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1970 Eldridge Cleaver's Statement on Robert Scheer

Citation:

“Eldridge Cleaver's Statement on Robert Scheer,” 1970, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, BANC MSS 91/213 c, The Eldridge Cleaver Papers, 1963-1988, Carton 5, Folder 5. Obtained for NKIDP by Charles Kraus. http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/114496

Summary:

Eldridge Cleaver recommends that Robert Sheer join the "U.S. People's Anti-Imperialist Delegation" to North Korea in 1970.

Credits:

This document was made possible with support from the Leon Levy Foundation.

Original Language:

English

Contents:

Scan of Original Document ST.A.TEMEft OB ROBER! SCWR

I have knoWD ROBER! SCHBBll bT reputation since 1965~ I have knoWD h1a pD11ona117 since 1966. It 1a Jq opiDion that it would be advantageoua to the struggle against tasciaa and 1mper1allu, particular17 U.s • imperialiaat tor h1a to visit the Democratic Peoples' Republic o:t Xorea and to vtite about what he seea and lear.ne and thinks. ROBERT SOBEEB. ~s II '4 or '' years old. Be 1a one ot the principle direotora ot .RAMPARTS Masasine and I worked with him at RAMPARTS tl-oa 1966 until 1968 when I lett the UNITED STATIS • I reprcl hiJa as a CoJIJ'&Cle • Be is and baa beq tor several y:ears a ver'7 intluential voice for the New Lett Move•ent ineide the U.s • Be baa been and is one ot the chiet mobilizers ot the .ln.ti-War Movement o:t Progressive Whites inside the u.s. Hie writinsa are widel7 known and read inside the u.s. and in Easlan4 an4 Europe. He vistte,d VietD&II (South) in 1965 or 1966 an4 wrote report• that were\ widel7 read and which exposed the true nature ot the barbarou. war of aggression beiDB 'tfaBed b7 U.s. Imperialisa agianst the Vietnamese people • Hie wit•• ADD Scheer viaited Vietnam. (North). and pla¥ed a part in the exchange ot prisoners o:t war, at the request o:t the. govermnent o:t Vietnaa (North). ROBERT SCHEER said that heliiU.u baa been invited to visit Vietname (North). In either 1965 or 1966 ROBERT SCHEER waa selected aa the-- · spokesman tor the anti-war forces in California (U.S.A), aDd he was put up b7 these forces as a candidate tor the u.s. Congress and waged a Progressive campaign against the war in Vietnam. Be is hal:t-Jevish and hal:t-German. He articulates a Progressive political position on all problems of the World Revolution and struggle against imperialism except the question o:t Palestine. I think he is even capable of articulating a Progressive political position on the question of Palestine. ·

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