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February 15, 2004, Nº 314 The Official Newsletter of the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)

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On January 26 2005, 31 U.$. troops

died in a helicopter crash in Iraq and
insurgents killed another 6 Marines for
the bloodiest day of the land war for the
U.$. side. CNN ran an unscientific poll
of 60,000 website users that MIM found
very interesting: 9% of website users said
they would be willing to sacrifice their
lives to establish "democracy" in Iraq.

First of all, MIM is also interested in

this question of the altruist minority--in
this case willing to die so that the country
can have cheap oil. Often times we are
told that communism is unrealistic
"because people are selfish."

MIM agrees that people are selfish and

that is why they are some day going to
put down U.$. imperialism at the source.
The world's people are going to realize
that Bu$h has no right to risk their lives in
endless wars for contractor profits and
counter-productive efforts against
"terror." Selfishly, but with the best
intentions for the species, the world's
oppressed and exploited are going to
establish the joint dictatorship of the
proletariat of the oppressed nations over
u.$. imperialism and its allies, thanks
above all to the efforts of rulers such as
Bu$h.

Nonetheless, the 9% is an interesting

figure. It's about what MIM thinks is
possible for a communist party in most
countries, (probably not the U$A just yet),
not a communist society. That's the big
mistake at this stage in our movement.
Finding a society of 100% altruists is
indeed impossible in the industrial world,
but finding 9% is fairly probable. The other
91% should take notice of what it means
and not assume that everybody is like
they are.

Nine percent or even two percent is

not nothing. Much can be done with that
number of people and that is crucial to
species-survival.

MIM has plans that the altruist minority

serve in responsible positions in society.

Iraq: Altruism worth pondering

February 5, 2005

The governor of Colorado and the

craven leadership of the University of

Colorado have whipped up a bureaucratic

witch-hunt against a tenured professor

named Ward Churchill. This has come

as no surprise to MIM, because Ward

Churchill had badly hurt the u.$.

imperialists with his past books on

government documents related to FBI

repression of the American Indian

Movement and the Black Panther Party.

The new furor damages further an

already government-financed academic

institution--the University of Colorado

and all similar state schools. The witch-

hunt also fits the federal government's

priorities--to blame someone else for its

failures. Ward Churchill is a professor

without state power who never had a

chance to run the U.S. government and

prevent 911. In fact, Ward Churchill and

all advanced people like him suffer the

frustrating risk of living in a country that

allows its government to go to war after

war. Unlike the vast majority who turn a

blind eye and then claim shock when the

war hits home, Ward Churchill knew what

was going on and continued to live in a

country that risked his and others' lives.

Now happily ignorant yokels are asking

for Ward Churchill to lose his tenured post

at the University of Colorado--instead

It's enough people to run a government
with a leadership principle that means the
death penalty for those who are corrupt
or inept. It means that until the world gets
to a safer and more harmonious place,
we can choose our leaders on the basis
of who is willing to bear a heavy burden
of risk for failure instead of picking our
leaders based on campaign contributions
and baby-kissing photo opportunities.

Secondly, the CNN poll is of interest

for a general rebuttal of individualism, the
ideology behind Liberalism--the "war of
all against all." Going back a million years,
humyns always had a survival advantage
because at least some individuals were
altruists and not focused on saving their
own lives or even just those of their mates
and offspring. The formation of tribes and
the idea of sentry duty was a step along
those lines hard to imagine if the world is
really "all against all." One might
speculate that gay sexual behavior
survived over a million years because it
is an advantage in evolutionary struggle
against other species: it guaranteed that
there were always some people not
focussed on their own offspring. Groups
without that minority had a disadvantage
in putting up a united physical effort for

Continued on page 3...

The world's people are going to

realize that Bu$h has no right to

risk their lives in endless wars for

contractor profits and counter-

productive efforts against `terror.'

defense.

Finally, and relevant to the war in Iraq,

9% is important because it shows there's
a limit to the U.$. war effort globally. It
means there are less than 30 million people
in the united $tates ready to die. When
we subtract out the portion that is really
too young or old to fight, we get a better
picture. When we consider that some of
that 30 million also will not believe
establishing democracy in Iraq by U.$.
force is possible in the real world, the
number is less than 30 million.

Right now there are 150,000 troops in

Iraq, a lot less than 30 million. Many of
those 30 million will be the wrong age to
serve in the military and won't have to
because they're done with their service.
Others won't have the proper physical
condition or education to serve under
current regulations.

Still the 9% says that a draft should not

be necessary at least in theory. The land-
based forces and reserves are having
trouble recruiting, but u.$. imperialism
does have more back-up forces possible.
On the other hand, in a battle that rachets
up internationally, there is no way the u.$.
imperialists can win. The more intense it
gets, the worse for the imperialists.

15 years later, Soviet dissidents'

record a shambles

Continued on page 8...

As 2004 drew to a close, we

celebrated the 125th birthday of Stalin on

December 21,

but we can

also look at the

15 year record

of Russian

Liberalism in

power. In

1989, the

critics of Stalin

and the Soviet

Union finally won open victory with the

dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In 2000, Soviet-era dissident Alexander

Solzhenitsyn deigned to meet with Russian

President Putin for three hours.(1)

Meanwhile, polls show that 21% of

Russians consider Stalin to have been a

"wise leader,"(2) while a larger portion

has an overall positive view of Stalin. The

Russian people are chewing on this issue

somewhat as evidenced by various polls

THANK YOU

WARD

CHURCHILL

Backward lynch

mob blames the

messenger on 911

MIM Notes 314 · February 15, 2004 · 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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The courageous judge in Massachusetts

who said gays are the same as everyone

else and deserve the right to marry has

triggered global repercussions that include

Bu$h's re-election but also many

activities outside the united $tates. MIM

picks up on some conversations that

Amerikans may not hear much.

MIM's biggest criticism of Stalin--one

that makes us doubt if he were even a

communist--is that he did not lead his

people correctly on the gay question. To

this day, the ex-Soviet proletariat is an

easy sucker for anti-gay chauvinism used

by the bourgeoisie to divide the proletariat

on non- principal leisure-time questions.

That is why the Russian Maoist Party has

had to tackle this question with

aggressiveness to the point of

provocation.

The proof of the true nature of the gay

political question is available today in how

successful professional politician Putin

handled Ukraine's election for president.

Yes, it was an important foreign policy

question for the world, the election in

Ukraine and it is in that important moment

we see the role that the gay question plays

in the proletariat of the ex-Soviet Union

but also many other places.

In an effort to campaign against

Yuschenko, Putin held a press

conference. He correctly derided a Texas

judge which ordered that Putin not

disband a Russian oil company named

Yukos that did not pay its taxes. Putin

was right that it was typical Amerikan

arrogance.

Putin also derided the forces involved

in the so-called "Orange Revolution." So

then in the midst of such important

subjects and taking a cue from Bu$h no

doubt, he took a shot at the side he was

opposing in Ukraine's election by asking

whether a gay revolution would be next.

The Yuschenko forces fired back even

in English, and without the context. They

said that Yanukovych was also carrying

out the "Blue Revolution."(1)

Not satisfied with his gay-baiting on

national television, Putin's lawyers also

went to court. A critic had called Putin

gay. The defense lawyer had to say it

should not be considered an insult.(2)

While successful politician Putin knows

how to push the buttons, we can be sure

that among the proletariat the gay question

screams even louder or Putin would not

be pushing the buttons. A Latvian poster

linked to by the unofficial "National

Bolshevik" (Nazbol) website of the

Russian fascists limonka.net shows a

firing squad saying, "we don't care which

one is the gay pedophile."(3) The same

website limonka.net links to the official

nazbol party website that advocates

Hitler's "final solution" for the Chechens,

which means eliminating them all through

slaughter.(4)

At the moment, there is a lead article

in a December issue of a well-read paper

of the Russian/English-speaking literati

featured right above an article by the

fascist Limonov. The article sports a

mockery of the Black Panther

Program,(5) with the same picture MIM

uses, with no less than two of the ten points

bashing gays in order to get at Putin,

including the first point in the program.

Though Putin be imperialist enemy, it is

shooting ourselves in the foot to take him

down with gay-baiting.

The exile.ru article reeks of an FBI

connection, because the FBI also

historically forged documents showing

Huey Newton to be gay in order to

attempt to split the BPP. Having seen that

move, Huey Newton moved quickly to

champion gay rights and he was right.

We cannot give the enemy any crease to

get through. At the very least, the exile.ru

mockery of the BPP program plays 100%

into FBI hands.

The comfortable people of Leningrad

and Moscow can make jokes like these

as if the gay question were worth dividing

over. They give not much thought to the

people of Russia's hinterland, susceptible

to such demagoguery but needing

proletarian economic leadership.

Meanwhile, Nelson Mandela admitted

his last surviving son Makgatho Mandela

died of AIDS at age 54. Previously, "in

1996, one of Zimbabwe's foremost and

revered son of the struggle, Dr Nkomo

revealed that his son Earnest Thuthani

aged 41, had died of Aids." (6) In some

ways, the death of a ruler's son by AIDS

is more revealing than the death of a poor

persyn. In cases of poverty we are sure

a lack of health-care was the problem.

For rulers, the question could be something

else.

It has been common African opinion

that only gays get AIDS. The denial of

heterosexual or blood transmission is

adamant among common and even

educated people. In Africa, the warping

effect of anti-gay chauvinism and male

supremacy on sexual questions (such as

condom use and promiscuity) is causing

millions to lose their lives --another

reason sex education is a life-and-death

question not to be left to parents or

ignorant religious organizations. The

Catholic Church in Mandela's South

Africa chose this moment to object to

condom use.(7) For that alone, a Bishop

would be shot under the dictatorship of

the proletariat.

Decent people anywhere with any

sense would refuse to bash gays solely

on the basis of the influence of anti-gay

chauvinism in Africa in causing so many

deaths. It's another case where fear

leads to ignorance of a fatal kind for the

proletariat. This is no good for our anti-

imperialist struggle --to have our side die

off because of bourgeois scapegoating.

It's no better than dying off because

corporations sold us cigarettes.

The global funding for the tsunami relief

reached the same level as the total global

funding for all international AIDS, malaria

and TB campaigns according to the

UN.(8) Yet at the moment, 4.1 million

Africans are dying just from AIDS, with

6500 deaths every day.

The gay question does successfully

Gay rights question heats up globally

Continued on page 4...

MIM Notes 314 · February 15, 2004 · Page 3

of asking for the resignation of the many

government officials with documented

ties to Al-Qaeda including arms and

finance ties. They wonder what right

Churchill has to question all the risks that

governments not of Ward Churchill's

choosing heaped on him.

We ask Ward Churchill not to back

down. He should fight this thing to the

end, no matter how lop-sided and stupid

the media may seem. He should not resign

his post. Quite the contrary, the people

who should resign are the ones who

formed the committee to investigate him.

If a poll could be found revealing that a

majority of the u.$. public knows anything

about the wars the united $tates conducts

around the world, including those relevant

to 911, then, just maybe, an argument

could start. As it stands, Ward Churchill's

opponents barely deserve his reply.

The comparison of Amerikans to Nazis

is even more apt than Ward Churchill has

said, because the u.$. public knows and

admits that the Nazis were engaged in a

massive war. When engaged in a war and

when fully dealing with that reality, a public

does not demonstrate the shock so

widespread in Amerika after 911. Shock

is really proof of ignorance or a level of

consciousness choosing to be uninformed.

No one was shocked that the Nazi

movement that lived by the sword died

by the sword. Anyone who knew about

u.$. wars around the globe should not

have been shocked by retaliation. People

who were not paying attention to

international wars and politics before 911

like Ward Churchill was have no right to

judge him now. It's not possible to have it

both ways. People who want to stay

uninformed should not claim to know

what is right and cast stones at Ward

Churchill.

January 31, 2005

THANK YOU WARD CHURCHILL

Continued from page 1...

statement from Ward

Churchill

h t t p : / / w w w . c o l o r a d o . e d u /

E t h n i c S t u d i e s / p r e s s _ r e l e a s e s /

ward_churchill_013105.html

In the last few days there has been

widespread and grossly inaccurate media

coverage concerning my analysis of the

September 11, 2001 attacks on the World

Trade Center and the Pentagon,

coverage that has resulted in defamation

of my character and threats against my

life. What I actually said has been lost,

indeed turned into the opposite of itself,

and I hope the following facts will be

reported at least to the same extent that

the fabrications have been.

* The piece circulating on the internet

was developed into a book, On the Justice

of Roosting Chickens. Most of the book

is a detailed chronology of U.S. military

interventions since 1776 and U.S.

violations of international law since World

War II. My point is that we cannot allow

the U.S. government, acting in our name,

to engage in massive violations of

international law and fundamental human

rights and not expect to reap the

consequences.

* I am not a "defender"of the

September 11 attacks, but simply pointing

out that if U.S. foreign policy results in

massive death and destruction abroad,

we cannot feign innocence when some

of that destruction is returned. I have

never said that people "should" engage

in armed attacks on the United States ,

but that such attacks are a natural and

unavoidable consequence of unlawful

U.S. policy. As Martin Luther King,

quoting Robert F. Kennedy, said, "Those

who make peaceful change impossible

make violent change inevitable."

* This is not to say that I advocate

violence; as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam I

witnessed and participated in more

violence than I ever wish to see. What I

am saying is that if we want an end to

violence, especially that perpetrated

against civilians, we must take the

responsibility for halting the slaughter

perpetrated by the United States around

the world. My feelings are reflected in

Dr. King's April 1967 Riverside speech,

where, when asked about the wave of

urban rebellions in U.S. cities, he said, "I

could never again raise my voice against

the violence of the oppressed . . . without

having first spoken clearly to the greatest

purveyor of violence in the world today

my own government."

* In 1996 Madeleine Albright, then

Ambassador to the UN and soon to be

U.S. Secretary of State, did not dispute

that 500,000 Iraqi children had died as a

result of economic sanctions, but stated

on national television that "we" had

decided it was "worth the cost." I mourn

the victims of the September 11 attacks,

just as I mourn the deaths of those Iraqi

children, the more than 3 million people

killed in the war in Indochina, those who

died in the U.S. invasions of Grenada,

Panama and elsewhere in Central

America, the victims of the transatlantic

slave trade, and the indigenous peoples

still subjected to genocidal policies. If we

respond with callous disregard to the

deaths of others, we can only expect equal

callousness to American deaths.

* Finally, I have never characterized all

the September 11 victims as "Nazis."

What I said was that the "technocrats of

empire" working in the World Trade

Center were the equivalent of "little

Eichmanns." Adolf Eichmann was not

charged with direct killing but with

ensuring the smooth running of the

infrastructure that enabled the Nazi

genocide. Similarly, German industrialists

were legitimately targeted by the Allies.

* It is not disputed that the Pentagon

was a military target, or that a CIA office

was situated in the World Trade Center .

Following the logic by which U.S. Defense

Department spokespersons have

consistently sought to justify target

selection in places like Baghdad , this

placement of an element of the American

"command and control infrastructure" in

an ostensibly civilian facility converted the

Trade Center itself into a "legitimate"

target. Again following U.S. military

doctrine, as announced in briefing after

briefing, those who did not work for the

CIA but were nonetheless killed in the

attack amounted to "collateral damage."

If the U.S. public is prepared to accept

these "standards" when the are routinely

applied to other people, they should be

not be surprised when the same standards

are applied to them.

* It should be emphasized that I applied

the "little Eichmanns" characterization

only to those described as "technicians."

Thus, it was obviously not directed to the

children, janitors, food service workers,

firemen and random passers-by killed in

the 9-1-1 attack. According to Pentagon

logic, were simply part of the collateral

damage. Ugly? Yes. Hurtful? Yes. And

that's my point. It's no less ugly, painful

or dehumanizing a description when

applied to Iraqis, Palestinians, or anyone

else. If we ourselves do not want to be

treated in this fashion, we must refuse to

allow others to be similarly devalued and

dehumanized in our name.

* The bottom line of my argument is

that the best and perhaps only way to

prevent 9-1-1-style attacks on the U.S.

is for American citizens to compel their

government to comply with the rule of

law. The lesson of Nuremberg is that this

is not only our right, but our obligation. To

the extent we shirk this responsibility, we,

like the "Good Germans" of the 1930s

and '40s, are complicit in its actions and

have no legitimate basis for complaint

when we suffer the consequences. This,

of course, includes me, personally, as well

as my family, no less than anyone else.

* These points are clearly stated and

documented in my book, On the Justice

of Roosting Chickens , which recently

won Honorary Mention for the Gustavus

Myer Human Rights Award. for best

writing on human rights. Some people will,

of course, disagree with my analysis, but

it presents questions that must be

addressed in academic and public debate

if we are to find a real solution to the

violence that pervades today's world. The

gross distortions of what I actually said

can only be viewed as an attempt to

distract the public from the real issues at

hand and to further stifle freedom of

speech and academic debate in this

country.

These are the views of Ward Churchill,

not the University of Colorado.

by Mousnonya

Rosa Suarez, an Aztlan national living

on her ancestral homeland within the

illegal borders of Amerika lost her son to

human sacrifice: namely, her son was

eaten by the imperialist war machine. But

his death wearing the uniform of the

oppressor is not in vain. Ms. Suarez has

learned the vital anti-imperialist lesson.

She does not hate those who killed her

son. In proletarian unity she is telling all

who will listen to stop the killing and end

the war. Ms. Suarez recently led a

delegation with humanitarian aid for Iraqi

refugees to Jordan.

MIM regrets each and every

unnecessary death that the imperialists

stick us with. Mao taught us that some

deaths are meaningful and others are

meaningless. The death of Ms. Suarez's

son would ordinarily be meaningless for

he was serving the imperialist cause, the

forces of reaction, ignorance, hatred and

death. But the courage and love of his

mother who learned the bitterest of

lessons, shines out as an example to us

all. We extend our hands and hearts in

proletarian sympathy to Ms. Suarez and

all who understand that they were on the

wrong side and come over to the

proletarian camp. Stop the imperialist

machine of death before it kills someone

you love too.

Source: "US Families of Dead Raise

600,000 Dollars for Fallujah Refugees,"

AFP Dec 23, 2004

Note: http://story.news.yahoo.com/

news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&e=10&u=/

a f p / 2 0 0 4 1 2 2 3 / t s _ a l t _ a f p /

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Mother of dead soldier loves Iraqi people

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divide proletarian ranks, which shows that

the proletariat is not ready to rule. We

will be able to tell if we have reached a

critical mass of proletarian leaders when

we can convince the proletariat

somewhere to put aside this question

through solidarity.

It is the duty of the communists to use

the gay question to teach the difference

Gay rights question heats up globally

Continued from page 2...

between science and religion and

between Liberalism/fascism on the one

hand and proletarian science on the other.

We need a fighting unity of heterosexuals

and gays/lesbians.

Notes:

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howJournal?moduleId=88592¤tPage=2&creatorId=

15932

2. http://www.chechentimes.org/ru/

press/?id=25069

3. http://dvinsk.front.ru/art.htm

4. http://nbp-info.ru/new/lib/nbpinfo3/

05.html http://www.nbp-info.org/library/

nbp-info_3/Section_IV.htm

5. http://www.exile.ru/2004-

December-10/

huey_v_putins_ten_point_plan_for_the_russian_people.html

6. http://allafrica.com/stories/

200501250032.html

7. http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/

Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5494196

8. http://www.ipsnews.net/

new_nota.asp?idnews=27187 ;