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.
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.

See our Iraq web page

More rats leaving sinking imperialist ship

450 Bulgarian troops and hundreds of Japanese troops are leaving the U.$.- bought coalition in Iraq. They will be gone by the end of the year.(1) As in the Vietnam War, the emphasis is now on training Iraqis to take on the job of fighting the insurgency themselves.

The Japanese contribution of troops was small relative to Japan's size and that is proof of the continuing legacy of the struggle of Chinese, Korean and Japanese people since Mao to reign in Japanese militarism. In fact, U.$. lackey southern Korea has 3600 troops in Iraq, more than Japan.(2)

No genuine socialist country would send troops to Iraq. However, even capitalist countries themselves have conflicting interests. An ordinary capitalist regime in Korea would have even less self-interest in sending troops than Japan does, and piquing Japanese militarism by making it look small cannot be in the ordinary interest of bourgeois Koreans looking at history. In the situation in Poland and southern Korea the story is one of extradordinary geopolitical debts of the lackey regimes to Uncle $am.

The Japanese plan to end their intervention in December. That's not soon enough. Someone from Japan might die in the meantime. The Japanese people should continue to pressure their government-- before another Japanese persyn dies in another stupid imperialist war to make the rich richer.

The longer the war in Iraq continues the more likely it is to result in bombs here in Amerika and the more Amerikans will come home in coffins, missing arms, legs, eyes, and faces. You MIM readers have a choice: the Iraqi people do not. You can fight to end the killing or you can sit back and watch the show. Just don't be surprised if the show comes home.

Notes:
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4523857.stm
2. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/05/content_2919361.htm