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n October 13th, U.N. Secretary-

General Kofi Annan condemned

the bombing in Bali that killed

at least 180 people, mostly young

Australian tourists out partying in two

nightclubs. Annan expressed his "utter

condemnation" of all indiscriminate

attacks on civilians, saying they "cannot

be justified by any cause or ideology."(1)

Kofi Annan is a good example of a

persyn in political limbo--the head of the

United Nations, notable but without mili-

tary power of his own. The United Na-

tions has served as a figleaf for terrorism

and has attacked it at other times, but it

does not have its own forces. Hence, for

Kofi Annan to condemn terrorism, there

is at least a case to be made that he is not

a hypocrite or that if he is a hypocrite, he

is so from ignorance or by mistake.

When it comes to the united $tates,

however, hypocrisy abounds. President

George Bush said, "We must together

Glass houses and throwing stones

Who has the right to condemn terrorism?

BUSH: `We

must

together

challenge

and defeat

the idea

that the

wanton killing

of innocents

advances any

cause or

supports any

aspirations.'

MIM:

`No

one has

killed more

unarmed

civilian

innocents

in the

years since

World War II

than the

U.$.A.'

challenge and defeat the idea that the

wanton killing of innocents advances any

cause or supports any aspirations."(2)

No organization has killed more

unarmed civilian innocents in the last

year, the last decade or the years since

World War II than the U.$. government.

Ask the surviving civilians of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki and re-read that sentence

from Bush above. Ask the "Secretary of

Defense" Robert McNamara who

admitted that the united $tates killed 3.8

million Vietnamese in the Vietnam War,

including the aerial bombing of

civilians.(3) That's why at MIM, where

our members come mostly from

imperialist countries carrying out

massive terrorism, we do not believe we

have the right to condemn other people's

"terrorism." If MIM had succeeded in

wiping out Amerikkkan and other major

imperialist terrorism, MIM could set

UMYN

RIGHTS

VIOLATIONS

AGAINST

ALESTINIANS

ARE

STAGGERING

y mid-October, MIM, SLALA

and RAIL comrades had

collected more than 830

signatures supporting our demands that

the University of California divest from

apartheid Israel. In Los Angeles, SLALA

and RAIL have made a strong start to the

school year. They have made our

demands known and generated some

controversy on the UCLA campus(1)

October 23, 2002

hilippine Professor Jose Maria

Sison has a long history of

activism on behalf of the ex-

ploited and oppressed and against U.$.

imperialism. He helped found the

Kabataan Makabayan (Patriotic Youth)

in 1964 and led some of the first protests

against Amerikan intervention in Viet-

nam--of particular relevance as the

United $tates used the Philippines as a

staging area for aggression in Southeast

Asia.

Sison went on to found the Communist

Party of the Philippines on December 26,

1968, the New People's Army on March

29, 1969 and the National Democratic

Front of the Philippines on April 24,

1973. He was captured by the Marcos

fascist regime on November 10, 1977 and

stayed in prison until he was released on

March 5, l986 soon after the fall of

Marcos. He rejoined the faculty of the

University of the Philippines. Then, he

left for abroad for a global university

lecture tour from September 1, 1986 to

Interview with Prof.

Jose Maria Sison

1988. He applied for political asylum in

The Netherlands on October 18, 1988

after the Aquino regime canceled his

Philippine passport.

QUESTION: The U.$. government

declared you to be a "terrorist" on August

12 and asked other governments to freeze

MIM builds momentum for

UC Divestment from Israel

with regular tabling and literature

distribution, and collecting more

signatures week by week. The University

of California has at least $1.4 billion

invested in companies that provide arms

and military technology to Israel.

MIM is not the only organization rais-

ing the demand that U.$. universities

withdraw their investments in Israel. At

the University of Texas, students have

collected between 500 and 700 signa-

tures asking their school to divest from

Israel and Wayne State University stu-

dents in Detroit have 50 to 70 signatures

on a similar petition. Harvard students

are targeting their university's $615 mil-

lion in investments, and students at the

Universities

of Michigan

and Texas

have learned

that their

schools invest

at least $155

million and

$90 million

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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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San Ysidro, California

19 October

A crowd of several hundred, mostly

young members of MEChA (Movimiento

Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan), gath-

ered on the U.$.-Mexico border today to

say "No!" to Operation Gatekeeper. Op-

eration Gatekeeper is the U.$. Immigra-

tion and Naturalization Service's brutal

military blockade along the border be-

tween California and Mexico. This pro-

gram and others like it in other south-

western states have killed over 3,000

people since 1993. Most died of dehy-

dration and exposure as they tried to

avoid border agents by crossing through

remote desert regions.

MIM and SLALA (Studies for the Lib-

eration of Aztlan and Latin America)

members attended the rally. They col-

lected several score signatures on a peti-

tion to the INS to end Operation

Gatekeeper and passed out MIM Notes.

They also collected signatures on a peti-

tion asking the Dutch government to re-

move Philippine Prof. Jose Maria Sison

from its list of "terrorists" and restore the

social benefits guaranteed him as a po-

litical refugee.

Although the issue of democratic rights

for political refugees was only tangen-

tially related to the focus of the rally, most

people readily signed the Sison petition.

A few even finished our pitch for us.

"Right, sure, if he gets deported as threat-

ened, he could be tried by one of these

military tribunals. I hate those things,

man. Of course I'll sign."

A few however refused to sign. At least

one admitted he would not sign because

MIM was circulating the petition. The

only way this could not be considered

sectarianism would be if this persyn or

his organization (if any) were also strug-

gling on behalf of Prof. Sison. This par-

ticular individual did not show much in-

terest in the content of the petition or

Prof. Sison's case.

October 6, 2002

MIM and RAIL joined several hundred

people in protest of Bush's push for war

against Iraq. The rally started in Copley

Square and marched through fancy shop-

ping districts and tourist areas. The pro-

test was organized by "Justice with

Peace" and was in solidarity with the

actions in other major cities like New

York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Many of the marchers were older (very

few were young students) peace activ-

ists who've undoubtedly protested many

wars over the years.

In contrast to other protests which also

demanded an end to detentions and

roundups of immigrants, the war on Iraq

was the sole focus of the Boston protest.

Some of the signs said things like: "We

gave Saddam his toys and now we want

to take them back" and "George Bush is

a Ridiculous Embarrassment". The

marchers alternated between chanting

"Drop Bush, Not Bombs" and "No At-

tack on Iraq". A few of the marchers held

Amerikan flags and held signs that said

that a preemptive strike against Iraq

would be "un-Amerikan". We say that it

would be totally in line with Amerikan

imperialism and Bush's war- mongering

agenda.

The crowd grew along the two-mile

walk, and many onlookers flashed peace

signs, honked their horns in agreement,

cheered and clapped, and thanked the

marchers for being a voice against the

war. Most people at the rally took a copy

of MIM Notes. The majority of onlook-

ers watched in silence. RAIL and MIM

were surprised more passersby didn't

express hostility toward the marchers.

One man screamed from the open win-

dow of his SUV to "get the fuck out of

here!" Another woman near the touristy

Granary Burying Ground, where Paul

Revere and signers of the Declaration of

Independence are buried, complained

that the march was interfering with her

sightseeing.

The latter complaint is typical of

Amerikans, who, along the same line of

reasoning, might say something such as,

"I'm for peace and justice, as long as at-

taining them doesn't inconvenience me."

Many Amerikans do not object to the

murder and torture perpetrated by their

government precisely because these gov-

ernment actions ensure Amerikans can

continue living their lives of conve-

nience.

MIM and RAIL ask all those who are

willing to sacrifice comfort and conve-

nience to work for revolutionary justice

to contact us. Oppose the unjust imperi-

alist war against Iraq!

Students denounce `Gatekeeper'

Support campaign in support of Prof. Joma Sison's democratic rights

Boston march against war

on Iraq draws hundreds

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 3

MIM Notes has seen a big spike in

circulation since the "war on
terrorism" began. It's not surprising:
MIM Notes is a free and independent

newspaper. Yes, there are especially
now knee-jerk patriots who believe
everything Bush says and pass by a

chance to read MIM Notes. There are
other patriots and internationalists
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Washington DC,

6 October 2002

Well over 100,000 people converged

here to denounce the U.$. drive for war

on Iraq. Another 80,000 marched in San

Francisco. These rallies drew numbers

rarely seen in recent years for an objec-

tively anti-imperialist demand. There

were similar actions in Rome, Berlin,

Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Mexico City.

Speakers at the Washington rally hit

many of the same points MIM Notes has

been making in opposition to this war.

Veterans for Peace had a particularly

clear perspective on the issues. One vet-

eran acknowledged that war on Iraq

would only bring more attacks on U$ soil

and citizens. He also mentioned the ef-

fects on the estimated 200,000 to 500,000

Amerikans who would fight the war,

pointing to the 150,000 gulf war veter-

ans who are now on disability.

Bush's proposed war is not in the in-

terests of the Amerikan people in the

sense that it will only heighten the risk

for future wars, including more Septem-

ber 11-style attacks and possibly nuclear

war touched off by Middle East tensions.

As MIM Notes goes to press it is still not

clear whether the United $tates can win

Russia's support for a war on Iraq, or

whether Russia will back Iraq militarily.

Russia has business contracts with Iraq

worth tens of billions of dollars and wor-

ries that a post-war regime would flood

the oil market, driving down prices for

Russia's oil exports.

However, in another sense, "the

Amerikan way of life" needs this war

exactly because it needs that cheap oil.

Most people at the rally recognized this.

To claim otherwise--for example, to

opportunistically claim that the war "is

a Trojan Horse to attack the labor move-

ment"--is a slap in the face to the thou-

sands of Iraqis who die as a result of

sanctions every year, and the many thou-

sands more who will suffer the loss of

their own life, their mother's, brother's,

friend's etc. if there is a war.

While the Washington rally remained

tame, police repression was evident.

Freedom of speech was limited to the

"protestor pen" as is so common in ral-

lies in this country where a permit must

be obtained to speak one's mind. A RAIL

comrade was prevented from walking in

certain areas around the Vietnam War

memorial merely for having a stack of

fliers in hand. Meanwhile a law barring

people from covering their faces in pro-

test areas makes surveillance easier for

the pigs and keeps protestors from mak-

ing their points creatively via masks etc.

At the rally in San Francisco the crowd

cheered Senator Barbara Boxer the loud-

est, with chants of "Barbara, Barbara..."

A democrat, Boxer voted against the

resolution to give Bush war powers in Oc-

tober. She was introduced with a call for

people to ensure she is re-elected. Boxer

spoke about the significance of the sena-

tors and represetatives who voted against

the resolution to give Bush war powers

and she called for people to enact a

change in Washington, apparently by

electing more Democrats.

Her popularity as a speaker demon-

strates the general political position of the

majority of the crowd opposing the war

on Iraq. The call to elect more democrats

to office is far from anti-imperialist and

naïve even from a bourgeois vote-count-

ing perspective. The majority of demo-

crats approved Bush's war powers. The

Democratic party just represents a differ-

ent brand of imperialism where it is OK

to murder thousands of Iraqis every

month through sanctions, or even to at-

tack Iraq in pretend defense of Kuwait--

as long as these attacks are couched in

prettier words.

MIM supports allying with opponents

to the war in Iraq. But the mass support

for Boxer demonstrates the need for a

revolutionary voice at these rallies. MIM

activists, along with RAIL, distributed

hundreds of copies of MIM Notes and

talked to many people about the real

problem behind the war on Iraq:

Amerikan imperialism. We drew connec-

tions to the war on Palestine with our

petition for the University of California

schools to divest from Palestine. And we

struggled with those trying to opportu-

nistically tie the rally to demands of

Amerikan workers, pointing out that the

labor aristocracy in this country enjoys

such high wages at the expense of the

Iraqi people, among others.

Hundreds of thousands attend anti-war rallies

around the world

7 October 2002

Activists protested Governor Gray

Davis' prison policies outside his fund

raiser dinner at the San Francisco LGBT

Community Center tonight. California

prisons are notorious for their brutality

and lack of needed services. Rather than

addressing this problem, Davis budgeted

a 34% raise for California state prison

guards, receiving in return $251,000 from

the prison guard union for his campaign.

He also authorized a 25% pay raise for

the California Highway Patrol in ex-

change for $100,000 from the cops.(1)

In addition Davis habitually reverses

parole for lifers. Since January of 1999

140 people convicted of murder were rec-

ommended for parole and sent to Davis

for review. He approved only 2, revers-

ing parole for 127 and sending 11 to the

Board of Prison Terms for review.(2) This

is just one more way of keeping more

people locked up longer.

Attempting to play the friend of the

queer community, Davis obviously wants

to win the liberal vote. But even the Cen-

ter where he spoke, a recently opened

multi-million dollar facility, issued a writ-

ten statement expressing "extreme dis-

may" at Davis' veto of a foster care bill

that would have prohibited discrimination

against gay foster youth and parents.

The demonstration included a number

of Green party supporters carrying signs

promoting their candidate, Peter Camejo,

for governor. For MIM this is not just a

question of having a better candidate in

the position of governor. It is a problem

with the entire criminal injustice system,

and even larger, with imperialism as a

whole. MIM does not want to mislead

people in battles that cannot be won, to

get a candidate who truly opposes impe-

rialism into positions of power within

imperialism. But while we are stuck

within this system we do fight for win-

nable reforms. A MIM activist attending

the rally collected postcard signatures to

oppose censorship of political literature

in prison. The 30 postcards collected will

all be sent to Limestone Correctional

Facility in Alabama where they recently

issued a prison-wide ban on any litera-

ture sent by MIM.

We unite with the organizers of the pro-

test in demanding an end to the death

penalty in California, overturning of the

three strikes law, parole for lifers, an end

to prison construction, healthcare, and

money for education not prison guard

salaries. MIM is fighting for these rights

and more with prisoners across the coun-

try. To get involved in these campaigns

check out: http://www.etext.info/Politics/

MIM/agitation/prisons.

Notes:
1. Green Party flyer.
2. California Coalition for Battered Women in
Prison flyer (www.freebatterredwomen.org)

California queers protest Davis' prison state

The Boston rally.

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 4

Who has the right to condemn terrorism?

about judging Al-Qaeda or any

organization that is or is not allegedly

independent of the u.$. government.

Instead, from what we can see, Al-

Qaeda is composed of people from

nations suffering civilian deaths

especially at the hands of the united

$tates and its i$raeli puppet regime. We

cannot be surprised that predominantly

Islamic nations of the Third World strike

back in kind: Osama Bin Laden learned

everything he knows from the CIA and

obtained weapons from the same place

while fighting for the CIA against the

social-imperialist Soviet Union in

Afghanistan in the 1980s. There is no

chance for world peace with any ideology

that does not take this scientific fact into

account: the oppressed strike back. What

goes around comes around.

MIM does not include the president of

the united $tates amongst its members as

people will tell us, so why should we take

responsibility for Uncle $cam's

terrorism? Precisely because the battle

against terrorism is every civilian's duty,

we MIM comrades do take responsibility

for Uncle $cam, and also the Kanadian

government, the British government, the

French--in short most of imperialism--

because that's where our members--

civilians--are based. There is no one else

to take responsibility for it: surely we

cannot expect the government terrorists

to take responsibility for their own

terrorism.

These imperialisms also claim to be

"democratic," so that there is a link of

some kind between the civilians and their

terrorist governments. In fact, no terrorist

government can survive without support

from its citizens.

Some people we should think about

include First Nations in North America.

The people of some of the First Nations

may claim the right to condemn

terrorism, if some of their own

governments have not been carrying out

terrorism. There are also undocumented

workers inside U.$. borders, many of

whom speak Spanish and not English and

have no right to vote: some of these really

cannot be blamed for u.$. government

terrorism. The rest of the people are

generally a different story.

When citizens are sure their own

government is not carrying out terrorism

abroad, they gain the right to condemn

other peoples' terrorism without

hypocrisy. Otherwise, what happens is

that one nation's people ends up accusing

another of "terrorism." "Terrorism"

becomes a convenient type of name-

calling used by opportunists simply to

refer to "the other guy." When right-wing

citizens criticize other countries'

terrorism, while supporting their own, it

is called "patriotism," which is correctly

known as the "last refuge of a scoundrel."

When citizens using socialist rhetoric

accuse other nations of terrorism without

bringing down their own terrorist

governments, they are guilty of "social-

patriotism." Social-patriots will pay lip-

service to ending oppression, but their

weak criticisms are intentionally limited

and ineffective, while their criticisms of

other peoples' terrorism will have real

murderous, war-mongering impact.

Unfortunately, in the imperialist

countries, MIM is nearly alone as an

organization opposing both patriotism

and social-patriotism.

The U.$. government knows that

Filipino Joma Sison has not attacked any

U.$. civilians. In fact, he has been in

prison and exile, but the u.$. government

is trying to distract attention from its own

terrorist record, so it has recently labeled

Sison a "terrorist."

Colin Powell's statement on this is so

obviously criminal that we include it here

in its entirety for the public to evaluate

(see sidebar). People will notice that in

the entire statement there is no mention

of any unarmed civilian killed--not even

in "collateral damage," the kind of which

Powell himself partook in in the Gulf

War. The purpose of Powell's statement

is to label anyone the united $tates

disagrees with most a "terrorist." Before

the United $tates goes and calls Sison

"terrorist," it better pay reparations to the

Philippines for the more than 1 million

unarmed civilians it slaughtered in the

Philippines from 1899 to 1914. The U.$.

military has admitted and documented

that anyone over age 10 in the Philippines

was to die: "American soldiers killed

`men, women and children, prisoners and

captives, active insurgents and suspected

people, from lads of ten and up, an idea

prevailing that the Filipino . . . was little

better than a dog.'"(5) Readers should

understand that we just quoted a U.S.

military source and there are many more

for those really interested in fighting

terrorism.

What is true in the Philippines is true

in the rest of the world. Dig a little deeper

and you will find that in most cases the

U.S. Government is the number one

terrorist. Dutiful extension of the U.S.

Government CNN reported on the

October 12th nightclub bombings in Bali

that "The blasts were `the worst act of

terrorism in the country's history,'

according to Indonesian police Chief

Da'e Bakhtiar."(6)

Given CNN's poor reporting record,

we at MIM Notes are not surprised it

thinks 180 or even 400 people could

possibly be the worst terrorist attack in

Indonesian history. After all, CNN and

other mainstream U.$. media outlets

ignored almost completely the genocide

in East Timor perpetrated with U.$.

weapons and blessings that killed over

200,000 people, more than one-quarter

of the now independent nation.

In MIM Notes 249, MIM referred to

U.S. Government documents de-

classified about East Timor on December

6th 2001. Indonesia used to consider

"East Timor" as a province: "Fully

declassified U.$. government documents

published on the Internet December 6th

[2001] show that President Gerald Ford

and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

gave the go-ahead for Indonesia's attack

on East Timor that killed over 200,000

people, over a quarter and maybe a half

of the people of East Timor."(7)

Since 1975, the United $tates has lied

about its role in East Timor. Henry

Kissinger was still denying his role as

late as quotes obtained from him in 1996

and 1999 and he did not answer a phone

call from the Washington Post about the

released documents published on the

Internet December 6th, 2001.(8) After the

genocidal invasion of 1975, Kissinger

chastised his staff for preparing a memo

on cutting off military sales to Indonesia

in line with existing U.$. law. Apparently

the staff expected that the U.$.

government would be forced to follow

its own laws about offensive weapons

use.(9) (The United $tates supplied as

much as 90 percent of Indonesia's

weapons on the condition that they only

be used for defense.(10)) Instead,

Kissinger kept the arms pipeline open.

That's not the only six digit massacre

of unarmed civilians the united $tates

actively assisted in in Indonesia. We will

not mention the massacre of communists

of the early 1960s, because this is only a

news article and it's too long already.

Smokers should condemn smoking so

their children do not smoke, hypocritical

as it may be. However, MIM has decided

no imperialist country organization has

the right to condemn "terrorism" against

imperialist country civilians. We mourn

the losses of civilians and even young

servants in the imperialist military,

because they are all sacrificial offerings

of the capitalist system, but we know they

are being attacked because of the terrorist

violence of Anglo-Saxon imperialism. As

the New York Times pointed out, the

bombers did not attack just any

Indonesian nightclub: it was one that had

predominantly European and Australian

clients, one that turned away Indonesians

at the door.(11) Unlike smoking,

condemning terrorism by "the other guy"

involves provoking other nations and

war-mongering. When MIM and the

oppressed and exploited bring down

imperialist terrorism, we will condemn

smaller imitations as well--not before

that.

Notes:
1. http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/
southeast/10/13/bali.reax/index.html
2. Ibid.
3. http://www.etext.info/Politics/MIM/bookstore/
books/asia/mcnamara.html
5. http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/
people/grimsley.1/milhis/phil.htm MIM rarely
needs to quote a communist source for anything.
6. http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/
southeast/10/13/bali.blast.missing/index.html
Article falsely titled "Hundreds missing in Bali
bombings: Indonesia's `worst act of terrorism'"
See also CNN correspondent Atika Shubert say:
"And this is by far the worst terrorist attack
Indonesia has ever seen, and it could be the
deadliest attack since September 11." http://

asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/
10/13/otsc.shubert/index.html It goes to show
how ignorant one has to be able to tolerate
working for CNN.
7. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB62/
8. Washington Post reporting on this subject,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/
articles/A5291-2001Dec6.html
9. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB62/#doc4
10. Reuters, 6 Dec 2001.
11. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/
international/14BOMB.html

Continued from page 1...

Statement by U.$.

Secretary of State

Colin Powell

August 9, 2002

Today we are taking another important

step in our continuing efforts to combat
global terrorism. I am announcing the des-
ignation of the Communist Party of the
Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/
NPA) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,
as defined under U.S. law. I made this de-
cision in consultation with the Attorney
General and the Secretary of the Treasury
after an exhaustive review of this group's
violent activities.

The CPP, a Maoist group, was founded

in 1969 with the aim of overthrowing the
Philippine government through guerilla
warfare. CPP's military wing, the New
People's Army, strongly opposes any U.S.
presence in the Philippines and has killed
U.S. citizens there. The group has also
killed, injured, or kidnapped numerous
Philippine citizens, including government
officials.

By designating the CPP/NPA as a For-

eign Terrorist Organization and publishing
that decision in the Federal Register, we
impose measures against these terrorist
groups in accordance with section 219 of
the Immigration and Nationality Act, as
amended, which was originally enacted as
part of the Antiterrorism and Effective
Death Penalty Act. This law makes it ille-
gal for persons in the United States or sub-
ject to U.S. jurisdiction to provide mate-
rial support or resources to these terrorist
groups; it requires U.S. financial institu-
tions to block assets held by them or their
agents; and it makes representatives and
members of these groups, if they are aliens,
inadmissible to and, in certain circum-
stances, removable from the United States.

With today's designation, the number of

Foreign Terrorist Organizations is now 34.
FTO designations play a critical role in our
fight against terrorism and are an effective
means of curtailing support for terrorist
activities and pressuring groups to get out
of the terrorism business. I hope this list
will draw the attention of foreign govern-
ments around the world to this group and
to the other FTOs. I also hope it will en-
courage those governments to take action,
as we have, to isolate these terrorist orga-
nizations, to choke off their sources of fi-
nancial support, and to prevent their move-
ment across international borders."

MIM Notes 270 · November 15, 2002· Page 5

Ancient writings of the Mayan civili-

zation appeared recently after a hurricane

uncovered some previously covered hi-

eroglyphics in Guatemala near Mexico.

The newly translated writings show that

there was the equivalent of a "world war"

that ruined Mayan civilization in the 8th

century.

An attack on the Mayan city of Tikal

established in 629 included a scene of

genocidal fury and skulls piled up accord-

ing to the 18 steps uncovered by the hur-

ricane.(1) Tikal struck back and it was

Calakmul's turn to suffer. The war was

so intense that authority broke down into

smaller localities and certain cities ended

up being abandoned completely.(2)

The history of the Mayans and many

other great civilizations--including those

no one knows about yet--shows that

humyns are not "rational" about their

war-fighting contrary to common apolo-

gists of the status quo. The Mayans de-

stroyed the great organization of society

and cities that they had going. Other civi-

lizations have done the same and with

such a ferocity in some cases that we do

not know of their achievements. There

is no reason for complacency about

"humyn nature" and its ability to see

through the disadvantages of war.

It is common to accuse communists of

believing in a perfect humyn nature.

Quite the contrary, it is possible that the

humyn-being is so inherently flawed that

other species from other planets deserve

this planet much more. There is no guar-

antee that the humyn-being will not com-

mit massive suicide as a species. As a

result those calling themselves "commu-

nists" and only talking about future

events in perfect circumstances of ideal

revolution are not scientific communists.

The gap between scientific communists

following Lenin, Stalin and Mao on the

one hand and idealist Trotskyists and

anarchists only gets larger with each

passing year.

What we scientific communists are

saying is that to take a flawed animal and

insert him/her in a profit-system is to

make that animal worse than s/he has to

be. Looking back on Mayan accomplish-

ments, we see that it's clear that the

Mayans themselves did not adequately

appreciate their own accomplishments

and possibilities. Rather than have con-

fidence in their evolving ways of orga-

nizing ever larger numbers of people to

work together, the Mayans settled con-

flicts through self-destructive wars.

Today the situation is even more gro-

tesque. The United $tates spends hun-

dreds of billions of dollars a year on mili-

tary preparations--more money than the

entire economy of most countries--when

the solutions to the most pressing prob-

lems of the world would cost much less.

What is more, there is plenty of slack in

the economies of the world that could be

used to put unemployed people to work

for food, clothing, shelter and other

things that make people happy.

Notes:

1. http://news.independent.co.uk/

world/americas/story.jsp?story=334858

2. AP in www.sunspot.net 29Sept2002

Mayan wars scarred whole continent

A panel of former U.$. legislators and

"security" experts concluded that the next

September 11-style attack will result in

"even greater casualties and widespread

disruption to daily life and the economy."

"The more we tighten up on external

threats, the higher the risk becomes at

home," said co-chair Gary Hart at a 25

October news conference releasing the

report. "We have to face up to that

threat."(1)

Hart is just restating a truth MIM has

emphasized since September 11: oppres-

sion breeds resistance. Attempts to break

that resistance militarily, using broad tac-

tics such as the bombing of Afghanistan

or the round up of thousands within U.$.

borders simply on the basis of their reli-

gion or apparent ethnicity, are bound only

to increase the resistance of the op-

pressed.

Hart's panel's take-home message was

not that the United $tates should work to

eliminate conflicts over resources or en-

sure that food gets to 6 million children

under the age of five who starve to death.

Rather, the panel took is as a given that

the United $tates would and should crack

down on "external threats"--that is,

make sure the United $tates has contin-

ued access to cheap oil and Amerikan

farmers keep those farm subsidies.(3)

Consequently the United $tates should

increase "security" measures around sea-

ports, energy plants and water supplies.

The panel also endorsed the proposed

Department of Homeland Security,

headed by former governor Tom "Hang

`em High" Ridge.

Such "security" measures will not pre-

vent future September 11-style attacks,

to say nothing of the violence of poverty

and war millions face daily due to the

U.$.-supported status quo. Bourgeois

politicians like Hart lack the intelligence

to recognize this or the courage to say it.

Instead they opportunistically use partial

truths to get funding for their pet projects

or further Amerikan warmongering.

(The report claimed that Saddam

Hussein would attack the U.$ mainland

with weapons of mass destruction if the

United $tates invades Iraq. The imperi-

alists' own spy agencies have discredited

this claim, saying Hussein has neither the