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BLACK LIBERATION IS A STRUGGLE F.OR SOCIALISM! Black Women's United Front

Jan 25 - Detroit

Hundreds of black women will come to Detroit to join the work of putting together a Black Women's United Front to intens ify the struggle against the triple oppressio n (class, race, & sex) black women suffer,

In July 1974 over seven hundred women - workers, housewives, students, organizations. - from over 28 states, attended the International Afrikan Womens' Conference in Newark, New Jersey. Perhaps the most significan t thing that came out of this conference, sponsored by the Congress of Afrikan People, was the call for the creation of a Black Womens United Front to deal with the problems of the struggle on an on-going consistent basis.

At the time of economic crisis, political repression and attempts to take away peoples democratic rights it is necessary for all Black women to work together - women workers. women's organizations, women studen ts, women on welfare, women in prison, all op­pressed women - to broaden the struggle against the injustices of this system. To struggle against monopoly capitalism -the control of resources and means of

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production by a few wealthy. rowerful . people who force the masses to work , but who refuse to di str ibut e what is produced to meet everyone's need s. To struggle against racism - the imperialist j ustifi cat ion of cap italist exploitation by racial dehumanization and opp ression of people of color - in order to divide and weaken the working masses and keep us from unifying to take power. To struggle against imperi a lism - the op­pression of entire governments a nd nations of peopl e in the worldwide searc h for profit by a few elite in america.

Black women have always been one principl e group of oppressed people fighting to abol ish all form s of op­pression and exploi tation; and it is only fitting that Black women would join together now in a unit ed front to raise is­sues, agitate and intensify the struggle -for emp loyment and against inOation, high prices and lay-offs; for shorter work day ; for decent low cost publi c housi ng; for free medical care ; for child care for working mothers and family planning instead of genocide; to Stop Killer Cops and to prevent the move to take away the peoples' demo crat ic rights.

Multi-National corps Control The Country

Recent studies of capitalism hav e reaffirmed the analysis that Lenin made in 1916 called Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism. The major trend in the world of capitalist ex plo itation is the domination of global companies or multinational corporations 01er \\Orld affairs. In a recent summary report. Professor Ronald Muller . an econo­mist from American Unitersit1· in Washington. C.C.. exp~sed multinational corporations as. "conglomerate border hoppers with an enormous appetite for gobbling up smaller firms. a global profit maximi1er

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The Congress of Afrikan People has called together a Task Force of seven organ izations - All Afrikan People's Revolutionary Party , National Welfare Rights Organization, Black Workers Congress, Pan Afrikan Students of America, Youth Organization of Black Unity, Ethiopian Students. This Task Force is worki ng to pull together a meet­ing to lay the foundation of the united front. We are ca lling on all Black women to come discuss and det ermin e the character of the Black Womens United Front - our basis for unit y; a nd the st ructure of the United Front - how it will be organized.

This important and historic meeting will be held on Saturday, January 25, 1975 from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM at the

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North-End Family Center, 150 Belmont Avenue, Detroit, Michigan!

The call for a Black Women's United Front is an essentia l step toward inten­sifyin g the strugg le of Black peop le and oppressed people throughout the world, as well as a necessary instrument to aid in the heightening of our political consciousness as women preparing to st ruggle agai nst the enemies of all op-pressed people. ·

We look forward to a truly productive meetin g.

VICTORY TO ALL THOSE WHO STRUGGLE!

_Worker's Solidarity Day Fire The Capitalists

Let The Workers Take Over!

On February 22, in cities across the country the CAP will mobili1.e unemplo yed and employed workers, students, activists, welfare and food stamp recipients , unionists and consumers to protest against the hardships caused the masses of people by the system called Monopoly Capitalism.

The mos t profound qu estion of any age is by what meth od does humanit y produce food, clothing. and shelter. In the U.S. in the 20th century that meth od is called Capitalism. It is the eco nomic system of privat e profit . wherein .6 of 1% of the U.S. popul ation controls . almost 90% of the wealth . These people, called the ruling class. own th e land. water. mines , factories , cor poration s. machinery and the rest of us own noth­ing but our ability to work. our labor power, which we must sell lo the cap italist to stay alive .

And. now, in thi s peri od of growing depressi on and layo ffs the ca pitalist will not even allow us to sell our labor power. they will not even allo11 us to work. in order to provide the food. clothing and shelter we need :o keep our families together.

The Labor Department in a recent release stated "155.900 more perso n, have joined the ranks of the jobless . . the joble ss rate has doubled since lash year effecting more than 3 million people and the figure, are climbing . evervdav!''

In. '-e~, Jersei 01 er 330.000 people arc out of work. mainh in the area, of "construction. trade,-chemical, and ap­parel industries·. Ford plants during January. February and March. 11 hich

will put out of work more than 7,000 work ers (these figures don't include parts plant s which will be affected by thi s ac tion 1) .

What is lo be done is the burning que stion at this po int. The answer is mass struggl e. laun ched to a tta ck the rich robber barons . We mu,t wage a relentless attack on this cap ita li, t system. We must smash the corrupt agents of thi s system who all lisc good while the masses of us don ' t live at all' We must defeat the rich and feed the poor.

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-CONTENTS-Stop Killer Cops........ P. 2 Trenton Prison Denia ls ...... P. 2 Is Guinea on the Road to Socialism? ......... . ..... P. 4

Capitalism Failing Fast .. ,,. P. 6-7

Special: A Sociali,t Questions Uganda .......... P. 11

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"Temple of Kawaida Denied Stop Killer Cops:

Elkhart, CAP

This story began in November, when Kevin Pergues was picked up at school by his mother, she was taking him across town to attend another class at the Career Center, a technical and vocational school. Shortly after leaving the parking lot of the school, Kevin noticed a police car following them. They were overtaken shortly thereafter, and sto pped by two police cars who pulled in front of their car. two police cars who pulled in back of them and two police cars who had· pulled up on the other side of the street, six police cars in all. Kevi n and a friend of his who was riding with him was placed under arrest, neither Kevin or his mother were told why he was arrested.

After reaching the station and being photographed, Kevin was told he was

Baltimore, CAP

In recent weeks the gundown of 20 year old Kevin Scott, while he was try­ing to surrender to police over an alleged petty theft of a juke box and the murder of Marie Williams, a 32year old mother, who was shot in the back by police while she struggled with her boyfriend over an (known to police) unloaded shotgun; the proposed Curfew which will demand youth under 17 to be off the streets by 10:30 p.m. on weekdays & 12:01 a.m. on weekends. It also carries a stipulation that when a youth violates the curfew the parents are fined $ I 00 and / or up to 10 days in jail; these attacks and many more like them are being stepped up by the armed agents of the ruling class, the police. This harassment, beatings , and murders are their examples that we are to stay in our place , for the police are

As the economy worsens so will police murders of the poor and exploited increase.

being held because he was in possession of a postman mail bag, which he had ob­tained from a friend in which he carried his school books. Shortly after, Kevin was questioned about the recent school breakins and other breakins that had happened across the city, he was also asked to take a lie-detector test and he refused. Kevin's fri<:nd was turned loo se but Kevin was kept in jail for two day~ on an open charge. Although he had not committed a crime, and the next day, two boys confessed to the school breakins . Kevin had to undergo this sort of repression. One day in jail was spent without any drinking water, guards sim­ply refused to give him any. And it was only when his parents got a lawyer was he set free. The mailbag was kept by the pohce, what for we still don't know.

The people of Elkan demand that all police repression stop immediately! The people demand a police review board to monitor all cases! These are some of the things that came out of the December 7 "Stop Killer Cops" Forum. Each person and organization left that forum com­mitting themselves to form a working coaht1on to stop police repression.

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supp osed to kill , jail or contro l all those willing to stru gg le against the Capi ta list's contin ued r~pression. This repression is aimed at the working class as a whole a nd Black People in par­ticular, who are subject to police repr es­sion and police brutality daily.

The police who are tools of the power structure are paid to keep us in our place and this 1s necessary to maintain a system under capitalism where a few people have all the wealth and the ma­jority have no wealth . But we will not continue to be oppressed, Revolutions in Russia , China, Cuba, the Vietnam War, the Liberation of Mozambique , Angola, and Guinea Bissau teache s us that the people united can never be defeated! We must unite the man y to op­pose the few! One attempt to organize in Baltimore is the UNITED FRONT AGAINST POLICE REPRESSION , a group of organizations, (Congress of Afrikan People, All Afrikan People s Revoluti o nary Party, Timbuktu Educationa l Ce nter, Struggle Newspaper, Black Book Afrikan Liberation Support Commit;ee) and in­dividuals represen ting a wide range of Baltimore's Black Com munity ca ll for all _tho se who will unite to struggle agamst re~ression, especially the daily terror earned out by the police .

The United Front emerged as a result of two back to back heinous crimes perpetrated by the police on the Black Community. The murders of Marie Williams Nov. 2 and Kevin Scott - Nov. I are clear indications the direction this country is steadily moving in. As the economic situation grows worse the elite rulers of this country become frantic as they run out of ways to exploit the workers. The workers , (those who work - ~axi drive~s , factory workers etc.) agitated by tncreased economic pres­sures are imminently threatening the status quo by demanding fundamental changes be made in society that threaten the domination of the many by a few. The nght to strike, quality education , Jobs & mcome for all, improved health facilities, the most technologically ad­vanced na!lon 111 the world is exposed as

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Entrance To Trenton State Prisonn The administration of Trenton State

Prison in collusion with the Trenton State Prison prison cop goon squad have denied the Temple of Kawa1da. and Afrikan cultural component of the Congress of Afrikan People.entrance_to the Trenton State Prison Black Studies Program. Acting Superintendent Allen Hoffman who serves as consultant to the supe;intendent, in collusion with noted racist and neofascist prison cop squad leader Sgt. Thomas Juhan have charged members of the Temple of Kawaida with allegedly "taking too much time in getting, from the prison's educational facility to the prison's com­munication center." At the time of the alleged violation the comrades were not given any indication of being in vio lation of any institutional regulations. by the · prison escort (guard). and have yet to receiv e a written notification of the charge and its penalty. The Temple of Kawaida has been teaching classes in the Trenton Black Studies Program since March of 1972.

Sgt. Julian and Hoffman have been doing everything within their powers to halt community participation in inmate programs and to destroy all gains made by the inmates , in their struggl e against the inhuman living conditions of the 200 year o ld prison, which was condemned 30 years after its erection in 1833, and has been ordered ra zed by every gover­nor including Byrne since 1833. although no monies have been allocated either for its rehabilitation or demo lition. It has only been since the Attica a nd Rahway pnson rebellions

that the inmates within Trenton and Rahway have been allowed educational and vocational programs rather than 24 hour lockup. The involvement of com­munity groups in prison programs has led to the exposure of the tactics and corruption of the prison cops and ad­ministrators, resulting in a number of investigations, dismissals and transfers. Once the Rahway rebellion occurred and the conditions of New Jersey's penal system came to light, the Department of Institutions and Agencies which heretofore played very little role in the operation of the various penal institutions, submitted to the demands of th e inmates over the loud opposition of the PBA led prison cops. Though to­day the prison cops still actually control the actual operation of the prisons, they seek a return to pre Attica prison ac­tivity without interference from inmate organizations, community groups. or long hair administrators of the Byrne administration.

Rockefeller and friends maintain their rule through use of bands of armed men with prisons at their disposal to break any resistance to imperialist domination. Police repression by cops whether on the streets or in the prisons is the same thing, links in the same chain of oppression of the masses of people in this society and the world. and can only be destroyed through socialist revoltuion. We support the struggle for the democrat-ic rights of all prisoners and will struggle to expose the class character of the police. courts and prisons whose sole purpose is to main­tain the control of the corporate class and its lackeys.

We will simply state that imperialism can be defined as a worldwide expression of the search for profit and the ever-increasing accumulation of surplus value by monopoly financial_ capita l. centered 1n two parts of the world; first in europe, and t,hen m north amenca. Amilcar Cabral

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The police are the "hit men" of the ru;in 1 . . .. consciously or not t k h g c ass, legal assassms whose Job 1t 1s. need · i e full produo t" ee~_t e p~or and oppressed masses from taking what we The ~~ly.way the op c /:S:i~;er~~h O DO ,THIS THEY MUST OFTEN KILL!! over the multitude

0~ oor d peoples government can maintain its control

p an oppressed, is by force and violence!

. EXPOSETHE"LEGAL"MURDERERS by scheduling Forums in your commu . b . . Government has to rule by violence! nity, ringing you the facts on why the

To schedule forums in your community contact · Congress of Afrikan People ' · 502 High St. Newark. N.J . Phone (20f) 621-2300

Or contact the CAP office nearest y t (see CAP Directory on page 12) ou.

STRUGGLE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP KILLER COPS!•

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MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS

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and a global tax minimizer , well protected from the lashes of any single country's domestic policy moves and secretive about its operations." Despite capitalist propaganda to the contrary, this tudy exposes the fact that multinationals account for "the ma­jority of the economy's tran sact ions" in the United States. So. Imperialism is not a secondary consideration for the capitalist economy. it is the primar y interest of the monopoly capitalists, "some 30 per cent of total United States corporate profits arc derived from overseas operations." While fewer and fewer people control the world 's wealth, these multinational corporations gobble up more and more firms alive as their daily business. the ma sses of people throughout the world must suffer the effects of this multinational control of world economy , depression. unem­ployment , inflation. and imperialist wars of aggression.

- Cause of Depression -The root cause of the depression is

imperialism. and these multinational corporations exploit and abuse the people by their reckless policy of taking all the profits possible which is directly linked to the massive layoffs to protect their maximum profits whether at Ford. Chrysler, General Motors or the others . The multinationals also have a policy of taking huge amounts of money out of circulation and putting it in foreign banks. Professor Muller called the $110-billion-plus pool of money in the Euro dollar market "an incalculable and predictable source of inflation that ha s eroded the autonomy and sovereignty of a nation"s money supply. And as we look closer into the crisis in capitalism today. it cannot be blamed on the Arabs' . struggle to control their natural resources, but it must be seen as the direct result of imperialist economy. that causes unemployment, inflatio n, recession and depression. These global financial parasites are at the root cause of the people 's suffering in the world today .

This is why the White House must is­sue criminal lies about the state of the economy. How can Rockefeller. the giant among multinational corporate wealth, solve the country's crisis. when he is at the root cause of it? But meanwhile he points our attention to the Middle East as a diversionary tactic . Part of the Rockefeller Empire is Stan­dard Oil, which is the largest cor­poration in America. "but it's also the largest corporation in Iran . Venezuela. Arabia. Indonesia and Columbia and it operates in every country in the 'free world' ", as well as his overriding con­trol of ARAMCO• (see Incredib le Rocky by Joel Andreas). The fact is that national and foreign policy is es­tablished to serve the interests of these multinational corporations. and whether it takes U.S. troo~s in the Mid­dle East or the C.1.A. in Chile. Rockefeller's profits from Standard Oil and Anaconda Copper will always be protected by imperialism. The game of doing all this under the name of democ­racy will last only as long as the people sleep on the designs of these global financial parasites. Our lives are con­trolled by these multinational corporate

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MOTION!! Somoza family who has oppressed the masses of people for 4 decades, where the average per capita income of the people is $550 per year. The Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua raided a party of the imperialists & their collaborators & held hostages for the ransom of $1 million and release of 14 political prisoners. The Sandinista National Liberation Front is named for the liberation fighter who led the resis­tance to the 20 year U.S. occupation & exploitation of the country. The ransom was paid and the prisoners were released! Yet another ational Lioeration Movement rocks the base of imperialism.

- South Vietnam -

Viet Vets return home and have to fight the police to get a job or the benefits the ly­ing stale promised when it sent them to Viet Nam lo kill for Imperialism .

The Revolutionary forces of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam have captured Phuoc Binh. the provincial capital of Phuoc Long Province, which is a significant victory in the struggle against U.S. imperialism and for independence. The regime of President Nguyen Van Theiu has been further weakened by the persistent struggle of the people. Despite repres­sive measures taken by Theiu, the people have continued to demonstrate their support for the revolutionary forces. Recently the Theiu regime attempted to repress the media & put 3 new spapers on trial , but thousands of people marched & demonstrated against the repressive laws. Only U.S. imperialism cont,nues to prop up the fascist client government.

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In keeping with the decis ion to grant parole by the National Paro le Boa rd , Rosie Douglas was released from LeClerc on November 7th . Douglas spent seventeen mont hs inca rcerated m con nection with a co nvictio n of "taking part in an illega l sit -in at Sir George Williams University in February 1969." Parole expires in December 1975.

Parole was granted pendi ng a subse­quent hearing on a deportation order by the Immigration Appea l Board . Meanwhile Douglas will reside in Toronto under parole conditions in­cluding:

Remaining in Toronto and not being ab le to leave this area wit hout obt aining permiss ion beforehand from the Rep rese nt a t ive of th e Natio nal Parole Board . In add ition he mu st report initia lly once a week to th e Boar d , once a week to the Po lice an d once a mont h to the Immigration De part ment.

T he Co mmi tt ee In Defe nse of Blac k Pr isoners a nd Do uglas exte nds since re t hanks to supp orte rs, co mrades a nd orga nizatio ns wh o co nt rib ut ed so mu ch assista nce which was inst rument a l in securi ng parole, a nd furt her ca lls up o n the Ca nad ian Government to re lease immediately Martin Bracey, t he fina l participant of the Sir Geo rge Williams Univers ity incident who rema ins in­carcerate d at the dreaded St. Vincent de Pa ul penite nt iary in Quebec.

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in light of the contemporary national and globa l situation as preparation for renewed involvement. Many changes have taken place demanding, in his op inion, some serious analysis, dis­c u ssio n , reassessment and a qualitatively different level of political orga nization . He is a lso in t he process of co mpleting a comprehensive critique of the Ca nadian pe nite ntiary system on behalf of inmates at LeClerc prison and for pub lic circulat ion .

Canadian governmen t obviously has had some second thoughts about sen­ding Rosie Douglas to Dominica, which has recently declared a state of emergency, in combatting young rebe ls calle d Dreads who a re acc used of as­sau lting white tourists. T he Neo Colony has implemente d repressive new res­trictions on the people's democratic right s to protect imperialism and t he capi ta lists now a re ac ti ng as if t hey wo uld ra t her have Rosie in Toron to tha n loose in Domi nica! We' ll see.

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Is Guinea On The Road to Socialism? Some Aspects of a Popular Democracy

by Afrikan Youth Movement for Liberation & Unity

Ahmed Sekou Toure The PDG' s ideology is scientific

socialism. It believes that every stage in the historic development of its people is won through revoluti on. Already the 14th Congress of the Party declared, in June 1958 (4 months before the French referendum), "The political revolution is not an end in itself. It is the essentia l instrument for any oth er revolution, such as the economic cultur al or social. . . Revolution is constant an d per­manent." Under the sloga ns "Step up the Class Strugg le", " Ideology is a stabl e base for the People and the Nation" , "Revolutionary educatio n center s (schools) and Local Revolution ary Powers are Corners tones of the Revolution" , "Domina te water in build­ing dams everywhere", and others, the PDG aims at taking scientific social~sm to the countryside in order to eliminate feuda l and petty bourgeois mentality and practices and to car ry the Revolution forward.

Furt):ier:.:~r~. in the light of the Chinese and other socialist countri es mutual aid teams , cooperatives, work brigades and communes, Gui nea today has its Production Brigades, its cooperatives and its Local Revolutionary Powers th roug h which the people exercise their power , work to raise their standard of living and develop a socialis t conscio usness since, to quote Marx, " It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but, on the contrary, it is their being which determines their consciousness." P.R. L. are chiefly im­planted i~ the villages. In each village there is a P.R. L. with all its institutions, People' s Court, Centers of Revolutionar y Education (C.E. R.) or schools running from primary to high school level. Each C. E. R. is itself a productive unit , as in Cuba. The students are required to spend I/ 3 of their time on the field for produ ction to feed themselves and finance their schools, with part of their production going to \he Regional Commercial Enterpris e (state). Moreover, in each

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village there are many Production Brigades , since each P. B. groups only 15 to 20 members while the P.R.L. has at least 1500 people .

In addition , the state of Guinea, which inherited no university from independence, accounts for two today , with Julius Nyerere University in Kan­kan and Nassar University in Conakry , the capital city. There are I I to. 14 departments in each school , coveri ng engineering, medicine, pharmac y, biochemistry , agricu lture , a d­ministration , etc ... T he univer sities have an enrollm ent of 5500* stude nts with 400* graduates eac h year. The graduates are generally sent to assist the Production Brigad es, the P.R. L., and also to teach in the C. E. R., the institutes, and to work as state cadres. All the graduates from Guinea univer ­sities, as well as from foreign schools, are sent to the party schoo l for further ideo logical or ientation before serving in different economic and state sectors. It may be interesting to note that to repulse invading reactionary forces on November 22, 1970, the student sections of the Peop le's Militi a distinguished themselves with revolutionary co ura ge in taking part directly in the strugg le all over the country, siding with the workers and the peasants.

As for the cadres of the Party, their close working relation with and amo ng the masses is ceaselessly stres sed since "the people are not in the service of the party, in the least of the State . The Par ­ty, the State subordinated to the Party are the tools of thought, of analysis ... of the People . . We must create consciousness in the produc er. He will acquire that consciousness (only through) the knowledge of those problems linked to his activities . .. that

· task of education ... should constantly be assumed by the Party , by the cadres of the Party and efforts of this nature have been published in national languages. . . science should be (in­troduced) into the village, but (to do it) the cadres of the Party should educate the peasants on a scientific basis ... that the cadre engage themse lves in the Peasant Revo lution to help them to resolve their problems correctly ." Thus, the center of development in Guinea is the village and, like any predominant ly peasant society , it must turn the coun­tryside of individua l pro ducers into a collective of prod ucers, to ach ieve progress . As Sekou Toure has said, "Agriculture existed for cent uries . .. in­dividually the peasants had a given at­titude which was in relation to their weak individual means . They were vic­tims of natural calamities. They used to

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1 o this end. the Cong ress of Afrikan People. is planning to sponsor a national Worker\ Solidarity Day ai med at exposing the reasons for these mas­sive layoffs . increased unemployment. high food prices. unsafe \\Orking con­ditions to name a few oft he problems we must suffer because of capitalism.

Worker's Solidarny Day will consist of open forums and street rallies" hich will build up to Saturday. Februar) 22nd (the day after Malcolm X was shot down in Harlem. conspired against by these same people \I ho a re shooting us down with unemployment). The demonstrations o n Saturday. February 22nd will happ en simultan eo usl y in eac h city where \here is a Congress of Afrikan Peopl e office: Wilmington. Del.. Wa shinb'1on , D.C.. South Ben d . Elkh art & Gary, Indi ana. Ba ltim ore, Md. , St. Louis , Detroit , Newark . N.J .. Alban y, N. Y., New York C ity.

Cleveland. Ohio. Pitt s burgh. Philad e lph ia, Camden & Jer .sey City. N.J .. a nd Ho uston . Te xas.

This lett er is asking for yo ur support in thi s effort to stru ggle to defeat thi s system of ca pit a lism which is on its last legs a ll ove r the world. If yo u o r your organizat ion is willin g a nd co mmitt ed to joining with us on Worker"s Solidarity Day to protest these layo ffs and depression. whic h has hit the Black and Puerto Rican (a nd o th er oppressed nationalities) communities first an d hardes t' Ca ll or write im mediatel y(201) 62 1-2300. Co ngr ess of Afrikan Peo ple, 502 High St reet. Newark. New J ersey 07102 .

You are invited to a tt end our Wo rker's Circle planning meeting Tu es­da y, Janu a ry 2 1, at 7:30 pm at Mw a limu Ce nter , 13 Belmont Avenue. Newark. New Jer sey. We urge yo u to attend in order for th e masses of us to see our lives go forward.

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PITTSBURGH INDUSTRIAL BASE ERODES

PITTSB URGH CAP in relatio nship to inexpensive river As American capi 1alism reels and only into a major indus 1rial cen1er, but

rocks like a sinking boat in a storm. also the nation's third la rgest inter-massive layoffs send unemployment national co rporate headquarters. figures higher than th e peaks reached Among th ese giga ntic priates head-just after American Imperialism was run quart ered in Pitt sburgh are U.S. Steel, out of Korea m the early 1950's. At 1he Gulf Oi l Corp., Westingh ouse Corp. , same time. the prices of energy and the Koppers Corp., Roc kwell Inter -essential coslS of daily modern hving national, Pitt sb urgh Plate Glass, Alcoa con 1inucs its upward trend working Alu minum , Natrnnal Steel Co rp .• and people have found it necessary to resort H.J . Heinz. Co. Several of these co r-to labor strikes. all across the country, 1n poration s arc owned and / or co ntr o lled orde r to raise their jus 1 demand s for by the Mellon-Carnegie-Rockcfelter . higher wages, more benefits and better. These corporations absorb almost the safer working conditions entire Pittsburgh labor ma rk et

Pitt sburgh, Pa. , takes on a significant Therefore, the entire labo r marke1 is importance in the general economic threatened with devastation given the crisis of presen1 day world imperialism. White Hou se·s forced admission of Located in the Allegheny Valley of recession. Whal affects one cor­Western Penns ylvania, surrounded by poration. affects others to greater or the Allegheny Mountain s which contain lesser ex1ents. This capitalist Hdomino some of the richest deposits or theoryH was proven recemly when bituminous coal in the world.Pittsburgh 120,000 coal mine workers struc k for has rose up to be a maJor supplier of the higher wages, benefits and safety. world's coal. l?!_~lc~ated also Simultaneously, the innationary ~cc!-

Coa l miners Menl back to M·ork l'lilh a Mtak contract . merd} a lhr ud of garbage so ld to them b1 sell out union aristocrats . The coa l ind ustr ) is lied to the stee l in­dus1r1 Mhich is the core of U.S. eronom3, along l'l-ith th e au tomobil e indLtSlry. All are tr emblin g in the mid st of lhe MOTSI depression sinct th e 'J O's. A nev, Michigan S1ate lav,, called the plants, not the rich few! Chrysler is just

Michigan Plant Rehabilnation and In- one of the industries which con1rols the dustrial Dcvclopmem District Lav, of slalc. The state keeps the workers in transporta1ion , the tri angu la r tip or sio n was causing layoffs or Detroit auto 1974. was one or the reasons the order. and lhing in poor conditions. Pittsburgh, wedges into the junction of v,orkers tha1 reached 163.000 workers. Chrysler Jefferson Assembly plant in Th e state docs this through its miliiary th rcc major ri, ·ers: the Mono ngah ela, The coal strike ex posed the Detroit is not p~ently closing down . arm, the police, v,ho the workers the Allegheny and the Ohio Rivers. His- immediate vu lnerability of King St~!.

The lav, is designed to pro\ide a themselves are forced 1o maintain by torically, these two factors contributed Two weeks la ter. U.S. Steel Corp. an-stimulus in the form or ta.'< inccnti\'CS to paying taxes. The sta1e·s runction is to to the emergence or the manufacturing nounced that th ey would have to close industry 10 modernile or build ne" maintain order O\er the worlcrs so that industry. especially King Steel. Subse- 24 blast furnaces bringing abo ut a 3511, plants in \lichigan . Afirmcanapplyfor businesses, like Chf)1oler. can exploit quentJy, Pittsburgh has developed not reduction or iron produced. At its

~~:i:us~~:~ fal~~li~t~~C'~f~!;. ce;; r'-h,;;;.mcc'-----=------ --::----------, t~[:t ::,k·~~~o~ir~:~~.~hrtje°rs~ ~ tov;nship clerl.. and file the application rapid succession or strikes are still w11h the Michigan Tu Commis.sion. battering the Pi<tsburgh Allegheny

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cussed at a recent meeting between These worker s cons ti1ut e the U.A. W. (Uni ted Auto Workers} official, maintenance, Jani 1orial. cafe teria. trud Leonard Woodcock, Chf)'Sler chair- drivers, etc., throughout the Pimburgh man, Lynn Town!tC'nd. and Detroit Public School System . mayor, Coleman Young.. In Erk Pa .• outside of Pittsburgh,

1be Chrysler JdTerson assembly (('ummwd Otl_P!J§ !l) plant has OH!r S.100 workers. or v,hich O\'C'T 60% are black The collaboration bct:wttn D~roit. \ltchigan. and Chrysler should come of no surpri~ to the '1iorkers

For, i.f Ch111o.ler "'ould ha,"" closed down, Detroll and \hchigan would hu'C Jost a large tax base from Chry~Jcr and the v.orkers. AoWC\'Cr, 1he ~, losers ....,,u be the "'orkers for they "'ill continue 10 be cheated by the city. state. and particularly Chf)·s.kr.

Tht workers should control the

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Januar y Edition 2 UN ITY AND STRUGGLE Page 7

FAILING FAST BLACK BOURGEOISIE

IN CHAOS

At this stage ol the black liberation struggle there 1s a great debate raging in the movement arou nd the important question: "Who are our friends? Who are our enemies? Thi s is a question of the firs1 importance for the revolution." (Mao Tse Tung) The role that the Black B0u~geo1sic w.ill pl~y a_s w: advance toward bla ck liberation 1s being deeply

removed from the needs and struggle of the mass.es or ou r people who mus 1 suffer daily at the hand s or capitalism and rae1sm. A special issue of Black Enterpri se Maga1ine was devoted to a profile or the lop 100 such black businesses They arc concentrated in New York City, Philadelphia. Washingt on, D.C.. Chicago and Los

" The Black Bourgeo sie and pell) Bour geosie arc lied lo capi lalism and the big cap iluli~ts b} th eir malerial inl crcsls (Business. positions. &c) and sepa rated from most black people and olher op pr essed nati ona lites b) those sa me mat eria l interests and con,;ciousncs~. \'e l th e) are suppos ed to be ou r "leaders-. Bui so me still get burned b} lhe Depression and II tev. once pompous big nigs in "1ht: top IOO Blad, Businesses- are clos ed dov.n alread). A prett} ~hnk~ crt:v.!

questioned. Each day we sec repons or the formation ofa blad; bourgeoisie in 1he national black community. Since this is the dominant message being shot across the mass media, a closer look is necessary to get to the ~ssence or v,hat kind of class formation is taking place.

There arc two dynamics in the black bourgeoisie today. There is the widening gap within the blacl. communi1yv.herca small but significant class forma1ion or middle claSS blacks arc more and more

Angeles. The leading ten busin~e~ "ere in entenainmen1. publi.)hing. supcrmarl..ets. manufacturers or porl.. products. cosmetics and finalh construction. Such companies a~ MolO\\n l ndustriC"s. Johnson Publications. Johnson Hair Products. F. W. faersle} and Co. (constrociion) and H.G. Parks (sausage) dominate in this new club. which grossed S6.6 billion in 1973.

(Con1111urd on pqr 10}

RECORD UNEMPLOYME T IN ELKHART. I DIANA

ELKHART CAP Elkhart the city with a heart. known

throughout the United Stares as the mobile home capital or the "orld, the home or Miles Lab or:J.tor\". and its mam industries, has been hi1 hard by a mas·­si\e layoffs of\\orken.. in fact, the.,,,ors1 e\"'Cf in Ell.hart his!Of\.

Accordingly lo \\'alter Harrnff. division manager or the Indiana Em­ployment Securi ty Di,-ision. unem­ploymen1 transactions rose 10 1heir highest le,el e,cr las1 \\eel.. S.Oll Har­rorr said. ne:1;1 w«I. that figure \\ill go o,cr 9,000 . Harr oIT runher stated 1ha1 the figure of 8.0 12 was about 1500 higher than e,er rC'COrded. He c:<pc-ct;,, 1he month or Janual) tobcthemo:.tdif-

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ficult Ell.h:m has s«n In the stale at large. claims for unem­

ployment compcns3tion last "ed. "ent to 111.000 up from 85,000 the pre,iow wcel.. more than a JOC: increase

An additional :?.:?37 "Or en. filed ne\\ claims this wed. linb began 10 form at 7:CJO a.m. each mormng and 1hc:y "'ere still there al closing time .a:OO pm. Red Cross , olun1«r,. .)ened hot con« h) the laidoff worl..e~ waiting in line. due to the fact that the ma_1oril\ of them had 10 wait in line" OUh1de of 1hC' building in the bitter cold

E"c-ndcd bcnc[1h.. lhO~C' l'CC'C'nlh enacted b~ Congrc-:.s.. !x-1.-ome etfecti,c

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I.JtUlcnanl Ford and Gt-nt-ral Rocl..deller~ In lht 50·),, v. t had 10 i.tt: bnt up 10 nt • ho1 doi. in \\ooll'lorths ! Thrse CTimin::111-. l'lill not i.i,t up ronr rol or our l'ltlllth pnctfoll3 .

THE EXPLOITATION TOTEM POLE

Rulinr, class on lop. support Ni and prolttted b) !heir bou,:h1 and paid for :on mmenl (~the s1:11e-). and on lht boltom n1r11in,: ii all. lht rts l o f us.

CAPITALIST PUSH ROTTEt-. FOOD ON THE PEOPLE

CA M DEI\ CAP RQ(len food, \\hich has been turned

away at prisons and hospitals. h:b been S}'Stemal.Jcally sold 10 public schools and markets in poor communities.

Tn.::~ ha\"'C been eumples of insect and v,orm infested ,e~ablcs, "'ood chips in fruit cod1ail, slim,· and decayed cabbage. gray. rouen po(atocs and fro:s tn blods or frou:n spinach

All of this merchandise ,,.,as rejected by city inspectors and returned 10

\\holesa1crs. These "'holCS3len. then sold it to an\ outlet a,aibble l)e(;-ausc then: Bl"'C no ·rcgub1ions restricting the sale of rejected mcreha.nd1se

$tUMt Scitur. a maJor proaucc \""Cn· dor SCUmg to i\e"' Yorl Cit}, hat, the poorest l"'CJCC'1ion record among produce \'enders. He manages a retail and wholesa.le produce wa.rchou~ al 35-IO Northern Blvd.. Queens. ~ Y. Zci1zer has had mo~ than 1500 lbs. of food re­jected by 8 diffCf'Cnt inspectors a1 15 different locations. but still maintains SJJ0 ,000.00 wonh or sales per year

Some of his l"'CJcction.) include: 195 lbs. or cclenc smt to Harlem Ho:.p11al, rqected because or decay: 495 lbs. or potstocs sent to Harlem Ho,.p1ta.l, re­jected as moldy; 440 lbs o{ com on the cob 2nt to Fordham Ho~p11al. ~]«led as ,,.,;thcl"'Cd and "'0"°)

Basicall} \l,'C "'ho purcha~ tha food arc \1ctimittd mo .. t h~ mna11on. ri .. in,g cosu. and lay-oils - "'"°" •rt !he '110rL.ing m:isscs. We must purcha.s.e th~ food bccausic of the lad.. of con1rol O\'tr food

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The General \101ors announ~mcnt 10 la~off lb ',('C'Ond shift indtfincth, 101ahng .)Omc 1.065 odd \O.orlers (ad­ding 10 the natl. figu.e of mer 400.000) mu~ b(: unders1ood to ~ an cffon 10 l«p monopol~ capnafo,t ~upcr profilS in l3CI. The contradiction of labor \j

capHal can clearl} be Sttn a:;, 1hc ruling clas:. conunuc. to oppre-s and unpose ha«f.)hlps cm lhe "'orl.ing nu.,~. The ruling da...~abo tu~ 1h ladies \\ho....,orl. in 1he1r intere-.1. t-g. ·tabor ari;,,JOCT31S~ hle (P.Jul G_ Am:uuzio Pre-. l'ni1ed ·\ uto Worlers loo.1-ESl v,ho sa,'S 1ha1 he "'"3.S "\upri~e,r 1ha1 this is happening. and that rea:nt indiC3.IIOM lied him 10 bclie,-c,tut the.re w:is p!em, or ..... orl... he than complimented G .\I · for at kast gi\ing the "'ori.ers more 1h.Jn..1 month', nou«

As 1he number of" orl..en being b~C'd off incre3!.~ n:111. ( of nation ,.or force 10 date i.s the ·omcar fi,u~l 1hc,e 1sctics ~mg used b, the ~lin2 da$.) lo fool nod tncl.. the ~orl.er,. "'iii nolo.ln~r\\o.lr

.\..\ uncmplo~ mm! benefit, one o( the m.1in mctho,h i.r:.ed to bribe- the 'o\Orl.. lortt is lbt:d up. and th,e ~"°' con­tinue 10 ,uifer all l~po of han:bh1r--, "'hile a le"' continue to ~fl an the benefib th.JI lhC' people h3.\C' crea.tOO, II "'ill become darer to the "'orl,.en. that monopoly cap11.:tliiltl and if~ ,up­ponjng cl~ and 1ru111uti().[b, m1N he crushed

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••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "Chinatown A Contribution To Realistic Movie Making"

T he story revo lves a round a detecti ve (Jake Gitt e, ) h ired to inves tigate th e Los Angeles' chief engineer (H ollis Mordley) in th e wa ter wo rk depa rt me nt. And lea rn his invo lvement wit h a wo man oth er th a n his wife. Closer ex ­a mina tion by ex-co p-turn ed pr ivate-eye Jake revea ls a noth er woma n but the investigatio n a llud es to so me st ra nger goi ngs on in th e water wor ks departme nt. Mo rdl ey has a water fix­at ion - he checks wa ter holes, dri ed-up river beds, lakes, & ocea ns. He has a vio lent arg um ent with a stran ge ma n a nd a br ief con versa tion with a young chica no on ho rseb ac k.

J a ke report s his findin gs to who he thou ght was Mr s. Mordl ey. Th e next thing he know s is that they a re

publ ished in the local pap er. He find s out he was dup ed . The rea l Mr s. Mor­dle y turns up a nd hir es him to find out what is going on , beca use o bviousl y ther e was a mov ement to di scredit the engineer aff oot. Before th e stor y can dev elop much further the intri gue inten­sifies. Mr. Mo rdle y is found dro wned . And of course th e engineer wa a good swimmer.

Down at the medical examiners another drowning-apparentl y unrelated - is revea led . Except , to Jake , it is very strange . The corpse was found drowned in a mudd y, but dried-up river bed -where Mr. Mordle y had that conver­sation with the little chicano. The coin­cidence is too much. Jake goes out to check it out , and almost loses his nose ! The plot unfolds . There is a devious scheme in motion to steal water from drought-stricken Los Angeles to irrigate arrid , desert land . Make it profitable and sell it back to the duped Los Angeles community. China Town is a convincing murder-m yster y, a well developed thriller with a interesting love-story thrown in . You 're wide-eyed most of the time!

The most significant aspect of ChinaTown though is its accurate por­trayal of the · corrupt, degenerate , money-grabbing ·relationship the bougeois have with everything else in the world. Contradiction #1. Mordley and his murderer were once partners who OWNED the Waterwork department. The y sold it to L.A . The victim was part of the liberal bougeois who thot things like waterworks should be controlled by the state . His murderers' only interest was PROFIT. The fascist extreme of the bou_geois represented by Noah Cross , exhibited that the state like anything was an instrument to be used to make money­Bigger & bigger Bucks . Check out who won that struggle! He was quick to kill anybody.

Next the bourgeois didn't care who was suffering. Jhe scheme to dump water affected everybody in L.A . but the

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Th ird World poo r was hurtin' the most! That littl e boy knew what was happ ening, but he was not a po licy ma ker. All his ro le was ca lled fo r was fo r him to be a victim ...

Check th e meth ods used to gai n mo re profit! Murd er. Extorti on . Terror. Pay Offs . Techn ology . . Th e Co ps. Th e City Hall. Th e Press. Peo ple's int erna l co n­tra dict io ns. Childr en. Old Peo ple. Charit a hle institut ions. Class a n­ta go nisn, class inte rests, rac ism. Bourgeo is use a ny mea ns at his disposa l. And it was clea.rly deta iled thru Chin a Town .

But what is fantastic is this is during the ' 30's when everybody else is struggl­ing witlfa depression anywa y. They ar e gettin up makin more BUCKS .

The Bourgeois use the pet it bourgeois or a "para professional" as portrayed by Jake to get operatives to work for the Bourgeois. The middle class white farmer is attacked but because of his class interests all he does is attack the class he can attack. Which in any case was lowe r than the middle class. T hey sure do n't organize and fight the real villain . they weighed in between moronic reac­tionaries to armed bands of men protec­ting wea lth for their bosses. -the bourgeois via the state .

Racism is evidenced by the fact that all the operatives are Chinese or Chicano. They , again, know whats go­ing on, but because of the oppressed nature of the condition don't rise up. (for the Moment!!!) They are used to gain info, move scenes, protect the bourgeoisie but like the ex-cop said the Chinese get locked up for spitting on th e iron in the laundry ,

The flick does a real close-up on the moral depravity of the ruling class. The murderer was ex-partner of the murdered. The murdered married the daughter of the murderer. The "ot her woman" of the murdered man was the daughter of his wife. The child was by another man. The other man was his ex­partner. In esse nce, the ot her woman mentioned in the flick mother is dead man's wife. The father of the other woman is the fa th er of the mother. SO, the murderer has 2 daughters . One daughter is a wife to th e murdered engineer. The other is the "other woman" . Cross is both father and gra11dfather. Mrs. Mordley is both a mother and sister to the same person . Incest! And they are screwy. This woman also has the heartstrings of Jake the private eye . You definitely should pay a visit and check thi s flick, but don't go for the ghost!!

(Continued from page 3) interest s not by democracy. Both ruling parties and their collaborators in the United States carry ou t the will of the monopoly capitalists, and neither par ty

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• Kissinger ha s made it, yall , He's th e secretary _ • • of state , U.S.A . Th e anglo-sna kes have ca lled him • mooing to their side , his bag-tim e with roc ky helped •• • a lot. His ol lady , was onc e, the y say, roc ky's mam

sq ueeze ... int ellectu a lly. But Henry. the k, pushes through • • his dangerou s gla sses. His wine sm ile slos hes bac k and forth • • he's th ink ing, as he speaks. A fast man on his feet. The subjec_t, . • • a cold th reat to th e a-rabs (it ma kes h im feel va.11;uely nat1o nahsllc, • • but not in a n ir responsib le way . him bein a jew and all • • ya know . . . but th ey hired him not for his jew ishness "grrr. .he sd • • what is th at", but fo r his abso lute mastery of the art of • bull shittin g. • • And so, he lays it a ll out • • across th e U.N. decks fo r a ll e

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over 1,000 teachers defied a bourgeois judge's injunction that attempted to deprive them of their domocratic rights to organ ize for better living con dition s.

2300 employees of Local 590 Food Employees shut down 56 Kroger food stores in Western Pa., Ohio and West Virginia.

In the Pittsburgh terminal of Greyhou nd Bus Corp., 306 drivers , 94 clerical employees, 24 maintenance workers and 20 superviso rs, joined a nationwide strike that lasted for six days.

This inflation -recess ion is so serio us that 6 million workers are unemployed, loosing 790,000 jobs in November alone, boosting unemployment up beyond 6.5% (crisis mark) with even Gerald Ford's 1975 forecasts pred icti ng 7-8%. The labor department statistics revealed an 11.7% unemployment nationally for Black workers.

Unfort un ately, many poor folks and workers think that this crisis is something that kind of drifts in from

the sky like a fog and nothing can be done about it. But the truth is quite to the contrary. "These irreconcila ble con­tradictions between the charac ter of the productive forces (producers) and the relations of production (ow ners) mak e themselves felt in periodical crises of over-production when the ca pit a lists , finding no effective demand for their goods owing to the ruin of the mass of the population which they themselves have brought about, are compe lled to burn products, destroy manufactured goods, suspend production and destroy productive forces at a time when millions of people are forced to suffer unemplo ymen t and starva tion, not because there are not enough goods, but because there is an over -p roduction of goods." (History of the CPSU (B) 1939).

Prospects for the future are bleak for monopoly capitalism. "WI " buttons are non-edible . And "Biting the Bullet" ain't the problem, biting a meal is. Why should the exploited masses bite bullets when the exploiting few bite steaks?T he only justification the poor and working people can see in biting the bullet would be to fire the shot that will bring

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The federal govern men t has a llocated aro und I million do llars und er the Co m­prehen sive Em ploymen t Tra inin g Act (Manpower) to Elkhart Co unt y for 1975 to provid e aro und 200 jobs, mo stly to the young a nd hard core, but this will not so lve the masses problem o f no jobs , in fact it will not even dent the 9,000 that are laido ff. This mone y is only for one year . What will happen after th at? There are still many first ¥ea r graduate students from high schools th at remain without work , there are st ill many blacks and poor white s that can't get work , what will happen to them ?

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diseased with contradictioh after con­tradiction and it is threatening to tear it apart.

Faced with this threat the capitalists, the people who run th is country, (Fords, Duponts , Rockefellers, Kennedys , etc .) desperately try to maintain this decay­mg system of oppression . First by diver­sion, to take the focus off the economic pressure that is squeezing Blacks and all poor peop le alike, a sit uation suc h as the Boston Busing Issue is created, to divide segments of the masses in an attempt to keep them f~om uniting against a common foe which is the capitalist state of america. A second scheme is to shift the blame of the economic crisis from say Armstar (Sugar Co.) who can report a 1200% profit for last quarter alone to the backs of the young people of Baltimore and say "You need a Curfew". The people say No, under standing again that these are miserable attempts to first in­timidate and secondly to contain not

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Two Reactionary Nationalists (continued from previous edition)

Haki goes on to say, "But the struc­ture for decision making in terms of social organization and other areas are not collectively made and most certainly not reviewed by Executive Council. One week we get a paper on new social prac­tices and the next week they are sup­posed to be enacted. We fou nd ourse lves always reacting to rather superficial outer manifestations of the doctrine

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rather than getting our work done and running our businesses. Th is hurt us in the loss of personnel and brought a stream of criticism from those we had alliances with." The structure for decision making is Executive Counci l now called the Political Counc il. The decisions are based on consensus, as Brother Haki well knows. Though he would never bring up anything of substance to have a consensus on. The example of Brother Haki inserting a workshop called " PanAfr ikanism o r Marxism: Defending Indigenous Ideology", in the Midwest regional conference, after Executive Council had met and talked about the workshops in Philadelphia is an examp le of someth­ing going down outside of conse nsus, and basically because he knew that to raise the issue of having thi s kind of workshop at the Midwest co nfere nce would be to raise some substantive ques­tions about ideology that he in his liberali sm simply was too wishy washy to raise.

The social organization paper that was sent, the so-called, "New Social Practices" , was not new social practices, the paper was sent in respo nse to a re­quest from some of the sisters in the social organization council to have a restating of current organizafional social practice s, suppo sedly with a view toward standardizing them. The seem­ing diversity between what was said to Bibi Amina by sisters in S.,ocial Organization , the lack of any candor on Executive Council meetings, the reputed back of the hands conversations that went on before and after Executive

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The rest of the letter is more or less typical and prototypical of wha t the liberal says as exit line. "The IPE family thought it best to remove ourselves from Congress of Afrikan Peop le while we can still be of serv ice to Congress of Af­rikan People", sound s like East Family. It goes o n even gooier, "t hat is to say we would hope that at some ' level' we can continu e to su pport and be of assistance to th e Congress of Afrikan People because we still believe in the basic programs of the organization ." Believe in the programs but not in the ideology ? Merely a salutation of exit by someone not wanting "to hurt anyo nes feelings", & c. It goes on, wo rse . "A lso we have decided that we would not publicl y broadcast our leav ing due to the enemie s of Congress of Afrikan People here who would like to use this type of split to their own personal ad vantage. Our answers to why we left Co ngress of Afrikan Peop le if asked would be that the nation al work was so over-powering that we were not able to get our loca l projects done." Again we are faced with behind the back, round the corner method , but never dir ect, straightforward, open or above board . Haki and !PE should broadcast their reasons for leaving as directly and openly as they can. Congress of Afrikan People certain ly intends to put its views of that happening out to the public . And as for the "e nemi es of Congress of Af­rikan People" , let them have advantage, if the y can, from the split, but a lso, let everybody, friends and enemies a like, know exac tly what we think the reasons for the split are. Besides, we do not really believe that a rgument that somehow, Congress of Afri kan People is being spared by halftruth s. Finally, we feel there are reasons for the split that go beyond even the garbage offered by im­plication in the letter. There are objec­tive ideo logica l differenc es that showed themselves some time ago, that ap­parently could not be resolved.

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But for the largest sector of th e black bourgeoisie. the bulk was created by th e democratic revolution (Civil Rights. Black Power, Rebellions. &c) in the black comm unit y that propelled th ousa nds of black s into public offi ces . elected and appointed. But at pre sent. the Depression is ripping d.eep into their weak economic base. The larges t sec tor of the black bourgeoisie is in econo mic chaos because of the Depression. unem­ployment and inflation. "Th e upshot of all these trends is that black people are threatened with losing most of the gains of the 1960's. Among those thr ea tened a re . .. the substantial numb er of blac k peopl e who have moved relatively

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The conspiracy of silence by the so- be a revolutionary," one then proceeded cause confusion in the minds of young called African leaders of the OA u to praise !di Amin the butcher as one of Africans who seek clarity about the con-(Organization of African Unity) Club Africa's greatest sons. At the end of the ditions in Uganda. There is need for on the question of barbarous massacres Sixth Pan African Congress in June constant information not only on the in Burundi and Uganda, on the question 1974, _in Dar es Salaam, twelve African- oppression of blacks in Southern Af-of armed struggles against neo-colonial- American delegates to that C_ongress rica, but also the oppression by black ism in Zaire and Ethiopia, has led some went to Uganda to pay homage to the governments ala Amin. Africans in the diaspora to question the "African i=:ree do m Fighter" !di Amin was trained by the British to veracity of progressive Africans who Generahsmo !di Ami_n. kill Africans . The colonial state ex-stress the need for the armed struggle In th~ wake of continuous_ supp~rt for ploited the labour power of the African against the neo-colonial puppets of the Amin Clique from Africans m the peasants. The peasants grew coffee and these countries. General !di Amin cotton to be processed in the capitalist Dada V.C., D.S.O .. M.C., the most countries. In their subjugation the murderous African leader to date has peasants rose up to challenge been the object of constant derision by colonialism. The colonial army was the bourgeois press. Before the OAU ~,... ....... ,~ used to suppress the uprisings of the "Summit" at Addis Ababa in May 1973, peas_ants. _This . i~ where . ldi Amin Julius Nyerere of Tanzania was the only received his training, fighting the Af-African leader with the integrity to rican peasants of Uganda and helping speak out against the inhuman murders the imperialists to fight the Mau Mau in of Amin and his army. However, since Kenya. While the army was used to keep that time, the bonds of so-called African peace, the policies of indirect rule en-unity have forced Mwalimu to remain sured that the petit bourgeois leaders complicitly silent on the question of the would be divided. The British used the massacres of the Amin regime. Most "kings" of the different regions of recently, the International Commission GEN. IDI AMIN DADA Uganda to oversee their colonial of Jurists based in Geneva published diaspora, the workers and peasants of policies. The British imported Asians their report on the Uganda situation, Uganda openly question the posture of from the sub-continent to act as outlining the facts of the brutal murder African unity expressed by Afro intermediaries in the commercial sector. of more than 200,000 Ugandans since Americans. Does this unity mean unity Africans were kept out of commerce so the rise of General !di Amin Dada. with the neo-colonial allies of that they would not develop the skills or

Precisely because it is only the imperialism? To progressives on the vision which would enable them to Western imperialists and their news continent, however, it is clear that the seriously challenge colonialism. Such media which has continuously exposed reactionary black pet it bourgeois of the was the policy of colonial Uganda. the barbarism of Amin, many Africans U.S. will seek to establish alliances with • · • have supported the regime of Amin. the neo-colonial governments on the UNITY i \i·:.~STRIJGGLE Probably the most bankrupt supporters continent and in the Caribbean. Their • • • of this regime has been the demagogic interests are the same. They are com­phrase mongerers and international jet pradors in the service of imperialism. setters from the U.S. who support a But the silence of black progressives reactionary brand of black nationalism. throughout the world on the reactionary Speaking in Kampala Square, regimes on the continent causes serious September 1973, one 'parroted concern. The fact that the imperialist "Whenever the imperialist press cas- press has taken the initiative in denoun-

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always find a buyer, a grave-digger, who will purchase your food, no matter what the quality." The means of producing and distributing food should be con­trolled by the masses of the people with production being for use, not for profit (Socialism). However, in this system (Capitalism), where maximum profits are the motivating force behind produc­tion, we see examples in school lunches of black frankfurters in a Queens school, 10 public schools reporting rotten apples, and Brooklyn schools complaining of wormy green beans, bees in applesauce and moldy mayon­naise.

There is also a huge business of "undertakers" in the food industry -these are food merchants who buy rot­ting meat or decayed vegetables to make it presentable to the public for sale.

One technique used on old cuts of beef, which are turning black on the out­side, is to heavily salt it to make the blood come to the surface, making it appear fresh.

Control of most companies by a few (monopoly capitalism) causes intense competition between the middle man and squeezes the wholesale food mer­chants to make a living in any way pos­sible. The merchants therefore, (also because of their individualistic and greedy nature - a by-product of capitalism) purchase bad foods for little or nothing undertaking it and resell it to working class people, making profits at the expense of working class stomachs.

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Black Liberation is a sbuggle for socialism !!! RAISE!!

Amiri Baraka This cannot be said too many times,

because there arc always consta nt attempts to confuse or obscure what the Congress of Afrikan People, among revolutionary socialists all over the world arc saying. That in order for the national oppression of any people to end. the basis for that national op­pression, which is ultimately capitalism, must be destroyed. This is true for black national oppression and raci m in this country as well. As we have said before, usually those who are just interested in the fight against racism are eit her unin­formed or they simp ly want to get in on the oppressor system, as an "equa l op­pressor". This is true of most of our so called middleclass negro leaders, the Black Caucus. other petit bourgeois politicians , the labor union aris tocra ts and the rest of the stars . They jus t want to get over, they don't care what kind of system it is, they don't care how many people are oppressed and exploited. As long as they personally can "get over", the system is "not all bad".

This kind of "equal oppressor" men­tality was shown recently by some black politicians in Washington when they were told by a group of Chicanos that the voting rights act as it is now, sho uld not be passed again, because as it is now written, it does not take into con­sideration the problems of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, who are now being ripped off as far as their voting rights. A practice that was widespread in the black community during the civil rights

struggle. So the Chicanos suggested the law be revised to be more inclusive of the level of struggle today and for all op­pressed nationalities! But now these creepy bourgeois nigger s want to turn their backs on other peoples because they got over. And I say " they go t over" precisely because most of those e lections have meant simp ly some dude or sis ter got a good hustle, but nothing much for most of us. And these "equal opp ressor" attitud es that th ey have, merely serve to cause friction and division within the communities of the op pr esse d nationalities , when we should be unified in ou r struggle agains t the root cause of all of our oppression and exploita ti on. the system of monopoly capitalism. And that system has got so co rru pt that now the masses must riot in At lanta (wh ich got a black mayor!), 3,000 people struggling for JOO chump change jobs. when Rockefeller 's liquor bill is highe r than all tho se salaries combined! 1hc system of private co nt ro l over the fac­tories and machine s, over the land and the energy so urce s, the system of private profit, wh ile the masses own nothing but ou r abil ity to work and be exp loited. This system must be smas hed!·

A New York Times art icle recently sought to pretend that because the Congress of Afrikan People was now commi tt ed to scientific socia lism, that we had "liquidated" or turned our backs comp lete ly on a ny form of nationalism of black liberation. But nothing cou ld be further from the truth . We are sayi ng th at in o rder to libera te black people or any oth er oppressed peop le, capita lism must be smas hed and replaced with a system of publi c control of the means of producing wea lth , public co nt rol of the la nd , th e factories, the machines, the minera l wealth, &c. And furthermore th at such a cha nge ca n only be brought abo ut by soc ia list revo luti on!

We also know that this struggle will take the energy a nd participation of a ll the diverse peoples in the United States. The en tir e multi-nati ona l working class! And that o ur principal enemies are the Ruling Class of the U.S., the big capitalists and not "a ll whites". And that philosophies that tell us that, "the white boy is the devil ," so that their proponents can have an excl usive black market for their fish sandwiche s, are simp ly pa;t of the system that ultim ate ly oppresses most of us! White wo rkers do

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not benefit from the oppressive system of capitalism as much as we or they think! But the difference in salaries between white and black workers is the chump change necessary for the con­tinuing division between that whole worki ng class. while the superex­ploitation of blacks and other oppressed nationalities ( Puerto Ricans.Mexicans. Indi ans. Asia tics. &c.) provides the necessary resources to trick the white workers, and also causes the "inhuman" socia l conditions of the majority of the oppressed nationalities, so that the capita list can then point at us and say "they're inferior", thereby inciting the mindless chauvinism of th ese same white workers, taking their minds off th e fact that th ey are exploited themselves. and by the same source. the American capitalist ruling class!

But the Congress of Afrikan People is stru ggling to take revolutionary positions (not get in on the oppression) strugg ling to contribute to the ending of a way of death (capitalism) that has op­pressed and tcrrori1cd millions and millions of people! We are a lso Black people, rai sed through generation after generation of struggle and hardship. We

have heard all our lives. that we ain't free and we need to keep fighting til we get free. The Congress of Afrikan People puts forth the view that the highest form of struggle against the oppression of black people will be waged utilizing the experience of victorious peoples all over the world, the majority of whom have been successful in their struggles against capitalism. imperialism and racism when led by revolutionary parties. guided by the theories and practice of scientific socialism. And that with this revo lutionary science called Marxism­Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought. integrated into the day to day concrete struggle of the Black Liberation Movement, ultimately we will be part of the triumphant force that annihilates capitalism forever!

Amiri Baraka. Chairman Congress of Afrikan People

January 14 1975

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