presse 7/9/93.
2. The Ottawa Citizen 7/9/93.
3. The Daily Telegraph 7/13/93.
4. The Daily Telegraph 7/14/93.
5. Boston Globe 6/26/93, p. 4, 6/25/93, p.2.
6. Reuters 7/4/93.
7. Interview with Kurdistan Information Centre representative, 
7/7/93.

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NAFTA OPPONENTS PROTECT AMERIKAN PRIVILEGE

by a comrade

Despite initial optimism from the Clinton administration, it now 
looks as though the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 
will be delayed by legal action, if not defeated by Congress. 
Regardless of whether NAFTA passes or not, MexicoÕs preparation 
for NAFTA has virtually guaranteed a growth in imperialist 
plunder.

The scenario presented by the Amerikan labor movement, which shows 
NAFTA destroying both Amerikan and Mexican workers, is half 
correct. The Mexican proletariat will be subjected to harsher 
treatment and shrinking slave wages, but AmerikaÕs workers will 
grow richer.

NAFTA would virtually set in stone the comprador policies of 
Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The United States 
realizes that its chances of finding another Mexican president who 
would be so willing to serve Amerikan interests are slim, so they 
are eager to enact a treaty that would restrict possible trade 
reform by future Mexican governments.

Mexico sells out its peasants

The Mexican government has been preparing for NAFTA by enticing 
foreign capital with reduced tariffs and privatized state owned 
businesses,(1) and attempting to proletarianize the peasantry.

Until 1991, the Mexican constitution Òpromised land to any citizen 
who would work it ... [on the condition that] it could not be 
rented, mortgaged or sold.Ó(2) But in 1991 Salinas proposed a 
constitutional amendment to end the distribution of free land and 
to allow the privatization of community-held land.

NAFTAÕs effects

MIM doesnÕt need a crystal ball to see what a post-NAFTA Mexico 
looks like. We can look to the maquiladoras in the Òfree tradeÓ 
zones of northern Mexico. Most of the Òmaquiladoras are assembly 
plants relying on intensive, unskilled labor, with little to no 
high-technology equipment.Ó(3)

The social, political, and economic effects of unrestrained 
imperialism in northern Mexico foreshadow the changes that NAFTA 
will bring to all of Mexico.

Contrary to claims by Amerikan capitalists and Mexican neo-
colonial administrators, free trade does not benefit the workers 
of the Third World. Maquiladora wages have fallen in Mexico in 
recent years, not increased. Mexican hourly wages in the 
maquiladoras dropped from $1.38 (U.S.) in 1982 to 45 cents in 
1989.(4)

With rumblings that NAFTA could fail, the bourgeoisie has begun 
damage control. The Washington Post reported, ÒNAFTAÕs passage 
could be a little more than a formality, giving an international 
framework to the changes already in effect in Mexico and likely to 
continue.Ó(1)

Amerikan workers benefit

AmerikaÕs labor aristocracy, especially the portions of it in 
manufacturing, are in no danger of starvation. The allegiance of 
white workers is just as important to the bourgeoisie today, 
before NAFTA; as it will be after the factories close.

American production workers are paid so much more than Third World 
workers that even bourgeois economist Noel D. Vasquez, S.J. 
projects that Òa total of twenty new workers will be employed in 
the exporting [Third World] economy for every worker displaced in 
the US and EEC.Ó(5)

Some individuals in the labor aristocracy may be hurt by NAFTA, 
but the class as a whole will be fine as older workers get big 
retirement packages, their children grow up to be paper pushers or 
computer programers and younger workers get retrained. 
Historically, the transfer of production jobs to Third World 
peoples has been a good thing for the labor aristocracy as a whole 
because it increases the net income of Amerika and allows the 
children of the labor aristocracy to move up in to higher paid, 
more skilled jobs.(6)

Amerikan ÒleftÓ opposition

The Central America Solidarity Association (CASA) published a 
special issue of the Central America Reporter opposing NAFTA. In 
their article, ÒNAFTA and women,Ó CASA argued that Ò75% of the 
maquila workers are women. Maquila workers routinely face sexual 
harassment and rape.Ó(7)

The implications of this CASA line are that 1) if the jobs stayed 
in the United States, more men would get the jobs, and 2) if the 
jobs stayed in the United States there would be less sexual 
harassment and rape of women. Neither argument is any good for 
women as a group. Depriving women of jobs is not the way to 
advance the condition of women and pointing to the sexual 
harassment in Mexico is pure racism while there is such harassment 
at home.

Protection for the Mexican environment is also touted as a reason 
for opposition to NAFTA. Exploitation of workers and the 
environment is an inherent part of capitalism. It is hypocritical 
to support capitalism and then complain when it pollutes your 
vacation spots.

Garbage, waste and poison have been deposited in the homes of the 
poor as long as there has been heavy industry. The First World has 
used the Third World as a depository for its most dangerous waste, 
regardless of the presence of human beings. The worldÕs rich can 
prevent toxic waste from being dumped in their backyards, but the 
worldÕs poor have no choice if the imperialists want to poison 
their shantytowns. As long as capitalism survives, it will 
continue to pollute the Third World, green shopping bags or no.

Crush imperialism

NAFTA will serve to accelerate the conquest of Mexico, and the 
parasitic nature of the white working class is likely to rise as 
corporate profits increase. MIM opposes the effort to ÒsaveÓ 
Amerikan jobs. Those labor aristocracy jobs are what separates 
Amerikan workers from the cause of the proletariat everywhere.

Rather than taking the piecemeal approach to fighting capitalism 
by opposing various trade agreements such as NAFTA, MIM calls on 
all anti-imperialists to build public opinion for revolution 
instead. The developing Third World proletariat needs to destroy 
imperialism in their homes, and we need to destroy imperialism in 
its home: Amerika.

NOTES:
1. Washington Post 7/3/93, p. 11, 14.
2. New York Times 11/27/91, p. A1, 10.
3. Dan La Botz, ITAL Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in 
Mexico Today END (South End Press, Boston: 1992) p. 163.
4. Rebeca Lizarraga, ÒCrecera 17% la industria maquiladora en 91 
en relaci—n con el a–o pasado, estima la Secofi,Ó El Financiero 
1/7/91 in La Botz, Dan, op. cit. p. 165.
5. Noel D. Vasquez, S.J., ITAL Mobilizing Surplus Labor Though 
International Exchange, END Philippine EPZs, Overseas Employment 
and Labor Subcontracting; Brotherhood of Asian Trade Unionists, 
1987. p.8
6. See J. Sakai, ITAL Settlers: The Mythology of the White 
Proletariat. END p. 136.
7. The Central America Reporter, March/April 1993, p. 7.

* * *

EPA INCINERATES OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES

by MA53 & a comrade

In May, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Carol 
Browner announced that the U.S. Congress is considering an EPA 
proposal to increase regulation on incinerators.

The proposal focuses on limiting the production of new 
incineration facilities and reviewing permits for existing sites. 
The EPA would also re-evaluate emissions standards for dioxin, 
lead, cadmium, mercury, and other heavy metals, and require a risk 
assessment prior to issuing a permit for hazardous waste 
combustion. This last measure is intended to increase public 
awareness and participation in the permitting process.(1)

Of the five largest commercial hazardous waste landfills, three of 
them are located in mostly Black and Latino communities; they 
account for more than 40% of the total national capacity.

Three out of every five Blacks and Latinos in Amerika--more than 5 
million Blacks and 8 million Latinos--live in areas with 
uncontrolled toxic waste sites.(4)

The latest EPA proposal would mean the first regulation overhaul 
in 12 years, in a country whose plants burn about 5 million tons 
of hazardous waste per year. The EPA will not grant any new 
permits for burning. This means that companies just starting to 
think about incineration would have to find other means of 
disposal, while companies with permits would remain relatively 
untouched.

The likely result will be that smaller companies without burn 
permits will become bigger companies with burn permits. Waste 
management corporations will still be able to thrive.

Amerikan liberal opposition

There is a liberal Amerikan voice in favor of EPA regulations and 
against specific incinerators. But these organizations start at 
the end--attacking the waste disposal ITAL method END rather than 
the amount of waste or the type of waste produced--they attempt to 
address the problem in isolation. They fall for the EPA trick of 
fighting over legalisms; and they ignore the structural necessity 
of waste and inefficient disposal.

East Liverpool, Ohio is a site of popular opposition to 
incineration. City residents are fighting against the already-
existing Waste Technologies Industry (WTI) incinerator, which was 
granted a permit in February. The 13-year struggle against the 
incinerator, the largest in the nation, has brought national 
attention to the incineration issue. The WTI site is permitted to 
emit 4.4 million pounds of heavy metals, dioxin and PCBs every 
year.

WTI entered East Liverpool promising employment (the company 
created about 100 local service-related jobs) and underestimating 
pollution damage. This situation is echoed nationally, where 
people are persuaded by the promise of economic growth to live 
with contamination.

A leaked memo from Richard Guimond of the Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response Office revealed a secret study of the safety of 
the WTI incinerator. It showed that Òthe risks from beef and milk 
consumption are 1,000 times higher than the risks from inhalation 
near the facility [which meets EPA regulations].Ó Contamination is 
worse as the dioxin bioaccumulates (progresses up the food 
chain).(2) Holland and England have both banned the sale of meat 
raised near incinerators.(6)

A new study of people exposed to dioxin contamination has revealed 
cancer rates twice as high as those of a control group, higher 
incidence of birth defects, reduced liver function, blood 
circulation problems, reduced endocrine functioning and impaired 
immune system functioning.(3)

Oppressed communities house the highest concentration of 
incinerators. The incinerators spew lead to the ground around 
them; the ash contaminates water supplies. Ninety percent of all 
ghetto youth in Amerika have blood-lead levels high enough to put 
them in the Òat riskÓ category for lead poisoning.(4)

Pat Costner, the Toxics Researcher for Greenpeace, is pushing the 
EPA to do a breast milk study on women in contaminated areas to 
determine a more exact effect of dioxin. Dioxin is stored in fat 
cells and leaves the body through breast feeding. A 1987 study of 
dioxin effects on fish found measurable health effects at any 
level of exposure.(5)

Clinton does it again

Candidate Clinton campaigned in East Liverpool as the peopleÕs 
candidate, vowing to oppose the WTI incinerator. His promise went 
up in flames when he received a campaign contribution from VonRoll 
Inc., the corporation that owns the facility.

Hugh Kaufman, assistant to the director of the EPAÕs Hazardous 
Site Division said of the anti-burn proposal: ÒItÕs a ruse and a 
smoke screen ... It does not change the present policy of non-
substantive enforcement for major burners of hazardous waste.Ó He 
was referring to the fact that the proposal would not touch 
hazardous waste burning in facilities other than incinerators.

Corporate contamination; community activism

ÒIndustries target poor urban communities [for polluting 
industries and waste disposal facilities]. They know that there is 
little organized political opposition,Ó said Kevin Green of 
Citizens for a Better environment.

But the masses in Òpoor urban communitiesÓ are not stupid, and 
generally the reason they are not organizing first around 
incinerators is that they know that struggle will not solve their 
environmental problems generally. Green does not even mention the 
politics already existing in those communities.

GreenpeaceÕs response to the level of community concern with 
incineration was to run a cross-country bus campaign ending in a 
protest in Washington D.C. to pressure the EPA into a decision on 
the moratorium. The bus tour stopped at 25 incineration hot spots 
where researchers presented teach-ins on incineration pollution in 
terms of health and economics. Activists from East Liverpool spoke 
on how a community must organize to prevent construction of waste 
facilities.

As the environmentalists in Amerika push for alternatives to 
incineration, the small moratoria that are accomplished tend to 
satisfy the liberal thirst for change. But reforms under an 
oppressive system will not eliminate oppression. Rational 
environmental planning will have to be part of socialist economic 
construction.

Notes:

1. Wall Street Journal 5/19/93.
2. Environmental Research Foundation; Hazardous Waste News No. 31, 
p.1.
3. Washington Post 5/18/93.
4. The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership 
Summit Program Guide, p. 13.
5. Journal of Pesticide Review; "Another Stunning Dioxin Study;" 
Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 34
6. North Carolina News and Observer 5/5/93, p. 14A.

* * *

PERU NEWS

by MCbeta & MC17

PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT UNMASKED

On July 8, the Peruvian military began an enforced curfew in Lima 
and all other major urban areas, keeping all Peruvians indoors 
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Fujimori government claims the curfew is to facilitate the 
first national census in 12 years. Ironically, the government says 
this survey is intended to find out who needs what services in 
Peru! This is likely another attempt to weed out the members of 
the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) by harassing the peasants and 
workers.(1)

The curfew announcement came the same day as a number of graves in 
eastern Lima of individuals believed to be the victims of the 1991 
La Cantuta University kidnapping were found.(2) The kidnapping of 
10 Peruvians at the University was seen as revenge against the 
PCP, which is active at the University. The government has never 
admitted responsibility for the events.

Recent events leading up to this discovery have left the Peruvian 
government exposed for its murderous policies. Since 1991 members 
of the Peruvian military, with the support of the state, have been 
running a special detachment that kidnaps, tortures and murders 
those suspected of opposing the government.

On May 5 General Robles, third in command of the Peruvian armed 
forces, sent a public letter to the Peruvian press denouncing 
fellow general Nicolas Hermosa Rios and other army members, and 
describing the details of paramilitary operations that led to the 
deaths of many revolutionaries and innocent Peruvians.

RoblesÕ letter included detailed information on the kidnapping of 
nine students and a professor at La Cantuta University in late 
1991, as well as the Barrios Altos massacre of the same period. 
Robles assigned responsibility for these and other murderous 
actions to a  special detachment of the army controlled by the 
National Intelligence Service, led by dictator Alberto FujimoriÕs 
advisor Vlademiro Montesinos.(3)

On June 23 the Peruvian congress concluded an investigation into 
the kidnapping at La Cantuta. With testimony from Robles and 
others, three commission members signed a majority report 
concluding that the army was responsible for the disappearances at 
La Cantuta.

They accused many powerful army leaders of collusion in this 
activity and called for a court hearing against all implicated. 
Two commission members from the pro-government alliance released a 
separate report concluding that the military had no responsibility 
for the events and instead they accused the Cantuta victims of 
having staged their own disappearances, suggesting that the 
victims could have been members of the PCP who chose to go into 
hiding.

On June 26 congress voted to make the pro-government conclusion 
the official version of the story, and the end of the 
investigation.

Notes:
1. Associated Press 7/8/93 V0886.
2. Latin America Institute, University of New Mexico, NotiSur--
Latin American Political Affairs, 7/16/93.
3. El Diario International May 1993, N 19.

* * *

TUPAC AMARU ÒREVOLUTIONARIESÓ GIVE UP

As the PCP maintains its strength and advances the PeopleÕs War 
against the Peruvian state, the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru movement 
conceded defeat after nine years of guerrilla war on July 12. The 
Tupac Amaru leader Anders Mendoza says they have only a few bands 
of fighters left and will be disbanded entirely within months.

ÒItÕs useless to remain in hiding,Ó Mendoza said after turning 
himself in to the army Friday in the northern jungle city of 
Tarapoto. ÒSociety needs us to obtain the peace it has been 
seeking for several years.Ó Mendoza is one of four top commanders 
of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement who surrendered in the 
past two weeks.

The Tupac Amaru, unlike the Communist Party of Peru (PCP--known as 
Sendero Luminoso), focused its guerrilla war on the urban areas of 
Peru. Following a pro-Cuban form of Marxism, the Tupac Amaru has 
always been unclear ideologically and has failed to learn from the 
successes and failures of historical revolutionary movements.

Cuba took the road of dependence on the Soviet Union while the 
Soviet Union turned to capitalism, making it impossible for the 
Cuban revolution to produce socialism. Maoists, on the other hand, 
understand the importance of self-reliance and mutual aid, 
refusing dependency and colonial status. The other lesson the 
Tupac Amaru failed to learn was one of military strategy. The PCP 
learned from the successes of Maoism the essential strategy of 
building a base of support among the peasants as well as the 
workers, surrounding the cities from the countryside.

For those Trotskyists who claimed that there was a revolutionary 
alternative in Peru other than the PCP Maoists, MIM asks how many 
lessons do you need before you learn that Maoism is the only 
ideology with a real life history of success. Failure to maintain 
a clear and correct ideology leads to failure of revolutionary 
movements.

Notes: Associated Press 7/12/93 V0252.

* * *

MAY STRIKE A SUCCESS

MIM now has further information about the strike in May called by 
the PCP to commemorate the Thirteenth Anniversary of the PeopleÕs 
War. In spite of tremendous government efforts and propaganda to 
thwart the strike, including 80,000 soldiers and policemen 
mobilized in Lima alone, the strike was an overwhelming success.

The weekend before the strike the armed forces and police arrested 
at least 2,000 people in an attempt to deactivate the strike 
before it could happen.

In spite of this repression, more than 250 military actions took 
place in Lima and the provinces during these three days of armed 
strike. This is more armed actions than those carried out in past 
months when the PCP has been most active. Among the successful PCP 
attacks was a bazooka and mortar assault on the barracks of the 
Tank Division of the Rimac district of Lima. This is the first 
time the PCP has called a three-day strike at the national level 
including Lima. Its success demonstrated the increasing strength 
and resolve of the people of Peru led by the PCP.

Notes: El Diario International May 1993, N 19.

* * *

CHIVALRY SWEEPS SENATE: PIGS CLAIM TO PROTECT WOMEN

by MC31

The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved the latest 
version of the federal Violence Against Women Act of 1993 (VAWA), 
which provides for civil remedies in cases of violent crimes 
committed against women. While previous versions of the bill did 
not garner majority support in Congress, this latest version is 
expected to sail through the full Senate.(1) Pseudo-feminism is a 
hot item these days, so Amerikan politicians are grabbing at their 
chance to get the ÒwomenÕs vote.Ó

The VAWA, providing for women what the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 
provided for Blacks, is the first federal law that seeks to 
protect the rights of women. The Violence Against Women Act is 
similar to other state and federal sentence-enhancing statutes 
that are gaining popularity among lawmakers.

Title 3, called ÒCivil Rights for Women,Ó is the bulk of the bill, 
so that rape and other violent crimes which are now violations of 
state law become violations of federal civil rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that these increased penalty 
statutes are constitutional; there is no violation of the First 
Amendment by punishing the thoughts associated with actions. In 
other words, the VAWA says that a violent crime against a woman is 
worse if the assailant meant harm against the woman ITAL as a 
woman END. While MIM knows that the First Amendment and the whole 
Amerikan constitution is a farce, it is still better than 
capitalist thought-police trying to read and patrol our minds.

The VAWA will only serve to advance the interests of the oppressor 
while keeping the oppressed in their place. Any law that calls for 
more arrests and tougher penalties will not change the target 
populations for the arrests. In this case, men of oppressed 
nationalities are bound to be the hardest hit.

But, while MIM challenges any law that furthers the oppression of 
the internal nations, we certainly recognize that violence against 
women, especially domestic or intimate violence, is a serious 
problem. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 
in 1990, the most recent data available, more than 5,000 women 
were killed by their spouses, 2 million women were beaten and 2 
million were raped by their spouses or partners.(2)

In addition to federal civil remedies for violations of civil 
rights, the VAWA provides for additional funding for shelters, 
police training programs, as well as lighting and camera 
surveillance at bus stops and parks. But the VAWA also recognizes 
domestic violence, and thus encourages mandatory arrest 
programs.(2)

Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.), one of the billÕs primary co-
sponsors, defended the bill on the grounds that violence against 
women is a social problem, not just an individual one.(1) Orrin 
Hatch  (R-Utah), another While the law does not explicitly state 
what conditions will create a crime that will be considered a 
violation of federal rights, Hatch presented two scenarios in 
order to illustrate what he thinks a rape motivated by gender bias 
actually is: 1) Man thinks woman is attractive, and is 
"encouraged" by her, and so motivated by this "encouragement" that 
he rips her clothes off and has sex with her against her will. 2) 
Man grabs woman and "in the process of raping her says words like, 
'You're wearing a skirt! You're a woman! I hate women! 
ÒencouragedÓ by her, and so motivated by this ÒencouragementÓ that 
he rips her clothes off and has sex with her against her will. 2) 
Man grabs woman and Òin the process of raping her says words like, 
ÔYouÕre wearing a skirt! YouÕre a woman! I hate women! IÕm going 
to show you, you woman!Õ Now,Õ Hatch explains, Òthe first oneÕs 
terrible. But the otherÕs much worse. If a man rapes a woman while 
telling her he loves her, thatÕs a far cry from saying he hates 
her.Ó Then, Hatch informs us, Òa lust factor does not spring from 
animus.Ó(1)

What did you expect?

MIM has long criticized pseudo-feminists for their claim that rape 
is not sex, but violence. MIM argues that rape is that form of sex 
that exists under capitalist patriarchy, where real consent is 
impossible. Pseudo-feminists have made the distinction between sex 
and violence in order to preserve something called Ògood sex,Ó or 
sex which is by definition not violent.

So it should not come as a surprise that when this muddled line 
gets picked up as national policy, it ends up in a piece of 
legislation which says in effect that there is Ògood rapeÓ and 
Òbad rape.Ó

ITAL Send $6 for a copy of MIM Theory 2/3 for more on pseudo-
feminist approaches to stopping rape. END

Notes:
1. The New Republic 7/12/93, p. 12-15.
2. The Plain Dealer 6/29/93, p. 2C.

* * *

FIRST WORLD SLAMS THE DOOR ON IMMIGRATION

by MC234

Some 100 million migrants worldwide are fleeing war or 
exploitation, according to a report released by the United Nations 
Population Fund in July.(1) The growth of global imperialism in 
recent years has increased the contradictions between the First 
and Third Worlds and has forced millions of people to search for a 
better life. Amerika and other imperialist powers had big 
increases in immigration in the 1980s.

The desire by the Third World to cash in on the ÒAmerikan dreamÓ 
or its European counterpart is stirring a huge backlash in First 
World public opinion. Seventy percent of Amerikans favor reducing 
the number of immigrants because they see non-white immigrants as 
a threat to their way of life.(2) A Clinton advisor warned that 
unless the administration takes quick action ÒyouÕll see what you 
did in Germany: a violent reaction against immigration.Ó(3)

MIM recognizes neither the artificial borders between nations nor 
ClintonÕs need to Òtake action.Ó The parasitic Amerikan white 
working/middle class benefits from the exploitation of Third World 
workers all over the planet, including here. New immigrants may be 
a political threat, but the only jobs theyÕre taking away are 
middle class womenÕs domestic jobs.

Immigration is not a threat

In fact, immigrants, especially illegals, often take the jobs that 
Amerikans refuse to take. The average personal income of a legal 
Mexican immigrant is $5,506.(3) When 2,000 illegal immigrants were 
fired from their jobs in San Diego, the California State Human 
Resources Agency had almost no success in filling the jobs with 
U.S. citizens.(4)

ÒÔThe net effect of immigration is still that it raises the GNP,Õ 
says Harvard economist Richard Freeman, co-author of the NBER 
[National Bureau of Economic Research] report. The point, says 
Freeman, is that immigration, like free trade, probably hurts the 
minority of Americans who directly compete with newcomers, even as 
it benefits the majority who enjoy, among other things, lower 
prices on everything from clothes to restaurant meals.Ó(3)

The extra profits that capitalists make from super-exploited Third 
World labor get passed on to the white working class as a huge 
subsidy for allegiance.(5)

Germany: poor people need not apply

GermanyÕs new anti-immigration law took effect in July. Refugees 
who arrive by foot are immediately turned back, and those who 
arrive by air ITAL directly from their country of origin END have 
only 19 days to prove, from their German prison cells, that they 
face persecution in their home countries.

The German constitution, in atonement for Nazi persecution of 
foreigners, previously guaranteed asylum to all. The law was 
changed because of fears that foreigners were draining public 
monies, and because of Òintensifying violence by right-wing 
extremists against foreigners.Ó Regardless, anti-foreigner 
attacks, including the fire bombing of five Turks, have increased 
since the law was approved in May.(6)

Amerika: Mexico does the dirty work

President Clinton has authorized the Coast Guard to board those 
ships in international waters suspected of transporting Chinese 
illegal immigrants. The practice began in July when the Coast 
Guard stopped three boats carrying 659 immigrants about 70 miles 
southwest of San Diego. Of all the migrants, the U.S. government 
allowed only one an appeal for asylum, and convinced Mexico to put 
the rest back on a plane to China.(7)

France says immigrants smell

The popularity of French interior minister Charles Pasqua jumped 
25% when he proposed a new Òzero immigration policyÓ to fight the 
Ònoise and smellsÓ of foreigners. FranceÕs foreign population 
hasnÕt grown in 10 years--it is still 6%. But 25 years ago, 75% of 
the foreigners in France were European. Now Arabs and Africans 
make up almost half.(8)

Revolution: to a better life

The millions of migrants who come to the United States and other 
First World countries often do find an increase in their standard 
of living. But capitalism canÕt allow the masses of immigrants to 
Òcatch upÓ with their white counterparts. And imperialism will 
never allow Third World nations to Òcatch upÓ with AmerikaÕs 
wealth.

The only answer is to work for a revolution against Amerika and 
its domination of the world.

NOTES:
1. Washington Post 7/7/93, p. A1.
2. Time Magazine 6/21/93, p. 26.
3. U.S. News & World Report 6/21/93, p. 34,38.
4. The Public Interest, Winter 1991, p. 96.
5. See MIM Theory 1 for more on this. Send $4 to MIM.
6. Washington Post 7/2/93 p. A26.
7. New York Times 7/20/93, p. A19.
8. Economist 6/12/93.

* * *

FRANCE IMPLEMENTS IMMIGRATION POLICY

According to the New York Times, ÒFranceÕs conservative-dominated 
National Assembly gave overwhelming approval ... to a law 
authorizing the police to carry out random identity checks with 
the aim of clamping down on illegal immigration.Ó(1) The law has 
been approved due to Ògrowing fear here that immigration from the 
Third World is changing the French way of life.Ó

DoesnÕt it sound familiar? DidnÕt Bush talk about Our Way of 
Living at the time of the Persian Gulf War? Yeah. There is no 
longer a social-imperialist Soviet Union, so drop all pretence of 
concern for ÒHuman RightsÓ and head copying the German neo-nazis 
trend! Perhaps this will give peace of mind to those dear Òmany 
French citizensÕ who Òblame immigrants for rising crime levels.Ó

--MA70

Notes: Daily Journal 6/14/93, p. 6.

* * *

LET FREEDOM RING

On July 4, the birthday of this great oppressor nation, President 
Clinton awarded Liberty Medals to both African National Congress 
(ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and South African President F.W. de 
Klerk in Philadelphia. Mandela has said recently that de Klerk is 
crucial to the effort of Black South Africans to gain freedom. De 
Klerk said that he and Mandela Òrepresent two political forces who 
decided to break out of the cycle of violence ... and join hands 
to give birth to a new democracy.Ó

MIM believes, however, that joining forces with your oppressor 
will never lead to freedom; MIM also wonders what this Ònew 
democracyÓ might look like. Will the Pan Africanist Congress and 
the militant youth of Azania stand silently by while true freedom 
and liberation get whitewashed by this pact? MIM hopes not, and 
continues to support a truly revolutionary liberation movement in 
Azania that still has a long road ahead to improve the conditions 
of the majority of the country.

Mandela did say that he and the ANC do not recognize de Klerk as 
the president of South Africa. And while de Klerk called for the 
lifting of economic sanctions against South Africa, because it is 
Òthe hungry people, the poor people, the jobless people who are 
paying a price,Ó Mandela maintained that sanctions should not be 
lifted until a transition executive council is in place to 
facilitate the move toward democracy. 

--MC31

Notes: The Washington Post, 7/5/93 p. A6.

* * *

WHITE SUPREMACISTS THREATEN SENECAS

SENECA NATION--White supremacists have issued a public threat 
against First Nation people with a spray-painted slogan on Seneca 
territory. In June, someone painted a slogan under the bridge at 
exit 17 on Route 17: ÒCusterÕs revenge coming to a res. 
[reservation] near you!!Ó The highway was the scene of a militant 
Seneca protest of illegal state taxation last year. During the 
highway takeover, other local area slogans had a similar message: 
ÒWeÕll do the Indians like we did Rodney King. I love New York 
State police.Ó

Aside from the violence against the Senecas in the highway 
dispute, a former New York State police officer named Lee Hunt is 
now famous for calling for a Òshoot to killÓ policy. According to 
one person manning the blockade of businesses at Onondaga Nation 
territory in central New York State (see MIM Notes 78), Hunt is 
organizing ex- troopers to perform security at casinos.

Seneca merchants near the bridge did not know who put up the 
Custer slogan, but according to white and Seneca youth in the town 
of Salamanca, where the Seneca nation is, skinheads spray-painted 
the slogan. Meanwhile, some merchants in Salamanca have said that 
they have recently seen skinheads start to hang around in town.

SalamancaÕs population appears united to face the threat. ÒTheyÕre 
gonna get it,Ó said one young woman. One young man said that if 
the skinheads Òcome down here; theyÕre gonna get shot.Ó

In the more rural Seneca areas among older people the sentiment 
was similar. One middle-aged merchant said of the skinheads quite 
simply: ÒTheyÕre bullshit.Ó He said that people in the area were 
Ògood neighborsÓ without much problem among themselves. When it 
came to something like that [the white supremacist threat], he 
said all Senecas united. Speaking of the fights among the Senecas, 
he said, Òwe know we can continue those next week,Ó if some 
outside threat has to be taken care of first.

* * *

OKA MURDERS REMAIN UNSOLVED

No one has yet been charged in connection to the shooting death of 
police officer Corporal Lemay in Oka, Quebec, where the Mohawk 
Nation territory is. The governmentÕs inquest into the death of a 
police officer at the armed confrontation at Oka between Quebec 
and the Mohawks on July 11, 1990 is in recess until September.(1)

SQ (Quebec police) officers have already testified that they fired 
their guns in the conflict, hence lending credence to the Mohawk 
claim that cops shot their own at Oka. Meanwhile, some Mohawks 
have testified that there was no plan for Mohawks to engage in 
actual armed conflict. Mohawk spokesperson Ellen Gabriel testified 
that the consensus was to allow the police to tear down the 
barricades if it came to violence, partly in view of the SQÕs 
superior firepower.(2)

After the Oka crisis, the Canadian federal government came up with 
$552,417 Canadian for a program of psychologists and social 
workers for the Mohawks called ÒReopening the Bridges.Ó

After shooting deaths connected to gambling in ... the government 
came up with even more money ($1.2 million) for Òconflict 
resolution.Ó(2) Conquering the indigenous peopleÕs minds is the 
first step to imperialist assimilation and forced adjustment to 
oppression.(3) Oppressed people must reject the negative self-
images that the powers-that-be manage to spread, while not 
rejecting all criticism just because it is criticism. What is 
ÒnormalÓ or ÒacceptedÓ is what serves the status quo.

--a comrade

Notes:
1. See MIM Notes 45.
2. Windspeaker 5/10/93, p. R2.
3. See MIM Theory 2/3, ÒAbolish Psychology.Ó

* * *

BAD DEALINGS WITH PHONEY COMMUNISTS

In July, a former member of the Indian Center Movement in Canada 
told MIM that a ÒcommunistÓ group based in McMasterÕs University 
attempted to take over the Indian Center Movement. Although the 
group was unconnected to MIM, the activist was reluctant to show 
MIM Notes 78 to her friends.

MIM explained that it does not attempt to take over the peopleÕs 
organizations and in fact has a policy of seeking to influence 
these groups only from outside. Unfortunately, the work of 
Trotskyists and should-be Trotskyists has given Marxism a bad name 
in some First Nation communities.

According to one businesswoman of the Six Nations territory 
located within OntarioÕs borders, the group in question had Òa lot 
of KKK philosophies.Ó

Without a correct analysis of the white nation working class, 
supposed Marxists will effectively deny the existence of national 
oppression as it actually exists and they will attempt to use the 
struggles of oppressed nations to benefit white workers. These so-
called Marxists will assume that assimilation is the best option 
for oppressed nations, a goal associated with the KKK.

--a comrade

* * *

THE FIRM

John Grisham is the author de jour in Amerika. He writes legal 
thrillers for the 90s. In his work, it looks like there is rampant 
corruption and greed everywhere, from corporations to the highest 
levels of government. But in the end, thanks to the virtue of a 
few ordinary Amerikans, it turns out that there are really only a 
few bad apples in what is otherwise a squeaky-clean bushel.

In his book ITAL The Pelican Brief, END it looks like everyone 
from regular cops to the President are in on a plot to assassinate 
two Supreme Court judges. In the end, it is only a demented 
millionaire, and the President was only interested because the 
millionaire had given the President campaign money, and it might 
have looked bad. In fact, in the end it looks very good--like the 
best society in the world, the kind that can withstand such 
attacks and emerge clean.

In The Firm, based on another Grisham novel, a young lawyer played 
by Tom Cruise enters a corporate world that appears corrupt from 
head to toe. And the FBI, hardly better, practically extorts 
Cruise into informing on his firm.

Cruise finds a way out. At the expense of his own six-figure 
career, he makes it so that he burns both the firm--which is not a 
ITAL normal END corporate firm at all, but really only a sleazy 
mafia front--and the corrupt FBI agents on the case. And he does 
it without breaking the law at all. ThatÕs how much he loves 
Amerika.

Get it? Underneath it all is the best legal system in the world. 
All it needs is the determination and skill of a few good people-- 
representatives of The People in the fascist sense of the word--to 
purge the bad elements and get the system working again.

The movie is hailed as the backlash against the 80s, when greed 
and corruption ruled, supposedly for the first time in ages--and 
supposedly not like the do-gooder 90s. This time, someone stands 
up and says No.

ItÕs a fantasy for baby-boomer liberals, and they made it a big 
success.

--MC12

* * *

GUILTY AS SIN

This legal thriller is mostly not interesting (though it is 
sometimes thrilling) except for a revealing pseudo-feminist angle.

The principals are a lecherous hunk (Don Johnson) and a supposedly 
brilliant defense attorney (Rebecca Demornay). For a living, he 
romances and kills women for their money and gets away with it. 
She specializes in getting obviously guilty, publicly reviled rich 
people off on technicalities. They are made for each other.

Pseudo-feminism comes in with the victimizing portrayal of the 
filthy-rich women Johnson seduces in minutes, who then give him 
millions while he publicly romances other women just like them. 
Then he sets them up and kills them. No one notices, least of all 
his future victims, because his crimes are so perfectly planned 
and executed.

Demornay is the exception, the tough career woman who refuses to 
fall for it. She is his greatest challenge, and he loses.

MIM has no interest in defending the intelligence or gumption of 
ridiculously rich women, such as those depicting in passing in 
this film. But MIM does take issue with descriptions of women 
which have them helplessly contributing to their own oppression 
without any consciousness. We call these paternalistic portrayals 
Òpseudo-feministÓ because they are supposedly made in opposition 
to the oppression of women, when in fact they make things worse 
for women who really are oppressed.

Most privileged women live in subordination to the men of their 
nationality and class. Some suffer and die as a result. But if 
women who do not materially need to seek advantage from degrading 
relationships with men, MIM will not explain their actions by 
diminishing the capacity of women as a group to act in their own 
interest.

Privileged women have some difficult choices to make, and they 
sometimes make the wrong decisions. There is a lot in Amerikan 
culture to lead them into bad relationships. And they occasionally 
find benefit for their whole lives from acting like idiots. But 
that doesnÕt make women idiots, and that doesnÕt mean opponents of 
patriarchy should believe women canÕt think and act for 
themselves. Oppressed women and their allies have no use for such 
fictions: they are too busy fighting for control over their lives 
and their futures.

--MC12

* * *

INDECENT PROPOSAL

Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore are Adam and Eve. Robert Redford is 
the snake. They lose everything in Vegas. The snake offers $1 
million if Eve will eat the apple (Redford). Adam and Eve talk it 
over. They agree to do it. Adam and Eve end up sorry. They split 
up. Eve moves in the with snake, Adam becomes a school teacher. 
Life sucks. Then they wake up one day and rediscover virtue. The 
snake smiles knowingly and reluctantly lets go. Adam and Eve 
return to the Garden of Eden, but things never quite look the 
same.

The moral of the story is old and boring, but MIM sees in it an 
interesting illustration of rape and sex. When Adam and Eve are 
broke, they agree to let the snake rape Eve. It is rape because 
she doesnÕt want to do it. She wishes they were not broke so that 
the whole thing would never have happened. But, given her bad 
options, she ITAL chooses END to be raped. This is how, when 
involuntary conditions offer up bad choices, sex can be rape even 
when the victim utters the word Yes.

--MC12

* * *

CORRECTION:
In MIM Notes 77, MIM characterized Pequot payments to Connecticut 
in connection to the tribeÕs casino as Òtaxation.Ó While that is 
the opinion of some indigenous people, it is not the opinion of 
the Pequots themselves. They do not believe that they have set any 
precedent of agreeing to state taxes.