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The pathetic state of affairs that exist withinthe Black Panther Party falls absolutely at thefeet of David Hilliard and the other cowardlymembers of the Central Committee who arealigned to him.Our party is one that abides by the principles

of democratic centralism. Their decisions flow "from the top to the bottom and if there are anydiscrep-mcies, the redress of grievances are dealt,with under the same structure, and the criticismsflow from the bottom to the top . We do notclaim to be beyond mistakes, and when they do-occur, particularly at the level of the CentralCommittee, the Panthers at the lower levels havethe right to criticize the leadership for any,short-comings that may exist .

There have been countless mistakes that havebeen made by the so-called central committee ofthe Black Panther Party, manifested in Davidand June Hilliard . While Huey P. Newton andBobby Seale were in prison and Eldridge Cleaver'was forced into exile, the decisions of theCentral Committee was based upon the whimsof David Hilliard, supported by June Hilliard.Masai Hewitt, Emory Douglas and Elbert "BigMan" Howard only went through the motions ofbeing functional members of the Central :Committee .Many of the mistakes made by the leadership

of the Party can be directly associated with themadness of the Hilliard dynasty . For example,-we can take the so-called Revolutionary People'sConstitutional Convention, which was a totalfiasco . The local leadership had informed the oldcentral headquarters of certain moves that werevery necessary . Yet the suggestions submitted tothe Central Committee, specifically DavidHilliard, were never moved on.

This stemmed directly from the mistrust thatDavid Hilliard had of the local leadership and his

A Call to

Editorial..It is sad and disgusting to see what the BLACK

PANTHER NEWSPAPER has become . Once it was one :of the most revolutionary papers in the world. Now it'has become a filthy slander sheet, used by David Hilliardand Huey P. Newton to vent vicious unprincipled attacksagainst Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, Connie and CetTabor and countless other revolutionary brothers and,sisters throughout the world. When the BLACK.PANTHER PAPER belonged to the people, itrevolutionized the underground press throughout NorthAmerica. Since it has been copyrighted by Huey P. :Newton it has ceased to serve the interests of oppressedpeople. The BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER was once.the life blood of the Party. Now it is a Black CapitalistRag Sheet, used to finance the lavish tipping of Huey P.Newton (who lives in a $650.00 a month Penthouse) andDavid Hilliard (who just purchased a $65,000.00 house).We are asking the people to STOP BUYING THE

BLACK PANTHER INTERCOMMUNAL NEWSPAPERSERVICE copyrighted by Huey P. Newton. By doingthis it is one effective way to bring the extravagantmadness of Huey P. Newton and David Hilliard and therest of the "Peralta Street Gang" to a halt.The RIGHT ON BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS

SERVICE will be published at the Central Headquartersof - the Black Panther Party in New York City (in thevery near future) .

For further information on how you can contribute inre-establishing a truly People's Newspaper, contact :

CENTRAL HEADQUARTERSBLACK PANTHER PARTY1370 Boston RoadBronx, New YorkTelephone 328-2828

Dissolve the Central Committeeinability to personally see what was going on at- evaluate the situation sitting aloof in Oakland,the local level all the way from Oakland, California .California . As a result of this, "organizers" were

More than a year and a half ago, our Ministersent out from Oakland, California to just about

of Information Eldridge Cleaver had suggested aevery

branch

and

chapter

of

the

Party

planned reform of the Central Committee thatthroughout the country . David Hilliard himself,

dealt with the Central Committee being made upat one point, admitted that these brothers were : from the leadership from the branches and"not the most politically astute brothers in the

chapters throughout Babylon . At that time, heworld, but they are hard workers, they love the

had also recommended that Deputy ChairmanParty and they are very loyal brothers." This is . Fred Hampton be made a member of the Centralvery true . But these brothers and sisters were Committee, long before he was assassinated .sent throughout the country based upon their Both of these recommendations had beenloyalty to David Hilliard.

approved by Huey P. Newton while he still wasin prison, but this was selfishly blocked byDavid Hilliard . Brother Eldridge had pressed thisrecommendation again after Brother FredHampton was assassinated, as further proof ofthe need to have members of the CentralCommittee coming from the local branches andchapters . This too, was blocked by DavidHilliard and this was a cold, calculated, viciousscheme to stifle the development of theleadership of the Party on a national level . Davidblocked Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton frombecoming a member of the central committee .

It is obvious that Huey P. Newton supportsthis "absolute despotism". In an ideologicalinstitute (brain-washing) class in Oakland, Hueysaid that a politbureau (politic bureau) would beset up that would be representative of thenational leadership of the Party. Two weekslater at a "worship Huey session," Huey saidthat the politbureau would consist of only themost advanced and loyal brothers and sisters in

These brothers and sisters were unable to -

the party' and that the politbureau would beproperly

evaluate

the

situation

correctly .

above the central committee . Meaning David andBecause they were unfamiliar with the terrain

Huey,and mode of the people in the various areas they

The international section of the Black Pantherwere sent to, and the central committee (David

Party as well as the Central Headquarters in NewHilliard and company) definitely couldn't York City call for the reform/and ort "dissolvement of the present Central Committee

"He who is not afraid of

as we knc,w it, and that a new -body -be formeddeath by a thousand cuts

that represents the leadership from branches and^hapters throughout thecountry.to unhorse the

try. This is theemperor" - this is the

only way we will be able to exercise the trueindomitable spirit needed

principles of democratic centralism .in our struggle to build

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEs o c i a l i s m

a n d

DEATH TO THE REVISIONISTcommunism. "

Central HeadquartersChairman Mao

Black Panther Party

former Chief of Staff B.P.P. David Hilliard

A Statement of Solidarity'This paper is being published with the support of the`Independent Caucus of SDS at the State University ofNew York at Stony Brook. We have read the copy andseen the tapes from Algeria . We believe that Eldridge,Cet and others in the left wing of the Black Panther-Party have properly raised many important-contradictions relating to correct revolutionary practice.our tendency is to support them.We have seen in the past that Huey P. Newton iscapable of the finest revolutionary work among thepeople . For this reason ive call upon Huey to make aclear, honest, up-front analysis of the contradictions. Wefeel that the people should have the broadest possibleunderstanding of the contradictions, for at a time whenthe struggle has not yet matured, the people should beaware of all revolutionary programs, strategies andparties in order to wage a more effective people's war.We then call upon the people to deal with thesecontradictions in a revolutionary fashion.

FREEBOBBY

FREE ERICKA

LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OFPEOPLE'S WAR

Independent Caucus of SDS

On the Assassination of ComradeRobert Webb (West Coast Ministry)

Robert's life was taken from the service of the armed struggle when you_ don't attempt to get -people

by

seven

(7)

cowardly

out where the people are - while Black and allcounter-revolutionary

revisionist

lackeys, oppressed people don't have proper housing,following the orders ofHuey Newton and David food

and

the basic necessities of life,

thisHilliard . This was done because he had taken a cowardly revisionist clique of Newton andstand with the true revolutionary forces, in Hilliard

are

living

in

expensive,

high-riseBabylon under the leadership of Chairman apartments, homes paid for by brothers andBobby Seale, Min. of Information, Eldridge sisters subjecting themselves to all sorts of foulCleaver,

Field

Marshall,

Don

Cox

and , conditions to raise money for the people'sCommunications Secretary, Kathleen Cleaver.

struggle, money that could have been used toRobert was a brother who saw and could not feed those hungry children that you claimed to

relate to expounding a lot of rhetoric without i love - you paid $30.00 a day for your mealsbacking it up with revolutionary action .

and

your

bad

rugs

ordered

fromParis . . . . . . You say Robert is dead - but wesay he still lives . he lives in all of us who loved

Through education and first hand experience him. At Robert's funeral there were tears -notof dealing with people in the Black community, only tears of sorrow, the tears ran becauseRobert knew that the will of the people and niggers were mad,- killin' mad - Robert wastheir desire for freedom should be first . and shot from the back,, cowards! I'm glad that youforemost in the minds of a true revolutionary, fools were afraid of Robert because there are sonot some selfish whims - such as the ones many more of us like him, who possess hisshown by Huey, David and their Oakland circus revolutionary love for the people, and no mattermasquerading as servants of the people . It has how many you knock down - we will continuebeen proven for a revolutionary to survive and- to march forward, getting stronger by theattack the oppressive system another day, he' minute and serve the people . Robert's principalmust be able to move with the people as a fish weapon was not his gun, but his relationshipthrough the w4ter. How can you bring about with the people . When he went out in the

community he went out as a friend, a brother-that's why the people loved and respected him.He always talked about how proud he felt

knowing that Huey was his leader - heprotected Huey with his own life everytime hestood security for the man.

Robert was a warrior, strong and beautiful inevery way possible, armed with the theory ofrevolution . I'd just like to say this to you Robert- your gun has been received and I shall goforward until I am stopped by a bullet in-mybrain -1 will teach Lil' Masai all that you havetaught me. You came a long way Robert - fromNew Orleans Louisiana, still a child, to Hunter'sPoint, San Francisco, California - fighting,stealing, gang-warring, partying, to the service -lived through it - came home and joined theParty - you were sent to New Haven, workingto set me, Peggy, Lonnie, Bobby, Ericka,George, Landon and Rory free, to set the peoplefree . . . . . . . . . .

King Man-Revolutionary Warrior - Yourspirit lives on!

To the leaders and lackies of the revisionistcamp - we will not be satisfied until your bloodflows freely in the streets ofBabylon!

West Coast Ministry of InformationDEATH TO THE SUPREME FOOLS,NEWTON and HILLIARD!

On the Assassination of DeputyField Marshall Robert Webb

Within revolutionary organizations there always exist .an Omnipresentcontradiction of great importance : Thecontradictions between the political machinery and the ,military machinery . Those brothers and sisters whowould prefer the mass organizing, deal with rallies,propaganda work and fund raising, etc . . and those whowould like to get down all the time, when it's time andon time. In essence, within the ranks of a vanguard Partythere comes into being a right wing element and a leftwing element. Such is the case concerning the contra-dictions within the Black Panther Party.

Sometimes, these contradictions can be resolvedthrough non-violent solutions and a marriage betweenthe political and the military takes place . Other times,because of violence perpetrated by the right wing cliqueto maintain its cowardly posture, the complete com--munion between the rhetoricians and the activist cannottake place. Again, such is the case concerning the contra-dictions that exist within the Black Panther Party .

On Monday, March 8, 1971, at approximately 3:00PM, three of our brothers were walking east on 125thStreet and 7th Ave in Harlem when they encountered 2fools (who are aligned with the Huey P. Newton andDavid Hilliard clique) selling the 'Black Panther News-paper'. As one of our comrades moved closer to con-fiscate the reactionary rag sheet, he was struck in theback of the head with a forty five. Brandishing 45's,-9MM's and 357 magnums, several other people emergedfrom out of nowhere . One person, whose name we donot know, shot a round from a 45 or 357 magnum intothe back of Robert Webb's head . The bullet entered theback of his head and exited through his mouth. Thevelocity of the bullet shattered the brothers brains . At _

7:30 PM, the Central Headquarters of the Black PantherParty in New York received a call from Harlem Hospital linforming us that our comrade Robert Webb was dead .

This cold blooded murder was ordered by the formerMinister of Defense, Huey P . Newton . On a voodoo)(video) taped telephone conversation Huey P . Newtonhad with our Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, INewton stated, 'I'd like a battle brother . We'll battle itout.' Eldridge said that's not the best way to deal withit. Huey continued, 'Well this is the way I'm going todeal with it.' Eldridge replied, 'We'll see then OXXHuey then stated that he thought he had the guns andthat he was going to put his guns to work.

On Sunday, March 7th, we received information frominformed sources that Newton and David Hilliard had

sent 75 robots who are wired-up on their madness tocome to New York City to murder Panthers here .Several days before brother Robert was shot in the backof the head, many of our parents and relatives - fromcoast to coast - had been contacted by the F.B .I . Hoo-ver's hogs informed our families that they had receivedword that 'there was going to be a murder - and they feltit their duty to inform us.' This information correspondsdirectly with the information we received from othersources 24 hours before brother Robert was cut down in

Health, while the troops (rank and file Panthers) wereraggier than a bowl of yak . Or how Huey could live inan extravagant penthouse and David purchase a$65,000.00 house while the Panthers in New Haven,Connecticut (who lived in the Party headquarters there)live in a house that didn't have any heat or runningwater = in below zero weather . Brother Robert left theParty headed by the Oakland, California clique because'he had a family to feed .' He also was a get downbrother .

It also should be remembered that it was our slaincomrade who directed the press conference in New YorkCity on March I, announcing that the New York Chap-ter, the New Jersey Chapter and the International Sec-tion of the Black Panther Party had called for the resign-ation and/or dismissal of David and June Hilliard .

IWe hereby charge the puppet Huey P . Newton and his,

Puppeteer, - David Hilliard with murder. We have docu-,mented evidence that these two madmen gave the ordersto have Brother Robert Webb killed . We now declare forthe world to hear that Huey P . Newton, David Hilliard Iand their lackeys in Oakland, California owe the peopleof the world a tremendous debt - a debt that can only be JPaid in blood_

the streets of Harlem . The six or seven mad dog assassins.thetook his life were the first ones to arrive .

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Brother Robert Earl Webb had been sent from SanFrancisco, California tohelporganize on the east coastmore than a year and a half ago . He was loved andrespected by all those who had ever met him. In themiddle of January, Brother Robert stopped functioningwith the New Haven Chapter of the Black Panther Partybecause of the many questions that went unanswered .He, like many of his comrades, wonder how Huey andDavid could, run around cleaner than the Board of

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLELONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF OUR DEPUTY FIELD

MARSHALL ROBERT WEBBDEATH TO THOSE WHO DON'T DESERVE TO

LIVE

CENTRAL HEADQUARTERSBLACK PANTHER PARTY

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RIGHT ONI SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1971

THE TRIAL OFERICKA HUGGINSAND BOBBY SEALE

The jury in the trial of Chairman Bobby G.Seale and sister Ericka Huggins on trumped upmurder and kidnapping charges began hearingtestimony on Thursday, March 18. State'sAttorney, Arnold Markle, immediately called a`surprise' witness, sisterPeggy Hudgins, who wasone of the original 14 defendants in the case.Markle subpoenaed Peggy 40 minutes beforecourt started as the sister was waiting in a line toget into the spectators' section . This `surprise'pulled by Markle was a direct violation to PeggyHudgins right to counsel since this subpoena didnot reserve time for Peggy to confer with herlawyer, Catherine Roraback, before taking thestand. Defense Attorneys Charles Garry andCatherine Roraback immediately objected to the`surprise' pulled by Markle, calling it a"grand-stand play" andan attempt by Markle to

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On March 17, Ruchell Magee (the onlysurviving revolutionary brother of the August 7,1970 shoot-out at Marin County courthouse inCalifornia) made a motion in the fascist court at'Marin County that pig Judge John P. McMurray,be disqualified "for cause" . Prior to Ruchell'Frequest, McMurray had made several biaseestatements in reference to Ruchell's beingchained to his chair in court. Ruchell had beenbrutalized and chained and gagged in front ofthis pig, McMurray, and no verbal or physicalattempt was made, upon the part of McMurray,to stop these blatant violations of brotherRuchell's rights . .Upon Ruchell's request that Judge McMurray

disqualify himself, McMurray called for a recessand `consultation' session. After the recessMcMurray returned to the courtroom andstated, "I refuse to act any further in thismatter".On March 18, Ruchell, who had been denied

the status of Propria Persona- (self-representation) because he allegedly : 1)didn't know the law: 2) had an I.Q . of 75 : 3)

get headlines. Defense Attorneys also arguedthat Markle was just trying to putPeggy Hudginsin jail by having her incriminate herself on thestand.

To counter that argument, Judge HaroldMulvey granted Peggy Hudgins from prosecutionwhich takes away her fifth amendment right andforces her to either testify or go to jail forcontempt of court. Peggy Hudgins way forces toaccept similar alternatives during the trial ofLonnie McLucas: either she testify for the pigs,or remain in jail indefinitely . She testified thatafternoon and all day Friday, March 19th, whileGarry and Miss Roraback objected to thequestions asked by Markle . Judge Mulveyoverruled most of the defense objections to thelarge amount of, hearsay evidence Markle wastrying to introduce.

Still in all of Peggy's testimony, the Chairmanwas only mentioned once, as giving a speech atYale University one night. She hadpassed a noteto another Panther announcing that a small childwas lost and would Chairman Bobby make anannouncement to this effect.

Under direct pig intimidation, Peggy Hudginstestified that sister Ericka was in the "house"while Alex Rackley was allegedly tortured, but

The Trial of Ruche// Magee.could neither read nor write ; 4) struck his courtappointed, racist attorney, A. LeonardBjorklund. Brother Ruchell proved the pigswrong in their accusations by waging a two-hourstruggle in his own defense that ended with thedisqualification of pig McMurray on the groundthat he was biased . Ruchell then stated, "Nowwho's incompetent?"On August 7th, 1970, Ruchell Magee, along

with brothers Jonathan Jackson, James McClain.,and William Christmas made a revolutionarymove to obtain their freedom. These brothers,with guns in hand, set an example that shouldprevail in the minds of all poor and oppressedpeople in Babvlon.

FREE RUCHELL MAGEEFREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

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at no time did she say that sister Ericka Hugginsparticipate in the alleged tortured. However, shedid say she saw the pigs star pig George Samsbeating Alex Rackley with a pistol, and that she"tried to stay out of his way - I felt there wassomething wrong with him. "

Most people who have ever met George Samsthought that something was wrong with himwith the exceptions of Judge Harold Mulvey .District Attorney Arnold Markle and StokelyCarmichael. Sams, who has a mental history thatdates back many years, is the only one who hasimplicated Chariman Bobby in the case . He saidthat Alex Rackley was murdered on orderscoming from Bobby Seale. The pigs know thatGeorge Sams is a madman. Officially, he isconsidered "a high-grade moron". Yet thesesame pigs say his testimony is competent enoughto railroad Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins tothe electric chair.Need we further proof to the fact that the

only way we will free our political prisoners is inthe manner putforth by Jonathan Jackson.

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We take this time to write to'our homeys - our bloods, ourbrothers and sisters, our people,the Black and Third Worldcommunity - because _much,much misinformation has beenspread throughout the enemymass media about us lately ; andwe, from our prison cells, wouldlike to clear up some of theserumors and misinformationwhich our enemy would like tosow to cause misconceptionsabout us and what we stand for!

'Mar . 18, 1971In another bizarre day of

"testimony", Pt . Carl Woods,arch-bootlicker and liarcontinued his weird and aimlessmouthings . In response toquestioning by Attorney Katz,Woods vacillated, hemmed andhawed in his piggish, unique

-- way . At several points during thequestioning, the audience burstout in laughs at the answers hegave . His description of "guerillawarfare" was more closelyaligned to "hide and seek", achild's game of play . Woods,probably the least informed andknowledgeable of all theinformers, exhibited the mostfaulty of memories.D.A . Phillips, in one of his`

characteristic moves, accused the ,defendants of disrupting theproceedings . This was an obvious:planned move, as he heel`publicly stated before to thenews media that he expected ;̀disruptions in the courtroom .His counterpart in the comedy,'"Judge Murtaugh", played his',part to the hilt, harassing the'attorneys, making objections forthe prosecution and projecting ;his fascist nature .

'

Mar. 22, 1971Circus (trial) continued with ,

Carl Woods in his well-chosen .-:role as clown . Proceedings were .interrupted by the arrival ofFred Richardson in court. ;Richardson had been a fugitive'for almost 2 years, reportedlyhaving been in Barbados .

Message to ,the 3rd WorldFrom The N.Y. Panther 21considered "the preservation of:law and order" by our enemy!',When our enemy can find noreal evidence of any "criminalactivity, he fabricates a"conspiracy " charge . Things,have not in reality , changed forBlack people in this racistcountry since 1619 when wewere first brought here in chainsas slaves. let alone since 1663,when

the

first

"conspiracy "charge was brought against us.

We of the New York "21 "are'We, the New York "21 "are not in jail for any acts,

buttotally

dedicated

to

" the

because of our potential danger'liberation of our people - to AmeriKKKa. We aretotally dedicated to the total . potentially dangerous becauseliberation

of all oppressed. we have decided to align our,people . Our only commitment is behavior with our beliefs, andto that goal. We don't begin with . that does in actuality make usideals and work down; we being potentially dangerous to racist :with what is and -work up - up and

oppressive

AmeriKKKa.toward the total liberation of Therefore they had to attempt':our people!

and

what is,

is

to stop us before we could really'genocide -phsical murdeandy

r,

get

together

to

begin

tolegal murder -genocide! What is

"conspire"- they feel that they- is that one can speak elegantlyand eloquently about thiscondition of genocide, racism,exploitation and oppression . Butwhenver Black people cometogether to try and unify our,people to deal with these racist,negative, vulturistic, unjustconditions - the movementtoward revolution - we are,considered "criminal" by ourenemy! All attempts to keep usexploited and oppressed is

must attempt to keep us :contained at all costs - like no'bail, 3 to 4 pending ;"indictments, " prison officials,'promising us that we will be'beaten to death, even thoughtheir star witnesses have sworn'that they heard no one agree to, �do anything! We have decided toalign our behavior with ourbeliefs - and that does inactuality make us potentiallydangerous to racist and

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The Trial of the N.Y. 21Richardson turned himself in

and related that he had been'approached to become an'informer; to which his mothersaid, "I'd rather see him dead" .No bail was set . Following the .pattern set down previously,=,woods, on questioning fromAttorney Lefcourt, constantlyasked for "my notes to refreshmy recollection ." Most of the

Jackson

Murdered byl_ reactionarvfascist pigs,August 7, 1970

questioning revolved aroundevents of Dec . 23-26, 1963 andJanuary 2-14, 1969 . At onepoint in the proceedings thedefendants all started to applaudthe defense attorneys whoobjected to "Justice"(?)'Murtaugh constantly overrulingthe defense and sustaining theprosecution's objection .Attorney, Lefcourt ended hisquestioning .

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oppressive= AmeriKKKa!Therefore they must attempt tostop us. But they will not, in the',final analysis succeed, for we are'but a small group of anever-enlarging force developingin the Third World and even in'the confines ofAmeriKKKa thatis saying NO MORE! tooppression. And history showsthat wars against oppression arealways in the final analysis,successful! And there will be a'war, a true revolutionary war, atrue Third World global .revolutionary war! And no one- not AmeriKKKa nor us, noranyone can stop it. ButAmeriKKKa will try - that iswhy we are in fait. We will notcompromise! We will not bend!We will not break! That is whywe are in jail! We have swornthat this is the last generation ofour people that ' will live inbondage and the first that willlive in freedom! The enemy'sproclamation of death is beneathour scorn! That is why we are injail!

While sitting in prison, the"university of a revolutionary, "we saw with increasing claritythe complete truth in Malcolm'sstatement : `It's impossible for achicken to produce a duck egg,even though they both belong tothe same family of fowl. Thissystem cannot liberate us - this``economic system, this political ;

Attorney Bloom started hisquestioning and immediately heand Murtaugh got into a hassle .Bacuse of his insistence of somesemblance of rights for hiscliants, clearly the ploy is toderide the defense in ,order to

influence the jury . Questioningwill resume tomorrow withWoods again on the stand.Mar. 23, 1971Another day of subjection to

the fascist testimony of Carl'Woods . This day of testimonywas no different from any otheras the patter unfolds . It is clearthat the prosecution (incollusion with "Justice"'Murtaugh) is determined to

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system, this social system -impossible!" Therefore, werealized what had to be done,and how it must be done!Now, Malcolm also stated :

"You have all types of peoplewho are fed up with what'sgoing on. You have whites whoare fed up, you have blacks whoare fed up . . . So when the day`comes when the whites who arereally fed up . , . . learn how toreally establish the proper typeof communication with thoseuptown who are fed up, and'they get some coordinatedaction going, you 41 get some'changes. "

We, the New York "21 "don'tclaim to be the vanguard or theleadership of the revolution. Wefind our truths from experience,and we are still learning! But wefeel that the Weatherunderground fit truly in arevolutionary manner withMalcolm's "whites who arereally fed up," , "like old JohnBrown, "and are showing it in aprogressive and revolutionarymanner - and that we of theNew. York "21 " - Black menand women "who are really fedup" - that we cQuid establishthe really- proper type ofcommunication with ourrevolutionary comrades - theWeather underground!The Weather underground

carne out lately with a change in

railroad these brothers apd'sisters to jail. Each line ofquestioning posed by thedefense was challenged by theprosecution and openly andunashamedly collaborated bythe court..

Punctuated by numerous "I .don't know" statements, woods,as is characteristic of pigs,continued to spout nonsense .Several times even the jury hadto laugh at his babblingnonsense . Attorney Bloomseveral times contradictedWoods on statements he hadpreviously made on directexamination . The bright note ofthe proceedings being thenumber of people in attendance ;although the majority of themwere white . It would be good ifmore blacks could be in courtand see how the legal systemtreats blacks and poor people .

Mar . 24, 1971Court convened at 10 :30 a.m .

Patrolman Carlos Ashwoodresumed the stand. AttorneyBloom again cross-examined anddirected a withering crossfire ofquestions to Ashwood .

With deliberate hesitation andsarcasm Woods responded withthe studied posture of an actorrehearsing his lines .Characteristically, "RingmasterMurtaugh" and his supportingcast (clown Phillips and clownWeinstein) entertained thecourtroom audience with theirantics .

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Woods repeatedly used thephrase "Brothers" in the vein ofthe disciple Judas who also soldhimself for 30 pieces of` silver .At several points Woods'"impeccable memory" cameinto play. Seemingly hisidentification of persons becamevery hazy, confusing numerous.}ndividuals with each other .During the brief recess, Woodsmay be seen in the company ofhis masters licking their boots tohis heart's delight . Asked if heenjoyed Rosemary Byrdcompany as well as Clark Squire,Woods replied "as well as anyother Panther" .Toward the end of the line of

questioning Murtaugh repeatedlyadmonished Attorney Bloom forhis "unprofessional" line ofquestioning . What is manifestand evident is that not only doesthe court disregard the rights ofthe defendants, but the constant

. harassment of the attorneysclearly shows the vile andobnoxious manner the court hastaken to railroad the defendants .All semblance of justice andconstitutional rights have beenremoved from the case and outand out fascism has taken over .

Mar . 25, 1971Court was recessed due to

illness of one of the jurors .Circus re-opens Monday at

10:30 a.m . at 100 Centre Street .FREE ALL POLITICAL

PRISONERSNat Shanks

tactics, an announced change inlltactics, a change in tactics withinwhich we did not totally agree ;therefore, we wrote to them our1tcriticism . It was sent to a white:"underground" newspaper, a .media that we thought wouldreach them in the fastest, most~Iexpedient manner, since it servesthe white radical community .We are now sending, along withthis note, a copy of this openletter. In it we mention no pprtyor group by name; nor did weintend any specific or singlegroup. So to all the noise andfuss about it,-all that we can sayis, if Phe shoe fits, wear it! Here tis the Open Letter to theWeather Underground. Read ityourself. Listen to it yourself.Judge it yourself! (See EVO vol .6, no. 13 - Feb. 23, 1971)

We invite all of you to ourtrial to watch how Blacks whoalign their behavior with theirbeliefs are railroaded in legalmurder as part of. the enemy'sgenocide plan. The engine beginsat 10:30 am. and runs until4:30

p.m.

every

Monday 'through Thursday at 100 CentreStreet, 13th floor.

We will in the near future.communicate with you again to,more fully explain our totalpolitical position on the currentsituation .

Until then,

dare to lstruggle, dare to win! And don'tput off another day what you,._can do today!

The New York "21 "

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"THE BEST EXAMPLE THAT WE HAVE OF AN ALTERNATIVE I WAY OF DEALING WITH THE COURTS IS IN THECASE OF JONATHAN

JACKSON"

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On the Jim Dunbar "AMShow," a television programin San Francisco, onFebruary 26th, a disputewas aired between Huey P.Ne w to n, SupremeCommander of the BlackPanther Party and EldridgeCleaver, its Minister ofInformation . Cleaverdemanded the readmissionof , "Geronimo,"

ConnieMatthews, and the expelledmembers of the New Ydrk21 into the party and apublic expression ofapology. Newton not onlyrefused to do so, butthreatened to have EldridgeCleaver jailed in Algeria asTimothy Leary has been .Central to the disagreementwas the purge of ElmerGerard Pratt, commonlyknown as "Geronimo" or"G -1 by Huey P. Newtonand certain select membersof the Central Committee.At least three members ofthe Central Committeeknown to be residing inAlgeria (Eldridge Cleaver,Vnfhl"O" (genitor nnirDonald Cox) andGeronomo, himself amember, were notconsulted . This despite thefact that Geronimo hadasked repeatedly for anaudience with the partysince the date of his arrest,December 8th, 1970 inDallas, Texas.

Regrettably, a definitesplit has eventuatedbetween the rank and file ofthe BPP and its currentleadership in Oakland,'California. The rank and filecan no longer tolerate orcondone the behaviorexhibited by the presentleaders of the party, HuedP. Newton and DavidHilliard.Huey P. Newton has not

only arrogated to himseltthe new title of SupremeCommander (nowdiplomatically downgradedto "Supreme Servant") buthe has seen fit to expel,without a hearing, one ofthe most dedicated leadersof the BPP and itsprinciples, Geronimo, in hishour of need. After thefascist pigs, with theassistance of unknown localmembers' of the CentralCommittee of the BPP,ferreted out Geronimofrom the undergroundhaven (to which he hadbeen consciouslycommissioned . by that selectmembership of the CentralCommittee) he is compelled

Free Geronimo-The Urban GuerillaPART I

to resign himself to the fate functions

of Minister

ofwhich the fascist pigs have : : Defense

while

Huey

P.in store for him.

- Newton was in the hands ofBecause of this attack on - the fascist pigs. These same

Geronimo during a timewhen he is in need ofsupport from the people itis necessary to give somebackground on Geronimo'swork within the BlackPanther Party so that you'can decide if this brother istruly counter-revolutionaryas claimed by Huey:

On January 17, 1969Bunehy Carter (DeputyMinister of Defense -Southern California Chapterof Black Panther Party) wasmurdered at UCLA. At thistime Geronimo was placedin the difficult position of ,taking over whereBunchyleft off. Geronimo'sleadership ability,self-discipline and love forthe people was quicklyrecognized by members ofthe chapter. Our ability torecognize and deal with thecrises arising out of thestruggle in Babylon wasincreased greatly byGeronimo's example and hisconstant emphasis on eachparty member accepting theresponsibility ofrevolutionary leadership .

Because of the SouthernCalifornia Chapter'sadvances during this time,Geronimo's reputation grewin all the chapters, and hebecame a member of theCentral Committee (CC)and took on many of the

Geronimo in Harlem

pigs also recognizedGeronimo's , value to therevolutionary movement inBabylon and thereforeconspired to permanentlyremove him from the

', service of the people .On Monday, August 17,

1970, Geronimo failed toshow up in court for a caseandhis bail was revoked. Atthe time he had fourcharges against him; a bombcase, false imprisonment,assault on a pig, and the LosAngeles 18 shootout.Geronimo wentunderground to avoid theclutches of the pigs becauseit was "time to concentrateon living to fight anotherday. " (See August 29,,1970issue of BP). Contrary tothe recent article in theparty paper purgingGeronimo he was fullysupported by the party atthe time of his move to gounderground as evidencedby the article "Reflectionso (Geronimo . . . . TheEssence of a Panther." inthe August 29, 1970 issueof the Black Panther.

While Geronimo wasunderground, many changeswere occurring in the Party.Huey P. Newton's thoughtsbecame "invincible" and headopted the title andposition "SupremeCommander. . ."

Hero

worship, idolatry, andabsolute acceptance of andreliance on theunquestioned authority ofHuey P. Newton weredemanded of each Partymember.

Geronimo was capturedby the pigs in Dallas onDecember 8, 1970 alongwith Will Stafford, WilfredCrutch Holiday, GeorgeLloyd and Melvin Smith.The chieftains of the partydid not even feel itnecessary to speak toGeronimo to find out whatreally happened andaccepted the words("evidence") of two peoplewho turned out to be pigs -Cotton and Gaines (Huey'sboys). Melvin Smith, alsoknown as "Cotton," wasthe only member of thegroup of four peoplecaptured in Dallas who wasnot purged from the BlackPanther Party. He andCurtis Gaines have beendetermined to be, beybTidall doubt, pigs themselves.In fact, "Cotton" has livedin a luxury to which he wasformerly unaccustomed,namely in the domicile ofone Raymond Callahan,

head of the CriminalConspiracy Section of theLos Angeles PoliceDepartment, and isroutinely . escorted by hisnewly found friend intowhatever courtroom he issummoned _ to "recount"Geronimo's deeds againstthe establishment. CurtisGaines from the BlackPanther `Party

chapter inDallas, where the arrest wasmade, has even beenrecognized by the BlackPanther Party *itself -earlier version - as a pigagent (see recent issue ofthe Black Panther paper) .These

two forces actinginunison persuaded thechieftains

of

the

BlackPanther Party to expelGeronimo, a dedicatedleader and member of theparty's central committee,with no hearing. Eldridge['leaver stated that he wasnot even aware of thereasons why Geronimo waspurged and that it nowappears apparent that hiseaphure ivas a "sei`-up."At this time, the leader,

Huey P. Newton, haspurged Geronimo, WillStafford, Wilfred "Crutch"

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Cairo United FrontRacist is victim ofsniper attack afterassault on Brother

from racism and exploitationto Liberation and Freedom

CAIRO, Ill., March 7, 1971 -The following is an account ofthe incident which involved Mr.Levi Garrett and Mr. JamesAvery on the early morning ofMarch 6, 1971, according to Mr.Garrett and several othereye-witnesses.

The bartender of the "PythianClub", Mr. Joe Nelson shovedand pushed the wife of Mr.'Ronnie Garrett, the brother ofLevi Garrett. Ronnie went to heraid and was pushed and shoved

. by Mr. Nelson. A Mr. Gerald'Henderson went to Mr. RonnieGarret's help and fought withNelson for some time . Then Leviwalked up and as he did Nelsonsaid he was being "ganged upion" and went for help . Then Mr.Jim Avery came on the sceneand started a long argument withLevi Garrett.Avery said that he was tired

of these "damn" militants tryingto run the town and he wasthere to show them it was goingto stop. The argument continued'and in the process Avery said he,would stop Garrett and all theother "militants" if he had tokill all of them. At that point-Avery removed his pistol from a :.holster and fired at Garrett, theshot going between his legs andhitting the floor inside the,Pythian Club. As soon as AVery 'fired his shot Garrett and mostothers left the Pythian . Garrett'returned to his home .Sometime after this,

apparently, Avery was shot bysomeone . It was not Levi Garretthowever . According tonewsreleases, Avery was hit inthe shoulder and according towhich paper or which radiostation is listened to, was hit bysniper fire or from a person whofired a rifle (high-powered) athim from only six feet away . Apaper says an arrest warrant hasbeen issued on Garrett. When heis arrested bond will be

' $15,000.00

(Cash

needed$1,500.00) .

Officials of the Front havetried to point out to the press.that this incident is not unlike'many other such incidents which'happen throughout the year in''taverns and clubs, both whiteand Black patronized. The fact'that Avery was shot down placesa different coloring on the story,they admit. Avery has beenworking recently in cooperation'with the Mayor, other whites ofCairo and Leon Perry, aGovernor's aide to divide theBlacks and destroy the Boycott .(Avery also was recentlyimplicated in a $25,000-$75,000deal to assassinate the Rev.Charles Koen .

In responding to publishedreports that Rev. Charles Koen,executive director of the Fronthas said that as far as anyone cantell, except for Avery's story, itcould have been a white manthat shot him . "Since he hasfailed so miserably in doing whathe was paid to do, the whitesthemselves could have shotAvery . Of course he and thepress and the whites in this townwould blame Levi . Of course thepress would say he (Garrett) ismember of the Front. He is alsoa member of First MissionaryBaptist Church, but theywouldn't put that downidentification . The press also didnot tell the true story bydeclaring that Avery was illegallycarrying a gun and that he wasattempting to kill Levi. Theyonly took the word of Averyand the police and did not takethe time to investigate the factswhich would seem necessarysince they themselves had builtAvery up as a leader."

According to Garrett, he willattempt to file charges ofattempted murder on Avery forshooting at him inside thePythian Club .

The beginning date of the-Black people of Cairo's currentstruggle, was March 31, 1969,when the white vigilantes ofCairo shot into the all-Blackhousing project for over 2i/shours . This was not the firsttime whites had done suchviolence on Blacks . It marked anew age, however, in that Blackpeople stood up to the racistsand refused to give into these`adtions which were meant tokeep the Black man "in hisplace" .

Shortly after the shoot-outthe Black citizens began aneconomic boycott against theirwhite oppressors . They said"White Hats Must Go or BlackFolks Will Keep Their Dough" .The whitehats did not go - theyare still here and activelyinvolved in violence againstBlacks . However - neither didthe Boycott stop . It is still instrong effect . As a matter of factwhitehats did not go - but storeafter sotre of the whitemerchants has had to go, andothers are still going as thestrength and determination ofthe Black people grows andgrows.

Soon after the Boycott beganthe Black people began theirorganization - The UnitedFront_ They eallad the RavCharles Koen to return to Cairo,the place of his birth, childhoodand youth to lead them . Sincethen the Front has developed astrong local organization and hashelped create other Fronts inmany cities and a NationalOrganization which covers the

j country .The United Front too,

through adverse opposition fromthe Mayor, the white citizens, -the Governor and the FederalGovernment has remained . Earlyin the struggle, during thesummer of 1969, the Fronttraveled to the State Capitolwith a "Resolution to SaveCairo" . Pharoah Ogilviehardened his heart, arrested over200 Front supporters - andrefused to act on the Resolution .

i Like Ogilvie the city of Cairoand the REtail Merchants haveturned down one specificproposal after another which hasbeen drawn up by the Front as ameans of ending the racialturmoil and which would helpbring peace and harmony to thecity of deep trouble . They, like-the Governor, responded, notwith love, but with moreviolence . Today more than 100additional State Police are hereat the request of the Mayor. Thepolice seige of the Blackcommunity included these aswell as whitehats, city andcounty law enforcement'agencies . Even now Frontofficials have developeddocuments of progress to submitto responsible officials and'businessmen in a comprehensiveprogram to save the City .The Black people have, for ;

the most part, lived through 150 .nights of shootings by whitesinto their neighborhoods andhomes . Many have beenwounded . Tragically some havelost their lives . Black people

have not returned the violenceto the whites . They havedefended themselves in theirhomes. Hundreds have beenarrested in Cairo. The Front hasput up over, $50,000 .00 in Cashas bonds. Many Blacks have beenbeaten . Harrassment andintimidation are a constant partof their lives. But their spiritremains high . Their awarenessand understandings are deep .They, through God, have thestrength and determination toresist and finally overcome theiroppressors .The Front has developed a

Housing DevelopmentCorporation which has now,despite strong opposition, beenfunded . Eventually 100 newhomes for rental by Cairo's poor

and 200 to 300 homes for salewill be built . A housing factoryhas been in operation for about6 months. They have cuthousing costs by a full one-third.

Economic development is areality . A clothing store ; a foodmarket ; and the beginnings of ashopping center, long delayed byillegal means by the Mayor willbe built . Other programs inemployment and production arebeing developed on acooperative basis, so that all thepeople can benefit . Politicaleducation on a continuing andmeaningful basis helps lead theBlacks to more realistic andunderstnadable involvement inthe struggle .

In the Courts the Front hasfiled a dozen or more suits inFederal Courts against theoppressive agencies in Cairo .Some have been won . Otherswill be . Blacks serve on juries .Today it is harder for thejudicial system to send a Blackman in Alexander County to thepenetentiary on trumped-upcharges than ever before. They

'supporters throughout thecountry . Much more is needed .

Millions of people acrossAmerica are aware of the plightof Cairo's poor and Blacksbecause of an elaborate 'communication systemdeveloped by the Front andbecause the Rev. Koen and otherleaders of the Front havetraveled hundreds of thousands#of miles to tell the Cairo story .

The most important part ofthe struggle is found within itsreligious dimensions . The Blackpeople of Cairo relate to a higherpower. Saturday rallies areaccentuated by deeply moving

sometimes still go . We must domore work in this . importantarea .

Hundreds of thousands ofdollars of foodstuff and clothinghas been distributed withoutcost to the poor of Soul Valley,as the Blacks have renamedLittle Egypt. These came fromthe contribution of friends and

spiritual services . God is praised.`God and the people are served.Without God the Front wouldperish . With God the Frontmoves on to greater and moremeaningful achievements . WithGod the people of Cairo, God'schildran, move from Racism andExploitation to FREEDOMAND LIBERATION .

A local pig unprovoked,, threatens and attacksI

a peacefully picketing member of theUnited Front of Cairo in downtown Cairo,

REV. CHARLES KOEN DIRECTOR

" OF UNITED FRONT OFCAIRO:

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people or resort to slander andinfantile temper tantrums . It isonly necessary to mentionbriefly the depths to which the(formerly) Black . Panthernewspaper has descended in3rder to distort, withhold or lieabout pertinent facts . It istherefore necessary_ to breakthrough the Oaklandinformation block and shedsomeTight on the situation .

Focus your attention on theexpulsion from the BlackPanther Party of the New York21 and to that of Elmer"Geronimo" Pratt . These are byno means the only cases worthyof mention, but they are primeexamples of the kinds ofunderhandedness and dirty workthat has been led by DavidHilliard (ex-Chief of Staff) andhis gang of lackeys in Oakland,California .You will recall that the New

York 21 was busted on bombconspiracy charges. They havebeen in the world's worst jail formany months, and during thistime several problems of aserious nature have sprung upwhich called for active moves onthe part of the Black PantherParty . Some of the problemswere of a highly legal, technicalnature, some involved bail andsome had to do with muchneeded contacts . Members of theNew York 21 wrote letter afterletter, addressed to the CentralCommittee of the Black PantherParty, stating their predicamentand outlining what wasnecessary to protect their livesand their freedom. DavidHilliard's clique chose not onlyto ignore those letters but keptthem secret from othe,) keymembers in the Party . Because

An Open Letter to the PeopleFrom"Bobby Hutton'

the Party wasn't moving on theirneeds or their pleas, the NewYork 21 drafted a letter to theunderground Weathermen . Thisletter to the Weathermen waslabeled by Hilliard & Co . as ar."insult", and the New York 21were branded as traitors and pigsand purged from the BlackPanther Party .

This message pertains to therecent exposure ofcontradictions andback-stabbings within the BlackPanther Party . It is directed tothe world public in general andto the Black colonies of Babalonin particular .

Following 'the exposure ofthese contradictions, there hasbeen-an all-out campaign on the

Now

this

purge,part of a clique based in

abandonment, along with otherOakland, California, under the

recent abandonments, was givenguidance

and

dictatorship

of

to the people as originating fromDavid

Hilliard,

to either the Central Committee of thewithhold the facts from the Black Panther Party . It so .

Ics

happens, however, that BobbySeale, Eldridge Cleaver, his wifeKathleen and Don Cox D.C.) areand have long been (since theearly beginnings of the BlackPanther Party) active membersof the Central Committee . Yetnone of these committeemembers were informed aboutthe purges and expulsions, norwere they consulted . They madethe shocking discoveries onlyafter reading about theirr in the(formerly) Black Panthernewspaper. This is a situation inwhich high-ranking, faithfulmembers of the Party were keptin the dark about matters thatwere of the most vitalimportance and concern tothem, a . situation in which twoor three individuals took it uponthemselves to act as the wholecentral committee, a situation inwhich the lowest of deeds wascommitted againstrevolutionaries of the highestorder - brothers and sisterswho, more than once, were triedand found true .The question to ask at this.

point is just who, then, is theCentral Committee of the BlackPanther Party? If we judge fromthe recent expulsions and purgesnot only of individuals but alsoof entire Party, branches, thenwe must conclude that theCentral Committee is DavidHilliard, Huey P. Newton andJune Hilliard, supported by suchreactionary lackeys as MasaiHewit, "Big Man", DougMiranda and Emory Douglas .

Well . . . there's

only

onething to say about that . Giventhe

- counter-revolutionarymanner in which thatOakland-based clique have dealt

sisters, the only centralcommittee they could possiblybe on is that of the F.B .I .

Let's move to the- case ofElmer "Geronimo" Pratt . He is,n the words of Michael Tabor,"a right on brother who will getdown, has got down and knowshow to get down in anysituation ." "Geronimo" wasloved by everybody who evermet him on the level ofrevolutionary struggle, and hewas respected by all . At onetime Huey P . Newton evenpayed homage to this brother's

dedication by saying, "Ifanything ever happens to me,then "Geronimo" is to take myposition of leadership in theBlack Panther Party."The Los Angeles pig

department will also vouch for"Geronimo's" revolutionaryspirit for he, along with severs :other righteous warriors, heldoff a pig attack for five hours -shot for shot - and walked awayalive . Following this armedstruggle with the Los Angelesmilitary, "Geronimo" wasindicted for attempted murder .This forced him undergroundand as soon as he went intohiding he discovered that he wassuddenly abandoned by thatOakland gang on Peralta Street .Without the much needed helpduring this period of urgentdesperation, Elmer Pratt wascaptured in Texas. Soonafterwards, every revolutionaryin Babalon was shocked to readthat "Geronimo" had beenlabeled traitor by David Hilliard& Co., and as a final fiendish act.he was purged from the BlackPanther Party for life!

This kind of thing violatesevery revolutionary principle .We can't have it and we won't .Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt is arevolutionary in the truest sense .He devoted his life, put his lifeon the line, because he believedin the Party, had faith in thepeople and believed in what hewas doing . In return he wasseized by the pig Texas Rangers,a direct result of betrayal byDavid Hilliard and his clique inOakland, California .And to what can all of this be

traced?In October 1968, Huey P.

Newton was tried, convicted and

swiftly dispawned to thepenitentiary for manslaughter,resulting from the death of anOakland pig . In November 1968,Eldridge Cleaver was forced tochange his base of operations toAlgiers. Kathleen soon joinedher husband there . In August1969, Bobby Seale was indictedand extradicted to Chicago forconspiracy to murder andconspiracy to kidnap . Theseconditions hurled David Hilliardunexpectedly to the forefront ofthe Black Panther Party . Hebecame not only the number

one spokesman for the Party,but also the sole adviser to HueyP. Newton and attorney CharlesR . Garry, and it was DavidHilliard alone who determined-Party strategy and policy .

Like a man craved withhunger for recognition, DavidHilliard seized the, opportunityto latch onto this newfoundpower and authority . He wieldedthis power and authority like ahatchet, taking the head of anycomrad who questioned orcriticized his actions . Slowly butrelentlessly he leaped on everyopportunity to centralize allpower in the grip of his neatlymanicured and expensivelyringed fingers .

During this same period, theBlack Panther Party wasenjoying glorious days, and moreand more the people grantedthat it was indeed the vanguardof the revolution in Amerikkka.This stemmed largely from thetremendous efforts put forth bythe countless thousands ofpeople to "Free Huey" . Forthirty-three months Huey sat ina prison cell as the Black PantherParty grew from a local cadre toa national organization . Andthroughout all of this, DavidHilliard's mouth whispereddistortions and mis-informationinto the ear of Huey P. Newton .When Huey was released from

prison in August 1970, there wasonly one person who reallyknew what was going on in theBlack Panther Party : DavidHilliard . He told Huey only whathe wanted him to know, andHuey's direction was establishedby the point of David's finger .

Since August 1970, the BlackPanther Party has progressivelyswerved from the position of

vanguard to cadres of newspapervenders and baby sitters . For`thirty-three long months HueyNewton talked every day withpolitical prisoners who wantedto strangle their captors and ripdown the walls to liberatethemselves. Huey's response tothis? A "bussing program" setup to cart people to thepenitentiaries on visiting days .To be very blunt about it,

Huey Newton came out ofprison more like a kitten than aPanther .

So . . . we return now to the

case of the New York 21 and tothe case of Elmer "Geronimo"Pratt . We add to those cases therecent slur tactics (as KathleenCleaver describes them) to whichthe (formerly) Black Panthernewspaper has degenerated ; weadd the record of the manymembers who have resigned indroves from the Party ; we recalland add the purges andexpulsions of not only individualmembers bu of entire branchesof the Party as well . And we addto the top of it all the expulsionfrom the Party of the entireInternational Section in Algiers.As for the so-called

"expulsion" of the InternationalSection (which are nothing but alot of hot air, signifying nothing)we note that it came in the wakeof Eldridge Cleaver's criticism ofthe counter-revolutionary actsthat were taking place, and itonly serves further todemonstrate the extent to whichthat Oakland clique will go tcsilence criticism .But the simple fact is that

neither the Black Panther Partynor any person who is part of itis above or beyond criticism .And, despite our lack of presentaccess to the news media, thoseof us who constitute theextreme left wing of the BlackPanther Party will continue tocriticize whenever criticism isneeded to exposecounter-revolutionary acts .

With all of our love to therevolutionary peoples of theworld,

to all of the oppressed peopleof Babalon, to all of the blackpeople in the black colonies inBabalon . . .ALL POWER TO THE

PEOPLE!

ON THE CONTRADICTIONS WITHINTHE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

This is our regularlyscheduled politicaleducation class. We havetoday a very serious internalcrisis within the B.P.P. andour class today will bedevoted to a discussion, ananalysis of this problem,setting forth certainhistorical elements thatneed to be known andneed to be thoroughlyanalyzed in order to enableus to deal with thesituation. We haveinformation that we'vereceived from the UnitedStates via the telephone andthink that it would bebetter for us to start bylistening to those messages.Of course members of theB.P.P., also some of ourcomrades who've beenworking in close harmonywith the BPP over a periodof time in various parts ofthe world are present -Eldridge Cleaver, SakuOdinga, Pete O'Neal, DonCox, Barbara Cox, DaveJacobs, Ian Black, KathleenCleaver, Bill Perry, Lily,Charlotte O'Neal, LarryMack .

I just

we have three members ofthe Central Committee ofthe BPP over here, is thatthis action is regrettable, itshould not have takenplace, it took place withoutproper consultation withthe other members of theCentral Committee and welay the responsibility at thefeet of David Hilliard andwe demand that DavidHilliard be dismissed orresign from the position ofChief of Staff of the BPPsothat we can go about thework of pulling the Partyback together again,because it looks to us asthough the results of theactions by David Hilliardover a long period of time,the Party has fallen apart atthe seams.

TELEPHONE CONVER-SATION BETWEEN HUEYP. NEWTON & ELDRIDGECLEAVER

EC - Hello?

HN - Hello.

EC - Hey man.

HN - Eldridge

Ec - What's happening?

HN - Well, you dropped abombshell this morning

EC - Yeah .

HN - Well, it was veryembarrassing for me.

EC - Well it had to be dealtwith, man.

HN - Well I have to dealwith it too because I thinkthat it was unfair becausewhen you bring things likethat it should be brought tothe Central Committee anddiscussed openly and notoutside, you know?

EC - Well the way a tot ofstuff has been going down ithasn't been done that way,man.

HN - Hello, you listening?The Intercommunal Sectionis expelled

ED - . . Right on, if that'swhat you want to do,brother. But look here, Idon't think you should takesuch actions like that.

HN - Well, I'm taking it,brother. You dropped thebombshell all over thecountry now that there's afraction, well I want thefraction to be put to work,because I wish I could'vedevastated it if it exists butI don't think it exists. Asfar as you're concerned,you can go to hell brother,but you're expelled, allcommunications will bestopped and that's the endof it .

HN - What?. .I'm going towrite the Koreans, theChinese, and the Algeriansand tell them to kick youout of the, our embassy,

EC - Say Huey.

HN - And to put you in jail .You're a maniac brother.

EC - Say, Huey.

HN - Like Timothy Leary, Ithink you're full of acid thismorning.

EC - Say Huey. . .

HN- What?

EC - I think you shouldslow down brother, 'causethat's not going to work,you know .

HN - Well I think it will.We'll see.

EC - O.K., we'll see.

HN - And you know, I'dlike a battle brother. We'llbattle it out.

EC - Say Huey, that's notthe best way to deal withthat.

HN - Well this is the wayI'm going to deal with it.

EC - Well, then I thinkyou're a madman toobrother.

RIGHT-OM `SATURDAY, APRIL'S,' 1471 ' 'PAGE .

EC - We'll see then O.K. ?

HN - But I think I have theguns.

EC - I got some guns too,brother.

HN - Alright, you putyours to work and I'll putmine to work, but I'm not acoward like you brother,cause you ran off and gotLil Bobby Hutton killedand I stayed here to facethe gas, you see. But you'rea coward 'cause you didn'tattack me this morning, youattacked the Chief. Youattacked him but youwanted to say my name,you see. So you're acoward, you're a punk, youunderstand.

EC - Say Huey. . .

HN - You're a punk!

EC - I think you've lostyour ability to reasonbrother.

HN - Hey brother, youheard what I called you andthat's what 1 feel about younow. You're a punk!

want to commenton the present situationthat exists_ inside the BlackPanther Party, specificallyin reference to the purge ofbrother GeronimO and theexpulsion of the N. Y.

21.

HN - O.K., we'll battle like Huey

hung

up.

End

of

EC - I wouldn't call youthat, you see. . .HN-Don't you think so?

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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER:Within revolutionary Marxist-Leninist

organizations involved in people's war, th'dere hasalways existed the problem of maintaining theunity of the political and military leadership.Ideally, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninistorganization involved in the people's struggleand the people's war does away with theclassical and bourgeois form of organization inwhich the political leadership of theorganization is represented by one element andthe professional standing army exists to dealwith the military aspect . In a people's strugglethere is no distinction between the military andthe political because everyone has to deal withboth of these elements.Once upon a time the Black Panther Party

had no problem on that level. When the Partywas a small organization, it wasn't a very wellknown organization, it didn't have any politicalprisoners around which we had to indulge inmass activity . It was' just Panthers, pigs, andguns . And the leadership was a unitaryleadership that had to relate to the business ofthe Party . The problem did not arise until Huevwas arrested. It's very important to realize thatwhen Huey was arrested, the Party no longerhad an the streets a leadership focus. In the firstplace, when Huey was arrested Bobby Seale wasin prison, He was in jail serving timO'for theSacramento bust, -then in AfMeda Cocinty foranother jive gun urge that he had there. So atthe time Huey was busted in October of '1967,Bobby Seale was in jail :until the end ofDecember or the beginning of : January,rightaround then . We didn't have a verysophisticated political analysis and machinery todeal with things like that and we had to move interms of practice. Of course, we had principlesto guide us, but we were immediately aware ofthe problems created by the fragmentation ofthe leadership . We worked out communicationschannels between the Party and Huey . BobbySeale of out. So, in effect, we were once againable to pull back together the focus ofleadership.And still there were always problems and

criticism about some people who wanted tomove in a purely military fashion, and from thecats who were more oriented to the militaryaspect there were criticisms of those who weretoo much involved in the political aspect of massmobilization . Objectively, both are in error.Both of these are mistakes in principle. Therewas some attempt made to bring our practicemore in harmony with our theory along thatline, but still I think that those of us who paidclose attention to the Party know that this hasbeen a continuing problem .Now the contradiction developed and

developed and developed. The Party itselfdeveloped into a very bureaucratic machineryfor dealing with mass demonstrations, aroundpolitical prisoners, publishing newspapers,getting out leaflets, and all of that massmobilization apparatus, rallies, the whole abilityto do that . Much of the Party's resources andpersonnel were channeled into that . Those whowere dedicated to mass mobilization tended tofavor and select people out of the mass of theParty who were similarly oriented . And cats whodidn't fit into that, were kind of shuttled to theside, dropped out of the Party, and all kinds ofthings . This contradiction presented itself as acritical situation that had to be resolved whenthe Panthers first started offing the courts .Because in the first place the wholecontradiction arose over how to deal with thesystem. And the focus of our contact with thesystem was the court situation . And all this massmobilization was around political prisoners,trials, court appearances, and so forth. So thatthe mass mobilization campaign is a symbol ofone form of dealing with that.

The best example that we have of another

alternative way of dealing with it is in the case'of Jonathan Jackson. And even though JonathanJackson was not- a member of the Black PantherParty, we have no problem or contradiction inrelating to the great revolutionary initiative hetook . In the first place, the Black Panther Partyis a vanguard organization . It is not a massmembership organization, and its job is tovanguard tactics and disseminate information sothat the people will know how to move and howto move on target . The type of action thatJonathan Jackson took has everything to dowith the way the Black Panther Party wasmoving, helping to create the right climate,helping to discredit the judiciary and turnpeople against it so that the gun would bepicked up. Jonathan Jackson represents some of

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the fruit of the work of the Black Panther Party .So that when brothers start oofing the courst,going underground, and rejecting that wholescene there is still a need for mass mobilization .But it's not correct to say that the man who hasoffed the courts and gone underground nolonger has any politics, because that is politics,that is the supreme form of politics - war . Sothat we have to look at all these elements to seejust what is going on .

One of the charges brought against Geronimowas that he had the audacity to ask for moneyfrom Central . It's clear that a brother living inthat situation being searched for high and lowby the pigs has a great need for money, andwhen politics is being transformed into war, andwe know that this is the trend, this is the wayhigtory is moving, the way we want it to move,then the duties of the above ground apparatusbecomes one of relating to and enthusiastically

supporting the underground.One of the primary responsibilities of those

above ground is to see to it that theunderground has the resources that it needs tofunction, otherwise there is no reason for theexistence of that above ground apparatus.Because the needs of our struggle are to wagethe people's war, and that's a valid vanguardpoint of our whole apparatus, and that's whathas to be related to because that's where ourvictory is going to come from . This doesn'tmean that we don't still have any of theobligations and the need to mobilize on theabove ground level around our political prisonersand so forth. We still have that need . But whenpeople have conflicts in their own mind, whenthey see a contradiction, there should be nocontradiction between the underground and theabove ground . In successful struggles there aren'tbecause it's one and the same organizationmoving . So when the divisions arise, when werelate only one-sidedly, then we have a tendencyto begrudge everything on the other side, wehave a tendency, to be uncooperative, all kindsof little personality things come up which causethese problems and we're dealing with asituation of life and death . And people who havetransformed politics into war take a very dimview of people who don't understand that anddon't relate to that and patience is very shortand there is no-real need for too mach patienceor discussion .Now this contradiction is something that

developed while Huey was in jail, because :beforethis was all united and pulled together in Huey.Now Huey comes out of prison . Thecontradiction is already there. You could tellthat there was some faith and hope in thebrothers who had gotten down that Huey wouldthe able to deal with it, be able to resolve `thecontradiction . But Huey came out into the armsof this right-wing bureaucratic apparatus. TheBlack Panther Party has developed a left wingand a right wing . The right wing is based on thewhole apparatus that relates to the massorganizing, the legal, above ground apparatus,and then the brothers who are moving, outlaws,underground, those who have gotten down -those who have transformed politics into war -constitute the left wing of the Party. So thatHuey went to jail in October of 1967 and he gotout in August of 1970. Now during the timethat - Huey was on the streets before October1967 the Party was very small in numbers andmembership and very local in structure . It hadgotten to be widely known following theincident in Sacramento and so forth, andparticularly when a pig, Frey, was found deadon the ground in Oakland, 'i ne Party becameeven more widely known. The Black PantherParty was mobilized and developed and grewfrom a very small nucleus into a national andinternational organization prior to Huey beingreleased in August 1970.

.Now this doesn't mean that he doesn't know

anything about that, because he was in prisonand he had certain information, but if you lookat how this information came to him, throughGarry and these other lawyers, and from myown experience I know that you can read all thenewspapers and listen to all the visitors youwant to, but you're only getting a minuteportion of the information that's floatingaround in the environment outside . And it hurts .It limits your ability to make decisions onimportant problems . And you can feel it andyou know it . You've got big problems in termsof keeping up on things . Yvu can get the broadsweep of events, you can deal with that, you canstill move from jail and be in harmony on thatlevel, but in terms of those details, in terms ofthe daily conflicts and arguments that go downin the office, you are out of touch with that .And you can believe that whenever theseconflicts came up, the information that went to

Huey didn't come from the people who weregetting messed over . Huey's information camefrom David Hilliard and Garry and all thesepeople . So that the information was one-sided,so that over a period of time, you can see howhe wouldn't have all the information he wouldneed to make decisions on those kinds ofcontradictions, those kind of conflicts.

That's very important, because Huey hassigned this statement on Geronimo . Butanalyzing that document we see that thegrievance that the underground brothers hadwere against David Hilliard and June Hilliard .The first demand was that they had to go . Thenlater on things developed and they said theywere going to off David and June . So that youcan see that the brothers were trying to dealwith it and trying to get Huey to relate to it . Butat the pace with which Huey has been movingand the lack of knowledge about the details ofthe situation, the fact that he has only reallybeen out of prison a few months puts him in aposition where he thinks he understands what'shappening, but really doesn't . And when Hueygot out the behavior of David and his crew wasexemplary . They didn't go around doing thesame shit that had people up tight. They wereprobably very beautiful brothers, very helpful,very efficient, doing whatever Huey said do,kept shit moving, so that was all right with him,that was good, and that's "vhaz he needs. Andanyway, he'd want to

about whateverpast grievances were

coming Jown while hewasn't there . Because a lot* Zktngs he saw werefucked up. All kinds of things had to bestraightened out and Huey would have atendency to look at these complaints as justsomething that had to be dealt with andcrganized so that we could get rid of all theinternal antagonisms. But the people who hadthese deep experiences and grievances, they&eren't in a position to just forget that . Butthey held back . And you see that they did holdback, because nothing happened during thattime, and Geronimo was right there when Hueygot out, they were all together, Geronimo wasn'tunderground then.

Another important thing is the centralizationthat Huey started in the Party after he got out.Before David was thery on the scene and Hueywas over there in prison, and David was dealing.

Now, David is still there, and Huey is rightbehind him, backing him . So that increases theauthority that he has so that he is able to dothings and it's not just automatically that Hueywould be able to see the effects of the choicesand the decisions and the way things are moving .He wouldn't be able to detect it and connectthat with past activity . Tt--t'c extremelyimportant, because all thus, things are involved .

Whether or not David and June can bereplaced is beyond a doubt. An organization ofour type is supposed to be a self-perpetuatingmechanism and it would be very shocking ifsomeone would say that the life and death ofthe Black Panther Party depended upon DavidHilliard remaining Chief of Staff and JuneHilliard remaining Assistant Chief of Staff. Andthis becomes important because this was thedemand by the underground brothers on thecase of David and June Hilliard, that they beremoved.

So that what we're faced with, brothers andsisters, is the possible destruction,self-destruction, of the Black Panther Partygrowing out of an inab,ility to resolve its owninternal contradictions . It's not going to stop theprogress of the struggle of black people for theirliberation . What it's going to do is eliminate anorganization that is not able to adapt itself tonew conditions of struggle .

D .C .I never have related to the robot mentality

that's able to produce by an erroneousapplication of Marxism-Leninism because thatshat when it is used wrong can lock amotherf--ker's mind down and have himbeating somebody in the head, wrong .Marxism-Leninism is designed to insurediscipline and democratic centralism . When youdon't apply all of it, you see it's not justcentralism involved_, in a Marxist-Leninistorganization, you're a fool to relate to it if it'sjust centralism, it's democratic centralism . And .if you have an organizational structure or theoryof organizatsonand you just take part of it, thenyou're jiving with it . If you're going to apply theMarxist-Leninist theory of organization to theBlack Panther Party and only practicecentralism, then you're messing over the peoplein the Party and that's what's been wrong withsome of that practice . It's been centralism andno democratic practice .You can see why people who have

successfully practiced Marxism-Leninism putemphasis on these things, that you must haveinternal criticism, and self-criticism, you haveunity, criticism, and unity. You can't neglectthat, if you neglect that, you're going to fall off

into all kinds of factionalism, all kind ofbullshit, and they say that, we read that, and wedon't relate to it, some of us don't relate to it,

but cats who relate to it always end up arguingwith other cats . But through this kind ofexperience it just serves to expose what's wrongwith the practice involved .

I think that this shows you, shows all of usvery clearly that we have to first of all, it has

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everything to do with political education class,we have to understand absolutely that everyoneof us must understand all of the elements in thetheory that we're functioning on so that whenshit goes down you have the mental resources toanalyze that s--t right. And that's why it isnecessary to study. You know that we're aMarxist-Leninist organization, they got a lot ofpeople in the Party who just say our philosophyis Marxism-Leninism and even quote somethingabout dialectical materialism.

.The important thing is this : Marxism is the

economic analysis ; Leninism, and the reasonthey gave the man the respect of adding hisname to this, is because he supplied anotherimportant element, How the program of action .Lenin invented the form of the Party. WhenMarx was there he just had a big fat wangythang, a big old First International, he hadBakunin and all those motherf --kers, that sh :twasn't working man, and Bakunin was steadytearing that motherf--ker'- down, but Leninstudied the practice and experience of the firstInternational, he checked out what Bakunin wasdoing is absolutely right and necessary, and whatMarx is doing is necessary, but - neither one ofthem was doing it right . Marx wasn't relating tothe military and Bakunin wasn't relating to thePolitical sh-t . So Lenin resolved thecontradiction by creating the form of a Partythat could move on both levels at the same time .That's how he resolved that contradiction. Heanalyzed that sh-t, wrote it down, people startedadopting that to apply to their own struggle . Sothe cats who have understood that and applied itright, Whew! they've moved.

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ON THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE NEWYORK 21 - DON COX (D. C.)

The information that we have here is thatthey were expelled from the Black Panther Partybecause of this open letter to the Weathermen ,underground from the Panther ?1 . Well, we havea copy here of this statement, we have it 11,0!71several sources, we've read it, we've analyzed itand we see no reason, there's nothing in thearticle that would justify anyone being expcllcd .The only thing that the article reflects is the factthat the doors within the Black Panther Partyare closed to criticism and self-criticism andideological .struggle . So the brothers resorted tothe oldv method tht was available to them, justan open letter through another organ to presenttheir ideas and views and there're manrv verv cor-rect views, many views that should he studiedand analyzed b .v members of the Black PantherParty in particular and the masses of people illAmerica in general .

And there's nothing, there's nothing in theletter that would warrant their expulsion and wedemand again that they be reinstated into theBlack Panther Party and publicly apologized to .That leads us to the next problem here Michael`Cetewayo' Tabor and Richard Dharuba'Mooreand Connie Matthews . All of our information onthat situation still has not jelled but from whatwe see, it is a repeat of the same thing. I thinkthat a week before, there was this article byConnie Matthews in the paper and the nextweek she's an enemy of the people. Michael`Cetewayo' Tabor, who spoke at the Constitu-tional Convention and Dharuba who's very wellknown and respected in New York - all of asudden they're enemies of the people . Peoplecannot make these rash judgements and go offof misinformation to do these things, there mustbe proper investigation, all people involvedmust be consulted - especially when you sign anarticle, `Central Committee of the Black PantherParty'. I say again, there are three (3) membersof the Central Committee here in the Inter-national Section and we had no information, wewere not consulted on that decision and wedon't know anything about it and we don't wantnothing to do with it and we say that theyshould be reinstated and publicly apologized toalso.

`FREE KATHLEENCLEAVER

KATHLEEN CLEAVER - REPLY TO Tl1EARTICLE "FREE KATILL ELA"

It is a 1 , crY sad thilig to sec t/le Black Ac111/1crParty licivspapcr, is'/lici1 started otlt as u rcrc>11l-tinllarr . roil,"!lard 11eit'spupcr that rc1'olrrtic,lti=cdthe entire miderground press, theilrg tllr - iled isltoa low-doit'rt, scaltdal she'e't to !'("it llcl*serr1er1grudges cuid jealousy' crud !!take undcrllandcdbackstahhiiig, pcisonal attacks . Ilere it- icitllcs .s,the concern, the depth ol , the (oilccrli .lor ad 1 all-cing any type Of rcrolutiollari' llllorinatloil atthe direction of David Hilliurd and his clique o./reactionaries and the paper has bcconie hoggeddown in petty, personal issues, like some Holly-wood gossip column . The last issue of the BlackPanther newspaper, with this ridiculous head-line, "Free Kathleen ", is absurd and it has been -they've taken a valid political slogan and turnedit into something pathetic, and ridiculous . It justmakes people want - to disassociate themselvesfrom this, it turns people off. But we're not sur-prised by this tactic, because it's been progres-sively being used because there's an inability toexpress the political reality involved . In the caseof Connie Matthews, Cetewayo, Dharuba, in thecase of Geronimo and most dangerously andmost outrageously, now in the case of EldridgeCleaver.

These vicious, distorted, perverse lies in theBlack Panther newspaper have been presentedspecifically to destroy the fruits of labor thathave gone into building the International Sec-tion of the Black Panther Party and to discreditthe solid working relationship we have establish-ed here with revolutionary governments andliberation movements that support our struggle .But these tactics, which are devoid of all politi-cal content, not to mention revolutionary in-spiration, are nothing new. Eldridge Cleaver hasbeen subjected to very revolting insults, threatsand lies, personally by Huey Newton over thetelephone. These tactics just represent, a weirdlast : stand oil the part ofDavid Hilliard and his

revisionist lackeys to maintain a position theyno longer deserve and that they cannot carryout . We see these people degenerating into aconcern for nothing but distortion and destruc-tion on the part of David Hilliard and hislackeys . Whatever these revisionist dogs can'tcontrol, they put themselves in a position wherethe oidy alternative they can use is slander,sabotage and destruction .

As a result of their efforts over a long periodof time, all the struggling, work, that has goneinto making the Black Panther Party and theBlack Panther Party newspaper a tool worthy ofscriling the people has been stultified and sab-otaged, this is going to be dealt with . DavidHilliurd and his counter-revolutionary clique,they have betrayed Geronimo, they have be-travc'd the Panther cadre jailed in New York,thcv

have

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have shed their blood for the freedom of'HueyP. Newton and for the Black Panther Party andnow they have betrayed Eldridge and they havebetrayed rnc . Arid thcY tire betraying BobbyScale, t/tey are betraYing tllc 11.0'o-AmericanLiberation Straggle and theyy're hetraYblg theAmericans Revolution . The people are riot stand-ing for their Joolishlress and blindness notchlonger and they're going to be swept away totheir proper pktcc ill oblivion .

Ill our - case, us in others, particulurlY in thecase of. Geronimo, David Hilliard and hisC'Ot!/ItPY-Yel'Ol1ltiUtlar'1' crew o,1 snakes, haveplayed the role o1'tritliilgand abetting the pigs intheir efforts to crush rcvohitiomiry people andrerolutiotlar. v actiriti . Appurcntly it is notellough for the' pigs to rip Putithcrs off left andright, jail Panthers alld 11itrrder Panthers, thesehickca s, lulder the dircc t leadership of DavidHilliurd, wall to /c'el that the . ! ill .tst help themtill that thcY call . I watit to inakc it rer, v clear toei cla one, that I uln fitlli' dcdic°she'd to the goalscspouscd bi the Black Panther Partv when itstood us a vanguard force in t11ic :1fro-AlnericanLiberation Struggle ultd played t: 1 cr1<,s;uttrd roleill the American Revolution . I hurt ,nicdgcd mi ,life to the liberation tlf Black people ill theUnited States and I will never hack tip on thiscominiti'me11t . But I ivant to !slake' it rerv c"Icar,it thirst be understood, that the cliques ofcntrrttcl-rc'voltrtionaric's, wider the Icadership ofDarid Milliard hjsed ill Ouklulld, Calib)Yllia, ttjidt/tc Black Amt/lcr Penal

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basic principles conic lorward it is tlic dtltY o/ arc'1'olutioilurv to eliminate tltc!n us to clir1tillutcall . ! other obstacles that crop till to h/c,c k thehro,;1rCSS o. t the llbelratioll .stlzrgg/c' o. / Blac k llc'o-ple withill the United States . 1 cu111tot /acv thepeople as part of this clique of' backstabbing,backsliding . snakes who are capitalizing on thesuffering of Black people and Black PantherParty members for their own sel/Ladvance at theexpense of the innocent victims of their mis-guided blunders . I will not contribute to thisfarce, but I must make every, effort 1 possiblycan to stop it from continuing and destroyingpeople's lives and people's liberty. Now this isthe real reason why 1 am not at this rally at theOakland Auditorium, which we over here werenot informed about until we read about it in theBlack Panther newspaper, as we are not in-formed about so many other things that hap-pened in the Black Panther Party . I feel that ifcommunications had been kept faithfully,honestly and openly, many severe mistakes ofjudgement and betrayals ofprinciples could havebeen avoided and many problems could havebeen prevented. But it has become very clear tous, over a long period of time

(approximately20 months) that this block on communicationsis only part of the overall calculations of DavidHilliard and his counter-revolutionary clique todistort and corrupt the basic principles under-lying the Black Panther Party and to transformthe Black Panther Party from a revolutionaryvanguard organization to a ridiculous showcaseof cowards and containment.

While these latest cases of slander, purge,these attacks on hard working revolutionarycomrades, who are facing serious penalties forthe contributions they've made to building theBlack Panther Party and advancing the revolu-tionary struggle ofAfro-American people withinthe United States, have received widespread,negative, publicity . There have been hundreds ofother less dramatic, similar cases where thevictims have not been so well known and whofelt that they had no recourse after a long trainof abusive, reactionary moves oil the part of thisclique, calling itself the Central Committee,hundreds of' beautiful brothers and sisters whohad dedicated their lives, dedicated their talents,their hearts, everything they had to the strugglefor Black people for their liberation in the U.S .have been forced out of the Party and preventedfrom joining with their comrades ill,fighting U.S..rascisin . Comrades in jail have been fronted off,shiised on . Brothers in exile, brothers under-ground have been practically ignored. Thisdestructive trend must be stopped, it will bestopped . The Party will be streagtlretled againand - will' be able - to niarclr` forward again' with

true revolutionary dedication and go about thebusiness of destroying the enemy and strength-ening the people. We are confident that the pro-cess of renewal will enable all the people thathave been turned off, turned away, turnedaround, to take on new hope and new courageand to come forward and take their rightfulplace as revolutionary vanguard soldiers and pro-ceed with the duties of our revolutionary war inAmerica, without the blocking of the counter-revolutionary dogs that will apparently stop'atnothing to put themselves out front, regardlessof the views of the people and the needs of thestruggle and we will not tolerate this any longerand we're moving to advance our struggle andadvance our Party to a higher level and it's RightOn.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!Kathleen CleaverCommunications SecretaryInternational Section, Algiers AlgeriaBlack Panther Party

MICHAEL CETEWAYO TABOR - ON THECONTRADICTIONS WITHIN THE BLACKPANTHER PARTY

What I specifically want to deal with here isthe internal contradictions that exist within theranks of the Black Panther Party and severalother things . I think it's best to begin with thetime I was first released from jail after the 21bust . I came out around the latter part of July,early August 1970 . This was approximately aweek before the release of the then Minister ofDefense of the Black Panther Party, Huey P .Newton . It was also around the time of thePlanning Session of the forthcomingConstitutional Convention . The Planning Sessionwas held in Washington, D .C . After that the for-mer Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party,David Hilliard, informed me to come to the WestCoast to meet Huey P . Newton and to receiveinstructions as to how to move on the situationin N.Y . My initial impression of Huey was agood one, it was right on . However, it was soonrevealed that the brother was bewildered andbaffled as a result of stepping out of the pene-tentiary after over 2'/2 years, and finding himselfin command of a nationwide organization .Whereas prior to his going to jail the Party was asmall one and a local one consisting of less- than30 members . One of the grave mistakes anderrors that was perpetrated at that time wasthat, upon his release, the only ear that heheard, the only ear, in fact, that he would listento, was that of the then Chief of Staff, DavidHilliard, who during the period of Huey's incar-ceration and after Eldridge had cut out and afterBobby's arrest, had assumed full control of theParty apparatus and was also in control of deter-mining the political policies of the Party .DavidHilliard, during that period of time had

' perpetrated deeds that could only be calledcriminal . They were gross and ;hideous ,vio--lations of all revolutionary principles . Henotedly and consciously set brothers up to be

arrested . He was opposed to all military activityand he moved very heavily against those bro-thers in the Party who were get down brothersand who did relate, in fact, to revolutionaryprinciples .

In time, this led to what can only be calledthe ideological split in the Party, with the re-visionists headed by David Hilliard and workingin close conjunction with him, his brother JuneHilliard and several others . On one hand, theright side that is, and on the other hand, on theleft hand, there were the revolutionary brothers,those whose allegiance was to revolutionaryprinciples and to the ideology, the true ideo logyof the Party and not to any one personality .These brothers were deliberately and knowinglystifled and blocked by David Hilliard from estab--lisfng any real rapport with the people andfrom dealing with the pigs in a righteous revolu-tionary fashion . In time it's understandable, thatmany of these brothers became, many sistersalso, became disenchanted and their morales be-came crushed and they began to drift away fromthe Party one by one . Those who attempted todeal with the situation, by using revolutionaryprinciples of criticism and self-criticism, and at-tempted to enforce democratic centralism, aprinciple that had been abandoned by the Partysince David Hilliard became in control of theParty apparatus, were expelled from the Partyor, not only were they exp elled from the Party,but they were branded renegades and traitors tothe people and a long list of other names that Iwouldn't even waste time to go off into .Huey, not long after being released from

prison, began to drift off into the same bag asDavid . This was evidenced on a number ofoccasions and in many ways, there were -severalmanifestations of this. First of all, they bothshowed a very cold and callus attitude towardsthe well-being of the troops, the cadre, which isthe backbone of the Black Panther Party . They.refused to attend-to visit Party offices andbranches . This is most clearly seen in Oakland,California itself, where the National Head-quarters of the Party was located, and there, des-pite the fact that both of them lived in that area,they only, on a few occasions, after Huey's re-lease, went to the office to speak to the troops .This in itself, was a violation several of us com-mitted . We failed to criticize this properly, wefailed to take a firm stand on it. We were stillrelating too heavily to an image and we feltwithin our hearts that in a short time Huey, whowe had invested so much time, energy, blood,sweat and tears towards in se curing his release,which he failed to live up to, that the people hadof him, not the expectations that were super-man, but we just wanted him to be a righteousand truly dedicated servant of the people .

The conditions and the situation gotprogressively worte.VVe began to take not'eof thefact that a considerable amount of money wasbeing devoted toward the buying of clothes . Webegan to take note of the fact that $40 and $50and $60 was being spent on breakfasts . Webegan to take note of the fact that politicalprisoners, brothers and sisters, righteous, dedi-cated revolutionaries who had shed blood andhad risk their lives in order to secure the libera-tion of Black people in particular and all oppres-sed people in general, were left languishing inpenitentiaries throughout Babylon . These bro-thers and sisters had to, damn near, get on theirknees to get $5 for commissary, while Huey P .Newton and David Hilliard just wallowed in lux-ury . We began to take notice of many otherthings. The contradictions became more blatant,more blatant and more clear- especially irjview of the fact that the cadres in the street, thebrothers and sisters, the backbone of the Party,'were virtually starving to death . Many of themwere running around with no shoes on their feet .Many of them were out on street corners, dayand night, selling papers, damn near naked . Butbecause of their dedication, because of theirbelief in the brother, Huey P . Newton and be-cause they believed he was right on, they didn'tbeef about this .The morale situation in the Party

progressively deteriorated, it went from bad toworse_

his time it culminated with the fiasco of

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the so-called Constitutional Convention in Wash-ington, D .C . in November 1970 . It was at thatpoint that the masses of the people and also thecadre of the Party, felt that it was now theirduty, indeed their obligation, to stand up andvoice their criticisms would have to be listenedto and explanations would have to be given,explanations explaining why the Party had vir-tually abandoned all military activity, explana-tions dealing with why the community programswere damn near total flops . Explanations dealingwith, why political prisoners were not receivingany support, explanations why Huey P . Newtonand David Hilliard along with June Hilliard,John Seale and several others were-just squandering the Party's funds on their own.personalneeds and saying the hell with the cadre . Whenthese criticisms were voiced ; they were immed-iately suppressed, what resulted at that pointthen, on the part of Huey Newton and DavidHilliard and that clique, in order to maintaintheir power, they began pushing the line of "Wemust have blind obedience and unquestioningloyalty to the leadership." It was not the dutyor the function of the cadre to inquire as towhat the leaders of the Party were doing withthemoney, how they were living or what theywere off into . It was made known, explicityclear, that anyone that asked those type of ques-tions would be dealt with severely, they mighteven in fact, be offed .

By January of 1971, to me it became un-deniably clear, that certain fundamental andbasic changes had to be effectuated in the BlackPanther Party, in order to restore the true imageof the Party to the people, in order to becomewhat the Party was originally intended to he, avanguard Party, who is willing to lay down theirlives to secure the liberation of the masses andalso to meet the basic needs of the people . But itwas also clear it would be impossible to bringabout_these changes, to come any longer andcriticize them and to point out to them theirmistakes, because by this time they had becometotally unresponsive to any type of criticisms .So in the Eastern part of the country we beganmoving on the situation in a different manner .We began to emphasize to the cadre that theirallegiance should not be to one individual, butrather, to the principles of'revolutionarystrug- .gle .

--Another very tragic and demoralizing, in fact,

humiliating occurrence went down in the formof the Party paper, which was originally, forsometime, wens the true political organ by whichBlack people were educated as to the realities oftheir situation in Babylon . Under the leadershipand direction of David Hilliard, the Party paperdeteriorated into a scandal sheet . Full with re-dundant articles that no longer educated thepeople but rather only confused and turnedthem off . After the release of Huey P . Newton,the situation rather than moving progressivelyfor the better, did just the opposite, it becameworse . An order was handed down that thebranches and chapters of the Black PantherParty would have to double the sale of the Partypaper . It meant that also if a branch was onepenny short on their paper bill, the next weekthey would receive no papers at all . Thesituation developed to such an extent wherethey began to measure the revolutionarycapability and revolutionary sincerity of thecadre by way of how many papers they sold .That became the yard stick for where a brotherwas at . If you sold 200 papers a day, you wasright on . But if you got out there and you reallybegan trying to relate to the people and doingsomething more than just selling the paper thenyou were subject to severe criticisms, and inmany cases expulsion and perhaps possibly an a-whipping . Brothers and sisters, the cadre weresubjected

to all types of, abuses and humilia- .tions. When they went out into the streets, thepeople would cease to relate to them asPanthers, because they just weren't relating tothe people anymore. Not because they didn'twant to, but because they were being conscienti-ously and deliberately misguided by the leader-ship in the form of the Oakland clique . Thepeople stopped coming up to them and inquiring'AV, Wx ti) The l4testcopy of the. 81aok Panther

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ON,THE CONTRADICTIONS WITHINTHE. BLACK PANTHER PARTY

continued from pagepaper. Instead, the people came up to therifi andsaid, "How's business coming along?"

Another serious contradiction errupted overthe fact that the then Minister of Defense of theBlack Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, was livingin a lavish, exquisite, very expensive penthouse,overlooking Alameda County Courthouse inOakland. People began to wonder why this man,

who had been, up until that point, consideredmodest and humble and a true servant of thepeople, suddenly was going off into all these egotrips, spending huge sums of money on clothes,living in a penthouse. They began to wonderabout that . And their wonder and criticismswere justified. The troops and __ thecadre found themselves in a very perplexing situ-ation. They on one hand felt they had to defendthe then Minister of Defense, but at the sametime they felt quite hypocritical . The situationagain, went from bad to worse. Finally, aftermaking an analysis of the over all political situ-ation in the Party and digging what was goingdown and weighing it on the basis of socialpractice, we dug the only brother in the Party,in a leadership position, in a very high leadershipposition, who we could relate to, who wasproviding proper political direction was the Minister of Information, brother Eldridge Cleaverand along with him, the Field Marshall, D .C .,(Donald Cox) Kathleen Cleaver and the otherbrothers and sisters . However, Huey Newton dugwhere that was at, so what he did was put ablock on all communications with brothers andsisters in the Intercommunal Section. You werenot allowed to contact them and anyone whodid contact them was subject to expulsion .

That also made it even clearer in ourminds that what was going down was not a seriesof unconscious or non-deliberate mistakes . Butrather, they were a very planned and verycalculated attempt to use the Party not to servethe people, but to advance the personaleconomic needs and wants and desires of HueyNewton, David Hilliard and that clique . So thatin itself proves that these political mistakes thatwere being perpetrated, were not accidental,they *were not the result of individuals being sin-cere and dedicated, but making mistakes, butrather they reflected -a conscious and deliberate

plan on the part of the Oakland clique, headedby Huey Newton and David Hilliard to use theParty, not as a vehicle to serve the true interestand the needs of the people, but rather to ad-vance their own econoic wants and desires. Thiswas a devastating blow to myself, and otherdedicated brothers and sisters within the Party,but it didn't stop at this, it went even furtherbecause in the wake of all this we had to hearabout the expulsion of a brother we not onlyrespected and admired and had total faith in,but also who had proven himself time and timeagain as being a true servant of the people, and abrother who was a get down brother who wasqualified to get down, brother Geronimo . Idon't remember the date, but I remember theresponse and reaction of the brothers and sisters,not only in the Party, but in the street whenthey picked up that edition of the paper thathad in it the purge, the expulsion from the Partyof brother Geronimo and his branding as being apig . This is like the straw that broke the camel'sback, and that was the spark that set off theprairie fire . It would not be tolerated any longer .We started getting together on the East Coast

to righteously move on the situation and it blewour minds to find out that our views were notconfined to a few brothers and sisters in theParty, but also to brothers and sisters in theParty who had been keeping quiet, who hadbeen intimidated and afraid, they too began tovoice their discontent . They too began to comeout and say that they were tired of this sh-- .

It started with brothers and sisters just relat-ing to,two tunes that were currently on the hitparade, "Who's Gonna Take the Weight " byKool and the Gang and "Somebody's WatchingYou" . Brothers and sisters made it known thatway, that they were tired of this sh-- .Now behind that, word began coming in from

on the other side of the ocean that they overthere, Eldridge and Kathleen, Sekou, LarryMack, D.C . and all those righteous brothers andsisters in Algeria you know, like they was hip towhat was going on. They were deliberately shutoff from the situation and couldn't really moveon it . So finally Huey Newton and DavidHilliard came to the coast on one of theirspeaking tours, which they intended to get thou-

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sands of dollars from . Each speakingengagement was done at a minimum of $2000apiece and none of that money was going to anyof the local branches and chapters, the troopswere starving to death .We decided that we had to move on the situa-

tion then . We drew a plan, that when we tookour stand, our principled and revolutionarystand against them, if they moved to expel us,then we would make it known to the people thehideous and corrupt deeds .that they hadperpetrated against . the masses and how theyhad violated the masses' trust. It's necessary atthis point, right now, for all righteous revolu-tionary brothers and sisters within the BlackPanther Party and on the block to begin movingto expose Huey Newton, David Hilliard, JuneHilliard and all of the rest of the bandits andtraitors who align themselves with them. It's alsoimportant for brothers and sisters to make itknown to those within the ranks of the Partywho are trying to straddle the fence, who arecoming out of that present opportunist bag, forthem to take a principled stand, for them tocome to begin relating to those principles theParty was founded upon and move on a basisand in accordance with that, rather than justrelating to a personality . Democratic Centralismmust be restored within the Party, criticism andself-criticism must be related to and those whoare responsible for the present state of f--ked upaffairs within the Black Panther Party must beremoved from their position immediately .

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLERIGHT ON BROTHERS AND SISTERS!WE'LL SEE YOU SOONMicheal Cetewayo Tabor

All the above statements were excerpted andedited from the discussion held in our politicaleducation class on January 31 in which Eldridgemade a detailed and lengthy analysis concerningthe contradictions within the Black PantherParty brought out by the Purge of Geronimoand the Expulsion of the New York 21 .

RevolufionaryArtist , orRevisionist Al Capp. ?

A Call For Progressive ArtistsThe process of re-establishing a truly Black

Community News Service offers us an'opportunity to unite progressive people togetherfor the sole purpose of striking a final blow tothis fascist government commonly known asBabylon .

This process that we are involved in not onlyentails combating the pig media or putting in theblood, sweat and tears needed to establish aPeople's Newspaper, but a tool to put an end tothe garbage publicized by the `Peralta StreetGang' headed by David Hilliard and Huey P.Newton.

However, the monumental issue that isnecessary to deal with, is a call for all progressiveartists to aid us in illustrating the continuous_misery and killing of Black people and offeringsolutions that will motivate the masses necessaryto ensure, another day of life, to ensure aPeople's Government, the uftimacy being ournational salvation .

Knowing that Black folks basically are notreading people, it has to be the job of theprogressive artists to shorten the long articles,which, at times, may be included in the'newspaper to a point where their picturesproject ten paragraphs. It is important that thisis done because for too long Black artists havebusted their a-es to get a piece of work intoeither the pig's magazines, pigs newspapers orthe champion nigger bootlicking magazines . Andin the end, it is just looked upon, read once andthen discarded in the nearest trash can.

But it must be fully understood that thisnewspaper, your newspaper, the Right On BlackCommunity News Service is something more.And your responsibility as a revolutionary artistfor a revolutionary newspaper would only allowyou to work unselfishly together with othercomrade artist with a common goal in mindwhich is to serve the people and liberateBabylon . Our art should offer methods forcarrying out this task. A method that willnecessarily include the gun . In short, we have to,draw pictures that will make people go out andkill pigs .

Most of all, we must constantly relate to theidea of politics guiding the brush, and the gunprotecting them both. We have to combat anyevidence of counter-revolutionary politicsappearing in any of our work. Such is the casewith the former Minister of Culture of the BlackPanther Party, Emory Douglas, who, up untilrecently was in the vanguard of revolutionaryartists . But now, because he allowed'counter-revolutionary, simple-minded, :

childish-like principles to interrupt, grasp andtwist his revolutionary theory on revolutionaryart to a point where he now maintains an AlCapp-type mentality, he can no longer beconsidered to be in the vanguard, to be therevolutionary artist he once was . Thisdevelopment, however, does not negate any ofthe guidelines and principles set forth by Emorybefore he tripped out into the madness of the`Peralta Street Gang'. I believe he was the bestrevolutionary art teacher we ever had . Now isthe time to materialize those ideas . To those ofyou who observe our revolutionary art, studythem very carefully . Every picture will be sayingit's time for a change, it's time to move to ahigher level. Look outside, it will say, tonightwill be right if conditions are favorable .

Emory DouglasAKA: Al Capp

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ART TO BFSUBMLTTED

1) All art work should be no larger than 20inches in size .

2) Use any media (ink, chalks, paints) youplease as long as it is black and white.

3) All art work should project social realism(i.e . human figures) instead of the pig cartoonimage .

EDUCATE THROUGH REVOLUTIONARYART

DEATH TO THE REVISIONIST

Brad BrewerCentral Headquarters1370 Boston RoadBronx, New York 10456(212) 328-2828

From a Revolutionary Sister to a'Revolutionary Brother

All Power To the People Brother :A love with no beginningthe warmth of friendshipthe bond of comradeshipthe understanding of brothers and sisters

And it blossomed and grewbut the essence did not changeyou are my friend, my comrade, my brotherand a Revolutionary who has my highest respect

For a new Black woman loves a new Black manyou are not mine, for you belong to the people

I am not yours, for I must serve the peopleOur bodies touch and move apartyou go to another

But together we struggle, and in struggle, we learn to loveand that cannot limit usit encompasses the entire worldWe struggle to be free, we struggle, we fight to lovethat all people may love

Our children will be the children of the worldfighting for our people and the people of the worldfighting for the possibilities of Humanityand loving, as we want to love

This is the beginning of a love that cannot endnot the false love of a dying societybut a new love of new peoplefighting for a new world .

Wherever you are, my loveI'll be with you as you fightand wherever I am, my loveI'll carry you in my heart, as I fight

Together we'll learn to love and we'll teach the worldSHOOT TO KILL ALL THE HATE.

"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, I will saythat the true revolutionary is guided by greatfeelings of love."

ChePaulette FryeCentral Headquarters

People's Free Health Clinic

THE JERSEY CITY CHAPTER IS IN THEPROCESS OF OPENING A PEOPLE'S FREEHEALTH CENTER' WE MUST BEGIN TO IM-PLEMENT PROGRAMS THAT WILL SERVETHE PEOPLE WHOLEHEARTEDLY',WE ALLKNOW THAT MEDICAL ATTENTION IS DES-PERATELY NEEDED IN THE BLACK COM-MUNITY . SO THEREFORE WE MUSTSTRIVE TO OPEN THE PEOPLE'S CLINIC ASSOON AS POSSIBLE' ANYONE WHO WOULDLIKE TO VOLUNTEER ANY SERVICE ORWOULD LIKE FURTHER INFORMATIONCONTACT:

JERSEY CITY CHAPTERBLACK PANTHER PARTY93 SUMMIT AVENUEJERSEY CITY`

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Hostos Community CollegeWe, the members of the South

Bronx community worked dayand night to establish a collegein our community which isresponsive to our children'sneeds .

Nevertheless we have beenbetrayed .We have been betrayed by

President Michelin, who wasformerly the Director of Lincoln .Hospital, from which thecommunity made him resign bypetition .

Since the inception of HostosCommunity College, we havebeen betrayed because we askedfor the establishment of a,bilingual college and the,administration totally opposed itwithout consulting the studentsor the community.

The administration has madedecisions which are totallyopposed to the concept of abilingual community college :

1 . Hiring 35 white professors .

without consulting the studentsor the community .

2 . The majority of theseteachers are indifferent andiracist, do not come from ourcommunity, do not understand

. our problems as Puertorrique-nos, nor do they understand thePuertorriquenos who speak onlySpanish .3. Hiring only 6 bilingual

professors whose presence atHostos is not wanted .

4 . Making little or no effort torecruit more bilingual professors .

5 . Hiring only 12 Blackprofessors although the Blackstudent populace within HostosCollege consists of 40% of the,student body.We have been betrayed

because President Michelen isforcing the Puertorriquenos andBlack professors to resign, and ifthey don't, he then .pre-fabricates charges and firesthem .

The Administration has'placed our children in a ,,Death-Trap, a Death-Trap -because in case of fire there areno Fire-Escapes, nor is there anyinter-com system with which toinform the College Community .The building can accommodate300 students yet, there are 600students at Hostos and theRegistrar's office plans onadmitting another 750 students .

Not

o my

is

HostosCommunity College a DeathTrap, but it is also a healthhazard. There are no windows inmost of the classrooms or anyother means of ventilation . Thetoilet facilities are so poor thatcontagious diseases can be.rapidly spread among students .

Twelve students have beensuspended from school on falsecharges .

The twelve have been accusedof exposing and removing Prof.Tesoro who by his deeds and

actions has proven to be a racistand against the needs of ourpeople .MICHELEN AND HIS

ADMINISTRATION HAS TOBE STOPPED NOW!WE CAN NOT WAIT ANY

LONGER!THE EDUCATION OF OUR

CHILDREN IS IN DANGER!Come and observe for

yourselves the situation atHostos . We are located at 475Grand Concourse and 149thStreet, Bronx, N.Y .

°.

POSITION ADOPTED BY THEHOSTOS12

The president of HostosCommunity: College, Michelen,acted illegally in suspending 12students from classes on falsecharges :

1 . The President has utilizedtechniques tending to incite riot'among the students.

x 2. President Mickefeaq-,,4as,.,

created a police state on thecollege premises.3. President Michelen is not

responding to the student andcommunity needs .

We, the 12 suspendedstudents make the followingofficial statements:A . We do not accept our

suspension, because the chargesare false and pre-fabricated .B . We recognized that it is a

divisionary tactic of theadministration to createconfusion amongst our ownbrothers and sisters and to turnone against the other, while inreality, the administration is thecause of our problems.

C. We will openly continue towork towards making Hostos abi-lingual college and to makethe education relevant to theThird World residents of theSouth Bronx.D. We will join the

community in its effort toremove the no . 1 agitatorPresident Michelen .

We, the 12 students, remainstrong and firm in our positionand will not be coreced intosubmitting to the repressivetactics imposed on us byMichelen and his corrupted pigs. -

Miriam Gomez, David Sierra,Neyf Yd, Luis Pellot, Herminic,Irrizary, 1Vestor Cruz, JuanGuadalupe, Miguel Caceres,Antonio Roman, MiguelAnderson, Simon Gutierrez,Nestor Morales.DARE TO STRUGGLE,

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For many years now, the name of Ernesto CheGuevara has been the burning spirit that flames in thehearts of revolutionaries throughout the world. In op-pressed communities everywhere, revolutionaries havetaken notice of Che's proclamation, 'The duty of a re-volutionary is to make the revolution .' And many newhands have taken up the gun and the staccato ofmachine gun fire can be heard everywhere . One of the'best testimonies to the fact that the spirit of Che stillin the hearts of the people is the righteous examples thatguerilla's in the place or Che's birth - Argentina - arewaging against the U.S . empire and all the incumbentlocal running lackey dogs.

The guerilla's of Argentina are engaged in a day today struggle against the reactionary forces of oppression .The guerilla organizations consist of many differentgroups in the same"manner that the Palestine LiberationMovement is made up of several autonomous organi-zations.

The most popular group is the Montoneros (allegedlyresponsible for the kidnapping and revolutionary assassi-nation of General Abram Buru ) . Pig intelligence statest is 'virtually impossible to sort them out.' Then there isthe Liberation Armed Forces, the shirtless commandos,the National Revolutionary Army, the people'srevolutionary armed forces and several others .

'The Urban Guerilla uses armed struggle andconcentrates his activity on the physical exterminationof the agents of repression and is dedicated'twenty-fourhours a day to expropriations from the people'sexploiters .' Carlos Marighella

It seems obvious that the Argentinian guerillas havelearned from the teachings of Carlos Marighella and havebeen tempered by the rewarding expertise of theTupamaros in neighboring Uruguay . And bombings ofmilitary and police installations, businesses of the U.S .empire and the homes of U.S . agents, and theassassinations of soldiers and police is the order of theday.

Last December 29, a pig guard outside of thepresidential residence of Buenos Aires suburb was shotdead by a guerilla disguised as a coffee vendor. Bank

One of the most active forces in the

struggle for the liberation of Puerto Rico are

the students . On the island of Puerto Rico -

which is a colony of the United States, themajority of the people are fighting a heavybattle against the AmeriKKKan occupyingforces. The Puerto Rican people have alwaysfought against the oppressor - first againstSpain and now against the United States .

Puerto Ricans are forced to join the armybecause they are supposedly `citizens' of theU .S . Puerto Ricans were made citizens in

The Spirit of Che Ragesin the Place of his Birth

robberies are carried out almost daily, as well as thesabotage of railroads, hijacking of trucks and lessfrequently, kidnapping for the release of politicalprisoners.

Women play an active part in the guerilla operations :An apparently pregnant woman waiting inside a bankproduced a submachine gun then takes charge of a largebank robbery. Abeautiful sister approaches a pig station

Che had numerous contacts with the masses

University of Puerto Rico1917 so that they could go and fight inWorld War I - the U.S . needed more bodiesto fight against Germany, so they madePuerto Ricans citizens, even though thelanguage of Puerto Ricans is Spanish and theculture is African and Indian .

Students at the University of Puerto Ricohave organized against the draft and arefighting to free Puerto Rico, to break thechains that bind the island to the U.S . Lastyear in a protest against the R.O .T.C . (R-eserve Officers Training Camp) a sister

named Atonia Martinez was killed by thepigs . Now her death has been avenged andthe deaths of all those brothers who havedied fighting in the AmeriKKKan army willbe avenged. This time - when the mod squadwas called onto the campus by the head ofthe university, to put down students whowere dealing with the R.O .T.C . members,the students dealt with self-defense . Thecommander of the riot squad Major JuanMercado, Miguel Rosario, a member of theriot squad-and Jacinto Gutierrez a member

on the beach to ask for help in removing a splinter._When the pigs began examining her foot, a revolutionarybrother shot one of the pigs dead, dead, dead .

Guerilla groups have successfully assassinatedreactionary labor-union leaders and kidnapped andassasinated former president Pedro Eugenio Abramburu.

The guerillas

have close relations

with the massesand use 'armed propaganda' very effectively . A guerillaleader in the provincial capital of Tucuman addressed agroup of radical students and gave them $55,000 in cashfor food . Earlier the money had been ripped off from alocal bank . Before Christmas truck loads of hijackedtoys were distributed to poor children in oppressedcommunities and the free distribution of milk and foodto the poor has become commonplace.

Guerilla units of 30 or more men and women havebeen known to overrun police and military outposts.Small towns in the provinces of Buenos Aires have beenoverrun by guerillas who ripped off banks andbusinesses, destroyed telephone communications leavingthe local pigs completely demoralized.

Counter-revolutionary vigilante groups, organized bythe pig police are on the rise. But this has not dented thespirits of our comrade brothers and sisters in Argentina.

On February 6, about a dozen guerillas armed withmachine guns and including at least one doctor strippedthe San Lucas Sanatorium of medicine and equipment.The hospital officials said it was enough medicine andequipment to start a righteous underground - or aboveground - clinic . If anything, it looks like the struggle inArgentina is about to become more intensified . , And theBlack Panther Party says, Right on to that.

LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF CHE GUEVARALONG LIVE THE ARGENTINIAN LIBERATION

MOVEMENTDEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGSZayd Malik ShakurDeputy Minister of InformationBlack Panther PartyCentral Headquarters.Bronx, New York

of the R.O.T.C . were shot and killed . RightOn Students of the University of PuertoRico!

Many people have been brainwashed intobelieving that Puerto Ricans are docile peo-ple - that they don't relate to the gun - butthis is untrue . The Nationalist Party sentLolita Lebron, Oscar Collazo, and other bro-thers and sisters to assassinate AmeriKKKancongressmen and President Truman in order

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March 31-June 1, 1969 : 16Blacks arrested for curfewviolations, 3 Blacks arrested forunlawful use of weapons .

May, 1969 : Paul Lambertarrested and charged withintimidation of a hite studentwho pulled a gun on Lambert.

June, 1969: Five Blacksarrested for illegal use ofweapons, etc ., all later acquittedby juries .

July : In Springfield, over 100arrested at State Capitol a .United Front attempted topetition Governor to intercedein Cairo . Only 5 have beenconvicted rest acquitted or hadcharges dropped.July-September 1969 : .

Twenty-three Black picketsarrested downtown on variouscharges.

September 13 : Five peoplearrested on the anti-assemblycity ordinance.

September 19 : Three Blacksarrested picketing . . . recklessconduct, assault andintimidation charges.

October 4 : Twenty threearrested, violation of statepeddlers statute .

January 31, 1970 : Two Blackstudents from Malcolm XCollege, Chicago, arrested nearPyramid Court, all-BlackHousing Project.

April 17 : Jerry Herrod,Harold Sumlin arrested asSumlin could not keep up withmarchers in parade .

May, 1970: Five Blacksarrested after Black-white meleein and around United Frontheadquarters which was on fire .

June 18 : The Rev. Manker R .Harris, arrested on two chargesof attempted murder, two ofunlawful use of weapons .

June 22 : The Rev . CharelsKoen, charges of aggravatedbattery brought by Fire ChiefArlie Seawright .

dune : Herman Whitfieldarrested for "deadly weaponcharge" (Bracelet with metalornaments .) James Wilsoncriminal destruction of property(a window downtown wasbroken .) One trial has resulted ina hung-jury, since he has beenretired and found guilty .

July 3 : One Black arrested forattempted murder after hereturned fire when police shot athim .

Cairo I11 . . . ArrestAugust 4 : United Front

photographer arrested onintimidation charges .August 8 : Indictments

returned by Grand Jury seesarrest warrants on 15 Blacksfrom a white instigated incidenton this date . No true-billsreturned on whites involved.Blacks had signed complaints onthese whites, the state's attorneyrefused to arrest them butbrought the complaints to hiswhite-controlled grand jury .Most indictments on Blacks werefor aggravated battery .

August 13 : Two Blacksarrested on assault anddisturbance charges after whitecar dealer shoots at two Blackladies.

August 15 : United Frontphotographer, Carl Hampton,arrested after being physicallyaccosted by whites .

October 15: Bob Williams andFrank Washington arrested oncharges stemming from fight atBlack owned business on^ .̂tuber 13 .

October 21 : Three Blacksindicted on charges of attemptedmurder, aggravated battery andconspiracy to commit murderafter a fight at the site of VFWfire on this date .

November 7 : A mother andtwo children arrested at theirhome after much verbal abuseby whites outside jeering andshouting. Mother is charged withaggravated battery as she swingsat policemen pulling on her-armon which surgery had just beendone . Two children werecharged with disorderly conduct

December 5 : Fifteen Black:arrested during police riot indowntown Cairo as Blacksattempt to peacefully picket .Charges range from attemptedmurder to failure to obey apolice officer .

January 6, 1971 : JamesChairs arrested cn Springfield atState Capitol on charge onconspiracy to commit murderfrom Dec . 5 incident .

January 21 : Frank Hollisarrested on two charges ofpurchasing weapons without gunowners identification card . Statepolice have arrest warrants on 6others on same charge . Laterarrested . 3 persons arrested onAggravated battery charges asState police moved in an illegal

'BLACK PEOPLE IN THEIR 400 YEARTRUGGLE AGAINST RACIST REPRESSIOND CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION HAVE

LWAYS BEEN FORCED TO DEAL WITHURVIVAL THROUGH ANY MEANS NE-ESSARY' ONE OF THE MAIN THINGSHAT HAS INSURED OUR SURVIVAL WASUR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH

ONE ANOTHER` EVEN THOUGH OUR OP-PRESSOR HAS SYSTEMATICALLY TRIEDTO DESTROY THE NECESSARY COM-MUNICATIONS THAT WE HAVE WITH ONEANOTHER' BUT THIS THE OPPRESSOR HASNOT BEEN ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY DES-TROY'

IN HAITI WHEN TOUSSAINTL' O VERTURE AND JEAN JACQUEDESSALINES WERE LEADING THE FIGHTOF RESISTENCE AGAINST FRENCH IM-PERIALISM` THE MEDIUM OF COMMUNICA-TION THAT THE OPPRESSOR COULD NOTDESTROY WAS THE DRUM, WHICHTRAVELED FASTER THAN THE TELE-GRAPH USED BY THE OPPRESSOR'

TODAY` WE ARE STILL OPPRESSEDAND JUST AS THE RACIST OPPRESSORS OF

raid with clubs and guns .Feb . 12 : Frank Hollis arrested

on absurd charge of stealing arifle from National GuardArmory in Chicago . JamesWilson arrested on a charge ofstealing a rifle from a federalmarshal in Washington, D.C . Heis also charged on a reindictmenton 2 counts of aggravatedbattery and unlawful possession .Also reindicted after a judge hadquashed a grand-jury indictmentwere Herman Whitfield, FrankWashington, and WallaceWhitfield . Deborah Flowers wasarrested for unlawful possessionof weapon and obstructing apolice officer from Jan . 21 .State Police have arrest warrantson 4 others who were laterarrested.

(In addition several otherBlacks have been arrested onpetty traffic charges overlookedwhen committed by whites butvigorously enforced when Blacksare observed . A means ofharrassment. )

WHITES ARRESTEDTwo comer brothers arrestei

for shooting at police (state anc,local) on August 18, . 1970 .Charges dropped to disturbingthe peace . Fined $19.00 eachincluding Court costs .

August 25, 1970 : One whitearrested after state's attorneyassistant sees him pushing aBlack in the Court House .Charges were later dismissed .

September 18, 1970 : Whiteman from Kentucky shoots intoChurch and rectory on 14thStreet. Blacks perform citizensarrest . Grand Jury apparentlyrefuses to return an indictment.

State police may haveinformation on other whitearrested . However, none hasbeen indicted by Grand juries, oxbrought<to trial if arrested .MORE BLACKS ARRESTEDMarch 7, 1971 : Levi Garrett

charged, attempted murder($15,000.00 bond) ; 2 mencharged with peace disturbance ;3/7/71 3 charged resisting arrest ;1 stealing a refield . A total of258 Blacks arrested . (All ofthese charges deal directly withracial confrontations . Otherscould be listed that were due topolice harrassment .)

Voodoo TapesOLD COULDN'T BLOCK THE COMMUNICA-TIONS MACHINERY OF BLACK PEOPLE`THEY ARE ALSO UNABLE TO BLOCK OUR

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to show the world that Puerto Rico must beset free . The Nationalist Party . under theleadership of Albizo Campos, started anarmed revolution in Puerto Rico in the 50's .Sister Blanca Can$les led an armed takeoverof the town of Jayuya. The Young Lord'sParty, which will open its branch in PuertoRico on March the 21st, in Pones, believesthat armed self-defense and armed struggleare the ONLY means to liberation.

When the pigs attempted to bust onto the,ampus the students shouted "This is notVietnam." They understand that theAmeriKKKan military will attempt to makewar on people around the world unless weoppressed deal with driving them out ofPuerto Rico, out of Vietnam, out of SouthAmerica and finally out of Babylon.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

LIBERATE PUERTO RICO NOW

The Tombs 7-Victimsof Political Persecution

On January 25, 1971, the pigsof the New York CityCorrection Commission, headedby Correction Commissioner,McGrath, working in closeconjunction with New YorkMayor Lindsay and DA Hogandropped a 72 count indictmenton seven brothers incarcerated inthe Tombs (Manhattan Men'sHouse of Detention), for theirparticipation in the October 22,1970 rebellions, protesting theinhumane conditions andbrutality perpetrated against theinmates .

Brothers, Curtis Brown,Franklin Myers, RichardoDeLeon, Nathaniel Ragsdale,Stanley King, Herbert X . Blydenand Louis Cabrera weredelegated by the inmates of theTombs to represent them on theInmates Committee formed bythe incarcerated brothers .Some of the Tombs 7 have a

knowledge and goodunderstanding of the law andhave been applying "each oneteach one" amongst their fellowincarcerated brothers . Many ofthem have been intensifying thestruggle within the Tombs andwhen on the streets, wereintensifying the struggle . Forthese reasons and others the

McGrath-Lindsay-Hogan cliquechose to drop this 72 countindictment against them. Thefollowing is a break-down of theindictment50 counts of kidnapping in

the first degree14 counts of unlawful

imprisonment5 counts of coercion1 count of reckless

endangerment1 count of riot in the first

degree1 count of interfering with

government administrationThe indictment was dropped

on the seven brothers inparticular, because of theiractive participation and abilityto organize and educate thebrothers incarcerated in theTombs.

Brothers and sistersincarcerated in concentrationcamps throughout Babylon aresubjected to all types ofbrutality, harassment andinhumane conditions . Brothersand sisters in maximum securitydemand that these disgustinginhumane conditions be rectifiedNow!FREE ALL POLITICAL

PRISONERSPaulette FryeCentral Headquarters

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Holiday and George Lloydwhile they all were politicalprisoners in the hands ofthe fascist pigs of Babylon.This has`- left them in aposition of helplessnessregarding support, publicity,and money for theirdefense . The purgecontained mainly lies and'half truths . In the purge,Huey P. Newton stated thatGeronimo demandedmoney. This is a half-truth .The leadership of thePanthers had refused tohelp him in his undergroundefforts while he and thosewith him were threatenedwith survival. This despitethe fact that in the August29, 1970 issue which wasprinted after his departure,the Black Panther paperstated that "Geronimo isfirst and foremost aPanther, a revolutionaryand a true Black liberationfighter for the freedom ofhis people" and that "he isgone to intensify thestruggle and help to bring itto a higher level. " Therefusal to supportGeronimo made it moredifficult for him to eludethepigs and ultimately ledto his capture. The articlealso stated that Geronimosent money to his relatives

at Christmas time; this wasimpossible because he wasin jail long before and longafterChristmas both in 1969and 1970. There were manyother inconsistencies in thearticle . But to state that theworst thing that G had donewas to threaten the life ofthe Supreme Commanderand Minister of Defense ofthe Black Panther Party,Huey P. Newton, is notonly a lie but shows thedepth of idolatry and heroworship the party has falleninto after Huey P. Newton'srelease from jail. In fact, nosuch threat was ever made,although the SupremeCommander had issuedorders to have Geronimo"offed . "Through this action, the

Black Panther Party has leftthese men captive by thefascist pigs in a state of nosupport. Immediately afterthe purge of Geronimofrom the Black PantherParty, he was extraditedfrom Texas to California.where he was indicted foranother trumped-up crime,murder. That charge waspremised on the testimonyof an ex-deputy sheriff, piginformant by the name ofJulio Baxter, who sought to"take over" the local

On February 9th, 1971 Huey P. Newtonspoke before an audience of about 8,000 peoplein Princeton New Jersey . Although Princeton isone of the richest Communities in the UnitedStates, the audience was mainly composed ofBlack students and adults.

The man who organized the engagement isnamed Bill Wheatley . When Huey Newtonfinally arrived (hours late) he met with BillWheatley to inquire about the money for theengagement. There had been an unconditional-honorariuimof $3,500.00 but Bill Wheatley onlyhad $2,200.00 on hand. Upon hearing this,Huey Newton became outwardly angry andcalled Wheatley a blue-eyed liar and toldWheatley that he had to confess to being a liarand a crook who had tried to beat the Partybefore he would be allowed to leave the room.Wheatley tried to explain that certain peoplehad committed themselves to donate certainamounts of money the night of the engagementand that these would bring the total of moneythe Party would receive well over $3,500.00.Also present at this meeting was Huey Newton'scut buddy and the Chief Perpetrator of madnessin the Black Panther Party, David Hilliard . DavidHilliard had spoken in Princeton last year andWheatley had set that engagement up too.Wheatley asked Hilliard to verify the fact that hehad gotten paid after the speaking engagementwas over last year, just as he had promised to dowith Huey. David just shook his tiny head andbrushed his suede maxi coat and said that heknew nothing about what Wheatley was talkingabout.

Free Gerontmochapter of the BlackPanther Party 'upon thedeath of Bunchy Carter andJohn Huggins. Hisresentment of Geronimo'sprogression to this position;his apparent fear of his ownimprisonment for crimes hewas charged with ; andfinally, his desire forrevenge for his earlierexpulsion from the party,left him "ripe" for the pigs.In return for immunity, hehas agreed to help them tryto convict Geronimo of atwo year old unsolvedmurder.

The pigs had wanted toget Geronimo for a longtime . Now that the BlackPanther Party has said thathe is a counterrevo-lutionary and that "AnyParty member orcommunity worker whoattempts to aid them in anyform or manner shall beconsidered - part of theirconspiracy to undermineand destroy the BlackPanther Party," they haveallowed the pigs to vamp onGeronimo . On Friday night,February 18, 1971,fourteen pigs beatGeronimo in the LosAngeles County Jail andthrew him back in isolationwith no medical attention .

Huey at Princeton, N.J .

It was clear to see that Huey Newton andDavid Hilliard's first interest was money. Hueysaid that if Wheatley did not have the moneythere at that time that he should not speak atall. Bill Wheatley had worked very hard toarrange this engagement and had even put outmoney from his own bank account to makecertain that Black people from the Blackcommunity could come and hear Huey Newtonspeak, by renting buses. It was evident that hewas not out to `beat the Party' or the people .

Huey asked David Hilliard just what shouldthey do about the speaking engagement and

Moreover, despite repeatedrequests by Geronimo thathe be permitted tocommunicate with Huey P.Newton, David Hilliard andthe leadership of the BlackPanther Party, since hisarrest, this opportunity hasbeen denied him. Not onemember has been sent tohear his side of the story.

Geronimo has alwaysbelieved that in order for arevolutionary party tosurvive and expand no oneindividual should placehimself in a position of suchabsolute unquestionedleadership . To do so wouldbe to stunt the canstanidevelopment 6f newleadership from the ranks ofthe party. We feel this iswhy he was purged fromthe party at a time when hewas a political prisoner inthe hands of the fascist pigsof Babylon. He could notaccept the contradictions inthe actions of the partyleadership and its demandfor absolute unquestioningadherence to its authority .

Geronimo, a politicaprisoner and former DeputyMinister of Defense of theSouthern California Chapterof the Black Panther Party,constantly drilled into theminds of the Black Panthers

Huey Newtonin the manner of

at the Los Angeles officethe possible adherent resultsof a cardinal mistake ofrevolutionaries. . . "that anarmy of people accept aleader and become entirelydependent on that oneperson." The entire time heworked in the BlackPanther Party in LosAngeles. . .he attempted toes tablish a collectiveleadership so that eachperson in the party wouldhave the ability andexperience to makedecisions based onrevolutionary training andprinciples. Because ofGeronimo's ideological andpractical position onrevolutionary leadership hewas purged by Huey P.Newton. Geronimo believesin leadership by example -democratic leadership - asopposed so Ituey's apparentbelief in the Generalissmoapproach . (Huey P.Newton, regrettably, wasnot the same person whenhe came out of prison as hewa.-z when he went in.)'The Committee to

Defend AbandonedPanthers

David Hilliard told Wheatley that he will have to,write out a check for the amount of money hehad on hand and that he would be sued for therest .

The Jersey City N.C.C.F ., which is anorganizing arm of the Black Panther Party, haseight children in the office and no electricity oitelephone. We were told by David Hilliard that$1,000.00 of the receipts from Princeton wouldbe given to us in order for us to turn our lightsand telephones on again. However, DavidHilliard proved to be a demagogue once again.The three round trip tickets from California thatwere donated and the honorarium totaled over$5,000.00 and we still are without phones,electricity and heat . The local branch receivednothing No one received anything from thespeaking engagement in Princeton except HueyP. Newton and David Hilliard, the rip-off men.

and David Hilliard have moveda pig in the name of thepeople.

They will go to any extremes to make sure theycan continue to wallow in the people's money,even if it means destroying the most influentialBlack Political/Military organization on the faceof the planet earth.

We will not allow a handful of opportunists tocorrupt the principles of our Party. All thosewho stand in the way of progress anddeliberately block political gains of the peoplewill have to be removed!ALL BLOCKERS MUST GO!ACTION IS THE VANGUARD!Jersey City

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What We Want

What We Believe1. We want freedom. «'e want power to determine the destiny of our

Black Community.

We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter-

mine our destine

9. 11'e want full employment for our people .

1fe lwhecc that the 1 :"deral government is responsible and obligated togive ever% man cmplo.11)(411 or a guaranteed income . We believe that ifthe white American Inlslnesslnen %%ill not glee full employment. then themeans of production ,hotild be taken fronrtile businessmen and placed intire comlilt . Illte s0 that the people of 0W ron1munitc can organize and em-p10\ all (of' it, people amt glee a hlgll ,Iandard of Being

3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our BlackCommunity.

We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we aredemanding the overdue debt of- forty acres and two mules. Forty acresand two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave laborand mass murder of black people . We will accept the payment in currencywhich will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are nowaiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people . The Ger-mans murdered six miiii .., Jews . The American racist- has taken part inthe sin-tghter of over fifty million black people ; therefore, we feel that thisis a modest demand that we make.

4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of huntlan beings .

We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing toour black community. then the housing and the land should be made intocooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build andmake decent housing for its people .

S. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of thisdecadent American society. We want education that teaches us our truehistory and our role in the present-day society:

We believe in an educational system that will give to ourpeople a knowl-edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his positionin society and the world, then he has little chance .to relate . to anythingelse .

6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service.

We believe that Black people,should not be forced to fight in the mili-tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us . Wewill not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like blackpeople, are being victimized by the white racist government of America.We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of tile racist policeand ti ._ racist military, by whatever means necessary.

7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDERof black people:

October 1966Black Panther PartyPlatform and Program

We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or-

ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our

black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second

Amendment to the Constitution of the United Staves gives a right to bear

arms . We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves

for,self-defense.

8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county

and city prisons and jails.

We believe that all, black people should . be released from the manyjails and prisons because th :,y have-not received a fair and impartial trial.

9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by

a jury of their peer group or 'people from their black communities, JIS

defined by the Constitution of the United States .

We believe that the courts should follow the Uitited States Constituti0u.;o that black people will receive fair trials . The 14th Amendmentof the

U.S . Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group-A pees

is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, e-vironmental, hittorical and racial background . To do this the court will lieforced to select a jury from the black community from which the bla*defendant came . We have been, and are being tried by all-whir jury

that have no understanding of the "average reasoning rian" of the blackcommunity.

10 . We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing,

ce atrd

eafil e.And as our major political objective, a United Nations-syrpervW.-le .'i ic-cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only bla&subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of deteraltiwNng

ewill ofMack people as to their national destiny.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for wepeople td dissolve the political bands which have connected thorn vitllhanother, and to assume, among the powers of the earth,'the separate endequal station to which the laws of nature and naturq's God entitle them,°adecent respect to the opinions'of mankind requires that they should declairethe causes which impel. them to the separation .We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created egdd ;

that they are -endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rigs ; .that among these are life . liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 'That:tiOsecure these rights, governments are instituted among anon, deriving theirlust powers from the consent of the governed ; that, whenever any form ofgovernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the peopleto alter or to abolish It, and to institute a new government, laying Asfoundation on such principles, and organizing its powers In such form. asto them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and bappiness. Pru-dence . indeed . will dictate that governments long established should ofhe changed for light and transient causes ; and, accordingly, all experiencehath shown-that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils aresufferable . than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which theyare accustomed . But. when a long train of abuses and usurpations. p

-suing invariably the same object. evinces a design to reduce themanderWsolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off see* govern-ment:. and to provide new guards fortheir future security .

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