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         THE MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT

     MIM Notes 130               JANUARY 15, 1997


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


IN THIS ISSUE:

1.  MIM LAUNCHES SERVE THE PEOPLE FOOD PROGRAM
2.  AMERIKKKA SUBJECTS INTERNAL COLONIES TO MEDICAL
    EXPERIMENTS
3.  LETTERS TO MIM
4.  CULTURAL REVOLUTION SYMPOSIUM HELD IN NEW YORK
5.  REMEMBER THE MENDIOLA MASSACRE VICTIMS AND
    CARRY ON THE FIGHT
6.  MIM SALUTES CPP ON 28TH ANNIVERSARY
7.  PHILIPPINES: US-RAMOS REGIME ARRESTS AND
    TORTURES BORJAL
8.  CORRECTION
9.  REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL STRUGGLE
10. RURAL INDIAN STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE-SPONSORED
    ALCOHOL
11. TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY PROVOKES MIM RESPONSE
12. S. CAL. POLICE MURDERS SPUR FAMILY LAWSUITS
13. FEDS AND COUNTY D.A. STALL MEXICAN BEATING CASE
14. ANAHEIM POLICE KILL MAN IN HIS CAR
15. BOEING MERGER MAKES IT LEADER IN WORLD
    DESTRUCTION
16. TWO AMERIKAN LIBRARIANS ATTEMPT TO CLOSE YOUNG
    MINDS
17. UNDER LOCK & KEY: NEWS FROM PRISONERS AND
    PRISONS



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WHAT IS MIM?

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is a 
revolutionary communist party that upholds Marxism-
Leninism-Maoism, comprising the collection of 
existing or emerging Maoist internationalist 
parties in the English-speaking imperialist 
countries and their English-speaking internal semi-
colonies, as well as the existing or emerging 
Spanish-speaking Maoist internationalist parties of 
Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the 
U.S. Empire. MIM Notes is the newspaper of MIM. 
Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-
speaking parties or emerging parties of MIM.

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

MIM struggles to end the oppression of all groups 
over other groups: classes, genders, nations.  MIM 
knows this is only possible by building public 
opinion to seize power through armed struggle.

Revolution is a reality for North America as the 
military becomes over-extended in the government's 
attempts to maintain world hegemony.

MIM differs from other communist parties on three 
main questions: (1) MIM holds that after the 
proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution, 
the potential exists for capitalist restoration 
under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within 
the communist party itself. In the case of the 
USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the death 
of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's 
death and the overthrow of the "Gang of Four" in 
1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural 
Revolution as the farthest advance of communism in 
human history. (3) MIM believes the North American 
white-working-class is primarily a non-
revolutionary worker-elite at this time; thus, it 
is not the principal vehicle to advance Maoism in 
this country.

MIM accepts people as members who agree on these 
basic principles and accept democratic centralism, 
the system of majority rule, on other questions of 
party line.

"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is 
universally applicable. We should regard it not as 
dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not 
merely a matter of learning terms and phrases, but 
of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of 
revolution."
-- Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208


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MIM LAUNCHES SERVE THE PEOPLE FOOD PROGRAM


LOS ANGELES, 21 December 1996 -- The Maoist 
Internationalist Movement expanded its practice 
today by launching the Serve the People Food 
Program. Active MIM supporters went to a public 
place known for having a high concentration of 
homeless people and for being an open marketplace 
for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-
backed drug trade. There, the MIM supporters handed 
out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches along with 
fliers. One side of the flier handed out explains 
the Serve the People Food Program and its purpose. 
The other side contains MIM's 10-point program, 
which is available from MIM to anyone who sends a 
self-addressed stamped envelope.

The recipients of the food were overwhelmingly 
members of the class known as the 
lumpenproletariat. This is a class which is made up 
of the permanently unemployed. Within U.S. borders, 
lumpenproletarians are disproportionately found in 
the Black, Latino, and First Nations, as well as 
among people of southeast Asian origin or descent. 
Unlike the proletariat, whose members have 
experience with working as part of a group at the 
point of production, the lumpenproletariat is 
characterized by individualist behavior, sometimes 
expressed as anti-social criminal behavior. Many of 
the food recipients made no secret of their drug 
habits. Individualism and addiction to CIA-supplied 
and other narcotics make the lumpenproletariat a 
difficult class to organize. The classes 
characterized by individualism, the 
lumpenproletariat and the petit-bourgeoisie, are as 
prone to recruitment by the right as by the left.

The proletariat and its party need to work with the 
lumpenproletariat while struggling with 
lumpenproletarians to surpass the obstacles of 
individualism and addiction and transform 
themselves into proletarian internationalists who 
serve the people. Ultimately, the lumpenproletariat 
needs socialism more than any other class within 
U.S. borders (where there is no peasantry). But the 
proletariat is the class which not only has nothing 
to lose but its chains, but which is ready to 
organize to smash those chains.

MIM does not believe that handing out a few 
sandwiches is enough. Ultimately, for the world's 
masses to receive proper food, housing, health 
care, clothing, and education, the people need 
socialism. And since the imperialists will not give 
up their power without a fight, this means that the 
oppressed will need to overthrow the imperialists 
through revolutionary armed struggle. Handing out 
small amounts of food is not enough, but propaganda 
work alone is not enough either. While the Clinton 
White House demonstrates its determination to 
deprive people of basic needs by slashing welfare 
(an act which Clinton calls "reform" of welfare), 
the vanguard needs to point the way forward towards 
a society whose basic goal is to meet human needs -
- a socialist society -- and away from the current 
dog-eat-dog capitalist society whose basic goal is 
to make profits for a parasitic handful. Pointing 
the way forward includes theoretical work and 
newspaper work, but the building of public opinion 
does not end there. Comrades Huey Newton and Fred 
Hampton, leaders of the Maoist Black Panther Party 
(BPP), correctly pointed out that the masses 
principally learn through observation and 
participation. That's why MIM has launched a free 
food program.

MIM's central task at this time is to build public 
opinion and independent people's institutions in 
order to prepare the oppressed and their allies for 
anti-imperialist revolution. The Serve the People 
Food Program is an independent people's 
institution, and a key part of its work is to build 
public opinion for anti-imperialist revolution. 
When we say that it is an independent institution, 
we mean that it is not dependent on such enemies of 
the people as the U.S. Congress. It relies on the 
people for its support. Participation in the form 
of food, money, and labor is necessary and welcome.

The new program is largely inspired by the work of 
the BPP from 1966 to 1970. The BPP used the issue 
of hunger in Amerika to demonstrate both the need 
for socialism and the meaning of socialism. The 
BPP's Serve the People Programs, including the Free 
Breakfast for Children Program, were independent 
institutions of the oppressed. The BPP's Serve the 
People programs were successful in building the 
independent power of the oppressed and in building 
public opinion for anti-imperialist revolution. 
This is why these programs earned the wrath of the 
US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The Serve the People Food Program launched by MIM 
is not the first MIM-led Serve the People program. 
MIM leads Serve the People programs with lower 
visibility, such as the Free Literature for 
Prisoners Program and numerous types of political 
education work. All of MIM's media outlets -- MIM 
Notes, MIM Theory, Notas Rojas, Maoist Sojourner, 
pamphlets, fliers, posters, talks and video 
showings -- are independent institutions of the 
oppressed.

But this is not enough. MIM seeks to constantly 
expand its practice to new levels. The oppressed 
need independent institutions to provide food, 
clothing, shelter, health care, education, justice 
and peace for the oppressed nations. If you agree, 
what are you waiting for? Work with MIM to continue 
the Black Panther Party's Maoist legacy of free 
food programs. With your help, we can work with the 
masses to create independent institutions which can 
lay the basis for the greatest independent 
institution of all -- a self-reliant socialist 
government.


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**The following is the text of one side of the 
flier that MIM supporters handed out with 
sandwiches. The other side contains MIM's 10-point 
program, available from MIM to anyone who sends a 
self-addressed stamped envelope.**


THIS FOOD BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SERVE THE PEOPLE 
FOOD PROGRAM

"In short, all the practical problems in the 
masses' everyday life should claim our attention. 
If we attend to these problems, solve them and 
satisfy the needs of the masses, we shall really 
become organizers of the well-being of the masses, 
and they will truly rally around us and give us 
their warm support. Comrades, will we then be able 
to arouse them to take part in the revolutionary 
war? Yes, indeed we will."
-- Chairperson Mao Zedong, 1934

"Our Breakfast for Children program is feeding a 
lot of children and the people understand our 
Breakfast for Children program. We sayin' something 
like this -- we saying that theory's cool, but 
theory with no practice ain't shit. You got to have 
both of them -- the two go together. We have a 
theory about feeding kids free. What'd we do? We 
put it into practice. That's how people 
learn....What are we doing? The Breakfast for 
Children program. We are running it in a 
socialistic manner. People came and took our 
program, saw it in a socialistic fashion not even 
knowing it was socialism. People are gonna take our 
program and tell us to go on to a higher level. 
They gonna take that program and work it in a 
socialistic manner. What'd the pig say? He say, 
'Nigger -- you like communism?' 'No sir, I'm scared 
of it.' 'You like the breakfast for children 
program?' 'Yes sir, I'd die for it.' Pig said, 
'Nigger, that program is a socialistic program.' 'I 
don't give a fuck if it's Communism. You put your 
hands on that program, motherfucker, and I'll blow 
your motherfucking brains out.' And he knew it. We 
been educating him, not by reading matter, but 
through observation and participation. By letting 
him come in and work our program. Not theory and 
theory alone, but theory and practice. The two go 
together. We not only thought about the Marxist-
Leninist theory -- we put it into practice. This is 
what the Black Panther Party is all about."
-- Chairperson Fred Hampton, 1969

The Serve the People Food Program was established 
in December 1996 by the Maoist Internationalist 
Movement (MIM), a revolutionary communist party in 
the tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and 
Mao. MIM's central task at this time is to build 
public opinion and independent people's 
institutions in order to prepare the oppressed and 
their allies for anti-imperialist revolution. The 
Serve the People Food Program is an independent 
people's institution. It relies on the people for 
its support. Your participation in the form of 
food, money, and labor is necessary and welcome.

For more information, contact: Maoist 
Internationalist Movement P.O. Box 29670 Los 
Angeles, CA 90029-0670


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AMERIKKKA SUBJECTS INTERNAL COLONIES TO MEDICAL 
EXPERIMENTS

by a comrade

From 1932 until the 1970s secret tests were 
conducted on Blacks in Tuskegee, Alambama. The U.S. 
Public Health Service signed up 400 illiterate 
black men to research the effects of untreated 
syphilis. The agency told the Black nationals that 
they were being treated. Instead, the agency 
withheld treatment as it studied the progression of 
the disease for the next 40 years.(1) During the 
Cold War, the Amerikan government secretly exposed 
civilians to radiation to determine the effects of 
nuclear war. A recent analysis of Food and Drug 
Administration (FDA) reports by The Plain Dealer of 
Cleveland has shown that medical tests without 
consent are still common.(2)

Since 1977, the FDA has conducted 4,154 routine 
inspections of researchers testing new drugs on 
people. Of the researchers inspected, 53 percent 
did not clearly disclose the experimental nature of 
the work. In 46 of the federal and pharmaceutical 
company-sponsored drug trials which used at least 
1,000 people, no consent was given by the people. 
The remainder of the cited problems included 
misleading information given to subjects about the 
experimental nature of the treatment and its side 
effects.

While MIM does not have the entire data from the 
FDA, these examples add to the list of ways the 
white nation has used its political, economic and 
military power to force members of oppressed 
nations to be used as guinea pigs. The white nation 
has changed its tune to concede that oppressed 
nations are biologically the same as whites. In 
part, this serves the white nation's need to have 
human guinea pigs to test drugs which will be 
available only for members of oppressor nations and 
the bourgeoisie. The white nation's material 
interests lie in ensuring the advance of medical 
care and technology for use by its own parasites. 
The interest of the proletariat lies in building 
its own independent medical institutions which will 
benefit the broad masses of people and will not use 
other humans as experimental subjects in the 
process.

The recent articles in the Plain Dealer and the 
Springfield Union News cite a couple examples 
outside of the United Snakes. These examples are 
also of oppressed nationals being experimented on. 
Vaccines distributed increased death in Haiti and 
the former "British, French and Portuguese colonies 
near Cape Verde." The resources also discuss 
hepatitis vaccine testing on Lakota reservations 
and a measles vaccine targeting East Los Angeles, 
West Los Angeles and Inglewood, California.

To avoid fanning the oppressed masses distrust of 
the white nation, the so-called consent forms often 
fail to explain the real purpose of the research 
(or that it is even research).

In the Lakota nation in 1991 Sacheen White Tail 
came home with a note from her teacher - an 
invitation almost too good to pass up. If her 
mother approved, Sacheen was eligible to receive a 
free hepatitis vaccination allegedly providing her 
with lifelong immunity.

Hundreds of parents in the Standing Rock Sioux 
nation got the letter from the "Hepatitis A Vaccine 
Prevention Program" and the offer of an expensive 
mousse hair gel if their child participated. What 
they weren't told, however, was that this drug was 
not approved by the FDA and was in fact a test for 
a British drug company to determine it's safety. 
The true experimental purpose was not disclosed. 
The words 'experimental' and 'research' were also 
conveniently omitted in the letter to the parents.

The Amerikan legal system - which threw out the 
parents' lawsuit in 1993 because the drug trials 
had ended - expressed "grave doubts about the 
government's conduct" and said "that the government 
failed to give parents an adequate basis for 
informed consent." This slap on the wrist means 
nothing to the children who were used in the 
testing. The courts can make such a criticism, deny 
retribution for using humans as lab rats, and wash 
their hands of the process. It is no surprise that 
the government continues its legacy of over 500 
years to disregard the lives of Indigenous peoples. 
The advances gained provide a higher living 
standard for the white nation and the washing of 
hands fulfills the government's responsibility to 
look politically correct as it continues tactics of 
genocide.

In Los Angeles in 1990, parents were asked to sign 
forms "that mentioned something about a 'project' 
in which 'public health policy-makers' wanted to 
'determine the best measles vaccine strain,' and 
'the best schedule for age of measles 
vaccination.'" While the parents were told by the 
Center for Disease Control (CDC) that the "E-Z 
vaccine" might protect their children earlier 
against measles, they weren't told the real reason 
the vaccine was being tested.

One FDA official warned the CDC that "because 
unpublished data suggested effects on babies' 
immune systems, and 'since the use of the E-Z 
measles vaccine is unlicensed in the United States 
and therefore considered experiment ... it seems 
imperative that there be a strong warning on the 
consent form ... that their infants may not be 
protected.'" No such warning was included.

Months before these drug trials started, the truth 
about this vaccine began to come out. In former 
British, French and Portuguese colonies near Cape 
Verde, researchers learned that the vaccine 
increased overall death rates for young children.

The LA tests proceeded allegedly because they 
thought that children in the healthier Amerika 
would not be affected. This ignores the fact that 
health care is not equally distributed within the 
United Snakes and that health care for Blacks and 
Latinos is often at Third World levels. Eventually, 
the drug trials were stopped when more test data 
came back from Haiti.

Common problems found by the FDA in their routine 
inspections of drug trials has also included 
falsified data and inadequate or inaccurate 
records. Despite so many tests containing serious 
problems, the researchers and their funders are 
protected.

The existence of a clinical trial involving an 
investigational drug and the identity of the 
sponsor is confidential information. The names of 
researchers, too, are closely held. Neglecting to 
fully inform test subjects and failing to disclose 
deaths or injuries may bring a letter from the FDA, 
but that is about it.

While an official letter of criticism from the FDA 
might be a blow to the career of one medical 
researcher, it does not stop the long and 
continuing history of testing members of oppressed 
nations and the poor to benefit the oppressor 
nations. Small mistakes that lead to accidental 
deaths by the lower classes can result in murder or 
"involuntary manslaughter" charges being filed, and 
can earn jail time. But researchers making many a 
hundred thousand dollars a year can committed 
premeditated mass murder or extreme negligence and 
in exchange the FDA will make it more difficult for 
them to get federal funding in the future!

With the government responsible for ensuring food 
and medical safety, finding that over half of all 
clinical drug testing have consent problems, and 
discovering that many other include deliberate 
errors that reduce their scientific value, you 
might expect an uproar. But as the test subjects 
are disproportionately of the oppressed nations, 
they are considered expendable in the view of the 
white nation.


NOTES:
1. The Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1996. p. A14:
2. Springfield Union-News, 18 December 1996. pp. A1 
& B7.


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LETTERS TO MIM

MIM SLANDERS WORKER'S WORLD PARTY?

Dear MIM Notes,

The defense minister of the organization to which I 
belong, Panthers United for Revolutionary Education 
(PURE), subscribes to MIM Notes, so I enjoy the 
privilege of reading it whenever it passes 
censorship. As the prison administration is 
morbidly averse to any and everything anti-
establishment.

I, on the other hand, subscribe to the WORKERS 
WORLD newspaper; supported their candidates for 
president and vice president; and for this reason 
beg to differ with MIM's position that "none of the 
parties today that run candidates are 
Socialist."(MIM Notes, 1 September 1996) Such an 
accusation, in my opinion, comes dangerously close 
to malicious slander. Especially in light of the 
incongruous and ludicrous distortion of the 
candidates' physical features by your cartoonist, 
that were ran parallel with and suggesting a 
likeness to Ralph Nader.

I respect MIM's decision to not run or endorse a 
candidate at this time. We disagree in strategy, 
not objective. And this alone is not ground enough 
to impeach another's sincerity and socialist 
convictions. More than anything, in my view, it 
reflects a certain political immaturity, as 
revolutionaries over the years, and from every 
corner of the globe, have sought to teach us the 
critical importance of working through our 
strategic differences and other differences upon 
which the capitalists depend to stave off 
revolution. This is the First Rule. And MIM's 
attack of the WORKERS WORLD PARTY is a clear 
violation of this First Rule against division.

We like MIM Notes because it carries many articles 
of interest to prisoners. But in spite of your 
extensive coverage, MIM seems to be unaware that 
the presidential elections every four years are by 
far the most talked about single subject amongst 
prisoners. So, had not Monica and Gloria run - they 
even made America's prisons and death rows a part 
of their campaign itinerary - many prisoners on 
Texas Death row wouldn't have been seriously 
discussing alternative politics and religiously 
reading the WORKERS WORLD, and books by or about 
Marx and Lenin.

For us and our families and friends, the WORKERS 
WORLD candidates didn't send the message that 
electoralism can eliminate imperialism, and that 
the imperialists will leave power peacefully. No! 
to the contrary, Monica and Gloria highlighted the 
lies, corruption, and class interest of the 
imperialists.

If we felt that Monica and Gloria were running 
merely in hope of influencing the imperialists by 
showing them the support a "Socialist" organization 
can gain, PURE would not have endorse them. But we 
never read or heard anything about the candidates 
seeking to negotiate any deals with Clinton, 
Buchanan, Nader or any of those bandits. They 
antagonized them at every opportunity. And to imply 
that they were attempting to pull off a Jesse 
Jackson move (Stealing voters away from the 
Democrats, then selling them back for a concession) 
insults our intelligence.

The lowest point came when you wrote in reference 
to the WORKERS WORLD PARTY, "No where in their 
campaign materials does the WWP call for armed 
revolution," suggesting that they party is a bunch 
of Gandhi disciples rather than Marxist-Leninist 
revolutionaries.

The time that I have spent dignifying your slander 
I could have used trying to get some help for Daryl 
Wheatfall, a death row prisoner who's in solitary 
confinement, and facing new charges (attempted 
capital murder) for stabbing a prison guard. He was 
in fear of his life when he committed this 
desperate act. And is perhaps more terrified now 
than when he was when he acted out of fear and 
panic, being that he's in solitary confinement, 
separated from the rest of death row. And has been 
beaten at least twice that we know of.

PURE, our families, friends and supporters, the 
WORKERS WORLD PARTY, and the Texas Coalition to 
Abolish the Death Penalty are doing all that we can 
for him. Should you wish to contact him to offer 
your support, his name and address is: Daryl 
Wheatfall #999020, Ellis Unit, Huntsville, Texas 
77343.

Sincerely,
Prime Minister
PURE


MIM RESPONDS: MIM will address two separate issues 
in this letter. The first is the Marxist-Leninist 
credentials of Worker's World Party, and related to 
that, the writer's proposal that MIM refrain from 
criticizing Worker's World in favor of "socialist" 
unity against capitalism. The second is the 
strategy of running candidates for office to raise 
any kind of socialist political consciousness -- 
and MIM's differing strategy of denouncing the 
electoral system altogether in our "Don't Vote" 
campaign.

MIM does not base our assessment of Worker's World 
as "not socialist" on the fact that they ran 
candidates for president and vice-president alone. 
Rather, we look at Worker's World's liquidation of 
national oppression in favor of a false unity 
between the white nation labor aristocracy and the 
Black, Latino and First Nations. We also look at 
WW's demand for a $10/hour minimum wage for 
Amerikan workers as a threat to the international 
proletariat -- as increased wealth in the First 
World can only come about through the increased 
super-exploitation of Third World workers.

So in our objectives as well as our strategy, MIM 
disagrees with Worker's World. We do not serve the 
oppressed by covering up these differences with 
Worker's World or any other cheerleader for the 
reactionary labor aristocracy. For an in depth 
review of WW's political economy, see MIM Theory 
10, "Coming to Grips with the Labor Aristocracy," 
available for $6 from MIM.

On the general strategy of running candidates in 
the United $tates to raise political consciousness 
-- MIM disagrees with this use of resources and the 
message it sends. MIM is well aware of the 
prominence of presidential campaigns to political 
discussion among prisoners and on the outside, and 
we seized every opportunity to explain why voting 
is a dead-end under imperialism, and why the 
oppressed should, and do, choose revolution 
instead. We carried out an extensive campaign to 
build revolution instead of legitimizing the 
elections and choose to send out a correct analysis 
of imperialist elections instead of throwing the 
resources of the masses away. MIM has been running 
a free books for prisoners program for years, 
providing Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and progressive 
literature to prisoner study groups. Building 
independent institutions among the oppressed is a 
superior practice to wasting the people's resources 
fighting electoral battles which are not winnable 
and that inevitably send out the message that under 
imperialism there is something legitimate worth 
winning - a greater share of Third World 
superprofits. MIM says, choose revolutionary 
internationalism instead and DON'T VOTE.


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CULTURAL REVOLUTION SYMPOSIUM HELD IN NEW YORK

On December 14 and 15 the 30th Anniversary 
Symposium on China's Great Proletarian Cultural 
Revolution(GPCR) was held in New York City. 
Presentations were made predominately by academics. 
William Hinton, author of many books MIM 
distributes, delivered a keynote address. The 
symposium was organized by the China Study Group 
and co-sponsored by Monthly Review Press and the 
Economics Students Union of the New School.

The event brought together a number of interesting 
people to celebrate the Great Proletarian Cultural 
Revolution. Some aspects of the universals of 
Maoism in general and the Cultural Revolution in 
particular are not settled in the International 
Communist Movement, and so MIM had hoped for sharp 
debate on some of these points of contention such 
as the role of the so-called "Gang of Four".

While the event did bring out some different lines 
on the GPCR, it was not organized to bring about 
much in-depth direct struggle between panelists or 
those present. These structural impediments, and 
the inclusion of some panelists hostile to the GPCR 
and Mao's leadership in China made building broad-
based unity on the fundamentals of Maoism 
impossible.

MIM learned about this event too late to submit a 
paper and participate on a panel, but has already 
dedicated a chapter of an upcoming issue of MIM 
Theory to the Cultural Revolution. As always, 
contributions and challenges are welcome and 
encouraged.


GPCR FURTHEST ADVANCE TOWARDS COMMUNISM


Several panel members and William Hinton defended 
the Cultural Revolution as the farthest historical 
step taken towards Communism anywhere in the world. 
Other panelists credited the GPCR and the all-out 
attack it led against modern revisionism with the 
upsurge in national liberation movements around the 
world.

A professor from Marygrove College credited the 
Chinese Communist Party and the GPCR with inspiring 
the formation of Marxist Leninist parties in many 
countries around the world. Another speaker 
credited the GPCR and the Chinese battle against 
revisionism with the formation of the Black Panther 
Party; and credited the Panthers with spreading Mao 
and the GPCR to the rest of the u.s. movement. MIM 
has credited the GPCR (in MIM Theory 7) with the 
internal and external advances made by the Young 
Lords Party/Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers 
Party-- who learned of Maoism from the BPP. A 
member of the feminist organization Redstockings 
credited Mao and the Cultural Revolution with 
promoting self-reliance as a principle, as well as 
providing the theoretical tools to advance their 
movement forward.

On Sunday, December 15, a panel was held entitled 
"Critique of the Mainstream Consensus Verdict on 
the Cultural Revolution" and was moderated by Harry 
Magdoff of Monthly Review. Maurice Meisner, author 
of Mao's China and After, took an anti-GPCR line on 
this panel. Meisner, who said on National Public 
Radio in November that he didn't think China was 
ever socialist, ended his talk by saying "to 
compare [the Cultural Revolution] to the Holocaust 
would trivialize the Holocaust."

Appropriately, the next panelist was a professor 
from Tasmania who attacked Meisner's charges of 
Holocaust and discussed the real advances in the 
Cultural Revolution. Not just a battle against 
revisionism, the Cultural Revolution unleashed the 
power of the people and increased production. He 
also discussed how education was aided by the 
Cultural Revolution. He argued for a consistent and 
non-opportunist use of statistics. Students of 
China should accept or reject government 
statistics, not pick and choose their use by how 
well an argument they make.

This professor discussed the 16 point Circular 
which was issued at the start of the Cultural 
Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was explicitly 
supposed to be nonviolent, and he put the blame for 
the violence that did occur were it belonged:  on 
the enemies of the revolution.

Other panelists spoke about being supporters of the 
Chinese people in the 1970s and their visits to 
China. Now they disavow much of their support and 
claim to have been misled. These metaphysicians, 
like an anti-Mao student who challenged MIM, ignore 
the huge advances made by the Chinese people under 
the leadership of Mao and the Chinese Communist 
Party. They don't want to compare the Chinese 
Communist Party to the Kuomintang, but to utopia. 
The academics complain in 1996 that twenty or 
thirty years ago on their visits, they were only 
shown the good side of China. These academics want 
to blame socialism in China for not being utopia - 
which the Maoists never claimed it was - because 
they were so naive or stupid as to assume that 
China in the 1970s really was utopia devoid of any 
errors or shortcomings not yet overcome.

This is similar to the metaphysics of Meisner, who 
blames non-Maoists for "much of the violence" in 
the GPCR, but still manages to criticize the GPCR 
as a whole. He does this because, despite the thin 
veneer of support he wears as a China scholar, he 
opposes the Chinese revolution and the struggle of 
the world's majority - which is a majority of 
peasants and proletarians in the Third World - for 
control over their own lives, for socialism.

During this panel, a statement was read from Jose 
Maria Sison, founding chairperson of the Communist 
Party of the Philippines, entitled "GPCR's Impact 
on the Philippines and Continuing Global 
Significance". Sison's statement was sent in 
response to an invitation by the organizers to 
present a paper. The Filipino activist reading the 
statement was rudely told to keep it "short" before 
he began, and was prevented from reading the entire 
statement by an impatient Magdoff.

There are enough reactionaries in the world 
promoting lies about the GPR, to serve the 
oppressed people of the world, a conference about 
the GPCR should exclude people openly hostile to 
the GPCR and give priority to activists who 
struggle to uphold the GPCR and apply it to their 
practice over academics who just talk about the 
GPCR.


GPCR LEGACY EXISTS IN CHINA


The final panel discussed whether the GPCR has a 
legacy in China today. The first panelist made a 
long presentation based on the incorrect premise 
that China was still socialist, despite the 
importation of "market forces."

A woman from the Zigen Fund spoke about the decline 
in education for girls. (The Zigen Fund is a small 
NGO that gives material aid to Chinese villages.) 
Peasants make about $20 a year, and tuition costs 
$15 a year. The peasants are willing to borrow 
money to send the boys to school, but not the 
girls. This presenter reported that the famous 
"barefoot doctors" -- peasants trained as medical 
workers which greatly expanded the reach of 
medicine in rural China during the GPCR - are no 
more.

The high point of the symposium was a young Chinese 
student who spoke on the final panel. He had been a 
supporter of capitalism and a participant in the 
1989 democracy struggle, or as he called it, the 
1989 revolution. He stated that after being 
arrested, he dropped bourgeois ideology, picked up 
Marxism and dedicated himself to bring about 
socialist revolution in China. When he said this, 
the audience broke out into very loud spontaneous 
applause. He later added that his recognition that 
democracy was impossible under capitalism spurred 
his decision.

This student came to realize that capitalist 
development was not sustainable in a country like 
China. He recognized that the China could not 
become another south Korea or "a fifth tiger" due 
to the specifics of the Chinese situation. This 
student made it clear that China was already a 
capitalist country, and strongly criticized the 
first panelist.

As MIM explained in MIM Theory 4, south Korea, 
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - the four tigers - 
were able to successfully develop under capitalism. 
The imperialists and big bourgeoisie in these 
countries took the unique opportunity created by 
the end of World War II to smash their own 
landlords. This helped prevent communist revolution 
and freed the big bourgeoisie from having to defend 
the landlords from the peasant majority. These 
historically rare bourgeois-led land reforms 
propelled their economies forward compared to other 
Third World countries.

The student cited the increase in contradictions 
between the rural and urban areas, as well as the 
growth of income inequality compared to the United 
Snakes as impetus for another Chinese revolution. 
Despite the fact that the Chinese economy may 
continue to grow for another 10-15 years, he 
predicted stagnation and eventually he declared 
"The Chinese people will rise up!"

READ UP ON THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL 
REVOLUTION!

Recommended reading:

Jose Maria Sison's contribution to this conference, 
"GPCR's Impact on the Philippines and Continuing 
Global Significance", is available online at 
http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/intl7.htm

For the symposium, the China Study Group has 
published Manufacturing History: Sex, Lies and 
Random House's Memoirs of Mao's Physician. The book 
takes on the outright lies and slanders against Mao 
in "The Private Life of Chairman Mao", Dr. Li 
Zhisui who was supposedly Mao's personal physician 
for 22 years with unimpeded access and a close 
confidant of Chairperson Mao. Part two of the book 
reprints documents from individuals who had contact 
with Mao and Li, during the events discussed in the 
book or who were quoted as corroborating sources. 
These documents explain the Memoirs would be better 
called Fantasies. The book is 203 pages and 
available from MIM for $10.

Capitalist Roaders are Still on the Capitalist Road 
by the Colorado Study Group is an excellent 
theoretical treatment of capitalist 
counterrevolution in China within months of its 
occurrence. This book, an analysis of official 
Chinese Communist Party publications during and 
after the Cultural Revolution, takes on the lies of 
Hua Kuofeng that the "Gang of Four" were ultra-
rightist capitalist-roaders. (Yes! Hua Kuofeng who 
led the coup against the "Gang of Four", attempted 
for a time to co-opt the legacy of the GPCR, by 
calling the "Gang of Four" rightists, not ultra-
leftists as is popular -- but incorrect -- today.) 
In theoretical overviews, and with a focus on 
education, literature and art, healthcare, industry 
and agriculture the book shows that the Gang of 
Four upheld what was then called Mao Zedong 
Thought; and that the line of Hua Kuofeng was the 
same revisionist line that had been attacked 
throughout the GPCR. 111 pages. $10 from MIM.


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REMEMBER THE MENDIOLA MASSACRE VICTIMS AND CARRY ON 
THE FIGHT

22 January, 1997 marks the ten-year anniversary of 
the Mendiola Massacre, when the Philippines Marine 
Corps murdered farm workers and peasants agitating 
for genuine land reform in the Philippines.

Every year, family members, activists and 
supporters commemorate the deaths of the people who 
were killed by the military of then-Secretary of 
National Defense Ramos under the government of 
then-president Corazon Aquino.

Ten years after the massacre, and having offered no 
relief to the Mendiola survivors or the victims' 
families, Ramos has moved up to the presidency of 
the Philippines and is continuing his reign of 
violence against the people. As one victim's 
relative said: "how can we expect justice when the 
perpetrators are now occupying high government 
positions? Not only were they not punished, they 
were even promoted."(1)

In Amerika, President Klinton portrays the Ramos 
dictatorship as a friendly and democratic regime-
building up the Philippines as an emerging Asian 
tiger. But behind the mask of bourgeois democracy, 
the u.s.-Ramos regime with u.s.-backing has 
repressed his own people to provide the United 
Snakes and other imperialists with access to 
superprofit extraction.

MIM supports the Mendiola victims' families' 
continuing struggle for indemnification, and seizes 
on this commemoration to build public opinion 
against the U.S.-Ramos regime's repressive tactics 
and denial of just agrarian reform in the 
Philippines.


FASCISM WITH A FRIENDLY MASK


Commemorating the 1996 anniversary, a speaker for 
the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant 
Movement of the Philippines--KMP) said, "the only 
difference [between the permanent martial law which 
Ramos inherited from his two predecessors and the 
current situation] is that the Ramos government has 
developed a cunning and subtle way to violate the 
rights of the people and get away with it by 
leveling it in the name of peace and development."

Ramos has had plenty of time and all the right 
connections to learn how a comprador can use 
fascism to imperialism's best advantage. Ramos 
knows that his cousin and late Filipino dictator 
Ferdinand Marcos needed martial law to allow the 
comprador bourgeoisie to exploit the masses. He has 
also seen how overt martial law inspires mass 
protest, and he knows u.s. imperialism would prefer 
to see a democratic facade rather than open 
draconian repression in its colony. The anti-
terrorist act as well as recent attacks against 
Filipino activists show that Ramos is conducting 
martial law with a makeover.(2)


FASCISTS SLAUGHTER MASSES IN 1987


22 January 1987, 500 heavily armed Philippines 
Marines fired at peasants from Central Luzon and 
Southern Tagalog. Organized by the KMP, 30,000 
peasants were marching to the Malacanang Palace to 
seek an audience with then President Aquino. Prior 
to the march, the peasants had camped out at the 
gates of the Department of Agrarian Reforms(DAR) to 
pressure Aquino to implement the Comprehensive 
Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) - which she promised 
in her presidential campaign. Before the peasants 
could reach the Palace, the Marines killed 13 
peasants, wounded 105 and arrested 15.(3)

As fascists attempting to cover their tracks often 
do, Aquino ordered the Commission on Human 
Rights(CHR) to investigate the massacre. The 
investigating committee was abolished even before 
it identified the murderers.(3)

It is no surprise that Aquino did not push for 
indictment of members of the military, Aquino was a 
puppet of the military -- she staggered around 
catering to the demands of the military so it would 
allow her to retain her figurehead position. Making 
an order for investigation merely bought the GRP 
time in their battle to disguise the contradictions 
within Filipino society.

In 1988, the murdered and wounded peasants' 
families filed a lawsuit for reparations of 250,000 
pesos for the family of each murdered victim, and 
P50,000 for each person wounded in the massacre. 
This plea was rejected, but each family did receive 
P25,000 -- roughly $1,000 to cover up the 
military's murderousness.


MILITARY MASSACRES CONTINUE; MASSES STRUGGLE FOR 
JUSTICE


Shortly after the Mendiola Massacre, on 10 
February, 1987, the 15th Infantry Battalion 
slaughtered 17 civilians, including elderly and 
small children in Lupao, Nueva Ecija. The Manila 
Chronicle defended the 15th Infantry by blaming the 
NPA for the slaughter. The newspaper claimed the 
slaughter only took place after the battalion had 
lost a soldier to an encounter with the NPA. Aside 
from the moral bankruptcy of murdering civilians to 
strike at the New People's Army, this explanation 
is not confirmed. The fascists often dream up 
encounters with the NPA so they can blame the 
revolutionaries for their own murderous actions.

In 1989, 24 soldiers involved in the Lupao 
brutality were acquitted for a supposed lack of 
evidence.(4) One woman who had lost her mother, 
father, two brothers and two sisters in the 
massacre said that the NPA is not the force which 
brings terror to her area. "To her, the military is 
the villain because 'they killed my family'."(4)

On 22 March, 1994, the families of the massacre 
victims formed the Kilusang Enero Beinte Dos 
(January 22nd Movement--KE22). KE22 also includes 
families of other massacre victims -- families of 
those killed in Lupao, and at Santa Maria in 
Bulacan on 13 December, 1991 (another instance of 
brutality against the people for which the 
government blames the NPA). KE22 gathers documents 
on murder cases involving the military. (1) The 
organization also organizes resources for the 
victims' families who are struggling to eke out a 
living.


FASCIST MURDERERS AND BIG LANDLORDS COMBINE TO HALT 
LAND REFORM


The day before the Mendiola Massacre Aquino said in 
a speech, "No one can take away the lands you till-
this is clear in the Charter." Her rhetoric was 
exposed as hypocrisy the following day. 
Additionally, as of 1996, only 19% of the land 
targeted for distribution had been given out and 
tenancy remains in at least 35% of all farms in the 
country (5)

Unfulfilled promises of land reform combine with 
imperialist agreements, the latest versions of 
which are the new GATT, Structural Adjustment, APEC 
and Philippines 2000. Philippines 2000 export 
orientation forces farmers to convert traditional 
rice and corn farmland to farm things like 
asparagus and flowers to export to the First World. 
Farms producing for export receive government 
support while rice producing lands are crushed out 
of business because of competition with subsidized 
First World farmers.

Big landowners can exempt their land from CARP-
mandated redistribution by converting their 
farmland to residential or industrial land. In 
1994, 2,428 big landowners applied for land 
conversion and only 4% of the applications were 
rejected.(5)

Big landlords also use congress-approved exemptions 
to avoid the CARP implementation. Republic Act 
1778, passed by the landlord-dominated congress, 
exempts fishponds, prawn farms and livestock and 
poultry farms from CARP implementation and defers 
CARP implementation in commercial farms for another 
10 years. As of September 1995, 56,220 hectares of 
commercial farms were approved for deferment and 
27,732 hectares were exempted.(5)

Work with MIM and RAIL to increase propaganda work 
against the U.S.-Ramos regime. Get in touch with us 
through one of the addresses on page 2 or our 
webpage for information about January 22 rallies 
and other events in support of the just struggles 
of the Filipino people.


NOTES:
1. Manila Times 22 January 1995 p.A2.
2. December 1996 Maoist Sojourner and MIM Notes 
127, 128, and
129.
3. Today, 22 January 1995.
4. Manila Chronicle, 12 February 1996.
5. IBON Features, 22 January 1996.


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MIM SALUTES CPP ON 28TH ANNIVERSARY

26 December 1996

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), a 
revolutionary communist party based in North 
America, enthusiastically salutes the arrival of 26 
December. This is the anniversary of the Communist 
Party of the Philippines (CPP), and, not 
coincidentally, is the birthday of comrade Mao 
Zedong as well. When the CPP was reestablished in 
1968, it correctly upheld the communist legacy of 
comrades Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. A 
few months after its reestablishment, the CPP 
formed the New People's Army and launched the 
protracted people's war against imperialism, 
feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. In 1992, 
following a period of "left" and right deviations, 
the CPP launched a movement to reaffirm its basic 
principles, rectify its errors, and recover lost 
ground. Since 1992, the CPP has correctly put 
renewed emphasis on the decisiveness of ideological 
and political line generally, and on the importance 
of studying and applying the line of comrades Marx, 
Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao in particular. The 
rectification movement's launching in 1992 and its 
successes up to the present are among the most 
important events in the world in the last two 
decades.

Marx taught us to scientifically analyze the world 
in order to change it. Lenin taught us to organize 
a leading, conscious force and an armed, fighting 
force for the seizure of power, stage by stage. Mao 
taught us to mobilize the masses to struggle 
against the restoration of capitalism by those 
phony communists who wave the red flag in order to 
defeat the red flag. The CPP, through its 
scientific analysis, its leadership of the 
protracted people's war, and its struggle against 
the revisionists who sought to subvert the CPP's 
work from within, demonstrates the continued 
relevance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as a tool for 
liberating the oppressed. MIM wishes continued 
success to the CPP and the national democratic 
revolution it leads. MIM contributes to this 
success in the best way it can -- by preparing the 
masses of North America to make anti-imperialist 
revolution.

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES!
VICTORY TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE'S WAR!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!


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PHILIPPINES:
US-RAMOS REGIME ARRESTS AND TORTURES BORJAL

by MC53

November 21, Ramos' military goons abducted Danilo 
Borjal, a National Democratic Front of the 
Philippines (NDFP) Consultant. The arrest and 
subsequent torture are direct violations of the 
agreements made in the peace negotiations between 
the GRP and the NDFP. The US-Ramos regime has 
completely disregarded the Joint Agreement on 
Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) which 
protects participants in peace negotiations from 
surveillance and guarantees their free and 
unhindered passage.

"In the face of the GRP's prior and repeated 
violation of the JASIG, the NDFP is considering the 
termination of the JASIG and its peace negotiations 
with the GRP."(1) "The NDFP is postponing 
indefinitely the scheduled meeting of its 
Reciprocal Working Committee on Human Rights and 
International Humanitarian Law with its 
counterpart, unless it is satisfied with the GRP's 
compliance with the JASIG in the cases of Danilo 
Borjal, Sotero Llamas and Raymundo Jarque."(5)

The NDFP, led by the Communist Party of the 
Philippines, is engaged in a righteous 
revolutionary struggle for national liberation and 
socialism. This newest violation shows that the GRP 
is not sincere in its agreement to the JASIG. This 
is further proof that the current government does 
not work in the interests of the masses and that 
only a protracted people's war led by the 
proletariat in alliance with the peasantry can 
liberate the masses of the Philippines from 
imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.

MIM exposes this hypocrisy as we organize 
revolutionary opposition against Amerikan 
imperialism which supports the Ramos regime to 
fulfill its agenda of superprofit extraction from 
the labor of the Filipino masses to perpetuate 
Amerikan parasitism.

The JASIG guarantees immunity from surveillance, 
harassment, search, arrest, detention, prosecution 
and interrogation or other similar punitive actions 
due to involvement or participation in the peace 
negotiations. Borjal was en route to talks with 
other NDFP consultants when abducted by men in 
civilian clothes and taken to a military camp for 
subsequent days of interrogation and torture.(3) 

After Borjal was arrested, GRP military agents 
threatened him with electric shock treatment and 
extrajudicial execution and repeatedly strangled 
and beat him as they held Borjal incommunicado for 
four days.(2) One military agent said to Borjal: 
"Do you think just because you are a consultant of 
the NDF or member of the Central Committee (of the 
Communist Party of the Philippines), we won't 
torture or kill you? If you don't cooperate, you 
and your wife will just turn up dead." Borjal was 
continuously hit in the chest and strangled with 
controlled but painful force every time he did not 
answer questions.(3)

The GRP planted and fabricated evidence and filed a 
the criminal charge of illegal possession of 
firearms and ammunition against Borjal as a further 
attack against the NDFP and in violation of the 
JASIG.(2) The .45 caliber firearm and ammunition 
were planted by GRP military agents, as they done 
in scores of other instances.(1) "Planting guns and 
other evidence on 'subversives' is standard 
military and police practice," admitted Ramos' 
justice secretary, Franklin Drilon.(3) This 
fabricated criminal charge against Borjal proves 
once again that the u.s.-Ramos government is 
criminalizing political activity.

"The NDFP vigorously condemns the GRP's series of 
gross violations of the JASIG and of the rights of 
Mr. Borjal. By its continuing refusal to respect 
the rights of Mr. Borjal, capped by his forcible 
submission to GRP judicial processes through his 
arraignment [9 December], the GRP must be held 
responsible for its de facto unilateral termination 
of the JASIG and the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. 
The Ramos regime thereby has dishonored its own 
signature on the JASIG and exposed its utter lack 
of sincerity in pursuing peace talks with the 
NDFP."(2)

"In the face of Borjal's illegal arrest and 
detention, the government declaration of a two-
month truce in deference to the holiday season is 
an empty promise. It is both an attempt to cover up 
the military's brutal wrongdoings, as well as a 
pretense of sincerity towards peace, something 
which the cases of Borjal and much earlier Sotero 
Llamas, strongly disprove. Danilo Borjal's 
continuing ordeal is a big blow to the peace 
process and human rights. While talking peace, the 
Ramos government continues to wage counter-
insurgency."(4)

Amerikan imperialism created the monster currently 
torturing and imprisoning genuine people's 
activists, peasants, workers, students and 
revolutionaries in the Philippines. Get involved in 
organizing against US imperialism in the 
Philippines and elsewhere. Check out the websites 
below for current updates and calls for action. 
Work with MIM and RAIL to expose Amerikan interests 
in perpetuating the dictatorship in the 
Philippines. Work with us to build a strong anti-
imperialist revolution within the belly of the 
beast.


Notes
1. http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/ndf8.htm
2. http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/ndf9.htm
3. http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/ndf6.htm
4. http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/ndf7.htm
5. http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/peace8.htm 
[Press Statement 29 November 1996 National 
Democratic Front of the Philippines NDFP 
Negotiating Panel "NDFP POSTPONES INDEFINITELY 
PEACE TALKS WITH GRP"]


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CORRECTION


MIM retracts its front-page slogan of "Junk APEC" 
as inappropriate for imperialist country audiences 
while entirely appropriate in oppressed semi-feudal 
nations. It was a mechanical copying of the 
national democratic movement Philippines that led 
to this error.

We print the following questions and answers in 
order to explain the retraction and clarify MIM's 
stance on "free trade" mechanisms.

1. WHY DON'T YOU OPPOSE GATT/NAFTA/EEC/APEC?

Answer: At this time, MIM cannot lead a 
revolutionary class alliance on the basis of this 
demand in the imperialist countries. Quite the 
contrary, the KKK, AFL-CIO bureaucrats--and even 
more significantly--Ross Perot, Patrick Buchanan 
and Strom Thurmond all oppose free trade. They 
represent the Amerika-first bourgeoisie and the 
labor aristocracy afraid of losing jobs. The 
proletariat by definition is the class with nothing 
to lose and it is not threatened by the treaties 
between ruling classes. Capitalism was bad for the 
proletariat before any of these treaties existed.

2. WHY DON'T YOU OPPOSE APEC/GATT ETC. FOR YOUR OWN 
REASONS, THE RIGHT REASONS?

Answer: There are no right reasons in the 
imperialist countries, because these demands 
unleash the reactionary classes and political 
movements that we would like to stay asleep.

Even if we issue a slogan with our own hearts pure, 
it's objective impact is all that matters. Given 
the social material we have dominated by the 
bourgeoisie, petty-bourgeoisie and bourgeoisified 
workers, this demand can only lead to national 
chauvinism of the oppressor nation. For example, in 
the latest issue of MIM Theory, a former member of 
the "CP"-USA attests that anti-NAFTA agitation of 
the "labor" movement came with chauvinist slams on 
Mexican workers.(1)

3. YOU DON'T MIND IF THE OPPRESSED NATION WORKERS 
WIN SOME REFORMS SOMETIMES?

Answer: That's correct: we don't mind. We wish the 
oppressed nation comrades success in their use of 
this issue to rally the national bourgeoisie and 
petty-bourgeoisie against imperialism. Even without 
the APEC, they could rally the proletariat and much 
of the peasantry against imperialism. Economic 
nationalism plays a progressive role in the 
oppressed nations, but not in the oppressor 
nations. Our position boils down to the pivotal 
classes that make the national question a national 
question and not just a simple bourgeois vs. 
proletarian class question --the national 
bourgeoisie in the oppressed nations and the labor 
aristocracy of the oppressor nations.

4. CAN'T YOU OPPOSE APEC ON REFORMIST GROUNDS?

Answer: Those who recognize that it not a treaty 
that is bad, but capitalism which is bad ask us to 
support reforms in the oppressed nations. However, 
the first duty of the communists is to make 
revolution. Revolutionaries in the Philippines are 
correct to oppose APEC not because it brings good 
reforms to the people but because it is the fastest 
path to revolution. We are correct not to oppose 
individual trade treaties in the oppressor nations, 
because its contribution to the formation of a 
revolutionary class alliance would be negative.

Like Marx we expose the fact that free trade does 
not mean there is no exploitation underneath the 
"free trade." That is done by explaining to the 
masses the full history of these treaties and the 
fact that they existed in the past as well. 
Furthermore, we must educate the masses thoroughly 
on the difference between an economic system and an 
individual treaty or we are in effect lying to the 
masses.

5. WOULD YOU OPPOSE A REQUEST BY YOUR FRATERNAL 
COMRADES TO OPPOSE THE APEC/GATT ETC?

Answer: If our fraternal comrades of several 
oppressed nation parties upholding Marx, Lenin, 
Stalin, Mao and the "Gang of Four" asked us 
unanimously to take the risk of unleashing the 
fascist movement of the nativist sort and if these 
comrades would publish their strategic vision of 
how this problem can be dealt with later, we might 
concur.

On the other hand, if the fraternal comrades don't 
understand the decadent and parasitic but dominant 
role of classes such as the labor aristocracy in 
the imperialist countries and if they have 
illusions that MIM is about to defeat the 
internationalist bourgeoisie and then take out the 
Perot/Buchanan/AFL-CIO/KKK nativists, it is our 
duty to disabuse them of those illusions. They 
cannot count on an anti-NAFTA/GATT/APEC movement as 
an ally or component part of the necessary 
dictatorship over the u.s. imperialists.

We would like to remind our comrades where Marx 
stood on this question and have them answer what is 
new that has invalidated Marx's concern with 
national chauvinism in the advanced capitalist 
countries:

"If the free-traders cannot understand how one 
nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we 
need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also 
refuse to understand how within one country one 
class can enrich itself at the expense of another.

"Do not imagine, gentlemen, that in criticizing 
freedom of trade we have the least intention of 
defending the system of protection.

"One may declare oneself an enemy of the 
constitutional regime without declaring oneself a 
friend of the ancient regime.

"Moreover, the protectionist system is nothing but 
a means of establishing large-scale industry in any 
given country, that is to say, of making it 
dependent upon the world market, and from the 
moment that dependence upon the world market is 
established, there is already more or less 
dependence upon free trade. Besides this, the 
protective system helps to develop free competition 
within a country. Hence we see that in countries 
where the bourgeoisie is beginning to make itself 
felt as a class, in Germany for example, it makes 
great efforts to obtain protective duties. They 
serve the bourgeoisie as weapons against feudalism 
and absolute government, as a means for the 
concentration of its own powers and for the 
realization of free trade within the same country.

"But, in general, the protective system of our day 
is conservative, while the free trade system is 
destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and 
pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the 
bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the 
free trade system hastens the social revolution. It 
is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, 
that I vote in favour of free trade..."(2)

From the above, we can see that in countries where 
feudalism is still at issue, even protectionist 
elements of society like the emerging national 
bourgeoisie are progressive. However, in 
imperialist society where there is no feudalism, 
protectionism is worse than free trade.

If MIM had the upper-hand militarily speaking over 
the Amerika-first bourgeoisie and the labor 
aristocracy, MIM could oppose both protectionism 
and free trade in practice. Currently, we would be 
lying to our comrades internationally to say we 
have that kind of power: only protectionism versus 
free trade is on the agenda. The best of intentions 
cannot change that.


NOTES:
1. MIM Theory 10, p. 66.
2. Karl Marx, January 9, 1848 Speech to the 
"Democratic Association in Brussels," Selected 
Writings, ed. David McLellan (Oxford University 
Press, 1977), pp. 269-70.


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REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL STRUGGLE

In the past year, MIM has initiated new campaigns 
for a new outlook on financial development of the 
revolutionary movement. Since Mao Zedong wrote 
articles on the subject of financing the movement, 
we are safe in saying that there is a science that 
needs to be applied to the question.

At first, a revolutionary struggle relies on the 
contributions of supporters to print literature and 
undertake other projects. At the other end of 
political development, the Chinese Communists had 
to decide what tax rate to set and how much rent 
should be reduced for peasants in the base areas 
while China was still capitalist and semi-feudal.

We should seek to go beyond making appeals for 
funding on a strictly emotional basis and 
understand how it is best to finance the 
revolutionary movement. MIM has found in its 
campaign so far that petty-bourgeois and labor 
aristocractic thinking block MIM's finance 
campaigns.

By 1990, MIM members faced requirements for 
financing the party based on income and a realistic 
allowance for living. Such requirements also have 
the effect of ensuring that the party only retains 
the best proletarian elements available.

Since 1990, MIM's thinking on finances has 
developed further to see the imperialist countries' 
movement as playing or developing to play a 
distinct financial role in the international 
communist movement. This thinking goes along with 
the arrival of a new publication called Maoist 
Sojourner which focuses on the exiles from the 
semi-feudal oppressed nations.

Through Maoist Sojourner, we make the imperialist 
country audiences aware of the real revolutionary 
struggles happening in the Philippines, India, Peru 
and Turkey. This gives the would-be proletarian 
elements something to compare their own work with. 
For example, those holding the false theory that 
there is an oppressor nation proletariat in the 
United $tates can compare their work in union 
struggles for higher wages so workers can buy more 
VCRs to the same effort dedicated to supporting the 
revolution in the oppressed semi-feudal countries. 
MIM hopes to win away some people who are currently 
wasting their time on economistic struggle for the 
oppressor nation working class. An example of a 
telling difference is that in the Philippines and 
India today the masses cannot get enough 
revolutionary literature and the movements are 
constantly out-of-stock, while the oppressor nation 
workers will not look at the literature.

Many of our same comrades who wish to uphold the 
revolutionary armed struggle in the oppressed semi-
feudal countries will not put themselves on the 
line--even slightly--for a financial goal. When the 
party asks comrades to take slight or non-existent 
risks, we find that many comrades--especially those 
from conservative lower-middle class (labor 
aristocracy) backgrounds-- will not take the risk. 
It is the outlook of the labor aristocracy to hold 
on to its scraps from the imperialist plate and put 
stability and security above all else. These 
comrades invent all kinds of fears about change, 
even more than peasants in countries experiencing 
collectivization. Even when faced with proof of the 
efficacy of a method of financing the movement, 
some people continue to deny facts out of profound 
fear. While we do not have the crucible of armed 
struggle to remold our comrades, many who can't 
face the commitments of building the independent 
institutions of the oppressed and financing them 
can undergo at least that much remolding in the 
imperialist countries.

Another problem we have is the petty-bourgeois mode 
of thinking. Petty-bourgeois minded comrades often 
won't have consistent reasons for opposing the 
party finance line. Their class background is to 
vacillate between the bourgeoisie and the 
proletariat. Often the petty-bourgeois mode of 
thinking will include some proletarian elements and 
at crucial moments introduce completely 
inappropriate bourgeois assumptions. The following 
are examples of these middle-class lines that MIM 
has encountered.

1. If working with the party does not provide a big 
petty-bourgeois lifestyle or corresponding salary, 
then the party is to blame. Such comrades demand 
parasitic lifestyles immediately or they won't give 
their time to the revolution.

2. Some comrades with their own finances taken care 
of in terms of their needs for housing and food 
etc. still expect the party to direct their every 
move. We call this the "employee mentality." It's 
connected with the lower middle-class's need to 
follow capitalist orders and fear that doing 
otherwise would be fatal.

3. If the party does the research and has the 
connections to get someone a cushy job leaving time 
for the revolution, some comrades will refuse out 
of fear that the job will disappear. They then go 
off to their own alternative and make no 
contributions to the revolution.

4. If a comrade takes a job suitable for making 
contributions to the revolutionary movement, the 
comrade blames the party for "coercing" him or her 
into taking it and any unpleasantness though it be 
less than on normal jobs gets blamed on the party 
as if the party were doing the job for them.

5. If a comrade loans another comrade money to 
build a business, the one making the loan blames 
the party for "screwing" them as if the party was a 
vacation agency taking people's money and going to 
the Bahamas. This is both a labor aristocracy line 
given that people in the imperialist countries are 
parasites who can't be "screwed" and it is also 
anarchist distrust of all organization of power. 
These comrades are not saying there are better 
businesses to be started; they make no such 
complaints and wage no such struggles on how to 
best fund the revolution. These comrades just trust 
the bourgeoisie more than the party or comrades. 
They'll leave money in the bourgeoisie's banks or 
conservative investments, but they won't trust 
their comrades trying to do something better.

On the positive side, MIM has had many successes in 
funding its work, which is why we have so many 
publications. The success comes at such a pace that 
the doubts of the "conservative peasants" who fear 
all risks or imagined risks look that much more 
petty.

We ask our readers who can be rational about money 
matters and supporting the revolution to step 
forward. Some comrades who find it difficult to get 
it together to do anything for the revolution 
nonetheless fund it. There are many in the 
imperialist countries who can get beyond their 
debilitating fears and figure out how to fund the 
revolution.


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RURAL INDIAN STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE-SPONSORED 
ALCOHOL

Review
When Women Unite

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Co-Director Shabnam Virmani from 
the North-Western Indian city of Ahmdebad has just 
wrapped up a tour of the showing of her film When 
Women Unite: the Story of an Uprising. A MIM 
correspondent went to showings in several cities 
and found it very inspiring. It captures on film 
the struggle of wimmin of the villages of Andhra 
Pradesh, in South India, to get the state to stop 
selling a cheap liquor known as arrack. Along the 
way, it reveals a lot about the need for mass 
struggle in the face of a government without the 
masses' interests as its own.

The film opens with an introduction to the 
atmosphere of the crisis that was coming to a head 
in the late 80s in rural Andhra Pradesh. Because of 
the so-called modernization of agriculture, rice 
paddies were largely replaced with sugar-cane. This 
contributed to the rise in the price of rice, 
increasing the hunger of the rural people. It also 
removed employment possibilities for wimmin, who 
were simply not hired at the new big farms. So 
wimmin had to rely on their husbands' income.

At the same time, however, husbands were becoming a 
less reliable source of income. The government, in 
order to make money, was contracting out the sale 
of cheap liquor known as arrack in small cachets 
(packets) easily accessible to the poor people. 
This not only took money away from the family's 
food budget, it also increased violence against the 
wimmin of the village.

The wimmin, meanwhile, were becoming gradually more 
conscious of the nature of their problem with 
arrack. In a government-funded literacy program 
they gathered and discussed what was going on in 
their lives. Peasants, especially peasant wimmin, 
are often isolated from each other and this program 
allowed them to politicize each other as a group. 
Like proletarians whose material circumstances of 
group work allow them to recognize that their 
oppression is an oppression of their group, not an 
individual oppression, the wimmin were able to take 
the first steps to organize to change their 
conditions.

Specifically, one of the literacy primers contained 
a story with an anti-arrack message. Later, when 
the government discovered what was going on with 
their literacy program, they removed this essay so 
as to put the interests of the government more 
clearly into the program.

When one womyn was killed by her drunken husband, 
it sparked a movement in Nellore District. Wimmin 
began, fairly spontaneously at first, to protest 
outside the arrack stores. When they managed to 
close down the daytime sales, the stores moved to 
selling at night. So the wimmin began to stop the 
trucks bringing arrack into the village, and 
destroyed the cachets.

The movement grew and by 1991, 50,000 wimmin 
marched in Nellore to demand that the state stop 
contracting out the sale of arrack, and instead ban 
it. It gained support from many different quarters, 
including the Marxist-Leninist left that had 
engaged in similar struggles elsewhere and middle-
class organizations like writers' guilds.

Local governments were largely run by the 
contractors of arrack. In one town, 11 of the 13 
council members were arrack contractors. So clearly 
the state did not want to listen to the anti-arrack 
movement. But when the government was trying to 
hold auctions to figure the contractors' deals, 
tens of thousands of protesting wimmin prevented 
them from convening. So the government decided to 
start selling arrack directly. This made the 
people's enemy even more clear — the government, 
not its delivery system.

The government's hypocrisy is clear in the video. 
One hand the government was always saying to the 
poor people, "don't drink it's bad for your 
health", while at the same time the making huge 
profits by selling it to the people.

First, the movement won a ban on arrack sales in 
Andhra Pradesh. But the government wasn't going to 
let such a huge income source and social control 
mechanism go so easily, so the government dyed the 
arrack, put it in bottles and called it something 
else. But the people rebelled against that too. At 
this point the mainstream TDP promised total 
prohibition within 2 minutes of getting elected and 
were elected on that pledge. The opportunism of the 
TDP was not lost on the wimmin of the movement, as 
they knew during a previous term of office, the TDP 
was the party to put the popularized arrack via the 
cachets. The TDP did enact prohibition, but they 
exempted toddy; and didn't try very hard to stop 
smugglers.

A strong point of the video is the way in which is 
shows how some wimmin who initiate the movement in 
their village are able to win over the rest of the 
village.

In one scene, after the arrack shops have been 
destroyed by activists, the government tried to 
pressure the men of one village to store 
government-distributed arrack in their homes. One 
womyn refused to join the protest of the 
"negotiations", because she didn't want to see her 
husband betray her. When he comes back to the 
house, she confronted him, but he told her he 
didn't take the arrack. He told her, "I might be 
stupid when I'm drunk, but not when I'm sober." In 
many villages, everyone refused to aid the 
government sale of arrack.

The importance of this anti-arrack movement and the 
video's coverage of it is that it stresses self 
reliance, not dependence on the government. When 
the arrack ban was announced, the wimmin organized 
to ensure that arrack and other alcoholic 
replacements stayed out of their village. The 
wimmin did not allow their movement to be co-opted 
and destroyed by the government.

The video and the wimmin in it state quite clearly 
that the government doesn't really want to enforce 
prohibition, so the people must do it themselves. 
So while the movement has subsided, it's because 
the wimmin won. Now the wimmin are struggling to 
consolidate their victory and preserve it. The 
wimmin in the video were clear on this important 
point.

Many of the wimmin in the video are radicals, who 
appear to recognize the limits of reformism, but 
the video doesn't delve into the issue of how 
complete liberation and the ability of people to 
determine their own destinies can be accomplished 
without a revolution. There is also no discussion 
of the organization necessary to achieve this 
transformation. As Maoists, we support this 
movement as one of self-determination, and we 
celebrate the battles won while warning against the 
limits of spontaneous organizing. In fact, MIM was 
impressed with the radical foundation of the 
organizing that prevented, at least for now, its 
co-optation and destruction by the government.

The anti-arrack movement brought about a winnable 
battle that protects the people from more damage. 
Free from arrack, we hope to see the people of 
Andhra Pradesh work with Maoists in India for 
communist revolution against capitalism, patriarchy 
and imperialism to once and for all end the 
oppression of the people by a government that 
doesn't share the interests of the people.

When Women Unite is a Drishti-C DIT production 
available from Media for International Development, 
55 East 92nd Street, 4th Floor, NY NY 10128. 


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TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY PROVOKES MIM RESPONSE


On December 22, television viewers of the Discovery 
Channel saw a documentary on transsexuals and 
transvestites with testimony from medical and 
psychology experts. The Discovery Channel markets 
itself in a niche popularizing scientific 
curiousity.

Transsexuals are people who are attempting or who 
have made the switch from being male to female or 
vice-versa. The television documentary described 
some cases of surgery and hormone treatment of 
people wishing to undergo sex change operations.

Transvestites are people who prefer to dress in the 
‘traditional’ clothes of the opposite sex.

MIM will not remark on the factual accuracy or 
generalizability of the Discovery documentary on 
transsexuals and transvestites. For MIM instead, 
this documentary sparks a general theoretical 
response.

In the interviews, we learn of people tormented by 
maintaining a facade of a gender identity they 
don't believe in. In many cases teasing and social 
pressure for conformity started in elementary 
school. In one case, a gay man preferred to believe 
he was really a womyn than to believe he was gay 
and he undertook an operation to change sexes that 
he later regretted. Social pressure against 
homosexuality made a medical operation to remove 
the penis more acceptable than being homosexual. 
Others spoke of being in suicidal pain for not 
quite "fitting."

MIM would point out that something that is 
naturally prevalent is not necessarily good. In 
fact, in many cases society values the 
statistically deviant. Champion athletes are 
statistically rare and perform human feats that are 
by definition "abnormal." It is only politics that 
makes the abnormal "bad."

Sometimes the abnormal is also bad from a 
proletarian ideological standpoint. Such is not the 
case in transsexuality or cross-dressing.

These issues have become more marked in recent 
years in declining u.s. imperialism, because with 
no forward-looking agenda or capability for higher 
goals, white nationalist Christians stand out more 
than usual. In Colorado and Oregon they have put 
such issues on statewide ballot referenda in an 
attempt to legalize hatred of anything but the most 
common sexual interactions amongst heterosexuals.

In their own way, many of these Christians have 
made gender the principal contradiction or the 
fundamental contradiction with their reactionary 
movements on abortion and gays. From their 
standpoint these issues are absolutely central to 
their whole agenda. Such would not be possible in a 
society dedicated to food, clothing, shelter and 
other basic human needs both in North America and 
the whole world.

The genuine communist movement finds it a secondary 
matter what clothes people choose to wear, their 
gender identities and even their choice of 
biological sex or cosmetic surgery. That so many 
people invest their "self-esteem" in gender 
identities to the point of fomenting hatred against 
others only points out to MIM the pettiness of the 
system, including its gender aristocracy. The 
pettiness of the subject stands out when one 
considers that the Maoists in China took care of 
many of these issues by having everyone wear Mao 
suits – not designated pink and blue ones. Many of 
the issues of cross-dressing, sexual harassment and 
gender identity --China wiped out in a single 
stroke. The state did not lend its power to 
accentuating gender identity differences and for 
this reason many people lived more comfortably and 
with lower suicide rates than found in the West.

The battle for progress on the gender front will 
not occur first by confrontation with the 
Christians. Ironically, we in the feminist camp 
must first clean house before we can move forward. 
The many pseudo-feminists who apply no science in 
their efforts and who put the gender contradiction 
as fundamental or always principal are contributing 
to the social conformist chokehold affecting 
transsexuals, transvestites and some gays and 
lesbians.

Pseudo-feminism of the West propagated by gender 
bureaucrats found in government sponsored rape-
crisis centers, domestic violence centers and 
wimmin's studies departments does not clearly put 
forward that important issues are food, shelter, 
clothing and prevention of war. These gender 
bureaucrat misleaders of the feminist movement put 
forward the opposite pole of the same Christian 
stupidity by placing sexual conflict (and it is 
often just a form of verbal masturbation) above 
life itself. By placing such a value on gender 
conflict, for example by arguing that millions of 
men should go to prison for rape and harassment, 
the pseudo-feminists again send the message that a 
rarified romance culture is all-important.

If instead we were able to clean house and get the 
feminist movement going so that it recognized that 
these issues are in fact secondary, those tormented 
by gender identity issues might rest just a little 
easier. It would also enable this sector of the 
population to make greater contributions to the 
proletarian agenda. A solid proletarian-led 
feminist movement would create saplings of 
progressive culture that could grow to maturity 
under communism.


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POLICE BRUTALITY ALERT!

S. CAL. POLICE MURDERS SPUR FAMILY LAWSUITS

Oxnard, Cal., policy killed Fernando Herrera Jr., 
25, on July 18, while supposedly suspecting him of 
committing a burglary. Handcuffed, face-down, with 
six cops sitting on his back, he died of cardiac 
arrest, according to the Ventura County coroner, 
who refused to call it police murder, noting 
Herrera had traces of cocaine in his blood and an 
elevated body temperature (hardly fatal conditions) 
at the time of his death.

The state sentenced Herrera to death on suspicion 
of burglary. MIM charges the state with murder 
based on oppressed-nation nationality.

In July, Raul Madera, 23, died from tonsillitis 
while in the Ventura County jail, according to the 
coroner. He was supposedly being treated for the 
tonsillitis at the time. Death from a tonsil 
infection is a preventable death, in MIM's opinion 
and the opinion of Madera's family and lawyers. 
Madera was serving a 13-month sentence for drug 
possession.

The state condemned Madera to death for personal 
possession of illegal drugs. MIM charges the state 
with criminal negligence and withholding medical 
care, as well as criminal incarceration based on 
oppressed-nation nationality.

Luther Thomas Allen, 55, died Oct. 1 after a drunk-
driving arrest by Oxnard police. The coroner said 
he died of internal injuries resulting from an 
accident earlier in the night. Police arrested him 
under suspicion of drunk driving. Police say he 
refused treatment by paramedics and showed no signs 
of injury. The state condemned Allen to death for 
drunk driving. MIM charges the state with criminal 
negligence in failing to administer medical care to 
injured prisoners - and criminal incarceration of 
an oppressed-nation national.

Internal white-washes of each case determined that 
the state was not responsible for any of the 
deaths.

The families of the three victims are suing the 
local authorities for violating the civil rights of 
the victims. MIM thanks the families for exposing 
these cases and hopes they win their lawsuits. Such 
exposure is an important part of building public 
opinion for revolutionary solutions to imperialism 
and national oppression.


NOTES: Los Angeles Times, 3 December, 1996.


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FEDS AND COUNTY D.A. STALL MEXICAN BEATING CASE


Remember the TV footage of Riverside County 
Sheriff's deputies brutally beating two Mexican 
nationals, Alicia Sotero Vasquez and Enrique Funes 
Flores, they had pulled over on the side of the 
road? As of the beginning of December, seven months 
after the incident, no criminal indictments have 
been handed down against the police by either 
federal or local county prosecutors.

In any just system, the beating would be an easy 
prosecution. The victim's lawyers point out that 
not only is there video and audio tape of the 
beating, but there are also witnesses willing to 
testify. However, the only consequence so far is 
the dismissal from his job of one of the beating 
deputies and the suspension of a California Highway 
Patrol officer who lied about the audiotape he made 
of the beating.

Sotero and Funes also have civil lawsuits pending 
that are being undermined by the long delay, their 
attorneys say.

While the feds stall, county D.A. Gil Garcetti, who 
also has jurisdiction, has not pressed charges 
either. State law will prevent him from going ahead 
with a case if the feds file first, so his stalling 
is probably terminal. It also comes after formal 
protests from the Mexican-American Bar Association 
that Garcetti's office consistently ignores police 
shootings of Latinos.(1)

MIM shares the outrage of those who see no justice 
being done in this and many other cases of 
brutality against immigrants and Latinos. Even if 
the feds do single out a few cases for public 
prosecution, however, the border system, with its 
enforced separation of over- and under-paid 
workers, and the rampant national oppression 
perpetrated by the state and its many Amerikan 
agents, are not seriously threatened by individual 
prosecutions. Instead, revolutionaries use these 
and other cases to build consciousness and public 
opinion for revolutionary solutions to imperialism 
and national oppression.

In another case, in which the Border Patrol did 
bring charges against five agents accused of 
throwing rocks at immigrants and then leaving them 
injured without help (in 1993), a federal 
arbitrator ordered that the agents be reinstated 
for lack of evidence against them. The arbitrator 
said he could not give any credibility of the 
accuser because he was an illegal immigrant with a 
record of being an illegal immigrant in the past.

Even in this case, however, which may end with the 
five pigs getting back pay for their several years 
off, has led the state to pat itself on the back 
for acting so justly. The arbitrator agreed the 
officers should have four-month suspensions, so the 
chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector said: 
"The arbitrator has clearly agreed that the five 
agents acted improperly and that this type of 
conduct is unacceptable and must be dealt with 
sternly."(2)
Let justice ring!


NOTES:
1. L.A. Weekly, Nov. 29, 1996 
2. Los Angeles Times, Nov. 28, 1996.


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ANAHEIM POLICE KILL MAN IN HIS CAR

Three Anaheim police officers shot and killed a man 
they say was a fugitive after he attempted to flee 
an arrest. They gave no evidence that the victim 
was armed or had attempted to harm the police in 
any way.

Police said the victim was surrounded by unmarked 
police cars at a gas station when he hopped into 
his truck and appeared to prepare flee. They didn't 
identify the victim except to say he was on parole 
and a fugitive. An investigation into whether the 
shooting was justified was supposedly underway.


NOTES: Los Angeles Times, 27 November1996. This 
information was distributed by People Against 
Racist Terror, Box 1055, Culver City CA 90232-1055.


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BOEING MERGER MAKES IT LEADER IN WORLD DESTRUCTION


by MC31

On December 15th the Boeing Company announced that 
it planned to acquire the McDonnell Douglas 
Corporation for $13.3 billion. This merger comes 
just nine days after Boeing bought Rockwell 
International Corporation's "defense" and space 
business. Boeing is now the world's largest 
aerospace enterprise. Boeing's closest competitor 
is the European Airbus Industrie consortium, which 
controls 35 percent of the world market in 
commercial airliners. Boeing now ranks second only 
behind Lockheed Martin as the biggest military 
contractor in the United $tates.

McDonnell Douglas was ready for the takeover - they 
just got knocked out of the running for the largest 
Amerikan military contract for combat jets. Boeing 
and Lockheed Martin will now compete in 2000 for 
the coveted $200 billion contract to build the 
Joint Strike Fighter. With no chance of getting the 
golden opportunity to employ thousands of Amerikans 
in the production of huge war toys with which to 
destroy the Third World, McDonnell allowed Boeing 
to take it over.

The increasing consolidation of the "defense" 
industry means that the government will pay more 
for its war-making machines because there are fewer 
companies to compete for bids. This is the happy 
marriage of government and corporate industry at 
its best! With mergers like this, the corporations 
lose their facade of "free market" competition. And 
it is this corporatism which was the definition of 
fascism according to its founder Mussolini.

The war industry has provided Amerikan imperialism 
with a nice opportunity to bribe its working class 
with well paying government-sponsored jobs. It is 
the higher prices that government pays to 
corporations that have little competition that 
helps fuel this parasitism. Boeing chief executive 
Philip Condit said layoffs would be minimal. But 
even if there are layoffs, there are plenty of jobs 
in the growing prison industry or among the growing 
police force to employ labor aristocrats who like 
to make their money in industries of human 
destruction.

The war industry clearly demonstrates the waste of 
capitalism where money is poured into the 
production of implements of destruction that are 
necessary to keep the majority of the people of the 
world under oppressive and exploitative conditions. 
And at the same time, this industry in Amerika is a 
further parasitic waste in the high wages it pays 
its labor aristocracy employees - doing its part to 
keep the Amerikan working class on the side of 
imperialism.


NOTES: Washington Post, 16 December 1996. p. A1 & 
21 December 1996. p. D1.; New York Times, 16 
December 1996. p. 1.


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TWO AMERIKAN LIBRARIANS ATTEMPT TO CLOSE YOUNG 
MINDS

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- On December 10th, the librarian 
of  a leading liberal arts school -- Swarthmore 
College -- attempted to stop MIM from handing out 
newspapers on Swarthmore campus grounds. "Please 
don't hand out papers around the library," the 
white-haired womyn said and then added " [students] 
have better things to be doing than reading 
newspapers."

Despite the reception of the librarian, students at 
Swarthmore College were relatively receptive to MIM 
Notes, even compared with students in general.

Not to be outdone at nearby Widener College, the 
librarian said she would have to ask permission to 
leave newspapers free in the library she works in.

As students get more serious about resisting 
militarism and environmental degradation, they will 
have to clear the way of such obstacles to their 
work. They shall have to demand the right to speak 
to whom they choose and read the newspapers of 
their choosing. College administrators have used 
the bogus excuse of "security" to decide who 
students should speak to while doing nothing to 
reduce crime statistically on the campuses. Student 
government leaders in particular should shoulder 
the responsibility of securing for students the 
concrete ability to digest politics for themselves.


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UNDER LOCK & KEY: NEWS FROM PRISONERS AND PRISONS


*** MIM ON PRISONS AND PRISONERS ***

MIM seeks to build public opinion against Amerika's 
criminal injustice system, and to eventually 
replace the bourgeois injustice system with 
proletarian justice. The bourgeois injustice system 
imprisons and executes a disproportionately large 
and growing number of oppressed people while 
letting the biggest mass murderers -- the 
imperialists and their lackeys -- roam free. 
Imperialism is not opposed to murder or theft, it 
only insists that these crimes be committed in the 
interests of the bourgeoisie.

MIM does not advocate that all prisoners go free 
today; we have a more effective program for 
fighting crime as was demonstrated in China prior 
to the restoration of capitalism there in 1976. We 
say that all prisoners are political prisoners 
because under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, 
all imprisonment is substantively political. It is 
our responsibility to exert revolutionary 
leadership and conduct political agitation and 
organization among prisoners -- whose material 
conditions make them an overwhelmingly 
revolutionary group. Some prisoners should and will 
work on self-criticism under a future dictatorship 
of the proletariat in those cases in which 
prisoners really did do something wrong by 
proletarian standards.


* * *


MEDICAL "CARE" IS TOOL OF OPPRESSION BEHIND BARS IN 
AMERIKKKA

IMPROPER MEDICAL "CARE" CAUSES 13 DEATHS

Revolutionary Greetings Rades,

I write from the Belly of the Beast, hoping this 
letter finds you in high Revolutionary spirits, 
thoughts and struggle. I write to notify the rades 
that I was transferred from the Maximum Control 
Complex (MCC) in Westville, to another control unit 
prison in Carlisle, Indiana, which is twenty-five 
miles south of Terre Haute.

The repression has basically increased at this new 
prison where I reside now. They call it Wabash 
Valley Correctional Institution, but don't allow 
the name to fool you, the act of genocide is very 
common here. Within the last three years this 
genocidal tomb has been open, over thirteen 
prisoners have died from serious medical problems. 
[This is] due to the improperly trained Medical 
Personal and the Department of Colonialism's (IDOC) 
refusal to build a medical facility in this prison 
to attend to the serious medical needs of prisoner.

The food here is so inadequately proportioned that 
an adult male from the age of 23-50 can not sustain 
his physical well being. Prisoners who need hygiene 
[items] such as soap, toothpaste, deodorant, [and] 
shampoo must submit a written request to a 
counselor in order to receive it. Instead of toilet 
tissue and soap being provided to prisoners when 
they need it, they are forced to wait on these 
colonialist enforcers to give it to them, when they 
want to. No showers are provided to prisoners who 
need them.

The cells are doubled celled, but they are only 
large enough for one individual. No ink pens or 
paper are given to prisoners at state expense. This 
prison forces prisoners to buy certain hygiene 
[items], clothes, stationary, over the counter 
medication that the state is obligated by law and 
their own correction polices to provide to 
prisoners. All other penal facilities in Indiana 
provide prisoners with free hygiene [items], 
clothing, stationary, etc. except this one in 
Carlisle.

This is supposed to be [general] population [where] 
I am housed, but we are being are being treated as 
if we were on disciplinary segregation. There are 
many wicked crimes occurring here and once I am 
finished compiling all the data about this prison, 
I will be back at the rades with an update on the 
situation. There is supposed to be a class action 
filed against the conditions of confinement on the 
infamous lock-up unit the SHU, which the Indiana 
Civil Liberties Union is handling, but the strange 
part about this said class action [suit] is that it 
is not being filed against the conditions of 
confinement in [the general] population at this 
prison, why? It is time for all principled 
revolutionaries and progressive rades out there to 
support our struggle against the colonialist 
enforcers....

 -- An Indiana Prisoner, 14 October 1996


TEXAS PIGS WATCH PRISONER COMMIT SUICIDE


In Tennessee Colony, TX on Coffield Unit last 
night, a TDCJ officer watched an inmate commit 
suicide in his cell by hanging himself. This 
officer is at work tonight. The officer is 
insisting that he never tried to stop the inmate. 
He even stopped the inmate when one of the SSI 
walked up. After that he said go ahead, I never 
seen this before. Yes, the officer had a front row 
seat.

After the body started jumping he just smiled. Are 
you thinking what I am thinking. Yes, you are 
right, the officer is white and the inmate is 
Black. See that is what made it so good to the 
officer. Just like the old days. Go for it. Anyway, 
when the body jumped again he walked slow to the 
sergeant. One is hanging himself. He called the 
infirmary. They are very slow. It takes them well, 
about 6 to 8 minutes. And when they made it to the 
inmate they didn't know what to do. It's like 
telling a dog to fly. Well, about the time they 
removed the sheet from around his neck, he was 
dead. The inmate hung himself with a white sheet, 
and it takes you at least 10 to 20 minutes or 
longer to do. The sergeant told the officer to walk 
the run every 10 minutes because something could 
happen. All the inmates on that end are suicidal. 
The officer said yell, OK.

It's not the first time this has happened. I 
remember about 3 years ago there was an inmate who 
was having chest pain. He told the officer, the 
officer said yell, OK. He did, he called the 
infirmary and he said they told him to put a sick 
call in. See sick call or red tape in other words, 
ain't nothing happening for you. We don't have 
time, it's almost time to go home. Anyway the 
inmate had a heart attack. So they have to come to 
the wing to get him, you know, 6 to 8 minutes later 
I can see them coming, walking very slow. So when 
they finally made it there, he was really having 
one. They didn't know what to do. So they put him 
on the bed with wheels and started down the hall.

They said he's not breathing and he needs CPR. I'm 
not putting my mouth on no inmate. So they ran the 
shower and said anyone know how to give CPR. No one 
said anything. So they ran out of the shower and 
headed down the long hallway. About the time they 
made it to the infirmary he was dead. But they 
wrote it up as if he died on the way to John Sealy 
Hospital. The man was dead before they left the 
unit.

Well I just wanted you to know it's happening in 
the system. It's even worse on Ferguson unit, an 
inmate hang themselves and they are the closest to 
going home. I never understood that...

 -- A Texas Prisoner, 19 November 1996


PRISONERS HEAVILY DRUGGED IN THE NAME OF MEDICINE


Peace Comrade,

I hope this message finds self in the best of 
health mentally, physically and spiritually. I 
enter your realms in effort to have my name added 
to your mailing list. Up until now I was sharing 
MIM Notes with another brother who was transferred 
due to changes here. This used to be a prison which 
housed convicts, now that the whole population has 
been converted to a medical facility, all cons that 
were stable are now heavily sedated with some type 
of psychotropic drug. Other than the cycle of 
continuous mind abuse, all is going as the neo-
colonialistc correctional elite planned.

 -- A South Carolina Prisoner, 21November 1996


MEDICAL BILLS FOLLOW PRISONERS AFTER RELEASE


Greetings Comrades,

...Life inside a South Carolina Ad-Seg unit is 
continuing to be more oppressive every day. No 
telling what will be next. I've enclosed the most 
recent tactic by the South Carolina pigs to get 
more from us.[See below.] From my understanding 
any/all medical bills will follow prisoners to the 
streets, so now prisoners who max-out etc, will be 
hassled upon release, and all bills for medical etc 
will re-establish upon any prisoner who gets out 
and then returns to the system. Just more South 
Carolina Bullshit as usual.

 -- A South Carolina Prisoner, 23 October 1996


The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) 
has the authority to charge prisoners for the costs 
of state property they allegedly damaged or 
destroyed intentionally. Now under Section 24-13-
80, South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, the SCDC's 
amendment gives the pigs authority to charge a 
prisoner to re-pay the costs of the following:  "1. 
Medical treatment for injuries inflicted by an 
inmate(s) on him/herself or others;  2. Quelling a 
riot or other disturbance in which an inmate(s) is 
unlawfully involved; and  3. Searching for and 
apprehending an inmate(s) who escapes or attempts 
to escape." These additional items prisoners will 
be charged for went into affect August 1st. This 
sham to get money out of prisoners makes the 
prison-proliferating-settlers satisfied that they 
are not footing the entire bill to maintain tight 
control over Amerikan prisoners and serves as a 
legal billy club to keep prisoners - 
disproportionately of oppressed nations - 
unhealthy, quiet and silent.


MEDICAL FEES ADD TO ABUSE IN PRISON


...Police on my end are scared of Latinos due to 
the Latino unity and love. There is no secret that 
the same way another inmate will feel the Latino's 
wrath, so will the police. We do not play what-so-
ever on my end, police get beat up constantly by 
the inmates, but you can imagine the outcome when 
the inmate is hauled off by ten white C/O's 
[Corrections Officers] into a single cell behind 
closed doors.

We also face the problem of having to pay for 
medical care. Inmates are required to pay $5.00 for 
each visit to the doctor. Medication is $2.00 and 
aspirin, rolaids, medicated ointment, and sudafed 
are sold on canteen only, and will not be given to 
us free. If you have any money in your account, 
trust me when state pay comes, it will be reduced 
from the door.

Also this ad-seg is so pitiful that lights out is 
at 11:00. We are not allowed baby oil, lotion, 
soap, state soap will be provided. And recently all 
B and D batteries were banned. Envelopes are not 
sold anymore unless they are bought with stamps, 
anything for a profit...

 -- A New Jersey Prisoner, 25 October 1996


BLACKS AND HISPANICS ACT NOW TO INCREASE AWARENESS 
OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC

by a New York Prisoner 

11 November 1996

The AIDS epidemic is worsening amongst our people. 
I want to reach as many as I can with my message. 
"It's about saving lives for me." We are living in 
a time where the world is over- populated, 5.7 
billion people. There's a war against our brothers 
and sisters. Bodies are dropping at an alarming 
rate. AIDS is just another weapon used to destroy 
us. Wake up! Blacks and Hispanics have been in 
denial about this crisis. In part because of a 
traditional homophobic tendency in our culture, in 
part because of ignorant stereotypes about HIV and 
AIDS, our people have been in denial about AIDS in 
Black and Hispanic communities.

The Harvard AIDS Institute released figures 
projecting that by the year 2000, more than half of 
all AIDS cases in Amerika will be amongst Blacks 
and Hispanics. Wake up! By that same year a Black 
or Hispanic person will be nine times as likely to 
be diagnosed with AIDS as someone who is White. The 
institute estimated that nearly 100 Blacks and 
Hispanics are diagnosed with AIDS every day in 
Amerika. This is not a coincidence, it is part of 
an overall plan.

I am a prisoner in New York State. The numbers of 
prisoners with AIDS is incredible. "I am HIV 
POSITIVE." However I don't live with AIDS -- AIDS 
lives with me! I am in charge of my life today. I 
have a story to share with my younger brothers. 
Hopefully I can save as many as I can, before I am 
taken out by the Amerikan Plan.

We must educate our young brothers and sisters. Dr. 
Alvin Pouissant, a clinical professor of psychiatry 
at Harvard Medical School said, "Prevention 
programs have not been as strong in the black 
community as in the white community." This is not a 
coincidence! There is a taboo about talking about 
AIDS. And there is still a lot of despair. This is 
one more problem. We've got crime, violence, teen-
age pregnancy, homelessness, now we've got AIDS. We 
must wake up! Study, and you will see right through 
the smoke screen. We are the target. It's time to 
fight back! Wake up! I beg you!

I have more alarming figures. The Centers For 
Disease Control and Prevention released more than a 
year ago:  AIDS kills twice as many Black men aged 
25 to 44 as homicide. Black women constitute two 
thirds of all women infected with HIV, the virus 
that causes AIDS. More children with AIDS are Black 
than all other races and ethnic groups combined. 
WAKE UP! THIS IS NO FUCKING COINCIDENCE!

By the year 2050 the world population will be an 
estimated 10.4 billion. That's about double the 
population today. Senator Bob Dole called 
prisoners, "Undesirable Parasites". Study and you 
will learn that all prisoners don't wear chains and 
locks. "We are all prisoners of the oppressor. We 
are the target, brothers and sisters. With us they 
will attempt to balance out the population. Africa 
alone is estimated to have 14 million people 
suffering with AIDS. This is a human tragedy of 
monstrous proportions. And that's what this is all 
about. They have a plan. We must put a stop to the 
oppressors!

Wake up! The time is now!

MIM ADDS:  We wholeheartedly agree with the overall 
article and its push for action to stop genocide 
against oppressed nations. AIDS as well as other 
deadly diseases affect members of oppressed nations 
disproportionately because of the way that 
imperialism works. Imperialism sucks the labor, 
wealth and resources from oppressed nations. 
Imperialism denies the oppressed access to medical 
and educational resources for prevention and for 
cures.

The problem with the above article is that it 
states that the number of people is one of the 
problems. This is a myth perpetuated by the 
bourgeoisie to support its tactics of oppressed 
nation genocide like population control programs, 
war and forced migration. The problem is not that 
the world is over-populated but that imperialism is 
sucking it dry of resources and hoarding the wealth 
and profits from the labor of the international 
proletariat. We encourage you to check out MT12 on 
Revolutionary Environmentalism coming out soon.

The most effective method to stop the genocide of 
oppressed nations through AIDS and inadequate 
access to medical care is to build revolution to 
smash imperialism. Only true independent 
institutions will serve the needs of the people. 
Getting the facts together and the word out is a 
necessary first step. Its impossible to have equal 
and adequate education or medical treatment for 
oppressed nations within Amerikan borders. The 
people must do the work ourselves. Building 
educational programs and medical facilities are 
more effective under proletarian leadership - China 
and the BPP prove that - so we must strengthen the 
Party and expand the Serve the People programs. At 
this point, we can help with resources you need to 
build educational programs for other prisoners on 
AIDS. Please keep us up to date on your work.


PRISONER EXPOSES SOCIAL WORKER AS AGENT PROVOCATEUR


These people at this prison think that they are so 
slick. Today about 6 social workers came in lockup 
trying to get everyone to take a mental evaluation 
screener. It's a test with about 60 true or False 
questions on it. I looked at it and seen that it 
was a serious joke. I read only 7 questions before 
I threw it on the floor. What made me throw it on 
the floor, was question number 7. It asked, Did you 
ever have any problems with the police? That had to 
be the stupidest question of 1996. I told the 
social worker that I didn't want to participate in 
their prison games.

See it really pissed me off because the only reason 
their giving these guys the test is so they will 
know how these guys react in certain situations. 
The social worker told me that the test is to help 
us. I told him that if they really want to help us, 
then they should let us set up social groups that 
will prepare us to go back to general population. 
Because you have Brothers who've been on lockup in 
these sensory deprivation cages for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
7, years. You can't really expect a Brother to do 
all that time in a cage by himself, then tomorrow 
just blend into general population. Now don't get 
me wrong, some can do it, but many can't. I told 
the social worker, aka Agent Provocateur that we 
need groups where we could get out of lockup for a 
couple of hours and have little group sessions 
among ourselves. The agent-provocateur locked at me 
and said he had to go. And that was the end of our 
conversation. But he knew that I knew that his or 
rather their phony little test wasn't put out to 
help anybody but them....

Well Sisters and Brothers, as you know, the 
Struggle Must Continue!

 -- A South Carolina Prisoner, 27 November 1996


SALVI'S SUICIDE PROVOKES QUESTIONS ON PSYCHIATRIC 
TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

by a comrade

On November 29, John Salvi, was found dead in his 
prison cell from an apparent suicide. Salvi 
murdered two receptionists at Boston abortion 
clinics on 30 December, 1994.

His parents have requested state and federal 
investigations into his death, arguing that the 
prison system ignored his mental illness. Salvi's 
mother "had been telling people for a long time and 
no one wanted to listen that her son suffered from 
long-term mental illness."

The Walpole prison superintendent responded that 
"Salvi was not under any mental health watch at the 
time of his death because 'he was deemed by the 
court not to be insane.'"

Statements by Salvi's parents sparked a debate 
within bourgeoisie about the role of mental health 
services in the prison system. They ask: Was Salvi 
insane? If he was, why didn't the prison system 
know it? and How can the prisons treat the mentally 
ill within its walls?

MIM believes these to be the wrong questions. 
Instead of looking at problems individually, we 
look at social causes of individual problems. The 
bourgeoisie defines "sanity" as living happily 
within imperialism. This is an unreasonable 
expectation of some people because imperialism is 
too much to adjust to. To MIM, the question is:  
How can we change society so as to remove the 
stresses of unequal and inadequate material 
conditions.

Governor Weld and state Sen. James Jajuga (D-
Methuen) want to abolish the state's "not guilty by 
reason of insanity" defense and replace it with a 
new verdict -- Guilty, but insane. This verdict 
would mandate psychiatric treatment and then when 
deemed "cured" the rest of the sentence would have 
to be served.

MIM opposes this change because it is anti-defense 
and would increase convictions in the injustice 
system. Likewise, the plan to add "guilty but 
insane" and not scrap the current insanity verdict, 
as discussed on National Public Radio would also 
increase convictions. MIM expects such a change or 
addition to take place because the settlers who sit 
on juries demand not only the right to send people 
away but to pass judgment on their ability to cope 
with this disgusting system.


NOTES:
The New York Times 30 November 1996;  The Boston 
Globe, 3 December 1996. p. B1.

*For more information, see "Psychological Practices 
in the Chinese Revolution", part of MIM Theory 9, 
"Psychology and Revolution."*


***WHAT NON-PRISONERS CAN DO TO SUPPORT 
PRISONERS***

*1. Struggle with, work with, finance and join MIM. 
The best way to support prisoners is to overthrow 
the system under which capitalists profit from the 
exploitation of prisoners. History shows that the 
best way to do this is to build a Marxist-Leninist-
Maoist party. The oppressors will not give up their 
power without a fight.
*2. Finance MIM's prison work. Our biggest bill 
each month is postage. Most of the prison comrades 
who read MIM Notes have no way of paying for it. So 
if you have money, send what you can afford. Every 
cent helps, and stamps are as good as cash to us.
*3. Distribute MIM Notes and Notas Rojas. Bring the 
voices of prisoners and their supporters to as 
large and wide an audience of people as possible. 
Contact MIM for bulk rates and distribution tips.
*4. Start or join a prison support group. MIM can 
provide advice and resources to help you build 
public opinion for prisoners and their struggles.
*5. Fight censorship, beatings, torture and other 
fascist outrages. Under Lock and Key often features 
the addresses of prisoners' friends and enemies. 
Work with the friends and let the enemies know 
you're watching. (Don't expect to win the fascists 
to the side of humanity, however. See #1 in this 
list).
*6. Stay in touch. Keep us informed of pro-prisoner 
work you do. Our readers might find it educational 
or inspirational.


***WHAT PRISONERS CAN DO TO BUILD MIM***
*1. Start a study group. This is the best way to 
share materials and ideas. In groups, prisoners can 
better benefit from the limited resources MIM has.
*2. Get MIM Notes and MIM Theory into your library. 
This allows one copy of the paper to be seen by 
many comrades.
*3. Contact people on the outside. MIM needs 
comrades and allies everywhere. Maybe you know 
people on the outside who want to subscribe to MIM 
Notes or distribute it.
*4. Share materials. If MIM sends books or 
periodicals, please make sure that as many people 
as possible get a chance to read them.
*5. Write MIM at least every three months. 
Otherwise, you will be dropped from our mailing 
list. There are many cases where your keepers throw 
out MIM Notes, so we need to know that you actually 
get it.  Also, comrades are moved around a lot, 
especially those who are known to be political. 
Please let us know of any address changes as soon 
as you know them.
*6. Make MIM Distributors an official distributor. 
Many prisons require registration before MIM can 
send books or other materials. Usually we can 
comply with these bogus rules. It helps immensely 
to have someone there do the reasearch and send us 
the proper forms.
*7. Send money or stamps. Our biggest bill each 
month is postage. Most of the prison comrades who 
read MIM Notes have no way of paying for it. So if 
you have money, send what you can afford. Every 
cent helps, and stamps are as good as cash to us. 
Please make all checks payable to "MIM 
Distributors."
*8. Write for MIM Notes or Notas Rojas. Prisoners 
write almost all of Under Lock & Key.  We don't 
care if you know how to spell or write good English 
or Spanish. Write on any topic you like, it does 
not have to be a prison story.
*9. Translate. If you can read and write English 
and another language fluently, let us know.  Any 
translation work you do will help us make Maoist 
ideas accessible to more people.
*10. Fight censorship. When you know of censorship 
of books or newspapers, investigate.  Write to MIM 
to confirm what has happened, then see what you can 
do about it.
*11. Keep in touch after your release. Many 
comrades stop doing political work after their 
release.  Write to MIM as soon as you know where 
you'll be so we can hook you up with comrades on 
the outside.

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