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.
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

Harper's publishes MIM in November magazine

by mim136@mim.org

MIM's central task, building public opinion and the independent institutions of the oppressed to seize power, received a boost in November when Harper's Magazine prominently excerpted our 2004 Congress resolution "On Writing in Context."(1) We only wish Harper's had printed our website address as the source of the document, as we do when printing or referring to other publications. Regardless, getting MIM articles published in more non-MIM publications can only help draw attention to our Internet and print organs. Already in November, 2002, we had reached the 40,000 readership that Lenin's party had in 1915; in October, 2004 we had more than 44,000 readers of our website. We don't mention how many are reading MIM Notes in print, mainly because we do not measure how many of the papers we distribute are getting read. We can report though that in spite of post-9/11 intimidation from the state and ongoing censorship both within and outside of prisons, MIM Notes circulation is up 222% since before 9/11.(2)

The Congress resolution in Harper's deals principally with two issues: how we refer to biological wimmin enemies (a problem where wimmin have historically been excluded from language), and the idea of wimmin as whores or hos (where capitalism has people organized into nuclear family households and there is a scramble among straight Black wimmin especially for monogamous relationships). This resolution on gender in revolutionary politics has good placement on page 20 of the 100-page issue of Harper's that has a lead story on abortion -- one of the two most prominent gender disputes in Amerika today.

The abortion story is centered around the so-called Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003 (medically, there is no such thing as a partial-birth abortion), a legislative tip of the wedge in the patriarchy's efforts to make every unwanted pregnancy a life-threatening condition for wimmin who can't cross borders for medical care. Treating this as a public health issue would demand serious discussion of when or whether it ever gets too late to have an abortion outside of extreme circumstances. But such discussion would mean a tacit admission that abortion before a certain date is o.k. So the reactionaries appeal to the Christian vote by painting as gruesome a picture as they can. This kind of retrograde policy making is just the thing to make the ho idea a sharper reality. When an unsanitary abortion could mean death, the need for a stable spouse is that much more acute.

Notes:
1. See the full resolution here:
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/wim/pcongres.html
2. For more progress statistics on our central task, see:
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/webmin/
For more information on the most censored newspaper in Amerika, see:
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/prisons/censor/index.html