Who's Who of the Summit of Americas demonstrations

Although most corporate media attended the Summit of the 
Americas in Quebec City to bolster the police side of 
events, National Public Radio(NPR) did interview protesters 
on the scene and people inside the Wall of Shame. NPR is 
composed of the type of naive people who actually said that 
despite the presence of 6,000 police, it was possible to buy 
any kind of narcotic inside the "Wall of Shame." Perhaps 
since the section in question had a wall around it and over 
6,000 police and military personnel, NPR should have 
concluded "because of the police presence, it was possible 
to buy any conceivable drug within the Wall of Shame." These 
folks just never understand the connection between the 
profit-system and the corruption of governments. NPR 
interviewed a few very typical Summit of the Americas 
protesters, including three from the first two groups listed 
below.

"Socialist Alternative"--This group from the Midwestern 
United $tates was able to say that the summit was about 
putting profit above humyn needs. They are the right-wing of 
neo-neo-Trotskyism. They worked hard for Ralph Nader and 
align themselves with a San Francisco-based Trotskyist 
organization. They are very watery.

International Socialist Organization--The ISO  said the same 
thing as "Socialist Alternative" about corporate interests 
being above humyn needs in the FTAA. In the range of the ISO 
and "Socialist Alternative" were demands such as free public 
education and jailing Canada's "Liberals" for their 
treatment of immigrants.

Council of Candians--This group was slightly more backward 
than the above neo- and neo-neo-Trotskyist groups. This 
volunteer "non-partisan" organization used the Canadian flag 
symbol for its mobilization and sought to raise xenophobia a 
degree or two.

PDS--The imitation of the Democratic Socialists of America 
(DSA) is the ballot box socialists or European-style social-
democrats who sport the hand holding the red rose as their 
symbol. This party in Quebec calls for national independence 
for Quebec -- which is perhaps one of the reasons that 
horrible pro-Canada nationalism was not in evidence at 
Quebec City, fortunately. A large portion of the protesters 
favored independence for Quebec, so a message of economic 
nationalism would have been somewhat out of place. PDS also 
contradicts itself by passing out flyers calling for "non-
negotiable" rights for wimmin. MIM would say that anyone who 
realizes that there is such a thing as non-negotiable 
rights, including rights to survival should not consider 
majority rule a set-in-stone principle of socialism, as PDS 
and DSA do. If a majority protects private property, 
starvation, homelessness, militarism and environmental 
catastrophe, the minority has the right to set up a 
dictatorship to defend survival rights of the whole world 
against the parasitic majority of the imperialist countries, 
for example.

CPQ & CPC--Communist Party of Quebec and the Communist Party 
of Canada--this organization distributed a flyer too. Like 
the others at the Summit of Americas calling themselves 
"Marxist," the CPQ supports Castro. What the difference 
between them and the CPC(M-L) is would be very difficult to 
say. Of course, the CPC is older historically than the 
CPC(M-L).

U.S.M.L.O.--Based in the United $tates, this organization 
used to be Hoxhaite, but it would be fair to say that it has 
changed its line considerably since the days of Hoxha, who 
led Albania and along with Mao Zedong criticized Soviet 
revisionism in the early 1960s. With the collapse of the 
pro-Soviet parties, the Hoxhaites have quickly moved in to 
pick up the pieces--the Cuba and North Korea franchises for 
instance. While U.S.M.L.O. used to criticize Castro 
revisionism and uphold Stalin, it now opportunistically 
takes up where the old revisionist pro-Soviet "Communist" 
parties left off. Most notable with these neo-Hoxhaites is 
that the turn to revisionism has also meant a turn toward 
more emphasis on current events and concrete realities 
generally. It shows that without Mao's theories, a party 
will drift between dogmatism and metaphysical denial of 
classes under socialism on the one hand and empiricist 
pragmatist denial of the fight against revisionism on the 
other hand.

CPC(M-L)--The Communist Party of Canada(ML) led by the late 
Hardial Bains was an even higher profile neo-Hoxhaite 
organization at the Summit of the Americas. Like Ludo 
Martens in Belgium, the CPC(ML) has taken up Castroism, 
which is nothing but a Third World variety of Khruschevism. 
It demonstrates what we Maoists said all along--that the 
Hoxhaites never undertook a Cultural Revolution and hence 
it's not surprising to see them abandon their criticism of 
Castroite revisionism today. These people never understood 
that there was a bourgeoisie in the party in this era of 
socialist revolutions in the weak links of the imperialist 
system. Now one can read the CPC(M-L) paper called "TML 
Weekly" and notice two things: 1) it has much improved its 
timeliness especially in case of events like the Summit of 
Americas 2) it has become filled with Castroite material and 
no mention of the struggle against revisionism or capitalist 
restoration.

Note: People unable to follow all the buzzwords here may 
find some help on MIM's web page. 
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/wim/wyl/