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BUILD A REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST - LENINIST COMMUNIST PARTY BASED ON MARXISM-LENINISM-MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT ! Vol. VI No . 1-6 25 CENTS POLITICAL ORGAN OF THE REVOLUTIO NARY COMM UNIST LEAG UE (M-L-M) MAY-JUNE EDITION 1977 LONG LIVE MAY .DAY & AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY! WORKERS & ·OPPRESSED NATIONS &PEOPLES, UNITE! BUILD A REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LENINIST COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE USA BASED ON MARXISM- LENINISM-MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT!
Chairman Mao Tsetung , great leader and teac her of the pr oleta riat and oppressed people throughout the world. On May Day and ALO make the central task of party bu ilding a mass question gripping every class conscious worker in the USA! Long Live Malcolm X, stud y his life and his words on May 19th and remember that Malcolm X knew our struggle is an international struggle and he sounded the struggle MAY DAY o f the 3rd World vs. imperialism. Oppose both superpowers on ALO! "Co mrade worke rs! May Day is comi ng, the day when the workers of all "O n the other side sta nd the millions R C L'S POSITION ON PARTY BUILDING of the disinherited. T hey are forced to lands celebrate their awakeni ng to a Communist Party had become the beg the moneybags for permission to Part 2 class conscious life, their solidari ty in government party." (Stalin Strategy & work for them . By their labor they Periods and Stages the stru ggle agains t all coerc ion a nd op Tactics, pg. 29-30) create all the wea lth ; yet a ll thei r lives RCL holds that there are three basic pre ssion of man by man, the stru ggle to Generally we view a period as an free the toiling millions fro m hu nger, long they have to struggle for a crust of period s in the life of the party , and Stalin , in summing up the histor y of_the interval of time marked by the coming in poverty and humiliation. Two wor lds bread , beg for work as for charit y, sap Russia n Communist Part y (Bolshevik), and going out of an objective process. sta nd facing eac h other in thi s great their strength and health by backbreak pointed these basic periods out very Stages are determined by the stru ggle: the world of capita l and the ing toil, and starve in hovel s in the clearly , "a) the period of the formation development of a proce ss. By there be- world of labor, the world of expl oi villages or in the cellar s and garrets of of the vanguard (i.e., the party) of the /Continued on page 5} tati on and slavery a nd the world of the big cities." proletariat, the period of mu stering the bro therh ood and freedom. The se are the words of Comrade party's cadres (in this period the party TABLE OF CONTENTS "On one side sta nd the hand ful of rich Lenin , the great leader and teacher of the working class , written in 1904, and was weak; it had a program and general Pre-Civil War Revolutionary blood -suckers. They have seized the fac principles of tactics, but as a party of to ries and mills. the too ls a nd still they ring true toda y. May Day is Black Nationalism ...... P.4 International Workers Day , the day mass action it was weak. StaUn was a a,eat machin ery . have turned millions of b) the period of revolutionary mass acre s of la nd and mount a ins of money worker s of all nationalities celebrate the Man:ist-Leninist ...... P .5 struggles of the working class to fulfill · struggle under the leadership of the Dialectical and Historical int o thei r private propert y. T hey have Communist Party . In this period the Materialilm ...... P.10 mad e the government and arm y their its historic mission to abolish explo itation and oppression and to free party was transformed from an RCL Editorial...... P.12 servant s, faithful watchdog s of the organization for mass agitation into an wealth they have ama ssed . hum anity . It was at the 2nd Congress of the 2nd organization for mass action ; the period of preparation was superseded by the AFRIKANLIBERATION DAY African Liberation Day International in 1889 that May 1st was designated as International Workers period c ~ revolutionary action. c) the STORY ON PAGE 2 May 28, 1977 rc:ontinuedon page 12} period ,,fter taking power, 11fterthe Page 2 Unity & Struggle A LD MAY 28: OPPOSE BOTH SUPERPOWE _~S ...... h , or the other imperialist "Present-day democracy will remain true to itself only if it Joins ne1t er o~e ~ h d f at of the bourgeoisie, only if it says that the two sides· are equ~ II_Y b a d. ' a_nd if 1t. wishese national t e e-liberal e and imperialist bourgeoisie in every country. Any other dec1s1onwill, in reality, b A F I Flag" have nothing in common with genuine· internationa · · r,sm. " - V · I· Lenin ' "Under a se · d ' totheteachingsofMarx- trend in the world today. The danger of that tccor .;~g without a correct stand, a world war and revolution are the two ism- e~ini r ·y on the national-libera- 1 aspects of an entity . - the . world line an p~e ~ and the peoples' revolu- situation ." "The world 1s changing in a tion mov;ovement1 in the countries of .,. direction increasingly favoura~le_to the ~~:ar~frica and Latin America, it will people of all countnes . This IS one . ' 'ble for the workers' parties in 1 aspect, a principal aspect. But we muSt ~ ~e~:~politan imperialist countries also see the othe: aspect~ the aggressive to \ave a correct stand, line and policy nature of impenahsm will not ch.ange. on the struggle waged by the working The danger of a new world war st lil ex- d the broad masses of the people th 1 ists. This is another trend 1.n e fna~~=i~ own countries." (from the ar- development of today's world. It isdan- . "More on the differences between 1 gerous if we only see the raging .names ~~~rade Togliatti and Ourselves") th of the revolution without noticing ~ Wh this mean s is that the movements I en~mies sharpemlng theIT swords1·1aannce for aproletarian revolution in the ad- think we can ower our vig . . · d h because of the excellent situation." vanced capitalist countnes ~n Thi de · "Th of Two revolutionary movements in t e 1r (St.udy,, Ph1loso~y , ~~Js) World and exploited countries are in.ex- Points, pg. 8) ( ur emp . · . tricably linked and intertwined and The complicated political struggle around ALO 1977 required Marxist-Leninists and The RCL holds that ? a n 1.ncorre ct hn.e share common interests and therefore advanced forces to have a clear mind so we can lead the masse s to oppose both super on the internat10nal situation makes It cannot be separated from each other. powers' imperialist designs in Sout hern Africa and throughout the world. totally impos sible for on~ to_hav~ a cor- In order for us to understand that link- rect line on the dome stic s1tuat10n . _In up better, we must go back m history to The Revolutionar y Comm unist armed provocations and invaded Zaire. the polemic s waged by the Com.~un! st the 1950's, after the death of Stalin, League (MLM) sees African Libera The present invasion of Zaire by mer Party of China against the revis10mSt when the renegade traitor Krush chov tion Day as an important time to focus cenaries fro m Angola is unpr ecedented Togliatti , the CPC _ st~tes: "The . Pro- came to power under the capitalist on the liberation of Africa from imper in scale, scope an.d duration . As Ietariat of the c~p1tahst countnes of program of the th~ee peacefols: peaceful ialism, social imperialism, hegemon organizer and commander of the mer Europe and Amenca , too , must ~tand in coexistence with 1mpenahsm, peaceful ism colonialism, neocolomahsm. cenary troops in Angola, the Sov iet the forefront of those supportmg the competition with imperiaHs~, and racism, Zionism and all reaction. In the socia l-imperi alists cannot absolve revolution ary struggles of.the oppressed peaceful transition to socialism. This year 1977 it is becoming more and more themselves of their crime." (Peking nations and peoples of Asia , Afnca, and revisionist program was initially pushed important for the proletanat of the Review # 13. 1977 pg. 16) Latin America . In fact, such support at the 20th Congress of the CPSU , in world to see and understand just what is When our Chinese comrades talk simultaneously helps the cause .of the 1957. At the same time , a vicious happening in Africa. about the "storm centers of world emancipation of . the proletanat in slan derous attack was made upon Com- revolution" being Asia, Africa and Europe .and Amenca ... Therefore.the rade Sta lin, all in an attempt to seize Latin America, they are making this prolet an.an parti es of the metropolitan power. "Being the first state of the dic- Africa today has 46 independent determination based on their analysis countr ies, making up 94% of _the land 1mpenahst co.untnes are duty bo~nd to tatorship of the proletariat , the Soviet that the underdeveloped countries of heed the voice of the revolutionary Union lacked experience in consolidat- base and 90% of the population 1s in Asia, Africa and Latin America peo.ple in these reg10ns, stud y their ex- ing this dictatorship and preventing the those same areas. Africa is the second constitute "the weakest link in the largest continent in the world w.ith a penence, respect theIT :evolutlo~ary restoration of capitalism. In these c1r- imperialist chain" and that th~refore t:ie feelings, and support their revol ut 10n- (Continued on page J) total population of over . 390 m1lhon key to the victorious fight against imper ary struggles . . .It should be understood people. The African continent. 1s nch ialism and social-imperialism is to be with such natural resources as 011,gold, found in the revoluti ona ry struggles of diamonds and precious metals and this the peoples of those areas. which is why is objectively why the superpowers, all Marxist-Leninists and advanced INHRNATIONjl\* United States and the Soviet Unio n, are forces must support a ll revolutionary both struggling to get a foothold in Af struggles of all countries. This is what rica. First we witnessed "lying Henry the Stalin meant when he said, "It means K" running around Africa with his that support must be given to such ~l0SSARY checkbook offering mone y to anyone national movements as tend to weaken , who would take it with hardl y anybody to overthrow imperialism , and not to 3 WORLDS THESIS taking it because everyone is wise to the strengthe n and preserve it." Foun "old wounded tiger" and its treacherous The scientific thesis on the three king the U.S. and the USSR in its dations of Leninism, pg. 74) What these worlds by comrade Mao Tsetung, is the imperialist tricks of exploitation and things also mean is that in a sense "the behind throughout Africa, Asia, and oppression. What we have just recentl.Y result of a penetrating analysis of the Latin America. Meanwhile the US and whole cause of the international pro international situation. By applying the seen is Fidel Castro and one of his letarian revolution hinges on the out the USSR are locked in rivalry for bosses , N.V. Podgorny , who is the presi scientific method of dialectical hegemony over the globe, US imper come of the revolutionary struggles of materialism, Chairman Mao summed dent of the Presidium of the Soviet the peoples of these areas who consti ialism is clearly on the decline internally up a wide range of data and documents Union, running around Africa waving tute the overwhelming majority of the and abroad, while the USSR is the most in order to make a concrete class the Soviet Union's checkb ook . These world 's population ." (Statement of 10 dangerous source of war and the most analysis of the world situation . "In this two villains represent the main danger CC Members of Ceylon Communist aggressive, because it is the latecomer at to the people of the world today because Party, pg. 20). situation of 'great disorder under the imperialist feast! heaven,' all the political forces in the they are traveling around using the dis All of these events once again point The Third World constitutes a world have undergone drastic division guise of "socialists and believing in pro out to the world that it is imperialism revolutionary motive force propelling and realignment through prolonged letarian internationalism" and many and social-imperialism which represent forward the wheel of history and it is the trials of strength and struggle. A large honest forces will be deceived by them . the main obstruction to the indepen main force combating colonialism, number of Asian , African and Latin There is no doubt in our minds just who dence and liberation of the people of Af imperialism and hegemonism in the American countries have achieved inde planned these friendly "tours of friend rica and the oppressed peoples all over world. pendence one after another and they are ship and cooperation" : the Social the world . But this obstruction to libera The Second World , the developed playing an even greater role in inter Imperialists, meaning the Soviet Union tion and independence is causing "great countries between the superpowers and national affairs. As a result of the because they are socialist in words but disorder" which is a good thing because the third world, exploit the third world emergence of social-imperialism, the imperialist in deeds . Witness Angola this "great disorder" is one in which through colonial or neocolonial socialist camp which existed for a time where we watched the tragic degenera imperialism , social-imperialism and relations, but at the same time they are tion of Cuba into mercenary lackies for reactionaries of various countries have after World War II is no longer in ex themselves, in varying degrees con the Soviet Union to kill Angolans so been thrown into confusion and this istence. Owning to the law of the uneven trolled , threatened or bullied by one development of capitalism, the Western that the Soviet Union could get the oil reflects an excellent situation in which superpower or .the other. And some of imperialist bloc, too, is disintegrating. reserves in Cabinda , putting all of countries want independence, nations them have been reduced to dependency Judging from the changes irt inter Angola's resources right at the feet of want liberation and the people want by the superpowers, especially the one national relations, the world today ac the Soviet Union who have immediately revolution. And while the people want under the signboard of "socialism" . tually consists of three parts, or three set up an "international division of and struggle to make revolution in their Strategically , Europe is the focus of the worlds, that are both interconnected labor" which really means imperialism. countries we must also be aware and contention between the two super watch the constant struggle between the and in contradiction to one another. The United States and the Soviet Union powers, while their contention extends Also let's check out just what is superpowers who must continually con over the entire globe . front each other as they try to out make up the First World. The develop happe;ing in Zaire" .. .since the So.viet ing countries of Asia, Africa , and Latin "We should unite with the third world Union extended its influence into maneuver each other for who will con (comprising a.bout 80 percent of the trol the world . Inevitably this will lead America and other regions make up the Angola , it has not only dispatched over Third World. The developed countries world's population) which constitutes 10,000 foreign mercenary troops to to war and as Lenin said "Imperialism the principal force in the struggle means war" and the people must get pre between the two make up the Second Angola but also mustered a large World." (Peking Review, No. 15, April against the two superpowers." (Taken number of the old colonialists' remnant pared or we will suffer. But in observing 12, 1974-supplement) from l'Humanite Rouge, as quoted in these two trends, we as Marxist-Lenin forces there to serve its aggressive activ Chairman Mao consistently urged Peking Review No 5, 1977) ities. Under the command of the Soviet ists, must make an analysis of which is "For the Marxist-Leninists Com principal and which is secondary and to and taught us "that it was imperative to social-imperialists, this contingent of unite with all forces that can be united to munists of France, as for their Chinese mercenary troops, the largest in the Af further lay this out clearer we quote comrades and comrades in many other from our Chinese comrades who say, form the broadest united front and rican continent today, has brutally sup isolate the enemy as far as possible." countries, the article said, the concept -if pressed the Ang~lan peopl~'s. struggle "the danger of a new world war still ex (P.R.No. 5, 1977) the thr~ worlds is the point of depa rt .re ists, and the people of all countries must against impenahsm, colontahsm, and The Third World has risen in revolt l!JWorking out their proletarian rt"volu hegemooism, ·and repeatedly made ~t pfCP!l!'C,;l,~ut molutlo~ J,s the ~a,ln a~in~t . l>11t!i.supe!'Po"'.~r.~.and it is kic- llonary strategy and tactics adapted to the world today." {Ibid .. p.30). . l ,nity & Struggle Page J African Liberation Day still retain in one form or another MOTION!! /Contmued from page 2) colonialist relations with Third World COUNTRIES WANT INDEPENDENCE, cumstances and after Stalin's death, countries. At the same time all the Krushchov , a capitalist-roader in power Second World countries controlled, NATIONS WANT LIBERATION hiding in the Soviet Communist Party, threatened , or bullied in varying degree s came out with a surprise attack in his by one superpower or the other, also are PEOPLE WANT REVOLUTION! 'secret report' viciously slandering inclined to oppose superpower Stalin and by every kind of treacherous hegemonism ." (Ibid.) The RCL also maneuver usurped Party and govern holds that this correct analysis 1s the ment power in the Soviet Union. This basis for the strategy of the United was a counter-revolutionary coup d'etat Front against the superpowers. uniting which turned the dictatorship of the the majo rity of the people in the world. proletariat into the dictatorship of the In studying this important analysis we bourgeoisie and which overthrew social can also see the example of applying the ism and restored capitalism."(Leninism method of seeing the general and the or Social Imperialism, pg. 13-14). particular in a dialectical way . In sum Krushchov's program of the three ming up the international situation, peacefuls was an act of siding with Chairman Mao also summed up the his enemies and opposing friends - siding torical development of the Peo ple's with imperialism against the national Republic of China. Comrade Chou En liberation movements (for example we Lai stated, "The Third World is the all remember the traitorous Krushchov main force in combating colonialism, ...,...... voting along with the USA in the UN to imperialism and hegemonism . China is ... _""'-_-'-.....,.,...... _~= . . send in Belgian troops to kill the great a developing socialist country belong So long as the patriotic forces of Zimbabwe umte and persevere m armed struggle, rely revolutionary Patrice Lumumba in the ing to the Third World ." (Chou En Lai, ?~ !h~ ar~ed ~eople, combat ~II inter~erence in their int~rnal affa~s and keep the Congo), siding with the bourgeoisie Report on the Work of the Govern 1mtiallve m their own hands, victory will belong to them . - lkwez1 agamst the proletariat and siding with ment , Fourth National People 's Soviet Mercenaries' quickening of the bourgeoisie's move to imperialists against the socialist camp Congress of the PRC , Jan. 1975). Invasion of Zai re the right. The bourgeoisie's use of terror which had been built up under the Genuine communists and advanced Condemned against the people and their glorious leadership of the Soviet Union forces must uphold the concept of the The Soviet mercenaries' invasion of revolutionary movement intensifies day durin~ Stalin's time . three worlds and the correct strategy of Zaire has further exposed the social- by day , as U.S. imperialism is shifting He 1mmed1ately began to try to split the United Front against the super imperialists' features as aggressors and more and more of the brunt and burden and sidetrack the Marxist-Leninist par- powers . And as the Chinese comrades expansionists. The leaders of some Af- of the economic, political , military, & ties that were in the socialist camp at the pointed out , "The practice of struggle by rican countries wrote to President social crisis onto the backs of the wor- time by liquidating the dictatorship of the people of the world in the past year Mobutu or issued statements vorcing king class , oppressed nationalities and the proletariat in the Soviet Union and provided added proof that the concept solidarity and support for Zaire in the working masses in general. T he under the guise of "creative Marxism" about the actual existence of three counterattacking the aggression in bourgeoisie knows that the rebellions in he tried to replace class struggle with worlds fully conforms to reality and the defense of its territorial integrity. They the 60's, as Rap Brown foretold , were class conciliation and tried to impose scientific analysis of classes." (Peking stressed that African countries should just a dress rehearsal for the revo lut ion revisionism on all the other parties. But Review # 1, Jan . 1976) strengthen their unity and defend the to come . The bourgeoisie knows that the this was met with consistent struggle by Right Opportunism in ALSC independence and liberation cause of working class & oppressed nationalities genuine Marxist-Leninists , led by the At the last Steering Committee meet Africa . will not take the brunt of the economic Communist Party of China, headed by ing of the African Liberation Support Referring to the invasion of Zaire's crisis passively, so the bourgeois state Chairman Mao Tsetung, and the Party Committee, which was held in Wash Shaba Regi on, Seewoosagur has refined a whole arsenal of deadly of Labor of Albania, headed by Com- ington, D .C., the Revolutionary Ramgoolam , current Chairman of the means of devastating and destroying the rade Enver Hoxha . The modern Workers Congress (RWC) objectively Organization of African Unity and openly revolu tionary elements among revisionists were partially successful in forced a split in the ranks of the organi Prime Minister of Mauritius , on March the masses . Coin telp ro, was a means in wrecking the unity of the socialist camp zations which were working in ALSC , 29 sent a letter to President Mobutu ex- the 60's, but the capita lists are putting and then began to travel down the by endorsing a demon stration that was pressing full support and solidarity for together more filth in its arsenal ofter- logical path of collaborating with being put on by the "Revo lutionary Zaire on behalf of the 0.A .U. and the ror against the masses. imperialism , restoring capitalism and Communist Party " ("RCP"). This was Mauritian Government. The letter said: Jimmy Carter is the smiling swastika, then becoming a social-imperialist brought out clearly in the open when the "The news of the violation of the ter- the latest bourgeois diversionar y tactic , po"'.er _themselves . This breakup of the "RCP" listed the names of R WC and ritorial integrity of Zaire, a frate rnal being used to usher in fascism in the socialist camp , the continued ALSC chapters which are controlled by country and member of the U.S., and everyday we can get clearer revolutionary struggles of the 3rd R WC , on a leaflet asking people to Organization of African Unity, has and clearer that behind Carter's smile is World , and the ascendancy of the Soviet come to Washington, D .C. and support aroused indignation not only among the the stinking breath of fascism! Some Union as an imperialist superpower in African Liberation Day by marching on member states of the 0.A.U . but also people have been misled, have been direct contention with the USA for the White House . This demonstration is among all the people who cherish peace tricked by the so~alled liberalism of the world domination, are the continuation scheduled for the same day and time and freedom." - Peking Review Democrats, but we must get our minds which characterized the world by the (May 28, 1977) as tbe ALSC's demon clear that Carter is just another example end of the l 960's. stration and rally, so bow did RWC plan CASTRO'S MOSCOW VISIT of the dual tactics of the bourgeoisie But t~e continued development oft he to participate in both? The fact of the Co-ordinated Soviet-Cuba n aimed against the great masses of the revolutionary movements of the peoples matter is that RWC had originally Action in Southern Africa people . So while we get the very empty of the. 3rd World also proved that planned all along to have ALSC par President Fidel Castro of the State cos metic noises of "progress" & revolution was an irresistable trend that ticipate in the "RCP" demonstration Council of Cuba paid an "u nofficial "liberali sm" & promi se you this and could not be stopped, even by revision- under their leadership ("RCP") and visit" to Moscow from April 4 to 8 after prom ise you that, in the meantime, on ist betrayals. Taking all this into con- when R WC's plan was disrupted by the his recent tour of Algeria, Angola, the real side , we are getting the most sideration, Chairman Mao summed up other organizat io ns within ALSC on the Ta nzania, Mozambique and Democ ruthless terrorist blows against the these developments , and came forth Steering Committee, who voted not to ratic Yemen , Somalia and Ethiopia in the people . This is what Carter repre sents, with the scientific formulation of three form a coalition of other so~alled Red Sea region. This timing and and the bourgeo isie uses lieutenants like worlds. The RCL takes the position that "progressive organizations ," then R WC background of his Moscow visit have at Carter precisely as the opium against the this was and still Is the correct Marxist- had no choice but to follow their true tracted people's attention. masses , because the masses would not Leninist analysis of the balance of class opportunistic style and force the split. In its April 5 commentary AFP said: sit still long enoug h under the rule of a forces in the world today. "The Soviet To lay out briefly what has happened , "There was no doubt that the two Af Gerald Ford , but the bourgeoisie is ban - revisionist clique came to power in the is that up until recently , the R WC has rican tours (by Podgorny and Castro) king on diverting our atte ntion from the Soviet Union and turned that country had a "majority bloc " on the Steering were the result of joint planning between revolutionary tasks that face us in into social-imperialism with the result Committee (SC) and whenever a vote Moscow and Havana, just as Cuba's smas hing this evil system, by putting that the socialist camp which had ex- came about they were able to win the decisive 1975 intervention in Angola Carter out there with a Howdy Doody isted for a time _was no longer in exist- vote based on the "majority bloc" and was prepared by the Kremlin." It also sm1le. These are the bourgeoisie's sta n- ence. Present mternational relations them also controlling the most chapters. pointed out that the Moscow talks were dard counterrevolutionary dual tactics show that the world today actually con- Recently the Workers Viewpoint "probably aimed at coordinating which they aim against the people, the sists of three parts , or three worlds that Organization , Revolutionary Com Soviet - Cuban action in southern Af carrot & the stick. deception & terror, are both interconnected and in con- munist League (M-L-M), and other pro rica" and "probably with regard to the and we must all get a clear mind on the tradiction to one another. The two gressive forces within ALSC brought horn of Africa." - Peking Review kin~ of political struggle & organization superpowers make up the First World . the two-line struggle to a climax in the it will take to end this oppression . In between the superpowers and the April 2nd SC meeting which was held in ASSATA SHAKUR developing countries, the developed Newark, N.J ., in which they reversed all The recent sentencing of Assata Genuine Marxist-Leninist s and ad countries make up the Second World. of the previous SC decisions, Shakur (Joanne Chesirnard) to life, plus vanced forces will not be diverted from The developing countries in Asia , Af specifically the "coalition" thrust. R WC 33 years in an all men's state prisor was our central revolutionary task in the rica, Latin America and other regions was present at this meeting and even the last of a whole series of acts of racist U.S. today , which is the building of a ' make up the Third World." ("Great though they voted against the final violent repression against this Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Motive Force in Advancing World His decisions of the SC, the majority of the revolutionary black fighter. The county Communist Party based on the science tory", Peking Review #44, 1974) And SC voted against the "coalition" thrust. prosecutor openly called Shakur "an of revolution , Marxism-Leninism-Mao further, examining the relations of the What R WC did instead of laying out animal" in the court and the all-white Tsetung Thought. And we understand Three Worlds to each other, "The vast that they had already contacted people jury was a willing part of the bourgeois that central task involves and shapes all number of Third World countries now and had actually put the "coalition " state repression aimed at the black the other revolutionary tasks of the day . constitutes the main force in the struggle th_rust into motion, at the meeting they liberation movement generally. and par We sur'Jort Assata Shakur in her against colonialism and imperialism, cned and moaned about "left sectarian ticularly Shakur. But Assata Shakur's struggle <1gainst bourgeois state repres particularly the superpowers. There are ism" and "leftism" and etc . They never conflicts of basic interest and extremely case must be looked at very closely, sion, trat is three-fold in her case , as the once layed out the fact that they had acute contradictions between them and because it signifies a higher level of bourgeoisie oppresses & represses her united with the "RCP" to put on a the superpowers. The situation in the bourgeois terror against the because she 1s one of tbe working counter demonstration to the one we Second World in between the two is a revolutionary movement in the U.S ., the n:i~~ses, an Afro-American patriot were actually sitting in the meeting plan- · (Coritlnuecl oh page · ·11-)' cbmpliWedorte. S6me cotin'tries -iri H- ' ·, • /Contibued pn . PatJe 9) Page 4 l nit) & Struggle PRECIVIL WAR REVOLUTIONARY BLACKNATIONALISM .. Many of those" ho ad\'ocatc eman delensive . we are now rrcpared to at their fortune in Africa or \\hcrcner el The series "Pre Civil War Black cipation as a milttan ncccssit, seem tack the enem\' . I his 1s simplv a change they hoped_ to find the_ promi,ed Ian~~ Nationalism " was put together in 1966, punled to kno" what.is best to he done ol tactics . I think I see the finger of God Need we raise !he question as to the true by Bill McAdoo, as part of the "Black with the slave. if he is set at lihem . in all this . Yes. there i, the hand-,Hiting depth of their . con_cern: or the real liberation Commission" of the Colonintion in Africa. Ha, ti. Florida on the wall : I come not to hring peace . measure of their sm~enty? Did they Progressive-Labor Party. McAdoo was and South America are favo~ite theories but the sword. Break everv voke . and let merely berate t~e crimes _of the op. one of those arrested for refusing totes with many well-informed persons . rhis the oppressed go free. I have heard the pressor, as a buym~ and ~ellmg point to tify against PL's Bill £pron who was is really interesting' No wonder Europe groans of my people. an am come down put gold and glory m their own pocket' charged with "Criminal Anarchy"in the does not sympathi7e with vou. You are to deliver them! (Loud and long-con Afro-Ame rican histo ry has put ~ Harlem Rebellion in 1964. Obviously the o nly peop le. claiming to be civ ili7ed . tinued app laude.) .. . judgmen t upon . black zionism- a the Epton-McA doo per iod, and the ar who take away the rights of those whose .. It is true the Government is but little judgment from which I ca nnot escape ticle itself, are f rom a time when P.L was color differs from vour own. lfvou find more anti-slavery now than it was at the no matter when or whe re, o r in what struggling to take p rogressive stands. th at you can not ~ob th e Negio 'of his comme ncement of the war: but while new fo rm, it might raise its head. It ma Since then howeve r. and sad(y Progres labor and of himse lf. you will banish fighti ng for its ow n existence. it has been flo urish fo r a time, buh it cann ot escap! sive ·Labor has become the most out hi m ! Wh a t a su blime idea! You are cer ob liged to take slavery by the throat. thah jud gment. rageous carriers of the Am erican tai nly a grea t peop le! What is ylur plea'! a nd sooner or later must c hoke her to An exa mple of the defeats suffered by sickn ess, white chau vinism. and are now Wh y, th at the slaveho lders will not per dea th. (Lo ud a pplause .) ... " the black zio nists durin g th e period not even a serious communi st under consideration can be found in the mit us to live a m ong th em as freeme n. BL AC K R E VO LUT IO NA R Y organization. Unf ortunately white proceedin gs of the Emigration Conven and that the air of orthern Lati tud es is NAT IONA LIS M chauvinism has always stood in the way 1 ti on , held in Cleve land, Ohio August 24- not good for us Let me te ll yo u my VS. BLAC K ZION ISM of the cons/ruction and growth of a truly 26, 1854 . We have previously made frien ds. th e slave holders are no t the men Not o nly did revo luti o nar y vanguard communist party, in the USA . reference to the speec h made by the we d read! ( Hear. hear.) T hey do not nationali sm undermin e the auth o rity . Now as then ! black zio nist, H . Fo rd D ouglass, at this desire to have us removed. T he Nor and influenc e of the white liberal convention. It was revo lutionary Part 12 th ern pro -slavery men have done the manager s, but it also dealt a damaging free peo ple of co lor ten-fo ld m ore inj ury nationalism which won the day at the blow to black zioni sm . Black zioni sm Co nvention as the following excerpts RO CK'S D ECLAR ATION ON TH E could onl y sati sfy the greedy ambition s from the Platform : or Declaration of NATU R E OF BLAC K CA PTIVITY, of unprincipled opportunists , who were Se ntim ents o f the Cleveland Conven 1862 willing to sacrifice the intere sts of the en tion demon strate: Du ring th e second year of th e Civil slaved black masses. Revoluntionary "Wherea s, for years the Colored Wa r, Dr. J o hn S. Rock delivered a nationali sm had history on its side , and People of the United States have been speec h at th e annua l mee ting of th e it corresponded to the most vital looking , hoping and waiting in expec Massac huse tt s A nti-S lavery Soc iety, interests of the black masses. Black tation of realizing the blessings of Civil which expose d th e fund a me nta l roo ts o f zionist s cried long and loud about the Libert y; and Wherea s, during this long, black ca ptivity in A merica. T his rape of black women , the murder and brilliant ad dress speaks fo r itself. plunder of black manhood , and the bar tedious and anxiou s period , they have been depending upon their white fellow "T his natio n is mad. In its devo ted a t barian , racist cruelty of the oppressor . tac hm ent to the Negro . it has run c ra zy And their charge s were true. But the countrymen to effect for them this desirabl e end but instead of which they af ter him, (laughter .) and now. havi ng black zioni sts were willing to leave their have met with disapp ointment, dis ca ught him, hangs on with a dea dl y mother s to the lust of the oppressor . couragement and degradation . gras p, an d says to him. with more Th ey were willing to abandon the en earnestness and pathos th an Ruth ex slaved black ma sses in order to seek To Be Continued pressed to Naomi, "Where thou goes t. I will go: where thou lodgest. 1 will lodge: sociali sm a s the roa d to true wo man's thy people shall be my people, an d th y Editorial libe rat io n. T ha t women suffer double Go d my Go d .'(la ughte r a nd ap plau de.). oppre ss ion (class & sex) an d thir d world (Cont inued from page 11) fa ce triple oppr ess ion (class. na tionality "T he ed uca ted a nd wea lth y class des Advanced Worker & sex ). The succ ess of th e pro letarian pise th e Negro , beca use th ey have Charles Lenox Remand was a delegate RC Lh as also ha d strug gle with LPR revo lution depends to a grea t degree on ro bbed him of his ha rd ea rnin gs . or, at to the London Aati-Slavery a ro und th e qu estion of th e ma ke-up o f the extent to which women ta ke part in leas t, have go t ric h off th e fr uit s of his Conference. the U.S. work ing class. RC L is still it. We a lso support th e ca ll to stru ggle la bor: and they believe if he ge ts his than th e Southern slave-h o lder s. (Hear. stud ying th eo ret ica l a nd sta tistica l again st revisi o nism , th e ma in danger, freed om, th eir fou ntai n will be dri ed up . hear) In the South, it is simply a que s materi a ls on this as well as using prac and to attack a nd exp ose bourgeois a nd th ey will be o bliged to see k bu siness tion of dollars and cents . The tical information from the work sites feminism . Struggle fo r the dem ocratic in a new chan nel. T heir 'occ up a tio n will sla veholder ca res no more for you than · where we have cadre . LPR uses the term rights of women , keeping in mind that in be go ne.' T he lowes t class ha te him he does for me. The y enslave th eir own inte,rmediate to describe the a verage struggling for thes e dema nd s we always beca use he is poor, as they a re a nd he is a children , and sell them . and the y would worker. RCL has quest ioned thi s and bring to the forefront th e fact that real co mpe titor with them for th e sa me as soon en slave white men a s black men. asked them to show references. LPR equality for women will not be won by la bor. T he poor ignoran t whit eman . T he secret of the slaveholder 's at was supposed to hav e shown us where winning these p,articul a r demand s. But who d oes not und ers ta nd tha t th e tachment to slaver y is to be found in th e Lenin uses " Intermediate" in describing through Socialist revoluti o n we will be interest of th e la boring classes is mutual. dollar , and that he is determined to get the average worker several months ago , able to do a more indepth anal ysis of arg ues in th is wise: ' Her e is so mu ch without wo rkin g for it. Ther e is not pre this hasn't been done yet. Also LPR LPR's line once RCL 's po sition has lab or to be pe rfo rm ed, -t ha t Neg ro judice a gainst color among the used the term backward and lower been completed . does it. If he was go ne, I shou ld have his slaveholder s. Their social system and strata interchangeably (vol. 8, No. 3-4 Our position on LPR at the present place.' T he rich a nd the poor a re both one milli on of mulattoe s are facts which pg . 5) most recently. These terms do no; time is that we still feel that the y are prejudi ced from int e rest. and not no arguments can demolish . (Ap mean the same thing. Lenin uses the genuine , althou gh we have difference s in because th ey enter tai n vag ue notio ns of plau se) . . word backward to describe a workers line we feel that we can carry on lines justice and humanit y .. " When the orange is squeezed. we political consciousness . There can be struggles with them so that the corr ect "Our humane political phil os opher s throw it aside . ( Laughter.) The black backward in any strata , lower , average line will win out. are pu u led to know what would man is a good fellow while he is a slave. and the "better situated strata" Lower LPR once denied , but now openly & become of the slave if they were eman and toils for nothing, but the moment he strata represents an economic strata as fully embraces the line reminiscent of cipated! The idea seems to prevail that claims his own flesh and blood and well as_political consciousness , because the left in form right essence "Wing" & bone s, he is a most obnoxious creature, of their economic situation workers the poor things would suffer, if robbed Liu Shao-Chi line "the masses are and there is a proposition to get rid of from this strata are usually at a lower of the glorious privileges they now en backward". Even tho Lenin stated the joy! If they could not be flogged , half him! He is happy while he remains a level of consciousness although you will masses are lower strata, this was a des starved , and work to support in ease and poor , degradeil ignorant slave , without fmd _some advanced in the lower strata . cription of the economic level not ' even the right to his own offspring . luxury those who have never waived an Lenin further clarifies this distinction political consciousness. Backward and While in this condition, the master can opportunity to outrage and wrong "Even the most backward worker wili lower strata do not mean the same ride in the same carriage , sleep in the them, they would pine away and die! Do understand the idea, provided of course things as LPR and the Wing incorrectly you imagine that the Negro can live out same bed, and nurse from the same the agitator or propagandist is able t~ assert. And even applying Lenin's bosom. But give this same slave the right side of slavery? Of course, now. they can appr _oach him in such a way as to com characterization of the Russian Masses take care of themselves and their to use his own legs, his hands, his body municate the idea to him, to explain it in in 1898 in the most backward country in masters too ; but if you give them their and his mind , and this happy and understandable language on the basis of Europe, mechanically and liberty , must they not suffer? (Laughter desirable creature is instantly facts the worker k_nows fr~m everyday automatically to 1977 in the most ad and applause.) Have you never been · transformed into a miserable and exP_Cnence. But this cond1t1on is just as vanced monopoly capitalist country 111 able to see through all this? Have you loathsome wretch, fit only to be md1spensable for clarifying the the world is not correct. The lower strata not observed that the location of this colonized somewhere near the moun economic struggle: in this field too, the workers were those to whom a socialist organ of sympathy is in the pocket of the tains of the moon , oc eternally banished backward worker from the lower or ?ewspaper was "completely or well nigh slaveholder and the man who shares in from the presence of all civilized beings. middle strata of the masses will not be incomprehensible to them" . Given the the profits of slave labor? Of course you You must not lose sight of the fact that it able to _ass1m1late the general idea of advanced state of the productive forces. have; and pity those men who have lived is ·the emancipated slave and the free economic struggle: it is an idea that can we would question whether in the U.S. upon their ill-gotton wealth. You know, colored man whom it is proposed to be absorbed by a few educated workers today the largest masses of workers if they do not have somebody to work remove - not the slave; this country and whom the masses will follow guided by would find a communist newspaper for them, they must leave their gilded climate are perfectly adapted to Negro their . mstmcts and their direct, "completely or well nigh incomprehen· salons, and take off their coats and roll slavery: it is the free black that the air 1s 1mmed1ate interests." (Lenin CW sible to them". The masses of Russian up their sleeves, and take their chances not good for! What an idea! A country vol.4, pg.291) · · workers in Lenin's day were illiterate , among the live men of the world. This, good for slavery, and not good for The Woman Question Russia not even a bourgeois democracy. you are aware, these respectable gen freedom!. . . On the woman question we agree with But these conditions that produced the tlemen will not do, for they have been so "I do not regard this trying hour as a ~PR _on lines such as, the woman ques makeup of the U.S . working class must long accustomed to live by robbing and darkness. The war that has been waged tion is a class question and cannot be be studied practically before we come to cheating the Negro, that they are sworn on us for more than two centuries has res<;>lvedwithin the realms of bourgeois a conclusion! And the LPR "lazy bones never to work while they can live by opened our eyes and caused us to form society. That one must always point to ,alliances.so that instead of acting on .tile the dictatorship of the proletariat and ~pproach" merely repeating Lenin. and pl~~~e~: 5~~P,.~~~;\ ;·,: ' • · • •,,. - •,· ·v:)" ,tl · .. 1., ft\1, 1 •. -.,.,., , _incorrectly at that, will not do. , , J • • , tr · l l.,· r , . ,·., \ , 1 1. ~ Unity & Struggle Pa,te S program (i.e., maximum and minimum May Day program and strategy and tactics for carrying them out) around which REVOLUTIONARY (Cont,nued from page 12) portunism . "The fight against imper genuine Marxist-Leninist s through tie or no wage increases , inflation, cut ialism is a sham and a humbug unless it ideological struggle can demarcate REVIEW: backs in their children's education and is inseparable bound up with the fight themselves from the opportunists and d~ycare facilities , closing of their hos against opportunism." (V.1. Lennin. therefore principly unite . The polemics Stalin Was A Great pitals , are all bourgeois attempts to shift IMPERIALISM, THE HIGHEST around political line must be aimed at the brunt of the economic crisis onto the STAGE OF CAPITALISM) We must the program, and this struggle must be Marxist-Leninist ~ac.ks of the working class, while cap- wage an unrelenting struggle to expose carried out in front of and with the part 1tahsts squander superprofits, stolen and isolate thr revisionists and op icipation of the advanced , so as to carry principally from the third world and portunists who are willing to settle for out our two simultaneous tactics of Reprinted.fr om from the oppressed nationalities of the short term goals while selling out the party building , Marxist-Leninists Unite Albania Today U.S. multinational working class. These long range struggles of the working - Win the Advanced to Communism . superprofits are used to bribe the class . We must expose and isolate the And it is in this struggle over political apologizers of U.S. capitalism and opportunists who infiltrate the ranks of line that our practice of proletarian "Zeri I Popullit" , or,:an of the C. C. of imperialism - a section of the upper the working class to confuse and ideology is confirmed . the P.L.A . strata of the working class and petty mislead the struggle. Revisionists like The question of building the party of bourgeoisie - the labor aristocrats and Angela Davis and the "Communist Par the working class is the central question The stand towards Stalin has been trade union bureaucrats: Woodcock, ty" U.S .A., who try to tie the U.S. wor at this time that faces the working class, and still is a question of fundamental who went to Viet Nam for smiling J.C . king class to the social-imperialist it is the central task that must be ac principle , a very clearpolitical party to organize and lead Long Live Karl Marx! Lenin said, Comintern and afterwards. After World social systems: socialism and cap every stage and every aspect of the wor "Marxism is the system of the views and War 11, it was he who inspired the italism . In the contradiction between king class struggle.It needs a political teachings of Marx." "The remarkable creation of the Information Bureau, imperialism and the socialist countries , party composed of the best and most ad consistency and integrity of Manis which, as long as it existed, acted with the socialist countries are the irresis vanced elements of the working class. It views, acknowledged even by his op wisdom for the exchange of experience table force on the rise, while imperialism needs a Revolutionary Marxist -Leninist ponents, views which in their totality among the sister communist and suffers defeat after defeat with each pas Communist Party based on Marxism constitute modern mMterialism and workers parties on a revolutionary sing day, as it suffers the doom of those LeninisJY1-Mao Tsetung Thought, the modern scientific socialism ... " are the internationalist basis. Timr has com reactionary forces who attempt to stop science of revolution. strong foundation for the science of pletely confirmed the correct decisions it the dynamic advance oft he wheel of his The U.S. working class has needed revolution today, Marxism-Leninism adopted. The Party of Labour of tory. such a party since 1957 when the Mao Tsetung Thought. Albania has frequently spoken out and But imperialism and social "CP"USA sold out the struggles of the has always heartly defended Stalin and imperialism are hated all over the world . working class, revised the principles of '"Disco Turns his work from the attacks and slanders People the world over are engaged in Marxism-Leninism, and cut out its Revolutionary" of Khruschov, the Khruschovites and all revolutionary struggles to destroy them, revolutionary essence: class struggle, the Hear dynamite new group the anticapital in the eyes of the bourgeoisie and the world , war and revolution. And . 45 RPM : front against imperialism -.a party that imperialism, reactivat~ the old bankrupt revolution is the main trend . "Beller Red Lei Others Be Dead" The struggles of the U.S. working can organize and lead the armed plus , propaganda arsenal and begin to class and oppressed nationalities are struggle of the working class and op "You was Dancin' need Ta Be Mar slander Stalin. It has already been part of the trend of revolution, and we pressed peoples to smash the capitalist chin. " proved that the anti-Stalin campaign of must intensify and expand our revolu state and seize state power. Sl.25 plus postage these parties has been associated with or tionary struggle to stop the t~end ?f The struggle over the correct political has been a consequence of their further imperialist war, "either revoluuo~ w1,\l line, which is the key link at this stage of To: Ptopk's War opportunist degeneration, of the growth party building, is an ideological BoxW of the chauvinist spirit and the domestic stop war or war will bring revolution. N,...,rlr.,N.J. But the struggle of the working class struggle. The question of political line as affairs of others. In order to defend their against imperialism will . not be key link must be grasped .in ~rder. to bankrupt ca111e,a l)llnl~~ of in<;t~v.i<;lua)s succesafui without a struggle against op- push forward the development of a (Continued on page BJ Unil) & S1ru:-e.le Unity & St ruggl e Pait 7 BUILD A REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST-LEN! 1ST COMMUNIST PARTY BASED ON MARXISM- LENINISM-MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT (Contmued from page 1J tasks. Theory is the summed up ex Unilin~ J\tarxisr-Leninisb. de velopment of the productive forces mo vement ex isted apart from soc ialism. will get a social democratic movement mg contrasting or differing aspects (or penence of the working class movement \\ innin~ The Adnnced To have resulted in a broader stra ta of each going its own way ; and in every which will speed straight towards the tasks) of the proces~ which are more taken in its general a~pect and as put Comm unism "better situated workers" and therefore. country this isolation has weakened 'promise land.' The whole history of the pronounced at one pomt (or stage) than forward chieny by 5 Great 1 cachcrs - rh c two s1multa ncoustac1ics of Part y despite a huge level of opportunism in both socia lism and the working class working class struggle in Ru ssia has that which preceded it or follows it. Marx. Engels. Lenin. Stalin and Ma o. Buildin g are Uniti ng Marxis1-Leni nists lhe U.S .. more advanced workers more movement. Only the fusion of socia lism brilliantly confirmed the important Comrade D1m1troff put 1t this way. By ideology (though at times th ese are and Willing the Advanced to Com advanced numeri cally and more ad with the working class movement ha s in theoret ical conclusion of Comrade ..These main periods in the party"s his· used interchangeably) wc mean the munasm . vanced workers in the sense that the all countries created a durable basis for Stalin's. In the pamphlet in question tory naturally have their own stages of stand. worldview and methodology of One of these aspects must pay the lev~I of the productive forces today re both . But in every country. this com Stalin subjected the opportunist theory de\.dopment." (Sel. \.\,orks. Vol. 3. the proletariat. i.e .. dialectical and his leading role and give this simultaneous qm re that the worker be more educated. bination of social ism and the working of Spontaniety to withering crjticism p.269. Sofia Press). Why is this im· torical materialism. But the practice of task its character and the conscious and at a higher level of consciousness class movement was evo lved his and gave a reasoned explanation of the portant to see this in Party Building'! the Dangerous Duo shows that the for element (the Marxist-Leninist s) must. in "to operate the machinery properly." torically , in unique wa:ys, in accordance role and significance of a revolu tionar y Because, "'If people do not pay a11ention mulation .. ideology was the key lmk" is order to wm the Advanced. that is. make But on the other hand fusion in the with the prevailing condit ions of time part y and of revolutionary theory for the Advanced comm uni sts. take the to the stages m the process of an obstacle. because they use this for U.S. is at a low level between the com and place (our emphasis). In Russia. the the working class. 'The labour leading role - .. Marxist-Len inists development of a thing. they cannot mulation to liquidate the ideological muni st movement and workers· necessi ty for combining socialism and movement' wrote Stalin , 'mu st be united deal with its contradictions properly." tasks ofthiss1age. and to misunderstand Unite!" therefore is principal. rhi s mo vement because there has been no the working-class movemenl was in with socia lism; practical activities and (Mao Tsetung. 4 Essays on Philosophy). the role of ideology generally. aspect. the principal aspect. is the genuine communist party since 1957. theory long ago proclaimed but it is on ly theoretical thought mu st merge int o one cata lyst that makes the entire process pg. 43). Marxism · Leninism - Mao The struggle over the correct political and due to the high level of o pp ortuni sm now being carried int o practice. It is a and thereby lend the spo ntane ous work. and while the Mar xist-Le nin ists Tsetung Thought clearly lays this out line. which is the key link at this stage in based on superpr ofits imperialis m gets very difficult process and there 1s labour movement a Social Democratic and the experience of the proletariat in part y building. is an ideologica l unite. simulta neous ly the Ad va nced are from the exploitation of Asia. Africa therefore nothin g surprisin g in the fact character ... Our dut y. the duty of party building confirms that we must struggle, and there are ideological tasks won to Commu nism. In order to win the and Latin Amer ica and opp ressed that it is accompanied by vaci llations Social Democracy is to direct the spon understand the period and stage we are throughout the life of the party . To Ji. Advanced to Co mmunism it must be the nationalities inside thi s co untry. which and doubts." (Lenin. Part y Work in the tane ous labour movement from the path m. in order to understand the histoncal quidate the importance of building the Marxist-Lenini sts who bring the science makes it possible for imperiali sm to Masses. pg. 9) of narrow trade unionism to the Social tasks that we must accomplish in mak· party on the ideological plane would of M-L- M into the workers movement ~ribe a small sector of the working class During the revolutionary life of th e Democratic path. Our duty is to in· ing proletarian revo luti on in the U.S. sa bota ge the ideological & political causing th e fusion .. Th e workers m the U.S . and gives concessions to CPUSA.soc ialism was being brought to traduce socialist consciousness into this Periods and S1ages foun dat ions of the party we strugg le to movement is spontane ous and not based others . Opportuni sm ex ists to suc h a the workers movement in the factories. move ment and unite the advanced 1st stage of pre•party , party building build, because to the degree we belittle on the science of proleta ria n revolution . high level that the '"CP"USA has tr a de unions . and to mass forces of the working ~class in one cen Within th e proc ess of Pa rt y Bui lding,i, period: key link affirmation of theory proletarian ideo logy. we open the door This is the job of the communists (th e ADVANCED WORKER degenerated into revisionism . The spo n organizations . But fusion in the U.S tralized party . Our task is always to beat the fu nd amental contradictio n is fusion and ideology of M·L-M. wide to rev isionism and bourgeois Revolutionar y theoreticians) to in In A Retr ograde Trend in Ru ssia n taneous workin g class movement is was turned around almost to a stand sti ll the hea d of the movement and tirelessly of the communi st movement with the ideology . troduce the science of M-L ·M, the Social D emocrac y, Lenin lays out the "Jed" by a large number of bribed because of the betrayal of the '"CP" USA combat all tho se . foes or 'fri ends ' who We hold that this is the second stage science that will lead th e pro letariat working class movement. There are two definition of what an advanced worker elements such as the labor aristocrats, with its consolidation of revisionism in hinder the accomplishment of this task." of the pre·party. party building period. The question of political line as the under the leadership .or a c~mmuni st aspects of eac h of these separa te con is. We agree with his defin ition and revisionists. as well as economists and 1957. The U.S. proletariat has been (Biography of Joseph Stalin, p. 14·15) . The 1st stage eme rged from the eclec key link must push forward the vang uard party to victory 1n arme .d tradiction s. In the co mmunist think that the essence of thi s definition other socia l props of th e bou rgeoi sie without its vanguard. the co nscious The building of the vanguard co m ticism which had gripped man y ad devel opment of a program (i.e .• max- strugg le to ove rthrow the bourgeois movement it is ( I) Marxist-Leninist applies in the U.S. toda y. an d that the because there's no vanguard Marxi st element in fusion . to guide the spon muni st party is the "b iggest step forward vanced fo rce s th at arose in the fifties & imum and minimum .. program and state. Unit y vs (2) Marxi st-Lenini st Disunity better sit uated strata of the wo rking Leninist party to introduce scientific taneous workers' stru ggles to conscious towards thi s fusion", (Retrograde Trend sixties. an d the key hnk in this 1st sta ge str ategy and tactics for carrying them The working class mo vement does and in the workers · movement it is (I) class res ponds to socia lism more rapidl y socia lism into the working class class struggle and victory. Therefore in Ru ssia n Social Democrac y, pg . 4) was the affirmation of the theory and out) around which genuine Ma rxists- gravitate towards socialism; but scie n the fusion with M·L·M vs (2) the spon and th is is tru e toda y. Lenin specifically movement. fusion in the U.S. is low . and fusion co ntinue s throughout the en· ideology of M-L·M Thi s mea ns that the Leninists. through ideol ogical st ruggle. tific soc ialism is brought to the workers taneit y of the working class without M sa id: "The history of the working class The advanced worker is class Without a genuine Marxi st-Leninist tire life of the Communist Party. advanced forces that emCrged in the can demarcate themselves from the op- from the outside because the spo n L-M. movement in a ll cou ntri es shows that conscious. poli1ica lly active. can win the Co mmuni st Part y the working-class Our co ncrete conditions in the U.S.A. upheavals of the 60's. looki ng fo r a po rtuni sts and the refo re principly unite . taneous movement of the workers also At pre sent , the state of the Com the better•s itu a ted strata of the work ing the confidence & tru st of the masses, movement in its strugg le against dictate for genuine Marxist-Leninists revolutionary theory to answer the The polemic s around political line must gravitates more toward bou rgeois muni st Mo vement is marked by Mar x class respond to th e ideas of socialism educate and organize the proletariat. monopoly capitalism is spontaneou s and advanced forces to strengthen this problems posed by th e revol ution ary be aimed at the program , and it is in this ideology which is w~at keep s th e wor ist-Leninist disunity . the Worker s' mor e rap idly and more easily ." (A Ret · studying and actively seeking answers to and "led" by econo mists. revisio nists fusion and build the Revolutionar y struggle s of the ma sses. turned to the struggle ove r political line t,hat ourprac- king class from the science of Marxi sm Movement by spon taneit y, these are the rograde Trend in Ru~ian Social ques tions thrown up by the movem ent and other bourge ois socia l prop s. it Marxi st-Leninist Communist Party, the writings of Malcolm X. Fan on. tice of proletarian ideology is con- Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought. principal aspects of these con Dem ocracy. pg. 26) By advanced and society , and once socialism is laid lacks the science to turn its struggle into .. highe st form of class organizatio n of Guevara, Mirighela , Nkrumah. Debra y. firmed. But we must not deal wit;1 "The working class spontaneous ly tradictions . But if we are to build the worker we mean "t hose who ca n win the out to them they will consciously accept a powerful movement to vio lentl y over the pr ole tariat." Nyerere, Toure' . Castro. Ka reng a and polemics in the abstract , they must be gravitates towards Socia lism. but the pa rt y and make revolution , Com confidence of the labori ng masse s, who it, and will become a communi st ba sed throw the bou rgeois sta te and establish Propagan da , The Ch ief oth ers. •• This turn s 10 eclecticism in aimed at a program so that in the more widespread (a nd continuously munists mu st struggl e to transform the devote themselves e ntire ly to the on their contact with M-L-M and their the dictatorship of the protetariat. Form of Activity searc h of a revolutionary Marx ist ideological struggle over pol itical line revived in the most diverse forms) principal aspects of thes e contradictions educ a tion a nd o rganizat ion of the active stud y to turn themsel ves into '"When this fusion takes pla ce the Propaganda is the chief form of ac· Leninist Co mmuni st Party in the U.S. that is key in thi s stage, the scattered bourgeois ideo logy neve rth eless spon to Marxi st-Lenini st u nit y and fusion of proletariat , who accept socia lism con Communitsts . class struggle of the workers becomes tivity in the pre-party period, the period to bnng the science of revo lution , Marx political lines on the burning questions taneous ly imposes itself upon the wo r Marxi sm-L eninism-Mao Tse Tung ciou sly an d who even elaborate Lenin pointed out that "everywhere the conscious struggle of the prol etariat in which part y building is the ccntra\ ism-Leninism - Mao Tse tung Thought, of proletarian revoluri on in the U.S. king class sti ll more ." (Lenin . What Is Th ought with th e spontaneou s wo rkers ' independent social ist theories . and at 1111times the leaders ofa cenain 10 ema ncipate itself from exploi ta1ion task . And this propaganda must prin· to the spont a neous working class must be fo rged into a par1y program To Be Done, pg . 5 I) Stal in raised in movement , i.e. win ning the advanced to workers, who despite their wretched liv class ha ve always been its advanced". by the propertied classes. it is evolved cipally unite Marxist-Lenini stsa nd Win movement , because of the criminal bet through ide ologica l st rug g le in relatio nsh ip as to how the sc ience would communism . ing conditions, despite the stultif ying and this is true here also because the into a higher form of the socialist the Advanced to Co mmuni sm. rayal of the ..CP" USA. There were 2 propaganda, forums. jo int theoretica l be brou ght into th e working class Until th e science of M-L-M is fused penal servitude of factory labor possess worker s' struggles in the 60's. the black workers ' movement. the independent Propaganda is the means by which the major part y building attempts in the 1st and practical work -, exc hanging movement : " Here is what Marx and with the working cla ss moveme nt the so muc h charact er and will power tha t liberation movement. the anti-war working class Social Democratic Part y. teachings of scient ific soc ialism are stage, the Provisional Organizing Com· theoretical materials and waging the Engels say in their Man ifesto : 'The proletariat does not see that their aim is the y stud y, stud y, stud y, and turn movement . eac h brought forth such ex By directing socialism towards a fusion spread among the masses. The mittee (P. 0 .C.) first in 1958 which theoretical and practical form of clas s Commu nists(1.e . Social Democrat s), .. th e overt hrow of cap itali sm and that themselves into co nscious socia l amples of advanced workers. In this with the wo rking class movement. Karl propaganda piece contains within it crit icized the revisioni sm of the struggle to achieve a correct and com- are on the one hand , pr actically , th e ..their conque st of political power (dic dem ocrats - the worki ng class stage of the pre-party period when Marx a nd Frederick Engels did their man y ideas so that the part icular topic "CP"USA, but late; sunk in to the prehen sive system of views - that is a most advanced and resolute section of tatorship of the proletariat )" is the vital intelligentsia." (Ibid, pg. 26-27) . We political line is the key link we must aim greatest service. They created a can be understood in its totality. In his quicksand of bourg eo is ideology nself sys tem of answers to the revoluti onary the working class parties of every coun "means of achievi ng the victory of th ink that this definition should be our propaganda & agitation mainly at revolutionary theory that explained the pamphlet, The Tas ks of the Russian with a consolidated "left" opportunist struggle, which Marxist·Lenini sts and try , that section which pushes forward socia lism ." The pro leta riat fights but studied and used as a guid e by Marxist the advanced who are located in large necessity for this fusion and gave Social-Democ ra ts, Lenin describe s the line. The 2nd attempt was made in 1962. advanced unite around and also up on all ot hers ; on th e other hand , their consciousne ss, "exclusive ly by its Leninists and adva nced forces in ap scale industries and who are part of the socialists the task of organi7ing the class content and charac ter of communis t Progressive Labor arose as the Progres which a party organiza tion can be the ore tica lly, the y have over the great ow n efforts" is not Marxist·Leninist but plying th is to the concrete co nd itions to spontaneous working class movement. struggle of the proletariat."(Lenin, Ret propaganda a nd what the aim of com sive Labor Movement. later to declare formed . mass of th e proletariat the advantage of ma inly trad e unionist . and their fighting day in the U.S.A. and begin to do necessary concrete rograde Trend in Russian Social munist propaganda is: itself the Progressive Labor Party in And in the proce ss of ideological clearly understanding the line of march, is di vided . However , when the Marxist The conditions which produ ce the ad analysis to see what workers arc ad Democracy, p. 3) ..The socialist activities of Ru ssian 1965. PL played a positive role at the struggle ove r the correct political line, the conditions, a nd the ult imate general Leninists bring th e scie nce of M-L-M vanc ed worker in th e Uni ted States a re vanced based on applying the essence of The concrete conditions in the U.S. Social Democrats consists in spreading outset , critici zing Soviet revisionism . we can demarcate the genuine from the results of the proletarian movement! into the workers' movement, the not exac tly the same as during Lenin' s Lenin's definit ion to our contretc con show that the communist movement is by propaganda the teachings of sc ien but PL also sunk int o the bog of op sham. We must sum up the results of our Yes, the ideologi sts 'push forward'. they proletariat begin s to understanl the time . Stalin pointed out. "the new ditions in the U.S.A . as well as workers separated from the working class tific socialism, in spreading among the portunism. PL lines up with Liu Shao ow n. as well as others' . pract ice in see much farther than the great mas s of need fo r a proletarian revolution and productic e fo rces require th at the response to the analysis put forward in movement. Becau se the proletariat has workers a proper understanding of the chi against the Proletarian Cultural polemics that promote genuine uni ty the pr oletariat, and this is the whole the establishment of the dictatorship of workers in produ ctio n sha ll be better our propaganda . questions that the lost its vanguard, its communist party. present social and economic system, its Revolution initiated by Mao Tsetung in based on sharp lines of demarcation . point." (Stalin Works, Vol. I, pgs. 64- the proletariat. Th erefore, it is the dut y educated and more intelligent th an the workers raise about our propaganda the U.S. working class m ovement aod basis and its development , and China. and the y began to take a co n analyring the correc tness of th e political 6S)Thi s su ms up very clearly why of the Marxi st-Le ninists to unite to fuse downtrodd en and ign ora nt serfs, that and the lines they put forward. and scientific socialism are separated. understanding of the various classes in Lenin waged polemics against the sistent counterrevolutionary chauvinist line mea sured by the concrete practice in 1s necessary to fuse the science of M-L the scie nce of M-L · M wit h the working they be a ble to under sta nd ma chiner y begin to select advanced workers that Russian society, of their interrelations economists who said that all was needed line against oppressed nationalities in the cruc ible of class struggle and how it M with th e workers' movement, why the class movement , to imbue the worker s and operate it pr operly ." (History of can be pulled into study circles and of the struggle between these classes , of was the economic struggle - strikes and the U.S. corresponds with the theory & ideo logy Marxist-Leninists must take the leading movement with Marxi st-Lenini st CPSU(B), pg. 125) Imperialism is developing factory nuclei. the role of the working class in this trade uni ons. Economist belittle the in· But clearly from the experiences of of M-L·M . that is to say. we must un ite role in this fusion in relationship to the co nscio usness and th ere by give the the highe st stage of ca pital ism. Based on FUSION struggle , of its attitude towards the troduction of the conscious element into advanced forces in the 60's what was M-L·M with the concrete practice of proce ss of party building. the role of the spontaneous working~lass movement a the se concrete co ndition s with the .. In every country there has been a declining and the devel op;ng classes, the work ing class movement. Lenin towards the past and the future of necessary was to break with the eclec proletarian revolution in the U.S . Lenin party as well as the party's composition . concious charact e r. development of imperialism the period in which the workingclass tici sm. and affirm the theory and said, ··Hence , our task , the task of Social capitalism, and understanding of the ideolog y of M-L-M . In summing up ~Jt11~~:~;j it. ii: ~it~~led~~~~se:t~tfn~ ,------• Democracy, is to combat spontaniety. historical task of international Social these periods and stage s one fo r NEW DEVELOPMENTS lo divert the working-clas s movement Democracy and of the Russian working prcsonal rivalry. if it is not to lead to a IN CHINA 'S COUNTRYSIDE: from this spontaneous trade·unionist mulation is an obstacle in understan· confusion of views , to a confou nding of l Oth Stre et B"\I' \I' " ksh" \I' P class ... " (Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. n 1nsideAPeople'sCommune . .$1.25 ding the periods and stages in party enemies and friends . it is a bso lut ely striving to come under the wing of 2. p. 239, Progress Pub .) n AeportfromTungt,ng ... $ .50 revolutionary Social·Democracy." There are different ways of spreading bldg. in the U.S. ft PhllosoPhv is No Mystery . . .. S .50 th Lenin. What Is To Be Done, pg. 49}. communist propaganda. but the Com We say that the key link in the 1st ;~:;r~~m~ha:,.t~~"it~~iti n~! :~: 224East 10 Street N.Y.,10003,N.Y. r1 Serving 1he Pe()JNewith Dialectics .. stage was the affirmalion of the theory -, A Young Palhbrnker . ..Co mrade Stalin 10 the pamphlet mun ist International guided us to the r, On the Question of Agricult. Cooperation,$~~ 'Briefly About the Disagreements In the chief fonns of propaganda, which they and ideology of M-L-M , because of the ~~:;T/f;::ie~~\::if/~~ai:ed?fr,t;:~~: We of te I. 47 3-8 736 "'~d~:cks Part y', sums up the views of the Lenin laid out in 1921 from their 3rd Congress: vagueness and misuse of the for r Report of an Investigation into the Peasant Move- wing of Social-Democracy on the sub mulation .. !st stage wa s when ideology ~~ess~i~:~ce w~:t~~~ere;~cs n:~ p~~~~ ;;~IN OPEN MONDAY THRU FRIDAY ment in Hunan ( 19271 $ ..35 (i) Individual verbal propaganda ject of fusion as follows: 'What is scien was key link". and we say this for differences mterferc with common work MAO TSE TUNG l:00 P. M. to G:00 P. M. n Iron Oxen. by William Hinton . $1 95 (ii) Participation in the industrial and r1 A Vear in Upper Felicity, Jack Chen $8.96 tific socialism without the labour mulation some comrades arc using, isan in the ranks of one and the same party . 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Because it tends to Ask for our cata log press and distribution of literature. questio n into the polemic , only a Peoples Republic or China and AIIJ.'lnia * ------2929 · 2411,SUMI S .. ~Communist International put St11te____ Z~---- "Uni te the two and you will get a cructal part of the completion of those Political line is the key link at this verbal propaganda first, that is dis· stage in the pre-party period. which we splendid vessel, which will speed cussion with the workers, face to face (as •• SEEJl.,NEEDITJOl\ OF UNITY & must firmly grasp to propel the P•yrnen11nluUioclud1ngt11•S ___ _ straight towards the other shore and for instance the str uggl e over political freec.t.1iogotboolis.-g11,nes .pm. te,-s,g ,eel reach a haven unhanned. Unite the line in the presence of and with the par- STRUGGLE CRITICISM OF revolutionary motion toward the build· On Strategy a.nd Tactics - Stalin ,, 1.00 ~carOS.recorOS.etc labor mo\/emcnt with socialism and you KA WAJDA ing of the party fo"'ard. (Continu~d on page 8/ PaJ?e II l nity & StruJ?gle and right deviation of _our practice materia lism. But we see this key link as perio d of the formatio n of the vanguard aro und taking clear pos1uons on party of the prole tariat. i.e. winning the best an ideological tas k and we see that there are a lso orga nizatio nal tasks even at this building . . . . elements of the wor king class to the side Dur ing this period m which we put of co mmuni sm. This pro pagan da stage of the pa rty build ing period such as stud y circles. factory nuclei. frac tions together this paper. RCL (M-L-M) has should not lower its content to the level u nd ergo ne extremely s1gn1f1cant in mass organi zations. of the non-class conscious wo rker. but changes. Not only the change from CAP must constantl y raise the level of 4. We a lso waged a polemic aga inst to RC L a nd what that implies a nd en consciousness of the advanced . and at and tr ied to co rrect the vaguen ess a nd tail s. but because of intensified internal the same time raise the political misuse of the term "the I st period was struggl e. we saw t he crystallizat ion of consciou sness of the average a nd lower when ideology was key link". beca use it cert a in Right lines (ta iling 0 .L.) and strata of the working class. tended to lead to a misunderstanding " Left" (tail ing the Du o) tendencies In our propaganda. the chie f form of that the struggle for correct politic a l line which have resulted in the ejection and activity in thi s period when the part y is was not an ideologicaf task. Ju st a s in in formation . we must uphold Marxism the next stage in which organi zational flight o f some oppo rtun.ists _and men Leninism-Mao-Tsetung Thought in task s of party building will be key. sheviks . This is a good thm g. 1t 1s part of the process of bolsheviza tion . a for theory and in practice. And propaganda ideological struggle overt hose tasks will must carry the struggle against right op play a crucial part of the completion of midable and length y proce ss. involving portunism the main danger. (on the those tasks . intensive stud y and trainin g and right O .L. does no propaganda and trifl We stressed that by theory we meant revolutionary practice and the remould ing polemics) and its reverse side. "left " the summed up experience of the wor ing of world view in the development of sectarianism (the .duo in upholding king class movement taken in its general a party which is "full y consolidated propaganda as the chief form of activity aspect and as put forward chiefly by 5 ideologicall y . politically. and liquidates all other forms of struggle) . great teachers - Marx . Engels . Lenin . organizationally" and come s not merely We must oppose every stripe of op Stalin and Mao . By ideology (though at by proclamation as some of our "instant portunism that attempts to obstruct the times these are used interchangeabl y) we bolsheviks " seem to think . irrestible motion toward building the meant the stand . worldview and Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Com methodology of the proletariat. i.e .. Stalin Was munist Party . dialectical and historical materialism . (Continued from page- 7/ People of the World Unite to Smash 5. We pointed out how the question of A Great ticipation of . the advance). Second it U.S. Imperiali sm and U.S.S .R. Socia l political line being key link had to fur upholds the existence of Communists Imperialism - the 2 Superpower s! ther the development of a program [i.e .. Marxist-Leninist working within the working class Marxist-Leninists Unite - Win the Il)aximum and minimum program and movement . necessarily putting forth Advanced to Communi sm ! strategy and tactics for carrying them (Continued from page 5/ communist lines on all issues. as the next Defeat Right Opportunism, the Main out] around which genuine Marxist of this sort label their personal enemies, form of propaganda . Danger - Intensify Strugg le Against the Leninists through ideological struggle or rivals for power, saboteurs and spies Next is printed party propaganda. "Left" Sec tarian Deviation! can demarcate themselves from the op in the pay of the Soviet social-imperial Too often we have a tendency to Build a Revolutionary Marxist portunists and therefore princip ly unite. ists or of the U.S . imperialist as "Stalin downplay the first altogether (especially Lenin ist Commu nist Party Based On And that one clear relatio nship of the ists - supporters of the Information non-verbal petty bourgeois intellectual Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung dangerous 0.L. party building motion , Bureau." But this is a false appellation types) and also not understand that our Thought! which was programless . and the erratic because nowadays even children know presence as communists within the wor "leftism" of the Duo was that neither that the saboteurs and spies, the imper king class movement is to teach i.e .. br SUMMARY had or gave priority to program! alists or the social imperialists have I. We began with the overall world ing the science of M-L-M to the workers 6. On the question of advanced nothing in common either with Stalin or situation , outlinin g the four fun in a concrete and practical way. a nd by worker we held to the essence of Lenin's with the Information Bureau . But even dame ntal contradictions of imperialism , example. Building study circles , definition of 1899 in Russia. but the fanciest patches can't make tattered the two sharpest contradictions which developing factory nuclei and leading paraphrased it thus: "one who is class clothin g new, any more than sickness give rise to two rising trends. revolution the spontaneous working c lass conscious , politically active , can win the can be cured with a magic wand. and war. We held that revolution is the movement are the practical and confidence and trust of the masses , main trend in the world today and In order to cover up the failures , in organizational work that goes on even educate and organize the proletariat . Soviet Socia l Imperialism the main their national policy, which is a typically while propaganda is the chief form of studying and actively seeking answers to source of war, though they try to cover bourgeois nationalists policy , these activity . questions thrown up by the movement their rapacious designs with the sign same individuals and revisionist parties Communist propaganda, whose aim and society, conscious ly accept board of "socialism" when capitali sm even reach the point of labelling some and objective is to educate . train and socialism and will become a communist has been restored there . and with the nationality with all sorts of epithets. ac based on their contact with M-L-M and raise the working class con sciousness to bogus cry of "Detente" . cusing them of"irridentism" , "Stalinist" their active study to turn themselves into a revolutionary proletarian class level is 2. That the central ta~k of Marxist dogmatism, and so on. However means inseparable from the task of political ex Communists" . Leninists and advanced forces in the of such falsehood and insinuations they posure and agitation . Agitation ex But at the same time we recognized U.S. at present is party building, and has will not be able to cover up the injustices plains or presents a single idea for the the differences in concrete conditions been since the historic tragic con that exist or extinguish people's pure purpose of arousing political action. between Lenin's Russia and the degree solidation to revisionism of the and legitimate national feelings. nor will and in the main these ideas are ex of fusion between Revolutionary Marx "CP"USA in 1957. But party building is they have the slightest effect on those pressed through participation in ism and the spontaneous working class the central task not the only task as the co untries to which the modern revision workers struggl es. the living word . and movement at that time and in the U.S. "left" sectaria ns hold. The main dang er ists seek to make allusions and to agitational literature . Communist today. We held that the productive to the Communist and workers damage the friendship between peoples. agitation mu st give a conscious forces of the U.S . had produced more movements is revisionism a nd right op Stalin was a great Marxist theoretic character to the spontaneous struggle of advanced workers but that because of portunism, coming principally from ian on the national question. If the the masses. To quote Lenin. the absence of a genuine CP and the USSR-"CP"SU revisionism in state revisionists have forgotte n this, let them "Inseparably connected with level of op portun ism crea ted by power, and in the U.S .A .. their 5th read Lenin properly and see how highly propaganda is agitation among the imperi a lism and the scattere d sta te of column "CP"USA . he appraised the great theoretical and workers ." "Agitation among the the a nt i-revis ioni st communist That R"CP" and 'C"L"P" are no practical importance of Sta lin's work on workers means that the Social Democ movement , fusion was low. longer in the anti-revi sion ist communist the national question, let them reca ll the rats take part in all the spontaneous 7. We held that the two most im movement, and main so urce of struggle waged by Lenin in defense of manifestations of the working class portant tactical tasks of thi s period were revisionisn in anti-revisionist com Stalin's the ses against the attacks of the struggle, in all the conflicts between the "Marxis t-Len inists Unite - Win the Ad munist movement is 0. L. who is rapidly deviator s and other enemies of the vanced to Communism". We held that workers and the capitalists over the wor conso lid at ing to revisioni sm revolution. ("On the National king day , wages, working conditions, Marx ist-Lenini sts unity versus Marxi st manifested clearly by its menshevik call Programme of R.S.D .L.P .", Lenin, etc. Our task is to merge our activities -Leninists disunit y was the principal for a party of the Martov type. Works, vol. 19). In writing about these with the practical everyday questions of contradiction a mong a number of con Clearly we see the main danger as questions in defen se of Stalin, our desire tradictions in party buildin g generally . working class life, to help the workers to revisionism from the right. led by OL in is that the matter will be kept on the understand these questions. to draw And that in the entity Marxist-Lenin the an ti -revisio nist co mmuni st ideological plane . However if the scrib workers ' attention to the most im ists Unite - Win the Adva nced to Com movement. but at the same time a rising blers and the defenders of anti-Marxist portant abuses, to help them formul ate munism. the basic initiating form of danger has been the "left" infantil e sec \heses on the national question aim at fusion , which is a fundamental principle their demands to the employer s more tarianism of the Dangerous Duo - persecuting the national minorities, they precisely and practically , to develop PRRWO & RWL. Both •of these lines of Communist parties, Marxist-Lenin may be sure that the Party of Labour of among the worker s consciousness of ists Unite was principal. have been manifest inside our own Albania, on a Marxist-Leninist way. their solidarity , consciousness of the organization, put forward in essentially Marxist-Leninists unite was principal will defend any people and national common interest and common cause of menshevik . i.e.. hidden and because it played the leading role. it was minority which is oppressed and the lever, the initiating factor and all the Russian workers as a united wor underhanded methods. but we are persecuted by any one at all. This is a king class that is part of the inter struggling against "left" and right men catalyst that made the entire process revolutionary obligation and an inter national army of the proletariat . " sheviks. Marxist-Leninists Unite - Win the Ad nationalist duty from which no people (Op. Cit. pg. 329) It is through v_anced to Communism happen and no party fighting . for socialism and 3. We held that this is the second stage propaganda and agitation that the link simultaneously. (though we rejected the the liberation of the peoples can turn between Marxism-Leninism- Mao of the pre-party , party building period . equilibrium theory put out by the "left" Tsetung Thought and the working class The first being the. stage emerging from sectarians, orthe separation of the tasks movement is fused . Propaganda eclecticism , in which the affirmation of put out by the right.) without agitation becomes sterile . the theory and ideology of M-L-M was 8. We held that propaganda was the because there exists no connection key: The second. the present stage. in chief form of practical activity, in this between it and the day to day abuses of which the ideological struggle over the period, but that it was inseparable from working class life. Agitation without correct political line, i.e .. the application agitation . And we put forward that we propaganda becomes spontaneous , of the theory of M-L-M to the concrete recognize not merely written propagan because the total political significance of conditions of proletarian revolution in da, but u~hold all forms that the C.I . put the situation cannot be clearly the U.S.A. is key, and by means of forward, 1.e., I. Verbal 2. Participate in understood, so therefore the movement which we will be able to confirm workers movement. 3. Written. lacks proper direction . whether comrades are actually prac In ge~era_lwe raised struggle against Clearly our propaganda must be ticing M-L-M ideology. i.e., the stand, the mam nght danger and the rising aimed at the advanced workers prin viewpoint and methodology of . the Mleft"sectarian deviation. We tried also cipally, in the pre-party period. the proletariat, dialectical' arid· historical to make self critici9111'for- tlie ilownesi;, lnity & Struggle Page 9 I. The USA is the mam danger to the maneuvering for spheres of influence to African Liberation Day people of the world. (ls it a coincidence the detriment of the people of the world . rCom,nued from pa51e3 ), ta_ke over ALSC . (The specifics of this that this is the same line of " RCP " and All of these dangers of bourgeois nmg . 1 rue opportunism. So then they will be gone over in the ALSC its Jacky R WC?) nationalism must be defeated and will ~how up at the Washington. D .C. meet- conference in the debate between RCL 2. That the Soviet Union and Cuba be defeated along with imperialism and mg cla1mmg (after much petlt-bour- and WYO on the international are socialist countries. (We wonder how social-imperialism which 1s wh} all geois maneuvering and wriggling) they situation.) do they explain Angola and the role of those who seek to serve the proletariat woul_d not support the ALSC demon- 3. TheforcingofacomradeofftheSC Cuba and the Soviet Union?) must unite the workers of all nations, strat1on a_nd conference because it had after he had been elected at the 3. The "Core of the Black Revol ut ion and unswervingly fight bourgeois been decided by the "left bl_oc' '. and September conference in Atlanta , using is in Africa." This totally liquidates the nationalism . domestic or foreign. The should not be honored because 1t did not "policy" as the excuse to do it. need to struggle for revolution here in place of those who advocate bourgeois "represent the t~ue sentiment of the SC" 4. Continuous right opportunistic the United States which is out and out natio nalism (usually the petit True opportunism. style of work collaboration with the enemy. bourgeois) is beside the bourgeoisie so In essence R WC was saying b~cau_se we And so all ~he above general lines and 4. "The principal contradiction in the they can be smashed along with the had ,,not voted the way the maJorit y practices show that R WC is suffering US is racism." They then place bourgeoisie, because proletarian inter blo_c_ would have voted, then 1t ts not from right errors , and this is why they do capitalism in a secondary position and nati onism and bourge ois nationalism leg1ttma~e_and should be used as an ex- not come out and point to right oppor - say that if racism is eradicated then are two irreconcilable lines that object ively represent two opposing world out cuse t? JOI~.a de?,1onstratton l~d the tunism as the main danger in the anti- capitalism will be destroyed which is a ?Y looks, that of the intern atio nal pro chauvm1st RCP , who have liquidated revisionist Communist movement in the totally metaphysical line beca use the Afro-Amencan National Quest~on USA . But R WC is not alone in making capitalism is the material base upon letariat and that of the bourgeoisi e , imperialism and social-imperialism. and who downplay national hberat1on right errors WYO also makes a number which racism was invented to serve and African Liberation Day and movements . The "RCP" has declared of serious ;rrors which if not corrected not vice versa . What this does is to help Party Building in the USA themselves "the Part ( based on su_b- will objectively place them right beside the bourgeoisie divide the working class The struggles in Africa. particularly Jecttv1sm, opportumsm . and white R WC in the marsh of right op- along national divisions , attem ·pting to chauvm1sm . have obJecttve_ly ta_ken portunism . make it impossible forthem to unite and in Zaire, Azania. Namibia and Zim babwe , is a life or death stru ggle against themselves nghtout of the ant 1-re~1S1on- For example, on the International destroy capitalism , and without this colonialism (old and new). imperial 1st Commumst movement here m the situation WYO held that there are "two unity , socialist revolution is not possible ism. racial discrimination and apar USA where genuine Marx_ist-Leninists contending trends", and babbles that here in the US. Once again this is pure collaboration with the enemy. theid. They are a component part of the and advanced forces are still struggling "to say Revo lutio n is the mai n trend is proletarian revolution that is dealing to build a real REVOLUTIONARY revisionism". Th is line is completely un- All of the above general statements decisive and crushing blows to the M AR XIS T -LENINIST COM- dia lectica l and pushes equilibrium, of point out the dangers of bourgeois imperialists and social-imperialists and M UNIST PARTY BASED ON which Chairman Mao said, "Not hing in nationalism which attempts to smoth er their lackie s. All Marxist-L eni nists, ad MARXISM-LENINISM-MAO TSE- this world develops absolute ly evenly· class struggle, disunite the interna vanced forces and the progressive TUNG THOUGHT. The "RCP" or OL we must oppose the theory of eve~ tional proletariat , and collaborates with peoples of the world must unreservedl y for that matter , does not meet the re- developme nt or the theory of equi li- U.S. imperia lism and Soviet social support these struggles . The best way quirements of the pro letariat which briu m", ("On Co ntradictions ," Sel. imperialism. This is done by suc h for Marxist-Leninists and the advanced would give them legitimate right to call Readings, pg. 117). WVO's contention bourgeois nationalist organizations as to support African Liberation is to par themselves the "Party." "RCP's that revolut ion an d war are in equili- AAPRP (all of the above points are ticipate in "Uniting Marxist-Leninists , revisionist line on the Afro-American bri um makes almost impossible the covered in their call to the ALO demon and wi_nning the advanced to Commun National Question , talking about a pla nning of such strategic and tactical stration which is dated March 26, 1977), ism" to build a REVOLUTIONARY "nation of the new type" is one example po licies and a nalysis, such as where the and the Pan-African Youth Move MARXIST-LENINIST COMMUN of their opportunism and is actually the main blow must be aimed , the weakest ment , who recently sent a letter to many IST PARTY based on MARXISM CPU SA turned inside out. Their line Ii- link of t he imperia list chain , and etc . Ac- organizations in the USA attacking the LENIN ISM-MAO TSETUNG quidates the Afro-American Nation in tually WYO holds that superpower role of the USA in Zaire while totally THOUGHT , the science of revolution. the end, opposes self-determination, contention is the principa l contradic- leaving out the fact that it was the Soviet The building of this part y of "the new talking the same doubletalk as OL , i.e., tion, "the pri ncipa l contradiction in the Union who had the mercenarie s trained type" is the only assurance that revision they support self-determination but op- wor ld is sh ifting from that between the by their Jacky puppet Cubans and sent ists, such as the "CP"USA, right oppor pose secession. If they oppose secession , oppressed nations and imperialism to into Zaire in the first place . The letter tunists, such as "RCP" and the R WC. then they oppose self-determination, that betwee n the imperialist powers ," speaks of the great revolutionary Pat and bourgeois nationalists , such as since self-determination means nothi ng (WYO Jo urna l #4, pg. 34). Th is is clear rice Lumumba but we failed to under AAPRP, APP and PAYM. will be if any of the Black Nation's options are evidence that they ho ld "war is the main stand how the bourgeois nationalists thoroughly exposed and defeated here removed. "RCP"s line that the "nation tre nd" and also at the ALSC forum in justify the fact that it was the USSR who in the USA. The central task of Marx has dispersed" is factually bankrupt and New York City, while strugg ling with voted along with the USA, Argentina. ist-Leni nists and all advanced forces in an attempt to legitimi ze the ir op - RCL they were forced to say they th ink Ceylon, Ecuador, Italy, Poland, and the USA today is to undertake the build portunism and chauvinism. "wa r .will happen because revo lution is Tunisia in 1960 in the United Nations ing of this party, this party of the wor So why is R WC allowing itself to be not likely in the two superpowe rs". Th is Security Co uncil to send in the Belgian king class, this party that will organize used as a front organization for "RCP" is the old Progress ive La bor Trot line troops to kill Lumumba. The AAPRP and unite the struggles of the working within ALSC? One reason for this is that whic h belittles str uggle and revo lution and the PA YM are all shields for Sov iet class and oppressed peoples into a the R WC holds that "RCP" and the OL in the 3rd World . WYO did this verbally socia l-imperialism and conciliators with mighty fist to smas h imperialism are fraternal organizations because of at the September ALSC conference revisionism. What these organizat ions through armed struggle. seize state the general affirmation of the general when a vote was taken and their reac- fail to understa nd is that to oppose US power and institute the dictators hip of truths of Marxism-Leninism and im- tio nary line on "two contend ing trends" imperia lism, it is also necessary to op the pro letariat. plies that they see the affirmation of the was defea ted. The WYO exhib ited very pose Soviet socia l-imperialism. The We must have a party that will be bo ld theory and ideology of M-L-M as the un-Marxist behavio r and was asked to stru ggle aga inst imperialism cannot be enough to lead the prole tariat and the key link in this period of party building repud iate their actions, and to th is date separa ted fro m the strugg le aga inst revi: masses of people in this strugg le for instead of seeing ideological struggle they ha ve not done this yet. However, sionism. In 1977, this is the test for all power and no matter what the twists and over the political line as the key link. this line struggle will be taken up in the who tru ly persist in the anti-imperialist turns, this par ty must base itself on the This right opportunist line leads the debate at the AL SC conference in and a nti-revisionist struggle an d makes correct ideologica l and political line RWC to make such unholy alliances Washington, D .C. on May 27, 28. a clear line of demarca tion with those because the correctness or incorrect such as theirs with "RCP" . Anot her of Also the RCL would like to have self- who supp ort and uph old the revisionists ness of the ideologica l and politica l line R WC's right opportunistic lines is criticism around the role that we played in state power, the Soviet Union. the decides everyth ing. Without such a "unite advanced workers and Marxist- du ring the whole struggl e again st the main source of world war and the main party guided by Mar xism-Leninism Leninists into a single Communist Pa r- left-liqu ida tionist line which was dan ger to the people of the world . It is Mao Tsetun g Thought·, it is imp ossible ty" (Movin' On, Vol. I, #2, Ju ne/ July represent ed by RWL at the time. We · und erstandable that for various reaso ns to even think of winnin g a soc ialist 1975). Generally from these lines, RW C rea lize that as Communi sts we could some peo ple have, for the time being, revolution and establishin g a dictator makes a series of righ t errors. They give have done much more propaganda , failed to see this, but in the case of ship of the proletari at here in the USA. lip service to " Revo lution as the main organized more chapters and generally AAPRP , who claim to be "scientific Our effort s to build this party, a multi trend" but in their Sep tember 1976 could have mobilized and organi zed soc ialists" (actually they are "nation national communi st part y i~)'a rt of the ALSC prop osa l, presented at the Co n- more people to struggle against that alist philistines" who masqu erade und er irresistable trend of revolutton which ts ference in Atla nta , and in their ar ticle line. This was not done based on our the guise of being "socialists", who are in the main trend in the world today , and "Imperialism: A Dyi ng System ", they right opportuni st error s which we still realit y reactionary bour geois nati onal as for the other trend , the tide of never apply that to our ta sks, all the see as the main danger and will continue ists), yet cann ot analyze the interna imperialist war , we must prepare for it task s they pro posed co me fro m the to struggle against it. tional situation and correctly point out or we will suffer . But ultim ately, war or the main danger, we que stion how is this other factor of war, which the y say not, it is the imperialist s, social possible . repeat edly is "the ma in issue today". Bourgeois Nationalists Love imperialists and their lackies all over the Affair With The Soviet Union Revisionism has always been a social world who will suffer , and be completely This objectively means that they are say prop of imperialism , a force serving ing that "wa r is the main trend " which is In 1977, African Liberation Day will destroyed by the peoples of the world . be confusing to the masses of people imperialism . To combat imperiali sm, it "RCP"s and WVO 's lines also . From is imperative to carry out the stru ggle out of this we can now see and because there will be three different WORKERS AND OPPR ESS ED demonstrations all supposedly support against revisionism to the end. Also to under stand their line and practices in day the revisionism of Soviet social NATIONS AND P EOPL ES, UNITE! ALS C, for instance : ing African Liberation ; we will attempt MARXISTS-L ENINISTS UNIT E - to show how objectively two under imperialism and its lackies are engaged I. Sending out forged member ship in splitting activitie s against Marxi st WIN THE ADVANCED TO COM guideline s for ALSC to people want ing mine it and are actually collaborators MUNISM! with the enemies of the world 's peoples, Leninist s and the revolutionary peoples to join ALS C. The R WC inserted the of the world . For example , the Soviet line "c)actively expose our own bour the superpowers . We have already spoken to the second demonstration be Union claims to be the "natural ally" of BUJLD A REVOL UTIO NARY geoisie in the US", which is theirs and the Arab people but yet they con "RCP "s line. That is, their line doesn 't ing organized by the right opportunists MARXIST-LENINIST COMM UN "RCP" and R WC and now we have to tinually send manpower to Israel , the expose Soviet Social Imperiali sm as the IST PARTY IN THE USA BAS ED ON Zionists in aggression and expansion MARXISM-LENINISM -MAO main danger of war. They push "equilib speak to the third demonstration being put on by the All African Peoples against the Arab countries. Also we TSETUNG THOUGHT TO SMASH rium ", which objectivel y unites with the Revolutionary Party which is led by the wonder what is the point of the USSR CAPITALISM AND BUI L D "CP "SU. now resuming trade relations with Is eclectic opportunist, Stokely Car SOCIALISM AND T H E DI C rael. While the USSR is courting Israel 2. Stripping of ALSC's principles of michael. The danger of the AAPRP is TATORSHIP OF TH E PROL ETAR (US lacky) the USA is courting Cuba unity so that "RCP " could unite with that they sow the greatest corruption IAT . (USSR Jacky)which can only mean that them so they and the " Revol1;1t(onary among the Black masses and workers by _the ,_ i~~9llli'\_S;,.. ~f~ .,, o~~ , ~~~ n ·h:tri., ,~ent •. ,.t~:n»:r..i-J.»~·m:-t..- lb!ilrad,~ lllSlll lX!llWJ~n.... and ~~ ~~cim,~~t u, . · Page 10 l nil} & Strugg le Dialectical and Historical Materialism: but must be a means of party huilding & strugglm!( for sociah\t revolu11on From History of the Communist Party Soviet Union Editorial (Continued from page 12) WYO line of "e4u1hbrium"re the (Bolshevik) 1939 Part 9 turnaround in that there always exists international situation. ie. "two conten Further. there can be no doubt that carry on a struggle against nature and both right and left deviations in any ding trends ." which bel1ttb matmahst the concept "conditions of material life utilize nature for the production of Marxist-Leninist line. and our task at dialectics . they are being backed of! of. of society" also includes growth of material values not in isolation from the moment is to break with the lelt op and changing their Viewpoint line to population. density of population of each other, not as separate individuals . portunist trend." But this is plain out & "waristhemaintrend"(ref." YALSC" one degree or another. for people are an but in common. in groups. in societies. out sophistry for M LOC to say that this forum. and P.S-4. "Either war will give essential element of the conditions of Production, therefore, is at a ll times and isn't a major turnaround in their line. for rise to revolution or revolution will material life of society, and without a under all conditions social production. they even admit elsewhere in their prevent the war. These are the two pos definite minimum number of people In the production of material values correspondence with RCL. that these sible paths to revolution . I he more there can be no material life of society. ls men ent er into mutual relations of one repudiations are. "major developments likely situation is that world war will not growth of population the chief force kind or another within production. into in our line on party build ing and other give rise to revolution. though we can that determines the character of the relations of production of one kind or questions ." And in actuality this "major not predict the exact course history will social system of man? another. These may be relations of co development" is also a great step into take.") ope ration an d mutual help between th e swamp. Although the factors for both war and Hi stor ica l materialism answers this peo ple who are free from exploi ta tion; But on the question M LOC's revolution are rising, this does not repudi at ing the fact th a t fusion is a ques question too in the negative. the y ma y be tran sitio na l from one form uphold equilibrium. events in Southern Of course, growth of population d oes of relations of production to another. tion of fusing the comm uni st and workers movement, we would raise first Africa. Middle East and in Asia. Latin influence the development of society . But whatever the character of the th at as Lenin str essed, " In every country America or So · Ireland show that does facilitate or retard the development relations of producti on may be. always there has been a period in which the revolution is still the main trend in the of society, but it cannot be th e chief and in every syste m . they constitute jus t working-class movement existed apart world today. This does not mean that at force of development of soc iety. and its as essential an element of production as from socia lism. each going its own wa_y; o ne tim e war cannot bec.ome the main influence on th e development of socie ty the productive forces of soci et y. and in every country this iso lation has trend. The line that "revolution is the cannot be the determining influence wea kened both socia lism and the wor ma in trend because this is the era of because. by itself. gro wth of population king class movement. Only the fusion of imperialism and proletarian revolution" socialism with the working class doe s not furnish the clue to th e question is an idealist line that does not differen why a given socia l sys tem is replaced movement ha s in a ll countries created a durable basis for both .... It is a very dif tiate between the general an d the par precisely by such and such a new sys tem ficult process and there is therefore ticular, between the universal and the and not by another, wh y the primitive nothing suprising in the fact that it is ac specific. The "Wing" took thi s line with communal system is succeeded precisely companied bv vacillations and doubts. " the bankrupt "Revolution is the only by the slave system by the feudal system. (Lenin. Party Work in the Masses. p . 7) trend," and M LOC takes (took? they and the feudal system by the bourgeois And again Lenin says in A Retrograde might have mutated it already) this line, system, and not by some other. Trend in Russian Social Democracy," . absurdly putting forward that If growth of population were the . When this fusion takes place the class "Revolution is always the main trend determining force of social struggle of the workers becomes the even during world war " and charging development , then a higher density of conscious strl!ggle of the proletariat to that the Comintern and Stalin were in emancipate itself from exploitation by population would be bound to give rise correct for formulating the United the propertied classes, it is evolved into a to a correspondingly higher type of higher form of the socialist workers Front tactic with the liberal bourgeoisie social system. But we do not find this to movement- the independent working against fascism . It shows how much be the case. The density of population in class Social-Democratic party." idealism links the "left" trot-like China is four times as great as in the MLOC's backward line on fusion li deviations with the right opportunist U.S.A ., yet the U.S.A. stands higher quidate s the anti-revisionist communist deviations. Begin by saying revo lut ion is than China in the sca le of social movement and says there is only a spon always the main trend so that even dur development, for in China a semi-feuda l taneous workers movement, and like ing fascist upsurge all the bourgeosie is system still prevails , whereas the U.S.A. true reformists want only to worship seen as exactly the same, without con that spontaneity. has long ago reached the highest stage of tradictions, which leads to a trot line. development of capitalism . The density In talking about Party Program , But WYO does not seem to of population in Belgium is nineteen MLOC somehow separates it from the understand imperialism thoroughly, times as great as in the U .S.A., and question of political line . But without and also are buffaloed by their con twenty-six times as great as in the Chairman Mao said, "Comrade Stalin, ideological struggle over political line, tinuing denigration and downplaying, U.S .S .R . Yet the U.S .A. stands higher in comprehensive and rlassical manner, no program can be reached . Political outright belittling of the national than Belgium in the scale of social developed Marxist-Leninist theory, he line being M-L-M concretely applied to liberation movements (perhaps related development ; and as for the U.S .S.R., opened up a new stage in the develop the concrete issues that must be solved to the same national chauvinism that Belgium lags a whole historical epoch ment of Marxism . . . Comrade Stalin to make proletarian revolution in the made them say that the national behind this country, for in Belgium the also creatively developed the Leninist U.S. They have no understanding of movements were the source of the capitalist system prevails , whereas the theory of the building of the Party." what key link means , that link in the Dangerous Duo's Hustlerism, rather U.S .S.R . has already done away with political chain of our present tasks that than their petty bourgeois class outlook. "In production," Marx says, "men capitalism and has set up a Socialist will enable us to have a grasp of the en This is also reminiscent of the old not only act on nature but also on one tire chain and move to complete the Progressive Labor "Party's" national system. another. They produce only by co present task and move on to the next. At chauvinism and neotrotskyism) It follows from this that growth of operating in a certain way and mutually one point they say Party Building is the WYO does not understand revolution population is not, and cannot be, the exchanging their activities. In order to as spearheaded by the people and chief force of development of society , produce, they enter into definite connec Key Link, ("to revolution") but this does nations of the third world will help bring the force which determines the character tions and relations with one another and not tell us how we complete our central revolution in the U.S. and eventually of the social system, the development of only within these social connections and task now which is party building . Later USSR too. In the NY ALSC forum, society from one system to another? relations does their action on nature, they say fusion is the key link. but hav WYO put forward that in order for This force , historical materialism does production, take place." (Karl ing liquidated the communist revolution to stop war it would have to holds , is the method of procuring the Marx, Selected Works, Vol. I. p . 264). movement where is the fusion to come means of life necessary for human ex from, where is scientific socialism to be raging inside the US and USSR too . Consequently, production, the mode But they shd remember how Mozam istence , the mode of production of of production, embraces both the come from - why it spontaneously pops material values - food, clothing, into the working class movement. imply bique and Angola's being ripped out productive forces of society and men's from under Portugal, toppled that fas footwear, houses, fuel, instruments of relations of production, and is thus the the arch economists MLOC. Fusion is production, etc . - which are in the fundamental contradiction in the life cist state! Intensified the internal con embodiment of their unity in the process tradictions inside Portugal to such an dispensable for the life of development of production of material values. of the party, th e combining of scientific of society . socialism with the workers movement. extent as to actually set off revolution in In order to live, people must have To be continued But the key link at the present stage of Portugal. food, clothing, footwear, shelter, fuel, the party building process is Political This is because the essence of etc .; in order to have these material Line, and the ideologica I struggle over imperialism is the oppression of nations , the division of the world into oppressor values, people must produce them; and SLOGANS FOR AFRICAN political line by which we unite as Marx nations and oppressed nations, and it is in order to produce them. people must LIBERATION DAY PUT FORTH BY ist-Le ninists and win the advanced to this oppression that raises to such inten have the instruments of production with THE AFRICAN LIBERATION SUP communism. sity the contradiction between which food, clothing, footwear, shelter , PORT COMMITTEE: MLOC mutates lines so fast that they fuel, etc., are produced; they must be shrink away from the idea of ideological imperialism and the third world and has made of the national movements spear able to produce these instruments and to THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN PEO struggle over politica I line being the key heads of the proletarian movement use them . PLE WILL SURELY WIN VICTORY link to party building , and the method world wide . Imperialism is an inter The instruments of production THRU SELF-RELIANCE AND by which a program will be put together national system. the capitalist~ have wherewith material values are ARMED STRUGGLE! which will enable genuine Marxist produced, the people who operate the Leninists to call a party congress left the boundaries of one country, and KICK THE TWO SUPERPOWERS. instruments of production and carry on together. in their search for new markets , new US IMPERIALISM AND USSR the production of material values Organizations like !WK are also not sources of raw materials. new places to SOCIAL-IMPERIALISM. OUT OF thanks to a certain production ex clear enough that they uphold Political export capital, new spheres of influence AFRICA! perience and labour skill - all these Line is Key link in the party building the very stability of the imperialist elements jointly constitute the produc DOWN WITH THE FASCIST process today, and ideological struggle powers themselves is based on their con tinual expansion. Revolution in the tive forces of society. WHITE MINORITY REGIMES. RE over political line, the method by which But the productive forces are only one JECT ALL SHAM INDEPEN- we unite Marxist Leninists and win the third world causes the violent con traction of imperialism's markets, aspect of production, only one aspect of DENCE SCHEMES! advanced to communism, creating a party program-maximum and sources of raw materials , places to ex the mode of production, an aspect that US PEOPLE, OPPOSE THE SUPER exoresses the relation of men to the ob minimum goals, & strategy and tactics port capital , spheres of influence ... it POWER WAR PREPARATION. for achieving them . IWK tends to talk undermines the very basis of jedts and forces of nature which they DEFEAT US IMPERIALISM! make use of for the production of about mass struggle without lending a imperialism's strength. its constant ex pansion. It intensifies all the internal material values. Another aspect of WORKERS AND OPPRESSED consistently revolutionary analysis of production, another aspect of the mode NATIONS AND PEOPLES OF THE the situations of mass struggle that they contradictions inside the imperialist for of production, 1s the relauon of me? to WORLD. UNITE! cite. They tend to leave these decisions tresses and speeds revolution there. Opportunism's material base is the each other in the process of production, in the realm of reformism and not point (C:.ontin4~d on page men's relations of production . Men out that -reform is not-an-ond -in-itself, 11) Unity & Struggle Page II first stage wage a struggle ( democratic ASSATA SHAKUR Editorial revolution) against foreign imperialism and from there . 1n the second stage (Continued from p age 3) economi sm & terrorism in What ls To (Continued from page 10) defeat their own bourgeoisie and their struggling again st national oppre ssion Be Done, p.95) In fact the masses are superprollts scooped out of the third lackies in order to build socialism and & racism , and a revoluti onar y black aroused by the general condition s under world by imperialism . Opportunism the dictatorship of the proletariat and woman struggling again st the ruthles s capitalism and the se outrages & ter does effect the whole multinational wor the eventual emergence of communism. oppression of women in capitali st rorist acts of the bourgeoisie against the king class. from its most blatant man We think it is a good thing that LPR society . The multi-national proletariat masses. but the question is. how do we ifestation , viz, the bribery of the labor criticized their past line where they & all revolutionary people in the U.S . organize & educate the proletariat in its aristocrats. a small sector of the characterize the Puerto Rican must come out and support Assata own class interest to end this evil system workers , and the petty bourgeoisie . But revolution as only having one stage . (see Shakur in her struggle against the of capitalism & national oppression it also creates a bigger carrot to use in it's Resistance Vol.7 #9 where they lay out organized terrorism & repression at the forever? Thru propaganda. agitation carrot and stick control of the masses, it their self-criticism) Many times organ hands of the Bourgeois State Apparatus and organization, the working class and enables there to be put out more wide izations merely change their line and tirelessly defend her democratic its allies must be organized by its spread illusions of reform and peaceful without admitting to past errors . To rights. vanguard, its Revolutionary Marxist change. It also means that, in the USA, paraphrase Lenin. self-criticism and We do not agree with the political line Leninist Communist Party, to smash the sector that is bribed is larger , and criticism show if we arc genuine com of the Black Liberation Army, capitalism, build socialism and establish this bribed sector is put in more wides munists or not and how we conduct that specifically we believe that there are and consolidate the dictatorship of the pread "leadership" of the masses criticism . We also unite with LPR in ex more than enough outrages committed proletariat in order to suppress the real through trade unions, through electoral posing and opposing the US imperalist by the bourgeoisie under U.S. beast, the real "animal", the handful of politics and antipoverty type programs , trick of statehood of Puerto Rico and capitalism each & everyday to rouse the moneybags - the cap italist class. But at through the media. frequently thru art , the current international situation, "The advanced elements of the working class the same time, we will support the resis culture, athletics, community and civil principal contrdiction in the world to movement and those who are not roused tance of the peop le against oppression rights organizations , even thru sham day is between the two superpowers - by the general oppressive conditions whereve r it occurs and we do our com "Marxist" organizations . U.S. imperialism and Soviet Social under capitalism, these acts of terror by munist duty to expose the beastly nature The revo lutionary surge of the third imperialism on the one hand and the the bourgeoisie, will· not be roused by of the capita list system so that the great wor ld helps destroy the materia l base nations and oppressed peoples of the "watching a handful of terrorists masses of people will rise up under the for the widespread opportunism in the third world on the other. The people of engaged in single combat with the leadership of its vang uard communist USA, & exacerbate the internal con the third world and their struggles for government." (See Lenin's discussion of party and smash it. tradictions of this dying imperialist liberation is the principal force shaping system. the world today. Revolution is the main Who can deny the revolution raging trend in the world today .... . In their forwa rd in Sout hern Africa, only a struggle lo dominate the world, each of bourgeois official, an ignorant person or the superpowers try lo maintain a tight a chauvinist. (Trots of course combine grip on areas under their control while all three .) It is the fire, the pressure at the same time gaining influence in steady increasing and intensifying areas under control of the other super throughout the 3rd world that forces power. In Puerto Rico for an example, imperialism into defensive postures and the principal contradiction against who at the same time force it to put even , all forces that can be united must be more weight on "Its own workers," eg, united is Yankee imperialism." (Resis the budRel cuts and layoffs here in the tance, Vol. 8# I) Party Building, the US. Liberation of Southern Africa will Central Task furthe r isolate the US and throw all In Resistance vol. 8#1&2, LPR began imperialism into a terminal frenzy. It will polemicizing with ATM . We are also also throw the USSR into antagonistic doing an analysis of ATM 's line which contradiction with independent Africa , will be forthcoming. But we see the need to the exact extent that these govts move to raise questions to LPR about these toward socialism . Because the USSR polemics . In a forum in Newark several will have its expansioni sm oppos ed and months ago. LPR repudiated the its mask of "natural ally" of the position the y previ ously had had held in revolutionary movements torn off. common with the A TM on 2 line WVO does not believe that revolution struggle being the excepti on to the rule is going on in the 3rd world . Like Trots · inside communist organizations. Since they think only revolution in US LPR repudiated this erroneous line. we &USSR ("the advanced capita list coun question why we have not seen this Under the dictatorship of the proletariat in China, national oppression was des tries") constitutes real revolution. repudiated publicly or seen it in the troyed, and it will take Socialist Revolution in the U.S .A. to end this evil system WVO has recently become a member criticism of A TM. of national oppression and racism! of the ALSC (See a rticle in this issue) and so their erroneous line on the inter This line cannot be disconnected with national ques tion must be struggled the ot her errors LPR accuses A TM of. against, but at the present time the main MLM can only develop in struggle and danger in ALSC is the consoli dating this stru ggle mus t be continuous. out FA THE FLAMES! Sub sc ribe Now! rightwa rd motion of the R WC side and inside the organization. "At all Revolutiona ry Red Banne r (Revo lutionary Workers' Co ngress) times the class struggle in society the Cau se lh~1t1iulJo11,..,,tot1hieATM(ML) which has now become a cats paw and struggle between the capitalist class and (01'11-1olh111Wf' "'"~'-"-~....::~':.':."'~·==-~=,,..,.....,,,.. ... ,,.,,.. P°'tk.110,pnollhe e flt~fli>l>M""""'..,. '"""'l"" the worki ng class, is reflected within the '.'::-=;.i:-..,~~~="'..."':..: ATM(ML) interlocutor for the sham communi st of n,eta rian ther we found furth er j ustification for revolution, a part of the question of the RCL's line that revisionism is the ma in SUPPORT THE dictatorship of the prol eta riat." (J . dan ger in the communi st a nd workers African Liberation Support Committee's Sta lin, Fo undation s of Leninism, pg. movements. "Th e ma in danger a nd Conference 73) LPR presentl y holds the line that the enemy for our party and the entir e inter- ' To be he ld May 27, and 28 in Wa s hington , D.C . Puerto Rican revo lution will have lo be . nati onal revolut ionar y communi st and Demonstration a two stage revolut ion, based upon the worker s' movement has been a nd still is The AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY MARCH facts that it is a colony of United States right opportuni sm, revisio nism." (Sum will ga the r in : . imp eri a lism, which co nt ro ls it mary of the Report on the Acti vity of Elllpae Park at 14th St. NW on May 28th at 12 noon. economically, politically and milita rily. the Central Comm ittee of the PLA, pg. i.e. 14% of Puerto Rico is occ upied by 8) And in their continuin g stru ggle Ellipse Park is right behind the Whi te House US military bases. The US is the prin again st modern revisionism the Aus cipal cont radiction vs the oppressed tralian Communi sts state, "The stru ggle SUPPORT Puerto Rican nati on. again st revisionism requ ired hard , co n LPR also raises the attempt s by tinuing work among st the people. T he AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY Soviet Social imperiali sm to domin ate integration of Marxism- Leninism the Puerto Rican national libera tion M a o Tsetung T h o u g ht with Further Information : movement , specifically thru their con- revolutionary practi ce could only be ALSC National Office • trol of PSP (Puerto Rican Socialist Par done in ceaseless stru ggle against P.O . Box 3161 ty) and Cuba . RCL unite s with thi s. The revisionism . (The Australian Co m Washington, D.C . 20010 Puerto Rican people , led by the munist #78, pg. 62) ·Pf9lC.l!l{i.a,t ., ,Q.<1. (~•. "'.~_ IJ(~ t9. J:Q~~t. i,q l.~.~-. (Continued on page 4) Page 12 lnity & ~tru,:J?IC sohdatcd nght opportun,-1 orpan . matter. Their method ot attaining this those \\oho oppose the system of ,zation . I he fact that Ol cl.um, to he unity is by being "personable and frien capttalism should rally around the "Cl' ant1-Rev1sionist makes them even more EDITORIAL dly," using their traveling salesman ap- (M-L)" and take up ,ts program whole dangerous 01. hus begun to cut the proach to party building. based on "all heartedly. This is totally reactionary essence from M-L-M with their con and another example of OL's RCL's original party building paper unity" of a completely unprincipled cialitory rev1s1on1st lines such a, ()Mrtyof kind. trying to suck in young Marxist hegemony. But genuine Marxist all classes (a nyonc who holler, I l)!ht tried to lay out unities and differences Leninist and Advanced forces will not with several communist organizations. Leninist groups under their hegemony. back can be in the partv) and he calling In the stampede to call the first "party unite with this bankrupt. right op for a loose martov type party . dcnyinp We feel this is constantly necessary in portunist "party" . order to promote the unity of Marxist congress". 0. L. has united all of its op the party's role as van)!Uard of the portunist forces around their "party OL says nothing about the proletariat. Leninists which is the leading aspect of development of factory nuclei. the basic our two simu ltaneous tactical tasks of building is a question of immediacy" OL's petty bourgeois hobbyism which line and to further justify this op unit of communist organization in their party building. one half of the slogan they insist on calling "The Party": 1he portunism. say that the danger ofa new party program. They pay lip service to that describes these tasks. MARXIST Dangerous Duo's (PRRWO & RWL's) world war has made the formation of the fact that the communist party is an LENINISTS UNITE, which is the "On To The First Party Congress" the their party an even more urgent task. illegal organization. but in reality prac aspect that sets the other aspect in CLP's revisionist non-party & RCP's OL's erroneous assertation that "the tice legalism . OL raises trade unionism motion, as the catalyst that enables us to chauvinist clique should make honest CP(M-L)" was forged in the heat of and economism as the answer to the WIN THE ADVANCED TO COM Marxist-Leninists struggle even harder class struggle is an out and out lie. As a problems of the working class in the MUNISM . to form a genuine Revolutionary Marx matt er of fact, rat her than strugg le U.S. They summarize each section of ist-Leninist Communist Party based on The October Leag ue recently put arou nd theslogansforIWWD 1975.0L their so called program with a long list Marxism-Lenin ism-Mao TseTung themselves forward as the "Communist said the slogan "Oppose Superpower of reforms , and puts them forth as if Thought. All these sham party for Party (M-L)". This further confirms War Preparation" co uld stay (after they these are the final aims of the struggle of mation rituals are just the petty that they are the main dan ger pushing tried to opportu nistically drop the the multi-national working class and bourgeois calling attention to right opportunism in the a nti-r evisio nist sloga n) beca use it didn't make any oppressed nationalities . themselves, as they zoom on out of the communist move men t. In the curre nt is difference to them, as long as "we did communist movement. WVO's "The sue of the Ca ll, O.L.'s so called party not lose frie nds." program contains page after page of In terms of the world situa tion, OL Party Is A Settled Question!" and phrase mongering a nd O.L.'s bourgeois says that war and fasc ism are the main "WYO is the foundation of the genuine lines on various questions . They con trend in the world today . OL does not Communist Party" certainly seems to be tinually speak of themselves as the see the role of th e 3rd world struggles a motion towards these same kind of "party of the proletariat" . but should agai nst imperia lism as being important. false alarms. And a clear indication of add to that they are self appoi nted. T he This is more of OL's chauvinism , WYO's raging hegcmonism ("The "CP(M-L)" is a right opportu nist "par because the liberation strugg les in the overall most correct line"). ty" of the menshevik Martov type. a 3rd world are the motor of revolution Additions to RCL's Analysis of MLOC bourgeois labor party that will act as an and the main trend in the world today . agent of the bourgeoisie inside the wor M LOC has repudiated. as being left And on the Afro-American National opportunist, the lines which they king class movement not a Question. more chauvinism. OL says formerly held of: (I) The 2 tasks of win Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Com throughout their "party program" that ning the advanced and uniting Marxist munist Party based on Marxism they support the right of self deter Leninists (2) Propaganda as the chief Leninism-Mao TseTung Thought. mination for oppressed nations. but form of activity (3) There is a low level of O.L.'s "party program" is not a never once do they mention the fact that fusion (4) Political line is key program at all, but more "current They oppose secession, which is more of link / Political line is key and theory is events", economism and phrase their foul opportunism. OL knows that decisive (5) Political line is really the mongering. They completely negate the without the right to secede. the call for same as party program, or political line is what you say on a certain ques ideological struggle over political line self-determination is a sham. This is the which is the key link in this stage of the tion. M LOC says that these repudiations classic 2nd International chauvinist line necessarily flow from their having pre-party period. Without ideological of not supporting self-determination of struggle over political lines. there can be repudiated, "the essence of the line of oppressed nations. the wing,"i.e. that fusion is a question of no clear lines of demarcation between OL has liquidated the anti-revisionist fusing the communist and workers the genuine and the sham and no real communist movement from which they movement. unity achieved. But O.L. is not themselves came, saying that all other MLOC then has the nerve to say, "We interested in waging that ideological political parties and trends are the do not see this repudiation as a major struggle, or any other struggle for that defenders of caoitalism and that all V .I. Lenin, founder of the Russian (Continued on page 10) Communist Party (B), and leader of the October Revolution in 1917, taught us MAY DAY to always struggle against opportunist Amiri Baraka (Continued from page 1) the correctness of Marxism-Leninism. NEW POETRY lines in the building of the Party. Day. This day was choosen because it It taught us that the police, courts, HARD FACTS was on May I, 1886 that workers prisons, army, etc. are part of the state Poetry 1973·75 throughout the U.S. rallied and held a machinery, and that "the state is an The shJlm declaration that OL is now Send $1.25 c/o Hard Facts general strike in the struggle for an 8 organ of class rule, an organ for the op the party shows that they are now a con Plus Postage Box 663 Newark, N.J. 07101 hour day. 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