This article was originally published by the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons on their website, Prisoncensorship.info. While many of our readers write to us to express the lack of consciousness and unity in the prisons where they are held, one USW comrade pointed out in ULK 31 h realization that ULK is a venue where conscious prisoners can come together and […]
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Out Now: ULK Issue 31
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“MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.” Issue No. 31 March 2013 Featuring: Building Lumpen Movements
MIM(Prisons): Identifying the U.$. Lumpen Starts with Understanding the First World Petty Bourgeoisie
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By Soso of MIM(Prisons) MIM(Prisons) is working on a book about the lumpen in the internal semi-colonies of the United $tates. The first chapter, which we are circulating in draft form for peer review, focuses on identifying the lumpen and calculating the size of this group within U.$. borders. Part of this identification first requires […]
Brown Berets Prison Chapter 10 Point Program
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Read the full statement at the MIM(Prisons) website: …The BB-PC was inspired by the original Brown Berets that arose in the 1960s and led the Chicano movement in harnessing the people in the barrios with their many independent institutions from free health clinics, child care, free food programs, schools, newspapers etc. We draw from this […]
MIM(Prisons): Voting is a Pro-Imperialist Strategy
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In the shadow of the recent presidential election, MIM(Prisons) takes this opportunity to explain some of the many reasons we don’t participate in elections under capitalism. We reiterate the MIM slogan: Don’t Vote, Organize! Granted, communists might participate in local elections when they find an opportunity to make change that will better facilitate their organizing work […]
A Critique of Rashid’s Black Liberation in the 21st Century
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This article was originally posted at MIM-Prisons and is part of a continuing debate around the line and practice of the recently formed New Afrikan Black Panther Party- Prison Chapter. This is a response to an article titled “Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism,” by the New Afrikan Black Panther Party […]
Book Review: “Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry”
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Bourgeois history is typified by its appreciation of particulars. In turn it rejects larger narratives regarding fundamental social relations. The effect of this is obscuring unflattering trends in the history of the capitalist world-system and particular dominant countries therein. Though highly accessible, Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend adds […]
Black August and Bloody September, Rise Up and Remember on September 9
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Crown Prince of the Black Order Revolutionary Organization details the meaning and history of Black August and Bloody September and encourages conscious prisoners to rise up and participate in a work stoppage and demonstration on September 9th. MIM-Prisons originally published this article. Salute comrade, today we stand on this crest of time as we reach through the recess of […]
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Get up for the downstroke: a responce to ‘Black Liberation in the 21st Century, a revolutionary reassesment of Black nationalism’
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The following is a polemic by Sanyika Shakur of the New Afrikan Independence Movement against the positions held by the Kevin Rashid Johnson and the New Afrikan Black Panther Party. While we certainly don’t agree with the entirely of Shakur’s piece, including his self-defeating shallow one-liners against Stalin and the USSR, we are reposting it […]
Denver: ‘Cointelpro 101,’ Sept 10th.
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Al Frente De Lucha Community Center Presents: COINTELPRO 101 Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Priscilla Falcon, Ricardo Romero, and Francisco ‘Kiko’ Martinez. COINTELPRO was–and still is–both a formal program of the FBI and a more general war by government agencies to destroy movements for self-determination and liberation. This film reveals how organizations were attacked […]
Review: Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings by James Yaki Sayles
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This article was originally published at MIM-Prisons. Reposting here does not imply endorsement or agreement. -Nick Like many of the books reviewed in Under Lock & Key, Meditations On Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth is written by someone who spent most of his adult life in a U.$. prison. That there are so many […]
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