MIM Notes 193 
September 1, 1999

Protesters: No more Hiroshimas!
Stop u.$. nuclear terrorism!

SEAL BEACH, CA -- More than 50 people gathered in front of the 
Seal Beach Weapons Station on August 7 to commemorate the 54th 
anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to 
protest the united snakes' expanding nuclear arsenal. A MIM Notes 
correspondent spoke to protestors who all condemned the brutality 
of the bombings, and many of whom linked the bombings to the 
current threat of global nuclear war and the reality of the u.$. 
using depleted uranium (DU) ordnance in both Iraq and Yugoslavia.

One young womyn said that she came to the protest on behalf of 
herself and her younger brother, and the next generation after 
that. To paraphrase, she asked, "Why should the generations that 
come after us have to deal with the burden of nuclear weapons?" 
MIM asked that same question in a statement released on August 6, 
the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Indeed, if the masses 
within u.$. borders -- including the predominately petit-bourgeois 
Euro-Amerikan masses -- do not take action to dismantle nuclear 
weapons, there may not be many generations to come after us.

The MIM Notes correspondent pointed out that under a system based 
on the profit motive, the persistence and expansion of industries 
tied to war is inevitable. By contrast, social-democrats oppose 
war-related industry by arguing that the capitalists running the 
war industries and the economy as a whole will eventually realize 
that war is bad for profits. But even according to bourgeois 
economists, the war industries are themselves among the most 
profitable, and the Amerikan economy as a whole has been spared 
serious crisis for over a half century by a series of profitable 
wars, from World War II to the bombing of Yugoslavia. Only 
socialism will eliminate the ability to make a profit off of 
industries that kill or harm people -- capitalists will not cede 
that ability of their own volition.

The protest was called the Long Beach and Orange County Peace 
Coalitions. The MIM Notes correspondent distributed an edited 
version of MIM's August 6 statement (see article this page) and 
information on the Anti-Militarist Week MIM and RAIL are 
sponsoring on southern California from November 8 through November 
12. For more information, contact larail@mim.org or write to MIM 
Distributors, PO Box 29670, Los Angeles CA, 90029.

edited by MC44