3LACX ?AffP!t PAIACK1/.Î FS inted fran ïhc NY. Time-, iiche&l Kaufman The hen joined with two farmer Chicago street form of "•/est Side Story Liberation Fronte The union af the three groups - the two others are the Puerto Rican Organization and the Appalachian Young Patriots - was formalized last spring in Chicago and the coalition is now recruiting in New York City. The coalition announced its arrival here last month when its representatives were the only speakers at a march at Fort Dix held to protest alleged brutallity in the st^kade. The number of members in the c^mp^nent groups is something their leaders refuse to disouss for what they say are security reasons. But a consensus of various police and radical sources indicates that the Panthers, who recently completed a purge of suspected police agents and "cultural nationalists" from their ranks, have about 210 fully committed members in the city* Their sympathizers probably number in the thousands» Other Groups Smaller The Lards are believed to have fewer than 100 members while the Patriots, who began organizing here within the last monthj WW said to have several dozen activists. • In the refracted If today's radical move­ ment, the three groupa share an unusual position on the left. Like the Progressive Labor party, they are pro-Chinese Communist, but unlike the P.L.P. they do not revile the North -Vietnamese for having gone t* the negotiating table, '• Like some elements in the Students for a Democratic Society, they profess to believe that armed revolutionary struggle will ultimately be necessary to bring about a socialist order. But they regard the recent/ confrontation of Chicago police by the Weatherman faction of 3.D.S. as "prcvocational and Custeristic"- the -latter a reference to Gen. George Custer's inept and fatal Indian war stategy,. But the sharpest distinction between the Rainbow Coalition and other radical groups is the coalition's rejection or college campuses and to some extent, even factories as potentially fer­ tile recruiting ground fir revolutionaries, It is in the slums and shacks of Appalachian squalor that the Panthers, the Lords, and the Patriots say they are looking for • "their cadres. "Our analysis is that you have to start with* the most oppressed elements in society- the hungry, the 'badly housed and badly dressed," explained Arthur Turco, a 25-year-old Patriot defense captain, who has come here from Chicago to organize ,,.., chapters, He and leaders of the Panthers and the Young Lords .see the coalition as a "vanguard of the dispossessed" that will act as a "revolutionary spearhead". Since the Panthers are the best organized of the groups and since the left generally feels that blacks are the largest oppres­ sed element in American society, Mr, Turco sees the black group as the leaders of the coalition. As for students, Mr, Turco, who is himself a New-York born law-school graduate, feels that they too' are oppressed but not as "severely as âthe po«s>r, and while he welcomes them as allies he insists-that they recognize the leadership of Mtae most down­ trodden". He agrees with Yiruba,'the 19-year-^Id minister of infor­ mation of the. Lords, and Carltin Yearwood, the marine veteran who heads the Manhattan Panther group, that the present stage of the"revolutionary struggle" Is one of "education and information to raise revolutionary consciousness". At the Lords storefront office, on Madison Avenue and 111th Street, where young men and women i» purple berets congregate throughout the day and night Yoruba explained the organization's work. "All the Lords are on duty 2k hou.es a day, whereever they aiv •In' the street, in homo;:;, in stores, They talk to the people to • shrw therm hrw it is the capitalist system that k? Inside the office a bookshelf contains the works of Mao Tse- tung, Che Guevara, and the late Pedro Albizu Compos, the leftist Puerto Rican nationalist, A poster on the wall says "Free ChaCha Jiminez", reffering to the man who, his supporters say trans­ formed the Chicago Lords from a fighting gang into a political organization after having read the works of Eldridge Cleaver. Mr. Jiminez was recently imprisoned in Chicago on a charge of aggravated assault. In the office Yöruba discribed the present task of the Lords and of the whole coalition as educating the people. Like the Narodniki reformers who worked among the peasants in Czarist Russia, the coalition workers regard themselves as messengers,. "See, the man has psyched the people into thinking they have the power," said Yoruba, who recently dropped out Of college*to devote all his time to the organization. "But people are aware and pretty soon all of them will have to decide as Eldridge Cleaver says, if they're part of the solution or part of the problem." As a mobilization tactic the group will focus on particular issues that they feel have neighborhood support. Last August, for instance, they dumped garbage and blocked traffic in some East ' Harlem streets to protest poor refuse collection. VWe'll take a reformist idea for a revolutionary end but we aiways point out that on reformist issues alone the man can always co-opt the people. We used the garbage to point out the internal contradictions- that in a society as rich as this, they can't pick up garbage in the barrio while they don't seem to have any ' trouble on Park Avenue south of 96ht Street," Yoruba said. • ACTIVE IN YORKVILLE Mr. Turco said that he hoped the Patriots he recruited here would apply the same technique among poor whites. At present,' he said^ several members have taken apartments in Yor'kville where, he said there were many poor white's being threatened with eviction. As Mr. Turco talked a chorus'of eight .Patriot girls wearing denim jackets decorated with Panther buttons and Confederate flags / periodically cut in with a "right on" whenever they felt a point had been made. When two girls left they parted with the Panther salutation "All power to the people". The others immediately answered "All power to the people," The Panthers are the stylistic and ideological leaders of the coalition. Their paper "The Black Panther" published in San Fran­ cisco and distributediin several cities throughout the nation, plans to let the Lords •and 'the Patriots run their own articles on the back pages. At the Panther office in Harlem, Mr, Yearwood, a graduate of Flushing High School, said the major significance of the coalition was that it showed that capitalism and not racism was the major problem. "We believe that racism comes out of the class struggle, its just par£ of the divide and conquer tactics of. the Estab­ lishment and a product of capitalism. When we provide free break­ fast for poor kids, we provide provide them for poor whites and poor blacks," Mr. Yearwood said. Suppose, the leaders of the three groups were asked, all ' Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and peer whites as well as most students were ultînaéély enlisted in the effort to establish a, "revolutionary base" wouldn't that still leave mere people against them than with them in a polarized acciety? IDftNCE FROM MAO • -„a answered by citing Mae Tse-tung. "'All my enemy affirms I reject and all my enemy rejects I affirm.'" • do I know there are enly 2r million black people in the country"" Yoruba asked. "I've never seen a census taker. There may be 80 million or more," * Whito. the coalition is established along ethnic lines, with a unifying rallying cry of Black "Powre, Brown Power, and'Whtte Power", the leaders all oppose what they call cultural nationalism. While they work in their individual areas and while the Lords wear buttons with the Spanish legend, si Hold Puerto Rico in MY Heart ", and call fcr poltical and economic independence for Puerto Rico they all talk of "revolutionary solidarity". "We believe that ta fight only for the interests, of your close cultural brothers and sisters is not in the interests of all the people." says one plank of the Young Patriots plat»m, (reprinted by the Patriot Party, Dec, 2 3, I969) ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!! ! The Patriot Party 174-2- Second Ave. 831-^503 N.Y., N.Y. •-•.w-v.**,.*>.•,- • **.- - i««»%saatiÄJ*wÄ*ü. .- : h^A^UNWVHtMi nori' •••^.^.'«Bhwv«*»-'

PATRIOT PARTY

Or January 5th the Patriot Party is starting a Fiee Breakfast Program for children. The program will be at our office, L742 2nd Avenue (between 90th-9ist) from ? s 00-8:30, Mon. through Fr?.day. ' Many children in our community go to school without breakfast, or without a good breakfast. The Free Breakfast Program «rill serve a hot meal—everything children need for a füll day—eggs, bacon, toast, juice and hot chocclate.

We bel:'eve that all people are entitled to adequate food, clothing» shelter and radical care, regardless of income. People who are lacking such necessities are either unable to work or work at low-paying jobs,-, The Free Breakfast Program will allevi­ ate some of the burden of an already tight budget.

• 'We believe that businessmen who make a living in our community have a responsibility to contribute to the Free Breakfast Program. The best way*yeu can help 'us continue this program is to make a regular weekly contribution of food. CHILDREN ARE HUNGRY AND MUST BE FED J *. ! 2 b 'I ~W -$• G-wiZ 3 7 ALL P0WER T0 THE PE0PLEi

all p^wer tm the people 1

THE PATRIOT PARTY, NEW fORK

The Patriot Party started as the Young Patriot organization (originally a street gang) in Uptown, Chicago, an area made ^p of poor whites from Appalachia. The Young Patrie-fcs were joined by a bike gang—The Lincoln Park Patriots—and members of the gang began to work in their cfmmunity, trying t# meet some of the most urgent needs of their people. At one time the Young Patriots wanted to fight members of the Black Panther Party. The Panthers suggested that before fighting the two groups should get together and walk through each other's neighborhood. After doing this, the idea of fighting seemed ridiculous, because their problem was one and the same,.,bad housing, malnutrition, rats. The same people were oppressing all poor people...red, brown, white, black and yellow. Soon after that the Panthers and the Patriots were joined by the Young Lords (Puerto Rican), They formed the Rainbow Coalition (Black Panthers, Young Patriots and Young Lords). They started Free food programs, clothing drives, and a liberation school. The basic strategy of the Young Patriots was to educate people to , by putting socialism into practice. They started with the most oppressed segment of the white population because the strongest need is with the very poor people. By 1969, the people in this country were confused by the tactics of other groups and could not relate to them as leaders. Also, by then, several groups had appeared using the Patriot Program and following the example of the Chicago Patriots. The Young Patriots understood that they had to become a national party... white people were ready to move, but they neede* a clear direction and real leadership. The Chairman of the Patriots, Preacherman, went on tour around the country,,.and chapters were formed in Eugene, , Cleveland, Ohio, Carbondale, Illinois, Richmond, Virginia, and New York City. Some of the Young Patriots in Chicago decided they didn't want to g_oj national. The rest of the Central Committee could not go along with that, since they knew from their experience chat white people were ready to move. The Young Patriot Organization became the Patriot Party, a national white vanguard party for the people and moved national headquarters to New York, tempor­ arily—with plans t© move into the south and midwest as soon as p»ssible. The New York Chapter of the Patriot Party is working in Yorkville (E. 88th-96th between York ave. and 3rd ave.). The Yorkville community is being torn down to make way for middle and upper income housing. The people of the community are being moved into smaller apartments with higher rent. Aside from fighting for decent housing we are starting a free breakfast program and a program of giving vaccinations to children. The community is made up of po^r and working class whites who are victims of this oppressive society. Our office is at 17^-2 2nd ave. The Patriots are full time revolutionaries...we are supported by the people. Through meeting the iasie needs of the people, and educating them to the reasons why these needs have net znà cannot be met by a controlling capitalist »ociety, we begin to build a society based on meeting the needs of pe-ople, instead rf the needs of profit. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! RESURRECT .JOHN BROWN THE PATRIOT PARTY 17^2 2nd Ave. • 31-4502 PATRIOT PARTY PROGRAM i. rfe demand freedom, tfe demand power to determine the destiny of our oppressed white community. 2 We demand full employment for oppressed white people, and that the means of production should be placed, in the hands of the people. 3. V/e demand an end to the robbery by the capatalists of our oppressed white community; we demand they do not make a profit on things we need for survival. 4-, We demand decent and adequate housing, fit for shelter of human beings, regardless of our income. 5. We demand education that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society; that teaches us our true history; that teaches us co-operation rather than competition. 6. We demand that all oppressed white people be exempt from military service, 7. We demand an immediate end to police brutality and murder of oppressed white people, and that the people of our community control the police, We demand freedom for all oppressed white people held in federal, state, county, and city prisons, and that all our people be tried by a jury of their peers or from their communities, 9. We demand the end of the rape of our land by the cor­ porations and monopoly farmers, and the land be returned to the people to meet their basic needs, 10. We demand an end to racism, and inequality of the sexes, as tools of capatalism to divide the people. WE DEMAND THESE THINGS IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE, AND WE THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEM, AND DEFEND THEM, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY PATRIOT PARTY 17^2 2nd, ave. 831-4.503 ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLES RESURRECT JOHN BROWN.'