* * The Maoist Internationalist Movement * * - MIM Notes 108, January 1996 - PRISON GROWTH DEMONSTRATES NATIONAL OPPRESSION "Nearly 7 percent of all black male adults nationwide were in jail or prison last year, compared with less than 1 percent of white male adults, the Justice Department said in a report released today. . . . "The report found that the incarceration rate for whites had remained little changed in the last 10 years while the level for blacks had climbed steadily." The total number of Blacks in prison and jail surpassed the number of whites in prison and jail for the first time in 1994. This is further confirmation of MIM's line that the supposed anti- crime movement led by the bourgeois politicians is not an anti-crime movement but a thinly disguised attack on oppressed nations. The politicians give the appearance of "doing something about crime," but the crime rate stays the same. They aren't addressing the cause of crime, just the politics of pleasing the imperialists and labor aristocracy. NOTES: New York Times Dec. 4, 1995. MIM Notes is not copyrighted. Please credit MIM when redistributing or referring to this material. Subscriptions are $12/year (12 issues), U.S. mail or e-mail. Send cash, stamps or check made out to "MIM Distributors." Write: MIM Distributors, PO Box 3576, Ann Arbor MI 48106-3576. E-mail: mim@nyxfer.blythe.org.