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Malcolm X "WHEN A PERSON PLACES A PROPER VALUE ON FREEDOM, THERE IS NOTHING UNDER THE SUN THAT HE WILL NOT DO TO ACQUIRE THAT FREEDOM. WHEN• EVER YOU HEAR A MAN SAYING HE WANTS FREEDOM, BUT IN THE NEXT BREATH HE IS GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT HE WON'T DO TO GET IT, OR WHAT HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN DOING IN ORDER TO GET IT, HE DOESN"T BELIEVE IN FREE• DOM. A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN FREEDOM WILL DO ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN TO ACQUIRE OR ACHIEVE HIS FREEDOM, AND HE WILL DO ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN TO PRESERVE HIS FREEDOM. AND THE ONLY REASON YOU AND I HERE IN AMERICA DON'T YET HAVE FREEDOM IS WE HAVEN'T YET MATURED TO THAT STAGE WHERE WE CAN SEE THIS IS THE REAL PRICE, OR THE REAL ATTITUDE OR THE REAL APPROACH THAT ONE MUST MAKE." Page 2 . SEIZE THE TIME>

"JUCHE MEANS HOLDING FAST TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SOLVING FOR ONESELF ALL THE PROBLEMS OP THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTRUCTION IN CON• FORMITY WITH THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS AT HOME." KIM IL SUNG(DRK)

JUCHE SECTION

The North Korean Communist Party has treated the same way. firmly established the principle of "Ju- These and other acts caused the BPP che" as the basic principle of national JUCHE to split betweem those vjho laid down their guns to work alongside the pigs' self-reliance in building revolutionary masses beyond their spontaneous uprising Struggle, This section of the paper con• to a higher level of political and mili• system and those who continued the work tains articles concerning the National tary organization, preparing them ulti• of the freedom fighters before us. The Liberation struggles of oppressed people mately for pretracted urban guerrilla East Coast BPP is representative of these within the United states, Kim II Sung ex• warfare and liberation. heirs oi Malcolm X and Denmark Vesey(an plains Juche more fully: "The establish• The basis for such widespread imme• ex-slave who planned and organized an up• ment of Juche means holding fast to the diate support from almost every part of rising of all the slaves in Charleston, principle of solving for oneself all the the Black Nation was the BPP primary unfortunately betrayed by a house slave problems of the revolution and construc• slogan of "An unarmed people are subject and executed by the slaveownlng state). tion in conformity to the actual condi• to slavery at anytime," and "When the They state, "The prlma.ry obiective of the tions at home and mainly by one'a own ef• people move towards liberation, they must BPP Is to establish revolutionary poli• fort. Thia is an independent Stand, dis• have the basic tool of liberation: the tical power for Black peoplt. Our Party carding dependence on others, displaying gunI" Support for the BPP grew into the is an armed body for carrying out the the spirit of SQlf-rellance and solving largest mass base for a revolutionary or• pftlitleal tasks of the revolution,,.Be• one'a own affairs on one's own responsi• ganisation in the history of the USA. It sides fighting to destroy the enemy's bility under all eireumstances"...V(WQ) Included families, old people, little oppressive forces and military strength, have made every effort to establish Juche children, workers, lumpen youth, students, our party should also shoulder such Im• in opposition to dogmatism and flunkyism, professionals, other Third World people portant tasks as doing propaganda amon? Juche in ideology, independence In poll- and oppressed whites. the masses, organizing the masses, aw• tics, self-reliance in the economy and The BPP laid down correct political ing Black people, helping them to estab• self-defense in national defense — this practice and lines on united front, com• lish revolutionary political power and is our stand." munity organizing, internationalism, and setting up party organizations." African Resistance The New Urban Guerrilla So today we are witnessing the birth Since 1619 when Africans were brought of the New Urban Guerrilla. Enriched with here as htman cargo to toil the soil of a history of our past struggles and ex*- the new world, we resisted by every me• perlences, we have learned it has been thod available to us. Everywhere and in the guns and force manifested in the mi• every way Black people resisted the en• litary that occupies our communities that croachment of the enemy. We used spears, directly oppress and brutalize us. To be rocks and captured weapons. Trudging, an assailant today is a quality thali* en• chained and barefoot, to waiting coastal nobles any honorable man engaged in armed ships, we broke our chains and used them struggle against this military dictator• as weapons against our enemy. ship. We continued to resist after we land• You do not have to be a member of a ed on alien shores. We formed unions with revplutionairy erganlzation and get orders •acive A»eric«ns such as the Seminole Na• from it in order to participate in revo• tion and resisted. Ve organized, fought lutionary action. You do need to careful• and HDD the Haitian Revolution. We re• ly consider the purpose, the target, and belled with DenMrk Vesey, Nat Turner and the reaction of most Black people if your Sojovner Truth. We organized and con• action is to be truly revolutionary. In ducted escapes with Harriet Tubman. self-defense. It also contributed the any case, self-reliance is key. To be a Back heme on the continent, Tchaka first revolutionary communication system revolutionary is to make revolution. Zulu and the Zulu warriors resisted the that linked revolutionaries and the masses When starting to plan concrete ac• Dntch Invasion of South Africa. The Ashan- all across the country. The Party's paper tions, you must start with the basic con• ti fov^t the British in West Africa. The provided news on international, national cept that you are going all the way, that Ethiopians fou^t the Italians, and the and local struggles, revolutionary ana• is to take a life in order to save life. Nau-Man foo^t the British In East Africa. lysis and regular articles on revolution• Your strategy(main plan) is to stop, slow ary theory. Tbe hiatory of Black Resistance in down or hurt in any way the poxjer stuue- the U.S. reached a turning point in the Naturally, the oppressor could not ture you are fighting T*hlle educating the period 1964-1968. After going through a tolerate the revolutionary example that people about it. The tactics(operation) period of peaceful means of protest(sit- the BPP set for millions of people. The you use to do this is governed by your ins, boycotts, etc.) the Black masses In police state was determined to wipe out ability and resources. The brief notes several major cities rose in spontaneous the Party by arrests, bombings and assa- this article makes about armed struggle rebellion. This was the first of the slnations. Two years of bitter military can not replace technical knowledge and "long, hot suBiners" which climaxed in and "legal" battles began between the Par• the Detroit rebellion of August 1967, In ty and police agents. these four suonera, the broad masses of After many losses, the Party began African people unleashed the rage that to win. In 1969 Geronimo(Elmer Pratt) and had been building up for centuries. Us• the Los Angeles Chapter held off hundreds ing the molotov cocktail as the people's of LA police. People began to defend the bomb, we inflicted billions of dollars Party as their o\m hope for the future. worth of property damage. Then came the The pig backed do\m from the attacks they aseasination of Martin Luther King in planned on San Francisco and Oakland head• the first week of April 1968. Simultane• quarters. Soon after, at the Detroit of• ous rebellions took place in one hundred fice and at the New Orleans NCCF office, and twenty-five cities. In Washington the Black masses put themselves on the D.C. alone, it took 14,000 federal troops line in the defense of the Party and its to put down the uprising. programs for the first time. The attacks on the Party also made The Role of the Black Panther Party clear that "in revolution one either dies or wins." The only other alternative is As a result of these mass uprisings to give it up. That is what Oakland lead• many Black revolutionary organizations ership did. It said that when the BPP were formed. The most important has been was the theoretical and practical lead• the B ership of both the Black Nation and the the Black Panther Party. The party began US revolutionary movement, we were in• in Oakland in 1966 as a consciously re• fantile and cultlst. It denounced Geron• volutionary group that expressed the imo who had led the historic defense of needs and desires of Black people and the LA office as a counterrevolutionary crystallized them into their Ten Point "pig and dog", Tt purged the NY 21 and Program and Platform. From the beginning called them "enemies of the People". the Party attonpted to lead the Black Field Marshal D.C. and many others were Geronimo led successful L.A. defense. SEIZE THE TIME Page 3

1 am a Black revolutionary woman and Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, because of this I have been charged with George Jackson, Nat Turner, James Chaney and accused of every alleged crime in and countless other Black Freedom Fight• which a woman was believed to have parti• ers. We did not bomb U Black litte girls cipated. The alleged crimes in which on• in a Sunday school. We did not murder, ly men were supposedly involved, I have by shooting in the back, 16-year old Rita been accused of planning. They have plas• Lloyd, 11-year old Rickie Bodden, 10-year tered pictures alleged to be me in post old Clifford Glover or Nathaniel Smith. offices, airports, hotels, police cars, They call us murderers, but we do subways, banks, televisions and newspa• not control or enforce a system of racism pers. They have offered over Fifty Thou• and oppression that systematically mur• sand Dollars($50,000) in rewards for my ders Black and Third World people. Al• capture and they have issued orders to though Black people supposedly comprise ShCOt on sight and shoot to kill. about 157o of the total amerlkkkan popu• I am a Black revolutionary and, by lation, at least 607o o£ murder victims definition, that makes me part of the are Black. For every pig that is killed Black Liberation Army. The pigs have used in the so-called line of duty there at their nowepapers and T,v,'s to paint the least 50 Black people murdered by pollCG. Black Liberation Army to be vicious, bru• Black life expectany is much lower tal mad dog criminals. They have called than that of whites and they do their us gangsters and gun molls and have com• best to kill us before we are born. We pared us to such characters as John dil- are burned alive in fire-trap tenements. linger and ma barker. It should be clear, Our brothers and sisters O.D. daily from it must be clear to anyone who can think, heroin and methadone. Our babies die from see or hear, that we are the victims. The lead poisoning. Millions of Black people HARRIET TUBMAN victims and not the criminals. have died as a result of indecent medical It should also be clear to us by now care. This is murder. But they have the whc the real criminals are. NUjon and his nerve to call us murderers. TO My PEOPLE crime partners have murdered hundreds of They call us kidnappers, yet brother thousands of Third World brothers and sis• Clark Squire(who is accused along with rae ASSATA SHAKUR ters in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Mozambi• of murdering a New Jersey state trooper), que, Angola and South Africa. As was pro• was Kidnapped on April 2, 1969 from our Black brothers. Black sisters, I ven by the Watergate, the top law enforce• Black community and held on $100,000 ran• want you to know that I love you and I ment officials in this country are a ly• som in the New York Panther 21 conspiracy hope that somewhere in your heart you ing bunch of criminals. The president, case. He was acquitted on May 13, 1971 a- have love for me. My name is Assata Sha- two attorney generals, the head of the long with all the others of all 156 counts kur(slave name Joanne Chesimard), and I FBI, the head of the CIA and half the of conspiracy by a jury that took less am a revolutionary. By that I mean that white house staff have been implicated than 2 hours to deliberate. Brother Squire I am a field nigga who is determined to in Watergate crimes. was innocent. Yet he was kidnapped from be free by any means necessary. By that They call us murderers, but we did his conimunity and family. Over two years I mean that 1 can never be free unless not murder over 250 unarmed Black men, of his life were stolen, but they call us all of my people are free along with me. women and children and wound thousands kidnappers. They call us kidnappers, but By that I mean that I have declared war of others in the riots they provoked dur• we did not kidnap the thousands of bro• on all forces that have raped our women, ing the Sixties. The rulers of this coun• thers and sisters held captive in ameri- castrated our men and kept our babies try have always considered their property empty bellied. more important than our lives. They call I have declared war on the rich who us murderers, but we were not responsi• prosper on our poverty. The politicians ble for the more than 10,000 Black peo• who lie to us with smiling faces and all ple lynched by white racists. They call the mindless heartless robots who pro• us murderers, but we were not responsible tect them and their property. for the 28 brother inmates and the 9 hos• I am a Black revolutionary, and as tages murdered at Attica. They call us such I am the victim of all the wrath, murderers, but we did not murder and hatred and slander that amerikkka is ca• wound over 30 unarmed Black students at pable of. Like all other Black revolu• Jackson State or Southern University ei• tionaries I have been hunted like a dog, ther. and like all other Black revolutionaries, They call us murderers, but we did amerikkka is trying to lynch me. not murder Martin Luther King, Bnmit Till,

We believe we can end police brutal• practical skills. If you don't already ity in our black self-defense groups have them, you must get them. that are dedicated to defending our In planning any guerrilla action, Unquestionably, victory or defeat black community from racist police the Urban guerrilla must start from the in war is determined by the military, po• oppression and brutality. The Second concrete conditions of the people. If he litical, economic and natural conditions Amendment of the Constitution of the forgets that, be will become isolated on both sides. But not by these alone. United States gives a right to bear from the people, and his action will fail It is also determined by each sides sub• arms. We therefore believe that all Its goal. But, if the Urban Guerrilla al• jective ability in directing war.. In his black people should arm themselves for ways keeps the conditions and the desires endeavor to win a war a military strate• self-defense. of the people in mind, they will keep him gy cannot overstep the limitations im• POINT NUMBER SEVEN,ORIGINAL PROGRAM in their hearts. With such support, the posed upon him by natural conditions. AND PLATFORM OF BLACK PANTHER PARTY Guettllla can spark the struggle for li• Within these limitations however he can beration. and must strive for victory. The stage of action of a military strategist is built upon objective conditions but on kkka'a concentration camps. Ninty^percent We must be able to transform that stage he can direct the perform• of the prison population in this country awareness Into concrete actions-that ance of many a drama, full of sound and are Black and Third World People who can are based on knowing the enemy and know color, power and grandeur. afford neither bail nor lawyers. Ing ourselves. In studying the enemy Mao tse-Tung They call us thieves and bandits. we see they have three advantages; MilitaryWritings They say we steal. But it was not us who C • Comnunlcations stole tens of millions of Black people M " Mobility from the continent of Africa, We were I = Information. robbed of our language, of our culture, of our human dignity, of our labor and Studying the practice of the Urban of our lives. They call us thieves yet Guerrilla, we see that they have the ele• it is not us who rip off billions of dol• ment of surprise: lars every year through tax evasions, il• W = What legal price fixing, embezzelement, con- W = When stmier fraud, bribes, kickbacks and swin• B = How. dles. They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick our paychecks we are being robbed. Every time we walk CONT. TO Pag© 4 SEIZE THE TIME Reporf from the National Conference of La RazaUnida

izations and nations who have poli• is conscious not only of its proud his• tically progressive ideas and are torical heritage, but also of the brutal working for the liberation of our GRINGO invasion of our territories, WE, minds and lives and are part of the CHICANO inhabitants and civilizers those who strive to retain the human of the northern land of Aztlan, from right of oppressed people. whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating Whereas: We are aware that the US uses the determination of our people of the psychogenocide techniques, physical sun, declare that the call of our blood imprisonment and repression, inclu• is our power, our responsibility and our ding the use of physical and mental inevitable destiny. torture through experimental behav• WE are free and sovereign to deter• ior modification treatments and sur• mine those tasks which are justly called gery to intimidate and counter poli• for by our house, our land, the sweat of tical activists. our brows and by our hearts. Aztlan be• Whereas: We recognize the imprisonment of longs to those that plant the seeds, wa• such individuals as the Puerto Rican ter the fields, and gather the crops, and Nationalists, Martin Sostre, SQ-6, not to the foreign Europeans. We do not Juan Otero, Cha Cha Jiminez, Poncho recognize capricious frontiers on the August 16th thru 19, 1973, Colorado Cruz, Juan Corona, Vernon Bellecourt, Bronze continent. LA RAZA UNinA PARTY, at the Crusade for Los Tres, Rlcardo Chavez Ortiz, Man• Brotherhood unites us, and love for Justice Building facilities in Denver, uel da Conceicao, Joel Ochoa, Brian our brothers and sisters makes us a peo• Colorado, hosted Congreso de Aztlan del• Sanchez, Russel Means, Carlos Feli- ple whose time has come and who struggles egates, other states and countries repre• ciano, Pat and Jose Pais, and many against the foreigner gabacho who exploits sentatives at the National and Interna• other unmentioned individuals inclu• our riches and destroys our culture. With tional Conference and Congreso de Aztlan ding the hundreds of political pri• our heart in our hands and our hands in the Junta. soners in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, soil, WE declare the Independence of our The purpose of this conference was South Viet Nam and elsewhere as po• Mestizo Nation. WE are a Bronze People the exchange of solidarity commitTiients litical repression. with a bronze culture. Before the world, and support among oppressed nations and Whereas: We recognize that political re• before all of North America, before all Liberation Movement Organizations through pression is responsible for the in• our brothers in the Bronze Continent, WE out La Nacion de Aztlan and Latin America. dictment of the March 17, 1973, de• are a Nation, WE are a Union of free pue• Here are sooe of the resolutions fendants, Luis Ramirez, Ernesto Vi• blos. WE ARE AZTLAN. that the Congreso workshops adopted. gil, and Mario Vasquez, as a result of a police planned and provoked NATIONALISM A TOOL TO EDUCATE TOWARDS IN• Workshop: Corporate Structure and Oppres• attack on the Crusade for Justice TERNATIONALISM: sion of Third World and Tlatelolco which resulted also 1. Chicano-Mexicano nationalism is in the death of Luis "Junior" Mar• We define the corporate structure to be founded upon a common blood, heritage tinez. made up of five integral parts. No part and common exploitation. can be dismissed as all five parts are Whereas: We recognize that political re• 2. Astlan and Mexico(the people of) are integral to the running of the corporate pression is responsible for the in• one - separated only by historical events structure, dictment of AIM activists through• and political definitions and boundaries. out the United States. (If Polk had his way, all of Mexico would 1. Cmrporatiena - industry, of which have been colonized.) baafcs are an inportant part, WE HEREBY RESOLVE: 3. The people of Aztlan and Mexico are 2. Ouveiunent - to make laws to maintain That LA RAZA UNIDA condemns the re• one people. Therefore, the national strug• and protect the interest of Capitalism, pression of poltical activists thru gle of Aztlan is the same as the national 3. The Military - to enforce the law and imprisonment and psychogenocide struggle of Mexico. That is, it is a com• keep the nasses of the people down, during imprisonment. mon struggle of a common people against a 4. Institutions of learning - to train common enemy. That LA RAZA UNIDA shall work for people to run the system. 4. Because the people of Aztlan are a the liberation of this hemisphere's 5. Workers upon which everything is based colonized. Third World people, our strug• indigenous people's political pri• because without workers, there could gle is part of the common struggle of soners . be no Capitalist systen. Third World people and all progressive people against a common enemy - US imper• The system uses several tools to repress That this conference is in solidari• ialism. people: ty with all political prisoners of the Third World Liberation Movement, Therefore, because we share a common Religion Dope heritage and blood with our Indio brothers Economic Oppression Racism and sisters, and recognizing the Indies Immigration Media WORKSHOP: POLITICAL STRUCTURE AND DIREC• as a sovereign nation we affirm our soli• Pacification - federally funded or- TION OF THE PARTY darity with their struggle and support ganizaticsis which act as a buffer between STATE OF NUEVO MEXICO RESOLUTION: their struggle and support AIM(American the Oppressor and the oppressed. At this 1. The Partido de LA RAZA UNIDA must at Indian Movement). time the US has infiltrated every nation all times stand actively opposed to the Recognizing that Puerto Rico is a in Latin America to kill the Liberation capitalist system and work to destroy colony, we call for the self-determina• Movements. We have come to the understand• that system together with its oppressive tion of all Puerto Rlcans and the Inde• ing that this same tactic is being effec• middle-class values of materialism. pendence of Puerto Rico and affirm our tively used in our communities in the US, solidarity with their fight for national for eKample; IRA, CEDA, INTER-AMERICA.etc. 2. The Partido must at all times stand liberation. actively opposed to US imperialism. This 5. That we recognize the existence of WE RESOLVE, based on the danger that includes supporting the Liberation strug• other captive nationalities within the these corporations present nationally and gles of Third World peoples; refusing to so-called United States of Amerika, name- internationally, that: make compromises or wheel and deal with ly Blacks and Asians and that we stand in 1. Investigation and Security are governments oppressing thsoe peoples; and solidarity with their struggles for self- needed. refusing to fight in US wars against those determination. 2. Information is needed. peoples. 3. The only solution is to overthrow the Corporate and Multi-Corporate 3. The Partido should not, in effect, Structure which Is the world-wide be a third party but a revolutionary par• representative of Capitalism and ty. Its goal must be to educate people the oppressors of Third World Peo• and organize them for action against the ple. oppressors with the long-range goal of total social revolution. WORKSHOP ON POLITICAL PRISONERS Whereas: We recognize that the US capit• WORKSHOP: NATIONALISM & INTERNATIONALISM alistic, materialistic and imperial• istic system of government will and Chlcano Nationalism: El Plan Espiritual does resort to every tactic possible de Aztlan to repress those Individuals, organ• In the spirit of a new people that Page 5 SEIZE THE TIME The Nafive American Nafional Liberation Struggle

Most of the people now inhabiting the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1871 re• North America are descendents of immi• servations were established to concen• grants from other continents. The major- trate the colonized population much the ty came from the white races of Europe. same way the Vietnamese were forced Into In addition, there are many who were the "strategic hamlets". The 1887 Allot• forced or induced to come here to build ment Act was passed to Increase indivi• the wealth and power of the U.S., espec• dual land ownership. However, sixty per• ially from Africa, Asia and Latin Ameri• cent of the land was obtained by whites ca. But the Indian people are the only through legal frauds and two thirds of people native to North America. Consider the Indians became landless. The allot• how few of the Native Americans there are ment process ended in 1934 when termina• left if you want an idea of what a sick tion began. Through termination Native and dangerous condition our society is American occupancy of the land is termi• in. Probably nowhere in the world will nated for the benefit of industry, real you find a people as divorced from the estate and other interests. It works land which sustains them as are the non- through condemnation(eminent domain), the Indian people of North America. promise of money to be paid, and Indus• Then how did the United States get trialization. The Native American receives so powerful and wealthy? Starting with little or none of the money paid for the Columbus the Europeans defined the conti• land(ll to 47 cents an acre), as it Is nent as a "get rich quick" paradise. Ev• deposited in an inaccessible trust fund. ery aspect of the natural environment, In the United States, there are five the soil, the trees, the rivers, the peo• LONG LIVE THE INDIAN NATIONI types of law: Common, Civil, Criminal, ple, animals and plants, were seen in one Federal and Treaty law. Treaty law is the way - as exploitable resources. In 1776 The resistance of the Native Ameri• highest law of the land. The US signed the exploitation of these resources was can people enabled them to win battles treaties with the Indian nations. Yet a greatly facilitaed and accelerated throu^ and secure treaties. These treaties(371) subordinate law, federal, dictates poli• the creation of a new state with a capit• were between sovereign nations and the US. cies to the Indian nations. The Bureau of alist economy, the United States. The US Th-fe treaties had to be ratified by the Indian Affairs has produced 37 volumes of occupied the eastern edge of a continent Congress. First the Secretary of War, and Federal Indian laws. No treaty ever gave which supported several hundred Native later the Secretary of the Interior were this right to the US government. American tribes and nations, determined responsible for dealing with the Native The Native American people resisted to preserve their several independence, American people. the imperialist advance united as a na• their culture, and their closeness to the The U.S. was forced to develop and tion. The US fought them using the methods earth. employ methods of total war. An imperial• neccessary to destroy a nation and their ist nation cannot subdue a people by sei• Wherever the Indian tribes and na• position today is legally and in all other zing territory alone. It must also destroy tions were intact, the balance of nature ways that of an oppressed nation. As a their economic base, culture and politi• remained intact, because the Indian's cul• nation, the Native American people are cal system. ture and values arose from that balanced now demanding self-determination and na• natural world and serves to protect it. The economic base of the Native A- tional sovereignty. When the Indian was suppressed, the earth merican people lay in their relationship The struggle of the Oglala Sioux was at the mercy of a "civilized" society to the land. Hunting game, gathering for self-determination has become known which by 1900 had developed the most de• fruits and herbs, forming stable agricul• world-wide. The heroic stand taken at cadent and reactionary system known to tural communities and producing tools, Wounded Knee last year showed that the man - imperialism. The Indian resisted weapons, household goods: all of these Oglala people and the American Indian this onslaught wherever possible, defeat• activities depended upon the Indian's re• Movement are serious about attaining sov• ing the U.S. in battle after battle only lationship to the land. With the forced ereignty for the Oglala Sioux. removal of whole tribes to the reserva• to lose territory through violations of SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN the treaties. tions and the extermination of the buffa• lo, the economic base of the Native Amer• SOVEREIGNTY For the last 70 years the Native icans was greatly reduced. The daiiand is sovereignty.' Native Americans' struggle has been a quiet one, Cultural genocide began with the mis• American people demand that the.US govern• for their ntmibers were so reduced that sions and schools. Native American child• ment and all the world goverments recog• this was necessary. For example, in Cali• ren were taught to despise their own cul• nize their sovereignty, their right to fornia alone where there had been at ture, not allowed to use their own lan• political, cultural and economic self-de• least 110,000 Indians in 1850, there were guages. The Department of the Interior termination. 17,000 alive in 1885. mapped out plans for the "civilizing The national liberation struggle of But now the strength of the Native mapped out plans for "civilizing" the Na• Indian people should be supported just as Americans is up again. The Indian wars tive people by forcing them into white we supported the struggle of the Vietnam• have restmied. The Federal government is man's ways - white man's sex roles, mar• ese. We are demanding an end to the mili• trying to take the last remaining land riage, and private property. Official tary, economic and cultural genocide which out of the hands of the Indian people. documents read* the US government has waged against the The U.S. eecms bent on eradicating the Native American people for the past 200 cultural life, economic basis and politi• "Some system marriage should be years. As in the case of Vietnam, the go• cal power of the Indian Nation, of adopted and the Indian compelled to vernment's basic motive has been and is As the United States was developing conform to it. The Indian should al• There are "progressives" and "revo• as an aggressive young capitalist nation so be instructed that he is under lutionaries" who feel that the Native A- in the 18th and 19th centuries it launched obligation to care for and support merlcan struggle is subordinate to the an imperialist war against the native in• not only his wife but his children, economic struggle between the various habitants of North America. This was the and on his failure, without proper class strata of the oppresser nation. United States' first experiment in geno• cause, to continue as the head of This is equivalent to white South African cide. The Native Americans recognized the such family, he ought in some man• socialists deciding that the enslaved genocidal intentions of the Europeans and ner be punished, which should be ei• Native Africans must wait until the white the necessity for unity in resistance. ther by confinement in the guard• South Africans get it together to make a house or prison, or by a reduction revolution. The first major contradiction "The whites are already nearly a in his rations. The value of proper• to arise between people in North America match for us all united and too ty as an agent of civilization ought was the contradiction between the coloni• strong for any one tribe alone to not be overlooked, when the Indian zers and the colonized. The Indians have resist; so that unless we support acquires property, with a disposi• always waged the highest possible level one another with our collective an tion to retain the same free from of struggle against imperialism and colo- and united forces, unless every tribal or individual interference, nialization. The heritage of resistance tribe unanimously combines to give he has made a step forward on the against imperialism in North America be• a check to the ambition and avarice road to civilization." gan with Indian resistance, and they have of the whites, they will soon con• for 500 years made the greatest sacrifice quer us apart and disunited, and we will be driven away from our native The tribal communal system of ownership in that resistance. We believe that a ma• country and scattered as autumal was undermined. This was also the aim of jor focus of revolutionary activity in leaves before the wind the anni• the 1934 Reorganization Act, in which the North America will be in our efforts to hilation of our race is at hand un• Federal Government imposed a system of guarantee self-determination and nation• less we unite in the common cause tribal councils. In many cases these coun• al sovereignty for the Indian Nations. against the common foe." cils displaced the tribe's political and LONG LIVE THE SPIRITS OF TECUMSAH, SITTING cultural leadership for the lackeys of BULL, CRAZY HORSE, GERONIMO AND OTHERS I - Tecumseh. 1812 Page 6 SEIZE THE TIME EDITORIAL PURPOSE OF THE PAPER

Everyone can aee that police repres• We ask that people and organizations The "energy crisis" is born. The military sion and a basic political split has eau consider exchanging, subscribing and/or gets all the fufel It needs for limosines. caused the revolutionary movement in this distributing papers. We welcome news re• Air Force One and Thieu's army while country to falter. The unity that revolu• ports from people's struggles, articles, homes are blacked out, schools are closed tionaries across the country once had with letters, poems, artwork and cartoons. and workers laid off. the leadership of the old Black Panther Please let us know about news services, Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin Party has broken apart. People have be• information bureaus or newspapers from America win political and even military come isolated from revolutionaries. Area anywhere in the world that you think we independence. They threaten to withdraw organizations and community struggles should use. People make the revolution! from trade atiangements and demand more suffer from localism. Revolutionaries are for their resources and labor. So capit- not developing ideas that can spark revo• alsim responses neo-coloniaj-ism and lutionary struggles like the concept of sub-imperialist countrles(Brazil, Israel, Community control by the BPP did in 1966. Iran and South Africa) which thrgaten There is no systematic communication or their immediate neighbors with invasion coordination of struggle throughout the and economic control. U.S. We do not even have a newspaper that Everywhere that International capit• carries revolutionary news analysis and alism was weakened by people's victories theory to numbers of people across the it has attempted a comeback by more vici• country. ous or more disguised means. And every• That Isolation is why this paper was where that people have understood this started. By itself a nation-wide paper new form of oppression and have become will not solve the problems of the revo• united for struggle, the people have won lutionary movement. But, it is part Of even greater victories. So the trend of the solution. Specifically, it is an or• history is towards the fall of interna• "A newspaper is not only a collective ganizing tool for local struggles and a tional capital and the rise of revolution. coordinating tool for regional and nation• propagandist and collective agitator, al struggles. It provides revolutionary but also a collective organizer. In information and analysis. It is a commu• this respect it can be compared to the nication network independent of the bour• scaffolding erected around a building geois media. Lastly is is a forum to dis• in construction; it marks the contours cuss the major problems and tasks of the of the structure and facilitates com• revolution. All of us won't necessarily munication between the builders, per• But the course of revolution Is not agree with everythin that's printed,but mitting them to distribute the work smooth. The success of national liberation we all think that the Ideas are deserving and to view the common results a- in Guinea-Bisseau is tempered by the fail• of serious consideration. chieved by their organized labour." ure of elected socialism in Chile. The people of Chile went by all the rules of The people who started this newspa• LENIN per reflect the purpose of the paper. We parlimentary democracy. American compan• are mainly TW revolutionaries with some ies couldn't complain about a handful of white revolutionaries. All the people on armed communists violently seizing "their" WHAT WE BELIEVE: REVOLUTION IN AMERICA the paper are engaged or in contact with copper mines. Yet when challenged by Chi• revolutionary practice. Many have been le's successful and legal attempt at eco• nomic self-determination and internal re• or arc MBbera of revolutionary organiza- Wherever there is oppression, there is Clooa. Moat of us are Marxist-Leninist, resistance. Countries vant independence, form, American interests and their puppets Moat of us believe that building fight• nations want liberation, and people want dropped the mask of "free" market exchange ing national liberation fronts is primary revolution. This has become the irresti- and democracy. The massacre of leftist now. Same believe that a multinational ble trend of history. Party members, students and workers began. revolutionary party is critical. All of - Chinese Communist The viciousness of the repression is us agree on the following political prin• Party matched only by the defenselessness of ciples: the people. The lesson clearly is that The people of the world have enjoyed the struggle for liberation must be waged 1. Third World National Liberation are great successes since WWII in their strug• militarily as well as politically and e- struggles are the leading element - gle for social and economic revolution. conomically. Capitalism will always re• of the developing Socialist Revolu-i- The People's Republic of china has been sort to violence, and the people must be tlon in the United States. established for over 25 years. Korea, prepared for Its certainty. 2. The white working class is presently Vietnam, the rest of Indochina, Cuba and In this country, the resistance has a potential ally of national libera• Guinea-Bisseau have waged successful wars barely begun, and already we have seen tion struggles. But due to the ideo• of national liberation. Most countries in assasination, torture and imprisonment logy of racism, they lag the rest Africa have won political independence. used by city police departments and fed• of the revolutionary movement and Progressive socialist governments have eral agencies to put down resistance a™ gainst fascism, racism and exploitation. could even become a force for fas• been elected in Chile and other countries. OAOS'J cism. It is the duty of revolution• But the successes of the people have C.OMT: aries, especially whits revolution• hurt the Roekerfellers, Mellons, Fords, aries, to work for the awakening of Rothchilds and Duponts fo the world. Ihelr the white working class into a posi• system of world-wide capitalism weakens tive force for revolution. everytime a leftist government national• 3. The revolution is and will be a po• izes mines and nullifies debts. It weak• litical, economic and armed struggle, ens everytime it spends billions for 4. Inside the national liberation stnig- wars that force tin-horn dictators onto gles and the general revolutionary unwilling Third World nations. It weakens movement, the revolution will be led everytime the National Guard must put by an alliance of working and poor down Black Rebellions and break up truc• people and in their interests. kers' blockades in America. Capitalism feels itself weakening. Instead of writing a letter to ex• So it tries to Increase the flow of its plain our politics and the purpose of the lifeblood, money. It tries to take more paper, we decided to put a practical ex• profit from the toll of the world's peo• ample in people's hands. This first issue ple. The Arab peoples have grown rebelli• is meant to be an invitation to whoever ous of Euro-American interference in the sees the paper to contribute to its de• Middle East. The Arabs decided to withhold velopment. The success of this paper de• the oil that Euro-American companies took pends totally on the amount of active for almost nothing for so long, America participation by progressive people who suddenly wakes up to find itself depen• agree with our basic principles. We want dent on black wealth no longer under its SEIZE THE TIME to become a national news• control. So oil companies increase their paper as soon as possible, so that it can prices and profits while withholding vast make a contribution to building national reserves of oil. Nixon tells workers to liberation struggles and socialism. be more productive and less comfortable. VIETNAM WILL WIN THE HEARST FAMILY; LAND ROBBERS: SLAVEOWNERS & NAZIS World attention has been focussed on working conditions and the right to form years they lucratively speculated with the Hearst family since, to quote her cap• unions. Apresent example is the complete stolen California land. tors, Patrica Hearst was taken prisoner. destruction of the primarily white work• The Hearst family's tentacles reach• The mass media daily talks of the "ordeal" ers' movement to unionize and the strike ed into the growing mining business, with of the family. But the incident has rais• waged by them against the Los Angeles their principle investment going into the ed other issues, which the media has not Hera1d-Examiner, a newspaper currently Comstock Lode in Utah and the silver sul• produced by scab labor. SOCK given any consideration. The singlemost phite mines in California, which were Important one is that there exists a ru• The Hearst family's disregard for of the richest mines irt the west. Their ling class in the US, and the Hearsts, by human life is exemplified by their close exploitation reached the Sioux Nation in the black hills of South Dakota with their own admission are members of this association and membership in the exclu• their ventures into the Homestock mines, class. The facts of history serve to bear sively elite "Brook Club". This club fi• and later, their expansion into the Ana• this out. nancially supports Air America, the CIA conda Hills which had drastic results for The Hearst family has historically private airline which annually transports the indigenous people, been in control of the news media since 25,000 pounds of heroin from Southeast A- the turn of the century. That contol has sia into the United States. Tt is this this been used to mold public opinion and to heroin traffic that poisons the youth and HEARST CORPORATION HOLDINGS create concepts of American superiority politically represses the people's con• sciousness to struggle for social change. The present hodllngs of the Hearst and patriotism to justify corporate for• Corporation include the following; A Hearst is a member of the UC Board eign expansion and intervention through• Magazines - Good Housekeeping, House of Regents which has repeatedly attacked out Latin America and to justify the ex• Beautiful, Harper's Bazaar, Popular academic freedoms, condoned the continued ploitation of workers. Mechanics, Science Digest, American inhuman experiments on the brains of work• In the late 1800's the Hearst publi• Drugist, Town & Country, Sports & ing people and prisoners through the fas• cations were resposlble for launching the Field, Motor, Bride & Home, Motor cist techniques of psycho-surgery, and American people into the Carrlbean and Boating, and Cosmopolitan, have invested the people's tax money in the Philipines - the Spanish-American Over approximately twenty newspapers the fascist and racist apartheid system War. This war resulted in the replacement throughout the country, Including (the complete segregation of the races) of Spanish control by United States cor• Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Chicago of South Africa. porate domination in the struggling coun• Herald-Examiner, and the San Franci*. tries of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the The practices of the Hearst family CO Examiner, the Philipines. historically clearly demonstrate their Newspaper and periodical publishing Today that aggression, which was advocacy of white supremacy, and the ri^t and printing, radio and television created and advocated by the "yellow jour• to colonial and imperialist exploitation broadcasting, news syndicates, the nalism" of the Hearst family is best il• and brutal repression of people's move• United States Organization(USO), N.Y., lustrated by the classical colonial sta• ments for self-determination. Twentith Century Fox, United Press tus of Puerto Rico, so declared a colony It is not surprising to note that a International, San Luis Mining, Ha• by the United Nations, slave-owning Hearst in the 1860's was one lifax Power and Pulp Co,, and the In 1911, HeiirsC vigorously mobilized of the legislators in the nation who vo• Androscoggin Water and Power Co., his mass media machinery to incite armed ted against the abolition of slavery. and many other areas hidden from the intervention In support of the Diaz dic• HISTORY OF THE HEARST FAMILY IN THE US public eye. tatorship, i'uring the Mexican Revolution, It is clear that the Hearsts, by The Hearst publications were used to The Hearst family, since their mi• their own admission, are an integral part createand promote public support and fi• gration to this land from Scotland, in Of the ruling class, which Includes among nancial assistance for Adolf Hitler and 1680, have played an active role in a others, the Roekerfellers, the Morgans, his fascist clique of genocidal murderers. movement, which while proclaiming free• the DuPonts, the Vanderbilts and the Car- Before World War II, after several per• doms, brutally drove out and murdered the negies. The history of the Hearst family sonal visits by Hearst, Hitler paid the native peoples of this country, to take in the United States is one of violence, Hearst publication $400,000 to incite US over their lands for the sole purpose of exploitation and domination, especially public support for Nazism, Here in the profit. In later years, the Hearst family, over the native peoples of the United United States, Hearst initiated the for• due to their support and part in the west• States, The Hearst family along with the mation of several fascist groups through• ern expansion movement(Manifest Destiny) other 200 ruling class families in the U- out Los Angeles, such as the Lighthouse which attacked Indian and Mexican people, nlted States have historically used their Cavalry, the California Esquadrille, the benefitted through the robbery and exploi• money , political power and influence to HolIy\v'ood Hussars, and others. tation of the natural resources which be• oppress working and struggling peoples within the United States and throughout During the 1940's editorials and re• long to the native inhabitants of this land. the world. Hearst's history has shown ports from the Hearst publications took this to be factually true. the leading role in inciting US white ra• As recent immigrants in 1680, the cism and violence against the Japanese John Hearst II family had already claim• • THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO FREE LOS TRES • people of this country. That incitement ed ownership to ten acres of land and n culminated with the removal of Japanese nine slaves. EDITOR'S NOTE; men, women and children from their homes In 1727, John Hearst III family mi• The Hearst kidnapping is a major e- and their placement in war-time concentra• grated to South Carolina claiming exten• vent in the recent history of the revolu• tion camps within the US, It was also in sive land holdings which later became tionary movement within the United States. the 40's that the Hearst publications, known as Abberville County, one of the In the past year only the battle of Wound• especially the Herald-Examiner, condoned largest counties in the state. ed Knee and the seige of New Orleans have the attacks by US navymen against Mexican After the United States government's attracted comparable national and inter• people of Los Angeles, During these "Zoot purchase of Indian lands from France(the national attention. The feeding of thou• suit Riots" bands of white navy and civ• Louisiana Purchase), the William Hearst sand? of poor and oppressed people due to ilian men roamed the streets o£ Los Ange• family, followins the Daniel Boone path armed action by revolutionaries in Ameri• les , brutally boating and ripping the through Kentucky, settled in Franklyn ca has produced a whirlwind of discussion popular zoot-suits off young Mexicans. County Missouri in 1808, By the use of and struggle within all sections of Amer• The police would follow such bands, ar- slaves and claims of land the Hearst fam• ican society. ily built a small empire based on live• res ting the beaten victims and charging The revolutionary movement in parti• stock, William Hearst became first lieu• them with various "crimes". cular is divided over the SLA's strategy tenant of the Missouri militia which During the 1950's Hearst advocated and tactics. Some "revolutionaries" are waged armed campaigns against the Indian McCarthy's suspension of civil liberties, taking the road of liberalism and are re• people. During this period William Hearst persecution, incarceration and execution fusing to evendiscuss the SLA and its ac• claims grew to 800 acres. of courageous Americans who struggled for tions. Others denounce the SLA. The bour• social change and for the elimination of Before his death William Hearst in• geois press is quick to publish denunci• racism. curred a debt of $10,000 because of his ations by any radicals. What is rare to Throughout the 60's and 70's Hearst campaign against Mexico, in which he ad• find are principled criticisms done from has called for and supported the genoci• vocated the take-over of the present the standpoint of practice, criticism and dal bombings and napalming of helpless southwest region from Mexico. This cam• self-criticism. This section contains a Vietnamese women and children. Even today paign later resulted in the Mexican-Amer• history of the Hearst family, the goals ican War and the application of Manifest they defend Watergate conspirator and ad• of the Symbionese Liberation Army and two Destiny to Mexican and Indian people in vocate of American fascism, Richard Mil- letters from the BLA and the WeatherUnder- the Southwestern United States. house Nixon, whose policies are a serious ground. We offer this material so that threat to the American people's civil li• His heir, George Hearst, in three people can better understand the SLA ac• berties. The Hearsts presently stand in years was able to repay his father's debt tions. Progressive people, study the ma• opposition to the impeachment of Nixon. from the plunder of copper and lead mines terial! Be unliberal in criticism and Historically the Hearsts' money and which he stole from Indian people through• self-criticism I Do not bend to reformism influence has been used to comTjat the out the state of Missouri. and revisionism. Always remember that the right of workers to decent wafes, better The Gold Rush in California attrac• people will judge us by our actions. ted the Hearst exploiters and for ten Page B BLA Welcomes the SLA to the Struggle An Open Letter to the People and all Com• It also incorporated all necessary forms bat Units of the United Federated Legions of activity wblch would act as a repres- ruthless and they will stop at nothing to of the SLA; sant and thereby immobilize the resis• suppress us. Our declaration of war has comrades in Arms, we the BLA speak tance. The reinstatement of the Death resulted in the retaliation of their do• to you from our prison cells, our under• Penalty by certain states designating mestic military agencies. Our women have ground safehouses, from the streets and that murders of police officers, correc- been gunned down on expressways with the mVE, We send to you(SlA) the most officers and other officials of the state magnum loads, our comrades have been profound revolutionary greetings. We wel- apparatus, call for mandatory death sen• hunted down by the FBI and shot twenty- colm you with open arrot., the level of tence upon conviction. This action total• five times; using Comrade Tyrone as an struggle has truly rear-bed the point of ly ifnores the unconstitutionality of the example of what their standing "Shoot On no return. The dialectics of our conflict practice ruled on by the Supreme Court, Sight" order really means. Our comrades who have been captured has spiraled to the point of open guer• Finally, there is a bill on the are no long Political Prisoners, but Pri• rilla warfare. It is being waged against floor of the Congress which would give soners of War and they are treated ac• the number one enemy of mankind - "The police agencies a legal right to kick cordingly. Facing life without possibili• Military Armed Fascist Corporate American down any door when there Is suspicion State". We have been waging this protrac• ty, they are beaten, chained, and welded that an armed assailant is being given ted War of Liberation virtually alone; Oh into their cells in so-called adjustment refuge. All of this points to one thing; but how sweet it is to hear the thunder centers throughout Amerikkka. Those re• the state apparatus is gearing its legal of your weapons resounding on the battle• cently captured comrades in New York, New machinery for the specific task of meet• field. We are coming of age, as the cat• Jersey, New Orleans and Oakland are ing the new form of resistance with an erpillar becomes the butterfly so the man brought to court every day chained and even more sinister form of repression. child becomes the armed combatant. shackled with bails set at $250,000 to Without any question. It is obvious, that $500,000. It is necessary that we learn In the process of this development the most advanced stages of resistance from these mistakes; in order that we in• we must realize we have many roads to have Increased the spiral of repressant sure survival and growth of the resis• travel. Today's primary objective of the tensions created between the two and this tance movement. resistance struggle, Is to develop a con• will further the surge upward at each vi• Therefore, we must examine every cap• crete analysis of the contemporary condi• olent encounter. CORPORATE FASCISM IS ture, every loss of life, every Internal tions through which the forces Of repres• HERE I sion and resistance are waging struggle. contradiction, so that we do not lose com• Tn order that thl may be accomplish• rades unnecessarily. The strength of our ed it is necessary to ask these questions: movement is secrecy; the weakness is in• 1) At what stage is the most advanced experience and the failure to purge from forms of struggle being waged? 2) What within ourselves the putrid disease of level of repression is the state using to the bourgeois mentality. exterminate tnls moet advanced form of How many times have squad meetings resistance? and 3)What are the strengths come to an abrupt halt because of an in• and weaknesses at these advanced stages? dividual trying to push his ideas on the Lastly, we must examine the whole complex sqiiads without collective deliberation? of contradictory historical forces that How many times have idle gossip and bick• are building up and ripening into a state ering caused disunity? How many times has of supreme crisis. Those who have pre• the conflict of sexual partners hindered pared thmselves through action, criti• the perfection o£ precision, and how many cism, self-criticism and study, will be times has the frustrated individual dug in a strategic position to sleze the op- his own grave by embarking on a mission portooity and act decisively at the right without following the advice of his re• connaissance team., only to be captured by the enemy. We must remember at all times San Quentin prisoners known as the that revolution is a process; and that San Quentin Siz were bolted and chained the enemy is around us everywhere — and to tbelr seats as they were being pre• it is he, who we must deal with. pared for trial in Marin County and to But, in order to deal with the ene• compound their conditions, they were sep• my, we must reduce our mistakes to abso• arated from the spectators by a bullet lute zero. No missions imdertaken when proof partition with a television camera surveillance teams report unfavorable •onitering their every move. JoAnn Chesl- conditions. No safe houses or surveil• •ard(Assata Shakur) and Mark Squire(al- lance houses where surveillance or com• leged members of the BLA) are chained bat units live should have any uncoded tried in a New Jersey county which is the Information lying around. No posters or tenth richest in the country. The sinis• literature should be in possession of ter nature of growing fascism there was combatants at any time. Any items used exemplified in the appearance of brown to carry out a mission should be totally shirts(swastikas and all) protesting sup• "We're Involved in a War - destroyed, and above all pay close atten• port for the corporate state. Ironically, tion to detail. All underground units on January 16, 1974 in San Francisco, A People's War against those who should by now have learned to stay off brown shirts appeared at the S.F. school the streets and highways late at night. board meeting dealing with integration of oppress the People. This is War in Being on the streets in Concord at the public school system. that time o£ the morning was as costly to On January 8th two alleged members the Clearest Sense of the Word." of the SLA are captured. Bail is set at the SLA as the capture of JoAnn Chesimard $250,000.00, the two defendants are (Assata Shakur) and Clark Squire, and the murder of Zayad Shakur to the BLA. Both chained in court and are then taken to happened during a period when all combat San Quentin for security reasons. From our vantage point the most ad• units should have been in safe houses. We In New York, the New York Five are vanced forms of struggle are our clandes• must remember what Assata Shakur said of being held without bond in the alleged tine BLA assault squads, the weatherun- the mistake, "He who travels while the guerrilla attacks on the domestic, mili• derground, and the SLA combat units. All sun sleeps will stumble many times." tary police agencies in New York City. are working from the promise laid down by We have noted from our prison cells The New York Five are alleged members of our fallen Comrade George Jackson. He re• the BIA and are chained and shackled as cognized that a focal motor, or armed and our underground safehouses, that the they are being tried. combatants, are the vanguard of urban reactionary revisionist elements of the In February of this year, Rubin Bois guerrilla warfare. It was he who taught movenents of the past, ie. Huey Newton Scott, alleged manber of BLA, was charged us our theater of combat was the urban and Angela Davis say that SLA actions di• with being one of the participants in the centers of Amerikkka, and the ranks of vide the community. It is rather ironic guerrilla strule raid on the Ingleside long time associates. From these ranks that they would say this, since they de• police station in August 1971. Bail for are flowing more and more armed comba• fected from the struggle sometime ago. Scott was set at $500,000. tants filling the ranks of the BLA in Perhaps Manchild Jonathan Jackson would In 1973, the Watergate operation re• particular and the Resistance movement be alive today if they hadn't deserted in general. him in his hour of need. The BLA is aware vealed to the American public a clandes- of the crime that you have committed a- tlne, domestic, military organization But comrades, there is a high price galnst the people, so who are you to de• within the ruling clrcles(government) is that we have paid and will pay for our termine the legitimacy of any revolution• licen««d to commit burglaries, bombings, mistakes. That price is death, or life ary act. aasasslaatlon and electronic surveillance. imprisonment. The level of repression is Page C GOALS OF THE SLA

1. To unite all oppressed people into and in the defining of themselves as a new and free people, a fighting force and to destroy the sys• tem of the capitalist state and all Its 11. To create new forms of life and re• value systems. To create in its place a lationships that bring true meanings of system and sovereign nations that are in love to people's relationships, and to the total interest of all its races and form communes on the community level and people, based on the true affirmation of bring the children of the community into life, love, trust and honesty, freedom being the responsibility of the community, and equality that is truly for all, to place our children in the union of real comradeship and in the care and lov• 2. To assure the rights of all people ing interest of the revolutionary commu• to self-determination and the rights to nity. build their own nation and government, with representatives that have shown 12. To destroy the prison system, which through their actions to be in the in• the capitalist state has used to imprison terest Of their people. To give the right the oppressed and exploited, and thereby THE SLA SYMBOL to all people to select and elect their destroy the love, unity and hopes of mil• lions of lives and families. And to cre• representatives and governments by tion, but rather does institute the en• direct vote, vironment of freedom and defends that ate in its place a system of comradeship freedom on all levels and for all of the and that of group unity and education on 3. To build a people's federated coun• people, and by any means necessary. a communal and revolutionary level within cil, who will be a male and female of the community, to bring home our daugh• each People's Council or Sovereign Nation 7. To give back to all people their ters and sons, and sisters and brothers, of the Symbionese Federation of Nations, human and constitutional rights, liber• fathers and mothers and welcolm them home who shall be the representatives of their ty, equality and justice and the right with love and a new revolutionary com• nations in the forming of trade pacts and to bear arms in the defense of these radeship of unity. unified defense against any external ene• rights. my that may attack any of the free nations 13. To take control of all-rfate-land of the federation and to form other aids 8. To create a system where our aged and that of the capitalist class and to to each others' needs. are cared for with respect, love and give back the land to the people. To form kindness, aide and encouraged to become laws and codes that safeguard that no per• A. To aid and defend the cultural rl^ts assets in their own ways to their nations son can own the land, or sell the land, of all the sovereign nations of the Sym• and to their communal community. That the but rather the nation's people own the bionese Federation, and to aid each na• life that moves around them is not a land and use it for their needs and in• tion in the building of educational and frightening and murderous one and where terest to live. No one can own or sell other institutions to meet and serve this life is not a fear, but rather one of the air, the sky, the water, the trees, need for its people. love and feeling and of unity. the birds, the sun,for all of this world belongs to the people of this earth, 5. To place the control of all the in• 9. To create a system and laws that stitutions and industries of each nation 14. To take controls of all buildings will neither force people into nor force into the hands of its people. To aid sov• and apartment buildings of the capitalist them to stay in personal relationships ereign nations of the federation to build class and fascist government and then to that they do not wish to be in, and to nations where work contributes concretely totally destroy the rent system of exploi• destroy all chains instituted by legal tation. to the full interest and needs of its and social laws of the capitalist state workers and the communal :nterest of its which act as a reinforcing system to 15. To build a federation of nations, communities and its people and the mutual maintain this form of imprisonment, interest of all within the federation of who shall formulate programs and unions nations, of actions and interests that will de• 10. To create institutions that will aid, stroy the capitalist value system and its 6. To aid and defend the rights of all reinforce and educate the growth of our other anti-human Instltutlona and who Will be able to do this by meeting all oppressed people to build nations which comrade women and aid them in making a the basic needs of all the people and do not institute oppression and exploita- new true and better role to live in life their nations. For they will be able to do this because each nation will have full control of all of its industries and But, of course, we understand that support your call to Arms. We recognize institutions and does not run them for many more actions of this nature would your Ideology as extremely progressive. profit, but in the full interest of all deprive Huey Newton of the luxury of the We recognize that the suffering of the the people of its nation. penthouses and Broughams. We must not worlds population is connected to one rock the boat because conditions would be disease — The Corporate Fascist Military created which would awaken our former com• Empire. Resistance to this disease is the 16. To destroy all forms and institu• rades from complacency. Comrade George single greatest human endeavor today. tions of Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Capital• Jackaon haa taught that any party or or• Every greater and leaser conflict is con• ism, Fascism, indivuaiism, Possessiveness, ganization which advocates working within nected; from Mozambique to the Middle Competiveness and all other such institu• or is a part of the military fascist cor• East, from Southeast Asia to Latin Ameri• tions that have made and sustained capit• porate state should be treated according• ca and from Mexico to the tip of the North alism and the capitalist class system ly. So enough of Mr. Newton and his reac• American continent. that hass oppressed and exploited all of tionary statements. the people of our history. It is the worldflre of the peoples' We have also observed carefully cho• struggle to overconie imperialism and cor• By this means and the mutual aid and sen comment concerning people who said ruption and to spreading socialism filled unity of each nation within the Symbio• they would refuse SLA offers of food be• with love, comradeship and human decency. nese Federation, will each nation be able cause they wouldn't accept blood money. We understand that the SLA acts are poli• to provide to each person and couple and Me say to them, it is rather ironic that tical acts and that the power of the act family free of cost the five basic needs you would say this because every time you is an example of hwat an armed combatant of life, v^ich are food, health care, eat fruit, drink coffee, ride in automo• can accomplish. LA HORDA IS HERE! housing, education and clothing, and in biles, and wear diamond rings, you are this way allowing people to be able to accepting an exchange of blood money, for PROFOUND REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS AND find and form now values and new systems blood products. For the raw materials for THE HIGHEST EXPRESSION OF LOVE: of relationships and interests based on a these products are taken from the poor new meaning to life and love. oppressed people in Africa, Asia and La• POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION OF tin America, Every Black African in South THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY: IF THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM IS DEATH, THEN Africa, Mozambique, Angola, just to name BY THE DEATH OF THE ENEMY WILL BLACK AND a few, are raped of their natural resour• 1. Eastern Region: Attica State Pri• OTHER OPPRESSED PEOPLE FIND AND REGAIN ces everyday. So how can you say that you son; All Eastern Underground Safe Houses. THEIR FREEDOM. will not take blood money, it is so much 2. Western Region: California State a part of your condition that if you did Prison Units; All Western Underground TO THOSE WHO WOULD BEAR THE HOPES AND FU• not take it you would die of starvation. Safe Houses. TURE OF OUR PEOPLE, LET THE VOICE OF THETR So we of the Black Liberation Army GUNS EXPRESS THE WORDS OF FREEDOM. Page D MESSAGE FROM THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

February 20. 1974 2. We support the right of people to own time, each was attacked as a murder• food. Shadowing the more blatant terror ous lunatic by the more "respectable" a- Sisters and Brothers, ia the silent violence of malnutrition, bolltlonlsts. Revolution is officially A massive morality play of American forced sterilization and schools that revered only in retrospect. life is occuring, bringing home the mes• teach children to be illiterate. This se• It is a new experience for us to be sage that this society will necessarily cret form of murder is increasing and it described as a moderate alternative in continue to produce revolutionaries, is systematic. the Hearst papers. This has never happen• whose essential purpose will be under• Hunger and the need for food are ur• ed before. New Left "moderation" is in• stood by masses of people. It danonstrates gent. The fact that there are enough peo• vented now as another racist weapon a- that the American Empire is violent, ruth• ple in need in California to require $400 gainst Black revolution. less and based on oppression. million to feed them for one month reveals Despite the efforts by the media to As the Symbionese Liberation Army the dimensions of the crisis. And this is sow confusion, many organizations and action has unfolded, the bare bones of the cornucopia of the United States, leaders have kept the primary issues of this drama have emerged out of the contra• Look at Vietnam, formerly the rice official violence and oppression in the dictions and militaristic style; the guer• bowl of Southeast Asia, Now Saigon-con• forefront, affirmed the seious intentions rillas have kidnapped the daughter of a trolled areas are in the midst of a rice of the SLA, and called for food for peo• rich and powerful man in order to provide famine. This is the consequence of a US- ple and the safety of both Patricia Hearsi food to the poor. Their action has un• sponsered decade of a savage interference and members of the SLA. This is a new anc leashed an astonishing practical unity a- in the Vietnamese right to self-determin• beautiful development. mong peoples' organizations, and a leap ation and independence. It remains true 4. Revolutions are uneven. They develop in everyone's consciousness about the that in Vietnam, US priorities can be from concrete conditions. Like people, fundamental reality which will not die or seen most clearly. Last year Nixon gave like nations, they 5re each unique and pass into memories of a previous decade. $1.3 billion in military aid alone to yet share common qualities. They will not That is, the war between the rich and the Thieu. behave according to expectations; they poor. 3. There have always been attempts to are forged in grinding suffering and re• There are four points we would offer. disassociate extremists from moderates,to sistance. 1. American society is maintained by rewrite the fierce struggles of yesterday For the ruling class, it's an easy force and violence. The ruling class has into "reasonable" unthreatening squabbles, thing to anonymously destroy thousands of held a monopoly on violence and has fed and - above all - to incite racist fears lives. The use of violence carries dif• us a steady diet for centuries. Africans about what might happen when "they" get ferent burdens for conscious revolution• were kidnapped and brought nere in chains out of control. It is the people who make aries who love the people, than for their to labor as slaves; Asians brought to revolution, and they must determine how enemies who fear and hate people. build the railroads and mine the ore, kid• and when revolutionary violence is neces• We do not comprehend the execution napped during World War II and transport• sary . This is fundamental: the oppressed of Marcus Foster, and respond very sober• ed to detention camps; Chicanes brought have a common emeny. Don't do the enemy's ly to the death of a Black person who was to harvest the fruit and vegetables; poor work. The media distorts and denounces in not recognized as an enemy of his people. whites brought as indentured servants or an attempt to divide the revolution. Move• But it is wrong to allow such questions desperate unemployed - and historically ment spokepeople who react to political to become a grant of immunity to enemies all of us pawns and participants in the crisis by asserting their own moderation and executioners of the oppressed. The theft of Native American land and history. and legitimacy are providing ammunition system always holds that its massive vio• Two hundred years later, this terror which will be used in the ruling class lence is legal and moral and that revolu• is still both institutionalized and ran- plans to split and weaken us. tionary violence by the people is illegal donly encouraged: Beware of the familiar phrases used and outrageous. It is the opposite that - Last November, three white police- against every kind of revolutionary ac• is true. •en nurdered 14 year old Tyrone Guyton, tion; "it's premature," "it turns people The hypocrisy of ruling class moral• one block from his home in Rneryville. He off,"(some people), "it brings down re• ity and justice is shown in their treat• was Hack, shot with a .357 magnum pistol. pression," The same words are used to at• ment of the SLA prisoners, Joseph Rerairo - Reagan'a latest assault. Welfare tack sit-ins, draft -card burnings, urban and Russel Little have not been tried, Regulation #6, became effective January 1 rebellions, the struggle of women, G.I. but they are being held in isolation in 1974. It eliminates people who are tech• revolts or occupations of institutions. the Adjustment Center of San Quentin. And nically illegal aliens from the welfare Whether or not any of this is literally still the three policemen from the same rolls of AFDC and medical programs, threat• true, the important thing about revolu• area who murdered a 14 year old Black man- ening the survival of thousands of Chlca• tionary action is its political effect, child have not even been indicted, despite no families who have come in search of its direction, what it teaches and changes the collective outcry of the Black commu- work. Poor mothers and their children and strengthens. nity. have been singled out to bear the brunt Today Nat Turner and John Brown are Committed political workers will be of the attack. At the same time, farmworkf. considered revolutionary heros. In their criticizing and discussing the Hearst kid• ers are being shot at and arrested for napping for a long time, but we must ac• their struggle to organize. knowledge that this audacious interven• - Ruchell Cinque Magee, a victim of tion has carried forvard the basic public offical kidnap since June 1963, is being questions and starkly dramatized what ma• tried again in San Jose for participating ny have come to experience: It will be in a legitimate alave rebellion, 17 year necessary to organise and to destroy this old Jonathan Jackson was hrutally gunned racist and cruel system. down by San Quentin guards. His grieving For the WeatherUnderground mother had no riches to save her child• Bernadlne Dohrn ren's lives. - At present time, the government "The proletariat of the oppressing natione holds 22,000 people hostage in the Cali• fornia prisons. They are subject to an cannot confine itself to the general hack- escalating "get tough" policy of lock- eyed phrases against annexations and for downs, special adjustment centers and in• the equal rights of nations In general, determinate sentences. When they can't be that may be repeated by any pacifist bour• contained or broken, they are executed as geois. The proletariat cannot evade the was George Jackson. question that is particularly'unpleasant' for the imperialist bourgeoisie, namely, - Terror-bombing from the air, the the question of the frontiers of a state random destruction of the lives of mil• lions, has been the Asian and now African that is based on national oppression. The experience of Pax Americana, proletariat cannot but fight against the forcible retention of the oppressed na• For two generations, the Hearst necas* tions within the boundaries of a given papers themselves have wielded their po• state, and this is exactly what the strug• wer and profits by exploiting the most lu• gle for the right of self-determination rid aspects of war, irrational violence means," ^ LENIN - 1916 and racial and sexist ideas. They have a lot Of reckoning to account for.

JOHN BROWN Page 7 SEIZE THE TIME CONT. FROM 6 The revolutionary movanent in Ameri• That spring National Guard units and nationalism) is applied internationalism." ca began in the early eixties with the paratroopers were used to crush the Black They stand opposite to the first side on civil rights movement agaire t racial op• Urban Rebellions. Only Vietnam hardened every major question from defending cap• pression of Blacks. It grew with a popu• paratroopers were able to contain the up• tured BLA members to the role of oppres• lar understanding that oppression and in• rising. That year the Oakland police mur• sed people's culture and how to deal with equality were basic to the American way dered BPP's L'il Bobby Hutton and arres• the reactionary Teamster's Union, Although of life. Malcolm X spoke on the Ballot or ted Huey P. Newton. this paper has no organizational alle• the Bullet in 1964 and was assasinated In the next five years, the BPP split giances, we agree with this side of the later that year. Watts burned in the £i and catalyzed a split in the entire move• split. first long hot summQr of 1965, East Los ment. The police repression made clear We are revolutionary nationalists. Angeles and other cities in the SOUthwest that revolution was a life and death We are for building goclallsm and com• (Aztlan) were also having their hot sum• struggle between the rulers and the ruled, pletely smashing the corporate fascist mers. The Brown Berets, Denver's Crusade not a game. The choice had to be made to state. Imperialism(monopoly capitalism) for Justice and the Puerto Rican Young either make revolution or to play with and racism are the twin pillars of the Lords party were founded in the late 60's. reform. Faced with that choice, the Young fascists' anpire. The monsters of capit• The anti-war movement grew with America's Lords Party, The Chicane Revolutionary alism must be destroyed before they de• youth. Through their Involvement in the Party, the Revolutionary Union, Vencere- stroy our people. We hope this paper can anti-war movement, some whites gained an mos, the Brown Berets, Red Guards, etc. contribute to the future development of understanding of the total American sys- either split or disbanded. Other organi• theory, strategy and organisation o£ the tan of oppression and allied themselves zations were heavily infiltrated or re• Revolution and benefit the lives of op• with the struggles of Third World people pressed like WAW and Republic of New A- pressed people everywhere. within America as well. The Black Panther Africa, The success of police repression Comrade Ho Chi Minh inspired the Party was founded in 1966. Tn 1967 the US has proved that capitalism and imperial• people of Vietnam to battle 30 years ago government was forced to send paratroop• ism are still stronger than the revolu• with these words, "Revolutionary Fight• ers to put down the Detroit Rebellion. tionary movement. ers, the hour has struck. The fighting Meanwhile, the revolutionary move• spirit of the people is displayed before ment proved that it had three serious you I Let us rise up quickly 1 Unite with weaknesses. The young movement thought it each other, unify your action to over• could stand the world on its head in a throw the imperialists. Victory to the few short years. They were not prepared World Revolution! " for a long struggle that required build• ing the unity of all revolutionary people. Free the People Many people became discouraged and tired. SEIZE THE TIME Others made carelass mistakes that put themselves in the hands of the police. The "revolutionary lifestyle" became iso• lated from the life of working families. The other two problems are closely related. Many organizations have split over differences on the role of national liberation struggles and the role of armed struggle in America. On the one side is the insistance that the struggles of TW people are a smaller or secondary part of the general working class struggle. These people condemn revolutionary natiot*- - /4 alism and the concept of urban guerrilla warfare. They downplay the importance of the Black Urban Rebellions and say that the masses can not grasp even the concept of armed struggle until years in the fu• • ture. These people are the Oakland BPP 1968 was a high point for the strug• leadership. Revolutionary Union, the old gles of people in America. In April, Mar• Communist Party, Trotsky-ites and groups tin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated, and dominated by them(ie. Puerto Rican Revo• over 125 cities exploded in angry rebel• lutionary Workers' Organization, formerly lion against this latest act of repressio. part of the Young Lords, now under RU's These riots and other demonstrations won wing). unprecedented concessions. The anti-war movement was forcing changes in American On the other side is the insistance foreign policy. BPP chapters spread like that recent history proves that the strug• wild-fire across the country. They pro• gles of Third World people for national vided unified leadership and nation-wide liberation from imperialism are the lead• communications for the entire US move• ing element of the revolutionary struggle. ment. During this time, the first nation• These people quote Mao that, "In wars of al Chicane youth conference was held in national liberation, patriotism(ed. note: i Denver, Colorado. It united hundreds of individuals and groups to declare them• ORGANIZATIONS - NEWSPAPERS selves the nation of Aztlan. 1968 also signalled the decision of Please consider using the center the US government and business that " section of this paper as an in• "things had gone too far". People had sert supplement to your own local gotten away with too much. Law and order paper. If you are interested, Nixon was engineered into the Presidency. write us about the number you want In the next five years, poverty programs and feel free to make suggestions were cut and altered to only serve busi• about future content and size. We ness. Schools were filled with police and plan to have a center section in dectective squads, Bebe Reboso's Mafia every issue. began massive Infusion of CIA dope into A * * -A- -r If * TW communities. The number of arrests and Newspaper police murders of TW people jumped. 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And every time we pay our the revolution„ Many tools are necessary particularly those of color, are in now rent the landlord sicks a gun into our for this task and in ths US people have in the U.S. Dig politicians hire the CIA ribs. ovmed these tools for many years, Guns t:o a^saseiaat^ moBbecs «£ their own claos They call us thieves, but we did not are one o£ these tools are as essential (with guns) and then turn around and rob and murder millions o£ Indians by to someone who believes in self-defense preach that only with maaaivc gun control ripping off their homeland, then call as a wrench is to a mechanic.They are will our country be saved. The government ourselves pioneers. They call us bandits, slowly becoming hot items. Hot in the pours enormous amounts of money into maj• but it is not us who are robbing Africa, sense that unless you're a police officer or cities for more police, intelligence, Asia and Latin America of their natural or an N.R.A. raanber (although members are weapons. Their rationale is the increasing resources and freedom while the people sometimes suspected of being revolutionar• crime rateand the ever Increasing threat of these lands are sick and starving. The ies) these tools are getting harder to of domestic Insurgents. rulers of this country and their flunkies geto THE CRIME RATE IS SKYROCKETING and people have committed some of the most brutal, WITH THIS COLUMN we hope to make infor• are organizing and rebelling. We feel thai vicious crimes in history. They are the mation available about places where wea• in spite of the brainwashing we reeleve bandits. They are the murderers. And they pons can be gotten, which weapons are the through much of the media we can comb&t should be treated as such. These manics best, their correct usage, and to answer these lies with education about our are not fit to judge me, Clark Squire, or questions about standardization of wea• resources and how to use than. any other Black person on trial in ameri• pons, how to conduct a house defense kkka. Black People should, and inevitably plan, etc. PRIMARILY THESE ARTICLES WILL BE A PRAC• must, determine our destinies. "AN UNARMED PEOPLE ARE SLAVES or subject TICAL GUIDE about guns. We will be glad Every revolution in history has been to slavery at any time." What does this to answer pressing questions anyone might accomplished by actions, although words quote mean? We believe this describes the have. are necessary. We must create shields if- V- >!. -Y- * -Y- -Y- * ^1 ^.i ^ ^ -^i ^ ¥• that protect us and spears that penetrate ^ -V- I- >!• our enemies. Black People must learn how to struggle by struggling. We must learn THE SUN The sun is there on the Truong Son* even •uch by our mistakes. at night: I want to apologize to you, my Black The earth gives birth to the sun on the His light is in the headlights of the brothers aa»d sisters, for being on the immense ocean. trucks heading for the frontline; Itaw Jersey Ttimpike. I should have known Wearing a red beard on his face. His heat is in the shells fired at enemy better. Ihe Ttanplke is a check point And a scarf of white clouds. planes, «|iere Black people are stopped, searched, Baby Sun bids farewell to his mother. His fire is in the hearts of the comba• bamaaed. aad assavlted. Revolutionaries tants. •nac never be In too nuch of a hurry or Oh, how he loves Mother Earth I "I never set," says the sun, "for I love make careless decisiona. He who nins when All day he sends her hot kisses you. Mother Earth." the sun is sleeping will stimble many Which warm her heart times. Even after night comes, A Vietnamese Child - HOANG HIEU NHAN Every time a Black Freedom Fighter "I never et," says the sun to his mothei; (11 years old) is murdered or captured the pigs try to * a chain of mountains create the impression that they have squashed the movement, destroyed our ij: ij: i/i >!. i,!. >(. if. If. i/. ^ ^ if. if. if. if. >/. If. >f. if. i(. i(. i(. :f. ^f. if. if. 1^ >(. >(. if. if. forces and put down the Black Revolution. Tbe pigs also try to give the impression that 5 or 10 Ooerrillas are responsible CULTURAL REVOLUTION for every revolutiona^^• action carried out in aaerlkkka. That is nonsense. That "We must launch a Cultural Revolution The Nguzo Saba Weusl(The Seven Principles is absurd. Black revolutionaries do not to unbrainwash an entire people....Cul• of Blackness) drop from the neon. We are created by our ture is an indispensable weapon in the conditions, shaped by our oppression. We freedom struggle." Nla (nee a) (purpose) are being sMnufactured in droves in ghet• - Malcolm X To make our collective vocation the to streets; places like Attica, San Quen• building and developing of our com• tin, Walpole, Leavenworth and Sing Sing. Editor's Note: The Nguzo Saba Weusi(Sev- munities - in order to restore our They are turning out thousands of us. Ma• en Principles of Blackness) is one formu• people to their original greatness. ny jobless Black veterans and welfare mo• lation of moral principles to guide lib• Kuumba (ku \m ba) (creativity) thers are joining our ranks. Brothers and eration fighters and families along the To do always as much as we can, and sisters from all walks of life who are path of struggle. Despite its similarity in every way we can, to leave our tired of suffering passively make up the to both the Nguzo Saba(Seven Principles) community more beautiful and bene• BU. o£ Ron Karenga and the Seven Principles ficial than we inherited it. There is and always will be, until of the SLA, this is an independent formu• Kujitegemea (ku gi tae gae mae a) (self- every Black man, woman and child is free, lation based on the 400 years of African reliance) a Black Liberation Army. The main func• struggle In the New World, To strive for independence by rely• tion of the Black Liberation Army at this ing on our own mental, physical, and time is to create good examples to strug• spiritual labor - instead of depend• gle for Black freedom and to prepare for ing on someone else. the future, we muet flefend ourselves ana Imaai {e nia nee) (faith) let no one disrespect us. We must gain To believe with all our hearts in our liberation by any means necessary. our parents, our children, our peo• It is our duty to fight for our ple, our leaders and the righteous• freedom. The Nguzo Saba Weusi is a moral val• ness and victory of our struggle. It is our duty to win. ue system founded, developed and prac• Kujichagulia (ku gi cha gu 11 a) (self- We must love each other and support ticed by people of African descent, liv• determination) each other, ing in the Americas. It consists of sev• To define, develop, maintain and de• en cardinal principles, which are derived fend our way of life, and to chart WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS I from over 10,000 years of African tradi• our own path for the future -instead tion; and from over 400 years of struggle »f having someone else do it for us, IN THE SPIRIT OF: against slavery and oppression. Ujamaa (oo j£ ma) (collective work and As a moral foundation for attitudes responsibility) RONALD CARTER JAMES MCCLAIN and conduct, the Nguzo Saba Weuzi pro• To build, support and profit togeth• GEORGE JACKSON MARK ESSEX vides every brother and sister with iden• er from our own political, social WILLIAM CHRISTMAS HAROLD RUSSELL tity, purpose and direction. Read, learn, and economic institutions - to make JONATHAN JACKSON FRANK HEAVY FIELDS practice and teach the Nguzo Saba Weusi. our brothers and sisters problems, MARK CLARK ZAYD MALIK SHAKUR our problans and to solve them to - WOODY CHANGA OLUGBALA GREEN Monday is for Nla. gether. ANTHONY KIMU OLUGBALA WHITE Tuesday is for Kuumba. Umoja (oo mo ja) (unity) LIL' BOBBY HUTTON FRED HAMPTON Wednesday is for Kujitegemea. To strive for and maintain unity in Thursday is for Imani. the family, community, nation and WE MUSI FIGHT ONIII Friday is for Kujichagulia. race. Saturday is for Ujamaa. Harambee, Harambee, Harambee ASSATA SHAKUR Sunday is for Dinoja. (Let's All Pull Together) SEIZE THE TIME page 9 Historically, the oil companies have derived their major profit from their ex• ploitative relations to oil-producing countries. Middle East oil is apprepriated at extremely low COSt(it costs one dollar to produce a barrel of oil in the Middle East and North Africa), then transported, refined and sold throughout the induotrl- allted world at highly favorable profit margins. The fundamental exploitation, then, has historically existed at the point of production. Rut when the oil-producing countries began to revolt, asking for larger shares in the companies and higher pri«66 for their oil, it meant that oooncr or later the burden of exploitation had to shifted from the point of production to the point of consumption - us."

These and many more words have been written on the oil "crisis", Below is a sampling of both the bourgeois press and progressive media,"

"The rulers of this country have used millions of tons of oil and other prec• PROFITS FOR THE ious resources In the most destructive BIG EIGHT HAVE SOARED war in history in Indochina, They have (1973) just sent billions of dollars of mili• tary supplies (including fuel for jets 73 Gain Over and tanks) to Israel. On top of that, they have created an artificial fuel Earnings 72 "Our jobs, our nation, our future depend shortage in America, and then blamed it on on educating everyone to the power and ..$1.6Dlllion 59% everyone but themselves I" greed of these 20 monopolistic oil com• Texaco., $838mlllion 35% ---Workers' World panies... the answer to America's energy Mobil ..$571 38% problem is nationalization of the oil Gulf ..$570 60% industry." Standard Cal ..$560 ho% "Not surprisingly, between the third George Hardy, President, Stnd of Ind. ..$389 32% quarter of 1972 and the third quarter SEIU, AFL-CIO Shell,,, ..$253 hi% of 1973, oil industry profits rose 53 ARCO $178 " 37% percent." Science News "The nation's 20 largest oil companies control almost 957=, of the country's "Thanks to the energy crisis, workers known oil reserves..." throughout the country face massive lay• ---SF Examiner offs, both immediately and In the future —Muhammed Speaks "Officials and principal stockholders of "Hardest hit by the layoffs, cutbacks 176 oil and gas companies contributed of public services, and rationing are almost $5 million.„. to re-elect Richard Blacks, Chicanos, women,and other min• M. Nixon in 1972..." ority workers, all those who have always ...Washington Post been the last hired and the first fired. Guardian "What's bringing the stock market down, "Most oppressed people will understand in short, is not the Arab embargo, but the recent actions taken by the Arab the sharpening all-round crisis of the Nations, actions which Nixon has called capitalist system." "blacls)ail"o In assessing the position Guardian adopted by the Arabs, only two things must be ranembered: 1) the oil belongs "We're going to refuse the so-called to the Arabs, and 2) the entire history PENTAGON ORDERS OIL DIVERTED FROM CIVIL• compromise of passing on Increases to of their relationship with America has IAN. . .MANDANTORY HOME OIL CUTS SLATED selves. We want a roll-back of prices been one of ruthless exploitation and S.F.Examiner unilateral abuse. What would you do? A at the wholesale level." man who catches a thief in his house -—Overdrive Magazine cannot be held responsible for the safety "...there Is a groat deal of evidence of the thief." to support the charge that the major Jihad News oil companies have deliberately created "On the other hand. Teamster officials the oil shortage: are working closely with the government "The trouble with being a big oil com• in suppressing the angry truckers' resort "-For the past 17 years the oil industry pany is no-one believes a word you say," to direct action." has been steadily cutting back Its explo• —Gulf Oil — Sedition ratory drilling for oil and natural gas. In 1956, 208 million cubic feet were drilled. By 1972 this figure had declined "What we need around here is a revolution." to 86 million cubic feet, a cutback of anonymous trucker on CBS-TV almost 60%,

"-In one of its advertisements Mobil Oil states that "oil companies knew the short• age was coming for the past twenty years," In spite of this, as late as 1967 oil fields in Louisiana and Texas were oper• ating at only 40% of their capacity^

"The 'oil crisis' is a criminal fraud which will hurt the working class to save the capitalist class and for that reason it is a farce which must be exposed and crushed." Puerto Rican Socialist Party

"Despite the press's attempts to pin the blame on the recently imposed embargo by the Arab nations,the energy shortage is here for as long as it is profitable for oil companies... again collusion between government and big business robs the work• ing class." all bore our burdtne to bear' ---In Struggle Page 10 SEIZE THE TIME SHUT IT DOWN LINES SAW FRANCISCO - March saw the city of San Francisco grind to a halt. Municipal worV^ ers and school teachers went out on strike for d«««nt wagse and working oonditlono. The Bay Area Rapid Transit(BART) and the Munlelpal Rallway{Mvini) workers supported the strike and stopped work. As a result thousands of commuters were stranded, schools were shut down and all non-emer• gency services stopped. The bourgeois press attempted to say PEnTION ON GUNEA BISSAU that It was the greed of the worketd' that crippled the cityc But pay was not By way of; Hoiioraae Brother CHARLES DiaOS. Honorable Brother EDWARD BROOKE. the only reason why the teachers went on House of Representatives. United States Congress Senate, United States Congress strike. They also struck the city so that they would not have to go on mis-teaching AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT COMMITTEE ON BEHALF OF 100 MILLION BLACK PEOPLE From: overcrowded classes(40+) of children. Mu• IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE nicipal workers went on strike when the To: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Board of Supervisors offered them a 2% WHEREAS THE HEROIC PEOPLE OF GUINEA-BISSAU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY WAGED A STRUGGLE TO FREE THEIR COUNTRY pay raise that was in effect a wage cut. FROM THE YOKE OF PORTUGUESE COLONIAL OPPRESSION, ANDHAVE, ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1 97 3, PROCLAIMED THE INDE• Because of the 10+% annual inflation rate, PENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY OF THE NEW REPUBLIC OF CU IN E A - BISSAU, the Board's offer came to an 8% cut. WHEREAS THE UNITED STATESHAS SUPPORTED PORTUGAL IN MAINTAININGITS COLONIAL EMPIRE TH ROUGH GRANTS TO PORTUGAL OF OVER $334 MILLION FROM 1946 - 197 2, AND »436 MILLION IN 197 3; AND THROUGH DIRECT M ILI T A R Y A SSI S- The liberal wing of the bourgeoisie, TANCE AND WEAPONS THROUGHNATO ANDBY TRAINNG AT LEAST 474 PORTUGUESE MILITARY OFFICERS IN THE U.S.; notably San Francisco Mayor Joseph Aliotc^ AND WHEREAS MANY UN IT ED STATES CORPORATIONS - INCLUDING GULF (THE LARGEST INVESTOR IN AFRICA), EXXON. FIRESTONE IBM AN D HOLIDAY (NN -HAVE MADE B IG P RO FI T S F RO M TH E EXPLOl TATION O F TH E N A TU R A L AN D L A BO R attempted to clealm credit for the set• RESOURCES OF GUINEA-BISSAU. ANGOLA. AN D MO 2 AM Bl QU E , AND HAVE CONTRI BU TED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TAXES tlement. He stated that their'^ower of TO SUPPORT THE PORTUGUESE MILITARY EFFORT; negotiation" brought the strike to an end. BE IT RESOLVED THAT WE THE UNDERSIGNED DO JOIN THE AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT COMMITTEE IN DEMANDNG In reality, it was the workers'(mostly TH AT TH EUNITEDSTATES GO VE RNM EN T IMMEDIATELYRECOSNIZE THENEWREPUBLICOF GUINEA-BISSAU AN DU ROE PORTUGAL TO CEASE ALL MILITARY ACCHESSON AGAINST THE F R E E, IN D E P EN D EN T, AND PEACE-LOVING PEOPLES OF Black and Third World) power that brought THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA-BISSAU. the strike to a successful conclusion. LONG LIVE THE NEW REPUBLIC OF CUINEA-BISSAUl DEFEAT PORTUGUESE IMPERIALISM! The workers had the ability to shut down the city, and their laten potential for NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY, STATE violence forced the bourgeoisie to re• treat somewhat. The right-wing bourgeoi• sie represented by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Governor Reagan, tried to break the strike with court or• dered intimidation and violent state po• lice actions. But the workers remained firm and won a $45 a month across-the- board settlement that rises to $55 a montii after January 1975 and a dental plan paid by the city. The across-the-board raise is far more equitable to lower paid work• ers than the Board's percentage offer. The San Francisco strike demonstra• ted how potent strikes still are as a people's weapon. When given consistent revolutionary leadership, strikes will become a viable weapon to win political as well as economic victories from the bourgeoisie. In the end, strikes are another valuable people's weapon in the attempt to institute workers' power. In the future,as economic and racial repres• sion grow, we can expect to see more and increasingly violent worker strikes. We can also expect to see more National strikes. In a National strike, workers of one nationality strike with or without the support of workers of other national• ities in order to achieve freedom and justice for their national group. Third world workers also provide The San Francisco strike also shows the leading role that Third World workers have in a general strike. Revolutionary workers must not fall to work for the use of militant national and multinational labor struggles as an essential weapon in the people's revolu• tionary arsenal. The success of the San Francisco Municipal general strike shows the power and the potential of workers' MOM power,

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EDITOR'S NOTE ON TRIAL NEWS: The staff of IMPEACH NIXON - The use of the CIA and Nixon's real crimes make him a mass Seize the Time recognizes the critical the military as an internal security(Ge« Murderer and a terrorist, the biggest role of the POW struggle both in organi• stopo) force, bombing Hanoi and Haiphong since Hitler. Opportunist congressmen such zing and propaganda. This issue we felt during Christmas, illegal use of US as McCloskey of California are beginning that we would be unable to deal adequate• troops in Cambodia and Laos, and impound• to Investigate impeachment on the basis ly with the subject. In every future is• ment of funds from the American poor are of violation of constitutional law. Black sue we will report on POW struggles. We all legal grounds for impeachment. The congressmen such as Ron Dellums have con• wish to hear from brothers and sisters in bourgeois media has played up the corrup• sistently agitated for the impeachment of prison. Seize the Time is free to all peo• tion of the Committee for the Re-election Nixon on the basis of Nlxon's real crimes ple held prisoner by the State. Of the President(CREP) and Nixon's income before impeachment was a safe issue. Free All POW's taxes, Seize the Time SEIZE THE TIME Page 11 WORLD REVOLUTION

has stirrened in response. Demonstrations against taxes, mass arrests and flogging deaths have been held in Hue, Tay Ninh, Latin America BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Leaders of the and even inside the Yung Tau "re-educa- People's Revolutionary Army held a press tion center"(prison) despite laws against conference on February 14, 1974 to an^ any public demonstrations and shoot at nounce the formatioin of a United South will orders for Saigon police. American Guerrilla Comman against imper• A resistance movement is growing in ialism and repression. PRA leader Domingo the Saigon Army. Between August and Sep• Mena stated that, "Before we exchanged tember 1973, seven different battalions ideas and some material. Now we are pre• refused orders to invade PRG areas. A pared to do combat under joint command." turn-the-guns-around movement has also begun. Troops kill their Saigon appoint• The joint command includes such well- ed CO and either go home or go over to known people's forces as the Tupamaros of the NIP in full kit. In one instance, the Uruguay, the Leftist Revolutionary Move- 495 battalion of Irung Hoa on Sept. 24 ment^of Chile and the National Liberation killed their CO and deserted. The day af• Army of Chile. This move demonstrated re• ter, soldiers of the 5th Regiment occu• cognition of the need for armed, interna• pied a building in the district capital tional anti-imperialist unity. Rally held by the 7,000 representatives of Dong Cat, and broadcasted denouncements of Quang Tri Province at meeting of the of Thieu from it. Troops sent to retake People's Revolutionary Committee ****** it were driven back with casaulties. The liberation of Vietnam has been greatly aided by victories in Laos and Cambodia, with the signing of the Agree• Quang Tri ment on Restoring Peace and Achieving Quang Tri is the northern-most pro• National Concord in Laos on Sept. 14, vince of what is now South Vietnam. Quang 1973 and the final approach by Cambodian Tri was liberated by the NLF and DRVN ITLPA troops on Phnom Penh in these last forces during the last months of 1972. weeks. Its liberation proved that even the Xmas In conclusion, the struggle in Viet• bombing, the most intensive in history, nam has been long and hard, but victory could only fall against the Vietnamese is near and sweet, Quang Tri province is people's desire for peace with indepen• evidence of future prospects. dence, democracy and national concord. Quang Tri also proved that Vietnam is one country despite the lies of the US government and the Saigon regime. Many of Aboubacar Kamara, Guinean Ambassador the DRVN(North) regular troops were fight• to the DRVN meets with Truong Chinh, ing to liberate their hometowns, Giap, Chairman of the National Assembly's the general o£ the DRVN forces, was born Standing Committee ***************** in the province just north of Quang Tri and led student demonstrations against the Fronoh colonialists at his school in Hue, just south of Quang Tri. Afro-Asian Unity The anniversary of Quang Tri's lib• PEKING - President Julius Nyerere was re• eration Is closely followed by the first cently a visitor to the People's Republic anniversary of the January 1973 Peace A- of China. This third visit to China was greement. As of this writing, the Agree• based in part on Nyerere's effort to u» ment threatens to collapse. Thieu, with nite the countries on the Indian Ocean the support of US rearmament and "civil• against the U.S. efforts at Diego Garcia. ian" personnel, has ordered his troops to At a banquet in honor of Nyerere in the strike first. Bombings against the desig• Great Hall of the People, Premier Chou nated PRG areas of Loc Nlnh and Bu Dop, En Lai gave a militant speech. Chou re• land grabbing Mnd rice looting are some peated emphasized the role of revolu• of the violations of the Agreement com• tionary violence in the world revolu• mitted by Saigon, tionary movement, the futility of evolu- Meanwhile, areas controlled by Sai• tionary(peaceful, gradual) change and the gon are subject to mass arrests, politi• need for increased militant struggle a- cal detention, shortages and taxes levied One of the over 15,000 students attend• gainst the twin imperialist monsters of on ta5<:es(107„ Value Added Tax). Resistance ing Quang Tri's newly built schools *** the United States and the Soviet Union.

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