RAGON

"Now for the evidence,"said the King, "and then the sentence.""No!" said the Queen," first the sentence, snd then the evidence!"Nonsense.1" cried Alice, so loudly that everybody jumped, "theidea of having the sentence first!" "Hold your tongue!" said theQueen.

CONTENTS

Introduction,Analysis of the Trial of Little and Remiro, ..............3

Statement from Little and Hemiro 1/18/74.................7

Remiro and Little's Trial Statements:4/4/75................:..... ............94/18/75....................................10

Russ Little's Statement at Lheir Sentencing.............11

Letter from Joe Ramiro 8/16/75 ,,*...„».,,.*,,<,.»».,,.,.,,„ 14On the Trials of Gary Garrison and Cameron Bishop...... .16The Correct Handling of Coimnmiiques, ..«..«...«.....••...17

New World Liberation Front Statement on Popeye Jackson,,18

Peoples' Forces NW1P Respond to BARC/Orphans Criticism..20

Peoples1 forces NWL*? Open Letter to Prisoners, ,.-,....., .22

A Letter to tha HWLF,,....,....,,., 24

BARC Critique of Peoples '! Porcea NWLF*..................25

Jonathan Jackson/Sain Melville S'Wlf1 Communique...........31

Poem from a Locked—Down Comrade,........................32

*She following communiquea are quoted in our critique,The June 3 "Open Letter to Popeye Jackson" and the June3.1 Peoples' Forces communique. These, as well as thephony June 9 communique were printed in issue #513, JuneJ/3-19 > of the Berkeley Barb, The Black Guerrilla Familyresponse was printed in the following issue of the .Bare.The June 12 SLA statement and the June 20 Red GuerrillaFamily communique are both available from us,

In case anyone didn't notice, on page 16 of issue #l,-.;ve.>blew it-—the Orphans critique is out of order. ',Ve apol- 'ogise to Orphans and our readers, Further, trying tc •.,;»-plain how to put it back in order would probably onlyconfuse the matter more. Sorry* . .WE SEND DUE LOTS 10 31STSRS AND BROTHERS EVEJHVffffiRii -.I,

ARE.ENGAGED IN REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE,

BAY AREA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

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fhe second issue of Dragon fo-cuses on the loeked-down segment ofour movement and continues the dia-log between the People's Forces ofthe Hew World liberation Front andthe revolutionary community,

Prisoners of war and politi-cal prisoners have consistentlypushed the struggle onward, fightingthe Man behind enemy lines. Ourpurpose in. this issue is not to are-ate heroes or superstars, but rat-her to express the need for prisonwork that transcends liberalism,hero worship, and romanticism. Weshould relate to our sisters andbrothers loeked-down to develop amovement.capable of protecting theirsecurity. This protection at thisstage of struggle comes our con-tinued vigilance of all comradesbehind the walls, so the Man'sgames san not go on unnoticedon the outside,, > . . . .

BABC has written an ana-lysis of the trial of Joe Herairoand Rasa little and the eojEiEunties *lack of response to it. We havealso included some of their statedrnents from inside the walls. Ascaptured revolutionaries their vi- ..eion of the dialog aasong the under-ground, aboveground, and locked-down has the clarity-of revxxlarfcio-nary practice,

The dialog between the People'sjPorces of the Few fforld liberationEfont and. the community is continuedin Dragon II. 3?he People's Poreeshave issued a further statement onPopeye Jackson-, an open letter tocomrades behind enemy lines, and anopen letter to BAECl and Orphans ofAmerika. We have reprinted thesestatements in full. In additionwe have written a critique on theactions and statements of thePeople's Porces in connection withthe events of the past two months,

In general we are pleased bythe support for Dragon, fhere wassome criticism of our printing theMay 9, 1975 communique, of the Natfurner/ ohn Brown Unit, People'sPorces, IJWI.P. This communique in-cluded instructions for making ex-plosive devices. We ffeel that wehave an obligation to the peopleand the underground to print cos-uuniciues in ful£j Ha censor thesecommunications is to distort thenecessary criticism/jself criti-cism needed to build dialog.

-2-We further indicated that we co-oldnot attest to the accuracy of theinstructions* Oar printing of 3uc&information, ia fact our printingof JDoragon, is not an attempt totrain comrades in the art of guer-rilla warfare. We So mot want wellmeaning bat inexperienced comradesto Mow themselves away by im-properly preparing for an aation.Dragon is not a manual for theguerrilla and we would not want com-rades to use it as such.

No one will be refused Dragonfor lack of bread, but we really doappreciate it if those that havethe.money come up with a five dollareub, Dragon is still 350 a copyplus postage if ordered from BAHC,but the prices are going to rise inbookstores. Your input into Dragonthrough criticism, feedback, money.,and turning other folks onto itcontributes to the maintenance ofactive dialog and growth.BAY AREA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

In March of this year, the firstissue of Osawatomie — a maga-zine written and printed by theWeather Underground Organiza-tion — appeared with an under-standably limited circulation andan appeal to organizations tore-print the magazine. Now that thesecond issue (Summcr'75) is be-ing reprinted, we are trying tobuild a wide circulation.

The second issue has nowbeen reprinted and is availablefrom us for national distribution.Our prices reflect only our costs,which include giving one copyfree to a prisoner for each twowe sell. Single copies are 30tand should include postage costsof 20c for five or less. Bulk or-ders of six or more are 25* percopy including postage.

We ask people and organiza-tions working in prisons andwith prisoners to send us postagecosts (25«: for five copies andtwo cent for each additionalccpy) and we wiil mail to you oryour organization, Unless youare reasonably sure that prisoncensors will not destroy the ma-Sazine, please do not ask us tomail directly to prisoners.

Our address is: JBBC, 6817Greenwood Are., N., Seattle,Washington 98103.

.?ohn Brown Book Cluba Prairie Fire/OsswatoaiicDistributing Committee

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The Trial of Little and Remiroan anakjsfs by bare

On Iilonday, June -}.• 1975, Joe Rem-iro and Ru::r: Little wore found guil-ty of the ;.-.urder of .Yarcus Foster.On June were sentenced to

life icprisc^ent. During Little

and Reiciro's trial, the Prisoners-

Of-War Offence/Defense Committee

organized a rally in Sacramento and

a few leaflets froa POWQB, BARC and

Orphans of Anerika were put out,

The trial itself was sparsely atten-

ded except by the mostly straight,

press trying to each in on sensa-

tionalism created around the SLA,

Having no evidence to convict

Little and Remiro as the people

who pulled the trigger on Poster,

the prosecution pushed the guilt—

by—association theory. Jensen, the

D.A., tried to link Heairo and Lit-

tle to the Concord house on Suther-

land Court where he insisted the

Poster murder was planned and to

the Eurder weapons. In both cases

Jensen presented circumstantial evi-

dence that was easily torn down by

the defense. The prosecution's stac

witness, a police informer named

Chris Thompson, testifying that he

sold one of the murder weapons to

Russ Little—was caught in a web

of lies and contradictions and his

testimony proved false. Michael

McMahon testified that Thompson

told him that he had sold the gun

to Nancy Ling Perry, another SLA

member,Many witnesses for the defense

testified that they were pressured

in various ways not to cooperate

with the defense in'this case. The

FBI attempted to intimidate witness-

es by informing families, friends

and employers that these people were

"involved with the SLA".

Cynthia Garvey and Karen Franklin

were the only hostile witnesses sub-poenaed "by the defense. Garvey ispresently in jail for refusing totestify in front of the SLA grandjury. Neither Garvey nor Franklinwould explain their political mo-tivation for talcing the fifth amend-ment in order to avoid questioningby defense attorneys. Refusing tocooperate with the defense can onlybenefit the state. Ihese are peo-ple who are supposed to be politi-cal activists and yet they essen-tially helped to convict Littleand Remiro by their silence.

Throughout the trial, the de-fendants were very up-front in put-ting out their politics. They fo-cused on the situation in the Oak-land schools that led to Foster'sassassination. Poster's contro-versial armed-cops-on-campus/school I.E. program with plansto keep bio-dossiers on all stu-dents and enable cops to arreststudents for breaking school ruleswas brought out in the trial.

She Little-Reairo trial raisesmany legal and political questions.Ihe defendants were not even chargedwith conspiracy, yet they wereclearly convicted on the basis thata supposed conspiracy existed. Ihewhite middle class Jury, mostly gov-ernment employees were certainly nota jury of their peers. "Ihe intensesecurity around the trial and thesearches, fingerprinting, photo-graphing and I.D. checks of spec-tators is another form of state

harrassment.Although Remiro and Little's

trial was an opportunity for theBay Area left to show support forthe politics of armed struggle, sup-port which had been ludicrouslylacking while the Symbionese Liber-ation Army was engaged in their most,active practice, Remiro and Littlewere for the most part ignored bythe Bay Area left. The revolution-ary underground and prisoners ofwar around Amerika who had been ac-tively and vocally expressing soli-darity with the SLA continued their

support through public statements,letters to the brothers, and in theform of- armed propoganda such as theNew World Liberation Front's bombing

-5of the California Department of Cor-rections. That the significance ofthe SLA in furthering the strugglewas and continues to be aeknowlegedby urban, guerrillas and p.o.w.'3and is ignored or trashed by largesegments of the aboveground left isa contradiction which we feel mustbe addressed.

We are all familiar with the rollcall of leftists rushing to disasso-ciate themselves with the SLA in theBay Area. Never could the Man. haveenvisioned or planned such a mas-sive exhibition of collaborationagainst the people's movement.

Huey P, Newton, in a letter tothe Hearsts not only disassociatedthe Black Panthers from the SLAwhich should have been sufficientbut; further wrote,"In the past, wethe HLaek Panther Party had attemp-ted to help the U.S. corporate in-terests avoid bearing such a yoke,by asking and imploring your helpfor the people's survival,,. In thisinterest we ourselves gave away$154,000 of free food ia order .toforestall what presently happened(the kidnapping of Patricia Hearstnow Tania}." The survival programsthat the Panthers and the communityhad struggled for according to Hueyware now designed to forestall thepeople's rage.

She Socialist Workers Party andthe Young Socialist alliance issueda joint news release presenting thepossibility that SLA were either

police agents or right wingers at- •tempting to discredit the left.

Angela. Davis on Feb. 12, '74 tolda press conference," If you want tobuild a mass movement against racismpoverty, and imperialism you don't

do things that alienate people. Youdo things that will help draw people

into your struggle."Such remarks went so far below

the concept of comradely criticismso as to isolate the SLA. The re-sulting alienation of the left fromRemiro and Little was inevitable.What becomes clear is that the leftin the Bay Area supports the rightof third world people to fight inbattles of liberation thousands ofmiles away, memorializes the deathsof black freedom fighters likeGeorge Jackson, Jonathan Jackson,William Christmas, and Malcolm J.trushes to the aid of the warriors atWounded Knee, and yet refuses tosupport white revolutionary soldiersin their own coBununity,

Generally the left relates totrials, The imprisoned guerrillacan be romanticized, mystified andsanctified. The prisoner can be-come a cause, a force to be orgaa-,ized around, a symbol of the bar-baric conditions in the U.S.A. fhedefense committee mentality is oftencontent to shout hollow phrases a-bout freeing political prisoners butis unwilling to foster the growthof the military forces capable ofachieving those ends. Comrades

•*• to*such as the Slack Guerrilla Family,the Weather Underground Organisa-tion and the Black Liberation Armyhad no reservations about theirsolidarity with the SM. Revolu-tionaries such as Marilyn Back,Martin Sostre, Assata Shakur andCameron Bishop rushed to embracethe SiA as comrades. Yet many peo-ple working in the prison movementhave let Resiro and little be rail-roaded by a shabby district attorneyand a judge who would have felt athome a hundred years ago banging arevolver in a saloon,

little and Remlre were rightlyaccused by the system of being revo-lutionary-soldiers and the Bay Arealeft community treated them like acoamunicable disease which they didnot want to catch,

How many guerrillas will bsgleefully executed by the state .while tlie left denounces freedomfighters as terrorists? How xftenwill the spirit of George Jacksonbe invoked while his revolutionaryvision being practiced by the guer-rilla -is ignored toy his mourners?An aggressive militant left deter-mined to bring the enemy down, anddetermined to fight imperialismmust not ignore prisoners of warin order to attract the unaffili-ated. Who would join a movementwhich does not offer its fightersprotection and support behind ene-sy liaes?

fhe necessity of armed struggle .in revolution can not be disputed.It ie the responsibility of theleft to embrace all revolutionaryfreedom fighters as comrades sub-ject to criticism, but firmly roo-ted in the context of support,"Most movement organizations areso busy following their dogmaticparty lines, repeating revolu-tionary cliches and downing othermovement groups that they're un-able to see the self-evident,Ware their natural powers of per-ception and consciousness notstultified by party-line ism theywould know that a revolutionaryliberation movement must dealwith the enemy concurrently onall levels, including armed vio-lence, Otherwise when the inev-itable showdown with the rulingclass comes, the revolution willbs left defenseless and the livesof our beloved comrades needless—ly

We must learn from practice thatsuch collaboration as non-support andunprincipled criticism exhibited inthe Mttle-Eemirc trial and in gen-eral the attitude of the left towardthe S1A and other underground guer-rilla fighters is not in the inter-r-ests of revolutionary struggle. Wewill gain no favors from the pigs bydenouncing our comrades as terror-ists, We will never attract the un-affiliated people in this countryby deserting comrades behind enemylines. We will never achieve revo-lution by isolating ourselves fromthe underground and locked down seg-ments of the people's struggle.

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Enemy LiJan, 18, 1974

Greetings Sisters & Brothers,We address you in the spirit of revolutionary love and unity.After the fact of crimes against us — we, the victims are aiiowed to speak.

So what do we say? Do we appeal for justice a* sons and lovers of thissociety!? Or a"s citizens respa~tful to the court!?? NO, we do not. Notthis time or ever! (

We will not dose our mouths nor turn our eyas from the history of thiscountry and the realities of today! We are not guilty of crime and wit!not become so by failure to stand as politically conscious and sociallymotivated men. If there is defiance in our words — it is meant to be there!We TOTALLY DENOUNCE the order of a society which is sustained onthe denial, of the rights, of the majority of its peopie. We denounce thehistory of this society which murders and reduces the lives of its nationalminorities to eternal anguish and struggle against the depredation of racismand poverty,

And because of such beliefs — our crime is - the realization that as revo-lutionaries it is our duty to totally support and recognize ail those strug-gling for National Liberation and the construction of a more humane andegalitarian society! This is our only crime! Yet, we state and restate —wherever inhumane conditions of life exist and there is struggle — ourwhole-hearted support and solidarity goes to those who take history intohand!

4"he last few years are full of cases like ours -~ usually aimed at Blackand other non-white comrades. Civii Rights, even on paper, are dead!Political grand juries, preventative detention, stop and search laws, searchand seizure laws and a host of other such "laws" which "legally overrule"« person's constitutional and human rights were designed specifically'toencourage and support frame-ups such as this. The massive arrests of

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Black revolutionaries during 1S73, alleging them to be members of theBlack Liberation Army was a calculated campaign to rip-off the people'sleadership and discourage others from embracing the struggle.

It is.FASCISM - loud and clear — and we've been aware of it for som«time now because of our relations with revolutionary prisoners who arealways the first and hardest hit by repression! The government it tryingto make an example of us — to destroy us — to discourage others whothink and feel as we do! THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED!

We have already been convicted and sentenced to one of their worsthell-holes, San Quentin's "Adjustment Center," even before railroading usthru court! But, we still grow stronger ever day — the spirit of Lolita Le-bron and George Jackson thrives here! We feel like the rabbit who wasthrown into the briar patch, for punishment.

it is time for all conscious "white" people to pledge their full support fortheir comrades of color and keep that pledge regardless of the consequen-ces!!

These Fascist-Imperialist Punks are losing control over all the oppressedpeoples and nations of the world. Revolution is now for a vast majority ofthe world's oppressed peoples. The corporate police-state's reaction tothese defeats is to try to secure the home-front, meaning this country, nowso they can concentrate their repressive forces and attempt to keep on ex-ploiting! The first and most obvious phase in this plan is securing the pri-sons (making them out-front Concentration Camps) and eliminating thoselower class people who will be forced to fight back in self-defense!

The "reforms" (appeasements) of the 60's are dead! The ruling classdoesn't feel secure with so many conscious people in their midst — in theBelly of the Pig. They tremble before the just fury of the people — afraidthey will have to split their repressive forces further, to fight an internal aswell as external warl They urgently need the total support of all the whitepeople in this country to carry on their racist, imperialist exploitation.They are very aware that a majority of the lower class non-white peoples donot support their wars and their insane passion for profits at any cost Re-jecting the path of "reform" as ineffective leaves them only one choice —FASCISM: sterilization, imprisonment murder and genocide of the non-white and poor white peoples in the ghettoes of this miserable U.S. A.

Again, we Want to stress the fact that - IT IS NOW TIME FOR ALLCONSCIOUS, FREEDOM-LOVING "WHITES" TO JOIN THEIR REVO-LUTIONARY COMRADES OF COLOR AND HELP BRING THIS MON-STER TO !T§ KNEES!

We'll close this missive with a quote from Comrade Fred Hampton:"Ptw* to those who m willing to fight for it!"

A Luta Continue, V<Run LittleJp*R*nko

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fHAL STATEMENTSJoe Remiro & Huss L

Many people arc expecting these pro-ceedings to somehow justify the climateof hysteria that has been manufactured toinsure a conviction against us. What theyare going to get is a smoke-screen ofcircumstance and a collage of x'ontraciic-tory lies aimed at mesmerizing the juryinto a self-righteousness that will allowthem to ignore ihe injustice of Anserikkan"justice.*'

The realities are easy to understand.We are captive revolutionaries -- Pri-soners of War! Some fifteen months age,we were -arbitrarily .assaulted by a trig-ger-crazy pig who shot one of us, in an(attempt to murder us both. For defendingour iives, we were given two chargeswhich, since then, have been increased tofive charges, then seven and now, just be-fore our so-called trsai, one of us haseleven and the other.thirteen charges.

After four months of imprisonment, ourransom or "reasonable" bail, if you canstomach such a term, was finally set at$600,009 each and has since climbed so$850,000 for one and 5900,000 for the.other. This outrageous ransom, for twomen who cannot even afford private at-torneys, has been justified on the groundsthat we s t and in direct opposition toAmerikkkan imperialism and fascism, ata time when the stink of the "Amerikk-kan Way" can tolerate litUe opposition.

The corporate media has been overtlyactive in the last 15 months, proving itsallegiance io fascist government.

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The media has distorted f a c t sand presented "evidence" t h a tdoes not exist. From their own

'Mies, they have drawn conclusions-of absurd proportion.

Charges h a v e beers broughtagainst us by the media that areeven too ridiculous for the Dis-trict Attorney to consider, asmuch as he'd like to. It is obvi-ous to us that our trial has al-ready b e e n conducted by t h ecorporate media For the benefitof those insecure fools who need;to be distracted while history's,rnost vicious fascist e m o i r ecrumbles.

'•"' This government and its pro-paganda machine have not goneto such extremes just to impri-son and murder us. The millionsthat have been spent to murderour six SLA comrades and to jrframe us, are meant to convince /the people of the US that we are /the revolution and that our im-/prisonment and deaths will be N^the end of it. \''•' They have projected us a:> ihe ^pew Amerikkkan Dream — per-sonified symbols of a socialist

revolution that has been deS'eato'.We can only laugh at this Dreamand the money needed to rein-force it! They've got the two ofus, but they ain't got a fuckingthing other than..the symbolsthey build to mask their insecu-rity, .

This tleeadent-dog-empire isusing these same tactics on a na-tional level because ihe internalrevolution is steadily growing,There are many such trials ofAmerikkkan insecurity going onright now, against Political Pri-soners and Prisoners of War-«the Sars Quentin Six, Ernest Gra-ham and Eugene Allan, the NewYork Five, Marilyn Buck and theAttica Brotfiers are just a fe wrevolutionaries with so-called"fair" trials in session -- not

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to mention the many circusesthat are already over or are"yetto come.

The treatment that these com-rades are being subjected to isthe same and often worse t h a nwhat we have received. Contraryto our enemies' wishes, suchtreatment is not intimidating orcrushing our spirit to resist. Therenewed activity of the a n t i -imperiaiist movement and therevolutionary a c t i o n s of theNWLF, FALN, BLA, CLF, SLAand other peop les ' guerillaforces within ihe "sacred boun-dries" of the US are clear in-dications of the growing resist-ance to fascism and imperialism.

So now after recognizing andexperiencing ail this and more,we are expected to act as if thisWalt Disney Special is going tobe a "fair trial" by a "juryofour peers!!!?" If we had any faithin this system -- if we believedin "fair trials" -- we would nothave b e c o m e revolutionaries.Our peers aren't allowed to bejurors -- they don't register tovote in a system that was found-ed and has been sustained on thecorposes of oppressed peoplesand nations,

Anyone who c a n sit in thiscourt and claim no prejudice withrespect to us and our cases orclaim that the peer pressure oftheir friends and neighbors is ofno concern to them," is simplyf u J l o f i h i l .

.Since this whole circus is fei»t'u- benefit of others, we'd ra»Hier not be present.

If ihe D.A. am! the judgewish only to prove that we w i i jnot i-st quietiy through this farce,vte are willing to stipulate, forthe record, that we Slave nothingbut contempt for this court andeverything it represents.

We have entered pleas of "notguilty" only because it is thetruth, but since truth and jusiie*.have nothing to do with thes&proceedings, we advise all of you,who arc ..conspiring to keep ugimprisoned, to do your worsi

-10-None of you wi l l ha\ w. wornabout a 15 month waiting periodof a circus trial. The revolt}-'tionary peoples of t h e work}have already held your trial an«Jwhen it comes time for sentenc-ing, it will cost no more than th*price of a bulh't!-

4-18-75In our first statement concerning Shis

so-called trial, we made it clear that wehave nothing but contempt for these hy-sterically staged proceedings and every-thing the Amerikkan empire stands for.We refused to play the part of circus al-

. tractions because oar-participation wj j !in no way change the scrips of "guiJiy bycircumstantial evidence" ttou She govern-ment has put together with lies. So in-sure our conviction.

Our feeiings -about the impossibility offair or impartial trials have in no w a ycitanged or modified, if anything, ourviews on the deliberate nature of fascist

•courts have again been confirmed by theprocess of jury selection, w h i c h allowedthe DA to pick a jury composed mainly ofpersons financial ly dependen! on govern-ment jobs — with only one young personend no non-White or poor people.

Originally, we stated thai we did notwant to be present in the courtroom dur-ing this government action against our

;freedom. The DA, for the first t ime inIS months, sat quietly wi thout objection.He actually h o p e d that we would sitsilently, in {he basement, while he freelyspouted his perverted reactionary poli-tics in this circus, which he assured eachjuror would not be a political trial.

yfor three days he has been paradingaround the courtroom, running hismoaHs,thinking that he was going to be allowed iogo on indefinitely with his fascist distor-tions.

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Knowing that we are not guilty of thesecharges, he assumed that we would be tooworried about jeopardizing ourselves inthe minds of already prejudiced jurors todefend revolutionary politics.

On Thursday, we moved — we enteredthe courtroom and demanded that we beallowed to speak in defense of ourselvesand our politics b> personally question-ing certain witnesses. The judge, in afeeble attempt to cloud the blatant injus-tice of Amerikkan courts, admitted thatwe have the right to speak in our own be-half.

This concession a g a i n exposes theState's mad-dog racist actions againstRuchell Magee who has for years be endenied the right to act as his own counsel.

Since the State's star witness, RobertBlackburn, was forced by our attorneysto admit that he could not identify eitherhis or Foster's assailants, the DA hasdecided to open up the full spectrum ofpolitics surrounding this case.

In an attempt to further prejudice thejurors against us. and propagate theideology of corporate fascism, the DA ispresenting bastardized accounts of thepolitical controversy preceding Foster'sassassination, and of our personal back-grounds as political activists.

We intend to confront this b u l l s h i thead-on by questioning his witnesses andpointing out the contradictions betweentheir testimony and objective reality. Weare motivated by our political under-standing and revolutionary commitmentto deal,on alt levels, with the realities ofthis fascist dictatorship.

Life and Freedom to the People— Russ and Joe.

RUSSELL LITTLE'SSTATEMENT AT

SENTENCING6-27-75

Today marks the temporary endof our first so-called legal battlewith the criminal injustice system -no more, no less. For us, the out-come of this first circus was any-thing tout a surprise, Hather itconfirms the validity of our politi-cal beliefs and strengthens our de-termination to continue resisting —until this system of parasitic Impe-iallsm and all its degenerate mani-festations are completely smashedand eliminated; until the peoplecontrol their own personal lives,communities and work places; untilfreedom and equality are social re -alities for all peoples in thiscountry and internationally!

In the statement we issued onthe first day of jury selection, weclearly expressed what we think ofand expect from this U.S. "just-them* system. loo many strugglingpoor people and revolutionaries havepassed this way throughout the his-tory of the 1800's and 1900«s for uato expect anything resembling, truejustice. Every time I hear thisgovernment or their propagandists inthe pig media talk about sinisterconspiracies by revolutionaries, Ihave to smile at the irony of their

words. This country and the major-ity of the.jion-sociaiist world arebeing exploited by the seme gang ofbarbarian conspirators whose lackeyacry "wolf" while pointing their slimyfingers at anyone who resists.

The circus itself was nothingbut a slip-shod conspiracy by theB.A. and Judge, with Blackburn, ten-aer and Thompson playing supportingroles. My lawyer did a beautifulJob of exposing their trickerationin misrepresenting the so-calledevidence and distorting the conspir-acy laws. The main impact of Jen-ner's presentation was to influencethe D.A.'s jury to hold off bringingin their preconceived verdict togive the appearance of impartialitybut the fools' remarks to the mediashowed their so-called reasons to benothing but lame excuses.

We chose to question Lenser andattack Thompson for political rea- ...sons. We fully understood that theD.A.'s jury would use our oppositionto rationaliae their verdict. We ,also knew they would find other -—

equally bogus — reasons if we choseto ignore Lenser's and Thompson'slies and actions. Like Blackburn'sobviously contrived descriptions o£'the assassins and like their state-that Nancy, Joe and I had fake Hi'swith the same address, when NancyMng Perry was never connected to .the 7th Ave. house in Oakland by anyevidence — direct or circumstantial.Anyway, we questioned Lenser to en-courage people in poor and workingclass communities to criticallyevaluate situations and not just ac-cept what the pig press prints.When this racist p.A. makes such abig deal out of a black man's exe-cution — people should ask them-selves why. He didn't care whenOakland pigs murdered Bobby Buttonback in 1968! Was he concernedwhen 3- Emeryville pigs shot an un-armed black man-child named TyroneCruyton, and left him to die in thegutter? No, this D.A. subverted 3grand jury investigations into Ty-rone Guyton's death U When all the"Great White Fathers" of this city -like Mayor Reading, the late William:Enowland, the chief of police, andthis scummy D.A. — lament the deathof a black man, it's obviously be-cause that man was useful to themand not because he made great ad-vances for black people!The last thing I'm gonna say aboutthe D.A.'s jury is that their use ofour escape attempt to show "con-sciousness of guilt" makes about as

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mush sease as the neurotic livesthey le'adi If the wanton executionof our 6 comrades in, L.A» was notconclusive evidence of the State'sintentions to exterminate us,thestrangulation-murder of RaymondSparks last October by Polsom pris-on, -guards is proof — positive. SEaedouble-execution of Fopeye Jacksonand Sally Voye this June by counter-insurgency pigs is the latest ex-ample of the official governmentpolicy towards SIA members: andsupporters. We hope that tha gu,ar~rilla forces will remember ComradeGeorge's statements about eomlsattingstate terrorism with, revolutionarycounter-terrorism. Action takanagainst that lying snitsh Chris.Thompson, this sour— faced dog of.' af'D,A. and his boys, or tlia two-facedfascist represeu.iat.ive of the "just-them" system, the jtidge, old jollyjoker, who subverted our case as.-a"civic obligation" would be readilyunderstood by everyone t!I

One question I know people havebeen asking themselves is: "Whywould colleger-educated white folks.join aa, urbal guerrilla organizationlike the SLA or the ML?, EG?, orWeather Underground?" Simply, sta-fo-ed, the answer is because we realizethat we have no other choice but tofight for the freedom, equality, andjustice that we were lead to believe

are the cornerstones of this country.You see, all those lofty ideas wewere taught in U.S., history class-as.,

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had a lasting effect on us. Andonce we accumulated enough experi-ence and knowledge to realize thatthose ideals were just a smoke-screen to hide this racist, exploi-tive system we exist (I can'tbring myself to say live) under —we began searching for alternativesto this madness. We learned fromthe struggles and achievements of.the Third World nations this countryoppresses — from the Chinese, theCubans, the Vietnamese, and thepeople of Mozambique — that thereare other societies that are muchcloser to the ideals we were raised

to respect, demand aneL die for, :; fnecessary! In the process, wo alsolearned teat this country ia con-trolled by a. gang of barbarian con-spirators who comprise what we callthe "ruling elite" of this military-armed corporate state — depravedwhite imperialists who are powercrazy and can only be remove byforce of arms; Erom that perspec-tive, we decide to cast our lot with.the majority of the world"s peopleand join the guerrilla struggle that;ia growing in the belly of the beast.So educate and defend poor and work-ing people thru revolutionary action;to build the base for the PeoplesWar that will be necessary to freeourselves from the clutches o£ cor-porate fascism; and. to construct, asociety based on the true affirma-tion of life, liberty and justicefor all.

So I'll just say once more what:we've said; so many times before.Ihis conviction ia nothing — ws donot recognize it as legitimate orbinding! Contrary to pig propaganda -the "ill-fated terrorist group" isalive and kicking and this circuahas done nothing but increase ourforces. W.e will continue to strug-gle with the certainty that "WE WILLWIN."

Death to the fascist insect thatpreys upon the life of the people.Life and Fire-Power to the People!Long Live the Guerrilla.'

Russ Little

A Letter from Joe Remiro

8-16-75 The following is part, of a letterfrom Joe Remiro to BARC in which.Remiro discusses the issue of. rac-ism in the prisons and among Whitemovement., people doing prison work,especially their tendency to relateexclusively to Black prisoners whomthey assume to be "more revolution-ary" than Whites and other thirdworld people.

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Not all but. a helk of. a lot: of the racial antagonisms and reactionarypolitics .in these kamps are-a direct, reaction,, to Y/hi-te..liberal guilt, trip-pers and romanticists, loo many White folks have turned their struggleagainst racism into a more sophisticated form of racism which, can be justas counter-productive.

Politically oriented White folks, who visit and write prisoners usuallyfall into the routine of only relating to Black prisoners, Zliis has been aneffective way of heightening racial contradictions and de-emohasizing theclass nature of the revolutionary struggle. Black, prisoners are not the on-ly prisoners with revolutionary potential but., they are the only ones beingfocused on by the left,

Astffig White and Mexican brothera there exista the belief- that folics cathe left all v/ieh that the;' wars Black. 1 know that this isn't, true but,wiitli the way that the left rslf.tea to prisons, struggling against this, nia-conceptiou is near Impossible,. Behind this, misconception many righteous.brothers s,i*e alienated toward any political views, coming from the left,Ei.nj' eit. behind thsse walls year after year, without, visits or mail, becom-ing more racist cmd reactionary when these totally repressive conditions.should have tlia exact opposite •ai'fse'S.

Erie reTolutio.na.ry role of Wli.i'fce folks, is not to educate and organisethe Black Katicii,. on tlie streets or in.these kaiaps. fhe contradictions inhex'3 are Ea«7iiflsd bat essentially tl?e same. Political mistakes become deadserious when they get to this side of the walls. Siiose who understand theimportance of the prison stn'sgls, in relation to the over-all, revolution,should! analyse and re-evaltiate the nature of'their motivations, and serious-ly consider the effect.; their acticna will have on our internal- struggl-e.

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We would like to present addi-tional information we have re-gardJng Popeye to reply to theBlack. Guerrilla Family (BGF.)First we criticize ourselves forbringing up the issue of Popeye'slifestyle, as it alone cannot showwhether or not & person is aSijifch. We fee! a person's dress& style reflect & lot; yet we tlsofeet this matter was the leastin$ortei of iiie issaes we raisedccncerrds;,' Pcpcye.

r/« wKid iikc to Bisks it clearto £ie EOF tiist we <&?3*t expectCisfn to fisd information thatPopeye r;-ss £ SBitefe ita ths Joint,is ws a5so foe! hs v;asu*t at Ssattsf.;«. \/e also fesl Sat ttw EOF•tatepent, Bat the p2-s* fcsrass-Jaiast el Pcpsj-s (ffiiE^r sentence,

felts ia c;:3 cattiisg hiiajfc ftKl ar;rJa) is cosircryjtjBri«Kce of fcaT? pijc

t political*;' --/are ex-convicts, SeJ a'sne cay ex-ceii-vici feat they're cKer — it'sfavored treatment. \7e ask thisquestion to the EOF -- can youcssss css time, vksa a i^o'iiicailyas-^re- camr&^e tp3 cc* locseiv/ice Isy these rabid ds«5, ant! ifso, wi:y? Ue e;;iici|3ated moreinformatien frora iiie EpF ca thewer&Inss *f "-« Adait AaKiority,CEpsciEjJy «!aring Popeye's revo-cation heading and of Pcpeye'stelevised statement ttst he wastoo dangerous an organizer tolock up.

Our feelings about Popeye havenot changed, and once agaiEi we<pestion wbat happened duringthe meetings between Popeyeantfpif Hearst. According to oursources, many elements in themovement feei Hearst used hispower to influence the Adult Au-thority during Popeye's revoca-tion hearing. People close to himstated publicly that Hearst tooka liking to Popeye. We say los!:closely at the two people and seewhether that's possible. On the

one hand there's Hearst— ruiiRgclass pig, ccpitalist, racist—theenemy. Tlaen there's Popeye —ex-ccnvsct, black, ex-drug-cd-dict, revolatKmry— suppartingthe SLA and calHr^ for the eli-mination of ruling class racistpigs, incb4JKg Hearst. "?e .saythere had to be some sort ofbargEirting before a pig ofHearst's Brcasiiforfe would be-

Once Kii&ln ifs draw stiantioato Popsye'c stsiaraeEt &"f lie'stoo <fes£&rc«s aa orgasizer to5ock-.K^. It wofss-fiie other wayaround, Wfeile tic p:ss are afraidcf rc-vc.!(it:oKarses orsanir;:^ la-

tlc steps. *3 Jrrades), t!;3ir tiiain fetr is of tec .rcvoleitearv convict gettfafouC- 'siae, u • « csi3r'.si* feas feese .orgaaiziet fljll.'ass, iSuy vastfc:;a esf tns Eifesis. They faavcdERf Cc-»~S C02p ftC32^h ~- V'Lir«yoa'e* y^zy '.oil c-r2^»2i?:2 coe!>roaehss. "fan petati«,ttiese rabidde^i^srsia fi'gs £*i sore r;;bidat tSc acre iljot' M e| be;5?n at'sto £> zaytLiss' £^2 everythinc to

tacss dwsgsrcas crgacfcerstfeeirssck resin-is desfra.'

As to the jrassifeflsty of tfceirJettisrs Poip«ye off to set him ap,

- we ssy Popeye (if a coair«£e)would tove exposed this rattierthai aid the A.A. by giving &feetlc-ssst j esccse of t>f ing- t-DOheavy ea. Gtzz&hvr to lock B?.AD^ if fcsy <ii:5 fear I-efcys'sorRiiiiiioj ab'fiities, «:iiy f.:.*t himca fee niaiisUKi* fen Scs ftraao?If we're to t-sSl:?ve Ksls "lucsvyorsacszer" shi» Sen a!! ycaJssveto £o is bs adanfcroesorganiiwmd tiiey'H &s tea £:?ra;d to lockyea is i?*«ir d'.'ngossis. Ask anypaHttcivlIy £»;»»•« ca^ici or cs-ccnvj;t and they"! tell ?c:s taisis teS3sn;t.

Ccr susp:ch-."s s?:t«it Po^iyccat«« ac a resj:;t of direct cc-?-

.'5£Ii him, iaei^nis v/c warec'to tsriETi' up earlier fc.-

ressrxs of ssarrity. A ccfr.rc^s(-.vii« S-JBS prisoftexperfencejmctr-th Po^&yc to tiiscass t- cb:a-oi iek. ; ; iK ,;;- i r ' -cruiimcnt t f coistT.flss. v?e pick-et* ifce t!K« tu.3 f-tecs for teis

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fe^ii^cs rcceivcii fi-om Tcpsj.'.id «as tK'.y!:j to detsct a sparkof coffirsitesbip. E^ls r^prs-aciwr,3 ur.Uis a^thinff eacowiiered— cfler cssiy

cosre.i'5 wcaJia't nrid to fcrawtke fiswfirs to. fei,siti,C3s sbcaislK, Lov/ we fineiice carselves,sad v&at pria»sUfticw»s servedsa,)

Ti:« qaedicn afc.r«t where tiisiewas served eo*»!d bs interpreted

•RS popsy* wsHtsrsg to check aperson oet for secerity but doingthis r/ouid uncover tiie identityof persons) engaged in armedstniecle. CertasJi qasaiioas werenever answered directly f oarsecurity. We offered other proofthat wool-jnt idenlify us persoa-slJy — crt iclfes related t« carpast .sets or re!atlfs* clrcamstAacesof ioci^snis thcj caold. clearly

We ciseae $5iis'e*)jsnj«eli KX culyfar oar security, bat &»r his-, tec.Later we found cut fcs saw littleneed for security fcr some rea-son. Had we answered his ques-tions it would have beenthesameas giving car name, birthplace,etc. Why didn't he just ask w!arfour name or fcirtbp!ace was andsave the tine of going throughthat other process* which wouldhave given him the sanse infor-mation anyway! After so short atime these questions would haveseemed treacherous; yet theseare the sanie Citings he was ask-ing us indirectly. We can't be-lieve Popeye couldn't see thedanger behind asking those ques-tions.

Our comrades, starting to feelwary and suspicious, discusseda second meeting (out of impa-tience to grow, and out of pastrespect for Popeye.) Popeye sug-gested we phone him at his homebut this was quickly rejected be-cause both knew his phone wasbugged. Our comrade next sug-gested an outdoor location nearPopeye's home so we could watchanyone possibly following him.This was rejected because Pop-eye had a meeting that night until9:30, so he suggested our com-rade come by bis house afterthe meeting. A misunderstandingsecured—he thought we agreedon 9:30 (the end of the meeting)and we thought after 9:30.

OR our way to Popeye's around10 p.m. we saw Popeye stoppedby a pig on Mission near 14tluHe saw us, as there was definiteeye contact mate We stopped

Esarf-y, fe?,-;.vg to c?.t':cli hiss r.'feenke left; bui we lost fcita at a -sig-nal. s7s tboug&t hs atlglit returnto his £0336 a few tracks awayso we observed it from a dis-tance, but he didn't rciara. Aftera half hour a comrade went indisguise to his house to see ifthere was a message and learnedof the time misunderstanding.

In analyzing the evening, wesharply criticized ourselves forrisking our security in our im-patience to create a communica-tions base aad to meet comrades.On the one hand we knew weshouldn't meet at an obviouslyclosely surveilled house with anobviously closely watched per-son, but our impatience to growblinded us. Then we asked our-selves and we ask comrades now,why weald Popeye, with 19 yearsprison experience, who wellknows he's bugged and watched,suggest to comrades, who heknows are fighting undergroundand have the advantage of beingunknown, why would he suggest,not only that we call him, butthat T/S come by his house at atime when a meeting's endingand it's likely other people wouldbe there? And why was.our sug-gestion, which offered more se-curity, rejected?

To really catch the dynamicsof this, we ask comrades to ima-gine themselves in a position oftheir phone being tapped and theirhouse being watched. A comradethat you know the pigs are lookingfor wants to get together. Wouldeven the most unaware suggesta meeting under these treacher-ous circumstances? How about

wLo clalsas £c sup-port efsasd i&Jer&noiKid activity?

Tliis; fefeal of treachery cazsistgo eachsckftd, especially whendealisg with people in key posi-tions wfco ws expect to have amore developed political aware-ness. It's of the essence that welearn to detect a snitch beforeend not after the fact. Too oftenwe've seen our comrades fallprey to this most effective pigtactic — Fred Hampton, AIM,BLA, .Weatherpeople, SLA totame a few.

We knew the risks involved in•raising questions to expose Pop-eye. We also knew the risks innot raising these questions. Forour own security we cut off con-tact completely, as one of the•greatest advantages we have isremaining unknown to all enemyelements. For the security of ourcomrades we felt it essential towarn them by exposing the con-tradictions publicly. We may havemoved prematurely in issuingour June 3 communique, as wecouldn't present all the informa-tion at that time. (In that com-munique we felt certain Popeyewas a snitch, but we decided hisreply would best speak for ft-self)} On the other hand, to waitwould have risked the lives ofcomrades.

Unity in struggleTowards total liberation

A iuta continue

New World Liberation Front

usefhia KWJDP eoffiisunique is in response to an open letter which appeared in.Dragon No. 1 and previously in leaflet form,

An open letter to MRO and the Orphans of Amerika in response to an openletter to the MXP--

We salute BARC and the 0 of A for responding quickly to the needs ofoppressed peoples by creating a principled alternative information source.

First we would like to clarify that we are the Peoples! Forces of theNWIiJ1, She name EWLP includes many units who share a coimaoxt ideology in thiswar of the poor against the rich.

¥/e feel your criticism could have been written from a more construc-tive, less speculative point of view. Your tone on the Issue of the BARBstaff was subjective—-we felt you weren't seeking clarification but rathermaking accusations. With your limited information you should have been loo -Mag for additional information rather than rushing to premature conclusions.In short, the tone of this letter seemed quite different from your othercriticism.

Your statement, "whatever the real reason,, we feel the KW1P and theBarb should do what is necessary to -uncover the truth", seems to suggest, weslio-old continue struggling with the Barb, !e feel we have exposed the BarbEiifficiently and the Barb has exposed, itself sufficiently by their response.We must not forget that through this struggle with the Barb, our goal of .a revolutionary principled communications base is being realized. We sa-l-ate any and, all comrades who Join in this struggleI

We agree with your eriticisja about not. explaining the ruling class con-trols of the Bart sufficiently. Vte should have run down the workingsof Int'l Hews Keyus and pointed, out hov/ it is controlled by ths ruling class.We encourage people who know the inner workings of Barb and its corporateties to add information, and in the future we will, provide more infor-mation. It is important to "bring these criticisms to our attention; it'simportant that you add your own information and experiences too—our goal toeducate the people to the woriciBgs of these ruling class parasites and tooffer alternatives that serve the people. Expose the old death order-struggle to build a new life orderI

We feel we moved correctly in exposing our direct experience with Stans-1111, lackey of Int-'l. Hews Keyus. He was in charge of imposing the corpo-rate willl, and people that implement the will of the ruling class, over-and on other people, will, be held responsible. We feel we acted correctlyin using his name, as people who work against the interests of oppressed,people as well- as their acts should be publicly exposed, especially whenthey mislead people into believing: otherwise.

We consider naming the other staff member no different, than our ex-pression of support, for another reporter (who waa subpoenaed in Los Angelesfor handling Peoples* Forces NWLF communiques). Both, people took, a public*tance, realizing harassment would be eminent even though.no "lawsM hadbeen broken. Our purpose in mentioning these two people waa to draw supportfor tin just pig acts. We had and provided no information that was notpublics knowlege. If we acted incorrectly we would like it pointed outin a clearer manner.

We do not see any reason to go into Barb's handling of the June3; communique. By process of elimination you answered the question cor-rectly. The Barb has shown clearly their policy on printing communiques,which is that anything too controversial will not be printed. Barb has. con-tinued to show its pig policy by printing Moore's statement in spite of thefact that the WAW 'told them their investigation revealed Moore to be a pig.The People' s Forces ofi' the KW1P will nonethelesa continue sending Barb co-pies of our communiques in order to rea.ch. as many people aSc, possible. Wewould like to make it clear that tie are in opposition to their treacherousliberal policy. In the final analysis we realize we can not depend on them.

We fully support the development and growth of any/all peoples'principled communications bases and urge they develop with a protracted warin mind. BARC and the 0 of A have taken revolutionary steps to unify theaboveground with the undeground forcea, ?/e send comradely love to BARC andthe 0 of A.

a luta continuePeoples' Forces.NWUP

Xhis letter is in answer to an article/letter from Rafiki/Edward Sanchez,a prisoner in Marion, Illinois. Sanchez's article ("Letter to the V&n~guard"), which addresses the subject of. prison breaks, is printed in Issue#3 of BAR NONB. P.O. Box 124, W. Somerrille, MA. 02144 (available free,donation appreciated),

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL COMRADES TRAPPED BEHIND. ENEMY LINES

We feel the questions you raised point; the need; for dialogue betweenthe underground forces and political prisoners aa; to tacties. It would beincorrect to assume our revolution could move in a progressive manner withouta show o£Tsolid revolutionary support for any/all trapped; comrades. We'veasked; the same questions as. you—why with all the examples of prison breaksand ransom demands for liberating comrades, have so few occured in thiscountry?

To.answer this question ourselves, we would like to present some o£'ourhistory. Ihe name Peoples1 Forces of the NW1F was chosen after an NWLPcommunique (spring'74) issued a calli to arms'. !Dhe HWU? encompasses allarmed units sharing the same goals, but this does not mean that theseunits have found ways to reach each other. .We criticize ourselves for atactic we once though valid, used, to confuse enemy forces but which is nowconfusing the people. We exaggerated our size, leading enemy forces, (andthe people) into believing we are four units and geared our acts to in-dicate this large a force. In the past we have said that liberating com-rades trapped behind enemy lines is our top priority and that it is neces-sary to have a-fe least four comrades t» carry such acts off. When ourforces reach that size we will move in that dinectionj Now we are wor-king to build a strong secure base, geared for a protracted war, and we willcontinue to attack the ruling class dogs and their lackeys who perpetuatethis degenerate, life-destroying order. We along with our comrades iin thesedehumanizing concentration camps all accrosa Amerika are wondering why, com-rades who have sufficient numbers aren't snatching ruling class.1 para-aites and ransoming them for the release of comrades?

We have tired to show, by our acts, what a show, by our acts, wha&ia saallL force is capable of doing. We must again stress, the advantage com-rades have in being; unknown to the pigs. We are unknown to the enemy andwe have room to grow. For us, our Inspiration domes with what we will beable to do with 6, then 12... hasta la victoria!

-2.3-Ws ar» dedicated in our determination US> stop the suffering and. misery

imposed .on poor-people -by these ruling class- parasites their thugs andtheir decadent order, !Che capitalist, imperialist order thrives on thenightmare suffering of poor-people—here and around the world. Free en-terprise, a worfi invented "by the ruling class, in reality insane v/e ajse"free.nto prey on each other in a cocrpetative manner while the ruling class hordestheir blood-money watching us souffle for a mere existence—and often timesearly death—under this dog-eat-dog ruling class order. We refuse toscuffle to the tune of their death ordez*.

Prom the ruling class nightmare IConcentration Kamps come dragons ofthe oppressed and for the oppressed. When these dragons are freed fromtheir iron-concrete caskets, their rage and determination strengthened "bytheir suffering, coupled v/ith a knowledge and deep love of the oppressed,has and will move the struggle to higher levels toward total liberation!

We send our warmest revolutionary love to the Jonathan Jackson/Sam

Melville Unit of the HWLF, BLA, PALN, SIA, Weatherpeople, RGF, CLP, AIM,

Eapata Unit, Rainbow Underground, all comrades held captive behind enemy

lines, and all comrades engaged in arm struggle.

Unity in StruggleA Itita continuaPeoples * PorcesNew World liberation Pront;

ELeess copy and distribute t» imemplojoaenl welfare and, fooa stampoffices, high, schools, prisons, barrios, 'ghettos and any place poorpeople gather. Copies of past CEoauacasiques available through BAHO, POBos: 4344j Bather Gats Sta., Berkeley, CA. 94704

fOt EM! BURNER AND JOHN BROWN

PEOPLE'S FORCES, N.W.I,, I1,

In response to part of yourcommunique dated May 1, 1975 (i!flieAttack on CDC"), reprinted in thefirst issue of Sragpn, it should beexplained that silencers are not aseasy to make as television has them

appear.2fwo quiet weapons, one old and

the other new, were employed duringWorld War II to meet the silent wea-pon requirements. One was the crossbow, modernized with a spring steelbow and mechanical string erarik,fhe arrow was a short, stubby steeltipped -projectile that could be de-livered accurately to targets up to25 yards distance, fhe other wea-pon was a .modified bolt action rifleemploying .45 caliber ammunition.

, fwo factors must be consideredwhen attempting to sileace the re-port produced when, discharging afirearms 1) the sound of the expand-ing gas and 2) the noise of the pro-jectile as it passes through the at-mosphere. A projectile passingthrough the air makes a noiss of itsown, but those traveling in excessof the speed of sound (approx, 1100ft, per second} generate a shock

wave coBsxonly referred to as "break-the sotsui barrier.'3 Bulleta

propelled at velocities in exeass cf1100 ft, per aacoad OMBOf be si-ieaceai Kiia little..known.fae*. has.,stgmec! aiaay -re ams/teur silencer

i-'e fiie 'bullet Tslooitles

must be kept under 1000 ft. persecond in order to meet the silencersrequirement, lowering the bulletvelocity consequently reduces thekinetic energy and results in lower -killing power. Thus the projectileweight has to be increased to offsetthe reduced speed. -Ihe ,45 caliberpistol ammunition meets this require-ment with muzzle velocity between800 and 850 ft. per second and abullet weight in excess of 200 grains,Ihis combination is well suited forsileneed -weapons,

fhe revolver has one mechanicalcharacteristic that raakes its con-version to a silenced weapon almostlgposs_lble and that is the gap be-tween the cylinder and barrel. Itis at this point that the expandinggases escape with maximum velocity.While it is true that a silencer canreduce the overall sound produced, bythe explosion, it has no effect onthe gases that pors from between thecylinder and the frame.

For thoae interested in more details,you should writs to:

American Defense preparedness Ass,Usion Trust Bldg., Suite 819740 fifteenth St., N.W..Washington S.c. 20005Ask for details on how to obtain apaperback edition of Silgaced Wea-

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NWLF CRITIQUEWe send our love and support to

all units of the New World Libera-tion Front, They have consisten-tly shown themselves to be revolu-tionary comrades of the highestorder. In the spirit of comradelycriticism, we present this analysis..

We would like to respond to anddiscuss the open letter to BARC andOrphans of AmerSka from the Peoples'Forces of the NWLF, their August 25statement concerning Popeye Jackson,and the events starting from June 3surrounding Popeye's death.

The New World Liberation front,OE June 3, issued four criticisms/questions about Popeye Jacicson inan open letter. On June 8, Popeye,along with a comrade Sally Voye, waskilled. A phony KWLP communiquedated June 9 claimed credit for theassassinations. On June 11 the HWLPissued a statement (this one auth-entic) denying responsibility butre-stating their original questions.Ihey were:

*1. Privileged treatment by theAdult Authority.

"2. ProSeating a capitalistimage.

"3. Urging people to prematureacts.

"4* Subjective criticismtrashing."In the June 11 communique, the HTOFspecifically called on the BlackGuerrilla Family (an undergroundrevolutionary organization inside.California prisons) to "analyzethese contradictions, because theyare in a position to best judge.*.+"

We fully agree that the BG-J1 waseminently qualified to analyzePopeye's practice and history in-side. And they did. In a communiquegrinted in the Berkeley Barb (issue#514, June 30-26) the BGFresponded, "We feel that the murdero£ Popeye Jackson and Sally Yoye wasthe work of pigs. AS to the murder

of. Sally Voye, there was no just-ification to the left... especiallytee guerrilla army, but it servesthe pigs' interests to create con-fusion within the left and to main-tain control through that confusion.

"The charges lodged againstPopeye, we feel, are void of found-ation.' If hot"we"eonaiand a "factualroot of proof.

"The constant at tacks'-«£'theAdult Authority does not. appear-tobe favored treatment. Since whenlias harrassment become favoredtreatment?"

Earlier, the Symbionese lib-eration Army in. a communique, datedJune 12 responded to the criticisms."We have long considered Popeye jack-son to be 3. friend and comrade. Wesupported his work in the prisonmovement, and his outspoken stancein critically supporting guerrillafighters, popeye was constantlyunder harrassment frost the pigs "be-cause of his uncompromising position

in support of ai-Eied -struggle anathe rights of the convicted class."The Weather Underground Organizationalso issued a statement of supportfor Popeye. On June 20, the RedGuerrilla Family bombed an officein San Francisco of the Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms Bureau of theTreasury Department. "We take thisaction in response to the pig mur-der of Popeye Jackson.... Popeyewas a revolutionary who activelysought to expose to the people thefascism of the pigs and the neces-sity of armed struggle to overthrowthe ruling class...."

To build up the resistance of the people to the required pitch needs more than guerrilla activity,aims of the movement must be popularized, the ob-jectives clearly stated, and the world must be in-formed of what is happening and why.

—ROTES ON GUERRILLA WARFAREIrish Republican Army

The criticisms made of Popeyecouldn't and haven't only been ans-wered by the underground, inside orout. The night of the murders, BARG,Orphans of Amerika, Prisoners ofWar Offense/Defense Committee andthe East Bay Chapter of (then) Viet-nam Veterans Against the War/f/interSoldier Organization (now WinterSoldier Organization) all. wrote andposted around the Bay Area s.-feate- -

ments of support and sorrow at thedeaths of Popeye and Sally. TheUnited Prisoners Union issued astatement denouncing the murders andre-stating that Popeye was a comradeand revolutionary. At a rally forPopeye on June 13, these organiza-tions along with Prairie Fire Org-anizing Committee, the White PantherParty, Sparticist League and otheroemrades ales expressed their sol-

idarity with Popeye. Russ littleand Joe Remiro sent a message ofsupport. These are people and organ-izations who had had political ex-perience with Popeye. When the phony(June 9) communique was issued, BABC

and Orphans posted a statement de-nouncing it as the divisive work ofthe pigs.

Later in June we, BASC andOrphans issued a critique of theBWLP in leaflet form, later re-printed in DHAGOII #1. We asked thePeoples1 Forces to respond to theanswers they'd received regardingtheir criticisms and the assassin-ations. We've v*aited this long tomake a more complete critique/an-alysis of the HWLP role in thissituation primarily to leave themtime to assimilate and analyze thebody of information since made

public about Popeye and his role inthe revolutionary movement. We nowfeel that the criticisms of Popeyehave been answered

Our analysis of the NWLF'shandling of the entire situationfrom June 3 to the present must besharply critical.

First, on June 3, the NWLF sug-gests that Popeye may be a collabor-ator or snitch, Our examination ofthe STOP'S communiques and actionsclearly indicate that they under-stand the severity of labeling some-one a snitch, particularily someonewith close connections with prison-ers. Snitches and collaborators arekilled and exposed, fhat is how itis. Whether the killers werepersonal enemies, misguided,, or pigsthe open letter should have beenforeseen as a possible set-up.

IT IS CLEAR TEAT THE ARM OF CRITICISM CANNOT REPLACETHE CRITICISM OP ARMS.

••—Karl Marx

"Being an informer is a dead-ly serious offense against thepeople and the revolution. Sheprocess of denoimeing and ad-rainistering revolutionary just-ice is also deadly serious. Inall cases, concrete evidence ofcomplicity with pig agents mustbe known and presented to sup-port the action."It is not sufficient to base

accusations on subjective an-alysis or upon details of op-portunistic personal behavior.If an execution is carried outwithout a sound analysis, thenconfusion and disunity 'are cre-ated within the left and .throughout tfce community. Even ifthe person executed is a pig,

if the act is not clearly un-derstood by the people it willcreate a serious obstruction.to the building of unity be-tween the Guerrilla Front (un-derground) and the Mass Front(aboveground). The result isthe division of the Left forcesand the creation of sectarianinfighting when we should beunited to fight the enemy,"If the person is not a pig,

her or his execution is thennothing more than a criminalact, and is therefore indef-ensible."

Strategic CommandSYMBIONES1 LIBERATION ABMYJune 12, 1975

On -August £5» -the -Peoples* Forcesissued a comzsunique further detail-ing their reasons for suspectingthat Popeye was a snitch. They say,l!£te* feelings about Popeye have notchanged...According to our sources,many elements in the movement feelHearst used his power to influenceth@ Adult Authority during Popeye'srevocation hearing." It is a pub-licly known fact that Sally Moore,an exposed FBI agent, was infiltra-ting many left movement groups(in-cluding Vietnam Yeterans Againstthe War/tt'inter Soldier Organizationand United Prisoner* s Union) andwas spreading false rumors aboutPopeye, specifically around hissupposed "deals" with Hearst.WAW/WSO(aow WSO) who did an inves-tigation exposing Moore, stated ina letter to the Berkeley Barb, July4,"Popeye's main allegation wasthat she (Moor©) repeatedly offeredMm money, from Handolf Hearst, tosend his son to the best schools inthe eowitryf in exchange for infor-mation about Patty Hearst, Popeyerepeatedly refused the offer andbegan getting suspicious that SallyMoore was not only a Hearst laekytut also that she worked for theFBI...Since then she has literallytrashed Popeye, riot with- substan-tiated allegations but with emo-tionalism," It seems logical thatthe stories about a "deal" were partof a well-planned effort by the FBIto discredit Popeye,

Popeye was a vocal supporter of

the Symbionese Liberation Army at atime when most other leftists whoseviews got media coverage were denoun-cing the SLA. It is entirely pos-.'.sible that Hearst wanted to Keep Pop-eye on the streets because he feltthat Popeye might somehow have con-tact with Tania. He was desparateto find his daughter and wanted thepossibilities of all avenues open.But to assume that Popeye made adeal with him simply does not fol-low.

'The Peoples' Forces say that theybelieve the Black Guerrilla Familywhen they say Popeye was not a snitchin prison. There is nothing in ourexperience working with him over thepast year that indicated so drastica change as him becoming one on theoutside,

As to not exposing the fact thatthe AA wanted to set him up, this issimply not accurate. Popeye taewthat the pigs wanted him dead—andhe stated so publicly. He wasconstantly harrassed and the pigswere continually trying to provokehim. An unmarked police ear oncetried to run him down. He was shotat previously when sitting in his

car. The pigs have their own rea-sons for deciding where to murdersomeone—inside or out.

Popeye1s statements about beinga "dangerous organizer" refered inpart to the large amount of supporthe was able to gather around hisrevocation hearing in April *74;Revocation hearings generally passunnoticed by the public. However,at Popeye's hearing, 150 peopleshowed up including Cecil Williams,Bon Heliums and Willie Brown. Thiswas the longest revocation hearing

in history and the charges againstPopeye were successfully refuted.The board backed down. We can'tdismiss the power of public pres-sure and big names. Visibilityis usually one of the major pro-tections and strengths that pri-soners and everyone dealing withstate oppression can use.The recent trial of Joan Littleis. an example of the successof such visibility. Theboard probably did not want to stirup any further public controversy.

People who have worked closelywith Popeye have said that his senseof security was very bad—his ownsecurity and other peoples. Forthis he should have been sharplycriticised. The incident thePeoples' Forces relate pertainingto their direct contact with Pop-eye brings this out very clearly.They ask why Popeye would suggesta meeting at his home? Why wouldthey agree to that? The answerto both of these questions is exac-tly the same—poor security.

Extreme caution should be prac-ticed in every recruitment attempt.Before aboveground contacts aremade, the underground should takeresponsibility for protecting itsown security and should be familiarenough with whomever they contactso as to be sure of that person'ssense of security. It is obviousthat this type of research did nottake place before contacting Popeye«.

We agree with the Peoples' Forcesdecision to cut off contact withPopeye. It is very dangerous todeal with som«one who has a poorsense of security. However, tobrand someone a snitch because oftheir poor security shows improperreasoning. Popeye should have takenbetter security precautions espe-.cially considering his prison/poli-tical experience. However, prisondoes not create perfect superstarscoming out with all their shit to-gether. Often prisoners and ex—

-jo-prisoners become mystified and expec-tations of them are somewhat based.on our images of what we want themto be rather than what their prac-tice in fact shows. VSfe considerPcpeye a true comrade. We do notconsider the evidence presented bythe Peoples' Forces sufficientproof to change our analysis of thesituation and our feelings aboutPopeye,

7/e would also like to respond tosome of the questions raised by thePeoples' Forces open letter toEAEC and OOA. In this letter thePeoples' Forces are dealing withspecific questions raised by MRCand OOA in issue #1 of DRAGON,(The same criticism appeared pre-viously as a leaflet,) In thiscriticism, we asked questions con-cerning the Barb's handling of the.June 3 NWLF communique, criticizedthe WWII? for naming specific namesin their open letter the Barb onJune 27, and questioned why the NWLFhad made no further statements con-cerning their investigations of Pop-eye Jackson.

The Peoples' Forces, we feel, mis-understood our statement that "what-ever the real reason, we feel thatthe NWLF and the Barb should dowhat is necessary to uncover thetruth." We never meant to suggeststruggling with the Barb. Actually,we advised cutting off all ties withthe Barb, We did suggest that theBarb find out who in their staff

night be a pig and that the NWXPfigure out if their communique wasdropped and/or picked up correctly,In making an assessment of Stan-

still's role at the Barb we musttake into account-that the Barb doesnot operate on a collective basis,and therefore a hierarchy is set up.Stanstill was the editor of the Barbat that time. While we do not con-sider him a revolutionary comrade,we feel his interests do not

cide with the publishers' to thepoint that he should have beenopenly denounced by the under-ground.

We agree that the Peoples* For-ces did not provide any new infor-mation about other Barb staffersthat they showed support for. Yet,we still feel that naming names isa dangerous policy when done by anunderground group, fhe pigs canuse this to further harrass and/orset sonseone up—blaming it on rightwing elements. The thing that

should be considered is that criti-cism and support when coming from anunderground group is much heavierand has different implications thanwhen it comes from an abovegroundgroup. The underground is engagedin armed struggle. This fact makeapeople take them very seriously,fhey are also unseen(of course).Ihis can create rampant speculationand mystification. An undergroundgroup should be .very cautiousin expressing such specific criti-cisms or support because of thegreat seriousness with which peopletake them, the possible implicationsthat can be drawn from their state-ments and the use of this criticismor support by the pigs.

We accept the criticism about

being too speculative. It is imp-ortant to develop means of gettingthe information needed to fullyanalyze a situation whenever pos-sible. However, we don't feel thatwe stated any conclusions. Weasked questions in two areas—whathappened with the June 3 communi-que and whether the investigationsof Popeye were completed, and if s°•was there any new information?

We look forward to continuing tostruggle with the NWIP around theseand other issues. We ask the Peo-

ples' Porces to re-examine the pro-cesses and criteria on which theybased their conclusion that Popeyewas a snitch. We support theircontinuing determination to activelypush the struggle forward.

LONG LIVE SHE GUER2ILLAS

BAY AREA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

We applaud the NWLP bomb attack in karin Co-unty,Iheir eoinmunicLue follows.

August 21, 1975in celebration of the spirit of

Comrade George Jackson weassaulted the Maria Countycourthouse -- scene of the slaverebellion of August 7, 1970 andpresently the scene of the fas-cist railroad known as the SanQuentin Six trial. Last night'saction is in offense of ail pri-soners, afl expression of loveand solidarity from the under-ground.

The rebellions of San Quen-tin, Atiikkka and the Women'sCorrectional Center, Raleigh,North Carolina have becomesymbols of the flames of re-sistance that burn throughout

Amerikkka's concentrat ioncamps. On the streets the firealso rages because the barbaricconditions in the prisons aremerely the reflection of ourbrutal, inhumane society. Let.us remind the ruling class andtheir pig agents that we willnot passively accept the occupa-tion of our communities! Wewill not stand by and do nothingin the face of genocide!

"Violence is not supposed towork in Amerika. For no one,that is, except the omnipotentadministrator. But this has yetto be proved to «y satisfactionsince 1 know that a ham& is abomb is a bomb; it twists steel,

shatters concrete and dismem-bers men everywhere eise in theworld. Why not those made inAmerika? . A bullet fired froman assault rifle in the hands of aVietnamese liberation fighterwill kill a pig in Vietnam. Whywon't it kil! a pig in the placewhere pigs are made?"

Gsorge JacksonLONG LIVE THE GUERRILLADEATH TO THE FASCIST IN-SECT THAT PREYS UPON THELIFE OF THE PEOPLE

Jonathan Jackson/Sam Melville Unit

Nsw World Liberates Freal

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WE FOLLOWING IS A POEM A IK WASHIKGTOW.

Jotted down this day of August ?th, the month of the Dragons, 5 A,S,

To the black communist youth and to their fathers, we will now criticizethe unjust with their weapon,"

They came with a rush and a roar and ashudder, They came howling and laughing, shrieking and moaning, They cameso fast you couldn't, help yourself, you stretch out your arms to embracethem, you feel them before they came, you tense yourself for acceptance andthe earth which is our eternal bed trembled at the moment of their union,Heads raised, they went stone faced among scattering substances. Theirfootsteps non-yielding to whatever braids forth from below. Clothed with

chains and carnations and girthed by a simple clock.

fhey "bore the same mark, suffered the samepain and writhed in identical passionate love. Among all the blazon of op-pression, life gone barbarious, between humid perspectives where prisons areholocausts of pain and people rampant on the other side of the world. Pris-oners hopes shrunk like wet shoe leather, a wreckage of nerves brings themdown to knees. We looked and see them devoured by the parasites; We stopand watch these leeches circles (with satisfied faces) upon our Dragons,We turned in the monsterous derangements from its viciousriess and ponder onwhat resembles us. They walked resolute through the world of the world ofthe dead repelled by its downfalls and wanting to sprout life. The sunpresses hard on our lips, we feel kissed by a river; Made of long buriedtears that -will nourish the last seed. Again we stop, to the unfriendlygesture of a pointed gun. We listen to the rage of its merciless shriekand stand witness to the fire and smoke frozs its phallic like barrel thatstrikes anger to our souls.

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Prom the blazing birth, to the celestialcinder, we are shadowed "by the sound of successive screams of torment, andthe bellowing eohoes run chills up our spines. In return we cry out aloudto the world, midst its invasions and confusion, from the gross and bittertaste of the sights of our existence,, Vie endure what remains of their per-ishing fate and move towards our coming destiny. Each day we learn some-thing new, a flood tide of virtue and truth. Jonathan and George taught usto love, to sing, to ,'snow the wonders of life, and assisted us in our birth,The new day awaits our hands for the plowshare, to make the useful war forthe simple Dragons who need not the immutable bases of this unjust order.flow, we leave others to mope in this scornful house; We salute the nakedworld whose only ransom is its revolutionary comrades, "L piok up a trulygreat book (Blood in My Eye) by many gifted tongues in its coiled and thrash-ing stance, clad, only in loves lightning flash. Vie nerge to ths page thatis never lost to our sight. Vaulting through its transparency, to grow in-finitesimal, till a day when the wind carries us off to the roar of theiraileace, to wade in the mesh and to catch of the world what is left to save.

Old men get some soldiers, keep them closeat hand. The seeds that were sown yesterday now flower in the land. Andguard yourself most carefully with military might; for plants that cannotbloom by day must flower in the night.

"All right, gentlemen, I'm taking over now.1*