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La huelga Persecución contra más grande 12 Manning, Assange 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 62, No. 4 Jan. 23, 2020 $1 Movement brings Delbert Africa home Unjustly framed, out after 41 years By Ted Kelly Black revolutionary groups. The chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Delbert Orr Africa has survived more Party, Fred Hampton, was assassinated on attempts on his life than arguably any Dec. 4, 1969, in a sordid plot that involved other living revolutionary. For over 50 the FBI, the Chicago Police Department years, the United States government has and turncoat informants who had been tried to kill him, beat him, break him down placed close to Hampton’s family. and silence him. And now at the dawn of a After this murder-execution, the rest of new decade, he has bested the empire once the Chicago members— Delbert among again— Delbert Africa is free. them— had false warrants put out on After being granted parole on Dec. 20, them. He managed to elude the state’s he was finally released from SCI Dallas on agents sent to capture him and went into Jan. 18. He is the sixth MOVE 9 member exile in Canada. to be released in the last year. A few years later, back on the U.S. side As a member of the Chicago chapter of of the border, he was nearly killed in a car the Black Panthers in the 1960s, Delbert accident that left his cousin and another faced dire threats from the state’s war on friend dead, but he managed to once again evade the FBI who came to ques- tion him in the hospital. Despite assurances that he could return to Chicago where the phony warrants had been dropped, Delbert did not trust the word of the criminal justice system. He Delbert Africa welcomed by MOVE members and allies. WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE set out for Philadelphia and found a place to live in Powelton Village. Black communities. Under the command kicks, punches and blows from metal It was in that neighborhood where he of arch-fascist Mayor Frank Rizzo, the combat helmets and rifle butts. They shat- first encountered MOVE, where he once militarized police gang attacked MOVE’s tered his jaw and fractured his eye socket. again saw Black radicals putting revolu- home on Powelton Avenue. In the midst of this attack, Delbert called tionary theory into practice. Before long, In their reckless and violent fervor— out to Phil Africa, whom cops had begun Delbert earned his place as one of the the police fired tens of thousands of to arrest as well, with these words: “It’s most important strategists of that organi- rounds of ammunition into a residential gonna be alright! We’re gonna be alright!” zation alongside Coordinator John Africa. neighborhood— the cops shot and killed Just as a cop was putting his boot on one of their own, James Ramp. Phil’s neck, he shouted back: “That’s Military, police terror attack on MOVE What followed is one of the most cruel right! Ona MOVE! Long Live John Following a 56-day police blockade on cases of police brutality ever caught on Africa!” (tinyurl.com/rgl7slm) the MOVE house, the police rioted on film. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Aug. 8, 1978— one in a long Philadelphia Cops dragged Delbert out by his dread- Joseph F. O’Neil was present at the scene. Delbert Africa today. WW PHOTO: JOE PIETTE tradition of racist white mobs terrorizing locks and mercilessly assaulted him with Continued on page 3 Gov’t hands off UAW! 4 Women march for rights 6-7 On the Picket Line 4 Contract gains for Tribute to Chuck Turner 5 WNBA players 7 King Day: Moms for Housing 7 Students protest war 8 PHOTO: A. REA Pensacola, Fla., women’s march, Jan. 18. Editorials Subscribe to Workers World Oscars, racism & sexism 10 ☐ 4 weeks trial FREE ☐ 1 year subscription $36 ☐ Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/donate France, Africa and Name _______________________________________________________________ workers’ solidarity 10 Email _______________________________ Phone _________________________ Street _______________________________________________________________ City / State / Zip _______________________________________________________ French strikes 9 No War on Iran! 9 Workers World Weekly Newspaper workers.org 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011 212.627.2994 Lebanon 10 China vs. pollution 11 Page 2 Jan. 23, 2020 workers.org Expanding Empire The global war drive of big business this week and the forces that will stop it ◆ In the U.S. Where every previous imperialism in history had to in its own interest. This simple, but of course extremely Movement brings Delbert Africa home ........... 1 “expand or die,” each in conformity to its own specific difficult transformation, when it is accomplished in all People’s campaign frees Coffey from solitary ......3 economic and social laws, the modern, export-of-capital countries, will make war superfluous, and as ridiculous in type of imperialism is far more dynamic, far more ruth- fact as it now is in theory. The ideal that has been sought Government hands off the UAW! ................4 less, and far more compelled to take its murderous—and for centuries and even millennia will be realized through On the picket line ..............................4 suicidal—path than the rest. the logical means of eliminating the material cause of war. Life and legacy of Chuck Turner .................5 By the same token, since modern imperialism employs For every war in history—even the dynastic wars and Shelter solidarity struggle wins concession ........6 so many more millions of people in its “peaceful” exploita- the so-called “religious wars” and the wars over national tion, as well as in its interminable wars; since it calls into prestige or monarchical vanity, including such semi-myth- Contract reached for women basketball players .... 7 being the literate, the skilled and semi-skilled, the intellec- ical events as the seizure of Helen of Troy—every war was Moms 4 Housing brutally evicted, vow to return ... 7 tual and artistic legions that are indispensable for its sway, over material, economic interests. And except for the occa- Students resist imperialist speaker at MLK Week ..8 it must also employ deceit on a hitherto unknown scale to sional armed collisions between barbaric tribes desperate Stop denying disaster relief to Puerto Rico!........8 keep these legions in line. for hunting and living space—which are also economic It must cover up. It must even find funny names for its causes—all these thousands of wars were in the interest S.F. Labor Council anti-war, pro-peace resolutions . 8 most murderous weapons. It must make hypocrisy and of one or another exploiting class. Around the world cynicism fashionable and even admirable. Where the old Even the revolutions, before the Russian Revolution, ◆ capitalism made honor, love and friendship into saleable were the overthrow of one exploiting class by another—the The global war drive of big business ..............2 commodities, the new imperialism must turn them into feudal monarchy by the bourgeoisie; before that, the over- ‘Women’s rights are human rights!’ ..............6 apologetic jokes. throw of the more purely feudal power by the semi-bour- France: Strike over pensions enters sixth week.....9 Modern youth has already begun to fight against all this. geois monarchy; the overthrow of the ancient Roman But the fight, including especially the fight against the war, monarchy by a new coalition of landlords and tradesmen Imperialism in Africa ...........................9 must become a struggle against the imperialist-capitalist to found the Republic and so on. Jan. 25–Global Day of Protest–No war on Iran!..9 system itself. It cannot be restricted merely to the excesses Up to very recently, the working masses of society never Lebanon protests storm banks, demand new gov’t . 10 of the system. had the material possibility of removing their exploiters How People’s China cleaned up Beijing’s air .......11 Imperialism is not a question of a policy that can be cho- and finishing with them for good. But modern machin- sen at will by one group of corporations and dropped by ery and modern technology have now provided such a ◆ Editorials another. And this applies with exactly the same force to the possibility. political instrument of those corporations: the government. They have made it possible for the Oscars still so white, so male ...................10 Imperialism is a system. It has a built-in tendency to masses to dispense with an owning French and African workers, unite!..............10 expand—and expand abroad—because it is based on the and exploiting class altogether, and to private ownership of the now social means of production. produce a full and abundant life for ◆ Noticias en Español Since it produces for private profit instead of for the themselves in the bargain. La huelga más grande ......................... 12 general good, it cannot employ all its own people, nor even Poniendo la verdad tras las rejas ................ 12 feed them, nor can it rise beyond a certain level of produc- From the book “Expanding tion without attempting to conquer other countries. Empire,” written in 1969 by Vincent Imperialism must be replaced with a different sys- Copeland, a founding member of tem—a system in which society not only operates the pro- Workers World Party. The full text ductive forces, as it does now, but owns and manages them can be read at workers.org. Workers World 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10011 Join us in the fight Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] for socialism! Web: www.workers.org Vol.

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