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MIM Notes 277 · March 1, 2003 · Page 1

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March 1, 2003, Nº 277

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Uncounted

thousands

march in New

York City

Message gets out

despite police

obstructions

NEW YORK CITY

February 15

lthough MIM Notes attended the

demonstration against the war

with Iraq in New York City, we

have no idea how many people attended.

All that we know for certain is that it

spanned more city blocks than any rally

ever attended--thanks to police tactics

addressed in another story on this page.

Undoubtedly, the demonstration was one

of the largest in New York history. A

reasonable estimate would probably

require a satellite photo.

We handed out 2500 copies of the

February 15 MIM Notes. The crowd

reaction was quite favorable, many saying

"oh, good." One young womyn stopped

to look at the graphic of Bush speaking

and laughed.

One anti-communist passed by and said,

"Maoist? Oh great, Mao would have shot

us all." In actual fact, Mao (the leader of

China from 1949 to 1976) sponsored many

demonstrations of millions against U.S.

wars. While Huey Newton attended those

demonstrations in China, he said he felt

safe in front of police unlike the situation

in the united $tates.

Our critic tried to raise a counterfactual

situation. China under Mao never

occupied part of Iraqi airspace and

threatened it with war as part of getting

leverage over Iraq's oil resources and

Saudi Arabia. Thus there are two ways

to avoid having to repress anti-war

movements: one is to avoid the predatory

Anti-war

protestors jam

Hollywood

boulevard

lively MIM, RAIL and SLALA

contingent hit the anti-war march

down Hollywood boulevard in

Los Angeles February 15. Our literature

table often attracted crowds several

people deep, looking to pick up their copies

of MIM Notes and sign our petitions. Our

comrades' efforts garnered 200+

signatures supporting our demand that the

University of California divest from Israel,

and another 100+ signatures in support

of Philippine political refugee Jose Maria

Sison.(1) We also handed out 1200 copies

of MIM Notes, and the crowd could

easily have absorbed more.(2)

In a stellar example of the importance

of quality activism over quantity, one

interested onlooker pushed us over the

200 mark on UC Divest signatures for

the day by taking charge and gathering

signatures himself. After listening to

RAIL debate Israeli settlerism with some

Zionist critics, this persyn grabbed a

clipboard and circulated through the

crowd filling it with signatures. Activists

from the Women in Black, an organization

of Israeli and Jewish wimmin who oppose

the occupation of the West Bank and

Gaza, also asked for blank petitions they

could circulate and return to us. Two

Croatian peace activists with banners

reading "No Support for U.$. War, No

support for I$rael" spent time at our table

discussing Israeli atrocities in the occupied

territories.

Plenty of protesters MIM talked to said

the February march was their first, and

MIM is happy to see the anti-war forces

continuing to build momentum. The main

march and rally in LA drew probably

50,000 or 60,000, and area demonstrations

from San Diego to Ventura drew an

additional 10,000. LAPD estimates for the

January 11 and February 15 marches

were 5,000 and 30,000; organizer

estimates were 15,000 and 100,000 for

the two events respectively.(3)

The number of new demonstrators who

came out in February means that there is

no shortage of work for revolutionaries

to do in getting our analysis of events out

to more people. The fact that two-thirds

of Amerikans support a war against Iraq

MANHATTAN

February 15

The major bourgeois media incorrectly

reported police tactics at the February

15th rally against war with Iraq in New

York City.

The police started by blocking off exits

between blocks ranging from the 40s to

the 60s so that people on the east side

highway called FDR Drive could not

approach the demonstration. Hence all

day long marchers streamed in from far

southern and northern reaches of

Manhattan toward the middle in the 40s

and 50s.

By closing the FDR exits and the north-

south avenues, the police had the effect

of angering travelers while spreading out

the demonstration into so many city

blocks as to make the demonstration

uncountable. In the experience of this

reporter, there has never been a

demonstration covering more city blocks.

The Associated Press incorrectly

reported: "City police provided no

MILLIONS MARCH AGAINST THE WAR

Media misreports police tactics

New York Police intentionally jam,

then spread out demonstrators

estimate of the

crowd, which

stretched 20

blocks deep and

two blocks

wide."(1) That

must have been

the view from

the royal

carriage. AP

should send some more people into the

streets to get a closer look. It's a lot easier

to quote some police bureaucrat sitting in

an office than to send several people into

more than one hundred city blocks for

several hours.

The New York Times correctly

reported: "crowds ... filled the avenue

from 49th Street to 72nd Street and spilled

over into side streets and to Second, Third

and Lexington Avenues, where thousands

more were halted at police barricades, far

from the sights and sounds of the

demonstration."(2) In fact, demonstrators

also streamed the whole length of 1st

Avenue south of the UN.

Originally activists planned the rally for

1st Avenue, but the City government

stigmatized the demonstrators by saying

they could not prevent such a large crowd

from attacking the UN building.(3) In

connection to this, the actual tactics of

the police were to create chokepoints by

closing 1st Avenue except for themselves.

Then they used "one-way valve" tactics

by allowing demonstrators to go to 2nd,

3rd and Lexington but not the other way

around.

One exception was at a checkpoint near

the UN on First Avenue. Police let in a

man draped in a Zionist flag. Later, horse-

mounted police singled out those waving

Palestinian flags for attack.

The New York Post reported attacks

Continued on page 7...

Continued on page 8...

The L.A. march (MIM photo).

MIM Notes 277 · March 1, 2003 · Page 2

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 Internationalist
parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking
Maoist 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 communist ideology
of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and is an internationalist organization that works from the

vantage point of the Third World proletariat. MIM struggles to end the oppression of all
groups over other groups: classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possibly by
building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Revolution is a reality for

North America as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to
maintain 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

potential exists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within
the communist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the
death of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's death and the overthrow of the "Gang

of Four" in 1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural Revolution as the farthest advance
of communism in humyn history. (3) As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM has
reiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the Third

World 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 to

advance Maoism within those countries because their standards of living depend on
imperialism. 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 agree on these basic principles and accept democratic centralism, the system
of majority rule, on other questions of party line.

"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should

regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of
learning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution."

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

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Know your enemy

The principal contradiction in this

country is clearly between imperialism

and the oppressed internal nations, gangs,
cliques, folks, peoples, brothers, sisters,

cousins: brotherhoods as well as

sisterhoods formed in our hoods in North
America to make a change for the better

and stand against those in their way.

Many of us have realized it is the system
of the government, yet fail to face it and

take what is rightfully ours. Instead we

choose to step on others who have formed
for the same reasons we have, thus

becoming miniature forms of this beast

that continues to profit from our blood,
sweat and tears. North America is the

leading imperialist country in the world

who manipulates its currency to predict
and control all other capitalist countries.

So I challenge everyone representing

in unity for a change to truly guide their
hoods along the path that the Maoist

Internationalist Movement is presenting

as a form that will truly bring about
change for the better and an

understanding of the real cause of our

misery which brought us together in the
first place.

Mao Zedong clarified what transpires

every now and then when he stated,
"When imperialism launches a war of

aggression against a country, all its various

classes, except for some traitors, can
temporarily unite in a country's war

against imperialism. At such a time, the

contradiction between imperialism and the
country concerned becomes the principle

contradiction, while all other

contradictions among the various classes
of the country- are temporarily relegated

to a secondary or subordinate position."

Let us put the differences to the side

amongst us, like when imprisoned

representing, yet respecting each others'

space and realizing the prison
administration, like this country's system

is the true enemy.

Like demonstrated during many rallies

in society against acquittals of murderous

or abusive pigs, or the attempt to

implement more laws that further
oppress, exploit and enslave us all. If it

can bring unity for and on those occasions,

then this shall maintain that unity under
this movement.

I am definitely not calling upon any

section in the hood to cross flags, drop
flags or false flag, but to lift their flags

even higher for the cause of making a

change for the better with the guidance
that the Maoist Internationalist Movement

is providing through further educating to

better elevate and combat the beast that
imperialism and capitalism represents.

Therefore, understand that unless

you've studied within the system and
experienced the truth with each of your

senses. It is unlikely that you see this

country's plan to keep us divided and
distracted by waging war against one

another over things it can easily provide

to all of us if it was truly based on

freedom, justice and equality.

That sweet american pie, that's rotten

to its core. Let's wrap this up-

demonstrate your nation, gang, clique,

brotherhood or sisterhood by representing
not against each other but against what

created and maintains our differences;

this government of the united snakes
which must be held accountable for so

much bloodshed, hardship, and sorrow we

have been imposing blindly upon one
another.

Not no more, let's obtain knowledge

from the MIM and unite with its common
cause. Let's place our mark in this world

and truly be apart of history for the sake

of our loved ones of the future.

Contact the Maoist Internationalist

Movement and get involved in the cause

against what causes us so much
obstacles we face in our daily struggles.

--A New York Prisoner, January 2003

MIM Notes 277 · March 1, 2003 · Page 3

In late January the FBI sent an agent

to the home of a Filipino activist in the

Bay Area. Although the incident did not

result in arrest, this is just a small example

of the reactionary Patriot Act and other

"homeland security" measures that are

meant to bolster imperialism at home while

it attacks Third World peoples around the

world. At a press conference February 7

the Filipino activist issued a statement

which read in part:

"On the evening of Thursday, January

30, 2003 Special Agent William Root from

the FBI's Joint Terrorism Division came

to my house seeking information on

connections with Muslim extremists

groups in the Southern Philippines.

"As a community and peace activist, I

was aware that I did not have to provide

any information to the FBI agent. I knew

that my democratic rights were being

violated in my own home where I am

supposed to feel safe and secure. But

the element of surprise and the fact that

I have nothing to hide led to my full

cooperation in stepping outside and

answering questions as he requested.

"He asked me if I was born in

Mindanao and if I was Muslim. He asked

me if I had connections with extremist

groups in the Southern Philippines with

alleged links to the Al-Qaeda network. He

asked me if I was an American citizen

and if I was anti-American as he looked

over documents that the FBI had

researched on my background. He even

mentioned the fact that I have no criminal

record.

"I asked the agent what were the

reasons for this visit and he said that I

was among thousands of `tips' that the

FBI receives everyday since the 9/11

tragedy and I was chosen for further

investigation. Although he left without

incident, it was clear that the FBI wanted

to send a chilling message that "big

brother is watching" not just to me, but a

rapidly growing peace movement of

countless individuals, groups and alliances

who share a popular peoples sentiment

against the looming war in Iraq, the

Middle East, the Philippines and around

the world.

"The targeting of myself and other

peace activist are just the first in a

paranoid wave of racist federal programs

that are spending billions of taxpayer

dollars on so-called national security.

Intimidating peace activists in their

FBI harasses Filipino activist

A comrade claiming to be from the

Communist Party of India(M-L) has

written MIM repeatedly to assure us that

the pro-Lin Biao web page on the Internet

is genuine.(1) The problem involved nicely

demonstrates some security difficulties in

doing our work.

Recently two people approached MIM

under false pretenses asking for help

infiltrating an organization conducting

People's War. MIM brushes off most

such attempts with little difficulty.

Something we all have to understand is

that the enemy does not come out and

say "we are using a disguise"!

Most people in our camp do not think

through this and the logic of the struggle

it implies. We call it a matter of steering

between Liberalism (naivete) and

sectarianism. Fortunately, there is much

less trade-off than the bourgeoisie would

think. We can have both our security and

our non-sectarian approach.

To mention just two more recent

events, a member of the ruling class of a

Latin American country recently wrote

us to support Comrade Gonzalo in Peru.

He thought we were unaware of his other

activities, but he was wrong.

Of course, MIM has already written

about the Zionist hacker sending death

threats and provocations around the

Internet. In another example, MIM finds

itself the interest of police in Nepal. Yet

again, no one announces: we are police

from Nepal investigating what you are

doing!

There are two possible errors. One is

that we fail to work with people who are

genuine, because we suspect they are not

genuine. Two is that we work with

infiltrators and compromise security,

sometimes not even just in North America.

The bourgeois approach is to collect

dossiers on people and then decide

whether to "trust" them. Because we are

proletarian scientists, we ask instead "what

do we need to get done and can it be done

without `trust'"? If not, can we reorganize

the work so it can be done without "trust"

or individual hand-holding.

Those who are genuine must

understand: MIM does not answer pig

questions. It does not matter who you are.

If the question could be asked by a pig,

we don't answer it. In fact, if someone

answers it, it may not be a MIM member.

MIM also does not sponsor "revolutionary

tourism." People carrying MIM papers

or saying they are MIM members do not

have to be believed. MIM's line stands

or falls on its own merits independent of

the persyn claiming to uphold the MIM

line.

That does not mean we won't work

with people--even spies and infiltrators.

If you are actually proposing or assisting

us in work that can be done at arm's

length, then we should get along. If we

are not getting work off the ground with

you, it would be because we are too small

`Working together at arm's-length'

Indian subcontinent demonstrates security hurdles for communists

By a member of the

Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist

League (RAIL)

University of California at Los Angeles;

Wednesday February 5, 2003--Close to

1000 students, activists and professors

gathered at UCLA's Ackermann Grand

Ballroom for an anti war teach-in