This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
MIM represents the oppressed in u$

Again, I am asking you to continue to send m MIM Notes because I find your publication to be not only interesting and educational, but as you already know that your newspaper to me seems to be the best publication and a voice for inmates across the country and it even shocks me to see that inmates right here in NY write to your newspaper that's distributed across the country. I am an inmate who has a 5.4 reading level, telling you that I am not that good at reading and to be honest with you, I don't do a lot of reading. I would assume because I don't have anything interesting to read that captures my attention enough to motivate me to make me want to read but for some reason or the other I don't have any problems reading MIM Notes. I do get other publications and I don't find them to be as interesting as MIM Notes. I get one publication from NY named "Workers world" and they do not print stories or articles about people suffering in prisons in the USA but they print articles about people suffering in other countries. At this moment what's happening in other countries is of no interest to me. I wrote to Workers World and I told them about your newspaper and I told them that they should print articles that their readers (prisoners) can feel or digest. They print stories about Wars and protest but they failed to mention anything about the war that's happening right here in this country. "War on Drugs or War on non-whites" People of color being warehoused in prisons, crammed up in cages like animals in the name of war on drugs or the Rockefeller Drug Law, a law that both the public and politicians agree is not only wrong, but racist. The war on drugs to me is nothing but modern day slavery. Slavery that has shifted place from the cotton fields to prison camps over flowing with the offspring of the former slaves who were tricked into believing that slavery was over with.

Both the Republicans and Democrats are guilty of running modern day slave camps. They both are guilty of not only mailing money by incarcerating people of color but are also guilty because their greed for money also destroys families again of non-whites because when a man is finally released from prison, he or she is scarred for life, a scar that makes it hard for an ex-con to find a job and survive. Ex-cons in New York can't even vote, in some states FOR LIFE. African-Americans and Latinos comprise about 93% of the drug offenders in New York State Prisons, even though a government study shows that the majority of people who use and sell drugs are white. The Rockefeller Drug Laws disproportionately affect poor people of color.

What is the connection between the Drug laws and voters registration? In conjunction with New York State laws that deny felony offenders the right to vote (felon disenfranchisement), the Rockefeller Drug Laws have led to the disenfranchisement of poor Afro-Americans and Latino people and the draining of political power from poor communities of color. Not only in New York but throughout the entire country called the United States of America.

--a NY Prisoner, October 2003

MIM adds: Our readers will know that we also spend plenty of space covering what's going on outside the u$, for we try to represent the interests of the international proletariat, not just the oppressed within u$ borders. But many other papers based in the imperialist countries that claim to represent Marxism/socialism/communism/etc are really speaking for the interests of imperialist nation people. That is what differentiates MIM Notes: we don't pretend that the struggle for more money for white people is connected to the struggle for basic necessities in the Third World. We hope this comrade will broaden his perspective and see the international relevance of our struggle. For without the alliance of the majority of the world's people we can not win.