Vol. 3, No. 25

WEST MEMORIAL LIBRARI Black Community News Service MIMISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAM FRANCISCO, CA $4126 . a) a) see eee eee ee ee ee Pate hh a a ea ha a hl eet hl hh . . . . . . . . . . . THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 2 CHAIRMAM BOBBY WRITES FROM A KANGAROO COURT TO; Black Panther Party members and all the people, especially Black people in the Black community Today is October 2, 1969, andI'm writing this letter to the people in the courtroom of the United Srates District Federal Court, Northern District of Illinois, It's presided by 4 blatant racist judge named Julius H. Hoffman, If only the people could see this most rotten form of so-called “*‘justice’’ being practiced here, they would automatically realize that the United States’ ‘*Fascist"’, and I'llrepeat FASCIST government is out to railroad me and the other defendants who are organizers against the war and other acts of aggression against poor, oppressed peoples in America. I don’t ever remember seeing such a thing where the judge will not allow the lawyers for the de- fense to maintain cross-examina- tion of the pig prosecutor's lying witnesses, One who is not fully aware of the way they (the courts’ judges and the D,A,s of the U,S, government) try to cover up their rotten operation of persecuting the defendants and their lawyers, won't be able to get too much of a clear view of how this crap called **jus- tice” is used to try to put us, the defendants, in prison for 10 years. There is another trumped up charge against me in Connecticut where there's a slick C,1,A, and/or F.B.1, operation (in conjunction with some Black racist who works with the government) to try there to railroad me to the electric chair. They have a “*Black racist’’ named George Sais who is lying out of corner of his pig agent mouth when he slickly alleges that | was suppose to have given some orders to have someone killed, | have never seen this Alex Rackley, per- iod. People who let themselves be used as pigs, lying on the Black Panther Party, are nothing but pork chops themselves. Stokely Carmichael (Eldridge has run down since I've been busted) even says that this George Sams, who he (Gtokely) brought into the Party, is an agent for the power Structure. Only, Stokely says that he couldn't get in touch from Africa, or wherever he was, to let us know, Well, 1 was in touch with him when 1 was in Europe. I was there straightening out what Stokely had wrongly put out, | spoke at speaking engagements, explaining what Stokely Carmichael had previously @ months or so) stated inferring that the Party was Black racisi-l spoke on the phone withSrokely. He was in Paris at the same time andl in Stockholm, Sweden. Stokely could have told me then that this George Sams had been found out by him to be an agent. But we were ar- guing a bit about his Blackracist line, which the Party opposes thor- oughly. | was informed afew days later in Finland, in the city of Helsinki 3 or 4 hundred miles from Stock- holm, Sweden, that | had been charged and/or Indicted with this so-called ‘‘conspiracy to riot’. Some agent reporter (this Is the way I saw him) came up to me on the stage after [hadfinished speaking to an audience of about 1500, And this reporter said, ‘*Bobby Seale, did you know when you get back to the States that youface 10 years inpris- on and a $20,000 fine?’’ I said, ''l wouldn't be surprised, after Iralked to Europeans about the Nixon ad- ministration’s Black Capitalist program spreading more Black racism and being a trick to fool Black people and other people a- round the world.”’ The reporter ‘said, ‘‘Well, you have beencharged with conspiracy to incite a riot by crossing state lines, Do you re- member when you went to the Demo- cratic Convention in Chicago?’ I told the reporter that it’s just Nixon's operation to stop the Black Panther Party from telling the truth to the people here and athome about how racist and fascist America is becoming toward Black people and other poor, oppressed, laboring people in America,"’ | said, ‘*You know this tour of these four Scan- danavian countries Gweden, Nor- way, Denmark, and Finland)by my- self and Ray ‘Masai’ Hewitt has en- lightened many thousands, with the coverage by the press here, about the rotten decadence of the govern- ment of America, It’s enlightened them about our struggle being a class struggle and not 4 race strug- gie...."" The reporter was not interested, He showed me an AP or UPI (Ican’t remember exactly) report thar Seemed to be geared to trying to lie to everyone about myself and the Party, saying thar | “‘conspired to incite a riot.” BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN, BLACK PANTHER PARTY “What is your reaction,’’ he asked again, I sald, ‘*Look. You know what's happening. The govern- ment is trying to stop the Black Pan- ther Party because we're exposing the racist, fascist system of Ameri- ca for what is is. Black capitalism is no good, We need to build a social- istic system in America; and that’s the only way Black people are going to survive, when po wer is taken by the people, and stop the fascist ma- chine, The Democratic Convention was a blatant fascist attack upon people who want a change in Ameri- ca. Black people have suffered from brutality and murder for hundreds of years up to now. And now there is the Black Panther Party showing the people and teaching correct methods to resist the pig power structure,,.."" [wentonand on. The reporter, I could see, was not in- terested in reporting exactly whatl said, So, I told him, ‘Later,’ I had never met with any of the other defendants before the Conven- tion nor had I ever talked to any of them at all, Bur it still didn’e surprise me that Iwas charged with this so-called “‘conspiracy (onehas to have at least conversed with said or accused ‘‘conspirators’’) to in- cite a riot.” “law and order’’, November elections, Why? Well, everyone knows why, especially when I'ye been forcedto sit here without ‘‘legal defense council of my choice who fective,"” Charles R. Garry. lguess everyone knows that I've protested this racist action by fascist Judge Julius H. Hoffman, People, he (the judge) is really taking orders from the top, Tricky Dick Nixon himself. Uh, it’s not said; but everyone knows the C.I.A. and F.8.L, with all thelr other lacky pig agents, are plotting ninety miles an hour in doing everything they can to see to itthat Black Panther Party members are railroaded into prison or killed--or rather murdered, etc. They don't really make a secret of it by their past actions, attacking and raiding Party offices, etc,, and making numerous arrests. In L.A., the pigs have made over 250arrests in the last few months of a special group of Party members, When we put out thousands of dollars of do- nated money from the people to bail them out, then charges are dropped. It’s an operation to intimidate and at the same time deplete funds of the Party. This kangaroo court here has @ judge, aD.A,,an Assistant D.A,, and an F.B,1, agent (supposedly *‘torun DAVID HILLIARD, BLACK is ef-, political films,"* they say)with another young pig sitting at their table. They are going through motions of trying to say this is ‘‘justice’’, No, not the case, And I wish the people of America, and Black peo- ple in particular, could see it. Maybe you know already, Anyway. let's get together and see it from the point of view that THE PEOPLE HAVE NO POWER, NOT IN THIS COURT OR ANY COURT IN AMERICA, It's bullshit, people, Black brothers and sisters, oldand young, etc, I'll have to give a blow by blow account of this bullshir here in this kangaroo fascist opera- tion with Schultz’s racism from the government's District Attorney. (He’s an assistant to Foran, who I've foun out to be a righteous flunkey for Daley) They hadto sendthe jive letters to taint the jury against me. Next week, court is recessed until Tuesday. POWER TO THE PEOPLE Free Huey, Ericka, Bursey, Free All Political Prisoners Seize the Time BOBBY SEALE (MORE TO COME) PRESS RELEASE FROM CHIEF OF STAFF Panther Attorney, Jerry Lefcourt, informed us that the pigs are trying to get a new grand jury indictment against the New York 21, and that it appears to be so underhanded that two DA’s have threatened to resign, The pig power structure is moving to get leverage for CHIEF UF STAFF PANTHER PARTY CHICAGO JULY 1969 THI BLACK PANTHER, OCTUBER I1, 1999 PAGE ATTACK ON CHICAGO OFFICE The tidal wave of repression and murder of the Black Panther Party can at best be considered war and systematic genocide. The new ‘*Reichstag’’ ( headquarters for German pigs) In Chicago, llinots, has taken the forefront in fascist repression, What the Falange (fas- cist organization) of Chicago did to the people at the Democratic convention was the green light for political persecution of any organi- zation or individual that exercises their rights to assembly, free speech and redress of their griev- ances (rights guaranteed to citi- zens under article | of the Bill of Rights signed and declared in force December 15, 1791), After the pigs showed the most brazen fascist tactics that the people of the oppressor white mother coun- try had ever been victims of, we are assured that the key to securing our future is ‘‘Resistance’’ to death, and to educate by example (correct methods for resisting), The only way to put an end to the murder and railroading through the fascist court systems - like our Chairman Bobby Seale is being railroaded In Chicago is to or- ganize a barricade of opposition manifested in calling together the brown, red, yellow and white op- pressed people and waging a struggle to contro] the guns that are supposed to protect our lives, not take it away. In plain prole- tarian (worker) language, CON- TROL THE POLICE INOURCOM- MUNITIES The attack on our Oakland, Call- fornia, office last year in Sep- tember set a precedent (first time) in teaching the rest of the fascist pigs nationally the correct Ss for de stro ying the rrkers (the lack Panther Party) oo hen recogr what’ s happe ning tom embers ofthe I Panther ty as being c criminal and unconstitutional, with nothing happening to those mur- dering pigs, then you can clearly understand that someone in power must be giving the orders, lam not just talking about the puppet ma- yors, police chiefs, etc., although they are the first level of fascist repression, I am talking about the top leaders of the Government that they represent, Let's compare our situation with the unjust and genocidal war in Viet Nam, Starting with the re- 0- peo. ize ack lease and sending home of the nine professional killers of the US Green Berets (elite murder in- corporated corps) who murder in cold-blood the civilian Vietnamese that they called a spy. These same tactics were used against our Party in May 1969 when the pigs of Con- necticut killed Alex Rackley, who was also referred to as a ‘‘spy’’ within the Party's ranks. This Is supposed to Justify the diabolical crimes against the Black Panther Party in particular and Black people In general here in Baby- lon, The same men, Warden Richard Nixon and the Attorney General Mitchell (who gave free- dom to murdering Green Berets) endorse the crimes committed by the pigs In the Black community who carry the same type weapons that their counterparts carry in Viet Nam, They still call that war &@ Police Action, although we realize that it is a war of mass genocide that hits in the heart of the Black community here in Fas- cist America. Inquire about the pera ii per teeeds elena ; CHICAGO JULY tinh retbaenee attack plans on our National Head- quarters in Berkeley and you will see what I mean by war against the Black Panther Party. In essence, what Iam trying to say 1s, actions suchas the‘'search and destroy mission’ that was car- ried out on October 4, 1969, against our Chicago office at 2350 West Madison; when the pigs attacked, beat and hauled off to jail 5 Party members and some people from the community, will continue and be escalated unless we move tocircu- late, as soon as possible, the peti- tion for Community Control (decentralization) of the police, The people’s patience its not endless. The time comes when there remains only two choices ~-"*Submit’’ or ‘‘Fight’’ and the courageous Panthers of Chicago will continue to fight fascist aggression against the Black Com- munity David Hilliard Chief of Staff Black Panther Party 1969 THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER II, 1969 PAGE 4 PIG TRICKS AGAINST HICAGO DEFENDANTS QUIET FASCISM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS It isn't enough that Panthers are Shot down on the streets snatched from their homes, or incarcerated while they sleep; the ruling class Oppressors carry on their ‘fas- cism! quietly in the court rooms, behind closed doors, All Black people who come to the federa} building to see about Chairman Bobby, are searched, insulted, and turned away. No young Black people are allowed to reach the court- room!!! QUIET FASCISM, The fascist pigs wouldn't even let the Chairman go use the bathroom. He isn't allowed to have law books to read, or have the opportunity to speak in his own behalfin court, or hold a press conference, or see anyone other than his immediate family even though he hasn't been convicted of any crime. QUIET FASCISM The ‘hanging judge’ who sits back quietly in his chair denying all de- fense motions; the US attorney and his side kick who spend most of their time insulting and harassing the defense attorneys; the pigsand bureaucrat-capitalists who come to Ile on the defendants are all tools of quiet fascism. Those crude court pigs have even managed to send athreatening note to two of the jurors’ families signed--the Black Panthers, We all — know that no one signs letters-- the Black Panthers--no one but those ‘meglo-maniacs’, minute- men, psychopaths, and lunatics, But the hanging judge, used this a5 an excuse to intimidate the two jurors and subsequently todismiss one, The two jurors in the eyes of the Chairman seemed to be fair, impartial, and open-minded. The juror that was dismissed was the youngest juror onthe panel, QUIET FASCISM, ‘ When 75 to 100 lawyers came to Chicago to protest the incarcer- ation of two of the pre-trial de- fense attorneys, Chief Judge of the Circuit court, William J, ‘Joba- qaukee’ Campbell had them locked out of the building, They were never able to present their petition to have the hanging judge, Julius ‘Adolph Eichmann’ Hoffman dis- qualified for his improper and un- constitutional conduct, Now the hanging judge sits quietly on the bench, wallowing in his pool of “pagan pink’ ripple, The defense attorneys, Lenard Wienglass and William Kunstler, have been straight-jacketed by the hanging judge’s handling of the case. In spite of the fact that 70 of the 300 prospective jurors dis- qualified themselves because the indictments were read to indicate It is quite clear that [have made attempt after attempt to get my constitutional right to have legal council of my choice who ts ef- fective’ namely Charles R. Garry, recognized and granted by Judge Julius Hoffman, The government prosecuting me knows that my rights are being violated, Thistrial could easily be reversed ina higher court, and would show the gov- ernment and the court railroading me in Its continued attempt to de- stroy the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party has con- tinually exposed the U.S. Govern- ment, State Governments, and local governments all over this country for their racist and fascist op- pression of Black people and others, We have been murdered by cops and FBI agents and our offices raided, we have over 60 political prisoners in the coun- try with myself being one of the latest. I write this because there is a plot by the F. BI and/or other lacky foolish pig agents to tamper with the jury in this so- called ‘‘conspiracy to riot’’ trial and then try to slickly blame it on the Black Panther Party hoping to fool the masses of the people with their press. This is the most low-lifed, racist and fascist attack upon the other 7 defendants and myself in particular. I have listened to the other de- fendants inform me of this and am criminal lability on the part of the defendants; in spite of the fact that some jurors said that Hof- fman's presentation of the indict- ments was “very dramatic’, ‘‘that it doesn’t seem that they will geta fair trial...and he seemed to be Swaying the jurors,..'' The hanging judge {s allowed to sit onthe bench harassing the defendants and per- secuting the attorneys, The ‘Anti-riot’ act in itself is unconstitutional, It subverts the First Amendment guarantee of free assembly by equating organized political dissent with organized violence and premeditated riot, The federal government Js leading the assault on the organized poll- tical freedom movement and the Black Panther Party, It is the leader of the thrust to move Baby- lon up into 2 police state. The Chairman has been charged with inter-state travel to ‘incite to riot’.It is a well known fact that the Black Panther Party is a well-disciplined organization, and a revolutionary, politically edu- cated body that doesn’t endorse spontaneity or tolerate the ir- rational acts of anarchism. Andas the vanguard organization, we un- derstand that real change comes through revolution fought with guns, guts, revolutionary theory not shocked at all at this attempt by some pig F BI orC.1 A. agents for the government, todiscredit the defense so as to allow the DA and judge Hoffman to railroad us in court It seems that two jurors whol myself observed and felt to be open-minded and objective, have received phony threatening notices of some kind supposedly signed by “The Black -Panthers’’, When threatening notes and/or letters are sent toour many offices around the country, they are addressed to “The Black Panthers'' and not ‘The Black Panther Party'’. We in the Black Panther Party whoare dedicated to the human rights and freedom of our people and other poor, oppressed peoples and the laboring masses do not threat or attempt to threat. We would never send such notes especially because every Party member follows the same rules of our Party and does not engage in such wrong, back- ward acts, We can only see the fascist government doing this, be- cause they know that rotten, racist Hoffman has made them look bad by not granting me my constitu- tional rights. POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE GOVERNMENT OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE Bobby Seale Chairman Black Panther Party and social practice and not the infantile actions of the anarchists, The federally commissioned Walker report put half of the blame in its right perspective, the Chi- cago pig department, But the real criminals are Mayor Daley, his bureaucrat lackies and the hatchet men in Washington. It wasn't just &@ police riot, it was a government conspiracy to destroy legal right to assembly and freedom of speech And in order to put in the minds of the public that the Party is a gang of criminals, the pig depart- ment ambushed our office a third time and charged that someone fired from the roof, The drunk pigs then shot the lock off the door of the office and arrested seven peo- ple (six Panthers) who were getting the Panther Paper out and handling records. Like the trial, we see this as an organized move to wipe out the Party in order that they may then freely move to wipe out the people, All this Is consistent with the government policy throughout the trial, a rigged jury system, adem- agogic hanging judge, a lying US attorney, and a gagged news media--what the government calls a ‘fair and impartial trial’. The Party will not allow ‘quiet fascism’ to destroy our Party and ILLINOIS OFFICE AMBUSHED NO. 3 Make trouble, fall, maketrouble again, fall again,,.. till their doom; that is the logic of the imperial- ists and all reactionaries the world over in dealing with the people's our leaders. We will oppose the attempt to slow down the revolu- tlonary process with our United Front, Fascism ts not fail-safe, we and the people will move like a mighty storm to crush the rising tide of fascism and replace it with an International Proletarian Re- volution, SEIZE THE TIME OPPOSE FASCISM UNITED FRONT FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS Angry Ulinols Chapter Black Panther Party WITH THE PHONY JURY AMPERIN We accuse the U.S, government of tampering with two jurors as part of the continuing frame-up of the Conspiracy 8, The phony letters from ‘'The Black Panthers’’ are part of the government's endless propaganda against the Party and its sup- porters, No one uses the phrase ‘The Black Panthers’ to address or sign notes - except those who send hate letters to Panther head- quarters, We do not tamper with the people, we trust them, -- even in a rigged jury system, The two jurors in point both appeared open, honest and im- partial to all the defendants, One is only 23 years old, and was questioned extensively and crit- ically by Judge Hoffman, We are convinced the government was planning to challenge and remove the two jurors but was visibly surprised when we accepted the jury before using all our challenges. All this Is consistent with gov- ernment policy throughout the case; Charles Garry is sick, two lawyers under contempt citation, two arrested, two brought here under warrant, our staff excluded from our tables, After rigging the jury selection, the government now is still dissatisfied and intends to further tighten its grip onall parts of the case, The whole world is watching Chicago again, and demanding that this trial stop, Tom Hayden cause, and they will never go against this logic...Chairman Mao. The maniac mechanical mon- stérs came down on the office of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago a third time, They used the excuse that someone was sniping at them from the roof of the building to illegally enter the office and destroy equip- ment and medical supplies, But there was no one on the roof ex- cept two pigs who were planning the subsequent attack to ambush the office, Those hoodwinking hooligans lied to the press and radio when they said that we sniped at them. The windows in the office were shut and the doors were closed, We didn't snipe at those drunk ‘mega- maniacs’, they not only fired in the office, but the stupid pigs shot at the people who were trying to prevent them from destroying the office and murdering the Panthers inside, The people can clearly see that the pigs, Daley's and Nixon's hatchet men, are trying to stop the flow of information from the Party to the masses, It is clear to the masses that the pigs are trying to destroy the Party and its leaders and supporting rank and file. This fascist state of Americaand all its pig agencies are moving on the Party to keep the people from learning the Party's revolutionary line which will help them free themselves from this decadent, rotten, greedy, system of piracy, And these drunk lackies of ‘ripple- head’ Richard Nixon and ‘bitter- dog’ Daley are the front troops which will try to stop the people and the Party. The masked bandits illegally ar- rested six Panthers without war- rants, and then beat our Deputy Minister of Education, and Terry Watson, possessors of dangerous knowledge against the pig system. The pigs then snatched several of the masses off the streets who had protested against the pigs for their unconstitutional actions, We withstood the attacks of the pig oppressor a third time, And in the face of constant pig oppressor violence, we--and the masses with Us--must choosethe way of revolu- tionary violence, a violence that punishes that pig oppressor for his crimes, and once it has crushed them, gives way to socialist humanism and proletarian demo- cracy (people's revolutionary pow- er). 7 ; ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME OFF THE PIG Iilinols Chapter Black Panther Party a= ee ae THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 5 A CASE FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL RACIST NEIGHBOR USES ANIMAL TRAPS AND |BUT PIGS REFUSED GUNFIRE TO KEEP BLACK KIDS IN PLACE MOTHER AND CHILDREN BURN T0 DEATH Due to unknown reasons a three- story building at 314 E, 47th St. Chicago, Illinois, caught fire. The 70-year old dilapidated bullding began to burn furiously and the occupants inside ran for the: exits and escaped, All the occupants ex- cept for a black mother and three of her seven children, The fire pigs arrived and in- stead of dealing with the fire, they began to mill around and watch the fire and the crowd that was de- veloping. The mother came to the window of her apartment and screamed for help. None of the ‘Fire-Pigs’ moved!!! She called for the fire pigs to get a net and catch her daughter. She was ig- nored except for the cries of the crowd who screamed for the fire pigs to do something besides stand and spectate. The fire pigs had more than enough equipment to save the mother and her three children, but like the ‘racist dog cop’, they are only interested in Saving property and not human lives, Those mechanical pigs re- fused to even go up into the building to see if anyone was trapped inside until the fire was put out. This ts legal ‘genocide’. And we all know this isn’t the first time that it has happened. The peo- ple who were saved from the fire, ‘saved themselves, The ‘fire-pigs’ murdered that family. The avari- clous businessman who owned the dilapidated bullding is an acces- sory to the crime, The Black Pan- ther Party says that ‘‘We want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings."’ Only by uniting behind the Party and practicing what the Party practices, can the people put an end to these fascist acts and the ne- glect of our people, Only through revolution can the people destroy those that destroy us, It is time that the people rise up to oppose the oppressive forces here in Babylon. Death to the fire pigs that murdered that family. And Geath to the racist dog cop that stood around and watched, SEIZE THE TIME OFF THE PIG iil, Chapter Black Panther Party Duane Sanders a 10 year old was shot while playing In his yard; by an insane racist who sets ani- mal traps at an opening in the fence that separates his property from the apartment building Duane lives in, This pervert throws fron pipe, bricks and anything else that could kill or maime, the kids. Mrs,Sanders, mother of Duane and five other children, lives In East Oakland, She told the Black Panther Party that she called the pigs, they came out and sald that there wasn't anything they could do - they didn't have enough evi- dence - after asking her how old she is, dig it, After finding some evidence through self-investi- gation, in the form of shell casings She again called the pigs. The Sister recelved the same re- sponse - not enough evidence, This ts a strong case for com- munity control of the pigs. Serve the people or get out of the com- munity. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ) s, SEIZE THE TIME y = as MRS.SANDERS VISITS AT _ CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, ei con- tinue to lighten the oppressive load that this pig power structure has placed on the people. So the Black Panther Party's Breakfast for Children Program will continue in oppressed com- munities as long as the masses find it necessary. And we say to the pigs who wallow in the pig pen cars in front of the Break- DUANE SANDERS WAS THE VICTIM OF ATRIG GER HAPPY RACIST, More Next Week TO ACT. Cay: WE STILL SERVE FREE BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN The demagogic bourgeoisfe press recently carried an article which stated that the Black Pan- ther Party in the City of Chicago was no longer feeding hungry school children, The article also Stated that the Party was using the Breakfast money and food for their own personal use. This is totally incorrect, the Black Pan- ther Party refuses to accept the ideology of the capitalist pig power structure which starves 70% of its population and uses food funds to send their astro-pigs to the moon for the purpose of ‘‘height- ening explottation,’’ The people and the Black Pan- ther Party say there's something terribly wrong when Daley s Stock- yard pigs have nothing more to do than sit in front of our break- fast centers and spy on and In- timidate the hungry school chil- dren, who attend our centers by the hundreds each morning, Not only do the Breakfast Cen- ters provide free breakfasts but they also serve as a place where children receive revolutionary culture, education and also im- mediate first ald treatment. We believe anything the people want and need can be gained through revolutionary struggle and until fast Centers, our offices and cribs, Beware! The beat of the people is much too fast, so go back home where you belong, Watch out pigs, it's a people’s thing! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS Black Panther Party Chicago, Illinois Sister Beverlina Panthers And Young Lords Serve The People New York (LNS)--The federal pr o— , government, the government ofthe State of New York, and Governor Rockefeller simply do not have the resources to meet the needs ofthe people, what with all the more im- portant things that have to be done like sending three clowns to the moon and dumping bombs and na- palm on the peasants of Vietnam, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and other countries around the world. So when this year’s budget rolled round they were forced to make major cuts in the welfare clothing allowance, A grievous situation for all concerned, they assured us, but sadly unavoidable, What made it so sad for the pigs | was that quite a few of the wel- fare mothers weren't taking this sitting down, Instead they were | taking it to the streets, pushing ar school boycott that shut down several New York schools almost completely during the first weeks ‘ of the school year. > And what made it even sadder for the pigs was that there are - some people around who under- stand that serving the people Is yi their primary task and who make ° that thelr life’s work--the Black Panther Party andthe Young Lords Organization, So when it became clear that this racist government a decent breakfast, the Panthers had no more intention of clothing and Lords announced that the children than it had of giving them would do it. HAPPY PEOPLE RECEIVED OVER THREE TONS OF CLOTHES--FREE They moved on the businessmen y who have been robbing from the them that now the people were going to get something back, They col- lected over three tons of new and used clothes and let the com- munity know that it would all be distributed for free. More than 500 people were lined up outside Intermediate School 201 when the Panthers and Lords told them to come In and help them- selves to the truckloads of clothing that covered long rows of tables. All the items were marked, telling * what they were and what size. Panthers and Lords stood behind each table, ready to give help to any who needed it, And people who had spent months fighting to win some kind of help from this gov- ernment began to understand ina hew and real way how this pig government works not for the peo- ple but for their oppressors. Be- cause there were the clothes they needed, and there were the Pan- thers and Lords who had gotten 1 them for them, and there were pamphlets and papers explaining why the Panthers and Lords serve the people. And the state was nowhere to be Seen, except for a few pigs who kept a nervous eye on what was golng down, afraid to vamp on the Panthers and Lords when the peo-\) ple could see what that way a about, community for years and put itto ALL POWERTOTHE PEOPLE! THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER LI, 19%9 PAGE 6 THE Gl STUDENT UNION Viet Nam has been constantly exposed for the imperialistic power move that it is, yet 500,000 troops remain -- almost 100,000 of them Black President Tricky Dick Nixon will continue to fake with his left and hit with his right while forcing hungry Black mothers away from their children and into fascist Sweat shops, The war must end NOW ALL troops home NOW. We must take our fight not only to the apa- thetic American Public but con- centrate on communication and alliance with the GI's themselves, GI's have not been allowed to gather to express their opinions of the very war that they have been kidnapped to fight in, so many of them don't realize how they are being played for fools by a handful of rich flabby oinkers who suck up tremendous profit from their various foreign investments (wars), This is why the Pentagon pigs have done everything possi- ble to keep GI's from distributing newspapers, that tell the truth, As long as there are only a few GI's hip to what's really happening to them the military can continue to mess with their minds and their lives . once the word spreads, the military power structure is finished. The job of the GI-Student Union is to help spread that word. Students and civilians opposing the war have failed to establish effective communication with brothers in the service. We must unite with the GI's to make the people’s strength felt deeply e- nough for a complete withdrawal of all troops from Viet Nam andall foreign soll. Andy Stapp of the ASU has been working at this for a couple of years and the military is afraid. The Fort Jackson 8 and the Presidio 27 cases have caught the Army with its pants down, NOW is the time to exert even greater pressure, The soldier is above all a citi- zen. He is protected by the Con- Stitution and the Bill of Rights, But from the beginning of his tour of duty he is led to believe that ‘When you come Into the service boy, you ain't got no rights.’' The military thinks that through their Nazi propaganda fear tactics; basic training and other acts of con- tinual repression of fundamental buman dignity that they can de- humanize the GI, cut off his emo- tonal and Intellectual processes. Thus they try to make him the docile sheep that the military needs to function at peak efficient fas- cist level, The Gl-Student Union will edu- cate and advise servicemen of all guaranteed rights and of ways to protect them and assert them, whether through legal channels or legal protest, It will show the Gl that he does have power but has purposely not been made aware of this by the military pigs. This will strengthen his confidence in vocally protesting mistreatment and will weaken the military's psy- chological stranglehold on him, The plight of the Black and the Chicano in the service is a study in selective persecution, Racism. Many are offered as human sac- rifices to satisfy the sadistic animal desires of bored and bitch- ing pink cheeked racist pigiets who olnk and roll with delight to see a “filthy nigga spic git his.’' New inductees who score low in military testing are as a rule sent to the infantry. And in this way, because of the bulls--¢ schooling in ghettos and poverty stricken rural] areas (relativity to needs, etc.) thousands of Black and Brown youngsters are set up to be slaughtered on the front Mnes In Viet Nam, Furthermore, the military breeds flerce competition between Blacks and Chicanos and of course ignorant Whites against both, Com- manding officers constantly in- fate the balloon of suspicion creat- ing even a wider gap in the Gi's LANDON, D.C., FRED, AND DEXTER BEFORE CONNECTICUT FRAME-UP OPEN LETTER FROM LANDON my comrades in the Black To Panther Party, All Power to the People. Sitting in this cell watch- ing America die is like watching the last days of Pompey, Every- day the cracks become more and more visible, There’s nothing the pigs can do to stave off their fina] defeat. Like we've learned in P.f class, all the attacks reac tionaries only hasten their inevi- table doom, Since Brother Rory and I were kidnapped and incarcerated we've been locked up in Isolation to keep us away from other prisoners The tsolation block is a room with ten cells that each have concrete walls on 3 sides and a double set of bars in front. Cell No. 5 In isolation is the one they call ‘‘the hole.’" We cannot see the people in the cells next to us and are only allowed out twice a week to shower and shave. The only ones we ever get to see are the pigs who bring us our food. The pigs think that this will break us, but oh, how wrong they are, They've picked up a stone only to drop it on their feet - For here in iso- of trust and understanding of his fellow GI's needs, This keeps the soldier out for himself, out to Please his superiors and a slave, Of course the Pentagon pigs know well the technique of divide and enslave, Their industrial gangster partners have been using it on the civilian masses, In this country, for hundreds of years, It all gets back to the need for communication between GI's, stu- dents, and civilians, The more the GI, who has been coerced into the ‘“‘Armed Forces,"' is able to break out of his psychological i- solation from civillans and civilians from him, the less the military will be able to exercise control over its men, The GI- Student Union is an organization that will not leave a soldier hanging on, afraid to commit himself to an expression of freedom because he thinks that nothing and nobody can stop the fascist pig machine, The People United can, The Gl-Student primary goals 1. The reassertion control of the military. 2. Widespread awareness of the realities of military service 3, Protection of constitutional rights of citizen-soldiers 4. A continuous and rellable search agency, 5. The prevention of the sacri- fice of students and youth in ex- ploitative wars. Union has five of civilian re- lation is where they send all their, instead it serves the people, We “trouble-makers''; and here in isolation is where Rory and | con- duct P.E. The brothers, Chicanos and young Whites that the pigs send to isolation are very susceptible to revolutionary propaganda They're mostly young people and there's no love lost between them and the pig. The pigs send them to isolation, put them on breadand water and usually keep them here for 4 days to a week and a half During that time, Brother Roryand I expose them to the ideology of the Party. To young oppressed coun- try radicals, we explain the dif- ference between socialism and anarchy. The Chicano and Black brothers learn about the colony and this oppressive mother country. When they finally leave tsolation most of them love the Party and understand what it’s about. In the morning and at night isolation echoes with ‘All Power to the Peo- ple’. There’s a Chicano brother about 3 cells over who can be heard all day shouting at the guards “You dirty, funky, pig’’. No, Iso- lation does not serve the pigs; read to our fellow prisoners the ar- ticles we write for the paper and the letters that you send tous, The brothers can really dig it and when they go back to the bulld- ings they carry the message ofthe Party withthem, One brother down here couldn't stand anything that was White, but after a while he be- gan to understand that it’s a class instead of a race struggle. When the brother left he said he could dig it and understood who his op- pressor was. Another brother thought you couldn't have demo- cracy without capitalism, But Rory and I showed him that you couldn't have democracy with capitalism -- and that the people would only be free when they implemented socialism. To those who were afraid of socialism we pointed out that our people always have had socialistic ways -- sharing with and taking care of each other. To those who couldn't dig the gun we pointed out that it was the only way to obtain freedom, that singing, begging and praying hadn't gotten us our freedom and that the polls were closed to Black people here in America. As Huey says, ‘‘A people who are unarmedare either Slaves, or subject to slavery at any time." And just the other day, Huey’s “Prison, Where Is Thy Victory?’ righteously turned a brother on, Isolation cannot break us and nothing else the pigs have can, Wherever we are we'll carry out Party policy and Party liffe, We know Bursey and the other kidnapped Panthers are also on their jobs, and from the way things are happening, we know you Panthers are on yours, So Rory and I say fight on you beautiful Black Panthers, Blood to the Horses Brow. We'll be together on the day of victory, and final vic- tory d--n sure belongs to the people, They may be able to jail revolutionaries, but they CANNOT jall the revolution. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN Your comrade in arms, Landon LETTERS TO HUEY BOBBY & ELDRIDGE All Power to the People It adds a great deal toour spirit, our devotion and dedication to the Party in serving the people, when we're able to produce young revo- lutionaries and hold revolutionary conversations and exchange revo- lutionary ideas about what's going on in this decadent society, In doing so, in the Breakfast for Chil- dren Program, we , | mean, all Black Panther Party members everywhere are impressed by the letters, drawings, and poems that are written, The Black Panther chapter in Eugene offers these A mass gathering being called for October 13 at Glide Memorial Church in San | Francisco at 7:30 p.m, During this meeting plans will be for- mulated for legal opposition to the War and for participation in the | November 15 March, If you want to work with GIs, | and work is the key word, (this ain't no limousine liberal bullsh -type organization), contact the Gl-Student Union, 2214 Grove St,, Berkeley, California, 94704, (415) 549-2172 of Gi's is | letters tothe revolution from revo- lutionary students of the Black Panther Liberation School and Breakfast Program, and in doing so, we find that both Black and poor White students see the need for revolution and do so by ex- pressing their love for Huey P, Newton, Chairman Bobby and El- ridge Cleaver and all other Party members in the letters that they write, We are touched by these letters, poems and drawings that we read. We have tokeepdolig it and doing it, feeding and teaching and working and doing it harder and each time, stepping it up to the next level and to the next level, after that, and then on and on further. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Free All Political Prisoners! Eugene Chapter Liberation School Staff Jill I LOVE HUEY AND BOBBY AND ELDRIDGE f eat breakfast and lunch and | have free time, | talk about all ; You guys, I do lots of fun things at liberation school, And I miss you guys. Love, Jill l love you very much Tommy ro Chairman Bobby, i love you Bobby, I learn a lot about you. I learn about the ten- ten. I learn about the racist pig. We went to the court house. I learn a lot about Huey P. New- ton. I learn about the bootlicking- nigger. I learn about the field nigger, I hope you get out of jall. Right on, All power to the people Lafay Wilson Tommy (age 5) Revolutionary Brother Hi Bobby! When are you coming down? [ am a revolutionary little brother. I'm in the breakfast program in Eugene, I like the breakfast pro- gram and liberation school here. How could you get down here sowe can see you and talk with your How are you doing? They showed us some pictures of you In school today, What are you doing now? All Power to the People Manuel Hi Huey, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and Black Panther Party, 1 love you, 1 had milk, oatmeal, and rolls atthe Panther Breakfast and we had a class at the Libera- tion School. We also played with the ball and | washed, my hands, I like this school and I am a Tevo- lutionary, All power to the peo- ple! Love, Manuel SO GRIMLY MELODRAMATIC WON'T SON FORGET IT... 2 5 *, —, — SS —— AN. IN-DEPTH LOOK AT FASCISM IN MODERN-DAY BAB HUEY NEWTON , SEALE, DPAMID HILLIARD, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, CHARLES BURSEY, THE NEW YORK 21,, THE CONNECTICUT 8, AND MANY, MANY MORE..-.-. AND A SUPPORTING CAST OF THOUSANDS oF PIGS, PU > FAWINS AND PROFITEERS, ALL OUT FOR BLOOD!! YOU ASKEO FOR IT, ME. AND MRS. AMERICA «++ RON ING Pos PROSECUTORS RAILROAD THE VANGUARD REVOLUTIONARIES EXECUTIVE PRopUcHR: TRCKYDICK NIXON DIRECTED SY: J. BDGAR HOS POLITICALLY MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. WARNING: THIS MAMMOTH PRODUCTION (S KXCEBDINGLY COSTLY, AND PIGS BEING PIGS, THEY ARE NOT WILLING To PUT UP THE ENTIRE CoST OF THEIR OWN PRODUCTION, Amo THEREFOR ARE SUBJECTING THE GLOck PANTHER PARTY TD ARMED KOB- PeRyY iN THE FORM OF EXoRGITANT GAR (RAN THE PARTY NEEDS YouR FINANCIAL SUPPORT. SENO ALL ConTRIBUTION S TO: SLACK PANTHER PARTY NATL, HQ.— 3IOS SHATTUCK AvE,- BERKELEY, A SH7OS Edts. Note The so-called ‘‘Com- mittee of Ten’’ are not the real fascist in Amerikkkan society, they are only the unso- phisticated, bastard off-springs of the real fascist pigs, The mod- ; ern fascisi has given up the swastika for the badge, the political title, the judicial robe, and the executive image, The people are no longer fooled by the pigs in sharkskin and the people’s justice is the final justice, Dear Motherfuckenrs, All Power tothe People SOM), AND FINES CEATORTIOND. THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 199 PAGE 7 VICTORY! TO OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD This letter ts specifically ad- dressed to the oppressed people of Vietnam and generally to strug- gling lUberation forces every- where, I read of the death of Brother Ho, in one of the reactionaries propaganda sheets (N.Y Times), As usual they seized upon the less of a great leader as anopportun- ity to dupe the people. In life they portrayed him as a fanatic or old madman. In death they por- tray him as some sort of martyr. Be informed that the people of racist America feel your loss, We realize that you have not lost a saint or a martyr but rather a dedicated leader of exploited humanity, We recognize Brother Ho as a fellow revolutionary. We recognize him as a part of the mighty storm that is at this moment descending upon the forces of imperialism, We will not be' fooled by the sugar coated bullets which the pigs repeatedly oink In tho faces of the people, Those of us who are at this moment po- litical prisoners further recognize him as a fellow sufferer in the name of humanity, We will con- tinue to go forth to topple the im- perialist beast. We will accept Brother Ho's death as a further call to arms. We will continue in our efforts to educate the people of Babylon(racist America) to the decadence of this capitalist system which allows a few to exploit and brutalize the majority. We will have our liberation or Babylon will have ashes to sleep on. Let the Peoples’ Army of Vietnam be as- sured that as Che said, ‘‘Where- ever death may surprise us it will be welcomed, provided that this our battle cry reaches some receptive ear and that other fight- ing men reach out to Intone our funeral dirge with the staccatto of machine gunfire and new cries of victory’. Victory and solidarity in the International struggle for liberation, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Afeni Shakur Harlem Branch Black PantherParty Letter From John Sinclair Power, Brother! Since we met last in Ann Arbor Ihave been snatched up by the pigs and sentenced to 91/2-10 years in the State Prison of Southern Michi- gan at Jackson on the pretense of ‘possession of marijuana,’’ t.e. two joints that the police made up in January, 1967, I was convicted HITLE WAS RIGHT! Boaton, Nase, / October /%9 I have juat read your 40 called Newspaper The Black Panther, I have never seen 40 much Gullshit in one paper in my Life, You may have noticed that we have no Riots in Boaton, we no haw to keep our Niggers in Line up here. To be sure we do have a few niggers tat ane a Little l/ppity haveven they are 40 Stupid that it is easy to hold then doun. Now mind you we have nothing against niggers we beleive that every White Man should have at Least one to heep his BOSTON JUSTICE BOSTON (LNS) -- A young white honor student was found here Sept. 13 shot in the back of the head, with the words ‘‘nigger lover’ carved Into the skin of his back with a knife or other sharp instru- ment, The body of 19-year-old Gary Carotenuti, of Boston's Northeastern University, was found where it had been dumped on the steps of a predominantly Black Arts School in Roxbury, a Black Neighborhood. boy's father, Louis Carotenuti, said, ‘‘My son was a hon-violent young man with a lot of love and a iot of friends, He never believed that anybody could be really violent.’ house clean and clean up his Shit after him, as they do in that wonderfull country of South Africa. If you mess up around Boaton it will be the start of the end fon you'all, we will make you into Soap juat Like Hitler did to the Kikes, We may have trouble getting rid of Black Soap but we can aluays sell to the jeus if the price ia right they will Buy anything. The (ommittee of Ten For God and (ountay and a White Boston, by a ‘‘jury’’ of 8 so-called ‘‘knee- grows’ and 4 ‘‘honkies’’ in De- troit and the racist Judge Robert J. Colombo hurried upand gave me all this time, But I welcomed the sentence because It only served to heighten the contradictions inher- ent In the pigs’ decadent, racist, fascist system and educate the peo- ple even more to those contradic- tions, It was the most blatant move the local gestapo and puppet courts have made in their insipid battle against the people and the prople’s revolutionary culture, The examples of Fidel Castro (sentenced to 25 years in Cuba by Batista's regime but released after 3 years by the demands of the peo- ple), and of the heroic brother Huey P, Newton, both with incredible strength in the face of such oppres- Sion, have Inspired me to accept this imprisonment and serve my time usefully. The White Panther Party can only grow stronger and stronger because of it (this experi- ence) will give my people an ob- vious inspiration to continue andto increase thelr work in the com- munity. As Brother Mao has said, it is good when we are attacked by the enemy because it shows that we are successful in our work, Dare to struggle. Dare to win! Our Party was born ina Michigan jail when our Minister of Defense, Pun Plamondon was incarcerated last summer on a phony charge in Traverse City, Michigan, for 80 days under a $20,000 bond, While in jail, he read inspirational litera- ture by Che Guevara and Brother Eldridge Cleaver, And when he came home, he and I were deter- mined that it was time, and that it was our duty as White mother- country revolutionaries to respond to the call of Huey P, Newton, Chairman Bobby, and Eldridge and to form a White Panther Party to organize the revolutionaries in our communities, so that we could join with you, our brothers, in the liberation of this land. Rebellion in the colony, revolution in the mother country, in the words of Huey P, Newton, I am in prison, Brother Pun will be directing our Party's work from our headquarters in Ann Arbor and he will be in constant touch with you. All Power tothe People! Long Live the People’s Revolu- tlonary Culture! Free Huey Free All Political Prisoners Minister of Information, White Panther Party — THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 8 ALL POWER TO THE SANYA LIBERATION LEAGUE When the representatives of the Black Panther Party were in Tokyo, we had the opportunity to speak to members of the Sanya Liberation League, The following article is a brief report of our discussion with them, Hopefully, in the future we will be able totrans- late some of their materials from Japanese and prese the ideas and history of thelr struggle to our readers first hand The people in this ghetto are all Japanese. They are there because most of them second and third sons of peasant families, When their fathers died, the land was given to the first son which is the custom in Japan, And the only way the who did not inherit the land could make a living was by going to Tokyo to become workers in the factories, or in the offices, In the case of the peo- ple living in Sanya, most of them came to Tokyo, but could find no steady work so they had to resort to getting construction jobs and working on a day to day basis. Of course, because of the weather, (rain, etc.) they are unemployed most of the year, The workers in Sanya face dis- crimination and social degradation in many ways as severe as the oppression that the Black people in the United States face, Black people are discriminated against were 5005 THE SANYA DISTRICT IN TOKYO other passengers, If they f supposedly on the basis of color, but we know that the slaves from Africa were not brought here be- cause y were Black. They were brought here because the plantation P owners were able to make huge A ; profits off of the labor stolen from the slaves at the point of the The people Japanese and they look like everybody else in Japan, When they go to wo though they do clothes and they do ¢ can't t on the su themselves built scorned and snickere of Sanya are iy wear spe being dat by the look for work in an area other than con- Struction, they are discriminated against when they give their address On top of all this, the Sanya workers are exploitedtwice as much as regular salaried workers, To get a job, they usually have to go to a job broker who loads them up on trucks ver) in the morning and takes th where the jobs are, (The workers line up along the street at about 6:30 a.m. where the buses come by and pick them up.) And, of course, the brokers take 10-15% of the workers checks, The average check is about 2,000-2,500 yen ( Be- cause of the social degradation and discrimination, it is very difficult ROBERTA AND BiG MAN AT SANRIZUKA RALLY with them. The rest are forced to live in loneliness, Usually, even their own familles reject their sons once they've lived in Sanya--they imperialists. The trains of Japan carry American military equip- ment and fuel for planes going to Vietnam, The airports can be used for Sanya workers to finda wife, see them as a disgrace to the [ About 10% of the 12,000 workers family in Sanya have wives or familles “WE BUILT THE BIG 1964 O- LYMPIC STADIUM, AND NOW WE WISH WE COULD TEAR IT DOWN,”"* SanyaLiberation League To fight the brokers and the rampant police brutality in their community, the Sanya Liberation League was organized in March of 1968. In June of that year, the led an attack <« loca police tation, The fighting las 1 period of weeks befor the pigs ould bring the Situation under ‘*contr *. And in order forthem todo so, they had to bring in riot pigs (Kido Tal) Tokyo to quell the These sort of uprisings happening every year for League nm th about rom all over he last several years mit last year was the first time that they had any kind of o nized Ship and a set of de r rid of the brokers, and opposition to the presence and measures ofthe pigs in their neigh- borhoods) leader- petting Ands repress The workers of Sanya con- Structed the enormous Tokyo Olympic Stadium, and they worked on the construction of the fastest EARLY IN THE MORNING IN SANYA AND A TYPICAL DAY OF OPPRESSION train in the And now they see that the things that they have created are being used by the world, WORKERS by the American military machine any time it wants to use it. During the Tet offensive, the Tokyo air- port was practically turned into a military airport. It was very dif- ficult, if not impossible for civil- ians to catch their flights since the American military was mon- opolizing the Japanese skles. The Sanya Liberation League says, ‘We constructed them, and now we want to tear them down because of what they stand for,’’ I Sanya Liberation League re. lates to serving the people. Since most of the men do not have fami- they have set up a kind of cooperative restaurant where the workers can get their meals for lower prices. And in a lot of ways they become like one big family finding strongth in one another, They have discussions ibout how to fight the brokers and lies, the Japanese pigs, And they ar trying to coordinate their activi- ties with the progressive activi- ties in mher parts of Tokve If there could be many actions in Tokyo at the same time, the ples forces Would have to spread them- selves thinner are The Sanya workers Most militant in battle and most Jetermined in struggle they figure they have lose because nothing to ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Roberta Alexander A PIG, ~ISAPIG, BLACK PANTHER PAR TY ——— a EARL OFARI helped to found and is vice-president of the Black Student Union at California State College at Los Angeles. He has worked with SNCC and other or- ganizations in the Black com- munity in Los Angeles. He ts working on his M.A, degree in Sociology at Cal State, L.A. He has written articles which have appeared inthe L_A_ Free Press, the Guardian, Negro Digest and Black Politics, He 1s alsowork- ing on a book dealing with Black capitalism to be published by Monthly Review Press, The recent murders of John Hug- gins and Alprentice ‘‘Bunchy’’ Carter of the Black Panther Party and the subsequent implication and arrest of several members of Ron Karenga's US organization has served to dramatize the glaring {- deological deficiencies inherent in the thought of many of today’s so- called Black cultural nationalist Organizations. In this particular instance, the onus of cultural nationalism’ shis- toric fallacy just happened to fall on Karenga and US organization. US, though representative of many of the negative trends embodied in much of cultural nationalism's programmatic content, by no means should be viewed here as the sole malefactor. Before con- tinuing though, it must be made Clear that Black cultural nation- alism, in varied forms, histor- fcally (the Harlem arts renais- sance of the 20's being an excel- lent example) as well as in the contemporary Black experience has been a positive force. It has played an extremely vital role at times in both heightening the level of the Black liberation struggle while at the same instant in- creasing in stages the development of Black radical consciousness Nonetheless, at this critical point in the liberation struggle it {s time for Black people to make a thorough Questioning analysis of many of the assumptions and goals that have been put forth by many of the self-appointed ‘‘new-wave’’ Black spokesmen, Such an anal- ysis I feel will help to place in & more tenable perspective such as yet unsatisfactorily answered questions as; ‘‘what doweas Black freedom fighters want? and more importantly ‘how do we go about getting it."' For at present what {s sorely needed is to move the li- beration struggle from the trap- pings of personal ego-building phraseology to the collective de- velopment of productive ideology. This must be done if Black people don't want to see other Huggins’ and Carters’. As can readily be seen,.. The past half decade has seen awakened in the spirit of Afro-America a new found sense of spiritual and cul- tural awareness. Black People, in ever increasing numbers, have be- gun to turn the traditional racist myth of Black inferiority around full cycle to the point where now, as the expressions go, Black is both beautiful and superior, Sym- bolically representing the resur- gence of Black cultural aware- ness is the current popularity of such things as the ‘‘Afro’’ or natural hair styles, the wearing of traditional African dress, the adoption of African names and the vague attempts on the partofsome Black people to learn an African language. As Leroi Jones, one of the chief architects of the new Black cultural renaissance, has written: ‘The Black Man must as- Pire to Blackness,’ and, ‘The Black Man must idealize himseif as Black.’ Sethe concepts and ideas embodied philosophy of Black cultural Rationalism have also lald the _ §roundwork for the formation of Many new Black organizations in Afro-America. To a great extent, however, the existence of these dedicated to the _ principles and precepts of cultural nationalism has a very definedand extended history. Infact, one would be correct In stating that cultural nationalism (at least the inter- nalized feeling) has been a com- ponent part of the Black experi- ence ever since the first slave ship from Africa arrived in the Western Hemisphere, The emotive desire embedded within the Black masses in the Americas fora national exis- tence and self-expression was the cominanat force behind many ofthe early slave rebellions, Though Cultural nationalism was always present in the manner, ritual and song of Black people during slav- ery, it wasn’t until the mid-19th century in the U.S, that any sub- stantive political or social organi- zational framework could be de- veloped for its expression. The main impetus behind this develop- ment was the theoreticalwritings of a Harvard trained Black phy- sician-- Dr, Martin Delaney. Delaney, even at that early date, disdained the use of the term negro and preferred to be called Black. Delaney, born of pure West African stock, took a pointed interest inthe study of African history and cul- ture, Delaney, later, inhis seminal work, The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Co- loured People of the United States, Politically Considered, published in 1852, outlined a program which he felt would speak to the imme- diate needs of Black people. Part of Delaney’ s program called for the emigration to, and the colonization of Eastern Africa by Black people. With this plan, Delaney became one of the first Black leaders to ad- vance the idea of a Black mass exodus back to Africa, This idea, of course, was to assume much greater proportions in the ideology of many later cultural nationalist organizations. Delaney also was the first to enunclate the idea that Black people in their separate ex- istence In America did, in fact, Constitute a ‘Nation within a Na- tion."" Since Delaney, the thread of this Ideal has been picked up and expounded by nearly every ma- jor Black Nationalist spokesman ranging from Garvey to Malcolm X, Nonetheless, Delaney in much of his planning revealed many of the theoretical weaknesses which have Plagued to a large degree many of today’s Black cultural group- ings. One of the more obvious here being the tendency toward rank opportunism, As an example, Delaney in calling for Black peo- ple to return to Africa actively sought the ‘‘aid’’ and‘‘assistance’’ of the European Nations; England and France in particular, This came ata time when both of these nations along with the rest of Europe were greedily tryingtoes- tablish colonial hegemony over the Third World continents of Asia and Africa, Delaney further felt that the contacts with these Euro- pean nations should be made by certain select representatives of Afro-America which were to be chosen from a ‘‘confidential coun- cil." This was little more thana 19th century version of the‘‘ Black missionary complex,'' whichtoday almost completely colors the out- look and mentality of the Black elite in their dealings with the Black masses. With the Civil War and ‘‘eman- cipation"’’, the organized structure of the cultural nationalist move- ment collapsed. However, its spirit remained a part of the latent char- acter of the now ‘‘free’’ Black masses, It wasn't until the early 20th century, with the establish- ment by Cyril V. Briggs of the African Blood Brotherhood, that cultural nationalism again re- celved direct and open expres- slon, The Brotherhood based its name on an African cultural rite of fraternization which demanded that the parties involved mingled their drops of blood, The Brother- hood from its beginning was a = MARCUS secret) Black organization dedi- cated to Black liberation through racial pride and equality, Included in the Brotherhood's eight point Program was the call for a Black united front. Brigg’s movement, like Delaney’ s before him, though, only served as a prelude to the grand-daddy of all the cultural na- tionalist movements. And that was, of course, Marcus Garvey's Uni- versal Negro Improvement Asso- clation’s (U.N,LA.) “back to Africa’ movement. With the emer- gence of Marcus Garvey, cultural nationalism for the first time at- tained a legitimate wide-spread recognition from literally millions of Black people throughout the world (for Garvey’s movement was truly international in both appeal and scope), Garvey's skillful es- pousal of Black nationalist tenets combined with his ability to or- ganize Black people into a mass base assured his U_N.1.A, of the largest membership ever enjoyed by any Black organization in America. Garvey's movement added two new dimensions to the ideological framework of cultural nationalism, The first was anti- communism, Garvey indicated on several occasions that he consi- dered ‘‘the white capitalist...to be the only convenient friend'’ of the Black worker, In addition, Garvey stated: ‘Fundamentally what ra- clal difference is there between a White Communist, Republican or Democrat?,.,On the appeal of race interest the Communist isas ready as either to show his racial... superiority over the Negro."’ To a degree, what Garvey al- ludes to here is and has been true in all too many cases in the past. Often the White communist, in so far as Black people have been concerned, has been just that-- White first and then (if there Is anything left) communist. Also, White racism, being the all- powerful factor in American life ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, OCOTBER 11, 1969 PAGE 9 CULTURAL NATIONALISM VS REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM GARVEY that itis. Garvey’s mistrustofany- thing White was at least in part understandable, However, Gar- vey’s anti-communism was much more than just a defense or reac- tion against the omnipresence of White racism, It was a tactical ploy skillfully designed to cover up the personal exploitative de- signs held by the Black elite them- selves (many of whom formed a nucleus of Garvey’s organization) on the economy of the Black com- munities, Garvey's anti-commu- nism, based on the mistrust of White people, was phony and mis- leading, particularly in light of the fact that he was more than willing to work with the Ku Klux Klan(who for the most part were nothing but Southern Democrats with sheets), According to Garvey: “I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon Clubs and White American Soci- etles as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypo- critical Whites put together,’ The second extension Garvey made in the framework of cul- tural nationalism was the greater emphasis put on the role of Black business as a means for Black liberation, Whether realized or not, the emphasis placed on Black capitalist business, by Garvey, was the direct complement of his po- sition of antil-communism, It should not be a Surprise, though, that Garvey did look to business as a source of strength for the building of his movement, For Gar- vey, as it ls known, came to the U.S. in 1915 for the Specific pur- pose of meeting with Booker T, Washington and thereby joining his then Jamaica-based ULN.LA, up with Washington's movement for Black (elite) economic ‘‘{nde- pendence,'’ As Garvey himself re- lated: “I read ‘Up from Slavery’ by Booker T. Washington and then my doom--if I may so call {t-- of being a race leader dawned upon me,,'‘After Washington's death Garvey lost little time in trying to implement his Black capitalist economic program which ft must be sald even at that early point was already outdated and value- less in so far as the practical needs of the Black masses, Unperturbed, Garvey in 1919 set up both the Black Star Steam- ship Line and the Negro Factories Corporation which ostensibly was designed to promote business op- portunities among Black people. As expected, like his smokescreen antl-communism, Garvey's em- phasis on Black business as a so- lution to the economic depression of Black people played right into the hands of the Black elite, As past practice has demonstrated, capitalist business enterprise whether White or Black Is based solely on the motive of profit; to be more Specific, exploitative profit, The Black elite, who in reality are little more than cor- porate enterprises’ front men in the Black communities, have gotten rich themselves off of the meagre earnings of the Black workers, Another aspect of the Black elite’s pursuit of capitalist economics, is the intensification and broad- ening of the class cleavages with- in the Black communities; thus preventing the attainment ofa gen- ulne Black united front against ca- pitalist exploitation and racism, As can be seen then Black capl- talism's proponents--the Black e- lite--effects the corporate power structure's main desire, It creates divisions while m: vested interest. So Garvey. with his pro- motion of Black business enter- prise laid the foundation for the future “Buy Black’? and “ Black"’ campaigns which the Black elite over the years has 50 ju- diclously plugged in their quest for profit, EARL OF ARI CONT, NEXT WEEK EEE —- — — A bet of this of course (Dtier’s mote, The exiled Minie- » ter ef information of Ge act Paster Party, EMtricge Clrawr, murteeé last seceer at Ge Paa- Africas Testival & Algiers, Ths interview was Game ai (hat time by Sates Avst, a West German joer mim) LS QUESTION. What was the ctustion = America af the time of Stokely armechee?'s spttt (rom the Diack Pustier Party, aad bow 41d fh tribute te the agit! CLOMIDGE: Tr be protiom the cov uk Mack capttats ‘ 2 slogan of ttack power te Ths forced Rokety wheal be started th wech © way as to scale tes cet involerd caplialem But by quitting the scree ant mt éefeoting bis pos ties, the whale thing has teen Congted by peccae whores: COKE, concess Gu te cortins | QUESTION Mis tee mest tr: on him te Gad just tchd Mim we were not going to try to arrange that ther Ging that we were talking atest, and (fet we would accept } tis resignation as he wrote it and deal with It aa be put it forth And that's the last ee’ re heard ef tam tant ieeues tn this letter were first, calling the Party Gogeatic, | amd secusd, comberaning the al Larces with white redical mcve- P | ELOMIDGE: 1 dak Seve te are very related because wher he re~ fers to dogestion, what be ts ac- tually referring to te the fact are & Marsist Lesiuist Party, plicit im Marviom- Lentaiem te predetarien tater- rattomaliom, acxd sckicartty wich all pounte whe are struggling and this, of course, inchudes white poopie. tat P So thet since bie mats object is fon-siliasce wli® whites, and ters- F ibe whole organizatice bas coor & capMalism, The former wad of CO umes Farmer, has tp San ie the Nines ooe’s tack om whites and having he policy towards them af all, Jest to ignore them, De has to come Gown heavy of txth (hose puluts yaraaees ia order to malatala ts position, heed ef CONE. FleyaMe~ And we consider this positionto be bas gotten tamseit recset oh tee We recognise Gat we cannot calls Floyd McKissich fection te this way, particularty ot ef funda are fur- these éays when nationally and un internationally they're exing sag. | era * an the eévest of retude a5 & way to Create Civisioes the jentaliet phase cf ter amunget people, sal the Gomestic mation in Ge United counterpart of this Internationa) supe cor respects approach ts the ese af Mark eap- eat the colonial power talism, tlack consciousness. We techies to grat & messtre of &. call © culveral nationalism is the (oe coluey asd re- United States, and ifs been made mial regime with a very clear bow they finance certals wets. And this is what cottcral nationalist orgasizations. They have already exposed tes eetves an being tools of Ge power structure by their activities. Sof thal another deflation te required Ft take Cistioctions between S triends anc reemies when they are coming te al) colers we fre 6 that the only wage guides to action ’ are the revoimionary princtptes ef Maraist-Lerialew, that they Are relevant at thts podet for Gat feasen ant we choose to wort on (het beste and let the reet of Gat © beteeee Weck poole kave al- TeRdy Cilhed their eenerioumnees, fletet meee rerytwdy, and they Y Veet wert te fe vee Invitved te cS programs, Gee they tegia pthey have @ erase of their iden § + Ge sqmeses an you fol Pity, which was Jost te the Untied § @ Orves [States At ite time that this wax tx erve pling Uas happetiag S was wery oro Pad ye iskon gressive, £ } goed te : that wan coming abot, Bet a: peoote nad asstretisted that ant © rer t af who they were everything, maltaln that positice and get to gs any further becomes rractions ry This is what tas happened to Mokely and a bet of oer people, & lot of other people get tung up culteraily % that sense, tet Seke- ly Bas cutien tung up politically im that senee, There's « false Clatinetion people Telalion to the tack movement, 6e you thik cf the xplit what GO you (Rink ts the task whtle mother country radicals Se this especial sftuaticn sow? This has proven te & proper way to oral be a mistake Matorically. 1 was the easy way out because ft ts easter te motditee people on the basis of nationalism thas & ts to create @ strong Marxist-Leninist organization, The comfer-revelu- eet tn acd bave put many of these rationalist re- ast maddied he people with these oppressive agate demonstrale the point that theonly covermesents that really tees atée to sur his sweep ha ve been those cover= ments whe have cottes thelr LUb- eration and created, Tetlonary party sarily 2 die shown many tows thal Lf pou cart DMIDGE: | think the peaple who lowe those sreund poo, which te form of nathens had this faulty anal- yela of Ghee altuation, they were sti! basis of an analysis of whal we call the (id They are not recogtizing the tha: are gciag on Undied States which often can’ relate te aod by the co hose beyond you, « then if you con | relate to these beyond pou, and nce those pear you, feblem, Pm i tows sation me protiem that ethnic struggic then there's talking about t in SOS who we work with = <¥ ¥ y and it does function, and it's tene- ELDRIDGE CLEAVER DISCUSSES REVOLUTION: AN INTERVIEW FROM EXILE ys ral bona = ich there is neces- ctlen betwwes 2 cenftiet between projetartas inter~ toning righ sow, and Geveloping, aad we're able to Gea) with mocks more of the protdetss than we were when we were trying to pall poor People isto one greep and con inae depleting & tot of cer ener- gles by alot of ln- fighting ever that. These prope who are in PL and who are pot WES {) fecogmtse what was happening ta ibe other communiiies and start to imgcee their own idechogical pe retafl, to the situation they were trying to perpetusta QUESTION: After spending so Sexwch time fe ike Third Werld, have you changed your ters oc American policy, cam you xsy aay- iieg stout experiences you hare had since you lef (he United ates ELOMIDGE: Pre teem more com. Sirmed ip the postition ans atimedce that the Black Panther Party hed. I recognise mow that come of the thiags We were Going amt trying te Go are eves more important (an we realised they were, par~ Ueslariy in the directions we strock out in trytag to get arceed ite that were michel and , « feel were Ms tortcally necessary -- with Mack bower, We (cok a differest course im the Uniled Mates, and aid Mt ont of necessity, Aer coming into ecetact with other people whe are revotstionaries bat are not Black, you sew bew 1 att it ds i order to work with them, fre been appalled to s greater extent has | ever dreamed that | co pave tems by tte vt of colketalisem and | We in the United Sta oEpresesd, in compart ce Fre sees arvend the words, it seems as though we are oppressed between allces of silk, becesse there's nothing comparatie to the poverty I've seen around the words, Gary's mthing compsraliec Ila tee United States, even in the meet oppressed areas | | recognise thatthe Uneted stases f cvverseeet ies the sumber com enecry Of mankind amt wore mech | tarotved fs perpetunlane aii these J things which I have econ, tareugh their tatermationa] crgexttatine such as NATO, SEATOand i2r0ugh the United Nationa, They are able to perpetaate the stagnadoe of people and t© corrupt their attempts t incestrbald This, i think, tas hed « great efluence an me, also s let ef 5 luhenary © thet | Raw en- constered weet people has perved te stimulate mere dedi cotton within myself, + revo. QUESTION; Deo't you think its art that the Liberation the Third World + erty with the DMack Pas- created. i gives Gem greet tape t keow (hat even ny Dabyton, @ revolution can te struggled for, And it helps them in thetr struggle because ey assy that if Goer guye can @ ff ever Gere, ee what's wrong with us here!) We all knew that are dealing with the same enemy, Just know that there ts scimeene (o he same fight with you always strengthess pour Sedic atten QUESTION ; De pus thick the Dalted ates bad changed since you left? if LORIDOL: | think he repression Phas increased cashefly, and ds }means that the eCiectivences of the Party’ s attack on the power stroc- was fecemirg tetoeratie to gwer structere itself, Cor of (he Lmgortant (Rings that developed batter | left was the Breakfast for sCiticren Program Gal the Party yted This was 8 way for the rty to strengthen Sta lanks with the Come manity and te get (housants acct Gemsanta af pectic acre ~ country involved in the program, exposed Ww the Party, And Gese people got wery amery whee te Government started attacking the Breakfast Progra There bas tance of (he Ts very trterestizg (hat many ct be things tas we wer ing, owe hat beet spearheoding while I was there, tock os more urgeecy and more acceptability afer | lef, because people had to relate to that. B's just like I trem talking to the brothers in the feleguiten that here trom Ltited Stales, Just tobear (hem there was a lore time «hea lack Paather Party was shet m with calreral mationaliem re trying to eet oot of that ye brothers wie are bere now fare brothers whe have been ts the est trom Ms becinnsseg | and i bed a chance } watch thee A develop, see in thee: reeietasce te the Glrection we were trying te y wie revetsiomarios, pe that here i leer a compl. chasge nal i heard one brother refer to the poopie cinavian brothers a this particular cat when we were trying te @ a demonstration at luey Newton when be weet to | trial, he retested to get inte the soené truck becuase the sound trock was Selng driven by « white e 1 was necessary tur this guy | Oo tirive the scumd track because ne had ihe license amd ide pers | Culture an¢ politics, and (hen « ler mahirg (his talee diatisetien, te confuses cattery «ich polities agais, So that it's like as error cote pounded with an error, ant we can!t deat with that ott and it just hed to te that way ht be refused to owt tote Ue ELDNINGE: Not cely with the Minch S soutal (ruck, aad now be is (he ome Paster Party, tet wath all feve- whe made ihe statement ] referred futicoary forces within ter United to, That [ticanes te me that things en, Certainly, | think it bas Rave changed apd Gal a bot of S er Party ~~. tat fest ow i 5 - * twen demonstrated tere af this ee Saat re Koeln Sess oO ing” re Scan abner festival in Alciers, wtich has been iy je | was there fave bec mona. we were & Apheaperpenn pe seried te hey helt under the waxpices of the OAU accepted. That's fast cor, Gere - we firs con terete. | ae eT pat | Mae Bene | Organisation ef African Unity) bet are other UMings, but that's ene of verte, « act eealts 33 nf the whobe cuvermert the moet Gout ahs hehe made aachnp There i¢ a ict af developement 5 Sr eas boned d Algeria, Ube fact thal (hey tued ( we amd apche~ LIDGE: Well | think it beomght be Party is stronger and much ie & Ge Per : fee meres hia, Ween Ett the ia rey i Siogether all ef the erperieeces | pSeclogical tees, i forced certs \ whines ket the copes, and lt really | | courage to invtie us, ihe fect that they ‘to the courage to invite berger, I think that the crest meah- myself, considering the siteatiog recming and deveisping of ihe ted, | think (his hes cose Party Meotogically ts one of the 3p pg erran sarin heme to 8 let of pr ay ioward drengnamon mont lmpertast pyre tas a ’ ‘lede an¢ Cale . ~ co" - . . ~ alway relabe pe er Karel, seldination’ ire shespey IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY -— THE NLF.OF SOUTH | cetidnatey: nzome bapecd eo | vratenLeminien, vet ‘there MHOCKE fo the pecete’s iberstion - - Anarene? . Untied States, I'm were, and vue 8 great Gimirehy in main- pon ge ether gs te a meno struccien rather than sasiatanees VIF TNWAM, ND THE ALACK PANTHER PAR! re MABYLON joe thet the important thing tamang Party discigtion, 0 wase't Sokgnt apsinat the Party mometio fl eeee Tle es er ed bel sled dering tie Cosselecely laces clast ear ove relaled to the analysis atest (nis is tat to te pase Chere en gery pepe Rennes othe (he that pes ef these stenges Bratione 1 have hed here have bees ienare ‘Sher the tonto d . i dictions asd €19%8 Broblems ant have made and they see that f hare (wen individuals, Mack peo~ | om Rae brasil serve whe orry mauling hetere me att Maraist-Lenisist Party, J unites people OVPr Cisse lines ant functions! tecause im the United Ble from the Ueited Staten whe have § beg ou S ond oan oat MeCletes Cammities When Gas yrs 3 think this te bores cut ty Netng the whole Relicn cut tor pro. Sates you have Mecican-Ameri- come over te make cemiain com I / cme thing thats important, & woe Sree fe Ms smtentios be sate ’ the experience of China, Cute snd Recs tater o& Beceuse on that cans, Puerto -licans, Indians, he preg erly yt dot of pecode con! waterstamd why de Gitar) Knew the MeClelban Com. the Enclern Burepens Soctatiol duals, the benreecinte, whtes twal- Limes, Chinese-Americsne, Mack pear fey eae pe ellie em @ jek at powle were purged from Wilew whe lewtived to on inves couttries, incleding Ge feviel ways better eSecSled at this otage, Amertcans, White Americats snd ant for Ge frat ena rong the Forte, Dares Ge ome ween Red be taht ot bot haere | Union. That no matter what you ts Abie io meve MMe the apparatus many otter ethalic groups, These penne by meer tier po! | recy Newtun was quing i trial, Seay atest some of the revisionist of the govertssett lecaase people ethic groups have been divided ee Ltamaee we tusel'e tA cour Peticies al are rampast be that with skills are 'Vllred, and when from «sch other ant they are in @ ang one pera fer is per- +» pong area, still I will always choose they ewe te Sy alee get the mech a posture af Gis Eme Bal those Smetaliat reghmes overcapt- S power, amt bec®3** things are or- there's no potnt in trying to sake) 4 ' {allot regimes, There is sometang jeamiaed on * Méthonstion tase, the mistakes that have teen mades : jthere that ts abde bo witRotand (he there’s nothing MET tn counteract te the past by trying to pull Geom sempre ty the lmpertaltate fines usurctas © power, or. organ Ait captialbate to rotl beck tne Game j gantsing coups 271 turning ihe tase whing si} Mees They fourmd tis easy to do in Fick, [| Gtek SEO are moving peculiarities isu consideration i Countries Cat are hebt tagether | eway from that, PS'tistarty prong We say that's potting the cart QUESTION; Are there any con af pecete - only by very narvow nationsiiom. precede, pounge "teats who are before the heres, What we have . be ibese constrie™, Mast of them to do ts take the peopte as (ey QUESTION: Do pow think the rete are very comethus and mest of ate right sow, pull Gam tagether Of GaLumeliec. Un er Iavetbemt for teem are er te otarsion. tote organizations) machinery, ated Vet Rchaing for thaie Ukersiion ts ne longer Important! _ —_ peerrigee rar Pree pamaen a0 ihe Beis af phn teeta 4 Chink 1h will Rave oe Question: TH "Sts ieeue tn the grt that consciousness. Thte ls in a 5 bs THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 12 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 a black leather jacket or black berets, or said that they were Panthers. They just walked in and said they support Huey Newtonand they wan to join our organi- tation, We didn't have time to conduct our political education classes on this, which is a very important process In our recrult- ment, that the brothers maintain, After the trial of Huey Newton was over and the verdict was in, it was a question of going back to r other activities that we had en involved in. At that time, a lot of people who came imo tne organization in that campaign, to free Huey, they proved to be very undisciplined, and non-functional, and they created a lot of problems for the Party and they were not amenable to political education Classes. So we just came down hard. I wasn’t there at the time, [ was aware of it, I knew what was happening and why it was hap- pening, and a lot of these people were defined as not being members of tho Party, And those who wanted to become members of the Party were required to go through poll- tical education classes, So that a lot of people who were purged have been admitted back Into the Party, but a lot of them were purged for a cause and it will be a long time -- if ever -- be- fore they will be readmitted, “« QUESTION; What do you plan for yourself for the future: What kind of political work do you want to do? ELDRIDGE; I think there's a lot I can do making contacts for the Party on the international situa- tion, I have a book that I want to finish, but really, | must return to the United States, that's what 1 want to do. That's really what im working on, getting that ready, QUESTION: Now that the NLF has almost won the Vietnam war and entered this new stage of fighting imperialism, does this change any- thing? ELDRIDGE; I think it will be very positive, if you think back you will remember that the whole approach of U.S. imperialism at the time was that the Iiberation forces in Vietnam had to be defeated, or else other people will get the idea that they can fight for their freedom too. And I think that this has proven that a tenacious fight inthe end will be victorious. This is now happening. The United States will, I think, force people to fight just as hard for their liberation; on the whole I think this will Strengthen the determination of People to fight on to victory, QUESTION: Do you think that the Persecution of the Black Panther Party now in the United States EXPULSION OF CHARLES ROBERTS Charles Roberts has been toia several times to close out the Branch bank account and to turnin the money. He has also been sent several notes, messages, and one letter telling him to turn in the office key and to relate to getting the money from the bank to me. demands that you create a new kind of tactic to deal with that? ELDRIDGE; Those things they've been doing have been frame-ups, and a lot of people think we are not serious when we say that, but what they do and what they have been doing is sending in a few provacateurs who will indulge peo- ple in conversations about blowing up bridges, or blowing up super- markets. And on the basis of afew frivolous words that have been passed, they blow it up Into a full WANTED WHTER STATE FliGHE not going to submit to this type of chicanery and go to jail when it's very clear that they are mani- pulating the situation, And I think this is something we are all going to have to get into, because we cannot come up with $200,000 bail. When you think of 21 people in New York, 16 people in Chi- cago, it adds up to a king’s ran- som, and we don't have that kind of money, we have no process for getting that kind of money, so I think the people who are dedicated to functioning In a revolutionary BY THE FBI ASSAULT WITH IMTEMT TO Commit MUECIF LEROY ELDRIDGE CLEAVER oescer 1ON pyar) ee Geneon CRIMINAL RECORO CAUTION eseavsrme seouesews 52° + see sett 208 tT econ eeweeet os eer eee Scale conspiracy and arrest all these people and put ransom on them as opposed to bail, drain our finances; they know what they're doing and this is the tech- nique they use in the United States to keep the Party on the defensive, I made the decision that I was He has failed to follow these or- ders and I went to his house for the key, which I now have, but the money is still not in my hands. His woman (Cynthia Brooks, no longer a member of the Black Panther Party) came to my house last Sunday and said that Charles said he would turn in the s--t when he got good and ready, that he was tired of the Captain of Defense and all that bulls--t. ‘‘All our cadres, whatever their rank, are servants of the People, and whatever we do Is to serve the people. How then can we be re- luctant to discard any of our ibad traits?’ (Red Book P, 172) Subjectivism, liberalism, disre- gard of organizational discipline, individualism, and putschism are bad traits that must be discarded from the rank and file of the Party, No army can function without officers, and orders, to guide them; _ and all armies have strong dis- ciplinary actions to deal with troops who fall to recognize the importance of following orders. The People's Army can be no different, Our success depends on a well trained (DISCIPLINED) ar- my, The Black Panther Party os- tracizes repeated violators of Par- ty Mne and Party discipline just as other armies dishonorably dis- charge undesirables, ~eneeen er © wat veet s ———r er rrr al A oe manner will start adopting the attitude that they will not be ar- Tested. And they ought to be ready at all times to defend themselves, 50 that when the man comes down on them and tries to arrest them, these cats are going to start dealing with it right on the spot, because ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE The oppressive pig police- men are not satisfied with occu- pying our communities with experienced storm troopers, but now there are rookie pig cops in our communities using the people for target practice. These rookie simpletons are patrolling our communities, looking for An attitude such as Charles Roberts’ is detrimental to a van- guard organization such as the Black Panther Party, and we must cleanse our ranks of such reac- onary Individualists as Roberts who can only relate from the sub- jective level of cognition, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Sonny Collins ~ Defense Captain \Staten Island Branch, B P.P Eldridge, Discusses Revolution that’s more desirable than laying up In a penitentiary rotting away, QUESTION; Andis the United Front Against Fascism part of this tac- tie to create solidarity? ELDRIDGE; It's a very important move in that regard, but there's another front that I think needs to be created, and this is something that I have been working on and which I intend to continue working on, and it's something we've been calling the North American Lib- eration Front. | think it's very timely, because many people see the situation thatweare confronted with as one in which politics have been transformed into war, and there’s no point in kidding our- selves anymore; what we have todo is fight. We have the terrain there to fight. Many people think that someone that they can brutalize or murder, looking for human dum- mies that they can train on. The racist dog policemen are never put in our communities to serve the people, but are sent here to watch the people and to protect the businessmen’s money. And when those rookie pig cops are sent to occupy the Black Colony and act as watch dogs and flunkies for fascist dogs like Nixon, Agnew, Johnson, and Rockefeller, the only things they are capable of doing are to act like fools and mur- derers, When the desires and needs of the people are left in the hands of vicious, racist, fascist fools, the only thing tht these crazy, new pig cops can do Is to act like the older, craziér pig cops. None of these gestapo troops are needed in the Black Communities, The people living in these areas can deal with their own problems, Outside cut-throats, and Lars are not needed to murder and torture the people, whom they are sup- posed to serve, Drive the pig cop and his rookie flunkies from our communities. Rise up against the oppressive arm ofthe slave master and remove the racist dog police- man from the BLACK COLONY! OPPRESSED BE STRONG! PEOPLE, armod struggle carried out in the mountains in Cuba or in Vietnam is one thing, and that it could not happen in the United States. But the United States has more moun- talns than all of these otherareas, it has the advantage of mountainous areas, ard a highly organized situ- ation, and it has rural areas, It's so large that the government forces would be forced to spread outvery thinly, at the same time that dis- satisfaction in the ranks of the United States Army is at an all- time peak. The stockades and mill- — tary prisons are overflowing with People who have desertedand don't want to fight in Vietnam. And I think that the contradictions that have arisen within the ranks of the United States Army will con- tinue to increase, more so when they are finally turned against the American people Chicago FREE MEDICAL CARE The Black Panther Party ts es- tablishing a FREE PEOPLE's MEDICAL CLINIC to satisfy the medical needs of our community, We understand that the capitalists in America will never provide ade- quate medical service so the Black Panther Party has moved to es-~ pater pe! community pro- gram in w Tessed people can be tavolvesy > Technical assistance, supplies and can be brought to the office of the illinois. ¢ n Street, Chicago, —_ r For fu 8276, we ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Dear Brothers, I just wrote to tell you that I'm with the movement, even though I'm in the Navy. I'm still a bro- ther, not fighting for the pigs but for my brothers and sisters, I’m from Boston and there are a lot of people behind the Panthers 100%. Some people say I'm a tom be- cause I’m in the service, But I’m not. I know how the pig is, I'm with him everyday. I'm not the only one in here that feels this way. There are a lot of brothers like me, lolove my peonte. | know what's happening to them because it’s happening to me in here, We get newspapers all the time. When | get out of the Navy I plan to join so that we can stop racism and fascism. I'm sorry I don't have any con- tributions. I'm just a Black man trying to survive. Keep up the fight brothers, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! REVOLUTION NOW! U5, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia R.P. DRAFT Louisville Ky. (LNS) -- Southen activists have published @ Painphiet on how the draft Is ised to stop movements for social Change, The booklet, entitled “An nemy of the People,’’ tells how teoorganizers of the Southern Con- ference Education Fund(SCEF )are facing prison for refusing to be drafted into the armed forces. For Copies, write to SCEF, 3210 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 40211. When brothers are being oppressed here in America, they should stay here to fight fascist oppression and tyranny. There is ho need for Black brothers who are still slaves or subject to Slav- ery at any given moment to fight a war that will put other class brothers under the foot of U.S uggression! Our White radical class brothers have recognized that the killing and terror in Viet- nam ig just a con game, run by the Nixons, Duponts, and Rocke- fellers, Oppressed people do not and should not leave this fascist, racist land to extend US, fas- cism and racism in Vietnam? You brothers involved in the military THE BL PEACE IN VIETNAM, WAR IN BABYLON: are being used to occupy terri- tory on the international level, just like the viclous dog police- man isdoing right here in America, Come on home to join the strug- gle here. This is where the fight is. Come back to fight for the peo- ple and not for the fascist dogs who are only interested in exploi- ting oppressing, and murdering our brothers and sisters in Vietnam, Come on home and fight for some- thing that you will be proud to fleht for! im OUR FIGHT IS NOT IN VIETNAM ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Baltimore Chapter 1209 N. Eden St, ACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 19% PAGE 13 NIXON COOLS IT IN THE WALDORF This is an open letter to all of | have been in the grasp of the pig for 10 years and I must ad- mit thac for ar least 5 of those years 1 was sound asleep, I had allowed myself to fall into the groove that many of us have allowed ourselves to be placed or brain- washed into and that is that the pig in time would treat us right. As | became more and more aware of what was and is happening, realize thar there is not enough time, as a matter of fact, it’s too godd--n late. Not only has he not given what has been promised, but he has no intention of so doing. The military is not only as Bro- ther Carmichael states, comrmitting physical genocide against the Blacks, it is also committing men- SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH VIET— NAM (LNS) -- ‘‘Hectic Activity on ‘The Second Front’ "' is the headline over an article about the US: movement against the war in Vietnam. The article was written by Ha Duy Phuoc and was published in “South Vietnam in Struggle,"’ a regular bulletin put out by the NLF Information Committee, printed In liberated territory in- side South Vietnam. The ‘‘second front'' described in the article is the battle of Americans against the imperialist policies of the U.S. government, ‘‘What used to be the ‘silent generation’ has entered the political Mists,’ notes Ha Duy Phuoc, ‘‘Right-minded Americans, stirred to action by the Vietnamese people's resistance to American aggression, have taken tothe street to protest against the policies of the White House."' The article, published in the Sept. 2 issue, takes note of the growing GI movement as well as of the rebellions of Black people. Ha Duy Phuoc concludes ‘*'The South Vietnamese people warmly hail the American people's movement against the American government's war of aggressionin Vietnam, They wholeheartedly support the legitimate demands of Afro-Americans, With their unylelding resistance, they are determined to join forces with the American people to fulfill their common aspiration: to end the war of aggression in South Viet- nam, to have all American troops withdrawn from South Vietnam!’' AN OPEN LETTER O BROTHERS IN THE MILITARY tal genocide, and few of us escape, I have and now | am mad as hell, because | saw myself 10 years ago as part of the great American plan, But ivother don't be fooled as | was. You canner do anything for your people while in the clutches of the pig. | would like to tellall of you who read this, to use this time to arm yourselves mentally, read, discuss and think, And if you do this you will too, get mad, The pigs’ law is designed for the protection of the pig and he has placed an obligation on you to help him maintain his vast wealth. This obligation for most of you was not voluntary, because it carries 4 penalty of confinement for non-compliance. Don't play into the pig's hand and have him lock you up, Follow his rules as closely as possible, but don’t take no s--t, Voice out your pride to be Black, And those brothers that have not awakened yet, wake them up. Don’t let the bootlickers get tooclose to you because they are «# direct line to the pig. When your time is up, get out in the street and pass the word on the pig, and his war, Here are a list of things the pig would not like for you to do when you are no longer under his control; (l) Join the movement. Hecome part of the Black Revoltby joining an organization (I don’t mean one of those “Oh mister pig, please let inc kiss your ass, urgani- zauions) (2) Uf possible educate your bro- thers and sisters concerning the pig, because you have had one ad- vantage that others have not, yott have lived with the pig and you know him, (3) Arm yourself to protect you and yours against his (pigs) ag- gression, (4) This is the most important of all; DON'T TRUST THE pig, I have two years left to serve in bondage and | will try to fol- low his (pig) rules as close as 1 can without sacrificing any of my principles and | will not take any s--t from him (pig) in any form, but | urge you\co do as | will do when I get out, F--K THE PIG! 354th Combat Support Group A, D, THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 14 VET OF NAM AND DANANG BIGOTED OFFICER GETS JUMPED Our company commander was an out and out bigot. He treated the black guys like shit. He used to especially pick on one black guy named Brown from Detroit. But one day he pushed it too far. When he told Brown to get his ‘‘black ass moving,’’ Brown turned around and knocked him right on his back and then jumped on him and began to really beat hell out of him. The captain got guards to drag Brown away but Brown broke away from them and took two hand grenades and went-after the bastard. He ran. They didn’t try to court- martial Brown because they knew the captain was wrong. They trans- ferred Brown to. another unit. The end as far as I was con- cerned came the day they stationed us a blocking force while the rest of the companjes made a sweep. They were supposed to drive the VC and NVA into us. It never happened that way, They never caught anything... You could hear them coming a mile off, hollerin ‘Bring up the line on the left and “‘hold it up’’ and ‘‘go ahead.’ This is how screwed up thing - - This night it didn’t stop at that. We went right out to the fence. We had a bucket. We all pissed in it and when the sergeant of the guard came along we let him have the whole buckerful. Then guys got two by fours and snapped off the chains that held the gates between the sections of the brig. Everybody went.. We took over the whole stockade. They ringed the place with Mar- ines with shotguns and dogs, but that night we had control of everything inside, We supplied ourselves with food from the mess hall and weheld the place from Friday, August 19, to Sunday afrernoon, During the time we were in con- trol we-took good care of the seg- regation cell blocks where they put you for punishment; we burned the whole place down. We knew who the informers among us were. Guys took careof them too, On Sunday afternoon they stormed the place with tear gas, They took 11 men who they said were the leaders and imprisoned them in EXPOSES MILITARY PIG LIES the dog kennels — with the snakes, fleas, lice, and the rain for two weeks. Four of these men were finally charged. Of the four, three were, They were stopped by VC position in a woods and they didr': even let us know about it. ve had orders to move up along t.s tree line. We were walking — ; in the open not suspecting a thin; ; : — of them were black, The other eight-were shipped to the Philippines and Okinawa and elsewhere to clear them out of the brig. tm oh z= ras oe at, athe ae eT g* Four or five weeks later I was On charged with illegal entry into the when the VC opened up, eeuapenp-aresiinnsennsianaementanen SOREL hospital dispensary section of the It was over in a couple of min- : a brig. But the charge was never utes. : pressed, Thirty-seven men dead or After the riot, the food improved wounded, somewhar and they got some new BRASS RUN TANKS OVER WOUNDED Then the battalion commandex called for the tanks, He ordered them to move ahead. RIGHT OVE OUR OWN WOUNDED. I saw one guy lying on his side. He was still breathing. The tani ran right over his head andsmashe< it down into the ground. You know what the news report said? ‘“‘The Marines had light casualties.”” They also claimed we had killed a lot of VC, Actually only two bodies were found. That was the end. I told the senior corpsman, “‘I’m going out; the only way you’re going to sto me is to shoot me in the back.”’ I got on the helicopter going out. They court-martialed me but I refused to go back. I told them “Out there it’s screwed up; this is screwed up; and the country is screwed up. I’m through; I don’t care what you do I’m not going back there.”’ THE RISING TIDE OF RESISTANCE ANSWERING THE RISING TIDE OF REPRESSION That’s how I happened to be in the Marine brig at Danang during the riot there, A special court-mar- tial gave me four months hard labor. That was on July 9, 1968. Conditions were rotten in the Danang brig. They took us out on working parties in groups of 10 men each .and we had to string barbed wire in the sun. It must have been 125 degrees. One day when we were out working they re- fused to give us a real meal in the mess hall even though we were working right next to it. Instead they threw us some C rations. We quit work. We went on strike and went and sat in the shade under a truck. When six of the ten of us continued to refuse to work, they took us back to the brig and put us PRIVATE GETS 120 A MONTH, DVER 30,000 PRIVATES DEAD; BUT GENERALS ALWAYS DIE IN BED. in segregation (solitary) for 5 days. They said they were \charging us with ‘‘mutiny’’ but they never pres- sed the charge. About half the prisoners in the brig were black and one night the watcher (guard) made some remark about a light being out and it’s being dark and added some racist crack about the black guys, Word of this got around fast among the black guys. They were angry. Every so often when we were sore about something we’d have a “hoorah”? — that is, after lights out we’d start banging our tin cups on our bunks. It’s contagious. A few guys start it and then more and more pick it up until practically everybody is doing it. There were about 300 guys in the brig at this time. It makes a hell of a racket. personnel to improve running ° place. But there was another harder to pinpoint but more import- ge ant. The leaders of the rebellion were the black guys. After we had taken over the brig they began to hold court on white guys who had shown racism and I got worried about the situation. Most of the black guys were friends of mine but you couldn’t talk to them then, It looked as if it might turn out bad, But it didn’t work out that way. Instead, after it was over there was a new and deeper sense of unity and comradeship among the guys, black and white. There was also a new feeling of strength. We'd taken over the brig. Sure, they had overpowered us this time. But who knows what might happen next time? Gary won his discharge (UD) last month and is now a free man aiding the AW. Reprinted from THE BOND GENERAL GETS *50,000 A YEAR; Star Spangled Sweatshops And the ‘'Patriotism’’ Argument if the union leaders say they’re too ‘*parriotic”’ to help organize the Army, the Navy andthe Marines, thentellthem chat’s why you are not getting the wages and conditions you ought tohave, A lot of union leaders are too patriotic ,to the bosses and generals — while they are too unpatriotic to the workers swio'aeenr and the soldiers who die. A lot of them are pretty patriotic to the dollar. They wave the flag and sing “‘God Bless America’ and say they will die for their country —but will they die for their union? Will they face long prison terms in the fight for your wages and conditions like the ASU men are now facing In the Armed Services? A lot of union leaders tend to for- get who is paying their wages—and why. They’re supposed to fight for you and win better conditions. When a worker goes intothe Armed Forces, he has terrible conditions and terrible pay, If the labor leaders refuse to do something about this, things will get worse in the civilian jobs, too. Just as a single shop organized in a whole industry will lose its hard-won gains if the rest of the industry Is left unorganized, so the labor movement as a whole cannot afford to neglect the Armed Services forever, The Gis tn the American Service- men's Union are sticking their out for you as well as for Neon aig We are fighting for ourselves, of course, But we.are also fighting the fight of all labor, And we ask to come to our aid in every. possibly can, = i en SO eee ws TO in a message to Africa at the Pan African Cul- tural Festival in Algiers, FATAH said Some may inquire why are we here—what has FATAH to do with Africa that it participates in this Pan-African Cultural Festival. On the map, there are two kinds of classifica- tions; a geographical one and a political one in which the world is divided into only two major continents. All the forces of Revolution, Libera- tion and Justice stand against the forces of Colo- nialism, Racism and Imperialism. Africa on this map is a cause more than it is a continent, We, therefore, came here as being a part of Africa the cause, although we are not from Africa the conti- nent. We hoped our people could participate in this festival and demonstrate to our brothers in Africa some aspects of our culture and arts in Palestine. But our people, as all our African brothers know, are at the moment very busy fighting—fighting for hife and liberty What happened in Palestine can easily be under- stood by the people of Africa. It is the same story in Africa and Palestine. It started by the immigra- tion of white Europeans to Africa, where they settled, enslaved the people, established their own regime, evacuated the national owners of the land. Exercised all kinds of deprivation and exploita- tion, Rhodes, Verwoerd and lan Smith in Africa are the same as Herzl, Ben Gurion and Dayan in Pales- tine. The same circumstances which created the white regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa created the State of Zionism in Palestine. As Britain supports and protects the State of Smith in Rhodesia, the United States supports and protects the State of Dayan in Palestine. The close relations existing between Isracl and South Africa reflect the real resemblance and interaction in the nature, past and future, of these two states. We know that Israel has good relations and friendships in Africa. We also know the Israeli plan of infiltration there, camouflaging its real racist settlers’ face under the pretention of being a state of freedom and peace, extending support and help to underdeveloped states. But ... Freedom for whom ...? And peace for whom... ? If Smith works for peace in Rhodesia, Dayan works for peace in Palestine. The three wars of 1948, 1956 and 1967 are the best expression of the peace that Dayan works for. One more ques- tion; assistance and support: How could this be? A state of charities offers charities. Isn't it a big question? Or would the explanation be that Israel is the new face under which the neo-colonialism infiltrates once again to Africa Would the advice of Hubert Humphrey addres- sed to one of the under-developed countries to make use of experts from Israel give lights on the role that the Israeli assistance and experts are sup- posed to play in the under-developed countries? Our story in Palestine is similar to that of yours in Africa. They came to our country, as they came to yours. We tried to live with them in one state, under the banner of law and peace, but they in- sisted on & pure racist regime, the same as that of the white minority in Africa, We were expelled as you were, and persecuted as you were persecuted They claim that by this they solve the Jewish ques- FATH SPEAKS THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER II, 1969 PAGE 15 AFRICA AL ASSIFA, THE MILITARY ARM OF FAT’H, IN THE ATTACK tion, But really they create a problem for our people without solving theirs Since the first minute we were willing to accept them to live with us in a democratic state where everybody can enjoy the same rights and live in peace and justice. But from the beginning they insisted on the pure state. The result was three extensive wars. In spite of these wars they still insist on the pure state without us, the owners of the land. Consequently, we have no choice other than to take up arms and fight to protect our rights of existence, freedom and justice. We intend to continue fighting until we achieve justice and peace in Palestine through the democratic state where the whole people of Palestine can live in peace, This is not a political manoeuvre we perform but a cause we figure for. It is a call to all who want to live in peace on the land of Palestine to fight with us hand in hand for the purpose of this cause We therefore look to all the revolutionaries in Africa to stand with us, with the cause of freedom in Africa. As the cause of freedom is one and indi- visible. FATAH believes that the cause of freedom is one and the cause of Revolution is one all over the world. As we feel responsibility towards all revolu- tionaries, we decided to extend our obsolute un- limited and unréserved support to all those who carry arms fighting for the cause of liberty every- where, specially in Africa which suffers in its struggle for human existence on the homeland. FATAH does not confine itself to political sup- port in the form of sympathy but intends to take a leading role in the revolutionary movement where Fatah as a militant pioneer in Palestine would intercede with all militant pioneers in Africa who intend to fight for liberty anywhere in the world that suffers from oppression, privation, racism, colonialism and neo-colonialism. This is not political propaganda. It is a pledge that FATAH clings to with full understanding to its responsibility towards the map of world Revo- lution. @ FROM “FREE PALESTINE” autumn rain and autumn cold chills; then one hears the sound of flutes coming through the hills; guerillas have returned and I rejoice that wine enough is left for them.” Ho Chi Minh THE GUERRILLAS ARE CALLED ‘‘FEDAYEEN” (THOSE WHO SACRIFICE) BY THE PALESTINE PEOPLE wwe 6 -+ NLF PRISONERS ON DISPLAY (IN VIOLATION OF GENEVA CONVENTION) SIGN SAYS ‘‘HERE: THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 16 NEWS SOUTH SEOUL (LNS) -- The South Korean students who have been vigorously protesting against the dictatorship of President Chung Hee Park are getting the General Hershey treatment, Army call up papers have been issued to Anh Ta! Hwan, a student leader at Kyungbook University in Taegu, as well as other student activists. The students had been suspended from school for their widespread protests against Park's plans to extend his Presidency against the provisions of the Constitution. ST OCK- HOLM STOCKHOLM -- Foreign Min- ister Torsten Nilsson announced Tuesday that Sweden plans togrant North Vietnam aid and loans of more than $40 million during a three year period. He dealt at length with the Vietnam war during the 24th Social Democratic party Congress and repiiedto US. critics of Sweden's policy in this regard, “The long suffering of the Viet- namese people has affected us deeply and I am convinced that the Government enjoys the solid sup- port of the Swedish people in this decision,’’ he said, He advised against recognitién of East Germany or Biafra, stated that the People’s Republic of China should be given its rightful place in the UN and said Sweden would demand expulsion of Greece from the European Council because of violation of its charter. BRIEFS KOKEA PYONGYANG, Korea (LNS) -- South Korean insurgents derailed a military oll tanker train in the area of Waikwan, North Kyungsang Province, and set itafire recently, The rebels modeled their action on a previous derailing and fire engineered in the Yungchun area. According to a report by the Cen- tralKorea News Agency , more than 20 ofl tanks were destroyed itn the Waikwan action. VIETNAM SAIGON (LNS) -- A South Viet- hamese soldier shot to death two American officers inan army com- pound southwest of Saigon and then fatally shot himself, the US Com- mand reported, The Americans were killed as they walked out of the beadquarters compound of the Fourth Battalion of the 50th South Vietnamese Regiment near Tan An, about 29 miles southwest of Saigon, They were identified as Lt. Col, Eugene F, Smallwood, 42, of Fair- fax, Va,, senior American advisor to the 50th Regiment, and Maj, Anthony J. Broullon, 32, of Jack- son Heights, N.Y., senior advisor to the 4th Battalion. The statement said the South Vietnamese enlisted man then shot at the South Vietnamese com- mander of the 4th Battalion be- fore turning the gun on himself. The government officer was unin- jured, A CRUEL COMMUNIST AGENT” ....LNS TENSIONS BUILD IN KOREA . By Wilfred Burchett Guardian staff correspondent g, North Korea _ Pyongyan Premier Kim Il Sung of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea told a conference of journalists here last week that a war could break out any moment in Korea. countries—with heavy Kim was the opening speaker at a meeting of more than 200 joumalists from 90 representation from the third world—who met to discuss U,S. imperialism. Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, in exile from the U.S., was among the guests. The journalists, including many who came from battlefields where they were covering natio) liberation wars, unanimously approved a declaration appeal intensification of the worldwide struggle against U.S. aggression. The for maximum egates said that no matter what country was involved in the suppression of liberation struggles, the U.S. .was the ringleader. Although he foresaw another war in Korea as a possibility, the North Korean Premier * said the world situation was favorable for a united struggle to defeat U.S, imperialism. Elaborating on Kim’s remarks, Foreign Minister Pak Sung Chul gaid “the [Korean] squation is strained to an extreme degree and the danger has arisen that war may break out again.” To back his prediction Pak pointed to the massive military buildup in South Korea, including an expansion of airfield and port facilities and an intensification of “provocations” in the demilitarized zone and by espionage overflights. “A VIET CONG TANK BLASTED 10 PIECES ” N June 20, 1960 at noon, from Hill 751 a tank rode hell for leathor in the direction of the *“ Speci il Forces” camp at Plei Can (Ben Het). It rumbled to a stop at some 300 metres from the camp, and for a while its idling ¢ngine spat out a cloud of snioke As the soldiers in the camp had been living for months on end in fear of PLAT roc- ketings, from their trenches and loopholes, they poured shells and bullets of all cali- bers onto the suspicious vehicle and signalled in infan- try and sirplanes. Then a *‘ splendid co-ordi- nated action’ took place between the various arms of the enemy. Bombs exploded. bullets whizzed, smoke and fire shrouded the tank until it was reduced to a heap of burning iron. From the camp rose many shouts. ‘‘ It served that Vict Cong tank well for daring to attack us in broad daylight." At that time, over the phone an angry voice was heard: "You fools! Why did you shoot at an Allied tank ?’’ pecerereereestesees: It was in fact the only tank left from the US ar moured column coming t rescuc Ben Het. It had been set ablaze by the *' deadly ’’ fire of the very beleaguered troops it had come to help IT WAS A MISTAKE ! N the same day, the O puppet soldiers of Battalion 23 coming to ease the pressure on Ben Het sneaked away. They took th jungle path for fear of being spotted by other units or of a flankattack by the PLAF. Arriving at Road No. 15, they were full of joy, thinking that they were safe. Suddenly, from Dak R'leng, a base located between Ben Het and Dakto, a rain of shells fell Aghast, thes cried: “The Viet Congs have overran Dak R’leng.” The rumour spread to the whole unit like a wild fire, and triggered off a turmoil They ran for dear life, ignor- ing the orders of their com- manders for a muster. The unit coming to their rescue tried to check their stampede. 4 murderous clash took place. When both sides rea- lized their mistake, already scores of puppet troops’ corp- ges had littered the ground.. se eeeenseeeeeweeeeenresees A Saigon Officer Rescues His Wife from US Allies S Ha was crossing the A threshold of his house, his batman ran up to him, saving in great ‘excite ment! »Sir, on her way to the Rach Gin * market your wife has just been kidnapped by Yanks !"' “What?"' the officer shout- ed. He could not believe his ears The whole barracks of the company of puppet militia (Bao An) was soon all in a flurry. Ha was surrounded by soldiers and members of their families. A woman com- plained : Tor two mionths, a score of our sisters raped to death have been thrown into the Go Quao river. The Yanks dare now get at the wife of our Heutenant!" Ha stood transfixed with sorrow. Pulling himself to- rether, he quickly gathered a ‘ew reliable men, The group got intoa motor launch which goon rumbled at {ull specd for the provincial capital, leaving behind it a foamy wake. The officer was secthirg with impatience. Ten minutes later, this batman spotted the kidnap. pers’ boat which was nearing the port. The voice ofa woman in distress was soon heard by the men from the motor lannch which caught up with the US craft and slowed down alongside of |t. Snatch- ing a submachine gun from the hands of his orderly, Ha jumped onboard the other yoat, followed by his men. - On the deck, four American soldiers wearing only shorts were dragging Mrs. Ha in torn clothes towards an iron bed The poor woman was strug- gling desperately, The GI's were stunned by the sudden appearance of the Saigon soldiers led by an officer with blood shot eyrs. In no time, Ha mowed down hi» wife's ravishers to the great joy of his men. (According to. Giai Phong Press Agency) ein the Chuong Thien prow incial capital, 155 lon somth- west of Saigon VIET NAM COURIER GI’S SWITCH SIDES IN VIETNAM SAN FRANCISCO -- American Gis are joining the military forces of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG), Recent figures quoted in the San Francisco Chron- icle show desertions in the field aro running at the rate of tons day. Those desertions who would rather switch and fight joinupwith PRG, bringing with them detailed knowledge of how towork American equipment and how American units operate. There have been reports of misdirected artillery and hell- copter fire in the Mekong Delta because deserters used stolen radios to cut inon Army fre- quencies. The PGR derives the greatest benefit from the intelligence re- ports these Gls receive, according to Solidarity, a San Francisco newsletter run by ex-Gls. As long as two years ago the US-Salgon command was astounded that the National Liberation Front would know of B-52 strikes more than 24 hours in advance, It con- fused them because stike times were never divulged to the Saigon troops. The NLF also found out about attacks flown from Okinawa, Thailand and Guam. The majority of the deserters choose to stay in the rearareasso that they will not have to fight their countrymen. But two ex-Marine NLF advisors were killed last April in a patrol skirmish near Phu Bal. Located north-east of Khe Sanh, Phu Bai {s the largest US Marine base near the DMZ; it ts an extremely important communi- cations base, The Marine Corps was able to identify the two “traitors'’ but would not release their names, Some Gis who desert in the field do not want to join the liberation forces, and merely roam the countryside trying not to get caught, The PRG often helps such persons find housing and food, ex- pecting nothing in return, According to a June report in the Okinawa Morning Star Journal, there are at least 3,000 AWOL GIs hiding out in Saigon alone. Many recently returned Viet- hamese veterans have reported a higher estimate to Solidarity editor Fred Chard--they figure 5,000 to be a more realistic number, For deserters wishing to leave Vietnam, the PRG offers assist- ance in reaching countries which do not recognize the tradition of US service deserters, including Sweden, Japan, Cambodia | and Thailand, An estimated 300-500 deserters have recelyed such assistance from the PRG to date, a OO OO inane i a ee KOREA By RUTH NORRICK of babes crushed to earth, so the poet tells us, will rise again. So believ- ing, one should not despair that some day the truth will out about what really hap- pened along the 38th parallel in Korea that Sunday nineteen years ago on June 25, 1950, The start of the Korean war. While one waits for the truth to become known, it might be well to recall what might have happened, how very differ- ent the world might have been, how much of the waste and destruction of the years ‘since might have been avoided, and how there might not have been a Vietnam war had there not been, first, a Korea. What was almost certainly about to occur was a recommendation to the General Assembly by the Security Coun- cil for the seating of the People's Re- public of China. The up-coming vote in the Security Council could be counted: in favor, Egypt (then under French influence), France, India, Nor- way, the Soviet Union, the United King- dom and Yugoslavia. Voting against would have been onty the United States, Cuba, Ecuador and Nationalist China Something equally momentous was about to happen, and it was an equally dis- pleasing eventuality as far as United States policy was concerned. Korea, which had been arbitrarily divided at the 38th parallel at the end of World War II, was about to become a united country again. In the south — ‘‘our part'’ — Syngman Rhee and his party had just suffered an ignominious defeat in United Nations- observed national elections. That defeat had opened the way for reunification through a meeting of the newly-elected National Assembly of Korea (South) and the People’s Supreme Assembly (North) as a single legislative assembly for all Korea, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was being suggested as the meeting place. The date proposed was August 15, the fifth anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule, From a Korean point of view, re-uni- fication was greatly to be desired, for the people were one nation. As far as the United States was concerned, it was an- other matter. In Cold War compilation, re-unification would have been a ‘‘com- munist”’ victory. John Foster Dulles, no less, was dis- patched to Korea to confer with the de- feated Rhee: he had his picture taken with him, in the trenches along the line of the 38th parallel, on June 18, 1950. Dul- les is shown scowling toward the north. After he returned to Seoul from his in- spection tour of Rhee’s army in its posi- tions in the “northern border zone,"’ Dul- les promised Rhee and the South Koreans that “North Korea’ would soon lose its grip on the country. NORTH KOR RIGHT AFTER DULLES’ TRIP TO KOREA--WAR BREAKS OUT U.S. TROOPS IN KOREA, IN THE THREE YEAR WAR -- 33,629 G.1.’S KILLED EANS AND CHINESE CELEBRATE IN THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE THE DECLARATION OF ARMISTICE THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 199 PAGE 17 Reprinted from ‘‘Wor'd’’ Magazine At the same time, Secretary of De- fense Louis A. Johnson, and General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had been flown to Tokyo ‘ get General MacArthur's views on America’s position in Communist- troubled Asia."' (AP dispatch from Tok- yo, June 19). The same source reported that MacArthur was expected to urge rushing United States arms to Southeast Asia. The French were having trouble there. Overnight, literally overnight, that bright prospect for reunification of Korea and for a new start for the United Na- tions, came to an end. The world was asked to believe that the North Koreans, without provocation, had launched an attack on the south. The United Nations, at United States’ insis- tence, was drawn reluctantly into the “police action’’ that was to become a bloody and ruinous and endless war. What actually had happened is part of the hidden history of that war, to use the title of LF. Stone's book. That the United Nations acted, though, without any evi- dence of its own, is a forgotten truth. All the Security Council had was a report from its own commission in Korea, from Seoul. It reported no investigation of its own about the start of hostilities, for it had made none. It began its report with the words ‘‘Government of Korea states," and went on to give, without in any way confirming it, Rhee’s version of what had happened. That the Council's action, taken on the basis of that report, was a manifest violation of the United Nations Charter, was a matter to be overlooked. The So- viet Union, whose concurrence was re quired, was absent: it had “taken a walk"’ that January in protest against the denial of the Chinese seat to the People’s Republic. Many observers, in- cluding Stone, think that the Soviet Union was taken unawares. Had the Soviet Union's delegate been there, its veto would undoubtedly have been exercised. Forgotten, too, are the comings and goings of those high government officials to confer with General MacArthur, and the presence in Seoul of John Foster Dul- les Forgotten are other actions taken that weekend. The Seventh Fleet was ordered into the Straits of Formosa to protect the island refuge of Chiang Kai-chek from at- tack by the triumphant ‘‘Red Chinese."’ Aid was increased to the government of the Philippines, then engaged in suppress- ing forces there fighting for true inde- pendence for their country. And, most fateful of all, American military aid in greatly increased measure was given the French in their doomed struggle to regain and hold onto Indo-China — Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. As in some great morality play events roll on, but not as planned. Defeat follow- ed defeat, and shame followed shame, for the nation that directed the proceedings in the Security Council nineteen years ago. So many of its young men dead, from the Yalu to the Mekong delta. Boys dy- ing on Hamburger Hill who were not yet born when the decision that led to their death was made. Does the truth about how it all start- «! really matter in the face of such a calamitous ending? Only as knowing the truth might make possible, even at this late date, a freeing of the American péople from the man- concocted myths they live by, in the serv- ice of the Cold Warriors. THE BLACK PANTHER, GOTOUER 11, 199 PAGE 1M October 1966 Black Panther Party . Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe FREE HUEY Vinister of Defense. Black Panther Party 1 We want freedom We want power to determine tne destiny of our Black Communit, « 1 We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Biack Community We helieve that t P t wo ernment ha robbed us and now we are lemandit the er » debt of forty acres and two mule Forty acres ined t rule 1s promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor nd murder ol ich people We will accept the pay ment in curreticy which will be distributed t ir many comrmunitu The Germans are now e J lcrael for the genocide of the Jewish people The Ger i ’ lered Ihhon Je The American raciel fas taken part in the " tt | er fitt ! wk people, there fore ve fee! that thi «te or i ike 1 We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings Ve elie ‘f the huite mdiord “1 not give decent housing to unity. then the and land should be made into erati ! ‘ I ' i! we ent aid. can build and 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society We bellewe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position et 1 the hen he has little chance to relate to anything 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service | eve ‘ ‘ ‘ ! be forced to fight in the mili- the rid who, like black / government of America ea { « force and violence of the racist police 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER / of black people | : " re dedicated to defending our ¢ oppression and brutality. The Second \ ent 1 he titut f the United States gives a right to bear We therefore believe that a ack people should arm themselves j s & We want freedom for all black men beld in feoderel, «tate. -enmix _ and city prisons and jails people uld be released from the many 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 —_—— fron milar econom social. religious, geographical, en- P inv fron ‘ ; mmun from which the black t We swe been. and are being tried by all-white juries ‘ ie e of the “average reasoning man™ of the black 10. We want land, bread. housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny ee Ee — ‘ ‘ ours : nun events. it becomes necessary for one e the politica unds which have mnected them with ’ me, among the powers of the earth, the separate and : ; ali | t tte as of nature { nature's God entitie them. ent respect to the i ( mankind requires that they should declare : , : ; «| then the separatic \ i : ¢ self-evident, that all men are created equal : are i real with certain unahenable rights, ; be pursuit of happiness That, te secure these rights. governments are instituted among men. deriving their just powers from the consent of the gove raed, that, whenever any form of s‘vernment becomes destructive of these ends, it ts the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a mew government. laying is foundation ea such principles. and organizing its power m such form, as to them shall seeen mest hele te effect their safety and bappiness Pra tt . established should not ; : i evpenence ei to suilet, withe evils are : mvs he yrts 16 @ hich thew Hut. when a long trein of abuyes ged Onsurpations, pur suing invariably the same object. evinces a destgea te reduce thew under ab- wolute despetica. it bk their right, it is their daty, te threw off suck getern meat. aed te provide ecw guards fer their Netwre seesirtis : ° t THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 11, 1969 PAGE 19 mt SUBSCRIPTION FORM SS Sem Support Your Newspaper-- Subscribe Today! a Cage ee eubtr ER we (check box) National Foreign Enter my subscription for (check box Subscriptions Subscriptions 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) reveeesld '$2:50 O $3.00 guevean (PISUES) ns was 0 an F THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUFS) pbewas $7.50 J $9.00 (please print) x li NAME CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. . 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