UNITY ·STRUGGLE VOL. V NO. 6 25 CENTS POLITICA L ORGAN OF THE REVO LUTIONARY COMMUNIST LEAGU E (M-L- M) JUNE EDITION 1976 A Summation and A Beginning FROMCONGRESS OFAFRIKAN PEOPLE TO REVOLUTIONARYCOMMUNIST LEAGUE (M-L-M) Such leader s as H. Rap Brown , Maulana Karenga, Amiri Baraka, and Floyd RCL (M~L-M) is convinced that the clearest way for us to dra w the line of demar­ Mc Kissick were at the '67 Bla ck Power Conference. The early history of CAP's cation between genuine Marxism-Leninism and modern revisionism today is to use developmen t involved the Rebellions of 1967 and the Black Power Conference in the suffix (M-L-M) and in our practice continously uphold and defend the ba nner of Newark , N.J ., which represented the diversity of the Black Liberation Movement in Mao Tse Tung Thought, which is, "the acme of Marxism-Lenin ism in the prese nt 1967, bu t also the eclecticism that characterized BLM in the absence of a genuine era". communi st party in the U.S.A. And still today we need a revolutionary Marxist­ Lenini st part y, guided by the science of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought to lead the proletariat and oppressed nationalities to smash imperialism with Revolutionary socialist revoluti on. Party building is the central task of Marxist-Leninist and ad­ vanced forces in the U.S. toda y. Communist League History of CAP (M-L-M) STAGE ONE reference to such backwardness) . WORLD SITUATION Social-imperialism on the other , these . .. In 1966, Am iri Baraka and a group Even with Malcolm , the Black The changing of the Congress of Af­ superpowers represent the danger of of people who had been active in New Liberation Movement suffered from rikan People's name to Revolutionary new world war , and the threat of this York at the Black Arts Repertory eclecticism , but Malcolm was a steady­ Communist League (Marxist-Leninist­ war comes mainly from the Soviet Theater , and local people from Newark , ing focus , a revolutionary nationalist Mao Tse Tung Thought) , is being done Union . The fourth of these con­ New Jersey began to work together put ­ and anti-imperialist whose articulation in the context of the world situation . Ac­ tradictions is imperialism vs. the ting on "black theater " in Newark at a that Black people were an oppressed cording to Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse socialist countries . Of these fou r ba sic contradictions , two are the sharpest in frame building on Stirling Street. The nation with the right of self deter­ Tung Thought, there are four fun­ the world today, they are imperialism general direction of the theater was mination , self respect, self defense, ex­ damental contradictions that exist in the vs. ihe third world and the contradiction similar to that of the Black Arts , in that posed the shallowness of the Black world today , which give shape and force between the superpowers . the work s to be performed were all bourgeoisie' s conciliatory line. It is im­ to the present international situation, "It is also necessary to adhere to the Black Na tionalist , some revolutionary portant to understand that the main whose road is marked by many twists theory of two points in analysing the nationalist , others reactionary reason that the Black bourgeoisie had and turns but ultimately favora hie for world situation . In his solemn statement nationalist. moved into leadership of the Black the broad masses who are the makers of People of the World, lJnite and Defeat During '66, the rise of the Car­ Liberation Movement again was history, as our Chinese comrades state . the U.S. Aggressors and All Their Run­ michael popularized cry of "Black because of the traitorous opportunism These contradictions are, labor vs. ning Dogs! issued on May 20, 1970, Power" was picked up by many of the CPUSA, who had liquidated the capital, this means the contradiction Chairman Mao pointed out : 'The danger independent nationalists , as the most AfroAmerican National Question say­ between the proletariat and the of new world war still exists, and the penetrating line since Malcolm's death a ing that Black people had already bourgeoisie in the "advanced" capitalist people of all countries must get year earlier. The fact that Malcolm's line achieved Self Determination and had countries; second is the contradiction was the voice of the Black working class ,opted for Integration under Imperial­ between imperialism and the third (Con1i11ued 011page 6) reasserting itself into leadership of the ism. This was a long step by these bour­ world, this represents the struggle of the Black Liberation Movement is sig­ geois tackies to the complete peoples of Asia, Afrika, and Latin nificant, because after his murder, the degeneration of the CPUSA to America against imperialism, neo­ TABLEOF CONTENTS petty bourgeois leadership moved into revisionism which was completed by the colonialism, hegemonism and the super­ that vacuum. And in some cases the 50's. powers, these struggles have borne great victories for the people of these coun­ CAP HISTORY............. Pl Black National Bourgeois hegemony The plunge into revisionism first of all REVOLUTIONARYCOMMUNIST was partially reasserted, articulated by disoriented all progressive workers tries fighting for national liberation. LEAGUE{M-L-M) ...... .... Pl Dr. King, and later, comprador struggles in the United States, and cast These struggles are the motive force of NEW LOGOFOR polit~cians. Even the Panth_er line_ was the Black Liberation Movement directly revolution in the world today. Next is UNITY& STRUGGLE•..• •..• P2 twisted by a petty bourgeois glorifica­ into the hands of the Black bourgeoisie. · the contradiction between imperialism vs. imperialism the most intense being, SUMMING UP tion of the Lumpen as revolutionaries The CPUSA even began to push the & BEO.NNING............. Pll (by a lumpen who had been glorified by comprador wing of the Black bour­ the struggle of the two superpowers for the petty bourgeoiseven beingequipped geoisie. the NAACP. &c., as "leaders of world domination with U.S. with Bakunin as "legitimatized" (Continued on pa~ 2) imperialism on the one hand and Soviet PAGE 2 UNITY & STRUGGLE JUNE EDITION Project , plays were performed up and quotation marks) as well as Abb a Eban CAP HISTORY down the West Coast , with the Black (who was quoted and named and read Arts Alliance (The Black Student s from at length) Gracian , Sun Tzu, Gib­ (Con llnu ed f rom page I) man y pett y bour geois element s in the Union of San Francisco State and Black ran and The Lion In Winter . Karenga the freedom movement." The lack of a leadership , especially of any "arts" Arts West, with Ed Bullins, Marvin X, had organized the eclecticism _of the vanguard communist party to give movement , the fact that even Malcolm and others .) Rehearsals were held at The Black Liberation Movement mto a leadership to all the workers struggles earlier condemned Whites generally , Black House, which was also the "doctrine" of eclecticism. and the struggles of oppres sed national­ and that the Black Liberation Move­ residence of Marvin X and Eldridge It was the experience of watching the ities, to gather all those struggles ment in opposing national oppression, Cleaver . The group did benefits for the Panthers rise, the spring ~f '67_wa s t~e together in their strategic relationship White supremacy and_chauvinism and Panthers in San Francisco (with Huey time they went into the Caltfon :ua Legis­ and make revolution , in itself was the racism, has long had a general reaction Newton, Rap Brown, Stokely Car­ lature with guns to draw attention tot he main cause of the eclecticism of anti­ to this oppression which made relation­ michael and LeRoi Jones on one pro­ idea that Black people must have the imperialist student struggles , and the ships with any Whites strained . The gram-this was before Cleaver had rose right of armed self defense : of being ex­ movement of the oppressed weakness of most of the abolitionists , up in the organization). Later a split posed and impressed by the bald­ nationalities . the chauvinism of early socialist move­ developed between the artists who were headed, buba wearing , gun _beanng , The Black Arts Movement from ments in the U.S.A., the comprador heavily influenced by cultural swahili speaking , doctrine quoting, tight whence developed the Spirit House was bourgeoisie's cry of bourgeois inte­ nationalism , e.g., Islam and later organization of Karenga's US , that eclecticism personified, combined with gration , as the road to liberation , Kawaida and the Cleaver faction . suggested to us the need to _more tigh_tly some aspects of bourgeois aesthetic, cul­ pushed by the bourge oisie and the Cleaver at the time, just returned from and more politically organize the Spmt tural nationalism /though not vet into so degenerate CPU SA, all, by the early 50's interviewing Stokely Carmichael in House. The disorganized , / undis­ called "neo traditionali sm"). subjec­ had set up a trend of reaction which Alabama , was making speeches for the ciplined character of the Spirit House tivism, mysticism, idealism, individ~al­ pushed all the way over to narrow SWP. This baffled those of us from the we now saw as backward. And almost as ism. Malcolm was the key figure for the nationalism. But narrow nationalism is East, since the movement there had been soon as we returned to Newark , the Black Arts Movement and the Spirit 1st and foremost a reaction , amo ng the distinctly narrow nationalist by that rebellion which had been building npt House , but there were also the in­ Black Liberation Movement, to time , and it was partially in reaction to only in Newark , but across the country , fluences of the Nation of Islam national oppression and racism .