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Unitary Conduct Author’s note: The Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP) launched the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee in Los Angeles, CA with a gathering at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research on Saturday November 10, 2012. At this event, numerous activist and community members from different races, philosophies and ideological lines came together to form the Inter-Communal Solidarity Committee. The idea to form this committee comes from our study of the Black Panther Party’s (BPP) forming the National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF), which would later become the Inter-communal Committee to Combat Fascism (ICCF). This paper is a historical analysis of our theoretical framework for this development. UNITARY CONDUCT: BUILDING THE INTER-COMMUNAL SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE by Shango Abiola for the Black Riders Liberation Party “Unitary Conduct implies a ‘search’ for those elements in our present situation which can become the basis that of the 60’s and 70’s when the BPP and its allies under for joint action. It involves a conscious reaching for the relevant, the entente, and especially, in our case the repressive attack from the Fascist state came together reconcilable. Throughout the centralizing authoritarian process of Amerikan history, the ruling classes have to form an inter-communal front against the state. The found it necessary to discourage and punish any genuine opposition to hierarchy. But there have always BRLP and many other community organizations and anti- been individuals and groups who rejected the ideal of two unequal societies, existing one on top of the other.” kkkapitalist movements have been feeling the legal and George Jackson, Blood in My Eye. military arm of the State because of our efforts to destroy it. There have been systemic attacks on our party including In analyzing this war we are engaged in today, we can see a lot of political strikes being launched against the Pig Chief Beck’s slanderous letter attempting to keep our most fascist arm of this kkkapitalist government, the Prison Industrial Complex. These are coming mostly General under a GPS tracking device (on parole). We’ve from the prisoners themselves, in a series of hunger and labor strikes from Georgia to Ohio, North Carolina, seen numerous raids and infiltration attempts launched California and more. Many warriors from behind enemy lines have given a much-needed spark of intensity to against the Occupy movement, and many other covert and overt attacks against anti-kkkapitalist forces in this the Left. Or at least this has happened to the organizations with enough analysis to pay attention. country and around the world (South Africa, Afghanistan, The ideological swords have been swung! From the belly of the beast we have received marching orders to pick up the Palestine, etc.). We have been under attack not only by pace and be a better reflection of what our comrades are doing in the concentration camps of the enemy! What alternative local occupying armed forces (police) but also by the much do we have, when we consider the call put out in September more dangerous Homeland Security, the NDAA, etc. which by the Short Corridor Collective in the Pelican Bay SHU? is legalized COINTELPRO. With this understanding, we “Beginning on Oct. 10, 2012, all hostilities between our should see the need not only to intensify our propaganda racial groups in SHU, ad-seg, general population and campaign to expose the repression, but also to build county jails will officially cease” Thanks to the courage of “Unitary Conduct” across ideological lines. the short corridor collective and all the prisoners who have One priority is amnesty for Political Prisoners/Prisoners been unifying and working to dismantle the beast across of War (PP/POW) and defending freedom fighters against the country, the stage has been set for unitary conduct for the legal and military arm of the state. It is far too easy in the purpose of creating and sustaining Inter-Communal these times of division for organizations to justify elitist Solidarity. sectarian behavior under the subjective belief that only We need only look below the corporate media surface to they have the correct ideology. Of course one should only see that ALL working class people are subjected to the practice a theory if one believes it to be true. But we see treacherous exploitation of the kkkapitalist system. At the the marriage of theory and practice not only in the context same time Black and Brown folks (mostly lumpen) are of when the theory was created but also the present day targeted and super-exploited economically and racially, conditions and purposes to which it can or can’t be applied. directly and indirectly. Whether they have been to prison In other words, a theory should be specific in its ideals but themselves, or if their family or community has been flexible in its adaptability to an environment (conditions). This way it can evolve into the best form of serving the ripped apart by prison, we see the PIC today as not much calls “Unitary Conduct.” This will happen through us people. different from the chattel slavery this country was built on. collectively focusing on issues common to the Afrikan, When we see that every 36 hours a Black person in this Native American, Mexicano/indigenous, Asian and anti- The BRLP, though very critical of the inability or country is murdered by law enforcement, we know slavery imperialist white masses. The main obstacle preventing unwillingness of the “white Left” to effectively hold their hasn’t gone anywhere. When we see there are more Black this necessary step in Revolutionary development is the weight in abolishing racism in the class struggle, we have people in prison today than were held in chattel slavery inability or unwillingness of the “white Left” to challenge always pushed for Unitary Conduct. The corporate media, as in 1850, we know slavery hasn’t gone anywhere. When the racial component of class warfare. Basically, not well as people’s assumptions, have allowed for an incorrect we see the country in a depression (not recession), but enough white people are working to abolish racism and understanding of the BRLP’s ideology, “Revolutionary continuing wars of imperialism in Afghanistan and other white supremacy. African Inter-Communalism.” A conflict has arisen with places, we know that slavery hasn’t gone anywhere. some people’s lack of understanding of the “African” In 1969 at the United Front Against Fascism Conference component, which is one of the primary dialectical updates The fact is we are all slaves to the system and the different in Berkeley, CA, the Black Panther Party and many allied from Huey Newton’s theory of “Revolutionary Inter- levels of exploitation separated by race mainly serve the communities and organizations helped form the National communalism.” It is NOT an excuse to hate white people. purpose of keeping the MASSES of us divided. These Committee to Combat Fascism, which would later become You can find a more in-depth analysis in “African Inter- contradictions of race and class must be addressed as the Inter-Communal Committee to Combat Fascism. This communalism I”, but in short this development grew out of scientifically as possible for the purpose of building a initiative developed partly out of Cec and Saul Levinson, studying the BPP’s COINTELPRO-created beef with Ron Revolutionary Inter-Communal Movement, principally to two white men from Berkeley who worked with and Karenga’s US organization and other reactionary Cultural unify the Left into action. Doing this will allow us to more supported the Berkeley branch of the Black Panther Party. Nationalists. By the end of it, the BPP went from drawing effectively cause indigestion from within the belly of the This was done to build support from the white Left for the a line of demarcation between philosophies to having a bad beast, and defend each other from continuous repression BPP, suffering under COINTELPRO’s Fascist repression. taste in its mouth for anything that even sounded cultural by the fascist state. The Black Riders Liberation Party The ICCF also served as a screening mechanism for the nationalist. This eventually led to tribalism and Black has faced tanks, raids, gang enhancement charges, BPP itself and its allied organizations of other races. This Panther on Black Panther violence that would factionalize imprisonment, harassment, threatening letters from police helped the BPP weed out the reactionary elements. The and destroy the ranks. chiefs and constant arrests. This has made our Party familiar ICCF’s history ranges from shoot-outs in Detroit and New with this part of the revolutionary process. The Black Orleans, the framing of the Omaha 2 (Ed Poindexter and We agree that “pork-chop cultural nationalism” is Panther Party knew this when they formed the National Mondo We Langa fka Bryan Rice), free medical treatment counterproductive to revolutionary theory, but such Committee to Combat Fascism, which would later become for Walla Walla penitentiary inmates by the Seattle, nationalism doesn’t have a monopoly on applying Afrikan the Inter-communal Committee to Combat Fascism. And WA chapter, and more. It gives many examples of and culture (philosophies and actions) to their theory. Of so the BRLP, who are students of the Black Panther Party, reasons for needing “Unitary Conduct” in fighting against course if not properly applied, this method can do as much believe that this tactic must be dialectically applied to fascism. harm as good. If it’s not framed into the proper class-war the present day. So we launched the Inter-Communal context, it can lead to the belief that eliminating Europeans When analyzing this historical development in hindsight Solidarity Committee as a vehicle for the people to use to is all that’s necessary for Black people and people of color we can infer that, if the Black Panther Party had defeat our common enemy, the Kkkapitalist Empire.
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