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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. that aims a! com- year period from independence in 1960 where they were warmly welcomed by corporations who have grown filthy rich plementing their aggressive m1lttary at- to guerilla leader Pierre Mulele's cold Congo-Brazzaville's first president, the from this exploitation. (Multinational tacks . We urge all p~ople of conscience blooded murder, after a promise of French puppet, Abbe Fu lbert Youlu. corporat ions make five times as much to dema nd of President Kaunda the amnesty by Mobutu, was marked by a Lumumba attempted to escape the profit in Southern Africa as elsewhere (Continued on page 5) bloody civil war which enveloped the constraints imposed by the United entire nation, occupied the center of Af­ Nations coup by fleeing to Stan lyville, a rican affairs and for a long time held Lumumbaist strongho ld in the nor­ SOUTH KOREA- international attention at the United theast, to continue the strugg le agains t Nations . Zaire , then Congo-Leopold­ secessionist elements an d the United A SUBJUGATED ECONOMY ville could play this divisive role only States puppets. He was capture d while because of its strategic location and rich enrou te by Cent ral Gove rnment troops South Korea has been turne d into an pr esident. Acco rding to Government natural resources. and , later \landed over to the seces­ "export platform" for the U.S . and figures, consumer prices have risen 28% Initially a struggle ensued between sionists by his former colleagues in the Japa n. There are J export processi ng in th e past year (1973-74). Local advocates of a unitary centralized state Central Govern ment. zones where the tax giveaways to businessmen suspect the real rate was led by Patrice Lumumba , a staunch By late January 1961, Lumumb a and foreign cor poratio ns are as huge as the much higher, closer to the 43% jump in anti-imperialist and Pan Africanist, and two companions had been killed by workers' wages are tiny. The tax th e commodity price index. separates\ elements in the mineral rich secessionist officia ls. As outcry swept provisions include a 5-yea r corporate, So uth Korea's economic Katanga and Kasoi provinces backed by the globe and the same United Natio ns pro perty and property tax acqui sition develop ment is very unhealthy. In 1973, local settlers , Belgium, France, the that assisted in his overth row held an exempti on; a 50% redu ction of these it imp orted almost $ I billion more than Katanga lobby in England , and white investigation. Nearly fifteen years have taxes for the 3 following yea rs; it exported, despi te a phenomenal settlers in the now defunct Central Af­ passed. But no one has yet been tried for unlimited repat riation of profits and ma nufact uring export growth rate. rican Federation which linked present the murder. dividends; a custom dut y and com­ J apan is the largest investor in South day Malawi and Zambia with Rhodesia. The years that followed saw the end of modity tax exempt ion on imp orted Korea with $468 million in direct Belgium's support to the secessionist - the Katanga secession in early 1963. An goods for foreign investment ; and per­ investments, followed by the U.S. with who received mining royalties from anti-puppet governme nt based in sonal income tax exempt ion of foreign (Continued on page 10) Belgium Companies that legally Stanlyvi lle alterna tely oppose d and workers. belonged to the Central Government - collaborated wit h the Ce nt ra l South Korea's tax giveaways are included approximately eight thousand Government. Due l power, in the form of almost matc hed by U.S. tax pro visions troops in violation of the Belgium­ two contending governments, led to an designed to promote ove rseas expan­ Congo-Friendship Treaty and despite armed struggle. Lumumbaists initially sion of U.S. corpora tions. Neo Colonialism Is the severance of diplomatic relations by seized control of large areas of t he coun­ Wages are among the lowest in the the Lumumba government. try. Divisions within the leadership, the world. Starting wages for cloth ing The Main Danger Less than two weeks after lack of a clear political line and the use workers are $.10 an hour be/ore dedu c­ independence , the Central Government of white mercenaries by the tions. The indu stry's average hourly ra te In Afrika! requested United Nations troops to halt Leopoldville government first led by is double that figure. Unemployment is the external aggression. In retrospect, Moise Tshombe, a forme r pup pet of estimated at a qua rter of the popul a­ this was a grave error. The United States secessionist interests, and later by tion-a nd is. worse among men and penetrated the country via the United Mobutu ended the Lumumbais t th reat women. Strikes in foreign-owned plants Nations. In due course Lumumba was to imperialism first on the eastern front are forbidd en and the Gove rnment can desposed with the Cognizance of an and later in the west. compel ar bitration. The Govern ment GEORGEANO SON American, Andrew Cordier, Special As­ Pierre Mulele's murder in 1969 was keeps tight cont rol on the labor $ERVICECENTER sistant to the United Nations Secretary­ though t by most observe rs to have movement. KCIA agents are stationed General. This initiated a split in the stabilized the coun try. Mobu tu, who openly in every union office and agent s 239 Chancellor Ave. federal government between anti­ has Lumumba's blood on his hands, attend election meetings to dictate the Newark, N.J. imperialist and those seeking to ex­ then declared himself a disciple of the results. In 1973 the Government broke Specia lize in: change the Belgium colonial master for engine repairs great nationalist and bro ught back his up the annu al meeting of the Korean transmission repairs the more insidious American neo­ wife from exile. On top of this Federation of Trad e Unions (the only front end col0t1ial master. The United States neo­ demogagy, he launched an 'authenticity' union confederation in the countr y) muffle r and pipes colonial puppets were led by President campaign which changed the name of when a majority of delegates voted to . motor tune up Joseph Kasavubu, leader of a triba l as­ the country, cities, rivers, regions, and oust th e Governm ent -a pp oint ed 24 hour towing service sociation, and Mobutu Sese Seko, then people. He became Citizen Mobutu tel. 926-8847 Sese Seko-but left intact and in fact (Contin ued on pa!(e J) PHONES: WA 3 - 1726 WA3-1777 J.C.BULL & COMPANY Refrigeration CURTISFISH MARKET Air Conditioning FREEDELIVERY Phone: 412-1332 1017 BERGEN ST. 363 Sussex Ave. NEWARK, N.J.07112 NEWARK.NJ •

.., ...... • • .. • • • • • • t • ' •••••••••••• August , 1975 Page 3 PRP LIBERATION FORCES (Co ntinued f rom p af(e 2) of the revolutionar y science, Ma rxism­ MOTION!! strengthened the United States strong­ Leninism . After an intense peri od of they could control Angola & its rich hold on the economy . criticism and self-criticism they returned resourc es. The Organization of Afrikan At the same time reactionaries were to the Congo . Unity meeting in Uganda has called the applauding the murder of Mulele , the The leadership went into the country ­ leaders of the three liberation Popular Revolutionary Party of the side at great disadvantages. Weapons movements to come to the meeting & Congo (PRP) , the group which ab­ that were formerly supplied by th e again attempt to settle their differences. ducted the students, was reopening the Chinese and transported through frien­ military struggle on the eastern front dly neighboring countries were CARIBBEAN ACTIVIST VISITS after two years of careful preparation. unavailable . The diplomatic missions U.S. Raffique Shah , leader of the News reports calling the Marxist Party that previously promoted the Congolese United Labor Front in Trinidad recen­ remnants of the Simbas , the Lumum­ cause had been closed . All that tly visited U.S . cities & spoke on the baists guerillas of the mid l960's are-in­ remained was a hard core of individuals revolutionary struggles going on in correct. The PRP leadership is com­ guided by revolutionary theory and the Trinidad and all over the Caribbean . As posed of former Lumumbaists who left masses inside the country bent under the pointed out by Shah , many people in the the Congo for political and militar y exploitative and oppre ssive Mobutu U.S. are unaware of what's happening in training after the collap se of the armed regime . Man y former Lumumbai st the Caribbean, and the brutal ex­ struggle . While in exile they began to leaders had remained true to their petty ploitation of the masses of people by analyize the reasons for the defeat of the bourgeois class interest and fled to U.S. imperialism. U.S. imperialists con­ popular forces and to deepen .their grasp either comfortable exile or capitulated trol the key industries in Trinidad- oil & to Mobutu in exchange for position and •sugar - and in order to maintain super New constitution gives the Party line & priviledge. profits exploit the workers by paying the Communist Party of China legal end of par/ I them 3·1¢ per hour. Raffique Sha h was force & enables mobilization of the instrumental in organizing an army broad masses of people to combat & STOP KILLER COPS "Generaliss imo" Chung Hee rebellion during the 1970 Black Power struggle against revisionism. To prevent (Continued fr om paf(e 4) Park, under whose fascist U.S. rebellion that almost toppled neo: corrosion , the Constitutions stipulates imperialist proped up puppet colonialist Eric Williams government. that state organizations & personnel right the Congress of Afrikan People government, the S. Korean masses have The United Labor Front was created to must study Marxism-Leninism-Mao has proposed a "76 Strategy to pull faced repression & exploitation. The S. build revolutionary consciousness Tse-Tung thought, combat bureauc­ together a broad coalition of Korean people have increased among the workers , to organize all the racy , maintain close ties with the masses organizations tci run a candidate for revolutionary strugg le towards the workers in Trinidad, to organize & wholeheartedly serve the people . The president plus an entire multinational smashing of the puppet Park regime and political strikes & demonstrations, to New Constitution is being used by ticket who would run on an anti-democ­ the reunificatiop of S. Korea with the overcome the false barriers created by China as a tool for dictatorship of the ratic, anti-republican , anti-depression, progressive socialist north. the colonialists between the Ind ians & Proletariat to consolidate the victories anti-repression platform. This the Afrikans & draw them together in a of the revolution . independent move on the part of the SUPERPOWERS CONTEND FOR United Front. In February of this year, working masses and oppressed POWER IN ANGOLA. Despite a sup­ ULF organized a massive rally that JO ANN LITTLE TRIAL OPENS. nationalities of this country would seek posedly cease-fire agreement, fighting caused Eric Williams to expose his The Jo Ann Little trial opened in to involve still broader sections of continues in Angola instigated by the repressive tactics thoroughly by having Raleigh , N.C. with a day long workers, students and organizations , in two Superpowers - the U.S. & Soviet to forcibly put the ra lly down . demonstration in support of Jo Ann Lit­ a progressive popular front campaign Union who are contending for control tle, 21 year old Black sister accused of that would not only oppose the of Angola. The Soviet backed Popular CHINA'S NEW CONSTITUTION killing a jail guard who attempted to bourgeois candidates but serve as the Movement for the Liberation of Angola CONSOLIDATES DICTATORSHIP rape her. Already racism has been beginning of a mullinational , anti­ OF THE PROLETARIAT. Chi na's (MPLA) has control of the capital , shown in the selection of the jurors , the imperia list United Front that could help new Cons titution further consolidates Luanda , & driven out most of the Prosecution has used 8 of its 9 pre­ consolidate the run of forward National Front for the Liberation of the dictatorship of the Proletariat as a emptory challenges , each time to ex­ movement toward the revolutionary Angola (FNLA) - backed by the U.S . powerful ideological weapon for com­ bating and preventing revisionism and clude a Black person , all young Blacks party we need . Moves toward fascism The purpose is to prevent a coalition at that. Jo Ann Little needs support. She like those of Errichettis can .in the end government and democratic elections for persisting in continued revolution. It is being denied her democratic right of only be defeated by socialist revolution , by the people because the most pro gres­ stipulates the guiding thought - Marx ­ self defense, like man y Black women & but it is these moves to the right that sive liberation Movement UNITA ism-Lenini sm- Mao Tse-Tung thought, third world women who suffer the triple must mtensify the people s will to resist (National Union for the Total the basic line and ' Part y leader ship as oppression of the capitalist system - by and finally overthrow the rich man 's Independence of Angola) has the reliable guarantees for consolidating the race, class & sex. government. Campaigns like Strategy strongest backing of the masses of dict ato rship of the proletariat , res­ people & would win. The superpowers tricting bourgeois right, and smashing 76 will point out the corruption and FBI OPPRESSION OF want to set up a puppet government, so the resistance of the bourge oisie. Th~ unworkability of capitalism and the AMERICAN INDIANS IN­ need to replace it with socialism. If you CREASES. Since Wounded Knee, or your organization is interested in American Indians especially those on working around the "76 Strategy Cam­ The Guardian , oldest the Pine Ridge Reservation have been paign , please call the neare st CAP of­ and most widely circula­ subjected to continuous harrassment & fice. ted independent radical aggression by FBI and other 'Unite the many to defeat t'he few.' weekly, has been the government agents. Two FBI agents most consistent and without warrants or anything came to timidations , the American Indians con­ reliable source of anti­ the home of the Jumping Bull family, & tinue their militant stand & actions imperlallst news and attacked the family without against the FBI-agents of imperi alism. analysis for more than 25 provocation , they were shot as the ln­ years . ,dian family defended themselves. As FASCIST TACTICS IN INDIA. In­ pointed out by AIM (American Indian dia 's Indir a Gandhi, under the pretext of WrUe lo lhe Guardian, Movement) "We support all people's protecting the democracy declared a 33 W . 17th s,., rights for self-defense. We do not believe "state of emergency" because the New York, N.Y. 10011 that we have to go around to ask the security of the state "was threatened" . various justice officials in this country $12.SO for annual 1ub Under Indira Gandhi so-called democ­ or the Congress or the President of the ratic rule the masses of people are $7 .50 for stud en11 G.I., unempl oye d or retir ed worker sub. U.S. for the permi ssion to defend persecuted & exploited & forced to live ourselves. That is our birthright." In under inhuman conditions, the ",.---_-_.._.._ .._-_--_-_:_:_--_-_ .._-_-_-_-~---_-_-_-_-_-_-_-..,--,--.,,,,--==:;==-----'l" retali ation , FBI agents have been ran- revolutionary movements are sup­ • PEDDlERS ALLEY Nvtrio St. Schoolhovse Atle-v 01'1 sacking peoples' homes & threatening pressed , & the peoples' democratic -,q;,.. EJCQT\T ...... ~--"'"~"°""''\ .,v;-r them . Andit'snotlimitedtoverbalhar- rights denied . Actually India is another . · .._ ~ LI ~ ~ \.~ J rassment, 23 of 26 unsolved murders in pawn in the struggle between the Super­ ',:::~· · , ;.nEEPINC H-1 EYE -\::).~ South Dakota were on the Pine Ridge powers - U.S. & Soviet Union for con­ trol in Southeast Asia. Right now , In­ :~,T ,.:... -:.. ONTHEPUITAw-1 QGL 0 ~:~;:~~i~~ -th~s~s~h:e;~ru~~:~g~i~~ Ulee~~·:::~~. dira Gandhi government & her fascist Dick Wilson, Indian collaborator who tactics are being backed by the Soviet l,aga • ....,_...,• ·- runs the reservation for the U.S. social imperialists . But the people are · . imperialists. Despite threat s & in- refusing to tolerate Gandhi's reac­ &.a.a.1-.. and - flcit••. ,_...,,_...... tionary regime, are responding with ,.,...,.y·a1~·handnada PESTEXTERMINATING demands for her resignation , mas s • demonstrations & strikes. ~ ~~,=.:,lltf::~;~*~ED L c..Af.8.).~ it\C. RECON is a monthly newsletter' about the U.S. 111Llitary caachine, movement strategy and tactics, and •ilitary developments in th~ Third World. TRAVELAGENCY " A Growing Service For A Growing Cit y" Loully Owned & C)pffalN Mamie L . Neal, President Estim.ates Without Obligation PNOTOGIAPNY .Sus~RI Btt $)/year 02 '""••> for movement cadre and Gls. $10/ye"ar for -NI.ALATE­ (201) 373-0200 EIIEIMIUlllli , l'BT IIIIHl 701Cln-A ... ..,"-",-Jer-, sust .1.i11er s and institutions. Add $5/year Cofthocts A-ilabt. ftN htint0ftl foreign postage. RECON, P.O. Box 14602-C, 410 Chancellor Ave. Tel. 923-2208 Philadelphia, Pa, 19134, U.S.A. Newark, N.J .07112 923-2209 CAl;l675-5519 * 71 , ... AVI. EAST oaANGE August, 1975 Pag, 4 Unity & Struggle ECONOMIC CRISIS: Stop Killer Cops CAMDEN N.J. NAMED HEADQUARTERS FOR NEO FASCIST GROUP class! Errechetti , as chairman of the The Camden, N.J., city admi~ist~a­ Camden County Democrat Committee , tion recently announced that this city is merely reflecting the national trend of would be named headquarters for t~e newly formed, National Community both ruling class political parties Crime Prevention League. A fas~1st (Democrats & Republicans) as they oriented group of ruling class lack1es, move toward the right (toward fascism). the NCCPL is allegedly the brainchild Layoffs, speed-ups, cut backs , cuts in of Gary I. Laws, who functi~ns as social services, runaway inflation & in­ Mayor Angelo Errechetti's srec1al as­ creased police repression are the order sistant & expert on neo-fasc1sm. This of the day whenever the rotten system of Laws is also the founder of Camden's capitalism is going through one of its "tow~e watch program", which has periodic depressions. This time around tricked some community people into however , the worldwide network of spying on their neighbors for the pohce. monopoly capitalism (called This latest repressive tool of the rulmg imperialism) is suffering such resoun­ class will seek to coordinate, among its ding defeats at the hands of 3rd world operations, a nationwid_e trainin_g liberation forces, that it can never program for its members m domestic recover its complete domination of Af­ spying. The rationale for the creation of rika, Asia & Latin America from which NCCPL was given as, "the police are not it has extracted super profits for cen­ Pittsburgh Steel Workers. The struggle for jobs in Pitts. by Blacks & other op­ doing a good enough job". The NCCPL turies. To paraphrase V.I. Lenin, the pressed nationalities is a typical example of the contradiction between monopoly also will seek to pull together in a united founder & leader of the Russian capitalism and the super-exploitation of Blacks and 3rd World people. While the front, all other racist and/ or repressive revolution, "Imperialism is the national unemployment rate is 10%, Black unemployment is at 25.7%, groups in the U.S. (black or white) who moribond stage of capitalism, i.e. its death stage". (Continued from page I) possess fascist tendencies. 1976, will bea peak political year with The Black steel workers in attendance · With Camden suffering one of the unrelated to job skills. the presidential elections. Ford­ 2. Poor initial placement of blacks. had an opportunity to speak of the ine­ highest unemployment rates in the Rockefeller & Henry "Scoop" Jackson 3. A discriminatory seniority quities at the Homestead plant. They ex­ country (35%), Errechetti has seen the pressed instances of racism in job answer to this problem as being, not (who is Wallace in a labor disguise) with system. possibly Wallace himself, as his running The suit is in the courts and if the placement whereas black workers are calling for FULL EMPLOYMENT Rogers and Turner suit is successful, placed in the dirtiest and hottest jobs, (which is impossible under capitalism), mate, will be the ruling class candidates. other blacks at Homestead Works of i.e. open hearth, coke ovens and lower but more repression of the working 10 counter these open moves to the United States Steel will be eligible for echelon maintenance jobs while white 'Continued on pal(e J) compensation for post discrimination. workers are placed in the more desirable In discussing the Consent Decree, it jobs such as finish shops, metallurgy U.S. CONCENTRATION CAMPS was evident that black steel workers and higher echelon maintenance. They never gave their consent to this spoke of the seniority system and the MURDER AND OPPRESS BLACKS!!! collaborated ripoff called the Consent policy of blacks and women being the Decree. In April of 1974in Birmingham, last hired and the first fired due to the 3rd ~ORLD AND POOR WHITES AL.SO VICTIMIZED Alabama, Government officials, Steel racism and sexism which runs rampant Corporation representatives and throughout United States Steel. Nat pseudo labor leaders of United Steel King, Chairman of the Homestead -- ~RUCHELL MAGEE Workers of America conspired against Black Coalition (a black caucus within /#. Ruchell (Cingue) Magee"). The news the rights , needs and interest of op­ the plant committed to struggle for media, it seems, appointed the Brother a pressed nationlists and women steel black steelworkers rights) spoke of the Public Defender the name of Richard workers with the formulation of the need for the 1,000 black workers at Such who is trained in the skills of bloc­ Consent Decree . Homestead Works to unite and king out evidence and forcing in The Consent Decree was formed after organize to bring about militant leader­ Malpractice Representation against all the Equal Employment Opportunity ship and representation within the hated Blacks, poor and oppressed, as Commission and U.S. Steel Corp and Union to represent the interest of black the fascist pig media give another image USW A representatives failed to reach steekworke rs. to cover for the corrupt racists courts agreement on the proper compensation The current crisis· at Homestead has and their tools. for the giant steel companies to repay in pulled the covers off the labor aris­ Understandably it will take sincere order to make up for past decades of dis­ tocrats as represen ted by under the table support of all progressive revolution­ crimination. Black steel workers had es­ Abel and local USWA labor leaders and aries to convince the people (masses) timated a total of $500 million due to exposed them as class partners of the misguided by the past and present dis­ them. As a result of this bourgeois plot, ruling class. The situation has tortion , especially making them aware $31 million has been allocated to demonstrated that there is the need for of how the pig media insults their national minority and women steel progressive union leadership willing and intelligence and their inflated egos. workers for past discrimination and a committed to struggle for the needs of The case against Ruchell , as is the few changes supposedly geared to im­ oppressed nationalities , women workers case of all Black political prisoners and prove conditions. The overwhelming and the working class in general in order P.O. W.s is one slavery hidden beneath a consent at this meeting, however, was to advance the level of struggle against false image by the "press" and the that the Consent Decree was a sham and monopoly capitalism. "courts" a tight clique of parasites, hold­ that the so called union leaders But finally, compensation for cen­ ing him captive in an oppressive represented the interests of corporate turies of slavery of Black workers and position making him an open target to bosses of U.S. Steel, themselves, and exploitation of all workers can only be It was I who gave your address to treacherous attacks, one after another. bribed white workers, and not the compensated by socialist revolution comrade Ruchell (Cingue) in hopes that This so called Public Defender Richard interests of those discriminated against. i.e., the ownership of the means of the Congress of Afrikan People would Such has proven to be given complete So far the $31 million pittance has been production by the people who produce support or help build support around immunity by the State and Federal refused and court suits filed to enjoin its the wealth. his hidden struggle ... ("The Plight of (Cominued on paKe //) . disbursement. Trenton State Prison Heil Hitler Hoffman a d h ' G H & B FOOD PLEASERS Trenton State Prison an t 18 ang at In late April, 1975, a member oj a the old cover up game_ :hi~ti~~/c:'at~ll second volunteer group told me that the harassment and repression of the in~ both she and other members of ~er 2210GREENMDUNT AVE.,B4LTD. MD. mates ~t Trenton State Prison and group had been re1ected for adm1;:rwn converting the entire maximum securit ~~ the prison for the reason that the)' Please - Not Squeeze' unit into another Frankenstein Facto/ walked .. too slowly through the (Vr?om. Building - behavioria~ hallway~ . . . mod1ficat1on unit), H.H. Hoffman and In mid-May, _a n:iember of a third Co. are trying to hide this by d . volunteer orgamzatwn stated that she community people insid enyi~g ~adbeenbarredfromtheprisonforfail- in_stitution. As one concerned e citi~e~ mg 1.0 use the word "alledgedly" in des-· witnessed: cribmg an mc1dent related to her by a During the past five months th prisoner. following incidents have come ' e Only twp weeks ago, in early June, al/ention. 10 my 1975, one of the volunteers described _InFebruary, 1975, I visited the prison ~bove was ~g~in treated rudely and w11h a volunteer group which emed permission to deliver a monthly treated rudely and was told th was food package to a prisoner on the basis meeting of such a group was sched:~e;o :~!her work as a volunteer made such In March, a college student w~; e ;;eries "il/~gal". I briefly denied admission to speak 10 the ::w am informed that ... a member prison physician on her Trenton State of I e rongr~ss of Afrikan People, was Co/legeprojectCH1prisonhospitalcare.. recenty denied entrance to the prison (Co111inwd )ram pee 4) August, 1975 Unity & Struggle Page 5 THE NATIONAL HOUSING MURDER BY FIRE (cont.)

PART 1 QUESTION

Basis for a Nation of an)'. of them. All of the se conditions . In l913 Joseph Stalin gave his cla s­ must exist in order for the nation to ex­ sical exami nation of the rise , . ist. development and formation of nations. Nations, like all things are subject to In the. essay Marxism and the National change. Based on the condition s of the Que S!lon ,. he examined the particular time. charactenst1cs of a nation . But, of what importance is it to A .nation is not just an ethnic group , analyze the criteria for nations? Why rehg1ous group , race or tribe . But a would it interest Blacks in the U.S. to nation is "primarily a community, a unders tand the development of nations , definite community of people" J . Stalin and the formation of nations? In the first Newark's Black com mun ity is aflame, as slumlords rip bloodmoney off the flaming . - Marxism and the Nat. Quest. place, because we are a nation here in murd ers & oppression of black people and ot her poor people. While public officials 1:'h1s being the case, "a nation is not the U.S. We have met and do meet the turn their heads. White slum lords have been caug ht red handed disguised with Afro racial_ or tribal, but historically criteria laid down for nations . And ifwe wigs & black face in the South Bronx setti ng their own houses on fire. constituted stable community." are to ever be liberated it has to be with But, is this the only criteria for a the unde rstanding of liberation of our (Continued from pal(e I) nations existence . No! A nat ion must nation . Second , because in the era of The Central Ward based Project Area bed, the only way we can solve our also be welded together by a common imperia lism the world is divided into op­ Committee (PAC) has demanded that problem and end our oppression forever lan~uage. This does not mean that every pressed and opp ressor nations. A basic Fire Department Director, John is revolution! But now we must build a nat1~n must have a different language, condi tion for the estab lishment of real Caufie ld make public the names of all massive tenant movement that links the but 1t does mean that each nation must Proleta rian unity in the spirit of inter­ the slumlords in these susp icious fires, different housing struggles together have a common language, a language nationa lism, lies in the abili ty of the and the PAC group is also acting as a against the slumlords, corrupt officials, common to its peop le. proletariat of the oppressed nation as center to deal with the pressing petty bourgeois politicians , fake com­ But these are not the only two cr iteria well as the opp ressor natio n, to fight prob lems of fire victims that public of­ munists, who oppress and confuse the for nationhood . against and end the oppression and ficials refuse to han dle. A similar slum­ masses into thinking that somehow we A nation must also be based on a sup.er-exploitatio n of the oppressed lord plot was uncovered in the Bronx can solve this crisis only with reforms . common territorial fou ndatio n. There natio ns and of the exp loited proletariat recently, where slumlords were paying As the crisis in capitalism sharpens, the peop le to set their houses afire, so they must be a common territory. Therefore as weH. Imperia lism means natio nal op­ cities like Newark become centers of could collect on bogus fire insurance in addition to the criteria of a his­ pressio n and a super exp loitation for the massive struggles against capitalism & torically constituted stab le community , subj ugated peop les, and allows forcer­ claims! The victims are trappe d in these racism, the people will certainly under­ tenements by racism caused by national stand that the only solution is socialist and a common language , a nation must tain bribes (eg, higher wages, more opp ression and at the base by cap italist also have a common territory. benefits etc.) of the working class of the revolution, join the housing struggle & exploitatio n. expose the slumlord arsonists by calling But what keeps the people together opp ressor nations. Socialist Revolution WE ASK : WHY DOESN'T FIRE PAC at 201-243-0874 or 621-2300. and deJermines how they live? It is the must have as one of its sharpes t cutt ing DIRECTOR CAUF IELD RELEASE way that they produce what is needed to edg.es the freeing of the oppressed DEMAND COMPLETE INVES­ INFORMAT ION ON SUSPICIOUS live. It is their common econom ic life. nations from imperialism and oppressor TIGATION OF ALL SUSPICIOUS FIRES? ARE SLUMLO R DS FIRES. A nation must have economic nat ions . How then is this formu lated . What MAKING PAYOFFS TO FIRE MAKE FIRE DIRECTOR cohesion , a common economic life tha t DEPARTMENT OFF ICIALS WITH binds it together. can be done to guarantee the freedom of CAUF IELD RELEASE THE FACTS! the opp ressed nations? The right of self­ THE IR BLOOD MONEY? JAIL SLUMLORD ARSONISTS! There is one more characteristic of The black mother of 7 children was nations. It is the sum total of the peoples determinat ion, is the answer · to this quest ion. All nations have the right to interviewed by Unity & Struggle after a z experience , projected through the ever suspicious fire that killed4child ren. The developing shape of the nations' self-determination. an LI (FIRST OF A SERIES) day after the fire, 2 white men came to struggle for better life. It is the commo n the house and told the tenants that sur­ (Cont inued from pal(e 2) psychological make up, manifested in a Wholesale & Retai l vived tha t they were investigators & th e immediate release of all the freedom com mon cultur e. A nation must h-_.vea people were not to tell anyone who they fighter s whose only crime has been their commo n culture. paid their rent to . The people asked if resistance to capitulation and surre nder. What then are the criteria for a PYRAMID BODY OILS Now in New World Fragrance they were crazy! The buildin g had been We remind the Zamb ian President that nation? burned by an arsonist, in th is fire it is not Zamb ia alone that has given rear "A nation is a historically constitut ed the conspiracy, who pour ed gasoline on the areas to liberation fighters as the vic­ stable community of peop le, for med on back steps and porch and set them afire . tories of Guinea-Bissau and Mozam ­ the basis of a common language, ter­ MARKET PLACE One family was paying $400 a month to bique testify. Here, we also express our ritory, economic life, and psychologica l live in this fire-trap , but the slumlord s bitter revulsion at the inhumane as­ makeup manifested in a common 1418 Linden Ave. are not even satisfied with that, because sassinations, mainmg and tor ture that culture." J. Stalin - Marxism and the So. Bend, Indian a 46628 they can get tens of th ousands off the have befallen many of the arres ted Zim­ National Question. 2 I 9-233-0215 or 234-3522 top by setting their tenement s afire over­ babweans. Taking importan t lessons Nations cannot exist just on the basis night. 60% of those murd ered by fire from this crass betraya l, the Zimbabwe of one of these criteria , or _in• t,.h,.e,.a,.b,.se•n•c•e------• have been children under IO years old people have taken their destiny into (and ½ of them babies) and the rest were their hands and gone forward with the Handcrafted jewelry, mother s & elders caught asleep. revolution, through to its victor ious , But what can we do? All over the end. patchwork wrap -skirts , world we see that revolution is the main rugs. baskets, and caftans trend in the world today! Thi rd Wor ld PAM BERI NE CH IMURENGA nations are successfully driving U.S. PAS I NAVA DZVINYIRI At Lexington and 65th St. imperialism out of their countr ies in (FO RWARD EVER Open IO to 6 daily. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, & Gui~ea­ BACKWARD NEVER) LE 5-0740 . Bissau and Mozambique- imperialism is getting its behind kicked. And right PAMBERI NE CHIM URENGA here where people are burned alive while PAMBILI LOM VUKELA they sleep in their apar tments & no one (FO RWARD WITH T HE has a decent place to live, but at the time REVOLUTION) Rockefeller can buy a $35,000 musical 24 HRS RICH S ECU RITY CO. E

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Unity & Strucele Aucust, 1975 Aupst , 1975 P11• 7 PR CIVILWAR REVOLUTIONARY BLACK NATIONALIS The series "Pre Civil War Block 1776 an d , in a very few cases, by volun­ American history has generally been few rights that a white man was bound Nationalism" was put together in /966. tary manumi ssion on the part of a few states would nOt Jet a free black man wealthier than the northern black mid­ disfigured, perverted. or concealed by to resp~ . Fundam entally , as a point of by &·11McAdoo, as port of the "Block the white rules of America. And the slaveho lders. We have provided chart s return after he left the state, for fear that dle class . A large section of the southern comparison, the pre-Ci vil War North he might have been ..corrupted .. by con­ ·liberation Commission" of the story of the evolution of black ( I and 2) to show bot h the num erical black middle class openl y collaborated treated t~e black man as badly or worse tact with north ern free blacks. Progressive ,Labor Pony. McAdoo wo.t nationalism , which forms an integral relation ship of free blacks to slaves and with the slaveholders and was able to than he 1s treated in the So uth today. For those who are amazed that black one of those arrested for refusing 10 tes­ and organic part of Afro-American his­ the relationship between the total black win all sorts of special favors and con­ men co uld be sold back into slave ry in tify against PL's Bill £pion who was tory as a whole. has suffered an even populati on to the rest of the American On the positive side, black people in sideration s. In 1830, 3,777 black heads the South for paupery or minor in­ charged with "Criminal Anorch 1•" in the worse fate in the hands of theoppresSor . population for th e histo rical period the North did have freedom of speech. of families were reported to the United fracti ons of the Jaw, it might be well to Harlem Rebellion in 1964. Obviousfr The reasons forth is can be simp ly sta ted under consideration . press and assembly . Moreover. they States Bureau of the Census as slave 2 lhe £pron-McAdoo period, and the a;­ and adequately proven. In 1790 there were 59,577 free black could even secure an education (by hoo k owner s. Most of these black ticle irsel/. are from o rime when PL was First of all, it is wi1hin the wide em­ peop le, 35,000 of whom lived in the or crook) if they had enough money. slaveholde rs lived in Louisiana, struggling to take progressive stands . brace of Afro-American nalionalisni South. By 1860, there were 488,070 free Maryl and, North and South Carol ina A small black middle class arose on Since then however, and sadly Progres­ that we find the truly revo lutionary blac k peop le, 250,787 of whom lived in and Virginia. top of the northern free black sive ·Labor has become the most out­ lraditions of black people prior to the the South . (Thi s may corneas a shock to A few of these black slave holders had population . This was a class o( small rageous carriers of the Amf'rirnn Civil War. Secondly, without a fun­ those who believe that the North was the as many as from 50 to 200 slaves and merchants and professional men. The held property to boot. They bought and sickness , white chauvinism, and are now damental understanding of these black land of the free.) During th e entire story of the brilliant achievements of not even a snious communist revolutionary traditions. it is impossible course of slavery, the major ity of free sold slaves and lived in a state of luxury bl~ck sci~ntists, doctors, lawyers, that was imita tive of the white slave organization. Unfortunale~r white to chart a correct course for black black peopl e lived in the So uth . But a writers. invento rs, e1c. (agai nst chauvinism has always stood in the war liberation today. These black comparison of the condition of free masters. Even though the black slave unbeli evable odds) during the period of masters were a drop in th e bucket as of the construction and growth of a trul:1· revolutionary traditions are, the refore , slavery in America is outside the bounds vanguard commu nist party, in 1he USA. dangerous to the rich white impe rialists compared to the domina nt white -~ ...~ of this study, but the record of their slaveholdi ng South, their treachery Now as then! who maintain Afro-Americans in a state achievements has been covered by ..The colored people are not yet of captivity and super-exploitation. -;;.~. · stands as an impo rtant lesson to black Joseph Cinque , heroic slave leader Carter G. Woodson and other black his­ peop le who wish to know the orig in of known, even to their most professed Black school children cannot find the _&...~ of succ e ssful slave rebellion Henry Highland Garnet, early black torians. present-day trait ors. Booker T. friends amo ng the while Americans; for story of these revol utionary traditions in aboard the historic slave-ship nationalist organ i zer & Washington might well have been a the reason. that politican s, religionists, their textbo oks. Instead. they are fed a Econom ically, free blacks in the Amistad in 1839. Slaves had to kill abolitionist, advocated armed ~ ..; black slave master had he been born a steady diet oftraitdrs and collaborato rs South fared much bettef than those in co loni1.ationi sts. and Abolitionists, captain and crew to liberate 54 resistance to slavery and national few years earlier. have each and all, at different times, like Booker T. Washington and ot hers. slaves, no oppressor gives up oppression of our pe ople. the North. A considerable numb er were presumed to think for, dictat e to. and Once the eyes of the black masses are without force. engaged as mechan ics and artisa ns. Free blacks in the Sou1h had man y know better what suited colored people. ope ned to their true revo lutiona ry They were preferred , not only because con tacts with the slaves. There were than they knew for themselves; and traditions. they will be armed with an race hatred, etc., have much to learn . different language s, were at different of their skill, but because they could be even marri ages between free blacks and consequently , there has been no other ideological weapon capable of laying For while they have identified some of stag es of economic development , held more easily exploited than the white slaves, not to speak of the many slave knowledge of them obtained, than that the foundation for a revolutionary t he more obvious superficial different custom s, embraced different worke r. The free black man in the South Frederick Douglass, leading black revolts and conspiracies that were par­ which has been obtained through these struggle for black liberation. characteristics of certa in varieties of religions and displayed a diverse range had no right s that a white man was abolitionist, fought consistenlly for ticipated in and sometimes led by free mediums. Their history - past. present, There are a wide variety of mode rn reactionary nationalism, they of physical charact eristics. They were by bound to respect; therefore he was black liberation thru slavery & blacks in the South. and foture, has been written by them, philosophical and political tendencies arc totall y blind to the fl.indamental no means one peo ple with one common constantly being cheated with no reconstructi on era , and taught us there (rontinued next issue) who, for reasons welt known, which are which have lraditionally been called pr ecepts and histor ical role of histo ry. They had cultural char acte ris­ recourse to law. He was totally is no progress without struggle! revo lutionary nationali sm. Ther efo re, named in this vo lume, are not their black nationalism . Nevert heless, a dis­ tics and histories which were jus t as dep endent . Nevertheless, it is remar­ remember that in 1849a law was in force Foo tnotes they compound their ignorance by pain­ representatives, and, therefore, do not cipl ined exam ina tion shows that there div erse and varied as the peop les who kable to observe that in the South, with in the state of Ohio stating specifically I. Woodson, C.G. and Wesley, C.H., ting all nationali sts and all nationali sm properly nor fairly preseni their wants are ultimately and fundamentally only inhabit Europe or the peoples who came its predominantl y agrarian slave that any black man who could not put The Negro in Our His1ory(Washi ngton, and claims among their fellow s. Of these two brands of black nationalism: one is with the same brush , and they are totall y together to constitut e what is toda y economy, the free blacks were preferred up a bond of S500.00 was to be declared D.C.. 1922). p. 69. impressions, we design disabusing the revolwionary in essence, whi le the 01her unprepared to under sta nd the role that called white America . as mechanic s, artisans, tailors. a pauper and sent to the workhouse! 2. Ibid .• pp. 246-247. See also Wood­ public mind, and correcting the false im­ is reactionary . What appears to be a black revoluti ona ry nationali sm will shoemakers, etc., whereas in the in­ There were no such lawsfor white men. son ·s Free Negro Owners of Slaves in pressions of all classes upon this great multiplicity of black nationalist play in the struggl e for black liberation It was during the cou rse of en­ dustrial North the free blacks were ex­ White immigrants without a penny to Martin Delany arly Nationalist the United S1ates in 1830. subject . A moral and mental , 1s an ob­ philosophical and political tendencies toda y. slavement in North America that the Af­ cluded from the workshops . In the their names could settle in the northern ric.in slaves became one people with one and theor et ician of Black Nation, 10 We are exp/icily co ncerne d, in lhe South , the bastion of slavery, it was state of Ohio while black men were noxious as a phy sical servitude, and not boils down a variation (or electic but also he urged Back to Afrika, a · lo be tolerated; as the one may. even­ combination) of eithe r th e present docu ment a ry study, with the history and one destiny . Slavery was its easier for a black man to become a forced to post a 5500.00 bond or go to Black Liberation own melting pot and all of the diverse "B lack Zionism" whic h impli e d tually . lead to the other .. ." revolutionary or reac1iona ry theme. rise of Afro- American nationali sm that Black masses co ul d not worker than in the industrial North jail; and Ohio was not the only northern Martin R. Delany, 1852-bl ack Revolutionary natio nalism has always between 1830 and 1860 (pre-Civil War characteristics of the different Africa n (home of free labor) where black men state which indulged in such practices. Means Socialism people s who were enslaved were either liberate themselves in USA, which nationalist leader and 1heore1ician advanced the struggl e for black black nationali sm). In the course of thi s is ultimately reactionary, once the were excluded from the workshops and The small, southern black middle liberati on while reactionary nati onalism study, both the revo lutionary and reac­ intermingled, or systematicall y des­ .. masses have cpnsolidated a forced to become house servants or per­ class was econom ically stro nger and In America The Origins Of has always 1ended to retard and subve rt tionary va rieties of black nationali sm tro yed (as in the case of their languages) . national presence and see "home" form other menial tasks. this struggle. . will be defin ed by documentar y exam­ They became a people who shared a as the USA . Black Nationalism On the negati ve side, a free black man The simple-mind ed, who have been ple. But first, we must establish a his­ common form of oppression in a com­ blacks in the South with those in the Revo luti onar y & Reactionar y in the South could be taken into custody "liflllllllllVANGUARD WE SERVE THE PEOPLE torica' perspecti ve in order to place mon slave economy . They came to North will demonstrat e that there is no Afro-American nationalism has deep brainwashed into acce pting a and sold back into slavery if he were ~ 2,110 \V. North Ave. stere otyped view of black nationalism as these docurrients in their proper context. speak a common language and to share cause for shock . North or South, the roots in the historical existence of lhe found to be without means of support or - being a doctrine of black supr emac y, a common national character; this free blacks were outcasts and little better Q Balto. , Md. Zl2.17 .b lack masses in this country. Afro- if he committed minor infractions of the transformation was com pleted long than free slaves. 0~ Hours : Mon.-Fri.lOam-spm Historical Background law. There were a multitude of laws before the Civi l War . Free blacks in the North were kept under which a black man cou ld receive 1' Sat . 1oam -6!'m The first African slaves were brought Needless to say, the African slaves out of the workshops (fa<;tories) and to the North American continent in were not "melted" into America , as was corporal punishment for crimes for they were brutally discriminated against which a white man would not even Books: Pan-Afri kanism 1619. Slavery in the ot her parts of the the case with the different European economically, politically and socially. Americas , howe ver, preceded North peoples who emigrated as f rec men , and receive a fine. Black men cou ld not tes­ Social ism There were few economi c opportunities tify against white men, nor cou ld black American slaver y. Authorities estimate who com prise what is now white open to them and the vast majorit y were men testify in their own behalf: they History that during the entire course of the Af­ America. Notwithstanding th e ac­ either destitute or engaged in menial were absolutely excluded from juries rican slave trade , Africa lost nearly 50 quisition of a common language , the Af­ Jeuelry: Ea rrin gs labor (house servants, etc.) The vast ma­ and from vot ing and were barred from million inhabitants in order that the rican slaves were kept out of the melting jority of north ern free blacks were eithe r public education. A I so: lncense European and American slaveholders pot (so lo speak) which was to produce directly prohibited from voting by law might secure IOmillion slaves. 1 This was the white America of today . The history or prevented from voting because of Moreover , there was no freedom of Body Oil due to the fact that for every African of black America is not identi cal to the propert y requirement s and poll taxe s. speech , press or assembly for free blacks Dashikis slave successfully tran sported to the history of white America even though All noth ern free blacks were excluded in the South . In many cases a black man New World , four or five met death in there is an o rgani c developmental from juries. barred from public was required to show his "free papers" numerou s resistance wars during the relationship between the two . The his­ ~ education (with a few exceptions) even as a passport before he could move from cruel forced marches from the interior tory of the opp ressed is never identical though they were forced to pay one cou ntr y to another or from one state WEARTHE LOOK OF TODAY! of Africa to the coast, or during the hor­ to the history of the oppressor: the his­ education laxes. In addition, they had to anot her in the Sout_h. Many southern WILLIAM rors of middl e passage on slave ships. tory of the slaveholder can never be the This was the rape of Africa . same as the history of the slave. The his­ MARSHALL tory of black America began in Africa , GAIN A CLEAR KNOWLEDGE 8:00A.M TO 6:30 P.M. Among the diverse range of African while the history of white America OF SOCIALIST THEORY Workers CLOSED WED. peoples brought to North America from began in Europe. The various European 1619 until the end of the American slave emigres who arr ived in North America UNITY& General STAMPER'S FAN CLUB trade were Gaboons, Eboes, Congoe s, as free men even1ually formed one Store 1554 MAPLE AVE. Purpose : Angolas , Senegalese , Coromantees , people. The different African peoples SOCIALISM To promote and produce films Whydahs , Nagoes , Paw Paws and who were brought here in chain s grew to the that will reflect total honesty others. These African peopl es spoke 3269 3RD AVE. become another separa te captive ~,1 , ..~ best represent ing the heritage and future Area Code314 people , upon whose back America was of : of Black People . Bu, . 389-3681 built from its inception . BRONXN.V. Films: LNL WILLIAMS AUTO SERVICE Open11 a.m. lo9pm . literature, hats ROAD s•.-v1c:c • GENERAL. RCPA I R S Oricin or ' Free ' incense, jewelry ~ 1. King Henry Christophe (the Produce Center TOP PRIC:C8 P ... 10 l'OR .JUNK CARS Blacks Before The BOOKS:~·.~~"!o:~: :;:~~~·::· Haitian Revolution} HISTORY body oils , sculpture and Shipley's ~ Fanta~lic Fru11 Civil War 2. Frederick Douglass Dairy Products ~ "/\fro /\rt l\rama" A small com mun ity of free black JEWELRY:aw•c:L•.",~ more Auto Body 3. Sojourner Truth k.oshcr Mcau people existed during the enti re course ~:::,.Gs Open : Mon -Sat 4. From Harriet Tubman to Angela <·anoed Goods ~ 1__..-,...... ,c:U.,H ...... , ~ .. CT., l.&AT'>

"We would recall that every practice produces a theory, and WANT that if it is true that a revolution can fail even though it be based •-~···. •· on perfectly conceived theories, nobody has yet made a successful THE revolution without a • • revolutionary theory." - Amilcar Cabral BUSINESS! ••• C.A.P. ldeologica I Papers ape NEW AND CURRENT C.A.P. PAPERS afril • 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 ••• _ ...... , .... _,...... ~ ..... "'1. ... -- .... ~~. August, 1975 Unity & Struggle Page 9

"Under the guidance of the who support UNITA do so becausi: the National Union Moderate Jonas Savimbi UNITA Party already has the support of the has won the greatest support African majority, and will win elections For The Total among Angola's 500,000 whites by with or without white support. advocating multiracial Obviously. as a matter of survival, the government. whites support the strongest party, not Ind ependence ... the parties which have a weak following The political hope of the country at among the African population. least in view of many white settlers. However, Time's and Newsweek's of Angola is centered on the National Union insult to our intelligece is cynical for the Total Independence of because it calculates maximum emo­ Angola (UNITA) ." tional response from the Blacks in (U.N.1. T.·A.} In the April 14th issue of Newsweek the diaspora. There is no simple, mono­ same lie is perpetuated:" ... UNITA, the lithic Black reality in Africa today. most popular, [group] particularly Africa is complex, and Angola is even BACKGROUND EVENTS : among whites." more complex because of its large white 1974 to 1975 As we know, for a long time UNITA minority and the proximity of the white was accused of racism because it has no minority regimes, which cannot be End Of A Series whites in its leadership, unlike M PLA. wished away by shouting "Drive the Jonas Savimbi UN IT A has always been rooted among white man into the sea!" UNITA met with MPLA and FNLA recently in Kenya to attempt to stop U.S.-USSR the masses of the people in the rural Therefore, the only viable wurse we instigated armed clashes among them and to try to build a transitional governing body areas, and achieved its military vic­ can follow is to give the whites a choice : in Angola. UNIT A has long taken the correct politica l line, organized among the tories with an all African army. It had to get out or to participate in the masses inside Angola and led armed struggle against the Portuguese. UNIT A now is no American advisers, as in the case of development of Angola under the guiding the Angolan people through the dangers of the supe rpower collusion and FN LA or no Russian advisers, as in the leadership of an African govenment. By constant confrontation. case of M PLA. Ours is truly a self­ totally rejecting white support , they reliant strugg le for total independence. could not be neutralized, and we would UNIT A's Strength ing among the workers as proven by the To this day, UNITA's leadership encourage the formation of larger white Inside the Country reception given to the Party in Lobito, remains Black . Now, why has this pre­ mercenary armies that would ally with That UNITA is the strongest party in whe re the longshoremen have orga nized vious ly 'racist party' all of a sudden Rhodesia and South Africa to create a Angola is a fact that even the inter­ strong unions. A lthough the crowd in become the dar ling of the white press? second UDI in Southern Africa. We do national press can no longer deny, and a Lobito was sma lle r than the one in Nova According to Africa magazine, not want a second Congo in Angola, fact that every eye-witness has con­ Lisboa, somew here between a quarter of · Ma rch, 1975, UNITA has 45% of the giving the imperialists and expansion­ firmed. President Savimbi's appear­ a million a nd a half a m illion, the pop ular support in the country, and t his ists an excuse to try to occupy our ances in Luso, Nova Lisboa, Lobito and intensi ty of the gat her ing was uns ur ­ · is before campaig ning has beg un for country under the pretext of preverting Silva Porta, as well as in the rural areas passed in A ngo la. When Ge neral-Com­ elections. This figure and higher ones civil war and saving white skins. brought record-breaking crowds. mander Chiwa le led the longsh~remen are co nfirmed in other natio na l a nd · CONCLUSION Observers in Nova Lisboa cited well in songs that evoked the ha rsh memories interna tional jo urnals as well. To infer We are acutely aware of the over a half a million people at the of four hundred years of oppress ion, the that most of UNIT A's support is white (Continued on paJ!eI I) airport when President Savimbi arrived emotions re leased confirmed t he would be illogica l, because if the whites China Books & Periodicals there in January. Nova Lisboa is the identity felt between the Party and the are a minority, they could not possibly second largest city in Angola to Luanda, workers . be the foundation of majority support in '*°" but it is more important than Luanda Why is UN IT A Receiving White an African country. And can we give so because it has the highest concentration Support In Angola? little credit to that African majority to Wrlle tor our free catalog of books of African population. Yet, even when Of all the devices used by the racists think that they wou ld support a multi­ & magazines on China, Vietnam & The 3rd World. Also posters, paper­ President Savimbi held rallies in the and imperia lists to undermine UN ITA's · racial party forming a multiracia l outlying districts the crowds were thick cuts, prints, stamps and records from support among the Africans in government? UN IT A's constitution China. Write us for your catalog: having come from miles around to hear diaspora, the most preverted has been clearly states that Angola will have an 125 5th Ave .. N.Y. N.Y. 10003 their 'Son of the People' as they refer to the distortion of the reasons for and the African government, and the Party has 210 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Savimbi. Not only does UNITA have a extent of white support to UNITA'. not deviated from this objective. 60606 strong following among peasant Time magazine typifies this distortion in UNITA has never stood for and will 2929 Twenty-fourth St. , San Fran­ farmers, but is has a tremendous follow- its January 27th issue: never stan d fo r white co ntrol. Wh ites cisco. Cal., 94110

ton State Prison (13 inmate Trenton tigate the adt)1inistration of State crimina ls at Tre nto n Sta te Priso n. Th is organizations within the institution) institutions.funded by tax do llars. brother is now in the Ho le because Of­ have collectively proposed 13 State Prison ficer Ma nn ing (Tre nton Guar d) refused de mands/issues, which include the (Comi1111edon pafie 9) So what is Hoffman trying to hide??? to acknow ledge Kabuka's "pass" removal of Hoffman and his crew, an on the basis that Acting Superintendent The reign of the 4t h Reich, with beca use Ka bu ka wo uld not "p ut it in the im mediate halt of the harassment of the Allan Hoffman dislikes this group and Hoffman's swa tsticke r a imed d irectly at Officer's hand," co incide nta lly at a ti me visitors, families, loved ones, friends apparently described it as 'negative' in the Black inma tes which make up 90% when Kabu ka is trying to obtain an d citizens visiting this institution, and his opinion. of the to ta l inmate pop ulation, with an min in,um (furl ough) stat us. An obvio us "an immediate halt of the One-Left 1his citizen further adds that: extra eleme nt of tor ture, T H E HOLE, set up to stop thi s strong willed Black Lock-up Wing, known as the Hole, and As I understand it, prison guards and for a ny in ma te who da res to stru gg le ma n fro m stru ggling to sto p th e op­ the de huma nizing, degenerating, men­ administrators cannot arcept or reject against this supe r repression. Fo r exa m­ pression at T rent on. talcida l effects it has on prisoners as a visitors legally on the basis of personal ple, Kabuka (Clifto n Bra nd on), who result of its degradation!" SUPPORT whim and private judgment. I have already has served 8 yea rs of a 12 year But Hoffma n's reig n will certa inly T H E P RI SONERS' DEMANDS!!! spoken to two lawvers about this matter sentence, and has been eligible for crumbl e, j ust as ca pit a lism will be STOP HOFFMAN & GANG! THE and was told that ihe courts have upheld parole since l 97 1, a br othe r who has smas hed by th e peo ple it opp resses . The PEO P LE MUST CONT ROL THE the public's right to know and to inves- never ceased in exposing the rea l United Pr iso ners O rganiza tion of Tre n- P RI SONS!!!

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This is becau se KOREA RAISE people engaged in changing reality are ( Continuedfi-om paf(e 1) usually subject to numerous limitations: $185 million (July , 1974 A. I. D. figures). ( Con1i1111ecl.fro111paf! e I I ) they are limited not only by existing U.S. investments are in oil refineries. revolution , and the companion scientific and technological conditions chemicals , electronic components and instrument to the Revolutionary but also by the development of the ob­ automative industries . More than ½ of Vanguard Party which must inevitably jective process itself and the degree to all U.S. clothing imports now co·me lead the United Front , and the entire which this process has become manifest from South Korea. , working class to the seizure of power. (the aspects and the essence of the objec­ U.S. multinational corporations have tive process have not yet been fully terminated hundreds of thousands of The Strategy '76, Electoral Strategy revealed). In such a situati on. ideas , blue collar manufacturing jobs in the to run a presidential candidate, vice theories, plans or programmes are U.S. over the past 10 years and moved president and even a peoples cabinet usually altered partially and sometimes them to low wage and tax havens like against the Ford-Rocky / Scoop even wholly, because of the discovery of South Korea. Jackson-Wallace syndrome which will unforeseen circumstances in the course 1he U.S . Commerce Department be shot at us, is one form of long term of p ractice. That is to say. it does happen rates South Korea as a "favorable coalition work, that will help strengthen that the original ideas, theories. plans or investment climate" and notes that U.S. all serious work going on toward build­ programmes fail to correspond with investment is "encouraged". Foreign ing a united front against imperialism reality either in whole or in part and are Minister Kim Ding Jo explained to a and a revolutionary communist party in wholly or par tially incorrect. In many visiting U.S. trade group headed by the USA. instances, failures have to be repeated former Treasury Secretary David Mao Tse Tung many times before errors in knowledge Kennedy that "North Korea is militant It will bring progressive forces in close Chairman, Central Commi11ee, can be corrected and corresponde nce and provocative against us" ... but ."it is contact around concrete issues for a sus­ People's Repuhlic ,,( Chiiw. with the laws of the objective process nevertheless safe enough" for foreign tained period of time . It will enable us to 'Part 8 achieved, and consequently before the investment. Prime Minister Kim Jong put forward an anti-imperialist line as a When we get to this point, is the subjective can be transformed int o the Pil was quite explicit when he said that concrete alternative all across the coun­ movement of knowledge completed? objective, or in ot her words, before th e the emergency measures were neces sary try , and do some of the mass work , Our answer is: it is and yet it ts not. ant icipated results · can be ac hi eved in because they assure "stability and wherever we are, in whatever work When men in society throw themselves practice. Nevertheless, when that point economic progress". One American places and in the community , that will into the practice of changing a certain is reached, the move ment of human businessman to ld a U.S. Senate staff enable us to bring forward new objective process (whether natural or knowledge regarding a certain objective committee member visiting Korea that revolutionaries from out of the mass social) at a certain stage of its develop­ process at a certain stage of its develop­ the KCIA was "very business-oriented". work, and see some mass work done by ment , they can, as a result of the reflec ­ ment may b'e considered co mpleted . would be revolutionaries. We mention tion of the objective process in their However , so far as the progression of this because as Mao pointed out, we in brains and the exercise of their the process is co ncerne d, the movement Black Liberation bourgeoisdemocrac y ;where the illusions conscious dynamic role, advance their of hum an knowledge is not comple ted. of democracy have been created by the knowledge from the perceptual to the . Every process, whether in th e realm of Means Socialism super exploitation of the 3rd world in rational, and create ideas,theories,plans nature o r of society, progresses and the first place, providing all those super or programmes which correspond in develops by reason of its internal con­ In America profits ,-have got to struggle through the general to the laws of that objective tradiction and strugg le, and th e entire catalogue of illusions and process . They then apply these ideas, movement of human knowledge shou ld . '!'. delusions related to the bourgeois theories, plans or programmes in prac­ a lso progress a nd develop a long with it. democracy until the undermining of tice in the same objective process. And if As far as social movements are UNITY : 1J,}STRUGGLE . - that sham democracy is complete, they can realize the aims they have in co ncerne d , true revolutio nary leaders ... Unit y & S1rua,: lc is a revolutionary through out own work, and the material mind, that is, if in that same process of must not · on ly be goo d at correcting socialist newspaper that is published conditions of "capitalism on its death­ practice they can translate , or on the their ideas, theories , plans or twice-a-month by the Co nar ess of Af­ bed", and as the illusion of bourgeois whole translate, those previously programme s when · errors are dis­ rikan Ptople . We carry news and in­ formation on the concrete struggles of democracy is dispelled so the formulated ideas, theories, plans or covered, as ha s been indicated above; oppressed people against impe rialism. as inevitablity of armed struggle will arise programmes into fact, then the move­ but when a certain objective process has well as a coniinuous discussion of the squa rel y, and the three magic weapoi;is ment of knowledge may be consi dered various idco)ogical positions being taken already progressed and cha nged from that Mao Tse-Tung spoke of Armed completed with regard to this particular in the revolutio nary move ment today . one stag e of de velopment into anot her, We welcome a ll articles and ncW! of Struggle , United Front, and Vanguard process. In the process of changing they -must also be good at making events and strug.glcs occu ring in the Party are fully realized. 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(12121 August, 1975 Page 12 Unity & Struggle NEEDED: A SECOND CIVIL WAR cutbacks , elimination of the slender And while this should be read Lenin pointed out when he said reforms all are a result of the struggles again and again by our various ultra Workers of All Countries And Op­ lefts and left subjectivists, the many pressed Nations Unite! is that one of the engendered by one set of contradictions RAISE!! (3rd world vs. Imperialism) intensify­ instant revolution "foco" madfolks,and fundamental contradictions of In Mao Tse-Tsung's famous article generally anyone who wants to under­ capitalism turning into imperialism, ing the struggles engendered by another Problems of War & Strategy (Nov. stand clearly the basic outli ne of the namely the contradiction between the set (labor vs. capital). So that finally the 1938), he says, " revolutionary process in a bourgeois imperialist powers and the countries of third world people's and the proletariat China's Characteristics democracy , yet we mu st still come back the third world, which led to of the bourgeois countries are allies in and Revolutionary War invariably to the initial passage, "T he revolutionary democratic struggles . destroying imperialism. They become, The seizure of power by armed force, seizure of power by armed force, the set­ against imperialism, would converge in Lenin's words, "A United World the settlement of the issue by war, is the tlement of the issue by war, is the central with the strugg le o·f the working class of Front Of Revolution Against the world central task and the highest form of task and the highest form of revolution . the industrialized west. That is why front of imperialism ... " There are revolution . This Marxist-Leninist prin­ This Marxist-Leninist principle of Lenin called Imperi alism, the "eve of "intensification and re-intensification of ciple of revolution holds good univer­ revolution holds good universall y, for socialist revolution ", since Imperialism revolutiona ry crisis throughout the sally, for China and for all other coun­ China and for all other countries." But carries all the contradictions of - Third World and international revolt tries. also we must understand another key capitalism to exaggerated extremes. The everywhere throughout the external But while the principle remains the passage as well, when Mao is speaking contradictions between labor and colonial front against imperialism" . same, its application by the part y of the about the stance and attitude of Com­ capital : between the imperialist powers And the even fundamental contradic­ proletariat finds expression in varying munists in Capitalist countries toward s themselves ; and between imperialism tion of Imperialism vs. Imperialism ways according to the varying con­ their countries' Imperialist Wars . He and the countries of the 3rd world who which rages behind the detente non­ ditions . Internally, cap italist countries says, "if such wars occur, the polic y of a re fighting their national liberation sense of the two superpowers, USA and practice bourgeois democracy (not these partie s is to bring about the defeat st ruggl es. And as it is happening at this USSR, could only be fuel for socialist feudalism) when they are not fascis t o r of the reactionary governments of their very moment , the very struggles of the revolution as well. As the Chinese say, not at war; in their externa l relat ions, own countries. The one war they want to 3rd world cou ntri es lop off chunks of "Revolution is the trend throughout the they are not oppressed by, but them­ fight is the civil war for which they are imp er ialism's ill gotten booty , and force world", even though there is still danger selves oppress, other nations. Because of preparing." He goes furth er however in the imperialists to begin to- have to of world war by the superpowers. But these character istics, it is the task of the layi ng it out stra ight to those of us in sup erexploit wo rk ers inside th eir own (Contini.fed on page I I) party of the proletariat in the capita list these bourgeois dictatorships. "B ut thi s countries to the extent that the con­ countries to educate the workers and insurrecti o n and war shou ld not be tradi ction between labo r and capital will build up strength through a long period launched until th e bour geois ie becomes be intensified. Long sta nd ing bribes Why CAP changed "its line" of legal struggle, and thus prepare for rea lly helpless , until the majority of the washed away in long intense depres­ CAP Going Through Cha nges - the final overthrow of capi talism. In proletariat are determined to rise in sions. The various ·budget cuts, layoffs, 15( . these countries, the question is one of a a rms and fight." long legal struggle, of utili zing And what is in thi s essay so abun­ parliament as a platform, of eco nomic dantly and radia ntly clear is that there CAPSPREADS ACROSS THENATION!! and political strikes, of organizing trade are different sets of conditions in the unions and educating the workers. bourgeois democracy (actually dictator­ NATIONALCAPOFFICE There the form of organizat ion is legal ship) than in the semi, neo and full up and the form of struggle bloodless (non­ colonie s or semi feudal op pressed AMIRIBARAKA Chairman military) . On the issue of war, the Co m­ nation s of the third world , where the ac­ munist Parties in the capitalis ts coun­ tual revo luti o ns have occurred since The 502High Street tries oppose the imperia list wars waged 1917 Socialist Revo luti on in Russia. by their own countries; if such wars oc­ Ru ssia was the mo st indu stri ally back­ NewArk,N.J. 07102 cur, the policy of these Parties is to bring ward country in Europe, a feudo­ (201)621-ZDJ about the defeat of the reactionary imperialist power that was itself vic­ governments of their own countries. timized by British and French ('AP DIRECTORY : New Jersey The one war they want to fight is the imperialism . 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