Vol. 4, No. 8

_ Black Community News Se MINISTRY OF INFORMATION cay THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 0x 2967, cUSTOM Nout < IN » THE INVINCIBLE THOUGHTS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY = CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED BY FIRE NOR WATER — PAGE 10 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 2 YEAR OF THE 7 PEOPLE The imperialist United States has done a lot of destructive work in the past decade, The things that they have been doing during this per- fod of time spells our their true {- dentity...pigs. The imperialist is a very con- niving animal, who covers up his dirt by using different disguises: such as poverty programs, vista, the peace corps, and the U.N, This aggression on the entire working Population is in its’ last days; the u.s. imperialists are making their grand finale, Before we go into what the imperialists ‘‘think'’ they have planned for their grand exit, let's talk about what they’ve been doing to the people, especially black peo- ple for the past ten years, In the early sixties Black people were beaten, hosed, cattle prodded dog bitten, and murdered, just be- cause we wantedto attend the insti- tutions of mis-education, After this came the period of wanting to sit on the master’s lap andeat the scraps from his table, in other words *fequal job opportunities’’, The domestic imperialists (capi- talists)were grinning inthe faces of' the poor people and gave us a **enow’’ job, on these issues, The black people of the country dug where they (the capitalists) were coming from, and forthe first time in the history of this decadent a- meriKKKa Black people rebelled all over the country but we were like children in the dark because we didn’t really know who the true ene- my was, Even though we burnt and looted the stores of the capitalist in our communities, we thought that our enemy was anyone with white skin, But we soon found out that sometimes your worst enemy has the same color skin as you. After the riots the capitalists could see that if they didn’t do something to pacify (calm)us their game of exploiting Black people would be over. So what did they con- jure up? The poverty programs!! This is when we started to realize that all of our enemies weren't of a different color. These programs were made to keep the slaves qui- et and racism high. How did they do this? First they got some uncle tom nigger (who told the people he wasn’t a tom)tobe the head of these and tell them that the government is vad"’ when they don’t give them these petty jobs, and good when they do, Inreality the government is just throwing the people crumbs from the table so they won't ask for the cake. Second; the area most con- centrated with these poverty pro- grams is where? In the black com- munity, Why? Because the pigs keep the element of racism going by ignoring the fact that poor white people exist and justbring the pov- erty programs Into the Black com- munity, This makes poor white people bitter toward poor Blacks because since they too are ‘*under- privileged’’ they feel that they should get some kind of help from these conniving pigs. In short, the uprisings were sold out by opportunistsand bootlickers who were helping the pig power structure in its attempts to keep all poor people apart. In October of 1966 there emerged As the struggle for Black lib- eration advanced from a fight for an integrated cup of coffee to the Struggle today for determination and control for our own destinies, the contradictions in withis society became clearer andthe lines of demarcation between our- selves and the enemy--this capital- istic, racist, fascist, andimperial- ist power structure--has grown sharper. It is now possible to dis- tinguish real friends from realene- mies, We recognize three levels oppression; the avaricious (greedy) businessmen, the dema- gogic (lying) politicians, and the racist pig cops. The avaricious businessmen and the demagogic politicians get to- gether and make decisions that de- termine our very lives. The racist pig cops and the whole penal ap- paratus are usedto oppress the peo- ple and inforce the decisions of the avaricious businessmen and the demagogic politicians, When- ever anyone steps off the red, white and blue path laid down by the ava- ricious businessmen and the dema- gogic politicians, they turn the racist pigs loose to brutalize, tor- ture, murder and throw those who stray from the path intojail, The next step; The Courts! The Courts! A close look at his- tory shows the courts to be part and parcel of the machinery used by the racist ruling ‘class to op- press Black people in particular and all poor people in general, In Vols. #1 & #2 of ‘*The Docu- mentary History of the Negro in American"’, by Herbert Aptheker, one can find many instances where the courts were used by the slave of owning class to maintain the Insti- * tution or system of slavery, rom the riots and poverty pro- grams some brothers who saw the situation for what itreally was: The master’s plan for containing and destroying Black people, These brothers said that the only way to deal with this upcoming genocide was to arm yourself, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale organized the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. They saw the need for Black people to become aware of what this system was doing do us in our communities through their gestapo pig forces. They also saw that if the ten point program of the Black Panther Party which deals with our basic human rights, was not acquired through legal means, then we would have to fight for what is rightfully ours. From the time the Black Pan- ther Party started to this day, this imperialist citadel (stronghold) of the u.s, has slandered, incarcera- ted (jailed) and murdered Panther members and people who follow the Panther ideology. Lil’ Bobby Hutton who was the first member of the party was also the first member murdered by thesebuffoonfools. Bobby was mur~ dered in April of 198, and from that time right up toDecember of 1969 there have been 28 Panthers killed and over 100 incarcerated (jailed), Why? Because the Black Panther Party teaches the people through their theory and practice how to get their basic needs and who their true enemy is--the u,s. imperialists and all their running dogs. As 1 said earlier the imperi- alists are on their way out but before they are totally wiped out they will become outrageous in their attempts to survive, even throwing people in jails and con- self- In 1857, Supreme Court Justice Taney, handed down the infamous ‘Dred Scott Decision’’, The fol- lowing {s a quote from Taney's decision: ‘‘this unfortunate class have, with the civilized and en- lightened portion of the world, for Judge Taney more than a century, been regarded as being of an inferior order, and unfit associates for the Whiterace, either socially or politically, having rights which White men are bound Dred Scott 1857 to respect", The Dred Scott de- cision was of great assistance to the slave owning class in main- taining the system of slavery, In 1969, Federal Judge Julius Hoffman ordered Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party bound and gagged in his courtroom simply because he (Bobby) was demanding his con- Stitutional right to have council hans Judge eate 1969 Hof of his choice or be allowed to de- fend himself. In addition to thar, Hoffman sentenced Bobby to four years in prison for contempt of court, He considered Bobby incon- tempt whenever he stood and de- manded his constitutional rights. Therefore, today, as in 1857, a Black man has no rights thar this racist power structure is bound to respect, centration camps just because they don’t look right to them murder- ing and torturing the people for their own fiendish pleasure; try- ing to hush the cry of revolution which is reaching a level consi- dered dangerous by the pigs in the poor communities of this de- cadent society, What these pigs don’t seem to un~ derstand is that the more people they kill because of their lust and greed for money the higher the contradictions are raised, and the more the people see them for what they are; fascist, imperialist pigs who would kill their momma's if there was profit in ir, This past decade has been one which no one will forget because it brought something new to this nation and its people; the theory and practice of revolution, This new decade which we are enter- ing will be very decisive decade, We are entering a new year which will be the year of the peo- ple because the people will show thar they truly have the power. All Power to The People Verna Hampton Comm. Sec. New Haven Chapter April 2, 199 in New York 21 Black Panthers were indicted for “conspiracy’’ to bomb department stores, rallway stations, the sub- way and flower gardens. Their bail was set at $100,000 each, They have had 27 bail hearings, buttheir bail has not been reduced, In Nov. 1968, four White people were ar- rested and charged with several bombings that had occured in New York. The week of the Moratorium in November, Their bail was set at $500,000 each, With the same lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, as the Panther 21, at their first bailhear- ing their bail was reduced to $20,000 and $15,000, This clearly illus-* trates the racist nature of the courts, DAVID HILLIARD N WANTED FOR UNAUTHOR'| ZED THINKING AND | PosSESSION OF ce DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE It was a court that sentenced our leader and Minister of Defense Huey P, Newton to 15 years in prison for manslaughter. » It was a court that ordered Eldridge Cleaver to return to prison, It was a court that told David Hilliard, the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, that he must stand trial on two counts of at- tempted murder and two counts of assault on pig cops, It was a court that sent Charles Bursey to prisonfrom 2 to 20 years, It was a court that set $165,000 bail on ‘‘Geronimo’’, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Historically, the courts have been the instrument through which the power structure has punished those people who get out of line andstray off thar red, white, and blue path ELDRIDGE CLEAVER WANTED FOR INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT TO AvolID ASSASSINATION CTHEY GoT ‘tt. BOBBY, 6UT ELDRIDGE (s FREE) laid down by the power structure, To talk of revolution is to talk of smashing the power of the present ruling class, doing away with the existing capitalistic, racist, fascist and imperialist sys- tem and all of its decadent insti- tutions, including the courts, and creating a new, just society that is of the people and for the people, To be a revolutionary is to work actively to bring about the revo- lution; to understand that a firm revolutiona position must be Or People from Their Black Communities, As Defined by The Contitution of The United States. maintained at all times around ; issues. During the prelude to th HUEY NEWTON = i BEING HELD AS POLITICAL PRISONER FOR TEACHING THE CORRECT METHOD OF RESISTANCE TO FASUST OPPRESSION revolution, revolutionaries must clearly and distinctly draw lines — of demarcation between the people and the pigs and must not waver, — because during this period the peo- — ple are confused due to the information fed to them through all the media which is controlled by the power structure. Most of all a true revolutionary does not ex- pect any justice from the existing system, A revolutionary knows the only justice will come inthe streets and not in a fascist court. To be revolutionary is to be out of line-- out of step with the existing order of things. Therefore, for more than anything else the full wrath of the machinery of repression will be used against the revolutionaries, As we have seen with the wave of repression thar has come down on the Black PantherParty, this repression along with the propa- a CHARLES BURSEY BEING HELD AS POLITICAL PRISONER ganda and agitation of the Party has served to educate the people, This is evident by the recent oute- cry by the people all across Baby- — lon at the recent attacks against out Party, The people look upon . those heroic brothers and sisters in Los Angeles as heroes, The peo- ple know if they hadn't righteously — defended themselves, they too would have been murdered like Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, Thepeo= ple know the courts are unjust for — keeping those brothers and sisters locked up, The people know that ‘Black men have no rights that this — racist power structure is bound to to respect after seeing Bobby Seale bound and gagged in Chicago, Later for the courts! The rev= olution will be won in the streets. The people will receive justice when the corporate giants can no longer function, The people att receive justice when the racist and fascist mercenary forces are de- feated--in the streets and not ia the courts, IT’S TIME ‘TO INTENSIFY He STRUGGLE SOUNTER ATTACK Happening AS more and more people are beginning to realize, the Black Pan- ther Party's true actions are sery- ing the people and trying to meet the basic needs of the people. One of the ways we do this Is by ‘‘sec- tion work’’, Many of you already have had the experience of having one or two Panthers knock on your door and talk to you about what the Party is doing here in New Haven. We hope that many more will have this experience, During the course of the last three weeks we have been doing work in the Ashmun Street projects, And we have come across some facts of how the pig power structure ts oppressing the people in the pro-, jects. The two main culprits of this latest move are Ed White, a house nigger, and Pig Chief Ahern. First we find that Ahern (who is running hard for J Edgar Hoover's position as FBI chief) has set up a little pig department inside of the projects, These pigs are Black, they don’t wear uniforms as yet, but they do carry guns, They haven't JUSTICE Tommye Williams L.A, 18 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 3 L.A. 18 PRELIMS~ -ttetjecs | AMOCKERY OF cerated for the rest of your life. The pigs have forced their yokes on Black people In Babylon, and since the Black Panther Party 1s ‘‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’, the pigs have resorted to legalizes murder in an attempt to squash and destroy our efforts to educate the people and to set the correct examples for them to follow The pigs know they won't have all the power if the people achieve through liberation and they will resortto*‘any means necessary" toprevent the peo- ple from attaining power, Fascism reared {ts beastly head in the courtroom, that mockery of jus- tice, where the preliminary hearing for the LA 18 was held, All but 3 Panthers are still in jail, being held without bail or else their bail Is be- tween $50,000 and $100,000. Most of the political prisoners have been sick because of the unhealthy conditions of their célls. They cannot see their own doctors, even with acourtorder from the judge, because the pigs in the Sheriff Department don’t want the peo- ple to know how the political prisoners are being {ll-treated, cing themselves, and shoot us if they felt it necessary! The pigs are the ones guilty of conspiracy to commit murder against Panthers, but we still face possible death or life imprison- mont because this pig power structure condones and applauds the brutish, murderotis acts of its lackeys and chumps--the pigs who ridearoundand harass and brutalize the people, As I sat in the courtroom, I ob- served ‘‘constitutional fascism’’ in action. The judge was clearly prejudiced against us. Infact, inmany instances he told the pigs onthe stand that they didn’t have toanswer certain questions, In addition, the judge denied all motions the defense attorneys put forth, Even when the defense had the “solld'’ backing of the constitution in making their motions, pig Judge Brown chose to defy this country's laws rather than to give us our basic human rights as guaranteed in the constitution, The pigs illegally seized several articles not named in the Search warrant and the judge, in so many words said that the pigs had a good reason to ILLEGALLY seize these other items, The witnesses, court recorder, judge, and DA's were all working together to make sure that we Panthers didn't receive a just and fair hearing. The pigs in the eyes of other pigs were victorious because they suc- ceeded in denying Black people In general, and Black Panthers in par- ticular, a fair trial. But the LA 18 were the victors on December 8, and we're still the victors on January 23, been sucessful at doing anything but generally keeping the people look- ing over. thelr shoulders and ter- rorizing the 12 year-old junkies in the projects. I should say right here that if Ahern and his gang really want to stop crime in New Haven, they should leave the people alone and go after the real criminal; the Mafia who sells: dope to little kids, Then they should move on the real robbers. The point is this: the people In the Elm Haven projects are being robbed and terrorized by the pigs of the power structure, For Thanks- giving, or an early Xmas present, pig chief Ahern gave the people o/ the projects a special police force which does not wear uniforms, car- ries guns, can arrest people and passes on information tothe regular . pigs so they can bust people, making I'm tired,,.sick and tired of seeing my people being oppressed and ex- ploited all over the world in general, and here in Babylon in particular. ameriKkKKa Is supposed to be the epitome of freedom, equality, and justice for all its citizens, yet I sat in a courtroom for2 1/2 weeks and witnessed myself and my beautiful revolutionary comrades being rail- roaded down the ‘‘Hall of Injustice." We chose to defend our lives and homes instead of being murdered cold-bloodedly by the fascist dogs who claim they are here to ‘protect and serve’’, Yet we are all facing life imprisonment if convicted because we stood up and were men, In this racist, decadent country, there is no justice for the poor oppressed people. If you try to throw off the yoke of oppression which Is strangling you, you are either murdered or incar- All of the DA's evidence consisted of the pigs’ version of what happened on December 8, It was clearly obvious to everyone in the courtroom that the pigs were lying because their testi- monies, in many cases, contradicted each other. Some of the pigs were staunch shouthern crackers who couldn’ teven pronounce ‘‘negro’’ cor- rectly, The pigs testified that they had several briefings prior to their a ds on December 8. There were be- tween 100-200 pigs at these briefings and even some federal agents were present, The pigs planned how they would conduct their raids, how many men would participate, who would par= ticipate, and what types of weapons would be used in the raids, They even secured a search warrant saying that the pigs could come to our home in the middle of the night, break down our door without knocking or announ- We stood up in defense of our lives, in defense of our homes, and in un- dying love for the people. The peo- ple saved us--like Huey sald, ‘‘the People’s spirit is greater than the man's technology.”’ This theory again was put into practice that last day of Preliminaries when Judge Hitler Harvey Brownsaid ‘‘alldefendants are are bound over to Superior Court--I have sufficient evidence to belleve they are guilty.’ Even when the Judge refused to set ball for anyone except 17 year old Bernard Smith Whose bail was set at $50,000 (des- pite the fact that no incriminating evidence had been presented against the Panthers other than the fact that we are Panthers and defended our lives.) The only thing the political Prisoners had to say was ‘‘All Power to the People."’ Right on!! Pig terrorism of the people that much easier. ’ The New Year brought the people who live in the projects a rent hike of, from $40 for elderly folks to Brewster, etc, push us around? $75 for everyone else, Now some The pigs have already pushed the In- people are paying $200 for project dians off their reservations (which apartments which are not exactly are not much better than concen- what you would call $200 a month tration camps anyway) and now, be- pads! To put it better, rent in the cause poor and working people are Yale Towers starts at about $150, beginning to show their economic So there are people who live in and political strength, the pigs are Projects who are paying more than trying to force the working people people in Yale Towers, who can af- ang poor people ‘‘off the re- ' ford the higher rent, and for less servation'' in 1970, Ourreservation service. The walis in the projects has a nice name-the inner city," ' are filled with snow, the top floors The term “inner city’ refers to of the projects are filled with smoke a)) poor and working people-Black | from the incinerators, the coldwin- White und PuertoRicans. This is ter wind blows down the halls and why the Black Panther Party tells F stairwells and even straightthrough the people to get together in each the peoples apartments even when neighborhood and actively resist the / the windows are closed, So who are pigs, We think that the people in these pigs, like Ed White, director the projects should get together and of New Haven Housing Authority, start a rent strike, Soon! We feel and Chief pig Ahern, trying to fool” that those people in factories who _ This also looks like the old con- are robbed by the pigs everyday spiracy of the lying pig politician should start to realize that the own- (Ed White) and the racist pig cop ers of those factories control what (Ahern) -- oppression and robbery happens in the streets and com- Dear Robert, How are you today, | hope you ‘deeper and find that multi-billion jive andplay,andthatworkers should will get out of jail. What the pigs _ Sollar a year Yale doesn't pay start political strikes! This is a did to you was not right at all taxes while the Housing Authority main tool or weapon that workers ! hope you get ot of jail, My __ Bays $140,000 to the state each year. control. The people must band to- sisters, we sure hope you get out _ This money comes straight from gether in order to fightthese bullies of jail, So I hope you will be free the tenants pockets and goes directly and pigs, because only in unity is pretty soon. Good, Of the people. Then we dig a Little munities where they (the workers) «tat the politicians and rich bus- there strength! inessmen's pockets, POWER When arewegoing tostop letting ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Yours truly, these buffoon’s like Ahern, White, Doug Fauntleroy Patricia t accept defeat. They must Bell was a witness to the foul tapo forces They have charged him with two , was killed defend- were killed by the shotgun of Jake ck colony. Butbeforehe Winters, All the evidence shows low the government to kill Lance, Robert Bryan Political Prisoner of the outstanding charac- died he left two pigs killed--nine that Lance was just passing through c& of the pigs is that they wounded, Another brother, Lance the area, heard shots, saw the ges- ays have a scapegoat, someone deeds of these maniacs, Now the brother, and went to check it out, take their frenzied anger forces of reaction are trying to This was when he was captured . This has been happening in silence him. They are trying to by the pigs, Now they are making tk colony since the exis- sentence him to the electricchair, an all out effort to kill Lance, esetot This is part of the government of the Black Panther illinois Chapter and Mark Clark, to be murdered, We must stop Defense Captain of Peoriabecause the rising tide of GENOCIDE. It they were moving to educate the must be made clear that the peo- people to the true nature of this ple will not allow them to murder ple in general. If the people al- racist, capitalistic society, But Lance Beljt’- you don't have to he a Panther to ILLINOIS CHAPTER of this madness re- counts of murder, Butinaninquest conspiracy to commit GENOCIDE om the November 13th into the incident by a coroner's against the Black Panther Party Black colony, in this jury.on December 24, it was found in particular and Black people and Winters, 4 proven that the two pigs that were killed all other decent progressive peo- now, ALL POWER TIONARIES Kharon that's all for PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME ALL POWER TO THE REVOLU- Dear Robert, Letters From Children To Two Of The L.A. 18 5, Dear Robert, How have you been. Fine, [hope, It's been a long time since I've seen you. | know it's hard to live off of what they feed you and the rest of the Panthers. How's Craig. Is he all right, after what the pigs did to him, when the pigs threw him down the stairs, Can he see very well? Well, ‘ ~ Craig Williams Political Prisoner Lam not going to stop coming to see you, Yours, Loren ? FREE LANCE BELL this will set a precedent which be murdered by these fascist fools, the pigs will use to justify the John and Michael Soto weren't breakfast at all I am going to try to know more about John Huggins. January 20, 1970 Liberation School : place I have ever been to in my ai whole life. And when you come out, Dear Cr ‘BS, fs the nicest T hope you feel well, I have miss I will be waiting for youtogiveyou you because I have miss you so a big welcome. | willbe waitingfor much, I hope you be feed well and you and my sisters will be glad to feed too, | hope you come out of jail. We all miss you and Joan. Love, Michelle firing at a Black mass murder of Black people. The Panthers, Linda Anderson didn't power structure is systematically claim to be a revolutionary, Their trying to destroy the youthinthe only crimés were to be in Black colony, They've murdered the poor working class in ra- Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman cist amigrikKKa, Party, Lance Bell must not be allowed THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 4 ‘The Black Panther Party is a po- litical organization that serves asa standard bearer for Black and all oppressed people in this country, On the theory and practice of self defense, it should very well be most Clear that Black People in this country have been victims of a sys- tematic form of genocide since the time of slavery, Based on the trea- cherous and rugged road on which our history had to develop, there should be no doubt on anybody's mind about the necessity of defend- ing their lives against vile and in- human elements. Back during the early ages when men had to defendthemselves from the natural enemies of their envir- Onment, such as floods-storms- earthquakes-huge animals-etc., it was 4 common thing for men to work together to prepare shelters and the necessities for the salva- tion of their family (see Education and Revolution, Eldridge Cleaver), As society began to develop and mankind, through production, be- came less inclined to the natural materialistic needs of life and more geared toward the idealistic wants of the individual or family, thence causing antagonism between different cults. War was then intro- duced and man was then forced to defend himself from interlopers, The earliest known writings of war were written by Sun-Tzu, He wrote the ‘Thirteen Chapters on War” during the time when warring was first introduced on a large scale (warring years or warring states- 360-460 B.C.), Sun-Tzu expounded on the im- portance of defensive strategy and perseverance. He stated that, "'In order for one to defend himself, properly, in war, he must learn ways to offend his enemy.” So, therefore, the shield (defense was then accompanied by the sword (of- fense), As society advanced, and wars became more intense, the concept of the shield andthe sword was reiterated and innovated to the knight in shining armor, onto what we have today that fs commonly known as the ‘'tank’’, The whole concept of defense and offense has nowescalatedtoa level of major operations involving thou- sands of personnel, both defensive and offensive, Based on the theory of the age-old aggressive inter- loper, we see that those types of of- fensive operations are all geared toward imperialist aggression and exploitation of harmless, innocent peace-loving people, Sowecan safe- ly say that these types of offenders are Jingoists, or warmongers, i.e. the U,S, involvement in Korea, Viet Nam, Palestine, Africa, etc. We must understand that the ru- diments of survival-defense and the combination of offense for the purpose of defense - have been manipulated by the United States, And not only are they utilizing those selfish tactics in every corner of the earth, we have the very same interference right here within the confines of the Black communities. Now, relating to the waysand means that the war-like US, government perpetracesonsiquehts onthe Black, poor and oppressed people in this country and peoples of the world, we see that through a long pro- cess of atrocious sufferings the Black people in this country are now faced with the most wicked conglomeration of forces known to mankind, We find that the entire juggernaut is broken down into two integral parts: The Ultra Structure and the Infra Structure of the U.S.A, The Ultra Structure is headed by the Green Berets, CIA, Interpol, and MAC (Military AdvisoryCorps. Ik operated for the most part in foreign countries, planting war- seeds in the soil of revolutionary peoples, Its home base is located in the Pentagon in Washing ton, D,C, and is coordinated by the C,I1,D, (Central Intelligence Department); the vanguard of the Infra Structure is composed of three groups-1)The John Birch Society, which acts as the political arm of the constituent ~2) The Minutemen-and 3) The Ku Klux Klan, which serves as the mi- Utary-terrorist arm, Other small- er parties such as the N.R.A, (Na- tional Rifle Association), White Knights, ameriKKKan Nazi Party, Black Legion,etc. are detachments and supply bases of the leading bo- dies of the InfroStructure, which in turn serve the same purpose for the Ultra Structure, To cite one of the astronomical operations implemen- ted by these fascists: In June of 1966, the propagandist of the Jin- goist machine dropped some five million leaflets into Viet Nam, de- picting the Black Gl's as the most fierce and most effective fighters the U.S, had employed there, and that the Black man would be the de- cisive factor in the winning of the war, The result was an increase of Black ameriKKKan deaths, from 20% to some 49% killed in Viet Nam per year-Genocide, On the same token, the CIA in Viet Nam has established an Infra Structure similar to their own here in ameriKKKa. It is headed by the Provincial Reconnaissance Units (pronounced ‘*Prews"’) which ter- rorize villages and assassinates leaders of various hamlets, cities or provinces which oppose the pre- sent ‘‘puppet’’ regime. Trained by the Green Berets and financed by the C,1L.D,, they act in the same fascist manner as their ameri- KKKan advisors. Example opera- tions of the C,LD. are : Egypt, when Nasser was coming into pow- er; the Congo, when Tsombe was educating the people; Cuba; Korea; etc. So we realize the need for self defense for our people is one of exi- gency when we see basically the same thing occuring in the colonies of Black ameriKKKa: The “‘consti- tutional fascism"' manifested inthe racist ameriKKKan courts. tf.e. Hoffman, Chavez, Brown etc.; and of course, the “‘Lawful fascism"’ manifested in theracist pig depart ments, organizations, unions, groups, possess around the country The Patrolmen'’s Benevolent As- sociation of New York (PBA), the Detroit Police Officers Asso- ciation (DPOA), The Fraternal Or- der of Police of Cleveland(FOP), The National Policemen's Union (NPU) are but a few main pro-fas- cist pig political parties initiated by the U.S, Infra Structure. These type pig parties are mainly re- sponsible for the birth of the main “killer squadrons'’ commonly known as the ''The Tact Squads’’, “Metro Squads"’, ‘'Goon Squads”, “SWAT Teams", etc. as they are known in various cities, Andevery- time these barbaric pigs enter our communities, murdering our people and attacking our very homes and then being allowedto do it another day, it serves as a politi- cal education class for all the pigs in the country to follow and act in the same animalistic manner, At the lower rung of the ladder of the Infra Structure there are the contemporary pawns and puppets. The most recent program to at- tempt to ‘*quell’’ the intensifying revolutionary fervor of Blacks in this country was laid by the C.1,D, in Africa some 15 years ago. The program was to serve a dual por- pose: 1) to impede or abolish the correct revolutionary theory inA- frica, and to 2) instill a stiff reac- tionary outlook on worldrevoultion and revolutionary culture. The program was very effective in causing antagonisms between pro- gressive and reactionary coun- NATIONAL SALVATION ternationalism, The program has been introduced here in ameri- KKKa for some 10 years now, and is exemplified in organizations as tries,resulting innumerous deaths, that of the US organization,Le Rol mass famine and genocide. The Jones’ Black Community Develop- scale asia - Geronimo program, ‘‘Operation Culture’’, is a very highly sophisticated trick, or shall I say ‘‘inveiglement”, that caused an oppressed people to go against the basic principles of revolutionary struggle, such as a flexible ideology,racial solidarity, socialism, and revolutionary in- Political Prisoner ment Organization, etc, It mainly cultivates the breeding place for thelr pawn and puppets that are used in an almost {dentical. type manner as were used in most of the colonies throughout the world, So we know that the word com- munity Is nothing by another eu- pressive governmentof the ry class of the world fs infilrr. gression are unjust wars, and bound to meet defeat, the ocey ing gestapo troops In our co! will surely prove unsuccessful their attempts to keep the yoke colonialism on the necks of people, Our — struggle- a just struggle for the Ibe: tion and self-determination of only Black people, butall opp; sed people throughout this plar So the Black Panther Party wij} continue to move to educate the people to the ills of this Society, exposing the chieftain of world im. perialism, the monstrous octopus that has its tentacles ineverycor- ner of the earth, And we will stab the Scavenger right in its heart, so that the people can free themselves of the shackles-and that doesn’t mean an overthrow of the govern- ment - what government? There {s no government for the people, so we have to lay the foundations for the people to forma governmentthat {is truly representative of the people, And we will kill anyone that stands in the way of our self-determina- tion, be it the US. imperialists or their lackeys, or the moonmen, | We will defend the people’ s free- dom, becau. 2 we know that without self-defense, there can be no Sal- vation, Dare To Struggle Dare To Win... Let's Free Ourselves Geronimo DOWNFALL OF L.A.’S JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOLS BSU----UPRISING OF THE PEOPLE‘S PARTY The B,S.U, at Jeff came about as a result of a boycott of classes in September, 1968. The students at Jeff disagreed with the ad- ministration’s way of running the students’ lives, They had absolutely no voice in anything that happened at Jeff, They were not allowed to speak of the faults at Jeff, neither were they allowed to dress as they please or wear ‘“‘naturals"’, They had no contro! over the pigs’ com- ing on campus and harassing the Students, But instead of negotiat- ing with the students, the admin- istration brought Black security pigs on campus to make sure the Students stayed in their place. The B.S,U. couldn't deal with any of these problems successfully be- cause its members had personal hang-ups and weren't united, Thus, the organization eventually de- Stroyed itself, For a year the stu- dents at Jeff have watched the Pan- thers work, and came to the con- clusion that they dig on what the Panthers are doing, what they want, why they want it, and for whom they want ir, So, in 1969, the student body president, along with other revolu- tlonary students organized the **People’s Party’’--a Party thar puts the Panther ideology Into prac- tice, The duty of this Party is to serve the people, to find out what the students at jeff want, and see that the student council carries it out, They only take orders from the students, not the administra- tion, which represents the pigs, The People’s Party is also try- ing to get political education class- es for the students, And since most the membership is made up of the Same type of people that the Party (Panther) consists of, they know what kind of problems the students have, and they feel the students will be able to talk to them better, and they will be able to relate to the students, One problem of the students, for example, is going to class, The students don’t go to class, because they don’t Like the subjects, or the teachers and can’t voice what they believe in withour getting sus- pended, And that’s where the Party comes in, They negotiate with tea- chers and if that doesn’t work, nobody goes to class, 5. We want education exposes the true nature of dent ameriKKKan society, ucation that teaches us our and our role in the present-day society, | To sum it up, the new organ- — ization at Jeff, the People’s Party, is in existence for the same rea- — Son the Panther Party is--toserve — the people, or students--only they — can’t move on the issues as strong= ly as the Panthers, because of their Parents and other obstacles, = This organization is most ' ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Jefferson High School Barbara Walker B-12 for our people at . this. wa . true history — Nathaniel Junior and Robert Bruce, part of the [linols 16 indicted in _ April for supposedly kidnapped an old woman, turned themselves in on Jan- uary 14, Forced underground earlier, these brothers returned to be tried by their peer group, or people from thelr Black community as defined by the constitution. Point No. 9 of the Black Panther Party platform and program states: *“*We believe that the courts should follow the U.S. constitution so that Black people will receive fair trails. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group, A peer NATHANIEL JR. POLITICAL PRISONER BEING HELD UNDER ONE MILLION DOLLARS RANSOME is a person from a similiar eco- nomic, social, religious, geo- graphical, environmental, historical, and racial background. To do this, the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all- White juries (and old bootlickers) that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man’ of the Black community," Nathaniel and Bruce lived in May- wood, Ilinois and went with Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton, These are brothers off the block just as Fred Was---the same brothers Malcolm X called, **Field Niggers’’, who love and understand poor people un don't take any thing from anybody; who are fiving their all toward bullding revo- Jutionary proletarian power. They fought along with Fred in Maywood, for human rights and made sacrifices that many so-called leaders will never dream of. When Fredand Bobby Rush, s The Richmond Branch of the iy Black Panther Party has opened & Free Clothing Program to serve the people, meeting another basic ‘x need of the people. The greedy businessmen who come down into the Black community, and open a store are only interested indrain- Ing the community and not in the r welfare of the people. We must all realize that the materials they have in their stores are sold to Poor and oppressed people for much more than they are worth, _ The reason for this is because that ds the way this system Is set up, rob from the poor and give to the rich. Point number 3 on the ‘Ten Point Platform and Program ‘Says: “We want an end to the ry by the capitalist of our ck community.” This Is just these capitalist dogs are to the Black comsnunity: ing it? hother brother and I went to Ore after store indowntwon Rich- ond, stores ike Macys’, Blumen- is, Kress, JC Pennys and a ofothers, These are the TWO OF THE ILLINOIS 16 TURN THEMSELVES IN Deputy Minister ofDefense, began to Organize the Illinois Chapter, Fre went back to Maywood and Sought out Nathaniel and Bruce. They took part in engineering Our free health cenier. They are heroes tn the eyes of the People for making this revolutionary decision to come forth putting the peo- ple’s Interest before their own, They recognize dirty rat Nixon, Old Man Hoover, and that crazy.racistat- torney general, John Mitchell, whoare all bed buddies and chief conspirators in programming genocide on the Black Panther Party in particular and Black people in general. These pigs have proven through their practice and lies COME HUEY MUST BE SET HUEY MUST BE SET sega ee — Show support by holding nation-wide demonstrations in front of the REVOLUTION | Letter to Superintendent of N.Y. IN OUR LIFETIME All of you people out there with housesan¢ color T.V,, if you voted for that muddle-headed pig Nixor I think 1 know why...He probably told you that he would do all this good stuff for the people, Now that that they are brutal, barbarous, and he has been elected by you, you criminals who will go to any meansto should be able to tell that he wasa ee Ae cat i Sea Mar, Just by looking at his war- vathaniel am ce were force vodergruund they knoe there was Jock face and all you people ly- very little chance of them getting a fair trial when there would be people on the jury who do not understand the pojitical rvpression on Party members and progressive people pix. period, rext The people must come forth to in- insure that Nathaniel, Bruce and all political prisoners get a jury of their peer group Now is the time for all people to come come forth and demand that this racist court system relate fully to the Mthamendment of the con- stitution, or there should be no more trials in Babylon off, polic way You this FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS Tilinois chapter | black panther purty Richmond Free Clothing Program Las regurc of war, I thought chit perhaps you Stores in Richmond where the ma- jority of Black people here shop, yet these same greedy pigs who receive a large amon! of business from the Black community of Rich- mond refuse to even give so much as a palr of drawers! This is why the Black Panther Party has gone forth to Implement programs rele- didn't Las time vant to the welfare of the com- munity, The pigs have clearly priso: shown that they no longer care about the basic needs and desires of the people, they only want to exploit them. The Free Clothing Program is being held at 62 Bissell Ave. We will continue to serve and educate the masses of oppressed people until they rise up in a mighty storm anddestroy ‘his evil system of capitalism once and for all. like ba TT as Shoe health ALL POWEK TO THE PEOPLE Ray Edmerson Richmond Branch Black Panther Party burns ALI le ‘eman he better get out of our name ing toyour children about that pig Santa Claus; why don't you tell your children the truth and tell them that Santa Clause is a big fat capitalist I'm telling you this so that on Christmas eve when he comes down your chimncy blow his head I} that bald headed punk pig and stay out of our community or we'll snatch Is head off in the of revolution and Liberation. should realize by now that fascist government is robhing Prisoners of War fo r Political Prisoners t January 4th, I wrote to you ling an ameriKKKan prisoner receive iny leuer. t November, 1969, | atrended a rally in Tueson, Arizona at which Black Panther Party Chief of Staff, David tlilliard told the gathering thot the Black Panther low natured beasts of Mount Vernon Party might be able to secure in- police formation regarding ameriKKKan Thomas, Omar and Andrew Austin Omar's poe ers of war, if this is still being done, L would to find out about the followin prisoner of war, bell of soc ret Investigation squad got any information Lt, Colonel James Lindbery hes FR 43277 Serial Number « down May 5, 1907 over tanol 1 particulary interested in his due to the fact that be was injured in a jet crash some years ago and requires medication for recelyed at that time, POWER TO TH PEOPLE Jolin A. Stenesr THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 5 SEE ABOUT HUEY FEBRUARY 11 10:00 AM All people! All Chapters and Branches of The Black Panther Party! Garry will argue Huey’s appeal February 11, 1970. PREE! REE! REE! FREE! State Building. FREE HUEY! Women's House of Detention From Joan and Afeni - Political Prisoners In order that we may support our families and provide decent hous- ing, we ask only for educational fa- cilities that provide a knowledge of self and our relation to the world around us. We recognize that according to an article in The Amsterdam News concerning your new appointment, you are interested In the vocational We request permission and fa- training of the inmates housed in cilities to have three (3) hours athis building. We would be glad to week for the purpose of prepar- discuss the formation of any valid ing ourselves for vocational, plans thatare geared to the eleva- academic and mental training ne- tion of our standard of ving. cessary for relating to the out- side world. We recognize the fact ALL that most sisters who leave this building are not prepared for any- Afeni Shakur thing but a continuation of crime, Joan Bird you and using the money to send have to fight for ir, people to the moon and kill people All Power to The People in VietNam. But youmustremem- Michael Gallyor ber! if there is going to be revolu- Age Nine tion and liberation we're going to New Haven Conn. An Attempt To Stop The People’s News Service 1 January 8, 1970 Mrs. Jessie Behagen, Superintendent Women's House of Detention 10 Greenwich Avenue New York, New York 10011 Dear Mrs, Behagen: POWER TO THE PEOPLE! On Friday, January 16, 1970, the brothers were be Brothe JonN niouth ing held on, r Andrew was punched inthe and «4 bullet was planted In ket. The delivering the Black Panther Papers, to bring the Paperes interne to the office. The brothers had pro- station. Eddie sake . ceeded to unload the truck, when nix =a ‘ite ect tee yp “athe pigs cars drove up and pig Joe Camp- truck. the ‘ Pigs oinked and took them out of the car pulled his 357 mag, on “parttten| neers hdd eed asthe the brothers and hand cuffed them ean ho . ys , but their {nfor~ Brother Bashir V. Saunders who was was all messed up and it In the office ut the Hime came out ta Couldn't stick, So the pigs charged investigate. Pig Campbell told him to i brothes with driving without a get back Inside before they arrested T’#tstration. They used this as an him. the brother quickly related the “tempt to suppress the Black Pan- information to the Bronx office andther’ Papers, the “BLACK CcoM- called the lawyer to relate what had MUNTIY NEWS SERVICE © They are paren piace, trying to keep the people filed with The brothers were taken to the pig mts-tnformation, This is why it ts pen. Each brother was placed in 450 necexsary for the people to re- Separate car, Defense Captain(Eddle) celve the truth, ind other members went to inves- gute that actual charges that the department attacked ALL POWER TO THE PFOPLE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 6 Berkeley City Councilman Ron Dellums The following is an interview Icon- ducted with Berkeley Councilman, Ron Dellums who is interested in running in the June Democratic Party's primary election as a can- didate for the 7th Congressional District. His opponent will be Jeffery Cohelan who has been suc- cessful in defeating both John George and Bob Scheer in the past. INTERVIEWER: Why did you de- cide to run against Cohelan and what have you been doing as Coun- cilman that prompted you to run against him? DELLUMS: The role of City Coun- cilman...is to relate to those peo- ple, those organizations and groups in the community who are moving for significant change in the coun- try: To represent them, to raise issues and to heighten the contra- dictions between the idealism that is espoused by our government andthe pragmatics of what really goes down in this country. My functioning on the city council has been to try and be an educational instrument in the community: To raise issues and put forth programs before the council articulating concerns of our peo- ple, primarily, for the Black community because I saw that as my major responsibility in being elected there, INTERVIEWER: What is your posi- tion oncommumnity control of police? DELLUMS: I belleve thar the issue of community control of police is appropriate, the problem that I see with respect to the police in our society is that the argument against control and against any kind of mechanism is that it will put the police into the political arena, | argue just the reverse, I believe tharat this moment, to police are already in the political arena and that the role they have been mani- pulated into is to act out the con- cerns of the establishment, of the status quo and of the people in this society who maintain the power, In a very uncanny way, the role of the police in the past several years has been to control those persons who have been attempting to move for significant change: That's either Black people who are moving for freedom, equality and justice or young Whites who are moving against the war or Chicano brothers who are moving for free- dom, etc. We found that the police have been used as the instrument to bust up those efforts. I think that the police will be effectively taken out of the political arena if there is community control of po- lice so that they can not be mani- pulated by a small self-interested segment of the community to act as prohibitors of change. This coun- try will either bend in the winds of change or be broken inthe storm of revolution, ROLAND YOUNG ROLAND YOUNG SERVE AGAIN -- BUT WILL NOT ONLY THE PEOPLE ONCE WILL FINALLY SERVE THE PEOPLE THROUGH THE MEANS OF THE PEOPLES’ MEDIA, ROLAND YOUNG WILL BE SERVING K.P.F.A, -- FM THE PEOPLE ON (94,1) EVERY THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATUR- DAY NIGHT FROM 11:00 PM, K.P.F.A.--FM IS A LISTENER SUP - PORTED STATION AND, THERE- FORE, IS RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF ITS SUP PORTERS (CON- TRARY TO THE CAPITALISTS’ OWNED RADIO WHICH IS ONLY RE- SPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE CAPITALISTS’ WHILE K.P.F.A, FOR PROFITS). ENDEAVORS TO SERVE THE PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH ACTS AS ROLAND YOUNG ALLOWING TO CONTINUE TO PRESENT REVOLUTIONARY ART OVER THE AIRWAYS, THE PEO- PLE MUST IN TURN SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR PEOPLES’ CON-' TROLLED MEDIA BY, IN FACT SUPPORTING LISTENER SUP- PORTED RADIO, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! INTERVIEWER: How much latitude do you have as a concilman and can one man be effective in elec- torial politics? DELLUMS: | question whether or not this political system has the ability and/or the desire to solve basic problems. | don't see the role of the--new breed Black politician as being one of saying to the com- munity that the problems will be Solved necessarily in the political arena, | agreed with David Hilliard when he said, on Face the Nation, that we are ‘presently in the phase of educating the community’. The new breed politician has a role to play in that educational process, When you raise the issue of com- munity control of police--of independent mechanisms for re- dress of grievances, and your other politicalcolleaguesmove away from those issues, it then gives the com- munity a basis upon which to eval- uate performance, What has hap- pened in the past is that many people and charlatans have been pawned off in our communities as friends, and we have often had one of the natives to act as a guide through the village. The respon- sibility of the Black politician is to point out the contradiction between what people say when they come into our communities as elected officials and what they vote for. I, in no way, have deluded myself into thinking that one Black cat is going to move the system by himself, The role of the elected official is to point out the contra- dictions within the system, the graft, the incompetence, the irre- levance, the hypocrisy and to tell what's really happening so that peo- ple are constantly apprised of Letter To The Community From A Member Of The Bronx Community Why are we, the people, allowing the law to become a weapon to destroy the people that are not in agreement withe the U.S, govern- ment. Today, the government is j using the law any way it can to imprison and destroy and murder anyone that disagrees with it openly. This country is becoming fascist like Germany was in the 40°s. To- day a man is framed openly by the law. If we, the people, let this continue we will be just as guilty as the pigs that are actually doing this. If we let this continue one day we will be afrafd to speak our minds about anything. We live in a land where you are terrorized by the law, where you have no rights, where the pigs can break into your home, take you out, try you (if they feel like it) and shoot you in a matter of hours, without you even having 4 trial, We say this can’t be happen- On Jan, 4th my mother and sister went to see my brother Charles in the Carl Holton school for boys in Stockton, As you know Stockton is about 100 miles from here where we live in San Francisco. My mo- ther was sick at the time and we told her not to go. After fixing a lot of food and otherthingsfor him we drove all the way down there leaving early so that we would be able to stay there with him a little longer than usual, When we got there, we told the woman at the desk who we wanted to see, She told us to sit down and she would send for him, We waited for about 20 minutes, Then my mother went up to the desk to ask why was it taking INTERVIEW WITH RON DELLUMS BY ROLAND YOUNG what's going on, The role of the new breed Black politician is to stop lying to the community and stop fooling the community that reforms and band-aid operations are going to solve the basic pro- blems of this country. INTERVIEWER: When you cam- paign and make speeches to people do you ever speak in any kind of way that would lead then to believe that you actually feel that you can gain significant concessions through the system? Or, when you make speeches and when you try to gain support do you let them know exactly what you're trying to do? DELLEUMS: I say to them exactly what I've said to you, I tell them that if they think they would be sending me to the Congress to solve the real obsenities in this coun- try--which are racism, poverty, economic, educational, political and judicial exploitation--then you bet- ter not elect me, I'm talking about a new kind of reality, one that says we have to wake up to the fact that one man (in a mechanism de- signed to limit movement) will not bring about change, INTERVIEWER: Why did you decide to run in the Democratic Primary? DELLUMS: No matter what Party label a man runs under, the elec- torial process is not going to get to the basic problems inherent in this society. So, where ever you come from, you are one man, The issue is, what are your conceptions and what do you see your role as? If you see your role as perpetuator ing, well it is, and will continue if we continue to allow the govern- ment to openly pursue and perse- cute the people who are out here trying to better conditions for the community, the people who are fightingfor justice, for the rights of human beings for the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, for all oppressed people, There has to be arevolution in this country so that the pigs cannot continue to persecute us, so that the oppressor cannot continue to use us to better his situatior and treat us like sub-humans, so that we can have equal opportuni- ties, live in decent homes, so our children can get a good education, So that we con control our future and our present, We know that there is just as much poverty in the U.S. as there is in other parts of the world, We have to bulldour country up and get rid of the poverty right here. The power of any country ts munity) PIGS KIDNAP 17 YEAR OLD YOUTH. him so long to get there, She then hesitated and finally told us thathe was not there, and that hehadbeen taken to Los Angeles 3 weeks be- fore, My mother then asked to see his counselor, They said he wasn't there und she talked to someone else, He toldher he knew nothing a-~ bout it then he talked to someone who also said he had been sent to Los Angeles, They saidhe was sent there to testify against some people who he knew nothing about. Nowhe was supposed tobe releasedon Jan, Sth, the next day, When she called to Los Angeles they tell us that the people he is supposed to testify against got their court date put off until Jan 29th, of the status quo, then you do no deserve to be in the arena, enough in this manner aren't taking the chance that peop! say ‘then why should we yo that the crisis between the classes, with the crisis of our cities, with ¢ % pollution--not only of our mind: but of our air and water, the sons) people are rapidly be aware of the facts and in the 197( there are going to be someun! people who become revolutionay People who had been ardent 5 porters of the establishment wil become very concerned, very olutionary and very avant-gard their approaches to the taking « the people and not to a hand full of individuals, The real on fs this society has to do with raw exploitation of human beings” that cuts across social lines an tear down the walls between races and move on to the bai job of tearing down the wall : the classes then we are playing games in this country, I am talking: about a confrontation in this coun- try which ameriKKKa may ne come back from. Thus, spoke Councilman Ron Del- lums, his next phase is action, keep your eyes open, POWERI Roland Young Community News Reporter in the people and we have to unite to be powerful and succeed. The pigs and the people who rule us want us to fight among oursleves because while we are fighting and hating each other they can continue © to get away with their atrocities. If we stop all these prejudices and — fighting among ourselves, we can unite and revolutionize this society So that we can have a better country and a better life for all the people, A few people cannot do it by them-— selves, it takes all of us to back them up. We cannot sit back and wait for the other man to do it for us. We've got to do it for our- selves. So let us unite now and stop secuting us now...before it is late, Let’s fight for our rights as human beings......NOW] ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Toni (member of the Bronx com= t This means that he will be held then, Rightnowhe is in Los Ang county jail and none of his re living in Los Angeles are allowed to see him, ‘They (his relatives)try to get in toseehimtomake sure he is receiving the money they pigs togive him for things her This fascist treatment c with point number § of Panther Partys’ platform and; gram. ‘*we want freedom for Black men/held In federal, state, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 7 MURDERS OF FRED AND — poteimore acter toc ____ MARK TERMED et Sak penta. a a Be TUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE’? ex nas noose an or er + xn so uo, menos aw ci ema uae te at approximately 2:00 a,m., more back in self-defense, He defended Hospital, where both the so-called _ The inquest into the deaths of Fredacts of the pt, Ss, was than 50 carloads of racist, bru- himself against a viclous attack en- ‘‘doctors’’ and pig-police tried to ton and Mark Clark endedchalant notice nie ie eet: iis you tallzing pigs attacked 3 brothers dorsed by the power-structures ofcover up the truth of the fascist ‘ "Wednesday, January 21, with the C4M see {tt had significant impact on WO ved in the Black community this evil country, In the attempt to terror that had brought the com- ; roclaiming ‘* the jurors’ d alle for suspicion of burglary, defend himself and the two other munity into the streets to actually ey Othe Seceiin: eccuer ne Mlstecsiged,. wecitny White, and? es tebinare (runes Dente 17, brothers in the truck, Richard him- witness the deeds of the foul, de- dyed-in-the-woo} Negroes the fu Arlando Jones 18, and Richard self was critically wounded. After praved racist butchers. The truth Was as far from being tha defendant Woodard 41), were chased as they he stopped firing, Arlando Jones of the Incident has been distorted peer group as any group could be- Were riding in a truck from the who was working with the Black and suppressed by all those whoare come, Nevertheless, they were given Moravia Ave, area to Washington St. Panther Party as a Friend of the in cahoots with the power-structure, the authority to render a decision, DUTing this time the fascist, ter- Panthers got out of the truck, and but the Black Panther Party will With obviously placed obstacles {n TOTsts Pigs opened fire on the staggering from painful gunshot continue to expose all of those bar- the inquest and historical experiences wounds, was murdered in a volleybarians who feed on torturing, bru- of deceit, Black people palyperites ro. brothers In the truck and calledof gunfire from over 100 pigs. talizing, and murdering our people. gressive people don't need a key for reinforcements to Continue fir- Charles Demby, also a Friend of The racist dog policemen must with- picked jury to help them decide what /®& On the brothers in an open, the Panthers, was viciously beaten draw immediately from our com- really happened, They are already @4rch and destroy’’ mission in and brutalized, since the pigs had munities, cease their wanton murder aware that the police entered Sar which those racist dog policemen failed to kill him, After finishing and torture and brutality of Black carried out the {ntentionsof murder, ‘Tied to murder everyone in the their dirty work, (which hasbecome people, or face the wrath of the We are accustomed to oppressors truck! Afterthe brothers were an open campaign by the police to Armed people! ‘justifying’? murder, and iy lyf chased to 1200 N, Washington St, the commit mass murder against Black REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY about it. Not only are we sieneigesen truck stopped, and the pigs contin- people), they took Charles toNorth- Black Community Information Cen- to ft. but our patience has over-ex. Ued shooting. Richard Woodard who eastern pig station where he re- ter tended itself about it . “Hved at 2120 E, Federal saw that ceived no medical attention what- 1248 N Gay St, We say that the days are few that those vicious murdering pigs were soever, and brother Richard Wood- Black Panther Party these kind of ''farces’’ (a better name for inquests) continueanddecide our PIGS RUN fate, We're going to replace these so- ° called hearings, inquests, and trials Th F d H pt M | AMUCK IN with people’ s tribunals, Then, the peo- C re am on emoria RICHMOND, CALIF. Fred Hampton ple will decide the fate of these pigs, --murdered-- who for too long, have decided our They have nothing bether to do} - than to intimidate and harass fate, When this new day arrives, then OREGON anyone Black who chooses to be b J . * listened to testimony, primarily trom si nemyauenen say arzives ven H- Pegnle’s Health Clinic Is Opened State's attorney's pigs, for twelve yicted and punished, days before reaching a decision, ss Panthers summoned before the in- out after dark quest refused to make any statements “ as they knew that the Inquest was The Fred Hampton Memorial Peo- It is so very clear howracistthe , pigs are; so very clear that their ple’s Health Clinic is open, Mondays ponition slaawicatesaia celeste through Fridays, 7 p.m, to 10 p.m,, interests of the rich, the so-called at 10 N, Russell Street, It provides law abiding citizens. The interests f the rich are money and private free medical care for the people; every- Sropecty; andithie woo argues one is welcome, ed everyday because those two things are more valuable to a sick ne, lot like the pigs and avaricious We now have 27 doctors, plus nur Subtsgpemen' cia tite ieaae) ses and medical students, Our X-ray The pigs working night shifts diagnosis is done free for us and the have little to keepthemselves busy nothing more than an inquiry into the amount of evidence that they had. Martin S Gerber, a pig and lackey who presided over the inquest, had hoped that Panthers would testify so that when brought to trial the state's attorney's office would have concoted enough lies to discredit testimony | and evidence as well. This venture failed, f Gerber, an obvious associate of © State Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan | who planned the attack on Fred's apartment, saw to it that the Jurors would reach a decision favorable to , if they are notf..... with some- the pigs. He often took it upon him- lab work that we cant do in the clinic one In the streets, or even in their self to answer questions for pigs is sent out for free, We have specialty homes. while they were being questioned by Panther attorneys, Three daysbefore | - the jurors reached a decision, he — made a public statement that from the referrals to private offices on a free Saturday morning about 2:00 a.m., @ brother (Jessie Brown) basis in Surgery, internal medicine, who lives in Richmond, was driv- evidence presented in the inquest no Mark Clark dermatology, hematology, neurology, ing a U-Haul truck he had rented murders were committed, Already, he in order to move his furniture, was setting the tempo for the jurors. --muydered-- pediatrics and cancer therapy. We also The truck stalled at 6th and Bes too, vind perenne ved accaced hg power to those who expose the have a small but growing lab of our Bissell, and for about an hour he attorney, ranc : ’ rews,truth. Death to those who ob: . CE cubapacet: . ee ee >wn, and we have been offered aporta- had been trying to get it started and subsequently jailed because he Illinois Chapter with help of people passing at refused to produce a door panel that Black Panther Party different intervals, The problem had been shot through by state’s at- 2350 W. Madison seemed to be the battery, and rere pigs. Plo the panel sos Chicago, Illinois If you happen to have an autoclave no-one had jumper cables, During ith othe | that ex 243-827 ¥ Tievidence that exposed the ° on hand, we can use it, Also, we need this time as he struggled to get it ® started, | observed the pigs circl- money quite badly, If you can give ing, circling, circling, lke vul- ble X-ray machine and its accessories, anything, please send a check to The tures over a dying form 4 set , a desert. An hour and CHICAGO CTA ROBBING PEOPLE People’s Health Clinic, c/o Jon Mos- Biseed pit, Sud sonnei chaste! cow, 2409 SE Division Street, And if by helped him push the truck Investigations into the operations man of the Board, takes in $150,000 yeaa pledge a small amount wahgeey sot abc teen ae ris yer ‘ wv, . of CTA have shown that the line hasa year with the help of the stock he month that would be even better, lf no longer stand it, so one car ae robbing the people for a number cues in Nig iages eaiht at ee you do pay your taxes you can claim stopped. When he found Jessie to years, people o e city of Chicago ve We have found out that the vastpaid over four billion, five hundred it as a tax deduction, be hip to ete accent of harassing people because they majority of its equipment is bei. {lion doll in fare dt foray oy Pe cone ae cares £00 tax paid are fascist back, this pig calledtwo paid for by the federal and state subsidies. This ts more than enough governments, QuestioningofCTAem-to have purchased the line in the THE CLINIC BELONGS TO THE more cars of his pig counter- ployees disclose that 70% of all pur-name of the people. As long as you PEOPLE! parts to help him ‘defend the chases of equipment an trains Ofhave been paying on the line you peace’, Being chicken - shit by the Dan Ryan Transit Line were made SHOULD OWN IT ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! nature, this pig as all others do, with subsidies from the federal In New York the fare is 20cents-- government with the state of Illinolsdig that, 20 cents. And these vul- and the city of Chicago picking upturistic pigs want to raise the fare the other 30%. The CTA raised theanother dime, Employees of the CTA fare to 40 cents--45 cents for Asay the fare can be reduced to 20 transfer, (Big business and the fed-cents or less If the fat avaricious eral government and the lying presSgreedy businessmen at the top stop working hand in hand to steal fromrobbing the people, the people. We all know that the Fifty-five (55) per cent of the service hasn't improved, The f@r0iora) income of CTA comes from the hike wasn't designed to improve the pack community. The only thing service, only the profits. that CTA could do to rectify the sit- CTA has a limited and chosen feWyation was to put Ernie Banks on the stock and bond holders who make poard of Directors--A man who hard- hardly any investment into the Com-)) needs the money and knows nothing pany but they make those astro-ahout the CTA, nomical profits. The people pay the rhe Black Panther Party opposes fares and the federal and state g0V-ine fare increase and hope that the ernment pay the bills (the peoplepoonie will show thelr opposition to pay taxes.), and CTA rops eVery-inis with militant fervor. If the CTA body off. This capitalism--a systeMineicts upon raising the fare, then the where a few people own the means-onmpany charter should be taken awa of production and distribution (in-,nq the control of the line should be cluding transportation) and manipu->iven to the people and the workers, Jate them to make those astronom-rnis would insure low fares because ical profits, che people will not exploit themselves, ‘The CTA makes over a million dollars a day, over 365 million dol- [ Jars @ year, George DeMent, chair-ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE waited until his swine buddies arrived, and then proceeded to frisk Jessie at several different times. Jessie's brother, Stanley, was sitting in the truck, and the pigs made him get out to be frisked also, It turned out that Stanicy was in violation of a minor traff- fe ticket (illegal left turn) for which he was handcuffed behind his back and taken to the pig pen like a criminal - - when in fact the pig is the criminal that *“*masquerades as the victim of an unprovoked attack,’ Stanley was bailed out the next day for $60,00, | saw and heard all that went down on the corner JUCHE (JO0-CHE) JUCHE MEANS HOLDING FAST TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SOLVING FOR ONESELF ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLU- TION AND CONSTRUCTION IN CONFORM- ITY WITH THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS AT HOME, AND MAINLY BY ONE’S OWN EFFORTS, WIN THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 8 MESSAGE OF FRANCIS CARTER Tl was notified by my attorney that pig Steve Ahern accused me of in- forming against my brothers and Sisters. The detailed account he gave me was very cleaverly planned, This is another fascist attempt to try to cause inner- Party struggles, When I was first picked up in Bridgeport I did not know why I was busted other than It was sup- posedly that [ was involved tn a hit and run car accident, I was kidnapped off of my job. When I got to the New Huven Police De- partment I was not allowed any calls, mainly for fear that I would notify the other Panthers, The two pigs, and Ahern started flashing pictures and shooting questions, They did not advise me of my cOm=> stitutional rights, Throughout the, interrogation they constantly tried” to use their bribes like‘ You're the, first one here and if you! tell us. all you know we'll let yo qo-and ~ they’ ll never know you hy fete I specifically said that Idi anything and I was not “os clear myself in order” ; doing time. ; I was constantly haraieed, oS baa timidated and they iis, drawh their own conclusions by trying put words In my mouth, 4 ee 1 took the 5th Sanaa morning in court (Jan, 21) not Cae cause I feared that anything I cal aod would result in any harm to me by my brothers and sisters but be- cause I love and respect them and ravard the masses ofthe people, and would never turn on them, They've already taken me away from the people for 8 months. They ve taken my bond away and held me In con- tempt for 6 months, My parents aren't rich people and they have to work hard for the $750 they put up, The fascist pigs stole $750 from them, They took me away from my 2 month old baby, they're going to take me away from my Sisters and place me in tripe iso- lation until I give in to them. But I'd rather rot in jail rather than to give the state's attorney 4 chance to try to gain some man- hood (which he lacks) or inflate nf’ ego anymore than what: it is oh have the people with me.- "As long ms they remain to haye folth “in we) I'll remain strong. CAGES th eich eager uthls to?) Because they know they lack evidence to convict me, that T was foolish enough to give a state- new which dy now: Ls totally re=— BB S <tegatt “to sult them with every- ‘taken out-of context, information. that: “the ples ee old {osolst® tactile: to-enver peal tcoth, “Swox) days: Meo: vane (e Peisased (coor jas) after got vieg “should have been, Masiceny” state-attorney “Arnold eo Markle: panicked at the Idea: Peano set et on the are, using” ‘agaiyuit me” have ‘been: Pepeated: numerous times by-peo= ) ple Who have testiffed before. It's streets exposing to the people the lies of this alledged murder case and exposing the inhumane treat- ment given to political prisoners in Niantic, Litchfield, Denver County and numerous other de- tention camps, Today (January 21) Markle planned to try to make me testify against my will in this Kangaroo trial, He knew that I would demand my constitutional rights to remain united with my brothers and sisters, His main purpose today was to get me back in jail for what ts mistakenly called ‘‘con- tempt'’. He did not believe that my law- yer, Catherine Rouback could suc- ceed in getting bail granted for me and setting precedent for ball In the State of Connecticut. Since | was out he wanted me back in and Was willing to use any means nec~- @ssary. In the long run the people will start realizing the truth and demi with it, yoPanthers are jailed and mur- ditred by these fascist dogs, as in thease of Fred Hamptonand Mark “Olark, and more will follow them. Markel and his lackeys’ cannot Yalk my spirits and they definetly can't jail the revolution. SEIZE THE TIME gates all of mybrothers. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Frances Carter Political Prisoner STATEMENT: OF FRANCIS CARTER erty i“ sre hy SAF I decline to ans Sat IN Gtimdtdence a be) Ihave been siaed yet iernes against my ststers and: brothers, that if l answer ston SUES have waved my answer other ques eto ee ues though this question may seem un- important I will refuse to respond, 1 do this because | feel that any an- swer I might give would be an in- fringement of my rights of privacy, to freedom of association, to free- dom of speech, and thought. To the extent that my answer might in some way tend to implicate others, might be a chain in a link PRESS RELEASE JAN. 22, Saiso? refuse to answer on the that to do so would de- ‘grade. and humf{liate me , Finally I invoke my right not to give evi- dence against myself, In view of the statements of others in this courtroom I want it quite clear that I in no way fear for my life or health--at least I have no such fears from those sisters and bro- thers with whom I have always stood In the fight for human dig- nity, In sum I decline to answer on galnist these charges 1970 thaSigrounds of the Ist, 4th, Sth, 8thy$th, loth and l4th amendments tovthe constitution of the United States and sections 1,2,4,5,7,8,9, antl4 of the constitution, Finally I want to note that I do not feel that I have had enough time to consult with my attorney about anything as momentos as this and that I am therefore being dented my rights to counsel in violation of the Sth, and 14th amendments to the constitution of the United States and section 8 of article 1 of the constitution of this state, The Coalition for the Defense of the Panthers today denounced the of- ficlals prosecuting the New Haven Panther Case for their utter con- tempt of ameriKKKan principles of justice and of consitutiona! rights. They charged that the prosecution is conducting “‘a systematic program of harassment, intimidation, and Pressure against the members of the Black Panther Party who have been arrested for the alleged slaying of Alex Rackley." ‘Yesterday, the Coalition continued ‘Frances Carter, whom the court had freed on ball, was again -de- prived of her right of free speech when the prosecution put her back in jail after she refused to testify, We can only conclude that the prosecution greatly fears the Impact that Miss Carter's descriptions of her elght- month imprisonment might have on the general public, She, along with fellow menbers of the Black Panther Party, has been held in virtual tso- lation, literature and mail have been censored; visiting privileges have been severely restricted,’’ The Coa- lition further charged that the prison- ers have been intimidated and haras- sed, The women have been denied ad- equate sleep, exercise, and prenatal care.’ It ts certain that preparation of an adequate defense has been ham- pered by restrictions on the visiting privileges of counsel,’ The Coalition asks ‘,..how long could any human being tolerate such conditions?’ The statement continued, ‘the ef- fects of such pressures are clearly shown by the events of last- week concerning Warren Kimbro.’ In con- sidering his nanke in plea, the Coa- ltion emphasized that this does not represent an Haaigeicn that he com- mitted murder, ‘‘What it may re- present is the result of a build-up of pressures over the past eight months in jall,"’ In addition, the Coalition has evidence that Mr. Kimbro has been subjected to extreme pressure by his eldest brother, a policeman.‘ This evidence was documented in a re- cent letter from Coalition spokesman, Dr, Robert Abramovitz to Attorney charles Garry who represents National Black Panther Party Chair- man, Bobby Seale, The Coalition for the Defense of the Panthers charged that the pro- secution Is attempting to use the ancient technique of conquering its victims by dividing them. In effect, it tells the prisoners that they will be better off If they plead guilty to a lesser charge. ‘‘It is the com- bination of this treatment,’ the state- ment continued, ‘and the continued harassment and intimidation In jails, that leads to systematic denial of the rights every man is guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the constitution of the United States. “How long can the public allow men and women to be degraded and humiliated because of their political beliefs? The blatant efforts on the part of the prosecuton to continually harass all of the prisoners and their unconscionable jailing of Miss Carter in order to prevent her from speak- ing our must not be allowed to con- tinue, Fundamental concepts of justice a belief in the dignity of man, andeven the constitution of the United States are on trial here.’ The statement concluded ‘‘the Coalition urges that all citizens recognize that their rights are being eroded when public officials are allowed to behave inthis manner,’’ In The District Courts In And For The City And County of Denver, State of Colorado IN THE MATTER OF THE AP- PLICATION OF RORY 8B HITHE FOR A WRIT OF MAN- DAMUS, RORY B, HITHE, Petitioner, vs, WILLIAM R. NELSON, WARDEN AND SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY JAIL, and WILLIAM L, KOCH, MANAGER OF SAFETY ANDEX OFFICIO SHERIFF OF THE CITY AND COUNTRY OF DEN- VER, Respondents. COMPLAINT FOR REMEDIAL WRIT PURSUANT TO RULE 106 of the colorado rulesof civil procedure comes now the above Petition- er, by and through his attorneys, and for a claim for relief states and alleges as follows: 1, That this complaint for re- lief is sought to compel the above- name Respondents to perform certain acts required by their pos- ition and to which the Petitioner is entitled under the Constitution of the State of Colorado, and of the United States, 2, That the Respondents above- named in the exercise of their duties have exceeded their juris- diction and abused thelr discre- tion as a result of the acts com- Plained of herein, and for which their is no plain, speedy and a- dequate remedy, 3, Petitioner is presently held without bail against his will In the Denver County Jalil, charged with alleged crimes in Connecticut, Presumed to be Innocent and not under any legal sentence imposed by law, 4. Petitioner alleges that his pre- sent incarceration by the Respon- dents is cruel and unusual and is punishing Petitioner’s mind and body, civil rights and lMberties, contrary to Colorado Revised Statutes, C.R,S, 105-7-2 et seq., 1963, as amended, the First, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, Aritcle ll Sections 1, 3, 4, 10, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 26 and 28 of the Colorado Con- stitution by Respondents doing and/ or refusing todo the following acts; a, Placing Petitioner in soli- tary confinement for four months in a cell so dimly lighted that he could not tel] day from night. b, Placing Petitioner on bread and water with only one meal every third day, said diet did not con- tain good c, Denying visits by friends and loved ones and severing com- munications for over 45 days. and sufficient food. d. Removing Petitioner's tress from his Isolated o 6:30a.m. until 9:00 p.m. each d «, Excluding him from the sociation of other human beings by placing him in isolation and on breaking this routine fortwow é just prior to October 17, 1969. f. Placing Petitioner in “D-T’’ cell (cell where alcholo are placed when they suffer from delirium tremens) with only ahole in the concrete floor with a mova- ble grate, means of sanitation which rendered Petitioner's environment unclean, unsafe, and unwholesome, contrary to C_R,S, 105-7-2, 1963, as amen- ded. g. Denying Petitioner on num- erous occasions literature, books, magazines, and the Black Panther Newspapers, arbitrarily, capri- ciously and contrary tohumandig- nity, free speech and the consti- tutional guarantees as alleged above, all with an aim to crush and dull Petitioner’s mind, spirit and intellectual development, and communication with his friends, families, comrades and peers, h. The above acts have vio- lated Petitioner's safety, happi- ness, life, mind and body, civil and political rights, resulting in lack of light, heat, cleanliness, safety, lack of good and sufficient food, severe loss of weight, vitamin deficiency, mental de- pression, contrary to the laws of the State of Colorado and the Con- stitution of the United States and of the State of Colorado and the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Colorado as alleged above, and the Petitioner has been damaged in mind and body in the amount of $50,000.00 1, The denial of the Petition- er’s access to writings and"de- nial of basic physical life needs prevents petitioner from fully and adequately communicating ef- fectively with his attorneys and constitutes an effective denial of an adequate defense and effective counsel as guaranteed by the con- situtional protections alleged above. 5. That all of the above- mentioned acts or omissions on the part of Respondents are done with the full knowledge of the Pe- titioner’s affiliation and member- ship in the Black Panther Party, and said acts and omissions are a calculated effort on the part of Respondents to punish and perse- cute the petitioner because of his race and political affiliation, allof which violates the Constitution of the United States and the Consti- tution of the State of Colorado, Wherefore, Petitioner demands an immediate hearing on the alle- gations contained above, and that CON’T ON PAGE I5 . WHY WARREN KIMBRO COPPED OUT a, On Monday, Jan, 19, 1970, Sgt. Vin- cent De Rosa of the New Haven Police Department length prior to the interviewed defendant at entro of the plea at the Montville Correctional Center in the absence of counsel of record, without notification to counsel of record or per-_ mission of counsel of record, This con- duct on the part of an agent of the prosecution violates defendant’s Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights under _ | the United States Constitution made — constituting the sole — applicable to the States by the 14th Amend- | ment thereof, as set out by the Supreme | Court of the United States in Massia Vv. US, 377 US 201, 84 S. Cr, 1199 wk e ¥ OPEN LETTER FROM A PANTHER MOTHER As Panther Mother to Bobbie Heard, I thank all the people for coming to court for moral support. It helped lighten the burden that Bobbie must carry in his heart, for a crime he did not do, You See every city in this corrupt geno- cidal country has at Jeast five or more Black Panthers in jail. Boston has got to have at least one, so Panther Mother LL.M, Owens Bobbie is charged with armed robbery of $10.00 of a Negro girl, who states she was coming home from work when Bobbie and a Puerto Rican man supposedly stuck a gun and a knife into her side, took her money and walked away. She said that she reported it two days later, and while in a police car she spotted out Bobbie in Dud- ley Street Station as the man who had robbed her. Now we all know thar the Black Panthers have rules they live up to, 1 won't go into them, bur if you have read any of the Black Panthers newspapers, you'll always see on the last two pages the rules set up by the Minister of Defense, and founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, If the rules are not carried out by each and evéry member, he or she is im- mediately expelled, So to say that Bobbie of the other mem- bers has to steal is a Iie in it- self. Everyone knows that donations come to the offices of the Black Panther Party across the nation, Also they sell newspapers. Schools and colleges ask them to come out and speak. The Party members live together as one large family; and what one needs, he gets without any questions. All of the members are dedi- cated to the people, all people. Big Bobbie is a teacher and very dedicated to the cause of freedom and justice for all, he serves the people, not robs them, This trial fs still going on; and we have faith in the people to judge or any BOSTON CONTINUED HARASSMENT Historically, all people who have _ been subjected to oppression, pov- ie erty and injustice, have risen up to cast off the chains of involun- tary servitude to achieve libera- tion and a better way of life, Such is the case of Black people in Ba- bylon. We have and are receiv- } ing the brunt of oppression--social- ly, politically, economically and culturally--we are struggling for our very Salvation. The Black Pan- ther Party, guided by the historical experiences of Black people andthe correct teachings of our Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, is in the forefront of the struggle for the liberation of our people. Just as historically, oppressed people struggle to free themselves, the forces that enslave a people will make any attempt to keep them bound as slaves, These attempts are always unsuccessful because the will and determination for free- dom cannot be smashed. The Black Panther Party has met with con- tinued police harassment, brutality, murder and jailing of its members because of our selfless devotion to educating the people to the cor- rect methods of resisting those who keep our people oppressed. Members of the Black Panther Party from coast to coast under- stand that it isnecessary for some- one to make sacrifices so that others will someday have a better way of life. Thousands of people are aware and angered by the blatant attempt to destroy the Black Panther Party and its work. The outrage of the people since the murders of Depu- ty Chairman Fred Hampton and De- fense Captain Mark Clark in Chi- to ingness cago shows us that the pigs, not achieve the Black Panther Party, are the stands 6°7" and weighs ones thar are {solated from the Giving the nature people. Many people are not aware racist police, it is of the many harassments and jail- ings of members of the Black Panther Party that have not re- ceived national attention, (As bro- ther Landon explained, The Black Panther Community News Service P. is an organ to bring this news to Party. the people.) On Such is the case of Robert ‘'Big Bob’ Heard, a member of the Boston Chapter of the Black Panther to death of this Bobbie, ALL POWER TO SEIZE THE TIME THE PEOPLE L.M, Owens Mother Panther Party. Bob dedicates his entire life to serving and educating the people. he power structure is In fear of Bob because of the message thathe brings to our people and his will- lay down his life to our goal of liberation, Bob of these weak easy to under- stand why they are desperately try- ing to keep Bob off the streets. These gutless racists Black is guided by the teachings of Huey Newton and the Black Panther August 20, 1969, Bob was arrested and charged with grand larceny for taking scraps of metal from an open field, Then on Septem- | HOSD HENAN 1880 DONTE RERIDTER® | HrEReemNEENNEEEE! Letees exes os woes 58000411104: THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 9 ber 9, 1969, while other Panthers were picketing the construction site of the new pig station at Dudley Terminal, M,8.T.A, pigs (employed by the public transportation com- pany) surrounded Bob as he passed ‘Big Bob’’ Heard Political Prisoner out leaflets about the new pig sta- tion and arrested him for (1) as- sault and battery on a pig, (2) loitering, (3) idle and disorderly conduct, and (4) tresspassing. For both cases, Bob received a three month continuance without findings. The M.B.T.A. pigs furious because the scheme did not work. Later in September, Bob stepped off the bus and the same M.B.T.A, pigs arrested him and again charged him with assault and battery ona pig, (2) loitering, and (3) idle and disorderly conduct. After arresting him, Bob was taken to Station 9 where the pigs beat him (One pig Supposedly broke his arm in at- tempting to beat Bob), The pigs then planted a knife on him and add- ed the charge of carrying a con- 1S, were pou are afraid man who ; clearly seahhadeaseddetadddiedeemeeetmmmmmmtneaiinienst aimee rit cealed weapon, This case was con- tinued, The pigs reacted wildly when they realized that their attempts to keep Bob off the streets, serving the people had failed, They then con= cocted a wild story and charged Bob with armed robbery, As throughout our history, the pigs used one of our people to aid in their story. The pigs triedto isolare the Black Panther Party from the people by alleging that the ‘‘victim’’ had been harassed and beaten by people claiming to be Panthers. However, this attempt failed also because the people have seen through our practice that we are constantly helping the people and would never harm them, The programs imple- mented by the Black Panther Party show the people who Is working in their interest and whois not. Many people from the community came to the trial to show thelr sup- port and solidarity, The trial was postponed, moved toa smaller courtroom, and postponed again, But the people withstood these ob- Stacles and crowded into the tiny courtroom, All evidence clearly showed Bob's innocence. Atthe time of the alleged crime, Bob was at a WBUR radio station, the sup- posed victim’s story showed repeated contradictions, and the pigs obviously had not gottentheir Own Story together, After ten hours of deliberarion, the jury could not reach a unani- mous decision; and the judge de- clared a mistrial, Such a verdict is a partial victory in the racist court system, but we recognize that the pigs will use any means neces- Sary to railroad Bob when his trial comes up again, Big Bob's spirit is higher than ever and his drive to serve the peo- ple even greater, He knows that he is following the right path for lib- eration for our people because he has met with such great hostility by those who are protectors of this unjust system, We say “'RIGHT ON, BIG BOB” because the days of the Thin Blue Line are numbered, The power lies in the hands of the people and the people will bring about peace and prosperity for all mankind, Boston Chapter Black Panther Party ——_—* FREE CLOTHING PROGRAM The Free Clothing Program was started by the Black Panther Party because of the need for clothing in the Black communities, Following the guidance of our Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, who says that we must serve the people wholeheartedly and become “‘an oxen to be ridden by the people’, the Free Clothing Program began on the West coast and has since becn implemented by most chapters and branches of the Black Panther Party. The Boston Chapter of the Black Panther Party started a Free Cloth- ing Program in the Mission Hill Dis- trict of Roxbury on January 9, 1970, After two months of hard work, the progr om was. ready to open so that peor! from our community could com cod get clothing for their fami- Ih uring the course of the day, pes'e came to get dresses, shoes, he coats and other necessities to end ce the cold winter weather, The response of the people in the com- munity was great enthusiasm; and we see the need to expand the Free Clothing Progam throughout the en~- tire Black community. The Black Panther Party is truly dedicated to meeting the needs and desires of the people. We recognize that the United States government spends billions of dollars a year on Space and war research; and is not interested in the welfare of the mass- es of people. AmeriKKKa, the richest and most highly developed country In the. world does not see fit to pro- vide its people with even the basic necessities of life (food, shelter, clothing etc.), Over the last four hun- dred years Black people have always been on the bottom of this society, This racist society could not care less about the welfare of Black peo- ple, So as long as Black people are being oppressed, we will continue to implement programs to serve the needs of the people. These programs have a two-fold meaning: (1) meeting the basic ma- terial needs of our people and (2) raising the political consciousness of our people. (Ex. The Free Break- fast for School Children implemented by the Black Panther Party clearly indicates that such programs must be implemented by the people because the United States government has made no attempt to eradicate the hunger in ameriKKKa,) This is why the United States government is try- ing to destroy the Black Panther Party. We, in fact, expose the true nature of this racist decadent ameri- KKKan society, But Black people are learning by the correct examples set by the Black Panther Party; and the fr - —— ll The Boston Chapter of the Black Panther a Free Clothing Program in the Mission Hill District of Roxbury power structure cannot destroy the ideology set forth by the Black Panther Party because our ideas and pro- grams come from the historical ex- berlences of our people SEIZE THE TIME Party started BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boston Chapter Free Clothing Program Coordinator, James Young THE FIRE IS ONE OF THE MOST RECENT ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THE “BLACK PANTHER COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE” THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN WORDS, LIVES ON , : IN THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE, The faces of 04 Dremen wee plastered wht) bevel erin os uy tebed the coomfil af btws of Nisck Parsher “LACK ¢ MMUNITY. NEWS SEAVICE™ niners Printing « wewepeper in which she crateded against the Iyeching af flack people Tere ove fetetreds of cher Cases but every cave Goes cee have to be clomd Lefure & general con~ chition cat be drown, The oysters ihe power mructure, will only e- keree (he interpretstion of any rvem hat Gest suits Setar imerests, Clack peophe hewe mo chatce tet to wil anether Gide of this smer- KKas fer ince ther Lives are spert ing st the amer- side, beep Wiky (be Good nade showing, Khaw bern « guturel ceuree thet the bern, a ih hKKee etary trom: the oghe hecesre of the neceentty & Irs ; Uleck prees, the voice of te og : pressed ead exploited messes in des prunes Sk Ce * Country that always recresence as shih Hf bed ohare eect o by ow the side of the bike ako oweyesiyi ae waderdog, be crushed. The fleck press has always bere « peteccial danger to the amerikKKae ““teont™* and a8 tit “reat ewars more thin, & te only eaters) thet these ) have been biddes behind tt fer eo beg oeadd becore more fenatical is trying 10 perserve me teding faced. The fire i only one move against te weice of the people. Niondsy gts) st appwondeateby 124 daenuthe iT went owt in National Head- pearters of the (lech Porcher Party, A call wee imenedistely pleced te P.G,AL, since all the fusee were cheched and cars PIG-FIREMAN DESTROYS THE REMAINS ‘he ety belkteg mae wine OF PA PERS THAT WERE NOT ON FIRE, power, We were gives meruees and “i So waited be dastoery commesster whe called = ‘ ow coon. The Crisis by =O anterting service for tng POAT, “Why wheat eege throat ‘ ch Gree to get the be the Glock Paacher Meat le quattersT” Pinally, at adeut TY sO ERVICE™; als h it Ba more iClerest Ope, a ts eriab etre { Cirecer tietr Batior wo) gee © jot) ue ‘ io he war, 22%. the serviceman corns, power was restores, This a Plsinebie bees of power © kts Welle Marmee “be Spec tht eat ckivee a of New hte fog PMO ether a ow since & be comrmes Ercwledge thar the Ministry o€ iegormation shere the paper is werked on ip beceted in the National Heecquarters duldd- ing. Htowerer, these atremptr oe rater frequent cer only tem- pocurtly Gulsy he printing af he treth regardless of (he opposiiioe f the pigs or all deeirrenning dogs, The facts morroending chis fire, bow P started, who scared tt, wilt prebebly remain & myttery etich wil peas eelved, mayve we touched, The fre ceatroyed milliese of words, words of ruth pried Ly the Daerests af the peoe pie, and the firemen 4bced by Come pleting the sefiniabed test of the sul Rubex 14 paper in the 1 office re- newseper® om ihe asp be dillerene pil dres 3 the reale tor selling strewia only elween *“"freedur m= @ the tilact flemes that beret forth oebeig veh ay i aveoy a A opialor destruct «= an anrecewersble aenee remelaa : * tre can not be blamed of the events bappee® oert ve levees. F for the (lames are indiectteeleate, wely those whe eet fires can De blamed for the desrruction, Mice trucks, red and stteieg, tan borty ene of fires with trained is the world te btitary of the mh eticets Locking beck Hlack pees, 0% atioce ine cesrructi® © evicteot te There hes peer SC ae mee equipped te wrtingnteh Ge Peeceure on che partt : rh seemingly mont expdestve tire. tals counmy pe Slee fF sh speeding through the might, Srv people week to PEIN the toe ecreaming, laghts Cashing.cowg> and 29 explanaien 8! the veges the efficlecey of de fare depart woub terme ted anand he the gooubeurte yatthe reasver tite Ge feclatec eet can sever be Geeded, itey will sheepe come ag wtih burned lingers when they try i gaft cat the flares of righteous latig~ amion thet berns throught OF qhertps, the Coemenanitios of Oeep- peeesed people all over this mations combidered ue gumipler of re~ those Gut were Hleage beak winched agent the Niece pr con be feel TEM the con Conmrolting ee fhanwe ts Leepow ndble tinukty of arrechs SO PMH these for the crimes perpersacnd agasoet latest 9 opandt (h Mlerk Ihe people af (tae pation eve been wewrmrer are safficiens te prevhi+ Le patitti Th poets infirate wander of pres, Mewe- only an exension papers car be ruined by fouting thers ait? water, werting (hea down, but the peeple’s ery far jeerler and bertanty van never ALL POWER TO ey Poorie : to the Wieck optete eee Veloed when Pret ha Dy cart 2 NEwEPape geet worced w Douglies was canerly OPfored > Wiltiant Ling’ Garsiets oo riost precsinece WORTe Of 1 Abaliticnten Mevemsitt ban etry wevoe amen eserty visti fel that tere sphire LAUGHING PIG-FIREMEN MARVEL AT 7 a reigiage” "we Dati fowgian : mre . 1 THE DAMAGE THAT THEY’VB DONE. Dep Commnnirafions Mar recare - THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 12 ERITREA STAD Dh DRICG n the lust few months US imperialism and Zionism have aimed their blows at the national liberation movement of Eritrea, in an effort to distort the aod objectives of that revolotionary struggle nature Regarding these attacks the Syrian newes- paper Revolution published a communiqué of the Eritrea Liberation Front (ELF) in which it rejects imperiulist intrigue and points out that the revolution in Eritrea is not an Islamic revolt wor is it the result of the efforts of any power to rule the Middle East, revolution in struggle and The Eritrea is an asks how, with this in mind, their movem ent can be considered of a secessionist ne ture, ELF says that the independence Considering the revolution in Eritrea secessionint’ means accepting Eritrea as part of the Ethiopian empire, and that means being blind to historical facts. Eritrea was an Italian colony from 1890 until 1941, In 1890 the Ethiopian empire did not exist in its present form, It ir important to understand that the evolution of Eritrea and that of the Ethiopian empire were simultaneous historical phenomena That is, when the Ethiopian empire was evolving in 1899, Eritrea wae evolving simultancously as a modern nation. The other historical fact worth noting is that until 1953 Eritres and the Ethiopian dave empire were two separate unite. Thus, when in 1953 Eritrea and the Ethiopian empire entered into formal political ties, they took the form of a federation granted and guaranteed by the United Nations. After that, the Ethiopian empire began its partial annexation of Eritrea and in 1962 it considered itself strong enough to formally take over Eritres. There can only be secession when there has been unity. In Eritrea’s ease there was no unity; thus there can be no secession, Eritrea’s revolution is a struggle for national independence and liberation from Ethiopian colonialism, i * The people of Eritrea fight against the Ethiopian occupation forces in the same way they fought against the British military occupation from 1947 until 1952. The people of Eritrea are not only fighting for national independence; on the contrary, they struggle for all the demo- cratic rights provided by the Constitution of Eritrea. Article 16 says “The Constitu- tion of Eritrea is based on the principle of democratic government.” Article 17 of the Constitution guarantees all persons the right to “human rights and fundamental liberties.” Article 18 states that the “gov- erning bodies are established by the peo- ple and act in their interest.” Article 25 and 26 say that “there must be freedom of movement, conscience, and religion.” Ar- ticle 30 stipulates that “every resident of * ** Eritrea will have the right to express his opinion in any way (press, word of mouth, etc.) and be informed of the opinions ex- pressed by others.” Article 33 says “every- one in Eritrea, regardless of nationality, face, sea, of religion, will have the right to work at tqual pay for equal work, regular paid vacations, « guaranteed mini- mum wage, sick pay and workman's com pensation, and a decent and healthy atand- ard of living.” Paragraph 2 of the same article says that “every resident of Eritrea will have the right to join trade unions to protect his interests.” It is is clear, then. that the people of Eritrea fight for national independence in order to regain their sacred democratic rights, But the reality is that the people of Ethiopia remain in the grip of an especially primitive type of feudalixm, All the rights guaranteed in the Constitution of Eritres are a remote dream to the people of the Ethiopian empire, Today the Ethiopian peoples are awakening from their listless passivity, A small but organized progres- tive force has come to the fore, What is Surprising, however, is that even the so- called progressive force has entered into an unholy alliance with Haile Selassie on the question of Eritrea, As a result we ure foreed to ask the following questions, Are the so-called Ethiopian progressive forces struggling ogainst feudalism to win for the Ethiopian people what the Constitution of Eritrea provided for the people of Eritrea, i. e. basic civil and human rights, and true justice — economic, political, and social? If that is the case, how can they deny to the people of Eritrea what they want for the people of Ethiopia? The objective of 4 progressive must be to condemn repres- tion wherever he finds it, But when a progressive adopts a double standard of progress he can only be a chanvinist where Asmara* js concerned, a shoan nationalist or simply = person who is ignorant of the facts, Haile Selassie has deliberately and sys tematically cast a veil over the contribo- tion of the people of Eritrea to the great anticolonialist movement of our time. The anticolonialist movement of Eritrea which has its roots in the period from 1890 until 1941, was only-able to gain strength from 197 on when the international situation became favorable. History shows that Eritrea and Libya were the first African countries that obtained their independence. Nor can we overlook Eritrea’s contribution to Pan- Africaniem. Not imaginary Pan-Africaniem * Asmara, capital of Eritrea : WELL DEFINED OBJECTIVE bot rather practical Pan-Africanism. The federation with Ethiopia was a genuine contribution to African unity. However, Ethiopian colonialism, with its usual bro- tality destroyed and abused the noble feelings of the people of Eritrea. The revolution in Eritrea is part of the global anti-imperialist struggle. The US that has made a political, eco nomic, and military neocolony out of the Ethiopian empire supports the annexation of Eritrea. Thus it is clear that the people of Eritrea who struggle against Ethiopian colonialism are also indirectly fighting against the power of the United States, An article published in US News and World Report serves to illustrate what we mean. “The importance of Kagnew Station**,” the article says, “goes a good way toward explaining the heavy commitment of the US toward maintaining the military strength of Ethiopia.” The article quotes a US official: “Our aid, plainly and simply, pays the rent on Kagnew Station.” The article goes on to say: “Ethiopia receives more than half of al! US military sid to nations on the con- “nent of Africa, The cost of thie program now hus climbed over the 100-million-dol- lar mark, and the US Military Assistance Advisory Group of some 110 officers and men in Ethiopia is the biggest im Africa. In addition, Ethiopia has received 150 million dollars in economic assistance.” The revolution in Eritrea is neither an Islamic uprising nor the product of the maneuvering of a powerful nation seeking to dominate the Middle East. As the Eri- trean revolution achieves new and bigger victories it will prove that it is advancing the struggle in the Middle East as well a» Africa's struggle against imperialism, But perhaps the greatest impact of the Eritrean revolution will be on the tottering Ethi- opian empire, The nationalities under the rule of the Ethiopian empire —following the example of the Eritrean people— will succeed in crushing feudalism and US im perialism. The prerequisite for unity in the African Horn is to crush the feudal. imperialist shoan and the great alliance between regional feudalism and US im. perialiem, ** Kagnew Station is the US base in Asmara, THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE AND THE SEIZURE OF POWER Speech made by the delegation of the Executive Secretariat of OSPAAAL ut the VII Congress of World Federation of Trade Unions recently held in Budapest, Hungary. Comrade delegates: The delegation of the Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Mrica, Asia and Latin amerikKKa, brings warm, fraternal and revolutionary greetings to this Congress andex- tends greetings 4s well to all the workers of the world. We wish to express our thanks to the representatives of the Hun- garian Committee of the WFTU for thelr kindness In inviting us to attend the 7th World Trade Union Congress, and we wish you every success in your work. We hope that the agreements and resolu- tions emanating from this Con- gress will be of positive help to the national liberation struggle in which the workers and the peoples of the world are now engaged. From the First Tricontinental Conference, held in the month of January of 196 in Havana, our Organization has supported the principle of eliminating man's ex- Ploitation of man; and because of this, we have always had a keen interest in the development and the strengthening of the workers’ movement and its basic organi- zation, the trade unions, and we are solidly behind all the great strug- giles for workers" liberation, The General Resolution passed by the Social-Cultural Commission of the First Tricontinental Con- ference concerning the struggle of the working classes of Africa, Asia and Latin ameriKKKa, suys in part: “‘In order to combat the global strategy andtactics of imperialism and of the International Federation of Free Trade Unions, it is neces- Sary to inculcate in the workers a spirit of internationalism and the concept of struggle against imperialism, colonialism and neo- colonialism. “The neocolonial and feudal forces continue thelr reactionary propaganda against the workers through their many organizations, and the discriminatory employ- ment methods by which they foment Prejudice and racial, comunal and class differences in order to pro- voke discord, The trade unions must struggle constantly against such tuctics and cement unity-- national and class unity based on revolutionary ideology and strug- gle. **The tricontinental movement of solidarity must undertake broad exchanges among members and leaders of workers organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin ameri- KKKu to develop solidarity and an understanding of the role the trade unions in the struggles against imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialism directed by the United States," We believe that the fundamental objectives of our Organization are closely allied with the goals of the Workers’ Movement of the World, which makes ir important to tighten and strengthen contin- uously the tles that bind us to- gether in the struggle against im- perialism, colonialism and neo- colonialism, The struggle of the working class for emancipation from capitalist exploitation mustbe irreconcilably directed toward the seizure of po- litical power, and must therefore be primarily 4 pollrical Struggle against the structure of the sys- CON’T ON PAGE 15 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 13 Statement of The Spokesman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam on the Massacre by U.S. Troops of Civilians in Son My Public opinion in the United States and the rest of the world is highly indignant at and sternly condemns the U.S, barbarous massacre of over 500 civilians in Son My village, Quang Ngai province, on March 16, 1968. It is necessary to remind that the Central Trung Bo Committee of the National Front for Libera- tion in March 1968 denounced to public opinion at home and abroad this extremely savage and inhuman crime of the U.S, in this massacre, The Gl's, carrying out the ‘‘Burn all, destroy all, andkillall”’ policy, shot dead hundred of persons, burned even babies still sucking milk from their mothers, disem-—- bowelled pregnant women and raped to death many teenagers and old women, The massacre in Son My is only one of the innumerable bloody women, including crimes perpetrated by the U.S, ag- gressors and their Jackeys in South Viet Nam, While waging their brutal war of aggression in South Viet Nam, the U.S, ruling circles have turned many young amer- iKKKans into inhuman killers. They have been piling up crimes every- where In South Viet Nam, The most typical cases are the massacre in Ba Lang An where over 1,500 people were killed, that in Kong H'Ring where nearly 1,500 people,were killed or wounded, thar in the prisons of Pou- lo Condor and Tay Ninh where near- ly 1,000 people were killed or in- jured.....alongside such criminal acts, they are intensifying B-52 bombardments on populous areas and the use of napalm and phos- phorous bombs, toxic chemical and gas to massacre the people and devastate villages and crops. On US, order, the Saigon puppet G.I. To Continue Anti-War Struggle After Discharge Vietnam veteran Sgt. Lewis De- lano of Fr, McClellan, Alabama, was notifled November 25, 199 that -he would be given an unde- Sirable discharge from the Army for “‘unsuitability due to apathy, defective attitudes and inability to expend effort constructively’, Delano chose to fight the charges by facing a field board which would determine his ‘‘suitability’’ to re- main a soldier, because he be- lieved the charges against him were due to his opposition to the war in Vietnam and as such in violation of his First Amendment rights, On January 7, 1970, he was notified that proceedings a- gainst him were discontinued and that he would receive the honor- able discharge he clearly de- Serves, Delano is a leader of Ft. Mc- Clellan’s Gis-WACs United A- gainst the war in Vietnam, and an editor of their newspaper Left Face, Upon notification of the Action against him last Novem- ber, he contacted the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee of New York. The Defense Commit- tee requested legal help from ar- torney Peter Rinaskopf of Atlanta, associate legal director of the Southern Legal Action Project GLAP). Rindskop{, immediately demanded that proceedings against Delano be dissolved, and that the ffeld board hearing (AR 636-212) be cancelled. Delano’s original hearing was Scheduled for January 6, and was Postponed until January 12, but before the hearing could be held Convening Authority Colonel Lad- Bon conceded to Rindskopf's de- mand and dissolved the proceed- ings, Delano’s military attorney, Capt. Ganobcik, was informed of the decision January 7. Delano, was served 12 months in Vietnam, had excellent conduct ratings until he became active in the GI anti-war movement last Spring, Twenty-two years old, he has been awarded the National De- fense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Cam- paign Medal, Army Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star for “*meritorious service’, The GI Ci- vil Liberties Defense Committee considers Delano’s victory an im- portant step forward for consti- tutional rights in the Armed For- ces and a blow against the Army's attempt to punish Delano for his anti-war views, This is the fourth time the brass has retreated faced by soldiers who refuse to accept penalties and harassments for their anti-war ac- tivity. Pvt. Steve Dash of Fr. jackson, 5,C,, member of Gis United Against the War in Viet- nam, was honorably discharged last September after a summer field board hearing was held to determine his ‘‘fitness’’. A/l C Larry Friedberg of Wright Pat- terson Air Force Base, Ohio, was threatened with a general dis- charge for character and behavior disorder (read anti-war views and activity) but was granted an hon- orable on December 17, 2 1/2 years early, after insisting upon his rights, Pic, Thomas Hathcock, like Delano a member of Ft, Mc- Clellan’s Glis-WACs United A- gainst the War in Vietnam, was notified August 4, 1969, that he administration has made its best to cover up the crimes of their U.S, masters and at the same time pushed ahead the repression of peo- ple of various strata, nationalities and religious sects, including those in their own ranks that advocate peace, independence and neutrality. They have openly set up execution sites in the towns, tortured patriots illegally failed, the most typical case being the recent repressionof 1,400 women prisoners ar the Thu Duc jail. The massacre in Son My and other barbarous crimes the U.S, in South barely exposed the {the t innumerable committed Vier Nam deceitful allegation: ernment onits so-called *‘defence i the right to the South by by have 5S. gov- freedom anc of the self - determination of Vietnamese people, This bare the fallacy of the t S, ruling would receive ‘undesirable’ discharge unless he chose torebut ic with a hearing or in writing, Attorney Dorian Bowman of New York, of GI CLDC's counsel Leonard Boudin, composed the rebuttal letter and so far the Army has taken no further action against Hathcock, While it is too soon to claim a pattern, there is no doubt that the Army has been forced by pressure from the sol- diers, the public, the attorneys the GI Civil Liberties De- an associate and also laid public of circles mythical contention that a “‘wholesale massacre’’ would take place in South Viet Nam if the U.S withdraws all its troops. As a matter of fact, with its aggressive and bellicose policy, the U.S, has flagrantly encroached upon the freedom and right to self- determination of the South Vier- namese people. It is the over half a million ameriKKKan and Satellite troops that have daily sowed death and destruction in South Viet Nam. The White House and the Pentagon ringleaders who have obdurately committed the crime of aggression and the crimes of war in South Viet Nam, must bear full respon- sibility for thelr criminal acts. The people and Provisional Rev- olutionary Government of the Re- South Viet Nam call on the and justice - loving peace - Committee fense these concessions to First Amend- ment rights in the military, into granting GI CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE COMMITTEE Box 35S, Old Chelsea Station New York, N.Y, 1001! tel. (212) 243-4775 For further information call: Stacey Seigle: 243-4775 or 799-1720 countries, the democratic inter- national organizations and the world’s people, including the amer- iKKKan people, to strongly condemn the U.S, aggressors and take ef- fective measures to check the latter's criminal hands, and, to- gether with the Vietnamese people, demand that the U.S, immediately stop its war of aggression andtotal- ly and unconditionally withdraw U.S, and satellite troops from South Viet Nam, letting the South Viet- namese people settle their own in- ternal affairs by themselves without foreign intervention, The more the US, and ite hench- men commit crimes, the higher the hatred of the South Vietnamese armed forces and people who are resolved to persist in and step up their just struggle till complete victory. APPEAL FILED ON G.I. NEWS PAPER FIGHT On January 2, 1970, Chief Judge Algernon Butler of North Caro- lina’s federa] district court de- nied a motion for preliminary in- juction which sought immediate on post distribution rights for the GI anti-war newspaper, Bragg Briefs. The motion was argued before Judge Butler last November 12, by noted constitutional attorney, Leonard B, Boudin of New York. This federal court action was taken by attorneys Leonard Bou- din, Laughlin McDonald of Chapel Hill, N,C,, and Howard Moore of Atlanta, Ga,, in association with the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee on behalf of members of Gls United Against the War in Vietnam at Ft. Bragg. In his decision, Judge Butler reviewed the facts of the case without discussing the points of law in favor of or against either First Amendment rights for sol- diers or, specifically, the pro- blem of freedom of the press for soldiers, He accepted Ft. Bragg Commanding General Tolson's contention that permission to dis- tribute the publications would con- stitute a clear danger to the loyalty, discipline and morale of the military men under Tolson's command, In addition, Butler stated that the plaintiffs did not clearly establish the fact that they are being denied a constirutional right. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press include not only the CON'’T ON PAGE 15 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY. 31, 1970. PAGE 14. COMRADE KIM IL SUNG On the international situation and some problems arising in the Reprinted From KIM IL SUNG The Pres~> Situation and international Communist movement | 7; rests Of Our Party Comrades! A fierce struggle is going on in the international arena today between socialism and imperial- ism, between the forces of revo- lution and the forces of counter- revolution. The socialist forces, the national-liberation movement, the working-class movement and the democratic movement continue to grow on a world-wide scale, The flames of liberation struggle are fierce particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Im- perialism is meeting with a de- termined resistance of the peoples and dealt most severe blows in these areas, The peoples whohave risen in the struggle are winning fresh victories in their revolution- ary cause of smashing the old world of imperialism and colonialism and creating a new world. The growth of the coo ieee forces of the world headed by socialism and the collapse of the colonial system have markedly weakened the forces of imperial- ism. The internal contradictions of imperialism have become more acute and the discord among the imperialist powers has been ag- gravated, The imperialists are suffering telling blows from within and without and are getting still deeper into hot water, The revolutionary movement cannot be free from vicissitudes in the course of its development, but the general situation is de- veloping in favour of socialism and the revolutionary forces and to the disadvantage of imperialism and the reactionary forces, Vic- tory of socialism and downfall of imperialism are the main trend of our times that no force can check. But imperialism does not re- cede from the arena of history of itn own will. The aggressive nature of imperialism ‘cannot change and imperialism still re- mains a dangerous force. The im- perialists desperately try to find a way out of their doom in ag- gression and war, The aggressive manoeuvrings of the imperialists led by U.S. imperialism have become more undisguised in recent years. The U.S. imperialists are perpetrating acts of aggression against the soc- falist countries and the indepen- dent national statés, brutally sup- pressing the national-liberation movements of the Asian, African and Latin-American peoples and disturbing peace in all parts of the world. Today, the U.S imperialists di- rect the spearhead of aggression to Asia, The U.S. imperialists have brought more and more armed forces into South Viet Nam in flagrant violation of the 1954 Gen- eva Agreements, carried out the scorched - earth operations of “burn all, kill all and destroy all’ and have already extended their bombing of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam to the Hanoi and Haiphong areas, This shows that the US imperialist policy of “escalation of war’ in Viet Nam has entered a new, serious phase. The U.S imperialists are now run- ning amuck to spread the war flames to vast areas of Asia. The U.S, aggressors, occupying the southern half of our country, are mad on war preparations; they also occupy Tiawan, a terrl- tory of the People’s Republic of China, and incessantly commit pro- vocative acts against People's China, The U.S. imperialists have re- vived Japanese militarism to use it as a ‘‘shock brigade’ in their Asian aggression, They have a- ligned the forces of Japanese mill- tarism with the South Korean puppets and are scheming to rig up a “Northeast Asia military alliance’ with this alignment as the backbone, The basic strategy of the US imperialists in their Asian ag- gression is to blockade and at- tack the Asian socialist countries, stem the rapid growth of the revo- lutionary forces and prop up their colonial rule in Asia by concen- trating more and more US mill- tary force in this region and mob- ilizing the forces of Japanese mili- tarism and their satellite coun- tries and puppets. This machi- nation on the part of the US, ag- gressors aggravates the situation in all parts of Asia to the ex- treme and gravely endangers unl- versal peace. The intensified aggressive man- oeuvrings of the imperialists led by U.S, imperialism are no signs of their mightiness; they indicate, on the contrary, that they have been placed in a more difficult situation. The desperate en- deavours made by U.S. im- perialism in Asia, Africa and Latin America only testify that the forces of socialism are growing, the anti-imperialist revolutionary movement Is unfolded intensively and the imperialist. foothold its shaken to its very foundations in these @reas, No amount of manoeuvres onthe part of the imperialists cancheck the mounting WUberation struggle of the peoples or halt the tri- umphant onward marchofsocial- ism. The imperialists will surely be kicked out of Asia, Africa and Latin America and eventually be defeated by the revolutionary Struggle of the peoples. Ultimate triumph of socialism and complete downfall of imperialism are in- evitable. This is an inexorable law of historical development All events taking place in the international arena substantiate still more clearly that U.S. im- perialism is the main force of ag- gression and war, the international gendarme, the bulwark of modern colonialism and the mostheinous enemy of the peoples of the whole world. U.S. imperialism Is target No. 1 in the struggle of the world peoples. It is the primary task of the social- ist countries and the Communist and Workers’ parties to enlist and concentrate the broad anti-imper- lalist forces in the struggle a- gainst US imperialism. Only by fighting resolutely against US imperialism can world peace be safeguarded and the revolutionary struggle of the peoples be crowned with victory, At the present period the attitude towards US imperialism is a major yardstick to verify the position of the Communist and Workers’ par- ties. The Communists should al- ways hold fast to the principled position of opposing imperialism, U.S. Imperialism above all. Par- ticularly today when the U.S im- perialists are expanding aggres- sion In Viet Nam, all the social- ist countries should take a still more frigid and tougher attitude towards U.S. imperialism. We should never tolerate renunciation of principle and compromise with US imperialism in international affairs. The socialist countries, even if they maintain diplomatic relations with the Imperialist states, should not dissolve their anti-imperialist Struggle therein or weaken it for that reason, The socialist coun- tries should adhere to class prin- ciple in diplomacy, too, and should bring pressure to bear upon U.S, imperialism and expose and con- demn its policy of aggression and war, It {s also wrong only to shout against US. imperialism without taking concrete actions to stop U_S, imperialist aggression. Partic- ularly, one should not cause dif- ficulties to the anti-imperialist forces taking practical measures in unity for dealing blows at the US Imperialist aggressors, If such an act is committed, US imperialists’ aggression cannot be prevented, On the contrary, it will make the U.S. imperialists more arrogant and outrageous, and even- tually encourage their acts of ag- gression, It ts a principle of the foreign policy of the socialist countries to struggle against the imperialist policy of aggression and war for world peace and security. While fighting to prevent war, however, the Communists should never fear it, but should thoroughly annihilate the aggressors when the imperial- ists make armed attack on us, Only by holding fast to the principled stand of opposing irperialism and by waging a resolute anti- imperialist struggle, is it pos- sible to check imperialist aggres- sion and defend peace. Especially, the socialist coun- tries should be duly vigilant over the fact that today the U.S. imperi- alists, while refraining as far as possible from worsening their re- ng hUNULZNY. 7 RGCH lations with big countries, direct the spearhead of their aggression mainly to Viet Nam and try to swallow up such divided or small countries as Korea, Cuba and East Germany one by one, Attention should be directed atthe same time to the possible manoeuvrings of the U.S, Imperialists to ease the Situation or maintain the status quo in Europe to concentrate their forces on aggression in Asia. In this case, the easing of tension on one front by no means contrib- utes to improving the general in- ternational climate, but, on the contrary, provides conditions for the imperialists to Intensify ag- gression on the other front. It, therefore, constitutes a greater danger to world peace and secur- ity. In the present situation, the U.S. imperialists should be dealt blows and their forces be dispersed to the maximum in all parts and on every front in the world--in Asia and Europe, Africa and Latin America and in all countries, big and small--and they should be bound hand and foot so that they may not act arbitrarily, Only in this way can we succeed in foiling the strategy of the U.S, imperial- ists to destroy the international revolutionary forces including the socialist countries one by one concentrating thelr forces in this or that area or country. Our Party and people will carry on an unflinching struggle against the imperialist forces of aggres- sion led by US. Imperialism and strive to unite with all forces op- posing US. imperialism. To defend world peace, itis nec- essary to fight the allies of US imperialism, while struggling a- gainst US. imperialism, Struggles should be intensified against Jap- anese and West German militarism in particular. Japanese and West German mil- ftarism have been revived rapidly under the active patronage of U_S imperialism, Japan and West Germany are regenerating into hotbeds of war In Asia and Europe. Under these circumstances, the struggle against Japanese and West German militarism can never be neglected, It Is a good thing that the so- clalist countries are fighting against the militarism of West Germany, Our Party and people are opposed to the revival of West German militarism and its revan- chist ambition, and strongly de- nounce the U.S imperialists for their criminal act of actively en- couraging it, We support the stug- gle of the German people and the rt see dd position of the German Democratic Republic against the rearmament of the West German militarists. We must be aware of the danger of Japanese militarism in Asia along with that of West Ger- man militarism in Europe. As all the socialist countries struggle against West German militarism aed sa ae imperialism petallem are knit together In an alliance subordinating the latter to the former for their common interests in Asian aggression and are in league with each other po- litically, economically and mill- tarily. The contradictions between the United States and Japan should not be overestimated and the sub- ordinate alliance between the two should not be underestimated, We should harbour no illusion as to the Japanese ruling circles and should not pin any hopes on them, If we overlook the danger of Japanese militarism and be- come intimate with the Sato gov- ernment, it fs, in fact, tantamount to encouraging the foreign expan- sion of the Japanese rulingcircles and to consolidating the position of US imperialism in Asia. The socialist countries may de- velop economic relations with Ja~ pan but should make no bargain- ing with its ruling circles on po- litical questions. The relationship with the Sato government should in all clrcumstances be formed in the interests of the Japanese people and of the anti-imperialist struggle as a whole. Today the Japanese people are fighting against U.S imperialism and Japanese monopoly capital in defense of the security of Japan and world peace. The struggle of the Japanese people gives a heavy blow to the Asian aggression of U.S. impertalism and to Japanese militarism and contributes to the cause of world peace, The Korean people emphatically condemn the aggressive schemes of the Japanese militarists, The rearmament of Japanese mili- tarism and its aggression against South Korea should be stopped de- cisively and the ‘‘South Korea- Japan treaty’’ concluded under the manipulation of the U.S. imperial- ists be abrogated. Japan should free herself from under U.S. im- as well as US. imperialism in perialist domination and develop Europe, sothey shouldfightagainst along the path of independence and Japanese militarism as well as democracy, The Korean people U.S, imperialism in Asia, Japanese militarism has made its appearance in Asia as a dan- gerous force of aggression today. Japanese militarist forces harbour an illusion of realizing their old dream of the ‘'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’ with the backing of U.S, imperial- ism. Japan’s Sato government, with the active supportofU.S_ imperial- ism, has not only mapped out plans of war to invade Korea and other Asian countries but already started stretching out Its tentacles of ag- The gression to South Korea, A tripartite military alllance has virtually been formed among U.S imperialism, the Sato government of Japan and the South Korean pup- pet clique through bilateral mili- tary agreements, The Sato govern- ment has become anactiveaccom- imperialism in its aggression in Viet Nam and is sending large quantities of war supplies including various weapons Plice of US to South Viet Nam to fill U.S, orders, Japan serves the U.S, im- perialist war of aggression Viet Nam as a supply and repair base, as a base of offensive, At the instigation of the US. im- Perialists, the Sato government pursues a hostile policy toward our country and the other socialist countries in Asia. It also inten- sifies its ecomomiec and cultural infiltration into a number of Asian, African, and Latin - American countries under the specious name of ‘‘aid,’’ ‘*joint development’ and *‘economic and technical co-oper- ation."* The struggle against Japanese militarism is a struggle to defend peace In Asia and the world and is an important part of the strug- gle against U.S. imperialism, All the socialist countries should at- tach importance to the struggle against Japanese militarism and frustrate its aggressive designs by concerted action. Especially, they should thoroughly lay bare and baffle the attempts of Japan's Sato government to disorganize the anti-imperialist front under the guise of a ‘friend’ of the Asian, Anrieen and Latin-American peo- True, there exist certain con- tradictions between U.S. imperial- ism and the Japanese ruling cir- cles, and the socialist countries may take advantage of the con- tradictions in the Interests of the anti-imperialist struggle when they are aggravated in the future. But we must view the U.S -Jap- in fully support and express militant solidarity with the Japanese people headed by the Communist Party of Japan in their struggle for the complete independence and demo- cratic progress of Japan, U.S, imperialist aggression in Viet Nam and the struggle of the Vietnamese people against it are the focal point of the struggle be- tween the forcesofrevolution and counter-revolution at the present moment, The aggression of U.S. imper- falism in Viet Nam is not only directed against the people of Viet Nam, but also against the socialist camp; it is a challenge to the national-liberation movement and & menace to peace in Asia and the world, The Vietnamese people have risen as one in the sacred battle determinedly tosmashU_S. imper- falist aggression, lberate the South, defend the North and unify the country. They are inflicting serious political and military defeats one after another upon the aggressors, thereby driving U.S. imperialism into a tight corner. The South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation has aleady liberated four-fifths of the territory andtwo- thirds of its total population, while the North Vietnamese people are successfully repulsing the bar- barous bombings of U.S, imperial- ist air pirates. The heroic anti- U.S ,national-salvation struggle of the people of North and South Viet Nam affords an example to the peoples of the whole world fighting against imperialism for peace, democracy, national independence and socialism, and inspires them boundlessly, On behalf of this Conference, I would like to extend the warmest militant greetings and congratula- tons to the fraternal people of North and South Viet Nam who are attaining shining victories and ac- complishing heroic feats in their righteous war of resistance against the US. Imperialist aggressors, The Vietnamese people are not only valiantly st for the complete liberation and indepen- Gence of their fatherland but also are shedding thelr blood in battle to defend the soctalist camp and safeguard peace in Asia and the world, : What attitude one takes to US, imperialist aggression in Viet Nam CON’T ON PAGE 15 which becomes a basic strug- e by all of the people for their “national independence. ' The Congress takes place in a period of great historic change _ for mankind, and the panorama before us is one of violent peo- ple’s battles against imperialism, colonialism and particularly a- , - gainst their principal and mortal enemy, Yankee imperialism, Each day, the workers, their revolutionary vanguards and other patriotic, nationalistic sectors, are deepening the offensive against imperialism, its allies and its pup- pets, and the hearbeat of this of- fensive throbs in Viet Nam, above all, where North ameriKKKan im- perialism is suffering the greatest . defeat in its history. In South Viet Nam, the Yankees have used their vast military power and have em- ployed the most savage and in- human weapons including bacterio- logical warfare, for example, but they have gained nothing against the indomitable will of the Viet- namese people, The victorious peoples war in South Viet Nam has obliged Yankee imperialism to switch from its aggressive counteroffensive stra- tegy to a passive defensive stra- tegy. Viet Nam will win and the Yankee aggressors and their al- Hes will be wiped out, In North Viet Nam, imperialism's war of escalation has suffered its most crushing defeat and the people, “until yesterday led by the immor- tal Ho Chi Minh, have defended their sovereignty with eminent success. OSPAAAL has maintained an inalterable position of solidarity with Viet Nam, with the ten potnts presented in the Paris conference, and with the Provisional Revolu- tionary Government, In Laos, the war for liberation has grown tremendously and the Laotian people have succeeded In striking serious blows against the imperialist aggressors and their CON’T FROM PAGE 13 -CON’T FROM PAGE 12 THE WORKER’S STRUGGLE AND THE SEIZURE OF POWER Vientiane puppets. The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has strongly punished violations of its territory by imperialist espionage ships and planes, and South Korea is preparing for liberation and a speedy reunification, In other areas of Asia, such as Thalland, Burma, Malaya, the Philippines, Indonesia and others, the strug- gle against imperialism is reach- ing new levels, On the continent of Africa, the people of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, the Congo andSouth Africa, are developing an inten- sive armed struggle and are win- ning important military victories against the colonialists and neo- colonialists, In other African na- tions, political changes have taken place which, without doubt, are daily leading to total liberation of the exploited African people. The geographic region which we commonly refer to as the Middle East deserves special mention; there the people of Palestine, un- der the leadership of the Armed Command for Liberation, along with the Arab people, are confront- ing Zionist expansion and the evil aggressive policies of inter- national imperialism headed by the United States, Latin America is one the points selected for confrontation between the people and the imper- jalist forces, Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, the peo- ples of Latin America have awakened from the political le- thargy imposed by Yankee impe- rialism andthe reactionary cliques of the native oligarchies, Cuba pointed the way for the people of Latin America, The highest | expression of revolutionary com- mitment in Latin America was that directed by Comandante Er- nesto Che Guevara as leader of the International Army, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Uruguay and other countries of APPEAL FILED ON Gi NEWSPAPER FIGHT right to say and print one's be- Uefs but the right to be effectively heard, that is, to speak and to distribute one's ideas publicly. Ap- Peal from Judge Butler’s dis- appointing decision was filed Jan- wary 12, but attorney Boudin and his associates in the Court of Ap- peals for the Fourth U.S, Circuit. It is hoped that the case will be heard early this spring; the Gl CLDGC’ and its legal council will bring the issue before the Supreme Court if necessary, Judge Butler’s decision came shortly after Chief Judge Donald Russell of South Carolina decided against 10 members of Gls United Against the War in Vietnam at Fr. Jackson, In that suit the plain- tiffs were requesting a declara- tory judgment from the court thar Soldiers have the same consti- tutional rights as other ameri- KKKan citizens. That case, also brought by attorneys for the Gl Civil Liberties Defense Com- mittee, is being appealed as well. WRIT OF MANDAMUS, RORY B. HITHE ON’T FROM PAGE 8 the Respondents cease and desist the acts alleged above, and that the Court Order, under Rule 106 (a)(2) of the Colorado Rules of Civil Pro- cedure, that he enforce the law pur- suant to C_.R.S_ 105-7-2 et seq, an to prevent the Respondents from Violating the rights guaranteed to Petitioner under the Constitution of the United States and the Constitu- tion of the State of Colorado and for @ judgment for damages in the a- Mount of $50,000, interest, cost nd for any other relief that the court shall deem just and proper in the premises, _ Respectfully submitted, EONARD E DAVIES 330 Majestic Building Denver, Colorado 80202 892-1144 . RUDOLPH SCHWARE 5650 East Evans Denver, Colorado 80222 757-5641 JESSE B. SAUCEDA 424 Majestic Building Denver, Colorado 80202 222-9711 GERASH AND KAISER Suite 2317, 1700 Broadway Denver, Colorado 80202 222-8574 MORRIS E. COLE 1839 York Denver, Colorado 80207 399-6360 BY Attorneys for Rory B, Hithe the continent have begun to tol- low the road of armed struggle for liberation, as the basic form by which the people of Latin America will win total independence, Everyone knows that imperialism will not collapse easily, that it will resist and, like a cornered beast, will make use of every wea- pon available, until ft drowns in its own blood bath. We believe that the workers’ movement should introduce into its own plan of struggle the means “necessary to motivate a more in- tense anti-imperialist fight. The workers’ trade union move- ment in Latin America must be alert to the different forms imperialism is utilizing to con- trol the people and the working class, of the so-called ‘'demo- cratic representation’ by which demagogy, reform and oppor- tunism are joined, and which is one of imperialism's most useful weapons for maintaining its con- trol over people, In many countries of the so- called Third World and especially in Latin America, the workers . are dragged along in these elec- toral battles In the belief that through these elections or a sim- ple change in a government group they will win satisfaction of their minimal political, economic and social rights; but the hard and cruel reality is the opposite, for the cliques and political organi- zations that have the possiblity of really winning power are ac- tually no more than marionettes controlled by imperialist wires. It is well known that different re- ligious beliefs, political persua- sions, economic and Social situa- tions and many different {deolog- ical shadings exist within the trade union movement. Within this amalgam of criteria which the trade union movement represents, the class enemy has easily in- filtrated the trade union move- ment of the under-developed coun- POLITICAL POWER THE BOACR PANTHER, SAPD RUAG TARO ARY 91 tod! BY : , tries as well as that of the highly developed capitalist countries. Im- perialism and its many branches, the ruling class, has taken ad- vantage of this opportunity to in- troduce bourgeois agents and op- portnists of all kinds, reformists and innocent workers with no ideo- logical understanding, who have taken control of the most power- ful workers associations, both na- tional and international, and have become its elite leadership, mem- bers of a workers’ aristocracy. The gangster clement in the North ameriKKKan workers* movement is no secret, nor is the infiltration by agents of the amerikKKan intelligence service CIA in such international trade union organizations as ORIT, Inter- American Regional Workers Organization and others. We know the influence ORIT ex- ercises in many national associa- tions in the countries of Latin America, the boycotts the ORIT in- stigated through certain of its Latin American workers centers 4- gainst ships going to Cuba, which was nothing more than an action ordered by the CIA against the Cuban Revolution and therefore a- gainst the international workers’ movement. Recently certain things have entered the picture in the Peruvian situation which also con- firm this, Comrade delegates to the 7th Congress of the World Trade Union Movement, we hope that out of this Conference will come im- portant agreements which will ac- tively aid the peoples" liberation struggle, A militant salute to the valiant struggle the working class in France and Italy is waging a- gainst the exploitative bourgeois power in their countries; and a Salute also to the continuing re- sistance of Greek and Portuguese workers to their fascist dictator- ships. It is necessary that this Con- gress support concrete actions of international solidarity with the heoric people of Viet Nam. Nixon's imperialist government is now try- ing to mislead international public opinion with its false proposal of troop withdrawals and other lies, It is up to us to start the ex- posure of these Imperialist man- euvers and to raise the princi- palled banner of heroic Viet Nam. Comrades of the workers move- ment, our struggle is a struggle to death against imperialism, ex- erting our strongest efforts in be- half of the working class and all oppressed peoples who are bring- ing into reality the immortal slo- gan of the heroic guerrilla Coman- dante Ernest Che Guevara: “Create two, three... many Viet Nams.”’ Long live the 7th World Trade Union Congress! Long live the heroic Vietnamese peoplel Drive North ameriKKKan im- perialism out of Viet Nam] Long live, the liberation strug- gle of the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin Americal Down with imperialism! CON’T FROM PAGE 14 Comrade Kim It Sung and to the Vietnamese people's struggle against it, is a criterion that shows whether one is reso- lutely opposed to imperialism or not and whether one actively sup- ports the liberation struggle of the peoples or not, The attitude towards the Viet Nam question is a touchstone that distinguishes be- tween the revolutionary stand and the opportunist stand, between pro- letarian internationalism and na- tional egoism, All the socialist countries and peace-loving peoples should op- pose the aggression of U.S, im- rialism in Viet Nam and render every possible support to the peo- ple of Viet Nam in their righteous war of Mberation. As the Demo- cratic Republic of Viet Nam Is subjected to aggression by the U.S imperialists, the socialist coun- tries should fight more sharply a- gainst them and make every ef- fort to support the people of Viet Nam. There should be neither vacillation nor passivity whatever on this point, All the socialist countries should pool their strength and come to the aid of the fighting Vietnamese peo- ple and should foil the aggression of U.S imperialism against Viet Nam by joint efforts. At present, however, the countries of the so- clalist camp are not keeping step with each other in opposing U.S, imperialist aggression and aiding the Vietnamese people because of the differences among them. This afflicts the fighting people of Viet The fraternal parties are notal- lowed to engage only in polemics over the Viet Nam question at the gression, It is the Workers’ Party of Viet Nam that is master of the Viet Nam question, No one has the last say on this question except the Workers' Party of Viet Nam, As far as the Viet Nam question is concerned, the fraternal parties should at all times follow the pol- icy of the Workers Party of Viet Nam and support Its stand. As re- gards the aid given by the frater- fal countries to the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, too, it is none other than the Workers’ Party of Viet Nam that can pass correct judgment on it and the fraternal parties should respect it. Today's situation is different from that of yesterday when the Soviet Union was making revolu- tion all alone, Since there was no other socialist country inthe world at that time, the Soviet Union had to cope with all matters, supply of arms included, for itself, But today when there exists the powerful socialist camp is there any reason why the Vietnamese people should not receive ald from the fraternal socialist countries in the harsh war against the common enemy? The socialist countries are duty bound to offer ald to the Demo- cratic Republic of Viet Nam and the Vietnamese people are entitled to recelve it. If the ald of the so- clalist countries to the Vietnamese people is used effectively in the battle against the U.S Imperialist aggressors, then it ts all to good a thing, by no means bad, Inorder to defeat the U.S. imperialist ag- eressors in Viet Nam, all the brother countries should give more aid to the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. Such, we consider, is the revo- lutionary stand of opposing US. imperialist aggression in Viet Nam indeed and {s the internationalist stand of helping the Vietnamese People in good earnest, Now is not the time for the so- clalist countries to stand by idly, only extending political support to the people of Viet Nam. , They Should take more positive actions to ald the Vietnamese people, In the light of the situation where the US impertalistsare extending ag- Gression to the Democratic Re- public of Viet Nam by bringing in troops of their satellite countries and puppets, every socialist coun- try must dispatch volunteers to Viet Nam to defend the south- eastern outpost of the socialist camp and preserve peace in Asia and the world, This ts the inter—- nationalist duty of the socialist pees age to the fraternal people é : fo obec Pry No one is entitled ties Sending volunteers to Viet Nam. 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This will be part of a nationwide celebration to honor Huey for his great political work, and his undying love and service to the people. Huey Newton is incarcerated at Cali- fornia Men’s Colony near San Luis Obispo. The occasion will not be a joyous one, because the brother is not physically free to join us. This is atime of‘‘Revolutionary Crisis’’ and the national and international mobilization of oppressed people is whal is needed to free Huey, and lo Free all “REE HUEY 1 enclose _____ for the ‘Huey P.. New‘on Political Prisoners. At this birthday cele- Defense Fund, aeasaeeeenRatrane ene ae ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS SEIZE THE TIME I enclose $2.00 advance donation for a ticket to Huey Newton Birthday Benefit. ___ Berk, L.A, ! enclose for the benefit expenses. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 18 RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Evers member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTER members, CENTRAL STAFES, and LOCAL STAFES, including all captains subordinate to cither national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules, Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by natiomal, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are abe subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE 1. No purty member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. An) party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this purty. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work, 4. No party member will siolate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. and mectings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, of FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone, 6. No parts member can join any other arms force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed, &. No purty member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needic ora picce of thread. 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood bs ull Party members. 10, The ten Point Program and plattorm of the BLACK PANTILER PARTY must be hoown and understood by cach Party member, 11. Parts Communications must be National and Local. 12. The 10-10-10-program should be hoown by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministers of Finance, 14. Fach person will submit a report of daily work. 15. Bach Sub-Seetion Leider Seetion Leader, Bieutenmunt, and Captain oust sulimit Dials reports of work 16. All Panthers must learn to operate und service weapons correctly. 17, All Leadership personnel whe expel a member must sabmit this information te the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper und will be hoown by all chapters and branches 1K. Political Fdecation Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 1%. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices cach day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the commanity, including Captaims, Section Leaders, etc, 20, COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters mist submit weekly re- ports in writing fo the National Headquarters. 21. All Branches most implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. Al Chapters, Branches, aod components of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must submit a monthh bimancial Report to the Minis try of Finance. and abo the Central Committee, 2). beersone ina leadership position must read ne less than two hours per day to heep abreast of the changing political situation, 24. No chapter or branch shall accept grants. poverty finds, moines or ans ether vid Tram any goverment agenes Without contacting the National Headquarters, 25. AM chapters must adhere te the policy and the ideology bad down by the CENERAL COMMIELPERE of the BEACK PANTHER PARTY. 26. Al Branches nant solumt weekly reports in wating to their oe spective Chapters. BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE BLACK PANTHER Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Political Prisoner Choirman BOBBY SEALE Editor Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Managing Editor Deputy Minister of Information BIG MAN Revolutionary Artist and loy-out Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Production Menoger JOHN SEALE Co-Editorn Distribution Manager ANDREW AUSTIN Circulation SAM NAPIER CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY [=e Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense HUEY ?. NEWTON Political Prisoner: Cheirman BOBBY SEALE Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Stoff DAVID HILUARD Field Marshall DON COX Minister of Education RAY ‘MASAI’ HEWITT Minister of Finance Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Justice Prime Minister Communicotions Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS The editorial and production cost of THE BLACK PANTHER News- paper have increased considerably. We would like to continue increasing weekly circulation and our national and interna- tional news coverage. To do this we need your aid. Please send us news items, general information, and contributions. Help us distribute and get mew subscriptions to The Biach Panther newspaper. Submit tc: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. met SUBSCRIPTION FORM ag Support Your Newspaper-- subscribe Today! Enter my subscription for (check box) National Foreign Subscriptions Subscriptions 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) $2.50 J $9.00 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) $5.00 © $12.00 ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUPS) ; $7.50 O $5.00 (please print) NAME ADDRESS CiTY STATE ZIP @ PLEASE MAIL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO COUNTRY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER ‘Box 2967, Custom House, San Francisto, Chery ee a re ee aa October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe FREE HUEY Minister of Defense. Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people. ; We believe that the federal government ts responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We beheve that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the Means of production should be taken from the businessmen.and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em: ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1970 PAGE 19 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 vears ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people, We will accept the payment in currency Which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over filly million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make 1, We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid. can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our 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 believe 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 in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anythinj vlse 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the mili- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that ail black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution 30 that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious. geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been. and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, 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. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume. among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg’s God entitle them. a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be selfevident. that all men are created equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty. and the ptrsuit of happiness. That. to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed: that, whenever any form of Hovernment becomes destructive of these ends, itis the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles. and organizing its powers in such form, as lo them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and bappiness. lru- denee. indeed. will dictate that governments tong established should not be changed Tor Tight (nd transient causes: dnd, accordingly. all experichee hath shown. Ht minkind ure more disposed to sulfer, while evils dite sullergble, Thin to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they fe eet tnied: Bat when a long train of abuses and Ustirpations, pur. sting invariibly the same object. evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, itis their right. itis their duty. to throw aff such govern. ment wad to provide new guards for their future security, HUEY P. NEWTON i BIRTHDAY BENEFIT WY *, Ree 2 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1970 \ fy. 7:00 PM TO 12:00 PM oN BERKELEY COMMUNITY THEATRE GROVE AND ALLSTON WAY BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL , a Minister of Defense. DONATION: $2.00 ADVANCE 2.50 AT DOOR NEW YORK CITY ROCKLAND PALACE 155 & 8TH AVENUE 8:00 P.M. FEB. 15, 1970 NEW HAVEN CONN. LEIGH HIGH SCHOOL cueakene. 8:00 P.M. - FEB. 13TH KERS: SEATTLE CLUB ELEGANT PIKE & 12TH STREET FEB. 17TH 9 A.M. UNTIL CALL-DAY DAVID HILLIARD, Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party DON COX Field Marshall, Black Panther Party PHIL CHURCH OF THE ADVOCATE 18T ! & DIAMOND 2:00 P.M. TO 8: P.M. FEB. 15, 1970 ELAINE BROWN Dep. Min. of Information, B.P.P. Southern California Chapter CHARLES GARRY, Attorney Other Rallies to be held in OSCAR RIOS, Denver, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Siete De La Raza Kansas City, and Portland, Oregon. Times & places to he announced. DR. CARLTON GOODLETT RON DELLUMS, Candidate for 7th Congressional District ..« PLUS FILMS —~__