Vol. 2, No. 9

THE BLACK PANTHER 25 Black Community News Service SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1968 VOLUME P.O. BOX 8641 weexy THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY RENEE onncn BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE SHOWS PROGRESS Chairman Mao’s great statement points out direction of struggle of the Black people in the United States Five years ago, on August 8, 1963, Chairman Mao Tse-tung of the People’s Republic of China issued his ‘‘Statement Supporting the Black Liberation in our Just Struggle Against Racial Discrim- ination by U.S. Imperialism.’ This statement of Chairman Mao’s, which is of great historic importance, is an expression of his deep concern and resolute support for the broad masses of struggling. Black Liberationists and all the exploited and oppressed people in the United States. It provides a powerful ideological and theore- tical weapon for their revolutionary struggle, points out the direc- tion and the road of their advance and gives immense inspiration to Black Liberation and revolutionary people throughout the world. This statement of Chairman Mao’s issued five years ago pointed out that the “the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement. of Negroes and the trade in Ne- groes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emanci- pation of the Black people.’’ The vigorous development of the Black Liberation struggle against violent repression and the revolutionary struggles of the people throughout the world in the past five years have increasingly proved that this great prediction and wise conclusion by Chairman Mao will become a shining re- ality. Continued on page 12, col. 1 THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19,1968 Page 2 “The years of TOM are over By “OBSERVER” On October llth at the Balboa High School, a “‘trial’’ was held to determine whether or not Assemblyman Willie Brown ‘‘was an uncle tom or not’’, There were some interestingfacts surrounding this trial, for instance the so-called ‘‘jury’’ was made up of 21 white students and 4 black students. Two young Brothers of the Black Panther Party were cast in the role of prosecuting Brown. In view of the present political atmosphere, some of his testimony becomes quite important and its implications within the Black community quite relevant. Brown claims ‘the was never asked’’ to defend Brother Huey Newton, our Minister of Defense, ‘‘until the 17th of August’’ at which time he stated ‘‘the trial was almost over.'’ Now everybody knows that the Minister of Defense was shot, arrested and framed way back in October of 1967. He knows as well as any other person that the defense of the Minister of Defense was not confined to nor was it strictly decided in the racist courtroom of Judge Friedman. He knows this because this same Willie Brown in an outburst sometime ago correctly pointed out that the San Francisco courts were racist through and through, only to be pressured into making a retraction the very next day when called to task about his statement. In other words, it was not necessary for Willie Brownto have been the attorney of record in order to assist inthe defense of Huey, quite the contrary, he had the forum of the racist legislature in Sacramento from which he could have exposed the entire rotten racist persecution of brother Huey. He ran up and down the state of California, from one Demo- cratic Party platform to another, each from which the racist insti- tutions oppressing Black people could have been denounced from. He had the use of podium at the Democratic Party’s National Conven- tion in Chicago from which to echo a defense of brother Huey. Yet we heard not a peep from Brown. Even at this late date, Brown has not come forward to criticize the verdict. Therefore, the question of the defense of brother Huey P. Newton has to be viewed in this light, and on this point, Brown has struck out. He stated he could not understand ‘*why (the Panthers) would be foolish enough to run a candidate against him’’. This no doubt was in reference to Sister Kathleen Cleaver’s campaign on the Black Pan- ther ticket for the 18th Assembly District. He stated ‘the has done more’’ for the Black community ‘‘than any person (he) knew’’. Is it true? It is not. Politically, Willie Brown is an agent of that section of the Black community known as the black bourgeoisie. The 18th Assembly District encompasses the entire Black Community of Fillmore which is inhabited by 95% of the Black masses, But this only tells a part of the story. Brown represents the interests of a definite and distinct strata of the black bourgeoisie, that section which opposes the right of Black people to self-determination, op- poses the right of Black people to control their own destiny. In other words, they have sold out the national aspects of the Black people’s struggle. Locally, we know these people as the Browns, Francois’ and Jackson's nationally we know them as the Stokes, Washingtons, Weavers, B, O. Davis’, etc. Does this mean that the entire Black bourgeoisie has sold out? No, there are elements within the black bourgeoisie who support the basic aims of the liberation movements. They are allies and stand shoulder to shoulder with the broad masses of Black people. When Willie Brown says, ‘‘that he has done more”’ for the Black community, what he really means is, hehas done more to further the interests of this motley clique of black hanger-ons. He has usurped the Black community's real interests in favor of those of this neo- colonialist gang of traitors, Herein lies the contradition between Willie Brown and the broad masses of Black people. More than any other single fact which exposes Willie Brown in his true stripes was his outburst that the Panthers were ‘‘controlled by white people.’’ What is the meaning of this garbage? On first glance, it might seem unworthy of comment upon, but it is very important if we are to understand the nature of our struggle. Actually Brown has borrowed this from the reactionary nationalists in the pay of the CLA which - understands that. any form of Black-White unity in struggle against the common enemy, the U.S, monopoly capitalist class, spells the doom of this clique of robber barons. By raising this phony charge, Contd on page 10 NAACP CONNIVES TO KEEP PANTHER CANDI- DATES FROM SPEAKING The Ingleside Branch of the NAACP is co-sponsoring a candidate’s forum on October 20th at the Farragut School in which only the racist candidates of the Democratic and Re- publican political parties are permitted to participate. The forum is billed as a “non-par- tisan” affair at this school situated in a part of the Black community of San Francisco. Useing all sorts of pretextes, the NAACP refused to consider the request of the Black Pan- ther Party to permit a rep- resentative of Eldrige Cleay- er, the B.P.P. Minister of In- formation and __ presidential candidate, to speak ‘on his be- half. The forum is ostensibly billed as a means to “raise the political conciousness” of the Black community yet the NAACP took the position that it is not inviting Eldrige since no other presidential candidate is being invited. Yet it gives free reign to the reactionary Republican Congressman and several other reactionary Dem- ocratic Assemblymen, all speak- ing for the white racists. San Francisco, Calif, October ll, 1968 Dear Black Panthers: I thought you might be interested in my reaction after listening to Eldridge Cleaver on the San Fran- cisco State campus October 9,1968 I have deeply studied Mr, Cleaver’s book and was anixious to hear him, I was even further impressed thanI had anticipated when I heard him speak-he is a magnificant specium of individual power and dedication. Even now more than ever do I be- lieve that that stupid shit running the ‘‘show’’ up there has made a tremendous mistake by not let- ting Mr, Cleaver speak, They are so hyproctical up there-they say they want the most qualified in- structors available for the highest caliber of education but they re- fuse to let an ‘‘expert’’ like Mr, Clever to even successfully ap- pear. As my letter says, Reagan must be really scared of your or- ganization and Mr, Cleaver, I say more power to you, Sincerely, Lloyd Larson BERKELEY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP PREPARE AND SERVE.. BREAKFAST FOR ‘SCHOOL CHILDREN 7:30 am till 9:30 am Monday thru Friday at the CONCORD BAPTIST CHUSCH 8th & Genter Streets Berkeley, California for information call SISTER BETTY CARTER 845-0103 or inquire af..... BLACK PANTHER PARTY national headquarters 3106 Shattuck Street Berkeley, California ‘ A Message to the Ghetto: By: Kitambaa Cha Chuma Area Captain Black Panther Party. Long Beach Chapter Noble descendants of our forefathers of African heritage, how long will the dawn find you sitting inthe corner of your shanty dwell- ings with your eyes cast toward the heavens, and tears wet upon your cheeks in silent prayer, hoping that the racist will loosen his choking grip upon your necks? Shall the sun rise and set again and again only to find your child sharing the pain of 450 years of suffering and not able to lift a smal’ cry in protest? No! Let not another Black die in vain, Refuse the grave the sight of an unknown warrior fighting for the truth instilled within you; dying for the rights that you deserve and praying in the solitude of your sanctuary. The day of mourning is fast coming to a halt where your tears cease to flow and your eyes hot with the great passions of freedom you cease to hold back your dying need of ‘‘Self Determination.’’ Let your cry be heard at the four corners of the earth. ‘Panther Power to the people, and the peoples’ power to the Vanguard of Freedom|’* Let not a man, woman, or child’s ear go untouched without the precious words. For too long we have awaited at the table that has brought forth nothing but crumbs and it is now time for the masses to feast] If I die today, if ten thousand die today, Free Huey Tomorrow, and bring prosperity to the many generations to come. Put forth the power invested in you by the great hands of God and fate and rise to the call of those who hear and love you. To wait any longer would be fatal to the masses. For at this very moment the government plots our destruction. The government is the enemy of the people and choose to act in such a manner. For the government have time and time again sanctioned the systematic murder of our people and those people who support us in our struggle for freedom. In Nazi Germany, the people were cautioned repeatedly to unite before it was too late. They (the Jews) turned a deaf ear to the voice that sought to join them together and it was not long before six millions more were murdered and placed in huge shallow graves and millions more subjected to the most diabolical acts ever exe- cuted in the pages of history and outside of slavery. It is said that the Black Messiah died for the sins of man. Then why should I not die for the freedom of man? Why should we not stand and be counted among the mass number of Black Liberation armies that vow to fight and die rather than live another day in this RACIST HELL, Several days ago a young panther 18 years of age under my com- mand walked into the office and said to me, ‘‘Kitambaa, tonight 1 told my mother that I was a “Panther’ and she cried. I asked her ‘Why is it you are crying?’ and-she said to me: ‘‘At last my womb has sown the seed of a man!”’ At that moment I set forth the follow- ing poem: Battle for Battle, I match you, A tired man upon the swollen feet That speed me to victory, or the grave, The taste of freedom as fresh as blood Upon the ground; as now as the tomb Of her who died at my side, battle for battle The barrel that spoke for her, Now speaks for me with the prayer That plays upon my wind cracked lips. I seek a smile from her resting place, The childhood years are gone: Here fights a man of 18, Must I also die? Then let my death be spun; And mark by battle fought as fierce As any man who died, or yet to live; When every ounce of my body cried out in agony to stop! I raised my weakening arms and fired at he whom oppresses my people, Battle for Battle! You, like myself, was born a Panther, though it took all of my 26 years on the planet to realize it. Now that I know the nature of self, I shall live the life of a Panther, fight the fight of a Panther, and die the death of a Panther! So help me God. The life of a Panther is to serve the masses. The fight of a Panther is to preserve and free the masses, The death of a Panther is to die for the masses and the birth of Panther is to be born BLACK! Che Guevara on Vietnam (Editor’s note; After months of world-wide speculation as to the where-abouts of CHE GUEVARA, who had not made any public ap- pearance since the spring, Fidel Castro, in a speech on October 3, 1965, read a farewell letter from his comrade-in-arms. In that letter the Argentine-born revolutionary wrote: ‘‘I feel that | have fulfilled the part of my duty that tied me to the Cuban Revolution in its territory and I say goodbye to you .. . Other nations of the world call for my modest efforts. I can do that which is denied you be- cause of your responsibility as head of Cuba and the time has come for us to part.” The death of Major Ernesto ‘‘Che’’ Guevara on October 9, 1967, had’ deep repercussions on world public opinion. Manifold mani- festations of mourning were carried out by revolutionaries all over the world, and even many conservative sectors showed their respect for the heroic guerilla major who devoted his life to the ideals which inspired every one of his actions. In Vietnam fighting has been carried on almost uninterruptedly by the patriotic forces of that country against three imperialist powers: Japan, whose power collapsed with the bombing of Hiro- shima and Nagasaki; France, which recovered its Indo-chinese colonies from this defeated power, disregarding the promises made in a time of duress; and the United States, in the latest phase of the conflict. There have been limited confrontations in all continents, even when in the Americas, for a long time, there were only incipient free- dom struggles and military coups d'etat until the Cuban revolution sounded its trumpet call, signalling the importance of this region and drawing down the rage of the imperialists, compelling it to defend itself first on the beaches at Playa Gir6n and later during the October crisis. The latter incident could have touched off a war in incalculable proportions by bringing on a clash over Cuba between the North Americans and the Soviets. But obviously, at the present moment the contradictions are centered in the territory of the Indochinese peninsula and the neigh- boring countries, Laos and Vietnam were shaken by civil wars until they passed be- yond that after North American imperialism intervened with all its power and the whole zone became conyerted into a dangerous, sputtering fuse leading to a powder keg. In Vietnam the confrontation has acquired extreme sharpness. It is not our intention to go into the history of this war either. We will merely indicate-someof the significant.mile-stones. - In 1954, after the crushing defeat at Dien Bien’ Phu, the Geneva accords were signed, dividing the country into two zones with the stipulation that elections were to be heldineighteen months to deter- mine who would govern Vietnam and how the country would be re- unified. The North Americans did not sign that document, beginning maneuvers to displace Bao Dai, a French puppet, with a man who fit in better with their aims. This turned out to be Ngo Dinh Diem, whose tragic end -- that of a lemon squeezed by imperialism -- is known to everyone, In the months following the signing of the accords, optimism reigned in the camp of the popular forces. They dismantled re- doubts of anti-French struggle in the south part of the country and waited for the agreement to be carried out. But the patriots soon Contd on page 9 REVOLUTIONARY MOZAMBIA -- The broad guerrilla fighters in Mozambique have understood more and more that revolutionary war is war of the masses, They have paid attention to mobilizing and relying on the masses in their struggle. They have organized people's militia on a large scale in the villages in guerrilla bases. At ordinary times, the militia fighters take part in agricultural production. They defend the villages during enemy raids. They act as messengers, supply in- formation and transport ammunition and supplies to the guerrillas. They also do political work and are responsible for mobilizing and organizing the villagers. They have become the link for the patriotic forces to keep close contacts with the masses and provide the powerful backing for defeating the enemy. Under the barbarous Portuguese colonial rule, the Mozambique women were most oppressed. They have a profound hatred for the national enemy. And their determination to avenge themselves on the enemy is unshakable. The brave Mozambique women have played “nm important role in the liberation struggle. Many Mozambique wo- men mobilize their husbands or brothers to join the guerrillas and ave a strong demand for taking up arms to wipe out the enemy. The irst women's detachment of Mozambique patriotic forces was set sp in 1967. The heroic Mozambique guerrillas have ploughed the fields to- gether with the peasants in the guerrilla bases. They opened up waste land in areas with a few inhabitants. As a result of the great development of production by the people in guerrillas bases led by Mozambique patriotic forces, part of the economic crops in the bases are exported to neighboring independent African countries inexchange for clothing, bedding, medicines and other daily necessities. Heavily hit by the Mozambique people’s armed struggle, the Portuguese colonialists are putting up a still more rapid and cunning struggle in an attempt to maintain their shaky colonial rule. Seeing that its interests in the Southern part of Africa are seri- ously threatened, the common enemy of the world's people U.S, imperialism is stepping up its ‘‘aid’’ to the Portuguese fascist Contd on page 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 3 PALESTINE GUERRILLAS DAMASCUS, October 6 - Palestinian guerrillas mounted 72 attacks on the occupied Arab areas from September 18 to 30, wiping out over 510 officers and men of the Israeli aggressor for- ces including a Lieutenant-Colonel and a Major, according to the communiques issued here by ‘AL FATAH' (The Palestine Nat- ional Liberation Movement) and other Palestinian nationalist or- ganizations, In this 13-day period, the area of operation of the Palestinian guerrilla fighters covered the occupied Gaza Strip, as well as terr- itory under Israeli rule such as the Seisang Valley, the Negev Desert, Haifa Province, Safad Province and Port Eilat. Using flexible tactics the Palestinian guerrillas launched attacks everywhere and made the Israeli occupation troops at a loss as to how to meet the situation. The guerrillas sprang surprise attacks on enemy strongpoints, ambushed patrols, dug up high- -ways, and blew up bridges and a section of the oil pipeline. Al- together they raided or demolished more than ten Israeli strong- points, destroyed 53 Israeli. military vehicles and two bridges. The Palestinian guerrillas mounted 29 attacks in the territory under Israeli rule. A number of attacks took place in Beisan Valley. They scored the biggest success in the attack on the night of September 19, The battle started when the ‘ASSIFA’ commando units of the ‘AL FATAH' engaged an Israeli occupation force near Oum Al Sus in Beisan Valley, annihilating many enemy troops. When Israeli paratroops were rushed in to the Pluce, the brave ‘ASSIFA’ commandos intercepted them, killing the enemy command- er of Lieutenant-Colonel rank and an adjutant officer of Major rank as well as many other officers. In Negey Desert, the Palestinion guerrillas sagunred successive attacks on the Israeli aggressor troops, They destroyed enemy military vehicles with mines, demolished military camps and posts with artillery fire, and blew up an oil pipeline and a bridge on the highway leading to Port Eilat, crippling the traffic. They rained rockets on Al Lubiah, camp of the enemy, destroying many barracks and inflicting heavy casualities on the troops gathering in the square. The Palestinian guerrilla fighters also scored successive vic- tories in attacks on other places in the Israeli ruled territory. They blasted a big Israeli leather factory in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, and set fire to the Israeli industrial quarters in Haifa City, causing much damage to the electronics industry. On the west bank of the Jordan River, they launched altogether ten attacks on enemy military posts, patrols and military vehicles in the Shuweier Camp, in Abualsus, Tobas, Jericho and Miman Al Semn, and removed several enemy ambush sites. In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian guerrillas launched a number of attacks on Israeli military camps, patrols and military vehicles. In an attack on an Israeli force east of Al Breij Camp, they killed or wounded 45 enemy troops, scoring a big success, Ina sur- prise attack on an Israeli camp within Gaza City, they killed or wounded 42 enemy: troops. In (attacks on thexenemy in Golan Héights, the guerrilla fighters destroyed‘ an Israeli camp,near”Jbein and wiped out ai enemy am- bush site. They broke through the newly established Israeli posit- ion in Nahal Sneir and attacked the military police post. In other places in Golan Heights, they destroyed with mines several enemy military vehicles, killing or wounding all the enemy troops on board, The Palestinian guerrillas made three attacks on Sinai Peninsula. In an attack on September 29, they blew up one of the biggest Israeli ammunition depot near the Suez Canal. The depot was ablaze the whole night with incessant explosions. MEXICAN STUDENT STRUGGLE SHAKES LATIN AMERICA MEXICO CITY—The Mexican students have been heroically waging an unprecedentedly fierce struggle against the reactionary authorities’ barbarous jon yatta cruel persecution and bloody slaughter, This storm of large- is powerfully battering the rule of the Mexican monopoly naRan the whole continent of Latin America—the “back mperia This struggle began ‘with the general strike and big demonstrations launched by the students in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, in late July in protest against the suppression of the student movement and the barbarous persecution of progressive students by the so-called “riot squad”. These police- attacks on students came during demonstrations celebrating the July 26th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, As the reactionary troops and police stepped up their sanguinary suppression of the student movement, the student struggle against persecution and slaughter developed swiftly and became stronger and stronger. Our great teacher Chairman Mao says: “The young people are the most active and vital force in society.” The struggle waged by the revolutionary Mexican youth fully proves the correctness of Chairman Mao’s wise thesis. student struggle was focused on protesting against the criminal suppre: the student movement and persecution of progressive students perpetrated by the so-called “riot squad,” which were directly trained by the U.S. imperialists for the sole purpose of suppressing the progressive mass movement. At the very beginning of the struggle, the students raised sharp political demands such as: “Disba he riot squad”, ‘“‘Abrogate the Laws which suppress the people’s movement ‘set free the political prisoners, release the arrested students, punish the murderers, and give relief funds to the families of the victims”. The just struggle is being waged by patriots of various social strata. The struggle developed rapidly and vigorously and surged forward wave upon wave. It started from Mexico City, and spread to Nuevo Leon and more than ten other states and several important cities. It began with the student strikes and devel- oped into large-scale demonstrations and mass re held by hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants, teachers and patriots from various circles. 200,000 students, workers and peasants in the capital held an impr onstration on August 27 to protest against the brutal police the demonstrators marched through the streets, many passers-by repeatedly shouted their support to the demonstrators. This was the largest mass demon- stration in Mexico in the past decades, After the outbreak of the struggle, the Mexican students waged a tit-for-tat struggle against the brutalities of the reactionary troops and police. They es the campuses of universities and colleges, threw up barricades in the and hit back at the reactionary troops and police with stones, clubs and incendiary bottles, The most bitter struggle took place in Mexico C For more than two months, university and middle school students held a series of strikes, protesting against the Mexican authorities for ruthlessly repressing the progressive students, In defiance of brute force, the students fought val- iantly and fiercely against the fully armed troops and police, who on some Contd on page 9 Cubans Support Movement GUANTANAMO -- ‘‘Cuban rev- olutionaries are prepared to give their lives for the cause of the Afro-Americans, which is the cause of the peoples of the world,"” Luis Lara, Secretary of the Com- mission of Revolutionary Orien- tation (COR) in Oriente Province, stated in the name of the Party committee of the province in his speech at the main program dur- ing the National Campaign of Sol- idarity with the Afro-American People, held in Guantanamo. Among those who spoke to the assembly in the America Theatre were George Mason Murray, Min- ister of Education of the Black Panther Party, and Alfredo Gon- zalez, First Secretary of the Com- munist Party of Cuba in the Guan- tanamo region. The Black Panther leader was accompanied by Joudon Ford, leader of the BlackPanther Party New York. In addition to representatives of the Party in Guantanamo, the Na- tional Committee of Solidarity and the mass organizations, guests in- cluded Bengaly Dabo, of Guinea; Kim Kil Jen, of Korea; and Miguel Brugueras, of Cuba -- all three representatives of OSPAAAL, Alfredo Gonzalez, First Sec- retary of the Party in Guantanamo, welcomed the representatives. of the Black Panther Party and ex- pressed the admiration of: the Cuban people for the struggle be- ing waged in the United States against both imperialism and racism. He pointed out that ‘‘The time will come when those who have assassinated hundreds of black citizens and unleashed dogs against them because they have claimed their rights will have to account for their actions.’ Conspiracy Against Govt. TUNISIA -- The State Security Court of Tunisia. wantonly sen- tenced 124 students, professors and lawyers to prison terms rang- ing from 3 months to 14 yearS and 6 months. They were charged with *‘plotting against the existing Tu- nisian regime.’’ It may be recalled that last March university students in the capital of Tunisia held a large- scale demonstration expressing their great discontent at the Bour- guiba government, which has thrown itself into the lap of U.S. imperialism and refused to sup- port the brother Arab countries in their struggle against the ag- gression launched by U.S, im- perialism and Israel, The demon- strators also firmly demanded the release of a university student who had been arrested and sentenced to 20 years hard labor for taking part in the Anti-American demonstra- tions launched by the Tunisian people during the U.S. supported Israeli war of aggression against the Arab countries in June last year. So scared by the fierce demon- stration, the reactionary Tunisian authorities immediately sent troops and policé. to\sppress the demonstrators. More than L00stu- dents, professors and lawyers were arrested, with some of them cruelly tortured later in jail.Some of them were ‘‘guilty’’ of attacking the Chiefton of U.S. imperialism by calling him a ‘‘murderer"’. In a speech following the mass arrests last March, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba vocif- erously declared that his govern- ment would not tolerate *‘trouble- makers’’ and that he was ready to launch more repressive actions if the ‘‘stability’’ of the country was threatened. THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 4 U.S. BLACK MARKET SAIGON -- The past few years become a market for the dumping of surplus U.S, foods. Last July alone, it was reported, the United States dumped more than 13.8 million dollars worth of surplus farm products into the city, in- cluding wheat, tobacco and pow- dered milk. In addition, tens of thousands of tons of U.S, rice have been dumped there every month, The food of surplus U.S, farm products has dealt a heavy blow to local agriculture in the enemy-occupied area, : resulting in the massive, rapid bankruptcy of the peasants, Under the rule of the U,S, -puppet clique, the peasants in the enemy-occupied area in the Mekong Delta, which used to be a rich rice-producing region, have been gathering smaller crops from year to year. With diminishing financial rev- enue, the Saigon puppet regime has issued large amounts of paper currency to fleece the people. The’ denominations of bank notes have increased from tens of piastres to hundreds of piastres, The South Viet Nam puppet chiefs have hadto admit that thé circulation of this worthless currency at present is as high as 113,000 million pias- tres. Puppet currency issued from the end of last year till now amounts to 30,000 million piastres. This reactionary bloodsucking policy of the U,S,-puppet author- ities resort to instruments of their fascist dictatorship to impose this bogus currency on the people, Whoever refuses to accept or use it will be penalized, Such evil actions of the South Viet Nam puppet regime not only cannot save them from their eco- nomic predicament. Instead this arouses still more fiercely the resistance of the people in the enemy-held area, Workers of the power industry, dockers and bus drivers have held big strikes against the dark rule of the U.S.- puppets, Peasants in the enemy- held area in the Mekong Delta re- fuse to sell rice to the puppet regime. In the face of the grave economic bankruptcy andthe surg- ing resistance struggles of the people in the enemy-held area, The U.S,-puppet clique is at a loss what to do and is ina very awkward and helpless position. ANTI-U. S. RALLIES PEKING, October 8 -- Japanese workers, peasants and students held anti-U,S, rallies and demonstrations simultaneously in Tokyo, Osaka, Saitama, and Fukuoka on October 6, demanding the dis- mantling of the Japan-U.S, ‘Security Treaty’, according to a Toho news agency report. The rally in Tokyo of about 1,000 workers and student was held at a place designated for the expansion of the Tachikawa U.S. Air Base. After the rally, the participants held an impressive demonstration at the shopping center near the base. Despite the annoying roaring of low-flying U.S, planes, the workers, peasants and students persisted in holding the rally. Speakers at the rally wrathfully condemned the U.S, imperialist war of aggression against Viet Nam and voiced their determination to struggle to the end against U.S, bases. A worker read out the inscription written by Chairman Mao for Japanese worker friends: ‘Fhe Japanese g@evolution will un- doubtedly" be victorious, provided the universal truth of Marx- ism-Leninism is really integrated with the concrete practice of the Japanese revolution.’ He said: We must study this inscription seriously, Let us firmly arm ourselves with Mao Tse-Tung’s thought and strive to win final victory. ¥ After the rally, the workers and students staged a militant demonstration around the base, Marching at the head were demon- strators holding red banners inscribed with the slogan: ‘LONG LIVE MAO TSE-TUNG'S THOUGHT EXCLAMATION’ they appealed to the citizens to fight together with them for the dismantling of U.S, military bases. In Saitama Prefecture, about 300 young workers and students held a rally in Asaka City where a U.S, army field hospital and the office of the U.S, information service are located, The demon- strations expressed the determination to carry on till victory the struggle for the abrogation of the Japan-U.S. ‘Security Treaty’ and for the dismantling of U.S, military bases. After the rally, the participants held a demonstration and fought fiercely with 500 police sent by the reactionary Sato government. In Ibaraki Prefecture, about 5,000 workers, students and other citizens held a rally and demonstration in Katsuta City demanding the immediate dismantling of the U.S, military base in the city and opposing the building of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Tokai Village outside the city. About 400 young workers, students and other citizens held a rally near the U,S, army field hospital in Yokihama City to demand the removal of the hospital, The rally was followed by a demonstration. About 200 young workers and students from Kansai Area held a rally and demonstration in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, expressing their determination to struggle for the restoration of diplomatic relations between Japan and China and the smashing of the Japan-U,S, ‘Security Treaty’. Some 300 workers held a rally in front of Yamada ammunition depot of the U,S, air base in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, to demand the immediate dismantling of the depot. A vigorous demonstration was held after the rally. REVOLUTIONARY From page 3 regime of Salazar. While providing Salazar with more money and weapons, it has instigated its hatchetman in the southern part of Africa to send troops directly to Mozambique to suppress the people’s struggle there. The great leader Chairman Mao has taught us; ‘A nation, big or small, can defeat any enemy, however powerful, so long as it fully arouses its people, firmly relies on them and wages a people’s war.” The broad masses of the Mozambique patriotic armed fighters deeply understand that the enemy they are confronting is not only Portuguese colonialism but also vicious U.S, imperialism. There- fore, they should not cherish any illusion about easy victory. The Struggle is a protracted and arduous one, Nevertheless, they have stressed that even if their struggle for liberation should last for 20 or 30 years, they are determined to carry it through to final victory. POSITION PAPER #1 THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 20, 1968 Page 5 progresses one must make strong roots among the masses of the people. Then and only then can a Revolutionary Artist renew this visual interpretation of Revolutionary Art indefinitely until liberation. By making these strong roots among the masses of the Black People, the Revolutionary Artist rises above the confusion that the oppressor has brought on the colonized people, because all of us (as slaves) from the Christian to the brother on the block, the College student and the high school drop out, the street walker and the secretary, the pimp and the preacher, the domestic and the gangster; all the elements of the ghetto can understand Revolutionary Art. The Ghetto itself is the Gallery for the Revolutionary Artist’s drawings. His work is pasted on the walls of the ghetto, in stores front windows, fences, doorways, telephone poles and booths, passing buses, alleyways, gas stations, barber shops, beauty parlors, laundry mats, liquor stores, as well as the huts of the ghetto’s. This way the Revolutionary Artist educates the people as they go through their daily routine, from day to day, week to week, and month to month. This . way the Revolutionary Artist cuts through the smokescreens of the oppressor and creates brand new images of Revolutionary action—for the total community. Revolutionary Art is an extension and interpretation to the masses in the most simplest and obvious form. Without being a reyolutionary and committed to the struggle for libera- tion the artist could not express revolutionary at all. Revolu- tionary Art is learned in the ghetto from the pigs abolishes businessman to the Demagogue Politician and pig cops on the beat. Not in the schools of fine art. The revolutionary Artist hears the people screams which they are being attacked by the pigs. They share their curses when they feel like killing the pigs but are unequipped. He watches and hears the sounds of foot steps of black people trampling the ghetto streets and translates them into pictures of slow revolts against the slave- masters, stomping them in their brains with bullets—that we can have power and freedom to determine the destiny of our community and help to build “our world”. Revolutionary Art is a returning from the blind whereas we no longer let the oppressor lead us around like watchdogs. Black Spirit Racist S.F. School Shows It’s “Mural” By LINDA BOSTON Eyewitness Reports by Fred N. and Van Taylor San Francisco The Black Student Union of Washington High School is very uptight about a full-walled mural of George Washington shown in numerous guises por- traying Black slaves andscenes of other so-called historic shootings and killing of Indians, But before we fill you in on the latest accounts onthis issue we will give you a little back history on the subject. Last year. most of the high schools in San Francisco were busy trying to keep their third- world students from breaking up the schools with the usual be- fore the ‘‘long-hot-summer’’ school activities. Hypocritical Washington High attempted to lead the way; showing how deeply concerned the student body and faculty were with the present day problems of race relations. This show of false feeling didn’t fool the students of the poverty areas. In fact, most of them cut school that day because they were already tired of useless talk; and waiting on ‘the man” to come across with something more _ substantial than words, The solution: the student body of Washington High (consisting primarily of Chinese and We die, great Inferior feelings to blackness middle-class whites) together And unknown A thousand deaths with its isolated faculty decided We die And more, we die -- to throwthe first ‘‘break-thru’’, A‘ break-thru’’ is when all the . as Not as well Useless, for the fool students in school or from a By the Minister of Culture, as the lowest Black flesh return group of schools, get together Animal, we die to that which it came and try to decide how to bring EMORY Rous LAS about better relations and/or REVOLUTIONARY ART DOES NOT DEMAND Even they only Black spirit understanding between the ANYMORE SACRIFICE FROM THE die once of the flesh inherit the races, between the old and new REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST THAN WHAT IS bai werdia= Sane via eS generations, and other prob- DEMANDED FROM A TRAITOR (NEGRO) WHO DRAWS FOR THE OPPRESSOR. THEREFORE, THE CREATION OF REVOLUTIONARY ART IS NOT A TRAGEDY BUT AN HONOR AND DUTY THAT WILL NEVER BE REFUSED. Shirley Dixon Jems. Break-thru’s concen- trated mostly on campus life. Forget what happened outside of the school, that wasn’t their department. Supposedly, the Contd, on page 13 Yesterday, today, tomorrow By a glance a word, a whim -- Of a fool’s imagination EMORY REVOLUTIONARY ART begins with the program that Huey P. Newton instituted with the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. REVOLUTIONARY ART, like the Party, is for the whole community and its total problems. It gives the people the correct picture of our struggle whereas the Revolutionary Ideology gives the people the correct political understanding of our struggle. Before a correct visual interpretation of the struggle can be given, we must recognize that Revolutionary Art is an art that flows from the people. It must be a whole and living part of the people’s lives their daily struggle to survive. To draw about revolutionary things, we must shoot and/or be ready to shoot when the times comes. In order to draw about the people who are shooting, we must capture the true revolution in a pictorial fashion. We must feel what the people feel who throw rocks and bottles at the oppressor so that when we draw about it—so we can raise their level of consciousness to hand-grenades and dynamite to be launched at the oppressor. Revolutionary Art gives a physical confrontation with tyrants, and also enlightens the people to continue their vigorous attack by educating the masses through participation and observation. Through the Revolutionary Artist’s observation of the people, we can picture the territory on which we live (as slaves): project maximum damage to the oppressor with minimum damage.:to the people, and come out victorious. The Revolutionary Artist’s talents are just one of the weapons he uses in the struggle for Black People. His art becomes a tool for liberation. Revolutionary Art can thereby progress as the people progresses, because the People are the backbone to the Artist and not the Artist to the People. To conceive any type of visual interpretations of the struggle, the Revolutionary Artist must constantly be agitating the people, but before one agitates the people or progress as the struggle RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS - OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to either national, state and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other disciplinary action ncessary for violation of these rules will depend upon decisions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rules or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY were violated. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart, And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE FOLLOWING RULES ARE: 1, No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be drunk while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating tc office work, and general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, ANYWHERE, . No party member will point or fire a weapon unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone other than the enemy. 6. No party member can join any other army or force other than the BLACK LIBER- ATION ARMY, 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off narcotics or weed. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other members of BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people; not even a needle and a piece of thread, 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER PARTY members will give only name and address and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10, The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member, including all other material of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 6 By ‘OBSERVER’ | From page 2 Brown hopes to divorce the Vanguard Party from the black masses thereby seriously impairing or decapitating their struggle altogether. It is obvious, that Willie Brown Jr. has become an out and out renegade to the Liberation struggle, and having outlived his political usefulness, he must be eliminated from the political arena. There are definite reason why Brown could no longer maintain his cool and appear magnanimous to the activities of the Black Panther Party. There are definite reasons for him and his cohorts to stage that farce at Balboa High school in order for him to gain some po- litical capital, These reasons, of course, have to do with the ever sharpening of class struggle within the Black community, a spin- off of the acute contradictions between the black masses and the white ruling circles, It was not for naught, that Brown was given the podium at the Democratic National Convention and allowed to front for the interests of the Unruh faction of the California Democratic Party. Nor is it an accident, that behind the scenes, this mangy 4 i collection of saboteurs, Brown, Stokes, Hatcher, et al, were treated to a seminar on ‘‘new images’’, told to intensify their deception within the black community by adopting such titles as the ‘‘new breed’, eyen versed on how to ‘‘co-opt’’ the militants. It is no accident, that Alioto from time to time throws a few signals to Brown and his fellow-traveler, Francois, by extolling them to be- come ‘‘militant.’’ Nor is it fortuitous, that at a time when Reagan, Rafferty are spewing forth their racist demagogy against the correct tactics of the Black Panther Party, Cranston and Unruh also chime in to attack our party and its Minister of Information; for itis the latter two factions which pull the strings for and have hired out the negro lackey, Willie Brown. Some people who have not as yet seen through Willie Brown argue, ‘I do not agree with Willie Brown, but I do think he can be won over. He is possibly, the best of a bad lot’’. To this the reply can only be, to have faith in winning over Willie Brown is to have faith in winning over George Wallace, Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. This too, is a bad lot, But let no one think that no attempt was ever made to persuade Willie Brown to correct his past errors and come over to the side of black people. Throughout the early days of the liberation movement, polemics have carried out refuting his political errors. Even when he introduced the reactionary ‘‘gun control” legislation, his residence was picketed in an effort to give him a way out. But he stubbornly clung like grim death to his anti- black stance, refused to accept criticism, refused toturn over a new leaf, and has now rushed completely into the arms of the racist es- tablishment. Yes, Renegade Brown has now cut off completely his political umbilical cord with the black masses. by ‘‘Observer”’ by’s life be in vain? Or will black people finally wake up and start defending their right to live, or will they continue to let our brave warriors shed their blood one-by~one until the Black man no longer exists. It won’t happen again! STRUGGLE FOR OUR SURVIVAL The members of the Black Pan- ther Party must reinforce the idea that the orientation of the party is not social but political. Black peo- ple are engaged in a struggle for survival. The Panther Party, the vanguard group, exists to insure that this struggle will result in Seattle Pigs Murder Panther On the afternoon of October 5, 1968 at 4:25 p.m. another life was taken in fight for .Black liberation, Another Panther war- rior was violently taken from our midst. The cold-blooded, mur- dering, racist, dog, pigs took it upon themselves to take the life of another one of our black brothers, We knew him as a warrior, but all you need to know is that he was a young man, A young black man made to mature faster than he would have if he had chosen to live his life for himself. But he didn’t. This black warrior chose to fight for liberation of all black and oppressed people everywhere, And for this he died. His name was Welton Armstead. Welton Armstead, Known to all who loved him as ‘Butch’, Wel- ton, like another black young war- rior who also gave his life for the black liberation struggle, was only 17 years old, The other warrior, also a member of the Black Panther Party, Iam sure you have heard of; his name was Bobby Hutton. Both these bro- thers were murdered unnecessar- ily by cold-blooded pigs. Butch was shot down right be- fore the eyes of his mother and sister. They stood by and pleaded, helplessly as the racist pig took the life of their brother and son. Butch was taken to the hospital *The traditional role of the white racist has been to subdue and en- slave people of color. When these tactics were not successful the racist white proceeded to try and exterminate the race, In the case of the Indian, he almost achieved his goal of total genocide; but the black man will not passively accept this role of the murdered, we will survive - we will not react - but act, *Black leaders, Malcom, Huey, and Eldridge have impressed the inevitability of our survival upon us. Other black brothers Bobby, Tommy, Robert, have intensified our struggle to survive by picking up the gun. These members of the vanguard party went further to in- sure our survival - the survival of all Black People, they gave their total freedom for Black People.! : \ ni WM Hx N \ British Labour Party Conference Reflects Acute Financial Crisis LONDON-The recent annual conference of the British Labour Party, which is running the government for the British monopoly capitalists, clearly indicated Moribund British Imperialism is deeply and inextricably beset with political and economic crisis. The British Labour Government's reactionary economic policy of squeezing with relentless harshness the labouring people has not only evoked vehement opposition from the broad masses of the work- ing people, but has also brought about more bitter discord and squabbles within the party itself. The Labour Party conference was held from September 30 to October 4 in Blackpool, Although British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the various ministers of the Labour government did their utmost at the conference to defend their internal and external policies which have gone bankrupt one avter another, they nevertheless could-not conceal the dismay and fear of the British tuling circles in view of the rapid deterioration of the British financial and economic crisis, The Bourgeois press here admitted that the meeting was held “in a mood of depression and scepticism which is probably more profound than at any time since the war.” Since it came to power in October 1964, the British Labour Government has stepped up its attacks against the labouring people in order to defend the interests of monopoly capital and save British Imperialism from its doom. But actually the British financial and economic crisis has been’ going from bad to worse during the four years of the Labour government. The devaluation of the pound sterling in November last year, instead of improving the British trade and international payments situation as the Labour Party had hoped, has resulted in sharp increases in the payments deficits. The trade deficit in the first eight months of this year is almost three times that in the first nine months of last year. The deficit in international payments in the first half of this year approached the total figure for the whole of last year, and is even bigger than the deficit for 1965 and 1966 combined. Britain is also borrowing more and more money from other capitalist countries, In these circumstances, what the British Labour government has done in the past few years is to fleece the British working class and other labouring people in an attempt to shift the heavy burden of the financial and economic crisis onto them. It has not only resorted to large-scale capital concentration, merging factories and cutting down employment, but has also frozen or limited the wages of those workers in employment, raised taxes of various kinds and commodity prices, lowered the actual standard of living of the workers—all for the purpose of maintaining the huge profits of monopoly capital. But this perverted course followed by the Labour government has met with fierce counter-attacks from the British working class and aggravated the contradictions and quarrels within the La- bour Party itself, Such being the situation, head of the Labour government Harold Wilson and his company tried all the more laboriously to push through their party. But many delegates to the conference, under the pressure of the broad masses of the workers, voiced dissent from those policies, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Roy Jenkins cried out desperately at the conference about “belt- tightening austerity”, “hard work”, etc. openly asking the British people to sacrifice everything for the monopoly capitalists, At the same time, the La- bour Party bigwigs had to admit that the mortally ailing British capitalist economy was fast deteriorating. Particularly noteworthy was the fact that while the conference was going on, dozens of placard-waving representatives of miners broke into the meeting place to protest against the closing down of many mines by the Labour gov- ernment, which displaced tens of thousands of miners every year, This un- precedented event shows the British working people’s rising sentiments of revolt against the British ruling circles. More and more of them have seen through the British Labour Party as a tool of British monopoly captial. D.C. PIGS MURDER A BROTHER By “Commentator” Another blood-debt was made to | after the disturbance, (more than likely already dead) while his mother and sister were taken to jail and jailed for ‘in- terfering with an arrest.’ All they did was plead for Butch’s life. Butch’s life could have been spared, for the pigs were in arm distance of him when they will- fully murderedhim. But they chose to kill him because it was, just another case of where they show- ed their true feelings for all the black people in the racist country. Will Butch’s life, as well as Bob- lives. This example of undying love for your people is ultimate proof of our eminent survival. When you can live and die for your brothers and sisters, survival against the racist pigs is in- evitable, *The members of the vanguard party - The Black Panther Party - will by their very existence rein- force the ideals of survival. The predatory racist pig will not de- termine our ultimate survival. the black people of Washington D.C, in the killing of a black youth by the re- actionary D.C. pigs. According to re- ports from Washington, the D.C. pigs shot the young brother in the down- town area of Washington. This in turn brought an immediate response from the black people of the district who went into the street and demonstrated their anger at this latest racist outrage. This action in turn, struck terror into the hearts of the ruling circles in Wash- ington who immediately called out their so-called “civil disturbance unit” to suppress the black people with tear gas and other chemical agents, At the same time, they ordered the huge D.C. stadium made available for National Guard “reserves” to be held in stand- by. The panic-stricken ruling circles of Washington are scared out of their wits at the mere thought of black people taking over the entire city as a result of the courageous struggle they waged at the time of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Washington quickly an- nounced through their negro puppet running dog, “the temporary suspen- sion” of the racist pig who murdered the brother. This is part of the counter- -revolutionary dual tactics of violent Denver Pigs Incite Riot Eyewitness report by LAUREN R, WATSON Chairman, Denver B,P.P. Pigs make brutal attack on black community - shoot up Panther of- fice - arrest Panthers on false charges - deny testimony of Pan- ther witnesses. DENVER --~ After minor, neigh- borhood incident, numerous pigs flaunted their vicious gestapotac- tics. The pigs made a brutal assault on the citizens of the black com- munity. Pigs became uptight when citi- zens of the black community turned to the Black Panther Party, anor- ganization of and for black people, for help. Well-equiped pigs attacked the black community with every riot control weapon invented. Mace was sprayed into elderly Black women and young childrens’ eyes. Bystand- ers were viciously beaten with riot clubs and gun butts. The pigs stated to the Denver Press that they had just reasons for using brute force. Reason: A report from a racist merchant that looting was going on in his *highway-robbery’ establishment. Although after the minor dis- turbance had quieted down, thera- cist pigs, because they had not had a chance to kill any black people, shot into the Black Pan- ther office hoping to get a victim. The office is also living quarters for Chairman Lauren Watson, a few other brothers and sisters were also there at the time, But the pigs didn’t stay for a fight they broke the speed limit trying to get away, Watson held a press conference on this incident, but it was carried in only one paper. One of the reporters from another paper in- formed Watson that his editor and the F,B.I, had warned him not to print the story. Watson and other members of the Panther Party were arrested and charged with misdemeanor counts, on different occasions during and In add- ition, Watson was also charged with conspiracy to incite arson, and conspiracy to incite destruct- ion of life and property. These charges carry a sentence of 30 years in prison. When Watson and the other bro- thers went to be arrainged, the Judge refused to hear or take into evidence any comments made by the people of the black commu- nity on behalf of the Panther bro- thers, Showing us again what kind of injustice can be expected from the pig’s court. repression and political deception which is becoming more and more the vogue of the ruling class’ politicians, What is the suspension of one pig when hundreds of police and troops «are called in to violently suppress the legit- imate protests against the counter-rev- olutionary violence used against black people? Counter-revolutionary violence must be met with revolutionary vio- lence, These atrocities by the pigs against black people are blood-debts. Debts extracted in blood, must be re- paid in blood. The Black community will not forget, nor will the Black Pan- ther Party forget. EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE BLACK PANTHER Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense HUEY NEWTON (CMF — Vacaville Prison) Chairman BOBBY SEALE Editor Ministor of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Managing Editor Deputy Minister of Information RAYMOND LEWIS Revolutionary Artist and Lay-out Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Ass't Revolutionary Artist MATILABA Political Editor JAY WHITE Editorial Assistance UNDA BOSTON Student Editor (BSU, Berkeley H.S.) IRIS WYSE Staff Writers BILL SHERMAN FRANK JONES HOSEA MILLS ekly circulation and our national and interna- — rage. To do this we need your aid. Please send ormation, and contributions. Help us | ubscriptions to The Black Panther — CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Chairman BOBBY SEALE Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff DAVID HILLARD Field Marshals UNDERGROUND Minister of Education GEORGE MURRAY Minister of Finance MELVIN NEWTON *Minister of Justice H. RAP BROWN Prime Minister STOKELY CARMICHAEL Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS THE BLACK PANTHER — BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE — P.O. Box 8641, Emeryville Branch Oakland, California 94608 WANTED DEAD SF. PIG MICHAEL O'BRIEN OOOO bs seen DOR DOC DoT iS SO ore ODOR a est ie rashes RAP TOARTO APO AMO AP OPO AP ast Sor “a0zer4 ee erozenn sab ~ oe rans De Ts THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 7 10 POINT PROGRAM AND PLATFORM OF THE BLACK STUDENT UNIONS We want an education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want an education that teaches us our true history and role in the present day society. We believe in an educational system that will give our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. 1. _WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR SCHOOL. We believe that we will not be free within the schools to get a decent education unless we are able to have a say and determine the type of education that will affect and determine the destiny of our people. 2. WE WANT FULL ENROLLMENT IN THE SCHOOLS FOR OUR PEOPLE. We believe that the city and federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man a decent education. 3. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE WHITE MAN OF OUR BLACK COMMUNITY. We believe that this racist government has robbed us of an education. We believe that this racist capitalist government has robbed the Black Community of its money by forcing us to pay higher taxes for less quality. 4. WE WANT DECENT EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, FIT FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. We believe that if these businessmen will not give decent facilities to our community schools, then the schools and their facilities should be taken out of the hands of these few individual racists and placed into the hands of the community, with government aid, so the community can develop a decent and suitable educational system. 5. WE WANT AN EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT TEACHES US HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE PRESENT DAY SOCIETY. We believe that if the educational system does not teach us how to survive in society and the world it loses its meaning for existence. 6. WE WANT ALL RACIST TEACHERS TO BE EXCLUDED AND RESTRICTED FROM ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS. We believe that if the teacher in a school is acting in racist fashion then that teacher is not interested in the welfare or development of the students but only in their destruction. 7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE. WE WANT ALL POLICE AND SPECIAL AGENTS TO BE EXCLUDED AND RESTRICTED FROM SCHOOL PREMISES. We believe that there should be an end to harasment by the police department of Black people. We believe that if all of the police were pulled out of the schools, the schools would become more functional. 8. WE WANT ALL STUDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN EXEMPT, EXPELLED, OR SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL TO BE REINSTATED. We believe all students should be reinstated because they haven’t received fair and impartial judgment or have been put out because of incidents or situations that have occured outside of the schools authority. 9. WE WANT ALL STUDENTS WHEN BROUGHT TO TRIAL TO BE TRIED IN STUDENT COURT BY A JURY OF THEIR PEER GROUP OR STUDENTS OF THEIR SCHOOL. We believe that the student courts should follow the United States Constitution so that students can receive a fair trial. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by a jury of his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economical, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court would be forced to select a jury of students from the community from which the defendent came. We have been and are being tried by a white principal, vice-principal, and white students that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the Black Community. 10. WE WANT POWER, ENROLLMENT, EQUIPMENT, EDUCATION, TEACHERS, JUSTICE, AND PEACE. As our major political objective, an assembly for the student body, in which only the students will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of the students as to the school’s destiny. We hold these truths as being self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights within the schools, governments are instituted among the students, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of student government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the students to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, and accordingly all experiences have shown, that mankind are more liable to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and force, pursuing invariably the same object, reveals a design to reduce them to absolute destruction, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government and to provide new guards for their future security. se DO mat e Sat = 3; p “as an Br LOLOL DOO eH 3 ozeset Ds B rao! Us ee 50054 40: SOR HK KK OR KO at 7 RTS DoT mT RDO satchel sai ao osx Day oe D> oo THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19,1968 Page 8 Berkely H. S. B.S.C. Meeting With School Administration by Iris Wyse Student Editor The B.S.U, met with the Berkeley Board of Education this week (Oc- tober 15), The meeting was held because the pigs on the board just wanted to rap, and didn’t want to get down to our demands, Our de- mands were listed in last week's Black Panther Newspaper. At this meeting the administra- tion told us that they were working on all of our demands, i.e., ex- cept for the last one: ‘‘Removal of all law enforcement officers.’’ Mr. Pig said that it is necessary for little pigs to be on campus, But to pacify us, they agreed to change police names to “‘CAMPUS SU- PERVISORS"’ Just as before they moved us up on the agenda. They stated that they wanted to meet with us a third time. Pig Sullivan started to jive around by saying he never received a list of our demands. He knew very well he did, because he started rapping off our demands saying that he was working on every de- mand. They also agreed to have that course on racism and Afro-Amer- ican history. That one was a real tuffy. One of the pigs on the board got réal nervous, and just kept oinking. He didn’t even know what he was oinking about. At the Octo- ber lst meeting, a teacher got up- tight and said that he had been teaching for ten years; that he wasn't going to take any of these courses; these courses are for elementary as well as secondary teachers. About half of the teachers will only take these courses if they haye to, and some of them would rather quit. The secretary of the B.S.U, brought in the names of twenty- five black teachers to teach the classes that we demanded, Includ- ing two black counselors, The in- terviewing of these teachers will begin sometime next week. One of the man’s establishment papers put down a large article on the soul food. You know the pigs must think that the only thing we are interested in is our stomachs. I noticed at that first meeting, They spent a whole lot of time onthe soul food. Saying, in effect, they would specifically be there for the ‘‘soul food.”’ Well, you know how a pig is. The racists students of B.H.S. have been trying to call our de- mands silly by writing ignorant articles in their Daily Jacket. They are going to strike if they don’t get recognized by the B.O. C, 2.) If they don't get pizza cer- tain days every week. 3.) Courses in pizza making be included in the cooking classes 4.) That their be a course in the making of pizza. Other third-world students of Berkeley High School have started another student union, But they say that they are not following the same pattern of the Black Student Union. Their goals are to unify the Jap- anese and Chinese students at B.H.S. In due time, though, the Yellow, Brown, and Black People of the world shall unite as one, and overcome this white racist ruled establishment. The time has come. BLACK STUDENTS LIBERATION IS A BLACK STUDENT THING SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLACK PANTHER CRY FOR BLACK NUN POWER To be a female member of the Roman Catholic Church is to be a second-class citizen. To be a Roman Catholic nun is to be a double victim of institutional paternalism. But what if you are a black Roman Catholic nun? That makes your minority position so infinitesimal as to cause others to marvel at your very existence. It also makes it almost mandatory that, for your psychological survival, you unite with others like you. This is precisely what happened at Mt. Mercy College in Pittsburgh, where the First National Black Sisters Conference took place Aug. 17-24. Some 157 nuns, representing 78 religious orders, were in attendance. (No accurate figures are available, but it is estimated there are 1,000 black nuns in the U.S.) The median age of conference participants was 30; the older nuns be- longed to the few exclusively American Negro religious communities. Conference proceedings were taped, but whites and re- porters were politely excluded from all sessions except one afternoon panel discussion. Dr. Nathan Wright, Ur- ban Work director of the Newark Episcopal diocese, ex: plained: “We are a family here . . . an all-black family.” He said he feared the presence of whites would inhibit open, candid discussion by the nuns. Rev. Louis Burrell, S.V.D., endorsed the policy at the open forum: “My white brethren are feeling now what we have experi- enced every day. Perhaps you even feel some humiliation and degradation. All I can say is: ‘Welcome to the club.’ ” The nuns applauded. It seemed obvious during the open session that the nuns thought of themselves as blacks first and Roman Catholic religious second. A black Protestant minister from Pittsburgh, Rey. Frederick Gray, touched black pride when he said: “I am delighted to know that you are not only sisters in the cloth, but my soul sisters as well.” He was wildly applauded. Two themes emerged at the open session: black pan- “The Spirit of the People Technology” elists and black nuns both rejected “the myth of integra- tion”; they were equally insistent on Black Power, de- fined as black self-determination. A number of nuns said that neither open housing nor integrated schools was their goal. What they want is improved ghetto housing and better qualified teachers (blacks?), who are sensi- tive to the needs of black children and familiar with black culture. The Black Power theme was underscored by a total rejection of white leadership. Father Lawrence Lucas, . §.V.D., Harlem-born pastor of St. Francis de Sales par- ish in Indianapolis, defined the issue: “Whites no longer can be leaders, or spokesmen, or helpers of blacks. Whites must now be learners, listeners and supporters of black leadership.” He added: “Blacks now say to the white community: ‘Thanks to you, we have arrived. We are teady and willing to stand on our own fect. This. we assume, has been your goal’. One panelist, the Rev, John Long, a white Presbyte- rian minister who has spent the past four years in Pitts- burgh’s Manchester ghetto, defended white presence in black communities but added that those whites who live among blacks must be very unusual people—“the best the Christian Church can provide.” But Long was openly discouraged about the chances of the white power structure accepting black demands for self-determination. He said he fears Nixon as Pres- ident, a far swing to the right, the return of McCarthyism, and a heightened emphasis on law and order to the det- riment of racial justice. He remarked: “Frankly, Sisters, I think we're in for a helluva future.” But this apocalyptic view failed to:elicit any sympathy from the nuns. A black sister strode to the microphone: “You said you believe ‘We're in for a helluva future.” May I remind you that we black Americans have had a helluva past.” She sat down to the loudest applause) of the afternoon. Greater than the Mans HUEY P. NEWTON THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19,1968 Page 9 FEAR AND DOUBT By Huey P. Newton MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ’ Le May 15, 1967 Editor’s Note: “Fear and doubt” is published in essays from the Minister of Defense) The lower socio-economic Black male is a man of confusion. He faces a hostile environment and is not sure that it is not his own sins that have attracted the hostilities of society. All his life he has been taught (explicity and implicitly) that he is an inferior approximation of humanity. As a man, he finds himself void of those things that bring respect and a feeling of worthiness. He looks around for some- thing to blame for his situation, but because he is not sophisticated regarding the socio-economic milieu and because of negativistic paren- tal and institutional teachings, he ultimately blames himself. When he was a child, his parents told him that they were not affluent because “we didn’t have the opportunity to become educated,” or “we did not take advantage of the educational opportunities that were offer- ed to us.” They tell their children that things will be different for them if they are educated and skilled, but that there is absolutely nothing other than this occasional warning (and often not even this) to stim- ulate education. Black people are great worshippers of education, even the lower socio-economic Black person, but at the same time. they are afraid of exposing themselves to it. They are afraid because they are vulnerable to having their fears verified; perhaps they will find that they can’t compete with white students. The Black person tells him- self that he could have done much more if he had really wanted to. The fact is, of course, that the assumed educational opportunities were never available to the lower socio-economic Black person due to the unique position assigned him in life. It is a two-headed monster that haunts this man. First, his attitude is that he lacks innate ability to cope with the socio-economic prob- lems confronting him, and second, he tells himself that he has the ability but he simply has not felt strongly enough to try to acquire the skills needed to manipulate his environment. In a desperate effort to assume self-respect. he rationalizes that he is lethargic; in this way, he denies a possible lack of innate ability. If he openly attempts to dis- cover his abilities, he and others may see him for what he is — or is not, and this is the real fear. He then withdraws into the world of the invisible, but not without a struggle. He may attempt to make himself visible by processing his hair. acquiring a “boss mop.” or driving a long car, even though he can’t afford it. He may father several illegiti- mate children by several different women in order to display his mas- culinity. But in the end, he realizes that he is ineffectual in his efforts. Society responds to him as a thing, a beast. a non-entity, something to be ignored or stepped on. He is asked to respect laws that do not respect him. He is asked to digest a code of ethics that acts upon him but not for him. He is confused and in a constant state of rage, of shame and doubt. This psychological set permeates all his interpersonal relationships. It determines his view of the social system. His psycholo- gical development has been prematurely arrested. This doubt begins ata very early age and continues through his life. The parents pass it on to the child and the social system reinforces the fear, the shame, and the doubt. In the third or fourth grade. he may find that he shares the classroom with white students, but when the class is engaged in reading exercises, all the Black students find themselves in a group at a table reserved for slow readers. This may be quite an innocent effort on the part of the school system. The teacher may not realize that the Black students feared (in fact, feel certain) that Black means dumb and white means smart. The children do not realize that the head start the children got at home is what accounts for the situation. It is generally accepted that the child is the father of the man; this holds true for the lower socio-economic Black people. With whom, with what can he. a man, identify? As a child he had no permanent male figure with whom to identify; as a man, he sees nothing in society with which he can identify as an extension of him- self. His life is built on mistrust, shame, doubt, guilt, inferiority, role confusion, isolation and despair. He feels that he is something less than a man, and it is evident in his conversation: “the white man is ‘THE MAN. he got everything. and he knows everything. and a nigger aint nothing.” In a society where a man is valued according to occu- pation and material possessions. he is without possessions. He is un- skilled and more often than not. cither marginally employed or un- employed. Often his wife (who is able to secure a job as a maid cleaning for white people) is the breadwinner. He is. therefore. viewed as quite worthless by his wife and children. He is ineffectual both in and out of the home. He cannot provide for or protect his family. He is invisible. a non-entity. Society will not acknowledge him as a man. He is a con- sumer and not a producer. He is dependent upon the white man (THE MAN’) to feed his family. to give him a job, educate his children, serve as the model that he tries to emulate. He is dependent and he hates >THE MAN’ and he hates himself. Who is he? Is he a very old adolescent or is he the slave he used to be? What did he do to be so BLACK and blue? Vietnam Che Guevara on from page 3 grasped that there were to be no elections unless the United States ‘felt capable of imposing its will at the ballot box, something it could not do, even with all the methods of electoral fraud it knew. Again they initiated struggles in the south part of the country and these have been gaining in intensity up tothe present moment in which the North American army has reached almost a half million invaders, while the puppet forces are declining in number, and above all, have completely lost the will to fight. It is about two years since the North Americans began systematic- ally bombing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in another attempt to overcome the militancy in the south and to impose a conference from a position of strength. At the beginning, the bombings were more or less episodic and were presented in the guise of reprisals for alleged provocations from the north, Then they increased methodically in intensity until they became converted into a gigantic attack carried out by the air forces of the United States day after day, with the aim of destroying every vestige of civilization in the northern zone of the country. It is an episode in the somber and famous escalation. The material aims of the Yankee circles have been achieved in good part despite the intrepid defense put up by the Vietnamese antiaircraft batteries, the more than 1,700 . planes brought down and military supplies provided by the socialist camp. This is the painful reality: Vietnam, a nation representing the as- pirations, the hopes for victory of the entire world of the disin- herited, is tragically alone. This nation must endure the pounding of North American tech- nique, operating almost scotfree in the south, with some possibilities of defense in the north, but always alone. The solidarity of the progressive world for the Vietnamese people has something of the bitter irony faced by the gladiators in the Roman Circus when they won the applause of the plebians. To wish the victims success is not enough, the thing is to share their fate, to join them in death or victory. When we analyze the isolation of the Vietnamese we feel anguished over the logic of its meaning for humanity. North American imperialism is guilty of aggression. Its crimes are immense, extending over the whole world. We already know this gentlemen! CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE MEXICAN STUDENT STRUGGLE SHAKES LATIN AMERICA * From page 3 occasions called out armored cars and helicopters and even used bazookas against the students, On July 26, when tens of thousands of students in the Mexican captial held a demonstration and parade in honor of the Cuban Revolution, the authorities called out a large number of troops and police to disperse the demonstrating students. But the students fought back bravely; they overturned cars and threw up barricades, waging a pitched battle against the reactionary troops and police, When thousands of Mexico City students held another demonstration on the night of July 29 and marched towards the U.S. Embassy, the reaction- ary troops and police committed a more savage repression. Early the next morning, they opened fire with bazookas to blast open the gate of middle school where demonstrating students were assembled, then charged in with clubs and barbarously attacked the students, The intensified repression aroused stiffer resistance from the students, Be- ginning August 5, the students of the Capital held a series of demonstrations in which tens of thousands took part, On August 13, some 80,000 students in Mexico City, scorning the intimidation of the reactionary authorities, held a parade, the columns of which extended for more than five kilometres, and staged a grand rally at the “Central Square” (Zocalo) near the National Palace, to strongly protest against the brutalities committed by the troops and police against the students. The demonstration thus pushed to a new high the strug- gle against persecution and repression, Rape of Cambodia PHNOM PENN, The Foreign Ministry of the Royal Government of Cambodia in notes dated Sep- tember 30 to the U.S, Govern- ment and the Saigon puppet clique strongly protested against the crimes of their troops in intruding into Cambodian territory in Svay Rieng, Kompong Cham and Prey Veng Provinces on September D5 8, 9, 11, 13, and 22, the Cambodian news agency reported yesterday. The notes said that on those days, the U.S, - South Viet Nam puppet troops fired with artillery pieces and automatic weapons and intruded into Cambodian territory resulting in one Cambodian in- habitant killed and five others wounded, Aircraft of the U,.S.- Saigon puppet clique also sprayed poisonous chemicals on Cambodian soil, seriously affecting livestock and crops of the inhabitants there. ‘PROTEST’ DAYS OVER “Protest” days are over. The revolu- tion is on! You revolutionists Brothers and Sis- ters, the time is now! We fight for what is ours, we will get what is ours and if necessary, take back what is ours. To hell with the laws of the land, Where has it gotten Black People? Slav- ery? Handouts? Begging? Stealing? Punished for menial things and given long sentences for trivial offences? Pushed off into the ghettos? Our rights literally taken away? The laws take our properties; the laws kill us in the na- tion’s execution houses; the laws keep us from having the necessities of life. They call this (America) the land of the free? That’s not bull jive, that’s pig jive. During the time of mourning for Martin Luther King, America’s govern- ment of racist pigs had the audacity to cancel peace talks, political business stopped or slowed (the pigs couldn’t very well feed their pig jive to the na- tions when they had the people ice skating in Pig jive in their own back- yard and one had been offed and they couldn’t hide it) so that they could mourn as a front or cover-up as to .| “who had done it and it wasn’t me”, The pigs realized the grave error they had committed when they looked up from bowed heads and saw that the world as well as the Black People really loved and respected this non-violent Black man and what he stood for which was only freedom and the rights of his people. The pig bowed his head again and thought, “Now that I’ve done away with this Black, it will frighten the others and they won’t pro- test again”. They said “We'll oink-cry too because you've lost a freedom fighter. We needed a front anyway, be- cause the world is hip to our pig jive”. “Protesting”, I'd rather die fighting because I see protesting as a form of begging and we no longer do this. “Protesting” is over and the revolu- tion is on and the Pigs are up for slaughter if they don’t get to hell out of the way and shove their laws up, The militants have come forth to the front line ready to fight and die and WILL MAKE THE SKY THE LIMIT because they just don’t consider it any more! Panther Sermon .... ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 20, 1968 Bobby Seale CHAIRMAN, BLACK PANTHER PARTY WILL SPEAK AND DELIVER “A PANTHER SERMON” TO THE CONGREGATION AND'GUESTS OF THE MACEDONIA MISS|ONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 10:30 A.M. — REV. G.G. BEAFORD, PASTOR 2135 Sutter Street (BEGWEEN PIERCE AND STEINER STS.) SAN FRANCISCO SERMON WILL BE: “TRUTH IN DEALING WITH RACISM IN U.S. AND WORLD” 10:30 AM. — SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 1968 THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19,1968 Page 10 Contd from PAGE 1 The Black Liberation struggle for freedom and emancipation in the past five years, like a roaring voleano which erupts ever more furiously year by year, rocked the United States and violently shook the reactionary rule of U.S. imperialism at home. It brings into bold relief the sharpening class and national contradictions in the United States and the grave political and economic crises confronting U.S. imperialism today. It fully demonstrates the ex- tremely powerful revolutionary force latent in the more than 20 million Black Liberations. Increasingly Heightened Political Consciousness, Stronger Resistance A marked characteristic displayed the the Black Liberations in their struggles in the past five years is that they have become in- creasingly conscious of the need to fight for their own emancipa- tion. They have steadily and resolutely done away with ‘“non- violence."’ They are waging a violent struggle against racial op- pression — a struggle which is growing wider and wider in scale and becoming ever fiercer. The ‘‘freedom march” against racial discrimination by about 250,000 Black Liberators in Washington in 1963 belonged to the category of ‘“‘non-violence.’’ The struggle by Black Liberators in the Harlem District of New York City, in July 1964, when they fought thousands of troops and police with rocks, clubs and in- cendiary bottles for six days and nights on end marked the be- ginning of the large-scale violent struggle of Black Liberators against racial oppression. From then on, the Black Liberators violent struggle spread like a prairie fire all over the United Sttates. According to the greatly minimized statistics of the U.S. bourgeois press, the Black Liberation struggle by violence broke out in 15 cities in 1964 and 9 cities in 1965. It rapidly spread to 38 cities in 1966, to as many as 128 cities in 1967, and to 131 cities in the first half of 1968. Of these, the struggles by violent means which occurred in the Watts District of Los Angeles in 1965, in Chicago in 1966. and in Newark and Detroit in 1967 were on a comparatively large scale. In these struggles, the Black people shouted: “It is better to fight on your feet than to live on your knees:” This has fully shown the Black Liberators dauntless mili- tant spirit. Black Liberation clergyman Martin Luther King, an advocate of non-violence. was murdered by an imperialist pig in April 1968. This served as a further profound lesson to the broad masses of Black people in the United States. and set off a new storm of struggle against violent repression. which swept more than a hundred American cities. Shouting “It's time to get our guns and Contd next column BLACK LIBERATION go out into the streets, the Black Liberators attacked the fascist troops and policemen, set fire to shops of white racists, and com- pletely upset the reactionary social order. Big cities such as Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Baltimore were thrown into great confusion. Alarmed by the vigorous devvelop- ment of the Black Liberators violent struggle. the Western bour- geois press more than once admitted that “non-violence is fin- ished,” GENOCIDE Against Vietnamese by Fascist War - GENOCIDE Against Afro Americans by Racist Law! PSSST ee Opposing Racial Oppre Agression Against Vietnam An important indication of the Black Liberations rapid political awakening is that more and more of them are now linking up their struggle for emancipation with the struggle against the U.S. im- perialist policy of aggression abroad. Some of the more advanced elements among the Black people have begun to realize that Black Liberationists can never win complete emancipation unless the imperialist system is smashed. In their struggles during the past few years, Black Liberators have fought against racial discrimination and racial oppression with unprecedented fury. Shouting the slogan “Black power,” they have un akably made clear their determination to win their own emancipation. At the same time, they are taking an active part in the American people’s struggle against the war of aggression in Vietnam, thereby hitting directly at U.S. imperial- ism’s policy of aggression. In order to develop this struggle in an organized way, the Black people in various parts of the country have set up organizations against the war of aggression in Viet- nam. Last March, Black people set up the “National Black Anti- War, Anti-Draft| Union.” The Black masses’ anti-war demonstra- tions have gained ever greater momentum. Their slogan was: “End the dirty war in Vietnam!” The Black Liberators strong opposition to U.S. imperialism’s aggressive war against Vietnam was sharply highlighted by the refusal of many young Black Liberators to be drafted. They burnt their draft cards and drove away draft officials who went to col- leges or universities for Black Liberators to collect cannon- fodder. In their anti-draft struggle, Black students shouted: “Our battlefield is right here in the United States!" Among those Black youths who have been drafted, not a few have defied the U.S. imperialists’ “military laws” and refused to serve as their instru- ment of murder. A number of Black soldiers stationed in Texas distributed leaflets, publicizing the idea that what the Black people should do is to oppose aggression and rise in revolution. Many Black soldiers brought to the Vietnam battlefield refused to carry out combat orders. They are also giving active support to their brothers at home in their struggle against violent repression by constantly sending back guns and ammunition to arm their com- rades-in-arms. It was reported that some of the weapons used by the Black people in the recent struggle against violent repression in Cleveland were sent back by Black soldiers from Vietnam. The Black Man Fights in VIETNAM for the White Man’s Right to LYNCH HIM! ROCIO ICTS AICI INICIO Undaunted in Face of Racist Violence, Invulnerable to Deception The mighty storm of the Black Liberation struggle in the past few years took place in the very heartland of the U.S. ruling circles at a time when U.S. imperialism was beset. with difficul- ties at home and abroad. It has thus dealt the U.S. imperialists a very hard blow politically and economically. Badly mauled, the U.S. rulers have stepped up their counter-revolutionary two-faced tactics of violent suppression and political deception in an attempt to put out the raging glames of the Black Liberation struggle. But the Black people have become stronger than ever in the struggle; they refuse to submit to racist violence or to be taken in by decep- tion. This is a striking manifestation of the revolutionary spirit of the Black masses, of their heroism and perseverance. Under the heavy blows of the Black Liberators struggle, re- actionary U.S. ruling circles have frequently called out the Nation al Guardsmen to suppress the Black people. At the peak of the Black people's nationwide struggle against violent repression in April this year, the Johnson Administration called out more than 70,000 men from the army and the National Guards to carry out a vicious suppression. Even the Associated Press had to admit that this was “apparently the largest military deployment for a civil emergency in American history.” In late April. the U.S. De- fense Department set up a “special command” to control “riots” and established units in active service responsible for directing the suppression of the Black people’s struggle against violent re- pression. The U.S. army has increased the number of its “special force” units charged with the task of suppressing the people's struggle from seven to twelve. While intensifying fascist’ suppression, the reactionary U.S. ruling circles have resorted to political tricks with redoubled efforts. In the last few years, the U.S. authorities signed one or two “civil rights bills” in the White House with a big fanfare every year to hold out some empty promises or a little bit of economic bait in order to hoodwink the Black masses and make them give up their struggle. At the same time, the reactionary U.S. ruling circles have also picked out a few reactionary stooges from among the Black people and made them judges. congressmen. and even general§ or mayors so as to put up a faca of the people on the one hand and, on t Black Liberation struggle directly But neither violent suppression nor pol the advance o f the tidal waves of the ainst racial oppression. Not long afte swept more than 120 U.S. cities in Api pppression was sounded again in Cleve summer. And it is precisely in Clevel U.S. reactionary ruling group has_ inst the Black people’s struggle for emancipi powerful. Armed with machineguns and « masses in Cleveland fought a fierce battk ing 3 reactionary policemen and woundir that the Black people are continuously | their struggle against violent repression. New Clarion Call for American P As the political and economic crises of bad to worse, the mounting struggle of th ing a more powerful impetus to the sI people in other fields, particularly the students. In the American student move: are the most courageous and resolute, ani front of the struggle. Almost all of the struggles against the reactionary authorit in colleges for Black Liberators or wer dents. Thanks to the stimulus given by progressive student movement in the L rapid development in the last few years tions took place in more than 100 Ame! five months of this year. The large-scale Columbia University in New York in M ination, the U.S. aggressive war in Vietn tion lasted over a month and shook the shoulder to shoulder, Black and white sity occupied a number of school build hoisted red flags, detained the dean, se president, and on several occasions fot several thousand fascist police sent to suppre: While the struggle of the black Liberat at the reactionary rule of the U.S. mon workers’ movement in the United . State momentum. Strike struggles have bee (Oo put up a facade to gain the confidence hand and, on the other, to sabotage the rectly. : pression nor political deception can stop | waves of the Black Liberation struggle Not long after the powerful struggle S. cities in April, gunfire against racial again in Cleveland and other cities this isely in nd and Gary where the group has installed Black mayors that le for emancipation has been the most ichineguns and other weapons, the Black nt a fierce battle for a whole night. kill- en and wounding 19 others. This shows e continuously making rapid progress in { repression. ll for American People’s Struggle nomic erises of U.S. imperialism go from 1g struggle of the Black Liberators is giv- ipetus to the struggle of the American particularly the struggle ohe progressive n student movement, the Black students and resolute, and they stand in the fore- nost all of the U.S. progressive students* ctionary authorities have first developed berators or were sparked by Black stu- mulus given by the Black students, the ment in the United States has had a > last few years. Strikes and demonstra- than 100 American colleges in the first The large-scale strike which occurred at New York in May against racial discrim- ve war in Vietnam and political persecu- and shook the whole country. Fighting ack and white students of this univer- of school buildings several times. They -d the dean, searched the office of the il occasions fought fiercely against the ice sent to suppress them. he black Liberators has dealt hard blows f the U.S. monopoly capitalist class, the 1e United. States has also been gaining gles have been surging forward one after another since last year and have reached the highest level in the past 15 years in both momentum and magnitude. It should be noted that since more and more Black Liberators have been compelled to move to cities or towns, the majority of the Black people have now become workers or unemployed workers. Many have taken an active part in the struggle against racial oppression, thus bringing the militancy of this struggle into the workers’ move- ment. In July last year, the strike called by about 200 Black Lib- eration workers in the transportation department of the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in protest against overtime work imposed by the capitalists rapidly developed into a large-scale company-wide strike involving 20,000 Black and white workers in the shipyard. The strikers engaged the fascist troops and policemen in a fierce fight. Also in July last year when the Black Liberation struggle against racial oppression broke out in Detroit, a large number of poor white workers there actively joined the struggle. All this shows that the struggle of the Black people in the United States is bound to step by step embark on the correct road of merging with the American workers’ movement. Anti-Draft Demonstration PEKING, October 8 --More than 2,000 Americans in Baltimore held a demonstration yesterday against the U.S, imperialist war of ag- gression in Viet Nam and strongly protested against the reactionary U. S. ruling circles’ persecution of American youth who refused to serve as cannon-fodder for them, according to reports from Balti- more. The federal court in Baltimore was prepared yesterday to put nine young Americans on “‘trial’’ who receutly burned their draft cards in public in protest against the war of aggression in Viet Nam. This act of the reactionary U.S. ruling circles met with strong resistance of the broad masses of the American people. In solidarity with the nine American youth and in protest against the persecution of them, more than 2,000 Americans in Baltimore demonstrated for more ‘than two hours yesterday. They carried placards demanding the withdrawal of U.S, aggressor . ‘ troops from Viet Nam. The demonstration forced the reactionary U.S. ruling circles to Postpone the ‘‘trial’’. * ON STRUGGLE SHOWS PROGRESS _ At the crucial moment when the struggle of the Black people in the United States was surging ahead and the struggle of the other American working people was also gaining momentum, our great leader Chairman Mao on April 16 this year issued a statement in support of the — mxlesAvbcikwcuggle against violent repression. Chairman Mao pointed out: “The Struggle of the Black people in the United States is bound to merge with the American workers’ movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class.” Chairman Mao issued the great militant call: “People of the whole world, unite still more closely and launch a sustained and vigorous offensive against our common enemy, U.S. imperialism, and against its accomplices!” During the past five years, the waves of the Black people's struggle for emancipation in the United States have been surging ahead mightily. The raging flames of the world’s people’s struggle against U.S. imperialism are burning brighter and bright- er with each passing day. It is certain that the reactionary rule of U.S. imperialism will not last long. | a Chairman Mao, right, and his comrade-in-arms, Vice Chairman Lin Piao. EXCELLENT HARVEST PEKING -- Reports from all parts of the country show that 1968 will be another excellent har- vest year for China, This ins- piring news comes at a time when one victory after another is being won in the great proletarian cul- tural revolution, The nation’s hundreds of mil- lions of former poor and lower- middle peasants and other revolu- tionary commune members, guided by the invincible thought of Mao Tse-Tung, have defeated sabotage by the class enemies and the challenge of natural adversity to win victory in revolution and pro- duction this year, Thus they have made new contributions to Social- ism. An outstanding feature of 1968 agricultural production is that prospects for excellent harvests have been reported for almost all kinds of crops and areas with diverse farming conditions, Rich harvests of summer and early autumn crops were brought in earlier, with many areas register- ing increases over lastyear, itself an excellent year, Reaping of mid- autumn crops, which make up a. considerable proportion of the country’s annual agricultural out- put, is in full swing, and all signs point to excellent results. According to estimates from the leading departments concerned, China anticipates excellent annual harvests this year in grain, cot- ton, tobacco, bast fibres, tea, fruit and silkworm cocoons, following good harvests for the last sever- al years running. The Peking area, attacked by the worst drought in seventy years, and the Shanghai area are ex- pected to gather exceptionally good harvests of grain, cotton and other industrial crops, such as rarely seen in the areas. The number of domestic animals in China has risen considerably this year compared with last year, and the quality of the stock has improved, Last year, the number of pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys and mules had already reached or surpassed previous highs. An excellent situation has also been reported this year in forestry, fishery and other rural side-line occupations. Laotion Patriots Win Fresh Victories Khang Khay—The Loatian patriotic armed forces and people are mounting fierce attacks on the enemy by way-of commemorating the Independence Day of Laos (October 12), reported the Pa- thet Lao radio. In Sam Neua Province, the patriotic armed forces and people assaulted the enemy in Pu Sin area on October 2, killing 37 enemy troops and wounding nine others. They also captured 11 weapons and destroyed a quantity of enemy military supplies. In the same province, 87 U.S.— fostered bandits were wiped out and an amount of weapons was captured by the patriots in the three days ending September 29. The “nibbling” attacks of the right- Mass PEKING, Octover 8 -- Over 3,000 Philippine workers, teach- ers and other people in Cal Bayog City, Samar Island, demonstrated on October 5 against the U. S. imperialist crimes of aggression, according to a Manila report quot- ing the Philippine press of Octo- ber 6, . The demonstrators demanded ist troops in Moung Pha Lan, Savannakhet province, were repulsed on October 3 by the patriotic forces and people. According to initial re- ports, 39 enemy troops were killed and many others wounded. The patriotic fighters and people are now pursuing the remnants of the enemy. In their many operations in Sept- ember, the patriotic armed forces in Lower Laos put out of action a total of 174 enemy troops including 86 killed and 78 wounded. They also captured 22 weapons, destroyed two enemy mil- itary vehicles and one bridge and shot down one U.S. aircraft, The patriots smashed a numbér»of enemy “nib- bling” attacks with air and artillery support on the liberated areas, Rally the withdrawal of the Philippine accomplice troops from South Viet Nam and denounced the con- tinued U, S. imperialist aggression against Viet Nam. They also protested in a mani- festo against the presence of U.S. military bases in the Philippines that. endangers the country's se- curity. THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19,1968 Page 12 NOW AVAILABLE... ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE by HUEY P. NEWTON WITH FORCEFUL INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE MURRAY BLACK PANTHER MINISTER OF EDUCATION --ONLY 75°-- ' OUT-OF-STATE ORDERS: $1.00 (includes postage & handling) AVAILABLE AT ALL ._BLACK PANTHER PARTY OFFICES MAIL-ORDERS MAY BE SENT TO: (NOTE: PLEASE INCLUDE 10* FOR POSTAGE & HANDLING) BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS P.O. BOX 8641 EMERYVILLE BRANCH OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94608 ON THE OTHER HAND... WHAT IS A PIG? A low natured beast that has no regard for law, justice, or the rights of the people; a creature that bites the hand that feeds it; a foul depraved traducer, usually found masquerading as the victim of an unprovoked at- tack. NEEDED: TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON SAYS: “THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE MAN‘S TECHNOLOGY.” BUT TO MOST EFFECTIVELY COMBAT THE INJUS- TICES OF THE PIG-STRUCTURE, THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD LEAD THEM TO DEVELOP TECH- NOLOGY GREATER THAN THE “MAN’‘S!” THEN WE WILL MINIMIZE OUR LOSSES WHILE WE WAGE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE BROTHERS, SISTERS, AND WHITE ALLIES IN THE REVOLUTION — WE NEED ALL TYPES OF TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT: FOR DEFENSE FOR FINANCING FOR OFFICE WORK FOR TRANSPORTATION FOR HEALTH AND FIRST AID INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO: ’ BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS P.O. BOX 8641, EMERYVILLE BRANCH OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94608 «lL DONT LIKE TO ae CALLED .. aA POLICE! \- Aa, pf o— oe to-g BLACK STUDENTS UNION STATE WIDE HIGH SCHOOL CONVENTION OCTOBER 26, 1968 10AM - 10PM FILLMORE AUDITORIUM 1805 Geary St. San Francisco, TO DISCUSS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK STUDENTS BLACK ENTERTAINMENT - CONVENTION WORKSHOPS BLACK PANTHER SPEAKERS ELDRIDGE CLEAVER MINISTER OF INFORMATION GEORGE MURRAY MINISTER OF EDUCATION POINT #5 OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 10 POINT PROGRAM. WE WANT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIFTY.. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR RGLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. EACH BSU SHOULD SEND DELEGATES NAMES (10 OR MORE IF POSSIBLE) BY OCT. 21 TO VIRTUAL MORRELL 3106 SHATTUCK. AVE. BERKLEY, CALI (415) 845-0103 Calif. BOBBY SEALE CHAIRMAN, BLACK PANTHER PARTY DAVID HILLIARD CHIEF OF STAFF or for more information BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HDOS. P.0. BOX 86d, OAKLAND, CALIF. 94608 Bobhy’s Poem Uncle Sammy called us full of Lucif er But we're calling him Lucifer for burnin; Us. That’s the beginning as to why we Don’t give a good eagle-eyed Mc- Flegal Tripplewhammy damn. So. all you fools Who think you are looking at the Gee Might as well go and get your money back For that ticket you Got from Uncle Sammy and call him a pig : Define this bastard for a better conscious So that you wont continue acting like a freak Gestapo dog. Just relate to the fact that You must pick up the gun to survive. Everyone knows That many of you Bastards con- tribute to Tax-deductable charity organiza tions that So-called Superman Lynching Baines has set up. Burn Baby Burn was the beginning ery that Depicts to all you freakish fools the level of Our consciousness. Sing the song **Fuck” Mickey Mouse Ronald Reagon’’ daily and as Human Beings challenge the whole racist Exploitative Government to a duel. Because if we had the Ear phones for you to wear to be told what to Do we would damn sure put that in your EARS bobby seale chairman, bpp CMS RECORDS presents the most exciting and controversial record of the year adin English by distinguished ac! Taken from the'fatnous “Little Red Book’ lunacknowledged best seliet of the world Ber i ie notes: written. iby Haney E. Racist S.F. School Shows It’s “Mural” con’t from page 5 world would iron itself out sooner or later. The break-thru turned out to be a flop for several reasons: 1. The speakers of the day were either out-n-out Toms or _People who felt that society “was ‘‘just great’’ and the prin- ciple of Washington High school ‘‘the perfect red- blooded, true-blue patriotic racist. The speakers confined themselves to all but the real issues, They never hit on press- ing subjects at hand, 2. Most of the students of Washington High School are middle-classed ‘‘couldn’t give- a - dam - what - happens - to - anyone - but - themselves; type of people. The students who should have been included in the program couldn't get out of their classes since their grades and general conduct was not “‘up to par’’, 3. Washington High is a school in which the first things you see upon arriving at school besides the red, white, andblue flag is afull-walled mural glor- ifing the genocide and op- pressive acts this decadent country has committed. After combining these three things together with the usual white supremacy tactics of pub- lic schools, a pretty fair pic- ture is presented of what Wash- ington High is like and why the Black students are taking their justifiable stand, A few days ago they talked with Mr. Pigano, Dr. Cobb (art director of B.O.E, and com- petent bootlicker), along with the student body president. They held a pacifying-type con- ference about the full-walled mural of which I just described. It shows many facets of George Washington’s life-commanding Black men chained as slaves, armed pigs standing over the bodies of dead Indians, However, some Black revolu- tionary students decided to change what they could - im- mediately! -- and begin working (not waiting!) on the complete change of this rotten system. They posted pictures of our Black warrior Huey P. Newton, and other revolutionary posters all over the racist master~ piece. The posters were, of course, taken down by the said principle and her stooges. But, of course, they left the insult- ing full-walled mural stand as was originally painted, Other bad, mad neo-racists made ef- forts to follow suit, taking down other posters on a bulletin board. The posters, however, were guarded by a group of beautiful black brothers who defied the school administrators and thereby defied the whole school system, For those of you who haven't read the 10 point program of the Black Panther Party-Point No. 5 of the program says: WE WANT education for our people that exposes the true na- ture of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an ed- ucational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self, If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and’ the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. These brothers would have been liberal if they had de- cided to let this issue go by con't, col, 4 Sun Fran¢isco, Calif. October 8, 1968 The Might of The People The Black Panty saute by P.O. Box 8641 VIRTUAL MURRELL Emeryville Branch The revolutionary war is a war of Oakland, Calif. 94608 the masses, but it can only be waged successfully by mobilizing and relying on the people, The real power of the Vanguard lies in the hands of the people, within our own black community. This relates directly to our strength who whole hearly and sin- cerely support the revolution, It must be understood that our greatest strength lies in the hand of people. The only dam reason why the pigs occupy our community and brutalize our people is because we have not totally rallied around the revolution meaning a total change within this decadent racist society. We must begin to understand that one of our revolutionary pro- grams is to drive out all those things as well as any other element that oppress us (black people), Once we realize our potential to change and to destroy racism in America and throughout the world, we shall put an end to this racist, imperialistic mad dog. The Black Panther Party has gone forth as a servant of the van- guard of the people. We are not the heroes The heroes aré you, ‘the people’, (dig it) Once the people rise up against the hogs and the pigs it will be like pork going to the slaughter. The main purpose of the Black Panther Party is to stand up and deal with the onineped administra- tor by any means necessary, First we must answer the needs and de- sires and aspirations of the peo- ple. Dear Sirs: I have written a poem which i think depicts the true feelings of a Black mother concerning her family. Since I would like other members of the Black Race to share and enjoy my talents, I would appreciate the editing of my poem in your next issue of The Black panther. This service will, indeed be greatly appreciated, Yours in Blackness, Valerie LeBeaux (Editor’s Note; ‘‘A Black Woman’s Dignity’? IS very beautiful and is preinted in this issues ‘Black Revoluntionary Poetry/’’) A Black Woman’s Dignity I live and I love; I weep and I cry; I give strength to my Black Man; To shoot a gun or Die! How strong is he; That carries death in hand; He fights with might; For right of all His land! My child does cry; And shivers in the nigh‘; Be silent my son; Mamma will raise you right! by Valerie LeBeaux “POLITICAL POWER GROWS OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN.” THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 13 ‘ 4 Nae . i“ Sapeaet sn 7 » 4 uu aa Pee UR - « ie ~ Panther Sister’ Linda Boston shown above is the new Editorial Assistant of the BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER, Among her many editorial duties, Linda does reporting, rewrite of articles and news items, proofreading, and is Executive Secretary to Raymond Lewis, S.F, Deputy Minister of Information, BLACK PANTHER Managing Editor. Linda Boston, who also attends City College of San Francisco on a full-time basis, puts in an additional 6 to 12 hours, 7 days a week, as a functional member of the BLACK PANTHER Editorial Staff, She has contribyted both time and effort since the BLACK PANTHER Newspaper initiated its new weekly publications, Septem- ber 7, 1968. Unbelieveably, though, Linda ,still finds time to attend Pol- itical Education classes, and Party Meetings, along with a few hours to contribute daily to assignments in the San Francisco BLACK PANTHER PARTY Office. con't from col, 1 ee and not feel indignant. They had brought this issue to the atten- tion of the school adminis- trators before, but the racist administrators simply told them the matter would be taken under that is what they are going to consideration and dealt with get one way or the other. later, But they did not. Most Panther Power to the Black likely the racist were hoping Students of Washington High our black brothers would forget. School. But our brothers did not forget, for, they didn’t bring the matter up just for the sake of getting attention, but rather for change and an immediate change. And THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 14 POCKET LAWYER OF LEGAL FIRST AID This pocket lawyer is provided as a means of keeping black people up to date on their rights. We are always the first to be arrested and the racist police forces are constantly trying to pre- tend that rights are extended equally to all people. Cut this out, brothers and sisters, and carry it with you. Until we arm ourselves to righteously take care of our own, the pocket lawyer is what's happening. 1. If you are stopped and/or arrested by the police, you may re- main silent; you do not have to answer any questions about al- leged crimes, you should provide your name and address only if requested (although it is not absolutely clear that you must do so.) But then do so, and at all time remember the fifth amendment. 2. If a police officer is not in uniform, ask him to show his iden- tification. He has no authority over you unless he properly identi- fies himself. Beware of persons posing as police officers. Always get his badge number and his name. 3. Police have no right to search your car or your home unless they have a search warrant, probable cause or your consent. They may conduct no exploratory search, that is, one for evidence of crime generally or for evidence of a crime unconnected with the one you are being questioned about. (Thus, a stop for an auto violation does not give the right to search the auto.) You are not required to consent to a search; therefore, you should not consent and should state clearly and unequivocally that you do not consent, in front of witnesses if possible. If you do not consent, the police will have the burden in court of showing probably cause. Arrest may be corrected later. 4. You may not resist arrest forcibly or by going limp, even if you are innocent. To do so is a separate crime of which you can be con- victed even if you are acquitted of the original charge. Do not re- sist arrest under any circumstances. 5. If you are stopped and/or arrested, the police may search you by patting you on the outside of your clothing. You can be stripped of your personal possessions. Do not carry anything that includes the name of your employer or friends. 7. Do not engage in “friendly” conversation with officers on the way to or at the station. Once you are arrested, there is little like- lihood that anything you say will get you released. 8. As soon as you have been booked, you have the right to com- plete at least two phone calls—one to a relative, friend or attorney, the other to a bail bondsman. If you can, call the Black Panther Party, 654-2003, and the Party will post bail if possible. 9. You must be allowed to hire and see an attorney immediately. 10. You do not have to give any statement to the police, nor do you have to sign any statement you might give them, and therefore you should not sign anything. Take the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, because you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. 11. You must be allowed to post bail in most cases, but you must be able to pay the bail bondsmen’s fee. If you cannot pay the fee, you may ask the judge to release you from custody without bail or to lower your bail, but he does not have to do so. 12. The police must bring you into court or release you within 48 hours after your arrest (unless the time e?ds on a week-end or a holiday, and they must bring you before a judge the first day court is in session.) 13. If you do no’ have the money to hire an attorney, immedi- ately ask the police to get you an attorney without charge. 14. If you have the money to hire a private attorney, but do not know of one, call the National Lawyers’ Guild or the Alameda County Bar Association (or the Bar Association of your county) and furnish you with the name of an attorney who practices criminal law. 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BOX 8641 ~ EMERYVILLE BRANCH “OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94608 Name- address I Pledge $ city Enclosed | You Will Find $ MALCOLM X FANON, FRANTZ NKRUMAH, KWAME DAVIDSON, BASIL APTHEKER, HERBERT The Autobiography of Malcolm X Wretched of the Earth I Speak of Freedom The Lost Cities of Africa The Nat Turner Slave Revolt Aptheker, Herbert American Negro Slave Revolts A Documentary History of the Negro People in the U.S. Before the Mayflower American Negro Poetry--Story of the Ne- gro Black Moses (The story of Garvey and the UNIA) Black Reconstruction in America--Souls of Black Folk The World and Africa Black Mother, the Years of the African Slave Trade Studies in a Dying Colonialism From Slavery to Freedom--Negro in the United States Black Bourgeoisie The Other America Garvey & Garyeyism--The Philosophy & Opinions of Garveyism The Myth of the Negro Past A History of Negro Revolts MUNTU: The New African Culture Blues People Bennett, Lerone Jr. Bontemps, Arna W, Cronin, E.D, DuBois, W.E.B. Davidson, Basil Fanon, Frantz Franklin, John Hope Frazier, C.F, Harrington, Michael Garvey, Marcus Herskovitts, Melville J. James, C.L.R. Janheinz, John Jones, LeRoi Lincoln, C.E. Black Muslims in America Malcolm X Malcdlm X Speaks Mwmmi, Albert The Colonizer and the Colonized Nkrumah, Kwame Ghana Patterson, William L. We Charge Genocide Rogers, J.A. Africa’s Gift to America World's Great Men of Color; to 1946 A.D, The Negro in Our History 3,000 B.C. Wesley, Charles H. & Woodson, Carter G Woodward, C. Van The Strange Career of Jim Crow yright, Richard Native Son A ae UOTCU EA EAUTAN ENERO EAA TO THE EDITOR If we are to educate our young people, how better can we do it than by listening to those people who have intimate knowledge gain- ed from experience. An admitted- ly great teacher. Eldridge Cleaver, a real mover and shaker, but not to be heard on campus, If the venal politicans and hate mongers have their way. Is it any wonder that the young people give way to vociferous rage? If Cleaver deviates from the truth, do you think for a minute that these students won’t detect it? I have implicit faith in them, And I am over thirty by twenty one years, What of ‘‘freedom for the thought we hate?’ How can you learn if you are not exposed to the dif- ferent side of the coin? There isn’t the slightest doubt that our young people have been taught emasculated and homogenized his- tory. And now it looks like it will be Reaganized, The Ultimate, We can look forward to the day of the imprimature in teaching if Cleaver is rejected, A stand must be taken, And it might as well be now, It will only involve someone else at a later date. As a white man who lives in the slums I know that the students should hear what Cleaver has to say. They won’t like it, but their eyes may be opened. He is an articulate spokesman and can point the way. Their knowledge will only become real when they, them- selves, have lived in the slums. Our so-called free daily press, the freedom of suppression, re- veals in exposing the thought pro- cesses of the Communist World, In this light how can they ex- plain all this? With all the blatant distortians concerning Cleaver, and the abject pandering to all the worst elements in our society. How long can any university re- main great, if only those who are non-controversial are allowed to teach? The University of Cali- fornia will soon sink to the level of the Catholic Universities. Trade schools at best. Too many zombies have been turned out by our universities to date, Zombies with degrees, but zombies nevertheless, Not at all their fault, but with the system, the teachers and the subject mat- ter taught, A prime example. Our Governor, cused of amet eity. I want to say flatly there is much more ma- turity among the young intelligent students, than in my own genera- tion who have been long exposed without discernable benefits, Let Cleaver teach, Let the stu- dents learn, So we may all bene- tt Luke P, O’Neilly SOLON EGU EA EATER EAD EA EMER EA EET BABY OF REVOLUTION Beautiful black baby Wrapped in innocent love Beautiful black baby Knows not of an unjust world Beautiful black baby Your daddy has gone to war Beautiful black baby He’s fighting, and here we are Beautiful black baby Daddy loves us so Beautiful black baby He had no choice; but to go Beautiful black baby There’s news pigs killed your dad Beautiful black baby Freedom and peace, had we never Beautiful black baby I must depart from you 3eautiful black baby To see what | can do Beautiful black baby Now you are all alone Beautiful black baby From this world, your parents have gone Beautiful black baby This world is yours, Beautiful black baby Freedom, | leave behind -Shirley Dixon not mine a = THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 15 FOR PRESIDENT BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET OO — "ESOS SO THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 20, 1968 Page 16 ( 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ALAMEDA COUNTY BUACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET BOBBY SEALE FOR STATE ASSEMBLYMAN 17TH ASSEMBLY DIST ALAMEDA COUNTY BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET | | || if | tot i | og Piet Mi | { , al i | | a | 5} i j t { F vt Hie) a { | q til oF F ia i Ro i] ' YR oe ege0 Stee ia seein, ceed cy a : - eg TSE, BS a <2 ang Mi KATHLEEN CLEAVER, COMMUNICATION SECT.), BLACK PANTHER PARTY 18th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT S.F. PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY SHOOT YOUR SHOT THE BLACK PANTHER, Saturday, Oct. 19, 1968 Page 19 KE OCTOBER 1966 BLACK PANTHER PARTY PLATFORM AND PROGRAM WHAT WE WANT The program is usually divided into one section of ten points entitled ‘‘What We Want’? and then ten paragraphs explaining these points in a section entitled ‘‘What We Believe.’’ For the sake of clarity, we have put each one of the ten points in “‘What We Want’? immediately above its corresponding paragraph in WHAT WE BELIEVE “What We Believe.’’ 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its * people and give a high standard of living. 3. We want _an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as resti- tution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans mur- dered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our ple that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education thal teaches _us_our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. €. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7, We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. ——————————— We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. OO ———————— We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, his- torical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the ‘‘average reasoning man’’ of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothi and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations- Supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colon: in Which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to partici ate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have con- nected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, overnments are instituted among men, derivin eir just Owers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever an: ‘orm _oO vernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, an organizi S powers in such form, as_to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than.to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it ig their duty, to throw olf suc government, and to provide new guards for their future security. FREE HUEY NOW GUNS BABY GUNS THE BLACK PANTHER SAT. OCT (2, 1968 1,000,000 Signatures for Eldridge DO YOUR THING... HAVE THIS PETITION SIGNED BY 25 BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS PEOPLE AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO: oe ee ee 0 eS EST OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO KEEP ELDRIDGE CLEAVER OUT OF PRISON | PETITION: KEEP ELDRIDGE J CLEAVER OUT OF PRISON “EVERYONE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY” ONLY THE PEOPLE IN MASS CAN DESTROY RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES OF . So we the undersigne Oo are citizens o: rica peoples around the world, DEMAND, that ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party; Candidate for President of the United States of America on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket; author of the book, SOUL ON ICE; and managing editor for Ramparts Magazine, we say and demand that he, Eldridge Cleaver, should not be sent back to prison after being released from prison by Judge Sherwin of Solano County in California. Released because the Judge stated that Eldridge then was being held as a "political prisoner.” ELDRIDGE CLEAVER is now out of prison on legal bail. We the undersigned say that the California Gover- nor with his "Adult Authority," the courts of California and the federal courts of the U.S.A. had better recognize that everyone is innocent un- til proven guilty with the right to bail before trial, that this is every human beings right :-by the United States Constitution, including Eldridge Cleaver. NAME PETITION NO. (€OVd SIHL SAO YUVAL) ADDRESS G = < 5 = mi 2 18 x ole le dele dele a x wo) w BIS [aio felo[s [e |s ge ie ere e | Le) Mi