NEWSPAPER OF THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMAWFR
P.O. Box 406 Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N.Y. 10009 JULY/AUGUST 1983 No. 2
In spite of adl this violent intimidation on the part of the state, over 300 people entered the area. 1BAKC, INCAR flntemational Commitee Against Racism^ and CEDAR, a local pacifist group, accounted for about 150 arrti-Klan demonstrators. Another 50 were unaffiliated, but anti-Klan. Police also let throu^ 75 to 100 open Klan supporters, mostly bikers, who attempted to intimidate people. At noon the Klan emerged from the front door of City Hall, in their hoods and robes, carrying a large .Amerikkkan flag and a banner reading "Peaceful Patrbtic Protest by the KKK." Bill Wilkinson, Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the KKK, spoke throu^ a large sound system. At times he was drowned out by "Death to the Klan" and other chants. The Klan played "God Bless America" and other patriotk: songs over the speakers and returned to City, HaU after *5 minutes. After sneaking out the bad< dcxsr, tiie Kim left town in a feeding caravan led by patrol cars. Local teenagers and anti-Klan activists slipped through police lines and showered the Klan with stones, shattering a windshield on one Klan car.
San Antonio, Texas In San Antonio, the Knights of the White Camelia attempted to continue organizing with a May 1 St march. Police sealed off a «f bluck, area, so that even though 800 to 1,000 Arilonio Kbn mavch demonstrators came, mostly from the cit/s large Mexican community, no one ever saw the Klan. Claiming to be enraged that they were .Kl ttujiAltvii* TToUsfi m ole, including the Chicago CC and Klan rally in Kakmazoo. The "Naizi SS Action -:i;r..-. Group" from Dearborn fa Detroit sdburb) led the rally with a large banner proclaiming "White In Houston, the police called it Houston is not Austin, where there is a lohg Power — the only power." Daniel Vincent "state-of-the-art" crowd control. It meant 1800 history of leadership from groups lB FROM THE NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT ar Is War Even as Black mavors are elected in Chicago war that with each passing day daims the lives to do with any of them'' Such are the questions and Philadelphia, even as the talk about a "Black of hundreds of our women, men and babies — that jBg us like a sore wound or a big bump on presidency" grows more clamorous, even as physically as well as psychologically and the head. All the same, we inderstand that it thotsands of New Afrikans 'Blacks^ are being spiritually. There are those unscrupulous forces was the enemy that duped and continues to mobilized to march in Washington, D.C. on that seek to liquidate support for our war mislead white workers to do savage things that August 27th under the barmer of symbolism and against colonialism and all forms of exploitation are counter-productive to the struggle for a reformism, even as all this takes place, the by pointing at those weak individuals who turn better life and the power to control our lives conditions of War in Amerikkka are escalating their back on our people. We must not, fyau, yours and we, ours). WhUe we understand and intensifving. however, let them take us off course. these things, the gas chambers in Germany, the This war began with tiie coming of the first Comrade Sekou Odinga correctly states: extinct Indian populations and the bones of europeans to Africa for the purpose of buying "Most struggles have their traitors, and in millions of our ancestors that lie at the bottom and trafficking in human beings to serve as the Amerikan struggle they had theirs, of the Atlantic Ocean refuse to allow us to slaves. This was the commencement of a war Benedict Arnold and others ... In War, i tolerate white supremacy for the sake of "unity between the oppressed, enslaved and eventually guess, that's something to expecrt" as a dass". colonized Afrikan masses and the oppressing, Without a doubt, the U.S. bourgeoisie through Recently an article appeared in the enslaving and colonizing europeans. Everywhere the government, through the media, through bourgeoisie press 'New York Times, June 11, that Afrikans were dispersed became a political chemical and biological weaponry, through their l'?83^ entitled: "Investigator Sees Links Among and militarv front in this struggle for freedom official armed forces ^especially the police) and Heavily Armed Right-Wing Groups." It starts and to end oppression. through their unofficial white supremacist and out, "Federal authorities ... say they are This reality of war was in no way diminished right-wing armed forces; through these means uncovering some troubling links among small by the fact that Afrkans acted as middlemen, and others are intensifying an undeclared war groups of heavily armed right wing extremists" translators and mercenaries for the barbaric against the New Afrikan nation; that is to say, with ties that "cut across organizational lines interests of the white marauders. Here in against the oppressed Blad< masses. It is from from the Nazi Party and tfie Ku Klux Klan to Amerikkka, during slavery, this reality of war this position that we demand prisoner of war radical elements of the farm protest movement." was in no way diminished by the role played by status for our captured freedom fighters like It goes on to state that, "adherents are armed in Uncle Toms, house n s, snitches, and Sekou Odinga and the many others called some cases with explosives, grenade launchers, mercenaries. And even in this day and time, criminals and locked down in Amerikkka's and automatic and semi-automatic weapons and our budding war of New Afrikan national concentration camps called prisons. trained in guerilla warfare." liberation is in no way diminished by the The artide also speaks about the existence of existence of reformists, traitors, snitches and 'mvte Sa^remacy Must Not Go UKhaUenged a secret network of "safehouses," stockpiles of black ruming dogs of U.S. imperialism. They heavy armaments, "counter-insurgency senruriars," exist just as our movement exists. They serve IMs very diffknh to be friends with someone paramilitary training camps, "joint military W bolster the tyranny of the U.S. bourgeoisie, when your entire history of dealing with them maneuvers" between Klansmen and other just as — in counteroosrtion — tfie masses of our savs — 'Trust them and you're a damned fool." formations such as Posse Comltatys and the people seek to free ourselves from Amerikkkan How can you put any faith in someone who has ^^ inutemen; and most importantly, of a "common domination. litercilly sold you down the river time and time thread" which is unifying the white right known There is War in Ameri ^THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMMITTEE Criminalizing the Anti-Klan Movement Throughout the spring of 1983, in many dties America" lies a natranal strategy to organize an This is why, even at its beginning stages, the Klan and Nazi rallies have been confronted by armed fascist movement in this country that will anti-Klan movement is now being targetted for demonstrations of hundreds and often thousands attack all struggles for human rights, defend U.S. attack. This attack is being designed and of anti-racist people. These mobilizations imperialist war (as in El Salvador) and carried out by many of the same repressive represent the emergence of a country wide consolidate a mass base among white people that forces ''such as the FBI) which are now working movement against the forces of white will fight to preserve the empire and the system to destroy the revolutionary leadership of the supremacy. Faced with the sight of the Klan of the U.S. The KKK is particularly being New Afrikan, Puerto Rican, Mexicano and Native surrounded by phalanxes of police, demonstrators developed as a counterinsurgency weapon against American movements. have hurled rocks and fought to stop the Klan revolutionary forces that fight for national Following the street battles against the Klan from mantling. Police attacks and arrests of liberation and their supporters. The Klan is and police in Washington, D.C. in. November, anti-Klan demonstrators, carried out inder the guiding many rightwing paramilitary and religious 1982, Austin, Texas in February, 1983 and pretext of guaranteeing the Klan's right to free forces to unite inder its leadership. The direct numerous other confrontations, the state has speech have been met with resistance. And counterinsurgency attacks gainst ttie John Brown moved swiftly to develop a major, multi-level anti-imperialist organizers are leading thousands Anti-Klan Committee, including house break-ins, response. The features of the plan to protect to chant, "Cops and Klan work harxl in hand." sabotage of cars, arrests and disinformation the klan and stop the resistance from growing The mounting attacks on the anti-Klan leaked to the press, is a direct result of our are now becoming dear. movement, and the attempts to criminalize it, building solidarity with the New Afrikan FIRST, the government and media are have to be seen as part of the government's Independence Movement, which is also under working together to consolidate the strategy to prop up and to promote white direct attack by the state and the Klan. These ideological/legal foundatkjn , based on dting the supremacist fascist organizations and destroy organizations are being built and,promoted today U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the Klan the national liberation struggles. To the extent that because the economic, political and social crisis absolute right to exist. Protecting the Klan's the state's attacks have succeeded in intimidating which is starting to wrack U.S. society is "freedom of speech" in fact means defending some numbers of people, defeating the current creating a breeding ground among many their freedom to recruit and engage in offensive poses a real challenge to the anti-Klan disenchanted and disorganized vi^ite people for paramilitary training and activity. Doing this movement. just such fascist solutions. The massive racist enables the state to label forces committed to ''"he continuing revelations of federal backlash which surfaced recently during the the total destruction of white supremacy as government/FBI collaboration with the Klan can Chicago mayoral race is a dear signal that the anti-democratic. The report of the Austin, no longer be written off as merely a case or Klan has a potentially huge amount of SLpport Texas Grand 3ury 'set up to "investigate" the two of misconduct. The pattern of direct police among disaffected white peoole. Feb. 19th demonstration) brings thfe point into and FBI participation in racist organizations In direct ooposition to this are the militant sharp focus. "The first lesson is that any group dating back from attacks on the Civil Rights Black communities, whose cry of "Death to the 'i.e. the Klan> no matter how loathsome its Movernent, through the Greensboro massacre and Klan" is now becoming a mass demand at the goals, has the right to express itself through coverup of 1979, continues to this day. base of the anti-Klan movement. ""Tie fact that marches, parades and demonstrations. We have Cross-membership between the Klan, police and there are growing numbers of white peoole who learned to our considerable alarm that there are Soldier of Fortune style mercenary networks has realize that the Klan and white supremacy will some people in our community who apparently brought a qualitatively new level of military never be "banned" out of existence by the know nothing about what freedom of speech sophistication and power to the white government; that it must be destroyed through means." By cynically turnrng the reality of supremacist movement. struggle, is a real threat to U.S. imperialism, racist terror upside down, the U.S. is attempfing Exposing and fighting these developments is '''he possibility that the anti-Klan movement will to hold the anti-Klan movement responsible for vitally important to every progressive person who develop and unite w'th emerging national the threat to freedom and civil liberty. hates the KKK and all that it stands for. The liberation struggles m this country against the SECONDLY, the state and media campaign U.S. imperialist state is an advance that ttie government will never admit that behind the See Criminalizing the Anti-Klan Movement, Klan marches in "Defense of White Christian government will do everything to prevent. page 13 FBI Klansman Cleared USA vs. Puerto Rico in Liuzzo Murder On June 2 9, four Puerto Rican independentistas and community leaders in !Iune 1. A Federal judge denied a suit Chicago were arrested and charged with seditious against the FBI by the children of civil rights conspiracy and being members of the F.A.L.N* worker Viola Liuzzo, murdered in 1965 by by Chicago's equivalent of the Joint Terrorist Klansmen, one of whom was FBI agent Gary Task Porce. Alberto Rodriquez, Jose Rodriquez '''homas Ro>we. Liuzzos argued that the FBI and Eddie Cortes are being held on $10 million knew of the plan to kill their mother, and in baiL Alejandrina Torres, stepmother of Puerto fact, Rowe fired the fatal shot. The judge ruled Rican freedom fighter Carlos Aft)erto Torres, is that though the FBI knew of the plan they were being held on $5 million bail. The excuse for under no obligation to stop it because "no these arrests of public activists was that they specific Federal statute was violated." He were planning to return William Morales to this accepted the FBFs argument that Rowe's shot country before his arrest and were planning a had missed. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. said, "I swear it bombing of U.S. military installations on July was as if he 'the judge) had not even gone to "th. the trial ... because I feel verv strongly th^t we At 5:30 a.m. the following day, 50 jumpsuited proved negligence and all the facts ^^were agents invaded the Puerto Rican High School and overlooked." Still on the FBI Payroll, Rowe now Cultural Center for hours and stole equipment lives in Georgia under a new identity. and files and seized h cars, including Alejandrina's. The F.B.I., State officials aid Chicago police later held a press conference laving out their story to justify this Punk Rockers Attack counterinsurgency attacrk on the Puerto Rican Nazis in Germany community and revolutionary activists. More arrests and attacks by the government are West Germany, May 21. Five thousand punk expected. A mailgram and phone campaign is rockers and angry youth surrounded a hall where r4 going on to stop these attacks on the community immediately. Phone or Writet U.S. Attorney SS veterans were having a reunion dinner, Alabama march chanting "Nazis go home!" A VW bus filled with Daniel We** at 219 So. Demfaom, Chicago, 111. uniformed neo-Nazis was attacked by the 60601, Ol2> 353-3527 x672» to demand (1) demonstrators, the doors were torn off and the Alabama March Return all equipment and materials taken from Nazis teargassed, before the protesters were the Puerto Rkan Cultiial Center; "^2) Return the driven away by police with mace. Also in Protesters carried out a weeklong, 300 mile ft cars impomied to their owners; and (3^ St<^ Gamany, youths threw stones and eggs at US march and nriotorcade from Eufaula, Ala., to the harassment of the Puerto Rican School aid tanks in a NATO parade and greeted US troops state Capitol in Montgomery to protest the Cultural Center. with mod< Nazi salutes. The parade reviewing shootings of three Black people by police ance stand was bombed, and the police shrewdly Easter. About 1200 people began the march, commented, "There is almost certainly a political which departed on the 20th anniversary of Killer Cops: Maryland motive for tfiis bombing." George Wallace's attempt to prevent two Black students from enrolling in the University of Akibama at Tuscaloosa. A $9 million civil rights suit has exposed a "Heath Squad" within the Prince George's Klan Prison Escape County, Maryland poliot dei>aitimaiU Police set tq> grocery store robberies in order to stwot WMiRJU«de and Puerto ItJawinan.^ kUlhig ^ — , ler of tfte' Chinese man was beaten to death by Rona Klan in Richmond, C&, had served one year at EboB and his stepaon, MicM both white, Mimm - ta- kmtm. m maiA raid . ^mtdpm He was aj crew by _ „ ^ ™- -.--^ the department, and Captain Cfemes Fit:^atrick, head of the major crimes divbion. Arguing that Sbens went homeland g The Klan in Texas is attempting to establish The fight against killer cops 'the notorious have the full backing of Chief Garfield and the a stronghold in relationship to the Black arrf Cowboys of Richmond, Califomia) sharpened city government; and that the RPD is Mexican struggles. Texas is part of occupied recently when, after a year of pressure from the systematically brutalizing and murdering Black Mexico and forms part of the illegal border Black community and the anti-Klan movement, a peoole. Police Chief Garfield, a defendant in fhence, the Klan Border Patrol that works with judge awcirded damages to the families of Black the suit, handed in his resignation less than a the INS). Texas adjoins the national territory of people murdered by the Richmond Police Dept. week after the verdict was announced. the Republic of New AfrB these cases as examples to intimidate people plot the violent overthrow of the government." Stone, who was attacked on Februay 19th, went c^iarge& They must be put in the context of to the police department to file a police the new FBI guidelines that "legally" allow bmtality charge. The police not only refused to infiltration, informants, wire-tapping, accept the complaint, but four days later came mail-tampering and surveillax» of "sibversive" to her job and arrested her for assault on a cop! orgaiizations. These guidelines were discussed She was convkrted and is presently appealing the by the Senate Sub-Committee on Domestic case. Security, which has said that the oublk: anti-Klan Mark Hood, arrested for reckless behavior, movement is one of their targets. We are Austin plainclothes cops attack Marie has had his trial postponed 5 times. This is demanding that the charges gainst all anti-Klan Chauvki. after the original charge was dropped and he demonstrators be ctx>pped and Marie Chauvin not was then re-arrested. He has been told by the be indkrted on the felony charge. Join us in judge that he is being investigated for national letter aid telegram campaigns protesting Nine anti-Klan demonstrators were arrested in the criminalization of the anti-Klan movement. Austin on February 19th on various charges invoNeriient with "subversive organizations that including a«»gravated assault on a cop — a felony carrying 2 to 10 years h prison and a fine of ip to $5,000. We have found the cases instructive Distrtet Attorney Johnny Holmes District Attorney Romie Earle in sharpening our imderstanding of how the 201 Famin Street Travis CowTty Courthouse government has and will continue to move in Houston, Tx. 77002 1000 Guadali4)e response to the building of the anti-Klan Austin, Tx. 78701 movement in this country as part of a revolutionary struggle for the liberatkjn of the On Aortl 2, 1983, 2,000 anti-rKist people confronted the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan when they Black nation. marched in Houston with massiw police support. Several anti-Klan demonstrators were arrested, among JBAKC was surveilled. in Austin as we them members oi f« John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. They were charged with class C misdemeanors marched m the BCTPs People's March Against after class B dwges were drt^aped because many people called to demand the charges be dropped and the Klan during the morning of Febrijary 19th. the immediate release of Trefla Lau^n and Carolyn Ritter. That afternoon, when thousands of people On March 31st, many peopte were attending a Rock Against Racian concert, a publicized fundraising confronted the Klain as they tried to march, event for the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Several mdercover oops were presait in the crowd. JBAKC men*ers cmd supporters were grabbed The CID 'Central Intelligence Dlviaon - Red Squad> of the Houston Police Department raided the club, from amidst the crowd by undercover cops. arresting many people, including the d»i>'s two owners and a supporter of JBAKC, Tom Williams. When Marie Chauvm, Susai Rautenberg, Jackie Stames the bond was raised to get Tom released, an additional $5,000 was added to his baiL This was a clear and Carolyn Ritter were arrested. The oops attempt to keep anti-Klan demonstrators from exercising their absokrte human right to oppose the Ku never identified themselves and were easily Khix Klan on April 2rri in Houston. mistaken for Klansmen since the KleUi had Charges are still pending on several anti-Klan demonstrators arrested in Austin on February 19th, announced that they would have armed including ^laie Chauvin, Susan Rautenberg and Jacqueline Stames. To take a stand against the Klan is undercover Klansmen in the crowd. Three days a basic human right. I hold the police, the District Attorney, the FBI, and the KKK responsible for aO later, Marie Chauvin was re-arrested at her job attadcs on anti-Klan demonstrators. by 5 imderoover cops and charged with a felony of aggravated assault on a peace officer. She I DEMAND: has not yet been indicrted. n That all charges be dropped against all anti-Klan demonstrators, both in Houston and Austin, and The pre-trial hearing for Chauvin, agskinst all peopte who attended the Rock Against Racism concert at the Island on Mach 31st. Rautenberg, and Stames 'Ritter's charge for 2^ Stop all repression against the Black and Mexican communities. shouting an obscenity was dropped) was set for 3^ Stop all feoressicn against-the anti-Klan movement. June 17th. Two days before the hearings, the court "lost" the motions which had been filed. Sincerely, This is very unusual 'in fact, one lawyer said it has happened only once before in Austin, on a poUoe brutality charge) and is one more example 'your name arxl address) of political harassment. The pte-trial hearings have been re-set for ^ily 21st. We believe that oc: Lee P. Brown these postponements h these cases are for two Chfef of Police reasons: P to keep us tied up in these Houston Police Deot. proceedings, and more importantly 2) when the 61 Riesner St. Klan is scheduled to return to Austin, to use Houston, TX. 77002 Fighting RICO: An Interview with Silvia Baraldini In the fall of 1982, in the aftermath of the capabilities to organize themselves into was left purposefully vague to better allow ireuocessful Brink's expropriation, the US. began revolutionary movements that will challenge and prosecution of organized crime's infilitration into the RICO conspiracy trial. The first major defeat US imperialism, '^'e have learned from legitimate business. For the first time it is being political conspiracy trial of the decade and the the history of other struggles, such as Vietnam, used against revolutionaries. Thus the governmeit opening gun in a new drive toward hei^^ttened Mozambique, Nicaragua, that only one strategy establishes that there is no difference between a represskan, RICO is the government's attempt to can liberate oppressed nations — protracted bank robbery and a revolutionary expropriation, destroy once and for all the ability of the Black people's war. Counterinsurgency in the 80's or between a prison escape and the liberation of Laseratnn Stuggle — in this case elements of inside the U.S. is targeting the beginnings of a captured freedom fighter. Along with this that crucial development within the oppressed the New Afrikan Independence Movement — to criminalization go steeper prison terms; for each nations inside the U.S. empire. t.'.S. imperialism build a revolutionary struggle for land and power. count of RICO we are facing twenty years as is targeting the armed clandestine forces and the Of the deven indicted, foia-, including two white opposed to five under the old conspiracy laws. people, are still free and being sought by the FBI. Others such as captued BLA sokiier Sekou One of the overt acts named in this case is the Odinga and Silvia Baraldini, a white liberatkjn of Assata Shakur. What do you see as anti-imperialist activist in the pdblic mov«nent, the significanoe of this event? are on trial and fighting the case by exposing and resisting it as oointerinsurgency. We print When a movement takes responsibility for freeing this Interview in full solidarity with their one of its caotured freedom fighters, it is always politkal aims. This RICO case is bdi^ tried significant because it communicates to the under extraordinary security by Judge Kevin people the depth of the committment to Duffy, an out-and-out radst noted in the press liberation. It breaks through the myth of for his anti-semitism. Robert Cordier of the invincibility of the enemy and provides the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force sits at the masses with a very important victory. In the prosecution table. As Silvia Baraldini said In case of Assata Shakur, it was particularly another context, "TTiis trial is m feet the test significant because of the leadership she had case for the new FBI guidelmes." This fftterview provided within the ranks of the New Afrikan was conducted in late June, 1983. Independence Movement and to all revolutionaries. Sekou Odinga spoke about her at DEATH TO THE KLAN: Why are you indicted the beginning of our trial: "Her name is Assata in this case'' Why do you say it's a New Shakur. She is a soldier. And she is one of our Afrion case? heroes. She is definitely one of my heroes, and i was thrilled and happy and proud, really proud, SILVIA BARALDINI: U.S. imperiaUsm indicted when i head that she had been liberated. Mr. eleven people cn charges of racketeering, bank Litt, here, he would tell vou that was a criminal robberv and accessory after the fact. Among act. Me, my people, they will tell you that it those indicted are members of the New Afrikan was an heroic act, a beautiful act, one that Independence Movem«it, including Sekou Odinga, needs to be done again and again because she New Afrikan Pr'soner-of-War, and three North was unjustly held. Being a freedom fighter, a American members of the revolutionary soldier for the liberation of her people, she antt-imperiaiut mowsnent* Imperialism^ position should have never been put h a criminal jeaL" is that'^ft'^^i^''pn!Mi0^illtll|i^^^~'Cfrl)i'iiiMl tftterpHseb i^^M^^m^ Mm^H^i^ to This is a lie. What is being tried is the right of self-determination and socialism. Sekou Odinga Silvia Oaraldini all captured freedom ^hters, whose task is Stated in Ws ooening statement; Tod^ there is brother revolution g/c/lg^gj^fjfaiM' '•Wem^ Revolution. lam a New A' not consider myself an American "iivestigation* of tfe PALN. How do you see consider myself a New Afrikan citizen. You and Native the strategy of non-oollaboratkjn*' may have heard the term the Republic of New targeting the Afrika mentioned by the Judge — or if you struggle whose goal is tihe transft „ Aftar the conclusion of the RICO trial, I will havent you will. The Republic of New Afrika is white oppressor nation into a non-oppressor '^'^'e tr!ed,_for criminal contempt along with the name given our nation by a group of Black socialist society. Shelley 4toB^>» jnqiember of May 19th people who came together in I'JfiS and who Counterinsurgency has short and long-term Communist Orgahifefein and leader of the New decided to declare ourselves free and goals: the criminalization of the New Afrikan Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican independent of the U.S." Despite the independence Movement by trying freedom and Mexican Revolutions. We are refusir^ to government's denials, what has emerged during fighters, activists and supporters under a law collaborate with the grand jury investigation of the trial is the reality that members of the aimed at organized crime; the isolation of the Fuerzas Armada de Liberacion National Black Liberation struggle came together to build revolutionary forces by a media campaign that fPALN\ As a member of May 19th Communist a clandestine apparatus. These forces engaged calls them "terrorists" and "mad dog killers"; and Organization I dont recognize the legitimacy of in a number of expropriations and liberated the creation among the people of a fear of US imperialism's colonial domination of Puerto Assata Shakur from captivity. These efforts are revolutionaries 'this was successfully done by the R ico. The nation of Puerto Rico is wagir^ a, part of ai overall strategy to free the nation CIA in Chile'*. Other goals include the struggle for independence both on the island and and its land base: Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, institutionalization of fascist "legal" procedures inside the United States. The independence Mississippi and South Carolina. This is what such as anonymous juries and witnesses and the movement has embarked on a strategy of imperialism is trying to defeat. gathering of intelligence against the movement, protracted people's war—the mobilization of the I am the only North American being tried "^^ost importantly, the goal in this RICO case is masses of its people through armed struggle to in the RICO case. I am a member of May 19th the defeat of the armed clandestine forces of defeat the illegal occupation by the US. The Communist Organization and I believe it is the New Afrikan Independence Movement at the armed clandestine movement is part of this because of the organization's principled support beginning of their development when they are struggle for independence and gives Efe to the of the New Afrikan Independence ^tovement and weak and the enemy still very powerful. The future victory and has exposed the bar*cn^tcy of its right to wage armed struggle that I have RICO trial is also being used to erase the anv reformist solution. The FALN is the amied been indicted. The government's theory is that differences between the armed clandestine clandestine organization active inside the US. a number of North Americans worked with the movements and revolutionary public Our organization supports the right of the Puerto New Afrikan clandestine forces, so it is essential organizations. If the government is successful in Rican people to wage armed struggle for to their strategy that a white revolutionary be establishing that common ideology constitutes a independence and socialism and we support the tried. I have worked politically with a number conspiracy, this will justify infiltration and FALN. Our organization does not recognize the of the people indicted, in particular on behalf of provocations against many organizations as right of imperialism to investigate the FALN or my organization; I have participated in the provided for by the new FBI guidelines. to use an alleged "investigation" to attack other defense of New Afrikan political prisoners and organizations in the Puerto Rican independence struggled to expose COINTELPRO. What is on What are the differences between this and other movement, such as the Movimento de Liberacion trial in my indictment is North Americans' famous politksl conspiracy cases li Chicago is now a fatile breedff^ gromd for the KKK and other white stpremacist a-ganizations. The Chicago Mayoral Election: It has maffiy white 'ethnic' neighborhoods which have stayed all-white throu^ a combinatkxi of official police vfolence, city government policies and vigilante attacks. Last summer three Black A No-Win Situation men who dared enter the all-white neighborhood of Bridgeport were attacked; one was deliberately nn over by a car and then brutally This past April, after a two month campaign beaten with a baseball bat. A week later when marked by racist hysteria — described by one a small groip of Black and white demonstrators observer as being "like one long, continuous Klan marched through Bridgeport to protest tills racist rally" — Harold Weishington was elected as attack, over one hundred white Bridgeport Chicago's first Black mayor. The city was residents came out to wave posters that the thrown into turmoil as 80% of the white Nazis had handed out which said "N-»--r Democrats crossed party lines to vote for tfie Beware" and "White Power." There have been a white RepLfoUcan candidate, Bernard Epton, while number of white power rallies in Chicago in an unprecedented number of Black voters, along recent years. There are several KKK and Posse with a large coalition of progressive/left white Comitatus chapters around Chicago and groups and individuals, turned out to vote throughout Illinois, and Nazis and a neo-Nazi Washington into office. The national Democratic groiq> called the "America First Committee" party threw its weight behind Washington, while operate openly. In southern Illinois the the local Democratic machine balked at the idea "Christian Patriots Defense League" has a of a Black reform-oriented candidate and paramilitary training camp and has trained supported Epton. hundreds of white people in preparatton for "the The Washington campaign and election had an coming race war." These groi^ have done tiieir impact far beyond Chicago. The depth of white best to promote racist hysteria around the racism that was displayed drew national Washington election and are taking advantage of atteitkjn. Washir^jton's vkrtory has sparked voter the opportunity to recruit new people to their registration drives in Boston srid other cities, and organizations. progressive coeilitkms are forming to campaign In the face of this right-wing onslaight, many for Black Democratk: candidates. 3ssse Jackson white peopte took to wearing Washington buttons is conducting his Southern crusade for voter to symbolize their opposition to the racism that registration (meeting with the lUcss of George was sweeping throt^ their communities. Otfiers Wallace) and promoting the idea of a Black were moved to join Washington's campaign. Presdential candidate. Altho^ ttie motives briiind tiiese actions were While many have hailed Washington's victory as Radst propaganda distrixited by Chicago polioei well-intended, it is unfortunate that the an advance for the Black struggle and for all anti-racist sentiment was expressed in support progressive people, it is our opinion that the spurring on the racist offensive. Aldermen for Washirgton, for there is no evidence that the campaign was in fact a blow to progressive treated the existence of a Black Democratic election of a Black mayor will bring about any stri^gle. l*4ow that the election is over and the candidate as a crisis and opted for the white significant progressive change. smoke has cleared somewhat, Chicago is left candidate. Since Washington's election the with two big problems. On the one hand we "Machine" has continued its fight for white Four hundred years of violent repression now have a significantly more organized and power and for the ability to maintain their against the Black liberation struggle has diown more blatantly racist white commuruty. And cn extensive patronage system that Washington is us that if Harold Washir^ton's election was any the other hand the Blac^ community and the threatening to dismantle. Twenty-nine white significant threat to the status quo then we pn^pessive white movement is now united behind Democrats led by "machine" leader Edward wcxild not have seen his victory at the polls. a strategy of seddng to bring an end to racism Vrdolyak formed a hloci< to attempt to control We would not have seen the constant parade of and exploitation through the electoral process — the City Council. At the first City Council Democratk: national bigwigs like Mondale and through working within the very system which meeting that Washington presided over, Kennedy coming to Chicago to lend their support thrives on the oppression of Third WorW people Washington adjourned the meeting prematurely. for Wa^ir^ten. Were Wadiir^ton fvmdamentally and the e^qploitation of all working dass people. The "Vrdolyak 29" then took over the council challengir^ the system that denies Black people and appointed their people to all of the their humjin rights, then Chicago's business A BREEDING CSROUND FOR THE fCLAN important chairmanship positions. The 29 had community would not have endorsed his COB nor would the leading local Democratic primary, masses of white tife-lor^ the meeting to bad< them up. find such established busirt«sss leaders in Democrats flocked to Repii>lkan headquarters to It was the Chicago police who really krcked Washington's transitional team, including a carr^jaign for Epton. As the campaign developed off the campaign to unite behind Epton for rRimber of chairmen of major Chicago banks. there appeared tiroughout the white communities white power. Police chief Richard Breczek Furthermore, even if Washington were really many different racist flyers that urged white publkdy stated that he thought Chicago wouldn't going to try and fundam«itally change Chicago, people to vote for Epton. Some of these flyers be safe if Washington were elected mayor. He the problems he faces in trying to pull a big were from local Denrxjcrat precinct captains who announced his resignation shortly after city out of a major financial crsis HI ttie middle referred to Epton as "our great white hope." Washington made a campaign promise to fire of a recession are staggering. Some of his Others appeared to come from organized white him if elected. 'The FBI was apparently much announced plans, like hiring 1000 more cops, supremacist grouos like the Klan and Nazis: impressed with Breczek's racist performance and mostly Third World, to patrol Third World these referred to Black people in derogatory with his abiDty to riai an exceptionally brutal communities, do not sound like they will do terms 'such as "baboons"), degraded Black police force; they offered him a high level much to end Black oppression. In fact, they will culture, and warned of the terror that would position whkh he declined.) further the government's ability to repress stafl< the stteets of Chicago if Washington were White police throughout the dty circulated Chicago's Black community. elected. The slogan "Vote White - Vote Right" some of ttie most vile racist literature of the , A more serious concern is that the U.S. appeared on t-shirts and posters. Shortly after campaign. A movement of "Police for Epton" government is manipulating and encouraging this the primary, some psteons of a white southwest formed and carried out such tasks as trend towards electoral participation. In 1978 side bar huig Washington in effigy. A niob of "investigating" voter registration in the Black Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor Epton supporters, aUong with a contingent that of Solonrnan Brown, a co-defendant who turned On March 25, 1983, the fifteenth anniversary traitor for the government. of the founding of the Provisional Government The trial had been nxjved to CKJshen because of and the naming of the colonized Black Nation in the intense oublicity and the political support and America, the Republic of New Afrika, over controversy surrounding the case, which the state is *,000 peoole gathered for three days in Detroit, attempting to prosecute as a routine criminal trial. Michigan to celebrate Black Nation Day. Goshen is over two hours from New York, where The Black Nation Day conference featured most of the support for the Freedom Fighters is many speakers and workshop leaders wtxj have centered. The "routine" was evident from the first, long histories in the liberation struggle of the as the supporters found the courthouse ringed with Black Nation. Among them were Robert deputies and police armed with automatic weapons, Williams, Imari Obadele, Jamil Al Amin fFKA H. plus FBI Terrorist Task Force agents and attack Rap Brown), Kwame Toure 'FKA Stokely dogs. After passing through electronic security, Carmichael\ Amiri Baraka, Queen Mother Moore, spectators were given assigned seats. Ahmed Rev. Ben Chavis, Rev. Charles Koen axl Dara Obafemi was seated conveniently on the aisle axl Abdtaka-i. police were seen pointing him out and whispering At the Friday evening "Spiritual Rally" over that he was "the leader of the Blad< people." 1500 people were in attendance to hear major When they came into the courtroom, the addresses by Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Freedom Fighters greeted their sipporters with the Islam, and Chokwee Lumumba, Minister of battle cry of the New Afrikan Independence Justice of the Republic of New Afrika. Movement, "Free the Land!" and shouted "Free However, it was the struggles in the workshops wanam ^^orales^' as a show of solidarity with the and forums which raised the burning questksns — Puerto Rican patriot captured two days before. one of which was the need for revolutionary Their supporters stood as a show of respect for scientific theory as the guiding force to win land, independence and socialism for New the Freedom Fighters - and sat down when the Afrikan people. iudge came in. Two marshalls were sent directly to Ahmed Obafemi, on the aisle, to demand that Throughout the conference, support for New he stand. He refused, saying that as a New Afrikan Freedom Fighters was raised as a major Afrikan he did not recognize Ihe legitimacy of the issue to be taken up by all aspects of the court. Thirty others refused with him. The police . anti-imperialist movement. New Afrikan began pulling at him. People rose to protest and Freedom Filter Sekou Odinga and other P.O.W.S the police attacked. received awards for their selfless, sacrificing and heroic service to the Black Nation. These Jared Bloodwing Four people were dragged from the courtroom awards were presented at the Founder's Day A pre-trial hearing in the case of the Brinks and beaten in the hall, while the others were Dimer on Smday evening. Freedom Fighters erupted into violence when police locked in the courtroom. The Freedom Filters attad New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day Saturday, July 16 JBASHEER HAMEED March and Rally Assemble: Harlem State Office Building, 125th & A.C^. Blvd., 10 a.m. Rally: Mount Morris Park, 124th & Fifth Ave. Solidarity Demonstration and Program, Friday, July 15 Sponsored by the John Brown Anti-Klon Committee New York Demonstrate, 4-6 pm: FBI BIdg., 26 Federal Plaza/Forum, 8 pm: Ukrainian Labor Home, 85 E. 4th St. Son Froncisco: Forum, 7:30 pm: St. Johns Church, 3126 22nd Ave. St. (at Capp) This third anrxuai New Afrikar} freedom Fighter Day is observed on the birthday of Assata Shakur to honor all those who have fought to free New Afrika, the Black Nation in North America. This year Freedom Fighters and their supporters are on trial in three separate New York In f ('.I i hi I ill- Confinonting a KJansman 10 M/i*^^^ Fighting the Klan from page 1 : city government, who granted the permit and Common Council went to court to ask for ~ sent its police force to escort the Nazis and and got — an extraordinary inpiction. The Klan Klan in and out of Bronson Park and protect was permitted to rally in a football stadium — them dtring the rally. and all anti-Klan demonstrations were illegal At a ore-demonstration Anti-Nazi rally, the except inside the stadium with the Klan! Coalition Against Police Brutality of Battle Hundreds of oolice were mobilized from all over Creek, Michigan, err^hasized fis need for Blad< the state, parkir^ was prohibited for 18 blocks people to defend themselves against the Klan around the stadium, all businesses were closed and police terror. They cited the murder of and residents were advised by police to clear the Robert ^Kimau) Guy by the police after he was area. threatened by the Klan, because of his work This went beyond the usual strategy of organizing against killer cops and fighting for protecting the Klan as a "legitimate" force, to New Afrkan liberation. actually making anti-Klan activity illegal. The Nazi rally, also attended by the neo-Nazi JBAKC announced oir intention not to go into a America First Commitee from Chicago, was stadium with the Klan aid the police. We saw initially organized as pert of an anti-gay crusade it not only as a potential trap, but as a led by Rev. Edward Vamer. On April 9th Rev. dangerous precedent for the movement as a Varner, and the Nazis and the Klan held a whole and a test case for government meetmg in the Kalamazoo Public Library to ban counterinsurgency, in which any kind of protest all books that mention homosexuality. That would be defined, contained and controlled by meeting was disrupted by 300 - *00 people. The the police. We announced at a press conference May I'fth rally was the Nazis' and the Klan's on the morning of the Klaii rally that we attempt to come back and organize in intended to defy the injunction prohibiting Kalamazoo. They dM not succeed. anti-Klan activity within 1500 feet of the stadium. Jannes Farrands Westfarms Mall, West Hartfrrd, Ct. By the time the KKK appeared in the After a court order allowing the National Connecttcut Grand Dragon stadium Cthey were flovm in by state helicopter), Organization of Women ^NOW^ to petition in Westfarms Mall over 200 people, most of them from New Comecticufs largest shopping mall, Westfarms Britain, were gathered near the gate, Mall, the KIcBI ennounced that they would hold a presented over 500 postcards signed locally demonstrating and chantl-^ "Death to the Klan" recruiting drive at the mall on May 22nd. Mall demanding that the Klan not be allowed to rally. in defiance of the police order. Very few officials said they would allow no Klan or Citing the "violence" of anti-Klan groips, the people" went in and most of them were Klan anti-Klan activity at the mall. Police said they back door. However, it wasn't the mall, but the sympathizers; others went m and then came out, would secure the area with three police people, that stopped the Klan from recruiting at angered, and joined the demonstration. The Klan departments. The Klan raid they would leaflet Westfarms. Outside, after the Klan left, mall could be seen high in the bleachers across the in their robes if anyone tried to tlrow them out. and police officials were surrounded by 150 field, with their robes and amerikkkan and NOW said nothing. JBAKC organized in people chanting "Death to the Klan" in a confederate flags, looking dovyn on hundreds of Hartford and "crashed" the mall's press militant demonstration. Police attacked the police surrounding a small, scattered crowd on conference, callir^ on all anti-racist people to demonstration, making two arrests, but only the 50 yard line. come out on that Sunday to stop the KKK from after the point had been made that the Klan After the Klan left the stadium, when recruiting. can riot orj^ize anywhere without oppositfayi, anti-Klan demonstrators attempted to march Westfarms Mall was fiill on May 22nd, but no even in a rfiopDing malL back into town, angry police attacked the ore was shooping. Anti-Klan activists, press, the marchers, arresting three. The police attack curious, plainclothes cops di^yised as janitors, a New Britain, Ct. included plainclothes cops with a secret warrant few Klan sympaWzers, a Nazi teenager, SWAT Soon after their Meriden rally, the Klan handed down 2 weeks before, charging a JBAKC teams hidden everywhere — it was a new phase announced a rally in nearby New Britain, Ct., on member with assault on a cop during the in the struggle against wtiite supremacy. Since June 25, Gay Pride Day. Grand Dragon James Westfarms Mall demonstration a month before, alfliost evgrYQDe.wgsjaretending to be shoppinHj. ,EMtr^nd^imed it as ^^lgg±^jgmmg^g^m^ llilHiiP:;$aid he hiUMmHHM Wl^^ Klan was urablPBif^W^^^^^^^^r "wM~wl«i?E^ TT« tfielcSin town's Polish population. JBAKC spd War Is War hem page 2 as the "Identity Movement." Do we need the counterinargency attacks on all revolutionary we devote to confronting the Klan's marcfies and bourgeoiae press to convince us that there's a movements being led by the FBI Joint Terrorist demonstrations in the streets. At every turn we war going on? Task Force. must combat the view that the government is From our analysis of imperialism and the The evidence behind these observations comes neutral and that it has its eye on the Klan and present economic crises that capitalism is faced from a study of the general history of the is protecting the so-called Amerikkkan public with fand how these conditions in the realm of relationship of the Amerikkkan (white) ruling from the cuckoo-birds (on either the right or the production define the period we live in\ we class to tfie white right, and of world history left^ who would destroy this great pluralisitc reach at least three important observations on with respect to when and how fascism «nerges democracy. Such is the importance of a paper the domestic situation; H that the objective as an extraordinary form of racial, imperial and like Death to the Klan and we support its basis for fascism 'and a third world war and/or class domination. We have also based our forward development. In the i^Jcoming years we full-blown race war> is being consolidated with observations on a careful reading of public hope that it will grow into a major news source all deliberate speed; 2) that as the most critical sources and enemy propaganda (the bourgeoisie and bring the truth of whafs going down to the part of this consolidation, the most backward press, congressional reports, etc.) as well as from white community, When the press propagandizes and racist elements of the Amerikkkan (white) investigative research done by the bnftelfi^hce and misinforms the people that the FBI is working class are being trained and equipped to irut of the Black Liberation Army. The data "uncovering troubling links" of which the act as a counterinsurgency battering ram in clearly exposes the intimate and intricate government itself is the organizer ifs dear they defense of the fatherland as the revolutionary coiyboraticn between the state and the white are trying to mess with people's minds. And it struggle inside amer8 "3ust watch us. Just listen. Imagine "I do not support large public gatherings anything you want. Imagine we're just a where our enemies may easily catalogue few sophisticated people who are going to each and every member. Either one must get what they want. Imagine we're a conform to a cellular, unconventional massive movement. Whafs the difference. svstem of activity or ^to^ front group No one's going to stop us. We're activity ... professional. We're very determined. We're up to date. We have youth." "''The Klan's) mission will only be successful -Tom Metzger by taking that direction and to cease trving to make the Klan a large-type Tom Metzger, ¥t years old, has emerged as a political group. To attract large numbers, leading Klan ideologue and organizer. Based in front groups may be developed and/or Southern California, he heads two white existing public organizations and parties . sipremacist organizations — the White American infiltrated for various activities and long Political Association fWAPA) and the range recruiting programs of skilled and paramilitary Ku Klux Klan of Califomia. In professional members ... describing the difference between the two. Metier has said that WAPA "is public and the "These tactics are tried and proven ... I other is an underground secret organization." suggest strongly that you proceed along these lines ... with no national files, no EvoiutiGn of a KJan Leader identification cards and none of the public robe demonstrations that serve as useless Tom Metzger claims to have grown up a targets for the groups as a whole." liberal in Indiana and Florida. It was in the U.S. Army that Metzger says he coalesced his These are not the words of someone on the "segregationist" views. During the 1960's he "lunatic fringe." It is the beginnings of a worked for Ihe Doi^las Aircraft Company and in strategy for holding power, a full strategy to ^96l^ supported Barry Goldwater's presidential build the infrastructures and paramilitary campaign. Following Goldwater's defeat, caoacities for fascism and genocide. Grand Dragon Metzger at home. Metzger joined the John Birch Society and quickly rose to a leadership position. He stayed important arena for front groip activity, and he A Closer Look with this organization for nearly ten years, has used this pitolic arena to legitimize the Klan finally leavff^ because he didnt lielieve the John and project it as a "peaceful" organization During his years with David Duke and later, Birch Society was action-oriented enough. "You concerned with "white rights." Before running have to translate knowledge into action," as the KKK of California, Metzger attempted to for office himself, Metzger served as campaign Metzger said. He then formed the White combine both ptislic and paramilitary activities in manager for David Oti Metzger started WAPA and hjs Klan organization troops have called for'the milierTzatfcin Democratic Party nomination in the *3rd went •Underground." border and the shooting of all Mexicans Congicfs^ is near Camp Pendleton. In fact, Metzger's Metzger's organizational history signifies ht^wst winning percentages were in precincts the arrival The "21st Century Klarf* "We're proceeding on a one-to-one basis. We try to bring families together so we can explain our position. We have parties together, bowling, horseback riding, anything else that shows white people they can have fun together while preserving - their moral,fabric" — Tom Met^ec^ Califomia KKK "securitv team" on Mexican border. See Enemy: Metzger, poge 13 72 Amit>t^^ FROM FREEDOM FIGHTERS The John Bfown Anti-Klan ConmittBe si^jports junta, and masshre "war games" are conducted ihe developraent and growth of the armed by U.S. troops diroughout the region. The CIA Revolutionary clandestine movements in this country. We has hundreds of agents in Central America and reprint the c(nnmuni ANAYA MONTES) ESTA PRESENTE! The military rulers of El Salvador are VICTORY TO Tre FMLNAT»! outright fascists who rape, torture, mutilate, Commandante Ana Maria of the F.M.L.N., SOUDARTTY WITH Tffi PEOPLES OF dehumanize and massacre tens of tfxjusands of^ murdered m Managua April 16, 1983. CENTRAL MMERICA! Campesinos and other civiL'ans. BUEX) A REVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE Once again a president, R^^ps* this case, MOVEMENT! has lied to the Amerkan People to try to gain FIGHT U.S. IMPERIALISM! support for yet another bloody war. These Ues DEFEND TIC NICARAGUAN REVCMJJTION! will not cover the truth and reality of the People of El Salvador, nor will it stop their fight Armed Resistance Unit for freedom. In an economy based.on agriculture, where Tonight we attacked Fort Lesley McNair the overwtielming majority of the land is owned >^ilitary Base in Warfiington, D.C. Fort McNair by a few rich families (the olig£rchy\ 70% of houses one branch of the U.S. War College, the the children under 5 years are malnourished, the National Defense University, and the infant mortality rate is criminally high and Inter-American Defense College (lADC). This unemployment and illiteracy are rampant. Action was taken in solidarity with the growing Rather than alleviating any of these liberation movements in El Salvador, in conditions, U.S. involvement has only served to Guatemala, and throughout Central America, and maintain this barbark: system. with the socialist government of Nicciragua. The majority of the People of El Salvador This region today is the center of world are in, or support the Revolutionary revolution and the front line in the defeat of organizations, Farabundo Marti Front for U.S. imperialism. For this reason, it is currently National Liberation (FMLN) and the Denracratic the target of the most vicious U.S. Revolutionary Front (FDR). We recognize the counter-revolutionary attacks. Revolutionary leadership of the FMLN/FDR and At the lADC, the U.S. government trains support the People's fi^ for self-determination high-ranking military officers from Latin and certain victory against the military AJl>,erica in its program of counterinsurgency dictatorsh^J of El Salvador and U.S. imperialism. warfare. Trained in torture and terror, tied to "The time for Revolution has arrived. The the U.S. military and the CIA, its graduates are time for liberatian has come, the definite victory r^ponsible for the overthrow of progressive and is in the hands of this heroic and courageous democratic governments throughout Latin peopte who for so many years have shed their America and for the establishment of fascist blood to obtain the right to be free, to enjoy military regimes that oppress the masses of democracy, real independence, social progress, people. They are responsible for the murders of sovereignty and seif-determinatiOTu" — FMLN over 30,000 El Salvadoreans. The lADC serves to keep Latin America as the backyard of VICTDRY TO THE PEOPLE OF EL SALVADOR! Yankee imperialism and the graveyard of SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT TO THE millions. NICARAGUAN PEOPLE AND THEIR The people of El Salvador, under the SANDINISTA GOVERNMENT! leadership of the FMLN/FDR, are fighting to SCUDARmr AND REVOLUTIONARY SUPPORT end the oppression. Their righteous struggle for TO THE LOCKED DOWN FREEDOM FICMTCRS peace, self-determination, economic and social AND TO ALL O^ATTO JURY RENSlhKS! justice is a beacon for the peoples of Latin FREE ALL POUTICAL PRISONERS AND America and the world who have seen their POWS!!! lives, labor, and resources sacrificed for the SOLIDARITY TO ALL PROGRESSIVE enrichment of U.S. imperialism and its INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS multi-natkned corporations. OPPOMMG U.S. INVOLVEMENT CENTRAL The U.S. response is to use all the technkjues AMERICA! of counterinsurgency taught at the lADC. Green Navy Commander and U.S. Security Chief (head of torture and counterinsurgency) Albert Berets fight directly in El Salvador while U.S. OUT OF EL SALVADOR! Scfiaufelberger, m, rif^iteously executed by the thousands of El Salavadorean government troops HANDS OFF NICARAGUA! revduticnary movement in El Salvador on May train at Ft. Bragg and Ft. Beming, hundreds of HASTA LA VKrrORIA SEMPRE rnillions of dollars of military aid is given to the Ziamibtl^^ 13 Silvia Baraldini from page 5 example of the steadfastness we must collectively build if we are going to win. Non-collaboration means refusal to talk to the FBI, to the US attorneys, or to any investigative arm of the US government. Non-collaboration means the recognition on the part of the public movement that what we do has an impact on the ability of the armed clandestine movement to develop and grow, and that our silence helps keep the state from being able to destroy the armed clandestine movement. Why were you invited to Thrtebwe twice? May 19th Communist Organization in 1977 began actively to work with the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANUl We sipported the party in their struggle to lead the Zimbabwean people to independence, to overthrow the white settler regimes and to end the presence of British imperialism in their country. ZANU was founded in 1964 and from the beginning it believed that victory could only be achieved if the Zimbabwean people, especially the peasantry, were mobilized to actwely became participants in a war for liberation. As of 1979 ZANU had liberated two provinces and effectively controlled two others out of a total of eight. The white settler regime was pinned to the major urban centers. It was at this point that, trying to salvage what it could, imperialism offered a settlement and free elections were held for the Five Puerto Rican and Mexican leaders were sentenced to three years in U.S. prisons for reftskw to first time in ''0 years. ZANU invited friends and tak to a Federal Grand Jury kwesdgating the Puerto Rkan Independence Movement, particularly the supporters to observe the elections because of armed clandestine F.A.L.N. The five are menters or supporters of the Movinuento de Uberadnn the attacks being waged against the party. May Nackxial, a jxtlic kidependenoe oiiganizatnn that has led the Grand Jiry resistawe movement. Thw 19th was invited to observe the elections, to conviction for criminal (as opposed to civil) contempt sets a precedent for sdffer sentences for attend the independence celebrations arid non-collaboratkxi, hut the reiatwely li^ sentences was seen as a defeat for the FBHed prosecution, returned a year after to see how the nation was which at one point had asked for the death penalty. Left to ri^ JiMk> Rosado, Mvia Cueto, changing. Solidarity with the national liberation Anckes Rosado, Rkanb Romero; not shown, Steven Guerra. ^ struggles in Southern and central Africa is part of the anti-imperialist movement inside the United States. US imperialism is South Africa's Criminalizing the foremost ally and US multinatioral corporations dominate the economic life of countries like Anti-Klan Movement Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Zambia. The from page 2 struggle to build a socialist society in Zimbabwe has begun to utilize a formula portraying the The government has tried to destroy the is very important far the future of Southem struggle over white supremacy as a conflict Black Liberation Struggle and any principled Africa. A socialist Zimbabwe, along with ^BBHg between "extremists of the right and left." alliances it has had with white forces for WO , could provide a rearguard for the Agam, the Grand Jury Report statesjy."... they years; not slavery, assassration, jailing, torture liberation movements challenging the are hut opposite sides of the same coin: or counterinsurgency has been abte » dwtroy apartheid regime in Azania/So^JM^icaT. The li«b| Is^i^ns jrfap^ n^Mdiate Ai^ricao^ the pesiSaooiS'.'andHiBt^miination cT ** emiJWIIiaft'lJiifcigtiaiil^^ also freedom. iBiW'fff lormulation, trie state, often joined by reformist ,,.,Afejfia*«And. bring closer the overthrow of anti-Klan groups, promotes the no-wki posrtksn ^dictators lil« Mobutu in the Conga , that the. Wiw ihyiM bg ignorefd;. These itinue Next Issue: thft l^o^biJIiy of unity between masses of Inciudii^H^ fifpht against trcHtoK, the the hook by portrayii^tt as a inediatlng» anti-Klan white peo|^ and the Blad< LSieratkxi conclusion of the RICO trial, and more..'. noivracist •farce ofipaBed .tcv bulfi left and ri^ht. Struggle inside the U.S. A revolutionary Yet the focts are that the ihtefests of the stale anti-Klan movement that fights under the and the Klan are the same: the makiteranoe of leadership of the New Afrikan Independence the U>S. empire and the contkiued silijtigatei of Movement will be sfole to play a critical role m Enemy: Metzger colonized natkxis at home and abroad, this is smashing the power of the Klan and the from page ] 1 why in Los Angeles the Police Intelligence imperialist system that gives it life. But this Division has turned over files to the will only be posable as long as efforts by the Southem Ccdif ornia has a hig^ concentratfon computerized data bank of the Jdin Birch anti-Klan movement to combat represaon are of military bases and aerospace industries. Society and the Senate Committee on Terrorism b^ed ki defense of Black people's human rights "Secret" camps exist for training Salvadorean is now investigating the anti-Klan movement. and m defense of .freedom fighters committed to ri^tists and Nkaraguan "Somocistas", as well as The anti-Klan movement and the Klan are not freeing the Black natkx\. an Alpha-66 (anti-Cii>an) paramilitary camp. A the same, and there is no reasonable, middle This campaign wi* its kieok)gical, legad and klavem at Camp Pendleton was ejq^osed when ground between them. The only stand police-FBI components can only be understood as Black marines attacked a Klan meeting. Chula progressive people can take is to resst the Klan. a further step in the codification of U.S. Vista, near the border, has the highest number THIRDLY, resting on this ideological fascism. The state's plan is to heighten the of retired military peopte in the country and the foundation, the state is directkig the poUce to risks, Intknidate peopte and make it a crime for border itself is becoming more and more use "extraordinary power" to contain the peopte to fight the Klan and the growth of a militarized. Watts, in Los Angeles, was the militancy of the movement. Police roadblocks, fasdst movement. This is made even more real scene to overthrow Mobutu, but to build i socialist society so that the Congolese people will have power over their own lives and the future of their nation. The Congo is in the heart of Afrfca. If contains strategic minerals necessary for the US military machine. Large uranium deposits are mined and most of the world's cobalt is extracted from the Congo. Its central location makes it key to the maintenance of all the surrounding neo-colonial countries. Zaire provides bases for the CIA-backed UNITA to carry out counterinsurgency aimed at destabilizing the socialst nation of Angola. This is why the US has intervened in the Congo four times since 1960 to prop up the neo-colonial government of Mobutu. In a recent defense pact with Mobutu, Israel has brought 5-6,000 troops into Zaire, supplying arms arid military training, in exchange for recognition in Africa and economic expanaon. The US hopes to dean up its image, as Israel does thie "dirty work." This highly militarized situation can only be defeated by the F.L.N.C. strengthening their strategy to build the people's war. The demonstrations and action for June 30th not only built support for the F.L.N.C. and the struggle in the Congo, but also demanded US/NATO/Israel troops out of the Congo. Fi^tir^ the build-up of imperialist troops in the Congo is part of building an anti-imperialist movement committed to fighting the Klan/oolice/military war machine the US government is building against natioral lifceratibn stri^gJes and tiie anti-imperialist movement, SBid exposes the US'ia^iti,, rnntinilinp role in the Congo. These dernonsttarBWilii^^a-kxisly critfcized the People's Reoublk: of China militarv troops it maintains in the Congo to^ support the Mobutu regime ani to guard Chinese investments in the area. Victory to the FiJM.C.! •GOLD •COAL A COPPER Not a penny •COBALT ^DIAMONI^ ^MANGANESE > RAILROADS />6 OTRAG nota *The ^laded area was leased to 4w German fkm OTRAG for misale testkig. not a man 1x>MotHrtu The Germans effective^ have rmaned ooiofUal control of the land, resources and people in IIBS June 30th is celebrated each year as an interrational day of solidarity with the struggle of the Congolese oeople fightkig to overthrow the Mobutu regime in what is now known as Zaire. It is also a day to build support for the National Liberation Front of the Congo (F.L.N.C.), the revolutionary vanguard of the Congolese striKjgle. Demonstrations were held m New York City, San Francisco, Wa^ington, D.C. and Boston and there were political action tables in Austin, Chkago, and Portletfxl. In Los Angeles on July 1st, a coalition of groups sponsored at program keynoted by Serge Mukendi, the F.L.N.C. Reorwentative m the U.S. Since 1968 when the F.L.N.C. was formed, it has canned forward Patrice Lumumba's legacy, initiating armed struggle to overthrow neo-colonialism. After Patrice Lumumba's assasination by the CIA in l^O, the U.S. installed Mobutu, who is called the "Shah of Africa", to safeguard imperialist econornic interests h the Ca^ and repress the Congolese oeople wt\o had just won their itxlependence from Belgami. fti 1977-78 the FX.N.C. liberated three provinces, establishing liberated zones in mineral-rich southem Zaire. Mobutu's forces w«-e unatte were inable to contam tiiis uprismg and 20,000 NATO troops, mcludmg the US 82nd Airbom Division, were bnx^t m to defeat Hhe r^llion. Since .1978 the I*.L.N.C. has. continued to build tfie strateiy of peopled war.' Their slogan "Conquer or Die^' means that the total Bberaticn of the Congo is more than just replacing a colonial government with an African one. Under Mobutu, only 1.2 million out of 30 million people are employed, 50% of the children die Congolese Children IMarching^ before tfiey are 2 years old and many women in Liberated Zone have been forced to turn to prostitutkn to feed tf»r bilk's. The FXJ^.C. is fiehtkis not iust News Briefs, from page 3 Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Killer Cops: Houston KKK at Long Island High School Captured A Houston cop was acquitted of murder charges A dummy with a black face and "KKK" on May 20th and then offered his job back. written across it was found hanging from a Deputy Constabte Earl Jeffrey Johnson shot and backstop on the Farmingdale, Long Island killed a 20 year oW Black man. Glen Simpson, in baseball field on June 1*. Police say the front of his own mother and neighbors after dummy was "the work of youtii rather than any allegedly stopping him for speedir^ January 30th. organized Ku Klux Klan." The sdx»l of almost Johnson *ot Glen Simpson at point-blank range 3,000 students had been the scene of white in the head with a .357 Magnum, claiming supremacist violence for weeks and had iDeen Simpson had a weapon, which of course was shut down for three days due to Klan-type never found. The Wller cop was then rescued by attacks on the 112 Black students. a polk» team armed with AR-15 automatics. Due to community outrage, Johnson was charged with murder, the first time a Houston cop has ever been indicted for murdering someone while Please Send on duty. Black jurors were excluded by the prosecution which claimed they would make the trial a "race issue". News Briefs! Death to the Klan! Free Speech P.O. Box 406 Irish activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Stuyvesant Station was barred from the U.S. June 3rd, because of New York, New York 10009 her support for the armed struggle against the British in Northern Ireland. A State Department spokesman sjiid she "intended to participate in activities contrary to U.S. interests" by supporting hinger striker Nicky Kelly. The U.S. claimed her speaking tour might win suport for No-Win Situation the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). from page 6 McAliskey has made trips to the U.S. as recently as October, and her visa denial is part of One of Brzezinski's recomrhendattens was Puerto Rican revolutionary William ^^orales heightened U.S. attacks on the Irish stn^ggte and was captured near Mexico City, four vears after sqjport for British repression. to support the nomination at federal his dramatic escape from UJ5, counterinsurgency and local levels of loyal black piijlic forces in New York Citv. He is wanted as a figures to elective offices, to member of the armed clandestine F.A.L.N., More Free Speech government agencies and the courts. which fights for ind^endence and socialism fa- This wouW promote the achievement Puerto Rico. After his capture, police raided a of a twofold purpose: first, it would house where he was thought"*to have been The governor of South Dakota is attempting be easier to control the activity of staving and three peopte and a policeman were to stop distribution of a book about the loyal black representatives within killed. J^er Toro of the FBFs Joint Terrorist American Indiai Movement and the struggle to existir^ institutions; second, the idea The -Ttrfm Brown Anti-Klan Committee is a naitionai orgaruzatkm that mobilizes white people to fi^ white supremacy. We were formed in 1977 m response to the struggle by of Blad< and Puerto Rican prisoners gainst KKK orgaraang among New Yori< State Nev/ Afrikan Freedom Fighter prison guaids. In the last year we have fought the Klan and killer cops and built solidarity with the New Afrikan Independence Movement in San Frandsco, Lc3s Alleles, Kuwasi Balagoon Houston, San Antonio, Kalamazoo, Chicago, Boston, Omectioit and New York. the Klan marched through a town We look to the leadersHp of national liberation strtiggles fi^i^ for freedom from U.S. with an economically deprived New Afrikan domination and to the New African Independence Movement in particular. We are a and Chicane community solidarity organization for the New Afrikan Independence Movement — tfiat part of the accompanied by police Black LBjeration Movement whk*i fi^rts for land axf independence for tfie Black nation. who followed anti Klan demonstrators around The fight against the Klan is fundamentally a fi^ ^;ainst U.S. imperialism. We know and beat a Chicane woman for being a that the state can never "ban" the Klan. We are committed to building an Chicano woman, and clearly anti-imperiaiist mass movement against white si^xemacy. We unopncfitionally st^iport all opposed to racism singles of Black communities agaJhst the Klan and police terror. We ^|^rt New and beat a Chicano man after following him Afrikan Freedom Fighters and the buikfing of armed stniggle here in the heart of the around U.S. entire. We td