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Needed:A Second Civil War! UNITY VOL. IV, NO. 11 AUGUST EDITION 20 CENTS IN USA NEEDED:ASECOND CIVIL WAR! THEWAR BETWEENTHE CLASSES!! See Raise p. 12 ANTI-MOBUTU PRP LIBERATION FORCES IN ZAIRE TELL THEIR SIDE OF STORY MOBUTU: A PUPPET TREMBLING WITHOUT THE MASTER PULLING STRINGS- PART 1 by Mwana wa Lumumba unlimited praise and admiration. My Dear Colonel, "Mad Mike" Hoare's assessment of It is with a sincere and profound Mobutu Sese Seko. regret that I see you are about to leave The bubble of stability surrounding the Congo. The Congolese Nation owes Zaire since the defeat of the Lumum­ you a great deal and will keep of you a baist guerillas and the routing of the set­ living and edifying remembrance .... I tler led army of Col. Jean Schramme has want you to know that you will always been pricked. Independent African be welcome here and that at all times, states and United States led my house will be open to you. imperialism-the forces which sighed A letter from Mobutu Sese Seko to with relief at Mobutu Sese Seko's con­ white mercenary leader "Made Mike" solidation of power in the late 1960's - Hoare. are apprehensive because of two recent The liberators of the Congo will spr­ stiff challenges to Mobutu's supposedly ing from the blood of Lumumba . monolithic popular regime. PRP, Popular Revolutionary Party of the Congo (Zaire) has operated armed Lauren! Kabila The first crack in the facade of struggle in the eastern part of Zaire. The PRP .are related to earlier Lumumba led authenticity - an assassination attempt revolutionary forces,-1111dhave been integrating M-L-M into the armed struggle to I left his chamber realizing that I had directed at Mobu : which killed six of liberate Zaire from neo-colonialism. They abducted 4 U.S. students near Zaire­ been priviledged to spend some short his bodyguards - weni almost unnoticed Tanzania border in May to apply pressure for the investigation as to the where months in the presence of one of the because of rigid controls on the Zairean abouts and release of kidnapped PRP members of over 2 years. truly great Africans of our times, and media. The second challenge tc RACISMON OUR BACKS,BOSSES IN OUR POCKETS one for whom I had nothing but (Continued on page ]) AND THE UNION ISOUTTO LUNCH On June 7th in Homestead, workers of America played in dis­ MURDER BY FIRE!! Pennsylvania , Black steel workers from crimination against minority workers NEWARK'S SLUMLORDS GENOCIDAL the Homestead Plant of United States and asked why they were not also defen­ Steel met at the MUSA Center to dis­ dants in the case. Many of the workers CONSPIRACY TO BURN OUR PEOPLE cuss a suit against United States Steel present expressed that there was no for discrimination, filed by two black black representation in the Union and steel workers , James Turner and John that the · needs of black workers, Rogers and the meaning of the Consent therefore, were not met. Decree. The attorney representing Rogers and Lawyers from the N.A .A.C.P. Legal Turner pointed out that in their suit, the Defense Fund spoke of the suit that they government , United States Steel, and filed against nine basic steel producing United Steel Workers of America local companies and the government for dis­ I 397 were all defendants. The Rogers­ crimination against national minorities Turner VS. U.S. Steel suit was filed in and women steel workers. During the 197l and claims tha·t Black steel workers discussion of the N.A.A.C.P. suit, one in Homestead suffer discrimination from: of the workers in the audience raised an important factor about the sellout role l. Testing procedures and methods (Continued on pal(e 4) that union officials of the United Steel Education Crisis - Albany On May 25, ·1975, two Black Albany mg arrests of Black students who were High School yout hs were attacked by a defending themselve s against this attack gang of white youths in a predominan­ has exposed the institution of the public tly white community on Madison schools to be no different from other Avenue. Three days later, one of the corrupt, racist institutions and has white students involved in the May 25 brought together parents, students, and incident (about 2 hours after being other concerned people to organize sup­ suspended from Albany High School port for Black students' right to self for attacking another Black student and defense from violence and their right to for possessing a can of mace) led 15-20 quality education. white students with bats, golf clubs, The Albany Congress of Afrikan chains, wrenches, and a gun in still People initiated several meetings which 0 ahother physical attack against Black have developed into a strong, militant parent led organization which is deman­ More than 670 fires have raged and further intensifying the housing students. (Con1inued on page 8) through Newark's predominately Black crisis in Newark which is the deadly The Black students of the High and Puerto Rican community in the last product of the general crisis ii} School fought back in a battle which 3 months killing more than 60 people, capitalism on its deathbed both at home lasted · almost two hours, saw six and abroad. 60 people burned alive in students injured, and the subsequent BLACK LIBERA1ION these firetraps because these criminal arrest of 16 students. Eight of those slumlords have conspired to set their students were Black and were charged SOCIALIST REVOLUTION property afire to collect huge insurance with Riot and Assault! VICTORY TO ALL claims from these rat & roach ridden The handling by the school officials of OPPRESSED PEOPLE tenements! the racist attacks by the white students (Cominurd on~ 5) with bats, and chains, etc. and the result- August, 1975 Page 2 Unity & Struggle p LE ARE PRP LIBERATION FORCES IN ZAIRE ZIMBABWE PEO · TELL THEIR SIDE OF STORY (cont.) THEIR OWN LIBERATORS NO' TO DETENTE ' h • ed an due to the slave wage s paid the cheap T.he past few year s ha~: ~~r~~ . long African labor.) . era m which, throughot t les and It is in this ltght : the bnlltant gains of oppressed and strugg ing theoiffensive the Zimbabwe resistance as well as the , nations have taken over . teories The danger to imperialist and racist plunder and have won great v1c · . h b ' . f V' Cambodi a that the recent conspiracy as to e seen. liberation . 0 n:tn:i:~mbique ar~ The President of Zambia , Kenneth G~mea-B,ssau la f th 's trend Kaunda , has arrested 1,400 of the 1 bnlltant examp es O · fi · I · ZANU H' I The eople of Zimbabwe have not highest of 1c1a. sin . IS ame ex- b n efctuded from this historic move cuse was to 1nv st1gate t.h.e cowardly ee d f · e the early 70's murder of ZAN Us7 chief m1lttary leader, forwar I n act, smc • h · their lib.eration fighters , after years of CHffEPO , who the w o 1e wodd , m- setbacks, have cut the corner and have cludmg .Kaunda, kn?ws was killed by steadily gained the initative . Also to at- 1mpenaltst plot for his noble defense of tack anywhere in Zimbabwe, the main the Zimbabwe Revolution and against liberation force - ZANU - had struck any betra~als. fear and terror at the root of the racist , Trampling on accepted. international minority regime. By 1975, it had norms, the Zambian President . has also liberated 50,000 square miles of the nor- in.terferred m the internal affairs of the theast and was, according to Western Zimbabwean revolution , .he has caUed intelligence, capable of smashing the for the various .organ~zat1ons for Zim- last stronghold of the racist es- b.abwe's hberatton . disbanded , and a tablishment in the next few months. It single sellout organization formed , the Patrice Lumumba. former leader of the revolutio nary anti -imperialist · must be emphasized that the liberation end of armed struggle a~d a start .of forces in the Congo, killed in 1960 by U.S. CIA coup hea ded by the of Mozambique had also add~d impetus "de.te.nte" and dialogue wit~ the racist present president of Zaire (Congo), Joseph Sese Sek u Mobutu, a long to the liberation struggle while further regime. These , the Zimbabwean time U.S. lackey. weaken ing the racist regime. _ revol1.1tion and peo.ple}a".'~. vehemently (Continued J;om paxe I) Col. Joseph Desire Mobutu, a former ZIMBABWE (Rhodosia) 1s an Af- opposed. The massive NO to so-called Mobutuism- the abduction of four persona l secretary to Lumumba before rican nation where 250,000 whites con- "Constitutional .settlement" of Britain's foreign students from neighboring capitulating to the C IA. trol the wealth and destiny of the more Pierce Comm1ss1on 1s enough evidence . Tanzania by anti-Mobutu guerillas- has The United Nations actively aided the than 5 million blacks. Apart from We, the undersigned , know that the reverberated around the world. puppets by refusing Lumumba freedom neighboring South Africa, it is the only imperia.list cons.piracy against Zim- Africa in general and Zaire's nine sur­ of movement and use of the national society where a whole nation has been babwe 1s not an isolated phonome.n.on. rounding neighbors in particular are radio station. The Kasavubu clique had literally enslaved : to labor and cater for It is part of a new react1?nary, poltttcal shaken by these recent events. The nine access to radio facilities across the river the tiny minority and the international counter~attack.
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