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Maoist Internationalist Movement

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.

Rally May 20th for Cuba and Venezuela

Rally May 20th for Cuba and Venezuela

On May 20th, in Washington DC there will be a rally for "Hands off Venezuela and Cuba!" MIM wants readers to attend the demonstration, but we will not endorse the rally, because we want to control our own publicity.

Some people will start at 10 am at Malcolm X Park 15th St & Euclid NW to go to the White House at 2pm, May 20th, 2006.

The slogans include "Stop U.S. interventions and hostile campaigns against Venezuela & Cuba. Defend Venezuela's sovereignty. Stop Washington's economic and political war against Cuba. End the blockade of Cuba. Allow U.S. citizens and legal residents to travel freely to Cuba. Normalize U.S.-Cuban relations. Extradite the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela. Free the Cuban 5 anti-terrorist prisoners. Close the Guantanamo torture camp. Return Guantanamo to Cuba. Stop U.S. military intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean." MIM agrees with all the slogans.

Although we agree with all the demands, we do not agree with the main organizers, who tend to be watered-down Trotskyists and leftover Gorbachev followers wishing for bad ole' Brezhnev days. Most of the organizers have not figured out that Mao was right that there was a bourgeoisie in the party and that it restored capitalism in the Soviet Union. They simply cannot face facts and that is the ideological expression of how our alleged communists in the united $tates are so weak.

In the 1980s, MIM charged that activism connected to u.$. interventions focussed where the Soviet Union wanted it--on Cuba more than Panama for instance, even though Panama actually suffered a U.$. invasion in the 1980s and Cuba did not. Since the time of MIM's charges, we can see that we were correct across-the- board and there are now books documenting the flow of money to professional activists with pro-Soviet emphases. Places like Eritrea and Korea were the last in the world to receive attention in the united $tates, because the Soviets saw no gain there and too many parties in the united $tates were too backward to see that.

MIM is organizing for the May 20th rally out of its internationalist obligations. In the world today, the "principal contradiction" is between imperialism and oppressed nations like Cuba and Venezuela. That is where we must focus our energy in order to win the greatest proletarian victories.

What we like most about Chavez in Venezuela is that he tries to be independently nationalist and pro-poor without claiming to be Marxist. Being Marxist is a heavy responsibility and it is better to be an open nationalist bourgeois friendly to communists than a phony communist misleader.

Cuba is not socialist and we have no respect for Castro's so-called communism at all. As a leader he has totally failed in telling his people and the whole world what they need to know about the class struggle that brought down the Soviet Union. Instead, Castro took an active part in covering up for the Soviet bourgeoisie and we cannot forgive that unless he makes public self-criticism of his historical errors. Nonetheless, Castro is just an individual and the principal contradiction is about nations, not individual misleaders. We must all support the Cuban people against U.$. strangulation of their economy.