The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League (RAIL) is a mass organization led by the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM). RAIL supports self-determination for all peoples, including the necessity of armed struggle against imperialism. RAIL is against the proliferation of prisons warehousing the oppressed, imperialist militarism, imperialist economic domination of the worlds majority, and white settler chauvinism against Amerikas internal colonies the Black nation and the many Indigenous and Latino nations.
RAIL welcomes participation from individuals seeking to further expose the atrocities of imperialism and build opposition to the current system of injustice. RAIL works in the United Front led by MIM to build independent institutions of the oppressed and Serve the People Programs. Following in the footsteps of the Black Panther Party, MIM and these institutions simultaneously meet the Peoples needs while organizing against imperialism.
RAIL members should not conceal RAILs relationship with MIM when working amongst the masses. RAIL will not accept the leadership of revisionist organizations within RAIL or for campaigns or events which RAIL organizes. RAIL members can be members of other mass organizations. Voting members of RAIL must be anti-imperialist and agree with the necessity of armed struggle. People who disagree with these points are welcome to work with us on common goals.
RAIL accepts responsibility for all articles we print and will respond to any criticism.
Imperialism is the global economic system that exists today. First World corporations have expanded to the point where they must invest money overseas to continue to grow so they export their capital to the Third World. These foreign investments in Third World economies, safeguarded by military force, stifle the growth of small national capitalist classes. With no national bourgeoisie, or a weak one at best, a national economy is unable to grow. Imperialist investment then ensures its own predominance -- paying dirt wages to workers who have no options, and enjoying the freedom to escape local taxes and environmental restrictions.
It is a principle of anti-imperialism that every nation has the right to national self-determination and the right to struggle for liberation. Nations must be free to choose their own economic and political destinies and not have these policies dictated by occupying forces. Where imperialism extends itself into the Third World, it stifles all indigenous economic and political activity. Anti-imperialists hold that all nations should be free to choose their own course.
RAIL sees imperialism in the hundred-years U.$. occupations of Puerto Rico and the Philippines. We see imperialism in Amerikan state-terrorist bombings of Arab and African countries that will not happily submit to u.$. political and economic demands. Imperialist economic domination is evident in the thousands of people who attempt to cross militarized borders without legal papers year by year. These undocumented immigrants and workers know they can find better jobs in the u.$. -- grown wealthy at the expense of their own countries -- than they can at home. And we see imperialism in the exploding Amerikan prisons, whose construction and maintenance provide jobs for the white nation while their cells cage huge segments of the Black and Latino nations.
For all these reasons, RAIL addresses U.$. imperialism as a brutal abuser of the oppressed nations. In the fight against imperialism, we welcome all people who want to see these forms of injustice destroyed.