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         THE MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT

  MIM Notes 76                       MAY, 1993 

MIM Notes speaks to and from the viewpoint of the 
world's oppressed majority, and against the 
imperialist-patriarchy. Pick it up and wield it in 
the service of the people. support it, struggle 
with it and write for it.


IN THIS ISSUE:
1.  LETTERS
2.  WAKE UP HUD!  THE PEOPLE OWN GENEVA TOWERS
3.  THE SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM HAUNTS AZANIA
4.  RADIOACTIVE WAVES BEAMED AT OPPRESSED NATIONALS
5.  BORN CRIMINALS
6.  PIGS, POLITICIANS AND LABOR JOIN FORCES
7.  VIRTUAL FASCISM
8.  HANNIBAL THE JUDGE
9.  PUERTO RICO MOVES CLOSER TO THE HEART OF WHITENESS
10. HUNGER STRIKE FOR HAITI
11. FUJIMORI'S PROMISE: DEATH & TERROR
12. REVIEW: DUEL IN PERU: A 3-ACT ON THE SHINING PATH
13. FOOD NOT BOMBS HARASSED IN BOSTON
14. GUERILLA TEACHER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS


The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is a 
revolutionary communist party that upholds 
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, comprising 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 
Spanish-speaking Maoist internationalist parties 
of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of 
the U.S. Empire. MIM Notes is the newspaper of 
MIM. Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-
speaking parties or emerging parties of MIM.
MIM is an internationalist organization that works 
from the vantage point of the Third World 
proletariat; thus, its members are not Amerikans, 
but world citizens.

MIM struggles to end the oppression of all groups 
over other groups: classes, genders, nations.  MIM 
knows this is only possible 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 
human history. (3) MIM believes the North American 
white-working-class is primarily a non-
revolutionary worker-elite at this time; thus, it 
is not the principal vehicle to advance Maoism in 
this country.

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


* * *

LETTERS

ISLAM IS A REVOLUTIONARY RELIGION

Dear Victorious MIM,

I have read your March 9 issue of MIM Notes; as usual, it is to 
the point and justly accurate, and sensible.

However, the response to the letters by MC12 reveals some of the 
the rigidity of its ideologues. Now MC12 says "We urge this writer 
and all other religious readers not to rely on God, but on the 
science of revolution..." (p.8--"Amerikan Culture")

We, Islamic Revolutionaries, are in solidarity with the PCP. Islam 
is ideal for a revolution--any pedagogy, for it gives the believer 
the divine permission to fight in the event of oppression and 
tyranny (Sirra 4:74, 75).

The key to the success of the spread of any ideology or any force 
of change is in its ability to exist with the customs and 
traditions of the people or countries it seeks to spread to or in. 
The "radical rupture" dynamic of Marxism has caused it to be 
unacceptable in many cases.

What MC12 doesn't realize is that Islam is a scientific religion. 
As a matter of fact, the so-called "liberation theology" is 
nothing more than Catholicism seasoned with the concepts of Marx 
and Lenin. We, Jihadians, do not entirely agree with Marx, but we 
do agree about his scientific approaches to combating capitalistic 
oppression and economic exploitation.

This formalism, and doctrinairism is what caused the weakening of 
the communism of the Soviets, and the party rifts of the Maoists 
of China.

--Maryland prisoner

March 1993

MC17 & MC86 respond: This letter is a good example of the 
revolutionary stance many Islamics take. Just as this comrade 
allies with the PCP, we ally with this comrade and other Islamic 
revolutionaries in fighting imperialism.

But while this comrade is quick to criticize the Maoists and 
Stalinists for their failures, s/he does not provide us with any 
examples of more successful Islamic revolutions. Nowhere has there 
been an Islamic revolution that has advanced conditions for 
oppressed people as the revolutions in the Soviet Union and China 
did.

In fact, where Islamic politics has successfully seized state 
power--as in Iran or Libya or Iraq--the results have been the 
essential continuation of the rule of the ancient regime. Bowing 
humbly towards Mecca five times a day is but an empty gesture if, 
in between prayers, the worship of money and male supremacy reigns 
supreme.

Furthermore, so-called "liberation theology" is a force for the 
oppression of the struggling masses; not for their liberation. It 
is in no way "Marxist." Liberation theology is a theological-
political-economic exercise in moderating the ideologies and 
effects of patriarchy and capitalism. The reactionary Catholic 
Church seeks to keep its grip on the minds of the oppressed (and 
their property!) by tailoring its opportunist commandments to fool 
the people and water down their revolutionary aspirations to 
overthrow imperialism and the patriarchy. Liberation theology is 
just a "kinder, gentler" version of the same old lies.

MIM believes that worship of any form or name of "God" does not 
belong in the sphere of politics. Appreciation of higher powers is 
best left to art, culture and leisure. Marxist revolutionaries may 
be personally motivated by a spiritual perception of a "higher 
good," or "liberation of the masses." But we base our real-world 
actions on rational knowledge.

REVOLUTIONS LIBERATE NO ONE

The following is a continuation of the debate between MIM and an 
FMLN supporter first printed in MIM Notes 73.

Dear MIM,

I wouldn't share the view that Maoist revolutions have actually 
liberated peoples from oppression. There is no specific example. 
China is not a particular example. How can it be when it has to 
repress students who disagree with the government's line? When it 
has also been supporting the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, responsible 
for the murder of about 2 million people. Peru is not yet free. 
And the revolution there is not just Maoist inspired. The ITAL 
Tupac Amaru END Revolutionary Movement is fighting against the 
regime too. Where else have Maoist revolutions been successful?

True, so far there have not been much advances through elections. 
But in some specific examples socialists have formed governments 
after being voted in by the people. Salvador Allende in Chile, 
socialists in Guyana, The Olof Palme Government in Sweden, the 
Sandinistas in Nicaragua in 1984, and many local governments in 
India, Italy, Cyprus.

More recently, the socialists won the elections in Mongolia and 
Lithuania, countries where capitalism had been nearly restored. Of 
course, the problem has always been that socialist governments 
have been short-lived, as the United States government has tried 
to get rid of them. For instance, in Chile, Allende was overthrown 
in a coup d'etat organized by the Chilean Armed Forces and the 
CIA. And there is always the risk of the left losing the 
elections, as in the case of the Sandinistas in 1990 and the 
Swedish Social Democratic Party. But they still remain the main 
opposition parties in parliament. The ballot box is not a 
guarantee for winning a revolution. But it is a ITAL form END of 
struggle.

The FMLN is ITAL not END proposing electoral struggle as the ITAL 
only END form of struggle. The FMLN uses electoral struggle as one 
ITAL more END form of struggle, alongside the diplomatic and if 
necessary the military struggle including the struggle inside the 
Armed Forces. This has to be combined with mass struggle at every 
level, the people have to take power from below. Every social 
group must carry out their own particular struggles against the 
oppressive capitalist system. Their collective action is what 
makes it a revolution. That's why it is called a ITAL Democratic 
Revolution END.

The FMLN does not discard ITAL armed struggle END as a legitimate 
form of struggle. In most cases ITAL it is necessary END. But why 
keep an armed struggle going when you can achieve the same 
objectives by waging other forms of struggle? And the FMLN has a 
lot of accumulated experience in waging a successful ITAL armed 
struggle END. Even the CIA had to acknowledge that the FMLN was 
the most formidable guerrilla force they have ever had to contend 
with.

I do not share the view held by the MIM that armed struggle is the 
ITAL only END answer. If so, why is the MIM not fighting a 
guerilla war in the United States? The MIM could for instance, 
begin attacking police headquarters and army barracks, carrying 
out acts of sabotage against the U.S. economy, getting rid of the 
Ku Klux Klan, perhaps giving Bush a heart attack, etc.

The fact is that MIM is not waging an armed struggle inside the 
United States. You are waging a ITAL political struggle END which 
you combine with other forms of struggle. If you start an armed 
struggle in the United States you wouldn't survive for much 
longer. The CIA, the army, the police, the whole state apparatus 
would crush you and most of you would end up in jail with life 
sentences or in the electric chair. So you have to stick to ITAL 
political struggle END and give a talk here and there, organize a 
conference, publish a newspaper, etc. Wouldn't it make the MIM 
less revolutionary than it is now, does it make you a capitalist 
roader, how do you reconcile your theory with your practice?

But you can say that the Western countries are quite a different 
society, that after all, armed struggle is out of context here. 
You know, the West is not the Third World. How could armed 
struggle happen here, Americans killing Americans? Australians 
killing Australians? No way. The American Civil War was enough; 
the Black Wars were enough.

But in El Salvador yes, "hang out there you guys. Keep killing 
each other. Armed struggle is the way to go. Come on don't give 
in."

Both Salvadoran revolutionaries and army soldiers are sentient 
beings made of flesh and bones. 100,000 people have died as a 
consequence of the civil war. Most of our dead have been from the 
working class and the peasantry, even if they are army soldiers 
they still come from the poorest classes. Most of them do not have 
class consciousness, therefore they are easily convinced by the 
military to join the social group that offers them financial 
security and social mobility. Could you blame them? Perhaps you 
could, but shooting at them won't resolve the problem.

And the guerillas? Living in the mountains for 12 or even 22 years 
is not easy, even less if you go hungry, have no house, are ridden 
with tropical diseases, and are under fire all the time. Living in 
a TATU when A-37 aircraft are dropping cluster bombs on you 
everyday is not fun at all.

If we as revolutionaries cannot feel that, then where is our moral 
ethics? Are we any different to the people in the US Military who 
by pushing a switch can launch a missile that kills 1,000 Iraqi 
people in one bombing? It is easy to say, ITAL yes armed struggle 
END. Fighting a war is another matter.

When there is no other alternative even the church speaks of the 
right of the people to insurrectional violence that can only be 
carried out through armed struggle. But it has to be at the right 
time, as a mechanism of self-defence and response of the masses 
against ITAL state terrorism END. The MIM calls the FMLN's 
negotiated settlement of the armed conflict "ahistorical 
idealism," which indicate that the MIM disagrees with the concept 
of Democratic Revolution....

In El Salvador history has not finished yet. We don't know what is 
going to happen. Maybe the peace accords will be fully respected 
and implemented by each side, maybe not. But as Salvador Sanchez 
Ceren has said, if the Salvadoran people are deceived once more, 
if the government violates the peace accords and the army 
unleashes a new wave of repression, then there is no doubt that 
the Salvadoran people will rise up in armed struggle again.

In 1941, Mao Tse-Tung wrote:

"Without doubt, the present revolution is only the first step, and 
a second step--the step to socialism--will be developed in the 
future. It is only when China arrives at that stage, that she can 
be called really felicitous. But for the present, it is not the 
time to practise socialism. The present task of China's revolution 
is the task of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, before the 
accomplishment of which, it is empty verbiage to talk about 
socialism. China's revolution must be divided into two steps, the 
first being that of New Democracy, the second that of socialism. 
Moreover, the period of the first step is by no means a short one. 
It is not a matter that can be achieved overnight. We are no 
Utopians. We cannot isolate ourselves from the actual conditions 
right before our eyes."

(See "Politics and Culture of New Democracy," in the magazine ITAL 
Chinese Culture, END January 15, 1941. Reprinted as ITAL China's 
New Democracy END by Current Book Distributors, Sydney, Australia, 
August 1945, p. 27).

Of course, ITAL Mao's END writings apply only to ITAL China, END  
her ITAL culture and reality END in a particular historical epoch, 
the 1940s. Is this "ahistorical idealism?"

The FMLN in El Salvador moves in quite a different reality, 
culture, international context and historical epoch: the 1990s, a 
period when the Berlin wall has crumbled, the USSR no longer 
exists, and Japan and Germany have re-emerged as new economic 
empires challenging United States hegemony throughout the world.

Inside El Salvador, the domestic context has changed too. There is 
a real opportunity for the left to engage in national politics and 
keep up the mass struggle at every level. The Salvadoran social 
structure has changed, people's experience and political awareness 
is different. They know what they are doing and where they are 
heading to. The Salvadoran people are not passive agents of 
history. On the contrary, they are building up their own future, 
struggling, smashing the old and creating their own models of 
socio-economic development aimed at resolving their most immediate 
problems and at the same time pushing a revolutionary process 
forward through different forms of struggle and political 
alliances. Is this not a dialectical materialist interpretation of 
history?

--FMLN supporter

February 1993

MC17 responds: The writer begins by suggesting that the current 
Chinese government under Deng Xiaoping should be considered 
Maoist, but MIM is clear that since the death of Mao, China has 
pursued capitalism, not socialism, and MIM in no way supports Deng 
or the current Chinese government. In addition the writer suggests 
that the Tupac Amaru compares with the Communist Party of Peru, 
ignoring that the Tupac Amaru is not a significant force in Peru 
because they support an ineffective, pro-Castro ideology.

The writer asks what examples we give of the success of Maoism. 
MIM provides many books and essays detailing the success of China, 
the Soviet Union and other countries as well. In China after the 
revolution there was enough food so that no one starved to death 
(in stark contrast to before the revolution), everyone was 
provided with housing, productivity increased dramatically, health 
care was provided for all, and life expectancy increased.

The writer attempts to demonstrate that the ballot box is a 
legitimate forum for struggle by recounting all the "successes" of 
past elections. The first problem with these examples is the 
author's failure to define socialism. Just because a government 
calls itself socialist does not mean that it is. MIM does not 
consider Chile under Allende or Nicaragua under the Sandinistas to 
have been socialist, for example.

The quote that the author cites from Mao is a good example of what 
MIM believes is a correct practice. Mao argued that New Democracy 
could be achieved after military victories, not instead of them.

The FMLN is making a deal to work with the imperialists who have 
absolutely no interest in relinquishing their power. The writer 
asks why it is that MIM is not actively engaging in armed struggle 
now if we so strongly advocate it in El Salvador. MIM does believe 
that it will come down to armed struggle in Amerika, as in all 
other countries. But it is important to know when to pick up the 
gun. Right now in Amerika the majority of the people are on the 
side of the imperialists.

Without the strength of an outside army, this is not a situation 
that would be tactically winnable. For that reason we continue to 
gather strength as we fight winnable battles. In the Third World 
on the other hand, where the opposition is strong and well 
organized, oppressed people can confront and defeat imperialism 
now. 

But the question of the situation in Amerika is really a 
peripheral issue as the FMLN is not saying that they have to put 
down their arms because they can not win right now, they are 
saying that they put down their arms because they have won and 
will continue to win at the ballot box.

We are not heartless to the real life conditions of the people 
dying in El Salvador and elsewhere. On the contrary, it is because 
of these deaths that MIM so strongly advocates revolution. 
Historically, revolutions, most importantly Maoist revolutions, 
have done the most to reduce the kind of suffering the author 
describes.

* * *

 WAKE UP HUD!  THE PEOPLE OWN GENEVA TOWERS

by a comrade

In March, the people of the Geneva Towers Tenant's Association 
(GTTA) ITAL overthrew END Geneva Tower's flunkie government. A 
mass movement to drive the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development (HUD) from Geneva Towers sprang to life.

Geneva Towers is a HUD-owned and government "subsidized" asbestos-
filled, locked-down housing project on the edge of San Francisco. 
Since July 1992, MIM Notes has been covering GTTA's many battles 
against forced evictions and armed terror.

In 1991 GTTA began issuing propaganda and agitating at great 
personal risk to expose The Man's plan to seize the Towers and 
cash in on the land. By March 1993, 11 of 16 units on many floors 
were vacant. People watched their neighbors disappear into the 
night.

Slum-lord John Stewart and a collection of city employees calling 
themselves the Housing Conservation & Community Development 
Corporation had created a controlled Geneva Towers Resident 
Council Board that methodically signed away the civil and property 
rights of the tenants in secret. Suddenly ITAL $50 million END 
became available for a proposed three-to-five year 
"rehabilitation" of the Towers. Over two years, Stewart/HUD 
forcibly evicted more than 60% of the residents through terror and 
bureaucratic tricks.

Quiet support from behind closed doors grew to a roar. New forces 
joined GTTA and created a strength that seized the time to ITAL 
recall and abolish END the treacherous Board. Now the people's 
actions may compel HUD to withdraw a $200,000 grant fraudulently 
awarded to (HCDC) under the HUD-approved pretense that HCDC 
represented tenant ownership interests. The tenants now demand 
that HUD recognize: ITAL "the people already own Geneva Towers." 
END

Sensing movement, bourgeois politicians on the San Francisco Board 
of Supervisors jumped on GTTA's bandwagon. These pollsters in 
sharp suits and liberal make-up are looking to drown any sparks of 
real political protest with white lies and false promises of 
economic support.

In April, a Wall Street Journal reporter visited Geneva Towers 
wearing a Stewart Company hard-hat. As the reporter scribbled down 
tenant accusations against management, John Stewart and HCDC 
scrambled to round up a few Black faces to tell lies and cajole 
and threaten the tenants. In a public meeting, Stewart cried, "We 
are talking about F-I-F-T-Y million dollars here!"

GTTA says it has no illusions about the support it may or may not 
receive from the Supervisors, Wall Street Journal, and a host of 
other elements eager to grab a piece of the $50 million maybe-pie. 
But for John Stewart--his luscious dessert turned into rotten mush 
in front of his horrified eyes as the tenants stood up and just 
said no! An important battle has been won--but the war can still 
be lost.

A milestone

The people's fight to resist extinction and to build an 
independent power inside San Francisco's Black community has 
reached a milestone. Since the mid-1970s, Blacks have been 
systematically driven out of San Francisco by gentrification, 
arson, police murder, forced relocation and unemployment. Much of 
San Francisco's 60,000-strong Black colony now lives sandwiched 
between an abandoned radioactive Navy Base and the Cow Palace, an 
old and ugly convention center.

After implementing a lock-down in June 1991, Stewart & Co. created 
an elaborate charade to fool the 2,500 tenants into believing that 
they would ultimately become "owners and managers" of Geneva 
Tower's 576 suffocating apartments under HUD's Homeownership and 
Opportunity for People Everywhere (HOPE) program. This apartheid-
style master-plan is being implemented ITAL on a national level 
END to drive the poor out of subsidized housing and reclaim real-
estate for transfer to private condominium builders and their 
bankers. 

In the last 30 years perhaps as much as ITAL $1 billion END in 
federal money has circulated through the fire-trapped units at 
Geneva Towers into the bank accounts of the rich and infamous.

The Road Is Long

MIM supports struggles of this sort. MIM knows that organizations 
created by the international proletariat learn the bitter lessons 
of politics and warfare from the experiences of the masses.

Economic struggles transform into consciously organized political 
battles independently of vanguard parties whose ultimate role is 
to lead insurrections and build socialism. The knowledge gained by 
the people in these initial skirmishes leads inevitably to but one 
political conclusion: the destruction of capitalism is the gate to 
the liberation of humanity. 

Outbreaks against imperialism do not always take the form of 
spontaneous mass rebellions fueled by the people's justified 
anger--as at Los Angeles in May 1992. GTTA is an example of a 
single-issue mass organization that successfully created broad 
support in the community by exposing the enemy in public forums, 
local newspapers, community television, and in the street. 

GTTA's membership is all the tenants at Geneva Towers. GTTA is not 
ideologically uniform and it is far from communist inspired or 
communist-led. The people of Geneva Towers have united themselves 
solely out of the necessity to survive. Some tenants consider 
communism to be evil; some say that Black folks cannot afford to 
be associated with communists. Others refer to the political 
ferment generated by the urban rebellions of the 1960s as a step 
forward.

GTTA based itself in the people and created public opinion inside 
Geneva Towers by going door-to-door with documented facts. In what 
became an anchor to the struggle, Africa Jr. 391st created Food 
For Thought--which operates on donated pennies and foodstamps to 
provide sandwiches to hungry children and GTTA's newsletters to 
information-hungry adults.

In the Geneva Towers movement MIM sees the force of the oppressed 
people in motion. From the chaos of an economic struggle arises 
political consciousness and a new awareness of the nature of class 
enemies-- ITAL which include END the Black petty-bourgeois 
administrators fronting for the white banks and pirates who run 
HUD. 

When asked to share the most important lesson of this struggle one 
tenant said, "Never trust HUD." S/he also said that in the 
beginning of the struggle s/he believed in "the myth of a strong 
Black leadership" until s/he experienced "only betrayal" from the 
NAACP, the Urban League, and a legion of preachers.

Some Geneva Towers tenants believe that the System can be pushed 
hard enough to allow Black's, "Our piece of the American pie." 
Others realize that the Amerikan consumer's pie has been baked 
from the corpses of our Third World brothers and sisters.

"We ITAL can END reform the System," say a few.

"But what if we ITAL can't END run the crooks out of HUD?," ask 
others. A youthful chorus echoes in the airless hallways: "Then it 
will be a civil war!"

Serve The People

Following the example of the Black Panther Party's revolutionary 
practice of striving to serve the people, MIM supports the 
proletariat by covering its political evolution in MIM Notes and 
by rendering material assistance in the form of investigation. 
Maoists share a determination to be with the people through thick 
and thin as we all learn from our experiences.

Sometimes individuals make the mistake of confusing the 
revolutionary Party's political support with the personal support 
of our comrades. MIM urges all revolutionaries and politically 
aware people engaged in mass struggles to read and study the MIM 
essay "On Single-Issue Organizing."(1)

MIM works ITAL with END mass organizations. We do not infiltrate 
or work ITAL in END them. MIM comrades carry out the political 
line and policies of the Party under all circumstances. MIM 
comrades are obligated to actively solicit criticism and analysis 
from the masses.

One activist recently praised MIM Notes as a tool for "separating 
garbage from not-garbage." S/he said, "MIM has a new view of 
what's going on and a finger on the pulse. We have to expose what 
is real because we will always lose as long as the people believe 
the lies. As for me, I have had to re-examine the very meaning of 
the word 'radical.' Homeboys need to know how to dig behind every 
tree."

Notes:

1. Available in the pamphlet "What Is Mim?" for $2 post-paid at 
Boxholder, P.O. Box 3576, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106-3576.

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THE SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM HAUNTS AZANIA

by a comrade

In response to the April 10 assassination of Chris Hani, leader of 
the South African Communist Party (SACP), on April 15 20,000 
Azanian youths smashed downtown store windows, set cars afire, 
shot a policeman, stabbed a peace monitor, threw a grenade at 
soldiers, derailed two commuter train cars, and assaulted a 
prominent African National Congress (ANC) official who tried to 
restore order.(1)

Hani, also a member of the Executive Committee of the ANC, was 
murdered by a white supremacist gunman outside his home in 
Johannesburg. While there have been more than 9,000 political 
killings in Azania during the past three years alone, Hani is the 
first top liberation movement leader killed since Black 
Consciousness Movement founder Steven Biko was killed by the South 
African police in 1977.(2)

Hani's assassination is of monumental significance to the 
liberation movement in Azania, and is likely to be a turning point 
in the struggle. Hani and the revisionist SACP have largely been 
the masterminds of the "powersharing" deal being worked out by the 
ANC and the ruling National Party.

As the Deputy Commander of the ANC military wing, Umkhonto we 
Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) from 1982 to 1987, Hani was "credited" 
with being the only ANC member to retain the respect of the 
militant Azanian youth--who have grown increasingly impatient with 
these negotiations and with the ANC leadership.

The ANC youth have always been the most militant voice in the 
organization; they have tended toward armed struggle rather than 
the criminal dead-end negotiations of the past several years. Hani 
tried to convince the youth to patiently wait for the negotiations 
to bring them liberation.

Now that he has been assassinated, the rage of the youth has again 
taken center stage. Angry masses have rebelled, causing millions 
of dollars in property damage. By April 12 at least 28 people were 
dead and 30 injured, and the Washington Post reported stonings, 
car burnings, shots fired at motorists, and marches on local 
police stations. Also, two whites were burned to death and one had 
his tongue cut out, after their cars were stoned and set on fire 
near Cape Town.(3)

More than 80,000 people went to Hani's funeral on April 19 in the 
Soweto soccer stadium. Outside, thousands of young people engaged 
police in rolling combat all day. Inside, Mandela tried to 
disassociate the violence from the ANC, claiming that the violence 
was caused by agent provocateurs, rather than by the righteous 
anger of the masses!(4) Mandela is trying to hide the fact that 
his organization has been irreversibly split by the Hani 
assassination.

When he spoke on the April 14 "day of mourning," Mandela was booed 
when he started to speak of reconciliation with the ruling 
National Party. Some in the crowd yelled, "We hate them! We hate 
them!" The ANC youth speaker at the rally, Sipho Mavundla, was 
more direct, saying, "No more peace. No more talks."(1) It is only 
a matter of time before they formally split from the ANC elders 
intent on negotiations.

Other statements by ANC youth have been similar. ANC Youth League 
President Peter Mokaba urged protesters to acquire weapons by 
whatever means possible to avenge Hani's death. Coux Malik, 20, 
said "We'll never get anywhere negotiating, because the regime 
will never give up power without being forced." Thabo Morudu, 21, 
said "The only answer is insurrection. To combat violence, you 
must apply violence." Parcks Slovo, 26, said, "We understand what 
Mandela is saying, and we know discipline is important, but the 
only way we are going to take power is at the barrel of a gun."(5)

Umkhonto we Sizwe never attempted to liberate territory in which 
the ANC and the people would wield political power. It only 
engaged in acts of bombings and sabotage aimed at the police and 
government, in order to scare them into negotiating powersharing 
with the ANC.

It is up to the youth of Azania to forge a new course of armed 
struggle--the people's war.

Hani's death commemorated in Amerika

On April 19, the day of Hani's funeral in South Africa, more than 
300 people attended a commemoration for Hani held at Howard 
University in Washington D.C. Speakers from revisionist parties 
such as the CPUSA and the Socialist Workers Party spoke, as well 
as African Diplomats, religious leaders and reformist single-issue 
groups.

There was only one student speaker in the program--a 
representative of the Howard Student Association. He read a tract 
from African revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah. The only other inspiring 
speakers were Rev. Willie Wilson, a local Black activist minister, 
and Steve Mncube, representing the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) 
of Azania.

In Washington D.C. as in Azania, the youth could not be held back 
by revisionist leaders. As the long and boring program was ending, 
one young Azanian started chanting and moving toward the front of 
the room. Soon all the other Azanian youth in the room followed, 
as they took over the microphone, and filled the room with 
militant chanting and dancing.

The energy of the youth electrified the room, and it became clear 
that they are the leaders of the struggle, and the future belongs 
to them.

 Notes: 
1. Washington Post 4/15/93.
2. Washington Post 4/11/93.
3. Washington Post 4/12/93.
4. UPI 4/19/93
5. Washington Post 4/18/93.

* * *

RADIOACTIVE WAVES BEAMED AT OPPRESSED NATIONALS

by a comrade

On October 28-30, 1992 the Amerikan government sponsored an 
International symposium on "Contraband and Cargo Inspection 
Technology" in Washington, D.C., reassuring us that the 
imperialist war on drugs continues in full force. Experts in law 
enforcement from 16 countries met to discuss new technological 
capabilities that can be used to crack down on international drug 
trafficking.(1)

A diagnostic probe system, using ITAL neutron interrogation, END 
(2) will be set up at U.S.-Mexican border crossings, but can also 
be downsized into portable van units that will drive through 
oppressed neighborhoods and beam into cars and houses to detect 
drugs in large quantities. Neutron interrogation technology can 
detect drugs, explosives, and chemical and nuclear materials, but 
the most dangerous domestic use will likely be targeting drug 
dealers. The portable vanmobile unit that can zap houses will 
detect movement and body heat in different rooms inside the house.

One coordinator of the D.C. Green Panthers! suggested that 
portable scaled down versions of this device might be used in 
inner city neighborhoods to intensify the campaign against 
oppressed nation dealers and users. Blacks and Latinos could yet 
be the targets of more advanced and systematic genocide through 
carcinogenic poisoning in their own neighborhoods. MIM shares the 
Panthers! belief that nothing is too dangerous and reactionary for 
this fascist government to do to continue the slaughter and 
oppression of oppressed nation communities.

State agents plan to use this new technology to seize illegal 
drugs at the border and in barrios. The Green Panthers! are 
concerned that not only would fruits and vegetables be nuked 
during these searches, but so would illegal aliens trying to get 
to Amerika.

A scientist at American Science and Engineering in Cambridge, who 
is not connected to the neutron project, speculated that while 
regular X-ray systems, such as those found in airport security 
checkpoints, will not change the chemical composition of fruits 
and vegetables carried in these trucks, the neutron system could 
"potentially" cause damage.

The residual radiation that would affect the incoming produce 
would then reach the consumers, and no one would be the wiser. 
Even more frightening is the fact that Central and South Amerikan 
refugees who may be hiding in the trucks will get zapped.

According to the Panthers!, cancer experts at the National 
Institute of Health (NIH) believe that persons exposed to this 
kind of radiation could show signs of cancer within 1-2 years 
after exposure. MIM wonders if Clinton's proposed health insurance 
program will cover these immigrants and others who get cancer from 
poisoned food?

Notes:
1. E. Rhodes, Argonne National Laboratory and C.W. Peters, Nuclear 
Diagnostic Systems, ITAL APSTNG: Neutron Interrogation for 
Detection of Drugs and Other Contraband, END ITAL submitted to 
above-mentioned symposium. MIM extends great thanks to our friends 
at the Green Panthers! who sent us this information.
2. For those scientifically-minded readers, this probe is based on 
"a unique associate-particle sealed-tube generator (APSTNG) that 
interrogates the object of interest with a low-intensity beam of 
14-MeV neutrons generated from the deuterium-tritium reaction and 
detects the alpha-particle associated with each neutron." Rhodes, 
et al. abstract.

* * *

BORN CRIMINALS

Thirty-four Black youth were arrested on April 8 at a Detroit 
middle school after they became too "rowdy" for Detroit police 
lecturing the students on gangs. Before being taken to the police 
station, the students were lined up for photographs taken by the 
pigs. All of them were taken to the police station by a police 
bus, with their hands over their heads the entire time.(1,2)

Three Detroit police gang squad officers went to the Cerveny 
Middle school to lecture 60 students on the dangers gang 
membership. The "gang-prone" students were hand-picked by the 
teachers, and they were taken from their classrooms to listen to 
the pigs babble about gangs. The school never told parents about 
the lecture given to their children.(2)

During the lecture the students became "rowdy, challenging the 
officers, swearing at school staff, and shoving each other." The 
pigs then arrested 34 of the students, charging one for 
interfering with an officer in the line of duty and the rest with 
disorderly conduct.(1)

"We told them there's no gang turf, and they wanted to tell us 
different," said Lt. Charles Wilson, a gang squad member. "We 
couldn't stand for that." Yeah, they couldn't stand Black youth 
standing up to the pigs' power, so they arrested the students.

Wilson also said, "If they litter, if they loiter, destroy 
property by spray-painting gang graffiti, or if we get information 
they're intimidating students, we take immediate enforcement 
action and take a zero-tolerance approach to prosecution of those 
individuals." He goes on to say, "I think it's too many videos, 
too many Ice Cubes, Ice T's and movies glamorizing gangs."(2)

No, it's not too many videos. Rather, it's inner-city oppression 
and alienation, of knowing that you're more likely to go to prison 
than to college. To pluck these students out of the classrooms and 
label them gang wannabes just reinforces them to think that gangs 
are their only source of power. And with the zero-tolerance 
approach, these agents of the state only instigate the formation 
of gangs, the birthplace for revolutionaries in inner-city 
Amerikkka.

--MC67

Notes:
1. Detroit Free Press 4/10/93, 3A and 10A.
2. Detroit News 4/15/93, 2B.

* * *


PIGS, POLITICIANS AND LABOR JOIN FORCES

The Illinois task force on crime and corrections recently 
recommended the construction of a 500-bed super maximum security 
prison. Illinois already has one of the most notorious prisons, 
Marion, in the southern part of the state.

The warden of Marion, which currently is Amerika's largest control 
unit prison, has been quoted as saying: "the purpose of the Marion 
control unit is to control revolutionary attitudes in the prison 
system and in society at large."

At a press conference called by the Illinois legislators and labor 
officials, prison guards whined about the violent behavior they've 
encountered. Mark Bushue doesn't like the idea of prisoners 
fighting back against inhumane treatment: "I think we need 
someplace to put these people. I think it would be a deterrent to 
other inmates that maybe they'd think twice before they assaulted 
another officer."

The Amerikan Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees 
council 31 represents 7,500 prison guards in Illinois. Their 
spokesman Henry Bayer said: "... we will take this step to build a 
super-maximum facility in order to help bring our prisons under 
control." Thus the true interests of the white labor aristocracy 
are revealed: aiding the oppressive capitalist state apparatus by 
imprisoning oppressed nationals. What else should be expected from 
government-controlled unions?

No matter how many concentration camps they build, they will never 
be able to hold back the revolutionary spirit of the people.

--a MIM Associate

Notes: The Catholic Worker  3-4/93, p. 3. and St. Louis Post-
Dispatch 3/31/93, p. 14A.

* * *

VIRTUAL FASCISM

Lurking inside the glossy pages of a Housing and Urban Development 
(HUD) manual, MIM has discovered that a San Francisco Bay Area 
consortium of land-pirates led by the John Stewart Company 
(currently on the run from the wrath of the people at Geneva 
Towers) has set-up a local data-base called the National Tenant 
Network (NTN) for convenient use by Public Housing Authorities and 
other HUD-subsidized scumlords.

HUD is promoting this cyber-fascism as a model for Amerika.

The NTN computerized "reporting service [presents] a clear picture 
of a potential resident: a credit report, an evictions report, and 
a resident performance report based on landlord information." 
Currently the data-base contains 600,000 names of "risky renters" 
from the Bay Area (10% of the total area population).

"NTN staff visit Bay Area courthouses daily and record all 
evictions filed ... Subscribers are provided with the names and 
telephone numbers of the plaintiffs and attorneys in the 
complaints ... [The database] helps subscribers sift through the 
information and analyze the cash flow and historical facts 
regarding prospective tenants."

NTN geek Lindquist says, "The report will not say that the 
prospective renter is a drug dealer, but there will be a notation 
in the report to talk to the previous landlord [who] may say that 
there was constant foot traffic in and out of the apartment, or 
that the police raided the unit, or that hypodermic needles were 
found there after the resident moved out." (Or that the tenant is 
Black or Latin ... or ITAL political END.)

Lindquist estimates that "More than a third of applicants for 
public housing and assisted housing prove to have had recent 
evictions." The Oakland Housing Authority, "uses NTN as an alert 
system ... the managers reject [at least] 10% of applicants and the 
NTN information is an important part of their reasons for denial."

Marie Tustin (John Stewart Company Vice-Pirate) comments, 
"Ultimately, ITAL the managers must be character judges. END" 
Corporate oinker John Stewart owns and manages 70 properties with 
7,500 units in Northern California. He is notorious for using 
every lie and trick in the book to evict tenants-for-profit.

If you are evicted from subsidized housing in 1993--for whatever 
reason--you will probably now be denied the opportunity to pay 
outrageous rents in toxic hellholes along with the chance to 
inhabit even a pitiable shelter.

Begging these pigs for mercy will only elicit mocking laughs as 
they trundle the loot to the bank. The only answer is to stop them 
dead in their tracks and create revolutionary people's socialism. 
Under the dictatorship of the proletariat the people might even 
use databases to screen and eliminate capitalist-roaders ....

--a comrade

Notes: ITAL Together We Can ... Create Drug-Free Neighborhoods END 
Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD, August 1992, pps. 
32-40.

* * *

HANNIBAL THE JUDGE

An imprisoned Black man with AIDS was forced to wear a hockey-
style mask and a blue surgical mask, leaving only his eyes 
unobstructed, at his appearance in district court, ordered by 
Judge James Justin.

The prisoner, Robert Williams of Detroit, Mich, was arraigned in 
the district court in Michigan on charges of attempted murder of a 
prison employee and assault with a deadly weapon. Williams 
allegedly threw a cupful of urine at a prison employee in December 
in the Jackson State Prison.

The Jackson County prosecutor, Dennis Hurst, requested the masking 
order because an unmasked Williams could have a "dramatic chilling 
effect" on witnesses, lawyers, guards and court staff.

The AIDS virus is not spread through the air, spitting or biting, 
said Evan Wolfson, an attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense Fund. 
He said the masking order "shows a manifest ignorance about HIV 
and certainly invites a challenge based on denial of the due 
process [of law] and a fair hearing."

Being a Black man, a "criminal" and a person with AIDS was just 
too much for the presiding judge, so it was not difficult to 
accept the prosecutor's request. By accepting the prosecutor's 
motion for a masking order, the judge all but decided the verdict 
for the jury. But then again, what else is new for the Black man?

The most dramatic and chilling effect the Black nation is going to 
have on Euro-Amerika is yet to come.

--MC67

Notes: Detroit News, 4/15/93, 2B.

* * *

PUERTO RICO MOVES CLOSER TO THE HEART OF WHITENESS

The officialization of the English language recently passed the 
Puerto Rican legislature (controlled by the New Progressive Party-
-which supports Puerto Rican statehood) and the governor's desk. 
This makes it inevitable that government documents will soon be 
written in English despite the fact that nearly three-fourths of 
Puerto Ricans speak little or no English. This means that three-
fourths of Puerto Rican people will not be able to understand the 
language in legal, government, business, and labor transactions 
that govern their lives.

The New Progressive Party won control of the legislature in 1991. 
Changing Puerto Rico's official language to English makes the 
colony a more eligible candidate for statehood; only a colony that 
speaks English can become a state. The move to English 
demonstrates the puppet government's willingness to push the 
island's population into statehood.

The focus on the official language issue shows the New Progressive 
Party's apathy towards the real problems that face the people. The 
Party allows inhumane social conditions to continue and, like good 
running dogs for U.S. imperialism, deny every attempt to change 
the lives of the people. The pro-statehood administration recently 
signed an agreement with the FBI which places police powers on the 
colony in the imperialist hands, giving them a supervisory role 
over the local police.

The leaders of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement met at the 
beginning of this year to call for the Second Pro-Independence 
Congress. The call intended to form a cohesive movement outlining 
the conditions for achieving the liberation of Puerto Rico. These 
conditions include freedom for all Puerto Rican political 
prisoners and prisoners of war. One hundred fifty thousand 
demonstrators gathered in San Juan to protest officializing 
English.

For more information contact the Puerto Rican National Liberation 
Movement; 1671 N. Claremont Street; Chicago, Illinois 60647 Phone: 
312-342-8027

--an associate

Notes:
1. La Patria Radical, January 1993.
2. Bandera Roja (Newspaper of the Movimiento por Liberacion 
Nacional), February 1993.
3. Grito Cultural No. 6, 1991.

* * *

HUNGER STRIKE FOR HAITI

by a comrade

Deposed Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide spoke at 
Georgetown University on March 22, lavishing praise on a recent 
student hunger strike movement which started at Yale University 
and has continued at elite schools all over Amerika. Aristide's 
presence inspired Georgetown hunger strikers to organize, even 
though, as one student leader later told MIM, "I thought his 
actual speech was tempered to the Georgetown crowd ... I thought 
it was disappointing because he was so 'political.'"

"Working in partnership with the U.S., Haiti's problems can be 
solved very quickly," Aristide said, calling for foreign business 
opportunities and a free and open market economy in Haiti. Of Bill 
Clinton, Aristide said, "There is a very deep sense of humanity in 
him ... We trust President Clinton. We believe with him we can 
restore democracy to Haiti."(1)

The hunger strike

The student hunger strike movement started on March 3 at Clinton's 
alma mater, Yale Law School. Blending Amerikan military lingo with 
appropriated revolutionary Black history, the law students named 
their campaign "Operation Harriet Tubman." Thirty students went on 
a hunger strike for seven days, taking shifts at a mock 
concentration camp they named "Camp Clinton."(2)

On March 10, Yale law students passed the strike onto Harvard Law 
School. Harvard passed the strike to Brown University on March 17, 
which passed it to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on 
March 24. Nearly 200 students joined the hunger strike in Ann 
Arbor. On March 31, Michigan passed the strike to four schools at 
once: Columbia University, Penn State, Georgetown--where more than 
450 students fasted--and Howard University.(2)

In early April, students at the following schools went on hunger 
strike: New York University, American University, George 
Washington University, University of California at Berkeley, San 
Francisco State, Catholic University and University of Maine. A 
national meeting of students in solidarity with Haiti was planned 
at Columbia University in New York for May 1.

Why Haiti?

The U.S. government has detained more than 250 Haitian refugees in 
a concentration camp on Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba for 15 
months. The Haitians were forcibly brought to Guantanamo while 
trying to flee political and economic repression in Haiti after 
the military coup against President Aristide.

The Haitians were picked up by U.S. Naval patrols to keep them 
from arriving on U.S. shores. At first thousands of Haitians were 
interned at Guantanamo. Most were fingerprinted, and then sent 
back into the hands of the Haitian military regime from which they 
were fleeing in the first place. Those remaining were tested for 
the HIV virus, believed to cause AIDS. The Haitians who tested 
positive for HIV--or are relatives of those who tested positive 
for HIV--have been interned at Guantanamo ever since.

On January 29, the imprisoned Haitians went on a hunger strike to 
dramatize their conditions. The press largely ignored the action, 
showing only a moment of interest when the opportunist Jesse 
Jackson joined them in February. But many Amerikan law students 
have been working on the Haitians' legal defense since refugees 
began fleeing Haiti's shores following the coup. The hunger strike 
movement grew out of this informal network of law students 
sympathetic to the Haitians' plight.

A hunger strike is not a revolution

The students' demands are very limited and reformist in nature. 
Allowing the 250 Haitians at Guantanamo into the United States 
would not alter Amerikan dominance over Haiti, although it would 
be a small victory against Amerika's reactionary immigration 
policy barring HIV positive immigrants.

MIM believes that all oppressed Third World peoples fleeing the 
effects of Amerikan imperialism should be allowed into Amerika. As 
internationalists, MIM doesn't acknowledge the borders that 
Amerika has erected. These borders serve to lock out oppressed 
peoples, and allow Amerika to artificially inflate the wages given 
to people inside these borders. Challenges to immigration are 
challenges to the system of imperialism itself.

While the law student hunger strike movement is based among some 
of the most privileged people on the planet, MIM is happy to see 
First World youth organizing to support Haitian self-
determination, and to allow persecuted Haitians to cross the 
militarily fortified U.S. border.

While MIM is most interested in liberation movements of oppressed 
people, we work among all sectors of society to promote the 
interests and demands of the Third World proletariat. Students at 
elite Amerikan schools who are interested in the plight of 
oppressed Haitians should join MIM, and understand that the best 
way to help Haitians is to help overthrow Amerikan imperialism.

"I don't know really if I agree with even the grounds that we're 
arguing this on," said one of the more radical students involved 
in the Georgetown strike. "That according to international law or 
according to U.S. law the Haitians should be allowed into this 
country. I'm really using that as an argument which people might 
accept ... I don't really accept that argument in other instances."

The student also cited internal divisions in the movement over how 
broadly to focus as the reason they chose to focus only on the 250 
Haitians detained at Guantanamo. The student leaders have chosen 
to take the pragmatic approach and argue on the lowest common 
denominator, rather than attempting to explain to other students 
the broader imperialist context. This type of organizing may get 
larger crowds in the short term, but will not create movements 
that will move beyond that lowest common denominator to actually 
understand and challenge imperialism.



Notes:
1. Speech by Haiti's President Jean Bertrand Aristide at 
Georgetown University, March 22, 1993.
2. Press release from Operation Harriet Tubman: The National 
Student Campaign to Shut Down Guantanamo, April 2, 1993.

ITAL A good source of information on Haiti's history and the 
current political situation is a 24-page newsletter called "Haiti: 
A Look at the Reality." It is available for $2.50 postpaid from 
the Quixote Center, P.O. Box 5206, Hyattsville, MD 20782. END

* * *

FUJIMORI'S PROMISE: DEATH & TERROR

by MCBeta & MC12

The Peruvian government is reaching around the globe to attack 
revolutionary opponents of its murderous state.

The Fujimori regime is asking England to extradite Adolfo 
Olaechea, spokesperson and head of the Committee Sol Peru, a 
London, England organization dedicated to defending and 
"explain[ing] the true character of the People's War in Peru," 
under Peru's 1907 treaty with England. Fujimori charges him with 
"apology of terrorism."(1)

Olaechea has received a death threat mailed from Oakland, Cal. 
carrying only one word: "USTED" (Spanish for "you"). It bore a 
skull-and-crossbones, the signature of the organized death squads.

errorism."(1)

Olaechea has received a death threat mailed from Oakland, Cal. 
carrying only one word: "USTED" (Spanish for "you"). It bore a 
skull-and-crossbones, the signature of the organized death squads.

                                                                                                                                                                                                       ____    the extradition request in the context of the quickening pace 
of the People's War.Communist Party of Peru leader Abimael Guzm‡n 
(and the parents of a slain revolutionary in her own right), who 
were recently in Brussels defending the Peruvian revolution as 
reported in MIM Notes 75. The La Torres live in Stockholm.

The extradition campaign is also extending to Chile, France, 
Germany and Spain. Peru is asking those governments to extradite 
four people, two of whom they say are in Europe raising money for 
the PCP. The two alleged PCP supporters are Maximilano Durand 
Araujo, supposed to have been in France since 1982, and Jorge 
Mujica Contreras, who they say is in Spain. The other two are said 
to be supporters of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement 
(MRTA).(2)

In a March 24 interview with London's Asian Times, Olaechea 
explained the extradition request in the context of the quickening 
pace of the People's War.(3)

"In Peru, the People's War continues to develop and the tempo of 
the struggle has more than doubled since the capture of Chairman 
Gonzalo [Guzm‡n] by the regime's anti-terrorist police. Moreover 
the stability of the mass-murderer regime of Fujimori is more and 
more precarious due to deep divisions in its only local prop, the 
armed forces of the reactionary state ... they have resorted to 
demand the extradition of a number of Peruvian democrats living 
abroad on a variety of bogus charges ... Principally they fear that 
in May, June, July and August of this year, the traditional months 
in which the revolutionary forces go on to the offensive, their 
regime will finally collapse. This extradition ploy shows clearly 
the degree of desperation they have reached."

Olaechea also explained why the British government, in collusion 
with Fujimori and the U.S. funded drug trade, would not "proceed 
with impartiality" in his extradition case. He pointed to the 
financial support Britain has given to the so-called war on drugs, 
and to a BBC report of last year which showed "the complicity and 
participation of the highest echelons of the Fujimori regime in 
the drug trade."

"In fact, in the last of the Newsnight programs, Fujimori's own 
vice-president, Maximo San Roman characterized the current regime 
as 'the rule of a drugs mafia.' In my opinion, both Garel Jones 
[Foreign Office Minister for Latin American Affairs] and Kenneth 
Clarke [Home Secretary] are totally disqualified to act 
impartially in this case. They have hopelessly compromised 
themselves with the dictator and his cronies, including the drug 
baron Vladimiro Montesinos, the presidential 'adviser' in direct 
control of the regime's anti-drug program."

MIM stands firmly in solidarity with Adolfo Olaechea, not because 
his "civil liberties" or "international law" are being violated 
(for MIM knows these "rights" are merely privileges granted by the 
bourgeoisie to itself), but because of his internationalist 
proletarian ideology and practice.

The Committee Sol Peru is raising money for its Fighting Fund 
Appeal, in order to cover the legal, printing, campaigning and 
other costs of Olaechea's extradition. People interested in 
contributing to this fund, by check or international money order, 
can write to the Adolfo Olaechea Fighting Fund at LLoyds Bank 
(Walham Green Branch) account number in London: 7167762 - Olaechea 
A. ISA.

Repression

* As part of a media crackdown in Peru, the government has 
convicted a Peruvian reporter for compiling a television special 
on human rights abuses. The judge also ordered the arrest of the 
show's director--in Spain.(4)

* When Fujimori launched his coup last April, one of the things he 
wanted was to increase the efficiency of political repression. Now 
the U.S. State Department estimates that as many as 500,000 people 
are awaiting trial, as the backlogged sham-justice system bogs 
down under the weight of mass arrests.(5)

* Reuters reports that: "Fujimori, who seized near-dictatorial 
powers last year, said on Tuesday he supported a constitutional 
measure empowering him to dissolve Peru's Congress in times of 
national crisis."(6)

Resistance

* On March 28, "thirty-two inmates, most of them Maoist Shining 
Path guerrillas, broke out of a jail near Cuzco after a car bomb 
exploded at the facility, and four died in a shootout that 
followed."(7)

* The guerillas of the PCP struck at government forces in April: 
The PCP killed the governor of the Alto Biabo area, Hector Lopez, 
and seven other soldiers in an ambush.(8) Earlier, guerillas 
ambushed an army truck on the Santiago de Chuco-Trujillo highway, 
killing 10 members of the security forces and wounding eight 
others.(9)

* Public sector workers led a wave of strikes in March, 
challenging government economic policies. Strikers were to include 
65,000 health care workers at 2,000 clinics, and 4,500 doctors 
striking in sympathy with them. At the same time, 4,000 railroad 
employees struck, costing the mining industry alone at least $1.5 
million. Then, 200,000 public school teachers planned a strike to 
protest falling real wages that have dropped to $75 per month.(10)

And economic crisis

Peru's economy officially shrank by almost 3% last year. The 
monthly minimum wage at the end of the year was about $42. Twelve 
million of Peru's 22 million people are counted below the official 
poverty line.(11)

The oppressed in Peru have no friends in the imperialist capital 
business. But the government does. With no base of support among 
the people, the Peruvian government has no choice but to belly up 
at the bar of dependent addiction.

The International Monetary fund has cleared $1.4 billion in new 
loans to Peru. Almost all of the money will have to be turned 
around to service existing debts, but in the process "old" debts 
will become "new" debts, and Peru's ability to get even more loans 
will improve. And so on.(12)

Notes:
1. The Guardian 3/20/93.
2. Agence France Presse 3/6/93.
3. Asian Times 3/24/93.
4. UPI 3/16/93.
5. Washington Post 3/22/93.
6. Reuters  3/30/93.
7. Reuters 3/29/93.
8. UPI 4/9/93.
9. L.A. Times 4/6/93.
10. Notimex Mexican News Service 3/16/93.
11. Washington Post 3/14/93.
12. Daily Report For Executives 3/19/93.

* * *

REVIEW:
"DUEL IN PERU: A 3-ACT ON THE SHINING PATH"
S. Colman
1993

MIM applauds S. Colman's efforts in this play. While the Peruvian 
revolution has most anarchists these days falling to agnosticism 
or pacifism, Colman--a self-described anarchist--is working to 
popularize the fact of the revolution. "Duel in Peru" demonstrates 
a commitment to developing the level of debate between anarchists 
and communists, on the tactics and strategy of revolutions.

MIM's criticism of this play includes a critique of anarchism as 
an ideology and a center of organization, as well as Colman's thin 
treatment of Marxism. This review is written as part of what we 
hope will be a continuing debate between anarchists and Maoists on 
the questions of world revolution, and towards the most effective 
means of organizing in the interests of the people of Peru and the 
world.

Marxism and anarchism

Colman is attempting to develop and strengthen the connections 
between Marxism and anarchism. Colman takes on the title of "a 
hyphenated anarchist--like anarcho-Marxism (along with anarcho-
pacifism, anarcho-feminism, etc.)."(1) MIM calls people like 
Colman, who recognize the need for dialectical analysis and for 
the elimination of oppression, communists in ideology. 
Materialists, such as Colman, recognize that anarchism is an ideal 
at this stage, not a means of eliminating oppression.

"Anarchism's strength is in its ability to provide an idealistic 
utopian vision. Without a vision, change cannot happen. But a 
vision is not enough. The communist method of materialism can get 
us from here to the stateless, classless society. Idealism alone 
will get us nowhere. Keep fighting the power--one winnable battle 
at a time," said one ex-anarchist turned Maoist.(3)

Colman spends a lot of time playing with the tension between 
individualist ideology and revolutionary analysis. Individualist 
theory is used as a prop for capitalism and is difficult for 
revolutionaries to get rid of entirely. This tension becomes the 
principal contradiction in the play--superseding the political 
debate and focusing on the personal. This approach discounts the 
importance of revolution and political struggle. But MIM's 
cultural tastes dictate that people starting political projects 
should finish them--to do otherwise is to demean the political 
struggle you intend to help.

The duel

The plot centers on the debate between Marxism--in the form of 
Vera, a former student at the University of Ayacucho, and a member 
of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP)--and anarchism, represented 
by Jamil, a wealthy Jordanian anarchist slumming it in a Lima 
shantytown. Jamil persistently tries to pick Vera up.

Vera spends much of the play arguing why political commitment is 
essential. Jamil, on the other hand, is happy to criticize all 
political movements from the standpoint of pacifist, animal-loving 
individualism. Representing a privileged and adventurist ideology, 
Jamil is the son of a formerly feudal and increasingly bourgeois 
family.

"Duel in Peru" culminates in a saber duel between Jamil and the 
chief of the local anti-terrorism police precinct. The duel boils 
down to a combination of machismo and the remaining decadence of 
"honor" in the old feudal society. The chief of police (from a 
land-owning background himself) sees a social equal in Jamil, and 
calls on Jamil to help him re-live the good old days of land-
owning glory. Jamil, the righteous anarchist, obliges.

Synthesis

The romantic backdrop muddles the debate between anarchism and 
Maoism. The political content suffers somewhat from the format as 
well--political struggle makes for less than graceful dialogue.

In Act I, Vera hears out some of Jamil's idealist criticisms of 
the PCP, and pushes him to offer them to the party as constructive 
criticism. He proves to be a nihilist, unwilling to struggle or 
engage in principled debate. (He's been there, done that, doesn't 
have the energy.) Vera continues to meet with him and talk 
politics, while Jamil continues to use these meetings to try to 
get her into bed. This sexual dynamic cripples the attempt at 
political synthesis.

The play does not hold any struggle sharp enough to demarcate 
between anarchism and communism. Nor does it arrive at the most 
correct answer on any of the strategic questions it raises (animal 
rights, pacifism, state capitalism, fascism, free love, 
individualism). 

Discussion of these issues amounts to bandying back and forth the 
stereotypes each actor has of the others' ideology. It's one thing 
to take this as an artistic approach to a random anarchist 
character--making him a composite of assorted ideologies 
associated with anarchism. But it's irresponsible to take the same 
approach to representing the PCP, a long-standing organization 
with a published line on many of the questions raised here.(2)

Both Vera and Jamil take a disproportionate number of instances 
from Amerikan history as illustrations for their arguments. The 
examples that are not out of Amerikan history and culture were 
popularized enough in the U.S. to have a high recognition factor 
for most Amerikans. It doesn't do much for realism, but this is a 
nice touch in a polemic. It gives the play's most likely audience 
an easy frame of reference to work with so that they can 
concentrate on struggling with the politics at hand.

"Duel in Peru" gets credit for being closer to a synthesis of 
Maoist and anarchist theory than many anarchist are willing to 
think about. It loses out in portraying both theses as less 
developed than they really are, lowering the level of unity it can 
hope to inspire. Colman has the anarchist side raising criticisms 
of Marxism that have been answered historically since before the 
Russian revolution. So while the play recognizes the need for a 
synthesis of theory, it has missed the boat on honestly defining 
the parts it is trying to synthesize.

--MC45

"Duel in Peru" and a catalog of other writings by the same author 
are available from Dawn Press, P.O. Box 02936, Detroit, MI 48202.

Notes:
1. "Marxist Communism" ("Synthesis of Anarchism and Marxism"), 
Freedom, Vol. 52, No. 17. Reprinted in "Duel in Peru."
2. Write to MIM for "Fundamental Documents" of the Communist Party 
of Peru, $5, and for a listing of other literature on the PCP and 
the political situation in Peru. 
3. MIM Notes 62, March 1992. p.2. 

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FOOD NOT BOMBS HARASSED IN BOSTON

by a comrade

On April 17, Food Not Bombs of Boston rallied against an April 2 
police attack on their food distribution on the Boston Common, 
during which the Boston police seized a folding table and a pot of 
hot soup. Food not Bombs in Boston has been serving these free 
meals for the hungry for 13 years and this was the first such 
police attack. Apparently the city recently decided this activity 
is against the law.

In response to the police action, the Boston Globe ran an 
editorial defending the right of "people of all races and classes" 
to enjoy the parks. The Globe was really defending those races and 
classes (all the nice white businesspeople and tourists) who would 
like to be spared the sight of homelessness. The city park 
commissioner made this position clear, saying that food 
distribution "must not impinge on the rights of other people." 
This is the message from our government: the hungry should be left 
to go hungry if feeding them is going to make a stroll in the 
public park less pleasant for the wealthy.

At the April 17 rally, which had about 50 people in attendance, 
MIM spoke with a few of the Food not Bombs supporters. "I 
understand that people don't want to see homelessness," one person 
explained, "It is upsetting to see others in a state of 
destitution. But if you don't want to see homelessness, please 
don't shove us off in a corner, do something about it. We can 
quench peoples hunger by feeding them and that in itself is a 
tremendous act. But if we ever want to solve the problem on a 
large scale we need to make it visible."

Another participant in the rally explained that they think this 
harassment is related to other poverty-related problems in 
Amerikan society such as the mental health industry. "I'm involved 
in the movement for survivors of the mental health system. When 
I've been short of dollars I've eaten at Boston Common. The right 
to food is so basic and the mental health system enslaves people 
because they are poor. Mental health and psychiatry are calling 
people ill because of things that have to do with poverty."

The city of Boston does not like Food not Bombs because their 
mission is "feeding people in the most public way, keeping the 
problem of homelessness in the public eye."(1) This group in 
Boston attracts a lot of youth with energy and interest. The 
members of Food not Bombs are learning about the way society is 
set up and teaching others about the problems inherent to this 
structure.

MIM agrees that feeding people is an important task, and we 
applaud those who do this in a more political way than the soup 
kitchens set up by the state to keep people dependent. But MIM 
would take this model a step further and looks to the Black 
Panther Party for an example. They set up breakfast programs that 
provided food as well as political education and a structure 
through which the people could take control of their lives.

MIM does not agree with the inherently pacifist message of Food 
not Bombs. While we would like to solve society's problems without 
violence, history has already demonstrated that the imperialists 
will not step down without a fight. If we truly want to eliminate 
hunger first we have to eliminate the structure that keeps some 
people poor and hungry in order to keep others wealthy. MIM calls 
on Food not Bombs and all other people interested in real equality 
and justice to study history and take the most successful road 
forward towards a society where no one ever goes hungry: the 
revolutionary road.

Notes: Food not Bombs member quoted in the Boston Globe.

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GUERILLA TEACHER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

by a correspondent

Not all is bleak for the prisoners of Amerika's miseducation 
system. Recently, a group of mostly Black and Latino junior high 
school students got their hands on a revolutionary history lesson-
-and they ran with it.

Schools in oppressed communities have been turned into holding 
pens for the jails and prisons. "Educators" deliberately define 
oppressed people right out of existence. Curriculum designers 
attempt to brainwash the youth into believing that the only way 
out of poverty and national oppression is to join ranks with their 
colonial oppressors. Fortunately, the youth are much smarter than 
their teachers.

Real world history

Recently a revolutionary "guerrilla teacher" taught World History 
in a locked-down junior-high school on the West Coast. Ninety 
percent of the students trapped inside this leaking and filthy 
facility are Black and Latino. Ninety-five percent of the staff 
and teachers are white and unionized.

The students' history textbook features one of Columbus' ships on 
the cover. The youth had just been graded on this test:

1. On average 1 out of 8 blacks died along the middle passage. 
Determine what percentage of slaves made it to the New World and 
what percentage died along the way. Show your work!

2. In your opinion, was the percentage who died along the middle 
passage a large number? If so, why?

3. As a captain of a slave ship, what dangers would cause you to 
worry about the health of the slaves?

4. What methods could the slave traders come up with to prevent so 
many slaves from dying along the trip?

5. Every ship captain had to answer whether to loosely pack his 
ship or to pack it tightly. Choose one method for your ship and 
explain why you chose that method.

The guerrilla teacher began by tearing up this test--and the 
seating charts--in front of the classes, and freewheeling 
discussion ensued.

The youth produced these brief (unedited) essays in response to 
questions of their own choosing:

"What would you do if you in Africa and someone tried to capture 
you to make you a slave?"

*If I was a person trying not to get caught by people and if it 
was a man, I'd kick him in his balls and run like fuck. Now if it 
was a woman I'd grab her by her hair and fuck that bitch up. I 
ain't gonna be a slave. Fuck that shit, if I did get put a slave, 
I'd have them kill me because I'm not having that.

*If somebody came and try to take over my country, I'd beat them 
down.

*I would have tried to fight back and say bad words to them. If 
they would kill me I would be happy. I'd rather die then be a 
slave for the whites and suffer with no food, no water and not 
that much sleep.

*If someone made me or tried to make me a slave I'd probably 
escape and go somewhere where no one could find me. I would never 
be a slave and be forced to do something I don't want to do. I 
don't even do the things my older brothers tell me to do.

*The thing I would do if I was a slave in Africa would be escaping 
out of Africa. I would never work for the white man. I don't think 
that will be fair and it is cruel for white people to treat blacks 
as dogs and walk all over them and spit on them. I wish it would 
be other way around when the blacks walked all over the white 
people and spit on them and make them work.

*If there were some people trying to take me as a slave I would 
get a boat and go to a far away country where they could not find 
me. I wouldn't want them to take me as a slave and they wouldn't 
want me to take them as a slave.

*I would be very very angry at the people who took me there which 
is the white man. I would make shore that my children and my 
grandchildren would not have to go threw what I had to go threw 
wich was slavery. I would make shore my children would be free.

*If I was in Africa in the 1500s and someone tried to make me a 
slave I would fight hard as I could to get away. Even if I died 
trying to get away. If they did get me on the boat I would try as 
hard as I could to kill those MothaFuckers. If I could they would 
have to kill my ass.

*I would not listen to them and use profanity. I would run away 
from them and take a weapon and try to defend myself. If I had to 
become a slave I would just kill myself. They would come to my 
house I would try to kill them. I would use a spear to stab him on 
the throat until they would die. If they took me then I would just 
let them kill me.

*If I was about to get taken to slavery I would throw my spear at 
the man's head. If he would fight back I would pull out my trusty 
sword and shoot them. If the swine has 3 people come to fight me, 
I know the blind guy saw it all and will tell the rest of the 
tribe.

*If they try to make me a slave I'm going to scape and I go in the 
other country or I will tell the president or governor that they 
tried to make me a slave.

*I would have tried to run away at night to a far away land so 
that I can't become a slave but if they still try to catch me I 
guess I would have a disguise and start to kill soldiers with my 
bow and arrow when the others are not looking.

*I will say bitch you better not. If you do I will kill you. Chop 
off your head.

*I would scream and holer for my mom and dad and almost die.

*If they would turn me into a slave I would scape before they got 
near me or I would die first before they catch me. I would rather 
be dead than be a slave. No guy would take me alive, nobody. If 
they turn me into a slave I will disguise myself to be a white 
men.

*I think that if I was a slave I wouldn't scape because when you 
scape you have like 80% that you are going to die. So when you are 
a slave you have where to sleep once you get to eat.

*But for another part, I would try to escape because being a slave 
you don't have a life. The people just use you.

*In my part of me I think that that was wrong to treat slaves like 
they did. I think that when a female slave had a kid, the kid 
would turn out to be a slave too. So that would never stop. That's 
why they had alot of maids.

*I think that when people talk about Africa they shouldn't get mad 
because some people want to know more about Africa. Nobody makes 
fun of them because there black.

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