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         THE MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT

     MIM Notes 108                  January 1996


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MIM Notes 108 includes:

IN THIS ISSUE:

 1. STUDENTS PROTEST NATIONAL OPPRESSION, 
    POLICE BRUTALITY ON A MICHIGAN CAMPUS
 2. LETTERS TO MIM AND RAIL
 3. MULTI-NATIONAL ORGANIZING DEBATED: A LETTER TO 
    UNION DEL BARRIO
 4. MEXICAN MILITARY RAPES WOMEN: ZAPATISTAS FIGHT 
    BACK
 5. IMPERIALISTS WIN WAR IN BOSNIA 
 6. A FRENCH PROLETARIAT? NOT WITH THESE DEMANDS
 7. AMERIKA ADMITS TO CONTROLLING HAITIAN DICTATORS
 8. JAPANESE BANKS: THE FAILURE OF IMPERIALISM
 9. PRISON GROWTH DEMONSTRATES NATIONAL OPPRESSION
10. PIGS PROFIT FROM PRISONS AT EVERY TURN
11. AMERIKAN PRISONS: OPEN SLAVE LABOR CAMPS
12. WANT TO END RAPE? SEIZE PROLETARIAN POWER
13. AMERIKAN MILITARY STILL CONTROL THE NET
14. NEW TREATY GRANTS U.S. MILITARY GREATER 
    DOMINANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES
15. SHELL-BACKED NIGERIA EXECUTES OGONI ACTIVISTS
16. UPDATE ON DETROIT NEWSPAPER STRIKE: THE 
    AMERIKAN "PROLETARIAT"?
17. PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU
18. UNDER LOCK AND KEY: NEWS FROM PRISON AND 
    PRISONERS
19. SAGE/UAW DEMANDS SHARE OF BLOOD MONEY
20. INTERVIEW WITH SCOTTISH COMRADE
21. FILM DOCUMENTS INDONESIAN BRUTALITY IN EAST 
    TIMOR


STUDENTS PROTEST NATIONAL OPPRESSION, 
POLICE BRUTALITY ON A MICHIGAN CAMPUS

Black Eastern Michigan University (EMU) student 
Aaron Johnson was arrested on November 7 while 
trying to break up a fight between two other 
students in a University residence hall. EMU 
Department of Public Safety (DPS) pig Kenneth 
Hardesty used pepper spray to break up the fight. 
According to student witnesses, Hardesty punched, 
kicked and spat on Johnson. Hardesty then lost his 
pepper spray, and arrested Johnson on the felony 
charge of disarming a police officer.(1) 

Johnson was also charged with aggravated assault 
and obstruction of justice. The charge of disarming 
a police officer was dropped at a District Court 
hearing. MIM agrees with the many Black students 
who believe that the hearing should have resulted 
in dropping the entire case, but we know that there 
is no justice for Blacks in Amerika so we are not 
surprised that the case lives on.(2) During the 
fight, Hardesty pulled out his gun. Although he did 
not fire the weapon, Hardesty is now on paid 
administrative leave pending an investigation of 
the incident.(1)

DPS has regulations for when officers are permitted 
to pull their guns but is refusing to release those 
rules to students protesting Johnson's arrest. The 
University administration is working with DPS to 
attempt to erase students' memories of the arrest 
and protests; and to minimize the significance of 
racism and national oppression in this case and on 
the campus in general. The administration has also 
supported DPS tactics of intimidation and 
manipulation in the investigation.


STUDENTS PROTEST JOHNSON'S ARREST,
DPS TREATMENT OF BLACK STUDENTS


On December 4, 20 EMU students broke up the EMU-San 
Francisco State basketball game by taking over the 
court at half-time. The students peacefully 
expressed outrage at Johnson's arrest and at the 
University administration's complicity with the DPS 
brutality and cover-up. The students' initial 
demands were: 1) DPS pig Hardesty must be fired; 2) 
There must be a student advisory committee involved 
in the selection process for his replacement; 3) 
All charges against Aaron Johnson must be dropped.

The first 20 protesters gathered supporters as they 
chanted things like "We're fired up, we're fired 
up, we ain't gonna take it no more" and "Who's my 
brother, you my brother" and "No Justice no peace." 
The lights on the basketball court went out and the 
loudspeaker announced that the game had been 
suspended. After everyone but the players and some 
of their family members had left, the doors were 
locked and the game resumed.

Following the protest, the EMU administration 
announced that students who had participated would 
be expelled. MIM was told that the administration 
threw out the rules of its own hierarchy of 
discipline. Students with no records are supposed 
to receive less severe punishments. In this case, 
the administration wanted a blanket punishment for 
everyone involved.

The administration was pressured into reconsidering 
the expulsions and following University policy. The 
majority of the students involved in the protest 
had no previous records and were given one year 
probation and 40 hours community service. But since 
the incident, pigs and the administration have 
closely monitored Black students who were involved 
in the protest in an attempt to catch them on other 
charges. Another count or infraction in addition to 
having participated in the protest would mean that 
these students get kicked out of school. MIM sees 
this as the administration using its power over 
students to silence protest and stop the exposure 
of national oppression on campus.

While the EMU administration attempts to stifle 
protest campaigns around Johnson's case Black 
students continue to organize and educate. The 
students have demanded an investigation and just 
resolution to the case. They packed the December 
5th student government meeting and called on 
representatives to support Johnson and the rest of 
the students who were involved in the protests 
stemming from the controversy at EMU's basketball 
game. Students urged the representatives to speak 
out against the administration and pushed the 
student government to pass a bill demanding amnesty 
for all students involved in the protest. The 
student government passed a resolution in support 
of the three demands brought out at the basketball 
game. Students also rallied the Black faculty and 
staff to pass a resolution endorsing the second and 
third demands as well as amnesty for the 
protesters.


DPS RACISM AGAINST BLACK STUDENTS 
AND ADMINISTRATION COMPLICITY 


The DPS investigation was a classic demonstration 
of pig priorities: DPS tried to make itself look 
clean at Aaron Johnson's expense. EMU students said 
that the police chief manipulated their statements 
after the incident, asking repeatedly if the 
witnesses were "sure that this or that happened." 
The pigs continually hounded the students to get 
them to change their statements two weeks after the 
incident. The chief also used hypotheticals in 
questioning the witnesses to lead them to answers 
he would rather hear. For example, "Put yourself in 
Aaron's shoes, in such a situation can you say that 
x situation might have resulted."

Students told MIM that the pigs have always had a 
bad relationship with Blacks on campus. For 
example, the Walton-Putnam dorm is more than 80 
percent Black. It was the first place that the DPS 
installed video cameras to watch the students and 
the first place they stationed a DPS pig to watch 
the students. 

EMU students told MIM they believe the EMU 
administration's alliance with the cops is an 
extension of COINTELPRO--the FBI's Counter-
Intelligence Program designed and implemented to 
monitor, infiltrate and destroy revolutionary 
nationalist organizations. The administration has 
singled out Black student leaders and is targeting 
them with punitive measures following the protests 
and organizing efforts after Aaron's arrest. This 
is nothing new in Amerika, and cases like these 
will not be solved in the courtroom. Justice for 
Aaron Johnson and the protesting students will only 
be won through strong protests and actions by the 
students and community who oppose national 
oppression, the pigs and administrations that 
uphold this unfair and unequal system.

MIM agrees with these students who see the EMU 
pigs' actions as a part of a larger picture of 
national oppression. And we take the struggle 
further into the national and international arena 
to fight the pigs on their own level. Struggles 
like this one at EMU are important for exposing the 
daily oppression that goes on and fighting for some 
measure of freedom, but we can never lose sight of 
the bigger battles that have to be fought against 
the imperialist system that lives off of national 
oppression.

NOTES:
1. The Ann Arbor News Nov. 9, 1995, p. C1, 2.
2. The Michigan Daily Dec. 6, 1995, p. A1-2. 


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LETTERS TO MIM AND RAIL

DOWN WITH SENTIMENTALITY FOR ASSASSINS IN BLUE

I received my MIM Notes 105, October, 1995 issue 
today and was glad I received it.

In reading [the letter] on page 2 under the heading 
"'Righteous' killing?" by some Internet Reader, 
dated September 1995, I have something I want to 
say to this person:

Your heart quivered because a comrade stated in his 
writing that a cop (pig) who got blown away 
(regarding the Mumia incident) was a "righteous" 
killing, tells me that you (Mr. Internet) cannot 
and would not ever be a true and devoted 
revolutionary for the cause. Your display of 
outrage made me want to punk on your sentimental 
head. Where in the hell do you think we're at? And 
what do you see taking place by these assassins in 
blue? Have you forgotten about what the pigs don to 
brother George Jackson? Well what about the SLA, 
the Black Panther Party, the Chicago Seven, Angela 
Davis, MOVE, Waco, and Randy Weaver and his family 
(though I don't go along with his "racist" 
philosophy), and the countless other citizens you 
and I never hear about who are victimized and 
murdered by these filthy cop pigs?

You, with your weak heart, need to stay away from 
the struggle, because I know of people like you. 
I'm in prison (NOW) because of a faint hearted 
person like you. You're the type of person who 
wannabe in the crowd but when it gets thick and 
action has to be taken, you'd bust someone. You'd 
rat on your brethren. In other words, "you're a 
gotdam sellout and agent!" You are the same type of 
sentimental fool who could see a cop pig bashing a 
young boy's brains out, or a pregnant woman, or an 
elderly person, in the dark of the night (and with 
no one around) by one of those stinking pigs and 
you would run like a wet rat. And you'd probably 
fart from being so gotdam scared.

My advice to you, stay clear of this revolution 
because this is not for the faint hearted or the 
sentimental yuppie/passive-ass you have displayed 
yourself to be. And in closing, before you check 
one of my comrades over what they wrote you better 
check yourself.

--Political Prisoners of War Vanguard Coalition


MIM REPLIES: Thank you for a sharp response. MIM 
often calls people to task for tolerating violence 
perpetrated by pigs against the masses, and you 
have expressed that well. One note, however, is 
that MIM does not write off people as you do above. 
We are willing to struggle with all those who are 
willing to struggle with us. This is because we 
reject the ideology propped up by the psychological 
establishment that maintains that there are types 
of people: immutably faint hearted or brave. 
Instead, we call on those people whose actions are 
not strongly on the side of the proletariat, those 
who waver and might be labeled "faint-hearted," to 
reform their ideology. Individuals are not born 
strong friends of the people--they develop their 
strength through struggle and through service. 


READER WANTS PRISONER AWARENESS MONTH


Your latest issue has lots of news about Prison 
Awareness Week. This is a great idea but I suggest 
we should now have a Prison Awareness Month in 
1996. Since February is set as Black History Month, 
perhaps March could be set as Prison Awareness 
Month? I will be willing to promote the idea in my 
area. How about other readers?

--A reader in Pittsburgh


MIM REPLIES: It is excellent that you are working 
on ways to organize in your area. One reason that 
news of the activities going on around the country 
is important is that it gives other readers ideas 
of how to apply a revolutionary analysis to their 
own conditions.

If you decide that a Prisoner Awareness Month is a 
good way to organize activism in your area, that is 
a great advance over no time. MIM does not 
generally recognize the various designated Months 
because, for example, every month should be Black 
History Month. The Under Lock and Key section of 
the paper demonstrates the ongoing commitment to 
prisoner awareness.

That said, however, we see great importance in 
organizing around specific campaigns. Prisoner 
Awareness Week was only part of a larger campaign 
focused on repression in Massachusetts prisons, 
predicated by study and organization and followed 
by rallying. The struggle continues. We encourage 
people to follow this reader's example and use MN's 
pages for organizing. We invite our readers to use 
our newspaper to plan their anti-imperialist and 
Maoist work. We will gladly support and participate 
in activities in March--as well as call on people 
to oppose prisons now!


TRAVELER FINDS MIM


Dear MIM:

Hello, I would like to get some information on your 
organization. I recently was on a trip to the state 
of Massachusetts and went to two events the local 
chapter held and found them to be very interesting. 
That is how I heard of your organization, if you 
would like to know. Well, I look forward to the 
info.

Thank you,

A Friend in the South

November 1995


AN RC REPLIES: Revolutionary Greetings! I am a 
member of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League 
(RAIL) which is a multi-issue group with a wide 
range of anti-imperialist politics represented. 
RAIL works with and is led by the Maoist 
Internationalist Movement (MIM). Your letter asking 
for more information about MIM was passed on by MIM 
to me, so I could explain what RAIL is all about. 
The reason for this is that RAIL is the best place 
for people to start who are interested in doing 
work around various anti-imperialist issues and 
want to learn more about revolutionary communist 
politics, but aren't necessarily ideologically 
prepared or experienced enough to make the 
commitments necessary for working in MIM.

RAIL has a national newspapers for different areas, 
and we can send you a free copy if you want; just 
write to let us know. The paper talks about what 
RAIL is doing in different areas and also has 
articles by RAIL members and others about anti-
imperialist issues. Other things that RAIL members 
can do is put up posters about events or about 
issues like feminism, revolutionary nationalism, 
local political issues, capitalist atrocities, etc. 
Also, distributing these free newspapers and 
talking to people on the street or on college 
campuses is a good way to develop political 
consciousness in your area.

RAIL or MIM can help connect you to other RAIL 
members in your area, or sometimes there are RAIL 
members kind of working alone in their area at 
first, but then as they do some projects -- they 
bring in more interested people. If you have an 
idea for a project, RAIL can help you set it up, or 
if you want to be given a project to do, RAIL can 
provide that as well. Please send your questions 
and ideas to RAIL/MIM. I look forward to working 
with you. 


PRISON RALLY FLYER CRITICISM


Dear RAIL coordinators: I am concerned by your 
flyer advertising the rally against Massachusetts 
prisoner relocation. Your use of the term 'prisoner 
oppression' is particularly annoying and slyly 
misleading. 

Yes, rehabilitation is an important function of 
prison. But, sadly enough, so is punishment. It is 
ridiculous dogma to envision a society where 
everybody is rehabilitated and nobody is punished. 
Both ideas are essential in a fair criminal justice 
system, particularly with respect to violent crime. 
This is a fact you really should come to grips 
with.

Punishment does not involve revoking a person's 
basic human rights. With this we must be careful, 
but there will always be partisan argument 
regarding the line between 'abuse' and 
'punishment.' There are clear abuses that should be 
dealt with, but your approach doesn't address them, 
it simply indicts the entire system. If this isn't 
your intention, then please rewrite your flyers.

Meanwhile if you're that anxious to do some good, 
some victim-advocacy activism, among other things, 
might be a more noble cause. Even better, why don't 
you work toward elimination of mandatory sentencing 
laws, and drug laws in general, if you really want 
prison reform?

Inmates in Massachusetts jails are not, much as 
you'd like to believe, political prisoners or 
prisoners of consciousness. The tone and graphics 
of your call-to-arms flyer suggests otherwise. I 
suppose this is a reflection of the underlying 
motivations of your socialist organizations, but it 
is way off course.

--a critic in Massachusetts

November, 1995


RAIL RESPONDS: In response to your letter 
commenting about our flyers for the prisons rally 
there are several points that you make that should 
be addressed.

In Massachusetts prisons, what was proposed as 
rehabilitation is being eliminated, leaving only 
increasing punishments. 

There has been a society in which most people can 
be rehabilitated. Revolutionary China was able to 
successfully rehabilitate prisoners and make them 
productive members of society by a process of 
criticism and self-criticism. This process and its 
success in helping an American spy be rehabilitated 
and reeducated is detailed in Prisoners of 
Liberation, by Allyn and Adele Rickett, Americans 
imprisoned in China in the 1950s.

Punishment does not help the punished, it creates 
resentment anger and further rage when it doesn't 
destroy the person. Punishment's main goal is to 
make the victims and the state feel better by 
inflicting pain.

Our approach does indict the entire system, the 
prison system as well as U.S. Imperialism must be 
destroyed. While RAIL supports efforts to help 
prisoners, RAIL does not wish to reform prisons, 
but to eliminate them

RAIL does believe that all prisoners are political, 
as the Amerikan Criminal Injustice System is a tool 
of repression by the state which is directed at 
non-whites, for the purpose of maintaining control 
of these groups.


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MULTI-NATIONAL ORGANIZING DEBATED:
A LETTER TO UNION DEL BARRIO

Union del Barrio
P.O. Box 620095
San Diego, CA 92162

 
August 30, 1995


Dear Comrades,

Congratulations are in order for your role in 
building a large, militant commemoration of the 
Chicano Moratorium on its 25th anniversary. The 
August 26 event in East L.A. was a powerful display 
of the progressive and revolutionary nationalist 
sentiments of the Chicano masses. We are writing, 
however, to express our disagreement with your 
organization's representative's actions at this 
event, and with the political line behind his 
actions.

After a MIM literature distributor had passed out 
MIM literature for a while, a brother working 
security for the event told the distributor that 
s/he needed to wait while the security person got a 
second brother to "approve" the literature for 
distribution. The second brother identified himself 
as a representative of both the National Chicano 
Moratorium Committee (the coalition sponsoring the 
event) and the Union del Barrio. He told the MIM 
literature distributor that s/he had to stop 
distributing MIM literature or risk being thrown 
out of the event. (It turned out that the shutdown 
was not total, as once the march reached its 
destination and the rally began, the security folks 
allowed MIM to distribute literature, albeit only 
in a small area penned by security folks and 
removed from the crowd.) 

The Union del Barrio comrade justified his decision 
to censor MIM on the grounds that MIM is a multi-
national organization and that distribution of MIM 
literature was therefore an act of "ideological 
imperialism." In a related incident at the event, a 
Union del Barrio comrade told another MIM 
distributor that distribution of MIM literature was 
prohibited because MIM is part of "the white left." 


We disagree with your comrade's actions for the 
following reasons:


1. While we are aware that Union del Barrio and 
others who compose the National Chicano Moratorium 
Committee put a lot of work into this event, we 
consider such events to be the property of the 
masses, not of the organizers. And it was not the 
masses who shut us down. Quite the contrary: while 
MIM literature was being distributed, the masses 
were snapping it up very quickly.

2. While we understand the desire of organizers to 
make sure their views dominate--MIM works to ensure 
that it gets at least equal time with competing 
ideas at events it sponsors--we do not believe it 
is necessary to censor competing ideas. For 
example, MIM had no interest in speaking from the 
stage. Your organization's influence over who 
controlled the stage and over the literature 
connected to the event (such as the official 
program) should have been enough to ensure that 
your ideas had more than equal time.

3. We believe that allowing competing ideas to 
circulate at one's events or anywhere one exerts 
power is a matter of strategic confidence in one's 
ideas. MIM allows competing ideas to circulate 
where we have the power to shut them down. This is 
because we are confident that our ideas are 
correct. We believe that our ideas will win out 
over competing ideas without us having to shut down 
our ideological opposition. We have seen this to be 
true.

4. Distribution of MIM fliers and newspapers is not 
"ideological imperialism." This argument sounds 
like a nationalist equivalent to anarchist-
feminism. Anarchist-feminism treats revolutionary 
men as being either as bad as or worse than the men 
in power who control the imperialist patriarchy. 
(For more detail on anarchist-feminism, see "What 
is MIM?", a $1 pamphlet available from MIM). Your 
comrade likewise erred in treating MIM as an enemy 
equal to the imperialists. It is not as if MIM's 
distributors were holding guns to the masses' heads 
and making them take MIM literature.

5. Your comrade in fact went beyond equating us 
with the enemy. He treated us worse than the enemy. 
As we said above, we would not shut down any 
competing ideas. But if we did, the first to go 
would be the U.S. flags brought by a handful of 
liberals. Next to go would be the pro-Amerikan 
flier from the United Steelworkers of America, 
headlined, "Bridgestone/Firestone's Yoichiro 
Kaizaki: Running over American working 
families...Bringing dishonor upon Japan." Third to 
go would be the various images championing the UFW, 
which, while popular in the Chicano/Mexicano 
nation, is nonetheless a pro-imperialist union 
whose deadly strategic alliance with the 
reactionary Euro-Amerikan working class can only 
serve to obstruct the liberation of Aztlan. All of 
these pro-imperialist items remained visible 
throughout the event.

6. While we agree with your organization that the 
liberation of Aztlan is necessary, and that this 
will ultimately require a single-national vanguard 
party, we do not agree that single-national 
organizing should be treated as a cardinal 
question, certainly not above 

the question of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. As 
Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, and unlike phony 
"Marxist-Leninists" and phony "Maoists" in North 
America, we uphold the right of oppressed nations 
to self-determination. 

Our distributor told your comrade that Maoism is 
necessary for genuine national liberation. His 
response was that maybe what was necessary was for 
Chicanos/Mexicanos to adopt Maoism, just not in a 
multi-national form. MIM thinks that the formation 
of a Maoist Internationalist Party (MIP) of Aztlan 
would be an excellent development. If you wish to 
form one on your own, MIM will support it and will 
allow our own Raza members self-determination as to 
whether to stay with MIM or whether to join the new 
MIP.

In the meantime, MIM considers a period of multi-
national organizing to be necessary to consolidate 
and strengthen the Maoist forces in North America, 
which have not yet fully recovered from the state's 
destruction of the Maoist Black Panther Party in 
1970. In the 1970s, a group called the 
Revolutionary Wing liquidated itself by splitting 
itself into single-national formations before these 
formations were theoretically prepared to stand on 
their own. We do want to see the formation of 
single-national parties (and in the case of the 
First Nations, possibly a pan-indigenous party), 
but we also do not wish to repeat the Revolutionary 
Wing's error.

We see Notas Rojas (our quarterly Spanish-language 
newspaper) and our Spanish-language work generally 
as a tool for the development of first a pan-Raza 
Maoist party, then ultimately separate parties for 
the liberation of Aztlan, Puerto Rico, and possibly 
other territories such as Spanish Harlem. If the 
Raza masses or the masses of these individual 
nations beat us to it, great! Either way, this 
process can only be impeded when a Union del Barrio 
comrade works to keep MIM literature out of the 
hands of La Raza.

7. Finally, we agree that the settler-"left" has a 
sordid history of parasitic relations with the 
masses of Aztlan and other oppressed nations. 
Perhaps we should praise your instincts in treating 
organizations which allow settlers as members with 
some suspicion. Nonetheless, we think it is 
imperative that you recognize ideological and 
political line, not social composition, as 
decisive. In this regard, when your comrade learned 
that MIM supports the liberation of Aztlan through 
national liberation struggle, that should have been 
enough to get our literature "approved," and to end 
the accusation of "ideological imperialism."

8. The Maoist Internationalist Movement is not part 
of the "white left". We devote many of our 
resources to the task of exposing the settler-
"left". You will see in our literature that we deem 
revisionist and white chauvinist those "Marxist" 
organizations that refuse to admit that oppressed 
Black, Raza and indigenous nations exist within the 
borders of the U.S. and those who refuse to admit 
that a white oppressor nation also exists. 
Strategically, MIM also works to split the white 
oppressor nation, Amerika. We think the biggest 
contradiction in that nation is between youth and 
the old, not class antagonism. On these grounds 
alone, MIM must never be equated with revisionists 
such as the SWP, the RCP, and other integrationist 
organizations.

In struggle,

MIM

P.S. Enclosed is a copy of MIM Theory #7 on 
Revolutionary Nationalism. It explains in more 
detail why we say true national liberation requires 
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist leadership and why MIM is 
multi-national in this stage of struggle. This 
normally goes for $5. We hope you will pay for it, 
but either way, it is yours to study and criticize, 
because we think it is imperative for you to engage 
with these ideas and we do not want a price tag to 
prevent you from doing so.

We hope to hear from you soon, and hope that we can 
continue to engage in criticism-unity-criticism 
without a repeat of your actions of August 26.


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MEXICAN MILITARY RAPES WOMEN:
ZAPATISTAS FIGHT BACK


Cecilia Rodriguez, representative of the Zapatista 
National Liberation Army (EZLN) within U.S. 
borders, was recently raped in Chiapas by masked 
men she believes were members of the Mexican 
military. Rodriguez was in Chiapas to attend peace 
talks between the EZLN and the Mexican government 
and was attacked the day before she was scheduled 
to meet with the EZLN's Subcomandante Marcos.

This is not the first time women have been attacked 
by the military in Chiapas, nor is it the first 
time north Amerikan supporters of the people of 
Chiapas have been attacked. A local women's group 
recorded at least 50 rapes in the San Cristobal 
area since the military occupied the region 
eighteen months ago. Three Tzeltal indians were 
raped by Mexican soldiers at a checkpoint in June; 
the military refused to allow outside investigation 
of the rapes. In March, the military organized a 
terrorist attack on a caravan of people traveling 
with Pastors for Peace.

Rodriguez said that during the assault on her one 
of the attackers shouted: "You already know how 
things are in Chiapas, right? Shut up, then, shut 
up, do you understand, or you know what will happen 
to you." In a press conference, Rodriguez 
responded: "I will not shut up. This has not 
traumatized me to the point of paralysis. I will 
follow the example of thousands of Mexican men and 
women who continue to work for a true democracy in 
spite of the dangers to themselves and their loved 
ones." The Zapatistas have vowed to fight back and 
investigate and punish these crimes against the 
people outside of the corrupt legal and military 
system in Mexico.

The reactionary Amerikan government is directly 
involved in the war against the people of Chiapas. 
It has openly sold the Mexican military $250 
million worth of military equipment in the last 
four years. Furthermore, the EZLN suspects that 
Amerikan military advisors are present in Chiapas 
along with the CIA intelligence gathering and 
covert operations forces. Amerikan imperialists 
have a history of sending in the CIA and other 
thugs whenever the peoples' struggles threaten 
Amerikan economic hegemony: from Iran to Guatemala, 
Vietnam, Chile, El Salvador, and now Peru and the 
Philippines.


The attacks on Rodriguez and other women in Chiapas 
show that the Amerikan government is an enemy of 
the vast majority of the world's women. It turns a 
blind eye to the rapes its hired goons commit for 
sport, often encouraging these rapes as political 
terrorism, and supports an economic system that 
condemns Third World women to terrible poverty. But 
Amerikan imperialism exposes itself through its 
crimes, and the oppressed women and men of the 
world will overthrow it through united and resolute 
political struggle.

NOTES: Los Angeles View, Nov. 17 1995.


EXCERPTS FROM EZLN COMMUNIQUE


The cowardly aggression against the Zapatista 
Cecilia Rodriguez makes up a part of a campaign of 
intimidation and threats against women who struggle 
for democracy in Mexico and which includes crimes 
against indigenous and non-indigenous women in 
Chiapas.

The evil government is incapable of guaranteeing 
the safety of any person in Chiapas despite 
maintaining dozens of thousands of soldiers, whose 
only goal is to assure the impunity of the 
powerful. 

In view of the fact that the laws of the evil 
government do not do anything to address these 
situations, the EZLN has initiated the work of 
finding and taking prisoner those responsible for 
this and other similar aggression committed against 
the women of Chiapas in order to judge them 
according to Zapatista law.

The EZLN adds its voice and action to that of the 
thousands of human beings who carry forward the 
demand for justice in all cases of aggression 
against women. We call upon the men and women who 
in Mexico and the world struggle for democracy, 
liberty, and justice in order that we mobilize with 
regard to this fundamental demand for all human 
beings: respect for women.


EXCERPTS FROM CECILIA RODRIGUEZ' PUBLIC STATEMENT


On Thursday October 26, in what was supposedly a 
simple excursion in broad daylight I was raped and 
sodomized by three armed men in what was supposedly 
a tourist attraction, the Lakes of Montebello in 
the State of Chiapas, Mexico...

The United States likes to say it is a defender of 
democracy and justice. I am an American citizen, 
and I will be interested to see whether any 
American authority will see fit to challenge the 
state of impunity in Mexico since the only thing 
they seem to care about is a "stable" environment 
able to protect high-powered investors...

Mine is not the first sexual crime committed in 
that area and unless the low-intensity war being 
conducted against the people of Chiapas ends, there 
is little hope that it will be the last. I know 
there were three Tzeltal women raped at a military 
checkpoint, and three nurses raped and almost 
killed at the site of the peace talks, San Andres 
Larrainzar. How many other women whose stories we 
do not know have suffered through this hell? Women 
who have never said anything publicly because they 
fear for their lives? ...

I ask for justice, not from the governments of the 
United States and Mexico because they are complicit 
in this war, but from the people of Mexico and the 
United States. Look into my suffering and multiply 
that by the hundreds of women, men, and children 
whose voices you do not seem to hear, who suffer on 
a daily basis the humiliation and terror of a 
military presence which intends to suffocate the 
very human aspirations for democracy, liberty, and 
justice.

I am a casualty of a low-intensity war sanctioned 
and more than likely facilitated by the government 
of the United States. I am a victim of a state of 
social deterioration in which journalists, 
opposition party members, and any unarmed civilian 
no longer enjoy safety and tranquillity, even in 
broad daylight and in which those in power have no 
recourse than to use assassination, terror, and 
conspiracy even in the settling of their own 
differences. As citizens of the United States, we 
cannot be complicit in this war. We cannot abandon 
the indigenous communities trapped behind a 
military barricade. 

I ask you always to remember the women of Mexico, 
to fight for their right to be safe and secure and 
to live in a country where the Zapatista demands 
for democracy, liberty, and justice are a 
reality... 


* * *


IMPERIALISTS WIN WAR IN BOSNIA 

by MC17 & MC12

The people in Bosnia have already lost this chapter 
in World War III, and the Amerikan and other 
European imperialists are rushing their militaries 
in to take the spoils of victory. The new deal 
carving up Bosnia and parceling it out to 
imperialist powers completes the Amerikan and 
European imperialists' takeover of most of 
Yugoslavia, the former Soviet satellite.

The imperialists (who profited off the sale of arms 
to all sides) will now go in and take control of 
the people, their political and economic systems.

The division solidifies the dividing lines between 
European/Amerikan imperialists in the west, and 
Russian imperialists in the east. Russia comes out 
of the war with Serbia, while the western 
imperialists get Slovenia, Croatia, and most of 
Bosnia. At the same time, the U.S. military 
presence in the current stage represents the 
reassertion of Amerikan hegemony among western 
imperialist powers. That's what Clinton means when 
he says Europe is always important, and that's why 
Republicans will go along with it despite a show of 
opposition. The U.S. military move is meant as a 
check on German power in particular, which already 
has its hooks deep into Slovenia, the most 
developed area in the former Yugoslavia.

The Amerikan military is sending 20,000 troops into 
Bosnia which will add to troops from other 
countries for a total force of 60,000 soldiers 
there to "keep the peace." The imperialist military 
forces have been there all along even though 
Amerikan troops were not actually on the ground for 
the most part. The NATO bombings are a good example 
of this constant threat of imperialist military 
fire power. The big difference now is that Amerika 
has a formal agreement that it can use force 
whenever it decides it is necessary. 

"Unlike the U.N. troops in Bosnia, the Amerikans 
will have broad authority to use whatever force is 
needed to protect themselves."(1). The United 
Snakes is learning from situations like the one in 
Somalia and from the former situation in Bosnia and 
admitting that Amerika needs to stop pretending to 
be neutral and go in with free reign to slaughter 
as they enforce their interests. This is not a 
question of keeping peace between foolish and 
backwards warring nations; Amerika is staking its 
claim in the newly imposed order. 

Amerikan and European imperialism have benefited 
from this war. When the oppressed people are 
divided and fighting one another they can not turn 
their energies on their real enemy: imperialism. In 
the division of the former Yugoslavia, everyone has 
ended up subordinated to imperialism. Only a 
revolutionary internationalist struggle that 
recognizes imperialism as its principal enemy can 
win true peace for the people of the former 
Yugoslavia.

NOTES: New York Times 11/22/95 p.A11.


* * *


A FRENCH PROLETARIAT? NOT WITH THESE DEMANDS

by MC17

December 12--For weeks a general strike and huge 
protests have disrupted business and shut down much 
of France. Workers and students are indignant and 
outraged at the potential loss of income and social 
welfare precipitated by proposed austerity measures 
to eliminate the $50 billion deficit in the social 
welfare system. Public transportation workers have 
been on strike for 19 days and other public sector 
workers have joined in the strike to protect their 
own interests. Students and university teachers 
have joined because they are threatened with the 
loss of funds for schooling. Private sector 
workers, whose direct material interests are not 
threatened by the proposed cuts, are not yet 
involved.

This strike is not a revolutionary struggle of the 
exploited masses. MIM does not support the strike 
because these workers' wages and social services 
are already artificially inflated at the expense of 
the international proletariat. The French workers 
constitute a labor aristocracy and the University 
students are on their way to labor aristocrat or 
petit bourgeois class positions. (Order MIM Theory 
1, available for $3, for more on the theory and 
calculations behind this analysis).(1)


JUST BECAUSE IT'S MILITANT, DOESN'T MAKE IT A 
PROLETARIAT


The workers and students of France cannot 
righteously protest unless they look beyond their 
own incomes and benefits to the conditions of the 
world's proletariat. Protests during the French war 
in Vietnam were righteous; citizens should protest 
murder and oppression, not just a cut in relatively 
high income or benefits. The workers and students 
of France are currently acting in their material 
interests and ignoring the exploitation and 
oppression of the world's people.

If the workers and students of France got more 
money at the expense of the French bourgeoisie that 
would be okay, but it wouldn't be capitalism. The 
labor aristocracy is rewarded by taking some of the 
booty extracted from the proletariat. 

We must follow Lenin and avoid tailing the 
privileged workers' economism. Lenin said this 
about the English proletariat and it is true of 
imperialist country labor aristocracies today: note 
the "numerous references by Marx and Engels to the 
example of the British labour movement, showing how 
industrial 'prosperity' leads to attempts 'to buy 
the proletariat.' to divert them from the struggle; 
how this prosperity in general 'demoralises the 
workers;' how the British proletariat becomes 
'bourgeoisified'--'this most bourgeois of all 
nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the 
possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a 
bourgeois proletariat alongside the 
bourgeoisie'..."(2)

Striking for ones own material interests does not 
make someone a revolutionary, and it certainly does 
not disprove Engels' observation about the 
bourgeoisification of the English proletariat. 
There were strikes in England when Engels made this 
observation, just as there are strikes in France 
now when MIM applies Engels' analysis to France. 
The French workers and students suffer from narrow 
nationalism purchased by their own bourgeoisie for 
the price of some superprofits. MIM calls on 
revolutionary internationalists to avoid the lures 
of economism and narrow nationalism, and to work 
against imperialism in the interests of the 
international proletariat.


NOTES:
1. NYT Dec. 5, 1995 p. A3
2. Selected Works of V.I. Lenin, Volume 1, New 
World Paperbacks, 1967, p.30. 


* * *


AMERIKA ADMITS TO CONTROLLING HAITIAN DICTATORS


by MC12

Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide wants the 
U.S. government to hand over thousands of pages of 
documents the U.S. military seized in its invasion 
of Haiti last year. In an implicit admission of its 
role in the dictatorship that ousted Aristide, the 
U.S. government claims that the documents are 
Amerikan property and can only be released subject 
to U.S. government security concerns. The documents 
most likely implicate the U.S. government in the 
coup, refusing to turn them over weakens Amerikan 
denial.(1) 

The dispute over the documents reflects Haitian 
resistance to the Amerikan plan for domination. It 
comes on the heels of Aristide's refusal to carry 
out the privatization plan Amerika imposed in 
response Amerika is holding up financial aid. (1)


AMERIKA SEEKS ASSURANCE OF COMPRADOR-MILITARIST 
DOMINANCE IN HAITI


The U.S. government also complains that Aristide is 
not grateful enough for Amerikan intervention, 
saying that all of a sudden "we were faced with a 
different Haiti" after Aristide criticized Amerika 
for not doing enough to disarm former army 
troops.(2) The U.S. military presence in Haiti will 
not end with the scheduled February inauguration of 
a new president, which was supposed to represent 
the final step in the legitimization of Amerikan 
neocolonial domination.

At the same time, U.S. intelligence agencies have 
been exposed maintaining their network among the 
supposedly-ousted dictatorship. On November 7, 
hours before Haitian police went to arrest Prosper 
Avril, one of the coup's dictators, a U.S. Embassy 
representative visited him, and he immediately 
sought asylum in the Colombian embassy. The U.S. 
Embassy says the timing of the visit was a 
coincidence, and part of its effort to maintain 
contact with a "broad spectrum" of Haiti.(2) That 
is the same euphemism the U.S. government used when 
it was worried that the dictators would not be 
represented in Aristide's government.

Avril was the subject of a cable from U.S. 
Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the 
embassy in Haiti, warning that Avril might be 
plotting against Aristide supporters. The embassy 
did not give the information to Haitian officials, 
and 11 days later one of Aristide's top supporters 
and his cousin, Jean-Hubert Feuille, was 
assassinated; Haitian police suspect a connection 
with Avril. Haitian officials have good reason to 
suspect that the U.S. has many other covert ties to 
Aristide's enemies.(2)

The "restoration of democracy" in Haiti means 
reassertion of Amerikan imperialist control, 
preferably under the guise of a legitimate 
government. This recent involvement with various 
militarists makes it clear that this preference for 
a legitimate facade is of secondary concern.

NOTES:
1. New York Times Nov. 28, 1995, p. A1.
2. Washington Post Nov. 29, 1995, p. A1


* * *


JAPANESE BANKS: THE FAILURE OF IMPERIALISM


The New York Times is running occasional articles 
on the size and political realities of Japanese 
banks. Now we learn that the United States 
Government has plans to bail out the Japanese banks 
in the event of a crisis.

Japanese banks are the largest in the world. 
However, they have some of the same problems as 
Amerikan banks. Currently they have $500 billion in 
bad real estate loans. While the imperialist banks 
make huge profits from their Third World loans, 
they are quick to subsidize real estate speculators 
in the imperialist countries.

As MIM reported in MIM Theory 1 ("A White 
Proletariat?"), Amerikan taxpayers have subsidized 
banks to engage in real estate speculation. Now it 
is the Japanese labor aristocracy carrying a major 
burden of  holding together the banking system that 
serves its interests.

The Central Bank of Japan loans money to banks at 
0.5 percent interest. That means Japanese taxpayers 
are subsidizing the Japanese banks, because 
inflation is never below 0.5 percent. The Japanese 
taxpayer allows the banks to pay them back in yen 
worth less than they loaned out.

Another means of propping up the banks used in 
Japan is the practice of making government deposits 
in the banks. For banks strapped for cash to loan 
out or borrow, such is a helpful practice.

How long can taxpayer-subsidized capitalism go on, 
one might wonder. It appears that there are no very 
short-term limits. The labor aristocracies of the 
imperialist countries are willing to turn a blind 
eye to government subsidies of their imperialists, 
while at the same time they complain about much 
smaller subsidies for welfare, social security and 
health insurance.

In Japan the system has the added advantage that 
capitalists do not attempt the flashy, 
individualist style of inequality seen in the 
United Snakes, where the gap between capitalists 
and labor aristocrats is larger. 

One irony of the U.S. Government plan to bail out 
Japanese banks is that it is already Japanese banks 
that have bailed out the U.S. government on a daily 
basis by buying U.S. Treasury notes and loaning the 
U.S. Government money. The New York Times has 
already warned against Japanese banks' trying to 
solve their problems by selling off their Treasury 
notes. If all the Japanese banks did this to solve 
their problems, the U.S. Government would have to 
pay higher interest on the national debt.

Despite rhetoric about capitalism and rugged 
individualism, for some time now, the imperialist 
system has survived only because of government 
subsidies to capitalists. These subsidies will make 
some people wonder why not just go to socialism if 
the capitalists can not make it on their own. On 
the other hand, the labor aristocracies of the 
imperialist countries are willing to tolerate the 
situation without a peep, because they know finance 
capital and the imperialist system generally is 
what enables them to appropriate the labor of Third 
World workers.


* * *


PRISON GROWTH DEMONSTRATES NATIONAL OPPRESSION


"Nearly 7 percent of all black male adults 
nationwide were in jail or prison last year, 
compared with less than 1 percent of white male 
adults, the Justice Department said in a report 
released today. . . .

"The report found that the incarceration rate for 
whites had remained little changed in the last 10 
years while the level for blacks had climbed 
steadily."

The total number of Blacks in prison and jail 
surpassed the number of whites in prison and jail 
for the first time in 1994. This is further 
confirmation of MIM's line that the supposed anti-
crime movement led by the bourgeois politicians is 
not an anti-crime movement but a thinly disguised 
attack on oppressed nations.

The politicians give the appearance of "doing 
something about crime," but the crime rate stays 
the same. They aren't addressing the cause of 
crime, just the politics of pleasing the 
imperialists and labor aristocracy.

NOTES: New York Times Dec. 4, 1995.


* * *


PIGS PROFIT FROM PRISONS AT EVERY TURN


Former Massachusetts commissioner of the Department 
of Corrections, Michael V. Fair, is profiting off 
his own legacy of employment in the state injustice 
system. Fair is making $175 an hour plus expenses 
as a consultant to solve the manufactured 
overcrowding problem in Massachusetts prisons.(1) 

Fair's income is generated from the spoils of 
national oppression. Prisons are a form of social 
control used against Blacks and other national 
minorities. The entire criminal justice system is 
designed to perpetuate inequality as it serves the 
interests of the white nation, while working to 
further terrorize the oppressed nations. Everything 
from how crime is defined, to who is stopped and 
arrested by the pigs, shows that national 
minorities are disproportionately victimized by the 
criminal justice system. 

Officials in Massachusetts like to cry overcrowding 
because it gives them a reason to build more 
prisons and incarcerate more national minorities. 
The House and Senate passed a measure in November 
granting between $400-500 million dollars for 
prison expansion. The exact amount will be decided 
when the legislative session reopens in January. 

The measure passed falls short of Governor Weld's 
request for $700 million to create 5,000 new prison 
beds.(2) Massachusetts has over 10,000 prisoners. 
Despite the fact the crime rate fell in 1991-92 the 
imprisonment rate increased during this period 
almost 7%.(3)

High salaries are worth it for the prison industry 
and the state which need to justify prison 
expansion. We know building more prisons doesn't 
stop crime. The growth does generate a profit for 
individuals, private industry and the state. It 
also ensures increased oppression for national 
minorities. By locking down a huge percentage of 
the population with an interest in social change, 
the status quo is protected.

NOTES:
1. Boston Globe Nov. 28, 1995, p. 35.
2. Boston Globe Nov. 11, 1995, p. 38.
3. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1994 
p. 199, 216. 


* * *


AMERIKAN PRISONS: OPEN SLAVE LABOR CAMPS


"Following the lead of Alabama and Arizona, the 
state Department of Corrections (DOC) sent chained 
inmates into fields surrounding prisons in north, 
central and south Florida to clean up roadways, 
clear brush and repair roads and fences. "The chain 
gangs--known officially in this state as 
'restricted labor squads'--were made up of about 30 
inmates each and were guarded by three-member teams 
of corrections officers armed with shotguns and 
pistols."(1)

Chain gangs have been used or not according to 
contemporary social sensibilities, but their 
presence or absence says nothing about the state of 
the Amerikan criminal injustice system. This system 
predicated on the punishment of isolating people 
from society is a sick response from a society 
which rejects full participation from national 
minorities. MIM points to Maoist China for examples 
of a healthy prisons system at work. Prisoners in 
China were assisted in making self criticism and 
reforming whatever problems had led them to prison 
in the first place.(2)


NO LONGER A THREAT TO BLOATED WHITE LABOR


A throwback to the slave era, chain gangs fell out 
of favor in the 1940s. But in 1995, the middle-
class is ready to see prisoners used to do the 
manual work it doesn't want to do. In the past, 
organized labor opposed prison labor because it 
undercut union wages. Now the white working class 
eliminates its competition by putting it in prison 
and making it do its manual labor.

Particularly in the South, the so-called justice 
system has a history of throwing people in prison 
just to get free labor out of them on the chain 
gangs. Now prison construction companies and prison 
guard unions have an interest in throwing people in 
prison for arbitrary reasons, including national 
oppression. These lobbies are joined by politicians 
eager to please the increasingly parasitic workers 
who can't remember the days when they were manual 
laborers threatened by prison labor. Likewise the 
newspapers sell papers and ads by running 
sensational stories about the tiny minority of 
really sick people in this society, while running 
few stories about the majority of prisoners in 
prison for non-violent crimes.


MAKING A SPECTACLE OF PUNISHMENT


Hypocrite Clinton and the U.S. media criticize 
state-capitalist China for its use of forced labor 
when we have the same thing going on here. There is 
a prison industry making clothes in California and 
Oregon that competes with China.(3)

There have been protests of Arizona's efforts to 
turn the oppression of prisoners into a media 
spectacle. In June, a prisoner rights activist took 
a bull horn to a chain-gang media spectacle and 
spent an hour speaking to the prisoners. When the 
police tried to arrest her, the prisoners sat down 
and refused to work.

Arizona's governor has announced a plan to make the 
"state's 121 death row prisoners break rocks and 
dig holes." Also in June, a prisoner "work crew 
inside the prison ... sat down and refused to break 
rocks for the media contingent who arrived to 
collect footage of the spectacle."(4)

MIM studies the Maoist path because we will someday 
lead in building a society in which people assist 
and improve each other. We will rejoice in the end 
of this murderous system which punishes the 
oppressed in the name of parasitism.


NOTES:
1. Reuters, Nov. 21, 1995
2. Prisoners of Liberation, by Allyn and Adele 
Rickett is a memoir of two Amerikans' imprisonment 
in China in the early 1950s. Order a copy from MIM 
for $13.
3. Prison Legal News, citing a Seattle Times story 
of March 18, 1994. 
4. PLN October 1995, p. 4


* * *


WANT TO END RAPE? SEIZE PROLETARIAN POWER

Amherst, MA, Nov. 15--Popular pseudo-feminist Katie 
Koestner spoke about her date rape to a packed room 
of several hundred. In 1990, after she had dated a 
man for a week and a half, he raped her in her 
college dorm room. The District Attorney wouldn't 
prosecute the man. Koestner then asked her college 
to take disciplinary action; the man was banned 
from Koestner's dorm for the semester. 

Now Koestner is on a tour of college campuses, 
lecturing about date rape: what it is, and how to 
avoid it. Her lectures are a confused but 
deliberate attempt to separate rape from sex. MIM 
believes that no meaningful distinction between the 
two is possible under patriarchy; women never 
consented to being born into a system in which men 
have more power than they do, so how can women ever 
give coercion-free consent to individual sex acts?

While MIM acknowledges that under patriarchy, all 
sex is rape, we know that First World women do not 
need sexual relationships for survival. We require 
forever monogamy of our members and advocate it for 
the masses, because a commitment to working through 
problems in a relationship is the closest thing to 
a guarantee of increasing equality in a 
relationship. We work to abolish patriarchy which 
is the only way to end rape. Feminists need to 
focus on building independent institutions of the 
oppressed to overthrow patriarchy, not on how to 
distinguish between good sex and bad sex within the 
confines of patriarchy.


UNDER PATRIARCHY, ALL SEX IS RAPE


Koestner's approach to men is contradictory. She 
stresses that only a minority of men rape and 
should be punished severely by the government, yet 
she bends over backwards to get all men to hear her 
message. Her primary message is: "Women, be 
careful. Men be responsible." MIM asserts that care 
and responsibility are only serious demands when 
people can communicate honestly; this cannot happen 
in the context of coercion. In her discussion of 
consent, Catharine Mackinnon asks, "If you fear you 
might be raped if you say no, what is the value of 
a yes?"

Koestner's story is an excellent illustration of 
the power dynamics that mask consent, even between 
two privileged college students. Koestner said "no" 
at least a dozen times during her rape, but her 
date had sex with her anyway. But in the period 
before the rape, verbal comments and demands that 
she drink wine with dinner bothered her. She drank 
wine that she didn't want to, tolerated comments 
she didn't like and chose not to kick him out of 
her room (or leave) when he took his clothes off. 
MIM agrees with Koestner that this is rape but we 
would also call it rape if Koestner never said 
"no", possibly out of fear, possibly out of 
socialization that a woman is not supposed to say 
no, and possibly because she found having a man 
dominate her sexy.


DOWN WITH DATING ADVICE, UP WITH ACCOUNTABILITY


Koestner stressed three factors in dating: 
communication, responsibility and respect. MIM 
supports these principles in romantic 
relationships, but challenges feminists to get 
serious about what these things mean under 
patriarchy. Women maintain dating relationships 
with coercive elements because they understand that 
power is part of sex. Sexual relationships will be 
coercive until power relations between groups of 
people cease to exist. This is why MIM advocates 
forever monogamy in which sexual partners are 
required to be honest with each other as the best 
sexual practice under patriarchy. There is no room 
in feminism for sexual games or dishonesty. 

Koestner exposed the murkiness of her distinction 
between good sex and rape when she said in 
reference to partners asking permission to touch: 
"if she doesn't answer, maybe you should ask 
again." But asking repeatedly fits Koestner's 
definition of emotional pressure leading to rape.


PIGS CAN'T STOP RAPE


Koestner is pro-pig, encouraging women to file rape 
charges in criminal courts, and to pressure college 
judicial systems to give stronger punishments. 
Campus judicial systems exist to hide crimes from 
the courts and media. Schools discourage criminal 
prosecution and empower on-campus judicial boards 
to sanction students for violating laws as well as 
campus codes of conduct. Most of these judicial 
boards operate on a guilty until proven innocent 
basis, and turn out more convictions than criminal 
courts. But the schools fear law suits and often 
give out very meek punishments.

Even a harsh punishment handed down by a 
patriarchal institution is not going to end rape. 
People who are interested in abolishing patriarchy 
should be working on building independent power of 
the oppressed, not legitimizing patriarchy by 
asking its institutions to arbitrate rape cases. 
Also on this page, Cecilia Rodriguez, who was raped 
in Chiapas describes her commitment to the 
revolutionary feminist struggle against the 
patriarchy. This is an example of a real 
alternative to running to the pigs for protection 
from the patriarchy that they help to uphold. 


DOWN WITH PATERNALIST FEAR


One woman in the audience criticized Koestner for 
focusing on fear. The critic argued that it would 
be better to focus on being "pissed off" and to 
struggle for change. The audience shouted this 
woman down, with cries that "It's reality." MIM 
supports this woman critic's stance. The supposed 
need for fear is only bourgeois reality, it is not 
a reality that anyone with a serious interest in 
feminism should accept. Women and men who want to 
end all forms of rape should be working to end the 
oppression of groups over groups of people, to 
eliminate the possibility of individuals wielding 
such power in intimate relationships. 


* * *


AMERIKAN MILITARY STILL CONTROL THE NET

MacHome Journal reported the following recently:

"Do you know who's keeping watch over your Internet 
domain name (the basic address of a corporation or 
organization, such as MacHome.Com)? The national 
press reported recently that the National Science 
Foundation has turned over Internet domain name 
registration to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of 
Herndon, Virginia, but Web Review, a biweekly 
online magazine (http://gnn.com/wr/), noted that 
NSI is owned by Scientific Applications 
International Corp. (SAIC) of San Diego. SAIC's 
board members include Admiral Bobby Inman, former 
deputy director of the CIA; and retired General Max 
Thurman, commander of the Panama invasion. Recently 
board members include Robert Gates, former CIA 
director; William Perry, current secretary of 
defense; and John Deutch, the current CIA 
director."(1)

The extent to which military personnel are in 
charge of corporations charged with managing 
important pieces of the Internet hierarchy is not 
surprising. The Internet of 1995 has its roots in 
the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research 
Projects Agency experimental network (the 
ARPANET).It was only in 1988 when the DOD began to 
dismantle the ARPANET that the National Science 
Foundation built NSFNET as the new Internet 
backbone.(2)

Activists should be conscious of the extent of 
military and government control over the Internet. 
This international network is a precious resource 
for organizing and agitating; we should be aware of 
the need to use caution now and to seize this 
resource for exclusive service of the needs of the 
people in the future. We can do much valuable work 
with tools developed by the pigs for imperialist 
use, and we can only look forward to making 
militarist use of the Internet obsolete.

NOTES:
1. MacHome Journal December 1995, p. 17.
2. Paul Albinez & Cricket Liu, DNS and BIND in a 
Nutshell. (Sebastopol. CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 
1992), p. 1-2


* * *


NEW TREATY GRANTS U.S. MILITARY
GREATER DOMINANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES

On December 9 the United Snakes and the Government 
of the Republic of the Philippines will ratify the 
Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA), 
which opens 22 commercial ports throughout the 
Philippines to the U.S. military. This effectively 
gives the U.S. military greater access to the 
Philippines than it had when it still occupied the 
Clark and Subic Bay bases.

In 1991, a mass anti-base movement pressured the 
Philippine Senate to terminate the United Snakes' 
lease on Clark and Subic Bay bases. Almost 
immediately, the Ramos puppet regime began 
negotiations with the U.S. military on the ACSA. 

Since the United Snakes gave the GRP nominal 
independence in 1946, the so-called U.S.-R.P. 
Mutual Defense Treaty has given the U.S. military 
the right to use the Philippines as a base for its 
aggressive activities in Asia and the Pacific. U.S. 
military personnel are immune to prosecution for 
the crimes they have committed against Filipinos on 
Philippine soil. Prostitution is rampant around 
U.S. bases. The abandoned Clark and Subic Bay bases 
are toxic waste dumps which Amerika has refused to 
clean up.

The U.S. military directly oppresses the people of 
the Philippines and props up the economic system 
which keeps the Philippines mired in poverty. This 
is why one of the principal goals of the national 
liberation movement led by the Communist Party of 
the Philippines is to eliminate the U.S. military 
presence in the Philippines and why the people 
continue to unite around this goal.

MIM supports the Filipino people in their just 
demand for an end to U.S. occupation. Contact MIM 
for more information on the Communist Party of the 
Philippines and the National Democratic Front of 
the Philippines and their struggle against 
imperialism.

NOTE: Solidaridad November 1995, p. 4. Solidaridad 
is a publication of the Philippine Peasant Support 
Network (PESANTE).


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SHELL-BACKED NIGERIA EXECUTES OGONI ACTIVISTS


by MCB52

On November 10, the government of Nigeria executed 
nine Ogoni activists. Those hanged after 
convictions on trumped-up murder charges included 
the popular leader of Ogoni opposition to Royal 
Dutch/Shell Corporation's operations, Ken Saro-
Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a Nobel prize winner who wrote 
poetry indicting imperialism and organized the 
masses against European and Amerikan oil interests. 
Now the military regime is engaging in renewed 
repression of the mass movement against imperialist 
exploitation in Ogoniland.

Unlike most mass murders of anti-imperialist 
leaders, the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight 
other Ogoni activists has seen much bourgeois 
press. This exposure is a good thing because it 
forces Amerikans to see the ideological 
contradictions of the so-called free market. 
Imperialism has not brought democracy when those 
who voice opposition are summarily slaughtered, 
with or without trial, in massacres in the streets 
or public hangings. MIM does not beg the 
imperialist multinationals or comprador regimes to 
play nice, we call for the self-determination of 
all peoples.


SHELL BOOTED FROM OGONILAND


Oppressed nations can achieve self-determination by 
being arbiters of who can and cannot do business on 
their land. As the Ogoni did, oppressed nations can 
decide whether their land will be a safe or unsafe 
place to do business.

MIM reported last April that Ogoni activism was on 
the rise and getting results. The Ogoni forced 
Shell Oil out of their region of Nigeria, known as 
Ogoniland, two years ago. While the company 
maintains its operations elsewhere in the Niger 
delta, Saro-Wiwa's movement, known as Movement for 
the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), made 
Shell's operations in Ogoniland too much trouble. 
As one manager said: "We haven't had the same level 
of agitation against Shell and the government as in 
Ogoniland. The Ogonis' demands have gone far beyond 
those of other minorities...Our staff and equipment 
were facing so much danger that we decided to 
withdraw."(1) MOSOP's persistence is reported to 
have also made the government raise compensation 
rates for the oil-producing lands from 3 to 13 
percent.(2)

The gains of the struggle have been limited so far. 
Shell left a mess built up over three decades of 
exploitation behind it and the government maintains 
a policy of wanton neglect of the Ogoni people so 
that their schools, health centers and roads are in 
appalling disrepair. Electricity and telephones are 
hardly available at all.(1) The Ogoni must change 
this situation themselves. The comprador state will 
not serve their interests.


MNCS DEMAND REPRESSION OF OPPRESSED NATIONS


The New York Times was very disappointed that Shell 
did not tell the Nigerian government to behave 
itself. Since the executions, Shell has indeed been 
a vocal critic of the Nigerian government's 
actions. While ignoring the blatantly fabricated 
murder charge before it went to trial, Shell 
quietly suggested when the executions were imminent 
that the Nigerian government might be going too far 
in killing these activists. Of course, the New York 
Times stayed nicely in toe of the imperialist 
practice until after the mass execution was 
complete, and even now the general bourgeois media 
does not recognize the imperialists' culpability 
for the murders. The New York Times whines that 
"Summary executions, fraudulent trials and brutal 
suppression of dissent are not practices a 
responsible corporation can ignore."(3) The 
corporation does not ignore these practices, it 
enforces them. The New York Times accepted full-
page ads from the Nigerian regime while it 
editorialized about that regime's brutality.(4)

Saro-Wiwa's brother has noted that Shell's number 
one man in Nigeria, Brian Anderson, offered to use 
the company's influence to prevent the execution if 
Ogoni leaders would call off global protests of the 
company. Though Shell has acknowledged that secret 
meetings took place, it did not reveal the topic of 
conversation. "He said he would be able to help us 
to get Ken freed if we stopped the protest campaign 
abroad. Shell are involved in Nigerian politics up 
to their neck. If they had threatened to withdraw 
from Nigeria unless Ken was freed, he would have 
been alive today."(4) Shell decided to risk the 
intensification of the mass movement caused by the 
executions without this assurance. It used token 
press-releases to feign concern about the blatant 
human rights violations, but chose not to try to 
prevent them.

These games between multinational corporations 
(MNCs) and their puppet regimes are not uncommon. 
Some times the multinationals or imperialist 
governments recognize that revolutionary pressure 
is building and it is time to let off some of the 
steam by granting concessions or disposing of 
particularly horrible CIA-trained dictators. The 
dictators, in the case of Nigeria General Sani 
Abacha, tend to be very nervous in maintaining 
their rule given their proximity to popular 
opposition. Therefore, the imperialists take it 
upon themselves to micro-manage the internal 
affairs to strike a balance between the crumbs of 
appeasement and the force of repression.

Because there is no peace under imperialism, 
however sophisticated, that balance is usually 
brutal. Shell and the Nigerian government work in 
close alliance. For example, in January 1993, after 
hundreds of thousands in Ogoniland joined mass 
protests against Shell, the police razed 27 
villages; 2,000 Ogonis were killed; 80,000 were 
displaced.(5) These are the most blatant of the 
mass-murders of the MNC-military government 
alliance. They are also responsible for deaths due 
to the gross environmental degradation and economic 
destruction of the region.


MAKING THE LAND SAFE FOR SHELL; INCREASING 
REPRESSION OF OGONI MASSES


At this point, Shell is letting Abacha continue his 
unabashed repression. The military government has 
executed MOSOP's leadership and is forcing it 
underground. According to one teacher in Ogoniland: 
"We are suffering a lot now. The Ogoni people are 
not free to express their views. MOSOP has been 
driven underground. There are soldiers and 
government agents all around. In the Gokana area 
alone there are now 3,000 soldiers. If you say you 
are a supporter of Ken Saro-Wiwa you will be 
arrested and jailed."(1) Another teacher at a 
school in Bera said, "Saro-Wiwa was fighting for 
the Ogoni people. He never demanded money or 
anything from anybody. The government people get 
their money from oil; they killed him because he 
was a threat to that."(6)

Some of Ken Saro-Wiwa's last words in support of 
the Ogoni struggle were: "Whether I live or die is 
immaterial. It is enough to know that there are 
people who commit time, money and energy to fight 
this one evil among so many others predominating 
worldwide. If they do not succeed today they will 
succeed tomorrow. We must keep striving to make the 
world a better place for all of mankind--each one 
contributing his bit, in his or her own way."(7) 


NOTES:
1. The Independent Nov. 30, 1995, p. 15.
2. Washington City Paper Dec. 8, 1995 p. 19.
3. New York Times Dec. 3, 1995, p. 14.
4. AFX News Service (London) Nov. 30, 1995.
5. NYT Nov. 17, 1995, p. 31.
6. Washington Post Dec. 10, 1995, p. A29.
7. Letter from Saro-Wiwa, Mail & Guardian May 1995. 


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UPDATE ON DETROIT NEWSPAPER STRIKE: THE AMERIKAN 
"PROLETARIAT"?


by a member of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist 
League (RAIL)


The newspaper guild strike against the Detroit News 
and Free Press continues, and neither side seems 
ready to give in. The president of Local 22 of the 
newspaper guild has referred to unfairly low 
wages,(1) while Frank Vega, CEO of Detroit 
Newspapers which owns the News and Free Press 
claims that the newspaper guild local has "the best 
wages, the best benefits, the best work rules in 
the country." The argument is over how big a piece 
of superprofit pie these workers should have. 

Less than 200 jobs remain for the striking workers 
as many previous strikers have crossed the picket 
lines. Vega also said that he now knows that "we 
can do the work with 700 fewer people."(2) Before 
the strike, the company offered a wage increase of 
10.3% over three years, and buyouts of 100 jobs at 
$70,000 per job. Since that time the buyout offer 
has been withdrawn.(3) It is not surprising that 
the company can operate with less employees; big 
businesses in Amerika make no profit from the white 
working class.(4) When these Amerikan workers 
strike for more wages, they are striking for their 
share of Third-World plunder. 

The Newspaper Guild has filed a lawsuit against 
Detroit Newspapers, claiming civil rights 
violations and Detroit Newspapers is filing a 
counter suit against. The unions are accused of 
racketeering,(5) in part because of vandalism of 
distributors' cars and trucks.(6) These random acts 
of unorganized violence do not represent a working 
class ready for revolution, but one that will take 
extreme measures to better its own conditions at 
the expense of the Third World.


TROTS TAIL THE STRIKE; APPROVE WHITE WORKERS' 
ADVANCE OVER "MORE BACKWARD" WORKERS


On the coat tails of this strike are many 
Trotskyist groups attempting to use this as an 
example of exploitation of the white working class. 
We contacted the Workers' League to hear the 
Trotskyist line on this strike. The Workers' League 
representative called these workers part of an 
international working class, whether they realize 
it or not, and that they need to be part of a 
rejuvenated international workers' movement. This 
person also said that the Workers League was 
attempting to educate these workers for that cause.

This person also made the contradictory statement 
that it was acceptable for these strikers to fight 
for an improvement in living standards! How can the 
strikers be part of an international movement if 
they fight to improve a living standard that has 
been built-up on the backs of Third World workers?

The Workers' League representative admitted that 
the Amerikan workers have a privileged status among 
workers internationally (quickly pointing out that 
they have fallen behind Germany and Japan), but 
said that they should not take pay cuts to satisfy 
"more backward" countries. MIM does not want pay 
cuts for Amerikan workers, MIM wants an end to the 
imperialist system that pays with blood money.

MIM and RAIL do not work to support strikes like 
these over a pie that is baked by the exploited and 
starving people of the Third World. We fight to 
give that pie back to the masses who worked so hard 
to create it. The idea that imperialism can not be 
defeated without the Amerikan working class is 
built on Amerikan chauvinism. The Third World is 
80% of the world population, and the day will come 
when U.S. imperialism will have to answer 100% to 
the truly exploited.


NOTES:
1. The Michigan Daily Nov. 7, 1995, p.1. 
2. The Michigan Daily Nov. 16, 1995. 
3. The Detroit Free Press Oct. 31, 1995. 
4. See MIM Theory 1: A White Proletariat? available 
from MIM for $3.
5. The Michigan Daily Nov. 15, 1995. 
6. The Detroit Free Press Oct. 30, 1995, p. 1B. 


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***Reprinted from Red Star, Platform for Communist 
Revolutionaries
Vol. 4, No 11.
Nov. 16, 1995
Thirssur, Kerala-680 322
INDIA***


PEOPLE'S WAR IN PERU


A recent report on Reuters Wire Service said 
"...guerrillas in the Huallaga are on the move. 
Rebels also have stepped up propaganda, infiltrated 
some unions and community groups and are active 
along the Central Highway connecting Lima with the 
highlands." [10 July 1995] Following are reports on 
a few of the actions that have been covered in the 
press.


GUERRILLAS AMBUSH POLICE


According to a report released by the military, PCP 
guerrillas ''ambushed a police truck in the 
southwestern region of Huancavelica, killing eight 
policemen The police troop carrier was destroyed in 
the explosion.'' The report also revealed that the 
ambushed truck was engaged in a mission "pursuing 
guerrillas in the area'' when it was ambushed. [25 
July Reuters] The bodies of the policemen killed in 
the ambush were found with signs on them saying: 
"Armed forces and police forces! You think that we 
have suffered a great blow. You are dreaming. We 
say go on dreaming. This is merely a bend in the 
road."[28 July EI Mundo-Spain]


200-STRONG PLA COLUMN CONFRONT MILITARY PATROL


A day after Lima newspapers announced that the 
total number of active guerrillas was now less than 
170 individuals their claim became the object of 
ridicule when the military announced that a PCP 
Column "made up of between 180-200 rebels" attacked 
a military patrol in Fujimori's 'Little Vietnam' in 
the Huallaga. [Reuters 21 July]

According to military communiqués the attack was 
just one of a series of confrontations between PCP 
guerrillas and military patrols in the jungle 
between the villages of Montero (where the military 
massacred many peasants in April 1994) and Alto 
Pacae. The military report said: "The insurgents 
attacked with automatic weapons and at the same 
time threw grenades and charges of dynamite against 
a military column that patrolled this vast jungle 
region of the Alto Huallaga." 21 military personnel 
were killed and 6 wounded. [La Vanguardia 23 July]


PCP REBELS DESTROY POLICE GARRISON


According to a report in Reuters [July 10] "a 
column of 150 Shining Path rebels seized the town 
of Nuevo Progreso [Huanuco Province] late on 
Saturday and then pulled out before the army 
arrived early on Sunday to restore order." The 
target of the attack was the police garrison. The 
police installation was completely destroyed 
following what military reports described as "5 
hours of intense fire." Four police agents died. 
[La Vanguardia, 23 July]


CAR-BOMB TARGETS PROPONENT OF AMNESTY LAW:


On 1 July 1995, 40 kilograms of dynamite exploded 
outside the residence of Congressman Victor Joy Way 
of Fujimori's Cambio 90-New majority coalition.

Joy Way has been an unapologetic advocate of 
Fujimori's most repressive laws, and the press has 
attributed the car-bombing to his sponsorship of a 
bill in Congress which puts the Congressional stamp 
of approval on Fujimori's Amnesty Law. In its 
report on the attack Reuters said: "Joy Way last 
week introduced a bill approved by Congress 
reaffirming a recent controversial amnesty for 
soldiers and police accused of violating human 
rights in l5 years of war against leftist 
guerrillas. The amnesty, which had been facing a 
legal challenge, is opposed by more than 80 percent 
of Peruvians, according to polls "[2 July]


PLA ACTIONS REPORTED IN 11 PROVINCES:


Peru's Ideele Magazine (May-June 1995) noted that 
the Peruvian government reported 63 actions in 11 
of Peru's 23 provinces during the months of April 
and May 1995. Military bases in the provinces of 
Huanuco and San Martin were attacked. PCP columns 
ambushed military patrols in Huanuco, Junin, 
Huancavelica and there were numerous battles 
between the Armed Forces and guerrilla columns in 
Huanuco and Junin provinces. Police posts were 
attacked in La Libertad and Ayacucho provinces. 
High tension pylons were downed, causing black-outs 
in the Ayacucho and Lima provinces There were also 
reports of actions to disseminate PCP propaganda in 
Lima. **


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UNDER LOCK AND KEY:
NEWS FROM PRISONERS AND PRISONS


FEDERAL PRISONERS FACE LOCKDOWN


Dear Comrades,

In my last two letters, I forgot to mention that I 
have been receiving your MIM Notes unhindered. 
Please be aware that I will never lose interest in 
your work, but as you say, policy is policy.

What do you think about the national shutdown of 
nearly all federal prisons? Within this state, they 
have moved all inmates into a security system 
called "control movement". Instead of allowing us 
to go to the recreation field, which was probably 
an area of one square mile, they have placed us in 
an area of maybe 250 square yards behind our 
dormitories. One dorm alone houses about 300 
inmates.

We are not allowed to go from the A-side to the B-
side of the dorm any longer. Whatever side you are 
on, that's the side you stay on. They are really 
making it a cattle stall now....Until next time, 
may we all struggle as one against the beast!

--a South Carolina prisoner, 10/30/95


DEATH PENALTY CRISIS IN AMERIKKKA


Legalized lynching, commonly referred to as the 
"death penalty", is out of control in the United 
States of America. Only Allah (God) knows how many 
poor people will have to be murdered by the states 
before this genocidal machinery of death stops. 
There is a bloodbath taking place in the U.S. today 
with the southern "death belt" states carrying out 
executions at a frenzied pace. In Texas, sometimes 
as frequently as two legalized lynchings per week, 
with no end in sight. What is happening at this 
bloody site is an international disgrace. It is 
appalling, outrageous, horrific and it is getting 
worse!

No longer can socially conscious people of good 
will and progressive forces throughout the world 
remain silent in the face of the enormity of these 
human rights violations and this racial injustice. 
For history is a fit testimony of the fact that if 
a government is not strongly resisted when it does 
wrong, it will continue to do wrong. Silence in the 
face of injustice and inhumanity only invites 
greater barbarity. This human massacre is 
horrifying and tragic. Poor people, human beings, 
are being silently killed in the middle of the 
night and little is known or being said about it. 
This is the time to break the silence--by any means 
necessary! We must all come together and stop this 
bloody massacre!

Only hours ago, the people of the United States 
murdered yet another African-American male, Carl 
Hammond. He was the 12th person murdered by the 
political serial killers of Texas this year. The 
97th person I have known and befriended who has 
fallen victim to this bloody madness since my 
unjust arrival on Texas' death row as a child in 
1981.

Today, June 21, 1995, as the blood of victims of 
legalized lynchings continues to flow in Texas and 
throughout the country, I have initiated an 
indefinite hunger strike to protest against this 
racial injustice. I will only discontinue the 
hunger strike in the event that there is serious 
and immediate action taken to impose a moratorium 
on all executions throughout the U.S. Pending the 
outcome of an in-depth inquiry of the racist use of 
the death penalty and the civil and human rights 
abuses arising from its use.

I believe strongly that such an inquiry will 
provide us with concrete and solid evidence on the 
social impact, constitutionality and desirability 
of the death penalty and ultimately lead to and 
support abolition of the death penalty in this 
country once and for all before the executioners 
kill all of us....

Sadly and outrageously, there have already been 
over 18,777 executions in this country since the 
first documented one in 1608. Racism has 
accompanied this shameful march for nearly 400 
years...

Today, there are more that 3,000 men, women and 
children trapped on America's death rows. A 
disproportionate number of them are poor 
minorities. Former slave-holding states have 
carried out over 80% of all U.S. executions. The 
death penalty is used almost exclusively to 
vindicate the death of a white person and is seldom 
sought when the victim of the crime is a person of 
color. Why in all of modern history have there been 
only three white persons executed for taking the 
life of a Black person? This is yet another example 
of the double standard of justice in Amerikkka, 
which places value on the life of a white person 
but totally devalues the lives of people of 
color...

We must take immediate action to abolish the death 
penalty in this country, just as those great and 
courageous spirits before us rose to the challenge 
and met the demands of history and abolished 
slavery. For as the late Supreme Court Justice 
Thurgood Marshall once declared: "The scandalous 
state of our present system of capital punishment 
will cast a pall of shame over our society for 
years to come. We cannot let it continue."....

--A Texas prisoner, 6/21/95


A WORLD OF DESPAIR


We are the oppressed; We are the forgotten; We are 
the ones that Suffer day after day. What is to 
become of Ourselves in this world of ours?

The bricks we count Just to wind down our long 
days, to hope to be free again, Shall we always be 
forgotten to the days of our death?

And then do we have to oppress our peoples that are 
behind those walls that show despair with No 
concern because "It's not our problem?"

But do beware you may be next, to find the pain 
that lurks in there.

--an Iowa prisoner, 10/16/95


AFFLICTION


Troubled by thoughts of loneliness on short running 
roads back by circular wire high above the sky 
Might not make the difference for all the rage 
within bundle up in-tie for the otherside.

--an Iowa prisoner, 10/16/95


SOUTH CAROLINA SANCTIONS LETHAL INJECTIONS


Since I last wrote I have been placed on lock-up 
for standing up for myself, which one has to do a 
lot around here. It has gotten to the point now 
where these people (prison officials) just do 
anything. They have just passed a law for the 
lethal injection, and the first person they killed 
was a handicapped African-American. All that the 
prisoners did here was say how fucked up it was. 
Which is right, but what is really fucked up was 
that there was nothing they (other prisoners) 
wanted to do about it. The ones that did try to 
protest or have a sit-in, or boycott the canteen 
were locked up or ignored.

The real sadness of it all is that next time it 
might be one of these brothers getting that needle. 
Wake up, my brother! Sleep no more in the belly of 
the beast. Don't take your life for granted. 
Remember it could be you, me or your neighbor next 
time. Let's not let there be a next time.

No matter what, the blood of brother Sylvester 
Adams is on the South Carolina Department of 
Corrections' hands. Well, until next time, I'll 
leave you with one final thought. Want for your 
brother man that which you would want for yourself.

Sylvester Adams (1959-1995) Peace be Upon Him. The 
first to die in South Carolina of lethal injection 
and hopefully the last.

--a South Carolina prisoner, 9/27/95


OHIO-7 MISREPRESENTED


On Oct. 1, NBC's Sunday Night Movie was titled, "In 
the Line of Duty: The Hunt for Justice." It was 
billed as the "true story" of the decade-long 
government hunt for a group of anti-imperialist 
political fugitives who, when finally captured in 
1984 and '85, were called the Ohio-7. This was a 
pro-FBI/police/government movie that contained many 
misrepresentations and one very dangerous outright 
lie. It had no input or collaboration from any of 
the Ohio-7. In fact, we weren't even aware that 
this movie existed until it was aired.

Besides casting the revolutionary fugitives in a 
negative light in which the government was 
portrayed heroically, a totally fabricated element 
was included. Richard Williams, one of the Ohio-7, 
was shown as cooperating and providing information 
to the FBI. This is absolutely false. In one scene, 
as Richard is being transported by the FBI and NJ 
State Police, they threaten to kill him and as the 
scene ends, he is seen agreeing to talk. This never 
happened. No defendant in any of the Ohio-7 state 
and federal trials, including Richard Williams, 
ever was a government witness or in any way worked 
with the government against the Ohio-7.

Richard Williams was convicted in Brooklyn federal 
court for conspiracy and bombing and later in NJ 
State court for shooting a New Jersey state 
trooper. He received double life from NJ and 45 
years from the federal case. Richard, like three 
other Ohio-7 political prisoners, has been in 
prison for about 11 years. He has no release date.

Richard is and for years has been a committed left 
activist, a political prisoner, a stand-up convict 
and my friend. This slanderous lie has the stink of 
the FBI COINTELPRO on it. It is designed to cause 
mental anguish as well as physical attack. This is 
a very serious move against our brother. Because of 
the nature of this government lie, I am releasing 
this statement immediately and ask that it be 
disseminated as widely as possible. I am one of the 
Ohio-7 and I feel confident that I speak for all 
the Ohio-7 when I denounce this government lie 
against Richard Williams.

--an Ohio-7 prisoner, 10/12/95


MEDIA COVERAGE OF CORRUPT POLICE: THE MUMIA 
CONNECTION


NBC's program 'Dateline' which was aired on October 
20, 1995, spoke of a corrupt police department in 
Philadelphia. Corruption that covered up for five 
Philadelphia pig cops mentioned in the program (but 
we know there are more). It was reported that 55 
people who've been "set up" and brought in by these 
corrupt pig cops, have had their cases thrown out 
or overturned by the courts.

These corrupt cops had planted drugs on people, 
lied on people, and robbed people for their money. 
It would be safe to say that they even murdered 
people. According to the report there are about 
1,000 cases that the Department of Justice is 
looking at in connection to these cops. They are 
(possibly) going to release those who are sitting 
in prisons because of these foul cops.

Philadelphia is the same state where they are 
holding brother Mumia for an alleged murder of a 
cop (which he did not commit) and have him 
sitting/rotting on death row. Now these truths are 
coming to light. Now the news media is reporting 
this reality.

But I still do not trust the news media. There is 
some hidden agenda they have in wanting to expose 
these truths. For the news media has known for 
years of trumped-up charges being lodged against 
innocent people and never said a word. The news 
media knows of the secrets this government conducts 
against the people and they go along with the 
cover-ups by not reporting these truths unless it 
is good for them to do so, not what is good for the 
people.

...Still monitoring and still observing.

--A Michigan prisoner, 10/21/95


TWO WASHINGTON STATE PRISONS CENSOR MIM NOTES


MIM received letters from two Washington state 
prisons rejecting MIM Notes.

On October 10, 1995, the Special Offender's Center 
(SOC) in Monroe, WA returned the September 1995 
issue of MIM Notes with a rejection notice. 
Official Renschler at SOC claims that, "The mail 
contains information which, if communicated, would 
create a risk of violence and/or physical hard to 
any person."

On October 24, 1995, the McNeil Island Correction 
Center (MICC) in Steilacoom, WA sent MIM a 
rejection notice for a copy of MIM Notes. Official 
Hollowell at MICC claims that, "The mail or 
publication is a threat to legitimate penological 
objectives."

Complaints and protests can be sent directly to: 
Tom Rolfs, Director, Division of Prisons or 
Community Correction, P.O. Box 41100, Olympia, WA 
98504-1100.


MAIL APPEAL FOR MIM NOTES


This letter was written to, Tom Rolfs, Director, 
Division of Prisons, PO Box 41100, Olympia, WA 
98504-1100, in response to MIM Notes being 
censored.

This is an appeal to the censorship of the October 
1995 issue of MIM Notes. The reason given for the 
censorship was that in each issue on page two it 
states: "MIM struggles to end the oppression of all 
groups over other groups, classes, gender, nations. 
MIM knows this is only possible by building public 
opinion to seize power through armed struggle." The 
claim is that the reference to armed struggle 
violates DOC Policy 450.100 E.3.b.

Am I correct in understanding that each and every 
copy of MIM Notes will be censored solely because 
of this statement on page two? Please tell me if 
there is anything else in this issue of the MIM 
Notes which you find objectionable and a basis for 
censorship.

DOC Policy 450.1000 E.3.b states material can be 
censored by the DOC if "It may be reasonably be 
thought that the material would incite, aid, or 
abet the performance of physical violence or 
criminal activity upon an individual or group, or 
the material is deemed to be a threat to legitimate 
penological objectives."

What "legitimate penological objectives" do you 
claim are threatened by this issue of MIM Notes? 
More importantly, how are such objectives 
threatened? If you claim it will incite violence 
please identify whom you think would be the object 
and the perpetrators of such violence.

I have subscribed to and received MIM Notes for 
approximately six years now. No issue has been 
rejected prior to this and most importantly, no 
illegal and criminal activity can be traced to any 
issue of MIM Notes I have received. It is apparent 
that you and your staff are seeking to impose your 
political views and beliefs upon me. Being part of 
the machinery that actively oppresses others and 
helps maintain the political status quo, your 
decision to censor is not surprising.

Please note that in Wright v. Van Boening, I 
successfully litigated the censorship of political 
materials similar to those in MIM Notes. In 
addition to a monetary settlement and the return of 
the materials, your predecessor, Larry Kincheloe, 
sent all institutions a directive to the effect 
that political materials of this type were not to 
be censored. I can provide you with a copy if you 
need one.

More recently in Wright v. Blodgett, I was also 
successful in litigating the confiscation of 
political materials of a similar nature and 
received a monetary settlement.

I am requesting that this and all future issues of 
MIM Notes be delivered to me in a prompt manner. In 
the event you deny this appeal please inform me if 
the decision to ban MIM Notes applies to all future 
issues that will be sent.

Thank you for your time and attention in this 
matter.

--A Washington state prisoner, 10/29/95


SUNDIATA ACOLI REQUESTS EMERGENCY RESPONSE


Sundiata has requested people contact their local 
news media and demand coverage of the nationwide 
prison uprisings that have been erupting as of late 
as well as the total lock-down of all U.S. Federal 
Prisons (including USP Allenwood where Sundiata is 
imprisoned). He also asks people to contact their 
Congressional representatives and state that if 
they do not change their position on the sentencing 
of crack offenders, they will not receive your 
vote.

The following is a sample letter by a New Jersey 
activist. Please feel free to use/modify this 
example in writing your local media.


Dear Editor,

Your coverage on the issue of Congress voting to 
maintain the disparities in sentencing between 
crack cocaine and powder cocaine was unfortunately 
minimal. The short story on October 31st "Clinton 
Draws Flak on Crack" didn't nearly capture the 
inherent racism in the Congressional decision to 
ignore the recommendation of the Sentencing 
Commission, which was that penalties for crack be 
equalized with those of cocaine.

As a prisoner advocate, I am aware of thousands of 
young males of color all over the country who have 
been waiting for the Congress to vote to make the 
minimum sentences equal. They feel, as do most of 
us in the field of criminal "justice" that the 
disparity in sentencing is based on the race and 
economics of the law breaker--folks of color are 
those most frequently using and being charged with 
possession of crack cocaine, getting the mandatory 
minimum of five years, as opposed to the mostly 
white folks who get charged with use of the more 
expensive cocaine getting a minimum of ten months 
probation for possession of the exact same amount!

Can we really ignore the racism inherent in the 
congressional decision? I am also suspecting racism 
in the lack of coverage on the issue. How many 
people know that young men of color protested and 
rebelled in Federal prison after prison all across 
the country? Where was the media coverage this past 
couple of weeks on that? These young prisoners are 
full of justifiable rage and frustration at the 
differential treatment that whites get from police, 
the courts and while in prison. They understand 
that racism isn't an emotion, but is an intentional 
political construct backed by the government and 
its institutions. Racism is not some mental quirk 
or psychological flaw. I can think of no clearer 
example of this than the refusal of Congress to 
heed the equalization recommendation of the 
Sentencing Commission--and the astounding lack of 
coverage of these nation-wide rebellions.

These young men of color have been doomed to years 
of imprisonment, while seeing their white 
counterparts walk.... President Clinton's statement 
that "crack carries with it so many devastating 
social ills" is shallow. It isn't crack that 
carries with it social ills. It is the social ills 
of poverty, horrendous schools and high 
unemployment that create the need for pain-numbing 
crack. Neither racially based sentencing nor 
prejudicial coverage do justice to any of us.

Sincerely, --A New Jersey activist


MONEY MISUSED: PRISONS INSTEAD OF PEOPLE


Sorry for not writing, but there are so many 
altercations going on in the system today that I 
had to do an in depth study on the American Justice 
System. First of all roughly 877,000 Black men 
between the ages of 20 and 29, an astonishing one 
in every three, are in prison, jail, on probation 
or parole. Incarceration rates for Black men have 
soared since 1990, when one in four were under the 
criminal justice system.

Discrimination explains part of it. So does the 
Sentencing Project, a research organization that 
seeks alternatives to incarceration. Also the 
nation's failed "War on Drugs". Police drug sweeps 
in poor communities and mandatory sentencing laws 
have had a disproportionate impact on young Black 
men.

But discrimination and drug policy don't explain it 
all. Poverty, unemployment, drugs, family 
disintegration, and gangs in the poor communities 
all play a part in the downward direction of our 
Black men. So far the country is moving precisely 
in the wrong direction, wasting increasing funds in 
the construction and operation of prisons while 
doing less to change the conditions that breed 
crime in the first place. (The focus should be on 
relieving poverty in the Black communities.)...

--a California prisoner, 10/11/95


PRISON BRIEFS


The beatings still go on. Isolation cells are still 
being used, although I hear that both the "pink-
room" and the "cadre area" isolation cells are no 
longer to be used due to a government 
investigation, but if so, it hasn't started yet. 
The physical and psychological torture is applied 
constantly and the blowers I mentioned are still in 
effect.

--a Maryland prisoner 5/7/95


Texas no longer feeds its captives beef. Yeah, 
they've got a new flavor, "VitaPro" (soybean). They 
are actually feeding us animal food. That and pork 
(forced vegetarianism). Despite the fact that the 
system raises and slaughters thousands of cows and 
pigs a week. Obviously being sold for private 
profit.

--a Texas prisoner, 6/2/95


We've been facing down attacks from various 
plantation "administrators" because of our 
political activities. Our press has been withheld 
from captives at different camps. One brother was 
put in the "hole" for a piece that he wrote on the 
Oklahoma City bombing by the right-wing 
reactionaries. Another brother was placed on "phone 
restriction" for calling the media. So these are 
some of the things that we must contend with. And 
this isolation isn't helping one bit. Nevertheless, 
just thought I'd "plug in". Press on and keep up 
the good work.

Stand Firm, --a Michigan prisoner 9/17/95


A MASSACHUSETTS PRISON CONTINUES TO CENSOR MIM 
NOTES


One Massachusetts prison has been censoring MIM 
Notes since May 1995. In September 1995, Under Lock 
& Key printed "Massachusetts prisoner fights 
censorship," which documents one prisoner's 
struggle to receive MIM Notes. This prisoner is 
continuing his legal battle to receive this paper, 
as the prison continues to censor MIM Notes. The 
following is the most recent censorship letter from 
the prison officials.


Dear Sir/Madam:

Please be advised in accordance with the Department 
of Corrections policy, 103 CMR 481, Inmate Mail 
Regulations, your publication, MIM Notes, shall be 
disapproved for receipt by an inmate at Old Colony 
Correctional Center for the following reasons: 
poses a threat to security and good order of the 
institution.

481.15 (1) (e) Depicts, describes or encourages 
activities that may lead to the use of physical 
violence or group disruption.

481.15 (1) (f) Encourages, facilitates or instructs 
in the commission of criminal activity.

You may appeal this decision to the Superintendent, 
Paul B. Murphy, should you opt to do so.

Respectfully,

Edward Ficco, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, 
10/12/95


Letters of Protest can be addressed to: Edward 
Ficco, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, or Paul 
B. Murphy, Superintendent Executive Office of 
Public Safety, Department of Correction Old Colony 
Correctional Center, One Administration Rd., 
Bridgewater, MA 02324


Calls can be made to: Massachusetts Department of 
Correction (617) 727-3400 or Old Colony 
Correctional Center (508) 697-3360.



How many times do you have to break a man's body 
before you break his soul?

Shaka Shakur is back in a lockdown situation - he 
was recently put into the Hospital Restraint Unit 
(HRU) of the Indiana Reformatory until he learns to 
walk without crutches again.

After much pressure was put on to get him taken to 
outside doctor, Shaka was finally sent to a 
hospital and diagnosed with a herniated disc in his 
back. He has been on medication for the pain for a 
year and has been on crutches since June - recently 
his crutches were taken away from him arbitrarily.

He was scheduled for surgery under the 
recommendation of Dr. Kevin Kaufman at Wishard 
Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. Shaka has not 
been allowed this surgery and has been further 
isolated by being put into the HRU. Indiana 
Reformatory "doctor" Dr. Chavez has further 
escalated the situation by harassing Shaka--calling 
him a "fucking shithead" and accusing him of faking 
his injury.

The HRU is in total isolation from the rest of the 
prison. According to Shaka it is much like the 
Maximum Control Complex prison in Westville, 
Indiana with boxcar doors and forced air and no 
contact with anyone. The one other prisoner in the 
HRU is being "treated" (i.e., experimented upon) 
with psychotropic drugs.



Please write letters and send faxes to:

Ed Cohn Indiana Department of Corrections Indiana 
Government Center South 302 W. Washington Street 
Indianapolis, IN 46204

FAX: 317-232-6798



Demand that Shaka Shakur 28443 be removed from the 
HRU and taken back to the AS unit where he was and 
further demand that he be sent to Wishard Hospital 
for the Surgery recommended by Dr. Kaufman, and 
finally that he be given back his crutches.



Write letters of support to Shaka at:

Shaka Shakur 28443 Indiana Reformatory P.O. Box 30 
Pendleton, IN 46064

--Posted to the Internet by BCAC, P.O. Box 93312, 
Milwaukee, WI 53203, October 7, 1995


* * *


SAGE/UAW DEMANDS SHARE OF BLOOD MONEY


November 30--The UCLA's Student Association of 
Graduate Workers/United Auto Workers (SAGE/UAW) 
marched on UCLA's campus to demand "better health 
care through collective bargaining" for student 
employees of the University. As MIM Notes has 
stated before, "SAGE wants to position itself to 
get a larger share of UCLA's pie. But UCLA's pie is 
stolen--its wages, library collection, manicured 
lawns and seismic renovation construction [as well 
as the health care it does provide] all rest on the 
backs of the toiling peasants and workers of the 
world's oppressed nations."(1)

MIM would like to see a world in which all people 
have full access to health care, education, housing 
and food. Principally the Third World proletariat 
and peasantry lack these necessities, and MIM 
speaks from their class viewpoint MIM. The people 
of the neocolonies suffer under pro-landlord 
dictatorships which are propped up by the U.S. 
military and CIA. The University of California 
(U.C.) plays no small part in this imperialist 
process. U.C. manages the only labs in the United 
Snakes which are authorized to design and test 
nuclear warheads.(2) U.C. got $72,304,000 in total 
contracts and grants from the Department of 
"Defense" in Fiscal Year 1989 alone.(3) UCLA 
received $18.7 million in Pentagon research funding 
in Fiscal Year 1993.(4)

MIM leads the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League 
(RAIL). RAIL is currently campaigning to smash 
U.C.'s ties to the U.S. war machine, particularly 
U.C.'s management of war labs. SAGE/UAW student 
employees, on the other hand, are campaigning to 
get a share of U.C.'s bloody war money. Some in 
SAGE/UAW are merely acting in accordance with their 
material interest, illustrating MIM's thesis that 
the material interests of the privileged majority 
of First World residents are in contradiction with 
the material interests of the world's majority, the 
Third World proletariat and peasantry. We call on 
these petit-bourgeois students to break with their 
misanthropic material interest, commit class 
suicide and join humanity.

Others in SAGE/UAW are acting under the mistaken 
impression that SAGE's demands are progressive. We 
call on these subjectively progressive activists to 
join RAIL's campaign against U.C.'s ties to the 
U.S. war machine. By so doing, these activists will 
strike a blow against the imperialist system which 
forcibly denies basic needs like health care to the 
world's majority. This would be much more 
progressive than demanding more resources for an 
already over-privileged group.


NOTES: 
1. MIM Notes June 1995, p. 8. 
2. Z Magazine April 1992, pp. 47-48. 
3. The Pentagon: Directorate for Information, 
Operations and Reports, 1987-1990, as cited in Z 
Magazine, September 1991, p. 26.
4. West L.A. Independent July 28, 1994, p. 2


* * *


INTERVIEW WITH SCOTTISH COMRADE


***MIM interviewed a comrade from a party in 
Scotland with some Maoist leanings called the 
Workers Party. MIM sought an update on the anti-
poll tax struggle which this party had initiated. 
See an upcoming issue of MIM Theory for a deeper 
theoretical interview.***


MIM: What is happening now with the taxes that 
replaced the poll tax? 

WORKERS PARTY: There is no systematic attempt to 
refuse to pay them. There is a campaign in which I 
am to some degree involved to use the same mass 
payment tactics to prevent water privatisation.


MIM: Did the anti-poll tax movement leave behind 
any permanent organizations? In what sense does it 
carry over into today's political movements?

WP: The Maoists were too few and ideologically 
incoherent to make anything much of it. The 
Militant labour has capitalised on it by getting 
representatives elected. The anti-water  
privatisation campaign draws on much of the 
experience and some of the activists of the 
previous campaign.  There is still a struggle 
against attempts to recover tax debts from then, 
with Militant continuing to work hard at it.

MIM: Here in Florida for instance, we have a 
movement of reactionary whites to remove education, 
health and other services from undocumented 
workers; even though Florida has no income tax and 
just a sales tax. What portion of  labor in 
Scotland and England is done by undocumented and 
legal immigrants? What is their tax situation?

WP:  There is no popular movement for this here, 
but the government is going to do it none the less. 
I would think that the number of illegal immigrants 
in Scotland would be relatively small, and indeed 
relatively small in the country as a whole. I don't 
know the details of whether illegal residents in 
general pay income tax. I would think that in most 
cases they would, since income tax is deducted here 
by employers at source, not doing that would be to 
openly admit that they were employing people 
illegally. 


* * *


FILM DOCUMENTS INDONESIAN BRUTALITY IN EAST TIMOR


The film East Timor: Death of a Nation premiered in 
Boston on December 7th, exactly 20 years after 
Indonesia's invasion of East Timor. More than 
200,000 Timorese, approximately one third of the 
1975 population, have been killed by the Indonesian 
military since the invasion. Independent English 
film makers John Pilger and Max Stahl produced this 
film covertly, without the knowledge of the 
Indonesian government. Pilger and Stahl's caution 
is justified as journalists attempting to document 
the brutal repression in East Timor have been 
killed by the Indonesian military in the past.

This documentary intertwines interviews with East 
Timorese guerrillas still fighting in the 
mountains, Timorese in exile, people in the 
villages and English and Australian government 
officials. It paints a depressing picture of the 
torture and massacre carried out by Indonesia, the 
suffering and resistance of the East Timor people, 
and the complicity of the imperialist governments. 
Although this film does not focus on the U.S. role, 
Amerika played a big part in both condoning the 
1975 invasion and funding the subsequent massacre 
and current repression.


NOVEMBER 12TH MASSACRE NOT AN ABERRATION;
MASSES RESIST INTEGRATION


Showing rare footage of the November 12, 1991 
massacre of peaceful demonstrations, Pilger tells 
the audience that a second unreported massacre took 
place that same day and the following day. Then he 
cuts to interviews of English and Australian 
officials who say that this one massacre was an 
aberration. The interviews, mass graves, 
destruction, relocation and on-going military 
occupation make it clear that the imperialists' 
lies are necessary to defend their support for the 
regime in Indonesia.

Interviewing Alan Clark. English defense minister 
during the Indonesian invasion, about the massacres 
in East Timor Pilger says "I read that you are a 
vegetarian and are concerned with the way that 
animals are killed. Does that concern extend to the 
way humans are killed?" Clark's answer: "Curiously 
not, no."

The resistance continues in spite of severe 
repression in East Timor. On the third anniversary 
of the November 12th massacre last year, over 1,000 
East Timorese youth demonstrated in Dili. The 
Indonesian authorities responded with tear gas, 
beatings and mass detentions. This year riots and 
other protests have broken out frequently 
throughout the country. Most recently on October 
1st in Dili groups of youth blocked off parts of 
the town following clashes with pro-integration 
Timorese. Police then fired indiscriminately into 
crowds and broke into homes to break up the 
protests. House to house searches for participants 
in the unrest continued through November and 
probably continue today. Amnesty International 
reports that the military provoked the clashes that 
led to the rioting in October "through the use of 
agents provocateurs."(2)

In the Indonesian effort to force assimilation of 
the East Timor population use of the Timorese 
language is banned, cultural displays are not 
allowed, massacres are a regular occurrence and 
many people have been forcibly relocated to camps 
where they can be more easily controlled and 
monitored. Forced sterilization is becoming common 
practice as the Indonesian government realizes that 
the Timorese are not quietly submitting to 
integration even after 20 years of repression. 
School girls are being injected with the 
contraceptive Depo Provera and told it is anti-
tetanus medicine. The doctor in one clinic boasted 
of having sterilized 500 women. And while all this 
is going on, Indonesian dictator Suharto won the 
United Nations prize for support of family planning 
recently.


AMERIKA FEEDS THE OCCUPATION


According to the U.S. state department, about 90% 
of the weapons used during the Indonesian invasion 
of East Timor were U.S.-supplied.(1) Indonesia and 
the East Timorese resources it controls are 
considered an important economic and strategic 
prize. Amerika has provided Indonesia with hundreds 
of millions of dollars in military and economic 
assistance since 1975. The Clinton administration 
alone has provided almost $300 million in economic 
assistance and tens of millions of dollars in 
weaponry in the past 3 years.(1)

Amerika's complicity in this brutal and hidden 
massacre should force all who live within U.S. 
borders to speak out and take action to support the 
Timorese resistance. The courage and strength of 
the Timorese resistance deserves the support of all 
anti-imperialists. 


To order a copy of the video Death of a Nation 
write to ETAN at P.O. Box 1182, White Plains, New 
York 10602. $40 for home use, $150 for full public 
performance rights.


NOTES:
1. Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 1995.
2. Network News, East Timor Action Network/US, P.O. 
Box 1182, White Plains, New York 10602. Issue no. 
12, November 1995.

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