This is not RAIM, MIM or LLCO

Greetings comrades,

It was brought to our attention that there has been various rumours surrounding the possible identities of people presenting a 3rd worldist line in Toronto.

We can't, of course, comment on every single person who goes around posting online or who's speaking to people at activist events, protests and rallies claiming to have a 3rd worldist line. Nor could we say if their line is "correct" or not without examining their articles, etc. further.

But we would like to clear things up about RAIM, MIM, LLCO and 3W1:

• MIM no longer exists as an organization (and have not for a long time); but there are likely still former members and sympathizers around
• LLCO was never MIM or a split of it; LLCO came about after MIM dissolved and while there are similarities in the political line to call them the same would be incorrect.
• RAIM broke away from LLCO five years ago.
• 3W1 was created right around the time when RAIM started to break off
• 3W1 was originally to be a chapter of RAIM in Toronto
• 3W1 considers that it's line is closer to LLCO than the new RAIM
• 3W1's membership fragment years ago so organizationally we are not "active"

While we share solidarity in many ways with the organizations mentioned above, 3W1 was/is an independent "defunct" organization.

An organization that can bring a strong anti-imperialist and 3rd worldist line to the Toronto activist, radical and left community is still needed. We always will be on the look out for potential members to build this organization. However we will not be recruiting just anyone for security reasons.

To our knowledge there is no such organization active in Toronto with a similar line. So we have to urge caution that anyone saying they are from any of the above organizations could be lying.

LLVPW!

3W1

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Lei Feng and Today's Principal Contradiction

December 18, 2010

by Comrade Trinidad

Today THIRD WORLD FIRST! looked back to the birth date of comrade Lei Feng, who dedicated his short but meaningful life to serving the people, from 1940 to 1962. Although he never reached his 22nd birthday due to an unfortunate working accident, he lived a lifetime worth a million times its length - because he served humanity. As Mao taught, to die serving the people is weightier than a mountain, but to die as an exploiter or oppressor is lighter than a feather.

Lei Feng's father was killed by Japanese imperialism, and his mother took her own life to escape the humiliation laid upon her by the son of her landlord. Many so-called "Maoists" will take advantage of this date (December 18) and of Learn from Lei Feng Day (March 5) to write a lot of empty words and useless rhetoric about Lei Feng. Anyone can talk about the spirit of self-sacrifice and selflessness, but is the 1st World so-called "Left" willing to sacrifice almost everything the 1st World has acquired through imperial rape and plunder? Is the 1st World so-called "working class" willing to slash their bloated wages (which far exceed the actual value of labor) to prevent hundreds of millions of men, women and children from starving to death in the 3rd World? The answer is an unequivocal "No."

“To tell the workers in the handful of rich countries where life is easier, thanks to imperialist pillage, that they must be afraid of ‘too great’ impoverishment, is counter-revolutionary. It is the reverse that they should be told. The labour aristocracy that is afraid of sacrifices, afraid of ‘too great’ impoverishment during the revolutionary struggle, cannot belong to the Party. Otherwise, the dictatorship is impossible, especially in West-European countries.” — Lenin, Speech on the Terms of Admission into the Communist International

Rather than writing the same things that have already been written since 1962, or "playing it safe" like most of the so-called "Left" does when it comes to these kinds of statements, THIRD WORLD FIRST! is going to use this opportunity to use Lei Feng where he's needed: on the battlefields of global people's war.

Will the billions of young men and women of the world's vast majority lay dormant forever? In 1965 Vice Chairman Lin Biao put forth the correct Maoist communist line that the principal contradiction in the world is between the exploited nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America and the imperialist countries, led by the United States. That same year Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech saying, "Let us act on the fact that $5 invested in population control is worth $100 invested in economic growth." The white devil is well aware that the population explosions of the 3rd World pose an insurmountable threat to his empire. These pigs know how dangerous the masses can be when revolution breaks out.

Lei Feng may not have fought in any battles on the ground, but his day to day fight against self - his fight against selfishness and all self-centered mentality - meant that he was a true servant of the people. The people of the 3rd World want to serve their families, their communities, their nations and their countries. The best way for them to do so is to fight and kill all enemies of the people wherever they stand. If Lei Feng were alive today, he'd be in a people's army, fighting in the global people's war. In many ways, he is alive inside the spirit of every revolutionary fighter in the world.

Power to the People!

Death to Enemies of the People!

Third World First!

(Note: the above image fuses Lei Feng commemorative art from China with new revolutionary art by Comrade Amihan Malaya, here is a full-sized version: http://bit.ly/hUdFoH)

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Incarceration and Oppression in the 1st world

By B.V. Savioli & Akai Shizuku

A common criticism that 3rd worldists receive is that we don't do any actual "outreach" style of work because we are only calling for action in the 3rd world, thus "alleviating" ourselves from any responsibilities of on the ground organizing. Essentially, the accusation is that we are revolutionaries in theory, but in practice, armchairs. It goes hand in hand with liberalism and the attitude of doing what one wants for themselves when convenient rather than for politics.

If this was true, than we in 3W1 wouldn't be genuine anti-imperialists.

This is why we will try to briefly put that accusation to rest. While it is true our main work is agitprop against the parasite nations, there are pending issues in our home turf that we do have interest in helping with. One such issue is prisons and prisoners' rights and freedoms.

Where we stand, is that there simply is no base for fighting against exploitation in the 1st world because there is no significant exploited class; rather we are part and parcel of an international system of exploitation which subjugates the 3rd world.

This does not, however, mean there are no forms of oppression in the 1st world and from time to time there are exceptions, such as prison labour.

As well, there are still the problems of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism and all types of discrimination, along with police brutality.

In fact, the 1st world prison inmates share many things in common with the proletariat of 3rd world countries. These are the types of struggles we take up advocacy for here, especially in cases where imprisonment is horribly unjust, political in nature and/or when the prisoner has been straight up framed, as in the cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier.

Recently, an article appeared in Toronto Life[1] about The Don Jail and its conditions. Though much of the article spends time talking about the plight of one white man, it does a good job of telling the tale of The Don.

The living conditions are squalor; rats, urine and overcrowding is common. Beatings occur regularly both among the population and at the hands of C.O.s. Bed bugs and various sicknesses that would normally be trivial often become near epidemic with the close quarters of prisoners. Prisoners are frequently on lock down because of incidents that occur out of this frustration and thus are often confined to their cells 23 hrs per day or more and may not even be able to shower for weeks at a time.

The fact is that conditions in the Don are nothing new, but that the place has been described as a dungeon since day one.

But this is not the case of just the one prison, the fact is this settler white nation has institutionalized cruel punishment for those branded as criminals since the beginning:

Justice was harsh in the early days of pioneer Toronto at the end of the 1700's. The death penalty was the punishment for no less than 120 different crimes. Only in 1865 was hanging finally restricted as punishment for the crimes of murder, rape and treason.

Hanging was performed publicly, and the "drop", a technique where the condemned fell a distance through a trapdoor to have his neck broken, resulting in almost instantaneous death, was not used at the time. Instead the condemned died a slow and horrible death by strangulation as he or she were roughly hauled up at the end of a rope tied around their neck or just dangled a foot or so high. -- Peter Vronsky, Crime and Punishment in Canada, CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN YORK TOWN (TORONTO) 1790 - 1834 (with a note on slavery)[2]

As Vronsky notes in the above article, even Black slaves were punished in klanadian prisons for the "crime" of trying to escape the bondage of their cruel white masters.

Capital punishment persisted until Dec. 11, 1962 when the last two men to be put to death were hanged in the Don Jail courtyard for the "crime" of killing pig officers. Though officially, the death penalty was still on the books:

In 1967, a moratorium was placed on the death penalty. But it was not until 1976 that Canada formally abolished the death penalty from the Criminal Code, when the House of Commons narrowly passed Bill C-84. -- CBC, Capital punishment in Canada[3]

Corporal punishment was also abolished in jail around the same time. Up until 1968 the state used all kinds of cruel devices to "punish" prisoners that one would expect to find in a museum for the Dark Ages.[4]

While "the strap" was abolished in prison, corporal punishment went on in schools for at least another 5 years until B.C. was the first province to stop it.[5] Schools are often not much unlike prisons for many youth; klanada has a history of repressing its youth from early on, especially Native Youth (who were brought to genocidal death camps called "Residential Schools" all the way to the 1980s[6]) and youth of colour. In fact, the supreme court didn't even officially abolish corporal punishment until 2004 and so it went on in Alberta.[7] This only seems to effect public schools and was added to the Ontario education act only in 2009[8], so one can only wonder what goes on unofficially that we don't know about in jails and schools around this parasite nation.

At the head of all of this are the reactionary pigs in the metro police, the OPP (Ontario Pig Patrol), RCMP, CSIS and the courts who are all lap-dogs of the imperialists, who once again reared their ugly heads during the G20 protest, making one of the largest mass arrests in kanada since the October Crises in Quebec. These pigs have shown over and over again that when push comes to shove these agents of repression will act this way with impunity every time.

Toronto pigs have always been tied in with WASP club. Their roots are the fascistic Orange Order[9], an organization that glorifies brit$hit imperialism and white supremacist ideas. These relics of the past still celebrate their piggi$hness every June under the gleeful protection of Toronto popo.[10]

(Imperialism Remnant: Orange Parade Toronto[11])

With these types of fascist attitudes looming unabashed in the 1st world, is it any surprise that we state these parasite crackers can not possibly be expected to side with the oppressed of the world; but rather, against it? However, at the same time human beings and youth don't deserve to be victims of imperialist decadence when they slide through the cracks or are considered unworthy to sit at the feasting table. We don't support more pie for imperialists country workers but we don't support imprisoning marginalized people either.

This is why 3W1 stands in solidarity with all prisoners of the world, and has a a message of liberation for all prisoners in klanada, who are overly represented by people of Native Ancestry and communities of People of Colour: The only way to break your chains is the overthrow of this pig settler nation!

We also remind all the so called "leftists" and "revolutionaries" out there that this settler nation will imprison you in a heartbeat if it feels you are a threat. One only needs to examine klanadian history of internment, such as that done to Ukrainians from 1914-1920[12], the Japanese[13] and Italians[14] during WW II along with Quebecois Nationalists during the October Crises of 1970 in which additionally all civil liberties were suspended.[15]

Kanada also has it's hand's dirty when it comes to the wars against the Muslim world. Indeed, klanada is complicit in handing over prisoners to entities they knew very well would initiate torture[16], not to mention the shameful silence on Omar Khadr who has been held unjustly in gitmo for the "crime" of killing an imperialist U$ soldier illegally invading his ancestral homeland. Omar is officially a Canadian Citizen though he has been afforded no extended hand by this parasite nation. Instead, captured at the age of 15, he lost his entire youth years in a prison that institutes "torture lite", holds prisoners indefinitely without the right to council, and doesn't follow any international laws when it comes to their treatment of detainees[17][18].

With this kind of history of klanada on the books there can be hardly any doubt it will not repeat itself until the 1st world empire is dumped into the trash heap of history where it belongs.

We at 3W1 vow to be John Browns, Lei Fengs and Norman Bethunes and extend to prisoners to take up the same call. Even though we have a minority position to uphold, like those of the past we must stand firm. We also vow to bring awareness about any oppression and injustice and fight against the imperialist prison system tooth and nail.

All victory to the 3rd world and an end to oppressor prisons!

Sources:

1. Hell House: Why the Don Jail is a wretched, dangerous dungeon that should have been shut down ages ago:http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2010/12/06/hell-house/?page=1%2F
2. Peter Vronsky, Crime and Punishment in Canada, CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN YORK TOWN (TORONTO) 1790 - 1834 (with a note on slavery): http://www.russianbooks.org/crime/cph2.htm
3. Canadian Broadcasting corporation, Capital punishment in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/16/f-death-penalty.html
4. The Canadian Prison Strap by C. Farrell Part 3: The equipment used From research by "Diogenes":http://www.corpun.com/canada3.htm
5. http://www.repeal43.org/schools.html
6. INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS - Cultural Genocide: http://www.danielnpaul.com/IndianResidentialSchools.html
7. Supreme Court takes strap out of teachers' hands: http://www.corpun.com/cas00402.htm
8. http://www.repeal43.org/schools.html
9. Peter Vronsky - HISTORY OF THE TORONTO POLICE PART 1: 1834 - 1860:http://www.russianbooks.org/crime/cph3.htm
10. Peter Vronsky - HISTORY OF THE TORONTO POLICE PART 3: 1859 - 1875:http://www.russianbooks.org/crime/cph5.htm
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/18378305@N00/2465243731/
12. Ukrainian Canadian internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Canadian_internment
13. Japanese Internment Camps in Canada:http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/canadianhistory/camps/internment1.html
14. Italian-Canadian Internment Camps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-Canadian_Internment_Camps
15. The October Crisis: Civil Liberties Suspended | CBC Archives: http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/civil_unrest/topics/101/
16. Canada shamed on Afghan prisoner torture - thestar.com:http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/afghanmission/article/727879--canada-shamed-on-torture
17. Omar Khadr Project | Omar Khadr Project: Help Omar Khadr, The Canadian Teenager in Guantanamo Bay:http://www.omarkhadrproject.com/
18. Guantanamo: What the World Should Know (9781931498647): Michael Ratner, Ellen Ray: Books:http://www.amazon.com/Guantanamo-What-World-Should-Know/dp/1931498644

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