NEWSPAPER OF THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMMITTEE

P.O. Box 406 Peter Stuyvesont Station, New York, N.Y. 10009 JUNE. 1985 NO. 5

A 1> » VJhat's Behind The . 'if-• White American

Dramatic, coast-to-coast arrests of doz• ens of KKK and neo-nazi "warriors" have focused national awareness on the exist• ence of a fascist underground inside the US. From every corner of the country, an image of this secret army, called the Silent Brotherhood, the Order, or the White American Bastion is emerging. It is a pic• ture of a heavily armed and well-financed paramilitary movement whose goal is the violent creation of an all-white Aryan country in America. Moving beyond rhe• toric into action, its members have already left a bloody trail that stretches from the ^IhebrscstfMlke MM off-duty cops protest the manslaughter indictment of Stephen Sullivan, Pacific northwest to the Mexico border k snmbnotber. states and deep south. In April, 1985, a federal RICO (racke• teering) indictment against 23 members of the White American Bastion (WAB) charged them with, among other things: • the machine gun execution of Alan I

• a series of commando robberies of Brink!s trucks and-banks on the west nation's largest faafe a jril Slack people. And among white people, Three days before Christmas, on the coast which netted over $4 million l^^k:ial racism: of the PBA"(Patrohnen's Benevolent As• hard Goetz—the "Death Wish Vigilante." • bombing a Boise, Idaho, synagogue ;a«ned«hite men rally in the sociation) have put the fight against killer From the outs^, the facts of this case were • a counterfeiting operation streets demanding the right to-kill Black cops back on the agenda for all progressive ignored as Goetz was hero-worshipped by • the murder of an informer people with impunity, people. the press, the Mayor and numerous celeb• • stockpiling large amounts of automatic Four young -Black men shot down in a Two Years of Outrage rities, His shooting of the four Black teen• weapons, grenades, and explosives. "-modern day lynching and millions of The present situation began in Sep• agers he^ claimed were trying to rob him continued on page 6 people across the country shout their tember, 1983, with the murder of Michael of $5.00 was presented to all as a spon• approval. Stewart. Stewart, a 25 year old Black artist taneous act of individual courage. Widespread police use of electric cattle was arrested by Transit police at a subway The truth of the situation—that Goetz prods (stun guns) tatorture Third World station and beaten to death while in their was an active right-winger who had talked prisoners, custody. The Medical Examiner, Eliot about getting rid of the "s— and n—" in • A pattern of collusion and cover-up of Gross, lied about the cause of his death. building co-op meetings—was downplayed ...... V i police murder by city officials is exposed The cops stonewalled, the D.A. granted or buried in the press. Leaked grand jury on the front pages of the daily press. immunity to most of the cops involved, testimony revealed eyewitness reports that If you think this is a revival of the pro- and the indictments were dropped against the youths he shot had been rowdy, but Klan movie. Birth of a Nation, or a scene the others on a technicality. As the Stewart had not threatened anyone. We now know from the pre-civil rights South, look again. family pressed on demanding justice for that Goetz entered an uncrowded car and It is New York City in 1985. their murdered son, Michael Stewart be• sat down right next to the youths. He The armed demonstrators were off duty came a symbol to the Black community of later publically stated that he had prepared cops. They massed in what one eyewitness the hundreds of Black and Puerto Rican himself by making mental notes of a pos• described as "a chilling show of force; as youth murdered by "New York's Finest." sible shooting pattern that could take close to fascism as anything I've ever seen." Demonstrations were held throughout the down all four youths. At the point when They were protesting the manslaughter city, lawsuits were filed, and in spite of iall Goetz claimed the teenagers menacingly indictment of Stephen Sullivan, the cop the efforts of the establishment to sweep asked for $5, he put his plan into action. who killed Eleanor Bumpurs, a 67-year- the case under the rug, it simply would After shooting all four, two of them in the old Black woman, while evicting her from not go away. back, he stalked one and shot him again her apartment. Then in November, 1984, came an inci• saying, "You don't look so bad, here's The lynching was done with a gun in• dent of police terror which shocked even another." Goetz later boasted that he stead of a rope, and by one man, Bemhard the most callous. Emergency Service cops wished he'd gouged their eyes out with his Goetz, instead of a mob. (the elite tactical force used to attack keys. The Black community is mobilizing demonstrations) were called in to help The incident was used by the press and against racist terror; and the Mayor is evict a 67 year old Black woman, Eleanor the police to portray the entire Black scrambling to defuse the issue. Into the Bumpurs, who was a few months behind community as criminals and legitimize already overflowing reservoir of Black in her rent. She was 300 pounds, arthritic, terror and repression. It is the police who "Pastor" Richard Butler, head of Aryan anger against police violence has come a diabetic, and could hardly get around. are the real beneficiaries of "Goetzmania" Nations combination of events which are splitting Eleven police broke down her door and for it justifies and popularizes their current New \ferrk right down the middle. when she resisted—they claim she came rampant violence. at them with a kitchen knife—she was "Goetz" has become a code word for Continuing to ignore the facts, the local Jn This Issue... racism and there is virtually no one with• shot twice with a 12-gauge shotgun and and national media whipped up the racist out an opinion. While these events have klMed^nsiahtly. Then her nu

RSVPTOTHEFBI [On being subpoenaed to give information, to a Federal Grand Jury investigating revolutionarv movements inside the USA) Thank you for handing me this invitation to talk to you But I am otherwise engaged. Thank you for offering me this opportunity to have a heart to heart with the murderers of Martin Luther King and Fred Hampton, not to mention Crazy Horse Michael Stewart and Eleanor Bumpurs and the nameless nnillions who do have and will have names But I am otherwise engaged. Thank you for inviting me New Afrikan People's Organization leads first demonstration to sit down with the brothers of the somocistas at Goetz court appearance. (as you describe yourselves) their long knives eager KillOr Cops, from page 1 for the blood of teachers ' ' ' • and Puerto Rican) gang into the subways the blood of nuns collecting funds for Goetz. Sliwa, a master the blood of Sandino of publicity, then threw $5 in change on which is right now running the hospital bed of Darrell Cabey, one of bright like a river in the veins of young ' the youths shot by Goetz who lay para• Nicaragua lyzed and in a coma. Joan Rivers an• But I am otherwise engaged. nounced that Goetz had joined Jerry Thank you for giving me this opportunity Falwell in her list of heroes. And San to spit on the graves of Sacco and Varcetti Francisco supervisor Carol Ruth Silver to dishonor the memory of the Rosenbergs stated that Goetz exemplified the right of or of my ex father in law the working class to self-defense. who spent 10 years not being an actor rather than 10 minutes being a collaborator The extent of the campaign in support of Goetz became apparent when Time, But I am otherwise engaged. Newsweek, the Wall St. Journal, Der Thank you for inviting me to run with the Spiegel and the London Times all rallied hounds to his defense. Within weeks Goetz had howling through the ruined cities trying to hunt down the become an international symbol of the fear FALN, theBLA and hatred white society directs toward Bernhard Goetz Phil Caniso, president of PEA, Stephen Sul• the ten or the hundred most wanted the oppressed Third World populations livan (white shirt, dark tie) and Emergency most ready and willing and able . of the decaying inner cities. The Boston to move the focus from the police to the Service cops celebrate dismissal of Sullivan's to resist with arms Herald said Goetz's only crime was that Medical Examiner, and pass the torch of indictment. and heart and ideology he had "gotten rid of trash in an unsightly reform from the Black community to the your world manner." And the once liberal Village state, where it could be safely contained, wide crimes Voice ran an article urging Black people and indeed extinguished. But I am otherwise engaged. to sober up, vote and do something about This did not wash in the Black com• And sertcxjsly, ttianks . all those unwed mothers having more "wel• munity. Official investigations and cynical for giving me this chance fare leeches." Goetz had broken the dam: to stand fast with the Puerto Ricans expressions of regret from city fathers were who have gone to lail silent since 193B Pt sinegjtiK:SacliJ 1960s in the South had not eooueb to>pacifv a people fed uRKith r^:her then drink.from your bootpnnts TO! and hatred for Black peopR; expres^' ' iivan, the cop who shot "Mfs. Bur who like Na the media. was indicted for reckless homicide. word" Vigilantism and not racism became the The police mounted a counter-offensive To stand fast with the Palestinians . issue. Should the individual white citizen targetting both the Black community and steadfast in Israeli prions the Irish deep and defiant in Long Kesh, shoot Black people, or should the police the D.A.'s office which had charged Offi• the Africans on Robben Island do it? No wonder Goetz was a hero to cer Sullivan, in response to the Black scorning your offers with songs cops. community's pressure. Through their pol• To stand fast with the children of Lumumba Against all of this stood the Black itical arm, the Patrolmen's Benevolent and Che and Malcolm X community in New York. By stating force• Association (PBA), a massive show of not to mention my own children fully that Goetz stood for the racism at racist force was unleashed on the streets and your own as well the heart of America, that a Black person of New York. 10,000 cops marched on the Thank you for this cfrance to stand taking similar action against whites would D.A.'s office carrying banners that read, not with the defeated but the defiant most likely have been killed on the spot, "If Goetz is a hero, Sullivan is a saint." who pick up the gun the Black movement said, "Enough!" As This march was the largest police demon• who pick up the pen who pick up the baby and the struggle the growing rage looked like it might stration in the history of the United States Thank you for this chance develop into a real confrontation, "expose" and showed the PBA to be one of the to stand with humanity against you most powerful and fascistic political or• stories about Michael Stewart, Eleanor Don't mind if I do. Bumpurs, and Bernhard Goetz began to ganizations in the city. Mark Davidson shows burns from stun gun appear. torture. Terry Bisson In addition to paying legal expenses for April. 1985 killer cops, the PBA uses the media to The Coverup Unravels glorify them and slander their victims. As the truth about Bernhard Goetz In January, the N. Y. Times ran a four When Michael Stewart was killed the continued to surface, some of those who part series exposing the role of the city's transit PBA told the press he was a cocaine set the vigilante bandwagon rolling, like Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Eliot Gross, addict. After the Bumpurs murder, the the Mayor, tried to distance themselves John Brown Anti-Kton in covering up police violence. The two PBA paid for radio ads portraying cops as from this racist. In March, the Grand Jury indicted Goetz on four counts of attemp• Committee most striking examples were the Michael heroes in a city of maniacs (such as Mrs. National Office: Stewart and Eleanor Bumpurs cases. It Bumpurs). The PBA unleashes its most ted murder. Once again the city fathers New York: P.O. Box 406 • NY, NY 10009 was disclosed that Gross had lied when he vile racism and hatred against Black revo• stated their "shock" at the "new evidence" 212-244^270 said Michael Stewart died of a heart lutionaries, whom they call "mad dogs." that preceeded the indictments. But it Local Chapters: wasnH really "new evidence" that forced attack. Gross, in fact, removed the eyes Faced with the reality of mounting Boston: P.O. Box 757 • AUston, MA 02134 from Michael Stewart's body to hide evi• the indictments; the facts about Goetz 617-579-3576 demands from the Black community and were out from the start. The courts were Chicago: P.O. Box 7239 • Chicago, IL 60680 dence that his death was caused by stran• a small but significant outcry from pro• 312-769-8159 gulation. In the Bumpurs case. Gross forced to act when the truth about the Los Angeles: 2554 Lincoln Blvd.. Box 4048 gressive white people, another indictment shooting could no longer be contained or altered the autopsy report to back up the was returned on February 20th against LA, CA 90291 • 213-464-8381 police lie that they only fired one shotgun sanitized. It was the outrage smoldering San Francisco: 220 9th St. No. 443 six of the transit cops who murdered SF, CA 94103 • 415-691-9040 blast instead of two. in the Black community that made the Michael Stewart. Three were indicted, not Goetz case too hot to ignore. The expose of Gross was sensational for killing him, but for allowing others to front page news for weeks. Both the Gov• kill him, and three for perjury in the But the struggle wasn't over. The PBA The past months have stripped the ernor and the Mayor were "shocked" and coverup. This indictment of twice as many had shown its strength and in early April democratic liberal-facade from the politi• appointed various blue ribbon commis• cops on half as serious charges, only the indictment against killer cop Stephen cal volcano that could erupt in New York. sions (Koch's was headed up by one of his extended the coverup. SuUivan was dropped. Eleanor Bumpurs' Open organized white supremacy on the own campaign managers). Charges and On February 24, an underground or• daughter said, "There is no justice in the one hand and the increasing mobilization counter-charges flew. But the story ex• ganization, the Red Guerrilla Resistance, courts but there will be justice in this-caee;" of the. Black community for human rights posed, nothing that hadn't been known to which has attacked South African and Koch's blu^^Hbbon commission exoner• and an end to police/vigilante terror are the Mayor, the Governor and indeed the Israeli targets in New York City, bombed ated Eliot <^|rp,ss of any wrong doing,'and splitting the city right down the middle. Times for over a year, since Gross had the PBA offices. We support this cour• as we go^ press the use of stun guns Anti-racist white people and organizations aheady been the subject of two separate ageous action because it underscored that (electric cattle prods) on Black prisoners have been called to get off the fence and lawsuits from Stewart family attorneys. jiist like police in South Africa, Ireland or is being uncovered by the Black commun• stand with the Black community in action. The Times scrupulously avoided any crit• Palestine, police in Amerikkka are part ity. When 18-year-old Mark Davidson was The months ahead are particulariy urgent icism of the police who had killed the of the colonial military machine—and just savagely beaten and burned 43 times with times; times to organize and build solidar• people to start with. as vulnerable to attack. (Their commu- a stun gun, cops Richard Pike and Jeffrey ity with the Black liberation struggle as In fart- what the Times series did was niaue is reprinted on page 16.) Gilbert told him, "This aint TV, n—r." confrontations with racist terror hei^ten. No to Political GrandJurlesI Captured Revolutionaries Stand Strong Dont Talk to the FBI! The Ohio 5—Ray Levasseur, Jaan in 1981. Lamaan, Pat Gros, Barbara Curzi, and The five have been indicted on conspi• Richard Williams—are anti-imperialist re• racy charges and are being charged with sistance fighters who, until their capture ten bombings which were carried out and on November 4th, 1984, were part of the claimed by the United Freedom Front Northamerican underground revolution• over the past several years. Their trial is ary movement. Their capture last fall was scheduled to begin in New York in July. an oirtcome of "Operation Western As they were being arraigned on these Sweep," a counter-insurgency project of charges in Brooklyn Federal Court on the FBI-led Joint Terrorist Task Force—a March 25th, the Ohio 5 attempted to read manhunt operation to find the people and a statement (see page 13). While read• destroy the organizations responsible for ing the statement, the comrades were bru• many armed actions in the Northeast. tally attacked by the court officers because Since their capture, the comrades have the state does not want their politics to be been beaten and locked down in isolation; heard or allowed to set the terms for what their children have been threatened and can happen in the courtroom. harassed; they have been used as guinea In addition to the joint charges, each of pigs to "test" the use of the "stun-gun" the five faces separate charges, including (a.k.a. cattle prod—a weapon that "stuns" weapons possession charges, and other the target by injecting 50,000 volts of elec• charges related to the circumstances of tricity). At every point, they have stood their capture. Pat Gros has aheady under• strong. gone an initial "trial", and was convicted of harboring fugitives. Richard has been Grand Jury ResKters Christine Rico, Sandra Rohmd, Julie Nalibov, and Steven Burke As revolutionaries who had developed through the anti-war and anti-imperialist extradicted to New Jersey to stand "trial" movements of the '60's and '70's, both for the shooting of Lamonaco. His safety Two More Resist DC Grand Jury Ray and Richard had been sought by the is an immediate concern. The state is try• FBI. Ray was on their most wanted list ing to obtain a court order to have inci• Six anti-imperialists, five of them mem• movements. Period. Although it is tech• for ten years for various bombings and sions made into his body to prove that bers or associates of JBAKC, are defiantly nically the grand jury and not the FBI bank robberies that the FBI claims he there are chards of glass lodged in his refusing to cooperate with an FBI inves• that issued the subpoenas, the FBI directs committed. Richard was wanted for his arms from the windows of Lamonaco's tigation of revolutionary movements, and the work of these "anti-terrorist" grand alleged participation in the shooting of car. juries and they are essentially a subterfuge are grand jury resisters. Four have already New Jersey state trooper Philip Lamonaco continued on page 12 been sent to jail, essentially for the "crime" to grant the FBI subpoena power. of refusing to give up their right to remain In the past ten years many people have silent and refusing to name names or col• gone to jail as grand jury resisters rather laborate with the FBI. The other two are than cooperate with investigations of ordered to appear May 14 before a federal revolutionary movements. Nine Puerto POLITICAL TRIAL SUPPRESSED grand jury, where they will also uphold Ricans, Mexicans and North Americans Susan Rosenberg and Tim Blunk are Although the judge denied the motion, the revolutionary principle of non-col• are serving two and three year terms for long time paiitiB^activists who make no he granted it in spirit by instructing the laboration and expect to be sent to jail. criminal contempt. Eight Black activists, bones about being immhitinanriw and jury to disregard all political statements One is an editor of this newspaper. Death many with small children, are imprisoned itAam-gmmmUm. After being underground by Susan and Tim. Both the OA's motion to the Klan!, and the other is national in New York for refusing to cooperate with for several years, they were captured in and the judge's instructions are part of a media coordinator of the New Movement a grand jury investigating the New York 8+. Cherry Hill, New Jersey on November 29, strategy on the part of the US to crimin• in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Inde• Julie Nalibov, Sandra Roland and 1984, while allegedly storing explosives. alize political cases. This is the strategy pendence and Socialism. Christine Rico are in prison in Lexington, Susan was wanted in connection with used by the British in Ireland and dis• AU six have been nibpocmed to a nnd Kentucky. Steven Buike.is at Lewisburg. the 1981 Nyadi Mnk^is expropriation and cussed in counterinsurgency books by jury nnaiprtaB tf Hm iBibiMg of the British experts Kitson and Qutterbuck, Capitol building after the Grenada inva- and Bob Lederer (of the New Movement) Assata Shakur hq

installations in the DC area. The attacks jury May 14. Support all the grand jury served time for taking part in Kennedy itical police). The theory is that if revolu• were dainwd by two clandrttinr groups, resisters and all poUtical prisoners by Airport protests against the SiMi A6iM» tionaries are made into "ariminab" no one couQf tooonrt ivilhy tem m net. They were lried«Ml i Rcsotanoe Unh. •fiewufc. NJ. in Much. I98S Althou^ they were ddned 1 r icwter* are taking the and fake ID call witnesses and put on a defense, both Susan and Tim addressed the jury. They on principle to ( Write to the grand jury resisters! In a motion to die court, the US attor• explained that they are revolutionaries and government investigation of revolutiortaify Steven Burke #00830000, LEC, P.O. ney asked that the words blanked out not criminals. They both spoke of the Box 1000, Lewisburg, PA 17837 above (political, revolutionary, urban Nuremberg principles, based on the war Julie Nalibov #00833000, FCI, Women's guerrillas. Black Liberation Army, South crimes trials of the Nazis, which state that MARK Won't Unit, P.O. Box 2000, Lexington, KY 40511 Africa) be banned in their trial. US attor• everyone has both the right and the duty Christine Rico #00831000, FCI, Women's ney Thomas W. Greelish asked the judge to resist criminal aggression by their own to ban over 50 words and phrases plus government. Over the objections of the Collaborate Unit, P.O. Box 2000, Lexington, KY40511 Sandra Roland #0083200, FCI, Women's "any and all political, social, religious, judge and the prosecutor, they raised issues Birmingham, Alabama—The Movement Unit, P.O. Box 2000, Lexmgton, KY 40511 racial, ethnic, governmental, diplomatic... of international law which the US arro• Against Racism and the Klan (MARK) views or beliefs of the defendants." gantly disregards in its criminal aggression has taken a strong stance of non-collabora• in Central America and around the world. tion in the face of government repression. Prior to doing other revolutionary work As part of their anti-Klan work, MARK 17 Political Prisoners Protest Torture March 31, i985 and going underground, both Susan and has shown a slide show entitled, "Unmask• Tim were members of the John Brown We, the Political Prisoners currently being held at MOC in New York City, call on ing the Ku Klux Klan." One part of the Anti-Klan Committee. We are proud of all revolutionary and progressive people to actively protest against the U.S. government show exposes the well-known affiliations their revolutionary stance and the work use of violence and torture against the Ohio 5. In particular, when the Ohio 5 tried to between Coors brewery arid "right-wing they have done attacking imperialism from read a statement at their arraignment in a Brooklyn federal court on Monday, March groups such as the Klan." within. We urge everyone to support them. 25, they were physically attacked with stunguns and blackjacks by U.S. Marshals. Their statement is printed on page 13 of Through a libel suit brought against Upon their return to MCC from court, Ray Levasseur was singled out by U.S. Mar• this issue. MARK, Coors attempted to determine shals arid MCC personnel. how many times, where, and to whom the All movement inside the prison was halted for over an hour while Ray was worked Write to Susan and Tim at MCC, 150 slide show was presented, claiming this Park Row, NY, NY I00I9 information was necessary to determine over. He was beaten by one U.S. Marshal and MCC Lieutenant Gonzalez and Unit the extent of damage to their reputation. Counselor Vega, as several MCC correctional officers stood by, including CMC (Cen• MARK refused to provide the information, tral Monitoring Case) Officer Brachman. Ray was then denied medical treatment by even when faced with contempt of court MCC personnel. The Ohio 5 have been the target of death threats by various law and a fine. enforcement officials since their arrest. The Ohio 5 were told "better stop worrying about beatings and start worrying about being shot." In a court affidavit, Laurie Thrasher of The experience of the Black Liberation Struggle with the murder of Black Liberation MARK stated: "We cannot and will not Army combatant Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, and the torture of New Afrikan Prisoner turn over any information which woukl of War Sekou Odinga; and of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement with the reveal either directly or indirectly the iden• murder of Angel Rodriguez Cristobal, and the use of sensory deprivation and isolation tities of our supporters to Coors or any of of the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War is all the evidence we need that these are not idle their representatives. To do so would be to threats. These attacks against the Ohio 5 take place in-a context of systematic and betray a trust, to act as traitors against the continuous efforts to isolate, set up and destroy political prisoners and POWs across individuals and organizations that have the country. joined with us in this fight against racism and the equality of rights for all nationali• Our movements must intensify our vigilance and defend the lives of those comrades ties. The result of such an action woutd h6' enured and in the field. not only to destroy our organization, but Free All Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War! Defeat U.S. Imperialfem! to cause serious jeopardy and harm to the Signed, all the Political Prisemers in MCC: anti-Klan, anti-fascist movement as a The Ohio 5: Ray LeymRui; iawi Laaman, Richard Williams, Fat Gros, Barbara Curzi whole." Susan Rosenberg, Tfem Blanii, Anti-imperialist Resistance Filters The court awarded Coors a defauh CoMrMie Chimurenfa, New York 8+ Against Fascist Terrorism judgement and $10,(X)1 in damages. How• NY8+ Grand Jury Resisters: Wanda Wareham, Olive Armstrong, Dorrie Clay, Jackie ever, the political winner was MARK and Bernard, MicbeUe ThtMuas, Limwl Jean-Baptbte, Milton Parrish, Jean Ford the principle of non-collaboration. H Susan Rosenberg ^4 i^ibffie^ Bay Area Killer Cops In the early morning of November 8,1984, ported by representatives from San Fran• a San Francisco Black family, Gregg and cisco's Black community who are active in Polly Turner and their four children, were the Free South Africa movement. Speakers travelling north to Lake Tahoe, a resort in drew parallels between the violence of the Nevada, for a family vacation. Shortly after apartheid system and racist police terror 1:00 a.m., they drove into a snowstorm the Black community faces here. which grew heavier and heavier. Due to the San Mateo, California—On February 6, intense storm, the car slid off the road and 1985, James Patrick Lewis, a 20 year old down a hill where it crashed into some Black man, was shot in the head and killed trees. Smoke and fumes were rising from as he lay handcuffed and spread-eagled on the hood. The family made an emergency the ground in this San Francisco bay area exit from the car, fearing it might explode. city. His executioner was Kam Lee, a San Leaving their coats behind in haste, and Mateo police officer with a long history of unprotected from the cold, '.I.e family racist violence against Black people. managed to climb to the road and tried to As news of the cold blooded murder flag down help. By this time they were swept through the community, police and soaking wet and the children were nearly local authorities moved quickly to establish hysterical. Fifteen minutes later a Califor• their cover-up. With anger at a high point nia highway patrol car accompanied by in the Black community, over 400 people two snow ploughs arrived on the scene. gathered on February 7th to hear police When the Turners appealed for help, the chief Lawrence Phillips defend the murder officer cracked his window and said, "What as an "unfortunate accident." Pleading for the hell are you n—s doing out here?" De• calm, he promised a thorough investiga• Qccro racists oppose Black-led anti-racist demonstration. spite the cop's comment, Mr. Turner at• tion. Skeptical that justice would come tempted to explain their situation. The cop through police procedures, the crowd jeered refused to help, saying the family couldn't him and called for community action. fit in his car, and that they were all wet. The In the weeks that followed, the police CICERO, ILLINOIS: Turners asked that the officer or snow completed an internal investigation which ploughs at least take the children. The cop's cleared both Kam Lee and the entire de• reply was, "You n—s get off the road before partment of any wrongdoing. The grand Racists Riotfor Segregation you get killed. IH send a tow truck." The jury refused to indict Lee on March 29th, tow truck never arrived. believing that his gun accidentally dis• • Racist violence is on the rise in Chicago. Spencer Goffer, Patricia FrankUn and After walking the road for over an hour, Last fall, a rash of fire-bombings, a cross- their 8'year-old son moved into an apartment charged as he returned it to the holster, the family was picked up by a passing despite overwhelming evidence that this burning and a six hour brick-throwing siege on Roosevelt Road in November, unaware driver, who rescued them from probable on a Black family's home drew national that this move placed them in "forbidden was impossible. The blatant racism of this death from exposure. finding was underscored by the fact that attention, in 1984 over 80 white-on-Black territory" for Black people. The apartment A San Francisco group of family, friends racial attacks were reported in Chicago—a is in a four square block area called "The even the police chief had admitted earlier and supporters. Citizens Against Racist that the gun would have to be cocked con• 23% increase over 1983. Island"—an all-white enclave sandwiched Police Practice, has formed to support the Most of the incidents occurred when between the largely Black neighborhood of sciously and the trigger pulled for it to fire. Turners and to mobilize against racist The Lewis family has filed a $10 million Black or l.atino families attempted to move Austin on one side and the segregated town actions by the police. iato white neighborhoods. As one fair- of Cicero on the other. law suit against the police. The community On March 25, the Turners and their sup• has come together to demonstrate for the 5 activist pointed out, the attacks in The first night in the new apartment, a porters called a press conference and dem• \ were not only greater in number, but group of white people knocked out the win• dismissal of killer cop Lee, for the firing of onstration to announce legal proceedings the police chief, and agamst rising racism »more serious and life-threatening than dows of the store below and called them and a political campaign. They were sup• , forcing a number of families to move 'n—rs", telling them to move out. On the in this city.H out of their homes. second night, while they sat in their living one of the most segregated room, their windows were shattered with a

iMiigiHa' tteran nrunister a] I at toot. and recarved out of this vast and changing Spencer Goffer opened the door, the man In November, 1984, KKK leader Don cenaries who were defeated in Rhodesia ci^ For every "border" created between told them "n—rs" weren't wanted and they Black was released from a federal prison (now Zimbabwe) often carried Confederate Ebck and white neighborhoods, there is a had better move before things got worse. where he had been serving a two year term flags and many were recruited by the Klan. Ustory of brick-throwing, beatings, and As promised, things got worse the fol• for the attempted 1981 invasion of Domin• Today Soldier of Fortune sends "advi• fee-bombings against Black people who lowing night. At about 2:00 a.m., says ica. The Klan had assembled a small force sers" with the full (but covert) assistance of ttried to move in, travel through or work in Golfer, "the mob poured out of two taverns of mercenaries and Nazis to try and take the US military. The CIA is interested in those neighborhoods. on the street and threw everything they could over the tiny Caribbean nation, but the developing new sources of support for the In 1919, bombings of Black families' pick up into our apartment." For the next plans were thwarted by the CIA—techni• contras, who now claim they are 77% homes were an almost daily occurrence, six hours, a mob of fifteen white men hurled cally for violating the "neutrality act," but funded by "private" donations. The Klan and during that summer, when a Black bottles and bricks at the Goffer/Franklin more probably because the CI A had bigger Brigade will serve this purpose well. Mean• youth accidently swam into the whites-only home. Some waved guns. fish to fry. The Klan's plot was used to while Reagan is seeking more congressional section of a beach, whites stoned and "They had us trapped inside all night justify a renewed defense agreement with funding and preparing the contras for a full drowned him. Five days of white rioting because they were at the front and back Dominica, which was then used to justify scale invasion of Nicaragua. ensued. In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. doors of the building," recalled Goffer. the Grenada invasion. The Prime Minister "1 think the statement by President Rea• and his followers marched through all-white Because their phone had not yet been in• of Dominica, Eugenia Charles, "requested" gan that such activity will be considered Chicago neighborhoods to protest housing stalled, the Black family had no way to call and praised the Grenada invasion, even legal will be a tremendous benefit toward fl^regation and were greeted by racial in• outside for help. At dawn, they escaped to a traveling to Washington to appear with our recruiting drive," Black said. He wants sults and violence. relative's home. They refused to return to Reagan on TV. to call his Klan force the Nathan Bedford Some of the attacks in 1984: the Island. "The incideht," says Goffer, On his release from prison in Bastrop, Forrest Brigade, after the Confederate of• "showed me how much some whites hate Texas, Black flew by private jet to Alabama, ficer who started the Ku Klux Klan in 1868 • • In the racially mixed and poor Uptown Blacks." to keep newly freed Black people from get• area of Chicago, about 20 young white where he announced plans to form a Klan How could this attack have gone on for ting land and using the vote in the South. men, some dressed in white robes and Brigade to fight in Central America, espe• some six hours on a main thoroughfare? waving a confederate flag, burned a cross cially to help the contras, Reagan's so- How fitting that Forrest's name is evoked Where were the police? over Labor Day weekend. Most were called "freedom fighters" financed by the today in the effort—led by the US govern• members of the Rebels, a white suprema• As it turns out, the police were there that CIA to overthrow the revolutionary San- ment and implemented by the CIA, and cist gang that has carried out attacks night—side by side with the brick throwing dinista government in Nicaragua. now the KKK—to deny Central American against Black people, Asian people, and racists. In all, four Cicero cops were at the Black said he was inspired by Civilian people their right to self-determination.JH white youth who have Black friends. scene. One was an off-duty sergeant. Two Military Assistance (CM A), the Alabama- other cops drove up in an undercover car based organization (see DTTK!, Spring, • In August, a Black woman who purchased and unloaded a trunkful of bricks which the 84) that sent money and weapons to the a home in ^he predominantly white mob proceeded to throw at the Goffer/ contras. The CMA made headlines when Northwest side, rame home to find her Franklin apartment. One cop drove up in a two members (one a Memphis cop) were front door kicked in, the roof blown off, squad car, conferred with the brick-throwers shot down over Nicaragua, becoming the her personal items stolen and her house and moved on. Later, the four policemen first Americans to be officially killed there. burned. A few daysearlier a white police• said they "didnt see" any disturbance. No The CMA was endorsed by Reagan in man in the neighborhood had called her Chicago police patrol car passed during an October, 1984, interview with Scripps- "n—r" and told her to "go back to the any of this time. Howard newspaper editors, when he said cotton gin." The attack on the Goffer/ Franklin family that "it was traditional" for American volunteers to get involved in such matters. • In the Uberal Lakeview area, the "Knights got nationwide publicity, and the FBI prom• Tom Posey, the CMA Director, said that of Barry Street" threw a rock with a threat• ised it would investigate to see if the family's now such groups will "start up everywhere." ening note attached to it through a Black civil rights were violated. Four months later, woman's condominium window, and no arrests have been made. An agent of the Reagan's statement is true. Wtiitettrpfe- painted "Leave N—r, KKK" on her door. special prosecution unit for the U.S. attor• macists teve always found ways to support ney's office said he "doubted the case would genocidafaUS wars. In particular, there is a • In December, within a two week period, ever go to trial, because there just doesn't long tradition of collaboration between the two Black families' homes were fire- seem to be an outpouring of witnesses." slaveowners of the South and the western bombed and there was an attempted fire- The four Cicero police who were positively expansionists. The first US invasion of bombing on a Chilean family's home. identified at the scene of the attack remain Nicaragua, in 1858, led by William Walker, It was the mob attack on the Goffer/ free and on patrol duty. was an attempt to set up a slave society From CIA-authored comic book distributed' The annexation of Texas was arranged by to organize sabotage against the Sandinista Franklin family in November th^t drew continued on page 12 intention from all over the country. slaveowners. In our own century, the mer• government. KNOW YOUR ENEMY

RACIST KLAN KTTL-KLAN RADIO NORTH AND SOUTH BIRTH CONTROL CAMPAIGN CAROUNA KLANS "Thus with violence that great city RALLY TOGETHER Harrison, Ark. In the face of stEirva- Babylon—that International Com• tion and tragedy in Ethiopia, the Arkan• munist System—shall be thrown down West Columbia, SC In an effort to sas Klan is distributing a flyer asking and shall be found no more . . . and all help the South Carolina Klan build its for donations to buy contraceptives for the disco bongo from the congo, the N~ forces, the powerful and violent North the people of Ethiopia. Ethiopia, -r jive, is going to go. Yes, we're gonna Carolina Klan, infamous for its murder which is suffering from terrible famine cleanse our land. We're gonna do it with of five anti-Klan demonstrators in is underdeveloped, but not overpopul- violence . . . it's about time someone is Greensboro, in 1979, brought more ated. telling you to get violent, whitey." than 100 of its members to West Colum• The flyer, being posted in the Harri• This is what you can hear on your ra• bia, South Carolina to attend an or• son area, asks for donations to be sent dio driving across Kansas these days, ganizing rally and cross burning there. to Tuscumbia, Alabama, which is the thanks to KTTL, the FCC and the Keynote speaker at the rally was national office of the Knights of the Ku Posse Comitatus. North Carolina Klan chief and Nazi, Klux Klan. The Federal Communications-Com• Glenn Miller, of Angler, NC who told Thom Robb of Harrison, national mission has refused to take action the crowd: Klan "chaplain," said the campaign is against the racist station KTTL (now "They tell us it isn't fair that we want supported by the national KKK organi• changed to KCMS) owned by Posse to keep our blood lines pure. N—r zation. "Donations will be used toward Comitatus adherents Nellie and Charles crime is out of control in our country." the purchase of contraceptives in an ef• Babbs. Situated in an area with less Glenn Miller, leader of North Carolina Klan He said white people who don't join the fort to stop the ever-expanding birth than 400 Black people and only a hand• Klan in order to fight crime "ain't rate of the Negro people," the flyer said ful of Jewish people, the station plays nothing but white n rs." "If in part. tapes by leaders of the Posse (quoted NORTH CAROUNA KLAN you've got it in your mind to go out above) and the racist Kingdom Identity POLL WATCHLS here and break the law," he said, "just movement. go out and do it, doa't tell anybody Algiers, NC The head of the Caro• In November, 1984 the controversial you're going to do it. Don't tell your lina Knights of the KKK said some 800 license renewal was once again post• wife or your girlfriend and forget about Klansmen across the state were involved RAOST ATTACK poned by the FCC. The FCC could it yourself after you do it." in poll watching to prevent older whites IN CALIFORNIA deny the renewal application to Babbs "Back in the old days, the sheriff was "from being intimidated at the voting and grant a license to Community Ser• in the Klan, the judge and all them poli• booths" this past November. Los Angeles, Ca. Sazon Davis, a vice Broadcasting, Inc., representing the ticians," Miller said. "I wish them days Black man, is now a quadriplegic as a Dodge City Citizens for Better Broad• Glenn Miller, North Carolina Grand vwas back, but they ain't going to come result of a racist attack by three white casting, and the National Black Media Dragon said Klan officials had coordi• back until we bring them back." he teenagers. The local US attorney's of• Coalition. These forces are among the nated their efforts with the State Board said. fice is "investigating" the incident to see many groups and individuals who have of Elections. He said 850 Klansmen The September rally was attended by if his civil rights were violated when he urged the FCC to reject the Babbs' li• from his group, the Knights of the Ku 200 Klansmen in robes and close to 300 was beaten and left paralyzed in Octo• cense renewal. Klux Klan of Ellenboro and from the spectators—most of whom were enthu• ber, 1984. Winston-Salem based White Knights of The Posse Comitatus gained national siastic Klan supporters or members. Initially the Fontana police depart• Liberty, were at the polls to provide two Miller warned Klansmen and specta• attention when its leader Gordon Kahl, services. . ment said that the teenage thugs had his son Yoris, and another Posse mem• tors at the rally that police would be acted in self-defense and the County ber were involved in a shoot-out with He said the Klan wanted to reduce the taking down license plate numbers, and District Attorney's Office had found federal marshals near Medina, N at their local precincts only attacked Davis. ~ , Many listeners, in particular Mexican to find that their poll-watdiers were Later that night. policeTouhd Davis m people, have complained about the pro• hooded Klansmot? KKK PLANS VOTER a vacant lot lying on his back and una• grams, but the F.C.C. has defended the REGISTRATION IN OHIO ble to move. Hart alleges that Fontana Babbs' "freedom of speech." police did not "seriously investigate" Babbs' current strategy is to change the case, failed to disclose that the Columbus, Ohio 40 Klan leaders the station's image. Babbs hired a new KKK CONSPIRACY inother of one of the youths was em• from the area met in Columbus, Ohio general manager in early October to ployed by the i^olice department and Center Point, Ala. William David to discuss one aspect of the Klan's pro• modernize the format without making that the youths later contradicted their "Bill" Riccio, 27, a Klan member who gram for the upcoming year. any fundamental changes in content or original statement to the poliCfe. had participated in the brutal attack and "The Klan is moving toward becom• policy. New general manager, 21-year clubbing of Black civil rights marchers ing a major political voice across the Fontana has an active KKK chapter old Russ Silvey, changed the station's in Decatur in 1979, was arrested re• country," said Imperial Klaliff Van. D. and four years ago a Black technician call letters from KTTL to KCMS-FM. cently following a raid at his residence, Loman of Cincinnati, who heads the who was repairing a telephone line was In addition, the station changed from which turned up a half-ounce of cocaine state organization. He is the Grand Dra• shot by a white man who told police he country music to top 40 music. Silvey and a half-pound of marijuana and gon of Ohio and the national Klan's was "shooting crows". even changed the station's stationery. eight weapons. second in command. The station's license expired in June "We're supporting President Reagan 1983, but under FCC rules, the station Riccio is on parole from a 10-year sentence for a 1981 federal firearms vio• as much as we can, and hope other can continue operating until the FCC white people will do the same" Loman makes a decision. lation. Riccio and nine other Klansmen. were indicted last spring, (see DTTK! said. We hope to register thousands of Fall, 1984) four years after the brutal voters, particularly in the Appalachian attack took place, only because the areas, and there are plans under way to Southern Poverty Law Center, had have more Klansmen running for office gathered thousands of pages of evidence in Ohio." and hours of testimony, and finally forced the Justice Department to hand down the indictments even though their own "investigation" had failed to turn NAZI GETS 64,000 VOTES up "adaquate evidence" for indictment. IN MICHIGAN The case has not yet come to trial be• cause the local judge is now attempting Michigan Just a few days before the to supress the evidence submitted by the 1984 presidential election, Ronald SPLC. Reagan visited Michigan and urged vo• Also arrested February 4, 1985, were ters to "remember all of Michigan's Re• Gerald D. Smith, 21, and Kevin CuUen publican candidates." Many did, and Bryan, 18, of Center Point. They were Gerald Carlson, the GOP candidate in charged with narcotics violations and the 15th congressional district, an released from jail on $500 bail each. avowed white supremacist who has A notebook found at Riccio's home openly proclaimed his affiliations with contained the names of state and local the KKK and American Nazi Party, re• people and apparently was intended to ceived 64,000 votes. be an assassination hit list. While other republicans claim that Riccio also had an Aryan Nations Carlson has no ties to the official Michi• identification card and pictures of gan Republican Party, and are quick to Adolf Hitler. Recently Riccio and three point out that "he lost the election" no others wore full Nazi uniforms with ma• one can deny that an openly racist and chetes on their belts while attending a anti-semitic candidate won 40% of the town meeting. vote. Bill Wilkinson and Connecticut Klan at their pro-nuke demonstration. 6 lhtH^]ik/9^ Aryan Nations, penetration of Brink's, their network of with Judaism. from page 1 hideouts, false IDs and counterfeiting ap• Richard Butler met Swift through Wil• As news of these operations began to paratus—what is notable about this de• liam Potter Gale, an ex-colonel who di• break over the past six months, the FBI velopment is the national scope and or• rected counter-guerrilla operations in the and news media have gone to great lengths ganizational alliances involved. While they Phillipines under Gen. MacArthur. Gale to portray this movement as a small have decided to work in a decentralized also ran an "Idemity" church in Mariposa, splinter group, a break-away from the way, maintaining their own organizational California, and later founded a paramili• Idaho-based Aryan Nations organization. identity and integrity, they all share a tary unit, the California Rangers. Today The government is claiming to have neu• common ideology, strategy and commit• Gale is known as the ideologue and leader ment to the development of race war. tralized and crippled the group. However, continued on page 12 anti-klan activists and researchers around When we look at the following list of the country remain skeptical. major racist leaders, who, in addition to The media has gone from posing ques• Aryan Nations chief Richard Butler, are tions like "will the WAB be able to topple in the public leadership of the movement, the government?" to its current "irrelevant we can see how far the web extends. Each High-Tech Racism splinter group" line. From the beginning, of these men has his own public and mil• the FBI has controlled the flow of infor• itary organization, regional base of sup• fhe fascist .Aryan Nations group i.s using mation—and all media reports should be port, and propaganda machinery. a computer bulletin board lo promote its viewed in that light. In any case, all the racist ideology and circumvent Canadian media's various angles have served to por• Louis Beam: Most notorious leader of the censorship laws. tray the FBI and US government as the Texas KKK, longtime advocate and forces of justice and freedom while at the practitioner of guerrilla warfare. Am- The board, which any computer with a same time masking the real issues raised bassador-at-large of Aryan Nations, modem can connect through a phone call, by the existence of this movement. It is Beam led the confrontation with the operate.s out of Hayden Lake, Idaho, ac• important to deal with the fact that any Vietnamese shrimp fishers in the Texas cording to an article in the computer maga• group advocating and fighting for an Gulf a few years ago. He runs the Aryan zine Infoworld. A bulletin board (called a "Aryan" revolution to build an Aryan Nations national computer network and BBS in computer lingo) is a computer con• Nation is planning genocide for the entire TV operation. Beam created the "Point Richard Butler with bodyguard Gary nected with telephone lines and programmed Black and Third World population inside System for Aryan Warriors" which spec• Yarborough to communicate with other computers which the US. This is quite a different story than ifies points for killing enemies of the call in ("log on"'). T he communication ap• that peddled to the media by the FBI. movement. The Aryan Nations was formed in the pears on the screen of the caller's computer It is a story of a growing movement, 1940s by Richard Butler, a retired Lock• and can be written materials, program.s, or Robert Miles: Leader of the Michigan messages and notices. BBSs are very popu• which despite its recent losses, has begun based Mountain Church. His newsletter heed engineer who left California to set to unite the most militant sections of the up headquarters in Hayden Lake, Idaho, lar with computer users and a number have "From the Mountain" links forces in the been used by progressive groups such as far-right for a fascist revolution against Midwest and throughout the country. in 1973, after the death of his mentor, Dr. Black and all Third World people, Jews, Wesley Swift. A former Klan member, Califomia's Pcacenet or Minnesota'.s Com- He leads the "spiritual" justification for niuniiree. which sponsor "conferences" or gays, communists, and even liberals. Like white supremacy. SWift was an early leader in the racist fascists everywhere, they seek to maintain Christian Identity movement, founding discussions oi political issues. The Aryan Thom Robb: National Pastor of the Ku Nations' board is the first known use by the capitalist system but want to replace Klux Klan, a neo-nazi widely respected the Anglo-Saxon Christian Congregation even bourgeois democracy with an all-out in Los Angeles during the 1940s. Today's explicitly racist groups and is an ominous by Klan members everywhere, based in harbinger of things to come. totalitarian state. And it is definitely not a Arkansas. Christian Identity movement is a loose "splinter group" but the creation of many Tom Metzger: Major figure in the Cali• knit network of "churches" propounding Infoworld described the boards operator organizations and the brainchild of some fornia Klan, now leading the White a racist ideology linking so-called Chris• (SYSOP) as "computer consultant" Louis of this country's most sophisticated racist American Resistance. Metzger received tian churches and many organized racist Beam. /J77A.'readers will recogni/e Beam leaders. 80,000 votes in his run for-US Senate groups, like the Mountain Church in as the Icxas Ku Klux Klan leader who has Undoubtedly, a series of errors by the several years ago and has compared the Michigan; the Covenant, the Sword and recently linked up with the Aryan Nations. fascists and unplanned confrontations relationship of public organizing efforts the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas and The nazi Aryan Nations, part ol the racist with government agents surfaced the exist• of the Klan and its military component Missouri; the Christian Patriots Defense "Kingdom Identity" movement, is linked ence of the "underground" before it had to "that between the Congress and the League in Alabama and the mid-west; and with both the Klan and the Pos.se Comita• time to consolidate itself fully. But it would CIA—one's public, the other secret.' the Restored Church of Jesus Christ tus. Their anti-.semitic ideology claims that Christians are the "chosen people" and that ins .lews are an imposter "race" only a step only do several regional bases of the or• gether the Aryan Nations, the Klan and (white people from northern Europe) are above "non-whites," which they rcgai'd as ganization remain untouched, but, more neo-nazis. the true lost tribes of Israel and Jews are no more than beasts. Ihe Klan is also pro• importantly, WAB represents a vision and With the exception of Richard Butler, imposters—the "seed of Satan" and should motes this racist garbage through featuring strategy that has been on the rise within none of these leaders has been named in be exterminated. Its blatantly racist tracts priests of thc"Odin" religion on Klan leader the racist movement for a number of years. the press as having anything to do with even say that Hitler's Mein Kampf was Tom Met/ger's TV talk shows, fhese Over the past period of time, the white the Bastion. Ironically, one of the guests actually the last book of the Bible. These "priests" arc of course plain old all-Ameri- supremacist movement (estimated to em• of Tom Metzger's Klan TV show called forces are organizing for Hitler style anti- cafl white supremacist thugs. brace 10,000 hardcore members joined by "Race and Reason" was Frank Silva, now semitism and must be opposed by all The Aryan Nations BBS is called the indicted for his role in the Bastion. These progressive people. They claim that big "Computer Liberty Network." Its existence people and their followers combine theory business and the mass media are con• was announced in fiyers handed out in with practice, debating strategy and tactics trolled by Jewish people who operate them Canada in August. The bulletin board trans• in the pages of their papers. to exploit their white Aryan workers. mits racist literature, featuring excerpts In "From the Mountain," July-August Their virulent anti-semitism has already from The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, a 1984, months before the news of the Bas• led to the murder of Alan Berg. But like book which claims that the Nazi massacre tion really hit the press, Robert Miles anti-semites everywhere, they use zionism of the Jews never happened. This book is predicted the emergence of the White and Judaism interchangeably. Their attack censored in Canada under a law banning American Bastion: on Zionism and Israel may seem contra• "seditious, treasonable, immoral or inde• "...The Armed Party refers to any individual, dictory because zionism has been con• cent" material. Beam claims that his BBS or group of individuals who pick up the demned as a form of racism by the UN has "ended censorship in Canada." (Once sword in active and definite resistance to a and progressive people the world over. But again the Klan dresses up in the robes of force in power. It does not necessarily indi• their anti-semitism is so all-pervasive in "free speech"!) cate any centrally controlled group, under their world view that they will attack any• any central command, although such is pos• Infoworld logged onto (connected to) the Alan Berg sible. It may be an individual such as Gordon thing they believe to be associated with network in September and reported that it Kahl [the Posse Comitatus tax protestor who Jewish people. (In fact, they consider Rea• included a listing for "race traitors," which hundreds and thousands of supporters) gan and Botha to be "soft" on Black peo• has been searching for a strategy which killed federal marshals and was subsequently required a password and "level 7" security hunted and killed by the FBI—e^.] who ple and Jews because of their ongoing clearance lo read. Infoworld, the most in• will allow it to take full advantage of struck back at the federals in the Dakbtas. support for the zionist state of Israel and America's move to the right. In the after• fluential magazine in the computer industry, It might be a Snell, the survivalist in Arkan• what they consider their "moderate" ap• took a progressive stance by characterizing math of ^he 1979 Greensboro massacre, sas who allegedly cut down the first black proach to governing South Africa.) We the struggle over "which way forward" for the book (and the use of the material) as state trooper hired in that state. It might be oppose zionism as racism and part of im• "racist hate literature" and not publishing the racist movement took place in virtually a Franklin, roaming the nation at will, and perialism's strategy to maintain control the number of the Na/i BBS. At least one every Klan, Nazi, survivalist and fascist- striking where he alone sees fit. It is the clear over the world's resources, and because cut willingness to put one's own life where reader wrote in to the magazine defending religious formation in the country. Major we support the Palestinian people's right fascist ideologues like Tom Metzger argued one has put pen and words. It is action. It is the book. Since Januar>'. 1985, readers have the awareness that the only propaganda that to self-determination. The Aryan Nations also reported Na?.i and KKK numbers on for increased militarization, decentraliza• is anti-zionist because they equate zionism tion, and clandestinity, while other Klan finally awakens a people is the propaganda i he Souice, a commercial public network. leaders, like Bill Wilkinson, argued for a of the deed. In the days ahead, thanks to the arrogance of the liberals and the blindness 3-piece suit public relations approach. Out of the Z'OG [the fascist movement is thor• of this process has come a new umbrella, oughly anti-semitic and calls the US federal j>r alliance, of forces which gave birth to government a Jewish controlled Zionist Oc• the White American Bastion as the mil• cupation Government—ed.] more Armed itary extension of the vision. Party actions will occur. They are already By now, most people have heard of the spreading like mushrooms. They are the first Aryan Nations compound in rural Idaho, flames of open and armed rebellion. They are the righteous wrath of God's people featured in slick news stories and TV against the satanic influences abounding in reports. The Aryan Nations is the most the Sodom and Gomorrah called America." prominent, identifiable public group of this movement, but it is by no means the What is the Aryan Nations? ' only one. The movement's network cur• The Aryan Nations increasingly has rently spans 38 states and several other become a clearinghouse for a network of Countries, including South Africa, Ger• paramilitary groups in the US, Canada, many, and Canada. In addition to their and internationallv through its national John Brown. Part II: Harper's Ferry

A long continuous mountain range from Brown's force also had 10,000 pikes 2000 to 5000 feet high, running south and (spears), for they knew that most slaves had west from Pennsylvania to Tennessee, the been prevented from knowing how to use Blue Ridge is aimed like a spear into the rifles. heart of the South. On the night of October 1"? 1859, after The town of Harper's Ferry is situated months of preparation and training in which inside the point of a " V where the Potomac two of his daughters played a major role, and Shenandoah Rivers join and then plunge gathering and hiding the men and weapons, through the mountains, which are here a column of 20 men marched into town, about 1800 feet in elevation and, as every• their carbines hidden under their long coats. where, rocky, steep and thickly wooded. In Their captain wore a "lucky" hat given to 1859 there was a railroad bridge connecting him by an Indian friend in Kansas. the town to the Maryland shore, and a rifle Taking the town with little bloodshed, factory and a federal arsenal in the town. the abolitionists siezed hostages such as the John Brown came to Harper's Ferry fresh grandson of George Washington, a local from his victories in Kansas—a controversial slaveowner, and forced him to turn over the figure widely known as "Osawatomie" sword presented to Washington by Freder• Brown, already a wanted man by the federal ick the Great to one of the Black freedom government and a hero to abolitionists, who fighters. Brown took other prominent hos• funded and sheltered him; and respected tages, hoping to use them to bargain with even by those who didn't agree with his the governor of Virginia and the federal conviction that only armed struggle could authorities. defeat the slave system. His mistake was that he put far too much Brown's plan in the raid on Harper's Ferry emphasis on these propaganda moves, and lost sight of the military objectives. The was to launch a guerrilla force which would Shields Green, John Copeland, John Brown, Edwin Coppoc and hostages, in particular, kept his force pinned move south along the Blue Ridge, using the Aaron Stevens at their arraignment. mountains as a base of operations to sjtrike down long after his men had urged him to at slaveowners and draw off slaves. Harper's pull out. Out of concern for the hostages' the white supremacy in him as in all white Brown. Osborne Anderson, who escaped people, even the most anti-racist, he wavered and wrote the best account of the raid, was between the war that would arm the slaves, a Black intellectual. He was offered a lead• and the vain hope that he could negotiate ership position but turned it down in favor "peacefully" with the slaveowners' govern• of Kagi and Stevens, who were more ex• ment. In the end, he put more value on his perienced. Harriet Tubman was supposed hostages than on his objective or the lives of to be Brown's second-in-command but she his men. got sick at the last minute. It was his fatal error and his defeat is still Among the whites, Aaron Stevens was felt today. It is often said that even in death a former US Army officer who had been John Brown was victorious, and it's true imprisoned for defending an enlisted man that he and his men inspired millions; the from a beating; escaping, he had lived several Black Union troops used "John Brown's years with the Delaware Indians. Will Body" as a marching song five years later. Leeman was a "wiM, reckless" factojy ^ histo^ would look di£rerent if he had woiker. The Coppoc brothes were Quaker ^4iRiiMdad.^viisafluiftmBy«r«| .^^noiwnls own sons were veterans ists and freed slaves, in those da

in the laurel thickets of the southern Appal• cause of his proven ability as a military achians. Others might have sprung up, arm• leader. After Kansas, it was widely believed ing the Black masses the US was ahaid to that if anyone in the US had the ability and arm, hastemng the beginning of the Civil the will to strike at slavery successfully it War, hurting its end, and ultimately saving was "Osawatomie Brown." thOiKands of hves. Today these men are maligned as fanatics Harper's Ferry And a'war fo^it on aboUtionist terms, or, at best, misguided idealists. What a lie! with BGsLck liberation the ecpiidt aim, would They were revolutionaries, the fighting Ferry was chosen because of its strategic have changed the balance of power after the youth of a revolutionary age, among the position at a mountain gap; because Brown war. John Brown went into battle with a best their day had to offer. • hoped to deny the Hall's and federal rifles MARYLANti constitution drawn up by Black abolitionists to the slavecatchers and local militias; and calling for a free state for Black people. THE RESPONSE because he hoped that a lightning attack on Instead, the war was fought to unify the Their raid electrified the country as few a federal position in the south would white nation rather than free the Black acts before or since. John Brown and his heighten the anti-slavery debate already rag• nation. Black soldiers were disarmed after men were seen as martyrs for freedom, or ing in the US government. the war, the Klan rode and slavery was traitors to the human (white) race. Among His friend Frederick Douglass had urged exchanged for the new domination of Jim abolitionists, the reaction was split between him to gather his force and slip into the Crow, sharecropping and segregation. those who stood fast in support and those mountains, but Brown had political as well TO THE CREATE John Brown hesitated too long. The Ma• who fled or shut up. For the most part BLACK WAY as military goals, and he wanted to start 1- KfHNtQVFARM 4-ARSENAL rines attacked and after a fierce fight the (though not completely) the split broke 2- SCHOOL-MOUSr S-ENCWC-HOUSE things off with a bang, knowing that a daring 3- AaMORY e-BIFLE-WORKS abolitionists were killed or captured. After down along national or racial lines. Black raid would embolden the slaves; inspire the a spectacular show trial, which gained world• people liked and understood John Brown wide attention, all were sentenced to hang and his men. White people had problems for treason. Robert E. Lee, who two years supporting them... later led a much larger army against the US, continued on page 15 is of course still honored for his "treason." PROVISIONAL THE FIGHTERS CONSTITUTION

Most of Brown's men were in their twen• AND ties—15 white and five Black freedom fight• ORDINANCES ers. They were not zealots or religious fana• FOR THE tics as many historians pretend. They were PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES revolutionaries, almost to a man—conscious abolitionist movement "in spite of itselT safety, faced with the drunken trigger-happy and proud participants in the worldwide PKE.A.MBLE (for John Brown was well aware of the Virginia militia stuping from barrooms and struggle for freedom that was shaking the Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire ex• reformist and pacifist trends in the move• rooftops, he missed his chance to shoot his old order in Europe, Latin America and the. istence in the United States, is none other ment); and strike terror into the hearts of way out and get his men up the mountain. Caribbean as well as the US. In Europe, tlian a most barimrousi unprovoked, and the slaveholders. their counterparts fought with Garibaldi unjustifiable ll'ni- of one portion of its Meanwhile, the federal forces gathered— citizens upon another portion; the only The raid was not aimed, as some histori• Marines led by a US officer named Robert (who refused to aid Lincoln in the Civil War conditions of u-hich are perpetual im- ans have mistakenly claimed, to get rifles. E. Lee, later to become commander of the until he freed the slaves) or manned the bar• prisojiinent, and hopeless servitude or 06- Although the Hall's rifle works and a federal Confederate Army. His second in command ricades of revolutionary Paris. In America, solute exteriniytation; in utter disregard arsenal were located at Harper's Ferry, the fight was against slavery. Most, including and violation of those ctenw.1 and self-evi• was a young officer later to be known as dent truths set forth in our Declaration of Brown's abolitionist fighters were already "Stonewall" Jackson. Brown's own sons, were free thinkers, not Independence: Therefore, equipped with the most sophisticated wira- ' Bf?»Wri's'rnost trusted lieutenants, John fundamentalists. Their Captain read them 'Vie, Citizens of the United States, and the pon of the day—the breech-loading Sharps Kagi and Aaron Stevens, b&th seasoned the Bible but they quoted him back Tom Oppressed People, who, by a recent deci• carbine. These rifles, brought from Kansas, Paine, David Walker and Victor Hugo. sion of the Supreme Court are declared to Kansas fighters, urged him tof^l out. But have no rights which the White Man is were faster firing and more accurate than their captain hesitated. Why t^ln't Brown Among the Black fighters, Leary and bound to respect; together with all other tbe weaports used by federal troops, and far strike and Withdraw as he had planned? His Copeland, educated young craftsmen from people degraded by the laws thereof. Do, outgunned the musket-carrying local Vir• hostages were distinguished white slave• Ohio, had fought bounty hunters and US foT the time being ordain and establish ginia militias. Ironically, the Sharps, which for ourselves, the following PROVI• owners, and Brown treated them politely Marshalls to defend escaped slaves. Dan- SIONAL CONSTITUTION and ORDI• was to help make possible the genocide of and tried to justify his actions to them. He gerfield Newby and Shields Green were un• NANCES, the better to protect our Per• the Plains Indians, was first used as a wea- mistakenly came to think he could use them educated former slaves; Green had worked sons, Property. Lives, and Liberties; and tj, trnvo^-n our flrtions! iThe Black Nation in Struggle! The New York 8 were arrested be• cause they represent various segments of the Black community that are willing I York 8+ to fight, and build ties with groups and individuals that support Black libera• 11 tion; because they agitate around the le• Conspiring" for Liberation gitimate aims of the Black community I Fuller (Secretary of Labor in Wiscon- Lionel Jean-Baptise became the first of they refused to testify before this or any and against right-wing movements; be• k sin); Bob Law of the National Black the grand jury resisters to be jailed for grand jury they were immediately cause they publicly call for self-defense Network; family, friends and co• refusing to testify. On January 21, 1985, thrown in jail. by any means necessary, from martial workers. In the face of this broad based Michelle Thomas, Olive Armstrong, In the words of the New York 8 them• arts to armed self-defense. They are community support US Magistrate Gru- Milton Parrish and Jackie Bernard were selves: committed to seeing that there are no bin denied Roth's no-bail^request, but jailed for refusing to testify, and on Jan• "We ... are eight Black revolutiona• more Michael Stewarts, Eleanor Bum• f came back with the old weapon of bail uary 28, Jean Ford was held in con• ries sprung from the depths of our peo• purs or Clifford Glovers. so high it was the same as no bail. In tempt of court for refusing to testify In ple's historical struggle for freedom. Because the New York 8, like other addition to family and friends having to addition, on January 21, Coltrane Chi• Our entire adult lives have been spent Black revolutionaries past and present, put up their homes, businesses and murenga was held in contempt for working in all areas of the Black libera• have dedicated their lives to the freedom other property as bail, the 8 are under refusing to give handwriting or voice tion movement—political education, of the Black Nation (New Afrika), they virtual house arrest. Daily check-ins and samples to the grand jury. housing, health care, civil rights educa• have placed themselves in direct conflict a 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew are also Then, on January 29, 1985 the seven tion, voter registration, anti-war, police with the US imperialist state apparatus. conditions of the bail. It took over a remaining defendants were remanded brutality, anti-KKK/Nazi work, the Ur• Their imprisonment as political pris• month for the enormous bail to be because they too refused to hand over ban League, SNCC, African People's oners is the government's attempt to raised, but by late November all the de• samples of their hair, handwriting and Socialist Party, Congress of African criminalize the legitimate aspirations of fendants except Coltrane Chimurenga fingerprints. People, African Liberation Support all Black people. were on the streets again. Most recently, on March 11, 1985 Committee, etc. We are average people For more information or to make a Grubin refused to set bail for Chi- Dori Clay and Wanda Wareham, who with families and jobs who understand contribution caU or write: , murenga, accepting the FBI's conten• are married to defendants Omawale that our struggle, like the daily struggle tion that he was "underground" just Clay and Roger Wareham, were impri• of our people to survive, can only be because they had not been able to locate NY 8 Against Fascist Terrorism soned for refusing to collaborate with a solved by fighting against the System Defense Committee him for two years. Is Chimurenga a fu• new grand jury, which was convened that is destroying us. We believe, as it gitive because the FBI doesn't know 2415 Coney Island Avenue solely to subvert their demand not to was once said, that, 'our duty is to Brooklyn, New York 11223 ft where he is for two years? Are the New testify based on marital privilege. When change the world, not observe it.' " fciYbrk 8 terrorists because they struggle (718) 998-4336 (service) I for Black liberation? On January 29 Judge Grubin overturned his own pre• vious ruling and said that he would set bail for Chimurenga. As of this writing there is still $26,000 to be raised. That Roth was unable to make the criminal no-bail law stick for any of these pris- I oners is an important victory for the f New York 8 and all political activists. ' Much less sensational, but more insi• dious, is the use of the Grand Jury in this case. The families, friends, co• workers and defense committee mem• bers are being subpoenaed to the Grand Jury investigating the case and pre• paring the final indictment. Like other political grand juries, this one is just an investigative arm of the prosecution, as t well as a method of jailing Black ac- Itivistswho are refiasihg to joUabome ^ligflttis broadsic ^^W^ffluhftyT'' As of this writing, 38 people have sub^ioaQMd to the grand jury in- le NY 8 themselves. Among ^''^^^^^'^MllHI^E^ husbands of the defendants, "n^^^^nsld daughter of one of the defend^^^^^^^by sitter of another. If these people are impris• oned for refusing to collaborate as many as 21 small children will be left parentless. On November 29, 1984,

nation (New Afrika), they understand that ..colonial oppression is at the root of Black Action Against Klan TV ^people's problems. Like other self-con• "The Black Citizens' Task Force is himself created. Although during their still refused to recogiuze that the Klan is scious New Afrikans around the country, opposed to the airing of six racist Ku discussion there is no mention of the recruiting through ACTV. they have been targeted for destruction. FGux Klan programs . . . they consti• Klan, the program is only a slick forum Meanwhile, in Dallas, there are Klan I. In the face of beatings, murders, impri• tute official Klan racist propaganda de• for the violent, racist propoganda that members who are learning television sonment, Klan attacks and a state grand signed to aid in the recruitment to racist is heard during Klan rallies and production skills by taking the free 4- Jury, Coalition members young and old white supremacist organizations like the marches. courses offered at the public access sta• Shave shown their willingness to do what- White Camilia of the Ku Klux Klan. The leaders of the White Student tion there, presumably, to start making t ever is necessary, regardless of personal History has shown that massive KKK Union say they are an "affirmative ac• locally produced shows. The Texas- hardship. As Joyce Clark said, "I'd rather propaganda is always followed by tion group" for whites, that they lobby based Klan members in charge of these live five minutes as a Black human being violent, terrorist actions against Black for more "European" cultural days at developments are Dan Miller and Louis on my terms than live on someone else's people. We do not plan to allow any their school and raise money for cystic Beam. racist terms. I will not be controlled." Black person or persons to be killed by fibrosis research because it is a disease There can be no doubt that Beam in the KKK in Austin." that only white people get. particular has an appreciation for the On November 13, 1984, attorney This excerpt, taken from a press re• One of the programs is on Odinism, a power of electronic media. He was the o Chokwe Lumumba, Kwame Kalimara, lease issued by the Austin Black Citi• thinly disguised religious front for Klan first Klansman to allow news reporters also an attorney, Malcolm Turner and zens' Task Force (BCTF), represents the ideology. Odinism is one of the new to film at a Texas Klan Military Train• w Albert Tupper were arrested at the Battle sentiment of Austin's Black commuiuty white supremacist Identity Movement ing Camp and he is currently in charge Creek City Commissi^ mating for der along with many progressive white peo• religions which runs a network of of the Aryan Nations Computer manding the right of the Black commim- ple in Austin, Texas, where public ac• churches that offer spiritual leadership Network (see article on page 6, this is• z ity to speak about racist oppression. They cess cable television has become a to the various Klan and Nazi organiza• sue). That Be^ is now branching out were assaulted by police officers, choked battleground between the KKK and all tions. into television should be no surprise, and then charged with (fisropting a public anti-racist forces. Responding to the BCTF's demands but should alert us that the Klan, Aryan o' meeting and resisting arrest. This oiit- ACTV (Austin Community Televi• that the ACTV board of directors use Nations and other white supremacist rageous attack is a violation of their sion) is showing a six-part miniseries their power and prohibit the airing of groups intend to use the mass media 3 human rights and a further attack on the produced by Tom Metzger, California the shows, station manager Marty Ne• more and more. 3 well said: "There is no question but that Coalition to End Police Brutality and Klan chief, entitled "RACE." Metzger Ms. Dorothy Turner, president of the (fi Racism. is a major national Klan figure, an we have to air it. You can't deny them BCTF, said recently: ideologue in the white supremacist parade permits and you can't deny them Write or send a tekgram to: movement, who appeared at the Los free speech. The most that can be "It is the responsibility of Black peo• C Mayor Maude Bristol, City Hall, Angeles Cross burnings in December, done," said Newell, "is to move it to an ple to protect themselves from KKK ter• (fi Battle Creek, Ml 49017 1983, founded the White American Po• early morning time slot, as has been rorist violent action from which we have Demand that: litical Association, publishes a paper done with other offensive programs." suffered fi j^l9 years. To this endr-we 1. All charges be dropped against called White American Resistance jmd One show was aired at 2 PM in the af• would sti ie to prevent KKK propa- okwe Lumumba^ Kwame Kalimara, runs a racist telephone hot-line in Cali• ternoon. ganda by means necessary including Icolm Turner & Albert Tupper. fornia. What appears on the TV itself is not protract: pposition to the continua- 2. The Coalition to End Police Bru- One segment of RACE features Tom the only aspect of this stepped up Klan tion or e^; lishment of any institution lity and its supporters have the right Metzger playing host to the national organizing. A racist newspaper entitled that seeks destroy our people under address issues of concern to all chairman of the racist White Student's "The White Worker" was found at the the guise of protecting freedom of ck and poor whites without threat Union, one of the Califoriua-based ACTV office. When this was brought to speech." it and/or going to jail. white supremacist groups that Metzger the attention of the Commission they ALABAB^ Theiy& GRAND JURIES On October 17, 1984 eight Black re• volutionaries and community activists were arrested by the FBI/NYPD Joint Since the end of slavery and the Recon- Terrorist Task Force in a military opera• Mniction era, state and federal government tion that employed 400 agents in six si• ive prevented Black people from gaining multaneous pre-dawn raids in Brooklyn political power. Especially in the south, and Manhattan. The people arrested ^here Black people are a clear niajority in were Omowale Clay, Lateefa Carter, •many areas, KKK terror, police jiower, leg- Yvette Kelly, Colette Pean, Coltrane iklation, and political corruption have been Chimurenga, Viola Plununer, Robert ^lued to achieve this goal. Today, three fed- Judge Bruce McM. Chokwe Lumumba i Wright Taylor, and Roger Wareham. Also ar• >cral grand juries in Mobile, Birmingham, rested was Howard Bonds, who has and Montgomery, Alabama, are part of Champions in the since turned state's evidence and is now this history of repression. part of the Federal Witness Protection The grand juries are attacking a grass- Human Rights Struggle Program, which hides and protects sni• voting drive in the "Black Belfcoun- A Grassroots Tribute to the Hon. Bruce committed to building a revolutionary tches and traitors. of the state. So far three leading civil McM. Wright and Attorney Chokwe New Afrikan Independence Movement to These arrests represented the activists. Spencer Hogue, Albert Lumumba in New York City was attended fight for Land and Independence for the culmination of what the FBI calls "a 22- , and Evelyn Turner, have been in- by more than 400 people on April 26, Black Nation. In spite of attempts to dis• month investigation using physical and The 29-count indictment accuses 1985. Sponsored by the New Afrikan rupt the conference by setting up a police electronic surveillance, of the Black rev• of falsifying absentee ballots, voting Legal Network, the dinner and tribute raid after cops were told that they could olutionary movement." The FBI says than once, and mail fraud. They face was designed to raise money for building not bring weapons into the conference, these arrests were "preemptive" and maximum of 115 years in prison and a Malcolm X Center for Black Survival the activity went on and completed its were carried out in order to prevent ac• in fines. in Harlem, New York. business. We look forward to running a tions it claims these brothers and sisters complete article about the accomplish• wCTe going to take. None of the alleged The target of the government is the use Recognizing the need for a community center in the Black community, especially ments of Black Nation Day 1985 in our 'crimes,' such as bank, robberies and the absentee ballot as a way to increase next issue. prison breaks, ever happened. The New k participation in the local, state and today when the number of hungry, home• less, unemployed, and besieged Black peo• York 8 have said they are being charged nal 1984 elections. Hundreds of Black with 'thought crimes.' lie who voted absentee in several coun- ple skyrockets, the New Afrikan Legal Network, an organization of Black acti• In reality these arrests heralded a new have been questioned and harassed by offensive on the part of the US govern• FBI. In September and October, at vist lawyers, law students, legal workers and community activists, has undertaken ment to destroy the Black Liberation 55 activists who participated in the Movement. Following the raids and ar• ipaign to increase absentee ballot usage the task of helping to raise funds for the center. Named after Malcolm X, the cen• rests, amid banner headlines screaming subpoenaed to the grand juries. Many about "New Afrikan Terrorists," the photographed, fingerprinted and ter will serve as a place where Black peo• New York 8 [Against Fascist Terrorism} to sumbit handwriting samples. The ple can come together to address their were held without bail for nearly two il raided the office of one person, Booker plight in this country and join forces to atid a half months while US attorney Cooke, and confiscated various records change tbeir inhuman and intolerable con• Kenneth Roth attempted to make them ditions. It will be open to various com• the first victims of the only-days-old voting materials. munity organizations who need a forum The Alabama Black BeM Defense Com- new Bail Reform (preventative deten• to carry out the most important work of tion) Act, arguing that they were "ur• has been formed to expose and Black people at this time: Agitate, Edu• ban terrorKtSj'.' a "highly organized cell it this massive campaign of political cate, and Organize! of dedicated 'ilhiBill^^ and the fraud harassment, and to defend the "military success6!r^f^^|Mbmks.'' ^who have been targeted. The "Ala- This program had been preceded by the very successful Black Nation Day Con• Roth further argued that fn^^W||||i|i r Black Belt" consists of ten western roots in their community and that they' where Black people are the major- ference in Atlanta, Georgia, which brought

)f tfie'C^B^Cotfirfiif 1S«, prior deny bail to defendants deemed 1965, white people controlled all ten creel "dangerous to the cominyj|ity}*^ow- ^Commissions, eleven Boards of Ed- ommunity ever, thus far it has ^ot^' been used , and about 34 towns in these coun- againsi revolutionaries and political ac• After the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Fights Back tivists. (See article about Susan Rosen• people gradually gained control of On September 15, 1984, over 100 people pointed shotguns at babies' heads. The berg and Tim Blunk, page 3, this ; governments in five counties: Greene, marched through the Black community of children, who were forced to leave their At their bail hearings witnesses on be• ;r. Perry, Lowndes, and Wilcox. Black Battle Creek, Michigan, and rallied in front homes without coats, were part of the half of the New York 8 included New lunities in these areas were supportive of the Hall of Justice downtown, to de• demonstration the next week. York Judge Bruce \\¥ight; Howard r Jesse Jackson's campaign, and helped nounce police brutality and racism. Led by After the successful demonstration, one Black state senator and three Battle Creek's Coalition to End Police which received positive media coverage, before this agenda item was d'lscasseil, ; state, representatives in 1983. BrutaBty and Racism, and co-sponsored the police and other city officials once again showing the disregard that city officials It is in these five counties that the grand by the New Afrikan People's Organization attacked the Coalition. Two weeks after the have for the Black community. Attorney ' investigations have focused. The De- (N APO), supporters came from as far away demonstration, police went to the home of Chokwe Lumumba from Detroit, who is i Committee explains why the absentee as New York City, Detroit and Chicago in Larry Guy, Jr., age 18. Officer Reese "Bear" representing the Coalition in legal matters, ting process has been targeted: "The the Tirst national demonstration in Battle Merrill grabbed him and said, "N—r, I attempted to question why the meeting was i success of Blacks in the balloting Creek and one of the most dramatic in the have a warrant for your arrest.r Merrill being adjourned early. He was jumped by f has come largely as a result of the Coalition's six-year history. Residents of choked him almost to the point of uncon• three cops who choked him. Three oth^r Btee balloting process. Many Blacks the Black community came out of their sciousness. Three women came to Larry people who came to his defense were also sold, sickly, work out of county, or are houses to watch the march and speak with Guy, Jr.'s defense. More police arrived and attacked by police and all were arrested ling college away from home." . Coalition members. Others joined the beat up everyone and charged three of them (see box). rln a similar case in 1981, two Black marchers to participate in a vigil at the site with assaulting a police officer. They are Why are police trying so hard to destroy , Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wild- where coalition co-founder Robert Guy being forced to represent themselves be• the Battle Creek Coalition? For six years, H'were convicted by an all-white jury of was assassinated in 1981. cause the court refused to appoint the at• the Coalition has picketed, petitioned and voter fraud in Pickens County. The City Commission and Police De• torneys from the National Conference of done everything possible to oppose beat• Every advance in Black electoral power partment did everything they could to pre• Black Lawyers (NCBL) they had requested. ings and murders committed by the police been met with a racist reaction that vent the rally from happening, and the In November the Coalifion went to the and hangings of Blacks and others in the i Prejean of the Defense Committee inarch permit was only issued after the City Commission to discuss the problem of city jail. They have fought the racism of. has created a political environment Coalition took the City to Federal Court. police brutality and Klan activity. There various city institutions and corporations. lUke Jim Crow. Racist tactics in west- Newspaper reports implied that Coalition were two cross burnings in Battle Creek in As a militant Black organizaUon they pre• i Alabama over the past few years have members were going to initiate violence November and Ku Klux Klan newspapers sent a threat to the racist power structure media slander of Black leaders, just because they said they had a right to were being distributed at the local high of Battle Creek. As Black revolutionaries, al charges against Black officials, march, permit or no permit, and that they school. The Mayor adjourned the meeting dedicated to the independence of the Black ation requiring "re-identification" of intended to protect their demonstration. voters, and dismissals of voter One week before the march, on Sept• irs working in Black communities. ember 7,1984,8 people, including Coalition I As we go to press, Hogue, Turner and leaders Larry Giiy, Sr. and Joyce Clark, • are standing trial in Selma, and the were indicted and arrested on weapons jury investigations continue. The charges as. part of the Battle Creek Poiice, abama Black Beh Defense Committee Department's continuing efforts to portray IP ticipates that up to 40 more people, in- the Coalition as a criminal organization. J hi iing key leadership in each county, may (See DTTK!, Fall, 1984) The police also I be indicted. There has been considera- raided a Coalition member's house in the ! local support and the Defense Commit- middle of the night and terrorized the i is working to increase awareness of the young children who live there. The police ! around the country. They are in par- broke into the house and ransacked it— iilar need of financialsupport . To make with the excuse of having a search warrant itributions or fof further information, for a thermometer, which they alleged rite: The Alabama Black Belt Defense someone had stolen from work. nittee, RO. Box 5, Gainesville, Ala- 35464 This was the third time in 1984 that police raided a Coalition member's home and Anti-police brutality demonstration in Battle Creek. e|66nj}s ut uo!)e|| )|oe|g aiix* Israel's Iron Fist

Iron Fist policy in southern Lebanon has Day after day the media calmly covers failed. Despite the advanced military tech• the genocidal atrocities inflicted on the nology at "Israel's" disposal, the will, Lebanese people as a result of the "Iron strength and determination of the Leba• Fist." But they dont tell the total story. nese people has prevented the occupying More than 27,000 Lebanese and Palestin• Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from ce• ian people have been killed since the menting their control. While two thirds "Israelis" invaded in 1982. Pregnant of the Shiite population have been forced women and young children are being to flee South Lebanon due to daily bomb• murdered, and thousands of men are ings, burning of villages and massacres of rounded up and jailed. women and children, the IDF is the target "Israel" could never continue these gen• of daily guerrilla actions that have cost ocidal attacks without the complete sup• many Israeli soldiers their lives. port of the US. The US provides military International media sources report 180 equipment and also bolsters the "Israeli" actions against the IDF forces during the economy by awarding military contracts first month of the Iron Fist campaign, as to "Israeli" defense industries. compared to 50 a month during 1984. The The US government seems to think struggle is led by the Lebanese National polite debate over pros and cons of Israeli Resistance Front (LNRF), which includes strategy in the war in Lebanon can lull all progressive, nationalist and revolution• people into calmly accepting Israel's active Lebanese people celebrate Israeli withdrawal. ary organizations in the country. campaign of genocide against the Leba• This heightened resistance is the real nese and Palestinian peoples. To a great "Israel's" current "Iron Fist" policy in and the Druse) and the Lebanese govern• reason for the stepped up withdrawal of extent, people have been lulled. Lebanon is frighteningly similar to the ment (i.e. Maronite Christians) is a full the "Israeli" occupation forces. However, The stakes in Lebanon are very high. It Zionist's 1948 strategy to annihilate the scale counter-insurgency disinformation the Lebanese National Resistance Front is way past time that people in this coun• Palestinian nation, as the "precondition" campaign, designed to promote support and the Lebanese people have experienosd try take up the fight against zionism and for "Israel" to exist. When the zionist for the Maronite minority government the reality of "Israel's" genocide for years. actively support both the Lebanese and movement expropriated Palestinian land, while covering up the real struggle against They understand that even the victory of Palestinian struggles and expose the and forced the dispersal of the Palestinian the Lebanese right wing, the "Israeli" forcing "Israel" to withdraw is limited. It "Israeli" and US zionist strategy. people through murder, terror, destruc• occupation, and US imperialist interests. will not mean an end to "Israel's" attempts tion of the economy and an international An important part of "Israel's" strategy to force the Shiite population out of campaign to build support for the zionist is exploiting the contradictiotis that have South Lebanon, destroy resistance, or in• ^.LEBANON movement, it also tried to destroy the pop• existed within Lebanon since 1943, when tervene in the Lebanese national struggle • Jll JTl llllfcl AIM ular heritage, national identity, and true the imperialist powers created the "con• by backing the fascist South Lebanese history of the people. "Israel" is now fessional" system of government. This Army or the Phalangist government. attempting the same thing in Lebanon. system placed power and privilege in the "Israel" is training and financing the South The goal of the 1982 invasion and the Phalangist Party (Maronite Christians) Lebanese Army, made up of Maronite tcurrent occupation is the virtual incorpor- and allowed the US government and Christians/ Phalange, who will do the work on of Southern Lebanon itself into the "Israel" to control Lebanon for their own of "Israeli" terrorists. It was these forces ISRAEUUNCSl P'Israeli" entity, and genocide for the Leb• interests. Since the Maronite Christian/ who worked with "Israel" to massacre anese nation. Phalange minority rule meant the oppres- Palestinians in Sabra and Shatilla refugee ten-yea| aggie fo CURRENT pendent Lebanon. Characterizing the cur- been constant resistance and civil war for Steppiiig up its uiipaitelleled terror, and BRkEUUNEl war in Lebanon as being between the past ten years. sharpening its tactics tadestroy the Leb• fuslitn fundamentalists" (i.e. the Shiites In the face of this resistance, "Israel's" anese nation.

Book Review: The idea, proclaimed by Zionist leaders, of today vw-a-v^s the Ethiopian Jews. Thfe- that the Jews were not German and therefore welfare of these people is not their real had no place in Germany, was grist for the concern; they are wanted only as bodies to Zionism in the Age of the Dictators Nazi mill. The Zionist Federation became swell the ranks of immigrants to Israel, in hy Lenni Brenner people in general. the only party besides National Socialism order to colonize the West Bank of Jordan Lawrence Hill, 1983, 277pp. Much of the initial motivation for the legally permitted in the Third Reich. Ger• (occupied by Israel since 1967). 520 Riverside Ave., Westport, CT 06880 Zionist movement and its eventual success man Zionists denounced foreign Jews (par• The goal of German Zionism became was due to the pervasive anti-Semitism of Reviewed by S. T Habib ticularly U.S. Jews) for launching a boycott "national autonomy." They asked Hitler to Europe and the vicious pogroms to which against Germany. give Jews the rightt o an economic existence, the Jews were subjected in Tsarist Russia. Few people have any idea of Zionism's As early as 1920 Hitler came to agree protection from attacks, and training to Zionism insisted that there could be no as• with the Zionist objective of colonizing prepare them for migration. They collabo• roots or its history. There is a vague notion similation of the Jews and that emigration that it is a form of Jewish nationalism cul• Palestine. Zionism confumed his conviction rated in the hope that "a state which is to Palestine was the only solution. This was that Jews could never be German. It was constructed on the principle of the purity of minating in the establishment of the State an idea which appealed to many European of Israel in 1948. The fact that the vast this commonality of interest that led German nation and race can only have respect for leaders, including Mussolini and Hitler, with Zionists to solicit Hitler's patronage, espe• those Jews who see themselves in the same niajority of Jews rejected it at its inception, whom the Zionists secretely cooperated. It and that even today many Jews are opposed cially after 1933. In that year The Zionist way," as the German Zionist leader Joachim is this aspect of Zionist history with which Federation of Germany sent a memoran• Prinz stated. to it,may come as a surprise. Lenni Brenner Brenner is most interested, and which con• takes a hard and detailed look at the record dum to the Nazi Party in which it stated These same principles—racist in every stitutes the most original contribution of openly that "Zionism hopes to win the col• sense of the word—have been the comer- and finds a great deal that ought to be the book. onbarrassing to Zionism's sympathizers. laboration even of a government funda• stone of the policies of Israel towards the That there can be any common ground mentally hostile to Jews," adding that a A few years ago, the United Nations Palestinian Arabs, as recent history has between Fascists and Nazis on the one hand solution of "the Jewish problem" was of passed a resolution condemning Zionism as shown. and Jewish nationalists on the other, may special interest to the German people. It a form of racism. The outcry from the pro- Zionism in the Age of Dictators is full of seem unbelievable, given the rabid anti- denounced the anti-German boycott as "in Zionist media was deafening. The President revelations, important facts dug out of the Semitism of the former. Yet in 1937 Adolf essence un-Zionist because Zionism wants and members of Congress hastily denounced debris of history (conveniently discarded by Eichmann (one of the main architects of the not to do battle but . . . to build." This the resdlution and many favoured U.S. mainstream historians) and brought together Holocaust) visited Palestine, at the invitation document, first published in 1962, is called withdrawal from the world body. Yet an to reveal an altogether new picture of the of Zionist leaders, and proclaimed: "Had I by Brenner "a treason to the Jews of objective consideration of Zionism's history period. It is a fascinating book, written in a been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Germany." as well as its present imperialist policies in lucid narrative, not easy to put down, once Zionist." the Middle East reveal the racist character The same strategy is used by the Zionists begun. Above all, it is a courageous book. of the ideology upon which Israel is founded. The year before had seen a massive Pal• When Theodor Herzl (the father of Zion- estinian revolt against the increased pace of ' ism) conceived the idea of the establishment Jewish bolonization (from 1931 to 1936 the vVf.' need you' ncip' S-iul Liipfjinc;^ .trn! $6fer8 isswM Jewish settlers increased from less than a SUBSCRIBE • of a Jewish state in Palestine in the late 19th news of the tight ,Tq,iinxt whiU' : century, the number of Jews living in Pales• fifth to almost a third of the total popula• supremnry to Dcifi fo 'ihv KLin tine was negligible. The Arabs had lived in tion). Eichmann had no doubt noticed that P O Box 406 Peter Sluyves.int St.it.on Palestine sine?, the end of the Roman era. the colonization he favored was not to a bar• New York NY 10009 .^r -Herzl, a monarchist who had a vision Of ren wasteland, but he was a good Nazi and IJiimself as a Jewish Cecil Rhodes, began his anti-Semitism extended to all Semites— ting the masses of Jews in Eastern the Arabs as well as the Jews. 4^ 71 ; to emigrate to Palestine and colonize By 1934 the SS had become the most :-the country the way European settlers did pro-Zionist element in Germany. A leading NAfAE [the southern portions of Africa. It did not Nazi pubUcation, after comparing the Zion• Imatter to him that this was against the ists to the hated assimilationist Jews, wrote: ADDRESS 1 interests of the native population, "The Zionists adhere to a strict racialposi • r .whom he entertained the sort of disdain tion and by emigrating to Palestine they are STATE ; Europeans felt for third-world helping to build their own Jewish state." OTY m DtOhibAe/:^ 11 AZAPO Activist Speaics The interview which follows is with South African/Azanian People. Nick Tucker, a regional organizer with the Although the South African govern• Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO) ment claimed the police acted in self- of South Africa. He crisscrossed the US defense, eye witnesses reported that police in March, bringing the message of the "opened fire without provocation or Azanian struggle for national liberation warning." Firehoses had to be used to to thousands of people. wash the blood off the streets! When In the middle of his tour, as if history questioned about this latest massacre. was trying to underline the urgency of his President Reagan jumped quickly to the message. South African police committed defense of the racist regime stating, "But I the largest massacre since the Soweto Re• think to put it that way, that they were bellion of 1976. On March 21, police simply killed, and that the violence was opened fire on a funeral march of 4,000 coming totally from the law and order l^ck people in Uitenhage, near Port Eliz• side, ignores the fact that there was rioting abeth in the Eastern Cape, killing over 40 going on." people. March 21 was the 25th anniver• Since the killings not a day has passed sary of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, and without mass demonstrations being fired is marked by the UN as the International on by police; and nearly l(X) people have Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of the been killed since March 16th. The number WE ABHOR APARTHEID

of wounded is known to be much higher. Can you explain why the racist regime Many people refuse to go to the hospital would jeopardize their image of making because all victims of gunshot wounds are reforms with this kind of murderous immediately charged with "rioting" by the action? racist authorities. Tucker: "They're trying to do two things, Around the world demonstrations in all at one* stroke. They're trying to test ' 1 support of the people are being held, and exactly how far the American imperialists even the United Nations Security Council will go with their actions. Secondly, they voted unanimously to condemn South want to make a last-ditch stand in really Africa and commend the "massive united crushing all forms of resistance in working resistance of the oppressed people of toward a National Convention. South Africa against apartheid." We understand that the National Con• We spoke with Nick Tucker of AZAPO ^ vention is a device used by the apartheid shortly after the massacre at Uitenhage*. regime to bring together liberal and so- p^h^.Liecelv«d.the, £alkd "acceptable" elements from th^ 1^

that we could no longer tolerate this type tion. Can you comment on this? of thing, it is an.affront to our dignity, Hickor: We know this [the National that we as a people no longer let this Convention] is definitely going to come kind of crime be conunitted ^inst our very shortly... Reagan made a remark people without taking some sort of affir• that he sympathized with what was occur• Azaniui people resnt reioatfisHbftM».£faMnNKif. mative action..." ring there, but that they must understand that the South African government had a 'job of law and order to maintain. And later on he made another report, that he was positive that there were certain ele• ments within the Azanian society—well, he didn't say Azanian, he said South Let Botha Renounce African society—who were bent on en• 99 suring that peace and order did not occur within our society. You see from this Violence... report that he is prepared to support this illegal government to ensure that that On February 10, 1985, Nelson Mandela, "Let him renounce violence. Let him say fered when my very South African citizen• piece of property is forever controlled by leader of the African National Congress that he will dismantle apartheid. Let him ship is not respected? Only free men can imperialism. (ANC), issued this statement rejecting unban the people's organization, the Afri• negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into But the South African system on the president Botha's offer of amnesty. The can National Congress. Let Botha show contracts. other hand is also attempting to crush any condition for amnesty required Mandela that he is different from Malan, Strijdom, "Herman Toivo Ya Toivo, when freed, resistance coming from the masses... With to denounce armed struggle. H is daughter, and Verwoerd. Let him free all who have never gave any undertaking, nor was he regard to co-optation of what they [the Zinzi, read his statement addressed to the been imprisoned, banished or exiled for called upon to do so. 1 cannot and will not South African government and US itripe- South African people: the opposition of apartheid. Let him guar• give any undertaking at a time when 1 and rialism] are promoting as popular leader• antee free political activity so that the peo• ship, they are prepared to link together "I am a member of the African National you, the people, are not free. Your freedom ple may decide who will govern them. various elements or cross-sections of the Congress. I have always been a member of and mine cannot be separated. I will return." "I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I people—they're prepared to deal with , the African National Congress and I will care even more for your freedom. Too many those, to have some sort of amicable talks. remain a member of the African National have died since I went to prison. Too many They've got very few options at this point Congress until the day I die. Oliver Tambo have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe left. They've spent their whole reserve of is much more than a brother to me. He is it to their widows, to their orphans, to their options to play with." my greatest friend and comrade for nearly mothers and to their fathers who have 50 years. If there is any one amongst you Commenting on how US dollars are grieved and wept for them. Not only that, I who cherishes my freedom, Oliver Tambo used in South Africa: have suffered during these long, lonely, cherishes it more, and 1 know that he would If $10 is sent to Azania and goes to the wasted years. 1 am not less life loving than give his^life to see me free. There is no arms corporation, a nationalized industry, you are. But 1 cannot sell my birthright, difference between his views and mine. 25c of the $10 goes to the Black laborer, nor am I prepared to sell the birthright of "I am surprised at the conditions that the who makes one bullet. S9.75 goes to the the people40 be'fpeef«" .^i....,„..•, Government wants to impose oh me. I am soldier, who shoots a nine-year-old. child not a violent man. My colleagues and 1 "I am in prison as the representative of eleven times in the back. That soldier wrote in 1952 to Malan asking for a round- the people and of your organization, the drives the hippo, the anti-personnel tank table conference to find a solution to the African National Congress, which was carrier that they use to move people to 1 problems of our country, but that was ig• banned. What freedom am I being offered the homelands. And then they tell us if nored. When Strijdom was in power, we whilst the organization of the people re• you remove dollars, we wilTsuffer! made the same offer. Again it was ignored. mains banned? What freedom am 1 being When Verwoerd was in power, we asked offered to live my life as a family with my Now is the time to heighten our solid• for a national convention for all the people dear wife who remains in banishment in arity with the Azanian people—to target in South Africa to decide on their future. Brandfort? What freedom am I being of• US imperialism and its murderous policy This, too, was in vain. It was only then fered when I must ask for permission to live of constructive engagement. We need to in an urban area? What freedom am I being when all other forms of resistance were no Nelson Mandela expose the rhetoric of reform. The Azan• longer open to us, that we turned to armed offered when 1 need a stamp in my pass to ian people are fighting for nothing less strusfile. seek work? What freedom am 1 being of• than total liberation and the death of the 12 i^eOfiib^^ based National Alliance—one of the most Aryan Nations, spphisticated and well-funded Nazi groups Cicero, Revoiutionaries, from poge in the US. The leader of this group, Wil• from page 4 from page 3 6 liam Pierce, is the author of The Turner of the Posse Comitatus, which has builta Diaries, the much publicized "thriller" On April 24th, two other comrades, significant following in the populist farm• about the Aryan revolution which tri• They held up signs with racist slogans and Thomas and Carol Manning, were cap• ers movement. Gale is currently using his umphs in the US. Once again, the media yelled "white power." Some wore shirts that tured in Virginia. Thomas had been sought military expertise to guide training ses• and FBI have distorted the relationship said "spookbusters." by the FBI also in connection with the sions for the Posse; and his inflammatory between the White Bastion and the book Black people and progressive whites have shooting of Philip Lamonaco, and Carol tapes are a favorite on racist radio station itself. They suggest that the White Bastion not sat on the sidelines. Within days of the wias wanted along with Ray on various KTTL (see story, i»ge 5). is merely "acting out" the military plot attack on the Goffer/ Franklin family, about bombing and bank robbery charges. As It is noteworthy that forces involved in presented in The 'Rtrner Diaries. This 75 people picketed in front of the apartment. we go to press, Carol has been extradicted and around the Aryan Nations are active overly simplistic explanation ignores the A citywide coalition against racism held a to Maine to begin "criminal" proceedings in the movement against abortion. In Pen- rally at a church in the Black community on these charges, and the state is trying to sacola, Florida (where clinics have been and a march against racist violence down• extradict Thomas to New Jersey to stand bombed this year) the leader of the anti- town during holiday shopping season. In trial with Richard in the Lamonaco case. abortion movement is a "former" leader response to the uptown crossburning, These two were also indicted for conspi• of the local KKK. On his telephone hate JBAKC and other community activists racy charges in connection with the United lines in California, Klan leader Tom brought together over 125 people to rally Freedom Front actions. Metzger refers to abortion as "white gen• and march. JBAKC also organized a The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee ocide" practiced by "Jewish doctors and "Stamp Out Racist Graffiti" campaign, in lesbian nurses." supports these comrades as we support which 50 people, paint buckets in hand, all forces building clandestine resistance The Aryan Nations Church of Jesus covered over swastikas, "white power" and Christ Christian is connected to the pow• inside the u.s. We can learn from revolu• KKK graffiti around the city. tionary struggles the world over that no• erful prison organization, the Aryan Bro• The racist attackers are by no means an therhood. Prisoners' rights activists have where has the u.s. and its allies been isolated few—they have a lot of support in defeated without the people's ability to known about the racist Aryan Brother• white communities. Many people told the hood for the last 15 years, and it is open take the offensive against their enemy press that the Goffer/Franklin family got through armed struggle. We believe that fact that in some prisons, Uke San Quentin what they deserved, that these attacks were in California, they virtually control the the development of armed struggle among necessary to keep Black people out of "their" white people is a necessary advance in oat entire white population. In Texas, they are neighborhoods and "keep the property value believed to be responsible for 25 murders movement's ability to fight alongside the from going down." After the attacks, when people of the world for the defeat of of Third World prisoners and 400 stab- the demonstration was held in front of the bings in the last four years alone. The Gun tower at Hayden Lake headquarters. ipiperialism. empty apartment, about 80 men, women We urge all progressive people who Aryan Brotherhood provides a steady pool reality that the Aryan Nations, Klan, and children jeered from across the street. of violent racists to recruit from when the Posse and Nazis have a sophisticated support human rights to take a stand men leave prison. strategy from which this book flows. The The recent round of violence is one of against the torture and threats to the lives White Bastion was built to carry out a several signs that racism is becoming more of these comrades. We think that the In the Forest: Hayden Lake, Idaho fascist race war, and the book The Turner legitimate in the eyes of white Chicagoans. government would like to set the stage to The Aryan Nations headquarters covers Diaries was written to popularize this When Harold Washington, Chicago's first actually kill them, as this government has 20 acres in Hayden Lake, Idaho. Their strategy. All the media coverage has prob• Black mayor, was elected, white politicians already done to many Black, Puerto compound is surrounded by a bhrbed-wire ably done more to boost the book than fonned a power bloc within the city council. Rican, Mexican and Native American fence that runs the perimeter of the camp whatever distribution the Nazis were able They have tried to thwart every effort by freedom fighters. They would like to do and is reinforced with attack dogs. Armed to effect before. the mayor to effect progressive change. Also, this out of sheer contempt for what they troopers stand guard in the 40 foot high What we are now seeing of the Aryan since the mayoral election, a new coalition, represent as revolutionaries, and also to gun towers. Here the Aryan Nations oper• Nations and the White American Bastion "Save our Cities, Save our Neighborhoods," set an example, to set a certain precedent ates a school for children and hosts its is only what they have made visible or has formed. Their«ated purpose is to fight for what can happen to political prisoners weekly "religious" services. But more im• what has been exposed in clashes with the for "white ethnic" interests'!* Amerikkka. To guard against this, we . portantly, it has been the site of the police. Undoubtedly, in the wake of the planning conference drew over one f trades and not allow * national Aryan Congresses, attended by recent arrests and shootouts, in the midst sand people. them to be is'o^^PMMlgiiffiQ.system, 200-300 representatives of at least 13 white of rumors and informers, many actual and With the heightened racist violence, the and we can spread the wordrt supremacist organizations, and fascists potential supporters are adopting a wait possibility of participation by racist organi- not criminals but are fightersfo r freedom^ itionslikethe KKK and the Nazis is grow- justice and humanity.

knowledge of the White American Bas- to some organizations on the racist right, tibn, saying his former bodyguards, Rob• but one thing is certain: the current round ters, was Art Jones, leader of the Chicago- ert Mathews (who died in a fiery shoot of arrests has not broken the back of the based "America First Committee," a neo- We are two revolutionar,^ antt-teperial- out with the FBI in Washington state) and fascist strategy. The majority of forces in Nazi group. Jones, who was leading the ist coiniKy»p«t assistance fighters. We are Gary Yarborough (recently convicted of the white supremacist and fascist move• "white power" chant, has spoken at numer• revolutionaries and we are part of the another shoot out), left the Aryan Nation^ ment remain committed to race war and a ous Klan and Nazi rallies across the country. developing armed clandestine movement over tactical differences. But when long term view involving many years of The racist activities in the Uptown area, in the Northamerican oppressor nation. Mathews was killed, Butler immediately warfare. carried out by the Rebels, have been indi• We have worked as public activists and organizers in the anti-imperialist move• eulogized him, proclaiming him a new When viewed in the context of the rectly linked to the Klan. When asked by a breed of Aryan hero. TV reporter if he was part of the KKK, one ment in building political support and abortion clinic bombings, the violence of material aid for the national liberation Butler made public Mathews' "final Posse "tax resisters" and the overwhelming Rebel responded, "no, but as far as we're concerned, it's KKK all the way." A young movements in Zimbabwe and Palestine manifesto," written shortly before his rise of racist violence across the country, fighting to rid their nations of imperialist death, in which Mathews said that he and this glimpse of the Aryan Nations and woman watching the anti-crpssburning rally wore a t-shirt with a swastika and the words: domination and for self-determination. Yarborough were in the "vanguard of the White Bastion shows an operation that We have organized against the KKK and growing white supremacist movement." continues to threaten every freedom loving "White Power." Racist violence has been reported in suburban Romeoville, where a zionism, against killer cops and white Yarborough was recruited by the Aryan person. KKK chapter is known to exist, and in supremacist vigilantism and in solidarity Brotherhood while in Arizona State Pri- ^ We are not looking at the weird machi• Zion, where KKK activity has been reported. with the New Afrikan/Black National son, and immediately joined Butler in nations of the lunatic fringe. We are Local police insist that these attacks are just Liberation and Puerto Rican Independ• Hayden Lake after his release. He became watching the first wave of fascism's armed, "children's pranks," but the UkeUhood of ence movements. Butler's personal body guard and captain military brown shirts. This development KKK involvement is strong. H of their uniformed division. Butler claims must be understood and stopped. This is Several years ago, each of us decided to hf had left the Aryan Nations, but Butler a task the government has never taken on go underground to help establish and is paying for Yarborough's legal defense. and never will; it is a task that remains for build armed clandestine organization in the Northamerican oppressor nation as Mathews' original involvement in the national liberation struggles and anti-racist people in the times to come.B an important part of developing a strategy movement dates back to the Virginia for a revolutionary antirimperialist resist• ance movement. From our past work we had learned from the national liberation movements that the path to national lib• Sharon, eration and the defeat of imperialism lies there isn't, secretly, government or political debate. The image is that CBS in armed resistance and revolution. We from poge 15 foundation money behind him also. and Time represent the anti-war posi• believed we needed to apply these lessons ing scope of counter-media) which Neither Westmoreland nor Sharon tion and "the truth lies somewhere in to our own movement and looked partic• would leave the mass media "scooped" need to win their suits to accomplish between" the imperialist military and ularly to the examples of the BLA and and discredited, meant that a little bit of their political goals. I don't think that the imperialist media. FALN. As communists, we have begun to criticism and exposure came out in the Westmoreland necessarily believed that, The Westmoreland trial has revolved build revolutionary organization that can press. even with rallying his loyal confederates around this narrow technicality about fight against the common enemy and lead The elements now leading the way to to testify, he could prove "malice," whether he intentionally misled Presi• many forms of resistance against U.S. new imperialist war don't want even given the undisputable reality that there dent Johnson, when both men were de• imperialism. were many more national liberation that much of an opening. I doubt that liberately directing a genocidal war. It is The last few years has seen the rise of Westmoreland's suit came simply from fighters than Westmoreland's estimates a sign of the disarray of our movement the revolutionary masses and growing na• his own initiative. In fact, a right-wing had indicated. that, at the least, no one stood in the tional liberation war from Central Amer• Joundation^is paying for his legal, costs. The main point is that the suits will courtroom and, pointing at Westmore• ica to Azania/South Africa to the Phihp- There have been other such libel SMrts, cost CBS and Time millions of dollars land, said "The only court ypu belong some or all with foundation money: the in legal fees. That could prove a power• in is a War Crimes Tribunal". pines. In response, the Northamerican armed clandestine organizations, the racist Dr. Shockley (proponent of the ful deterrent to the media doing the Regardless of how successful or un• theory that Black people are genetically slightest such exposures of the military successful these suits may prove in pull• United Freedom Front, Armed Resistance less intelligent than whites) and the in the future. CBS and Time, after all, ing in a tighter rein on the media, we Unit, Red Guerrilla Resistance and the moral majority's Rev. Falwell have are primarily businesses trying to make can never count oh the imperialist press Revolutionary Fighting Group, have car• both waged recent multi-million dollar a profit. Meanwhile, to the degree that to fight for the truth. We need to build a ried Out a campaign of armed solidarity. libel suits. General Sharon claims to be Westmoreland and Sharon have mar• movement that fights fully, on all levels, We think that the armed propaganda that putting up his own house to pay his le- shalled a showing that is accepted as to challenge the basic terms of imperial- has taken place over the last three years U,,* i 1 ...t »1 has nlaved an imoortant role in fiehtinel wo WE ARE: THE OHIO 5

March 25, 1985 believe it is absolutely necessary to build we have upheld the principle of non-col• and the continued lockdown in solitary : is no justice for oppressed people armed clandestine organizations as part of laboration. We will continue to do so and confinement of thefive of us—a policy that rika. Not when killer cops murder a developing strategy and building a revo• urge others not to collaborate. has continued to this day. Upon our arrival limpunity. There is no justice as long as lutionary anti-imperialist resistance move• We do not look to the courts for justice at MCC [Metropolitan Correctional Cen• Lipation army of police terrorists at- ment. If we do not develop the determina• because there is none there. Our defense ter—the federal prison in New York City] Third World communities. There is tion and the means to wage armed struggle, against these government attacks is to put on Wednesday [March 20], we were locked ; in the murders of Clifford Glover, we are merely creating a support movement the real terrorists on trial: those who order up in disciplinary cells. el Stewart and Eleanor Bumpurs by for a revolution others will make, but not a the indiscriminate bombing of innocent We want to extend our support and lists wearing the uniform of the N. Y.C. revoliitionary movement itself The armed civilians in El Salvador; who organize the solidarity to the N Y8+ Against Fascist Ter• : department. clandestine organizations give concrete sig• contras to carry out their atrocities against rorism. The use of counterinsurgency oper• ere has been no justice for revolu- nificance to a revolutionary strategy that the people of Nicaragua; who support the ations, grand jury subpoenas and other iries and activists shot dead and mur- can defeat U.S. imperialism. There must be South African fascists; whose corporate acts of repression against these Black revo• by police agents: Mtyari Shabaka a development and movement of forces at profits are extracted from imperialist war, lutionaries is a direct attack against the iiata. Angel Rodriguez Cristobal, L.D. all levels, public and clandestine, to chal• exploitation of the working class, and' Black Liberation Struggle that must be dey, Sam Melville, Joe Stuni, Anna lenge U.S. imperialism in crisis. whose power is built on the backs of starv• resisted and opposed by all who support ! Aquash, Twyman Myers, Fred Hamp- Since the initial massacres of Native- ing and oppressed millions of Third World national liberation and socialism. The N Y8 , and Zayd Malik Shakur, to name but americans, the institution of slavery and people. must be supported by all who value free• I of those who have made the supreme racism and executions of revolutionary We also want to protest our punitive dom. We consider it a priority that pro• rifice in fighting against the ravages of workers, there has been a clandestine con• treatment at the hands of government gressive/revolutionary organizations and al oppression and U.S. imperialism, sciousness of one form or another. The agents and functionaries which begaji in the people commit themselves to the de• ppressed people and nations not only government calls it conspiracy. We call it Cleveland with the abuse of our children, fense of the NY8 and "the long march for a right to organize with arms and resistance. with our being locked down in isolation freedom and independence." themselves, they have a right to We are revolutionary anti-imperialists. We also support and extend our solidar• jwar on a government that is guilty of We are not terrorists or criminals and have ity to anti-imperialist resistance fighters al oppression and trampling on hu- committed NO crimes. For up to 10 years Susan Rosenberg and Tim Blunk, who 1 rights. the government, using extensive counter- were railroaded through a mock trial in have been many attacks on U.S. insurgency methods and operations—in• which they were.denied the right to defend rialism here in the U.S. Armed clan- cluding the targetting of children—has themselves and to expose who the real organizations have attacked the hunted us and continues its operations criminals are. We urge people to increase Capitol, the south african consulate against other comrades and organizations. support for them and attend their upconi- fairways, IBM, union carbide, general However, during that deCade, a clear exam• ing sentencing. ric, Israeli aircraft industry, the war ple has been set of how political fugitives Our defense is a continuing attack against military facilities, the N.Y. police extensively sought, could and still, not only U.S. imperialism. tment and the FBI, as well as many survive, but grow and develop, raise chil• Build a revolutionary anti-imperialist dren, and continue and further develop resistance movement! : support these actions because they revolutionary work. Free all political prisoners and POWs! ; a direct and clear attack against U.S. We have been charged by the U.S. gov• Victory to National Liberation Struggles! I and because they advance the ernment with enough conspiracy counts to We extend our support and solidarity to support National Liberation put us in prison kamps for 115 years each. THE OHIO 5 to all those who have refused to collabor• (and self-determination as part of They are trying to sentence us to a slow ate with the grand Juries and to our y anti-imperialist resistance death in the isolation units of amerika's comrades in the field! , and because they offer a mea- federal prison system. They are trying to cells, being chained and shackled in court, For More Information: t to the struggles being waged railroad and criminalize us with their fab- the use of the stun gun—not to extract a Ohio 5 Defense Commhtee I'dsps. evidence and propaganda. Since physical exemplar but to punish political P.O. Box 23 SSr capture on November 4,1984, in Ohio, prisoners—physical attacks in open court— DixoMMit, MauM 04932

Lonary Resistance Movement" Tim Blunk & Susan Rosenberg- : and zionism, to defeat male supre- US to long prison tenns, tij^tly control all anti-klan activists it is importatit to sup• n intemationaiist of jnform^ion about us so that our politics port the armed clandestine movement as - ,1-11 the.struggles in women. A^enghtfor socialism and (he and actiiHis can be misrepresented and a legitimate component of an overall final defeat of U.S. imperialism. later, inside the prisons, isolate us and revolutionary resistance movement. If we "and Cemral America, attempt to destroy our political identities. think and work creatively, we can unite a time when our movement was Our CtRtent Situation This is called criminalization. the public and claiidestine work within to respond to the imperialist inva- On November 29, 1984, we were cap• Judge Lacey was handpicked to try our one strategy that can strike real blows off Grenada and the bombardment of tured in Cherry Hill, N.J. We were charged case. He is a Reagan appointee to the against the enemy, heighten the level of in, the armed clandestine move- with transporting explosives and weapons Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. our solidarity with the national liberation most able to give power to our and false identification. We were charged This is a court that sits in secret in struggles and answer some of the ques• anger and resistance in the with conspiring to possess materials to be Washington^ D.C. to determine CIA re^ tions about how we really can fight for of the U.S. capitol. used against the U.S. government. We say quests for international electronic surveil• "Death to the Klan." When the zionist entity "Israel" and the U.S. government represents the system lance monitoring against "subversive ele• For us, the last few years in the under• is massacred Palestinian refugees that is the most terroristic and criminal, ments." Lacey was the attorney for the ground have been some of the most diffi• Sabra and Shatila, it was the FALN violent and dangerous the world has Newark Police Department throughout cult, but also the most rewarding. Diffi• responded with the bombing of seen—comparable only to the German the 1960's. He has an active and long his• cult, because we took all of our individual Trust while an unclaimed bomb nazi regime. We say it can be resisted and tory in suppression and repression. struggles with us—against our own racism, lyed the New York offices of the jdl this is the right and responsibility of all male supremacy, bourgeois ideology and ish Defense League]. progressive people. of necessity had to ruthlessly confront this < In retaliation for daily "Israeli" bomb- Since our capture, we have been held Fighting Repression/ "enemy within" to be equal to'our tasks. raids against Lebanese and Palestinian under maximum security conditions at the Building Revolutionary Resistance The road to becoming a communist guer• lians, the Red Guerrilla Resistance Metropolitan Correctional Center in New We believe it is the responsibility of rilla fighter is an arduous one. But with :ked the offices of "Israeli" aircraft York City. We are currently being held in Northamericans to resist and fight impe• collectivity, dialectical materialism, a com• :ries (lAI). The communique, in fact, preventive detention with no bail because rialism at every level. We are a part of this mitment to criticism/self-criticism and an nticized the anti-imperialist movement the U.S. government has concluded that developing resistance—^from the thousands identification with the revolutionary '^Zionism and a failure to build solidar- we are "a danger to the community." We of people who have pledged to engage in masses, it is possible. with the Palestinian and Lebanese are the first people to be held in New acts of protest in the event of a U.S. inva• These years have been rewarding be• le. - Jersey under the new bail law of 1984. We sion of Central America, to the daily pro• cause we've seen the ability within our• when the U.S. war machine mobilized have been classified as "terrorists/extrem• tests against racist South Africa to the selves and our comrades to change, taking forces to "practice" an invasion in ists" and subjected to on-going political developing resistance in Third World com• the first steps towards becoming revolu• itral America, the armed clandestine harassment along with other captured munities against racist attacks. We ask all tionary women and men capable of taking vement destroyed the naval officers' freedom fighters and poUtical prisoners. progressive people to support us and all up our responsibilities to the world revo• b at U.S. naval command headquarters On March 4, we went to trial in Federal the Prisoners of War, political prisoners, lutionary struggle. We have seen that it is Washington, D.C. and attacked U.S. Court in Newark, N.J. The judge, Freder• resistance fightersan d grand jury resisters. possible to fight imperialism—that even ruiting stations. ick Lacey, did not allow us to conduct a We ask you to support our case, as a legit• here in the enemy's stronghold it is vulner• • When the Azanian people rose up in political trial, and did everything possible imate and important aspect of building able to attack. Far from feeling defeated ibellion against the racist South African to maintain the U.S. government lie that resistance to U.S. imperialism. by our capture, we have tremendous opt• e, the RGR and United Freedom we are criminals. We ask you to learn about and support imism for the growth of our revolutionary ront's attacks against the South African The U.S. imperialist state will not rec• the anti-imperialist comrades who were anti-imperialist resistance movement. ^nsulate in New York and Union Carbide ognize that there are Prisoners of War, captured in Cleveland in November, 1984, The spirit of revolution lives within us igirefe a correct response and anticipated the political prisoners or freedom fighters in Ray Levasseur, Richard Williams, Jaan and we know that our struggle in prison upsurge of the anti-apartheid movement. U.S. prisons—because to do so means to Carl Laaman, Pat Gros, Barbara Curzi. will make us stronger revolutionaries, These armed attacks, in retaliation acknowledge that; 1) there is an unde• It is especially important now to support more determined, more combative and against imperialism and in solidarity with clared war against the internal colonies the recently captured Black comrades, the better communists. Our strength comes the national liberation movements, marks and Puerto Rico, and 2) there is organized New York 8+ Against Fascist Terrorism. from the belief that others will follow, a qualitative advance in our movement's resistance, both from the national libera• The attack en them is a direct attack by frorh the example of the inillions of peo• jcommitment to fight with arms to defeat tion movements and the beginning of the U.S. imperialist state in its attempt to ple all over the world fighting to win and lJ.S. imperialism. As communists, we fight armed solidarity from the oppressdr na• destroy the revolutionary New Afrikan/ from our own participation in that revo• for the right of self-determination and na• tion. The government's strategy against Black National Liberation Struggle. lutionary process. tional liberation, to defeat white supre- us is to get a quick conviction, sentence We think that as ami-imperialists and 14 lum^iM^

FROM THE NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT The ""Criminalization'" of the Black Community by Chokwe Lumumba New Afrikan Pe<^Ie's Organization they're trying to stop crime, but there's no people. At the same time they have set the way in the world you can trust them to FBI upon the true leadership of our youth You know amerika is in trouble, be• stop crime, because if they stopped crime and deflected them from the education cause when you look at the economy you they wouldn't have a job. They wouldn't they need and the direction they need to show them that people who don't have a see that it's shrinking, that the participa• have anywhere to work. This is what they attack the system which is attacking-them; lot of money don't have a lot of dignity tion is shrinking, that the way profits are do for a living. They live off crime, and they have created alternative images which either. How are we going to tell the young gained now is not by more consumer par• they say crime doesn't pay. Crime is pay• leave nothing but the criminal pathology. brother, the young sister, that sweeping ticipation but by laying more people ing better than anything else in the coun• It was back there with Superfly and it's the floor is just as important as Koch, off—so they don't have to pay the wages try today Crime pays everybody except here today: nothing but low down crimi• who drives around in a limousine? It they used to have to pay to the people the petty criminal—and those who de• nal images which are being taught to our doesn't make sense, they don't think it who no longer work in the city of Detroit velop the criminal pathology because of youth, dope, and quick ways to success. makes sense; and in spite of all the social or in Harlem, and who will never work the tremendous economic strain put upon And youth are easy prey to these things. democratic moralistic nonsense that we again. We know the amerikan economy them and the indignities placed upon They tell me that something like 73% can come up with, the reality is that this is in trouble because when we look around them in our community. of Afrikans in Harlem will not finish high will not register. And so, normally and we see that most of the people working The criminalization of the Black com- school in their lifetime. I know that some• naturally without proper leadership there are watching somebody else, right? In mui)ity is a manifest part of the police thing like 60-70% of our kids in Detroit will be crime. other words, most of them now are be• state. There is not only a criminalization don't have jobs, 50% of the men don't It is important, and we do understand coming part of the police or military of Black revolutionaries which began a have jobs. In 1954 70% of Black men had in the New Afrikan Peoples Organization, apparatus, if they can find work at all. long time ago with the counterintelligence jobs; in 1984 only 59% of Black men had to comprehend that history is not some• They have all kinds of police jobs in program, with applying RICO (racketeer• jobs. By 1989 they're bold enough and thing that just happens but is something amerika. There are the 35,000 that work ing laws) to freedom fighters like Sekou brash enough to predict that only 40% of that is made, and if you don't make it for the city of New York, there's the Tran• Odinga and Kuwasi Balagoon, with the Black men will have jobs. And Black then somebody else will. History is being sit Authority, the Port Authority, then criminal conviction of Assata Shakur and women and Black children, contrary to made today in relationship to the Black there are the people that work in grocery ignoring our political rights and our rights popular myth, are worse off yet. They movement. Goetz, the killer of Bumpurs, stores and department stores watching the to struggle and wage war against those don't even have it as good, if you want to the killers of Michael Stewart, the 10,000 people that buy stuff, watching the people who wage war against us—but the entire call it good, as Black men. So this is the police officers protesting in the street, they that sell stuff, and then some people Black community is being criminalized, situation our communites are in. In a are making history, they are calling for watching the people who watch the people with the TV sets, with the media, with the situation where you have grievous and and opening the doors to the escalation that buy and sell stuff There are private posters, with the images which they draw' wretched repression and oppressioji, one of genocide, and they are getting popular police and the public police. There are the of our youth. Everybody who is a parent of two things or both, will result. Repres• support. guards in the prisons and the guards on has a son or daughter, right? All these sion and oppression breed both crime and It is important for us to make a bit of the street. There are the parole officers parents' sons and daughters are being revolution. It breeds crime from those history of our own. To do this the New and probation officers and the people made to look criminal. It affects people who are unguided and who respond with Afrikan Independence Movement is about who join the military because they are all over. Every white person Who gets on their individual acts to attack that which the business of laying the foundations and trying to survive. In fact, in the educa• the subway nowadays, when they see a they see attacking them, in order to main• building and educating the cadres that will tional institutions now they have to create Black youth, they look at him as a poten• tain some sense of personal dignity. It is be necessary to electrify the masses of our whole courses in police education. They tial criminal. Everywhere I go in the pure folly to tell a young brother selling people around national independence. call it criniinal justice or criminalization, country, when I tell people 1 come from dope on the corner in Detroit that he is and what they have done is create a whole going to be a lawyer or a '3belOi^;| Detroit, they say: Oh, Detroit! Detroit is 4ew Afrikan People's Organization: network to facilitate the building of the day—when he can't even finish the a code word for Black people, and Black - ___York, NY 10027 police state. grade! It is absolute foUy totell the young is a code word for crime, right? P.O. Box I I r'Wl I 90056 brother or sister in Harlem that they III III 'Umtn Box 04252, petroit, MI 48204 And then there are the lawyers and the The criminalization of the Black com• shouldn't sell dope at the same time you judges—there's a whole group of people munity is not only in the concepts which P.O. Box 11464, Atlanta GA 3031(

FROM THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMMITTEE Editorial

Black history is the history of everyone in the United States. For 4(X) years the struggle of Black people for freedom and justice has shaped the lives of everyone living in this country. A part of this history sciousness in our own communities that is the systematic violence of the police, fights every racist attack and demands the Klan and white citizens against Black true justice so that racist killers know they communities and leaders. Today history aren't getting a green light from the peo• seems to be repeating itself But it's not a ple, even if they are getting one from the repeat. A quahtative heightening of racism government. and right-wing reartion is a defining part These are not simply skirmishes in the of America in 1985. struggle between the Black community A unique feature of Black/ white history and the police. We are watching a qualita• is the recurrent theme of an alleged threat ings of Black people for centuries in this tive leap in the mobilization of all white of attack by Black people against white country. It is an outrage that the Black people in support of white supremacist people. The government and racist organ• community has to even attempt to con• violence and reaction. izations have whipped up fear among vince people that this is about racism— New York Post: voice of white New York. The past three months of political stmg- whites time and time again to create a let's remember who's been murdered and gle over the issues of racism, crime and climate of near hysteria used to justify shot and who's done the shooting. naked police power in New York are sig• brutal repression. Racist mobilizatioits In the right wing climate of Reaganism nificant for the whole country. There have followed every slave rebellion in the 18th and law and order, murder and oppres• Goetzmania been qualitative changes: a growing mo• and 19th centuries. When Black veterans sion of Black people all over the country bilization of th&Black community against returning after the first world war played is becoming more and more acceptable to jury and ultimately to the killer cops police terror; the increasing politicization a militant part in the struggle for Black white society 1 he white people who love themselves are being carefully covered up. of the police (always a prelude to fascism); human rights, they were forced to defend Bemhard Goetz because "he fought crime" In all this controversy the fundamental and the conscious use of the press to mo• their communities across the country from aren't concemed about the murders of issue is getting lost—that eleven transit bilize mass white supremacist sentiment. racist mobs. The Scottsboro frame-up of Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Stewart, or police beat Michael Stewart to death and The work done by the family, lawyers the 1930s projected the spector of Black Eula Love (killed by cops for not paying that they will never be brought to justice. and friends of Michael Stewart has con• rapists attacking white womanhood. Now, her utilities bill in Los Angeles). There is In the midst of all this has come a chil• fronted everyone in New York City with it is Bernhard Goetz and the fury of his no mass outcry from the white commun• ling mobilization of the police which has the need to stop killer cops, and win jus• racist supporters. ity about the mob murder of William all the earmarks of fascism. The powerful tice for Black people. It is an example of Today, in the face of evidence that Turks (a Black subway worker who was NY Patrolmen's Benevolent Association how demonstrations, programs and day- Goetz carried out a pre-meditated shoot• beaten to death for shopping in a white (PBA) aided by the media tumed loose a to-day organizing can have a real impact ing, that he checked his victims and fired neighborhood of Brooklyn) or against the demonstration of 10,000 cops against the on the conditions of our lives. .again, miUions of white people continue rise of the Klan from coast to coast. indictment of Stephen Sullivan, demand• Similarly, supporting Black political to defend his blatant racist attack. In an effort to appear impartial, now ing the right to murder Black people witJ^ prisoners like the New York 8+ is a con-. But why has the Goetz case becOnnte a all the various Uiw enforcement agencies total impunity. Crete way to fight the attempts by the state national and international issue? His from NYC to the federal government, are Anti-racist white people can and must to destroy Black leadership under the guise known racism, his public statements Hke scurrying to "investigate" the murder of take a stand against this. With police ter• of labelling revolutionaries as criminals "I couM tell just from looking at thehi Michael Stewart. However, their investi• ror on the upsurge we need to support the and terrorists. Exposing the true nature [the Black teena^rs] that they were vi- gation is bemg conducted like a "Water• rigttt of Black people to defend themselves of the US and heightening our stmggies . ciotts savages," his previous attacks on gate" coverup. The Chief Medical Exam• against official and unofficial white supre• against this racist system is the challenge Black people are swept aside. iner was investigated, while at the same macist attacks. We should understand and faced by all of us who do not want to The Goetz spectacle is a modem day time the tracks which lead from his office welcome actions like the bombing of the make peace with racist Amerika, but want version of the hysteria which led to lynch- to D.A. Morgenthau's office to the grand PBA. We need to build a political con• to be part of making a new history. day, spending a year in prison for refusing scaffolds as the abolitionists were hung. The Harper's Ferry, to cooperate with a Senate Committee in• only voice to break the silence was that of and the many slave owners who no vestigation into Harper's Ferry. an old iJlack woman, the only civilian al• longer dare sleep on the plantatbns, from page 7 the many who have fled all the way to At first the Brown family received almost lowed within miles, perhaps unnoticed be• New York and may be seen any day In the first weeks after Harper's Ferry, all the relief funds, but this was criticized by cause she was so old. "God bless you. Old on Broadway; and more than all, the the abolitionist Liberator, a white-owned the Weekly Anglo-African, and funds were Man," she shouted defiantly. "If 1 could selling, off South within the next six reformist newspaper, called the raid "mis• distributed to the families of the Black ^ht- help you, I would." months of nearly all the slaves from guided, wild and apparently insane, though ers and the others as well. Ten years after the One of the burning issues of the day was Jefferson and the adjoining counties disinterested and well-intended." They did raid, supporters were financing Leary's the question of Black partipation in the re• in Virpnia..." admit that Brown'had "struck terror into all daughters' education at a private school. bellion. Osborne Anderson wrote that sev• Virginia." The racism of this white centered December 2, 1859, the day John Brown eral slaves joined them. Some were able to For 125 years history has been rewritten view was coolly exposed by the leading to make us think John Brown was mad and Black paper, the Weekly Anglo-African: his men were misguided fanatics. Why? Be• ^John Brown did not frighten all Vir• cause nothing is more subversive to imper• ginia. There were in that state some ialist law and racist order than the idea that half million of slaves and we have no white and Black people, oppressor and op• reports that they were terrified..." pressed, could share a common humanity Radical Black ministers such as Henry based in revolutionary ideals. It undermines Highland Gamett spoke out immediately. the whole structure of white supremacy built "Garnett told his congregation that anyone so carefully in every white American youth who could not support the captured raiders from the time he or she first learns to play had "better keep still." "cowboys and Indians." Others were apparently more timid. An John Brown was far from mad. Frederick open letter to= Black ministers from New Douglass, the greatest and most influential Oliver Brown and Martha Brown Haven reminded: "You are expected to do Black abolitionist of the day, disagreed with your duty in pressing this matter home to Brown often and heartily, but defended his the hearts and consciences of our people. comrade in a famous essay. Captain John Do not let us hear any uncertain sound Brown Not Insane: from you on this point..." "Not only is it true that Brown's whole The highest form of support was, of movement proves him perfectly sane course, a rescue attempt, and this was actu• and fre^ from merely vengeful passion, ally planned. Blueprints of the jail were but he has struck the bottom of the printed in northern newspapers to encourage philosophy which underlies the aboli• the idea. A spy was sent to Virginia as part tionist movement. He has attacked of Brown's legal team. An armed force was slavery with the very weapons pre• pthered, including 100 European socialists, cisely adapted to bring it to the death. exiled veterans of the 1848 revolutions. But Moral considerations have long been Lewis Leary John Copeland Brown knew how closely he and his men exhausted upon slaveholders. It is vain were guarded and discouraged the plan. was hanged, was called Martyrs Day and escape and melt back into the population, to reason with them." Another form of material support was ceremonies were held in 12 cities and Can• others pretended they were "kidnapped:" 100 years later, another great Black leader raising money for the widows and orphans ada. Black people were the main organizers; Those killed were secretly buried in a com• and one of the leading anti-imperialists of of the fallen fighters.Blac k women led this businesses were closed and black armbands mon grave, since it was vital to the South to our century agreed. "If a white person wants work, and thousands of dollars were raised were worn in mourning. At Yale, students maintain the lie that no slave wanted, or to help oiir cause, ask him what he thinks of at church suppers and socials around the broke into the chapel and draped it in black, would fight for, freedom. John Brown. Do you know what Brown country. White people also contributed, too late for school officials to remove it The Black abolitionist press took on did? He went to war."—Malcolm X A white man named Hyatt raised $6150 in before Saturday service. In Albany, New directly the lies of the media: Far from being mad, John Brown and his six months selling a photograph of "Old York, thousands gathered and a four minute "The early boast of Judge Parker that men represent the revolutionary ideals and Captain John^Brown." He explained his ovatioiLJB^ed the declaration that in a not a slave or a free man of color had practice that flourish in times of change, for work, saying: "It places in the hanids 'the Virginia governor, and not joined John Brown is contradicted by their age like this one was a revolutionary ; every contributor ^ John Brown, would hang. In Detroit the the fact that Colonel Washington's tune. Then as now, revolutionaries were great mfiU^MMfwom—the man of the tolled all day coachmen was found among the as also observed 1 insurgents (armed with Washin; '"of the noble old man beyond the place of In Virginia three plantations were torched, own shotgun—Ed.); and Virginia's who fought in solidarity with the Black strug• ^Ljw finger of tyranny may and three of the jurors that found Brown Governor Wise, who knows much gle were seen as "traitors." Then as now, point at them i "" guilty were poisoned. ~ more than he publishes, has been oin- revolutionaries are humankind's future: H yatt was also a grand jury resi thousand troops surrouhdwl the inodsly silent on this point of late; This is why we honor them.B -"

search and seizbre; there have been new ness. All this, I'm sure, is very con• "anti-crime" and "anti-terrorist" laws scious among ruling class strategists. It passed and others in the works. means an ideological/cultural strategy The Sharon- We have a tendency to go "EEK! The along with a program for repression. repression is coming" and then swing The Westmoreland and Sharon libel back and forth between feeling over• suits may look like bizarre sideshows. Westmoreland Show whelmed and proceeding as though Certainly there is something more than In September 1984, Ariel Sharon, former ment saying they did not believe Westmore• nothing has changed. Just because the grotesque about these mass murderers, Israeli minister of defense, brought a libel suit land had been unpatriotic or disloyal, but did broad trend now is to the right does not dripping with blood and gore, running against Time magazine. This action was in re- not retract any of their original report and did mean that the government will auto• into court to cry "foul" because some ..sponse to an article Time published, entitled not apologize. There was also no financial set• matically triumph in all its designs. one told a tiny bit of truth about them. "The Butcher of Sabra and Shatilia," stating tlement. This is interesting given that prior to The history of work against COIN- But I feel that these suits are very con• that Sharon was responsible for the massa• the trial, CBS had offered Westmoreland the TELPRO (the counter intelligence pro• scious. They form a whole cloth, strate• cres by right-wing Phalangists at two Palesti• same statement plus a large financial settle• gram of the U.S. government -ed.), to nian refugee camps, Sabra and Shatilla, in ment. It would appear that CBS, knowing the defend freedom fighters, against grand southern Lebanon. trial could be long and costly, would have juries, has laid out some of the broad Sharon's court battle was financed largely been quite happy to pay off Westmoreland political basis of the repression. The by conservative American and Israeli zionist and avoid the puislicity of the trial. Ih addition, government's main goals have been to businessmen, including the owners of Jor- by the time the settlement was reached it try to destroy the internal national liber• dache, the chairman of Occidental Petroleum, was clear that Westmoreland's case was so ation movements and attack allied white and the chairman of Rapid-American Corp., a weak that, had the case gone to the jury, he anti-imperialists; in particular the focus would have suffered a resounding defeat. multi-billion dollar conglomerate. has been on trying to wipe out the In November 1984, William Westmore• While it was clear that the jury was siding armed clandestine movements and to land, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, with CBS, there was opposition from another use grand juries to dry up support, and corner. In the midst of the trial Jessie Helms, brought a libel suit against CBS. CBS, in a for broader political intimidation. 1982 documentary, had revealed that during arch conservative and Republican senator 1967 Westmoreland's official reports of Na• from North Carolina, launched a campaign via To the above we must add another tional Liberation Front and North Vietnamese the Fairness in Media organization. His goal is major ruling class goal as they strive to troop strength were significantly below the to have conservative forces buy enough CBS rebuild the ability to wage imperialist actual numbers. This enabled Westmoreland stock to have controlling interest in the war. They (more than many in the to stand by his assurances to Washington that network. Clearly this is an attempt to exer• movement) have learned lessons from the U.S. was winning the war. Both of these cise even more explicit reactionary control Vietnam. They understand that domes• cases came to an end in February, 1985. over media which is already the voice of the tic opposition was a big obstacle to While Sharon and Westmoreland claim vic• imperialist state. DTTK! is pleased to print a what level and length of genocidal war tories, the results of the two trials are not so political analysis by freedom fighter David they cotild wage. This time around they gically, with the repressive measures clear. In the Sharon case, the jury found that Gilbert of the Sharon and Westmoreland want to be able to nip an anti-impe• discussed above. Part of the apparatus the Time article did defame Sharon and that cases. rialist movement in the bud, before it the now leading imperialists are putting it was untrue. However, they did not agree The last couple of years has been a gets big and militant. A lot of the in place is to assure a press where even that Time had published the story knowing period of not only increased repression measures and proposals going on now the mildest criticism and/or exposure of that it was false. It is this last point that is the but also a time where many measures are to have such an apparatus or means lies and atrocities does not become legal base for libel and any cash award, from and standards have been put in place to in place. public. The handling.,, pf...tbe jjress interviews with jurors after deliberations it lay the foundation for future repres• Their commitment to prevent the re- ar ^nd the Grenada invasion was became clear that many believed that Sharon §ii sion. We have seen the use of criminal emergence of such a movement does not another experiment or step in this direc- must have been instrumental in the massacres tifm. Of course, it is an imperialist press taking pfece, but felt that the evidence contempt (for refusal to talk to grand mean that their tactics will be purely re• in thie first place. But by the late 60s, as brought by Time in the trial did not prove his juries) become a regular tactic for politi• pression and brutality. There will also be role. Sharon has returned to Israel, indebted cal internment; there have been new ex• cooptation and more sophistication the U.S. was suffering setbacks and dis• to his American friends, prepared to rebuild ecutive orders giving the F.B.I, and about causing splits. In particular, they reputes, strategic differences within the his political base in his drive to become Prime C.I.A. much wider latitude; there has will want to split off and isolate a mili• ruling class as well as the growing po• Minister. been a series of reactionary Supreme tant, anti-imperialist sector from in• tential for other outlets (such as grow- In Westmoreland's case, an out of court Court decisions, in particular those fluencing a broader, spontaneous settlempnt «/a<; rparhpH rR<> i<:<:iiprl -a <;tat(»- continueclonpage12 16

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Koch to mobilize racist hysteria and consol• tion. Before the army, before the National idate a base of support among white people. Guard was called out, the cops were there February, 1985 Overwhelmingly they are protected by the with dogs and cattle prods in Birmingham. REMEMBER MALCOLM X DAs and the courts and have been indicted Their purpose was to stop the march of FEBRUARY 21,1965 on minor charges only when the pressure by Black people for freedom. When the Black Tonight we attacked the Patrolman's Third World communities is intense and Panther Party organized people to defend Benevolent Association to support the de• unceasing. The evidence against them is their homes and their children and to begin mand of Black communities across the distorted and destroyed by Medical Exam• waging a struggle for power, police SWAT countr>' to STOP KILLER COPS. iner Eliot Gross who was originally brought teams were formed and opened fireo n Pan• Right now in New York City we are expe• in by Koch to cover up Arthur Miller's ther headquarters throughout the u.s. The riencing a white supremacist offensive. murder. imperialist strategy is to terrorize the masses Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 Black youths, Ikr . - Police power is part of imperialist vio• through police brutality and killer cops, to becomes a white folk hero, lauded by Koch, lence—violence against Third World peo• threaten those who protest with imprison• and exonerated by D.A. Morgenthau. ple—which will continue to rise as imperial• ment or physical attack, and to imprison or 10,000 armed racists demonstrated their ism's crisis deepens. What can we expect assassinate the conscious leadership of the support for the killer of a 66 year old Black from U.S. imperialism in Central America national liberation struggle. This is why grandmother and tried to intimidate those but more violence, when Reagan calls the Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Fred who have foupht to bring him to justice. contras "freedom fighters" and his "broth• Hampton were assassinated. This is why ers"? The months and years of protest by hundreds of Black/New Afrikan Prisoners Black people against the South African con• of War and Political Prisoners—40 combat• sulates in the u.s. wouldn't be necessary if ants of the Black Liberation Army alone— the U.S. didn't fully back the violent white remain imprisoned in u.s. jails. This is why colonialist South African government. With• 500 police agents of the NYPD/FBI Joint in the borders of the u.s., Black people—on Terrorist Task Force arrested 8 New Afrikan Michael Stewart whose labor u.s. imperialism was built— revolutionaries in October 1984. The New have been completely written off There is York 8 Against Fascist Terrorism are a part of it's in Central America, South Africa, Leb• no longer even the pretense that the system the development of a full revolutionary strat• anon, or within its own borders. If we are will offer Black youth a chance to grow up egy for self-determination and socialism. not willing to fight the police, then well be to an education, a job, even a home. The Progressive white people have to face the letting the state define what is an acceptable programs of pacification have ended. In fact that, overwhehiiingly, the masses of level of protest for our movement. 1985, the U.S. government's main program white people have gladly played their role in As revolutionaries in the oppressor nation, of'social welfare' is to cut back the minimum this strategy. How else can we explain the we choose to straggle for power rather than wage for Black teenagers. To the imperialist massive outpouring of support for Bemhard to beg for change. We hope our action to• state. Black people's lives are expendable. Goetz—even among supposedly liberal night will aid the straggle that is being waged The struggle against killer cops and police white people? Instead of supporting the in the Black community against killer cops. terror is a struggle against the naked brutal• Black community's demand to STOP We have learned much from this straggle ity and inhumanity of a system that deprives KILLER COPS, and of recognizing the about who the enemy is and what it will take PBA chief Phil Caruso Third World jjeople of the most basic, fun• police as our enemy as well, our movements to defeat it. We are glad to be able to do some damental human rights. When "democratic have too often tumed to the police for pro• damage to the white supremacist pigs in the tection—against rape, against the klan, for PBA, and we hope our action helps to build Phil Caruso is right when he says that americrf' systematically denies human rights to Black people, they have the right to fight security at demonstrations and picket lines. an -i^^^Ii^rialist resistance movement Steven Sullivan was just doing his job. His for human rights, as Malcolm X said, "by We in the oppressor nation have a decision that ri|i|il IN ii'|i|lir)ll n^Miiiii|iiiil liberation job—their job—is to control oppressed any means necessary." When the police, the to make about whether to continue to rely straggles, upholds the right ofseJ peoples, using violence or the threat of vio• courts, the politicians don't protect but on the police, or whether to join with Third lence. Malcolm X, the felack Panther Party, attack Black people then Black World people in fighting the police as our With this ^B^pi^^the PI fought the police for what they are: impe• p agJ The straggle against killer cops is oiie of send a message of sblidarity and st3 rialism's occupying army in the Black com• those heroic enemies of all u.s. police fore munity. the main ways that masses of Third World people are fighting and challenging the very the POW's and Political Prir rint.JB-tfl*1hr Why do cops kill? Why do heavily armed New i|liil iiji ('iilllii ' I iliiiii ilLib- shotgun carrying, bulletproof-vested men nature of the system. When white people take up this straggle, it is a real step^tow«t9s aggle, of the Puerto Rican Inde• shoot down 10 year old Clifford Glover or pendence Movement, of the Native Amer• 66 year old Eleanor Bumpurs? changing our relationship to the system and becoming a part of the fight for power. ican and Mexicano/Chicano Liberation Because they're racist and put no value Fighting white supremacy is the only basis Straggles, and of the North American anti- on Third World people's lives. on which an alliance can be built with the imperialist movement. Because some of them are outfront fas• national liberation straggles which are lead• cists, and love the sense of power and know Fight White Supremacy—Stop Killtr Cops! ing and advancing the straggle against im• they will get away with it. Human Rights. Self-Defcnse and perialism. Supporting the just demands for Se!f-Det«rmination for the Because they're afraid. Not fear of Eleanor human rights, self-defense and self-deter• Bumpur's knife or Clifford Glover's Afro .New .A.frikan/.\fro-.American Nation! mination and making these demands our For the Liberation of All Oppressed Nations! pick, but the kind of fear that the slave• own is the way that we can challenge the Free .411 Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War! holders and their overseers had of a slave degradation and bratality of the system. If Defeat u.s. Imperialism! rebellion. The fear that the oppressor has of our movement will take on this straggle, we Build a Revolutionary Resistance Movement! the righteous anger of the oppressed. The can begin to build effective revolutionary We dedk:ate this action to Don Juan Antonio fear that some day they will be brought to resistance. justice. Corretjer, great Puerto Rican patriot, whose revolutionary character, commitment and The cops are the frontline enforcers of a Fifteen years ago, our movement fought clarity inspire us. He lives wherever op• system of colonization of Black, Puerto the cops to stop imperialism's war against Rican, Mexicano-Chicano, and Native the Vietnamese people and in support of the pressed and exploited people fight for free• people have the right to organize their Civil Rights and Black Power movements. dom against u.s. imperialism! American peoples. They are backed by that communities for self-defense. Black com• system. The PBA is the organizational and Today we are going to have to do the same if iiX)N JUAN ANTONIO CORRhlJLR munities organized for self-defense is the we want to help stop imperialism—whether ESm PRESENTE! ideological leadership within the NYPD. only way white supremacist violence like They provide the funds and the legal defense that of the klan and the cops has ever been of killer cops; they work hand in hand with held in check. The struggle against killer cops is not a struggle against the excesses of this system but against its fundamental nature. It's a struggle against colonialist domination and national oppression, against imperialism and white supremacy. The only way that will end is through a struggle for power: the struggle of oppressed nations for self-deter• mination and national liberation. Black people have led the struggle for human rights for years—in the courts, in the schools, and in the streets. They have also led by devel• oping the struggle of the New Afrikan/ Afro-American Nation for land and inde• pendence—the only way that killer cops Juan Antonio Corretjer, the head of La Liga Socialista and the national poet will really be brought to justice, police terror Puerto Rico, died on January 19,1985. His funeral brought together every part of the against Black people ended, and the rightt o Puerto Rican Independence Movement, which mourned the loss of one of the most survive, grow and prosper as a nation be won. admired Puerto Rican patriots since Don Pedro Albizu Campos. An outspoken supporter of the armed clandestine movement, he was honored by the clandestine Every struggle for human rightsan d self- Macheteros with the posthumous title of "Comandante." determination by New Afrikan/ Afro-Amer• Don Juan's funeral in his home town of Ciales was attended by more than 20,000 ican, Native American, Puerto Rican, Mex- • people. The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee joins La Liga Socialista, the Puerto icano/Chicano peoples—every confronta• Rican Independence Movement and the Puerto Rican nation in mourning the loss of tion with U.S. imperialism—has meant deal- this great leader. The path that all progressive and revolutionary people must walk ine with the notice as the frontUne of reac• ;il Ko <»su>r l\j> Wnn Iiian Antrtnin Pnrrptier has walked it before US.