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May 19, 2006On May 15, Bush referenced the

Minutemen in his televised address fromthe Oval Office. Days before, aMinuteman caravan had reachedWashington, D.C. But momentum for thePresident to acknowledge the Minutemenhad been building before then. TheMinutemen are a vigilante group tryingto stop people from entering the country,but only at the Mexican border.

Soon after their appearance on thenational stage, the Minutemen drove theso-called immigation reform debate so farinto the right-wing of self-defeating whitenationalism that any proposal to the “left”was seen as somehow being moderate.The critics of Minutemen oftenimmediately turned around and defendedthe repression of migrants, such asArizona’s notorious Maricopa CountySheriff Joe Arpaio. Arpaio back in April2005 said a brazen vigilante wasencroaching on the turf of his “PosseComitatus,” whom he wanted to be ableto enforce federal immigration law.Arpaio, a pig with a badge, looked like asaint to some. Numerous others, includingDemokkkrats, criticized anti-migrantvigilantes only to join others in calling forthe enforcement of immigrationrestrictions and the repression of migrantswho couldn’t or didn’t want to go throughthe immigration system.

Joe Arpaio, President Bu$h and NewMexico Governor Bill Richardson, whocriticized anti-migrant vigilantes, are nowon national television lending credibilityto one of various pieces of legislation andproposals that would increase therepression of migrants. Politicians wereand are still divided over the Minutemen,making the Minutemen’s image less thanpristine and in some ways less suitablefor uniting more sophisticated whiteleaders and their lackeys against migrants,but these differences have ultimatelycontributed to the strength of the anti-migrant movement by creating theimpression of nuance and refinementwithin white nationalism and fascism.

The left wing of white nationalism hashad a tense but conciliatory relationshipwith the Minutemen. Soon after theMinuteman anti-migrant vigilantes began

Minutemen get somerecognition in Bush speech

Hitler’s Gestapo Minuteklans: Art by a prisoner.

GREATOPPRESSORCULTURALCOUNTER-

REVOLUTIONBEGINS

The release of a 125-page May 9threport by the University of Coloradodefaming and discriminating against WardChurchill marks the official beginning ofan impressive historical event— the GreatOppressor Cultural Counterrevolution(GOCC). Prior to this, there was nothingfrom the University of Colorado thatbacked any of the ages-old chargesagainst tenured Ethnic Studies professorWard Churchill. The event signals thatthe political struggle in academia isofficially on: though it was not ourchoosing for this struggle to start, weshould not recoil from it either.

Initiated by the governor of ColoradoBill Owens and backed by candidates forpresident such as Rudy Giuliani, the Great

www.indybay.org

Oppressor Cultural Counterrevolutionaims at the firing of academic authoritiesthrough political means when all previousacademic reviews of Churchill includingthe one granting him tenure turned upnothing satisfactory to the reactionaries.

In the Great Proletarian CulturalRevolution (GPCR) (1966 to 1976) thatMIM upholds, the first important salvowas Mao’s endorsement of a bigcharacter poster that appeared at BeijingUniversity regarding academic authoritiesthere. In the both the GPCR and theGOCC, the world outside the ivory towerbecame engaged.

T h ed i f f e r e n c ebetween theGPCR and theGOCC is theclass leading it.When Maoinitiated theGPCR, he did soon behalf of theproletariat ofChina that was

facing the possibility of restoration ofcapitalism, as did happen in the SovietUnion and eventually China. When BillOwens, David Horowitz and theRepublican Party establishment in chargeof all branches of government attackedacademia, their goal was to discredit apower bastion of the Democratic Partywhile simultaneously turning the screwson the oppressed, indigenous people inparticular. The white oppressor is leadingthe GOCC.

With all branches of power inRepublican Party hands, the GOCCsensed the time was right to discredittenured professors who are vastlydisproportionately Democrats orprogressive people, because what fewintelligent people there are in the right-wing of white nationalism go to Wall Streetand are too greedy to put up with thesalaries of academia. In this struggle, mostDemocrats have also joined in the lynchingof Ward Churchill.

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Ward Churchill update


What is MIM?The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is the collection of existing or emerging

Maoist internationalist parties in the English-speaking imperialist countries and their English-speaking internal semi-colonies, as well as the existing or emerging Maoist Internationalistparties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speakingMaoist Internationalist parties of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the U.$. Empire.MIM Notes is the newspaper of MIM. Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-speaking parties or emerging parties of MIM. MIM upholds the revolutionary communistideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and is an internationalist organization that worksfrom the vantage point of the Third World proletariat. MIM struggles to end the oppressionof all groups over other groups: classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possibleby building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Revolution is a realityfor North America as the military becomes over-extended in the government’s attempts tomaintain world hegemony. MIM differs from other communist parties on three main questions:(1) MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution, the potentialexists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within thecommunist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after thedeath of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao’s death and the overthrow of the “Gangof Four” in 1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural Revolution as the farthest advanceof communism in humyn history. (3) As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM hasreiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the ThirdWorld and in part uses this wealth to buy off whole populations of oppressor nation so-called workers. These so-called workers bought off by imperialism form a new petty-bourgeoisie called the labor aristocracy. These classes are not the principal vehicles toadvance Maoism within those countries because their standards of living depend onimperialism. At this time, imperialist super-profits create this situation in the Canada, Quebec,the United $tates, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg,the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and Denmark. MIM accepts people as members who agreeon these basic principles and accept democratic centralism, the system of majority rule, onother questions of party line.

“The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We shouldregard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter oflearning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science ofrevolution.”

- Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208.

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Dear MIM:As some purveyors of MIM Notes

may be aware, during the Ward Churchillcampaign, the Edith Lagos Brigade (ELB)was able to obtain over 1200 signatureson petitions supporting Prof. Churchill inhis struggle with the State of Coloradoand the University of Colorado. ELB alsodistributed 500 plus MIM Notesdownloaded from MIM’s website tosignatories of said petitions. The ChurchillPetition was circulated in the WestCampus area of the University of Texas(U.T.) at Austin. Since then ELB hasexperienced police harassment andsuppression in the U.T. area.

October of 2005, an ELB foundingmember was arrested on a trumped upweapons charge. When it wasascertained that the alleged weapon wasnothing more than that of a damaged toolused by this comrade in their work andwas to be returned to the place ofpurchase for an exchange, the chargewas reduced to a lesser offense and acoerced pre-arranged plea was agreedupon.

Early the following November, the samecomrade was again arrested at the U.T.law library under the pretense that theywere stealing books from the library. AsELB is conferring with legal professionalsand law students in the hope ofestablishing a pro bono legal aid clinic,the U.T. law library has become a de factoELB base of operations. When it wasconcluded the books in question did, indeed, belonged to the comrade, the U.T.police charged said comrade withcriminal trespassing. This charge is ratherincredible as U.T. is a state sponsoreduniversity and the law library is considered

http://www.imperialismkills.orgA project of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist League

in the public domain replete with a publicaccess computer lab.

Finally, on xmas eve, the very samecomrade was strolling along the WestCampus Drag when they noticed a largepolice presence in the West Campus area.Not wishing to have any contact with thepigs, the comrade removed themselvesthree blocks further west from the Drag.Presently not one but five police vehiclesconverged on the comrade. Approachingthe comrade the pigs stated they didn’trequire I.D. as they already knew thecomrade’s name. When the comradedemanded the pig’s probable cause forthe stop, the pigs responded that this wasa Terry Stop, referring to the U.$.Supreme Court decision in Terry v.Washington, and that a disturbance hadbeen reported and that the comrade fitthe description of the perpetrator. Thoughthe comrade was never charged withdisturbing the peace or disorderly conduct,the pigs did charge the comrade withpublic intoxication, though the comradedisplayed no signs on inebriation and, indeed, was not intoxicated. Other ELBcomrades have experienced policeharassment ranging from arbitraryidentification stops to citations forobstructing sidewalks. The three above-stated incidents are the only episodesresulting in incarcerations.

In response to the above saidoccurrences, ELB re-examined its above-ground operations—temporarily desistingfrom street activities. Pursuant to acommuniqu from MIM stating MIM waswilling to transmit MIM Notes to ELB ata reduced rate, core ELB membersconvened an ad hoc meeting resolving tonot only again distribute MIM Notes in

the U.T. campus area, but to redoubleELB’s efforts in agitation, propagation,and proselytization for the Marxist/Leninist/Maoist revolutionary cause.Though the oppression and harassmentdescribed above is relatively minor whencompared to the oppression suffered bythe international proletariat in general,ELB would encourage other communistsfollowing the MIM internationalist linelocated in the imperialist countries tointensify their efforts in support of theinternational proletariat and worldrevolution.

WORKERS OF THE WORLDUNITE! ALL POWER TO THEPEOPLE!

February [email protected] replies: We hope that

our comrades around the world will readthis and learn what Amerika is really like.It’s not what we see on television. Public

libraries and public streets are for theDemocrats and Republicans. Beyond thatand free speech for commercial vendorswho pay the right authorities, there isoften no free speech in practice. If theimperialists lived by their Constitution andcivil rights laws on the books, then someAustin police would have to be arrestedfor conspiracy against the ELBcomrades.

The University of Texas, Austin hasdecreased its prestige in the bourgeoisworld by allowing this sort of thing to goon. Students and scholars everywhere willread this and learn to avoid the Universityof Texas as a place too afraid to deal withcommunists. We encourage students inany college facing a similar situation tomake it clear to the world why theiruniversity does not deserve its prestige.That is one way to catch the attention ofcollege administrators.

U. of Texas and Austin police suppress communist activism

Due to an oversight this letter was not published when it was submitted, inFebruary 2006.


After two months of MIM’s exposureof their work for the State Department,the R¢P=u$A brought forward their tieto an organization that is working withthe Iranian Muhahedin as a stooge of u.$.imperialism.

This latest article uses some politicalrhetoric to conceal services to imperialism.For that reason, MIM goes through itseparately, line-by-line below with ourown comments interspersed in red.

U.$. imperialism is the world’s number-one enemy, the principal enemy of theworld’s people. It is not the principalenemy of the world’s people, except ifwe are talking about wimmin, except ifnuclear energy is involved or exceptwhen u.$. imperialism is attacking

mullahs. All the “exceptions” are a long-standing position of Bob Amerikan on theworld’s principal contradiction, asmeaning nothing, especially now whenthe world’s genuine Maoists agree thatthe principal contradiction is betweenimperialism and oppressed nations withthe u.$. imperialists as the principal enemywithin that. It’s hard for the StateDepartment to maneuver around theformulation that the united $tates is theprincipal enemy of the world’s people.When we see people doing that andcalling themselves “Maoist,” we betterlook out.

There is nothing in materialism by itselfthat guarantees a non-eclectic line. Feedenough granola and California sunshine

Fake Maoists attack Iran’s nuclear energyprogram in synch with imperialists

to someone and that someone mayinterpret dialectics as meaning “the webof life.” While it is true that dialectics isabout interconnections, Mao’s version ofdialectics is not about an ultra-democratic,egalitarian and thereby scattered view ofdialectics. Stalin and Mao both used theterm “principal contradiction” and Maoenshrined it as his philosophy. The wholeidea of a principal contradiction is dead-set against eclecticism and it is whatprevents flim-flam artists masqueradingas Maoists.

Already in 1921, the Soviet Union’sCommissariat on the nationalities questionpublished that without fail the imperialistswill try to win over the wimmin andintelligentsia by talking about Islam’s faults

on the veil. Sadly, nothing has changed.Today we see the imperialists andR¢P=u$A doing the same thing on theIslam question that Lenin’s party alreadywarned against. They fail to offer a wayout of exploitation in general and they onlyoffer the fight against the veil as a meansof subservience to u.$. imperialism.

Also, see our web page on crypto-Trotskyism, the R¢P=u$A and the RIMwhich stole our name: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/wyl/crypto.html

See the article from the Iranian stoogesof U.$. imperialism belonging to the RIM:http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/wim/w y l / c r y p t o /rcpusairansectiononnukes.html

Washington, DC 20 May 2006About 500 people held a rally for

“Hands off Cuba and Venezuela.”Marchers chanted against democracy’sbeing controlled by an elite. There werebanners to free native leader LeonardPeltier, free the Cuban Five and forVenezuela’s relationship with Iran. Weheard a very short pep talk to free PuertoRico too and there were banners forAfrican Liberation Day, May 25th.

We were happy to attend the rally andoppose Uncle $am’s economic blockadeon Cuba and CIA coup attempts againstelected bourgeois politician Chavez inVenezuela; even though we do not seeCastro or Chavez as models.

The endorsements list had almost asmany people as the rally. There seemedto be good cooperation among theparticipants, mostly Trotskyists. In roughorder of numerical significance, therewere contingents from Workers WorldParty, Socialist Workers Party, FreedomSocialist Party, “World Can’t Wait” andsome more hard-core Trotskyist splintergroups.

The organizers did hard work puttingup posters for the rally. The posters andtheir big black letters were highly visiblein the surrounding neighborhoods.

The rally seemed to happen at the righttime and place. Trotskyists of variousshades had publicized the rally up anddown the East Coast, especially at themigrant rallies, in both English andSpanish.

The initial gathering point at MalcolmX Park was close to the heavily Latinoand chic Adams-Morgan district. Despitethe timing, place and mechanicalsociology of the event, organizers musthave been disappointed with the turnout.

We say “mechanical sociology” to referto a common way of thinking in political

activist circles “aiming” at a certain“social base.” Evidently, talking aboutVenezuela does not guarantee a Latinoturnout.

There is a lesson that we need to drawout from time to time. We call it“mechanical sociology,” because thereasoning is too simple—going straightfrom point A to point B without struggle.Mechanical sociology lands us in identitypolitics where the correctness orotherwise of one’s politics stems fromthe individual’s ethnic background.

First of all, generalizations aboutethnicity are just that—generalizationstrue at the group level, not the individuallevel. Secondly, the sociology does notcome into play without a struggle.

So for example, had the bourgeois presscovered an invasion of Cuba in recentdays, we’re sure the turnout would havebeen higher. On the other hand, Uncle$am’s blockade does not register as wellin public opinion as war by occupyingtroops.

Another lesson we can learn from thisparticular rally is actually quite importantbut difficult. It has to do with numbersand unity of so-called socialist groupsinside u.$. borders.

At this rally Trotskyism and the old“Communist Party USA” united. TheTrotskyists allowed the Freedom SocialistParty to speak for example, so there wasno attempt to hog the whole rally.

We often hear that the so-calledsocialist organizations should all unite andthen there would be victory for them inthe united $tates. This is not true. TheTrotskyist spectrum did unite today, butthe result was not earth-shaking. That ishow it would be for any unity of“socialists” inside u.$. borders.

When we blame the political leadersfor not being able to walk on water, we

engage in a form of historical idealism.Instead, we need to learn when materialconditions are to blame for the lack of amovement.

In truth, the bourgeoisie is going toorganize most of our socialist revolutionin spite of itself. In the Soviet case, thetsar organized the army and then the armyfell apart and used its internal organizationfor revolution. Today, the migrantmovement stems from national andreligious organization. The migrantmovement is not a result of heroicindividual communist leadership or evena combination of parties. Such a view thatleadership created the migrant movementor lack of a Cuba solidarity movement isidealism—a lack of attachment to realitythat hurts our movement.

Even the trade union is not going to playa role in the U.$. revolution, except amongmigrant workers. What leaders can affectis the direction of a movement, possibly.

Uniting all 500 people today was good

Evaluating the success of a rally:

Hands off Cuba and Venezuela!

for a rally, but the same unity shows thelimits of what uniting the left-wing ofwhite nationalism can accomplish.Numbers are good for self-assurance, butwhat else could we accomplish with allthe people that showed up today is thequestion that people need to ponder moredeeply. The Amerikans are the last peoplewho should give up scientific struggle forthe sake of an easy-going unity. There isnot much to gain from an easy-going unityand everything to lose in terms ofideological quality. Comrades whostruggle to reach a higher quality ofpolitical understanding can still do their“share” of internationalist preparationsfor a communist future—regardless ofwhat the rest of the u.$. population is doingor what class it comes from.

The Trotskyists worked hard for thisevent today. People did not turn out tostop the blockade of Cuba or Uncle $am’sinterference in Venezuela. Shame on theu.$. population for that.

A banner at the rally.


From 1...their Arizona project a year ago, theMinutemen had popular support amongEuro-Amerikans. Some Minutemen werein fact professionalized or disguised neo-Nazis. Most of their members, supportersand fans were not. Liberals still treatedthe Minutemen as a fringe group locatedsafely outside the mainstream. They hadan overly optimistic (utopian ultra-left)view of Euro-Amerikans. So did phonyleftists who reached out to the Minutemenbecause they thought they all hadsomething in common, which they did:U.$. worker chauvinism and vagueopposition to some “bosses” andcorporations. They also had in commona desire to defend imperialist livingstandards and other privileges that areparasitic on Third World people.

The idiotic and reactionary so-calledleft told Asians, Caribbeans and LatinAmericans that the Minutemen weren’tso bad and could be dissuaded. TheMinutemen are even more indisputablypopular and mainstream than before, buttoday they still prompt quaint calls for“multiracial,” “multiethnic” unity with themajority of whites, rather than a struggleagainst the white settler labor aristocracythat created the anti-migrant movement,and against white chauvinism and whitedominance. The pseudo-leftists expectsome kind of white savior, yet even“minorities” in Congress are trying tosound tough on border security —fulfilling a goal of the Minutemen. Not allMinutemen openly called for moreimmigration restrictions, though that wascertainly a subtext. Calling for bordersecurity was just a way to get the rest ofthe population to enforce immigrationrestrictions, and a way to reinforce theidea that the restrictions, and maybe morelike them, were needed.

The Minutemen confused the “best” ofthe so-called left in the United $tates,“socialists” who on paper opposedfascism but otherwise had ideologicalunity with the Minutemen, on questionssuch as ordinary Amerikans’ livingstandards. The Minutemen are amovement of the Euro-Amerikan workingclass, showing its true face, and thatconfuses (or inconveniences) people whobelieve (or deceptively only want othersto believe) that the white working classhas a progressive nature. It hardly cameas any surprise when Bush courted theMinutemen and reached out to theirsupporters, just as so-called leftists haddone. Last Monday, Bush gave a nod tothe very same anti-migrant vigilantes hecriticized months ago. As Bush himselfsuggested, it was what Amerikans,uncomfortable with the unavoidable sightof massive migrant rights demonstrations,wanted to hear. Bush said, “On the streets

Minutemen get somerecognition in Bush speech

of major cities, crowds have rallied insupport of those in our country illegally.At our southern border, others haveorganized to stop illegal immigrants fromcoming in. Across the country, Americansare trying to reconcile these contrastingimages.” Bush then announced a plan todeploy National Guard troops — militarytroops — on the border, something thatthe Minutemen had always demanded.Bush put the Minutemen and theirsupporters on par with the millions ofpeople who had demonstrated in thestreets and rallied for migrants’ rights.This was possible because the anti-migrant movement and even theMinutemen had widespread supportamong ordinary Euro-Amerikans, whowant to have more control over migrantproletarians and prop up the borders thathelp make U.$. living standards, and thesuper-exploitation of Third Worldworkers, possible. And many Euro-Amerikans who say they supportmigrants refuse to put their money wheretheir mouth is and let the Minutemenspeak for them. By referencing theMinutemen, Bush spoke to the reactionaryanger of Euro-Amerikans.

At the same time, the anger has aneconomic basis in the kinds of jobs Euro-Amerikans are used to demanding. Herewe have many former police and militarypeople taking vigilante action anddemanding more jobs for more borderguards. This is a perfectly representativereflection of the whole insanity ofdecaying imperialism: whites are soremoved from economic reality that theywant jobs producing nothing just to guardthe border against people who are doingthe farm, manufacturing and transportwork of Amerika. According to BBC,6000 National Guard people will go to theborder thanks to Bush’s move to appeasethe labor aristocracy.(2)

Bush’s indirect acknowledgment of theMinutemen is not surprising. From earlyon, many critics of the Minutemen onlydisagreed with the Minutemen’s vigilantetactics and careless rhetoric sometimesbordering on open racism. And othercritics only pretended to oppose theMinutemen’s ideological positions. Nowthat the Minutemen have gained respectfrom the media, they have dropped thispretense. Still others are adjusting theirstances due to the popularity of theMinutemen and the popularity of the mostrepressive proposals to come out of theanti-migrant movement. Emboldened bywidespread anti-migrant sentiment, themedia has put forward the Minutemenas the Amerikan majority’s response tomigrants’ rights demonstrations.According to the white media, theMinutemen are emblematic of angryordinary Amerikans, and this is true. The

Minutemen, and their supporters amongsome imperialists, are a force to bereckoned with by politicians. There is stilla rift between Bush and leading anti-migrant advocates, but Bush’s MondayOval Office address illustrates how muchthe bourgeoisified Euro-Amerikan so-called working class is shaping theoutcomes of the anti-migrant movement,which it initiated with the help ofextremely reactionary imperialists.Although Bush supported a temporary-worker program, Bush’s speech reflectedthe demands of the Euro-Amerikan so-called working class. Various things Bushsaid indicated this, not just his recognitionof the Minutemen.

Bush framed the immigration reformdebate in a reactionary way, in terms ofa tension between the United $tates’existence as an “immigrant nation,” onthe one hand, and lawfulness and security.Bush announced a plan to increase thenumber of Border Patrol agents, inaddition to the temporary deployment ofNational Guard troops, and supportedtraining and increased funding for localenforcement agencies to assist withenforcement—all a waste of resourcesthat could go to making people better offhere and in Mexico. Also, Bush wantedto make it easier to quickly deport anyundocumented migrant who is caught,regardless of the distance he or she camefrom. Bush said additional detention bedsand “expedited” legal processing hadalready helped and said he would askCongress for more “funding and legalauthority.”

Euro-Amerikans use the idea that theyare part of an immigrant nation to justifytheir presence in and dominance overNorth America. They pretend to begenerous when “welcoming” newmigrants. This also makes it seem likeAmerikans deserve their privileges.

If allowing migrants in the United $tatesis just a matter of generosity, then barringthem then becomes justified for anynumber of reasons that Euro-Amerikanscan invent. Implementing immigrationrestrictions in a more effective way —intensifying the repression of migrants —is also seen as legitimate. By supportingenhanced repression, Bu$h supported thedemands of Euro-Amerikan settlers andthe settler nation workers in particular.

Bush treated all the causes of migrationas external and even said undocumentedmigration “[brought] crime to ourcommunities.” Actually, the United $tatesis the biggest perpetrator of injustice onthe planet. The snooty, hypocritical Euro-Amerikan labor aristocracy looks on theworld’s workers and wimmin withdisdain. Bush flattered the Euro-Amerikanso-called workers. For example, bringingin Asian and Latino migrants actually

reduces the drug abuse rate in the united$tates, according to Bush’s own statistics,because those two ethnic groups have thelowest drug abuse rates.(3) The reasonfor that is obvious: the reason again is thedecadence of u.$. imperialism that drivespeople to purposeless jobs like guardingborders and directionless boredom, thelonger people stay in the united $tates andbecome privileged parasites. This is alsoanother reason MIM supports thenationalism of incoming migrants: theymay be able to carry out some economicactivity without getting sucked into theu.$. drug culture and then go home.

Bush told Amerikans to remember thatundocumented migrants “work hard” and“support their families” and “leadresponsible lives.” This was also a wayof pandering to Euro-Amerikan so-calledworkers, who think of themselves ashardworking. In the same sentence, Bushalso pandered to the labor aristocracy’sfear of crime and nervousness about“external” threats to their whitecommunities and white enclaves, whichare based on violence and theft againstthe world’s exploited and oppressed.

Moreover, Bush supported increasedenforcement of immigration restrictions.“We will construct high-tech fences inurban corridors, and build new patrolroads and barriers in rural areas. We willemploy motion sensors infrared camerasand unmanned aerial vehicles to preventillegal crossings.” This policy would likelyincrease the number of migrants’ deathsnear parts of the border away from urbanareas.

Bush later in the week, after his address,expressed support for massivelyincreased border fencing. Some find thisremarkable, though Bush has longsupported the construction of at leastsome new fencing. Border barriers versusso-called virtual fences is a debate inwhich both sides are reactionary. Borderfences should not be opposed just tosupport a virtual fence. High-tech virtualfences are also repressive and partlyserve to deflect criticism of bordermilitarization by making it seem lesstangible.

On Monday, Bush talked about a middleground between automatic citizenship andmass deportation. Another middle groundBush and others are implying is a middleground between a physical barrier allalong the southern border with Mexico,physically dividing it from occupiedMexico, and an invisible barrier withsurveillance. The middle ground is acombination of both physical fencing, andaerial and electronic surveillance andmore border patrol personnel. All of thesesupposed middle grounds are openings forincreased repression. Furthermore, high-

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tech equipment and systems for borderrepression come at the expense of super-exploited Third World workers.

The debate over so-called guest-workerprograms is also reactionary at this time.Many people are not opposing the overallrepression of migrants or even at leastcalling for a reduction in immigrationrestrictions. Anti-migrant activists andsome labor unions both cite exploitationand abuse of migrants, adverse effectson U.$. workers, and knowledge ofbraceros’ conditions, as reasons to opposetemporary-worker programs. Yet, hardlyanyone talks about abuses of migrantworkers in current temporary-workerprograms. Not only is the imperialistexploitation of workers in the Third Worldignored, even when it comes todocumented temporary migrant workersalready in the United $tates, thesereactionaries aren’t seriously interestedin opposing exploitation, and when theydo talk about abuses of migrants in thetemporary-worker programs, theymanage to smuggle in the demands ofwhite workers. The “guest worker”debate is primarily a debate among whitenationalists who accept the legitimacy ofthe U.$. imperialist border. Opponents oftemporary-worker programs seek todecrease the number of migrants who canenter the United $tates. They supportexisting immigration restrictions andadditional restrictions. Opposingtemporary-worker programs in thiscontext is just another way to repressmigrants. Amerikan labor unions and

liberals who oppose temporary-workerprograms and want to legalize someundocumented migrants are pursuing astrategy of assimilation toward migrants,and they want to maintain their superioreconomic and political position overmigrants. The most liberal pole of the anti-migrant movement just wants toassimilate migrants already in the United$tates, not decrease immigrationrestrictions, much less end the repressionthat makes legal status desirable to somemigrants.

Bush said migrants should learn Englishto assimilate. “English allows newcomersto go from picking crops to opening agrocery from cleaning offices to runningoffices from a life of low-paying jobs to adiploma, a career, and a home of theirown.” Contrary to the impression givenby CNN’s special on undocumentedmigrants, showing an undocumentedmigrant in a management position in arestaurant (CNN has broadcast thisspecial repeatedly since fall 2004 to scarethe “middle class” and inflame thejealousy of lower-wage white workers),the vast majority of migrant proletarianswon’t have a bourgeois career even ifthey learn English. English requirementsare discriminatory and will only favorEnglish-speaking European migrantswhile undermining the economic andsocial self-determination of Aztlán andhelping to discourage migrants fromhaving an identity separate from Euro-Amerikkkans. Bush also suggested thatwillingness to join the Marines was a sign

of assimilation and upheld one injuredLatino Marine as an example of migrantswhom Amerikans should welcome.

In the so-called immigration reformdebate, the only alternative to temporary-worker programs is an “earned path tocitizenship” that excludes millions oftemporary migrants. This debate, abouthow to repress and assimilate migrantsefficiently, must be rejected. Legalizationtakes the form of assimilation and leavingout other migrants, not ending repression.Assimilation is not enough for somereactionaries, though, who acceptlegalization of more undocumentedmigrants only if there is moreenforcement of immigration restrictions.Farsighted reactionaries realize thatlegalizing some migrants may get themwhat they want in the long term: a stopto high levels of migration. Bush reachedout to these groups by talking tough onborder security

Bush offers no way out of therepression of migrants and the exploitationof proletarians in migrants’ homecountries. At the same time, Bush catersto the labor aristocracy, which threatensto continue building relationships withBush’s competitors. The reactionary so-called working class, which theMinutemen represent, exercisesconsiderable influence in this democracyof parasites, oppressors and dominators.Bush will get his temporary-workerprogram only by pleasing those who wantto increase border repression. His OvalOffice address and other statements and

actions reflect this. Part of the laboraristocracy even agrees with thetemporary-worker program proposal.They are forward-looking and know thathaving some controllable supply oftemporary migrant workers, whowouldn’t be permitted to stay in theUnited $tates permanently, would be inthe economic and political interests of thesettler nation labor aristocrat “workers.”Migrants are suspicious of the proponentsas well as the opponents of temporary-worker programs who oppose openborders and try to stop migrants fromtaking a path independent of“Americanization” and assimilation intoa second-class position in the United$tates. Neither supporters nor opponentsof temporary-worker programsnecessarily want to end the repressionof migrants. Bush certainly did notsupport open borders. He only wantedborders to be “open to trade and lawfulimmigration,” a desire consistent withrepression against migrants, particularlyrepression against temporary migrants.

Notes:1. “Text of Bush’s speech on

immigration,” 15 May 2006. http://w w w . b o s t o n . c o m / n e w s / n a t i o n /washington/ar t ic les/2006/05/15/text_of_bushs_speech_on_immigration/

2. “ Viewpoints: US illegalimmigration,” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4989248.stm

3. http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/minorities/index.html

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May 17, 2006The April 30th 2006 demonstration of

former Iranian Marxists outside theUnited Nations against Iran’s uraniumenrichment program has been a last strawof sorts in MIM’s relationship to theinternational communist movement. Wecan no longer abide by the slow pace ofdeveloping class consciousness. Seeingformer self- described Marxists reducedto such a pitiable state reinforces ourdetermination to keep Marxism-Leninism-Maoism fresh instead of pretending thatstrategic evaluations never change or thatan accumulation of strategic problemssince the death of Mao in 1976 could notmake a self-described “Marxist”organization become a stooge ofimperialism.

It’s been 30 years since Mao died, andplenty of big problems have arisen on theboundary between strategy and line. Mostdamaging are those problems concerninghow local comrades implement oppositionto u.$. imperialism.

When we at MIM ask ourselves aboutsome chance that Bush will use nuclearwarheads on Iran—including new tacticalones the imperialists are claiming—andpicturing that and the aftermath, will MIMbe able to say it did everything possibleto prevent it? When even paleo-conservatives are saying now is the

moment to act against this threat and theyare giving us all the inside poop on theirformer conservative comrades to get thisdone, can it be said MIM does not have aglimmer of recognition? We also have ourformer comrades who are not up to thetasks at hand for various reasons. Somehave poor leaders. Some may even havegeopolitical interests that are somewhatcongruent with u.$. imperialism at themoment. And if our reader can picturethe use of nuclear weapons by the united$tates again, then our reader will alsoknow why we have to break at this timewith our former comrades— includingsome parties conducting Peoples’ Warsbut without an immediate u.$. occupationto contend with.

In the ideal world, the masses doing themost to fight U.$. occupation would havethe best Maoist parties leading them. Thenthere would be no conflict between ourgoal of opposing the number-one enemyof the world’s people and supporting thePeoples’ Wars. Alas, the people of Iraqare doing far more to shake the empirethan any other armed struggle. Places twothrough five might very well go toAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Palestine.

Specific calculations causing theappearance of this new line

Overall, MIM finds the likelihood ofanti-Islamic war higher than the likelihood

of imperialist occupation of countries ofour ex-comrades. The Islamic countriesare at this moment tying down moreimperialist troops than our ex-comradesare. Some of our ex-comrades havetolerated a party that formed on the basisof opposition to seeing the principalcontradiction between imperialism and theoppressed nations. These ex-comradesstupidly tied themselves to a tool of anti-Islamic chauvinism.

Between 1917 and 1923 Lenin andStalin worked with Sultan-Galiev. LaterSultan- Galiev is reported to haveregretted the work and rumors say thatStalin had him shot in 1940. Nonetheless,the period of work with nationalities from1917 to 1923 and Sultan-Galiev’s role infounding the Communist University forthe Toilers of the East were veryproductive. Without that work, we cansay there would have been no SovietUnion. It was the fact that Lenin’s partywas far ahead of the Russian imperialistson the national question and far ahead ofimperialism generally on colonialism thatbrought victory to Lenin, even just in theregions associated with Russian empirehistorically. Today, we are still talkingabout roughly the same peoples and theirdifficulties with imperialism.

We have our doubts that our ex-comrades would be saying and doing the

same things if the united $tates wereoccupying them. Without breaking withthese ex- comrades, we are not doingthem any favors. They pig-headedlyrefuse to acknowledge Aztlán whilerecognizing Kanada and this confuses ouryoung comrades, like many other wrongpoints in the international communistmovement. MIM needs to stand up clearlyfor the Aztlán struggle, including by publiccriticism of our ex-comrades. This is “fortheir own good” in the case of the ThirdWorld peoples misled by ex-comradeswith illusions about the nature ofMarxism-Leninism-Maoism. If the super-profit gorging parties win the day, it willonly mean more Latino troops occupyingcountries with Peoples’ Wars in the future.That will be much more painful thanenduring harsh words from MIM rightnow.

Pragmatism, reciprocity & sectarianismOver more than the last 15 years, MIM

has delivered documents to the world oncertain Peoples’ Wars. Unknown to mostof the world, MIM delivered millions ofdocuments and terabytes of data insupport of organizations that never evenrecognized MIM. We are often called“sectarian” through a misuse of the word.MIM practices “one divides into two,”but the last organization in the world to

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not a struggle that the proletariat can wininside u.$. borders by itself. In China yes,a struggle like this makes sense. In theunited $tates, we are vastly outnumberedby the kind of yahoos disseminatingholocaust revisionism. This is a call forhelp from the whole world.

Fortunately, in its shifting chargesagainst Churchill, the 125 page report hasnow provided exactly the basis foropening this struggle to the internationallevel. In one charge brought against WardChurchill, the Central CounterrevolutionGroup at the University of Colorado saidon page 83 of its tract, that using thenumber of 400,000 killed by smallpox inWestern America 1837-1840 is a“fabrication.”

At the heart of the debate is anotherscholar’s work (Thornton) showing alower number of people killed in one area.The GOCCers say it is a “fabrication” toextrapolate 400,000 dead from whites’spreading smallpox among First Nationpeoples in one region 1837-1840,especially since Churchill bases himselfin Thornton. Perhaps we should leave thetruth out of this and look at what theGOCCers are saying. When we look atwhat the GOCCers themselves say, it isclearly a matter of extrapolation:

“Explaining that smallpox was said tohave been ‘brought to the northern plainsby a steamboat traveling the MissouriRiver,’ Thornton notes that it ‘killed10,000 American Indians there in but afew weeks. The total numbers ofAmerican Indians thought to have diedare overwhelming’ (pp. 94-5). Thorntonthen suggests figures for certain of thosetribes, including the Mandan and Arikara,which add up to around 17,000-19,000deaths. He mentions other tribes withoutproviding numbers of deaths: Indians inCalifornia, ‘many Osage,’ the Choctaw,Chicksaw, and other southern tribes, theKiowa, Apache, Gros Ventre, Winnebago,Comanche, Cayuse, and “other NewMexico, Canada, and Alaska Indians’ (p.95).”

In other words, Thornton showed thatthe smallpox quickly killed 10,000 in oneplace and then spread to others, but lookhow far spread out those other placesare—including Canada for crying outloud. It does not mean Thornton orChurchill showed 400,000 dead, but forChurchill to say 125,000 to 400,000 deadjust based on reading Thornton ANDknowing the spread of indigenouspopulation at that time is in factreasonable—certainly nothing worthy ofa lynch mob committee. We suspect thatthe historian in charge of using “historical”“standards” is an authoritarian literalistnot accustomed to the field ofdemography yet. It is a rather poorreflection on the intelligence and readingbreadth of the committee.

To achieve a figure of 400,000 dead,there would only have to be 40 towns inthree years affected the way Thorntonsaid one town was affected. Hementioned killings of 17,000- 19,000 in

GREAT OPPRESSOR CULTURAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION BEGINSjust what he looked at, which is a smallportion of what he himself said wasaffected. Is it really wrong to say lookingat Thornton “suggests” much more whenThornton himself said the spread of townsaffected was great? Would Thorntonhave been satisfied if Churchill had said,“basing myself on Thornton, I can’t seehow less than 125,000 to 400,000 couldhave died.”

Would it really be accurate for Churchillto claim credit for a figure of 400,000when Thornton has already pointed outthat the smallpox spread all over afterkilling 10,000 people in one place rightaway? If Churchill had claimed credit forthe 400,000 figure, would not these sameGOCCers be here saying Churchill“stole” someone else’s work? MIM findsthis to be a very ambiguous point, notnearly as clear-cut as the GOCCerswould like. If Churchill points to Thornton,the GOCCers say he put words inThornton’s mouth. If he did not mentionThornton and given the implication ofwhat the spread of smallpox over such avast territory at that time could mean, theywould have accused him of plagiarism.Crediting Thornton with the ability toextrapolate would seem a proper course.

In any case, MIM is here to say we’rewilling to trade the firing of WardChurchill for the firing of all the Chinascholars who have extrapolated faminesin China in Mao’s Great Leap on the basisof less evidence. There are publishedpapers extrapolating from deaths in singlevillages to all of Mao’s China. The ratioof one part examination to 20 or 40 partsextrapolation is low compared with whatpasses in China studies. In comparisonwhat Churchill did with Thornton is smallfries. We’re willing to make that tradeany day, because the GOCCers would

have far more to lose. If extrapolation ofdeaths is “fabrication,” you can kiss mostof the U.$. China Studies peoplegoodbye. In fact, for many of the scholarsinvolved, the error is far worse, becausethe leading GOCC lights in the China fieldhave made decimal point errors regardingthe Great Leap without ever correctingthem despite this having been pointed outfor years at a time. It’s not even aquestion of extrapolating while nitpickingliteralist historians look on.

This is what we mean byinternationalizing the struggle. Thesewhite nationalist chauvinists andpettifoggers want to bring their crudeunderstanding to population issues. Wethink it stupid, because populationextrapolation is in fact important to do.However, since the GOCCers havestarted the struggle, we don’t mind it. Ifany readers in the world have read anextrapolation of deaths regarding Stalinor Mao by an academic “authority,”please bring it to MIM’s attention andcondemn the GOCC.

Democracy proves that it is no boon totruth in majority oppressor countries.While academic authorities are oftenwrong, the range of criticisms of WardChurchill are also wrong in the united$tates. People funded by governmentinstitutions and taking federal grants turnaround and attack scholars that criticizethe government.

The parallel with the Great ProletariatCultural Revolution is clear. At that time,rebels were not happy with what hadhappened in the past 17 years and theystarted with an attack on academicadministrations squelching speech. Herecounterrevolutionary rebels are not happywith the history of the united $tates thatWard Churchill is painting. In both China

and the united $tates, it was the bourgeoiscounterrevolutionaries squelching speechduring a political opportunity.

In the Cultural Revolution, there wasalso a right-wing counter-current whichsought to back authorities including DengXiaoping who ordered students lockedinto cafeterias during the CulturalRevolution to shut them up. In a periodof disorder and political participation, it isvery wrong to think that only theproletariat gets its say. Bourgeoisauthoritarians in China then and whiteauthoritarians now in the united $tates gettheir say. Freedom and the egalitarian ideabehind democracy that all shouldparticipate in politics means someoppressors may get their chance.

The Ward Churchill lynching vindicatesMIM’s position on the Great ProletarianCultural Revolution. Not everything badthat happens during a political opportunitycan be blamed simply on the idea ofpolitical participation. It makes much moresense to look at the class and nationalinterests involved instead of justcondemning all political participation.During the Cultural Revolution, countlesspersynal vendettas came to the fore inbig-character posters. True. Here in theunited $tates, Charles Brennan of theRocky Mountain News wrote about WardChurchill’s high school football team, ex-wives etc.(1) The only difference is thatin China under Mao, the big characterposters would be written by WardChurchill’s football team and there wouldbe no Charles Brennan selling the storiesfor profit. We think that says it all rightthere: where do you think the truth is morelikely to emerge, in a proletarian culturalrevolution or a bourgeois culturalcounterrevolution?

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by First Nations Minister“pettifoggern 1: a person (especially a lawyer

or politician) who uses unscrupulousor unethical methods [syn: shyster]2: a disputant who quibbles; someonewho raises annoying petty objections[syn: quibbler, caviller, caviler]”The General Allotment Act (Dawes

Act) of 1887 has become a center ofcontention between Ward Churchill andhis critics. On May 16th or 17th, theUniversity of Colorado released its 125page report on Ward Churchill in whichone of the main contentions against himwas misrepresentation of the Dawes Act.

Upon release of the lynch mobcommittee tract, and based on readingthat plus professional and less thanprofessional papers on this subject, itseemed to MIM that the likely source ofthe problem is a conflict betweenauthoritarian literalists and theoreticians.Five minutes research on this subjectproved that that would be an overlygenerous take on the event.

What we thought all along about WardChurchill’s critics was something like this:

“Critic: Duh, I can read, and ‘bloodquantum’ is not in the General AllotmentAct.

Churchill theorist: The GeneralAllotment Act established the use of bloodquantum in the definition of ‘Indian.’”

Upon first reading of the report issuedby the Great Oppressor CulturalCounterrevolution Group (GOCC Group)at the University of Colorado, it seemedthat our hypothesis was vindicated:

“The Committee concluded thatProfessor Churchill’s descriptions of theGeneral Allotment Act of 1887, whileperhaps slightly more accurate thanProfessor LaVelle credits them withbeing, are nevertheless literally incorrect.”

The GOCCers spread more aboutChurchill perpetrating a “hoax” on thispoint. The committee then goes on to saythat Churchill has the better of the debatein the long-run.

Here we find it ridiculous that someempiricist literalist reading of history

stands in the way of theory. The GeneralAllotment Act (as the title sounds) is abouthanding out land. It is therefore an obvioussuspect in the political economy behindthe creation of relations with theoppressor white nation.

When Ward Churchill says that lawestablished a blood quantum in defining“Indian,” he is not just partly correct. Heis more correct than literally correct.

The pettifogging report writers point outthat a court case (United States v.Rogers, 45 U.S. 567 (1846)), before theDawes Act also used blood quantum todefine “Indian.” This is a typical nitpickby the anti-Churchill people, becausethere is no way that murder cases weregoing to affect a large number of peopleor their ethnic definition. The court caseis an example in the superstructure of anattitude that Churchill said was there, butit was only an example. To really put thepedal to the metal, we had the DawesAct systematize a eugenics code. Nowthere was a path to First Nation people’s

5 minutes research on Ward ChurchillThe Dawes Act, what are the anti-Churchill pinheads talking about?

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be sectarian is MIM. The proof is thatMIM supports organizations that show usno reciprocity.

One reason that MIM tolerated a lackof reciprocity is that we hate the politicsof reciprocity that we have seen. Therehave been too many unprincipleddocuments signed by too many wateryparties that should not claim to bescientific communist parties. Reciprocitytakes on a life of its own and people signthings without knowing why. It’s muchbetter to have someone chew on theMIM line and not like it than to pretendto digest it and ask for more.

Today, we can say that our comradesin the Peoples’ Wars and elsewhere havehad adequate exposure to true Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. We know because wehave measured the terabytes distributed.We’ve done too much work in this areato tolerate our ex-comrades’ apatheticapproach to international class analysis.

Increasingly we believe that with oneparticular party conducting People’s War,pragmatist cynicism by some of its keyleaders is standing in the way.

The political line problems rehashedRegarding the universals of Marxism-

Leninism-Maoism, Lenin and Stalin saidBlacks were a nation. Trotsky said theywere a race. We’ve told our comradesthis many times. They have not heededthe obvious. Quite the contrary, many stillheed the Trotskyist view of Cominternsand uphold parties that are not in step withMarxism-Leninism-Maoism, and neverhave been.

Khruschev came to power and GusHall dropped the Black nation thesis.Right-hand of Stalin Harry Haywood andothers left the party. Not one bit of that isa secret that MIM dug up.

Since then the “Communist Party of theUSA” has supported the civil rightsmovement and the multiracial view of onecountry flying the stars and stripes. Onewould have thought that within theuniversals of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,nothing could be more obvious. Trotskyand Khruschev are on one side and Lenin,Stalin and MIM on the other side. Thesad truth is, no it was not obvious to evenour comrades in the Peoples’ Wars.

At this time, when the ability to link theLatino struggle to the anti- militariststruggle could be crucial for the wholeworld, MIM has to ask itself anotherquestion: if a Maoist InternationalistParty-Aztlán formed from our youngAztlán comrades, would the Peoples’Wars not facing an immediate u.$.occupation recognize it? The answeragain, sadly, is no. Here again the politicallink is clear. Weakness in the fightregarding Islamic countries fighting U.$.occupation is also weakness in the fightfor Aztlán to remove repressiveoccupation.

Some of our former comrades are inthe Third World and have to emphasizethat Third World and Fourth World nationshave no reason to be in conflict. Conflictamong them aids u.$. imperialism. This

is no excuse where Kanada and Aztlánare concerned. Nor is there any “thirdforce” politics where we can stand aboveboth u.$. imperialism and oppressednations whether they are Islamic-dominated politically or not. The proofagain is that Iraq is damaging theimperialist military more than any othercountry. This all has to do with sharplybringing out the difference betweenimperialism and oppressed nations.

Some of our former comrades try totell MIM that Aztlán is only in Marxism-Leninism- Maoism-MIM Thought, notMaoism universally, so we will have towait till u.$. imperialism falls to recognizeAztlán. In other words, when MIM bringsdown u.$. imperialism, they will be happyto elevate MIM Thought to a universalaspect of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,and then we can recognize Aztlán on parwith Kanada according to these people.Our former comrades want the MartinLuther King line for a multiracial so-calledworking class within u.$. borders, notnational liberation. It’s the same oldTrotskyist story to wait for the whiteworkers, because revolution is supposedlyimpossible without them.

Some people will blame me, theInternational Minister for ever putting upwith the backward line from our ex-comrades on how Aztlán supposedly doesnot exist as a nation deserving its ownvanguard party like Kanada. I will try tospin this as best I can: there is somebenefit to seeing these questions asspecific to MIM Thought, because weare having so many problems with theWang Ming line internationally. For us totreat questions as more than 50%application is also healthy generally.

The only problem is—the cynicalcomments about Kanada and Aztlán arenot in line with the universal aspects ofMarxism-Leninism-Maoism. If Blacksare a nation according to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and if Aztlán has adistinct language and a territory derivedfrom Occupied Mexico, then how can wesay that Aztlán is not a nation too? MIMhas a dilemma here. Throughout theworld, the majority of Maoist parties areled by people in their teens and twenties.So we are often at the stage of struggledealing with the Wang Ming problem.This leads us to emphasize what is MIMThought, the application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism for specific conditions.On the other hand, we already have theBlack reference point from Marxism-Leninism- Maoism, so it is outragenumber one to have anyone say Aztlán isa MIM Thought question alone.

Decisive outrage number two is thatthese comrades have all recognized aKanadian nation and they have enteredinto relations with Kanadian organizations.Supposedly that is not part of MIMThought, but Aztlán is.

We just cannot tolerate this. It’schauvinism and neo-colonialism beyondcomparison. These other parties and ex-comrades also give ambiguous responsesabout First Nations of North America, andabsolutely none of them give Huey

Newton his due, though at least withHuey Newton, MIM has to acknowledgethat intercommunalism is a newdevelopment not within prior Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. In a word, much ofthe opposition to MIM looks likebourgeois nationalism, a failure to divideone into two in the name of appeasingwhite so-called workers. MIM is just notgoing to stand for First Nations’ andAztlán’s not getting their due as outrightnations in the classic Stalin sense.

Since these other parties will notrecognize Aztlán, then the super-exploitedand exploited of Aztlán deserve to knowthat the first party in the world to call itself“Maoist” does recognize Aztlán and willnot put up with these chauvinists andwannabe compradors passing themselvesoff as Marxist-Leninist- Maoistsanymore. Most of them are just as happycalling themselves “Marxist- Leninist” stillin 2006 anyway. We said it in 1983 andwe’ll say it again now: whatever eclecticmish-mash it is they put together, we arethe Maoists.

Application, recalibration & re-summation

By now, MIM is also impatient withsome of our Third World comrades,because we know that in their owncountries, they describe as urban petty-bourgeoisie a class with a fraction of theliving standard of what they are calling“workers” in the imperialist countries.Even in Russia, we know that the civilservant of the petty-bourgeoisie makesless than the garbage collector of LosAngeles. That is even more true in mostcountries. Because things are incorrectlycalibrated by imperialist-countryrevisionism, most of the world communistmovement hews to the mythology of animperialist-country “working class” thatis somehow better paid and owns moreassets than the Third World petty-bourgeoisie. We are long past due for are-calibration on an internationalist basis.The parties we have broken with had theirchance to sign our W.E.B. Du Boisdeclaration and they never did. They havenever summed up the international classstructure to the level of rationalknowledge. Whether the formercomrades are incompetent for decadesat a time or bought-off hardly matters.

Because from no fault of MIM’s someprevious revisionist parties told the ThirdWorld comrades that imperialist countryworkers deserve a living standard severaltimes higher than the urban petty-bourgeoisie of the Third World, our ThirdWorld comrades continue along the samemistaken lines. It’s a problem ofinternalized chauvinism—an opening tocomprador politics. We are not doing theinternational proletariat any favors byoverlooking the problem of wannabecompradors.

The special problem of PeruMIM was the first organization in the

world to call itself “Maoist.” At first theCommunist Party of Peru (PCP) definedMarxism-Leninism-Maoism in adocument where it knew the initiatingsignatory considered itself “Marxist-

Leninist” in then recently signeddocuments in Latin America. As it turnsout, some other signatories neverconsidered themselves Maoist at all. ThePCP eventually raised the question of“Marxism- Leninism-Maoism” and“principally Maoism.” However, thesecomrades suffered CIA infiltration. TheYankee imperialists and Peruvianreaction smashed the PCP with the activeaid of a party still tolerated by our formercomrades.

For this reason, MIM is going tocontinue offering PCP documents to theworld. When the state smashed theoriginal leadership of the PCP, MIM wasalready engaged in a serious line strugglewith it—all the details of which are stillnot public. We shall count our strugglewith the PCP as prematurely terminated.On the other hand, MIM will no longerrecognize any current Peruvians ashaving continuity with the PCP. It maynot be aiding the struggle too much giventhe Peruvians’ struggle’s stage ofdevelopment.

PolicyHenceforth, MIM is going through a

re-registration process with allinternational comrades. We cannot abideby the combination of circumstances weare in. From now on, it’s not just aquestion of what Yankees are doing forthe Peoples’ Wars. It’s also a questionof how the Peoples’ Wars are supportingMarxism- Leninism-Maoism in theimperialist countries. If they cannotseparate from Trotskyism and laboraristocracy politics, they’re not going todo anything to help our handfuls ofcomrades in the imperialist countries stayon the correct road. Tolerating thechauvinism of the First World Trotskyistsonly increases the opportunities forimperialist aggression.

1. Parties that wish to be regarded asfraternal by MIM are welcome to contactus. Perhaps MIM made a mistake ininterpreting other parties’ lines. TheInternational Minister does not claim tohave made no mistakes and the MIMdoes not claim to have given theInternational Ministry enough comrade-time to do a good job.

We will demand reciprocity. Comradesunprepared to recognize Aztlán need notcall themselves comrades of ours.Likewise, anyone going to tolerate theIranian Mujahedin or the RCP=U$Aneed not bother calling themselvescomrades of ours. If that is not public,they can forget thinking they are makinga contribution to the imperialist countrystruggle. We can rejoin forces at a laterdate in history.

2. All organizations that MIM deemsnot to have met the challenges of thisperiod now find web pages related to theirstruggle removed from our website.

3. It’s not that MIM is going to put upweb pages attacking the parties not facingimmediate U.$. occupation. If our formercomrades would like to criticize us, theymay do so. We would rather drop thesubject until a more propitious historicalmoment.

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internalizing the ideas of the white man,with the backing of land distributed bythe white man.

Even worse for our empiricists, suchblood quantum reasoning was not usedconsistently in courts, because jurisdictionin courts depended on other factors innational struggle with the oppressornation. To this day, some matters for saythe Onondaga Nation or Mohawk Nationgo to white courts and some are handledwithin indigenous law. It does not meanthat when the question is murder peopleare no longer “Indians,” but when thequestion is drunken behavior on the street,they are. In contrast, the Dawes Actcould have a fairly consistent andobservable effect. Churchill correctlyemphasized it, while empiricist moronswasted the reading public’s time.

The argument of the GOCCers wouldbe like going to France and having a courtrule you can’t have your U.$. passportback because you don’t like McDonalds.Sure, that affects Amerikanness, but it’snot going to establish much other than anopinion in one case. Notso for the DawesAct. Crucially, the Dawes Act intervenesin the self-governance of the FirstNations. The impact of the act waswidespread and internal to the FirstNations themselves and was thus morefar-reaching.

We would have thought that this wasjust another case of people notunderstanding political economy, how thepower of land distribution affects thecreation of indigenous pseudo-government. It would be the force of landdistribution that taken all the eugenicsideas in the air and made them concretein puppet tribal governments and relationswith Uncle $am.

In actuality, Ward Churchill’s critics aremore evil than just willfully ignoring thetheoretical mechanism of how white toFirst Nation relations formed. As it turnsout, the University of Colorado GOCCersare also literally wrong in their ownpettifogging empiricist way.

The report against Churchill claims:“The requirement of Indian blood did

not originate with either express or impliedrequirements of the General AllotmentAct of 1887, as Professor Churchillclaims.”

The same anti-Churchill GOCCers say:“The evidence indicates that during the

allotment period, for a brief three-yearwindow from 1917 to 1920, a half-bloodquantum test was employed, albeit not forthe purpose that Professor Churchillclaims.”

That’s it. So the GOCCers try tosupport the literalists who say they didnot see “blood quantum” in the law. Wow,a computer search did not find the phrase.

Genius.The claims by the anti-Churchill

pettifoggers are wrong as five minutesresearch easily reveals. Prior to 1917 andeasily available on the Internet is adocument showing exactly as Churchillsaid, the Dawes Act and blood quantum.Here it is, and it was long before 1917:

See also, http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/dawes.php .

If the link is down, try here: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/mn/sept112001/dawescard.htm

Notice a few things in this document.On the far left we see “Dawes”specifically mentioned. After “age” and“sex” we see “blood” clear as day. “IW”stands for intermarried white. Now noticethe dates and authorities involved. 1903is there. So much for claims about 1917.If blood quantum is not involved with theDawes Act, if the Dawes Act did notactively formalize eugenics thinking, thenwhat is that blood column doing there onthe form a few columns after the word“Dawes”? The way to disprove Churchill,and we do think it is important to try, is togo back and find tribes that took rolls likethat before the white man. As far as alleugenics histories MIM is aware of, thesewere all the white man’s ideas, not FirstNation ideas. The pettifoggers areobscuring the truth.

It’s long, long past due for people torecognize that throwing a thousanddifferent charges against Churchill iswrong. He is like the soccer goalie andthey keep extending the goal posts.Eventually they extend the goal posts tobe on both sides of the field. So DavidHorowitz says that Churchill is not anauthority, because he is not a real “Indian.”Other Nazis say blood quantum shouldbe used to separate indigenous peoplefrom white people. Then comes theUniversity of Colorado committee andinstead of pointing out the many ridiculouscharges against Churchill that are wrong,the GOCCers move the goal posts. NowChurchill is not wrong because he’s not“Indian”: he’s wrong because otherindigenous people agreed with him andallowed him to ghost write for them. Soon the one side, we have most of theoppressor nation public saying he’s a“fraud,” because he’s not an “Indian.”Then there is the other side in theUniversity of Colorado bureaucracy, whosay, no, no, the real problem is that otherindigenous people do agree with him.Supposedly he is simultaneously not realenough and yet real enough that he isguilty of self-citation because some otherindigenous people agreed with him somuch that they let him publish in theirname. It’s have-it-both-ways, whitenationalist petti-foggery.

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The u.$. occupation of Afghanistan andespecially Iraq changed the wholeregion’s geopolitical chess game. On May5th, according to Iran’s government,Turkey announced publicly that it doesnot differ with Iran on nuclear energy:“Turkish Prime Minister Recep TayyipErdogan said Friday, ‘Iran and Turkey’sviewpoints on nuclear activities are notdifferent.’”(1) Turkey’s stance issignificant, because the world’simperialist powers are trying to isolateIran politically to force it to stop its nuclearenergy program.

There was no decisive rebuttal fromTurkey about Iran’s claims. The United$tates had asked Turkey to honor itsprevious statements to Uncle $am aboutIran. Thus, Uncle $am also claimed it hada deal with Turkey. The Asia Times haspublished an especially insightful articleabout the imperialist view of thesituation.(2) Iran is also courting Turkeyby bombing Kurdish people.

With dominant religious sects in Iraqhostile to the united $tates, the united$tates is continuing with its policy ofplaying protector to the Kurds—an on-again-off-again policy since the days ofthe First Gulf War by Bush Sr., whoinitially supported the Kurds and then letSaddam Hussein slaughter them at theend of the Gulf War.

The original conflict that needsexplanation is the fight by Kurds for theirself-determination in a region overlappingIran, Iraq and Turkey. The Kurdishpolitical leaders of the struggle haveincluded Hoxhaites, Maoists, bourgeois

democrats and others. One progressiveorganization called the Kurdish Workers’Party (PKK) lost its leader Ocalan toprison in Turkey in 1999 where he faceda potential death penalty. The united$tates and European Union havepretended to be a restraining force bytrying to get Turkey to give Ocalanimprisonment and not death and to workon rights for Kurdish people. Nonetheless,to please Turkey and Iran, the united$tates has long named the PKK one ofthe few officially “terrorist” groups in theworld. The Amerikan public hears thatthe PKK might be communist or MiddleEastern, and that riles up u.$. publicopinion to support wasteful warmongeringand pseudo-security budgets, becausethere is no real Euro-Amerikan proletariatto think otherwise.

Before the u.$. occupations ofAfghanistan and Iraq, Turkey and otheru.$. puppet regimes in the regionrepressed the Kurds. Little known to mostpeople, Turkey also moved in about250,000 troops into Iraq to fight Kurds inthe hills during the u.$. occupation. Theunited $tates gave approval to this whilealso giving approval to Kurdishparticipation and rights in the colonial Iraqregime. When Kurds inside Iraq’sborders feel threatened by Turkey, theyhave to run to the u.$. puppet in Baghdad,who then makes obligatory noises aboutIraq’s territorial integrity. This is all fineby u.$. imperialism.

To some extent, the u.$. imperialists tryto model Iraq on themselves. Being aliberal democracy however, does not

solve the national question. The Blacksand Kurds are not the same, because tosome extent u.$. imperialism succeeds inbuying off Blacks into a civil rightsframework by re-distributing super-profits. The Black national struggleagainst u.$. imperialism is mostrevolutionary. However, the Kurdishnational struggle against Turkey, Iraq andIran is not the same, because those arenot imperialist countries. True, Iraq offersoil profits to Kurds, but the occupation ofKirkuk and the oil there serves as a truematerial basis for Kurdish nationalism, notjust a share of oil profits via the civil rightsmodel.

Smaller nations can make the mistakeof thinking that all larger nations areoppressor nations. The logic of suchthinking is that war must go on until allnations are reduced in population to zero.Armenia’s choice to break up the SovietUnion was an example of utter smallnation stupidity. Armenia knew it wouldend up in a hostile situation withAzerbaijan and Turkey; yet it was first inline to break up the Soviet Union. NowArmenia has become a country ofrefugees blockaded by neighbors.Armenia, Azerbaijan and all the countriesof the region have the most to gain fromforming a Soviet republic jointly.

Proletarian infighting is common beforethe proletariat has reached adequate classconsciousness. The Europeans of WorldWar I are still the ultimate example.Germany and France were not“oppressor” or “oppressed” nationstoward each other in World War I, but

their peoples managed a huge slaughterof each other. Germany and France wereboth imperialist countries. Kurdistan andTurkey are both oppressed nations thatdo not control the levers of internationalfinance. Together they share the commoninterest of freeing themselves from theeconomic exploitation of the imperialists.However, the peoples of Turkey andKurdistan do not know it yet, so there isintra-proletarian bloodshed, when the onlyjustified bloodshed in the region is againstthe imperialists and their lackeys.

It is MIM’s analytical opinion thatelements of the Turkish military could livewithout the European Union, seek anAsian orientation and might even behappy taking up a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist line to accomplish it. On the onehand, the Turkish military with ties to theu.$. military can support pretendrevolutionaries as with the IranianMujahedin. This becomes an extensionof neo-conservative U.$. politics and achess game the proletariat cannot win.On the other hand, if we see any Turkishmilitary leaders calling for and carryingout actual strikes on u.$. military forces,that will be the real deal, potentially thereal Maoist. The people attacking u.$.military forces are the real uniters of theregion, the real peace-makers. The proofis what happens to countries and regionsthat allow the united $tates to play offone people against another.

The Soviet system is ideal for handlingimperialists. Only when oppressed peoplesrecognize each other and unite can they

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drive out their real oppressors. Those whofight the imperialists deserve citizenshipin a Soviet-wide system of all the peoplesinvolved.

The conservatives of Turkey will seeno reason to go Maoist, if they cannotthink into the future. All they see is stabilityat risk with the rise of a Kurdistan. Ifconservatives could envision what hashappened to Afghanistan, Iraq and othercountries destroyed by U.$. divide-and-conquer, they would see that theirconcerns about stability can only beaccomplished by removing the majorirritant to the region’s peoples, u.$.imperialism. Otherwise, Turkey can endup like the others who fall for U.$.schemes— a wreck of a country beggingfor more green cards. Turkishconservatives need to realize quickly thatbeing part of a Soviet region can preserveTurkey from the fate of an Iraq orAfghanistan or Armenia.

Turkish conservatives have a classbasis for realizing that socialism is the onlyway out, unlike conservatives in the united$tates, who have spoils from the wholeworld. If Turkish conservatives believetheir country has accomplishments worthpreserving, they should also realize whohas the power to degrade Turkey’sconditions: it is not really the Kurds oreven Kurds plus Armenians.

At the moment, the political pressuresthe reactionary Turkish compradors faceare coming out into the open and revealingwhy a scenario of Maoist revolutioncoming from the Turkish people andmaybe even the Turkish military is notcompletely far-fetched. The politicalforces at work in Turkey are constantlythere for revolution, because Turkey andother countries have “no way out” butsocialism as Mao said.

Perhaps most astonishing is the hostiletone toward the united $tates emanatingfrom Turkey in veiled comments—moreveiled than Putin’s comments about“hungry wolves” at Russia’s doors—butnonetheless significant. First puppetKurds ran tattle-tale to the united $tatesand England about Turkey in northernIraq. That was to be expected. Nextthough, Turkey did respond publicly, a fewtimes. MIM is surprised by that. It’s anindication of how super-charged thesituation is that the united $tates hasunleashed a civil war in Iraq withimmediate implications for Turkey andIran as well. One factor may be that thecivilian prime minister Erdogan mustcontend for influence with his militarywith its own u.$. ties.

Now Turkey is referring to its long-timeKurdish foes as armed by Iraq, whichmeans of course, armed by the united$tates. It can even mean armed byTurkey’s own military given the links tothe united $tates. Iranian diplomats inTurkey have gone so far as to namedetails of U.$. military meetings with thePKK.

On May 10th, the Turkish ForeignMinistry had to deny that it had proof ofu.$. military meetings with PKK

“terrorists” in Iraq.(3) The open admissionthat Turkey knows about u.$. meetingswith the PKK would be a virtualdeclaration of war against the united$tates within the logic of bourgeoisdiplomacy. Nonetheless, the positionTurkey is in right now could hardly beclearer for those who need to learn aboutdivide-and-conquer. The united $tatescreated the operating room for the Kurdsand also supplied the Kurds and theTurkish military both. Obviousbenefactors of supplying both sides of anyconflicts are the u.$. arms manufacturerspaid for with money from the u.$. exploiterpublic riled up about communists, Muslimsand oppressed peoples. Overall, thefighting among oppressed peoplesdecreases their ability to run their owneconomies. This guarantees that Kurdsand Turks will both end up cheap labor inEurope and elsewhere.

So here are the Turkish compradors.What they are saying is, “look, Turkey isnot part of the EU yet and nor are we the51st state of the united $tates yet. SoKurds still count to us.”

When Iran met with Turkey May 5, theresponse of the U.S. State Departmentwas to remind Turkey of its privilege ofbeing inside Iraq’s borders, granted by theunited $tates. Iran likewise sought to curryfavor with Turkey by arresting PKKpeople in Iran and also by bombing thosePKK people supposedly along Iran’sborder with Iraq. (Translate: the Turksand Iranians feel free to attack civiliansthey think are Kurdish.) Following thesemoves in synch is Syria.

Thus there is a situation very similar tothe one with the Iranian Mujahedin. Anorganization is on the edge, but the united$tates names it “terrorist.” However,supposedly “terrorist” PKK is off-the-radar in Amerikan public opinion—thesame way the Iranian Mujahedin areexcept for their recent promotion by theneo-conservatives and the usual StateDepartment lackeys. The united $tatesis not hunting down everyone it calls“terrorist.” Instead, u.$. imperialism playsa geopolitical game.

Playing all its tactical geopolitical,military and oil cards with genius, Iran’sotherwise backward regime told Turkeynot to side with the united $tates overIran’s nuclear program, because theunited $tates is allowing PKK infiltrationof Turkey. Bombing alleged PKK peopleis Iran’s way of currying Turkey’s favor.

MIM’s line on oppressed nations isalways that they should not fight exceptagainst imperialism. Turkey and Iran arenot imperialists. They are also oppressedpeoples. The united $tates plays divide-and-conquer. The United $tates is thusresponsible for Iran’s bombing of thePKK at the moment.

Once the united $tates toppled SaddamHussein and allowed a civil war todevelop, it became unpredictable how Iranand Turkey would react. At the moment,they are saying the united $tates mustattack the PKK.(4) On May 12th,Bloomberg financial news took to chidingTurkey about its endangering its EUprospects with the anti-Kurdish

attacks,(5) but that may not mean muchif Turkey’s own regime feels that it couldfall apart, because of spill-over from Iraq’scivil war.

In the midst of this, even Iraq’spresident Talabani expresses hisresentment against the transparentoperation of Turkish troops inside Iraqiborders. So Iraqi stooges are also pullingfor the Kurds in a strange way, as dictatedby the united $tates. On May 11th, boththe Foreign Ministry and the Turkishmilitary put out comments about Turkey’sdefending its own interests withoutquestion, and as it sees fit.(6) This is allway-below-the-radar in U.$. publicopinion. It will be considered “one morepiece of the mess” Amerikans made inIraq.

The Turkish regime claims that the PKK“terrorists” are responsible for war thatleft 30,000 dead in Turkey. If Turkey’sregime were in open warfare with theu.$. forces in Iraq, Turkey’s credibilitywould be pretty high right now. If Erdoganordered his military to attack u.$. interests,Erdogan’s credibility would increase.

As it is, the regime in Turkey bolstersits internal nationalist support by swipingat both the Kurds and Amerikansscrewing up bourgeois interests in Iraqat the same time. Estimates of Turkishtroops in Iraq range from 200,000 to290,000, but this is a war that both theunited $tates and Turkey have yet to calla war.

The Kurdish question could end upinflaming Turkey against the West. Waragainst the united $tates is not hard tosee, and the possibility of Maoistrevolution in Turkey by an unanticipatedroute is not far behind.

The credibility of the PKK is also inquestion at the moment. Accuser Turkeyhas mixed credentials. Nonetheless, thepolitical logic of the situation is clear. Evenif PKK were busy fighting u.$. troops,Iran would have an interest in sayingPKK is receiving aid from u.$. troops inorder to court Turkey. Among all theactors—Turkey, Iran, the united $tatesand the PKK—the PKK is most likely tobe changing the social situation and havea direction forward. However, withoutattacks on u.$. troops by the PKK, andthe obvious possibility of benefits via theunited $tates, PKK endangers its politicalsupport in the region. The PKK canbecome another wannabe compradororganization.

At the moment, MIM sees globalcommunist confusion about who theworld’s principal enemy is—u.$.imperialism. The confusion stems fromthe corrupting influence of u.$. powercreating wannabe compradors, narrownationalists and fans of the integrated u.$.labor aristocracy in our ranks.

Geopolitical chess players fromoppressed nations who cannot see howthey could be painted as stooges of u.$.imperialism are useless to their peoples.As MIM said about bourgeois democraticKurds before, it is not in the interests ofthe Kurdish people to cross the otheroppressed nations of the region, nationsthat have super-exploited toilers and

unemployed people with a real interest infighting u.$. imperialism. Allowing oneselfto become a stooge of u.$ imperialismwill contribute to long term national frictionin the Middle East and Central Asia foreconomic reasons that do not go away.When the united $tates gets kicked outof Iraq, there will be popular nationalistlegends about how that happened. TheKurds should be a part.

Neighboring Armenia can become abad example for the region. The youth ofArmenia now lives in the suburbs of LosAngeles, thanks to wars, including withAzerbaijan after the collapse of the SovietUnion. The u.$. imperialists and EU couldcare less if the region falls into massivecivil war of sectarian and ethnic strife. Itwould just mean more refugees and cheaplabor to stream into the European Union,in circumstances that most people (eventhe labor aristocracy of Europe) willregard sympathetically. The combinedTurkish and Kurdish moves at themoment are suitable for getting everyonein Turkey EU visas and U.$. green cards.

Far better than Turkey’s fighting theKurds is joining them. It’s not just thatthe lives lost in past struggles will provefutile given what applecarts the united$tates turns over, but also the kind ofinfrastructure loss we see in Iraq nowwith u.$.-instigated wars among ThirdWorld peoples. If Turkey wants to endup a bombed out country like Iraq orAfghanistan, then it should continue onits path. True Turkish patriots will see thelight on the path of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The TKP/ML and groups likethe PKK light up a road that Turkey canfollow together with the Kurdish people.

The theocratic regime in Iran is correctabout one thing. The Third World peoplesdo share a concrete interest in not lettingthe united $tates destroy their countries.Iran’s offer to Turkey to share nucleartechnology is one clear attempt to bringabout Third World solidarity againstimperialism. Sharing nuclear technologyis one sort of solidarity. Another glaringquestion is the presence of u.$. troops inIraq, which should spur all exploited andsuper-exploited people to join togetheragainst the principal enemy of the world’speople. There are no real Maoists thatdo not implement a line opposing theworld’s principal enemy as prioritynumber one.

Notes:1. http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/

0605055100201303.htm2. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/

Middle_East/HE13Ak03.html ; One imperialistanalyst opposes dividing Iraq into Kurdish,Shia and Sunni zones.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3860133.html

3. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=43074

4. http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=32831

5. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aKhtai2ILsME&refer=europe

6. http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-6544.html

7. For one discussion of how the cookiecrumbles in the whole region, http://w w w . d i s s i d e n t v o i c e . o r g / A p r 0 6 /Stanton24.htm

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MIM onPrisons & PrisonersMIM seeks to build public opinion

against Amerika’s criminal injustice sys-tem, and to eventually replace the bour-geois injustice system with proletarian jus-tice. The bourgeois injustice system im-prisons and executes a disproportionatelylarge and growing number of oppressedpeople while letting the biggest mass mur-derers — the imperialists and their lack-eys — roam free. Imperialism is not op-posed to murder or theft, it only insists thatthese crimes be committed in the interestsof the bourgeoisie.

“All U.S. citizens are criminals—accomplices and accessories to the crimesof U.$. oppression globally until the dayU.$. imperialism is overcome. All U.S.citizens should start from the point of viewthat they are reforming criminals.”

MIM does not advocate that allprisoners go free today; we have amore effective program for fightingcrime as was demonstrated in Chinaprior to the restoration of capitalismthere in 1976. We say that all prisonersare political prisoners because underthe dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, allimprisonment is substantivelypolitical. It is our responsibility toexert revolutionary leadership andconduct political agitation andorganization among prisoners —whose material conditions make theman overwhelmingly revolutionarygroup. Some prisoners should and willwork on self-criticism under a futuredictatorship of the proletariat in thosecases in which prisoners really did dosomething wrong by proletarianstandards.

Under Lock & KeyNews from Prisons & Prisoners

Migrant prisonerrepression

Greetings revolutionary comrades. Can yousend me some MIM Notes? I would like toread about the protest of the migrants andhow the imperialist politicians want to pass alaw making undocumented immigrants felons.

I was born in Mexico but I.ve been living inthe United Snakes for 30 years. My releasedate from prison is 2013. I already have anINS hold. So as soon as I finish this prisonsentence (17 years) the corrupt LA court gaveme, the California prison system will releaseme to the border pigs. I.m 33 years old andeven though I.ve lived in California all mylife, all my family lives in the U.$., and my littledaughter was born in CA and lives in LA, I.mstill going to get deported.

Yes, we need to overthrow this racist andcorrupt political system.

In struggle,- A California prisoner, May 2006

Institution Fears IdeasTo all my people, the oppressed ones

around the globe and to those that findthemselves in the same situation as mine.

I want to share these words with those thathave faced censorship in the system onceour eyes see further than beauty, materialthinking and the bondage placed on our eyesby the imperialist society. I’m in the hole, asusual for anybody who has the ability to seesomething that most people cannot. I’ve beenin the hole for the last year. They said that I’ma “threat to the institution.” The funny thingabout it is that I have never been infracted.The truth is something else, comrades.

All this is happening because of my beliefs.Which makes me wonder this, “If my beliefsdon’t work why are they so afraid of them?”They know they have lied to the world formany years and they are enjoying their lies.Therefore, they are doing everything to shutup those who are able to see things differently.Remember this, everything has two sides,make sure you know both sides of history.Otherwise you will end up falling on theimperialist side, which is the one causing somuch damage around the world because oftheir ability to obstruct the truth.

Finally, if you are, or have passed throughwhat I am, never give up, because to impedea river of blood we must let a few drops ofblood fall to mother earth.

- A Washington Prisoner, April 2006

Conditions atCorcoran SHU

I arrived at Corcoran SHU at the beginningof March. Since my arrival here at the SHU Ihave observed a lot of corruption by boththe guards that run this place and the prisonadministration.

Our grievance system here is non-existent.Grievances are either lost, ignored, or theymeet long delays and bureaucratic red tape.Between the guards and the administrationthey make sure that grievances do not getaddressed.

Without a grievance system that functions,the guards and the administration have a freehand to commit all types of horrendousatrocities. And they do commit theseatrocities! The administration retainsprisoners in the SHU for made up reasonsand they are able to do this since theadministration does not have to worry aboutdue process of law.

Guards commit all types of horrendous

atrocities simply because they are able to doso with a free hand.

Many prisoners try individual hungerstrikes or other methods to speak out againstthese things. I have observed prisonersproperty being taken, power cut to their TVs,prisoners not being allowed to shower, andprisoner access to the outdoor cages beingtaken away. This is done without due processof law (like disciplinary reports and hearings).

I, myself have had my mail tampered with,incoming money lost or stolen and myincoming mail has been lost. My TV has beendenied to me for erroneous and fabricatedreasons, even though I was allowed this TVthe last time I was here. All this and I am beingdenied access to the grievance system.

Corcoran SHU lives up to its reputation asa prison within a prison system. We are stillon lockdown virtually 24 hours a day withthe only exception being brief times we areled out handcuffed to our walk-alone cagesand showers. Every aspect of our lives iscontrolled, from when the light comes on inthe morning to the little bit of property we areallowed in our cells. The system tries to makeus into caged animals but we still retain theright to be persons who are humyn.

- a prisoner in California, May 2006

The poetry of JusticePoetic Justice: a particular turning of

unforeseen events that institute perfect justiceby circumstances unimaginable and with aconcluding poetic flare.

This is how I defined the recent publicconfession of Congressman Randall - the“Duke” - Cuningham. He was caughtaccepting bribes in excess of $2.5 million intaxpayer money from favor-seeking defensecontractor lobbyists. The tall, fair-skinned,clean-cut Republican was forced to acceptthe humiliation of his dishonorable deeds infront of a live and televised audience.

And please don’t misconstrue, I do notgloat at the demise of anyone. Being aprisoner myself for the last seventeen years,I wouldn’t wish these repressive inhumanecircumstances on anyone - especially thethousands of non-violent offenders likeCunningham who are treated no better thanthe most depraved and wretched.

I even wonder if there’s a more feasible wayto counter this growing epidemic ofincarceration. People like Cunningham couldpay society back in much more tangible ways,as opposed to the vain and intangiblerecompense of merely being able to say, “Hegot his.”

House arrest and long term communityservice would be a lot more beneficial toeveryone. Vindictive imprisonment just sticksit to the taxpayers, twice. Once by his multi-million dollar theft, and then a second time byhis costly room and board.

Cunningham’s was an irony that justcouldn’t be ignored. This man, this high-falluten hypocrite, who has a history of beinghostile to productive prison programs - likeweight training, television and visitingprograms - will now languish among the ranksof those once in the crosshairs of hispernicious demagoguery.

Though his privileges will likely be a lotmore extensive than your average inmate, hecan now lie in one of the cookie-sheet-thin-bunks he helped promote. “Cunningham thecrook,” as his newly acquired papers are likelyto call him, will now have the opportunity tomingle with the many three-strikers, in for life,who stole much less than he during all threeof their offenses.

Now he will get a taste of the loneliness socommon among other non-violent humanbeings locked away from their daily-longed-for families.

Yes, it will be poetic justice to set him face-to-face with his real constituents. Thosewhose lives went by the wayside because ofthe rapacious policies he supported whileabusing the power the people trustingly gavehim.

He will see the contrast of the Rolls Royce-driving, mansion-living, yacht-cruising, life-style he lived, while a growing number of hisconstituents predictably sank to a life of theftto survive; while he stole for . . . well, whoknows why - go figure!

But there’s one good thing he can lookforward to following his grand failure: after along stressful day in his new mundane andinsanely regimented surroundings - perhapsworking eight-hours a day making licenseplates or sweeping tiers - he can return to hiscell and watch a little news or one of the manyeducational programs piped in on thetelevisions he previously tried to legislateaway.

Notes: The Chris Matthews Show, NBC,December 3, 2005

- a ca prisoner, April 2006

Corcoran SHUcorrupt and cruel

The SHU at Corcoran State prison, guardsare so corrupt and scandalous. They put mein the medical and disabled unit where themajority of the men are infected withcontagious diseases. This was tacit retaliationagainst me even though I have never beensick in my life, neither on the streets nor inprison.

The SHU is cruel and unusual punishment.They don’t let you use the phone, your mailsometimes doesn’t get sent out, and doctorsdon’t know what they are doing and writefalse reports and give inmates the wrongprescriptions.

Corcoran SHU prison put me at risk aroundall these contaminating and contagiouspeople. When my neighbor in the next cellflushes his toilet, his toilet paper with feceson it comes out my toilet. When you go todrink, the water coming out of the pipes smellshorrible, like a sewer. When I complainedabout it they didn’t do anything about it, theyjust moved me to another unit with the sameproblems.

The police here are corrupt and lie andcover-up for one another, making falsereports, beating up inmates while inmates arein handcuffs, staging yard fights daily, andcell fights. They are getting away with murderon a regular basis and going home to theirfamilies.

When I first arrived at Corcoran SHU Ididn’t receive a towel. I was using socks towash and bath myself for two months untilanother inmate gave me an extra towel he had.The food here is not fresh and the trays theyput the food on still have water fromsomewhere. Every time I eat I always havestomach pains afterwards. The CDC isserving us food not approved by the FDA.And when inspection is done the CDC is toldahead of time so they can put on a facade likeeverything is alright.

They gave me one thin blanket and nosheets. The cell is freezing in the wintertime,and they pump cold air through the vents.

- a cal prisoner, March 2006

California prisonerslack basic necessities

The prisoners here at Corcoran are deprivedof adequate medical and mental health care.The medical policy is that once you turn in ahealth care service form you are supposed tohave a face to face interview with the nurse.But here it takes prisoners 2 to 3 weeks to seea physician. We have mentally ill prisoners


Facts on U$ imprisonmentThe facts about imprisonment in the United $tates are that the United $tates has been the world’s leading prison-state per capita for the last

25 years, with a brief exception during Boris Yeltsin’s declaration of a state of emergency.(1)That means that while Reagan was talking about a Soviet “evil empire” he was the head of a state that imprisoned more people per capita.

In supposedly “hard-line” Bulgaria of the Soviet bloc of the 1980s, the imprisonment rate was less than half that of the United $tates.(2,3)To find a comparison with U.$. imprisonment of Black people, there is no statistic in any country that compares including apartheid South

Africa of the era before Mandela was president. The last situation remotely comparable to the situation today was under Stalin during wartime. The majority of prisoners are non-violent offenders(4) and the U.S. Government now holds about a half million more prisoners thanChina; even though China is four times our population.(5)

The rednecks tell MIM that we live in a “free country.” They live in an Orwellian 1984 situation where freedom is imprisonment.Notes: 1. Marc Mauer, “Americans Behind Bars: The International Use of Incarceration 1993,” The Prison Sentencing Project, 918 F. St. NW, Suite501, Washington, DC 20004 (202) 628-0871 Reference: SRI: R8965-2, 19942. Ibid., 1992 report.3. United Nations Development Programme, “Human Development Report 1994,:” Oxford University Press, p. 186.4. Figure of 51.2 percent for state prisoners there for non-violent offenses. Abstract of the United States 1993, p. 211.5. Atlantic Monthly December, 1998.

Join the fight againstthe injustice systemWhile we fight to end the criminal

injustice system MIM engages inreformist battles to improve the livesof prisoners. Below are some of thecampaigns we are currently waging,and ways people behind the bars andon the outside can get involved. Moreinfo can be found on our prison website: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/agitation/prisons

Stop Censorship in Prison: Prisonsfrequently censor books, newspapersand magazines coming from MIM’sbooks for prisoners program. We needhelp from lawyers, paralegals andjailhouse lawyers to fight thiscensorship.

Books for Prisoners: This programfocuses on political education ofprisoners. Send donations of books andmoney for our Books for Prisonersprogram.

End the Three Strikes laws: Thiscampaign is actively fighting therepressive California laws, but similarlaws exist in other states. Write to usto request a petition to collectsignatures. Send articles andinformation on three strike laws.

Shut Down the Control Units: Acrossthe country there are a growing numberof prison control units. These arepermanently designated prisons or cellsin prisons that lock prisoners up insolitary or small group confinement for22 or more hours a day with nocongregate dining, exercise or otherservices, and virtually no programs forprisoners. Prisoners are placed incontrol units for extended periods oftime. These units cause both mental andphysical problems for prisoners.

Write to us to request a petition tocollect signatures. Get yourorganization to sign the statementdemanding control units be shut down.Send us information about where thereare control units in your state. Includethe names of the prisons as well as thenumber of control unit beds/cells ineach prison if that is known. Send usanti-control unit artwork.

MIM’s Re-Lease on Life Program:This program provides support for ourcomrades who have been recentlyreleased from the prison system, to helpthem meet their basic needs and alsocontinue with their revolutionaryorganizing on the outside. We needfunds, housing, and job resources. Wealso need prisoner’s input on thefollowing survey questions:

1. What are the biggest challengesyou face being released from prison?

2. How can these problems beaddressed?

3. What are the important elementsof a successful release program?

banging and screaming all night because theyare not receiving proper mental health care.

The law library is wholly inadequate, theyhave no paging system, and 10 cages in thelaw library with 4 buildings of prisoners toservice. Most of the time they don’t have thelaw books you need to look up a case, orpages are torn out of it because they do notallow prisoners to copy cases and theprisoner access to the law library is limited.They have one librarian who is inexperiencedand most of the time she brings you the wronglaw books.

Staff refuse to use the hot cart to heat theprisoner’s meals, instead they put sheets overthe hot carts so that they do not have to cleanit afterwards. Then on linen day we are onlyable to exchange one sheet.

In March staff deliberately set twoprisoners up to assault one another. They letone prisoner out for medical and while he waswaiting for escort they let another prisoner ofa different race out and then the guard neverpressed his alarm. When the escort came theysaw the two prisoners and pressed their alarm.They kept fighting so the sergeant orderedthe officer in the control to fire the block.

- a ca prisoner, April 2006

NJ Gang Unit ExposedI am sending you this letter to inform you

of the ongoing problems that are occurringand reoccurring in Northern State Prison,Newark, New Jersey.

Northern State Prison is a breeding groundfor vicious gang members. Approximately80% of the general population are gangmembers with about 15% of those gangmembers housed in the designated SecurityThreat Group Management Unit (STGMU)and the STGMU’s Segregation Unit.

This prison has several other unitsdesigned to house known gang members, butthese units are being used to house gangmembers and “regular population,” those whoare not affiliated with gangs. The guidelinesthat were created for gang members are beingapplied to the regular population.

The administration at NSP, their staff andemployees of the Department of Correctionsare not safeguarding all rights, privileges andimmunities for non-gang members. Theadministration has knowledge of staff placingnon-gang members in areas that are not safe.Those prisoners have been exposed tothreats, extortion, mental and physical injuries.The action(s) by this administration has beenviolating the Fifth, Eighth, Thirteenth andFourteenth Amendments’ rights of non-gangmembers.

The entire administrative staff and theprisoner guards run this prison as if they aregang members themselves, treating everyprisoner as if they are all bad people. Thelieutenants and sergeants act as tyrantsenforcing the COs to run down on the

prisoners with extreme physical force andverbal harassment. There is nothing beingdone about any of their actions because theAdministrator, Mr. Lydell B. Sherrer is too softand he is not admonishing his staff for theircruel actions.

There is a serious lack of programs in thisprison. There is a waiting list dated as farback as 2003 for people wishing to partake inany of these programs. There are prisonerswho need to participate in these programs sothat they can advance for better status, parole,zero tolerance, etc. Yet we are stagnated fromthe possibility of progressing. The fewprograms that we do have are filled to capacityand under staffed.

The recreational activities are the same. Ibelieve that giving more recreational andeducational programs would relieve a lot ofstress in this environment. There are limitedjobs and if you’re not a prisoner with statusyou are subjected to either work in state-useindustries or tier sanitation. There are 320prisoners per housing unit and approximately275 of those prisoners are tier sanitationworkers with only 10 to 15 of those sanitationworkers actually working. Now that’s a baddeal for the prisoners.

AdministrationSegregation

The word segregation means to separateor isolate from others. How can NSP call theirlock up facility segregation when no one isisolated from the next person? Except forprotective custody (PC), who are not oftenprotected, there are two prisoners per cell.Where is the segregation? There is no suchthing as confidentiality. One can not even beexamined by the medical staff, when he goesto doctor call, with a hint of confidentiality.Your business will be broadcasted by one ofthe CO’s, who takes all of the prisoner’sinformation, as a form of entertainment. TheCO’s are constantly taunting the prisoners,exposing certain prisoners’ confidentiality forall to hear.

These prisoner guards (COs) refuse to issuesoap, toilet paper, telephone, cleaningsupplies to clean our cells and sometimes bedlinen doesn’t get exchanged. It is veryunsanitary how the prisoners have to live inthis environment. The prisoners are told thatthey must purchase toilet paper, soap andother hygienic products from the commissary.There are some less fortunate prisoners whoare unable to provide basic toiletries forthemselves. There is a kitchen right at thebase of the unit, yet, when the food reachesthe cells it’s cold. And there is no access to alaw library or legal assistance, it’s a poorsituation.

There are members of different gangs inAdministration Segregation. These personsare known gang members, so instead of

placing these people in the appropriate GangSegregation Unit (STGMU), these prisonersare forced to lock in cells with gang membersof other gangs, thus bringing about mayhemand chaos. These prisoners are allowedrecreation twice a week with approximately14 prisoners per cage. There are rival fightsdated 6/14/2005, 6/17/2005 and another datethat I can’t remember because it was loggedin my address book and my book was takenfrom my cell during cell search. However, onthat undated incident a prisoner nearly died(it was that serious). All of these fights werebetween BLOODS & CRIPS. These fightscould have been prevented, but the mind setof these prisoner guards are not concernedwith our safety.

As I write this letter, I am putting the safetyof my well being on the line because I havewritten numerous letters to the outside worldgiving them a view of what’s going on insidethese prison walls. Most prisoners guardscontinue to harass me and label me a troublemaker because every chance I get I let thetruth be heard.

I pray my words don’t fall on deaf ears andthat you put this information out for all toacknowledge.

Thank you,- NJ Prisoner, October 2005MIM responds: This comrade is correct to

stress that the prison administration, as onearm of the imperialist state, is not concernedwith prisoners’ safety. But rather they pit themagainst each other as a means of socialcontrol. When lumpen organizations engagein anti-people activity and the oppressed fighteach other, the imperialists win.

Similarly we can not pit alleged “gangmembers” against other prisoners. Manyoppressed nation youth in u$ concentrationcamps are members of street organizationsthat are engaged in anti-people activity. Butamerikans don’t differentiate between knowngang members and other prisoners. Prettymuch everyone in prison is a gang member orhoodlum of some sort as far as they areconcerned. Therefore the expectation thatsome prisoners are treated better than theircounterparts that are actually members inthese organizations is wishful thinking.

The principal contradiction in the worldtoday is that between the oppressed nationsand the oppressor nations. That is why theamerikan oppressor nation is happy to labelall oppressed nation youth “gang members.”And that is why oppressed nation youth needto build organizations that unite theoppressed against the enemy, u$ imperialism.What is going on in NSP’s STGMUdemonstrates the extent to which the statefears this and is trying to prevent suchorganizing from occurring.


Notas Rojasjun 2006, Nº 336 Fragmento del Periodico Oficial del Movimiento Internacionalista Maoista Gratis

El “North County Times” reporta que“Chase” dijo que en la mañana delMartes, el y un grupo de seguidorescomensaran patrullando, y espera que elgrupo cresca a 30 para el Sabado.(1) Sínembargo, “NBCSandiego.com” reportaque: “un grupo oficialmente comensarapatrullando la frontera este fin de semanay que sus miembros ya están tomandoposiciones, reporto NBC 7/93 . . .comensando el Sábado, 100 miembros delgrupo se supone que llegaran ycomensaran patrullando la fronteraevitando que personas entren a losEstados Unidos ilegalmente.”(2) Queraro que el tamaño esperado de“Vigilancia de la frontera de California”se ha sido triplicado en sólo unas horas.Esto es solo algo fingido que Chase hafabricado, pero sín embargo es peligrosoy amenaza envolviendose bajo el soportede un vicioso movimiento, para realizarmás entensa la repressión contra lostrabajadores imigrantes.

Estos vigilantes de la frontera estánarmados. NBC 7/93 cita al líder de los“Vigilantes Fronterizos,” James Chasedecir, el declara “Estoy autorizando lajente hasta que traigan rifles de largoalcanse, pero quiero que los dejen en loscarros – no los estén apuntando, y noestén señalando con ellos” dice Chase.“Están ahí por si alguien en la distanciade México, disparan contra nosotros,entonces tendremos que suprimir y actuarpara poder alejarnos de ellos haciaatras.”(2)

Esto es significante, que James Chaseestá preparando para disparar haciaterritorio Mexicano, al percibirse que sugrupo anti-imigrante “Minutemen” estén

bajo un ataque aun entre distancia.Evidentemente, a su colega vigilante AndyRamirez, se le ha realizado lo que temia.Ramirez, de “Amigos de la Patrullafronteriza,” ha dicho y insiste que Chasequeria usar francotiradores como unacapacidad del según llamado guardia dela frontera.(3)

Hasta algunos colaboradores del anti-imigrante “Minutemen,” que formandiferentes grupos, temen un incidenteinternacional en la frontera que puedecomplicar y hacer más difícil el que selleve a cabo la política anti-imigrante delos imperialistas. Sín embargo, agents dela PatrullaFronteriza (Border Patrol), yciudadanos de los Estados Unidos, hanasesinado ciudadanos Mexicanos, dicen(alegan) los imigrantes indocumentadossi suceder controversia internacional – alo menos, no en el lado imperialistaestadounidense de la frontera. En elpasado, el gobierno Mexicano empleoabogados buscando resolución por dañoscausados por los vigilantes Amerikkkanosen la frontera. En Mayo del 2000, elMinistro Mexicano, Rosario Green, y laEstadounidensa y Secretaria del Estado,Madeline Albright, juntos dieron uninforme en el cual condenaban a losrancheros vigilantes en la frontera.(5)Pero al mismo tiempo, hacian un llamadolos dos gobiernos de los dos paises paraaumentar oficialmente las patrullas en la

El grupo anti-imigrante “Minutemen,”amenaza disparar hacia territorio Mexicano

frontera.Agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza han

disparado contra los imigrantes porsentirse amenazados – esa es la excusade ellos. Mientras que solamente se hanrealizado unas pocas investigaciones,asesinatos de imigrantes en las manos devigilantes y otros no han sido auninvestigados. La diferencia, actualmentees que recientemente existen muchos másreportajes de reporteros sobre losvigilantes en la frontera y son cubiertospor los noticieros. En los proximos mesesque vienen, la muerte de un imigrante porun vigilante podría resultar en el remplazode los vigilantes, con agents de la PatrullaFronteriza – en efecto, cumpliendo unosde los objectivos del grupo anti-imigranteMinutemen. La fuerte posibilidad que estopuede suceder, debe recordarnos anosotros que los vigilantes solo son unamanifestación anti-imigrante esterica ydura, basado en el claro racismo ychovinismo blanco.

Los minutemen de James Chase, yaestán en Campo, se ha reportado, perolos activistas de Derechos Humanos y

¿Que es el MIM?El Movimiento Internacionalista Maoísta (MIM) es un partido revolucionario

comunista que ejerce el Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoísmo. El MIM es una organizacióninternacionalista que trabaja desde el punto de vista del proletariado del Tercer Mundo;es por esto que sus miembros no son amerikanos sino ciudadanos del mundo.

El MIM lucha para acabar con la opresión de todos los grupos sobre cualquier otro,naciones por naciones, clases por clases, y géneros por géneros. La revolución es unarealidad para los Estados Unidos mientras su ejército continúa extendiendose en suesfuerzo por asegurar la hegemonía mundial.

El MIM difiere de otros partidos en tres puntos basicos: (1) El MIM sostiene quedespués que el proletariado conquiste el poder estatal, existira aún el potencial para unarestauración de tipo capitalista, bajo la dirección de una burguesía nueva dentro delmismo partido comunista. En el caso de la Unión Soviética, la burguesía se apoderó delgobierno después de la muerte de Stalin, en 1953; y en China después de la muerte deMao y del derrocamiento de la llamada “banda de los cuatro’ en 1976. (2) El MIM sostieneque la Revolución Cultural en China es la fase ms avanzada a la que llegó el comunismoen la historia. (3) El MIM afirma que la clase trabajadora blanca de los EE.UU. esprimordialmente, una élite trabajadora no revolucionaria en el presente. Es por esto queno es el principal vehículo para avanzar el Maoísmo en este país.

El MIM acepta como miembro a cualquier individuo que esté de acuerdo con estostres puntos basicos, y que acepte al centralismo democrtico, el método de gobierno porla mayoría en lo que se refiere a cuestiones de línea del partido. El MIM es un partidoclandestino que no publica los nombres de sus miembros para evitar la represión estataldirigida históricamente contra los movimientos revolucionarios comunistas, y anti-imperialistas. Si Ud. desea una suscripción para cualquiera de nuestros periódicos olibros teóricos, en español o en inglés, por favor mandar dinero en efectivo o un chequeal nombre de MIM a esta dirección:

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Imigrantes están organizando unaprotesta tambien en campo contra losMinutemen, este fin de semana.

Notas:1. “Border watch set to begin today,

organizer says,” 12 July 2005, http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/12/news/top_stories/71105193338.txt

2. “Minutemen Coming To San DiegoCounty : 100 Members Expected InCampo Saturday,” 12 July 2005, http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4715900/detail.html

3. Gig Conaughton, “Oceanside mansevers Minuteman ties,” 21 June 2005,http://www.friendsoftheborderpatrol.com/FBPPressClips.html

4. Michelle Koidin, “Father of slainimmigrant sues Texas rancher,”Associated Press State & Local Wire,30 June 2000.

5. Edward Hegstrom, “Tensions onborder increase; Mexicans decryimmigrant’s killing,” Houston Chronicle,3 STAR Edition, 19 May 2000, 1.

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