I^EIZE THE TIMEJI

Vol.1 No. 3 AUGUST, 1974 25c

"Neither Lawyer nor any other chief had authority to sell this land. It has always belonged to my people. It came unclouded to them from our fathers,and we will defend this land long as a drop of Indian Dloofl warms the hearts of men." Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces

Inside This Issue:

Native American International Treaty Conference. Centerfold Section:0n Ideological Clarity in The Black Liberation Movement. NCDPP Statement to Sixth Pan African Conference on POWS, On Self Defense. Statement from Ruchell Magee. Chicano Activists Assasinated. Phoenix Project in the U.S. Why We Bombed Gulf;Statement from the Weather Underground. How Armed Struggle Started In South Vietnam. On Supporting Political Prisoners. New Feature; CLASS STRUGGLE. SEIZE THE TIME PAGE 2 "JUCHE MEAwe HOLniNC FAST TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SOLVING FOR ONESELF ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION IN CON- FORMITY WITH THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS AT H0ME„" - - - KIM IL SUNC

JUCHE SECTION The International Indian Treaty The North KorQan communist party has Council recognizes the sovereignty of all firmly established the principle of "Ju- Native Nations and will stand In unity che" as the basic principle of national to support our Native and international self-reliance in building revolutionary JUCHE brothers and sisters in their respective struggle. This section of the paper con• We, the sovereign Native Peoples and collective struggles concerning in• tains articles concerning the National charge the United States of America with ternational treaties and agreements vio• Liberation struggles of oppressed people gross violations of our International lated by the United States and other within the United States. Kim II Sung ex• Treaties. Two of the thousands of vio• governments. plains Juche more fully: "The establish- lations that can be cited are the "wrong• All treaties between the Sovereign mont of Juoho meane holding fast to the fully taking" of the Black Hills from Native Nations and the united states principle of solving for oneself all the the Great Sloux Nation in 1577, this Government, must be interpreted according problems of the revolution and construc• sacred land belonging to the Great Sioux to the traditional and spiritual ways of tion in conformity to the actual condi• Nation under the Fort Laramie Treaty of the signatory Native Nations. tions at home and mainly by one's own ef• 1868. The second violation was the for• fort. This is an Independent stand, dis• We declare our recognition of the ced march of the Cherokee People from Provisional Government of ths Independent carding dependence on others, displaying their ancestral lands in the state of the spirit of self-reliance and solving Oglala Nation, established by the Tradi• Georgia to the then "Indian Territory" tional Chiefs and Headmen under the pro• one's own affairs on one's own responsi• of Oklahoma after the Supreme Court bility under all circumstances", '.'(We) visions of the 1858 Fort Laramie Treaty of the United States ruled the Chero• with the Great Sioux Mation at Wounded have made every effort to establish Juche kee treaty rights inviolate. The in opposition to dogmatism and flunkyism. Knee, March 11, 1973. treaty violation, known as the "Trail We condemn the United States of Juche in ideology, independence in poli• of Tears" brought death to two-thirds of tics, self-reliance in the economy and America for its gross violation of the the Cherokee Nation during the forced 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty in militarily self-defense in national defense — this march. is our stand," surrounding, killing, and starving the The council further realizes that citizens of the independent Oglala Nation securing United States recognition of into exile. treaties signed with Native Nations re• We demand the United States of Am• quires a committed and unified struggle, INTERNATIONAL erica recognize the sovereignty of the using every available legal and politi• Oglala Nation and immediately stop all cal resource. Treaties between sover• TREATY COUNCIL present and future criminal prosecutions eign nations explicitly entail agreements of sovereign Native Peoples. We call which represent "the supreme law of the upon the conscionable nations of the " A len^ tun« age my father told me what land" binding each party to an inviolate world to join us in charging and prose• Wis father told Kim. There was once a international relationship. cuting the United States of America for Lakota Holy Man called Drinks Water, who We acknowledge the historical fact its genocidal practices against the Sov• vieioned wttae was to be; and this was that Independence of the peoples of our ereign Native Nations; most recently il• long before the eo«ing of the waslcue. sacred Mother Earth have always been lustrated by Wounded Knee 1973 and the He visioned that the four-legged were over sovereignty of land. These histor• continued refusal by the United States going back into the earth and that a ical freedom efforts have always involved of America to sign the United Nations strange race had woven a spider's web all the highest human sacrifice. 1948 Treaty on Genocide. around the Lakotas. And he said, "When We recognize that all Native Nations this happens, you shall live in barren wish to avoid violence, but we also rec• We reject all executive orders, lands, and there beside those gray hou• ognize that the united states government legislative acts and judicial decisions ses you shall starve." They say he went has always used force and violence to related to Native Nations since 1871, back into Mother Earth soon after he saw deny Native Americans basic human and when the United States unilaterally sus• this vision and it was sorrow that killed treaty rights. pended treaty making relations with Nat• ive Nations. This includes, but is not Hlack Elk-Oglala Sioux Holy Man We adopt this Declaration of Con• limited to, the Major Crimes Act, the tinuing Independence, recognizing that General Allotment Act, the Citizenship The United States of America has struggle lies ahead—a struggle certain continually violated the independent Na• Act of 1924, the Indian Reorganization tive Peoples of this continent by Execu• Act of 1934, Indian Claims Commission tive Action, Legislative fiat and Judic• Act, Public Law 280 and the Termination ial decision. By its actions, the U.S. Act. All treaties between Native Nations has denied all Native people their In• and the United States made prior to 1871 ternational Treaty rights. Treaty lands shall be recognized without further need and basic human rights of freedom and of interpretation. sovereignty. This saae U.S, Govern• We hereby ally ourselves with the ment which fought to throw off the yoke colonized Puerto Rican People in their of oppression and gain its own indepen• Struggle for Independence from the same dence, has now reversed its role cind United States of America. become the oppressor of sovereign Native we recognize that there is only people. one color o£ Mankind in the world who are not represented in the United Might does not maXe right. Sover• Nations. And that is the Indigenous eign people of varying cultures have the Redman of the Western Hemisphere. We absolute right to live in harmony with recognize this lack of representation Mother Earth so long as they do not in• in the United Nations comes from the fringe upon this same right of other to be won—and that the human and treaty genocidal policies of the colonial peoples. The denial of this right to rights of all Native Nations will be power of the United States. any sovereign people, such as the Native honored. In this understanding the Int• American Indian Nations, must be chall• ernational Indian Treaty Council declares: The Internaltonal Indian Treaty enged by truth and action. World con• The United States Government in its Council established by this conference cern must focus on all colonial govern• Constitution, Article VI, recognizes is directed to make application to the ments to the end that sovereign people treaties as part of the Supreme Law of United Nationas for recognition and everywhere shall live as they choose, the United States. We will peacefully membership of the sovereign Native in peace with dignity and freedom. pursue all legal and political avenues Nations. We pledge our support to to demand United States recognition of any similar application by any abor• The International Indian Treaty its own Constitution in this regard, iginal people. Conference hereby adopts this Declar• and thus to honor its treaties with the ation of Continuing Independence of the This conference directs the Native Nations. Sovereign Native American Indian Nations. Treaty Council to open negotiations In the course of these human events, we We will seek the support of all with the government of the United call upon the people of the world to world communities in the struggle for States through its Department of support this struggle for our sovereign the continuing independence of Native State. We seek these negotiations in rights and our treaty rights. We pledge Nations. order to establish diplomatic rel- our assistance to all other sovereign We the representatives of sovereign tions with the United States. When people who seek their own independence. Native Nations unite in forming a council these diplomatic relations have been The First International Treaty to be known as the international Indian established, the first order of Council of the Western Hemisphere was Treaty Council to implement these dec• business shall be to deal with formed on the land of the Standing Rock larations . U.S. violations of the rights of Sioux Tribe on June 8-16, 1974. The de- The International Indian Treaty those Native Indian Nations who have legatea, meeting under the guidance of Council will establish offices in Wash• refused to sign treaties with the the Great Spirit, represented 97 Indian ington, D.C. and New York City to appro• United States. tribes and Nations from across North and ach the International forces necessary We, the People of the Interna• south America. to obtain the recognition of our treatlos. tion Indian Treaty Council, following WQ, the sovereign Native Peoples These offices will establish an initial the guidance of our elders through rocognizG that all lands belonging to system of communications among Native instructions from the Great Spirit, the various Native Nations are clearly Nations to disseminate information, get• and out of our respect for our sa- dofinod by the sacred treaties solemnly ting a general consensus of concerning crQd Mother Earth, all her children, entered into between the Native Nations issues, developments and any legislative and those yet unborn offer our and the government of the United States attempt affecting Native Nations by the lives for our International of Aaerica, United States of America. Treaty Rights. SEISE TlIE TIME PAGE 3 on the victims; smeared their names con• stantly, and showed no regard for the CHICANO ACTIVISTS ASSASINATED feelings of the victims' families. The press also played on public hys• REPRINTED FROM EL GRITO NEWSLETTER(June, warrants to reporters and then claimed teria with conetsnt r^mindsra of other 19 74) the warrants had been "mislaid", couldn't recent bombings. In Boulder this year, On May 27, 1974 in Boulder, Colorado, be found. Police searched the homes Of there have been several other bombings, a awploJcJ Uilling 3 people; Idul rial" Antonio Alcantar, Heriberto Teran and Mrs. at the Flatirons Elementary School; the tinez, Ashley Una Jaakola and Neva Romero. Frieda Bugarln. Mrs. Bugarin worked with Colo, Univ. campus police station; and On May 29, in the same tctwi anJ within 48 Freddie Granados at the Platte Valley Ac• the Hall of Justice. (There were no ca- hours J a second car CKploded kllllnE Flor» tion center and had apparently lent her oualtlcs in tlDse incidents.) The press encio "Preddy" Granados, Francisco Luevano car to him on the night of May 29 to at• referred to those earlier bombings in a and Heriberto Teran. Antonio Alcantar, al• tend a meeting; this was the car that blew way to suggest that the victims of May 27 so in the car on Hay 29, WOs critically up. and 29 were somehow responsible for them. injured. In both bombings, the victims in• There are contradictions in the press Five of the 7 victims were well- cluded well-known Chicano activists. They reports on the searches. On May 30, the known Chicano activists. Probably the were similar, with both explosions being Denver Post stated that police had found best-known was Reyes Paul Martinez, bro• centered in the front passenger part of Teran's house vacant; the next day, the ther of FranciscoC'Kiko") Martinez. The the car. The explosion of the first car Post said that news clippings on the first press emphasised that Klko Is a "fugitive," had a terrible force, scattering pieces explosion had been found there. "Corky" wanted on state and federal charges of of bodies as far as 150 feet from the car. Gonaales of the Crusade for Justice had sending dynamite letters to a Denver po• In the second, the bodies remained in the reason to call the search warrants "ille• licewoman, a member of the Denver School car and were horribly burned. gal" and to protest "the fact that the Board and a Denver business. Kiko is an• There was a deliberate news blackout victims, who are speechless and defense• other victim of police/press persecution, on the bombings in New Mexico. The trage• less forever, are the ones who are further who had to go underground. He is a Chica• dy began on Monday and on the following victimized while their homes are searched no lawyer who was very active in defend• Sunday we still had very little news. The ...are the dead the guilty parties?" ing his people and represented the Falcon press m Colorado, where the leaders in The press also made much of the fact family at the trial of Ricardo Falcon's "yellow Journalism" are the Denver Post that there seemed to be contradictions in racist killer. It is known that Kiko was and the Rocky Mountain News, didn't use the story of Antonio Alcantar, who said preparing a case to present to the United the blackout t6ehnique--instead they used he had just hitched a ride in the car on Nations on the oppression of Chicanos as smear tactics. Even before the bodies the night of May 29. Alcantar, with one a people. Like his brother, Reyes was a were identified, the press was pushing leg amputated and half-alive in the hos• lawyer and defender of Raza. He traveled the police line that the victims had ap• pital, is currently "under suspicion" and around Colorado representing the poor, parently been assembling some bomb in the might be indicted for the second bombing. never asking for pay. He led the campaign car, or they accidentally set off one This attitude has been typical of the in getting his brother's name cleared an^ that was already assembled. press, which acted as both judge and jury was once arrested because he resembles Investigators all but ruled out the Kiko(but the press reported that he had possibility that the 7 were victims of been arrested on suspicion of possessing attacks by others--then contradicted them• marijuana.) selves. "If there were time bombs(set by Would a man who was trying hard to others), they were well-concealed," one get his brother's name cleared of being a investigated said, "because they were in mad bomber take the chance of getting the passenger compartments, not under the caught with explosives himself? The mother floor or in the engine compartments." This of Reyes and Kiko opened her remarks at a was apparently based on the fact that the press conference after Reyes' death by front passenger section was totally des• speaking of "our hour of sorrow as we pre• troyed by the esplogicn in each case while pared to bury a son and perhaps in a few the backs of the cars were not so badly days more, another." damaged. But the investigator went on to In the words of Mrs. Pita Melgares, say, "That such bombs might have been sister of Reyes and Kiko, "...it is high• planted under the car seats hasn't been ly probable that Reyes and the others were ruled out'.' Antonio Alcanter, the only sur• murdered by a horrible fascist act intend• vivor of the second bombing, said that he ed to flush his brother out from under• had not seen any type of bomb in the car. ground. It's a conspiracy to keep to a The police, through the press, went handful the number of Chicano attornles on to persecute the victims by searching who have dedicated their lives to the certain homes and claiming to find all people." sorts of materials for explosives and Francisco "Freddie" Granados, another "literature". Search warrants are public TERROR BOMBINGS IN COLORADO well-known Chicano activist, was a former information once they have been issued, 1973 police attack on movimiento activity student, at Colo. Univ. where he served as but the police first refused to show the Cont on 19

The same enemy that persecutes filt• of the earth, their blows in many cases EDITORIAL FROM ers everjHArtiere lurks behind these crimes, will be too brutal. Today such actions The assassination of leaders and fighters have them in power in Chile, in Brazil, in CLARIDAD is just one more aspect - one of the more Greece and the Dominican Republic. They By Ramon Arbona, Editor of Clarldad, a brutal aspects - of the entire repressive have been enjoying the sweet life for Puerto Rican independence newspaper network against a rising movement. Cam• years in Spain, Nicaragua, and Paraguay. paigns to discredit and thus Isolate a But they also once ruled in Havana and Those of us who struggle in this movement from the masses, intimidation are now in Miami. country against oppression have received perpetrated by bosses In order to starve And we will see to it that one day- another blow, siK chicsno companeios were a militant into defeat, police ambushes, the day that humanity is victorious - assasinated this week, within a apace of the sabotage of revolutionary work, the there will be no more Mlamis left. three days, when bombs placed in their fabrication of legal cases and so many In the case of Boulder we know that automobiles ©xplQ^ed, other cloaU and dagger operations, all we can expect nothing from official invffi- These cases resemble only too close• weave a repreee-ive net in which right- tl8«tion made by the agencies of the very ly other murders perpetrated in Latin Am• wing terrorism plays a growing role. But government that is directly responsible erica and other parts of the world, An right-wing terrorism is also a result of for such actions. The only way to halt expert places a bomb in the car, somehow hysteria, and we must not forget this. It right-wing terrorism is to heighten strug• connects the detonator to the vehicle so Is the typical action of a retreating gle, make it more effective, more massive, that it explodes when the ignition key right wing that despairs as it sees that more powerful, more coordinated. turns, or when the car reaches a certain its more subtle techniques fail to pro• And in keeping with our Party's com• speed or is jolted by a pothole in the tect its privileges. mittment to the Chicanos, the solidarity road. The technique is perfected in the Those are the techniques with which we have always extended to the Chicano CIA schools, such as the Internation Po• they would halt the rising tide of liber• people and its organizations will now lice Academy. Colorado, the state where ation among oppressed peoples. To the reach higher levels. We will not hold back these political murders have just been same degree that liberation struggles e- our support. An attack against a Chicano perpetrated, has enormous open Spaces merge victorious in other parts of the fighter is an attack agai nst us; we will where training in those techniques is world, to that degree oppressed peoples coordinate revolutionary actions daily a- carried out. in this country are organizing their re• gainst the common enemy. It doesn't take exceptional Intelli• bellion and transforming it into struggle, gence to realize that two Identical ex• into actions that break bonds of oppres• plosions, some 24 hours apart from each sion . other in the same city and in cars driven The common enemy of all the oppressed by Chicano activists known for their peoples of the world unleashes right-wing struggle on behalf of their people's terrorism wherever it sees its interests rights, are part of a plan. And that sort threatened. Its hand appears as it did The staff of SEIZE THE TIME endorses this of plan is not carried out by just anybo• this week in Boulder, in San Juan, Los editorial of support for the Chicano Lib• dy. Evidently it is a well coordinated Angeles, Mexico, Guinea or Buenos Aires, eration fighters who made the highest sa• plan to intimidate and destroy the Chicano with the same fierceness and with the sane crifice in the struggle for freedom. May movement, an attempt to halt the work of fierceness and with the same goal. And un• the deeds of our lives be worthy of their its more militant sectors. til they are totally wiped from the face sacrifice. page SEIZE THE TIME PHOEKIX PROJECT FOR THE U.S.

Ths PhOGnix Project is the code tronlc gatc,paoo cardc for residents and name for a massive CIA directed mur- and armed gate guard. It is for the Qer operation in South Vietnam dur- "safoty of tho Y-eeidents," aoeordine to cm Ing the sixties. Spin-off programs to the Housing Authority. If it continue in disregard of the Farls works, the system will be used through I Peace Agreement of 1973. Similar out the country, projects exist in Paris Peace Agree- -provide better social services, ment the Philippines, Nixonsubmitted a "better communities Brazil. Uruguay, and Chile-countries Act" to Congress in 1973. The only where people have formed organiza• section of the Bill to speed through tions to resist ImperlaliQm and ex• Congress and have a significant Im• ploitation ,todef end the lives of pact on the local level was the the people and build a new society law enforcement section. The social based on the concrete needs and de• services provided by Reolcation are sires of the people. designed to disperse Ghetto residents The basis for a "Phoenix Project" (see Voll #2 Seize the Time,Redeve- inslde the USA exists at this moment,lopment). For those who struggle for liberation-gather information to improve servl- inslde of the USA, the Vietnamese ces. Various computer banks and sur- 2>i[oire~rcS< version of the Phoenix Project pro- veys have been or will be set up to vides a timely lesson. We must be "Indentify "drug and crime prone pop Teavk Te-.ivv "Wm familar with its strategy. Its sue- populations"(CODAP,ETC) to aid Rede- cesses and failures and its probable velopment Agencies,to Improve wel- fonn m the USA. But,remember that fare programs, etc. They are tied the CIA has had time to "field-test" into each of the Law Enforcement AS- thls counte program in Slstance Agency's computers. Yletnw an- -.Ing its In Vietnam, these programs to se- technlque In Latin America,etc. Pro-parate the NLP from the people were It. I tV***""^*** gresslTe and revolutionary people he falling because the NLF was so slosely here should learn what the people of connected to the people and represent- TietnaJi did and do some refining of ed their desire for liberation. The their o«n, and avoid costly Mistakes cadre of the NLP were swept into the Tbe beart of the Phoenix Project strategic hamlets along with their fel Is ll'T. t*!e CIA's otm words> "the 1- fellow villagers. Although political dent: ion, apprc "eu- work was more difficult inside these trail n of Beaibe: . cenets, the NLP expanded. More peo- CMIg infrast^rueture(vci)Tne CIA pie became active against the Saigon uae "VCI" tc describe the National regime as corrupt officials, sadis- Llberatlon Front's "shadow goverment tic guards and the unprovoked Imprl- Note: Since the Peace Agreements, m the eountrysld, the political ca- onment and murder of loved exposed Sal American invovement has become much dre who lived and worked among the Saigon's true intentions, less open.. Agents have been retrain• people. The Phoenix project was designed ed toward more political warfare The WLP was far more than a small to go into these villages, supposed- techniques,le infiltration of organi• military force which could be easily ly controlled by Saigon, Indentify zations, development of of covers isolated from tne Vietnamese people, the WLF leadership and cadre and el- toward political ends,etc. It was a front of all organizations ther assaslnate or imprison them after ———— and social strata opposing Thieu's after interrogation. Seclally trained fascism and US intervention. It U.S. intelligence officers and agents tary tribunal and imprisoned, used all forms of resistance from were at the top of the Phoenix organi If there is not enough evidence, vigils by Buddhist professionals to zatlon. Some agents related to the they are held for two year renewable armed attacks on pacification out• regular military command only through terms posts by national minorities. intermediaries and couriers. The Already in the U.S. there are sim When the US Command discovered country was divided into zones, and similar speclaly trained police and that technology and military superior eache zone was assigned three paral- National Guard units(SWAT, STRESS,ZEBRA, ity alone could not destroy the 11- lei teams: bilateral intelligence ZEBRA, riot control and tactical beratlon forces. It turned to the CIA collection, bilateral counter-insur- squads). Already we have had plann-d to establish some kind of program to gency and unilateral Intelligence ed police and paid agent assasina- lessen the political and organiza- collection. Bilateral teams were tions(Fred Hampton, Bunchey Carter, tlonal authority of the NLF. The composed of both Americans and Viet• Malcom X and many others.') Already apparatus created for this purpose namese agents. The unilateral teams we have had planned National Police emerged in May 196? as CORDS(Civil was Just Americans using Vietnamese (FBI) plans to infiltrate,disrupt, discredit progressive^revolution• Operations and Rural Development Sup-civilians and supposedly was unknown ary and pariculary Black organiza• port). It was formerly under tje to the Saigon administration. Teams tions . Military Command and Is now under were usually small,about five members. "civilian" authority of the as part The unilateral teams worked throu Already we have had U.S. Military of the State Department Directorate through specially trained units of support and proposed involvement in flf Resettlement and Reconstruction the Saigon regime's police and mili• domestic counter-insurgency (Mark Essex, the urban rebellions,also (Thleu's Eovernment). William F. tary. The unilateral teams reoruit- see the Wounded Knee article on pg- Colhy, formerly director of CORDS, pro-amerloan Vietnamese,antl-libera- ). The foundation for a Phoenix was appointed by Nixon to be head of tloncivilians as their principle a- tho CIA. gents. They in turn recruited three project exists. What is lacking is the coordination of all these acti• PhocAlx was part of a development/leaders. They In turn recruited vities across the USA in one cen• resetlement/reconstructlon agency be-3° called action agents, tral office. Nixon tried to In• cause the CIA understood that the NLF The lowest level of agents would stitute such a coordination council had to be cut off from the people and attend mass demostrations or pose as but Hoover blocked it because he vice versa. This meant either en- woodcutters, merchants, etc to in• felt he would lose control over his closing the people into fortified dentify VCI suspects. The suspect own agency(E^I). Villages and screening them one by would then be apprehended by a mill- one, or if the people were too close tary unit or by the Special Branch to the NLF controlled zones, reloca• of the National Police. At this point ting them to secure areas and again point, the suspect is lether assasin• screening them. Diem and Thieu had ated or held for questioning and de• New Life Villages, Rural Development, tention. Once detained the suspect Resettlement Services and City Embel• has no legal rights. He/she is lishment programs. The US has New generally held at district or provi- Town5(strategic hamlets). Rural De- generally held at district of pro• velopment(a Nixon Bill), Relocator vincial interrogation centers for up Services and Urban Beautification to two months. Torture is used to programs. Thieu and the U.S. govern• extract information and confessions. ment have both told their subjects If the suspect does not break, they that these programs were to: are genrally killed. An American -provide security from criminal ele• agent said that "if they were to ments. In San Francisco a high rise turn someone back into the country• housing project called the "Pink side it would Just be multiplying Palace" is being used to test out NLF followers." If a suspect did a security system complete with elec- confess, he/she is tried by mill- SEIZE THE TIME Page 5 natural conformation Is shielded from the enmey's view and fire. This ground DEFENDING OUR COMMUNITIES Is suitable for luring the enemy into prepared traps where we can work with• out being observed." (Editor's Note: Tnis article was of supplementing attack or preparing We must know which houses/apart- written to deal with murderous_for• to go over to the attack. Retreat is mcnto etc, that can be used as obser• eign invaders who may one day Invade in the category of defense and is a our coramunltlca, kill our youth, pay continuation of defense j pursuit is vation posts and safe-houses. Selec• tion should not wait till the day of us poor' wages, anfl m general ex• a continuation or attack. Attack, need but an analysis of location, se• ploit and muyfler us. Tnese tactics the Chief means of destroying the curity, etc. should be made before• snouia Oe used only against enemies enemy, is primary. While defense, a hand. Since much of the fighting will of this typs.) supplementary means of destroying 136 done m m^^ov urban areas, we must the enemy and a means of SQlf-preser- know now to enter buildings of impor• "The object of war" is specifioally vatlon, is sseondary." tance without using the main entrance, 'to prosorve oneself and deefpojr the Chairman Mao tse-Tung from but using conveient secondary exists.;' enemy'(to destroy the enemy means to "On Protracted War" note the blind side of the building. disarm him or deprive him of the power to resist, and does not mean If we take a look at our oommu- Not only must we get to know the to destroy every member physically.) nitles we will find that they are oc• territory, we must get to know the In ancient warfare, the spear and cupied by a foreign enemy who kills people. This is primary! "The army the shield were used, the spear to our youth, forces us to work for must be one with the people so that attack and destroy the enemy, and slave wages and live in inhuman condi• they will see It as their own army," the shield to defend and preserve tions. The Roekerfellers' rule is en• -Mao. The first step in winning sup• oneself. To the present day, all forced by their army, the first line port is letting large numbers of peo• weapons are still extensions of the of defense. ple be aware that you exist. This*can spear and shield. We In the oppressed Third World be done by illegal leaflets, newspa• pers and armed propaganda. Remember Attack is the chief means of de• communities are at a state of war that word-of-mouth is a powerful and stroying the enemy, Put defense can• (constant threat of violence). "W^ swift communications network. The not be dispensed with. In attack the must be prepared. The Guerrilla must news of a practical joke on the in- immediate object is to destroy the know his territory, both by day and vadersde. a wild goosechase by po• enemy, but at the same time it is night. This cannot be overestimated. lice for an illegal broadcast unit self-preservation, because if the Make yourself acquainted with road that ends up in the trunk of the enemy is not destroyed, you will be ways, shortcuts, alleys, fences, chief's own car) will spread like destroyed. In defense the immediate trees, ditches and streets. You must wildfire and give boldness to the object is to preserve yourself but know the genreal street plan of your people's resistance. This is the at the same time defense is a means city, know every entrance and exit, not only main roads and trails but central purpose of the guerrilla every side street & pathway. This fighter - to release the vast ener• means taking notes. This does not gies of the people for their own lib• mean carrying a pencil and paper but eration, to give Impetus to the memorizing as much as possible. A formation of a People's Army. good way to practice is walk into a Political Power room, remain there 2 or 3 minutes Material for this article was mainly noting contents. Then go Into another drawn from Yank Levy's Guerrilla room, and write out every object you Warfare. Penguin 19^12. remember seeing. Another point to bear in mind is to memorize every 'dead ground•(territory which by Its

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When tneUSA instltues a Fhoenlx agents belonged to the Catholic project (not to say thsy haven't al• Vietnamese Nationalist Party(like ready) it may look something like Chiang Kai Shek's Chinese Naionallst this. Party, the Kuomintang). They would often report that a Buddhist(their traditional foes) leader or youth association was really part of the NLP when in fact they were not. Naiioml SeOJir\{yCoordm\im Eventually this drove many Buddhists to the NLF for protection and to join the NLP's battle for democratic rights and religious freedom. The CIA did not want this to happen be• they will have to rely on the gang• cause it gave false intelligence and ster element that would sell their extended instead of eliminatsd the mother for a few dollars. "Black" FBI NLF. Agent Louis Tackwood of the L.A.PD In the USA, the CIA will be more is a good example. Unfortunately aware of this problem. There are thfere are more brainwashed pro-Ameri• also fewer Independent, traditional can agents here than anywhere else. organizations among the oppressed We will face ideologically motivated peoples of the USA. We have been agents at even the lowest levels of more throughly colonized than the the US Phoenix Project. 3BIC(QI xprvivxs Vietnamese. However something The NLP was able to defeat the like that could happen with local Phoenix project for three reasons. redneck police agencies attacking First is their political program for progressive organizations and Indi- liberation and reconstruction. It duals who at first are not directly truely expresses the just aspirations Involved In the concept of liberation. of the vast majority of Vietnamese The Vietnamese Phoenix project has Lastly, the Vietnamese Phoenix people. Secondly the NLF cadre were several major faults. First, it had Project depended on lower level a- dedicated to serving their country• to depend on the rich landholders,the gents whose primary motivation was men. They were not paid agents or Saigon military and the French trained money. To make more money, they rich landowners but workers, peasants, bureaucrats all of whom the people would exaggerate reports, upgrade a concerned teachers and religious despised for the principle agents. suspected NLF follower to suspected leaders. These were the only people who saw NLF leadership, torture prisoners to imperialism and the American presence Lastly, the NLF was strong enough extract confessions, etc. As Colby as benefical. The people resisted organizationally and militarily to puts it: the project from the start. This coordinate the activities of the fault cannot be corrected in any re• "If you want to get bad intelli• political cadre Inside the Saigon finement of the Phoenic project gence, you use bad interrogation controlled villages and towns with here. The imperialists lack any methods. If you want to get good the military units fighting in the real arguments to counter the poli• Intelligence, you had better use mountains and jungles. Many vil• tical philosophy of liberation; good Interrogation methods. You will lages were liberated by internal Secondly, the principle agents get what the fellow thinks you want uprisings coordinated with guerrilla to hear If you use the wrong me• attacks. (pro American, antl-llberatlon) thods. This is the lesson we have As Phoenix projects are developed often used the Phoenix Project to been trying to put over with the in the USA, we must learn from the eliminate their traditional foes who people with whom we work." had nothing to do with the NLP. methods, strategies and victories The US Phoenix will still have Many of the high level Vietnamese of the Vietnamese people in destroy- this problem. Other than fascists , their Phoenix Project. tkGE 6 MESSAGES TO THE PEOPLE" July 4th BLA Communique All Power to the People, comrades and Police officers have been a major i-ovoluti nnary brnthorH and cistarK. target in the past hecanse they are imm• Recently in Jacksonville, Florida, ediately recognizable agents of the op• there were a series of executions car- pressor in our communities. They not 3riec5 out ky people un(3eir the name of the only oppress us at will, but are licen• Black Liberation Army. sed to oppress and are exempt from most ing heaped upon the he^ds »f ths poSJT When they rirst name to our atten• of the laws ot moral dQcency. A vlvlQ and oppressed people in babylon. The tion, we took the position all revolu• example cf their exemption was the recent counterrevolutionary propaganda campaign tionaries are supposed to take when they acquittal of pig Thomas Shea of the April of the ruling class In these united sta• don't understand something; we decided 28th, 1973 murder of ten-year-old Clif• tes has been designed to sabotage and to investigate. After investigation, we ford Glover. Need any more reasons for ultimately destroy the BLA and all such ate prepared to take a position. their execution be cited?! revolutionary groups through the use of rlrat of all, it should be clearly The BLA has.been in existence for a character aesinatione, stirring up the understood what the Black Liberation number of years, and on numerous occas• dielike and the stress of the people- Avmy is and is about. Ths BLA is an army ions it has attempted to communicate to making the people fear the army and cre• of urban guerillas, who fight the fascist the masses of oppressed peoples the rea• ating distortions as to its politics and and capitalist ruling class with arms, sons for its existence and purposes, but purpose. using unoonvQntional methods; an army on a major level, this eommunioation has The executions that took place in full of ardent revolutionaries who fight been blocked, and we understand why. Be• Jacksonville are the result of the ruling for the liberation of their people, who cause the corrupt ruling class of this class distortations of the BLA and Black are friends of the people and friends of country realize that the BLA is not just and other oppressed peoples' struggles to freedom. a gang of thugs, as the Amsterdam News obtain human rights. The fact that the The brothers and sisters who make calls us or a group of cop killing fana• brothers who executed the son of that New up the BLA have made a conclous decesion; tics and bank robbers, as the rest of the Jersey state trooper did so for the rea• that they would rather fight and die, if ruling class-government controlled major sons that they did it are understandable necessaryfto free their people from an media refers to us. They know that we because we can understand how you can be oppressor that racially oppressed and eo- are revolutionaries that are motivated oppressed in such a way and for so long onoMically exploited them for over four by great feelings of love for the people that all you want to do is strike out. hundred yea- ' here In Babylon than tUid outraged at.^11 the attrocities be• The BLA has long maintained that there to fi^M *: :-eople of color in Viet will always be a Black Liberation Army MM. etc., Mno hav« done thea no luura. as long as our oppression continues, for the BtA knows and understands that there will always be freedom fighters thm oolf way we. as a people, are going riding up and picking up the gun to wage to obcain our civil and huMan rights is armed struggle against the forces that %c bring the present <-onupt capitalist oppress us. These people know that the ruling class of the U.S. to its knees and Liberation Army exists but, due to the beglA to retmild oor society. distortions of its politics and intents Tim execmon or police otricers, by the ruling class, we have actions such exproeriatic«i of banks and arms have as Jacksonville,Florida occurring. heen aaae of the tactics used by the BU The tapes that were sent out fol• in its aetMBpts to win the revolution in lowing the executions showed people that America. But never has the BLA aavocated were so consumed by their hatred for the or taken part in senseless murder of in• oppoessors that they couldn't see past nocent memkers of the community. the skin color of the victim to determine The BLA usee the expropriation o£ whether he was a friend or foe. We can banlcs as a tactic for a twofold reason, lay the responsibility for this at the one, the maintenance of the guerilla and feet of the ruling class. the revolution, ftnd two, to strike blows we do not condemn the brathei-e who at the nerve center of the capitalist carried out the executions in Jackson• syetem. Because the tremendous costs of ville, Florida for their acts, because the revolutionary war must fall on the we know the motivation behind it...a de• big capitalists, on imperialism and the sire to fight for the freedom of Black governments, eity state, and federal... people from racism, tyranny and oppres• in other words, they pay for their ovm sion. All Power to the People. destruction. Black Liberation Army FBI and Milifary Activities at Wounded Knee

FROM AKWESASNE NOTES (ht the FDI'e mlBdeeda began to be resuming the trial, neif ^.eeues c&m.e ments, and give the judge a copy of a revoaieo, slowly the trs.il of high up on the use of military force recently released fBI plan to level conspiracy against the na• during the occupation of Wounded disrupt the actlvltiec3 of militant tive movement Implicated the Avn.y^ Knee, FBI intelligence operations organj zations. seriio.r administration offli.iialp- against the AmerJean Indian Moverr.ent The plan had been published with maybe even the White House.) Movement, and the authority of federal the names of the organizations de• federal marshals to be involved, leted. Earl Kaplan, a Justice De- An observer of the m.9ny months .Tient told the court lias heer in session could A document on the Justice Depart• part attorney, the Judge he have tr-ouble determining who the ment ' g .response to questions asked by had read the paper before the names Qerendai'its are. It's true the case the Senate IntGrlor Committee during" were removed, and that AIM was not is titled4"unltcd States of America, the occupation last ye';.r came tc mentioned. But Nichcl ordered Kaplan plaintiff, vs. Dennis Ban>s and light. In it, It says, on November to Show the complete document to him so he can see foi' nimseir. me do• Russell Means^defendants." 21, 1972, after the Trail of Br..-ken Treaties occupied BIA head• cument also reveals what apparently But the roles seems to hi-ive heen is a more j.ntenslve military invol• reversed, and the U.S. Government quarters, then deputy Attorney Gene• ral Ralph E. Erickson directed the vement in the cccupation than the has been on the defensive. The U.S. has admitted until now. The use names of the two defendants are FBI"to intensify its efforts to in• of U.S. Armed Forces on American soil rarely mentioned other than in pass• tensify its efforts to -against Its own people-is prohibited ing. Few of the bevy of wit• dentify violence-prone Individuals nesses have given evidence direct• or oi-Ranizatlons involved in Ameri• in the American Consltufcion. ly linking Banks and Means with can Indian actIvltles .particularly Federal officials have said the crimes charged against them. the AIM orgarilzati on. " repeatedly that the U.S. Army's In- About all that has been sJiown nvolvement was limited to supplying The FBI is collecting and disse• and to this point is that the two were food,rifles armored personnel minating information of an intell-i- carriers tl federak agents at the among the ATM members who moved gence natire" the department said. into Wounded Knee at: the start of scene. Defense attorneys William Knus- The Justice Department told the the occupation,and apparently had ler and Douglas Hall said the state• lead(3rship roles. senators,however, that the depart• ments reopien the Issues of v/lretap- ment "has maintained regular contact Meanwhile, the Justice Depav-t- ping and Illegal invasion of the de• with the Directorate of Military sup• .ment, the Federal Bureau of Inves- fense legal eamp that they thought port, Department of the Army, since tlgation(FBI) and the prosecution had been laid to rest in the unsuc• February 28," the day after the oc• have been getting their lumps,both cessful four-week hearing to dismiss cupation started. "On March 2, 1973 from the degense and from the cou.-t. charges. 1973s" the Justice document says,"re• Just as the fui'or over the wire• Judge Nichol agreed,and ordered presentatives of the Department of tapping had settled down and the the federal proyecutors to produce Defense briefed represenatlves of prosecution was looking foward to more information about the state• Juatice and Intei-ior(departments) COM*. MSK* Pg. On Ideological Clarify in fhe Black Liberation Movemenf

not ehoun. In aueh cases it is the duty of cal, economic and social liberation of Over the past year we have heard many revolutionaries to educate around as high persons of African descent in the United cries for unity Inside of the Black Libera• a level of demand as consistent with the States, There arc basically only two ap• tion movement. This call reflects both a time and place(eg, demands such as commu• proaches to the liberation of our people. profound need and a recognition that when nity control, police decentralization, There are those who wish to modify the we are unified we achieve our greatest vic• armed Belf-de£ense,ete.) Not to push issues present governmental system so that it tories. However, despite repeated calls such as these is to abandon the leadership will better the lives of Blacks, and tiiere for unification J we seem to he more dis• of the movement to the bourgeoisie. The are those who believe that the entire his• united than we have been for years. There end result is that the "revolutionaries" tory of Black people in America has been is confusion about the goals, strategy and find themselves seriously tailing the mas• one of exploitation and oppression, and tactics of our movement among both cadres ses. As Lenin succinctly puts it, "It is that the only reason that Blacks even ex• and the masses of Black people. Many cadre impossible to lead from the rear." ist is to serve as modern day slaves to have either "retired'from the movement or We see a severe Ideological weakness fulfil the needs o£ a small and privileged have buried themselves in localised ^rao- in the Black Liberation movement. It Is ruling class. tlcal'work. Because of the great fragmen• well understood by revolutionaries that Under the system of monopoly capital• tation and confusion of the cadres, the practice is primary in the dialectic be• ism, this dass controls a few giant corp• masses have turned toward the day-to-day tween knowing and doing. What is not as orations that control the whole society's struggles of survival and ocasalonal spon• understood is that without revolutionary means of production, ie. factories, trans• taneous reaction to the increasing repres• theory there cannot be successful revolu• portation, coniaunications. Using their sion o£ the state. Often the FBI/state mis• tion. Revolutionary theory is the strong stranglehold on the economic resources- information, counter-insurgency and assas• light that must always guide our practical needed by human society, these capital• sination campaign is responsible for the work. Without a clear revolutionary ideo• ists extort the labor of poor and working disunity and confusion within the movement. logy, confusion between revolutionaries people - selling people back the products The state has dealt the Black Liberation and reformists, and revolutionaries and of their own labor for more than it costs Movement a serious blow with its vicious criminals will always be present. Without to make and distribute them. anti-Black campaign that included the as• a clear program the masses will be eon- American capitalism was built on the sassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther fused on just what kind of change revolu• genocide of Native Americans and the slav• King Jr., Fred Hampton and Geor'ge Jackson. tionaries advocate and what road leads to ery of Africans. It expanded through the However, we must understand as Amll• this change. Without a clear revolutionary subjugation of resource and labor-rich TW car Cabral, slain leader of the successful ideology, revolutionaries will hinder the countries. These peoples reacted violent• national liberation movement of Guine- mass movement rather than push it forward. ly against the crimes of capitalism. Mean• Bissau, is that our own weaknesses have What is revolutionary ideology? Revo• while, the white working class itself was led to the present state of confusion and lutionary ideology is the summation of restless, suffering oppression in the disunity. He says, "...the struggle against revolutionary struggle over the past cen• hands of the greedy capitalists. Faced our own weaknesses...(is) the most diffi• tury and a half raised to the level of with war on two fronts, the ruling class cult of all, no matter what difficulties time and struggle tested scientific prin• negotiated with unlon(as "representatives" the enemy may create....We know that the ciples. Stalin explains further the con• of white workers) for higher living stan• development of phenomenon in movement, nection between theory and practice, "Theory dards, re-enforcing white supremacy and whatever its external appearance, depends becomes purposeless if it is not connected patriotism. In order to ensure the loyal• mainly on its internal characteristics," with revolutionary practice, just as prac• ty of the white working class, the ruling What we understand is that the FBI/state tice gropes in the dark if its path is not class must systematically deny Black peo• disruption of the Black Liberation Move• illuminated by revolutionary theory."As ple equal status in this country. ment can be better viewed as a campaign Gabral sums up, "we would recall that ev• Revolutionaries believe that only a designed to exploit weaknesses already ery practice produces a theory, and thaat complete break with this system of exploi• present In our movement. A FBI memo on how if it is true that a revolution can fail tation that has been oppressing Black peo• to aet up an Informer in the top levels of even though it is based on perfectly con• ple for four hundred years is the only Panther leadership clearly Indicates that ceived theory, nobody has yet made a sue- viable road to freedom. These people be• the state recognized and were exploiting eesgful revolution without a revolutionary lieve that only a revolutlon(a complete already known weaknesses and divisions theory." break, overturning the order of things) within Panther ranks. As George Jackson To begin the task of strengthening will accomplish the liberation of our peo• states, fascism is successfulwhen It is and clarifying tho Ideology of the B' >ek ple. confronted with a weak revolutionary tteust, liberation movement, we must investigate Reformists may at times do positive or as Lenin would say, failure of revolu• the ideology of various organisations and work for Black people. In history reform• tion ia the fault of the revolutionaries. groups claiming a leadership role in the ists have even played revolutionary roles If we take the hard realistic view Black Liberation Movement. In the rest of in the Black Liberation struggle. In the that it is our weaknesses which are the the paper we will compare different lev• early sixties the Civil Rights movement primary cause of the present state of dis• els of unity and organization needed for was essentially a reform movement. The organization and confusion, it becomes different levels of work in our libera• fervor of the struggle acted as a spark clear that in order to rebuild the move• tion movement, ^e most basic level o£ that ignited the Black working, poor and ment our first task must be to correct the unity that we must determine ia what for• middle classes, Marches, freedom bus rides, present and past weaknesses that plague ces arc part of the Black Liberation move• and sit-ins were some of the many tactics us J Among the most serious of our many ment. The primary contradiction is between used by the movement under Dr. King's slo• faults are the lack o£ good security with• Black people and their oppressors« But gan of "Direct Action". However, Direct in the movement, unsystematic propaganda, the most important contradiction within Action brought the protesters in direct lack of organizational cohesion, and lack the movement is between revolutionaries confrontation with white racists and a Of concrete connection with the masses. and reformists hostile state. Birmingham and Chicago Showed what could happen to peaceful pro• THE NEED FOR STRONG IDEOLOGY AND THEORY REFORMISM AND THE BLACK LIBERATION testers. On the one hand, the Black masses, IN THE BMCK LIBERATION MOVEMENT MOVEMENT especially the poor and workers, were get• All of these faults, critical as they When we talk about Black Liberation ting angry at the lack of real progress are, are not primarily the result of a we are talking about the complete politi• being made and the violence against the lack of practical work. Practical work is movement. Cries for self-defense and more at a fairly high but sporadic level in rapid political and Genomic gains became many areas o£ the country. African Liber• common. On the other hand, the state was ation Day organizing, POW organizing, com• becoming disenchanted and frightened by munity struggles, newspaper work are some the growing militancy of civil rights ac• Of the many forms that organizing and po• tivists and organizations(ie. SNCC). The litical work is taking in the Black com• word went out, 'back down and slow up or munity. The confusion and the disunity in face repression.'The reformist elements our movement is not caused by the lack of had a choice either to go to the next lev• work(although this statement should not be el of change, the struggle for civil rights taken to mean that enough political work to one of revolutionary human rights, or is occuring in even one area I) Weakness to back down and settle for any token re• and confusion result from our work not hav• forms dispensed to a few of Che Black e- ing a coherent direction. There are no llte. The reform movement either must die clear lines either among the masses or or transform Itself, Most of the leadership cadres about what a position is on any giv• (petty bourgeois professionals, business• en issue. Revolutionaries are not drawing men etc.), tended to compromise. Others, clear lines between themselves and the like Dr. King and much of the masses, con• bourgeois right-wing of the Black nation. tinued the struggle on a higher level. In Atlanta, mass organizing against police In the seventies, contradictions have repression is being carried out through a risen to an explosive level. The state has united front of many organizations. How• unleashed an unprecedented military(police) ever revolutionaries and their organiza• and economic(unemployment/inflation) at• tions are substantially represented. The tack on Black people. Police murders of demand of the front is that the police Third World people have become commonplace. chief(Inmann) should be fired. This is the Dissent and dissenters are singled out for demand of the democratic Black bourgeois destruction. The economic reform aspect of Mayor of Atlanta(Jackson). This is not on• the civil rights movement was a complete ly the demand of the front; it is also tlie failure for the masses of Blacks. Unemplcy- demand of revolutionary groups such as ment(at least 50%) In the cities is hi^r Black Workers' Congress, than its been since the sixties. The in• The demand to remove an official is come gap between whites and Blacks is wi• by itself a reformist demand, if the ra• dening even faster. Since 1972 the Black cism and oppression of the whole system is middle class($ll,000 yearly family income PAGE B for modest but adequate living by govt, re£oirmers(le. SCLC, NAACP, Operation Push) or the basic laws of this country which figures) has shrunk from 26 to 24%. We are who openly advocate reforming the system. are against the interests of the vast ma• in the middle of an economic recession On the other hand there are those who say jority of people In this country. Revolu• tionaries must always expose the real in• that many bourgeois economists believe will that they are revolutionaries but whose tentions of opportunists such as these become a depression. Blacks will suffer whole rhetoric and program are reformist. while at the same time working with them even more economic oppression as we did Groups like the SCLC and NAACP show the on progressive issues such as the North in the Creat Depresslon(1930'5). Reform reactionary side of their nature when of• Carolina POW mass demonstration. has failed. The state no longer even at• ficials like Dr. Abernathy accqst gifts The Oakland Branch is another exam• tempts to pacify us. ($40,000) from Gulf Oil. the major finan- ple of a group which claims that it is Reforms can no longer be considered cer of Portugal's murderous colonial war revolutionary while practicing reformism a viable strategy for the BlaeU Liberation against southern Africa's freedom fighters, in ideology and practice. They have come movement. Liberation means the total tree- Roy wllklns(NAACP) simlllarly betrayed Af• out in favor of Black capitalism(exchang- dom of our people. Half liberation, token ricans (not for the first time) when he ing white slave masters for ones with liberation maUce as much sense as "second said that the enslaved people o£ Ansania Black faces - Haiti is a good example of class citizenship". Our history has clear• (South Africa)should not break South Afri- Black capitalism), called the brutal Cali• ly ehown that our eomplctc liberation will pan law to gain their freedom! fornia prison guards "our class brothers", mean the end of the system o£ exploitafcLon and have systematically denounced every that the state is based upon. The state revolutionary Black action from African has consequently tried to destroy all sed- Liberation Day to armed self-defense. They ous attempts at freedom by Black people have done all these reactionary actions from Dr. King to George Jackson, under the slogan of "survival pending re• The goals of the revolutionary and volution", which in reality means no re• the reformist are completely different, volution but upper class "survival" for One attempts to make the system better. high ranking party members. The other attempts to destroy it and build a completely different system. As Many are afraid to expose these clowns Cabral shows, revolutionaries, "must ac• partly because there is still a large de• cept the principle that the liberation gree of emotionalism concerning the Party's struggle is a revolution, and that itty. field marshaU work together because tactically it is in in NY),turning information over to the FBI, '' * 'atereat ef tbe total liberation uf and collaboration In the capture of Geron• imo cannot be excused because "they just people to tCBporarily pursue reform THE BIV\CK MASSES WANT STRONG LEADERSHIP reacted like street niggers during a fight." jtc^tmt, 9vt our ultiaiate goal of ccm- TO LEAD THEM TO LIBERATION Niggers like "that must be purged from the plete free

Conclusion Please consider uaing the center Comrades I Sum up your practice section of this paper as an in• and let it be known to the rest of us. sert supplement to your o\m local The time has come for us to come to• paper. If you arc intere-stct), a war of the masses; it can only be waged gether in a spirit of criticism and write us about the number you want and teel free Lo make .suRgcsLions by mobilizing the masses and relying on self critlsm so that we can unite those about future content and size. Wc them." The Front is comprised of party we can for the long protracted struggle plan to have a center section in organizations, mass organi2ations(trade ahead of us. This country Is falling every issue. unions, women's organizations, revolution• apart, but we already know that when ary roligious organieations, etc.) and chaos comes Blacks and the other opp• Newspaper army units. Tho Front in the time of re• ressed people will be the first targets volutionary war is the representative of of tho wounded beast. We submit these 1 copy ------.iSca. the people apd embraces them and is formed notes for discussion and welcome re• over 5 copie-s ------$ ..''Ooa. of them. Only by transforming our move• plies and criticisms. In the future, " 25 copies - - - - - ,i[>ca. ment into a solid National Front will we we hope to present many theoretical ar- Year Subscription - - - -$?.CC(12) be able to successfully involve the masses tlcals on the vital questions of our Center Section and Icnrn from them in our struggle for movement. Struggle, unite, organize IrccdoDi. and struggle some more. Ex-slave Fred• 1 cop> .ISea. Willie our political cadre are organ• rick Douglas taught us many years ago over 5 copies ------f .|0 ca. izing, our military comrades are fighting that "struggle yeilds progress". In " 25 copies .OSca. and dying, winning and losing and attempt• the meantime, let's take the words of ing to sot up the embryo of the People's our murdered Field Marshall George Army. We must never forget Mao's teaching Jackson to heart and "Settle your quar• tl..-At, "without a people's army, the peqple rels, come together, understand the re• have notliinK." In our work wc must support ality of our situation, understand that SFT7E THE TIME Page 7 Chicano Liberation Front Attacks Police Chief

SUBJECT; Murder o£ Albert Terronca, by racist Union City police. otiicre. Yes wc remember & will never for• ACCUSED; Chief William Chann, John Miner get. We remember the protests & the de• CHARGE. Ckief Uilliam CKann: charge »£ mands for juetioe only to be mot with in- consplrasy of attempned coverup juatice-justifiabl" homicide. When we of the murder of Alberto Terrenes asked for jobs we are given training pro• to his family and the Chicano grams with no jobs. When we asked for community. food a housing wc arc given welfare that John Miner: charge of murder dogs couldn't live on. When we asked for SENTENCE:It is the verdict of La Rasa Rev• happiness we are given dope. When we olutionary Tribunal that the ac• asked for decent wages and working con- cused, ChiSf William Chann, John ditlons, we are met with racist excuses Unlon City is in the SF Bay Area Miner, be sentenced to revolu• & brutality. Ya Bastal of California.. It used to be a farm• tionary justice, for the murder Throughout our history we, as a ing community, heavily populated by and attempted coverup of the people, have always made a defiant stand Mexican, Chicano and Latino farmwor• murder of Alberto Terrenes. It against our adversaries. This peroid of kers. But since WWIJ this area has is the view of the tribunal that history will not escape us. Our enemies seen a huge population/industrial they, the accused, be sentenced must learn and understand that throughout explosion. La Raza suddenly found to death by the peoples' forces. the crys of power, we are not going to be themselves surrounded by thousands of as voiceless & humble as they would want new tract-home dwellers-whites who were fleeing the Blacks of Oakland. On the night of Tuesday, June 11, 19 74, us to be-as these poverty pimps this gov• at 9:33 P.M.. at Our Lady of the Rosary ernment is used to dealing with. On April 15 this year, Mrs. Angelo, Parish Hall in Union City, Cal, the Santos Albert Terrenes was a brother, a son, a a white woman living in Union City, Rodriques Assult Squad of the Chicano father or an uncle to every one of us. He reported to police that a Mexican Liberation Front, attempted to carry out was and Is one of La Raza. male b.urglar entered her home. Her the death sentence of Chief WllliamChann. "A death to one is a death to all, so if four year old daughter was killed, In this process he and four other Chica• we die then let us kill." and her thee year old son critically nos were wounded. This is war and in war wounded;she claimed that she v.'as there will be Innocent people accidently raped. hurt. Union City police put out a'flyer The time has come and gone when calling the suspect a "male Mex". Chicanos will passivly sit by and watch The police, city officials and news• our brothers and sisters be murdered & papers launched an all out campaign brutalized by racist police in the stre• to "bring this brutal murderer to ets. 148 years, year after year, month C.L£ Justice." after month, time in and time out; we re• On April 19, Alberto Terrones Jr. member 12 year old Santos Rodriquez, (30) was shot and killed by officer Luis Martinez, Antonio Cardova, Rita John Miner. Miner suspected Terrones of shoplifting and claims that he lunged at him with a knife when Miner approached him. Besides, Terrones fit the killer's descrlptlon-a male Mex. Officer's Miner's version was upheld by the District Attorney. Tensions between the Chicano community exploded. Since Terrones' murder, there have been repeated out• breaks of looting, arson and a rebel• lion on April 30. On July 12 police chief William Cann calles a "public relations" meeting to tell Chicanos "it wasn't so bad, that there was still enough time to reform the sys• tem." The meeting was Interrupted by gunfire._ The police chief was hit several times In the neck and throat. He is now in critical condition, in a coma ever since the attack. A communique was received the next Spray-painted slosans on a building at 9th and H Streets in Union City SANTOS RODRIQUEI week by the press. It was from the Handcuffed boy slain "Santos Rodriguez Assult Squad of the Chicano Liberation Front". San• (cont. from previous pg.) Domestic Council. tos Rodriguez was the 11 year old concerning certain military contin• Other agencies involved In the Chicano child murdered by Dallas gencies. " military option discussions were Jus• police officer Cain. There was some Among the papers were, a note tice Department officials, key offi• confusion about the communique since written Dy an Army Colonel, and a cials from the Pentagon, the White the bourgoise press claimed to re• letter from President Nixon to Har• House's man in the Interior Depart• ceive another communique from the rington Wood Jr., then an assistant ment, and Marvin Franklin, Indian CLF disowning the action. However attorney general and temporarily, tne Affairs assistant to the Secretary this communique was never released chief federal nesotiator at Fine of the Interior. to the public. Riage. The defnse contends that since After all this, the white woman Mixon's letter" adivsos Wood that two of the charges refer to "a civil Who reported the "Male Mex" killer members of the president's staff had disorder," use of the military went back to police and told police told him of the work done by the fed• v;ould belegal only under a president• there was no such person. She had eral team in achievinR a settlement. ial directive. (Ed. Note: Recently killed her own daughter and tried The one from the Army Officer to Wood the defense has subpoeaned all the to also kill her son. Mrs. Angelo suggests that Wood seek a public an• White House tapes concerning the made up the burglar to cover her own nouncement from Nixon granting auth• Wounded Knee occupation.) crimes. ority to either take the village by There is also the question about force, or to withdraw federal forces the use of federal marshals. The de• and let AIM and the Oglalas battle it fense contends that they had to be out with the tribal council. invited by the leaders of the Oglala Top-level federal sources have Sloux tribe-lf not then the marshals said that one White House option dis• were not there legally, and charges cussed rep eatedly at high levels that involve marshals should be dis• during the occupation was 'use of missed. The Justice Department con• massive force', mealng federal troops tends that the request was made by gan, stated, "Mr. Gallagher from the An "option paper" was developed on the tribal council of the Interior Bureau(FBl) advises that the Attor• this poaslbllity, Including the dol• Department to provide law enforcement ney General(Klelndlnst) wants all lar costs of the operation, the me• assistance, and the marshals were individuals prosecuted. There is to thods to be used by the military, chosen to go. But now it contends be no amnesty or bonds set. Identify and the estimate of how many Indians that the marshals did not need an all news media that are on the scene and how many soldiers would be killed official tribal request to enter the so that they can testify later as to The military option paper was reservation. what they saw. Prosecute everyone of prepared at the direction of Kenneth One FBI memo, dated March 1st, any crimes possible." Cole, director of the White House three days after the occupation be- PAGE 8 SEIZE THE TIME'

Message Irom fhe Weafher Underground

ON MAY 31, 1974, WE ATTACKED THE OFFICE coffee at the Silver Dollar Cafe by police consistently criticized law enforcement OP CALIFORlrrA ATTORNEY GENERAL EVELLE J. using weaponry outlawed by the Geneva Oode. agencies for being too timid In the hunt YOUNGER IN LOS ANGELES. No prosecution of the police-murder fol• for the SLA; he introduced special legis• lowed , lation to prohibit distribution of expro• EVERY WEArON OF TERROR FROM THE LYNCH on September 6,1970, wo attacked priated food to the people. The system ROPE TO NAPALM HAS BEEN USED TO TRY TO Younger'a office on the sixth floor of. cannot tolerate the practical humanity of CRUSH THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE. YET THE the Hall of Justice in retaliation for actually securing food for the pecple, SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE GROWS AND WILL NOT this wanton murder, 3, Younger heads the operation of rail• BE DEFEATED. Vounger's policies result in regular roading people to the state's concentra• tion eamps^prisons) and is thereby guilty police murders c>£ unarmed Blacks and Chi• of Tjholesale kidnapping and enslavement, To our sisters and Drothers in the gymbi- canos, Vounger bears direct responsibili• onese Liberation Army! ty for these deaths, —The California prison system is the WQ want to eifp^efifi grief and rage 2. Younger is a conspirator with the largest in the country. The U.S. has we share with you and all freedom-loving Federal Government In committing murder more prisons than all other countries com• people at the deaths of Cinque, Fahlzah, and denying human rights. bined, and hold over 2/3 million people Mlzmoon, Angela, Willy, Camilla, murdered In the late 60's the Federal Govern- behind bars. Those sent off to California by the pigs before our eyes. They are re• concentration camps are more than half volutionary comrades and heroes of whom Third World people and virtually all poor we are proud. Their courageous llvos in• people. Incarceration and the resulting spire us, their deaths intensify our will physical and mental torture are based on to resist. This attack is for you and for race and class. Younger, first for L.A. all frontline fighters. and now state-wide, heads the operation. For Ruchell Cinque Magee: He is Reagan's right-hand man and an ac• Ruchell is the survivor of the hero• tivist for the re-establishment of the ic slave rebellion of August 7, 1970. He death penalty, has one of the most brilliant legal minds ---Evelle J. Younger is the main buzzard in the country. Because of his revolution• behind the Illegal enslavement of Ruchell ary clarity, he is gagged and chained each Cinque Magee. As Los Angeles D.A,, Younger time he tries to speak in his own defense. forced a phoney guilty plea against Ru - He thunders the Irrefutable truth of the Chen's will in the May 1965 trial—a pro• right of the slave to rebel against ille• cedure that Younger has used in collusion gal bondage. His example has been a bea- with public defenders against the vast cwa »£ resistance. This attack is for Ru• majority of Third World and poor defend- chell Cinqiie Magee and all political pri• ents. Further, Younger suppressed the re• soners of war. cords of the illegal 1963 and 1965 trials Tooi^t ve attacker) tbe office of Evelle of Magee. Younger is still on Ruchell's J. Tonnger. Accorncy General of the State case today. of CMltfoTolM, and key strategist for the The vlclousness of the pigs' tactics pollclea and piimiMi of the state repres- reflects the depths of their fears of the alva aiiparacu. Ha do rtala on the occas- emerging people's power. People must In• aloB of the aoat meant aet of terrorisn tensify the attack against enemies such naleadiBd bjr The guweiiaieut against six WEATHERMEN BOMB N.Y as Attorney General Younger, The spirit freedota-fightero from the Symblonese Lib- of resistance grows, from the people, sration Army. The California police and POLICE STATION JUNE 1970 through the front-line fighters, to the prison system is among the most brutal In raent and police carried out a conspiracy depths of the concentration camps, "I am the country, a model for pigs everywhere. to attack and attempt to destroy the Black Ruchell Cinque Magee, the one who refused Evelle J. Younger bears direct responsi• Panther Party, Over 20 Black Panther Par• to die in the August 7, 1970 rebellion, bility lor its crimes. ty members were killed by police around and one who will keep on refusing to die the country In this period. In los Angeles until I have exposed the truth of this INDICTMENT on December 8, 1969, under District Attor• corrupt Amerikan Judicial system," 1, Younger is an architect e£ the poli• ney Younger, 300 pigs surrounded the Black FREE RUCHELL - FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS cies of brutal police occupation of the Panther Party office and Initiated a shoot• OF WAR ghettos and barrios. out that lasted 4% hours, Under Younger, as Los Angeles Dis• Younger bears responsibility, along AVENGE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS trict Attorney, the police rioted against with U.S. Attorney General Saxbe, the FBI the Chicano Moratorium on August 30, 197Q, and the Los Angeles Police Department, YOU CAN KILL A REVOLUTIONARY, BUT THE Reuben Salazar was murdered while drinking for the savage attack on the SLA, Younger SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE IS INDESTRUCTABLE

For The Symbionese Liberation Army unless we fight for it and saying it can make it so unless ue ^ducat^ ourselves and others if we agree They call It terror unless ue separate resistance from oppres• he will say, you only turn off if you are few sion those you say you are fighting for and have no B-52's The same editorials that scream terrorism he is helpful if you are not a head of state screamed mob rule no anti-war march with an array and polise at the civil rights marches of the early no sit-in if you have neither napalm sixties no teach-In nor tanks at the anti-war demonstrations but had its helpful editor to say nor electronic battlefields thousands of busted heads later boM mueb more we could aeeomplisb by doing terPOl? la if you are dispossessed they say, of course less and have only your own two hands WG always upheld the right of peaceful or preferably nothing and each other protest while tbe people of Vietnam ana your rage The attitudes they offer up In print patiently explained their cause to the It is not terror with little tabs, cut them out and wear world if you are New York's Finest them but did not stop shooting down the bombers and you shoot a lO-year-old black child written by men who have not for fear of alienating someone in the back seen a jail cell from the Inside Watch out because you think black people or hunger for what they turn into news all look like they've just committed a or the face of a duly constituted officer and what they quietly forget robbery of the law as he says What if all the headlines It is not terror If you are IIT make one move and you'll be dead and stories about Solzhenitsjm and you buy the men they say, we cannot condone violence had said instead who line Chilean doctors up in their hos• but watch out Millions of humans pital corridors for whether they say It held in semi-slavery and shoot them for supporting the late about murdering prisoners at Attica deprived of every human and legal right democratic government of their country or about kidnapping Patricia Hearst families forcibly torn apart it Is not ^error but heroism about the disinherited strikes broken by mass murder if you were captured by the Vietnamese or about the inheritors hundreds of thousands imprisoned without for dropping fragmentation bombs As we find our way slowly trial on their schools and hospitals to use the means available to us in Southern Africa? Only those who have nothing as wisely as we can (Is it because of their impartial humanity can be terrorists there will be mistakes that they fear Brothers and sisters, let us choose but do not let the cry of the Russian camps of '47 our weapons carefully and humanely the enemy define the mistakes but are deaf to the roar of the African let us use no torture because he Is experienced prisons of '74 7*) or napalm and has ten thousand printing presses at Or, 25,000 U.S. troops remain in Thailand or genocide his back the war in Southeast Asia but do not be fooled behind which he hides the tanks and guns isn't over but continues there is no weapon they will allow and he will say, the people don't support directed as before by U.S. officials nothing that works will be called legiti• you and U.S. money cont. on 9 mate PACE 9 SEIZE THE TIME BREAK DE CHAINS CEORGEIACKSON

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality or our situation, unflerstand i:hat fascism is already here, that people are already ON SUPPORTING dying who eould be saved, that gettevatiortS more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fall to act. Do wtiat must t>e <3one, discover POUTICAL PRISONERS your humanity and your love in revolution. Pass on the torch. Join us, give up your life for We'd like to offer a few comments a- who are most controversial, most militant, the People, bout suDPortlnH political prisoners. The most advanced, who will be subject to the most basic of these is obvious to most most severe repression. Fart of the rea• son why a case may seem "too hot" is the people: The dialectical relationship be- do everything It can to frustrate you, by simple fact that little support has yet tMoen roproEsion and resistance means postponing the start of the session, ar• been raised, But to wait until there is that any revolutionary movement Is going bitrarily barring spectators for periods, some maoaivc outcry io to miae the basic to produce political prisoners, and even cancelling the day's proceedings truism that some organizing has to be done In many ways, support of political unexpectedly. Be prepared to be persistent before there can be such an outcry. prisoners is a form of sGlf-dofenee, for and patient when going to court. every time the state arrests someone, On a more practical level, the fol• As a final suggestion about support• frames someone, sentences someone, it ia, lowing points seem more Important in de• ing political prisoners, we believe that in fact attacking the revolutionary move• veloping support for politcal prisoners. it is an effective strategy for activists ment. No movement can develop if it does First, as political people involved in on the outside to develop relationships not figure out ways to defend its activ• the ongoing work of different organiza• with political prisoners, to take respon• ists. Our leaders and our cadre have to tions or collectives, activists must in• sibility for building links to the outside be able to survive and remain free and ac• corporate support for political prisoners for those prisoners. This does not mean tive over the years, to have that time to in their mass work. Most significant about to act as a pen-pal; political prisoners grow and mature with experience. The list accepting this point is that it means that are revolutlonarlsts. Therefore develop• of fallen leaders - from Malcolm X to Fred it means that organizations must put aside ing a relationship with someone on the in• Hampton to George Jaekson - Is devastating their sectarian differences and understand side involves a political responsibility. when we think of what their insight and that, as a lowest common denominator of Moreover, it is also a fine opportunity energies could be producing now. political unity, revolutionaries should to learn from these comrades and engage and must be defended against the state, Wtien we fail to develop support for in political dialogue. Prisoners neej po• Political differences over strategies and political prisoners we allow the state to litical literature and books, money for tactics must be non-antagonistic when we achieve Its objectives of: commissary, legal llaslon and/or assis• are down to that basic level of a revolu• 1) Isolating People(those who are tance, and other types of support. If tionary spending his or her life behind busted, and each activist or small collective on the bars. Mass organizing around political 2) Intimidating others(those who are outside would take responsibility for de• prisoners can always be done at least at aware of the oppression/repression, veloping such relationship, some very the level of attempting to develop an an• but who don't see any evidence of strong links are made to strengthen the ti-repression, anti-fascist, pro-resis• resistance to it). struggle. Politioal repression is just another form tance consciousness, ai divide and conquer. In order to deal A more active form of support is National Committee to Defend Political With those divisions, activists have a going to court. The history of political Prisoners reBponBlbility to build links with people trials In the past ten years makes clear P.O. Box 1184 OR P.O. Box 524 facing trials or In prison. This is espe• the impact of public support on juries. Harlem, W.Y. Norfolk, Va.23501 cially true when wc conoldcr that one of Furthermore, going to court is an educa• the roost advanced movements in this coun• tional experience, not only about the cor• try CRlBta right inside the prison walls. rupt legal system, but about repression TRIAL NEWS We also have to fight the gearful ration• in general, This was the most dramatical• alization that "the cases is too hot to ly illustrated in the trial o£ Ruchell go near", the excuse that some groups use TRACY, CALIFORNIA - At the Dual Vocational Magee, where searches used to intimidate to avoid supporting different political Center(DVI), two Black prisoners are charged spectators from attending went so far as prisoners. We must recognise that it is with the murder of a guard. Allen and to Include Internal examinations for wo• precisely those individuals and groups Graham are facing the death penalty even men. Going to court under such circum• though the alleged murder took place be• stances becomes a militant act. a demon• CONT FROM PACE 8 fore the January lat enactment of the Cali• stration to the pigs that one is not going fornia death penalty. The guard was mur• U„6t advisors who changed their uniforms to be frightened away, and a demonstration dered I Nov, 23, 1973, into civilian clothes and call It by an• to the jury that the heavy security does other name Both men are vocal organizers. The not, in fact, reflect the dangerousness prison officials for the state used this or worse, do not call it anything at all of the defendants, but rather the repres• incident to justify Imposing lockdOTjms but hope the world will forget siveness of the state. and let them carry on their dirty business at San Quentin, Folsom, the DVI and Chino. Some suggestions about going to court; undisturbed Spectators at almost all political trials while solemn conferences are held on what Oregon-Black and Brovm Inmates at San nowadays w.ill be searched before entering to do Quentin have been asking about the well- the courtroom, therefore, people should about the "international terrorism" being of white Inmate Steve Kessler. not carry things to court that they might of the Palestinians Steve is presently inprisoned in Oregon. get hassled over(like pocket knives or who disrupt the peaceful prosperity of He was originally sent to prison from slugs). People should try, whenever pos• Oregon, but he has been shipped to dif• tourism a sible to go to court with friend, Peo• ferent prisons around the country. He with annoying reminders ple should also expect that the state will that their homeland has been stolen from has been in both the Atlanta Federal them Prison and San Quentin, No prison wants and they have been left with nothing him because he is considered a very ef• but their courage and the justness of fective inter-raclal organizer who can their cause break down the racism of white inmates. with wljich to win it back Consequently he has been respected by poor enough weapons Third World inmates in every prison he we can help to supply some others has been in. In Atlanta he was able to by shouting and whispering on every corner found a succesful inter-racial organiza• the story of their struggle tion, consequently he has been marked of a people utterly deprived of its homeland for death by prison authorities. He is which thp world has tried so hard to forget now fighting extradition proceedings to the Atlanta prison. He and another in• SlstGrs and brothers, think hard before mate have been charged with the murder you jump of a prison =uard in Atlanta six years onto the bandwagon ago. The first indictment had no dates of condemning terrorism or other information. They reflled the remember who is making the definitions indictment with the stipulation that the remember not to strengthen the hand death penalty ia applicable. In an In• that will turn in an instant terview in July, Steve completely denyed against every means of resistance to op• any knowledge of the crime and described pression how the authorities want him dead one That bandwagon rolls straight toward way or the other. Letters adressed to fascism Governor McCall of Oregon protesting ex• do not forget the real terrorists tradition. that lurk behind the Tiasks of heads of state New York City-In the week of July 14, do not be afraid to hold strong Robert Hayes alleged Black Liberation together Army member was sentenced to 35-life with all who dare to struggle for the alleged member of transit cop. A SISTER IN THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND PAGE 10 • SEIZE THE TIME NCDPP Report to the Sixth Pan-African Congress: On

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEEEKSE OF 2. The Thirteenth Amen<3ment(also As a result, 75%-85% o£ the approx. POLITICAL PRISONERS STATEMENT ON AFRICAN arbitrarily ratified without the partici• 2 million men and women presently incar• PRISONERS OP UAR AND POLITICAL PRISONERS pation of African People) is supposed to cerated at these slave plantations are IN PREPARATION FOR THE SIXTH PAN-AFRICAN abolish slavery in amerlkkka while simul• Black; and Third world as you reach the CONGRESS taneously permitting slavery in awewikkkan 95% bracket. prisons. 1. We submit that we are an Afri• When African People who are politi• Slavery is and has always been the can People, born in captivity on a land cally active in the struggle for African basis of the financial growth of the uni• mass in the western hemisphere, brought llteratiwn in north ameriUUUa, s-^s cap• ted states. Industry first appeared in to amerlkkka in chains to serve as chat• tured and iniprieon«<3, there is a need to the north wherQ factories obtained their tel slaves by the white capitalist ruling support thsvn, In all areas o£ the world, raw materials from the southern slave class of that era. And that our present Including Africa, the governments o£ the states. Slave labor madQ this arrange• condition of total dependence in this People in whose behalf the Imprisoned ac• ment very much profitable to the south. class and it's lackxes, are a result o£ tivists have struggled, are usually in With the huge importation of Arlcan our exclusion from sharing equitably in support by Political Prisoners Defense slaves to serve as beasts of burden, ie. land ownership, ie, stifling our right to Committees and community organizations. cotton niggers and sugar mules, more and self-determination through exclusion o£ Just as the imprisoned activists of more goods were produced by the south, ownership/control of the means of produc• the Palestinian Resistance government, and they began to export goods outside tion, thus resulting in a state of -poli• being citisens of a displaced nation re• the united states to england and france tical powerlessness, cultural and socio• ceived support from all Arab governments These countries paid higher prices for logical paralysis. regardless of ideologies, we urge that goods than did the northern states. All 2. Defacto segregation of housing imprisoned activists of the African Lib• these economic factors led to the con• patterns, corraling us in ghettos, total• eration Struggle in north amerlkkka, be• flict known as the civil war. With the ly colonized and policed by the govern• ing displaced citisens of many African help of slaves, the cide of the war ment's repressive political military. nations, be physically supported by all turned plainly in favor of the south. It 3. Defacto segregation of African African governments. became clear to the north that the only People in the public educational^system African capitivlty in the late 15th way it could obtain victory was through limits their access to acquire the skills century was due to the direct military enlisting these same slaves to the bat• to rise above the bottom of the economic action of the european imperialists who tlefield, A shrewd political maneuver strata in the u.s. foi««d village raiding parties and syste- took place when Lincoln issued the eman• Mtlcally kidnapped, ripping Africans off cipation proclaimation which had no bear• nbolesale froa their Motherland to slave ing whatsoever on northern states and •hips. A conaervative estiaate of freed slaves in southern held states: 140.000.000 is tf only acknowledged. states that the north had no jurisdiction Tils captivity of Africans by the euro- over. This was the final turning point of pen V •HiwM in ««»plete conjunc• the var and with slaves fighting for their tion V .can rulers and tribal lead• freedom, the morth soon emerged victori• ers. ous. Clearly, the creation of the Dis• The north had committed itself to placed Nation of Africans in north amerl• freeing the slaves but they could not kkka would have been considerably harder bring themselves to unconditionally con• for the european, if not for collabora• demn slavery in total, because slavery tion fvo«i our Moi©h^ ToKombe-liUe had built both amerlkkka and their for• ex-brothers The present African popula• tunes. At the same time they could not tion on the "north amerikkkan" continent allow slavery In private hands, as had are the offspring of those African pri• been practiced In the past. Article 13: Sec. 1 of the thirteenth amendment was soners o£ war who were subject as slaves. Jonathan Jackson, Aug, 7 at Marin Court• We believe that the enslavement o£ written; "Neither slavery nor involunta• ry servitude, exept as a punishment for house - African freedom fighters fight in /\fricans in amerlkkka still continues for North America too. some of these following reasons; crime whereof the party shall have been 1. (Taken from the Anti-Repression duly convicted, shall exist within the Frogram of the Republic of New Africa) • united states or any place subject to 4, Defacto segregation of African CiCisenshlp of Blacks in Amerlkkka their jurisdiction, SeCc 2 - Congress People in the area of employment creates Ibe i lacks in aaeri- shall have power to enforce this article a situation whereby Africans in the u.s, kkJca, desc "tS. ci- by appropriate legislation." In effect it are either under-employed or unemployed. tiMea» as the result of the Fourteenth "nationalized slavery", for only a go\«n- The unemployed African is often forced to Aaendniit or the rule of Jus Soli cannot ment agency could lawfully enforce invol• work for wages below that needed to pro• •tnul i*ere such slave descendants chal- untary servitude. Realising this import- vide for himself and family. flat point is realizing the basic premise lenee aaa reject u.s. cititaishlp after 5, The present state of war in of the penitentiary system today. SLAVERY. Informed consideration. The rule of Jus amerlkkka Is supported by: Soli cannot operate, without the consent A modem slave system has built (a) Attacks and murder upon the Uves of the ex-slave(or his descendant), be- roads and railroads throughout this coun• of Africans in amerlkkka continues to cause the slave was brought to amerlkkka try. Industries in prisons make uniforms, the present day. and held here against his will and con• clothing, shoes, furniture and fixtures (b) Statements by high ranking po• sent and denied knowledge o£ his history of all sorts. There are large farms cared lice and intelligence officials to the and rights under International law. The for totally by convicts. There is not a effect that guerrilla warfare is taking "grant" o£ eitiaenship in the Fourteenth major forest fire in California that con• place on the streets of major cities in AmendmentClt must be considered an offer victs do not fight, at the risk of their the U.S.a, - the attorney general of not a grant) falls because it was essen• lives. New drugs and vaccines are tested the U.S., Saxbe recently released some tially a unilateral action o£ the white on convicts and the countless victims confidential documents of the federal amerikkkan conmunlty without adequate re- rarely make it outside the walls; slaves bureau o£ Investigation that outlined £erence(a plebiscite)to the informed de- are expendable, Convict labor, slave la• the search and destroy campaign that slres of those persons v*om the grant/of• bor has been a major work force in amerl• was launched in years from 1960-71 a- fer was Intended to reach. kkka; it must be emphatically noted that gainst the African Liberation organiza• private companies put their labels on tions and activists in amerlkkka irre- goods produced by convicts and then sell gardless of the fact of whether the po• them to the public, litics were radical or liberal. Slavery has been brought to public The assassination of Zayd Malik attention by a long line of brave and Shakur, Kimu Olugbala(Anthony White), courageous warriors, from Nat Turner, All Changa 01ugbala(Woodie Green) and Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, to George Kakuyan Olugbala(Twymon Myers) in 1973 Jackson, Ruchell Magee, Martin Sostre and for the sole reason that they were mem• countless others. Events at atikkka(new bers of the Black Liberation Army and york, U.S.a.) have shown the world how subsequently issuing of Shoot to Kill cruel and inhumane the overseers are and warrants for other alleged members of Importantly, the U.S. congress has throughout the country, and in fact the the Black Liberation Army. not been without power to create condi• World's People are struggling to allevi• Taken from "Malcolm X Speaks"--An Appeal tions for an informed expression of choice ate these intolerable conditions by what• to African Heads of State, 1964: by the ex-slave or his descendants. And ever means that will be successful. In "Our problems are your problems. We the congress still has this power. The the 35 year history of the u.s. federal have lived for over 300 years in that Fourteenth Amendment - the very article prison system, they have grossed in ex• amerikkkan den of racist wolves in con• of the united states constitution which cess of 895 million dollars in profits stant fear of losing life and limbs Re• makes the offer of citisenship - also in• from their multi-million dollar slave in• cently, three youths from Kenya were mis• cludes the specific provision that: this dustries of exploitation, oppression and taken for amerikkkan negroes and were bru• Is the only legitimate way to "enforce" genocide. In 1970, the state of Michigan tally beaten by new york police. Shortly the provision of this amendment which accrued$I4 million in profits from penal after that, two diplomats from Uganda offers citizenship. slave plantations. were also beaten by the new york police. gET2E THE TIME PACE 11 African POW's and Political Prisoners in America

who mistook them for amerikkkans. Imagine Article 10- Everyone charged with a 7. Government pressure to stop "be• the physical and psycologlcal suffering penal offense has the right to be pre• havior control" experiments on imprisoned received Dy your Brothers and sisters who sumed innocent until proved guilty ac• African Political Prisoners and Prisoners have lived there for over 300 years. Our cording to law in a public trial at which of War. problem is your problem. No matter how he has had all the guarantees necessary "No one knows the master better than mueh independence Africans get here on for hie defense. his servant. We have been servants in a- the mother continent, unless you wear Article ll-Everyone is entitled m merlkkka for over 300 years. We have a ycur national dress at all times, when full equality to a fair and public hear• thorough inside knowledge of this man who you visit araerikkka, you may be mistaken ing by an independent and impartial tri• calls himself "uncle sam". Therefore, you for one o£ us and suffer the same psyche- bunal, in the determination of his rights must heed our warning: Don't escape from logical humilation and physical mutila• and obligations and o£ any criminal charges european ooloniallsm only to become even tion that is an everyday occurrence in against him. more enslaved by deceitful, "friendly" our lives. Article l^-Everyone has the right to amerikkkan dollarism". Your problem will never be fully seek and to enjoy in other countries asy• Malcolm X, Chairman solved until and unless ours are solved. lum from persecution. You will never be fully respected until Article 15-Everyone has a right to a and unless we are also respected. You nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily will never be recognized as full htmian deprived of his nationality, nor denied beings until and unless we are also re• the right to change his nationality. cognised and treated as human beings. Article 21-The will of the People Our problem is your problem. It is shall be the basis of the authority of not a negro problem, nor an amerikkkan governments; this will shall be expressed problem. This is a world problem, a pro• in periodic and genuine elections which blem, a problem for humanity. It is not shall be by universal and equal suffrage a problem of civil rights, but a problem and shall be held by secret vote or by of himian rights." equivalent free voting procedures. "A cross section of the Harlem com• munity has been working for some time on In the past(George Jackson petition the formation of an organisation that on U.S. genocide to the Hvraian Rights Com• would transcend all superficial, man-made mission to the United Nations, 1972), with divisions between the Afro-American Peo- African representatives at the U„N,, we pie of this country who are working for were at one time told that there could be human rights, and that would in no way no involvment with the support of Prison• compete with already existing successful ers of War in the u.s,, because it was a organizations. I have been requested, and domestic problem. Lately we've been told Indeed it is my pleasure, to announce the that the reason for their non-involvment existence of the Organization of Afro- is the economic ties the respective coun• American Itnxty(OAAU), patterned after the tries have with the u.s.a. letter and the Spirit o£ the Organisation I£ African governments accept the o£ African Unity(OAll} , diplomatic rational that the African Malcolm X Its purpose is to unite Afro-Ameri- P,0,Wg's in north amerlkkka are domestic eSAfi and theii" dvgantaatiatts around a affairs o£ the united states o£ amerihkka, "A newspaper Is not only a collective non-religious and non-sectarian construc• then, the same rule should apply.,.to the propagandist and collective agitator, tive purpose for human rights", other u.s,a,, union of south afrikkka. but also a collective organizer. In The white government of south afri• this respect it can be compared to the In the spirit of and In view of the kkka 's diplomatic position Is that the 14 scaffolding erected around a building above stated evidence on the status of million Africans In south afrikkka are in construction J it marks the contours African Frisoners of War in north ameri- exclusively the domestic affairs of the o£ the structure and facilitates com• kkka, we remind all sovereign governnents union of south afrikkka.(u.s.a.) munication between the builders, per• that they have a duty to uphold all the The system of penal enslavement in mitting them to distribute the work points o£ the Universal Declaration o£ the united states of amerlkkka have be• and to view the common results a- Hxmian Rights which Include: come the new system for the housing and chieved by their organised labour." Article 4 - No one shall be held in maintenance of slaves. slavery of servitude. 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SEIZK THE TIME PACE -^-J FROM RUCHELL CINQUE MAGEE Recorded Statement Transcript - July 1974 say you, I'm speaking to the brothers and clowns are talking about, because you sisters that are aware, don't let nothing have the lawyer leading the prosecutor First, let me extend greetings to all stand In the way of that duty which you and the prosecutor is rebutting himself, Sisters and brothers in the people's move• have to perform. That duty is to continue in other words he done prepared overnight ment, in particular, the SLA, the Black to enlarge the struggle. Enlarge it means just how he want the lawyer to stand up Liheration Avmy, It is yau viha have been to get out, spread information, truth, and act stunt man for him. This is where bleeeed with light of truth in the fight into the onmmunltles, awaken the peoples. so many peoples get misled and go out in• for freedom, ir i was out there, l could"nt YOU have to show also the peoples how to to the communities to tell the peoples help but come down to the rally to support. see the difference in the real and unreal, something that they think be helping a I would say, those of you in action, un• and how do you do that? person but they be hurting him, like in relenting struggle against injustice and Vou first get the facts, get the my case. Many peoples who thought they oppression, keep growing. We can't cutoff facts, take it into the oommunltlQB. Then was helping me was doing no more than or let the fool pigs cut off the life of allow the people to go see for themselves. passing information on to the peoples what we know is best for us, freedom. Re• Impress upon them to go see for themselves, which the pigs wanted them to do. However, cent Los Angeles events spell the death not just accept your word and particularly that was many In good faith, but the good which we know and continue to live with, the words over the radio or the words in- faith was bad business to me, This is but It was no profit for the pig. It adds the newspapers, that which have been con- what so many couldn't seem to understand, more clear light for the people to see troll ng their minds for years and years, because of lacking that knowledge that the coward nasty dogs masquerading as law keeping them submissive slaves. Some peo• the pig is not with you because he say officers. Six people fighting six hundred ple don't even understand what slavery is, he's with you or stands up and perform snakes with courage, and the insane co• they don't know what it is, they can't see with big words, pause and expression. He wards can't seem to comprehend where it that their everyday life is slavery, they can stand up and act like heb mad all day came from. The courage, pig tries to call have been a slave so long. Vietnam, any• day and don't nothing be wrong with him craay. The only crazy people are those thing you look at, the so-called jobs have, except he needs his ass kicked, other than who submit to the evils of the Amerikan say for example, the frultworkers, the - that, killing; this is what many peoples judicial system, clique of nasty dogs, industrial workers, jobs of all the work• fail to understand. the Evelle J. Younger, so-called Califor• ing peoples. Who are they working £or?Who I've noticed another thing where nia Attorney-General. Let me elaborate profits from it? And when they do profit, somebody mentioned the work killing the here on this Younger character. A few peo• what do they become? They've been taught pigs, especially a wrong-doing pig. There's ple seem to understand, these peoples in to become what, when they get what you many a so-called revolutiorary that have these courts and in this judicial systan call a headstart. The big man, the big the tendency to back off, start excusing in particular are sadists, verbal sadists, man is the pig, ain't giving up nothing, themselves, or finding something el^e to tricksters, liars, dirty thieves, liars taking everything. This is what capital• do. Like, many who I thought was supposed and Burderera. Iheir intention is not for ism, imperialism, it's designed to bleed to be revolutionaries with revolutionary justice of the peoples, as they claUn. a peoples to death. pretensions^ as soon as the word come up, nis is wbat they ceoe in disguise of, to HoVever, one aware can tell when Black Liberation Army, I began to receive atrip a people of everything. When I say, they are effective, espcially in struggle letters criticizing. They don't like their strip, I nean rob, murdor, exploit, in- against this capitalistic system. You tell tactics or they don't like what they're tiaid^te, hatasd, persecute, everything by his trickery moves whether it goes into doing here or doing there. But, one must to destroy the mind and the body. They this thing about providing the people wilh understand that you are living in a soci• seek to just take a peoples and make than a law to protect them. You see, the strug• ety at this time of deception. You cannot a complete vegetable. They seek te> do what gling people ahve brought great, great be perfect in everything you do in trying they uannot do. lUey're always looking attention to the peoples directing this to move and re-rewing this society. You for something to do they cannot do, be• phoney judicial system. But the Youngers gonna make errors, we all gonna make er• cause they can't find nothing else to do Insist upon trying to continue to blind• rors. But the point is, Is that we must but go to outer space and things. fold the peoples with more of what he continue to struggle on, fight, we must This Younger is the same guy that calls justice. When you hear him speaking continue to hit when we can hit. You don't railroaded me in 1963, and prior to that of proposition so forth and so on, or law have no mercy when you are after a dog railroaded many others ofi: into the pri• so and so, to say for example prohibit who has committed a wrong or injustice sons under his law and order thing, with corruption by judicial officers or law against the peoples. You aim for his god• another clique just like himself. They officers, this is but another promise and damn back. This is where it's at. No mat• see a poor person, particularly Black, as a blindfold device, pfiyehological. It ter what nobody says nothing to save Em• a dollar bill, profit to make off them. works on short-sighted peoples, but not met Till'a life, if you can go back that They see the minds of, particularly the the aware. This is where the aware is far. Remember Bnmet Till. There's so many Black people, as Boneching foolish, peo• branded as crazy. The Youngers must label Blacks been killed I doubt there are many ples are stuplg or something, supposed to all aware people as crazy or criminals in who know who I'm talking about, Emmitt believe anything they said, do anything order to allow himself to continue to ma• Till. But anyway he was a young kid mur• tb«y MJi evea i£ it aeans death, die for nipulate in our communities, dered in Mississippi bu a clique of old th«ai, uhen (h«y'r« mlr^Sy killing you Now let's go to a way o£ bringing racist dogs, for nothing. We go to some too. Yon knov. Just push you as far up in out the facts on Younger. I've seen some recently, Dr. King, who killed him? You a comer as chey can get you and at the people just go into the court. This is don't even know who killed him. Listening SSMe tine try to make you break through not education to a peoplesj this is more to the propaganda that the pigs is pas• the corner. You cannot expert this kind blindness than anything, because the law• sing around. Malcolm, you can't say that creature to ever provide a people with yer and the judges, the prosecutor, and Blacks killed him. Somebody might have truth of himself or his clique. You can sometimes the jury are shamming and be just been used as pawns, but Blacks did eypect them to lie and deceive and mis• putting forth a game o£ deception on the not kill Malcolm. The recent killing lead, have a people hating themselves, peoples that it's completely imcomprehen- where we didn't have the black pawn there, mothers hating sons and daughters, hus• ded. You cannot tell somet imes what the we know who killed him. And we know who bands hating wife, kids, and so forth. at this time is trying to make that kil• This ie the nautre of him. He's what you ling look other than what it was, for the call a dollar-drunk creature. You hear sole purpose of pushing the people's minds him on the r^^dio speaking about Black further out of position to think for them• Liberation Army is not this and its not selves correctly. that and it's criminal and all this, the Going back to Younger, this guy who man is talking about hisself in somebody has been through what I call the game of else's name. He knows the words to talk politics, deception, this man can lie and about himself because he's the one that smile, while at the same tim.e cutting dispenses what he's talking about, he's one's throat, especially when one is Black. the one that committed the acts, I was This man Younger can steal the sweetness listening on radio once and observing TV I say out of a gingerbread cake without and the first thing I see is Evelle J, busting the crust. If one bats his eyes Younger criticizing peoples who he op• to direct his attention towards what he's pressed, Black Liberation Army, accusing talking about, and that's a whole lot of them of criminals, peoples who are fight• nothing in the name of law and protection ing for justice, freedom of the peoples, of a people. He's forever robbing and being labeled as crazy, and all this type stealing everything he can from a people of stuff. This is something that Younger he's protecting, when you look at him has been doing all his life, and it's new correctly. But when you look at him wrong• to him now that a people are standing up fully, you'll be doing him just what you fighting back. It's new for him for a see peoples doing to Nixon when he jumps Black person to stand up and tell him he's off a plane, claaplng and cheering, hon• a damn liar in his face and at the same oring the snake. Some peoples fail to un• time kick him off in his ass. This is new derstand that the snake is a snake. That to him, it's new to all fools like him. is why it's necessary for you to get in• So you can expect hira to come down with formation to show and compare the snake all types of lies and deceptions and trick- on the ground that crawls with the possum. ery, but this is not to discourage you. Whereas people can see that he needs to You must continue to struggle, and when I be dead, prevented from fighting, biting Cont. on next page SEISE THE TIME PACK 13 ^BEHIND THE LINES^

NEW MBXico-Thf' uru.ai Slaying or nine tion of town and physically assault LOS ANGELES-The Chicano movement is native American men(apparently one by and rob elderly and sometimes intoxi• building towards a nation-wide mass one) nas turnefl an already tens© si-fc- cated Navajo men and women of whatev• demonstration on August 31- It is a- ualiori into exploslveness. er possessions they had, for no ap• galnst the government's current ef• Tnc latest rounQ or iflllings oc• parent reason other than that they forts to deport all brothers and sis• curred June 1 near Gallup, New Msxlco. were Indians," Redhouse charged. ters from Mexico, Latin America, Ja• The bodies or two Zuni men and anoth• "There have been too few arrests and maica and the rest of the Caribbean. er' unldentiflod male were found by charges. Far too many times the po- The demonstration in L.A. will be a- police officialE. One bcdy had SQVQT- lioG have been ineffective and insen• galnst deportation and repression. al dozen stab woiindE. That same after sitive to the many complaints expres• Senator Kennedy is one of the bour• noon, there had been a police riot in sed by our people." geois leaders trying to deport people Parmington wht.-re Navajos had gathered of color. The weekend before(Sat. Aug. to protest the killing of three other 24) there will be a series of local men a month earlier. demonstrations. All concerned people, For several weeks, thousands of progressive and revolutionary should native people have gathered In Parm- support these demonstrations. Ington foi' a silent march through the SEIZE THE TIME! streets in an effort to deal with ra• cial prejudice and mistreatment by MIAMI-The government is trying to de• the non-native towiifspeople. After 4 port more than 300 Haitians who have such marches, and in an apparent ef• fled the cruel fascist regime of fort to stop them, the Sandoval Coun• president Jean-Claude Duvaller(Papa ty Sheriff's Posse, a quasi-official Doo's son and successor). The Haiti• paramilitary group, applied for a ans all fled the Black Island to a- parade permit, saying it was their void political persecution. The Miami turn to have a march. They were area has welcomed eagerly thousands granted the permit. pf fascists fleeing from socialist The Navajos still came to Farm- Cuba, but the Haitians are Black and ington on Saturday, but this time to anti-fascist. Consequently the US line the streets to watch the armed wants no part of the fleeing Black show of strength parade. Many units exiles. Bourgeois Haitians in the US passed without incident, but as the don't want their countrymen either, "Cavalry", a mounted unit, came by, A Haitian priest, Jacques Mompremler, Navajos blocked the parade route, head of the "Haitian Refugee Center, Article and Picture From Akwesasne is urging deportation for the exiles. saying that the time had come for the Notes Cavalry to be out of the Southwest. Mass March in Farmington N.Mexico So far, Chicanos and Latinos Police attempted to open the have been leading the fight against route, eventually using teargas ai^-^__ BALTIMORE-Early July again saw the deoortatiojis. The Black Liberation violent force. Other march units ''' rising up of people in rebellion. Movement(especially in the west we Joined in the free-for-all. Black people rebelled in the streets are lagging) should Join our Brown It was the same night that three for most oP a w^ek. Oonourrcntly, In• brotnaps ana sisters in organizing more bodies were found near Gallup. mates at the Baltimore Jail rose In to top the deportation of Jamaicans, rebellion. Police who were on strike, Haitians and other Blacks and people A SILENT REMEMBRANCE OF HUSBANDS, broke their strike in order to put of color. PATHP.R2 AMD SONS down the rebellions. The spontaneous USA-Birthrates for Third World and The earlier Mavajo parades had movement is again explosive Que to poor people dec]ined dramatically In tieen silent protests-peaGeful, yet the worst economic conditions since the last decade according to US cen= strons and dramatic. Crowds of people WWII. Revolutionary leadership must sus figures. Two of the groups which spanned the four-lane street, str-etch- be provided to give the mass movement declined the most are Chicanos and ing for blocks and blocks. Stores and dlrectionl rural Blacks. They formerly has very bars wer-e «lgsed, In those marches, high birth rates. Middle class birth less than a dozen participants were rates are declinin.g at a slower rate Anglos-three of them area ministors. LOS ANGELES-Police arrested a young than those of poor people. Government Earlier, about 300 Farmlngton High woman and three Juveniles at an al• School students signed a petition leged school for guerrillas in Black birth control programs aimed at the condemning the deaths-but they did Los Angeles, An "unidentified police poor and terrible economic conditions not show up for the vlRll. "Where are spokesman" Claimed that police found are the two main reasons for the de- all the 35.000 Anelo people?" one 15 guns and three "homemade bombs." alining rates. The government con• marcher asked."Don't they support our Arrested were 19-year-old Sister sciously uses birth control on poor protest?" Sandra Taylor, an 11-year-old sister and Third World people to "solve" the John Redhouse, a Navajo, said whom the oollce said had a loaded problems of poverty and discrimina• the killings were not surprising, handgun in her purse. A 17 and a 16 tion rather than allow redistribution "for years, it has heen almost a year-old brothers were busted at the of the country's x\Tealth and political sport, a sort of sick, per-ver-ted tra• house. Police suspect that the house power to poor and working people. dition among Anglo youth of Parming- occupants were connected with the •fcon ni5h, to go into the Indian sec• Black Liberation Army. CHILD LABOR - (Salem, Oregon) Gov, Tom Mccall asked the U,S, Department of Labor for relief from a new law that prohibits the children, what they fails to see IS on one person as a leader. It must be children under 12 from working in berry that the two-legged snake walking around, looked at by the pigs as organization is and bean harvests. Children 12 and 13 can biting them and the children , they can't the leader. In other words, it's not an• only work with parental permission, see them, because they have a mouth full other Malcolm X, xt's not another Cinque, of honey. This is the nature of this sys• it is the masses of leaders, that's strug• McCall said that 40 million pounds tem, capitalism. It don't just attack gling. When one falls, do not let this of Oregon strawberries could go unharves- Black Liberation Army. It may use these put distress, strain on your mind, because ted in three weeks time if children are words, but attacks the poor white, the when you do, you are weakened. You can barred from the fields. Brown, the Black, the Red and all poor expect death, at this day and time, many ARMS THEFT-"Hlgh level professionala" peoplea. Or if one has any doubt as to a death, but we can also expect when death stole machine guns,automatic rifles,var• what I'm saying, listen to the cry of is on both sides, this is where the weak ious types of grenades,grenade launchers the people dally. They're not just Ameri• got to go. The pig proves to be weak, he and thousands of rounds of ammunition can peoples. You go to New York, the peo• proved to you that he was weak in Los from a Compton Calf. National Guard ples are crying, Mississippi, Alabama, Angeles. I say, six hundred against six armory. Enough weapons were taken in Arkansas, New York, Chicago', California, if that wasn't enough proof I don't know the July 4 action to equip an entire Washington, in every state and in every what could be enough. And this is another army cirmpany(200 men). country where capitalism lies people are reason why brothers and sisters should SIOUX FALLS An announcement concerning crying, screaming. But what do we have not give up or even entertain a thought the opening of a Native American embas• here, daily, from our so-called news me• of doing such, just keep on struggling, sy in Washington D.C. was made in con• dia? Watergate, proposition so forth anJ keep on .fighting, every opportunity that junction with the International Treaty so on, the Supreme Court so forth, all you get to put something on the pigs' ass, Conference. The embassy will attempt these phoney TW shows, police heros and everytime he comes,sock it to him, fire• to open up diplomatic relations with o- all of this, something you never see in power, and speaking of power, I'm gonna ther nations including the U.S.A. Many reality in a conmunlty nowhere. This is cut it short here. All power to the peo- African,Asian and Latin American coun- another move that should be made by all pie. trys already recognize diplomatically organisations of peoples struggling for Ruchell Cinque Magee the Great Native American Nation. freedom. Do not have the attention focused FREE ALL PRISONERS OF WAR I PAGE 14 WORLD REVOLUTION SEIZE THE TIME WEATHER UNDERGROUND STRIKES

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WEATHER UNDERGROUND Gulf is the single largest investor Provisional Revolutionary Government of DOMDS GULF OIL in the Portuguese colonies. In 1966, it South Vietnam. The PRG, on June 3, warned June 13, 1974 struck oil off Cabinda Province in North• of retaliation against these oil deals. If we are fighting together, then I think ern Angola, production of Cabinda crude has now increased to 130,000 barrels per that the main aspect of our soliflarlty 2^ GULF AND Tm ENERGY CRISIS is extremely simple: it Is to fight.... day. Gulf paid Portugal $62 million last year alone for this concession. This ac• Tou must find the best means and the best Gulf and the giant oil companies use counts for 60X of Portugal's annual mili• forms ef fighting against our common ene• the energy crisis and the suffering of tary budget in Angola. Portugal is a small my; this l3 the best form of solidarity. the people to rake in windfall profits. poor country which couldn't afford to Amllcar Cabral -founder of Priorities are upside down. The US mili• maintain colonies In Africa without US the African Party for the tary consumes enormous amounts of oil while corporate support. Independence o£ Guinea and poor people bear the brunt o£ their poll" Gulf guarantees Portugal a gonstant the Cape Vsrde Islands cies! unprecedented price increases, cold source o£ oil for military and strategic (PAIGC)iasaasBlnated Jan. 73 homes, unemployment and hardship. Faced purposes. Since the Arab oil embargo, Ca- with a continuing challenge from the Third l3inda Gulf became a main supplier of oil We have attacked the Gulf Oil Cor• World over control of natural resources, to Portugal and to South Africa(via a sub• poration at its executive headquarters in the oil companies raised their prices and sidy in Mozambique), This enables Portu• Pittsburgh, Pa., for their enormous crimes: their profits and used the occasion of gal to continue its African wars, and -Gulf finances the Portuguese colon• the Arab oil embargo to exact a blank gives material support to South African ial war against the people of Angola check for expanding their control over all apartheid at a time when it is under se• in Africa energy resources and reserves. -Gulf steals bonanza profits from vere pressure. Hiding behind the banner of US self- poor and working people in the US Gulf installations in Cabinda are surrounded by barbed wire, spotlights and sufficiency and the search for new resour• -Gulf exploits the people and re• ces, Gulf ravages people's way of life and sources of 70 countries in the world machine-gun carrying security patrols. De• spite these drastic fortifications, Gulf destroys the land. Gulf is one of the con- GULF IS OUR COMMON ENDff panles that plans to devastate 939,000 ac• With the recent military coup in Por• can never be safe from armed attacks. Since 1964, the liberation forces have res of Native American land in the South• tugal, the colonial wara came home. For west in its "search for coal." Gulf alrea• ten years, Portugal has maintained a wall dy owns 207o of the Four Corners Pipeline of silence around the African wars. Now Co,, which stripmines Hopi and Navajo the liberation forcea have to be openly lands to deliver crude to Los Angeles. recognised because Portugal is losing in Africa. 4i CONTRIBUTIONS TO NIXON The liberation aovcMents in the African countries of Angola, Hoembique Gulf was one of the biggest contri• •t»d Cuinea-Biaaaw have intensified their butors to the Nixon campaign fund In 1972. •*rr.6g^* indsycndcncc and free* Along with the contribution of Gulf heir doH, knoving that conditions are now ripe Richard Mellon Scaife, Gulf gave $1,169,400 for victory. In Angola, the ne« Portuguese to re-elect Nixon. This Included an ille• govemment has banned demonstrations after gal "gift" of $100,000 which Gulf execu• thousands of people rallied in the streets tives laundered in the Bahamas, demanding Immediate independence. Gulf can afford giant contributions. THIS 13 A DECISIVE MOMENT IN THE It is owned by the Mellon family, who STRUGGLE FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION, A TIME stole their wealth from the sweat o£ the WHICH CALLS FOR HEIGHTENED SUPPORT FOR people 100 years ago and are today one of THE APRTCAN MOVEMENTS, the richest ruling-claas families in the US, In addition to owning Gulf Oil, the ^-^^ 211 ANGOLA Mellons control Alcoa aluminum and Koppers United. Gulf Oil itself has subsidiaries Angola is a large, beautiful country including Pittsburgh Midland and Coal, of 6 million people on the Southwest coast Jones and Laughlln Steel Corp., and the of Africa, 14 ti CO the size of Portugal THE OLD LIFE UNDER PORTUGUESE recently acquired Holiday Inn chain. Mel• lon also bar, major holdings in about 100 itself. It possesses extraordinary miner• COLONIALISM IN MOZAMBIQUE leading companies, like Westlnghouse, al and agricultural wealth and i« the frlBc "posacaaion" of Portuguese colonial- Like the struggle against ITT(Inter- Portugal has Systwtically forced seriously challenged Culf's presence in national Telephone and Telegraph) in the counter-revolution in Chile, Gulf must be Aagplaoa into alaveo. forced labor, il• Cabinda. In 1968, during an MPLA offen• sive, one-fifth of all Portuguese troops stopped from financing imperialism in A- literacy and hunger for over 400 years. frica, and the world, and at home. Gulf It haa prOMted th« myth of '•racial bar- in Africa were needed to defend Gulf in• terests In cabinda. And as recently as must be defeated in order for the people •»ny" in the midst of brutal Oppression to be free. and, like the VS in Pverto Rico, has even January 1974, liberation forces attacked enemy barracks at Makondo, Cabinda, using denied that Angola is a colony. "Munga mba wungurina Angola mondi biluka." In 1956, the Popular Movement for automatic weapons and mortars. Both MPLA and UNITA(another Angolan the Liberation of Angola(MPLA) formed. Be• "Tomorrow, or sometime after tomorrow, guerrilla movement) have condemned Gulf's ginning the armeJ struggle in 1961, it there will be change in Angola," role in Southern Africa; grew from 6 ftmall group of dedicated filt• -- popular expression among the The MPLA states that with the inevi• ers to a people's army of thousands Of Angolan people. table independence of Angola all militants and supporters, Today, MPLA go• BOYCOTT GULF these companies which operate off• verns the eastern third of Angola and has CULF AND PORTUGAL OUT OF AFRICA shore or inland will be chased from «jrganliied clinics and SCHOOlS aS Wfiil ds STOP GULF'S PLUNDER OF THE PEOPLE "people's food atores" in each liberated our national territory and all their tone. Women take part in every aspect of equipment and assets seized. the fight for liberation. MPLA Statement, Feb. 1974 The Portuguese government has re• Gulf crimes in Angola have sparked sponded to people's war In Angola with Intense protests in the US, Canada and techniques learned and perfected by the Europe in recent years. A nationwide boy• US in Vietnam. "Search and Destroy" are cott of Gulf has been organized and led caled "Hunt and Persecute" by Portugal; by Black activists and other supporters "strategic hamlets" are called "peace vil• of African liberation. Despite Gulf at• lages" in Angola, Napalm and crop defoli• tempts to hide behind a cloud of slick ants dropped from US-supplied planes, tor• public relations gimmickry, the slogan ture in the prisons, wholesale terror a- "Culf Kills" is more widely understood galnst the population are part of Portu• than ever. guese rule. Over one million Angolans(20X of the population) have been forcibly re• 2. WORLD-WIDE EXPLOITATION moved from their land and homes thru pa• cification programs, Gulf's activities in Africa are a ALL OF THIS IS FINANCED BY THE US microcosm of its role in the world. Gulf GOVERNMENT AND THE GULF OIL CORPORATION. exploits over 70 nations, including Puer• Thru NATO, the US provides substan• to Rico. It is part, for example, of a tial military and technical support for huge oil consortium working together with Portugal. This less direct form of US in• the Thieu dictatorship to "develop" oil tervention does not lessen the ultimate reserves off the Mekong Delta of South regponslbility of the US government for Vietnam. This plan will give huge reve• the htanan suffering imposed on the people nues and strategic resources to the Thieu THE NEW LIFE,FRELIMO: of Africa. regime in its continuing war against the GEian THE TIME ' PAGE 15

This is the section on Guine-Bissau from a serious threat to racist rule in the our political statement PRAIRIE FIRE whole area. Consequently, the battle lines which will WG released soon. have hardened and the US has more openly supported Portugal and the white racist governments in South Africa and Rhodesia, eUINE-BISSAU (from HSAIRIE FIRE) In 1971, the Nixon government gave Guine-Bifisau is a small country o£ Portugal a $436 million loan in return 800,000 people on the WCBt COflSt Of Afri• for continued US use of the Azores as a ca. It was from her shores that Portugal military base. US companies have a grow• initiated the notorious West African slave ing Stake in Portuguese success; they are trade over four hundred years ago, 9ince now the third largest investors in the 1963, a fierce people's war has been waged Portuguese colonies. Gulf Oil Company by the forces of the African Party for the pays Portugal $62 million a year for its Independence of Culne and the Cape Verde right to on resources off the Angola islands(PAIGC). They have been fighting coast. In November, 19 73, Gulf acknow• and defeating over 35,000 Portuguese ledged the discover of new deposits in troops who have been armed, supplied and this area which it called "the most pro• trained by the US and other NATO powers. lific south o£ the Middle East." When the Arab states halted oil shipments to On September 24, 1973, Arlstides Portugal and South Africa, Gulf helped Pereira, Secretary-General of PAIGC, de• take up the slack, sending oil to both clared Guine-Bissau independent from Por• countries and Mozambique, tuguese rule. He announced that the new Republic o£ Guine-Blasau would continue since 1924 by a fascist dictatorship. It Over half of all US African invest• to battle the Portuguese soldiers on its spends over 50% of its budget on the mi• ments are in South Africa, which functions territory and would also press for the litary and has fielded an army of 250,000 as a Junior partner of Western imperial• liberation of the Cape Verde Islands. Sbm troops to fight in Africa, Like all co• ism. South Africa is currently fighting after, the UN General Assembly voted over• lonialist and imperialist countries, Por- liberation movements in Nambia(Southwest whelmingly to extend recognition to the tual is now seeing the chickens come home Africa), Zimbabwe(Rhodesia) and within new nation. The US, along with South Afri• to roost, Its attempts to crush liberation its own borders. As Portugal loses Its ca, Portugal, and Israel, opposed the re• In Africa have created the conditions for hold over Angola and Mozambique, more di• solution. Eighty-two nations have now rebellion at home. Over 100,000 youth rect South African Intervention Is likely. formally recognised the new government. have fled the country to avoid the draft. This is the Southern Axis in Africa Others have deserted from the army.~Armed -- Portugal, South Africa, the US, the attacks within Portugal have risen -- in NATO powers, Rhodesia -- lined up against April, a troop ship about to sail from millions of Africans demanding self-deter• Lisbon to Guine-Bissau with 1,000 men a- mination. The fight for liberation in board, was rocked by an explosion. The ac• Southern Africa is a strategic center- tion was claimed by the Revolutionary point in the battle against Imperialism. Brigade Organization. The recent military coup in Portual reflects the success of the African guer• rillas and the deep opposition to the wars among large numbers of Portuguese, It could be said of the ousted fascist go• AMTLCAR CABRAL, vernment of Marcello Caetano what Cabral SLAIN FOUNDER OF THE PAIGC said of the death of the previous Portu• guese dictator Salazar: "Africa was the Revolution has profoundly changed disease that killed him." The coup has Cuinean life, FAIGC has liberated almost unleashed a wave of open anti-fascist or• three-fourths of the countryside. Many ganizing among the Portuguese people and people now attend schools in places where has also triggered Intensified popular no achoola existed before. Health care pressure to end the African wars. has become a priority in a country where It is doubtful, however, that the only one hospital was built by Portugal new junta will agree to the only possible in over one hundred years. Women have as• solution in Africa: complete Independence sumed a central role in the revolutionary for Angola, Mozambique, and Guine-Bissau. process, breaking from the limits and op• The junta's leader, General Antonio Spi- pression of the colonial past. Liberation nola, fought with fascists in the Spanish continues to flower In the midst of bat- Civil War, served with the Nazi Army dur• tle--this is what PAIGC calls "bulding the ing World War II, and was the major Por• revolution as we fight." tuguese commander In the losing war a- Amilcor Cabral was the leader of gtiinst Guine-Bissau. Spinola has floated ANGOLAN GIRL STUDYING READER PUBLISHED PAIGC until his assassination by Portu• out visions of neocolonial non-solutions BY THE PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBER• guese agents In January 1973. Cabral was which have been categorically rejected by ATION OF ANGOLA [MPLA]. a powerful, unifying spokeparson for all the liberation forces. Luis Cabral, the the African liberation movements. He was The African liberation- struggles new President of the Republic o£ Guine- one of the truly great, original revolu• have been hidden wars, rarely mentioned Bissau has said that; tionary theorists of this era, a dedica• in the US press. It has taken the con• Spinola talks a lot and he has been ted fighter in the cause cf liberation. certed work of the Black movement to known to make a lot of promises. But His murder was a cruel blow to Africa and break the Silence in this country. Black we know that the only language he to the world revolution, organizations have pushed forward boycott listens to comes from the guns of Guine-Bissau is the first Portuguese campaigns against Gulf Oil and Portuguese our forces, hitting him and hitting colony to declare Independence. Its lib• products, have Identified US support for him again. eration struggle has bad an effect In A- Portugal and South Africa, and are now frica similar to the worldwide effects Of demanding US recognition of the new Repub• Portugal could not sustain its co• the Vietnamese struggle. It has been a lic of Guine-Bissau. Longshoremen in Ba• lonial wars without the aid of the West• catalyst for the movements in the other ton Rouge, Baltimore and San Francisco — ern imperial powers, Asa NATO member it Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozam• have refused to unload shipments of Rho- receives arms and supplies from the US bique, and has spurred the rise of revo• desian chrome, brought here in violation and Europe, Southern Africa is of great lution throughout Southern Africa. At the of a UN ban. strategic Importance to imperialism--a same time, the liberation movements have All these activities are important source of valuable raw materials, cheap won more open support from the Organiza• for our movement to support and help labor, high-profit investments. Victories tion of African Unity(OAU), which repre• build. With the current crisis in Portu• for PAIGC, FRELIMO and MPLA could pose sents a broad range of African states. gal, this is a key time to intensify In Angola, the Popular Movement for worldwide support for the African liber• the Liberation of Angola(MPLA) has lib• ation movements. While some movement erated one-third of the land -- territory organizers are now engaged in work around inhabited by one million Angolans, In Mo• Africa, many more of us should make it a zambique, the guerrillas of the Mozambique part of our daily work. This involves both Liberation Front(FRELIMO) have launched a commitment to action and to political ed• powerful new offensive against the centers ucation: a good place to begin is with of Portuguese power. FRELIMO forces have Amllcar Cabral's writings -- Revolution crossed the Zambesi River, the supposedly in Guine, Return to the Source, Our Peo• impenetrable natural defense lin of Por• ple are Our Mountains -- and Basil David• tugal in Mozambique, They have challenged son's Liberation of Gulne. Learn from the Portugal's planned operation of the huge people. A basis can be laid within the Caborra Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River. movement for a new level of Solidarity Combined with attacks on the Strategic with the African struggle. railway between landlocked Rhodesia and the Mozamblcan port of Beira, these FRELI• PORTUGAL OUT OF AFRICA MO operations have shaken Portugal's hold NO US OR NATO AID TO PORTUGAL OR SOUTH on the country. AFRICA Portugal is a poor country, run RECOGNIZE GUINE-BISSAU mcx 16 SEIZE m mc

HOW ARMED STRUGGLE BEGAN IN SOUTH VIET NAM

REPRINTED FROM VIETNAM COURIER February 15, 1961, in Resistance Zone River Delta. A series of big prisons were From the end of 1955 to 1956, as Diem D, about 60kin from Saigon as the crow flies. set up, each holding 5,000-7,000 persons stepped up his "denounce the Communists" In a small hut erected beside a stream at a time, like Chi Hoa jall(Saigon), Thu campaign, the hunt for patriots and form• «tiicK flowed through the primeval forest* Due jall(Gla Dlnh), Phu Lol jall(Thu Dau er resistance members became fiercer. find• sat a dozen or so people, all clad in Mot), Bien Hoa jail, etc. Not only were ing it impossible to live and carry on the black pajamas-the everyday costume of the democratic freedoms trampled underfoot political struggle in the countryside the peasants-but sporting the latest type o£ and peace-aspirations shattered, but the latter fled to former resistance bases American pistol, huddled around a big Sai• economic gains of the people during the such as the Plain of Reeds(southwest of gon array operations map. They were no anti-French resistance were also abolish• Saigon), the U Minh jungle(between Bac longer young, with faces sunburnt by long ed. The people's administration had shared Lieu and Rach Gia povinces on the Gulf of years spent as combatants-some had fought out about 630,000 hectares of land to the Thailand) or Resistance Zones D and C(narth for more than thirty years for the inde• peasants(this figure Included 564,547 hec• and northeast of Saigon). Diem sent his pendence and freedom of their country. tares alloted to 527,163 peasants in the troops after them. Cornered, they had to The conference was presided over by Mekong Delta). With Diem's coming into organize self-defence together with the Tran Nam Trung, Head of the Military Com- power the old tyrannical landlords who local people. In their fight for survival Blssion of the South Viet Nam National had been driven away by the revolution the first units of the Liberation Army Front for Liberation which had just come staged a comeback. Diem's "land reform" took shape, one or two companies in Into existence in this same 2one(he is new created the necessary conditions for them strength in some places and a battalion Minister of National Defence in the Pro• to recover all the land that had been in others. visional Revoliitlonary Government of South distributed to the tillers. The "denounce Meanwhile, in the cities, the poor• Viet Naa). Taking part in the conference the Communists" campaign was a golden op• est sections of the labouring masses and were tbe leaders of the movement of armed portunity for them to take bloody repri• those without a regular job were being stmssle and the liberation armed forces sals against the peasants. An atmosphere pushed out of the cities during the so- fro» all parts of South Viet Nam during of white terror weighed more and more called 'tity embellishment plan". Many tbe fateful

Thien-Hoa-Binh General Staff"(abbrevation er resistance zones. Not only were arrests, In a daring attack on Dau Tieng district for the religious groups of the Cao, Dai, imprisonments and dportations multiplied town in Thu Dau Mot province(0ct. 10, 1958) Thien chua, Catholic, Hoa Hao and Blnh but medieval-type tortures and killings they ovexran the headquarters of a mili• Xuyen). They established contact with, were also widely applied: disembowelling, tary sub-sector, putting out o£ action a and received financial assistance from plucking out livers, burying alive...Sueh battalion of Saigon troops, routing anoth• the anti-US-Dlem forces in exile in France were the methods of reprisal used by the er battalion and destroying several offi• and Cambodia. reactionary landlords and the most wicked ces Of the puppet administration. The at• The anti-dictatorship armed forces agents of the Saigon regime who were com• tacking force took control of the terrain in the years 1956-1957 actually became monly referred to by the people as "cruel for one day and one night and captured o- thQ prop of tho people's struggle. In re• agents" or'tyrants". At the same time Sai• ver 200 assorted weapons together with a turn, they enjoyed effective help from gon troops conducted sweeps against remote sizeable quantity of military equipment the people who provided them food and resistance bases in the U Minh jungle, the and food. Following this defeat, the Sai• manpower, enabling them to survive and Plain o£ Reeds, Resistance Zone D, and gon forces had to evacuate 21 isolated develop. The armed forces of the religi• other areas. posts in the district. In a surprise at• ous sects, to enhance their reputation The revolutionary movement suffered tack in Bien Hoa town on Oct, 25, 1958, a among the population and to break the en• heavy losses. Hundreds of thousands of ca• small unit of the people's armed forces circlement by the Saigon army, launched dres and people were arrested or massacred. penetrated into the office of the MAAG(Mi- a number o£ operations against military The self-defense organizations in the litary Assistance Adviosry Group) killing positions and political and economic cen• countryside were broken up. The armed for• 13 American "advisors and seriously wound• tres of the Saigon regime around the re• ces in the resistance bases had to be re• ing six others with plastic explosives. sistance bases. The Hao Hao armed forces duced. In particular, the resistance army After those resounding exploits, the fought a doaen battles in the neighbour• of the religious sects dwindled into a revolutionary armed units were supplied hood of the V Minh jungle. In some battles, mere token force. with more and better arms and equipment. they made Impressive gains, as was the Naturally, the more the people's self- With their assistance in cadres and arma• case of the Cai San battle in April 1956, defence organizations shrank, the more ag• ments, Bien Hoa, Thu Dau Mot and Tay Ninh when they wiped out an entire Saigon com• gressive the cruel agents in the locali• provinces founded their own arroed units. pany. The Blnh Xuyen and Cao Dal forces ties became and the bloodier the crimes Thus, right in the "darkest period" a sys• were active along Highways 13 and 14, win• they perpetrated. More and more cadres tem of military forces of the revolution ning some resounding successes as at Dau were arrested and many more revolutionary gradually came into existence in South Tieng, Thu Dau Mot province, on October 9 organizations in the villages and hamlets Viet Nam, comprising several kinds of 1956 or at Ben Cui village, Bien Hoa pro• were broken up. The South Vietnamese peo• troops, the regular forces, the regional vince, on October 24, 1956. ple call this " the darkest period." forces, and the militia and guerrillas in The gunfire of resistance against Though this was a major setback of the the villages and hamlets, the puppet regime of the US had the im• revolution, the revolutionaries and the mediate effect of maintaining the confi• people had learnt the hard way that to SIMULTANEOUS UPRISINGS dence of the people saw that the revolu• survive and wage an efficacious political At the end of 1958 and early'1959, tion was still there, beside them, and struggle they could no longer limit them• Diem's policy of terror had reached .its this encouraged them to carry on the fight. selves to purely defensive methods. The height. He decreed the so-called Law 10/59 As a result all through 1956 and until most urgent thing was to punish the cruel set up guillotines everywhere to behead early 1957, the vast countryside in form• agents and tyrants,the most reactionary anyone charged with being a Communist and er Cochinchlna, more particularly in the forces in the countryside. Step by step intensified the "rural pacification" cam• Mekong River delta, remained out of Sai• the self-defence organizations were re• paign. He divided South Viet Nam into dif• gon's control. The results of first "de• stored in the form of " armed youth organ• ferent zones to conduct "sweeps", openly nounce the communists" campaigns were ne• izations" or militia and guerrilla groups. launching a unilateral war against the en• gligible. From their experience, drawn tire population. Units in striped uniforms from popular struggle, the leaders in Nam composed of the most blood-thirster ele• Bo compiled an important document at the ments were sent to the countryside to car• end of 1956 entitled: "On the Revolution ry out a real vrtiite terror there. In Ca in South Viet Nam." The gist of this do• Mau province, for instance, the first half cument as follows: The advance of the of 1959, 800 people were killed. Meanwhile revolution in South Viet Nam must rely on Can Tho province was subjected to as many the force of the masses, Pglitical strug• as 5,000 operations and raids, big and gle must be supported by military activi• small, while the herding of people into ties in the fight against the US-Diem po• concentration camps disguised as "Prosper*- licy of repression and terror so as even• ity Zones", "Model Villages" and "Reset• tually to overthrow the fascist dictator• By 1958. the punishment of local tyrants tlement Centres" was intensified. ship in Saigon and win back power for the and the destruction of the greassroots The struggle of the people of all people. administration of the Diem regime had be• strata was at its fiercest. The politi• come a widely-extending mass movement. cal struggle for peace, freedom, democra• THE DARKEST PERIOD Some of the tyrannical agents at the top cy and the Improvement of the people's The road of the revolution in South of the administration at district and e- living conditions, and against terror and Viet Nam, however, was not a smooth one. ven province levels were executed one af• repression was stepped up. In Western Nam After declaring his rejection of the elec• ter another. This encouraged the popula• Bo, within the first six months of 1959, tions scheduled for July 1956, Diem inten• tion and had a sobering effect on the en• about 2,134 struggles were recorded with sified his"denounce the Communists" cam• emies Of th6 revolution. 500,000 participants. There was also an paign. To provide support for the movement increase in violent action to destroy the In ito second phase, the campaign in the villages and hamlets, the regular puppet administration's grassroots organ• switched its priority target to the jun• armed forces of the people and the remain• izations in the countryside, such as dem• gle areas along the Truong Son(the Indo- ing forces of the opposition religious onstrations and demand for the resigna• chinese Cordillera-mountain ranges)and sects stepped up their activities. Hun• tion of Diem's agents and the dismissal the Central Highlands. In April 1957, dreds of young men from various villages of local authorities. As a result, there Diem created the "Department fcir Social in the plains volunteered and joined those were 326 cases of puppet administrators Affairs in the Central IIlghlands"wlth the armed units in the resistance bases. overthrown in such a "legal way," Besides, aim of co-ordinating railltarjf and social The Eastern part of Nam Bo became armed actions to do away with cruel agents actions to realize the plan for the "pa• the centre of the armed struggle. Resis• and spies and in support of the political cification" of this mountain region. This tance Zones D and C were strengthened in struggle also increased. Teh number of was to be carried out through terror and all fields and extended to the mountain subversive activities in Bac Lieu, Ca Mau, repression by military forces on the one regions inhabited by ethnic minorities Rach Gia and Can Tho provinces in Western hand, and cajolery and deception on the known in the French time as the "three Nam Bo, averaged from 50 to 60 monthly. other. But here, Saigon ran into the r^ border area"(Cambodia, Central Viet Nam In Bien Boa, Thu Dau Mot and Tay Ninh pro• slstance of the ethnic minorities which and Cochinchlna) and further north to the vinces not a day passed without a cruel culminated in the armed uprisings of the areas bordering on the Central Highlands, agent being punished for his misdeeds. Raglay tribe in Ninh Thuan province, the parts untrodden by the resistance forces In the second half of 1959, many pea• Bahnar tribe in Vinh Thanh in the western during the years of anti-French fighting. sants' uprisings broke out against the part of Blnh Dinh province in early 1958, Readily assisted by the tribal groups of administrative machine in the countryside. and the Cor and Hre ethnic minorities in the ethnic minorities the people's armed In June in the provinces of Western Nam Western Quang Ngal In 1959. forces could, by putting Into use their Bo - the scene of many of the fiercest By the end of 1957 and early 1958, experience in agricultural production and operations and raids conducted by Diem the central target of the "denounce the exploiting the resource of the forests, troops - the provincial revolutionary com• Comraunists" campaign switched to the Me• before long attain self-sufficiency In mittee Issued an appeal to the peasants kong River delta where the enemy had only food. Taking advantage of the rough ter• to rise up to smash the coercive organi• obtained poor results in the previous cam• rain in the mountain region and applying zations and eliminate die-hard cruel a- paigns. Saigon sent its most efficient, guerrilla warfare tactics, they foiled gents. In Eastern Nam Bo, in October 1959, most experienced agents from Central Viet major sweeps and attacks by the 3rd, 25th, the peasants in Chau Thanh, Duong Minh Nam tothe Mekong delta where, in conjunc• 7th and 13th divisions of the Saigon army Chau and Ben Cau districts of Tay Ninh- tion with the local reactionaries, they trained and equipped by the US. province rose up to break all the coer• launched a campaign to "wipe out the re• The resistance units not only suc• cive organizations in the villages and maining Communist cadre," ie. patriots ceeded in preserving their forces but al• hamlets. After this, people's uprisings and former resistance cadres. The explicit so made successful offensives against ma• spread far and wide throughout this fer• goal of this campaign was to "root out the ny enemy bases, such as Minh Thanh, Thu tile and populous delta area. Of particu• Communists." Dinh Tuong province(formerly Dan Mot province(August 10, 1957), Trai lar interest was the peasants' uprising My Tho) was chosen as a pilot province in Be and Lo Than In Bien Hoa(Sept. 18 and in Ben Tre province beginning Jan. 17, 1960. the campaign which was to spread to the Dec, 12, 1957). In 1958, they achieved There, notwithstanding the absence of big surrounding areas, in particular the form• still bigger and more significant feats. armed units and the security of firearms SE12E THE TIME ly mass organizations of the working class shows clearly the crying need for a CLASS STRUGGLE! Leninist Party(ies) and an organized re• volutionary movement. But the strategies described above A Scientific Understanding of the Role of to shape the demands and control the u„5. Trade unionism is Absolutely Essen- struggles of our class can only be effec• tive if capitalists are willing and able tint to Oonroiunists Doing Trade Union Work to deliver the goods on the economic de• and T'orkplace Organizing, mands, and only to the extent that the conditions of life and work under capit• alism are bearable. AFt-CIA Today more than ever since WWII this The strategies of monopoly capital• to channel the actual class conflict in• Is not the case. As the quality of life ism for control and containment of revo• to "institutionalized" forms of struggle. is deteriorating, the cost of living out• lutionary Struggles include the use of This is a consoleusly formed and frequent- stripping puny wage increases, the force trade unionism accepted, encouraged, stated strategy o£ monopolists, of fascism becoming ever more blatant; and even advocated by the ruling class the demands for national liberation and since the 30's. This strategy has paid CONTROLLING THE CONTENT OF WORKERS' socialist revolution begin to explode off well for monpoly capitalism. The on• DEMANDS through all the clever strategies for ly mass organization of the working class US trade unions limit workers' de• control and cooptation devised by the has become the most effective means for mands to more money whenever they can get corporate fascists 1 its control and repression. away with it. As Karl Marx showed in We communists are the organizing a- Labor gangsters from John L. Lewis CAPITAL, the sale of our laborpower is gents of this explosion. This is our job. to George Meany have served as effective the transaction which lies at the heart Under these conditions it is our duty to agents of monpoly capitalism in shaping of capitalist relations. And that's one raise the genuine demands of the working the labor movement according to its in• of the main jobs of "labor leaders" to class and lead the forces of revolution terests, purging it of socialist tenden• sell our labor and with it our control of forward in the battle for socialism and cies, and utilizing its resources in the the value we produce. (Of course, you can national liberation. Any so-called commu• interests of counter-revolution. be sure that when they sell us, they take nists who try to confine the demands of In fact, the institution of trade their cut. The pimps) Their very nature the working class to economisra or who unionism today serves monopoly capitalism is to be automatic "sell-outs", as the otherwise ally with the agents of monopo• so well that since its birth the CIA has apt expression goes. And the union con• ly capitalism in the working class organ• financed and operated through Intenvatioo- tract, the bible of the trade union move• izations are themselves agents of fascian. al organizations of the AFL-CIO in every ment, is really nothing more than a bill The above view of unions and trade fcreign nee-colony where the forces of of sale. A receipt. unionism is already commonly held by much national liberation and socialiaa rise up. The economist demands of unions are of the working class. In this respect the • - Je uniooiaa has becoae always presented as ends in themselves, masses are already far ahead of many so- es« nstioos to pre• rather than as demands which expose the called communists. What is_ lacking is the sent tb« •otioa of tbe oppressed peoples inhumanity of capitalism and the need for awareness of an alternative in theory into rcwolatiaaary wr. Here coo in the socialism. and most especially in practice the r.S. it Mist be said that this is an es• Excluded from the demands of the leadership of a Leninist Party(ies), sential role of the unioos. workers are all things threatening to mo• ns« of mrfoM for the control nopoly capitalism: democratic rights for and ccntaiis>ent of the working class is workers on the job, control of production, a tribute to the sophistication of US political demands, etc. corporate fascism. Fifty years ago, for m addition, the issues of national example, when farmworkers dared to organ• chauvinism and national liberation are ise, the ownerD called the cops and hired held by unions to be totally out of bounds. S A B O T A C goons. Now. when the farmworkers dare to In the workplace, it is always the boss ^abolaqc means to push back. organize, the owners call in their own who is "leading tbe battle against racisn" STRIKE WAVE: I pull out or t,r,^ol< o/r tl,« union, rhe Teaweters, by jive affirmative action charades. fanqjof Capilalijm It is national form uhlch causes the "IJ\.BOR" IN C0VT;R>MENT AND CAPITALIST PO• intensity of oppression of Black and Chi• LITICAL FARTIES cano Nations, and it is national form On the week ending July 15, 588 The ccmmon characteristic of the which gives their struggle its force and Strikes broke out or continued within the state of monopoly capitalism is the at• direction. So it is not surprising that United States.A total of 230,000 workers tempt to create the illusion of tbe "cor- national forma of organization are great• were on strike. At this time last year ^Mtive state" the state representing ly geared by trade union leaders, who ex• there were 279 strikes and only 70,000 the supposed tu—cn ioterests of all pose themselves as champions of white na• striking employees. cl«sses(Kational chauvinisa has alws •s tional chauvinism by their opposition, There are currently more strikes in b««n 4 han<*y Mans to enhance this illu• (Just as certain "revolutionary" organi• the country since any time after the great sion) . The bourgeols-deeiocratic state zations similarly expose theselves in the strike wave following the second World uses the myth of being above and outside movement), Nationalist workers organize War. Among the groups of striking workers of the class struggle. As the state ex- tions can unleash powerful forces of were; state and city employees, transit, t^ttdi its role into society and evpanJs class Struggle In the union and in the steel, chemical and auto workers, airline mechanics and police men - just to mention Strategies of total social control. It workplace, and can open the door to in• a few. loses this cover and is forced to pick up ternational unity of the proletariat based on the revolutionary alliance. Bourgeois economists from "liberal" a new toytti to conceal its class nature. Paul Sarauelson of M.I.T. University to It attempts to present itself ae inclu• CONTROLLING THE NATURE OF THE BATTLE conservatives are deeply worried by the ding the legitimate leaderslilp of the Through US trade unionism the actuai working class. From the 1930*s to the strike wave and Nixon's economic policies. struggles of the working class are Instl- present "labor leaders" have played this Ninon's "anti-inflatiori' campaign calls tuticnallzed! they are made a part o£ the for a large increase in unemployment, role. Today, however, as corporate fas• system. Games are played in which both cism Is on the defensive against the ri- lower wages, worse safety conditions and Sides "play by the rules" and share the higher corporate profits. The Wall Street sins tide o£ revolution, the BrennanB and same overall objectives. Because union economists say that these policies which the Fitasimmona and tbe Meany's stand demands never go beyond the relations of more than ever before exposed as servants have hit Third World people hardest will monopoly capitaliem the union aecs the certainly bring race war and eventually Ot fascism. longterra "health" of the industry as its Election trends point toward many "will raise the sleeping dogs of class own concern. war". Communists have been predicting future Democratic administrations at the Grievance resolution too has been state and national level where Republi• this strike wave for the past few years. increasingly bureaucratized. Instead of If they do their job right, revolutiona• cans now sit in power. This will surely settling the beef on the workplace floor mean even more participation by trade ries have a good opportunity to raise the and thus acquiring awaremess of and abil• consciousness of the working class and union leaders in government both directly ity to exercise their power, the workers and Indirectly. The mere fact of this strengthen both national and class strug• find their grievance wirtten up in legal gle. participation serves to expose the fas- terras and stuck Into long slow process ciBt role of these leaders, since much of which moves towards binding arbitration. MOBILE STRIKE BREAKER the working class already clearly sees And the law handed down by the arbitrator that the state is entirely in the hands is fundamentally the law of capitalist Mid-June saw a wildcat strike in of its enemies. relations pure injustice to the working Warren Michigan close down a Dodge truck class. THE INSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF US TRADE plant. The workers were protesting racism, Organizationally too unions reflect UNIONISM health and safety hazards, harrassment their roles in capitalism today. Like But the role of US trade unionism In and dangerous speedups. Naturally, the every other monopoly capitalist organiza• controlling the proletariat is not limi• United Auto Workers' Local 140 officials tion, they are anti-democratically organ• ted to the actions of the top leadership„ opposed this progressive strike. Strike ized, in a bureaucratic manner, with all Forty years of rampant monopoly capital• breaker. Judge Hunter Stair, rode a Dodge power and information concentrated at ism has shaped a unionism which is liter• flatbed truck to the picket line in his the top, leaving the rank and file iso• ally a part of monopoly capitalism.Ihrougl robes and started busting the picketing lated, uninformed, and powerless. unions coporate fascism cittempts to de• workers on the spot. Strikebreakers like fine the content of workers' demands in THE NEED FOR A PARTY this must be dealt with in a revolution• thg interests of the ruling class, then This sad state of affairs in the on- ary way cont on 19 SEIZE m TIME PACE 19 BOU ARMEB fflWJGGLE BEGAN IN SOtrra VIET NAM conC. froa pg. 3 CAK BOHBIItGS lief force from Tay Ninh provincial capi• cont. from pg 17 tal which took back half the weapons, a- President of lMAS(T?nited Mexican Aoerican and explosive weapons for self-defence, bout 1,200 assorted guns and rounds of am• Students)in 1972. He ran on the Raza Unida the peasants in four districts rose up munition remained in the insurgents' hands. ticket for the Board of Rengents at C.V. and using strategems, seized isolated All told, 400 enemy soldiers were killed, Freddie often suffered repression from posts, captured puppet administrators, including a colonel and a lieutenant-colo• C.V. officials because of his militancy. executed the cruellest agents, and set up nel, and 500 others captured. He was with Ricardo Falcon when Ricardo local power in the area. With the weapons After the attack on Tour 2 position, was shot In Oro Grande. N.M. captured from the enemy they organised the Saigon General Staff had to strike the In October, 1972, Freddie was a lea• guerrilla units to repulse enemy attacks. 13th Division off the roll. This victory der in the movement to recall Denver City The woman who directly led this uprising had 9 great psychological impact on the Councilman Eugene DiMannaj a known Ma£xo- was Mne Nguyen Thl Dlnh, now Deputy-Com- people as well as on the enemy troops and SO, vith a petition campaign. In other words, mander of the South Viet Nam National Lib• gave a strong impetus to the concerted Freddie had enemies in the eration Armed Forces. uprisings in the rural areas of Nam Bo. words, Freddie had enemies in the Estab• To give a strong impulse to the con• Shortly afterwards the anti-US-Diem lishment and the underworld. As "Corky" certed uprisings, part of the liberation armed forces in Eastern Nam Bo(including Gonzales said .after the explosions, "Or• armed forces in the base area in Eastern the people's forces and the forces of the ganised Cvimn fears us more than it feare Nam Bo joined the local forces to step up religious sects) were merged under a joint the police. They know they can buy the activities in support of the peasants. command -"the High Command of Eastern Nam police. They can't buy us." Diraanna has Meanwhile the major portion was deployed Bo Liberation Armed Forces" - and in the continuously harrassed and threatened to strike at a key enemy position so as provinces a military command system at all anyone who dared to challenge his power. to produce a strong impact on the area and levels ranging from villages through dis• In the sunmer of 1972, he was responsible at the same time to seize the enemy's wea• tricts to provinces was set up. After that^ for police attacks on a Denver park that pons and distribute them to the local for• in Central and Western Nam Bo - the centre had beenliberated by Chicanes and re• ces. The position singled out for attack of the concerted uprisings - similar mili• named La Raza Park, was Tour 2, tary commands were established. The other victims of the car explo• This was the French name of a former In 1960, the armed forces in Eastern sions included known activists and others colonial army post. Now also called Nguyen Nam Bo recorded resounding victories, de• not known for movement activities: Thai Noc fortress. Tour 2 was a forward stroying the enemy in many district capi• Ashley Una Jaakola, 24, from Roches• position facing the Cambodian border, 5km tals and military sub-sectors in Bien Hoa, ter, Minn, was the womanfrlend of Reyes north of Tay Ninh provincial capital. The Thu Dart Mot, Tay Ninh and other provinces. Martinez, She seemed to be politically enemy force here included nearly two reg• The peasant uprisings spread throughout uninvolved until she began to date Reyes iments and consisted mostly of recruits the rural areas of Eastern Nam Bo. It was and even then she apparently wasn't in• still under training with an armoured in the flames of these concerted uprisings volved very much. She had a double degree squadron and an artillery company both of that the South Viet Nam National Front for in sociology and psychology from C,U, which belonged to the 13th division of Liberation came into being on Dec. 20 , 1960, where she probably met Reyes, the Saigon army. On Feb, 26, 1960, a bat• and on Feb. 15, 1961, the patriotic armed Neva Arlene Romero, 20, from Ignacdo, talion from the forces of the religious forces of South Viet Nam were merged into Colo, was the daughter of Ignacio's Mayor sects,.started attacking the barracks. the People's Liberation Armed Forces, and ajunior at C.U. majoring in bi-lingual Taking advantage of the enemy soldiers' and bi-cultural education. Neva chose this preparations for the Lunar New Year Fes• February 1974 field because she deeply felt that Chlca- tival, a group of patriots secretly en• TA XUAN LINH nitos were not getting the education they tered the barracks and attacked from with• should. As an active member of UMAS, Neve in, while a bigger force struck from out• led.an hour-and-a-half takeouer of the side. The enemy troops were taken by sur• Boulder Valley School Board when the board prise and put to rout within a few minutes. Ho Chi Minh rejected a bi-llngual, bi-cultural pro• Those who tried to resist were wiped out. Father of the gram for 3 elementary schools, The major part of the recruits surrendered. Vienamese Revolution Neva did not limit her criticisms to The revolutionary forces seized a muni• the Establishment but extended them to tions dump and used the enemy trucks to Rasa when she felt it necessary, In 1972, take away a large quantity of weapons. In She spoke out against Tijerina's policies .spite of the interception of an enemy re- at the Congreso for Land and Cultural Re• form in Altu^usrque, and demanded that he gi\7e up Klse^ntrpl q£ the Cengreso, This summer, if Neva had lived, she would be ^> WORLD REVOLUTION NOTES working with younsters and senior citi• zens in Ignaclo. FARIS- At the conference of the European INDOCHINA-PRG forces launched a drive Francisco Luevano (Dougherty), 22, Left, the MIR(Movement of the Revolu• against the Da Nang military enclave formerly of Lare

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from The Song of the Fighters Companeros del arado yde toda herramionta "D^cnXniUJ 3tuLt Co. They rob ut of our land and put it under their nomas nos queda un camlno ploughs. lagarrar untreinta-treintal VVIion til* Irump^t sounded, it w** Tbcy raze our homa and buUd mUitary rtll |)rcyai-ctl on the earth, outposts. Comrades all, of the plow and working Implements and Jch()val\ parceled out tlie earth Crying -will not dissipate our jnger. to C'ocA-Cola, Inc., Anaconda, there's only one way now: Ford Motors, and other entitieK; Imploring piiy will not open the way w the rifle in our hands! The Fruit Company. Inc. salvation. reserved for itself the most succulent, Guns and bombs are not out way of life, Song of the 30-30 Garbine the central coast of my own land, We have never been friends of war; the delicate waitst of America. Prom the Mexican But tbcy bavc come armed to the teeth. It rcchriatcncd its tcrritonca Revolution Shall we resign ourselves to slavery? Never! and over the sleepinjf dead, Night after night under the palm trees, over the restless licroc.i Our land stirs, our people prepare for attack. who brought alwut the greatness, the liberty and the flaffs, Our fighters' eyes shine in the darkness. Advice to Oneself Watch the stars embrace the immense vault it estahhshed tlve comic njtera: Without the cold and desolation of ivtnte. ftboiishwl the independencies, of heaven. Caesar, There could not be the warmth and splendor prrsented crowns of Ferward Wf mttrch fnging passionately unshMthfti envy, attracted of spring. the dictatorship of tlie Hies. Of OUT beloved land. Our blood and bones Calamity has tempered and hardened me Trujillo flies. Tiicho flies, shall be the ramparts! And turned my mind to steel. CariAs flies. MartinM flies. Thanh liai Ho Chi Minh

Uhico flios. damp flies of modest blood «nd marmalade, drunken flies uho zoom over the ordinary frravcs, circus flies, wise flies Till trained in trronnyi

Among the bloodthirsty flics the Fruit Company lands its ships, taking off the coffee and the fruit, the treasure of our suhmerged territories flows as though on plates into tlie ships.

Meanwliilc Indians are fallinj; into the su;rared chasms of the linrhors, wrapjjcd for buiial in tlie mist of the dawn: a body roll.'!, a thin^ that has no name, a fallen cipher, a cluster of dead fruit thrown down on the dumji.

by Pablo Neruda Nobel IiSureate, Poetry