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Chican© Power and the Struggle for Aztlán Chican@ Power and the Struggle for Aztian by a MIM(Prisons) Study Group 2015 ISBN: 978-1-894946-74-2 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.Org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. MIM Distributors PO Box 40799 San Francisco, CA 94140 email: [email protected] web: www.prisoncensorship.info www.abolishcontrolunits.com Kersplebedeb Publishing and Distribution CP 63560 CCCP Van Horne Montreal, Quebec Canada H3W 3H8 email: [email protected] web: www.kersplebedeb.com www.leftwingbooks.net This book is co-published by MIM(Prisons) and Kersplebedeb. Kersplebedeb considers this to be a thought-provoking intervention, and has respect for the work done by MIM(Prisons). That said, there is not theoretical unity on all points touched upon in this book, nor on each of MIM(Prisons)'s Six Main Points. This project is dedicated to all those who lost their lives to brown-on-brown violence inside and outside of prisons. Contents Figures 4 Preface 6 On Rebuilding the Nation and Regional Divisions 8 Introduction 10 Who is a Chican@? 14 What is Aztlan? Who are la Raza? 15 Chican@ Nationalism, Revolutionary Nationalism, Proletarian Feminism 17 Part I: Chican@ Power and the Struggle for Aztlan 20 Section I: History of Chican@s 22 The Birth of Mexico 22 Colonization, Development and the U.$.War on Mexico 25 Revolution in Mexico 1910 36 From Imperialist War to Braceros 42 The Brown Liberation Movement 45 Section 2: Historical Basis of Aztlan and the State of the Nation Today 56 Territory 56 Language 58 Economy 61 Culture 65 The Border: Past, Present and Future 66 Aztlan is an Oppressed Internal Semi-Colony 68 Section 3: The Path Forward for Emancipation 71 Socialism and the Chican@ Nation 75 Incorrect Lines Toward Aztlan 79 Revolutionary Nationalism 84 Cell Structure, Barrio Committees, and the need for a Vanguard Party 87 Section 4: Questions of Organizing 93 The First Nations and Aztlan 93 Chicanas:Wimmin Hold up Half the Sky 95 The Role of Chicanismo 98 Pandillas: Our Red Guards 99 Barrios Wrapped In Razor Wire Contents, cont. Part II: Further Research 108 Section I: Obscured for Centuries, the Nation is Bigger Than Ever 109 A Rising,Vibrant Nation I 10 “Hispanics" and the Erasing of First Nations 119 Measuring Assimilation 124 Class Nature of the Internal Semi-Colonies 128 Battling in the Realm of Ideas 129 Section 2: Real Lessons of the Chicano Moratorium and the High Treason Against Maoism 131 Three Views in Politics 134 High Treason Against Maoism 136 Section 3: Why Revolutionary Proletarian Nationalism? 143 Section 4: Democratic Convention Highlights Chicano Assimilationist 150 Section 5: Response to rcp=u$a’s Opposition to Aztlan 154 How Many Ways Can They Deny Our Right To Self-Determination? 156 Nationalism is Bourgeois Anyway 164 Section 6: Murder of Chicano Youth Holds Lessons for Revolutionaries 168 Section 7: Mexicans Targeted for Censorship 174 1 Contents, cont. Part III: Chican@ Literature from a Maoist Perspective 176 Burning Chican@ Books 177 Occupied America 180 Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now 183 The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans 186 Youth, Identity, Power 188 Chicano Liberation and Socialism 194 Labor, Family, Feminism and Revolution 202 Class and Gender 203 White Wimmin’s Pseudo-Feminism 206 Reproductive Rights 208 Patriarchy in Revolutionary Organizations 209 Distinctive National Culture 210 Cultural Nationalism 210 Intersections of Nation, Class and Gender 211 We Will Rise - Rebuilding the Mexikah Nation 214 Appendix 220 I .a Brown Berets - Prison Chapter 221 I .b United Struggle from Within 226 I .c Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons 229 2 .a Agreement to End Hostilities 233 2,b United Front for Peace in Prisons 236 3 .a Class overview 238 3 .b Labor aristocracy 243 3x First World lumpen 255 3,d Fascism and its class nature: A brief introduction 257 4 .a Why we use the word “migrant" and not “immigrant" 259 4 .b On Cesar Chavez and the Correct and Incorrect Handling of Contradictions Among the People 260 5 .a Cell Structure,Vanguard Parties and Mass Organizations 262 5,b United Front 268 5x New Democracy and the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of the Oppressed Nations 273 Glossary 291 Index 313 Hgur«*% t ( ( ( ( RuaI 24 I inoi <■ | | 1 Nkw *»|trtln 26 rigiM*1 I I i '««nu Io hail 28 I igui o I I I R,u.i as Percent of Total U.$. Population 58 I l<uro 1.2.2 Raza population by county in the United States 2010 59 Figure 1.2.3 Linguistic Assimilation of Mexicans and Other Immigrants 60 ( Figure 1.2.4 Global Wealth Flow Under Imperialism 62 Figure 1.2.5 Wealth Flow in the First World 63 Figure 2.1.1 Foreign-Born Population of the United States, by Region of Birth, 1960-2005 III Figure 2.1.2 Reference map of present United States boundaries 112 Figure 2.1.3 Percent of Foreign-Born Population 1 from Mexico and Other Central America: 1960-2010 114 Figure 2.1.4 Raza as % of Population in 2010 115 Figure 2.1.5 Distribution of Largest Raza Populations Across the Continental United States 116 Figure 2.1.6% Living Below Federal Poverty Line by Country of Origin 119 Figure 2.1.7 Economic Assimilation Indexes 120 Figure 2.1.8 Percentage of the Foreign-Born Population Who Are Naturalized U.S. Citizens by Country of Birth: 2010 125 Figure 2.1.9 Percentage of Foreign-Born Population by Language Spoken at Home and English-Speaking Ability by Country of Birth: 2010 126 I Figure 2.1.10 % of Population with a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher Education by Nativity Status and Country of Birth: 2010 127 1 Figure 2.1.11 Median Earnings in the Past 12 Months 1 by Nativity Status and Country of Birth: 2010 127 Figure 2.3.1 Hispanic Ethnicity of U.$. Military 145 Figure 2.3.2 World Distribution of Household Wealth, GDP, and Population in the year 2000 147 Preface THIS BOOK WAS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT written in a study group for U.$. prisoners, led by the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons, or MIM(Prisons) for short. While we all discussed, wrote and edited the material, MIM( Prisons) was the principal editor. Once we had a draft that was close to final, we sent advanced copies to a few other comrades inside and outside of prison for additional comments. We welcome readers to continue sending us feedback on this book, and we are eager to get it into the hands of those organizing for liberation in the belly of the beast! The greatest feedback will come in the form of advancements against oppression. The two principal authors of this book are prime models of revolu­ tionary leadership from behind prison walls. Ehecatl and cipactli are both long-time leaders in the anti-imperialist organization United Struggle from Within. Cipactli also writes on behalf of the Brown Berets - Prison Chapter, a more recent project cipactli helped initiate to push the Chican@ national liberation struggle forward. This book was a collaborative writing effort, rather than just a collection of essays with different perspectives. Cipactli first inspired this project by putting together the central essay, which provided the framework for what became Part I of this book. Cipactli recognized the need for Maoist literature and leader­ ship in the hotly contested struggle of Chican@s and migrants against Amerikan repression, especially in a new context of multiculturalism and widespread wealth throughout the United States. Coming together with a basic agreement around this need, and the line that needed to be presented, we assembled the material for this book. The Maoist movement in Aztian is still young. As such this book is somewhat preliminary and will not provide all the answers. In some aspects we did not all agree, but in the end, through unity-struggle-unity, we resolved most major disagreements to present a cohesive analysis. The core principles that we firmly put forth here are: 1) that a distinct Chicane nation exists, 2) that it developed in dialectical relation to the oppressor nation of Amerika as a colony and later an internal semi-colony of the United $tatcs, and 3) that supporting and upholding the right to secession

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