Vol. 4, No. 27

THE BLAGK PANTHER 2° Black Community News Service SATURDAY, JUNE 6, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY "3207 ASTON NOSE VOL. IV NO. 27 1970 PUBLISHED WEEKLY “OUR| CHILDREN ARE BEING MURDERED. JIN FRONT OF |OUR EYES |BY THESE TORMENTING CONDITIONS; THERE |I8|INO PLACE TO ESCAPE THE FRUSTRATION. IT BUBBLES ‘ OVER) INTO |THE an. BLOOD OF OUR) GHILDREN WHO ro i hdd " CANCERS i om" : | CAPITALISM?) || || Mira’ | ~~ HOUSING, CONDITIONS: CAPITALISM “1. STORY | PAGE| 2 POINT NUMBER \NO. 4-OF THE 10 POINT PROGRAM AND |PLATFORM OF THE BLACK PANTHER) PARTY We |wiant decent housing, | tt for shelter of human beings! We |believe| that jif| the white! landlords: will inot) give decent housing) to our |black community)! then! the!) } havsing | ond) the | land! should) be! made |into | ¢olapenatives| so} thet cut) community) | with! government pid.) jean build and. make) decent housing for) its: Whidadd sd THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 2 HOUSING CONDITIONS CAPITALISM & OUR CHILDREN AN INTRODUCTION OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES FROM BROWNSVILLE, NY | Q : ia! th ““OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING MUR- DERED IN FRONT OF OUR EYES BY THESE TORMENTING CONDI- TIONS; THERE IS NO PLACE TO ESCAPE THE FRUSTRATION, IT ‘BUBBLES OVER, INTO THE BLOOD OF OUR CHILDREN WHO ARE MOST AFFECTED BY THIS SICKNESS, THIS CANCER IS CALLED CAPITALISM,”’ May 29,1970 Brownsville, a community located deep in the heart of Brooklyn, has the heaviest concentra- tion of Black and Puerto Rican people in Babylon, Its ratio of oppressive living conditions is equally as startling. It i8 known in the colony as the last stop. Gunsmoke! It is known in pig circles as a “‘high crime area’’. The place where you need no excuse to murder! Slumlords need not even make a semblance of being interested! There is not a block where at least one house is not either already demolished, orinthe process of being demolished! It is not an uncommon thing to find an apartment building where all of the windows are broken out! The entire community is reminiscent of. Warsaw--after the bombings. (Black people are living in houses like the ones above and on the cover of your paper.) Brooklyn, like Harlem, is being prepared for an industrial takeover, The filthy businessmen cannot do this until the people have been either burned out, bombed out, or shot out. Ocean Hill - Brownsville is nothing more than a giant death trap. Children play among charred wood and broken glass, as though they were roses. Families sleep with one eye open hoping a dope fiend will not notice that there is no glass in the fire escape window. Litile fingers are cut, not on just little pieces of glass, but on steel beams, that have become too corroded to hold a roof up! Our children are being murdered in front of our eyes by these tormenting conditions; there is no place to escape the frustration. It bubbles over, into the blood of our children who are most affected by this sickness, This cancer is called CAPITALISM. We, Black People, are con- Spiring to end this genocide. We are all co- conspirators in a battle to annihilate those who are responsible for this mass murder. We will have our liberation, or Babylon will collapse in a sea of blood! FIGHT ON! | AFENI SHAKUR BROWNSVILLE In October 1966, two Black men of the streets in California made history. They started building an organization, a Party, based on meeting the basic needs, and de- sires of their people, the poor and oppressed Black people--in what is now appropriately named--Babylon. Underneath the rubbish, debris, the shatterei; brokea bits and Pieces of homes, out of the garbage-urine stench filled hallways, down the passage- way of broken glass and decaying wood and cement, pass the avenues of junkies, hustlers, winos, pimps and prostitutes-- came the roar of the PANTHER to be heard far above the plead- ing cries of the oppressed Black people. So loud was this roar and so terrible the wrath it carried, that it shook the entire capitalist world! It has moved to bring the pigs of the power structure down on their knees before the courts of the people. Within the three years since the birth of the Black PantherParty, the roar of the Panther has echoed the oppression inthe Black colony. The wrath of the Panther has reached thundering heights as the nature of racist and decadent America is unveiled and revealed to the people, The Panthers’ heart beats in the Black colony; the Black ghetto! Yes, that is where you will hear the pounding of the mighty Panthers’ heart--multi- plied millions of times by the quickening of the people's heart beat each time a pig rides through the Black community. Each time the familiar red flashing light ‘tears through the Black jungle; each time an illegal arrest is made inthe Black colony we should fill our eyes with the sight of the conditions we, in the colony are forced to live in, we should fill our nostrils with the foul odor of stale urine and decaying garbage overflowing in our CONTRADICTIONS IN THE LAND OF PLENTY that community and that future being decided upon by the colon- ized people. We're talking now about land power, political power, economic power, community power, and community control, Community control of every as- pect of that community by the people, be it economic or polit- ical. When we, Black people, speak of controlling our destinies we must in the same breath speak of delivering a political conse- quence, because there will be those who will stand in our way and oppose us, refusing to get up off of the gold mine, which ironically is the oppressed Black streets and hallways and all of 7 this should serve to accelerate our energies towards the total destruction of the power struc- ture that serves those who ex- © ploit and oppress us, Their heads served on a silver platter is not good enough. Black people must ~ gain the complete satisfaction of chopping throwing the remains into a huge pot to be bar-be-qued. Our youth, our Black children, our young Black warriors must have examples to follow! For too long their playgrounds haye been vacant lots (lots vacant of every- thing except rubbish, debris and rats and snakes), For too long, our children have been admitted into jive institutions label ‘‘thos- pitals’’, to be treated for ‘‘Ghetto diseases’’; diseases that the cap- italists are directly responsible for (lead poisoning, rat bites, ane- mia, etc.). In order to rid our community of the filth and disease the Black community is plagued with, we must first deal with the source of these problems; the distinct line of demarcation; that thinblue line that separates and divides the oppressed Black colony from the racist mother country. This calls for a united stand, by the people forming a Black army with- in the gut of the monster and put- ting the unquestionable strength of their millions against the few lackeys of this paper power struc- ture, In order to make a beginning, in order to deliver a positive political punch in the gut of this oppressive power structure, 4 first step in the Black commu- nity must be made, that step being towards determining the future of that head off and | Brownsville, U.S.A. or Capetown South Africa community, Black gold--the his- tory of Black people in racist Babylon, from medieval slavery to modern day colonialization. There is not a section in the Black colony which does not re- flect the decay of a capitalist community, Brownsville, a sec- tion in Brooklyn, N.Y. shows def- inite signs of the presence of capitalist oppressors. The pic- ture on the cover, speaks clearly on how the young Black and Puerto Rican youths in this community have been forced to live, play, fight, grow and possibly survive in the most subhuman conditions imaginable. There are no more games for the children of Browns- ville, such as hide and seek. Play- ing that child's game in Browns- ville becomes a matter of search- ing for young broken bodies, hidden under the rotten wood, fall- ing plaster and cement of an aban- doned apartment building, turned playground, Or perhaps seeking for two youngsters lost, seen romping through a vacant lot, not too far from where construction workers were tearing down ano- ther decaying building. These are the games that the racist avaricious democracy pro- vides for our youth, They're our children, our future! Don’t your heart to bleed for them, have your blood boil. Have it boil to the point where you wipe the shoe polish off your lips and brush the dust off your knees and tell the racist slumlords when they come to your door, their greedy jaws dripping with blood, that you refuse to be robbed by him any longer, and that if he wants rent money from you he will have to reconstruct the entire apartment building, and that includes smok- ing the rats and mice out of the walls. Demand action or deliver “action. Tell that fool landlord re- sponsible for all of those scat- tered vacant lots throughout Brownsville that he no longer owns that land, that in fact ke stole it from you and you are taking it back as an overdue payment of = the 40 acres and two mules his grandfather promised yours. Or- ganize a committee to clean away the debris and garbage present in those lots and level that land to build a people’s park and play- ground for our children. Go to the avaricious, greedy, racist, businessmen inthe community and demand that they get up off some playground equipment or take his roguish business out of the Black community. Build and continue to build, If the pigs try to talk you out of owning and controlling your community, build over them. If the demagogic ‘politician tries to talk you out of determining your destiny, run him out of your com- munity. And if the racist dog op- pressor dares stand in your way, arm yourselves and shoot to kill. We will have land, bread, housing, education, clothing, jus- tice or the racist dogs of Babylon will have no peace. The roar of the Panther is the voice of the angry Black people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Brooklyn Branch D. Jenkins Interview with Attorney Charles R. Garry CONCERNING THE REVERSAL OF THE CONVICTION OF THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON Charles R, Garry MESSAGE FROM HUEY JUNE 2, 1970 of Defense, Minister This is Huey P, Newton at San Louis Obispo, June 2, I’m here with Fay Stender and Charles Garry, and I’m very happy to be here to talk to you today, this is a very important day, Soon if things go well (ll be with you again; and All power to the people for that, because the people are the writers of all history, world history, and they’ve simply added another page to the book, I think that the courts were forced to reverse my case because of the influence the political influence that the people had upon them, and also my very fine counsel Charles Garry, and Fay Stender, They did a great job with the case, I feel that the only partial victory has been won, In other words I’m not really being released from prison, that I’m being transferred for in- stitutional convience, as they say, from maximum security to medium security, Because our community and the communities of the world are now prison camps, all be- cause of aggression of U.S, imperialism, and bureaucratic capitalism here at home, That the fight has just started actually to change the conditions that destroy life, and that is our life’s work, We will just intensify the struggle, and make the people aware that it’s their power that makes the change in the course of history, and the conditions under which we live, And if the people like what they’ve done this time, then I’m asking them to do it again by freeing Bobby Seale, Lonnie McLucas, Ericka Huggins, Margaret iludgins, Frances Carter, Landon Williams, Rory Hithe, and George Edwards, from the clutches of the fascist in New Haven, We also must free Fitzgeral from the death roll at San Quentin, the Soledad brothers, George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette, Also our brothers in San Fran- cisco, the Los Siete De La Raza brothers, We have so many brothers in prison that Um bound to leave some out, but I’m at- tempting to enumeate all those who are coming up for immediate trial, We have 21 brothers in New York and we must get their immediate release, | personally plan Q. When did you hear the news about the reversal of Huey’s con- viction? A, This is Charles Garry andI'm being interviewed by Miss Brenda Presley and Mrs. Shellie Bursey. I heard the news about the rever- sal of the Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton at 10;00 Friday night when I was in Westport, Connecticut where Ihad gone down for a conference with the lawyers in the New Haven, Connecticut THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 3 case, Associated Press calledme and told me that the Appellate Court had reversed the conviction and. they wanted to know if I had any comment to make about it. I said, “Yes, I do have a com- ment to make about it. ‘‘First of all’’, I said, ‘‘l am very happy that the conviction has been re- versed,” ‘‘But’’, I said, ‘I’m ang- ry! Because, for two and a half years an innocent man has had to stay in prison and that this to go to the United Nations and to the people of the world to see to it that as much at- tention and concern will be aroused as Possible because we must always realize that the people have the power, or the potential power and without that knowledge we don’t have the rudamentary knowledge. With the weapon of the people we know that we’re due for eventual victory, and it is the capitalistic and the speculators who’s the gambler, and we’re betting onsure things which is in fact not gambling, because we’ve observed the course of history; and we’re as sure to win as the fact of the sun coming up, or the fact that the sun came up yester- day, The capitalist are betting that it will- come up tomorrow, but we only bet on the historical fact, and history shows that the people have the power and they always re- spond in their best interest eventually, Also we would ask the United Nations to allow our Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver to come under the immunity that the United Nations has the power to give dignitaries of governments, and also political exiles, in order to hear their testimony, This is not an extraordinary request from the United Nations, because its presidented that its happened before and I’m sure with the soli- darity that we have.with the people of the world as a National Liberation Movement, they will see to it that the United Nations gives us this consideration. This will be working toward the return of our Minister of Information to this country, which will happen eventually, So these are the im- mediate thing that- we will do, The other thing that we must place much emphasis on is the release of all political prisoners, and in order to do this we will concentrate upon organizing our bus program, our bus for prison parents and relatives so that they will be able to visit their loved ones, And also we will organize the parents in- to a very strong political force, A lobby group to observe the conditions of these corrupt prisons and also to go to the various corrupt officials and let them know that the people have their eyes on them, They’re no longer in the dark, doing their treachery in the dark, but it will be in the light of the awareness and the political consciousness of the people, that have the ability to change all society, We must put much emphasis on this, because just as we’re being persecuted there are brothers and sisters persecuted in all of the jails’ who we’ve never heard of, and the authori- ties are very happy about it, but the au- thorities are wrong, the Party will bring all of the injustices of the evil gentry and corrupt officials to the light of day, All power to the people, and I plan to see you very soon, Huey P, Newton Minister of Defense Biack Panther Party — is a common thing that happens to Black Americans and partic- ularly Black militant Americans. And,, I said, ‘‘It’s. no solace’ to be able to say that justice has finally reached us when he’s al- ready served as much time as the normal person serves on a man- slaughter conviction. The rever- sal means that Huey P. Newton has to go back to tial again. And of course, this time he can only be triedfor manslaughter and no other charges. This morning, Monday, June Ist, I filed a mo- tion for an application for bail in the same court that reversed the conviction, The application for bail resites the fact that this court has reversed the conviction and ! we want bail pending determina- tion finally on appeal. The de- cision of the court in reversing the case will not become final for sixty days. And I’m sure that the Attorney General and the Dis- trict Attorney's office in Alameda County will use every means they can to keep Huey Newton in jail as long as they can, and they will probably make bail so pro- hibited that it will be a king’s ransom to get him out, What- ever the amount is in the way of bail--it is ransom! There is no reason in the world why Huey Newton should not be released on his own recognizance.’’ Q. Will Huey be transferred to another prison? A, I don’t know. Once the sixty days are up and the reversal is final and there's no bail, he'll be transferred to Alameda County jail where he was before. Q. Do you know when a new trial will start? A, The new trial will not start until my calendar permits it: Charles R, Garry's calendar. My court calendar. And you know what's ahead Of it before Huey Newton’s case comes up, Bobby Seale and the Connecticut Panthers, Q. What do you think changed the attitudes of the courts after we had stated all’ along that Huey was innocent? A, Well, nothing changed, We knew that the Appellate Court was going to reverse this case, I said so all along. They had to reverse it. You see, even though Huey Newton is a political prisoner and a prisoner of war, there were so many fundamental legal points that they could not afford to change just to get one man, It would not serve their purpose: he’s al- ready put in two and a half years both in jail and the penitentiary. And they’ve had their cake. Now they’ve got to find some other way of vamping over Huey and the Party. You see, they know that there is just so much they can do. We know their rules and we know exactly how to overcome their rules. That’s thereason why the case was reversed, I knew it was going to be reversed. I knew it couldn’t stand up. This judge and the prosecuting attorney who tried the case knew the case was going to be reversed, But they didn't care. They wanted him in jail no matter what the cost was, That's what burns me up! That's what infuriates me so much about this case, Q. On what grounds was the case reversed? A, The case was reversed on foun fundamental grounds. Number one * was the factthat, if you recall,’ Huey Newton testified that at the time that he was shot he didn’t remember anything else. He was rendered unconscience, And I put on Dr, Diamond to testify that ‘this kind of a traumatic shock, '-CONT'ON PAGE IOUS THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 4 SECOND ATTACK ON BROOKLYN PANTHERS IN FASCIST COURT OF ‘LAW’ Qn Monday May 25, 1970, Sister Diahanne Jenkins and myself were sitting in the fascist court room (120 Schermerhorn, Brooklyn ) a- waiting the arraignment of two brothers that had been bustedearl- ier Monday morning. The court- room was noisy, because ithad just resumed from recess. Diahanne and I were talking in a low tone voice. This nigger, bootlicking, lackey court pig, looked over atus and told us in a very harsh manner \ \ FRANKYE & DIAHANNE to shut up because we were in court. Diahanne said to me, ‘‘Right on, let’s be quiet because we don't want to be thrown out before they bring the brothers out.'’Then Di- ahanne put her head back andclosed her eyes. Shortly afterwards this big, fat, racist pig walked over to us and said very loudly, ‘‘GetOut’’. Diahanne opened her eyes and asked what he said.He said ,‘*Don’ you understand English ? I said getout.’’ Diahanne then asked him why, He said ‘‘Just get out’’. So Diahanne started up out of herseat, but before she could get up this racist pig grabbed her and threw her in the isle. Diahanne asked the pig what was wrong with him. The pig just kept pushing her a- round so Diahanne tried to defend herself and the pig took her arms and twisted them behind her back. I got up and started out behind Di- ahanne, when this nigger pig who had told us to shut up, came up behind me and threw me out of the door on to the hall floor. I was out for a while, when I got up about 5S pigs were grabbing and pushing at me and Diahanne, we were still trying to defend ourselves, when some pigs came out and said that we were under arrest, These pigs threw us back in the court room and I guess they must have thrown us all over the court room (1 was pretty dizzy from the throw on the floor). After giving the pigs such a hard time, they finally grabbed my feet and carried me into the cell of the courtroom: All the time one of the fascist pigs had the cord (from the bullet 1 was wearing around my MLL Ait IT MF RCIA! ff $f IAA BFL. U TRIBUNAL COURT OF THE MASSE OF THE PEOPLE Tribunal Case No. 2 T 0 LS SE FF A MOLES BL Le EE LLL neck), choking me until I could hardly breathe. I landed in the cell on my back*and I heard Robert (who was in back waiting to go out for arraignment, and Diahanne asking’ me, was I alright and Rob- ert told me to take it easy. Diahanne and I were locked in a cell and told that we would have to stay there until we saw the judge. We were brought before the judge (who had no idea what we were there for), because the charges that we were being brought up for were even confusing to him. Not being able to figure out what we werethere for, the pig judge fi- nally oinked to us that I was being paroled and Diahanne was let out on a $100.00 cash bail, and we were told to come back to courton June 1, 1970. The racist dog policemen of the power structure have illustrated through their practice that they are the low natured beasts that we say they are, While we were in the cell we were confronted by an old nigger lackey, (the matron), telling us to be good little girls, and the same old line about you're so young, why don’t you go back to school, and the whole traditional jive. We let this nigger lackey know that we didn’t expect to get any justice in the fascist court- room and that as far as the pig institutions (school) goes we had no interest, because we view the racist institution as a gear to brainwashing. We had to go through the humil- jiating process of pulling down our underclothing and these perverted ‘dykes had more interest in check- ing cut the exposed parts of our body rather than checking the clothing we were wearing. The racist pig that attacked us came to the cell where we were being held, (in a very provocative manner) and asked us our names and told us what we were being charged with, (destruction of gov- ernmental procedure, assault, re- sisting arrest, disobeying court order, abusive language), When we asked the pig what the charges meant he couldn’t explain them himself, This recent attack upon mem- bers of the Brooklyn Branch, is just one of the fascist pigs means to wipe out the entire Black Panther Party but the people have shown through their practice that thepigs will never wipe out the Black Pan- ther Party, because as long as there are Black people there will always be a Black Panther Party. DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIG SEIZE THE TIME Frankye he People vs. The Fascist U.S. Government FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1970. ST. JOHN'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 1715 Santa Ana Blvd. 105th & Graham In Watts, Los Angeles For information call: N.C.C.F. Community Center 2043 Stockwell Compton, Calif. 213/635-9882 or 635-2586 Sap LET-THE PEOPLE JUDGE! 4 ESSE 6 eee) Se ff 7 eee CHILDREN ARE THE VICTIMS OF PIGGERY IN PHILADELPHIA In various sections of South Phil. a grave situation exists. In the fi- nest traditions of the Lomar, S.C, school bus incident, White adoles- cents ( young adults ) are am- bushing young Black children on their way to school. This has been happening for quite some time. Lately though the sport has taken a new twist now, the racist dogs are carrying hockey sticks. These young punks in a vain attempt to regain the lost manhood of the race, have to use sticks to beat child- ren several years younger and much smaller than they are, In an attempt to stop these racist attacks, the mothers of the young Black children have been com- plaining to the pigs of the first district at 24th and Wolf. On April 7th, the pigs set up a meeting with the people of the community, and invited the parents of the White aggressors and the Black victims. The White pigs that they are, did not show. But many concerned Black parents came. The meeting was conducted by the fascist head pig officer Flarady. Also attending were bootlickers and other Black men who were there to throw a smokescreen over the people’ s de- mands, After a few minutes it was apparent that the people were up- tight about their children getting beaten-while the racist pigs were looking the other way or sitting on some hocks at Geno's and Pan- try Pride, At first,Hog McCarthy, was very calm and polite as the mothers described how their children had been brutalized by the young racist who have learned well the Nixon-Agnew Rizzo plan for ge- nocide of Black people, But as more and more people demanded that the pigs protect the children, Mc Car- thy’s smile faded and he started to show his true piggish nature. After he had vainly tried to de- fend the racist youth, with the ho- ckey sticks he oinked that he didn't have enough pigs on hand to pro- tect our own Black children. But you let some Black children carry some hockey sticks and watch the pigs swarm, Then the pig oinked to the people that he wouldn’t solve the problem by telling the black children to follow a new route home. This route will take the children into the heavy traffic of Passyunk Ave. MORE GENOCIDE! After the people rejected this oink as invalid, McCarthy got up- tight and stalked out of the room, In this last attempt to con the peo- ple he sent in his ‘nigger lackey’’ to calm the people- Officer Miller proceeded to oink out McCarthy, He said that the whole thing was not a police problem, but a school problem that should have been taken to the board of education, Then McCarthy re- turned and told the people that he would not be able toprovide their children with. police protection. «A BLACK MAN HAS NO RIGHTS THAT THE WHITE MAN IS BOUND TO RESPECT."’ It is clear that if those Black children are going to be able to walk in safety, the Black people have to deal with the pro-~ blem alone. The hockey stick ain’t been made that can stand up toa -357. AN UNARMED PEOPLE ARE SLAVES OR SUBJECTED TO SLAVERY AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, ARM YOURSELF OR HARM YOURSELF. PIGS HARASS PEOPLE AT POLITICAL EDUCATION CLASS BEING HELD IN COMMUNITY CENTER On Tuesday, May Sth, 1970 we were in the process of holding the weekly community political educa- tion classes at the Black Commu- nity InformationCenter, located at 3625 Wallace Street, in West Phil. when someone came in the center saying that the pigs were outside harassing the people. One of the brothers went outside to check it out, About 5 minutes later a- nother brother came to the cen- ter and told us that the pigs had the brother who had left. When we got to the scene we saw a nigger lackey, known as Wilson, who had the brother up against the car searching him. We demanded to know why this pig was searching and harassing him. Pig Wilson proved that it was a simple case of harassment by oinking to the people, ‘He's too smart’. By this time the people who had gathered on the scene grew pretty uptight, as they recalled past pig actions against the people. Namely the brutal beating of a blind brother from the com- munity, Bernard Sisco, matched with the Harold Brown murder, and countless other crimes that have yet to be answered in the courts of the people. The people present hipped the pigs to their righteous angry mood with shouts of ‘‘Leave him alone’’., and ‘‘Let him go’’. The straw that broke the punk pigs back was when the people started moving towards him. Bootlicking pig Wilson, probably recalling the Plainfield rage of the Black Community, and being the heartless punk that he is, let the brother go. With the brother out of harm, we began to move back towards the Information Cen- ter, to resume our class dealing with revolutionary knowledge taught by the Party, facing the everyday problems like the one at hand. Pig Wilson was pretty up- tight because the people publicly took his gump (courage ) and he wanted revenge, So he hopped on his phone and oinked for some fas - cist help, We left- one brother on the door to watch, because we knew that it wouldn’t be long before the foul smell of pork again invaded our midst. 5 seconds after we entered Pig Wilson was knocking at the door with a new found courage, oinking,‘‘Somebody get bad now’’. “Let me in’’, oinked brave Wil- sonand the people replied,‘'If you kick that door down that’s your a--{'*He knocked about one more time, then he oinked away with his mind blown. We continued to teach class. After the class we went outside to make sure that ‘the people made it home’ Safelys* ce The people of our communities have continually seen how foul these pigs act. Our Minister of Defense and leader, Huey P. New- ton has taught_us, that the racist dog policemen and his» Black lackey cohorts must withdraw immediately from \ our Black communities, cease the wanton murder , brutality and torture of Black people, or face the wrath of the armed people. LET'S GET SOME GUNS AND MAKE THEM WITHDRAW! William Brown Black Community Infor- mation Center Philadelphia, Pa. America’s complexity will be her downfall, for complex power, F communicauons and transpor- tation networks are unprotected. These systems are the life lines of the industrial and military might of U.S.A, fascism. The source of America’s strength is its vulner- able Achilles heel-therefore urban guerrillas, utilizing and relyingon information divulged by sympa- thetic workers, canhalt or severe- ly cripple every industry in the na- tion, and bring fascism crashing to its knees. The dams, power stations, substations and power lines are vulnerable. Highly so- phisticated communications net- works are used by our enemies for carrying out routine business, and are an extremely important factor, in the fascist reaction to guerilla strikes. The neutraliza- tion of the fascist communications lie within the capabilities of urban guerillas. The disruption of this system would hamper and cripple not only the fascist military but would also effect all industrial outputs. The fascist ruling clique realizes the vunerability of their trans- portation networks, yet all fas- cist military forces and industry utilize the railways, the state and interstate highway systems andthe airports, Urban guerillas can cut and constantly harass these im- portant links. Urban guerilla teams highly mo- tivated have already begun to put their theory into practice. Lists are being compiled and are con- stantly updated on fascist and all enemies of our people, because the location and identification of the enemy is an extremely vital task of urban guerillas, This basic intelligence is necessary for plan- ningretaliatorystrikes against our enemies, Where their killer groups, for the most, will be un- able to locate guerillas, urban gue- rillas will, in every attack hit the fascist squarely on the chin. Urban guerillas, being one with the peo- ple, must attack like skilled brain surgeons--cutting out the diseased tissue while perserving the good, Their dual purpose is that of destroying all fascist forces and their lackeys, while protecting and serving our people. The fascist ruling clique fears this, They know the Party is preparing to fight until the last of our enemies bites the dust. The Party has dared to take the vanguard role in the strug- gle and will surely defeat U.S.A, fascism no matter what the odds, no matter how great the sacri- fice. The Party is aware that the fascists will never lay down their arms of their own accord, And also aware of the direction that U.S.A. fascism is taking in order to survive as long as possible. In Brazil, the guerilla forces found through social practice that they could best achieve the goal of liberating their people from the IT’S T ‘(No greater love has a man for his people than to lay down his life for them,’ It is thought to bea myth that there arehumanbeings whoare self-less, with an all embracing love for their fellow man. In the colony there are people who be- lieve that anyone who demonstrates these type cf feelings are either shooting a game or are fools, This is to day that after years of brain- washing, our people find it hard to tell friend from foe, those whoare real and those who are phonies. We say that social practice is the criterion for the truth. Do not fear it, History has shown us that those strongest in their convictions and move to implementthemare dealt the heaviest blows. Now once again the butcher has raised his bloody knife to kill those who will not bend or fall on their knees be- fore the alter of monopoly capital- ism and racist oppression. In the controlled news media is the law and order campaign being waged in the courts when possible andin the early morning hours, (which is preferred by the pigs) . RANDY WILLIAMS, POLITICAL PRISONER Strong-hold imposed by the fas- cist Brazilian oligarchy by waging urban guerilla warfare, Brazil's development as an industrial fas- cist nation and the economic and social backwardness of the indig- enous peasants made the revolu- tionary forces adapt the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare. The urban guerrillas moved to mobi- lize the workers, and implement urban guerrilla warfare within the context of their historical exper- iences with the working class and the fascist ruling class oligarchy. The revolutionary forces have im- plemented this type of struggle which invariably catches the fas- cists with their pants down. The type of warfare which turns the asphalt concrete and steel of cities into jungles;,in': cemeteries forthe fascist highly mechanized units and * turns his weapons of mass slaughter into paper tigers; into urban jungles where the revolu- tionary forces can-plunge the blade into the hilt in the vunerable life lines of even fascist US.A In this country as well as in Brazil the fascists tremble with dread at the thought of nationwide at- tacks by urban guerrilla forces. In the Pentagon and select cen- ters scattered throughout the USA.,, gigantic multimillion dol- lar computers are manned by hoards of the military. Technicians wrestle with fascism’s nightmare- the problem of dealing with urban guerrillas, These machines can only reach an hypothesis drawn from information fed into them, In order for the fascists to test the solutions offered by the com- puter, they must first circumvent IME TO DRAW THE It is time to ask why such a re- lentless struggle is being waged against the Black Panther Party? Are we to believe the like of the vice pig Agnew that the Black Panther Party are criminals out to destroy the American way of life? Why you may askdoes the Ten Point Platform and Programhave the in- terest of the people at heart, while the American way of life ( racist oppression, exploitation, and de- humanization) is designed to rob the people of their human dignity. This mad beast, American fas- cism, has been exposed with the blood dripping from its jaws as one after another of our comrades have fallen in defense of the idea of freedom and love for their peo- ple. These revolutionaries, the highest form of humanity on the planet earth, have made the su- preme sacrifice not for personal gain but for the dignity of man. The social practice of the Black Pan- ther Party is here for the people to see. All the programs implemented by the Black Panther Party are to meet the basic needs and desires of the people. In order for these 1 the frail facade of the constitution and the bill of rights. The fascists realize that if these two pieces of paper were implemented they would be in their graves tonight because the constitution and the bill of rights contain the moral impetus necessary to bring this foul evil economic and social sys- tem to its doom. U.S.A, fascists have compiled and are still evaluating informa- tion received from South Amer- ican satellite states who are being beset by courageous urban guer- rillas waging relentless struggle with amazing(to fascists) and stun- ning success. Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, has saidthat we still have a little time left because the U.S.A. fascist ruling clique hasn’t programmed all of the people to accept the genocide of the Party and our people yet. For at least a year now, there have appeared in every major newspaper, seemingly innocent space fillers. Articles from UPI- API dealing with the deployment of fascist death squads against " the revolutionary forces in South America. These fillers had the sinister purpose of preparing America for the advent of death squads now in operation in every major urban center. These articles were to pre- pare the people to accept the first overt actions of the Chicago foul fascist gestapo killer unit. Their & ~~ URBAN GUERILLA predawn kill all--destroy all mis- sion was launched as a pilot, an experimental operation with a two fold objective. One was to put counter-revolutionary theory into practice in America --to bring in- to the streets the fascist ruling clique’s solution to the Party-- to test and evaluate the tech- niques of counter-insurgency ur- ban warfare. The second important programs to continue and the Ten Point Platform and Program to be- come a reality we must survive. In order to survive in this envi- ronment, which is hostile to’ Black people in particular, it is neces- sary to have a survival kit-in this case a gun. It was out of love for his people that Huey P, Newton said,‘An unarmed people are slaves or subject to slavery at any given time’’. The brothers who have fallen and the brothers and sisters confined in racist pig pens did not want to see their people slavesfor this they have been mur- dered and imprisoned.Nowthe peo- ple mustdraw thelineand say enough. We will avenge our dead but will not sacrifice our living. REVOLUTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION! Albert Washington Political Prisoner Pueblo State Mental Institution NOTATION Albert Washington is a right on brother with a lot of good poten- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 5 URBAN GUERILLAS objective was to evaluate the re- sponse of the people to above ground counter-insurgency killer groups--to see if the people were conditioned to accept the out- right fascist terror tactics direc- ted officially by the fascist ruling clique. Our Party has been and is still the main target of a national dehu- manizing campaign. The fascist controlled news media has con- sistently maligned, viciously at- tacked and branded our Party as a racist band of blood-thirsty mur- derers out for their own personal gain. The fascist news media seeks to justify the fascist’s program of destroying our people’s first line of defense, the Party, andall other organizations which refuse to be either bought off with blood money or intimidated by the repressive fascist forces. The fascist at- tempts to isolate our Party from the people has been a dismal fail- ure. The liquidation of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark had top priority on the fas- cist’s pig list. However, neither the people nor our Party were cowed or intimidated by the bestial slaying of these two rev- lutionaries. The fascist ruling clique made a grave error inunder estimating the will of the people and our Party. People from all walks of life and every progres- sive organization saw through the fascist attempts to isolate anddes- troy their Party. The people mo- REVOLUTIONARY HANDIWORK OF THE bilized and rallied mass support for the Party and _ soundly condemned the actions of Chicago’s fascist killer groups. Make trouble, fail, make trou- ble, fail again until their doom. This is the logic of fascists the world over, In Chicago, they re- fused to acknowledge the bank- ruptcy of their counter-insurgency campaign. In December, in Los LINE tial, For approximately a year he was incarcerated in Denver County jail with Landon Williams and Rory Hithe, two Panthers who are pre- sently awaiting extradiction Connecticut on trumped up charg- esofmurder ect,. (In connection with Brother Alex Rackley’s pig mur- der), Albert has been sentenced to twenty years for robbery and has been committed to the Pueblo State Mental Institution because the fas- cist courts have declared him in- sane. Insane for what? The brother is a revolutionary and openly told the fascist pigs, ‘‘Off the pigs’’ Brother Albert Washington is now in maximum security for which there is a minimum period, with good behavior, of six months. Thereby if his conduct is consid- ered good enough he will be allowed freedom of the grounds. Who are the judges? ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! FREE CHAIRMAN BOBBY! Colorado Chapter Black Panther Party to © Angeles, Southern California Chapter of our Party, came under attack by fascist killer groups. Although outnumbered and using inferior weapons, our Party re- pelled and held at bay the fascist shock troops and sounded the end of Chicago type operations in a fuselage of bullets. We learned valuable lessons paid for with the blood of our revolutionary com- rades. The fascist ruling clique has seen the support, that their homicidal raids have generated for the Party. They now know that if conditions are favorable, they will receive tit for tat and then some. They now know that Black and all progressive people will not sit idly by and pacify the ac- tion of above ground killer groups Fascists have tried to rally the support of the American people to their avowed aims and failed. Now begins the phase of under- ground, clandestine operation of fascist directed killer groups. This is all part of the nature of the fascist ruling clique, The fas- cists will no doubt expand the tech- niques of their South American lackeys who operate unrestricted, unswayed by either democratic in- stitutions or public opinion. As the tempo ofthe struggle increases so will the fascist acts of reac- tionary terror and violence in- crease. The primary target of forming clandestine kill groups will be both our people and our Party, If we are to survive as a people, this next phase of attacks, and pave the way to victory, it is imperative that our people be , armed with the ideology of the Party. For only then will our peo- ple be able to cope with, both, ideological and physical attacks initiated by the insane fascist rul- ing clique. Huey P. Newton, Min- ister of Defense, said that our Party must be a living shield that stands between our people and the fascist pigs and that our paper should serve to educate our peo- ple so that they will survive. As the attacks against the Party escalate, so must the awareness of our people be channelled toward acceptance and even more, active participation in urban guerrilla warfare. Phase two of the fascist plans will surely and soundly be defeated, The fascists will awake to find themselves bogged down on that last front. They will be swallowed up in the morass of a people’s war. Their graves will be dug by revolutionary urban guerrilla forces amidst the asphalt,conerete and steel ofthe cities, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEFEAT U.S.A FASCISM ON EVERY FRONT WE’LL ALL BE TOGETHER ON THE DAY OF VICTORY Randy Williams, Political Prisoner THE APOLOGY TO THE PEOPLE WE, THE DEVASTA- TIONS WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND OUR MOST GRACIOUS APOLOGIES TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY OF THE HUNTER’S POINT AREA OF S.F. FOR QUR FAILUE TO APPEAR IN HONOR OF OUR MOST BELOVED BROTHER, MALCOLM X, ON MAY 19, 1970, AT THE PEOPLES RALLY. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE S.K, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 6 COME POLITICAL PRISONER, U.S.A. SEE ABOUT BOBBY! Through our 400 years of con- tinuous murder and exploitation, the songs and dances of Black people have served not only to tell the story of our people, but from time to time to release the ten- sions and frustrations caused by this wall of oppression. Rock and Roll, in part, is a product of the modern day urban ghetto--is a product of the nig- gers from, the streets. So when we, the Southern California Chap- ter of the Black Panther Party, presented a benefit for Bobby last Tuesday night, May 26th at Pa- trick’s Peyton Place, a nightclub on Western Avenue, we especially welcomed the talents of such groups as the Young Hearts, Bell Tones, etc. We were glad for the opportunity to talk about Bobby Seale in this particular arena, be- cause it is from the urban streets that our Party arose. Elaine Brown, Deputy Minister of Information, Southern California Chapter, spoke to the people, who related to Chairman Bobby. Not only did approximately 300 people come to relax and enjoy them- selves, but they did it knowing that it was all for Bobby and in fact all Black people, The Dynamic Young Hearts, one to Black people. W. Oakland, Calif. ENTERTAINMENT . SPEAKERS . FOOD MASS RALLY JUNE 19, 1970. (JUNE TEEN TH) BOBBY HUTTON MEMORIAL PARK 18th & Adeline Oakland, Calif. To inform the Black Community concerning the issues of political prisoners and the re-writing of the constitution to make it apply Those who wish to help with the rally call NCCF Bobby Seale Community Information Center 1690 Tenth St. , 465-7089 or East Oakland Community Information Center 636-0944 of the groups who donated their talent for the liberation struggle of Black people defined the over- all feeling there in one of their songs, ‘‘I’'ve Got Love For My Baby’’. Only this time they sang “Pye Got Love For My People’’. They did this particularly because John Huggins, our slain Deputy Minister of Information had liked this song, and had sung the lyrics that way. It was a beautiful sight to see that part of our culture exem- plified also in the works of the Bell Tones, who secured the club, for us, the Sinceres, the Naturelles, who took time out from a previous engagement to perform, Terrible Tom, and the Young Hearts Band, It was beautiful be- cause all the groups used their ability and talent of gathering to- gether the sound and feeling of the Black ghetto to fulfill theneeds of the people. To the Young Hearts, the Bell Tones, The Sinceres, Terrible Tom, the Naturelles, The Young Hearts Band, and all those who came, we say RIGHT ON! LIBERATE BOBBY BLACK PANTHER PARTY WE WILL FIGHT AS ONE This week, as always, the self appointed gods of American jus- tice, Murtagh and Phillips stretched out their tentacles to sti- fle innocent Black people. It is becoming more apparent that there is no real case against the N.Y, 2i, Phillips and Murtagh, have gone to a mental ward and col- laborated numerous super spy stories of Melodramatic crap. Just as George Sams is a mental de- gect, so in the case of the 21 is Sean Dubonnet! One of his hal- lucinations include a fairy tale where the local school board of Ocean Hill Brownsville and its president Brother Rhody McCoy negotiate a deal with the Black Panther Party, to assasinate ra- cist Albert Shanker, for $15,000, This fabrication was retorted by the Brooklyn acting Assistant D.A, When asked if he thought the infor- mation given to him was true he emphatically shouted‘‘yes'’, of course its true. ( Yet no one was arrested). Colonized subjects of racist EXPOSIN Babylon, understand that the op - pressor makes no differentiation be tween Black Panthers and Black people! When the vanguard is at- tacked, the people are also attacked. When Panthers are bound and gagged in courts, the people are al- so bound and gagged, ( remember Philadelphia), When Panthers are shot down like dogs, the people are also shot down like dogs. We are oppressed as one. We are ex- ploited as one. We are hated as one. And we will fight as onel There can be no seperation of the people and the revolution- ary! June 19, 1970 Black colo- nial subjects of America, will converge on Washington, D.C, to formulate a Constitutional Convention! We will determine the destinies of our people, because we feel that all men are created equal and endowed with unalien- able rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! Because we know that man cannot live without food, shel- ter and clothing, because we know G THE FA Pig STATE IN BAL The vicious use of state terror to suppress the legitimate struggles and assemblies of the people of Baltimore must be denounced and exposed by all the people, in order to hault the trend of brutality and injustice that leads to our destruc- This renewed and senseless re- pression indicates that the tangled lies of the ruling circles can no longer afford to allow a peaceful assembly of Blacks and Whites they can no longer afford to let the masses of the people see that tion and tightens the noose of fascistit is racism and the armed racist repression around this city. On Wed- nesday, May 13, 1970, the shock trooper police forces, pig commisioner Donald Pomerleau in- timidated, brutalized and then al- ledgedly arrested ( kidnapped )par- ticipants and observers at the flow- er mart, held at Mt. Vernon place, who by their so called constitutional rights, were guranteed the right to peaceful assemby! Those who had assembled for the flower mart be- came the innocent victims of the un- provoked attack of hostile racist dog policemen, who were sent there as mercenary witch hunting agents. of Mafioso Mayor “Tired’’ D’Alesandro, and fascist lap dog Pomerleau, Just like the hordes of Hitler, these criminal and racist pig elements here in Balti- more, aided and abetted by their watch dog spies of the criminal in- vestigation division ,(C,I.D.). are escalating their acts of aggres: sion against the people of the city in general and Black people and the Black Panther Party in particular! MAY BE The capitalistic establishment of the May Company Crenshaw (Westside) serves nobody but it- self to the peoples money, Be- sides the extraction of millions of dollars from the community of View Park and Baldwin, this es- tablishment directly endorses po- lice brutality--intensified police supervision of Black shoppers and employees. The corner of Crenshaw and Santa Barbara May 20, at 5:00, was the scene of unprovoked po- lice brutality. When a plainclothes policeman saw it as his duty to relentlessly bust an 18-year-old brother with his handcuffs while intimidating him with his gun. Upon noticing the incident, 1 started across the street A crowd of people had started to gather, noticing also what was | taking place, Everyone wanted to know why Arnold Alcorn was being beaten. About this time, a Black and White police unit arrived and helped to subdue the brother. Then a Black (negro) Pork Chop plain- clothes pig became brave and de- cided also to help subdue the brother. Offering no resistance, the bro- ther was taken upstairs in May Company for interrogation, being power structure that is undermining our resistance movement and sub- jugating the people of this wicked and corrupt cesspool city! When- ever there is an assembly of in- dividuals whose constitutional rights are walked on, it always has been and still is the result of perverted head hunting policemen, being turned loose on the innocent, inciting them and by their vicious attacks forcing Black people and all oppressed peo- ple to defend themselves against uniformed charlatans, hiding behind the long retired disguise of law and order! The attempt by the pigs and their flunkies, the jive news media to distort and hide _the truth about the so called police, brought about the whole scene of disruption at the Flower Mart, and only by the human and constitutional rights of armed self defense can this raging tide of torture _ brutal- ity, and subjugation can be halted]! By using the Hitleristic tactics of coercion against the innocent people MAY COMPANY, CLOSED BY THE punched, slapped, and kicked. A Black and White unit policeman attempted to calm down the crowd and told them he (the brother) was ‘suspected’, He was sus- pected of shoplifting The people then spoke out in protest. For if the brother was only suspected, then why was he being beat like an animal? The pig was jammed but attempted to cool the crowd by -philosophizing over the question. The people noticing they were being double-talked by a man not concerned with the well-being of Black people or people period, dismissed him. The people started saying he could do nothing for them but ‘‘to get out of the commu- nity’. The people of the community are waking; up and gaining a new consciousness about May Co. on Crenshaw. As they open their minds they see more clearly that this department store is only a moneymaking machine owned by avaricious capitalist business- men. These businessmen don’t in- tend to let a dime of the money’ they take out of the community come back in the community. These ‘‘paper god’? worshippers are not concerned whether or not the community prospers No, everything is fine with them as that we do not enjoy the liberty necessary to pursue happiness; be- cause we believe that to secure these rights, governments are in- stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes de- structive of these ends @.g. Fred Hampton, Kent State, Jackson State Malcolm, Martin, Bobby Seale, The N.Y. 21, Martin Sostre, etc), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organiz- ing its power on such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Because Black people have been subjected to a long train of abuses and usurpations, we feel it is our duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for our future security! SEIZE THE TIME Afeni Shakur SCIST IMORE of Baltimore, and using those same methods, and now that the phony guardians of the law are nothing but low-natured beasts, that have no regard for law, justice, or the rights of people, Our people must throw off the shackles of the plan- tation slavemasters of yester-years and rush forward to seize power that will insure us the justice and peace that the armed fascist have denied us since our enslavement began here in racist America, 400 years ago! Fascism can only breed when the lying politiciafis and the agent pig police departmentsare al- lowed to masquerade as servants of the people. Once these disguises have been torn off and the fascist are exposed to the people, our vengeance must be cold and deadly. We can not afford to take any chances we can’t afford to put things off. Black people must stop the whole show now, and get our business straight, because if we fail to grasp securely the reins of this historic opportunity there may be no to- morrow. RAISE THE BATTLE CRY: INTENSIF Y! “Lil? Masai Baltimore chapter PEOPLE long as they take our money to Beverly Hills and Hollywood where they live. We, the people want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black com- munity. May Co. is not content in its robbery of our community. It is also robbing its employees who are predominantly Black by paying them slave wages and not allowing them to unionize. Everyday em- ployees are spied on and intimi- dated by plainclothes policemen who are receiving special pay to keep employees\from organizing and keeping Blacks who are try- ing to organize*out, Since the May Co. refuses to place back in the comraunity some of the money it extracts, since it also refuses to allow its em- ployees union for the sake of better wages and fringe benefits (impor- tant factors for the survival of people) and since its insight of subjecting Black people to inten- sified police supervision and bru- tality, the people are going to have a boycott of the establishment. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE NCCF Community Center 55th St., Los Angeles Bernard Olitinga Byrd Il _ WHY REVOLUTION IN AMERICA? I might begin by saying that revolution is not at all a new thing. The fact is that through- out the historical development of man himself, he has always found ways and developed methods to rid himself of those people or forces, whether they be human or natural as long as they are oppressive. History books whether distorted or factual are full of revolution- ary truths. Even though we are taught by the American Revolu- tion that it is the right of the people to cast off a government that does not protect you and to establish new order to insure your safe being and development, if in fact we are taught this, and guaranteed this in the constitu- tion then why when people speak of revolution as a means of lib- erating themselves from the yoke of domestic-imperialism -- fas- cism--that they are considered as bad, as criminals as ‘Dirty Communists": The question WHY?, is one of the main factors in securing the key to freedom. The American people have been subjected to the most heavy and demagogic forms of indoctrination in the history of man, And it is because people begin to question the lies that have been fedto them from the manipulating greedy, avaricious businessmen and their jive flunkies--the demagogic poli- tician--because of this,the streets are overflowing with anger and determination. Because of a lot of White people not accepting the role of the instrument of slavery or genocide anymore and because Black people refuse to be under slavery or victims of genocide anymore- revolution will fill the land, The ideology of the ruling class clique is simple--to have all-to rule all. The ideology of the people is simple also--to rid themselves of the ruling class clique. Inorder to do this there must be revolu- tion! Basic human rights are not ne- gotiable--either youtake your foot off my neck, or I'll snatch your leg off. Either you give me back my right to live or I will, by any means necessary create con- ditions that will insure my sur- vival. Ifthat means killing Richard Nixon then let it be done. If blood is what is necessary tocast off and ceestroy the evil in this country, in this society, then let the streets run red, If you must be unkind then smash, right and left, get it over with and forget it and go about the business of building your home and educating your children, The American people were brainwashed to the point where ex- terminating the Red man was the ‘*christian’’ thing to do, White children were brought up at that time in an environment of ‘‘leg- alized’’ murder and thievery on the one hand ‘Jesus with red, white and blue warpaint’’ on the other, At the same time White folks were busy killing or making deals with a scurvy greedy pig from the ranks of Black people to sell Black flesh for the purpose of enslaving them for profit. In the case of both the Indian people and the African slaves, the driving force was profit, it was then, it is now, The murder of millions of people by Americans has for profit. Indians, Afri- cans, Japanese, Koreans and Viet- namese people have all been the victims of greed and lust. So what can you say toa people that are already hard core murderers? What could you possibly say to them to make them want to give you your freedom? What can you say to a people that have been systematically geared to not only accept genocide but to actively wage it on other people? What can you say when the White community brings their children with picnic baskets to watch a Black man to be beaten, hung and burned, or demonstrate 100,000 strong inthe Letter To streets in favor thousands of Vietnamese women and children? Well you can say of murdering just about everything you want to say, but you won't be heard (this is a proven fact). America is blue and cold like ice, America is no good to gen- erate life but rather used to pro- mote death for profit. It is up to the people to salvage the situation. Revolutionaries’ Parents Parents of revolutionaries’ try to understand your children, You don't want them to be jailed, You tell them everyday in the news you see where some more Black youths are sacrificed on the altar to Pig Nixon’s regime. You see news of more Black Panthers being ripped off to the pig pen or mur- dered. You see where more are beaten under the clubs of the oc- cupation troops. The pig news me- dia splashesout news that even the Whites that are sympathetic to our righteous and just cause of free- dom, justice and peace, are mur- dered along with us. You stand up and tell us to protect our fu- tures, to get an education that is useless to us and that won't even count in the long run because we are Black, You want us to have a better life than you had and to raise beautiful Black families that you can be proud of. You throw in our youth and your love for us. We want it, but this system, this oppressive, bloodsucking so- ciety won't let us, and it wouldn’t let you. Since you didn't act as you should have, we must do it ourselves. Youth, our youth, makes the revolution. We are doing what we must and what you should have done, we have picked up the gun and are prepared to use it. We understand the oppressive, avari- cious creatures controlling this country, We know their nature and we know that they must be des- troyed. The pigs pulling the strings are out to kill you and I regard- less. They are out to commit gen- ocide on all the non-White people of the world in general and Black people in particular, starting with the Black Panther leadership and membership, The US imperialistic, fascist dogs have killed off many Amer- ican Indians by out-right murder, and starvation. There are now less Indians than Buffalo. The low-lifed pigs in power, are now mercilessly slaughtering Yellow people all over Indochina to satisfy their blood lust. They are running amuck all over Latin and South America kill- ing off Brown people in their all out effort to make themselves mas- ters of the world. And youactually believe that they will hesitate to burn, gas, hangor shoot 20,000,000 Blacks. They have the army, na-- tional guard, local pigs, federal pigs and the judicial frame-up, hoax section waiting and Pig Nixon is arming them with deadly wea- pons banned from warfare by the United Nations. In the eyes of the White power structure, there is no place for Black people in America’s future. This should be obvious to you by now. Blacks are the lasthiredand the first to be fired from the most demeaning (nasty) tasks, Check out the space program, zero Blacks, They want no Blacks to contaminate outer space, They are going out of their way to patrol our com- munities with everything from ma- chine guns and gas to knives and clubs. The callous oinks are taking the *70 census to see exactly how many of us they have to deal with and how many more ovens they have to build to destroy Blacks, be he violent or be he non-violent: (Meaning Black is Black and we must go.) The fascist war loversare plan- ning to stem off the worldwide revolution against us. These im- perialist dogs are trying to put poor and oppressed people against each other by sending our youth all over the world to kill other poor and oppressed people, but this won't work, We can see through his scheme. They will murderus, jail us on trumped-up charges or use their Black lackeys, stooges and pigs to set Blacks up for the big gun down if we let them. But you just don't see it. You are blind and deaf to what's happening be- cause the pig media has been busy for years setting up your mind. We, the youth. your off-springs are revolutionaries. We are not law breakers because the laws of this country were not made to in- clude Black people. We are motivated by an intense love for our people. At home the parents would defend their love ones to the death. Thiswas their duty, their children were their future, we are your future. Without us, what would be your purpose in life? You, parents, have had chil- dren and it is your duty to pro- tect and help them for as long as you live. They are yours, and if you won’t take up the gun to defend your loved ones from what you know is coming, that even a blind man can see, then we will take the stand alone, We have no future if we die fighting for the same oppressor that is trying to kill us. We want freedom. We have a future to look forward to. We want families. We want our lives. We want our youth. We must be allowed to live as human beings,‘‘We will have our freedom or the earth will be leveled in our attempts to gain it." BLACK PANTHER PARTY Brooklyn Chapter Edward Williams THE TIME IS NOW! USE WHAT YOU GOT, TO GET WHAT YOU NEED! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 7 It is up to the forces of life to combat the instruments of death and to change the American scene to one where people will be al- lowed to live in harmony and have a full and productive life--one where racism, demagogy and terror are not needed--one where a man will not be chained, gagged and beaten in a so-called court of ‘law’ or the Electric Chair, as an example for me and for you. ONE WHERE PIGS ARENOT PRESENT! PREE THE PEOPLE! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Colorado Chapter Denver, Colorado Michael D, -- SLAVE, FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM + MIS-EDUCATION IN PHILADELPHIA WE WANT AN EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY WE WANT AN EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND ROLE IN THE PRESENT DAY SOCIETY Point #5 of the Black Panther Party 10 point platform and program Whether its Richard Dilworth, President of the Philadelphia school board, or Gillespie , princi- pal of the Strawberry Mansion Jr. high school, a pig is a pig. This article is aimed at exposing the true nature and quality of our prin- cipal in this particular high school To give you an example take the fool Gillespi for instance, who is the principal of 99,9% Black , Strawberry Mansion high school, does not relate to the community. Check out his prac- tices, community people have little or no say in what's going on, There was one incident where the pupil was put out of a class- room. The pupil left school, which may not or may have been the right thing to do, The young bro- ther at any instance was very con- fused. He went home, explaining the problem to his cousin, who then accompanied him back to school His cousin came back to talk to the pig teacher who is a pig in essence of a lower level, All he said was oink! The prob- lem was then sent on a higher level, to Gillespi. The Principal then told the brother that he was suspended, He then had the cousin escorted out of school, next he turned back to the suspended pu- pil and oinked that he would deal with him in not such a pleaseant manner. This is just one of the many ways in which cases of so-called discipline are handled in the wrong manner. I have spoken to many students about their feelings toward Gillespi. All the students say the same thing. He is a jive principal or he does not understand anything relating tothe problems students have orare faced within our community, our homes and our lives. People talk about quality education. I think that we should talk about the way disci- pline problems are handled. Dis- cipline is a way of correcting a situation not creating another, So many times discipline problems handled in the wrong manner have caused our children to drop out of school, loose interest in him- self and the world is a contradic- tion. At this point I'm asking con- cerned mothers and fathers to start talking to their sons and daughters and find out how much they feel about Gillespi and Strawberry Mansion Junior High School. They must begin to visit the school more often and check out the picture of that nigger fool Gillespi- and if he does not relate to the students needs and the desires of the community,then he should not be in our school. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE CHAIRMAN BOBBY Herman / Philadelphia Branch Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 8 PENTAGONIZED SOCIETY In the same way in which imper- ialism subjagated the society of the colonial territory and made it think, feel, and act in colonial terms, pentagonism has _ suc- ceeded in pentagonizing American society. This poses a serious pro- blem of conscience for the men and the people who have been attacked--or are in danger of being attacked--by pentagonism. Must we consider all the people of the United States responsible for the deaths, the destruction, the intrigues, and the abuses that pentagonism commits in the world? Is a worker inSouth Dakota guilty of the death of a Vietna- mese child burned with napalm? The answer cannot be simple, This worker in South Dakota is pentagonized; he acts as ifhe were drugged. But he is in a sense responsible; he has placed his desire for well-being and personal security above his duties toward humanity. If he accepts the fact that in order ‘3 have an automo- bile and a refrigerator, a com- patriot of his--or perhaps his son or his brother--burns a Vietna- mese child with napalm, there is no doubt that this American worker is an anti-human being. The drug of well-being has made him indifferent to the suffering and death of an Asian child, and perhaps the root of the problem lies in that word, for if the child is Asian this means that he is not American, and if he is not American his suffering and death have little value. This attitude of the worker in South Dakota is not due to the fact that he is a worker. Amer- ican scientists and those from other Western countries have been the first--and continue to be the most enthusiaStic--Supporters of péhgoriisnt, CapiralisiGjedD190) to. Serve sin sithe\varmysilin worker it have become over-developed without the participation of scien- tists, and the large majority of the scientists of the United States placed themselves in the service of the Americanhigh com« mand of industry for one princi« pal reasons to earn more money, These scientists inherited centu- ries of experience amassed by thousands of investigators, many of them unknown, common good belonging to all men, which must benefit the whole world and not only the scientists and those who hire them. It is frequently argued that in all cases scientists work for humanity, even if it is in an indirect form. but this argument is debatable, since no definite proof that it is true has yet been presented, We do not know the number of American scientists working directly for the Pentagon, nor even the number of those who work in industries that have military pur- poses, but even in the United States it is suspected that their number is quite high. Further- more, the current of university graduates, scientists, and tech- nicians flowing from the capital- ist countries to the United States is truly impressive. In the year 1963, 939 scientists and graduate technicians emigrated to Amer- ica from England alone; between 1964 and 1965 this English emi- gration climbed to 40 per cent of British doctors and biologists; be- tween 1965 and 1966 this number was reduced to 35 per cent. (1) The ‘‘flight of talent’’ to the United States is very extensive, espe- cially from the underdeveloped countries, I1 many instances, such as in the case of doctors, for- eigners take the place of a large number of Americans who go off instances, they take the place of scientists working on pentagonist projects. In every instance, how- ever, they lend their services to private enterprise, much of which works for the Pentagon. Doubtless, a small number of these scientists come to the United States to look for oppor- tunities not for themselves and their families but for their re- search; and from a certain point of view it would seem that they are behaving in a praiseworthy manner, But seen in the context of world events, the situation changes considerably because the result of these investigations, in a very high percentage of cases, is going to be used by pentagon- ism for its own ends, and every scientist ought to know at this juncture that a high proportion of the research centers in the Uni- ted States work for pentagonism. Scientists from America andthe capitalist countries have placed themselves in the service of pentagonism, but on the other end of the social scale the workers of the United States are doing the same thing. Mr. Meany, the president of the AFL-CIO, en- thusiastically approved his coun- try’s intervention in the Domin- ican Republic, on the grounds that the revolution of April, 1965, in that little Antillean country was Communist. In reality, it was a matter of the AFL-CIO -~as anor- ganized mass within a pentagon- ized society--responding to the tacit division of activities im- posed by pentagonism: freedom of action for Americans inside the United States in exchange for sup- port of pentagonism outside the country. This support of pentagon- ism by the organized workers in a country is not limited to Amer- ica? In Latin-America andin other parts of the world, the AFL-CIO works within workers’ move- ments with the object of enroll- ing them in the service of penta- gonist policy; moreover, in the United States there is a specialized institution devoted to extending pentagonist influence a- mong the masses of workers of other countries. This is the Amer- ican Institute for Free Labor Development. (2) The American labor move- ment’s one preoccupation is to obtain advantages for its affil- iates, and pentagonism does not mind that the workers in the Uni- ted States earn as much as they can. If this produces benefits for workers and workers support pentagonism, it is logical that they should understand and even complement each other. Theoretically, each citizen of the United States, whether a new- born baby, an old man, a para- lytic, a madman, or a scientist, has ten dollars a day to spend as he sees fit. The country’s gross national product reached $739,500,000,000 in 1966, which in theory means more than $3,600 per head per year. (3) In reality, however, the figures are different, since a hundred thousand receiv- ing twenty dollars per day will leave another hundred thousand who do not receive a cent. In the United States there are sev- eral hundred citizens whoreceive more than a million dollars a year, which in theory means that they can earn more than $2,740 per day, and this in turn means that each one of those receiving a million dollars annually takes for himself the ten dollars per day of 274 persons. The great majority of the Amer- ican population is devoted to an intense struggle that consumes the energy of millions and millions of men in order that each of them may have a larger share of these person ought to receive. This is the struggle for well-being that turns men into enemies, into piti- less competitors, that alienates them--that is, makes them stran- gers to each other--divides them, and leaves them exhausted, with neither the time nor the strength to think of anything else. Worn out by this struggle, what can it matter to the worker in South Dakota when he comes home ex- hausted from eight hours of work and two or three hours on the highway or on the train, to hear on his television that a Vietna- mese child has been burned to the bone by napalm? What mat- ters to him is to earn more than these ten dollars that belongs to him statistically, since he needs to exchange his car for a more recent model or has to pay for his son's education, This worker in South Dakota is drugged by his desire for well-being and by pentagonist propaganda, The burned child in Vietnam was pro- bably the son of a Communist and would probably have become a Communist if he had lived, and every Communist must be wiped out in time, because if not the day will come when he, an Amer- ican worker, will not be able to buy the latest model car because the Communists are trying to take away his property and his com- forts, and those of every Amer- ican. This was what President Johnson told American soldiers when he was at a base in Viet- nam; ‘‘They must see that we will not let them take away what we have,”” Now this worker hasn’t the slightest idea that the death of the Vietnamese child has touched millions of men who are not Com- munists, but who refuse penta- gonist methods with all their hearts. For these millions of men, and there are more of them every day, the attitude of the worker in South Dakota comes close to being entirely culpable, for nei- ther he:nor..anyone else has the dollars that theoretically each. right to allow the soldiers of his country to kill children in Vietnam while his time is spent getting money together to ex- change his car for anewer model, The scientists on one end of the scale and the workers on the other, all of them in search of personal well-being, made the es- tablishment of overdeveloped cap- italism possible. This type of cap- italism came about so rapidly that in fifteen years--from 1951 to 1966--the gress national product of the United States doubled, from $319,000,000,000 to $739,500,- 000,000, To reach such a fabu- lous height, overdeveloped cap- italism had to enlarge its market in the country; it had to produce on a mass scale for mass buyers who earned high salaries. The process began after the First World War, when Henry Ford raised his workers’ daily sala- ries to five dollars, and this was extended to the entire country dur- ing Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Administration in the thirties, But the creation of a consum- ers’ market of gigantic propor- tions could not have been achieved--even though high sala- ries were paid--without means for mass communication. Newspa- pers, magazines, and sales cata- logues had their limitations; they might get into the hands of sev- eral million possible consumers, but not into the hands of a ma- jority of them. Not even radio, with all its power of communi- cation, was the right medium to fulfill this need. Radio could des- cribe an article, but it could not show it, The medium that was needed appeared with television, a product of science that placed itself in the service of overde- veloped capitalism. Television became the king of the means of propaganda of large- scale industry. In 1966 newspa- pers and. pegazines received a little more than $861,000,000.in advertising revenue, while tele- vision received quite a bit more than double this figure, almost $2,000,000,000, (4)Once therealm of television as the seller of any product was consolidated, this gave the final touch to mass so- ciety as a consumers’ market. In a few years the American peo- ple were turned into an acquisi- tive society, into a multiple en- tity--comprising millions and millions of persons--that was passive, expectant, and dependent on its television sets to know what kind of clothes to buy, where to spend the weekend, what country to visit if it went traveling, what beer it should drink, what sort of weather there would be the next day. Television freed the av- erage American from the task of choosing; it made him accus- tomed to obeying, on the level of his deepest motivations, and therefore made him accustomed to not raising problems. To bring about this passivity good sales promotion had to be used, and studies of mass psy- chology were made with this end in view at centers financed by overdeveloped capitalism and the Pentagon; at the same time the means of advertising with a flood of propaganda were financed. In 1966, a single firm--Proctor and Gamble, the soap manufacturer-- spent $265 million to advertise its products, almost two times as much as the annual. budget of a Latin-American country. with more than three. million inhab- itants, In the same period Gen- eral Motors spent 208 million, the Ford Motcr Company more than $312 million and Chrysler $93 million, (6) One hundred and twenty-five American firms spent a total of $4,470,000,000 on \ad- vertising in 1966, which means that the gross profits of advertis- ing firms which handled the publicity for these one hundred and twenty-five companies was $787 million, As can be seen, CONT. ON NEXT PAGE CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE PENTAGONIZED SOCIETY there is a sufficient margin in such a high sum to attract psy- chologists, economists, sociolo- + gists, designers, and writers try- ing to better their income. Of course, as soon as televi- sion showed how useful it was for selling everything from a tube of toothpaste to a car, it was obvious that it would also be use- ful for selling the country the idea that the United States was in danger and should dedicate an important part of its production to arming itself and preparing itself militarily to defend itself against its enemies. As for the fully selected by the most ex- pert propaganda technicians, since he has them at his dis- posal; and along with this con- summate technique he uses the great psychological weight of his position--that is to say, the enor- mous prestige of the office of President of the United States. Television 'can be used-~-and fre- quently is used--so that other people may say the opposite of what the President has said; but it happens that these other peo- ple never have an audience as great as the one that the head of the country has, so that there are millions of Americans who hear the President and do not hear those who argue against his opinions. Theoretically, it is pos- sible to put forth ideas contrary to those of pentagonism, but the truth is that there is no compet- ing with high officials, and above WAR MANIAC - RICHARD NIXON value of the words ‘‘defend it- self,’ pentagonism succeeded in creating in the American people a confusion of such magnitude where concepts were concerned that it became normal to read in books and newspapers in the United States paragraphs such as the following: Given our nature and our tra- ditions -~and our wealth--we have no wish to conquer. Our military might is defensive, not offensive. Even when it is used, or threa- tened, as in Vietnam, Cuba or the Dominican Republic, our Gov- ernment conceives of that use as defensive. Some Asians may think we want to “‘occupy’’ Vietnam in the old imperialist tradition, but they are clearly mistaken. (6) The writer is correct about the last point, since the purpose is not to occupy Vietnam in the old imperialist style but to use it in the new pentagonist style. Like all the rest of the goods of overdeveloped capitalism, te- levision, all at the sare time and in all the cities and towns of the country, an advantage that the President employs to serve the cause of pentagonism. Of these sixty million television viewers, the majority have been made pas- sive by the habit of watching te- levision; they are ready to ac- cept what they are told as long as it is presented with a good sales technique. Of course, when the President of the Republic speaks, he uses the best sales technique, with his, words care- all with the President of the Re- public, when it comes time to count the number of viewers, What other sectors of the coun- try, besides scientists, workers, and advertising men, benefit from pentagonism? Or, what is the same thing: What other groups are pentagonized? Businessmen on all levels. Large-scale commercial enter- prises are, of course, part of the pentagonist nucleus, but the less strong ones are pentagonized be- cause they secure advantages from the war economy. The com- mercial sector, formed by thou- sands of families throughout the whole nation, is perhaps the sec- tor that is most conscious of what large military expenditures mean in keeping a great con- sumers’ market functioning. De- mand stimulates the movement of enormous quantities of products of all sorts--necessary articles and superfluous articles--and businessmen are the ones who provide an outlet for this ocean of products. Everything that is sold passes through their hands and makes a profit for them. The pentagonist economy, with its high salaries and its rapid rate of development, has created a veritable paradise for American businessmen, Along with businessmen there are bankers of all sorts. Those who control large-scale banking are part of the pentagonist com- mand, but those in small-scale banking, bankers and _ bank employees in medium-sizedcit- ies and farmitowns,. findithem= selves in almost the same situa- tion as businessmen. This sec- tor of banking handles almost all the money that keeps medium- sized and smallbusinesses mov- ing, so that as this type of enter- prise buys more and sells more, the banks that are on a level below the large banks have a larger number of daily transac- tions, which in the last analysis means that they earn more money. Like their counterparts in busi- ness, these bankers have a clear understanding that the enormous economic activity of the country has a war economy as its base; thus this sector is also pentagon- ized, The truth is that the majority ef the groups in American so- ciety were pentagonized by the end of 1964, Political observers did not reulize this because in the elections of that year the candi- date who offered to use nuclear power in Vietnam lost and the candidate who said that such an extreme should not be resorted to won. The vote in 1964 thus ap- peared to be a plebiscite against the war, that is, against the al- most omnipotent, but still hidden, pentagonist movement. But polit- ical observers allowed them- selves to be confused by appear- ances or confused their own feel- ings with those of the people. In general, the observers were more or less liberals and voted against the nuclear part of Gold- water’s program, but the Amer- ican people voted against the Re- publican candidate because he an- nounced that if he won he would decentralize social security--that is to say, he would make social security dependent on the state governments, not the federal gov- ernment, In the minds of thegreat masses in the country this point in Goldwater’s program meant that he opposed social security. And it was the threatening aspect of this point, not what he said about the atomic bomb, that caused Goldwater's defeat. If he had said that he would use the atomic power of his country in Vietnam and that he would also raise pensions, reduce the re- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 9 tirement age, and increase health services without increasing their cost, the American people would have voted for him. Or in my case, he would have had a much greater number of votes. Let us not deceive ourselves and make a reality out of what we wish were true, The great mass of Americaus has been drugged by the spectacle of the fabulous wealth of their country and its impressive military power. This great mass will vote for the use of the A-bomb in Vietnam and anywhere else if the use of the bomb will bring them more security, more well-being, and flatter their national pride, A few months after the 1964 elec- tions, in May, 1965, more than 70 per cent of the population of the United States supported John- son in his decision to send Ma- rines to the Dominican Repub- lic, and in March, 1967, an ap- proximately equal number ap- proved escalating the bombing of North Vietnam, (7) This high a percentage--in both cases--sup- ported President Johnson in his pentagonist policy because he had proposed to the Congress a law extending medical benefits. The man who offers the American masses any kind of benefit will have their support for any type of foreign policy, because these masses haven't the least idea of anything outside of their fear of Communism and their hunger for advantages. It is significant that the public opinion poll made in March, 1967--in which an overwhelming majority was in favor of inten- sifying the bombing of Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam--took place after the New Yorks Times published a series of reports by one of its journalists who was in Hanoi and other places in North Viet- nam, In these reports he divulged that American bombs were kill- ing noncombatant women and chil- dren and destroying schools and homes. The articles in the Times provoked an uproar in liberal American circles, which com- mented on them in all the pub- licity »: media «within itheir reach. The poll indicated that these pro- tests had no effect on the ideas of the majority. Various. conclusions. can be drawn from this, but they all converge. We may conclude that The New York Times has little weight in the formation of the public opinion of the country; we may conclude that it has an im- portant influence but one that is limited to liberal circles; we may conclude that liberals do not ex- press either the feelings or the ideas of the majority of Amer- icans. This last seems the most probable. In any case, any one of these conclusions leads to the same reality: On the whole, the people of the United States are pentagonist or are being pentagon- ized; they believe in the power of arms and trust it to solve international problems, and therefore they do not hear those who preach the opposite. What Simon Bolivar in 1819 called the active minority of so- ciety, referring to the sector that puts itself at the head of a coun- try and leads it to fight for jus- tice aad freedom, no longer exists in the United States. The active minority in America is made up of men given over to the pas- sion for economic profit; and itis this” group that the people fol- low, qt the liberals. Liberals be- long to individualist society, which has disappeared in the Uni- - ted States, What there is now is a mass society which can be in- fluenced only by great displays of strength and massive means of information. The liberals do not have a chance to show a power equal to that of the Pentagon, nor can they ever manage toraise the money needed to cover the country with television programs. Those who have these two things at their disposal are the ones who benefit from pentagonism and from the government, which in its foreign policy is the agent of pentagonism; and it is these who form the opinion of the masses. Professors and students pro- ‘test American military action in far-off territories of poor. peo- CONTiOM.NEXT.PAGE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 10 CONT. FROM PAGE 3 Interview with C Attorney Charles R. Garry where he got shot in the abdomen and the bullet exited out his back was enough to cause a concu- Sion--an unconscious situation. And the court said that in view of that, when we submitted an instruction saying that if they be- lieved that Huey Newton was un- conscious at the time, that this act took place even if they be- lieved he did it, that they could not find him guilty. They would have to acquit him because an unconscious man, a person who doesn't know what he’s doing, can- not possibly be guilty of anything. Number two was the Grier tes- timony. Recall where the police withheld the tape, and the dis- trict attorney doctored up the tape where he said, ‘‘I did see Huey Newton's face.’’ When, in fact, twenty minutes after the event he said, ‘‘I didn’t mean I did see his face.’’ The third one was the one about the matter involy- ing Dell Ross. Dell Ross claimed in the Grand Jury hearing that he was kidnapped; that Huey Newton had a gun in his hand, and he said, ‘‘I just shot two dudes,"’ When the trial commenced and when hetook the witness stand he refused to testify and took the fifth amendment. And when they granted him ammunity without be- ing prosecuted for the case, he then said he didn'tremember. And when he saidhe didn't remember what had happened, the prosecut- ing attorney read all of his testi- money that he had given under the grand jury including the one where he said Huey Newton said, **I just shot two dudes,"’ And you'll remember, I’ve also taken his tape where he denied ever saying these things, and he said they just put words in his mouth, that he was frightened to make those statements. Since he would not testify, he alleged that he didn't remember anything. The district attorney read all of this so that the jury heard it. Then the judge said, ‘‘Ignore it.'’ Once you've heard something you can’t ignore it. You still remember what hap- pened, The fourth major point was the fact that since Huey New- ton had been convicted of an as- CHARLES R. GARRY The other morning I saw Bobby Seale at Midville prison. I spent a half hour with him and was he tickled to death to see me. It was a real surprise for him and a real pleasure for me. He’s taken off his beard, And I said, “fYou look naked brother. How come?" He said, ‘‘They wouldn’t let me go into the day room so I could mingle with the other bro- thers, They said, ‘As long as you've got a beard we're not going to let you do it." ’’ So he said, “Okay, bring.me a razor’’, So they brought him a razor and he took off his beard and he goes into the day room. But he is now on a hunger strike in protest of them making him take his beard off. He’s already taken off about six or seven pounds, He was on a hunger strike for sault charge at one time, and since he did not have an attorney, we maintained that he was entitled to have an attorney and that he did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to counsel, The court said that there should have been an independent hearing on that--as to whether Huey know- ingly and intentionally and will- fully knowing all of his rights, waived his right to counsel. Those were the four fundamental points. There are many other points such as the jury selection, andthe grand jury, andthe court in those areas said, that we had not shown enough of a factual discrimination against Black people and young people and poor people in the selection of the jury, that they would com- ment on it at this time. Q. Charles, after the sixty days and they don't decide to give him bail and he goes back to Ala- meda County, will he just stay there? A, He'll stay there until his case comes up for trial, if he doesn’t make bail. Q. Do you think that this reversal will have any affect on your other cases? A, Well I don’t know what affect it will have on other cases ex- cept that as we get stronger legally, and in our determina- tion politically out in the street, and we do our homework, and our political work, and our educa- tional work, we’re going to be able to have more power, That's what we mean when we say “ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE." And this is an example of what can be done with solidarity. But this is only a small victory, although it’s a great victory for our leader- ship, because it shows that we’re fighting back and we’re not going to take anything lying down. Don’t forget that the enemy is a lot stronger than we think they are. The enemy is the most powerful military might in the world, and the most oppressive nation in the VISITS CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE about tour days up until Sunday when I was there. He's in good spirits and he’s just a beautiful man, He just keeps growing in omentality and maturity and .evelopment both politically and emotionally. He's going to be on the hunger strike until they get over this business of forcing peo- ple to take their beards off. He said it’s not so much the beard, but it’s the regimentation, the de- pravation and the harassment of degrading a human being just be- cause he happens to be confined in jail or in prison awaiting trial. Or even after trial he shouldn't have to be degraded in this kind of a degrading inhuman fashion. And he said as we have more and more brothers who are sent to prison for political activity, we have to become more and more vigilant to be able to make the conditions in prisons more hu- manized, A place that human be- ings can relate to. ‘‘As long as there are going to be prisons,"’ he said, ‘‘we want to live in a dignified fashion. Not as a com- mon ordinary animal that's been led around by its nose,” He’s heard about the decision on Huey’s case and he said when he heard about it he just let out world today. Q. In the event of a retrial and there is a racist judge and a racist district attorney, and a racist jury, what chances will Huey Newton have? A, I will say this: that the case against Huey Newton is so weak that even a racist judge and a racist jury will have to acquit him, But of course, we're not going to sit there with our hands tied behind our back. We're going to see that we’re not going to have a racist jury and no matter how much they try to give us a racist jury I hope that in the next six months or eight months when we retry the case of Huey P, Newton, that we have more power on the Street today so that we can at least have some semblance of justice so that we can do our homework when we get out of jail. CHIEF ATTORNEY FOR THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Charles R. Garry a whoop! And a Wop! And he just carried on and carriedonand he said that he almost brought the prison down. As a matter of fact he was so jubilant over it, that the fact that he hadn’t eaten for four days seemed to be irre- levant to him. But he did say that every step must be taken to see that money is raised to see that Huey is out onthe streets and able to give the leadership that he’s been giving all these years; so that he can start cement- ing the community, both Black and White, so that we can have the solidarity that we are talking about constantly. CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE PENTAGONIZED SOCIETY ples; they do so in paid announce- ments in newspapers and maga- zines that are read only by those who are convinced beforehand of what the ads say, Many of these ‘dissenters’? protest at a num- ber of universities and research centers that are financed by pen- tagonism. This paradox explains why, when the time came to liq- uidate the protest movement that shook the University of California at Berkeley--a giant, even in American terms--it was easy to dismiss the chancellor of the uni- versity, who was accused of the crime of thinking as the students who protested did. (8) The American liberal sector, which grows smaller andsmaller, is already an exotic bloom, the product of a society that has been liquidated. There remain a few liberals who survive for biolog- ical reasons, owing to their ad- vanced aye, The natural expres- sion of a mass society in a sys- tem of free competition is pen- tagonism, not liberalism. Lib- erals were an understandable phe- nomenon in the era of individualist capitalism in the nineteenth cen- tury and the beginning of this century, but not in the era of overdeveloped capitalism, There are a few young people who, when they graduate, «classify them- selves as liberals as if this were a profession, but there is no rea- son for this; these young people know that on certain occasions the) government» needs men with TIE HORRORS OF CAMBOD. BLACK COMMUNITY. liberal credentials to send on mis- sions that cannot be carried through by known pentagonists. In every case, without exception, this curious type of liberal can be re- cognized, because in his denun- ciations of the policy of his gov- ernment that he publishes in ‘‘lib- eral” reviews, there is always a paragraph--the key paragraph-- in which he agrees with the of- ficial policy. The uncertain attitude of many American liberals is explained by the fact that it is difficult, or rather, impossible, to live in any era with the ideas and the feel- ings of a bygone era, The case of Theodore Draper is unique and is owing to the fact that this acute observer is endowed with exceptional intelligence andcrea- tive sensibility, both of these being accompanied by a tenacity and an intellectual honesty that is beyond question. His exam- ple, however, is not easy to fol- low for those who do not have his qualifications (9) FOOTNOTES * (1) The Daily Telegraph, London, Tuesday, August 22, 1967. Acable from the AP dated from Brus- sels the day before, with the fig- ures coming from the Common Market Commission, The cable, published under the title ‘‘Bri- tain Worst Hit in Europe ‘Brain Drain,’ '"‘ refersto'scientists from Holland, Germany, France, and Great Britain, (2) Eugene Methven, in an art- icle entitled ‘‘Labor’s New Weap- on for Democracy,’’ Reader’s Digest, October, 1966, p. 21. (8) The gross national product in the year 1967 reached $781,500,- 000,000--that is, an increase of $42,000,000 over the year 1966-- which amounts to a little more than $200 per capita in that year. We do not know, however, what part of this increase correspon- ded to war production, although doubtless it is high. (4) The Times, London, August 29, 1967, The Times Business Section, page 15. The exact fig- ures are $861,190,000 for news- papers and magazines and $1,969,600,000 for television. () These figures also come from The Times, London, August 29, 1967, The Times Business Sec- tion. This is not the source, how- ever, of the gross profit of ad- vertising agencies, which was cal- culated on the basis of 17,65 per cent of total billings, and covers all agencies, (6) Edwin L. Dale, Jr., in ‘‘The U,S, Economic Giant Keeps Grow- ing,"’ in The New York Times Magazine, March 19, 1967, pp. 31, 135-140, 146-152. (7) At no time during 1967 did the Vietnam war fail to receive the support of a majority. In the month of September, 58 per cent of the American people sup- ported the war, and this was the lowest percentage of the year, for in December it rose to 61 per cent. The well-known Harris Survey conducted polls in Feb- ruary, July, August, September, and December, 1967, and with the exception of the last two polls mentioned, all were over 70 per cent. Harris's last survey was in February, 1968--that is, at the height of the Viet Cong Tet of- fensive--and it showed that the country’s support of the Vietnam war had reached 74 per cent (The New York Times, February 13, 1968), On February 19, 1968, the London Times published on the front page a report by its Wash- ington correspondent, dated Washington, February 18, with a summary of the findings of aGall- up poll published that day in the United States. According to this report, ‘‘the number of those who criticized the President because they would like to see a general increase in the military effort in Vietnam has grown from 56 to 61 per cent.'’ (8) We are referring here to the replacement of President Clark Kerr by Charles Johnson Hitch, a man with very close ties to the Pentagon who has worked for the Rand Corporation and the Depart- & VIETNAM IS NOTHING NEW TO THE a. ment of Defense. A full report on Hitch’s pentagonist activities may be found in The Nation, De- cember 15, 1967, pp. 682-685. (9) While I was President of the Dominican Republic I received a cablegram from a well-known American liberal who had made a name for himself as asupporter of better treatment for Latin America, In 1963 this liberal, a mature man, was a member of the board of directors of a power- ful sugar company in the United States and he cabled me asking me to sell sugar or one of its derivatives to his company, The Dominican state owned various sugar plants, but Iwas notaseller of sugar, nor had it ever oc- curred to me that this American political figure dealt in sugar. At that time sugar prices were going up in the world market, so thatein defense of the inter- ests of my country I asked that sales not be madeexceptat prices that had previously been stip- ulated to be the proper ones. Some years later, at the time of the pentagonist intervention in my country, this liberal wrote’ an article in The New York Times Book Review that pictured me as a public calamity for the Domin- ican Republic. This liberal was Adolf Berle, (Chapter Four, taken from the book, PENTAGONISM, A Substi- tute for Imperialism, by Juan Borsch) The time has come for Black men to realize one essential fact of life, one cannot serve the slave- master at will, and be excused from the anger and wrath of the slave seeking his freedom. It has always been the nature of the imperialist, racist, oppres- sive nations to exploit the lives of those who are being oppressed in as cold calculated, cold-blooded a manner as possible. One of these most outstanding ways has been and still is the using of the oppressed as policemen, soldiers, cannon fod- der, bullet stoppers, shock troops on the altar of human sacrifice created by capitalists in their wars of aggression against mankind. This tactic has been used by past im- perialist empire building nations such as Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Rus- sia, Today it is being used by the imperialistic government of the United States. The American government in its desire to maintain its oppressive, exploitative position throughout the world has had to allot outstanding sums of money for the maintaining and developing of its oppressive forces throughout the world, And has had to arm its own national police forces with the same weap- CAMBODIA: NEW SATELLITE OF U.S. IMPERIALISM President Richard Nixon again insults the intelligenceof the think- ing people by cottiing on T,V, and releasing his ‘statement on Cam- bodia. This international thief, this universal burglar, has the audacity to say that, “‘If the South Viet- namese continue to’ attack our American fighting’ men while we are withdrawing from Vietnam, we will have to escalate our fighting Until the enemy is ‘destroyed.’’ This criminal ‘nation entered Vietnam, against the will of the Vietnamese people, and dares to get uptight because the Vietnamese people wish to speed that ‘exit’, The ‘withdrawal’, is a giant, jive job against the American people, Those who miraculously ‘leave’ Vietnam, either end up as, or is replaced by fresh fas- cists as support shock troops in Cambodia . In an attempt to mold the ‘‘neutral Cambodia’’ into a support force for Babylon, an anti- THE TIME ons it uses to fight its imper- ijalist, adventuristic wars through- out the third world, To say that this is reaching into the jaws of certain destruction for American imperialism is not good enough for the oppressed people being sub- jected by these forces. The op- pressed themselves must become aware of the nature of their ex- ploited selves. The oppressed must begin to resist the tools of op- pression which are placed before them. For these tools are the tools for death and destruction, all in the name of justice. The oppressed have to be made aware that they are an expendable commodity for “American imperialism and her fascist government. The oppressed must be educated to realize that the Black policeman is not a pro- tector of lives, but a protector of White business property. The Black policeman must be given the under- standing that the Black community will not stand by idle while he goes through his minstrel act for the benefit of racist, fascist America. We will demand a show of solidarity from him, or else consider him the willing tool of American justice, The same message must be con- veyed tothe Black serviceman communist satellite of Babylon, Richard ‘no-mouth’ Nixon, with his rat-like sneak-swine self, is the murderer, With a word he ° could stop the running of the blood in Vietnam and in the Black colonies throughout racist Amer- ica. But to do so would provide a painful dropinthe economic level at home. His greed and inhuman desires for bigger bucks, out- weighs our visions of the buckets of blood. Eldridge Cleaver said that ‘'he can stop that war right now. He has nothing to do but pick up his telephone and say, Say, brother pig in the Pentagon, send out this order. Withdraw the pigs from the Vietnamese cominunity, and let the Vietnamese people reconstruct the damage that we have done.”’ Richard Nothing, do you hear me?? The American people reject your latest trick speech, written by Jonathan Winters, or -better THE BLACK PANTHER, e HAS COME! | fighting in the name of American acts are to be considered accom- imperialism. No longer can we ac- Plices of these oppressing acts. cept the jellyfish like attitude of _ It is in this manner that point Blacks in America’s armed forc- No.6 of the Black Panther Party’s es, when asked why they serve Platform and Program becomes this country as tools of oppres- highly relevant to the Black man sion. Is there any difference be- in America and the oppressed peo- tween the killing of Vietnamese by ple in the third world. We say a Black soldier and the killing of ‘(We want all Black men to be a Black man by that soldier here exempt from military service.’ in America? Is there any differ- We further say ‘‘We believe that ence in the killing of a Black free- Black people should not be forced dom fighter in Haiti by Black sol- to fight in the military service diers than the killing of Panthers to defend a racist government that by Black policemen here in Amer- does not protect us.% And still ica? Is there any difference in the Blacks volunteer their lives, their killing of Angolans by Black sol- blood to the slavemaster. ‘‘We will diers in the service of Portugal not fight and kill other people of and the killing of Cambodian free- color in the world, who like Black dom fighters by Black servicemen people are being victimized by the in the service of America? There White racist government of Amer- cannot be any difference beyond ica,’’ And still Blacks wearing the the difference of location. American symbol of oppression kill Vietnam- imperialism is the same through- mese and Cambodians, ‘‘We will out the world, its end results are protect ourselves from the force the same, and its denial of human and violence of the racist police rights are the same, its exploita- and the racist military, by what- tive nature is the same through- ever means necessary’’, to this out the world, its divide and con- we have -the L.A. 18. To this we quer tactics, its playing both ends have the correct response to Amer- against the middle, its sly, insid- ica and her tools of oppression. ious piss-ant like attitude toward ALL POWER third world countries and their peo- Teen hehe poorer ple is of a constant nature, And Political Prisoner, N.Y, 21 those who help America in these y4q. 970 FREE MOTLEY yet Ronnie ‘‘Mickey Mouse’’ Rea- gan, as ‘‘darkness in the middle of the day”, as material solely for the toilet. And as for your little ‘‘thing’’ on anarchists, we are not anarchists; we know what type of government we desire: one of, by, and for the people, (Never before practiced in America) So let the lines be drawn eversharp- er, We know you, as the orderer of the executions, as the boss of the street ‘justifiable homi- cides’, as the chief warden of the concentration camps. We know you,| You are the Standard Bearer of the q Donald) threw out Swastica, The blood is on your hands, Macbeth sawthe dagger, but there is no hope for you. And we will not rest, no we can’t rest} till you and your lackeys are reduced to dry bones and rubble, under our people’s feet, as new vic- tories are surmounted to create a solid people’s government, On Wednesday May 13, Pvt. Wilbert Z. Motley, 5-70th Eng. Co. of the 7th battalion Ft. Car- son, was sentenced to 70 days in the stockade plus forfeiture of two thirds pay for three months. ‘Technically,Motley was ontrial for communicating a threat but clearly he was prosecuted on this charge because he had exercisedi his» rights of freedom: Of ‘speech SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 11 LETTER FROM BLACK BROTHER IN THE FASCIST ARMY Brothers, this letter is written from a fellow Black man from Phil- adelphia, and this letter is to let you Know about thefascistpigs in the beast army. You already know a- bout the pressure being put onthe Black men in the racist military and Black men in the racist United States of America as a whole. Re- cently, I spoke up for the Black Panther Party against the pig po- wer structure in a debate andtried to get the brothers to raise money for Huey’s birthday benefit, and they wanted to arrest me for trea- son. They also tried to claim that I was throwing Black Power salutes at their so-called flag. They even made me cut my Afro saying it looked out of place. And when! told them I wanted to join the Panthers, and a couple of other brothers, the pigs and their Tomming nigger henchmen really blew their gung ho stacks, Recently a brother from Memphis, the one who spoke out with me, was also hit with a trea- son charge the same time that I was, but was released with me when the pigs couldn't pick up enough evidence, was framed with a nar- cotic charge, The pigs in racist Jacksonville, N.C. said he had some marijuana on him. They charged him with a $300.00 fine and seven months pro- bation with restriction to the base with no leave and no pay, not even to go past the front gate. Now they are trying to give him a dishonorable discharge. Thereare hundreds of brothers involved in cases like this. But we are power- less to do anything about it, And a lot of brothers are afraid to speak out, because of White back lash, But 1 don’t care, we can't take this lying down. Now is the time for the people to rise up and fight back. Now is the time to strike, [hope to join your Party one day as soon as possible. Because the Black Panther Party movement is the best Black movement that the bro- thers have going today. Please print this letter so that the bro- thers and sisters back home know what’s going on, And I'll be proud to sign my name to it. Also ’'ll keep on informing you if the pigs don’t throw me in jail. Inthe mean- time let’s keep ourselves together and show some Black pride, MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE PFC W. Jackson 2610805 Headquaters A-CO 2nd AMTRAC BN FT. F.M.F ATL, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina 28542 and press. Motley regularly passed out the Black Panther newspaper and discussed it with other G.1s in his unit, The charges were filed against Motley when, after an argument. with a sergeant, he said, “I’m going to kill that mother’’. Two witnesses testified that the words referred to the sergeant, but Mot- ley himself testified that he had said the words to himself, while facing his bunk, and he was think- ing not about Sgt. Alley, but about what it is to be a black man in this country. "a All witnesses agreed that the ser-' geant was already out of the room and at the bottom of the stairs, He could not have heard Motley’s' words. The one_man court,.Capt. Mac- the original charge but found Motley guilty of § the lesser charge of provoking words, The presence of 30 people in the court including Gis } Panthers, Home Front staff and» other civilians may have influenced, his decision. MacDonald recom-. mended that the sentence be sus- pended until appeal proceedings’ could take place. But the colonel in charge refused and ordered Motley to the stockade immedi- ately. G.I. political prisoners will not. ‘be free until we shut the war machine down, Jaiid work FRBE ‘THE “PT.” CARSON? 263000!7 "he'following article introduces a new series of articles on the ideology of the Black Panther Party by our Minister of Information, Eldridge cleaver. | This article can not be re—printed with out the permission >t the National Ministry of Information of the Black Panther Party (Part 1) By Eldridge Cleaver We have said: the ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experience of Black people and the wisdom gained by Black people in their 400 year long struggle against the system of racist oppression and economic exploitation in Babylon, interpreted through the prism of the Marxist-Leninist analysis by our Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, However, we must place heavy emphasis upon the last part of that definition -- ‘interpreted...by our Minister of Defense,.’, The world of Marxism-Leninism has become a jungle of opinion in which conflicting interpretations, from Right Revisionism to Left Dogmatism,foist off their reactionary and blind philosophies Marxism-Leninism, Around the world and in every nation people, all who call themselves Marxist-Leninists, are at each other’s throats, Such a situation presents serious problems to a young party, such as ours, that is still in the process of refining its ideology. When we say that we are Marxist-Leninists, we mean that we have studied and understood the classical principles of scientific socialism and that we have adapted these principles to our own situation for ourselves, However, we do not move with a closed mind tonew ideas or information, At the same time, we know that we must rely upon our own brains in solving ideological problems as they relate to us, For too long Black people have relied upon the analyses and ideological perspectives of others, Our struggle has reached a point now where it would be absolutely suicidal for us to continue this posture of dependency. No other people in the world are in the same position as we are, and no other people in the world can get us out of it except ourselves, There are those who are all too willing to do our thinking for us, even if it gets us killed, However, they are not willing to follow through and do our dying for us, If thoughts bring about our deaths, let them at least be our own thoughts, so that we will have broken, once and for all, with the flunkeyism of dying for every cause and every error -- except our own, One of the great contributions of Huey P, Newton is that he gave the Black Panther Party a firm ideological foundation that frees us from ideological flunkeyism and opens up the path to the future -- a future to which we must provide 1 new Ideological : formulations to fit our ever ean, ing. situation, | i bli) EN Much -- most -- of the teachings of rey P, “Newton are iE RE Eh oelitive: hac haem nisaged in a I as revolutionary. ON THE IDEOLOGY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY By Eldridge Cleaver ) Marx defined the epoch of the bourgeoisie and laid bare the direction of the Proletarian future. He analyzed Capitalism and defined the méthod of its doom: VIOLENT REVOLUTION BY THE PROLETARIAT AGAINST THE BOURGEOIS STATE APPARATUS OF CLASS OPPRESSION AND REPRESSION, REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE AGAINST THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY CLASS VIOLENCE | THE ABOVE PAMPHLET IS NOW ON SALE! Every Black person knows “thatthe wind may change at any given moment and that the Lynch Mob, made up of White members of the ‘‘Working Class’’, might come breathing down his neck if not kicking down his door, It is because of these factors that when we begin to talk about being Marxist-Leninists, we must be very careful to make it absolutely clear just what we are talking about, On the subject of racism, Marxism-Leninism offers us very little assistance, In fact, there is much evidence that Marx and Engels were themselves racists -- just like their White brothers and sisters of their era, and just as many Marxist-Leninists of our own time are also racists. Historically, Marxism-Leninism has been an outgrowth of European problems andithas been primarily preoccupied with finding solutions to European problems, 4 With the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948 and the People’s Republic of China in 1949, something new was injected into Marxism-Leninism, and it ceased to be just a narrow, exclusively European phenomenon, Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Mao Tse-tung applied the classical principles of Marxism- Leninism to the conditions in their own countries and thereby made the ideology into something useful for their people, But they rejected that part of the analysis that was not beneficial to them and had only to do with the welfare of Europe, Given the racist history of the United States, it is very difficult for Black people to comfortably call themselves Marxist-Leninists or anything else that takes itsnamefrom White people, It’s like praying to Jesus, a White man, We must emphasize the fact that Marx and Lenin didn’t invent Socialism, They only added their contributions, en- riching the doctrine, just as many others did before them and after them, And we must remember that Marx and Lenin didn’t organize the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale did, Not until we reach Fanon do we find a major Marxist- Leninist theoretician who was primarily concerned about the problems of Black people, wherever they may be found, And even Fanon, in his published works, was pri- marily focused on Africa, It is only indirectly that his works are beneficial to Afro-Americans, It is just easier to relate to Fanon because he is clearly free ofthat racist bias that blocks out so much about the Black man in the hands of Whites who are primarily interested inthemselves and the problems of their own people, But even though we are able to relate heavily to Fanon, he has not given us the last word on applying the Marxist-Leninist analysis to our problems inside the United States, No one is going to do this for us because no one can, We have to do it ourselves, and until we do, we are going to be uptight. We must take the teachings of Huey P. Newton as our foundation and go,from there, Any other course will vet us to.a sorry and regrettable end. ‘ Fanon delivered a devastating attack upon Marxism- Ty pwstenterews Same. 264. ah cot de es ee ee an dain 08 ie elon aca Ce opens up the path to the future -- a future to which we must 0 j 4 to fit our ever chan, ~ provic dois ee formulations fi Ki iB ing | tion, 2p ena e == -- most ~~ of the teachings of ie Py ‘Newton ! are unig: to the ‘the people because Huey has been placed in a position where it is impossible for him to really communi- cate with us, And much that he taught while he was free has gotten distorted and watered down precisely because the Black Panther Party has been too hung up in relating to the courts and trying to put on a good face in order to help ‘lawyers convince juries of the justice of our cause. This whole court hang-up has created much confusion, For instance, many people confuse the Black Panther Party with the Free Huey Movement or the many other mass activities that we have been forced to indulge in in order to build mass support for our comrades who have gotten captured by the pigs. We are absolutely correct in indulging in such mass activity, But we are wrong when we confuse our mass line with our party line, Essentially, what Huey did was to provide the ideology and the methodology for organizing the Black Urban Lumpen- proletariat, Armed with this ideological perspective and method, Huey transformed the Black lumpenproletariat from the forgotten people at the bottom of society into the vanguard of the proletariat, There is a lot of confusion over whether we are members of the Working Class or whether we are Lumpenproletariat, It is necessary to confront this confusion, because it has a great deal to do with the strategy and tactics that we follow and with our strained relations with the White radicals from the oppressor section of Babylon, Some so-called Marxist-Leninists will attack us for what we have to say, but that is a good thing and not a bad thing because some people call themselves Marxist- ' Leninists who are the downright enemies of Black people, Later for them, We want them to step boldly forward, jas they will do -- blinded by their own stupidity and racist arrogance -- so that it will be easier for us to deal with them in the future, . We make these criticisms in a fraternal spirit of how some Marxist-Leninists apply the classical principles to the specific situation that exists in the United States be- cause we believe in the need for a unified revolutionary movement in the United States, a movement that is in- formed by the revolutionary principles of scientific social- ism, Huey P. Newton says that ‘‘poweris the ability to define phenomena and make it act in a desired manner,’’ And we need power, desperately, to counter the power of the pigs that now bears so heavily upon us, Ideology is a comprehensive definition of a status quo that takes into account both the history and the future ,of that status quo and serves as the social glue that holds -& people together and through which a people relate to the world and other groups of people in the world, The -correct ideology is an invincible weapon against the oppres- sor in our struggle for freedom and liberation, Gapltalism ana CerimMea the MetlOoa OF tts GOON, VY RING REVOLUTION BY THE PROLETARIAT AGAINST THE BOURGEOIS STATE APPARATUS OF CLASS OPPRESSION AND REPRESSION, REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE AGAINST THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY CLASS VIOLENCE PERPETRATED THROUGH THE SPECIAL REPRESSIVE FORCE OF THE ARMED TENTICLES OF THE STATE, This great definition by Marx and Engels became the mightiest weapon in the hands of oppressed people in the history of ideology, It marks a gigantic advance for all mankind, And since Marx’s time, his definition has been strengthened, further elaborated, illumined, and further refined, 4 But Marxism has never really dealt with the United States of America, There have been some very nice at- tempts. People have done the best that they know how, However, in the past, Marxist-Leninists in the United States have relied too heavily upon foreign, imported ana- lyses and have seriously distorted the realities of the American scene, We might say that the Marxism-Leninism of the past belongs to the gestation period of Marxism- Leninism in the United States, and that now is the time when a new, strictly American ideological synthesis will arise, springing up from the hearts and souls of the oppressed people inside Babylon, and uniting these people and hurling them mightily, from the force of their struggle, into the future, The swiftly developing revolution in America is like the gathering of a mighty storm, and nothing can stop that storm from finally bursting, inside America, washing away the pigs of the power structure and all their foul, oppressive works, And the children of the pigs and the oppressed people will dance and spit upon the common graves of these pigs, There are some Black Peopldln the United States who are absolutely happy, who donot feelthemselves to be oppressed, and who think that they are free, Some even believe that the President wouldn’t lie, and that he is more or less an honest man; that Supreme Court decisions were almost written by ‘god in person; that the Police are Guardians of the Law; and that people who do not have jobs are just plain lazy and good-for nothing and should be severely punished, These are like crabs that must be left to boil a little longer in the pot of oppression before they will be ready and willing to relate, But the overwhelming majority of Black people are uptight, know that they are oppressed and not free; and they wouldn’t believeNixon if he confessed to being a pig; they don’t relate to the Supreme Court or any other court; and they know that the racist pig cops are their sworn enemies, As for poverty, they know what it is all about, These millions of Black people have no political repre- sentation, they are unorganized, and they do not own or control any of ‘the natural resources; they neither own nor control any of the industrial machinery, and their daily life is a hustle to make it by any means necessary in the struggle to survive, We must take the teachings « of Huey, PY _ Newton as 3 our foundation and go from there, Any other course will bring us to.a sorry and regretta e end. £ Fanon delivered a devastating attack upon Marxism- Leninism for its narrow preoccupation with Europe and the affairs and salvation of White folks, while lumping all third world peoples into the category of the Lumpen- proletariat and then forgetting them there; Fanon un- earthed the category of the Lumpenproletariat and began to deal with it, recognizing that vast majorities of the colonized people fall into that category, It is because of the fact that Black people in the United States are also colonized that Fanon’s analysis is so relevant to us, After studying Fanon, Huey P, Newton and Bobby Seale began to apply his analysis of colonized people to Black people in the United States. They adopted the Fanonian perspective, but they gave it a uniquely Afro-American content, Just as we must make the distinctions between the mother country and the colony when dealing with Black people and White people as a whole, we must also make this distinction when we deal with the categories of the Working Class and the Lumpenproletariat, We have, in the United States, a ‘‘Mother Country Work- ing Class’’ and a ‘‘Working Class from the Black Colony’’. We also have a Mother Country Lumpenproletariat and a Lumpenproletariat from the Black Colony, Inside the Mother Country, these categories are fairly stable, but when we look at the Black Colony, we find that the hard and fast distinctions melt away, This is because of the leveling effect of the colonial process and the fact that all Black people are colonized, even if some of them oc- cupy favored positions in the schemes of the Mother Coun- try colonizing exploiters, There is a difference between the problems of the Mother Country Working Class and the Working Class from the Black Colony, There is also a differece between the Mother Country Lumpen and the Lumpen from the Black Colony. We have nothing to gain from trying to smooth over these differences as though they don’t exist, because they are objective facts that must be dealt with, To make this point clear, we have only to look at the long and bitter history of the struggles of Black Colony Workers fighting for democracy inside Mother Country Labor Unions, Historically, we have fallen into the trap of criticizing mother country labor unions and workers for the racism as ‘an explanation for the way they treat Black workers, Of course, they are racist, but this is not the full explana- tion, White workers belong to a totally different world than that of Black workers, They are caught up ina totally different economic, political, and social reality, and on CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 14 CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE ON THE IDEOLOGY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, MINISTER OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY the basis of this distinct reality, the pigs of the power 3tructure and treacherous labor leaders find it very easy to manipulate them with Babylonian racism, This complex reality presents us with many problems, and only through proper analysis can these problems be solved, The lack of a proper analysis is responsible for the ridiculous approach to these problems that we find among Mother Country Marxist-Leninists, And their im- proper analysis leads them to advocate solutions that are doomed to failure in advance, The key area of the con- fusion has to do with falsely assuming the existence of one All-American Proletariat; one All-American Work- ing Class; and one All-American Lumpenproletariat, O.K, We are Lumpen, Right on, The Lumpenproletariat are all those who have no secure relationship or vested interest in the means of production and the institutions of capitalist society, That part of the ‘‘Industrial Reserve Army” held perpetually in reserve; who have never worked and never will; who can’t find a job; who are unskilled and unfit; who have been displaced by machines, automation, and cybernation, and were never ‘‘retained or invested with new skills’’; all those on Welfare or receiving State Aid, Also the so-called ‘‘Criminal Element’’, those who live by their wits, existing off that which they rip off, who stick guns in the faces of businessmen and say ‘stick’em up’, or ‘give it up’! Those who don’t even want a job, who hate to work and can’t relate to punching some pig’s time clock, who would rather punch a pig in the mouth and rob him than punch that same pig’s time clock and work for him, those whom Huey P, Newton calls ‘‘the illegitimate capitalists’, In short, all those who simply have been locked out of the économy and robbed of their rightful social heritage. But even though we are Lumpen, we are still members of the Proletariat, a category which theoretically cuts across national boundaries but which in practice leaves something to be desired, CONTRADICTIONS WITHIN THE PROLETARIAT OF THE USA In both the Mother Country and the Black Colony, the Working Class is the Right Wing of the Proletariat, and the Lumpenproletariat is the Left Wing, Within the Working Class itself, we have a major contradiction between the Unemployed and the Employed, And we definitely have a' major contradiction between the Working Class and the Lumpen, Some blind so-called Marxist-Leninists accuse the Lumpen of being parasites upon the Working Class, This is‘ a-stupid charge derived from 1eading toomany of Marx’s footnotes and taking some of his offharid@seWwrrildas* re-’ marks for holy writ. In reality, it is accurate to say that the Working Class, particulary the American Working Class, is a parasite upon the heritage of mankind, of which the Lumpen has been totally robbed by the rigged system of Capitalism which in turn, has thrown the ma- jority of mankind upon the junkheap while it buys off a percentage with jobs and security, The Working Class that we must deal with today shows little resemblance to the Working Class of Marx’s day, In the days of its infancy, insecurity, and instability, the Working Class was very revolutionary and carried forward the struggle against the bourgeoisie, But through long and bitter struggles, the Working Class has made some inroads into the Capitalist system, carving out a comfortable niche for itself, The advent of Labor Unions, Collective Bar- gaining, the Union Shop, Social Security, and other special protective legislation has castrated the Working Class, transforming it into the bought-off Labor Movement -- a most un-revolutionary, reformist minded movement that is only interested in higher wages and more job security, The Labor Movement has abandoned all basic criticism of the Capitalist system of exploitation itself, TheGeorge Meanys, Walter Reuthers, and A, Phillip Randolphs may correctly be labelled traitors to the proletariat as a whole, but they accurately reflect and embody the outlook and aspirations of the Working Class, The Communist Party of the United States of America, at its poorly attended meetings, may raise the roof withits proclamations of being the Vanguard of the Working Class, but the Working Class itself looks upon the Democratic Party as the legitimate vehicle of its political salvation, As a matter of fact, the Working Class of our time has become a new industrial elite, resembling more the chau- vanistic elites of the selfish craft and tradeguildsof Marx’s time than the toiling masses ground down in abject poverty. Every job on the market in the American Economy today demands as high a complexity of skills as did the jobs in the elite trade and craft guilds of Marx’s time, In a highly mechanized economy, it cannot be said that the fantastically high productivity is the product solely of the Working Class, Machines and computers are not members of the Working Class, although some spokes- men for the Working Class, particularly some Marxist- Leninists, seem to think like machines and computers, The flames of revolution, which once raged like an inferno in the heart of the Working Class, in our day have dwindled into a flickering candle light, only power- ful enough to bounce the Working Class back and forth like a ping pong ball between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party every four years, never once even glancing at the alternatives on the Left. WHO SPEAKS FOR THE LUMPEN PROLETARIAT? Some Marxist-Leninists are guilty of that class egotism and hypocrisy ‘often displayed by superior classes to those beneath them on the social scale, On the one hand, they free- ly admit that their organizations are specifically designed to represent the interests of the Working Class, But then they go beyond that to say that by representing the interests of the Working Class, they represent the interest of the Proletariatas a whole, This is clearly not true,. This is a fallacious assumption based upon the egotism of these organizations and is partly responsible for their miserable failure to make a revolution in Babylon, And since there clearly is a contradiction between the right wing and the left wing of the Proletariat, just as the right wing has created its ownorganizations, itis necessary for the left wing to have its form of organization,to repre- sent its interests against all hostile classes -- including the Working Class, & o The contradiction between the Lumpen and the Working Class is very serious because it even dictates a different strategy and set of tactics, The students focus.their rebel- lions on the campuses, and the Working Class focuses its rebellions on the factories and picket lines, But the Lumpen finds itself in the peculiar position of being unable to find a job and therefore is unable to attend the Universi- ties. The Lumpen has no choice but to manifest its rebel- lion in the University of the Streets, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE NIGGER PIGS! CO-EXECUTIONERS Bob Neil ( 26 years old) awork- er for Doyle, Dane, and Bernbach Corporation, while on his lunch break with a friend of his, Will Ramos (21 years old ) who also worked for the same company in advertising, had just entered Bryant Park when four pigs were taking four people in for possess- ion of marijauna The brothers first didn't know that two of the pigs( niggers )were pigs because they didn’t have uni- forms on, and one had on a red black, and green liberation but- ton, (trying to pretend and fool the people into thinking they were just like them only doing their job. But we still say a pig, is a pig, One thing that we must make special note of is that it is not always a White pig that will attack us, On the contrary, it may take the form of their lackeys, Black pigs. The power structure knows that White people and White pigs especially have been generally de- clared the enemy of Black people, but that Afro-liberation button- wearing Black pig has a good chance of sneaking through and attacking his so-called brothers. But just as the days of the White pigs are numbered, the days of the Black pigs who infiltrate the revolutionary groups posing as THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 15 act as co-executioners,as Brother , Malcolm said, ‘‘are long gone too’. These are without a doubt the scum of the earth who in an attempt to save their own skins will stoop tu any level of boot- licking, including murder to serve the oppressor. me, —— ARM YOURSELF OR HARM eee al ~ YOURSELF ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE se ns Lauryn Williams Harlem Branch is a pig.) fellow liberators, but who in fact Watching near by were two White girls, and Bob and Will went over to them to find out what was hap- pening. While in the process of talking to the girls , the twonigger pigs came up to the brothers. The pig with the liberation buttoncame directly up to Bob and hit him in the chest with the butt of his gun and started dragging him off tothe © pig sty. Never at any point did the ae pigs state that Bob or Will were ) = ee under arrest, that they had any. re * rights, nor did they show any I.D, 3 % But since these nigger pigs had fe the power of thegun overthe broth- ers, They were able to get away with this foul game. This kind of % thing could never have happened in a community where the people were able to defend themselves as they should according to their hu- * man rights. a This is not an unusual thing to » happen to Black people, It is just another lesson to Black people in America, that it makes no differ- encewhat kindof so-called respect- able ~ position you.are sitting in; it can be a very big paying position, such as the one that Bob and Will hold or it can be the job of a beg- ! gar of the streets. But to the pigs - you are just another nigger and they could care less about your positions. CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE Black Panther Party Black brothers harassed by nigger pig NIGGER PIGS DEFILE BRYANT PARK WITH VIOLENCE ON THE IDEOLOGY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY It’s very important to recognize that the streets belong to the Lumpen, and that it is in the streets that the Lumpen will make their rebellion, One outstanding characteristic of the liberation struggle of Black people in the United States has been that most of the activity has taken place in the streets, This is because, by and large, the rebellions have been spear- headed by Black Lumpen, It is because of Black people’s lumpen relationship to the means of production and the institutions of the society that they are unable to manifest their rebellion around those means of production and institutions, But this does not mean that the rebellions that take place in the streets are not legitimate expressions of an oppressed people, These are the means of rebellion left open to the Lumpen, The Lumpen have been locked outside of the economy, And when:'the Lumpen does engage in direct action against the system of oppression, it is often greeted by hoots and howls from the spokesmen of the Working Class in chorus with the mouthpieces of the bourgeoisie, These talkers like to put down the struggles of the Lumpen as being ‘‘spon- taneous’’ (perhaps because they themselves did not order the actions!), ‘‘unorganized’’, and ‘‘chaotic and undirected’’, But these are only prejudiced analyses made from the narrow perspective of the Working Class, But the Lumpen moves anyway, refusing to be straight-jacketed or con- trolled by the tactics dictated by the conditions of life and the relationship to the means of production of the Working Class, The Lumpen finds itself in the position where itis very difficult for it to manifest its complaints against the system, The Working Class has the possibility of calling a strike against the factory and the employer and through the mechanism of Labor Unions they can have some arbitra- tion or some process through which its grievances are mani- fested, Collective bargaining is the way out of the pit of oppression and exploitation discovered by the Working Class, but the Lumpen has no opportunity to do any collec- tive bargaining, The Lumpen has no institutionalized focus in Capitalist society, It has no immediate oppressor except perhaps the Pig Police with which it is confronted daily. So that the very conditions of life of the Lumpen dictates the so-called spontaneous reactions against the system, and because the Lumpen is in this extremely oppressed condition, it therefore has an extreme reaction against the system as a whole, It sees itself as being bypassed by all of the organizations, even by the Labor Unions, and even by the Communist Parties that despise it and look down upon it and consider it to be, in the words of Karl Marx, the father of Communist Parties, ‘‘The Scum Layer of the Society’’, The Lumpen is forced to create its own forms of rebellion that are consistent with its condition in life and with its relationship to the means of production and the institutions of society, That is, to strike out at all the structures around it, including at the reactionary Right Wing of’ the Proletariat when it gets in the way of revolution, The faulty analyses which the ideologies of the Working Class have made, of the true nature of the Lumpen, are greatly responsible for the retardation of the develop- ment of the revoiution in urban situations, It can be said that the true revolutionaries in the urban centers of the world have been analyzed out of the revolution by som. Marxist-Leninists,. +) sift tit jOMmIO0 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 16 AVARICIOUS BUSINESSMEN STEALING FROM THE One of the Party's programs is feeding school children every morning before they go to school. This is done through the Free Breakfast for School Children Program one of our many meth- ods of meeting the basic needs and desires of the Black commu- ity. Now, the only way that this can be done is by getting donations from the many avaricious busi- nessmen, who normally exploit the people everyday. The stores that they own are in the commu- ity stealing from the people, with high prices, and poor quality goods. Key Foods, Finast, and A&P food stores are the very same stores that are located in the Black commuity that rob the people blind, None of these stores donate to the Breakfast Program, their story is always the same; ‘We can’t do it without permis- sion from the Manager.’ So you go through all the changes of send- CHILDREN THE MUCH-NEEDED MEAL~ BREAKFAST ing letters to the managers, and you getno reply. They make it very obvious that they don’t giveadamn about feeding hungry Black chil- dren Key Foods is located on North- ern Blvd, and 104th St, here in Corona, A&P and Finast are loc- ated on Junction Blvde These stores refuse to help feed the chil- dren, therefore, the people should stop shopping at these stores, If these greedy vultures can’t even make an attempt to give something back to the people that they rob day after day then we are just going to have to see toit that their ‘Big Businesses’ make a much smaller profit. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Black Panther Party Corona, N.Y. Breakfast Coordinator Corliss THE BLACK REVOLUTIONARY STUDENT CONFERENCE AFFIRMED THE NEED FOR ARMED SELF DEFENSE My study of the 400 year old liberation struggle of Black people in America revealed at least two major shortcomings: 1.)a lack of unified action based on a singu- larity of purpose ( the only re- levant purpose is liberation) and 2.) the absence of awholelisticanalysis that would not only define our struggle and its stages of develop- ment but also would serve as a guide to action. To say that ‘*We must liberate ATTENTION: ourselves”’or that'twe need revo- lution, while we all close with, “*All power to the people’’, may sound good and make us feel good, but it doesn’t mean that we have cleared away all of our differences ( real or imagined ), There is no getting around it, there are real contradictions that exist among Black people in the Black colony. At the recent Black Student Re- volutionary Conference (heldfrom TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY We have been informed by members of the community that the house located at 13 Jef- ferson Avenue, (next to Saint Peter Cleavers) has been vacant for some time and drug traffic has been seen in and around the building, The owner has shown complete neglect for the community by not properly securing the house. As members of the community we have taken it upon ourselves to make something construc- tive for the community, The house will be a Community Information Center it will be used for a Free Health Clinic to serve the people, a Free Breakfast for School Children Program and other community needs. We are here to serve and work with the people of the community, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Brooklyn Branch TO THE MOTHERS, FATHERS AND CHILDREN OF CHERRY HILL A few weeks ago a survey was taken among the people of Cherry Hill to determine if the people who lived in Cherry Hill needed a Free Breakfast Program, situated in the Black Community, This program would be set up to ensure our children a properly balanced breakfast before they go to school. 99% of the residents who were questioned felt there was a def- inite need for this type of pro- gram in our community. Whenever a program like this is set up in our communities two things always have to be taken into consideration; first, location in most cities is in chur- ches, owned property or in some- one’s home who lives in the com- munity. The other consideration is procurement of food, we feel to be a lesser problem, So, I will try to explain the first hang up LOCATION The only locations in Cherry Hill that are capable of feeding 300 to 400 hungry children each day are in the churches that are sit- uated in Cherry Hill. There are five that could be used for this program, Because Community Ser- vice Programs were being op- erated in two of these (St, Veron- ica’s and Cherry Hill Presbyte- rian), we concentrated on the other three; We approached Rev. Sanders May 16 through May 19 in New Haven, Connecticut.) during the Sunday evening panel discussion it was pointed out that one of the major contradictions that plagues at least one segment ( student past and present) of the Black colony exist between Revolution- ary Nationalism on the one hand and Cultural Nationalism on the other. To a large extent this is the primary contradiction that sep- arates the proponents of what is too loosely termed ‘*Black Nation- alism’’, The panel was conducted by Doug Miranda with Masai He- witt, Elaine Brown, Dharuba and a student from U.C,L.A., Mem- bers of the panel opened the discussion with short statements concerning the nature of Revo- lutionary Nationalism and Cultural Nationalism and then turned the discussion over to the audience for questions and comments, Throughout the discussion some of the specific differences between Cultural Nationalism and Revolu- tionary Nationalism were clearly amplified and crystalized. It was found that the main difference lies in their respective attitudes toward armed struggle and peace- ful coexistence. Cultural National- list, such as members of the US organization, feel that electorial politics and quasi-coalitions with the right wing officials ( Like Leroi Jones in Newark) will yield some benefits for Black people. Revolutionary Natioaalist, such as members of the Black Panther Party, realize that electorial po- litics can only serve to educate the people to the fallacy of bour- geois democracy. To believe that change is possible through the electorial process is to affirm the existing political system by at- tributing to it a flexibility that allows for a meaningful change. To do this is to deny the need for revolution, Revolutionary Nationalist have no affirmative words or thoughts concerning the existing political system and its ability to bring about meaning - ful change. They conclude that the present political system is a dic- tatorship of the bourgeoisie (the economic ruling class, such as the Rockefellers, the Melons, the Du- Ponts, the primary owners of the United Fruit Co, Dow Chemical Co,ete. and all of its political lackeys such as Nixon, Agnew, Reagan, etc.) which work first and foremost, in the interest of the economic ruling class, Any resid- ual benefits received by Black peo- ple are purely coincidental and of the Apolistic and explained the Free Breakfast Program to him, (Rev. Sanders had just given a sermon about brotherly love and helping each other.) He listened and flatly refused to have any- thing to do with the program. We approached Rev. Allen and the pro- gram was explained to him and he promised to call a meeting of the church board to have them de- cide, This was almost two months ago. Since then I called and talked to him. The only insult is that he has again told me he has to call a board meeting. The last so-called minister of God's word we ap- proached was Rey. Allen of First Baptist Church. The program was explained to him and he thought it was a good idea, At first he told me he would have to speak to the Board of Directors of the church, he also pointed out that the church had unused property across the street from the church, But the use of the property, depended on the okay of the church mem- bership and a Mrs. Bundy of the Church Cherry Hill Co-ordinating Committee. As I went to speak to some of the Church Deacons, Rev. Allen went into his office, when he returned he asked me how many times a month I would need the church property. I ex- plained to him the children have to be fed every day, He then told should only be looked upon as sampling of the many benefits that Black people could enjoy the state power which now oppresses them, was seized,re- organized, collectively controlled and mutually beneficial. Revolu- tionary Nationalist see this as obtainable only after the bourgeois state power has been smashed through armed struggle. Another major difference be- tween Cultural Nationalists and Revolutionary Nationalists lies in the varied -interpretation: of the term ‘‘meaningful change’’ .To Cultural Nationalists ‘‘meaningful change’’, means eliminating all the oppressed Whites 1.) avaricious businessmen 2.) demogogic politi- cians and 3.) pig police. Their ‘solution is to subsitute Whites ROLAND YOUNG with Blacks. They feel that the present social, political and ec- onomic relationships that pre- sently exist within capitalist, im- perialist and fascist America are lacking only to the extent that the present rulers are the White pigs in Brook Brothers suits with growing sideburns as opposed to Black pigs in dashikis with grow- ing naturals. This is the case of stressing the color of the form while ignoring the relevance of the content. Revolutionary Nationalists assert that power grows out of abarrel of a gun and not out of the sleeve of a dashiki. Revolutionary Nation- alist stress the need not only for Black people to place themselves in positions of ‘power, socially, , politically, economically, but al- so the need for Black people to make sure that the position of power is one which is not con- trolled by a few Black exploit- ing capitalist for the benefit of an elite Black ruling class, but rather a position of power which is shared collectively by all Black people. There is also the need for security and international relations in all fieldsof state ac- tivity. These relationships must be dependent upon the comradly cooperation of Africa, Asia and Latin America as opposed to the imperialist relationships which me that he could not relate to the Free Breakfast Program because he thought it would only be once in a while, like once a month. I tried to explain to him that chil- dren are hungry every day and not just once a month, but he re- fused to have anything to do with the progran.. We must admit that we have been lied too, stalled, refused on this first step of the instituting of the Free Breakfast Program. But in the same breath we will also admit that we will not stop trying to institute this program to serve the needs of our people. We will not be stopped by tin- horn preachers who say one thing on Sunday morning and do some- thing contrary Sunday night, All people who realize the serious- ness of this situation must help in this struggle to procure loca- tion for the Free Breakfast Pro- gram. WE MUST BUILD OUR YOUTH TO BUILD THEIR FUTURE ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Maryland Chapter 1248 N. Gay Street 342-8536 William Coates now exist if the present economic system is only going to change the color of its administrators rather than the nature of its ad- ministration. Another difference which exists between the two ‘‘Black Nation- alists wings is the one over the question of culture. Cultural Nationalist place a lot of stress on abstract symbols of bastard- ized form of culture which was conjured up in the heads of the petty bourgeois Blacks (primarily students) who were alienated from the indigenous culture of Blacks in America. To stress psuedo- African dress, hair styles,names and Swahili while ignoring, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin Hopkins, Cecil Tay- lor, John Coltrane, Nappy Konks, chittlins and all other cultural manifestations of Blacks in Ameri- ca is bad enough within itself, but to stress cultural adaptations as the road to freedom is to mis- guide Black people. An examination of the conditions under which Black people have been forced to live, lack of de- cent housing, education, and pro- per medical care specifically and an overall general lack of power over all aspects of their lives, which purely and simply means a lack of freedom, points to theneed for something much more far reaching than a phony abstract culture in order to bring about Black liberation. Black people have suffered economic exploita- tion at the hands of the avaricious ‘businessmen, political rape at the hands of the demogogic politicians and brutality and murder at the hands of pig police who back up all this oppression with the force of a gun. This is the trinity of oppression under which Black peo- ple have suffered, are suffering and will suffer at the yoke of the op- pressor until they decide once and for all that they will free them- selves by \any means necessary. This necessarily means moving a- gainst.the armed aggressor with the armed might and wrath of the Black colony. Only through the arms of the people can the arms of the oppressor be nullified. Through the taking of the heads of the oppressor, the people shall ob- tain the reins of power, Power to the people must not only mean the elimination of the power of the pigs but the elimination of the pigs themselves. For Revolutionary Nationalists the only culture that has any re- levance is revolutionary culture. If a culture of a people is merely CONT.ON NEXT PAGE POCKET LAWYER OF LEGAL FIRST AID This pocket lawyer is provided asa means of keeping biack people up to date on their rights. We are always the first to be arrested and the racist police forces are constantly trying to pre- tend that rights are extended equally to all people. Cut this out, brothers and sisters, and carry it with you. Until we arm ourselves to righteously take care of our own, the pocket lawyer is what's happening. 1. If you are stopped and/or arrested by the police, you may re- main silent; you do not have to answer any questions about al- leged crimes, you should provide your name and address only if requested (although it is not absolutely clear that you must do so.) But then do so, and at ull time remember the fifth amendment. 2. If a police officer is not in uniform, ask him to show his iden- tification. He has no authority over you'unless he properly identi- fies himself. Beware of persons posing as police officers. Always get his badge number and his name. 3. Police have no right to search your car or your home unless they have a search warrant, probable cause or your consent. They may conduct no exploratory search, that is, one for evidence of crime generally or for evidence of a crime unconnected with the one you are being questioned about. (Thus, a stop for an auto violation does not give the right to search the auto.) You are not required to consent to o search; therefore, you should not consent and should state clearly and unequivocally that you do not consent, in front of witnesses if possible. If you do not consent, the police will have the burden in court of showing probably cause. Arrest may be corrected later. z 4. You may not resist arrest forcibly or by going limp, even if you are innocent. To do so is a separate crime of which you can be con- victed even if you are acquitted of the original charge. Do not re- sist arrest under any circumstances. 5. If you are stopped and/or arrested, the police may search you by patting you on the outside of your clothing. You can be stripped of your personal possessions. Do not carry anything that includes the name of your employer or friends. 7. Do not engage in “friendly” conversation with officers on the way to or at the station Once you are arrested, there is little like- lihood that anything you say will get you released. 8. As soon as you have been booked, you have the right to com- plete at least two phone calls —one to a relative, friend or attorney, the other to a bail bondsman. If you can, call the Black Panther Party, 465—5047 (48,; (49), and the Party will post bail if possible 9. You must be allowed to hire and see an attorney immediately. 10. You do not have to give any statement to the police, nor do _ you have to sign any statement you might give them, and therefore you should not sign anything. Take the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, because you cannot be forced to testify against yourself, 11. You must be allowed to post bail in most cases, but you must be able to pay the bail bondsmen’s fee. If you cannot pay the fee, you may ask the judge to release you from custody without bail or to lower your bail, but he does not have to do so. 12. The police must bring you into court or release you within 48 hours after your arrest (unless the time ends on a week-end or a holiday, and they must bring you betere a judge the first day court .is in session.) 13. If you do not ‘have the money to hire an attorney, immedi- ately ask the police to get you an attorney without charge. 14. If you have the money to hire a private attorney, but do noi know of one, call the National Lawyers’ Guild or the Alameda County Bar Association (or the Bar Association of ydur county) and furnish you with the name of an attorney who practices criminal law Returning from San Francisco on Friday, Feb. 13, five copies of the newspaper The Black Panther and one Panther poster were confiscated from this writer’s baggage by a cus- toms official at the Montreal Interna- tional Airport. Pointing to the front page of one newspaper, which had the word “rev- olutionary”’ in its headline, the official explained that the material was classi- fied by the government as hate litera- ture. He was told that the newspapers were needed for an article in Week- end, but he refused to return them, and would say only that they would be sent to the Collector of Customs | ~* party, the voice of the Panther must be heard throughout the land.” ‘Me line dividing the progressive people from the machinery of oppression is ever widening as the people begin to realize that there can no longer be a middle of the road position with regards to frecdom for the people of the world; however, it has only been within the past four years that, the ameriKKKan people have shed their rose-colored glasses and patriotic blinders to face the reality of what their country was doing to the world’s popu- jation, With the realization of the amerikF Kan role came the closer ex- arination of all the things that had really never been questioned _before....the ‘ameriKKKan dream’, the foreign policy, the treatment of minority peoples within this society, the real role of the ‘police’ and the press. We found we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the govern- ment and kept misinformed by the mass media, In an effort to give the facts to the peo- ple, the so-called ‘underground press’ developed with various g newspapers and magazines with differing emphasis. The Black Panther Party ALL POWER Black Communit News < = ee y TO THE PEOPLE! Service was created to present factual, reliable SEIZE THE TIME! information tothe people, ee ‘The Black Panther Party has been or- ganized to serve the needs of th ple of the Black co ity and to Enter my subscription for (check box): Notional + Foreign educate and politicize the masses of Subscriptions Subscriptions Black people, but the Glack Panther 3. MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) O $250 $9.00 Party realizes that racism can only .0 $5.00 $12.00 minated by solidarity am pressed people and the op= THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 17 Huey would say, “a newspaper ts the voice of a ‘Minister of Defense, Ihey P. Bobby Seale (left), reading early edition of ).P.1'. Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- formation B.?,P, proved’ stories presented in "he mass media and the prusuct of present the facts not stories as dictated by the reget stee oppressor, but as seen from the other end of agun, 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) . . ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES) .... { educating of (please print) all the people. It is the news and problems of Black and. oppressed peo- NAME ple in ameriKKKa that are dealth with in the Black Pa international news, er Party along with The Black Panther Party Black Community News Service is the alternative to. the ‘government ap- ADDRESS ciTy STATE/ZIP # PLEASE MAIL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO: CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE THE BLACK REVOLUTIONARY STUDENT CONFERENCE AFFIRMED THE NEED FOR ARMED SELF DEFENSE etter ten at ms the way they live then the true test of the relevance of that cul- ture is the effectiveness of its ability to cause a people to live in the least oppressive and most free manner possible. A culture that stresses dress, hair styles and language while ignoring arms will Crumble at the armed on- slaught of the oppressor and as a result that culture will be deemed irrelevant by the people who are fighting for their liberation. On the other hand a culture which tn" ‘consideration ee they not be used for any o in Montreal and after that to Ottawa. After several phone calls and let- ters to various government offices in Montreal and Ottawa, in which it was pointed out that the seizure consti- tuted interference with the freedom of the press to print whatever it sees fit, the newspapers and poster were re- turned on Feb. 20 by J. E. Charette, whose letter is reprinted here. poeseeet ae te iors <a oR, peu tiae he. ation of ae mans te lively thet. the” 3 pions Seee (3 F the purpose for which tiie gewepepers * “are required they are eine xe relseead, Sov 70s, Dates. ween that. purpose than f and thet no vdietribaeion® or olroulstion. of them hav ir. purpose 2! Their Newspaper Isnt Allowed au or research for your. ag Newton (right) and an effort to 315.00 $7.50 COUNTRY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, “Box 2967, Custom House, San Francisco, CA 94126 Stresses the gun will be able to inflict a political consequence up- on any pig who decides to oink in the face of the people. This cul- ture will be welcomed by a strug- gling people because it will provide them with the prerequisite for sur- vival and in the final analysis all life is naturally geared toward reproduction and prepetuation. A culture which provides the people with this prerequisite will be deemed not only relevant but ab- solutely necessary. The Revolutionary Black Student Conference ' affirmed totally the need for armed revolutionary struggle. It also exposed the right wing of the Black Student movement ‘which is but one aspect of the whole liberation movement) to be mani- fested in Revolutionary Nation- alism ( just as Eldridge Cleaver exposed the left and right wing of the proletariat in his pamph- let, ‘On The Ideology Of The Black Panther Party). The exist- ence of this contradiction should not be looked upon as freakish or unnatural but rather as a dia- lectically natural contradictory development. The left wing serves the interest of the people and is revolutionary whereas, the right wing represents the forces of oppression and counter revolution, In summary, the conference af- firmed and revealed the following things: the \need for revolution- ary armed struggle and the crys- talization” of \ the’ ‘contradictory trends among the Black» student movement. It was a realization of the maturity of the Black Pan- ther Party, a segment of Black students and the overall libera- tion movement, Let this be,a corner stone of the armed Black liberation struggle which Black and all oppressed people are bound to win. ARMED POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Roland Young Peer AES” THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 18 INTERVIEW OF PRINCE NORODOM SIHANOUK, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED FRONT OF CAMBODIA Questions; Wilfred BURCHETT Answers: Norodom SIHANOUK BURCHETT: Prince Norodom Si- g od hanouk, now that the government of national union has been formed, and has been recognized by Peo- ple’s China, have other countries recognized it, and do you have the assurance that other countries will recognize the new govern- ment? SIHANOUK: A few minutes after I got the recognition from China, I got the recognition from North Korea, and in the following days I am going to get, I know it, the recognition of many countries, mainly from Africa. In Africa we have the United Arab Republic, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Tanzania | think also, Elsewhere there are Albania, Rumania, etc...so, about 20 countries will recognize us and I think that later, certainly, the USSR and the East European coun- tries will recognize us, BURCHETT: What do you consider is the principal source of your support inside the country itself? SIHANOUK: The mass, the Bud- dhist mass, also the peasants, the people in the provinces and the workers, they are intheir im- mense majority for me, support- ing me as their traditional leader and as their representative who defends national independence, neutrality and territorial integ- rity. BURCHETT: If you have the Bud- dhist hierarchy and the Buddhist monks and the peasantry, then you have the greater part of the coun- try? SIHANOLK: Yes, I think so, and the honest press correspondents, Western press correspondents, recognize that now many people join the United Front of Cambo- dia, of which I am the President. BURCHETT: Does the fact that you are in exile here, and the gov- ernment has been formed abroad, does this create difficulties for relations with the resistance movement inside the country? SIHANOUK; You know, we formed the government at the request of people inside Cambodi#, of the “Maquisards"’, the resistance movement of Cambodia, and the leading members of the govern- ment are in the resistance in Cambodia; HOU-YUON, HU-NIM, KHIUE- SAMPHAN, they are the Cambodia: HOU-YUON, HU-NIM, KHIUE-SAMPHAN, they are the three main members of the gov- ernment, so we can say that our government is rooted in the soil of Cambodia, As for myself, I have an immense nostalgia for my homeland. I am very anxious to go. back to~Cambodia, but the “Maquisards"’ have told me that i. gi President Toa Duc Thang (right), and Premier Pham Van Dong (left), graciously recieve Prince Novodoin Sihanouk of the United Frani of Cambodia (center). I had to fulfill some duties in the diplomatic field; that it would be very helpful to the cause of our people in Cambodia, and that only later they will allow me to join them, BURCHETT: What are your reac- tions to the invasions of Cambodia by the U,S. and Saigon troops? SIHANOUK: It does not surprise me, because the aim of the coup d'etat which took place in Phnom- Penh on the 18th of March 1970 was to openthe door of independ- ent and neutral Cambodia to inva- sion and occupation by the Amer- icans and their mercenaries, be- cause according to the so-called ‘*domino theory’’ they want to oc- cupy Cambodia to strengthen the other dominoes, in order to avoid their falling. BURCHETT: General Lon Nolhas stated that he had not asked for this invasion, was not even in- formed about this invasion, and I think President Nixon said on May the Sth that the attack was really to defend Cambodian neu- trality? SIHANOUK: Since Nixon decided to defend our neutrality, it no longer exists, and our independ- ence is wiped out. As far as Lon Nol is concerned, you know that his capital city was already sur- rounded by the liberation army of the Cambodian people, and with- out the intervention of the U.S, today we should be in Phno: P2n') and not in Peking. So, Lon Nol secretly invited the Amer- icans to come in, not to defend neutrality of Cambodia, but tode- fend his shaky regime. BURCHETT: The pretext given for the invasion to the outside world, and also the official reason given for the coup d'etat was the al- leged presence of NFL and North Vietnamese troops on Cambodian soil. Would you care to comment on that? SIHANOUK: You know, when we had independence we also hadneu- trality, and now we are a colony of the Americans and we are oc- cupied by 65,000South Vietnamese troops, mercenaries of the Amer- icans. They deposed me in March under the pretext that I allowed the Vietcong and the Vietminh to occupy Cambodia, but the Viet- cong and the Vietminh came into Cambodia only out of necessity, strategic or tactical, during the course of their fight to liberate their homeland of South Vietnam. Even when they were in Cambodia they looked toward Saigon, all their efforts directed toward their desire to liberate Saigon. They did not look at us, and they had al- ready recognized the frontiers of Cambodia. In the future, after their victory, they will not change the frontiers of Cambodia, they are not a threat to Cambodia, On the contrary, the Saigon gov- ernment is a threat to Cambodia since it refuses to recognize our frontiers because they want to take from us some provinces, Svay Rieng for instance which is now occupied by the forces of Gen- eral Nguyen Cao Ky, and they also want to take from us some offshore islands. BURCHETT: How do you see the outcome of the present, grave crisis in Cambodia? SIHANOUK: In accordance with the currents of history, victory will go to the peoples of Southeast Asia who want their countries lib- erated from Western colonialism and neo-colonialism, and all forms of American imperialism and colonialism. I think that o ring “future as ASians cannot remain in the hands of the Americans. Our future will belong to us. I am optimistic as far as the out- come of our fight is concerned. BURCHETT; The British Foreign Secretary, Mrs, Stewart, on May the 5th, suggested holding ano- ther Geneva conference to dis- cuss Indo-China Do you think this would be useful? SIHANOUK: It would not be use- ful. On the contrary it would be an encouragement to the Amer- icans to spread their war, not only inIndo-China but in South- east Asia. There is no problem except that created by the U.S. alone. They are the only great power to violate the Geneva agree- ments signed in 1954 in order to give peace, independence and sta- bility to our region of the world. The Americans came into Indo- China and sent their forces to destroy our peace and our inde- pendence, guaranteed by Great Britain, France and the USSR, so I think that Great Britain should request of the UnitedStates of America to withdraw their for- ces from Indochina, The problem would then be solved, we do not need to go to any international conference. BURCHETT: Could you say some- thing about the summit conference which you took part in recently, together with Premier Pham Van Dong of North Viet-Nam, and lead- ers of the South Vietnamese Lib- eration Front and the Pathet Lao? SIHANOUK: Before the coming of the French colonialists last cen- tury in Indo-China the so-called Indochinese countries did not exist, There were Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Laos and Cambodia. We were separate from each other, It was France that made Indochina, uniting us in a federa- tion, but our peoples soon wanted to get back from the French the national independence of their homelands. They had to be in solidarity with each other to en- hance their chances for national independence, When the Japanese fascists came into Cambodia during the Second World War, our three peoples also had to resist the invader, to this created the starting point of a solidarity of Indochinese peoples, and that sol- idarity was strengthened by the U.S, invasion in South Vietnam, Now, the U.S, forces agress also Laos, North Vietnam andmy coun- try, and we need to fight, we need to liberate our countries from for- eigners. Being conscious of our weakness as a small, poor people, having to fight against a giant, very richandvery powerful, with enormous military strength, it is necessary for us to unite our forces and to cooperate closely with each other in order to win, If ‘we” want victory we must do so, it might take a’ long time, but as I said, we are optimistic as far as final victory is con- cerned, BURCHETT: General Lon Nolhas repeatedly stated that he was about to abolish the monarchy; he’s not done that yet, and I wonder if you have any idea why he’s not done it? SIHANOUK: You know already he does not have solid ground as far as diplomatic recognition of his regime is-concerned; there are 3 or 4 countries recognizing his anti-popular regime, and the other embassies do not represent coun- tries whose government would recognize Lon No. He feels it is good to keep these embassies in order to show observers that he has the support of many coun- tries. If he is to change the mon- archy into a republic he needs far more recognitions of his re- gime by all the countries. Right now he has support of only 3 or 4 countries and the others would withdraw. He was advised by some Western jurist, | think, and that’s why he postponed his plans for wiping out the monarchy. BURCHSTT: So, in fact, you will have greater diplomatic recogni- tion, you think, in a short time, than is accorded to Lon Nol, and he willhaveeven less if he changes the typeof government to set upa new kind of regime which requires fresh recognition? SIHANOUK: I shall have certain- ly much more recognition from the outside world than Lon Nol can ever have for his regime, But finally you know it will be the fighting in Cambodia which will decide whether Lon No! or the United Front represents Cam- bodia in the future. Transcribed for ESCOM 24 rue de la Reynie 75 Paris le, France ~ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 19 ORIGINAL PAR LEUR ATTITUDE FANATIQUEMENT PRO-ISRAELIENNE Les Etats-Unis portent de trés graves responsabilités dans Ia détérioration ** IN OUR NATIVE LAND, IN D EFENCE OF THE FREEDOM WHICH IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT, AND WHICH WE ENJOYED TILL THE LATE VIOLATION OF IT... FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUR PROPERTY, ACQUIRED SOLELY BY THE HONEST INDUSTRY OF OUR FOREFATHERS AND OURSELVES AGAINST VIOLENCE ACTUALLY OFFERED, WE HAVE TAKEN UP ARMS, WE SHALL LAY THEM DOWN WHEN HOSTILITIES SHALL CEASE ON THE PART OF THE AGGRES- SORS AND NOT BEFORE,”’ AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE CAUSES AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP ARMS ( 1775 ) TRANSLATION BY THEIR FANATICALLY PRO-ISRAELI ATTITUDE The United States bears great responsibility for the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East declares our Minister of Foreign Affairs Here is the statement made by Mr. Bouteflika, Minister of For- eign Affairs: “Algeria which is still feeling the tragedy of our brothers in the Arab Machrek welcomed Mr, Labib Choukeir, President of the National Assembly, and member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Socialist Union. Mr. Choukeir brought with him a message from President Djamel Abdel Nasser for President Houari Boumedience on the serious developments of the situation in the Middle East. “Algeria, which has given all of her potential to the Palestinian people and the Arab states in their conflict with the Zionist enemy is aware of the gravity of the situ- aticn and the dangerous conditions which are the result of the U.S supplying modern lethal weapons to Israel. These weapons whose victims will inevitably be the Arab people are destined, just like the economic and financial support of the U.S. to perpetuate the occupa- tion of Arab territories by Israel, and to continue the aggression a- gainst the Arab peoples in a des- perate attempt to make them capit- ulate. “There is_no doubt that the U.S bears grave responsibility for the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East by its open commit- ment to the Israeli side, under the pretext of establishing equilibrium of forces, as if equilibrium should exist between the aggressor and the side being aggressed against. “The fact is that if Israel didn’t have military superiority which be- yond her own possibilities, and if she didn’t benefit from the total support of the U.S,, she would never be capable of occupying Arab ter- ritories, of defying international opinion, the United Nations, the rights of man, nor of continuing an expansionist policy to the detri- ment of the States in that region (area), ¥ “Some people believed that the U.S. important interests in the Arab countries would force her to fol- low a less heavily committed po- licy towards Israel, to follow a po- licy more directed towards estab. lishing peace in the area, peace based on justice and respect for the rights and freedom of the peo- ple. ‘‘However, the U.S, fanatically pro-Israeli attitude towards Zion- ism is preventing the U.S, from accomplishing any positive action which would allow the Palestinian and Arab peoples to regain their legitimate rights. ‘The fact that the U.S. is sup- plying Israel with offensive wea- pons constitutes a decisive factor in the deterioration of the situa- tion in the Middle East, and is endangering world peace, “In spite of the distance which separates her from the Middle East, Algeria considers herselfto- tally committed with her brothers. Algeria will fight for the success of her brothers’ causes which are her own. Algeria is with them in their just struggle for freedom and dignity, respecting the rights of fraternity, and the community’s needs for its destiny.”’ TRANSLATED FROM El.Moudjahid de Ja situation au Mo yen-Orient Voici la déclaration faite par M. Bouteflika, ministre des Affaires étrangeres : « L’Algérie, qui n'a cessé de vi- vre et de ressentir la tragédie que traversent nos fréres dans le Ma- chrek Arabe a accueilli M. Labib Choukeir, président de l'Assemblé¢ nationale et membre du Comité exe- cutif de l'Union Socialiste Arabe, qui était porteur d'un message du président Djamel Abdel Nasser au Président Houari Boumediéne sur les graves développements que con- nait la situation dans cette région. « L’Algérie qui a mis toutes ses potentialites au service du peuple palestinien et des Etats arabes dans leur affrontement avec l’ennemi sio- niste apprécie, en toute objectivite, la gravité de la situation et les conditions dangereuses créées par la fourniture d'armes modernes et meurtriéres par les U.S.A. a Israél. Ces armes, dont les peuples arabes seront inévitablement les victimes, sont destinées, tout comme le soutien économique et financier prodigué par les U.S.A., & perpétuer l’occu- pation des territoires arabes par Tsraél, et a poursuivre l’agression contre ces peuples dans une tentati- ve désespérée de les acculer a la capitulation. « Nul doute que les U.S.A. portent de trés graves responsabilités dans la détérioration de la situation dans la région par leur engagement ma- nifeste aux cétés d'Israél, sous pré- texte d’établir un certain équilibre des forces comme si cet équilibre devait exister entre agresseur et agressé. « En effet, si Israél n'avait pas une supériorité militaire dépassant ses propres possibilités, et s'il ne jouissait pas du soutien total des Etats-Unis, il ne serait jamais en mesure d’occuper les territoires ara- bes, de continuer 4 défier lopinion internationale, l’Organisation des Nations unies, ainsi que les droits de "homme et de poursuivre une politique expansionniste au deétri- ment des Etats de la région. « D’aucuns ont cru que les inte- réts importants des U.S.A. dans les pays arabes leur dicteraient de sui- vre une politique moins engagée a l'égard d'Israél et beaucoup plus dirigée vers le renforcement de la paix dans la région. une paix qui ne peut quétre basée sur la justice et le respect des droits des peuples et de leur liberte. « Cependant l'attitude fanatique- ment pro-israélienne des U.S.A. a Végard du sionisme les empéche d’accomplir toute action positive pour l'instauration d'une paix juste qui permettra au peuple palestinien et aux pays arabes de recouvrer leurs droits légitimes. « La fourniture d’armes offensi- ves par les Etats-Unis 4 Israél constitue un facteur\deécisif dans la détérioration de la_situation et met la paix mondiale en. danger. « L’Algérie se considére, malgre la distance qui la sépare de cette région, entiérement engagee aux cotés de ses freres, quelle que soit la situation qu‘ils traversent. et en: tend cuvrer aux succes de leurs causes qui sont en méme temps les siennes. Elle communie avec , eux dans leur juste lutte pour la liberte et la dignilé, respectant ainsi les droits de la fraternite et les exi gences de la communauté du _des- tin ». THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 20 ’ LOL EE EL EE LE EL ES SSS TSS LS OE SSS | ES FSF He 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black October 1966 —— 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 Black Panther Party and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor ‘ and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency Platform and Pro ram which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now eS 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 fifty million black people; therefore. we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. Wh at We Want 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings. e 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 a e e eve 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. o SRR eatetctctatatetetciens OSS ORG KEK SIS 255 arene, RSS ete a res S S 55 o, OO 2 > < SONS RRS ORG Matas ravates KS ‘es OS SRL res enact 0.0, 2 x KS S06 SS oreretetetens eetctatetct SRKKKKS ves $35 eM oe, voces 0.0, xotes o, S25 So, se “ 3 ve S505 “S > 5 ORS 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 anything else. Ox oe S55 SOR RS se eeacenctatsts rarecacenetes ce ssetatetenet roseceees ra rates rates us pees Sx x5 ‘?, ?, es 535 Xe x ets SxS Soe Mes x Mee sh Mes <S aS % ‘es ree $6 yes ves ees S es ves x6 Meta SxS SOS XS SK 22 Se 50505 <5 x5 585 oS oS etal O05 5 ess SxS <2 SLL eee 5 esas 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. 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We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. e S S S x sos "es <5 es we SxS x oS oS oS nates Mates > Netes oS oS Mates oS notes oS x5 SxS “es % < "es 55 ose Motes Sx soe ves ‘es nes res “es Mes cx 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 ta the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We thetefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense. $2585 vas ex 5 vee <S ee 29, o, <2 o ves ges rae res <6 $35 °, 2 ORK SER RRER LS SKS S05 SRK saeco < 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. OOOO RRLNS nates So S82 Oo ees “ So S oS soe os ES SLL ST Sf SE SES SL SS LEER FS SL LEGALS LL Lh TTS SL Sf ES ff Sf TOI, fff. o, x x 2 SS S <2 “es “es <5 S <5 < o% Yes Mes 8 Mees ace > We believe that all black people should be released from the many. Jails and prisons because thy have not received a fair and impartial trial. ox < aces So < < 8 ‘S s% > <> <> o, OOD es © “ 5 > 535 se $36 ix % Se O x o, <6 ve Se , ee oO S one eee 53 ves es us $05 Se ves 50506 KA? XS es S x < x , x 2 9. 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We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning rian’ of the black community. S aces SxS ‘ "ee SxS ee ves res ves ese ue <7 ves 53 O55 S65 es 559 388 Se <8 SoS <x Se — Mes S 25 este xo S ves ves <0 on S505 saceees S50 oS 5 SCS a o>, < SS rates Mes <S $% < SS oS SO oS ox SxS nes S28 Manes 5 oS = oles oS oS SKS LE 2S SK SRK veceretas KK “enone. Oo OO, OX S25 een ese rates rats S05 vas SoS vate! oS raves So xX estes $2505 $2505 O05 SOS XS SKK <5 ras SoS SRK sececee 5 XOX? KAAS SoS S55 oS SRK SRK LE res < % S25 x0: % ese ose < ves SS o 0,0 ee vee 5505 SS <6 SCS eeatstatenatenates SRK And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- RRR cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial Meeteteconsietenecets subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the ROKK will of black people as to their national destiny. o, eo, mM <> < ©, 2 2: < 10. 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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; SSK that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to <S <2 < > <8 ?, rece <2 Mee <8 x ee ves $35 vos SxS ves res <6 X> 55052 SSO ieee 0% x o, < 5 “ SRS Pletatetctatctetateteonetets <5 BORK rates 25 peas 7 SASSI 5555 IRS 5055 secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their SOV HH HTT TT TI RRR just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of - P. New Ministe Defens government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people Huey P. New nes M Se: of L ‘ use to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its Black Panther Party foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- 2. We want full employment for our people. ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black peop!e will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny We'believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment. then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living. n | N | ‘ N | : | : | ‘ N | ‘ N | | NY N | ‘ N | N | | N | ‘\ N | ‘ N | : | NY N LL LS ES SS LS EEE Eo LL IOS LLL LL a i ee hn eh hh THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 21 Chairman Bobby Seale, and Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton. RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ‘* Only with the power of the gun can the Black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetrated against them by the armed, racist, power structure,’’ Huey P, Newton EDITORIAL STAFF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF OF THE THE BLACK PANTHER BLACK PANTHER PARTY ES Se OR ee Political Prisoner: Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Political Prisoner: Chairmen BOBBY SEALE Editor Minister of Information Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff Managing Editor DAVID HILLARD Deputy Minister of Information Field Marshall BIG MAN DON COX Revolutionary Artist and lay-out Minister of Education Minister of Culture RAY ‘MASAI’ HEWITT EMORY DOUGLAS Minister of Finance Mirnster of Pereign Affairs Minister of Justice Prime Minister Distribution Manoger Communications Secretory ANDREW AUSTIN KATHLEEN CLEAVER Cireulation Minister of Culture SAM NAPIER 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 new subscriptions to The Black Panther newspaper. Submit ic: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1048 PERALTA ST. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every 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 COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFF: luding all captains subordinate to either national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for viol: 1 Of these rules will depe national dec by national, state or state area, and local committees d rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leaders! or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can haye narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POLNT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can haye a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. 8. No party member will com any crimes against other party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread. f 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10. The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by cach Party member, 11. Party Communications must be Nat Hand Local. 12. The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, fe ler Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Captain must submit Dy sports of work. 16. All Panthers m arn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17, All Leadership personne! who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18, Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. 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 community, includ Captains, Section Leaders, etc. 20, COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the Headquarters. 21. ANE ches must impl nt First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters. Branches, and components of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must subn al Report to the Minis- try of Finane 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no fess than two hours per day to keep abreast of the ¢ ny polit 24. No chapter or branch shall accept grants. poverty ; or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the nal Headquarters. 5. AM chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, 26. Al Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR A MASS RALLY AND NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE DATE AND PLACE OF REVOLUTIONARY ~PEOPLES CONSTITUTIONAL For Further Information h Contact NCCF CO E, IO 2327 18th Street N.W, Washington, D.C, 20009 \ \ I | (202) 265-4418 = 4419 Lincoln Memorial Washington, D.C. June 19,1970 The Shackling like a Slave of Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale is like the Reincarnation of Dred Scott 1857. This Brazen Violation of Bobby Seales Constitutional Rights Exposes Without aDoubtthat-Black—People-have No Rights That The Racist Oppressor Is Bound To Respect. & “Huey P. Newton’s thoughts, like his action is clear and precise, cutting always to the very heart of the matter,”’ Eldridge Cleaver Minister of Information Black Panther Party “This means all of us have this power, But the power only belongs to all of us, not just some or one, but all, And that was the trick, That was the thing wenever understood, And that is what statement these songs make,’’ KIM IL SUNG LET US EMBODY MORE THOROUGHLY THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE, SELF-SUSTENANCE AND SELF-DEFENCE IN ALL FIELDS OF STATE ACTIVITY NEW WORLD LIBERATION FRONT U.S.A. 1970 ‘‘Our People’s Army should be built up into arevolutionary force equip- ped with the indefatigable spirit of fighting through thick and thin for the Party, the workiag class and for the fatherland and thepeople, into an iron army each member of which is a match for one hundred enemies, capable of smiting: any reckless adventure of the enemy.”’ Comrade Kim 0 Sung to throw Elaine Brown THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1970 PAGE 23 CAPITALISM PLUS DOPE EQUALS GENOCIDE By Michael! “‘Cetewayo”” Tabor (Political Prisoner, WY 21) BLACK PANTHER PARTY, U.S.A. ‘‘Drug addiction is a monstrous | symptom of the malignancy which is ravaging the social fabric of the capitalist system,”’ Michael Tabor N.Y, 21 ELDRIOGE CLEAVER RECORDED ATSYRACUSE “‘We have to use the only power that we have left and that’s the power to destroy, the power to disrupt, the power a nigger - wrench into the machinery,”’ ‘ Eldridge Cleaver Minister of Information_ Black Panther Party ee ee ee eee eee eee eee eee PLEASE SEND ME: 25{4 Kim IL Sung .15 |_| The Genius of Huey P. Newton ENCLOSED IS MY: Check Amount plus postage Money Order MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE ‘SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 PLEASE SEND MATERIALS 10. 25{1 Capitalism+Dope=Genocide 13.50] Seize The Time Name Add. é 13.5011 Dig City State Lip OG oY LLJ _— ~ to > oo gO NZ af LLJ 7s nO Zi 1. nO =O 52 a > WY MO WY ~ Lu oll Fh pa MEEERS, ES, GERS, SE6CERS Ss Wes RS, We VEGERS. Nii 16GLR. erty: e 4 ¥