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

Amerikan diplomacy update

June 26 2007

It seems that U.K. prime minister Tony Blair is now leaning toward taking the Quartet job for diplomacy in the Mideast now that he has left his prime minister post.(1) In the past, there has been some claim that Blair has a slightly different idea than Bush does and that service in the Iraq War was to gain Blair a say in the Mideast.

We have doubts whether Blair really has anything different, and if he did, whether the U.S. Congress and presidential candidates would buy it. If there were serious substance, the imperialists would line up the lobbying group AIPAC first to see what mandate Blair would have. Otherwise, Blair could just be another place-holder. On the other hand, Blair did line up I$rael's support from Olmert.

Meanwhile in Korea, Cheneyite John Bolton backed off slightly by saying Bush should wait a little longer before scuttling the nuclear deal with northern Korea at a later phase.(2) It seems that the early stages of the deal may be attractive to both sides according to Bolton.

With regard to closing Guantanamo Bay, there was to be an executive meeting June 22nd, but it did not happen because of news leaks.(3) From all the sources we have seen, the following is the case:

"Senior officials said Cheney, standing nearly alone, has turned back strong efforts -- by Rice, England, new Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and former Bush speechwriter Mike Gerson, among others -- to give the president what he said he wants."(4)

In the Philippines it appears that armed conflict escalates unabated. The united $tates is using the Muslim issue there to increase spying and armed intervention.

Recently, MIM has applied a bourgeois lesson to its own work. Here is what Luis G. Jalandoni said March 31 2007:

"The Arroyo regime has also charged those involved in the peace negotiations on the side of the NDFP with rebellion, thereby violating the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). Also in flagrant violation of the JASIG, it has summarily executed Sotero Llamas, Political Consultant of the NDFP, and caused the involuntary disappearance of NDFP Consultants and their immediate families and staff, namely, Rogelio Calubad and his son Gabriel; Prudencio Calubid, his wife Celine Palma and two companions, Leopoldo Ancheta and Philip Limjoco."(5)
MIM has actually drawn a lesson from JASIG for its own conditions.

In the Filipino case, the JASIG violations show that the struggle has racheted up a notch or more. Likewise, MIM received certain signals in 2005 and 2006 that are very similar. The left-wing of parasitism was unable or unwilling to recognize the signals and in fact collaborated with the FBI over many years. It is not "revenge" or "erratic" for even a bourgeois politician to be concerned about a JASIG-type violation. We can say that matters are not qualitatively the same until the JASIG violations cease and there is restitution. In MIM's own case, it is our analysis that these violations happened in U.$. territory, because MIM underestimated the spying problem and also allowed itself to be seen as more theoretical than it is. The enemy miscalculated MIM's practical side and willingness for retaliation.

In diplomacy, if one picks up a telephone and raw sewage enters one's ear, that telephone will not find much use--too many side-effects. Likewise, even in U.$. conditions, a less-intense version of the same thing happens. The enemy polluted our means of communication and then feigned surprise when we attacked that means of communication. The basic problem is why should the bourgeois rebels of the Philippines clamoring for land reform risk their personnel such as Sotero Llamas in discussion with the regime, if that discussion ends up used as a pretext for something else. Sotero Llamas and the bourgeois rebels may as well have skipped the discussion and simply engaged in other business.

It goes without saying that where there is basic disagreement on the question of spying, there is not going to be an agreement on organizational questions. No amount of CIA or Cominternist rhetoric can change that. There has to be concrete agreement on the extent of spying and unity in struggle before higher levels of unity can occur.

It seems there may be a little "progress" in Korea-U.$. relations right now. Also, the struggle is afoot to close Guantanamo Bay. There is no solution for the prisoners there yet, but a number of social forces ranging from lawyers to military intelligence to other countries are in motion.

Perhaps the greatest new bright spot is the shift of Navy officers into leading the Iraq War. Republican Senator and former Navy intelligence officer Richard Lugar has called for a change of course in Iraq: "'Our continuing absorption with military activities in Iraq is limiting our diplomatic assertiveness there and elsewhere in the world.'"(6) Since it was not in charge of the war, the Navy has less to lose in abandoning it while running it.

At the same time, Lyndon LaRouche is wrapping the small minds of us reality-based intellectuals around the question of whether or not Cheney has to be deposed as the first priority of the struggle. MIM is receiving similar queries internationally. It sometimes seems that a question like Iran and Cheney is an incalculable one. Some may find us dogmatic for hewing to the approach that imperialism is a system and that that is more important than the character of Cheney the individual. Deposing Cheney is not the goal of the current class struggle, not the apex. Deposing Cheney could happen in the course of the struggle, but it also could not happen and the struggle advance more than had it happened. That is how we need to formulate the question right now.

On the question of monarchy, CIA Director Hayden recently mentioned his ongoing theme of a "contract" with the u.$. public. There is an important difference between a contract and a majority-vote. The notion of a "social contract" arose to overcome divine right of monarchies. When even just a determined minority of intellectuals does not feel itself under contract, there is more trouble for a ruling class than it is worth. Therefore, the majority of even the intellectuals may be happy enough, but a contract is for individuals, including minorities. In the united $tates today, the majority is happy enough, but we can push down into the lumpen or up into the intellectuals and find significant minorities of discontent.

Notes:
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2111770,00.html
2. http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2007/06/20/26/0301000000AEN20070620000200315F.HTML
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6231536.stm
4. http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=20859
5. http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/statements/statements.pl?author=lj;date=070331;language=eng 6. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/25/iraq.lugar/