Boston RAIL agitates for the destruction of "independence day"

In late June, Boston RAIL showed the movie Bloody Blundering 
Business at a public library and held a discussion of the film 
afterward. The movie tells the story of the Amerikan colonization 
of the Philippines in 1899 at the end of the Spanish-Amerikan war. 
As the movie title reveals, the colonization was about vicious 
plundering of the resources of the Philippines and brutal mass 
murders by the Amerikan soldiers.

After the movie the audience stayed to talk about imperialism, the 
history of the anti-imperialist movement in Amerika, and the 
revolutionary work of the NDF in the Philippines today. The RAIL 
representative talked about RAIL's prison work and anti-censorship 
campaign, and reminded the audience that Amerikan "independence" 
is really about first world dependence on the superexploited labor 
of the Third World oppressed nations. (See MIM Theory 10 on the 
labor aristocracy in Amerika.)

On that note, the Washington Post recently reported that small 
companies in Amerika were questioning whether to close on July 3 
and give their employees an extra long holiday weekend. Some 
companies profiled in the article did give their employees the 
extra vacation, while the larger multi-national corporations 
stayed open, giving their employees the option to take vacation 
time. Closing for business for a day meant losing a day of 
superprofits the companies could extract from the Third World 
proletariat. While Amerikans are having hotdogs, hamburgers, and 
apple pie for the 4th of July, the revolutionary warriors in the 
Philippines are not taking a vacation from fighting for communist 
revolution -- and the end of Amerikan exploitation of the Third 
World.

Note: The Washington Post, 3 July 2000 p. B6.