N E W S P A P E R O F T H E J O H N B R O W N A N T I - K L A N C O M A W F R

P.O. Box 406 Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N.Y. 10009 JULY/AUGUST 1983 No. 2

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I n H o u s t o n , t h e p o l i c e c a l l e d i t " s t a t e - o f - the -a r t " crowd control. I t meant 1800 poBoe on ?,000 rfemonstrators, plainclothes " t a i l s " on a l l k n o w n a n t i - K l a n ac t i v i s t s , se lec t ive seardies of demoretrators, and a m idn i gh t ra id on an anti-Klan punk benefit.

• * • In Meriden, the press ca l l ed i t " a peace fu l day. " There were roadblocks at interstate exits, pat searches of everyone entering the vk±uty o f Town Ha l l ^occupied by the KKK^ and snarling police dogs on chains.

* • In San Anton io , so much of the c i ty was sealed off by police barr icades t h a t pro tes te rs h a r d l y saw t h e K l a n , and even t h e K l a n complained t h a t they were being denied t h e i r 'V i gh f to a pitolic rally.

* • In a suburban shopping mall in Connecticut, cops outnumbered shoppers and SWAT teams lurked in the l inger ie when the Klan came to r e c ru i t and a n t i - K l a n demonstra tors s t o p p e d t h e m . A New England factory town was turned into what k x a l papers ca l l ed "an armed c a m p " in a fu t i l e attempt to herd demonstrators into a stadium wi th the Klan!

A m e r i K K K a , 1983. Never has so much naked pol ice power been mob i l i z ed t o p r o t e c t t h e a b i l i t y o f fascists to march and ra l l y in the streets. These events show not only the state's c o m m i t m e n t to bu i ld the K l a n , but also the g r o w i n g s t r e n g t h o f t h e o p p o s i t i o n . T h e resistance to the Klan is becomir^ a movement, and nowhere c a n t h e K l a n m a r c h w i t h o u t massive oolice protection. 'See centerfold for photos.>

Houston, Texas The K K K t h a t m a r c h e d on A p r i l 2 i n

Houston was the same "Kn igh ts of the White Camelia" and "Klan Boat '^atrol" t h a t me t w i t h d i s a s t e r in A u s t i n on February 19th. Based pr imar i ly in the Houston/Pasadena area, they were marching doser to home this t ime .

Houston is not Austin, where there is a lohg h is to ry o f leadership from groups lB<e the Black Cit izers Task Force in the Black community and w h e r e t h e r e has been 3 years of cons is tent anti-Klan work among white people. Houston is a conservat ive c i t y w i th a Chicago-style police force infamous for brutal i tv . St i l l , %000 people came out to oppose the Klan march and made 'Tteath to the K lan" the main slogan of the day. The k l a n completed their 18-minute march at a near-rm, even though nothing was th rown and protesters 'vere kept behind rope barriers,

Sb< a n t i - K l a n ac t i v i s t s w e r e a r r e s t e d by po l ice , who had mob i l i zed the largest force in Houston's history to protect the K l a n . The day was a defeat for the K l a n because i t ^ w e d that they cant m a r d i unopposed even in t h e i r own backyard and i t was a step forward for the an t i -K la i movement, w h i d i now has a - IBAKC chapter in Houston.

Meriden, Connecticut The K l a n held the i r t h i r d a n n u a l " W h i t e

Chr i s t i an So l idar i t y Day " r a l l y on the steps of Meriden C i ty Hall on Apr i l 29. Three hundred people ttaned out to oppose them, a smaller and less m i l i t a r t crowd than last year . E f f o r t s to orgemize a n t i - r a c i s t people f rom all over were frustrated by an almost tota l med ia " w h i t e o u t , " by pol ice roadblod<s that turned cars away, and by the low level of development of the anti-Klan movement among white people in New EnglarxJ at this t ime. Some pacifist and reformist groups and even some anti-Klan groups had joined wi th the state in urging people to stay away.

S t i l l , the opposit ion was e n o i ^ so that the K lan d i d n t a t t e m p t to march as in p rev i ous years and had to remain behind police lines and hide in C i t y Hal l befc«e and after the ral ly.

Checkpoints were used for blod<s aromd C i t y Hall , forcing everyone to submit to a search in which even sandwiches were confiscated. The C i ty Hall in the center of the sealed area was surrounded by a ring of 200 riot-equipped police, bad<ed i p by SWAT teams, snipers on roo f tops , and dDgs on chains.

In spite of adl this violent intimidation on the part of the state, over 300 people en te red the area. 1 B A K C , INCAR flntemational Commitee Against Racism^ and C E D A R , a l oca l pac i f i s t g r o u p , a c c o u n t e d f o r a b o u t 150 a r r t i -K lan demonstrators. Another 50 were u n a f f i l i a t e d , but anti-Klan. Police also let t h r o u ^ 75 to 100 open K l a n s u p p o r t e r s , m o s t l y b i k e r s , w h o attempted to intimidate people.

A t noon the K lan emerged f r o m the f r o n t door of C i t y H a l l , in the i r hoods and robes, carrying a large .Amerikkkan f lag and a banner reading "Peaceful Pa t rb t i c Protest by the KKK. " B i l l Wi lk inson, Grand Dragon of t h e Inv is ib le E m p i r e o f t h e K n i g h t s o f the K K K , spoke t h r o u ^ a large sound system. A t t imes he was drowned out by "Dea th to the Klan" and other chants. The Klan played "God Bless A m e r i c a " and other p a t r i o t k : songs over the speakers and returned to City, HaU after *5 minutes.

A f t e r sneaking ou t the bad< dcxsr, tiie Kim left town in a f e e d i n g caravan led by p a t r o l cars . Loca l teenagers and an t i -K l an activists slipped through po l i ce l ines and showered the K lan w i t h stones, shattering a windshield on one Klan car.

San Antonio, Texas In San An ton i o , the Kn igh ts of t h e Wh i t e

Camel ia attempted to continue organizing w i th a May 1 St m a r c h . Pol ice sealed o f f a «f b l u c k , a r e a , so t h a t e v en t h o u g h 800 t o 1,000 demonstrators came, mostly from the c i t/s large Mex ican communi t y , no one ever saw the Klan. C l a i m i n g to be enraged t h a t t h e y w e r e

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ral ly in K a k m a z o o . T h e "Na i z i SS A c t i o n Group" from Dearborn fa Detroit sdburb) led the rally with a large banner p roc l a im ing "Wh i t e Power — the only power. " Danie l V incent Bfflery,-King Kleagle of the Realm of Indiana of the National K n i ^ of the Ku Khjx Klan tr ied to speak for almost an hour. The Nazis and K lan were totally (frowned out by the crowd which chanted, "E)e«th to the K l an , " "Naz is and Klan, scum of l a i d , " and "Cops and tfie Klan go hand in hand," among other chants.

The Nazis, Klan and police were h i t by flying vegetables and other objects at several po ints in the demonst ra t ion . The pol ice arrested f o i r people who face misdismeanor cha rg e s . A t several points the c rowd diased the police and tr ied to free anested demonstrators. The en t i r e white supremacist rally was made possBjle by the

See Fighting the K lan , page 70

New Britain, 3uie 25thi

I n T h i s I s s u e News Briefs 3 Interview with RICO Defendant 5 Chicago's Mayora l Eledion 6 Communiques 12 Know Your Enemy: Cal i fornia Klan Leader 11

The Struggle in the Congo 14 And More!

EDITORIAL

FROM THE NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT

ar Is War Even as Black mavors are elected in Chicago

and Philadelphia, even as the talk about a "Black p r e s i d e n c y " grows more c lamorous , even as thotsands o f New A f r i kans 'Blacks^ are being m o b i l i z e d t o march in Washington, D .C. on August 27th under the barmer of symbol ism and r e f o r m i s m , even as a l l th is takes p lace , the condi t ions o f War in A m e r i k k k a are escalating and intensifving.

This war began w i th tiie coming of the f irst europeans to Afr ica for the purpose o f buying and t r a f f i c k i n g in human beings t o serve as slaves. This was the commencement o f a war between the oppressed, enslaved and eventually colonized A f r i k a n masses and the oppressing, enslaving and colonizing europeans. Everywhere that Afrikans were dispersed became a p o l i t i c a l and m i l i t a r v f r on t i n th is struggle for freedom and to end oppression.

This rea l i ty of war was in no way diminished by the fact that A f r k a n s ac ted as midd l emen , t r a n s l a t o r s and mercenar ies for the barbar i c interests o f t h e w h i t e m a r a u d e r s . H e r e i n A m e r i k k k a , dur ing s lavery , th is reality of war was in no way diminished by the role played by U n c l e T o m s , house n s, s n i t c h e s , and mercenaries. And even in th is day and t i m e , ou r b u d d i n g w a r o f N e w A f r i k a n nat iona l l i b e ra t i on is in no w a y d i m i n i s h e d by t h e existence o f r e f o rm i s t s , t r a i t o r s , snitches and black ruming dogs o f U.S. impe r i a l i sm . They ex ist just as our movement exists. They serve W bolster the tyranny o f the U.S. bourgeois ie , just as — in counteroosrtion — tfie masses o f our people seek to free ourselves f r o m A m e r i k k k a n domination.

There is War in Ameri<kka. I t isnt a war in the dassic or orthodox sense; nonetfieless, i t is a

war t h a t w i t h each passing day da ims the lives of hundreds of our women, men and babies — p h y s i c a l l y as w e l l as p s y c h o l o g i c a l l y and spiritually. There are those unscrupulous forces t h a t seek t o l i q u i d a t e support for our war against colonialism and all forms of e xp l o i t a t i on by po in t ing a t those weak individuals who turn t h e i r b a c k on our p e o p l e . We m u s t n o t , however, let them take us off course.

Comrade Sekou Odinga correctly states: "Mos t struggles have their traitors, and in the Amer i kan struggle they had t h e i r s , Bened ic t A r n o l d and others ... In War, i guess, that's something to expecrt"

Without a doubt, the U.S. bourgeoisie th rough t h e government , through the media , th rough chemical and biological weaponry, through t h e i r o f f i c i a l a rmed forces ^especially the police) and through their uno f f i c i a l w h i t e supremacis t and r i g h t - w i n g armed forces ; th rough these means and others are intens i fy ing an undec lared war against the New A f r ikan nation; that is to say, against the oppressed Blad< masses. I t is f r o m th is pos i t ion t h a t we demand prisoner of war status for our cap tured f reedom f i gh te rs l i k e Sekou O d i n g a and t h e m a n y o t h e r s ca l l ed c r im ina l s and l o c k e d d o w n i n A m e r i k k k a ' s concentration camps called prisons.

'mvte Sa^remacy Must Not Go UKhaUenged

IMs very d i f f k n h to be friends w i t h someone when your en t i r e h i s to ry o f dealing w i th them savs — 'Trust them and you're a damned f o o l . " How can you put any fa i th in someone who has litercilly sold you down the r i ve r t i m e and t i m e aga in ' ' Can we be so gulBble, so naive? Can t we win o i r independenca* without having anytfimg

to do with any of them' ' Such are the questions that j B g us like a sore wound or a big bump on the head. A l l the same, we inderstand that i t was the enemy tha t duped and con t inues t o mis lead wh i t e workers t o do savage things that are counte r -p roduc t i v e t o the struggle f o r a be t t e r l i f e and the power to control our lives fyau, yours and we, ours). WhUe we understand these th ings , the gas chambers in Germany, the e x t i n c t Indian populat ions and t h e bones o f mi l l i ons o f our ancestors that lie at the bottom of t h e A t l a n t i c Ocean refuse to a l l ow us t o to l e ra t e wh i t e supremacy for the sake of "unity as a dass".

R e c e n t l y an a r t i c l e a p p e a r e d in t h e bourgeoisie press 'New Y o r k T imes , June 11 , l'?83^ e n t i t l e d : " Inves t i ga tor Sees Links Among Heavily Armed R igh t -Wing Groups." I t s ta r t s o u t , " F e d e r a l a u t h o r i t i e s . . . say they are uncover ing some t r oub l ing l inks among s m a l l groups o f heav i ly armed right wing extremists" w i th ties t ha t " c u t across o rgan i za t i ona l l ines f r o m the Naz i Pa r t y and tfie Ku Klux Klan to radical elements of the farm protest movement." I t goes on to state that , "adherents are armed in some cases wi th explosives, grenade launchers, and a u t o m a t i c and semi-automatic weapons and trained in guerilla warfare."

The a r t i d e also speaks about the existence of a secret network of "safehouses," s tockpi les o f heavy armaments, "counter-insurgency senruriars," p a r a m i l i t a r y t r a i n i n g camps, " j o i n t m i l i t a r y m a n e u v e r s " b e t w e e n K l a n s m e n and o t h e r f o rmat i ons such as Posse C o m l t a t y s and t h e ^ inutemen; and most importantly, o f a "common thread" which is unifying the wh i t e r i g h t known

See War Is War, p a g e ?0

^THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMMITTEE

Criminalizing the Anti-Klan Movement Throughout the spring of 1983, in many d t i es

Klan and Nazi rallies have been con f ronted by demonstrat ions o f hundreds and often thousands of an t i - r a c i s t people. These m o b i l i z a t i o n s r e p r e s e n t the emergence o f a count ry wide m o v e m e n t a g a i n s t t h e f o r c e s o f w h i t e supremacy. Faced w i t h the sight of the Klan surrounded by phalanxes of police, demonstrators have hur led rocks and fought to stop the Klan from mant l ing . Po l ice a t t acks and arrests o f a n t i - K l a n demonstra tors , carried out inder the pretext of guaranteeing the Klan's r i gh t t o f ree speech have been me t w i t h resistance. And anti-imperialist organizers are leading thousands to chant , "Cops and K lan work harxl in hand." The m o u n t i n g a t t a c k s on t h e a n t i - K l a n movement , and the a t t emp t s to criminalize i t , have to be seen as pa r t of the government 's s t r a t e g y t o p r o p up and to promote w h i t e supremacist fascist organizat ions and destroy na t i ona l liberation struggles. To the extent that the state's attacks have succeeded in intimidating some numbers o f people, defeating the current offensive poses a real challenge to the an t i -K l an movement.

' '"he c o n t i n u i n g r e v e l a t i o n s o f f e d e r a l government/FBI collaboration w i t h the K lan can no longer be w r i t t e n o f f as mere ly a case or two of misconduct. The pattern of direct pol ice and F B I p a r t i c i p a t i o n in rac i s t organizat ions dating back f r o m a t tacks on the C i v i l R ights Movernent, through the Greensboro massacre and c o v e r u p o f 1979, c o n t i n u e s t o t h i s d a y . Cross-membership between the Klan, police and Soldier of Fortune style mercenary networks has brought a qua l i t a t i v e l y new leve l o f m i l i t a r y s o p h i s t i c a t i o n a n d p o w e r t o t h e w h i t e supremacist movement.

Exposing and f i gh t i ng these developments is vital ly important to every progressive person who hates the K K K and all that i t stands for. The government w i l l never adm i t t h a t behind the K l a n marches in "Defense of Whi te Christian

America" lies a natranal strategy to organize an armed fascist movement in this country that w i l l attack a l l struggles for human rights, defend U.S. i m p e r i a l i s t w a r (as in E l S a l v a d o r ) and consolidate a mass base among white people that w i l l f ight to preserve the empire and the system o f t h e U.S. The K K K is p a r t i c u l a r l y b e i n g developed as a counterinsurgency weapon against r evo lu t i onary forces t h a t f i g h t f o r n a t i o n a l l i b e r a t i o n and t h e i r supporters . The K l a n is guiding many rightwing paramilitary and religious forces t o unite inder its leadership. The direct counterinsurgency attacks g a i n s t ttie John Brown A n t i - K l a n Commit tee , including house break-ins, sabotage o f cars, arrests and d i s i n f o r m a t i o n leaked to the press, is a d i r e c t resul t of our b u i l d i n g s o l i d a r i t y w i t h t h e New A f r i k a n Independence Movement , wh ich is also under direct attack by the state and the K l a n . These organizations are being built and,promoted today because the economic, polit ical and soc ia l c r i s i s w h i c h is s t a r t i n g t o w r a c k U.S. soc iety is c r e a t i n g a b r e e d i n g g r o u n d a m o n g m a n y disenchanted and disorganized vi^ite people for just such fascist solutions. The massive rac i s t b a c k l a s h which surfaced recent l y dur ing the Chicago mayoral race is a dear signal t h a t the K lan has a po t en t i a l l y huge amount of SLpport among disaffected white peoole.

In d i r e c t oopos i t ion to this are the mi l i tant Black communities, whose cry o f " D e a t h t o t h e K l a n " is now becoming a mass demand at the base of the anti-Klan movement. ""Tie f a c t t h a t there are growing numbers of white peoole who realize that the Klan and wh i t e supremacy w i l l neve r be " b a n n e d " o u t o f existence by the government; that i t must be destroyed th rough s t rugg le , is a rea l t h r e a t to U.S. imperialism, '''he possibility that the anti-Klan movement w i l l d e v e l o p and u n i t e w ' t h e m e r g i n g nat iona l liberation struggles m th is country against the U.S. imper ia l i s t s ta te is an advance t h a t ttie government wi l l do everything to prevent.

This is why, even at its beginning stages, the anti-Klan movement is now being t a r g e t t e d f o r a t t a c k . T h i s a t t a c k is being designed and car r i ed out by many of the same repress i ve forces ''such as the FBI) which are now working to destroy the revo lu t i onary leadership o f the New Afrikan, Puerto Rican, Mexicano and Native American movements.

Fo l l ow ing the street battles against the Klan and pol ice in Washington, D .C. i n . November , 1982, A u s t i n , Texas in February , 1983 and numerous other con f ronta t i ons , the state has moved s w i f t l y t o develop a major, multi- level response. The features of t h e plan to p r o t e c t the k l a n and stop the resistance from growing are now becoming dear.

F I R S T , t h e g o v e r n m e n t and m e d i a are w o r k i n g t o g e t h e r t o c o n s o l i d a t e t h e ideological/legal foundatkjn , based on d t i n g the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the K lan the absolute r i g h t t o ex i s t . P ro tec t ing the Klan's "freedom of speech" in f ac t means defending t h e i r f r e e d o m t o r e c r u i t and engage i n paramilitary t r a in ing and a c t i v i t y . Do ing th i s enables the state t o label forces committed to the t o t a l des t ruc t i on of w h i t e supremacy as a n t i - d e m o c r a t i c . The repor t o f the Aus t in , Texas Grand 3ury 'set up t o " inves t i ga t e " the Feb. 19th demonstrat ion ) brings thfe point into sharp focus. "The first lesson is that any group ' i . e . t h e Klan> no m a t t e r how loathsome i ts goals, has the r i gh t t o express i t se l f through marches, parades and demonstrations. We have learned to our considerable alarm that there are some people in our communi ty who apparently k n o w nothing about what f reedom of speech means." By cyn ica l l y turnrng the r e a l i t y o f rac i s t terror upside down, the U.S. is attempfing to hold the anti-Klan movement responsible for the threat to freedom and civi l l iberty.

SECONDLY, the state and media campaign

See Criminalizing the Anti -Klan Movement, page 13

FBI Klansman Cleared in Liuzzo Murder

!Iune 1. A Fede ra l judge d e n i e d a s u i t against the FBI by the ch i ld ren of c iv i l rights worke r V io la L i u z z o , m u r d e r e d i n 1965 by Klansmen, one o f whom was FBI agent Gary '''homas Ro>we. Liuzzos argued that the FB I knew of the plan t o k i l l t h e i r mother , and in fact, Rowe fired the fatal shot. The judge ruled t h a t though the FBI knew of the plan they were under no ob l i ga t i on t o s t op i t because " n o s p e c i f i c F e d e r a l s t a tu t e was v i o l a t e d . " He accepted the FBFs argument t h a t Rowe's shot had missed. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. said, " I swear i t was as if he 'the judge) had not even gone t o the t r i a l ... because I feel verv strongly th^ t we proved n e g l i g e n c e and a l l t h e f a c t s ^^were overlooked." St i l l on the FBI Payroll, Rowe now lives in Georgia under a new identity.

Punk Rockers Attack Nazis in Germany

West Germany, May 21. Five thousand punk rockers and angry youth surrounded a hall where SS veterans were h a v i n g a r e u n i o n d i n n e r , chanting "Nazis go home!" A VW bus filled w i th un i f o rmed n e o - N a z i s was a t t a c k e d by t h e demonst ra tors , the doors were torn off and the Nazis teargassed, before the protes ters were d r i v e n away by pol ice w i t h mace . Also in Gamany, youths t h r e w stones and eggs a t US tanks i n a N A T O parade and greeted US troops wi th mod< Nazi salutes. The parade r ev i ew ing s t a n d was bombed , and the pol ice shrewdly commented, "There is almost certainly a pol i t ical motive for tfiis bombing."

Klan Prison Escape

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Radio Free Amerikkka

Citing the same " f r e e speech" used to protect the K lan , the F .C.C. is a l lowing regula- Posse Comitatus ladk) broadcasts in Kansas, calling on white people to "cleanse the land of black b«Bts w i th a swiard," teaching lynching and g a r r o t i n g techniques , and describing Jews as " ch i l d en of Satan who are going t o go, a t t h r e e i n t h e morn ing , one way or another . " K T T L - F M of Dodge C i t y b owned by Charles and N e l l i e Babbs and broadcasts programs by Wil l iam P. Gales of the r ^ i s t Kingdom Iden t i t y movement and J a m e s W i c k s t r o m , "na t i ona l d i r e c t o r o f counterinsurgency" for Posse C o m i t a t u s . Bo th are K l an - l i nked p a r a m i l i t a r y groups that Iiave been orgcnizing in the farmers' an t i - f o rec l osure movement . In sp i te o f pro tes ts and petitions from area residents and organizations, ttie F.C.C. says i t can do noth ing t o stop the broadcasts unless the r e is obscenity or a " d i r e c t l i nk t o violence."

Detroit Curfew

Detro i t has imposed a police cur f ew mak ing teenagers i l legal persons on the streets after 10 p.m. on weeknights and 11 p .m. on weekends. Mayor Coleman Young warned: " I f you mess up we w i l l nail you."

Nazi Attack

""^iree Jewish students were wounded when 20 s h o t s f r o m a n M - I 6 w e r e f i r e d i n t o a luncheonette near Yeshiva Un i v e r s i t y in New Y o r k C i t y . The noon attack was tfie th ird in a mon th against Jewish un ivers i t y and hosp i ta l buiWmgs in the Washington Heights neighborhood. M-16s have been used in a l l 3 shootings, wh ich we t h i n k are l inked w i t h the heightened Klan and Naad organizing in the Northeast

USA vs. Puerto Rico

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Alabama March

Protesters carried out a weeklong, 300 m i l e march and nriotorcade f rom Eufaula, Ala., t o the s ta t e Cap i t o l i n Montgomery t o p r o t e s t t h e shootings o f three Black people by police ance Easter. Abou t 1200 people began the m a r c h , w h i c h d e p a r t e d on the 2 0 t h anniversary o f George Wallace's attempt t o prevent t w o Black s t u d e n t s f r o m enro l l ing in the Un i v e r s i t y o f Akibama at Tuscaloosa.

Chinese man was beaten to death by Rona EboB and his stepaon, M i c M both white,

Sbens wen t h o m e l a n d g<tf a.b«icii«ff'niit chased and hunted him arouid the n»i)^4)orhood and then beat him to death. On March 16, 1983 Judge Kau fman sentenced Ebens a i d Ni tz to 3 years probation and a $3,000 fine saying "These weren ' t the kind of men you send to ja i l . " The original judge in the case was c r i t i c a l o f the Wayne County prosecutor for only charging them w i t h m a n s l a u g h t e r , n o t m u r d e r . T h e As ian-Amer i can C i t i zens for Justice and other Asian groips are leading the protest against th is l e g i t i m i z a t i o n of rac ist t e r r o r . Many other progressiA« groups in the midwest are invo lved , and there have been pro tes t ral l ies in Detro i t and Chicago.

Greensboro Indictments

Green*oro, N.C., A p r i l 2 1 . A f t e r hear ing t e s t imony f r o m 1*0 witnesses, a special federal G r a n d J u r y i n d i c t e d n i n e K l a n a n d N a z i members, including FBI operative Ed Dawson, for "conspir ing to interfere and intimidate" tfie civ i l r i gh ts of five leaders of the Communist Workers Pa r t y assassinated November 3, 1979. The nine include five of the sfat men acquitted o f murder by the state. The indictments are the result of a three year campaign by the CWP exposing a Klan-FBI-poUce conspiracy in the murders.

Banner of White Supremacy

When photos of Klan rallies were f ea tured in t h e 1983 y e a r b o o k . B l a c k s t u d e n t s a t the Univeraty of Mississippi protested, demanding the remova l of. the Confederate flag as the school symbo l , r e c r u i t m e n t o f B l a c k s t u d e n t s and f a c u l t y and a re fund o f student fees. The administration refused, and 500 w h i t e students surrounded a Black fraternity, throwing eggs and shout ing r a c i s t e p i t h e t s . L y n n S p r a g i n , a spokesperson for the 700 Black students at Ole Miss, says their protests w i l l cont inue th rough the summer.

O n J u n e 2 9 , f o u r P u e r t o R i c a n independentistas and c o m m u n i t y l e ade r s i n Chicago were arrested and charged wi th seditious conspiracy and being members o f t h e F .A .L .N * by Chicago's equiva lent o f the Joint Terrorist Task Porce. Alberto Rodriquez, Jose Rodr iquez and Eddie Cor t e s are being held on $10 mil l ion baiL Alejandrina Torres, s tepmother o f Puer to R ican f reedom fighter Carlos Aft)erto Torres, is being held on $5 m i l l i o n b a i l . The excuse f o r these arrests o f pub l i c act iv is ts was that they were planning to return Will iam Morales t o th i s coun t ry be fore his arres t and were planning a bombing of U.S. m i l i t a r y ins ta l la t i ons on Ju ly " t h .

A t 5:30 a.m. the following day, 50 jumpsuited agents invaded the Puerto Rican High School and C u l t u r a l Center for hours and stole equipment and f i l e s a n d s e i z e d h c a r s , i n c l u d i n g A le jandr ina 's . The F .B . I . , State o f f i c i a l s a i d Chicago po l i ce la ter held a press conference l a v i n g o u t t h e i r s t o r y t o j u s t i f y t h i s counterinsurgency attacrk on the Puer to R i c an c o m m u n i t y and r evo lu t i onary ac t i v i s t s . More arrests and a t t a cks by t h e g o v e r n m e n t a r e expec ted . A m a i l g r a m and phone campaign is going on to stop these attacks on the community i m m e d i a t e l y . Phone or Writet U .S . Attorney Daniel We** at 219 So. Demfaom, Chicago, 111. 60601 , O l 2 > 353-3527 x672» to demand (1) Return all equipment and materials taken from the Puerto R k a n Cult i ia l Center; " 2) Return the ft cars impomied to their owners; and (3^ St<^ harassment of the Puerto Rican School a i d Cultural Center.

Killer Cops: Maryland

A $9 mil l ion c iv i l r i ghts suit has exposed a " H e a t h S q u a d " w i t h i n t h e P r i n c e George's County, Maryland poliot dei>aitimaiU Police set tq> grocery store robberies in order to stwot WMiRJU«de and Puer t o I t J a w i n a n . ^ kU lh i g

the department, and Captain Cfemes F i t : ^ a t r i c k , head of the major crimes divbion. Arguing that the l y a l h SquacT* was routine police procedure , they were c leared of any wrongdoing by the Q9urt i n / ^ I9S3.

Klan Arsenal Uncovered

Chicago , June 29 . K l a n and N a z i m e m b e r , George Cu l ve r , was arrested on the Northwest side o f Chicago and 116 guns, mos t o f w h i c h were loaded, were con f i sca ted by the p o l k e . Ha l f the weapons were a t t h e h o m e o f h i s bro ther Richard Culver, a Chicago attorney, who was not arrested. George Culver was being he ld in Cook Coun ty Ja i l in l ieu o f $50,000 bond. The weapons included semi-automatic r i f l e s amd a s u b m a c h i n e gun. Also seized were many p i e c e s o f f a k e i d e n t i f i c a t i o n a n d a c a r d i d en t i f y ing Culver as an "armed guard" w i th the New Mexico vigilantes.

Killer Cops: New York

Due t o c o m m u n i t y pressure and p r o t e s t . B l a c k C o n g r e s s m e n h a v e a s k e d f o r an inves t i ga t ion o f sys temat i c p o l i c e b r u t a l i t y against B lack people by New York C i ty police. Congressional hearings begin Ju ly 18 a t t h e H a r l e m S t a t e O f f i c e B u i l d i n g i n t o 37ft documented cases o f police vkjlence in th e past 2ft months, and particularly the case of Rev. Lee Johnson wtt ) was beaten by cops i n f r o n t o f a Har lem precinct. Mayor Ed Koch denounced the b e a r i r ^ saying t h a t " a number o f people m a y believe that die police are engaged in irrtwrtkanal violence against the c o m m u n i t y , " bu t he knew there is "great soUdarity between the police and the peopte."

See News Briefs, page 15

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Austin Update: Charges Fought

The Klan in Texas is attempting t o establ ish a s tronghold in re la t i onsh ip t o t h e Black arrf Mexican struggles. Texas is par t o f occupied M e x i c o and fo rms par t o f the i l l e ga l border fhence, the Klan Border Patrol t h a t works w i t h the INS). Texas adjoins the national terr i tory of the Republic of New AfrB<a. Klan marches are a w a y t o t e s t t h e l e v e l o f resistance and o r g a n i z a t i o n i n t h e B l a c k a n d M e x i c a n communi t i e s as we l l as the response by white people. The K l a n has stated t h a t one o f i t s p r i m a r y g o a l s i n T e x a s i s t o d e s t r o y revolutionary forces; i t has spec i f i ca l l y named t h e R e p u b l i c o f N e w A f r i k a , t h e B l a c k Liberation Army, the Movimiento de L ibe rac i on Nac iona l , the Black C i t i zen ' s Task Force, the May 19th Communist Organization and t h e John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.

The turnout and level of m i l i t ancy in A u s t i n caught the K l a n and the government off-guard. They had expected that t h e i r publ i c campaigns t o keep peopte away through int imidat ion and attacks on organizat ions t h a t were mob i l i z i n g people to demonstra te against t h e m would be successful. When th is d idn ' t succeed, p o l i c e responded by violently attacking demonstrators.

A u s t i n p l a i n c l o t h e s c o p s a t t a c k M a r i e C h a u v k i .

Nine anti-Klan demonstrators were arrested in A u s t i n on February 19th on various charges including a«»gravated assault on a cop — a felony carrying 2 to 10 years h prison and a fine of i p to $5,000. We have found the cases i n s t r u c t i v e i n s h a r p e n i n g our imderstanding o f how the government has and w i l l con t inue t o move i n response t o t h e b u i l d i n g o f t h e a n t i - K l a n m o v e m e n t i n t h i s c o u n t r y as p a r t o f a r evo lu t i onary s t rugg le f o r the liberatkjn o f the Black nation.

J B A K C was s u r v e i l l e d . i n A u s t i n as we marched m the BCTPs People's M a r c h Aga inst t h e K l a n dur ing the morning of Febrijary 19th. Tha t a f t e r n o o n , w h e n t h o u s a n d s o f p e o p l e con f r on t ed the Klain as they t r i e d t o m a r c h , JBAKC men*ers cmd supporters were grabbed f r o m a m i d s t t h e c r owd by undercover cops. Marie Chauvm, Susai Rautenberg, Jackie Stames and C a r o l y n R i t t e r were a r r es t ed . The oops never i d en t i f i ed themselves and w e r e e a s i l y m i s t a k e n f o r K l a n s m e n since the KleUi had a n n o u n c e d t h a t t h e y w o u l d have a r m e d undercover Klansmen in the crowd. Three days l a t e r , Mar i e Chauvin was re-arrested at her job by 5 imderoover cops and charged w i th a fe lony o f aggravated assault on a peace officer. She has not yet been indicrted.

T h e p r e - t r i a l h e a r i n g f o r C h a u v i n , Rautenberg , and Stames ' R i t t e r ' s charge f o r shout ing an obsceni ty was dropped) was set for June 17th. Two days be fore the hear ings, the cour t " l o s t " the mot ions which had been filed. This is very unusual ' i n fact , one lawyer said i t has happened only once before in Austin, on a poUoe brutal ity charge) and is one more example o f p o l i t i c a l harassment . The pte-tr ia l hearings have been re-set for ^ i l y 21st. We believe t h a t these postponements h these cases are for two reasons : P t o k e e p us t i e d u p i n t h e s e proceedings, and more importantly 2) when the Klan is scheduled t o r e t u r n t o A u s t i n , t o use

Richmond, Califomia: Victory Against Killer Cops

The f i g h t against k i l l e r cops ' the notorious Cowboys o f R i chmond , C a l i f o m i a ) sharpened recently when, after a year of pressure from the Black community and the anti-Klan movement, a judge awcirded damages to the families of Black people murdered by the Richmond Pol ice Dep t . cBid the police chief was forced t o resign.

On May 22, JBAKC led a p i cke t o f over 80 p e o o l e in f r o n t o f t h e n P o l i c e C h i e f Leo Garfield's home. Chants of "Chief Garf ie ld , you can ' t h ide . We c ^ g e you wi th genocide" broke the ca lm o f the qu ie t suburban b lock . " L eo Gar f i e l d is the ch i e f k i l l e r cop of Richmond," said Barbara Jacobs o f J B A K C ' s Bay A r e a Chapter . "He cannot r e tu rn to the peace and quiet of the subiahs while he and h b department are responsible for murder and brutal i ty in the Black community on a daily basis."

Whi le Ga r f i e l d stayed in the house to avoid the demonstration, over a dozen uniformed poli<» o f f i ce rs l ined the b lock , posit ioned every four feet on his f r on t l a w n . Ano ther h a l f - d o z e n p o l i c e photographers and undercover agents, including one photographer on a neighbor's roo f , surve i l l ed the demonstration. Garfield even had video and sound recording equipment set up in his living room.

A n u m b e r o f ne ighbors and young wh i t e people t aunted the demons t ra t i on , bu t as the J B A K C speaker said, "We wi l l be here again and again u n t i l p o l i c e m u r d e r s a r e s t o p p e d i n Richmond and everywhere."

On June 3 the jury in the federal c iv i l r i gh t s s u i t f ound the R ichmond Pol ice D e p a r t m e n t gu i l t y o f a " p a t t e r n and p r a c t i c e " o f r a c i s t v io lence and awarded $3 mill ion t o the families of t w o Black men k i l l e d by th e R P D . T h i s v e r d i c t is the d i r e c t result of a year's work by Richmorxfs Black c o m m u n i t y , t h e John Brown A n t i - K l a n C b m m i t t e e and other c o m m u n i t y activists exposing that a K K K type group — the Cowboys — exists inside t h e RPD ; t h a t they

have the fu l l backing of Chief Ga r f i e l d and the c i t y g o v e r n m e n t ; a n d t h a t t h e R P D is systematically b ru ta l i z ing and murde r ing B lack peoole. Pol ice Ch i e f Ga r f i e l d , a defendant in the suit, handed in his res ignat ion less than a week after the verdict was announced.

A l though the v e rd i c t has put the Richmond C i t y Counc i l on the de f ens i ve , n o t h i n g has f u n d a m e n t a l l y c h a n g e d . O f f i c e r s Samue l Dudkeiwicz and Clinton M i t c h e l l , defendants in the case and members of the Cowboys, are st i l l patrolling the Black community. Polics and c i t y o f f i c i a l s c o n t i n u e t o defend and praise the actions of killer cops.

Another demonstrat ion was held June 6th at the Richmond C i t y Counc i l . A f t e r a m i l i t a n t p i c k e t , scores o f angry people went t o the C o u n c i l m e e t i n g and c o n f r o n t e d C o u n c i l members , charg ing them wi th complicity in the rac i s t t e r r o r o f t h e R P D . Ins i d e C o u n c i l Chambers , oeople disrupted a TV interview w i th Tony Zanotelli, Presid«it of the Richmond Police O f f i c e rs Associat ion, who was explaining to the media that "we^e got guns, and somet imes we

' use t h e m . " C o n f r o n t e d w i t h c h a n t s o f "i^ylurderer, murderer," he stormed out of Counc i l Chambers, cursing the protesters.

ft is c lear f r o m t h e reac t ion o f R i chmond o f f i c i a l s t ha t po l ice violence against the Black c o m m u n i t y is not about to be l e g i s l a t e d o r reformed away, but recent advances in Richmond ^x>w the impact that a strong movement against w h i t e supremacy can have. Both Garfield a i d •^anotelli have made derogatory references t o J B A K C in t h e i r public statements, trying to pin the blame for the Black communi ty ' s ha t r ed o f the RPD on " rad i ca l s " and "outside ^ h a t o r s . " But the movement against the Cowboys and a l l f o r m s o f w h i t e s u p r e m a c i s t t e r r o r , and in support o f B l ack peop l e ' s h u m a n r i g h t s t o independence and self-determination, continues to grow.

these cases as examples t o i n t i m i d a t e people

Stone, who was attacked on Februay 19th, w e n t t o t h e p o l i c e d e p a r t m e n t t o f i l e a po l i ce b m t a l i t y charge. The police not only refused to accept the compla int , but four days later came t o her job and arrested her for assault on a cop! She was convkrted and is presently appealing t h e case.

Mark Hood, ar res ted f o r reckless behavior, has had his t r i a l postponed 5 t i m e s . This is a f t e r the o r i g ina l charge was dropped and he was then re-arrested. He has been t o l d by the j u d g e t h a t he i s b e i n g i n v e s t i g a t e d f o r invoNeriient w i th "subversive organizat ions t h a t

plot the violent overthrow of the government."

c^iarge& They must be put in th e con t ex t o f t h e new F B I gu ide l ines t h a t " l e ga l l y " a l l ow i n f i l t r a t i o n , i n f o r m a n t s , w i r e - t a p p i n g , m a i l - t a m p e r i n g and surveil lax» of "sibversive" orgaiizations. These guidel ines were discussed by t h e Senate Sub-Commi t t e e on Domes t i c Security, which has said that the oublk: anti-Klan m o v e m e n t is one o f t h e i r t a rge t s . We are demanding that the charges g a i n s t a l l a n t i - K l a n demonstrators be ctx>pped and Marie Chauvin not be indkrted on the fe lony charge . Jo in us in national letter a i d telegram campaigns protesting the criminalization of the anti-Klan movement.

Distrtet Attorney Johnny Holmes 201 Famin Street Houston, Tx. 77002

Dis t r i c t Attorney Romie Earle Travis CowTty Courthouse 1000 Guadali4)e Austin, Tx. 78701

On A o r t l 2, 1983, 2,000 ant i - rKist people confronted the white supremacist K u Klux Klan when they marched in Houston w i th massiw police support. Several anti-Klan demonstrators were arrested, among t h e m members oi f « John Brown Ant i -Klan Committee. They were charged wi th class C misdemeanors after class B dwge s were drt^aped because many people called to demand the charges be dropped and the immediate release of Trefla L a u ^ n and Carolyn R i t t e r .

On March 31st, many peopte were attending a Rock Against Racian concert, a publicized fundra is ing event f o r the John Brown A n t i - K l a n Committee. Several mdercover oops were presait in the crowd. The C ID 'Central Intelligence Dlviaon - Red Squad> of the Houston Police Department ra ided the c lub , a r r es t ing many people, including the d»i>'s two owners and a supporter o f JBAKC, Tom Williams. When the bond was raised to get Tom released, an additional $5,000 was added to his baiL This was a c l ea r a t t e m p t to keep a n t i - K l a n demonstrators f rom exercising their absokrte human right to oppose the K u Khix Klan on Apr i l 2rri in Houston.

Charges are s t i l l pending on several a n t i - K l a n demonstrators arrested in Austin on February 19th, including ^ l a i e Chauvin, Susan Rautenberg and Jacqueline Stames. To take a stand against t h e K l a n is a basic human r ight . I hold the police, the Distr ict Attorney, the FBI, and the KKK responsible for aO attadcs on anti-Klan demonstrators.

I DEMAND: n Tha t a l l charges be dropped against a l l a n t i - K l a n demonstrators, both in Houston and Austin, and agskinst a l l peopte who attended the Rock Against Racism concert at the Island on M a c h 31st. 2^ Stop all repression against the Black and Mexican communities. 3 Stop al l feoressicn against-the anti-Klan movement.

Sincerely,

'your name arxl address)

oc: Lee P. Brown Chfef of Police Houston Police Deot. 61 Riesner St. Houston, TX. 77002

Fighting RICO: An Interview with Silvia Baraldini

In the fall of 1982, in the aftermath of the ireuocessful Brink's expropriation, the US. began the R I C O conspiracy t r ia l . The first major political conspiracy trial of the decade and the opening gun in a new drive toward hei^^ttened represskan, R ICO is the government's attempt to destroy once and for all the ability of the Black Laseratnn Stuggle — in this case elements of the New Afrikan Independence Movement — to build a revolutionary struggle for land and power. Of the deven indicted, foia-, including two white people, are st i l l free and being sought by the F B I . Others such as captued BLA sokiier Sekou O d i n g a a n d S i l v i a B a r a l d i n i , a w h i t e anti-imperialist activist in the pdblic mov«nent, are on trial and fighting the case by exposing and resisting it as oointerinsurgency. We print this Interview in fu l l s o l i da r i t y w i th the i r po l i tka l aims. This R I C O case is b d i ^ tried under extraordinary security by Judge K e v i n Duffy, an out-and-out radst noted in the press for his anti -semitism. Robert Cordier of the F B I J o i n t T e r r o r i s t Task Force sits a t the prosecution table. A s Si lvia Baraldini said In another context, "TTiis t r ia l is m feet the test case for the new FBI guidelmes." This fftterview was conducted in late June, 1983.

D E A T H T O THE K L A N : Why are you indicted in th i s c a s e ' ' Why do you say it's a New Af r ion case?

c a p a b i l i t i e s t o o r g a n i z e t h e m s e l v e s i n t o revo lut ionary movements that wi l l challenge and defeat US imperialism, '^'e have learned f r o m the h is tory o f other struggles, such as Vietnam, Mozambique, Nicaragua, t h a t only one strategy can l i b e r a t e oppressed nations — p r o t r a c t e d people's war . Counter insurgency in the 80's inside the U.S. is t a r g e t i ng the beginnings of that crucial deve lopment w i t h i n the oppressed nations inside the U.S. empire. t.'.S. imperialism is targeting the armed clandestine forces and the

SILVIA B A R A L D I N I : U.S. imperiaUsm indicted eleven people cn charges of racke teer ing , bank robberv and accessory a f t e r the fact. Among those indicted are members of the New A f r i k a n Independence Movem«it, including Sekou Odinga, New Afr ikan Pr 'soner-of-War, and three N o r t h A m e r i c a n m e m b e r s of t h e r e v o l u t i o n a r y antt-imperiaiut mowsnent* Imperialism^ position is that'^ft'^^i^''pn!Mi0^illtll|i^^^~'Cfrl)i'iiiMl tftterpHseb This is a lie. What is being tr ied is the right o f

self-determination and socialism. Sekou Odinga Stated in Ws ooening statement; T o d ^ there is brother revolution g/c/lg^gj^fjfaiM' '•Wem^ Revolution. l a m a New A ' not consider myse l f an A m er i c a n consider myse l f a New A f r i k a n c i t i z e n . You may have heard the term the Republ ic o f New A f r i k a ment ioned by the Judge — or if you havent you w i l l . The Republic of New Afr ika is the name given our nation by a group of Black people who came together in I'JfiS and w h o d e c i d e d to d e c l a r e o u r s e l v e s f r e e and i n d e p e n d e n t o f t h e U . S . " D e s p i t e t h e government 's denials, wha t has emerged during the t r i a l is the r ea l i t y t h a t members of t h e Black Liberation struggle came together to build a clandestine apparatus. These forces engaged in a number o f expropr ia t ions and l ibe ra ted Assata Shakur from captivity. These efforts are part of a i overal l s t rategy t o f ree the na t i on and i ts land base: Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Caro l ina . This is w h a t imperialism is try ing to defeat.

I am the only North American being t r i e d in the RICO case. I am a member of May 19th Communis t Organ i za t i on and I b e l i e v e i t is because o f the organization's principled support of the New Afrikan Independence ^tovement and its r i gh t to wage armed struggle t h a t I have been indicted. The government's theory is t h a t a number o f N o r t h Americans worked wi th the New Afrikan clandestine forces, so i t is essential t o t h e i r s t rategy t h a t a white revolutionary be tr ied. I have worked po l i t i ca l ly w i t h a number o f the people indicted, in particular on behalf of my organ iza t ion ; I have p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e defense of New A f r i k a n pol i t ica l prisoners and struggled to expose COINTELPRO. What is on t r i a l i n my i n d i c t m e n t is N o r t h Amer i cans ' committment to the se l f - de t e rm ina t i on o f t h e Black nat ion in part icular, our committment to the defeat o f U.S. i m p e r i a l i s m and t o t h e establishment of a socialist society.

What is the government trying to accomplish with this case?

O u r case 'S p a r t o f US i m p e r i a l i s m ' s counterinsurgency s trategy in the 80's and the c o n s o l i d a t r o n o f i t s f a s c i s t i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . C o u n t e r i n s u r g e n c y is b e i n g waged a g a i n s t na t i ona l l ibera t ion in C e n t r a l America, in the ^^iddle East and right here at home. The aim is t h e t o t a l d e s t r u c t i o n o f oppressed peoples'

Silvia Oaraldini

and Na t i v e t a r g e t i n g the struggle whose goal is tihe transft w h i t e oppressor n a t i o n in to a non-oppressor socialist society.

Counter insurgency has short and long-term goals: the cr iminal izat ion o f the New A f r i k a n i n d e p e n d e n c e M o v e m e n t by t r y i n g f reedom fighters, ac t i v i s t s and supporters under a law a i m e d a t organized c r i m e ; the iso la t ion of revolutionary forces by a media campaign t h a t cal ls them "terrorists" and "mad dog killers"; and the c rea t i on among the people o f a f e a r o f revolutionaries 'this was successfully done by the C I A in Chi l e ' * . O t h e r goa l s i n c l u d e t h e ins t i t u t i ona l i z a t i on of fascist "legal" procedures such as anonymous juries and witnesses and the gather ing o f intelligence against the movement, " ^ost importantly, the goal in this R ICO case is the defeat of the armed clandestine forces of the New Afr ikan Independence Movement a t the beginning o f the i r deve lopment when they are weak and the enemy s t i l l very power fu l . The R I C O t r i a l is also being used to erase the di f ferences between t h e a r m e d c l a n d e s t i n e m o v e m e n t s a n d r e v o l u t i o n a r y p u b l i c organizations. If the government is successful in establ ishing tha t common ideology constitutes a conspiracy, th is w i l l j us t i f y i n f i l t r a t i o n and p r o v o c a t i o n s aga ins t many organizat ions as provided for by the new FBI guidelines.

What are the differences between this and other famous politksl conspiracy cases li<e Haymarket a id the Panther 21''

Conspiracy trials liave historcal ly been used by imperialism to silence dissent and the voices o f r e vo lu t i on . Haymarke t was a imed a t the labor movement , the Panther 21 case a t the Black Panther Pa r t y , our t r ia l against tiie New Afrikan Independence Movement and members o f the an t i - impe r i a l i s t movement who support i t . Consp i r a cy l aws e x i s t f o r t h e purpose o f i m p r i s o n i n g r e v o l u t i o n a r i e s who oppose imper ia l ism. The government has re f ined i ts strategy by using the R ICO 'Rackeetering and Corrupt Organizations) Act, passed by Congress in I'^yO under the Nwon Administration. RICO

was l e f t purposeful ly vague t o b e t t e r a l l o w prosecution of organized crime's inf i l i tration into legitimate business. For the first t ime i t is being used against revolutionaries. Thus the governmeit establishes that there is no difference between a bank robbery and a revolutionary expropriation, or between a prison escape and the l iberation o f a c a p t u r e d f reedom f i gh te r . A long w i t h th is criminalization go steeper prison terms; for each count of R ICO we are fac ing twenty years as opposed to five under the old conspiracy laws.

One of t h e overt acts named in this case is the liberatkjn of Assata Shakur. What do you see as the significanoe o f this event?

When a movement takes responsibility for freeing one of its caotured freedom fighters, i t is always s ign i f i cant because i t c o m m u n i c a t e s t o t h e peop l e t h e d e p t h o f t h e c o m m i t t m e n t t o l i b e r a t i o n . I t b r e a k s t h r o u g h t h e m y t h o f i n v i n c i b i l i t y o f the enemy and provides the masses w i t h a very i m p o r t a n t v i c t o r y . In the case o f A s s a t a S h a k u r , i t was p a r t i c u l a r l y s igni f icant because of the leadership she had provided w i t h i n the ranks o f the New Afrikan I n d e p e n d e n c e M o v e m e n t a n d t o a l l revolutionaries. Sekou Odinga spoke about her at the beginning of our t r ia l : "Her name is Assata Shakur. She is a soldier. And she is one of our heroes. She is definitely one of my heroes, and i was t h r i l l e d and happy and proud, really proud, when i head that she had been l i be ra t ed . Mr . L i t t , here, he would tell vou that was a criminal act. Me, my people, they w i l l t e l l you t h a t i t was an heroic ac t , a beaut i fu l a c t , one t h a t needs to be done again and again because she was unjust ly he ld . Being a f reedom fighter, a soldier for the l i be ra t i on o f her peop le , she should have never been pu t h a criminal jeaL"

i ^ ^ M ^ ^ m ^ Mm^H^i^ to

all captured freedom ^h te r s , whose task is

"iivestigation* of t f e P A L N . How do you see the strategy of non-oollaboratkjn*'

„ Aftar the conclusion of the RICO t r i a l , I w i l l ' ^ ' ^ ' e t r ! e d , _ f o r c r i m i n a l c o n t e m p t along w i t h

She l l e y 4 t o B ^ > » jnqiember of M a y 1 9 t h Communis t Orgahifefein and leader of the New Movement in Sol idar i ty w i t h t h e Puer to R i c an and Mex ican Revo lut ions . We are refusir^ t o collaborate wi th the grand jury inves t i ga t ion o f t h e F u e r z a s A rmada de L iberac ion Nat i ona l fPALN\ As a member of May 19th Communis t Organ i za t ion I dont recognize the legitimacy of US imperialism's colonial domina t i on o f Puer to R ico . The nat ion o f Puerto R ico is wag i r^ a, struggle for independence both on the island and ins ide t h e U n i t e d States. The independence movement has e m b a r k e d on a s t r a t e g y o f p ro t r a c t ed people's war—the mobilization of the masses of its people through armed struggle t o defeat the i l lega l occupat ion by the US. The armed c landest ine movement is par t o f t h i s s trugg le for independence and gives Efe to the future victory and has exposed the bar*cn^tcy o f anv r e f o rm i s t solution. The FALN is the amied clandestine organizat ion ac t i v e inside the US. Our organization supports the right of the Puerto R ican peop l e t o wage a r m e d s t r u g g l e f o r independence and socialism and we support the FALN . Our organization does not recognize the r i g h t o f imperialism to investigate the FALN or to use an alleged "investigation" to a t t a c k o ther organizat ions i n the Puerto Rican independence movement, such as the Movimento de Liberacion Nacional,

Since 1936 the Puerto Rican movement has f o u ^ for tota l non-collaboration wi th the grand j u r y . Our refusal to co l laborate fo l lows th is revolutionary example. Non-co l l abora t i on is not merely a tact ic to be employed when confronted by a subpoena, non-collaboration is a strategy t o b u i l d a m o v e m e n t o f resistance against US imperialism. Non-co l labora t ion means t h a t we view imperialism as our enemy and therefore are i r revocab ly opposed to i t . N o n - c o l l a b o r a t i o n means we are will ing to go to jail to defend our movement—not for symbolic purposes but as an

See Si lvia Baraldini, page 13

6 ZkmibrHe/tj^

The Chicago Mayoral Election:

A N o - W i n S i t u a t i o n This past Apr i l , after a two month campaign

marked by racist hys t e r i a — described by one observer as being " l ike one long, continuous Klan r a l l y " — Haro ld Weishington was e l e c t e d as C h i c a g o ' s f i r s t Black mayor . The c i t y was t h r o w n i n t o t u r m o i l as 8 0 % o f t h e w h i t e Democra ts crossed pa r t y l ines to vote for tfie white RepLfoUcan candidate, Bernard Epton, whi le an unprecedented number of Black voters, along wi th a large coalition o f progressive/lef t w h i t e g r o u p s and i n d i v i d u a l s , t u r n e d ou t to vote Washington into office. The national Democrat ic p a r t y th r ew its weight behind Washington, while the local Democratic machine balked at the idea o f a B l a c k r e f o r m - o r i e n t e d cand idate and supported Epton.

The Washington campaign and election had an impact far beyond Chicago. The depth of w h i t e r a c i s m t h a t was d i s p l a y e d d r e w n a t i o n a l a t t e i t k jn . Washir^jton's vkrtory has sparked voter registration drives in Boston srid other cities, and progressive coeilitkms are f o r m i n g t o campaign for Black Democratk: candidates. 3ssse Jackson is conduct ing his Southern crusade f o r v o t e r r e g i s t r a t i on (mee t ing w i t h the lUcss o f George Wallace) and p romo t ing the idea o f a B l a c k Presdential candidate.

While many have hailed Washington's victory as an advance for t h e Black struggle and f o r a l l progressive people, i t is our opinion t h a t the campaign was in f ac t a b low t o p rog r e s s i v e s t r i ^ g l e . l*4ow that the election is over and the smoke has c leared somewhat , Chicago is l e f t w i t h t w o b i g problems. On the one hand we now have a s i gn i f i c an t l y more organized and more b latant ly racist white commuruty. And cn the other hand t h e Blac^ c o m m u n i t y and the pn^pessive white movement is now united behind a strategy of seddng to bring an end to rac i sm and explo i ta t ion through the electoral process — through work ing w i t h i n the very system which th r i v es on the oppression o f Third WorW people and the e^qploitation of a l l working dass people.

A BREEDING CSROUND F O R T H E fCLAN

D e m o c r a t i c p r i m a r y , masses o f white t i fe- lor^ Democrats flocked t o Repii>lkan headquarters t o carr^jaign for Epton. As the campaign developed there appeared tiroughout the white communities many d i f f e r en t rac i s t f l ye rs t h a t urged white people to vote for Epton. Some of these f l yers were f rom local Denrxjcrat precinct captains who referred t o Epton as "our g rea t w h i t e hope. " Others appeared t o come from organized white supremacist grouos l i k e the K l a n and N a z i s : these r e f e r r ed t o Black people in derogatory t e r m s 'such as " b a b o o n s " ) , d e g r a d e d B l a c k c u l t u r e , and warned o f the t e r r o r t h a t would stafl< the stteets of Chicago if Washington were e l ec t ed . The slogan "Vote White - Vote Right" appeared on t-shirts and posters. Shor t ly a f t e r t h e p r i m a r y , some psteons o f a white southwest side bar hu ig Washington in effigy. A niob o f Epton supporters , aUong w i t h a cont ingent <rf r i i f ^ -w ing Right-To-Life suppcxters go t na t i ona l a t t e n t i o n w h e n they j eered , th rea t ened and chased away Washington and Wal ter Mondale f r o m a c h u r c h serv ice i n the p redominan t l y white northwest ade of Chicago. " N R D E " was spray p a i n t e d on t h ^ side cteor o f the church. A similar situatfen o c f 3 ^ ^ another c h v j ^ > t w o weeks later. I r ^ ^ ^ i ^ « s * ade bar

: or r l e l ec t ion n i gh t the pa t rons ^ ^ ^ t e < l " V h i t e fpawer" as they wa i t ed for retun&* Twice ttie Chicago J B A K C chapter held a b i p n e f saying " F I G H T W H I T E S U P R E M A C Y - . .SUPPORT BLACK L I B E R A T I O N " over a majoF highway^

-The response o f an a l a r m i n g n u m b e r ' o f the _.white people dry ing by were threats, obscenities »-and shouts of "white power." Many gf the other ^ h i t e pectple w h o d r o v e by werfe j u s t as i vehement in t h e i r support o f the banner, and r e l i e v e d t o see s o m e p u b l i c a n t i - w h i t e suoremacBtt sentiment aired. ^ -

A l t h o u ^ rstcisrh is dee jp iy< '6mbedded i n Chicago's w h i t f e n ^ i g N ^ ^ the "Srate whi te "

• responsie : - w ^ s j p j ^ , ^ o n t a r i e o u s — i t w a s organized,^ The Republ i can party set the tone

J for the campaign earfy on by adoptir^ the rac is t -Slogan "Ep ton - B e f w e I t 's Too L a t e " and 1^ focusing t h e i r en t i r e c a m p a i g n on e x p o s i n g Washington's f a i lu re to pay taxes and bUls, etc. In his a t t a d s on Washington, Epton consistent ly , and not so sidstly, a l luded t o racist images of B l a c k p e o p l e as c r i m i n a l s w i t h no m o r a l standards — images t h a t groups 19ce the Klan put f o rward

The l oca l Democ ra t i c machine also led in

Radst propaganda distrixited by Chicago polioei

spurr ing on the rac i s t o f f ens ive . A l d e r m e n t r e a t e d the existence o f a B lack Democra t i c candidate as a cr is is and opted f o r t h e w h i t e c a n d i d a t e . S ince Washington's e l e c t i on t h e "Mach ine " has cont inued i ts f i g h t f o r w h i t e p o w e r and f o r the a b i l i t y t o m a i n t a i n t h e i r extensive patronage system t h a t Washington is threa t en ing to d ismant l e . Twenty -n ine white Democra ts led by "mach ine " l e a d e r E d w a r d Vrdo lyak f o rmed a hloci< to at tempt to control the C i t y Counc i l . A t t h e f i r s t C i t y Counc i l m e e t i n g t h a t W a s h i n g t o n p r e s i d e d o v e r , Washington adjourned the mee t ing p r ema tu r e l y . The "Vrdolyak 29 " t h e n took over the council and a p p o i n t e d t h e i r p e o p l e t o a l l o f t h e i m p o r t a n t cha i rmanship positions. The 29 had COB

Chicago is now a f a t i l e breedff^ gromd fo r t h e K K K and other white stpremacist a-ganizations. I t has maffiy white 'ethnic ' neighborhoods w h i c h have stayed a l l - w h i t e t h r o u ^ a combinatkxi o f off icial police vfolence, c i ty government po l ic ies and v ig i lante attacks. Last summer three Black men who dared enter the al l-white neighborhood o f B r i d g e p o r t w e r e a t t a c k e d ; one was deliberately n n over by a car and then b r u t a l l y beaten w i t h a baseball bat. A week later when a small gro ip of Black and white demonst ra tors marched through Bridgeport t o protest tills racist a t t a c k , over one h u n d r e d w h i t e B r i d g e p o r t residents came out to wave posters t h a t the Nazis had handed o u t w h i c h s a i d " N - » - - r Beware" and "White Power." There have been a number o f wh i t e power ra l l i es in Chicago i n recent years. There are several K K K and Posse C o m i t a t u s c h a p t e r s a r o u n d C h i c a g o a n d throughout I l l i no i s , and Nazis and a neo-Nazi groiq> ca l led the " A m e r i c a F i r s t C o m m i t t e e " o p e r a t e o p e n l y . I n s o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s t h e " C h r i s t i a n Pa t r i o t s D e f e n s e L e a g u e " has a p a r a m i l i t a r y t r a i n i n g camp and has t r a ined hundreds of white people in preparatton f o r " t h e coming race war." These g r o i ^ have done tiieir best t o p romote rac i s t h y s t e r i a a r o u n d t h e Washington election and are taking advantage of the opportunity to r e c r u i t new people t o t h e i r organizations.

In the face of this right-wing onslaight, many white peopte took to wearing Washington but tons t o symbol i ze their opposition t o the racism that was sweeping t h r o t ^ their communities. Otf iers w e r e m o v e d t o j o in Washington's campa ign . A l t h o ^ ttie motives br i i ind tiiese act ions were w e l l - i n t e n d e d , i t is u n f o r t u n a t e t h a t t h e anti-racist sentiment was expressed in support for Washirgton, for there is no evidence that the election of a Black mayor w i l l br ing about any significant progressive change.

Four hundred years o f v i o l en t r e p r e s s i o n against the Black l iberat ion struggle has diown us tha t i f Haro ld Washir^ton's election was any s i g n i f i c a n t th r ea t t o the status quo then we wcxild no t have seen his v i c t o r y a t the po l l s . We would not have seen the constant parade of Democratk: na t i ona l b igwigs l i k e Mondale and Kennedy coming to Chicago to lend their support for Wa^ i r^ t en . Were Wadiir^ton fvmdamentally cha l l eng i r ^ the system that denies Black people t h e i r humj in r i gh t s , t h e n C h i c a g o ' s bus iness c o m m u n i t y w o u l d n o t have endo r s ed h is

nor would the leading local

the meeting to bad< them up. I t was t h e Chicago police who really krcked

o f f the campaign t o un i t e behind E p t o n f o r w h i t e power . Pol ice ch ie f R i chard Breczek publkdy stated that he thought Chicago wouldn ' t be safe i f Washington were elected mayor. He a n n o u n c e d h i s r e s i g n a t i o n s h o r t l y a f t e r Washington made a campaign promise t o f ire h im if elected. 'The FBI was apparent l y much impressed w i th Breczek's racist performance and w i th his abiDty to r ia i an except iona l l y b r u t a l p o l i c e f o r c e ; they o f f e red h i m a high l e ve l position w h k h he declined.)

Whi te po l ice th roughout the d t y circulated some of ttie most v i l e rac i s t l i t e r a t u r e o f the , campaign . A movement o f "Police for Epton" f o r m e d a n d c a r r i e d o u t s u c h t a s k s as " i n v e s t i g a t i n g " voter registration in the Black communit ies and charg ing 5,800 Black voters w i t h f r a u d . Buttons showir^ a watermelon wi th a sfeeh across i t o r i g ina ted among the po l i ce . When the pol ice department was forced to b a i a l l oops fnsm wearing campaign buttons on d u t y , due t o increasBig tensions between Black cBid white oops, many wtiite police wore p l a in w h i t e bu t t ons . A few days before the election, Blade policemen came forward to say that there was a plan among white police t o make massive arrests in ttie Blad< community on eletrtion eve, in order t o prevent Black people from making rt to the polls. The Black press pub l i c i zed th is and the Chicago PD, was forced to openly forbW police f rom carrying i t out.

J B A K C he ld a demonstration in front of one of the po l ice s t a t i o n s s h o r t l y a f t e r r a c i s t propaganda had been discovered in stations al l over the d t y . We protested the propaganda and chanted : " the { » p s and the Klan work hand in hand."

Even w i t h a l l their o r t ra act iv i ty , the police d idnt miss a beat in c a r r y i n g out t h e i r usual leve l o f violent repreffiioo against the Blad< and Puerto Rican communities. A n unarmed Black man, Anton io Armstead, was shot by the police, who then waved t h e i r guns at the g a t h e r i n g c r o w d t o disperse t h e m . Repor ts o f po l ice b r u t a l i t y appeared almost daily in the Defender, Chicago's Black newspaper. The Chicago PD is currently fac ing a lawsui t c l a i m i n g they have made hundreds of thousands of unjustified arrests o f B lack and other Th i rd Wor ld people in the past year.

The most segregated c i t y in the c o u n t r y .

f i n d such e s t a b l i s h e d busirt«sss l e a d e r s i n W a s h i n g t o n ' s t r a n s i t i o n a l t e a m , inc lud ing a rRimber o f cha i rmen o f major Chicago banks. F u r t h e r m o r e , even i f Washington were rea l l y going to t ry and fundam«itally change Chicago , the problems he faces in t r y i n g t o pul l a big c i ty out of a major financial c rs is HI ttie middle o f a recess ion are stagger ing. Some o f his announced plans, l i ke h i r i ng 1000 more cops, m o s t l y T h i r d W o r l d , t o p a t r o l Th i r d Wor ld commun i t i e s , do not sound l ike they w i l l do much to end Black oppression. In fact, they wi l l f u r the r the government 's a b i l i t y t o r ep r e s s Chicago's Black community.

A more serious concern is t h a t t h e U .S . government is manipulating and encouraging this trend towards e l ec tora l p a r t i c i p a t i o n . In 1978 Zbigniew Brzez insk i , Na t i ona l Security Advisor fo r P r e s i d e n t C a r t e r and a l e a d e r o f t h e T r i l a t e r a l Commission, wrote a memo to Carter wh ich was la ter leaked t o the p u b l i c . T h i s memo out l ined aiggest ions for a multi-leveled plan to prevent and destroy B lack res istance.

See No-Win Situation, page ]5

HaT>kl Wadiineton

Freedom Fighters Go to Court, Police Attack Supporters

J a r e d B l o o d w i n g

A pre- t r ia l hear ing in the case of t h e Br inks Freedom Fighters erupted into violence when police attad<ed supporters in the c o u r t r o o m , beat t h e m and th r ew them in to j a i l because they refused to stand for the juctee.

Singled out in the attack was Ahmed Obafemi, a leader of the National Committee to Defend New A f r i k a n F r e e d o m F i g h t e r s , one o f t h e main o r g a n i z a t i o n s t h a t h a s b e e n f i g h t i n g t h e goyernnient^ fttt<^^ |o arhiibiifiae. t|i%, Fvoedom

»sted were Jared B loodwing ,

"Anti-X7ah C o m m r S t ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ " ^ " ^ ^ T h i r t y people had t rave l ed to the t iny ipstate

- Y o ^ j ^ m c< Goshen t o show t h e i r support 9f^if-'Kt?1^ah Ffecxfom Fif^itci ' KWMS

and J u d i t h C l a r k and D a v i d G i l b e r t , w h i t e an t i - impe r i a l i s t s , al l of whom were charged in the 1981 Nvack, New York a t t e m p t t o e x p r o p r i a t e f u n d s f o r the Black l ibe ra t i on struggle f r o m a Brink 's t r u c k . A l l have cons is tent ly refused t o e n t e r p l eas or to put on a " c r i m i n a l " defense because of the pol i t ical nature of the a c t . They were in cour t demanding t h e r i g h t to represent themselves and t h a t the i r ease be severed f r o m

t h a t o f Solonrnan Brown, a co-defendant who turned traitor for the government.

The t r i a l had been nxjved to CKJshen because of the intense oublicity and the p o l i t i c a l support and controversy surrounding the case, which the state is attempting to prosecute as a routine cr imina l t r i a l . Goshen is over t w o hours from New York, where most of the support for the Freedom F ighters is centered. The "routine" was evident from the first, as the supporters found the courthouse r inged w i t h deputies and police armed wi th automatic weapons, plus FBI Ter ror i s t Task Force agents and a t t a c k dogs. A f t e r passing through e l ec t ron i c security, spectators were given assigned s ea t s . A h m e d Oba femi was seated conveniently on the aisle a x l police were seen pointing h im out and whisper ing that he was "the leader of the Blad< people."

When t h e y c a m e i n t o t h e c o u r t r o o m , t h e Freedom Fighters greeted their sipporters w i th the b a t t l e cry of t h e New A f r i k a n I n d e p e n d e n c e Movement , "Free the L a n d ! " and shouted "Free wanam ^^orales^' as a show of so l i da r i t y w i t h the Puerto Rican patriot captured two days before.

Their supporters stood as a show of respect f o r the Freedom F ighters - and sat down when the iudge came in. Two marshalls were sent d i r e c t l y t o Ahmed Oba f emi , on the aisle, to demand that he stand. He refused, s a y i n g t h a t as a N e w A f r i k a n he did not recognize Ihe legitimacy of the court. Thir ty others refused wi th h im. The po l i ce began pu l l ing at h i m . People rose to protest and the police attacked.

Four people were dragged f rom the courtroom and beaten i n the h a l l , wh i l e t h e o t h e r s w e r e locked in the c o u r t r o o m . The Freedom F i l t e r s walked out saying they wouW not par t i c ipa te wh i l e t h e i r supporters were being attad<ed. People le f t the courtroom and demonstrated angri ly outs ide as t h e f o u r w e r e d r i v e o f f the j a i l . They were arraigned at 6 p.m. the next evening and charged w i t h resisting arrest, and Ahmed alone was charged with assault. When bail was raised it was foqnd th f t he tadl ieen- '^ f f lgmg ' i i i r tommv Meanwhile, l < i M M l t t l l R l ^ ^ ' ' a s paraded

later "found"). C i t i n g the "Vioience" of the moyement,

stMe b VBk^ this ki^jdBrtt ID bu{ld support tnon/f - i^iBi fMOfite .t^Bbt^^Jbir^ irfBlAriBttiBn c f their communitvl TJie' s t r u g g l e t o c r i m i F ighters , bv i n t i m i d a t i n g and suRXTters. None of the police wore badge or rame tags, and if the prosecution gets i ts wav , a l l the jurors and witnesses in the Brink's case w i l l be anonymous; the only publ ic people w i l l be the Freedom Fighters and their supporters.

Black Nation Day

On March 25, 1983, the f i f teenth anniversary o f the founding o f the Provisional Government and the naming of the colonized Black Nation i n A m e r i c a , the Republ ic o f New A f r i k a , over *,000 peoole gathered for three days in D e t r o i t , Michigan to celebrate Black Nation Day.

The Black Na t i on Day conference f ea tured many speakers and workshop leaders wtxj have long histories in the l i be ra t i on struggle of the B l a c k N a t i o n . A m o n g t h e m w e r e Rober t Williams, Imari Obadele, Jamil A l Amin fFKA H . Rap B r o w n ) , K w a m e T o u r e ' F K A S t o k e l y Carmichael\ Ami r i Baraka, Queen Mother Moore, Rev. Ben Chavis, Rev. Charles Koen a x l Dara Abdtaka-i .

A t the Fr iday evening "Spiritual Rally" over 1500 people were in attendance t o hear major addresses by Louis Farrakhan, of the Nation of Is lam, and Chokwee L u m u m b a , M i n i s t e r o f J u s t i c e o f t h e R e p u b l i c o f N e w A f r i k a . However, i t was the struggles in the workshops and forums which raised the burning questksns — one o f wh ich was the need for revo lut ionary sc i en t i f i c theory as the guiding force to win land, independence and s o c i a l i s m f o r N e w Afrikan people.

Throughout the conference, support for New Afrikan Freedom Fighters was raised as a major issue t o be t a k e n up by a l l aspects o f the

. a n t i - i m p e r i a l i s t m o v e m e n t . N e w A f r i k a n Freedom F i l t e r Sekou Odinga and other P.O.W.S received awards for their selfless, sacrificing and h e r o i c s e r v i c e to the Black Na t i on . These awards were presented at the Founder's Day Dimer on Smday evening.

B l a c k N a t i o n Day 1983 was e s p e c i a l l y significant because i t comes at a t ime when the Republ ic o f New A f r i k a is under severe at tsck f r om the I I .S . government in i t s c o n t i n u i n g attempt to crush the struggle for land, inside the VJS. borders. The organizers of the conference saw their task as a first-step effort toward the buOing of a much needed nns s National Blade Independence Woveiiient. popOlar res|^^ to this effort was overwhelming and a signal of j

tte National Committee to Oesfcnd

JIOLICE SPY

New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day Saturday, July 16

JBASHEER HAMEED

March and Rally Assemble: Har lem State Off ice Bui lding, 125th & A.C^. Blvd., 10 a.m. Rally: Mount Morr is Park, 124th & Fifth Ave.

S o l i d a r i t y D e m o n s t r a t i o n a n d P r o g r a m , F r i d a y , J u l y 1 5

Sponsored b y t h e J o h n B r o w n A n t i - K l o n C o m m i t t e e New York Demonstrate, 4-6 pm: FBI BIdg., 26 Federal Plaza/Forum, 8 pm: Ukrainian Labor Home, 85 E. 4th St.

Son Froncisco: Forum, 7:30 pm: St. Johns Church, 3126 22nd Ave. St. (at Capp)

This third anrxuai New Afrikar} freedom Fighter Day is observed on the birthday of Assata Shakur to honor all those who have fought to free New Afrika, the Black Nation in North America. This year Freedom Fighters and their supporters are on trial in three separate New York<ourfrooms, being tried as "criminals" for exercising the fundamental human right of armed struggle

Jor national liberation and self-determination. Support New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day; Resist the criminalization of revolutionary struggle!

For more information contact:

N a t i o n a l C o m m i t t e e t o D e f e n d N e w A f r i k a n F r e e d o m F i g h t e r s , P.O. Box 1184, M a n h a t t a n v i l l e Sfo., NY, NY 10027 ,212 -367 -3167

J o h n B r o w n A n t i - K l a n C o m m i t t e e , P.O. Box 406, Stuyvesant Stat ion. NY, NY 10009, 212-989-8898 220 9th St., ff443, San Francisco, CA 94103, 415 -561-9040

This man, a Roddand County Deputy, infiltrated an anti-Klan meeting in New Pa l tz , New York , s h o r t l y b e f o r e t h e M e r i d e n A n t i - K l a n Mobilization. He was identified dur ing the Goshen, New York coirthcxae attack (where the picture was taken) by people £nom that ant i -K la i meeting.

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c i t y government , who granted the permit and sent i t s pol ice f o r c e t o escort t h e Nazis and K lan in and ou t o f Bronson Park and protect them dtr ing the rally.

A t a o re -demonst ra t i on Ant i -Naz i ral ly, the C o a l i t i o n Aga inst Po l ice B r u t a l i t y o f B a t t l e Creek , Michigan, err^hasized fis need for Blad< people to defend themselves against t h e K l a n and pol ice t e r r o r . They c i t ed the murder of Robert ^Kimau) Guy by the police a f t e r he was threa tened by the K l a n , because of his work organizing against k i l l e r cops and f i g h t i n g f o r New A f r k a n liberation.

The Nazi rally, also attended by the neo-Nazi A m e r i c a F i r s t C o m m i t e e f r o m Chicago , was in i t i a l l y organized as pert of an anti-gay crusade led by Rev. Edward Vamer. On A p r i l 9 th Rev. V a r n e r , and t h e Nazis and the K l a n held a meetmg in the Kalamazoo Public Library t o ban a l l books t h a t ment i on homosexua l i t y . Tha t meeting was disrupted by 300 - *00 people. The May I ' f t h r a l l y was the Nazis ' and the Klan's a t t e m p t t o c o m e b a c k a n d o r g a n i z e i n Kalamazoo. They dM not succeed.

Westfarms Mal l , West Ha r t f r r d , C t . A f t e r a c o u r t order a l l ow ing the Na t i ona l

Organ i za t i on o f Women ^NOW^ t o p e t i t i o n in Comect icufs largest shopping m a l l , West farms Ma l l , the KIcBI ennounced that they would hold a recruiting drive at the mal l on May 22nd. M a l l o f f i c i a l s sa id t h e y wou ld a l low no K l a n or anti-Klan activity at the mal l . Police said they w o u l d s e cu r e t h e a r ea w i t h t h r e e p o l i c e departments. The Klan raid they wou ld l ea f l e t in their robes i f anyone tr ied to t l r o w them out. NOW sa id n o t h i n g . J B A K C o r g a n i z e d i n H a r t f o r d a n d " c r a s h e d " t h e m a l l ' s press conference, ca l l i r^ on a l l a n t i - r a c i s t people t o come out on that Sunday to stop the K K K f rom recruiting.

Westfarms Mal l was fiill on May 22nd, but no ore was shooping. Ant i -Klan activists, press, the cur ious , plainclothes cops di^yised as janitors, a few Klan sympaWzers, a Nazi teenager, SWAT teams hidden everywhere — i t was a new phase in the struggle against wtiite supremacy. Since a l f l iost evgrYQDe.wgsjaretending to be shoppinHj.

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p r e s e n t e d o v e r 500 postcards signed l oca l l y demanding that the Klan not be allowed to ral ly . C i t i n g the " v i o l ence " o f a n t i - K l a n groips, the back door. However, i t wasn't the mall , but the people, that stopped the Klan from recru i t ing a t West farms. Outs ide , a f t e r the Klan left , mal l and pol ice o f f i c i a l s were surrounded by 150 p e o p l e c h a n t i n g " D e a t h t o t h e K l a n " i n a m i l i t a n t demons t ra t i on . Pol ice a t t a c k e d t h e d e m o n s t r a t i o n , mak ing t w o arrests , b u t on ly after the po in t had been made t h a t t h e K l a n can r iot o r j ^ i z e anywhere w i thout oppositfayi, even in a rfiopDing malL

New Britain, C t . Soon a f t e r t h e i r Mer iden r a l l y , t h e K l a n

announced a rally in nearby New Britain, Ct., on June 25, Gay Pride Day. Grand Dragon James

,EMtr^nd^imed i t as ^^lgg±^jgmmg^g^m^ l l i l H i i P : ; $ a i d he h i U M m H H M town 's Pol ish popula t ion . J B A K C spd<e at tfie New B r i t a i n C o m m o n C o u n c i l m e e t i n g and

Common Counc i l went to cour t to ask for ~ and got — an extraordinary i n p i c t i o n . The Klan was permitted to rally in a f oo tba l l s tad ium — and a l l a n t i - K l a n demonstrat ions were i l legal except i n s i d e t h e s t a d i u m w i t h t h e K l a n ! Hundreds of oolice were mobilized from all over the state, parkir^ was proh ib i t ed f o r 18 blocks around the s tad ium, a l l businesses were closed and residents were advised by police to clear the area.

T h i s w e n t b e y o n d t h e usual s t rategy o f protecting the Klan as a " l e g i t i m a t e " f o rce , t o a c t u a l l y m a k i n g a n t i - K l a n a c t i v i t y i l l e ga l . JBAKC announced o i r intention not to go into a s tad ium w i t h the Klan a id the police. We saw i t n o t o n l y as a p o t e n t i a l t r a p , b u t as a dangerous precedent for the movement as a w h o l e and a t e s t c a s e f o r g o v e r n m e n t counter insurgency , in which any kind of protest would be defined, conta ined and con t ro l l ed by the police. We announced at a press conference on the morn ing o f t h e K l a i i r a l l y t h a t w e i n t e n d e d t o d e f y t h e in junc t i on p roh ib i t i ng a n t i - K l a n a c t i v i t y w i t h i n 1500 f e e t o f t h e stadium.

By t h e t i m e t h e K K K a p p e a r e d i n the stadium Cthey were flovm in by state hel icopter) , o v e r 200 p e o p l e , m o s t o f them f r o m New B r i t a i n , w e r e g a t h e r e d n e a r t h e g a t e , demons t ra t ing and chant l -^ "Death to the Klan" in def iance of the pol ice o r d e r . Ve r y f e w people" went in and most o f them were K lan sympathizers; others went m and then came o u t , angered, and joined the demonstration. The Klan could be seen high in th e bleachers across the f i e l d , w i t h t h e i r robes and amer ikkkan and confederate flags, looking dovyn on hundreds o f pol ice surrounding a sma l l , scattered crowd on the 50 yard line.

A f t e r t h e K l a n l e f t t h e s t a d i u m , when a n t i - K l a n demonst ra tors a t t e m p t e d t o m a r c h b a c k i n t o t o w n , a n g r y po l i ce a t t a cked the marchers, a r res t ing t h r e e . The po l i ce a t t a c k inc luded plainclothes cops wi th a secret warrant handed down 2 weeks before, charging a J B A K C m e m b e r w i t h a s s a u l t on a cop dur ing the Westfarms Mall demonstration a month be fore ,

Wl^^ Klan was u r a b l P B i f ^ W ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ r po l i ce , and the state was unable to contain the movement inside the stadium.

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as the " I d e n t i t y Movement . " Do we need the bourgeoiae press to convince us t h a t there 's a war going on?

F r o m our analysis of imper i a l i sm and the present economic crises that capitalism is faced w i t h fand how these conditions in the realm of product ion def ine the per iod we l i ve i n \ we reach at least three impor tant observations on the domestic s i t ua t i on ; H t h a t the ob j ec t i v e basis f o r fascism 'and a third world war and/or full-blown race war> is being consol idated w i t h a l l deliberate speed; 2) that as the most cr i t i ca l part of th is conso l idat ion , t h e most backward and rac is t e lements o f the Amerikkkan (white) working class are being trained and equipped t o a c t as a counter insurgency b a t t e r i n g r a m in defense of the fa ther land as the revo lu t i onary strugg le inside amer8<kka grows; and 3) that the U.S. government is fully aware of what is going down because i t is d i r e c t i n g the ma j o r i t y o f t h e s e d e v e l o p m e n t s , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h e

counter inargency a t tacks on a l l r e vo lu t i onary movements be ing led by the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force.

The evidence behind these observations comes f r o m a study o f the general h i s t o r y o f t h e re la t ionsh ip o f the A m e r i k k k a n (whi te ) rul ing class to tfie w h i t e r i g h t , and of w o r l d h i s to ry w i t h respect to when and how fascism «nerges as an extraordinary form of racial, i m p e r i a l and c lass d o m i n a t i o n . We have also based our observat ions on a care fu l r e a d i n g o f p u b l i c sources and enemy propaganda (the bourgeoisie press, congressional reports, etc.) as wel l as f rom inves t i ga t i ve research done by the bnftelfi^hce i r u t of the Black L i b e r a t i o n A r m y . The d a t a c l e a r l y exposes t h e i n t i m a t e and i n t r i c a t e coiyborat icn between the state and t h e w h i t e r ight. In the perkxl ahead of us we must devote as much o f our energies t o exposing t o t h e m a s s e s t h e s e " t r o u b l i n g l i n k s " and t h e government 's move towards bui ldir^ fascism as

we devote to confronting the Klan's marcfies and demonstrations in the streets. A t every turn we must combat the v i ew t h a t the government is neu t ra l and t h a t i t has its eye on the Klan and is protec t ing the so-cal led A m e r i k k k a n publ ic f r o m the cuckoo-birds (on either the right or the left^ who would destroy th is great p l u r a l i s i t c democracy . Such is the importance of a paper l i k e D e a t h t o t h e K l a n and we support i t s forward development. I n the i^Jcoming years we hope that i t w i l l grow into a major news source and b r ing the t ru th of whafs going down to the white community, When the press propagandizes and m i s i n f o r m s t h e people t h a t the F B I is " u n c o v e r i n g t r o u b l i n g l i n k s " o f w h i c h t h e government itself is the organizer i f s dear they are trying to mess wi th people's minds . And i t is a l l the more dear that the distorted view of r ea l i t y th is m i s i n f o r m a t i o n produces must be countered by ttie t ru th . White Stpremacy must not go unchallenged!

KNOW YOUR ENEMY California Klan Leader Tom Me tzge r

"3ust wa t ch us. Just l i s t e n . I m a g i n e anyth ing you want . Imagine we're just a few sophisticated people who are going t o ge t w h a t t h e y wan t . Imagine we're a massive movement. Whafs the di f ference. N o o n e ' s g o i n g t o s t o p us . We ' re profess ional . We ' re v e r y d e t e r m i n e d . We're up t o date . We have y o u t h . "

- T o m Metzger

Tom Metzger, ¥t years old, has emerged as a leading Klan ideologue and organizer. Based in S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a , he heads t w o w h i t e

. sipremacist organizations — the White Amer i c an P o l i t i c a l A s s o c i a t i o n f W A P A ) a n d t h e p a r a m i l i t a r y K u K l u x K l a n of C a l i f o m i a . In d e s c r i b i n g t h e d i f f e rence between the t w o . M e t i e r has said that WAPA "is publ ic and the other is an underground secret organization."

EvoiutiGn of a KJan Leader

Tom Metzger c la ims to have g rown up a liberal in Indiana and Florida. I t was in the U.S. A r m y t h a t M e t z g e r says he c o a l e s c e d h i s "segregat ion is t " v iews. D u r i n g the 1960's he worked for Ihe Doi^las Aircra f t Company and in ^96l^ supported Bar r y Goldwater 's presidential campa i gn . F o l l o w i n g G o l d w a t e r ' s d e f e a t , M e t z g e r j o i n e d t h e John B i r ch Society and quickly rose to a leadership position. He stayed w i t h t h i s o r gan i za t i on for near ly t en years, finally leavff^ because he didnt lielieve the John B i r ch Society was action-oriented enough. "You have t o t r a n s l a t e k n o w l e d g e i n t o a c t i o n , " M e t z g e r s a i d . H e t h e n f o r m e d the Whi te

d, which in 1974 merged w i t h Dav id 'Duke^ K n i ^ of the Ku Klux K l « . , Five years

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Metzger started WAPA and hjs Klan organization went •Underground."

" I do not support large publ ic gatherings where our enemies may easily cata logue each and every member. Either one must con fo rm to a c e l l u l a r , u n c o n v e n t i o n a l s v s t e m o f a c t i v i t y or ^to^ f r on t group act iv i ty ...

"''The Klan's) mission wi l l only be successful by t ak ing t h a t d i r e c t i o n and t o cease t r v i n g t o m a k e t h e K lan a la rge - type polit ical group. To attract large numbers , f r o n t g r o u p s may be developed and/or existing publ ic organizat ions and par t i e s i n f i l t r a t e d for var ious act iv i t ies and long range r e c ru i t i ng programs of sk i l l ed and professional members ...

"These t ac t i cs are t r i e d and proven ... I suggest strongly t ha t you proceed along these lines ... w i t h no nat iona l f i l es , no ident i f i ca t i on cards and none of the public robe demonstrations t h a t serve as useless targets for the groups as a whole."

These are not the words o f someone on the " l u n a t i c f r i n g e . " I t is the beginnings o f a strategy f o r holding power, a f u l l strategy to b u i l d t h e i n f r a s t r u c t u r e s and p a r a m i l i t a r y caoacities for fascism and genocide.

A Closer Look

During his years w i th David Duke and l a t e r , as the KKK of California, Metzger attempted to combine both ptislic and paramilitary activities in the same organ i za t i on . He created new black u n i f o r m s and t a l k e d o p e n l y o f o r g a n i z e d p a r a m i l i t a r v t r a i n i n g and teaching children how

troops have called for'the milierTzatfcin border and t h e shoot ing o f a l l M e x i c a n s

Metzger 's o rgan i za t i ona l h i s t o r y s i gn i f i e s much more than " s p l i t s " or facticmUsm wi thm the Klan. H b current strategy, to bui ld a mass base wi th in the white working dass wi th primary e m p h a s i s on b u i l d i n g s e c r e t p a r a m i l i t a r y o r g a n i z a t i o n , represents the most advanced development w i t h i n the nat ionwide organized w h i t e supremacist movement . When Metzger refused an i n v i t a t i o n to the September, 1982 Confederat ion of Klans meeting (see DTTK, No. 0 in Stone ^^ountain, Georgia, he stated:

the arrival <rf Vietnamese refugees in Ssii lSieg& I n M a r c h , 1980 , t h e y d e m o n s t r a t e d in full battledress, irx:luding bats , shields, bo t t l e s and dogs, in Oceanside, near the Camp Pendleton Marine Base.

Metzger has now moved away f r o m these tvpes o f demonstrat ions and is developing an ^ r e s s i v e grass roots strategy to win the "hearts and minds" of white people.

E a r l y on M e t z g e r saw e l e c t i o n s as an

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important arena for front groip ac t i v i t y , and he has used this pitolic arena to legitimize the Klan and pro j ec t i t as a " p e a c e f u l " o r g a n i z a t i o n concerned w i t h " w h i t e r ights . " Before running for office himself, Metzger served as campaign manager for David Oti<e's run for the Louisiana State Senate. Metzger^ f irst e l e c t i on c a m p a i g j was in March , 1978, when he won 20% of the vote for axffity p lswerr i a t e r , i n J u n ? , be ran

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is near Camp Pendleton. In f a c t , Me t zge r ' s ht^ws t winning percentages were in precincts dussal to these bases. He even won 2 precincts in super-rich L a Jo l l a . WAPA has since run c s n i i d a ^ asd wen some of the district prec inct electkTB for t h e ^ s t e S w ^ ^ Party Central C o m m i t t e e . In 1980, Mets^er r a n for U .S . Senate and r e c e i v e d 80,000 votes . He got f inanc ia l support f r o m across t h e c o u n t r y , including a contribution from States R i ^ t s Party and Klan leader J.B. Stoner.

Many, inc luding the left , dismissed Metzger's congressional primary v i c t o r y as a f l u k e . Y e t , when the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union canvassed the d i s t r i c t , the vast ma j o r i t y of Metzger voters said they knew wtx) he was and voted for h im because he was a Klansman. A typical comment was, " i t was a protest ... and I think alot o f people f ee l we've had a l o t o f black and brown rac i sm, why cant we have a l i t t l e white racism?"

Metzger 's electoral act iv i ty is only one part

of his more public work. He states t h a t he is b u i l d i n g a " f a m i l y " o rgan i za t i on thait has 2 meetings a month — one busirtess, one sbclM* '— and a b i g b r o t h e r p r o g r a m f o r f a the r l e s s children, financial aid to the elderly, blood donor d r i v e s f o r t h e i r members and an economic d i r e c t o r y o f smal l businesses stpportive of the Klan. Metzger is also a min i s t e r in the "New Chr i s t i an Crusade C h u r c h , " pa r t o f the racist "Kingdom Identity" movement . A l l four o f his ch i l d r en , 3 g i r l s and a boy, are active in Klan youth programs which appeal t o w h i t e students w i t h questions l i k e : "Why does my school have Black studies, Mex ican studies, As ian studies, etc., but not White Studies dasses or dubs';"'

The "21st Century Klarf*

"We're proceeding on a one-to-one basis. We t r y to br ing f ami l i e s together so we can explain our position. We have par t i es t o g e t h e r , b o w l i n g , h o r s e b a c k r i d i n g , anything else that shows white people they can have fun together while preserv ing -their mora l , f abr i c " — Tom Met^ec^

C a l i f o m i a K K K " secur i tv t e a m " on Mex ican border. See Enemy: Metzger, poge 13

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FROM FREEDOM FIGHTERS The John Bfown Anti -Klan ConmittBe si^jports i h e developraent and growth o f t he a r m e d c l andes t ine movements in this country. We reprint the c(nnmuni<pjes issued in connection with armed actions to express this si^jport and to geiierale struggle about the poUtics of the actions and the development of armed struggle iiside this oomtry. Every issue we wi l l print e i t h e r communiques issued from the armed clandestine movements or s t a t e m e n t s f rom c a p t u r e d f r eedom f ighters . The ant i -K lan movement must be an anti-imperiaiist movement to fight tlie K b n and si^jport seif-determkHtion for the New African nation.

This issue we print the communiques from tfie Revolutionary Fighting Group (who c l a i m e d re^xmsibUity for bombing the F B I buikfing in Staten Island at the end of lanuaryV the Armed ResBtanoe Unit and the United Freedom Front.

C o m m a n d a n t e A n a M a r i a of the F .M.L .N . , murdered m Managua April 16, 1983.

Armed Resistance Unit Tonight we a t t a cked F o r t Lesley M c N a i r

>^ilitary Base in Warfiington, D.C. F o r t McNa i r houses one branch of the U.S. War College, the N a t i o n a l D e f e n s e U n i v e r s i t y , a n d t h e I n t e r - A m e r i c a n Defense Col lege ( lADC). This Action was taken in solidarity w i t h t h e g row ing l i b e r a t i o n m o v e m e n t s in E l S a l v a d o r , i n Guatemala, and throughout Central America, and w i t h t h e soc ia l is t government o f Nicciragua. This r e g i o n t o d a y is t h e c e n t e r o f w o r l d r evo lu t i on and the f r on t l ine in the defeat of U.S. imperialism. For this reason, i t is current ly t h e t a r g e t o f t h e m o s t v i c i o u s U . S . counter-revolutionary attacks.

A t the l A D C , the U.S. government t r a in s h i g h - r a n k i n g m i l i t a r y o f f i c e r s f r o m L a t i n AJl>,erica in i t s program o f counter insurgency warfare. Trained in torture and t e r r o r , t i e d t o the U.S. mi l i tary and the CIA, its graduates are r^ponsible for the overthrow of progressive and d e m o c r a t i c g o v e r n m e n t s t h r o u g h o u t L a t i n America and f o r t h e estab l ishment o f fasc is t m i l i t a r y reg imes t h a t oppress the masses o f people. They are responsible for the murders o f over 30,000 E l Salvadoreans. The lADC serves t o keep L a t i n A m e r i c a as t h e b a c k y a r d o f Y a n k e e i m p e r i a l i s m and t h e g r a v e ya rd o f millions.

T h e p e o p l e o f E l S a l v a d o r , unde r t h e leadership o f t h e FMLN/FDR, are f i g h t i n g t o end the oppression. Their righteous struggle for peace, self-determination, economic and socia l j u s t i c e is a beacon for the peoples o f L a t i n A m e r i c a and the wo r l d who have seen t h e i r l i ves , labor, and resources sacr i f i ced f o r the e n r i c h m e n t of U .S . i m p e r i a l i s m a n d i t s multi-natkned corporations.

The U.S. response is to use al l the technkjues of counterinsurgency taught at the lADC. Green Berets f i g h t d i r e c t l y i n E l S a l v a d o r w h i l e thousands o f E l Salavadorean government troops train at F t . Bragg and F t . Beming , hundreds o f rni l l ions o f dollars of mi l i tary aid is given to the

junta, and masshre "war games" are conducted by U.S. t roops diroughout the region. The CIA has hundreds of agents in C e n t r a l A m e r i c a and is t r a i n i n g a n d s u p p l y i n g t h o u s a n d s o f mercenar i e s and e x - m e m b e r s o f Somoza ' s N a t i o n a l G u a r d w h o are c u r r e n t l y invading N icaragua. The U.S. is openly t r a n s f o r m i n g Honduras into a garrison state to implement U.S. mil i tary strategy in the region. Fac ing m i l i t a r y defeat i n E l Salvador, the U.S. is implementing "rural pacifkration" programs t h a t w i l l resul t in t h e d e a t h s o f tens of thousands, the fo rced d i sp lacement o f h u n d r e d s o f t h o u s a n d s o f campesinos in to barbed-wire-enclosed strategic hamlets, and the destruction of the land. Faced w i t h a people's war , the U.S. attempts t o k i l l the people. This is full-scale counter insurgency war, and we must actively oppose i t .

This is n o t t h e p o l i c y o f j u s t one b a d a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . I t is t h e r e a l i t y o f U.S. imperialist control in the Third World. I t is the resu l t o f a system based on maximizing prof it for re la t i ve ly f ew through the oppression and exp l o i t a t i on o f hundreds o f millions throughout the world and within its own borders. Caught in a p o l i t i c a l and e c o n o m i c cr is is o f i t s own mak ing , faced w i t h t h e growing struggles o f p e o p l e t h r o u g h o u t t h e w o r l d f o r n a t i o n a l liberation and socialism, the response of the U.S. is war, fascism and genocide.

The courage, sacrifice and d e t e r m i n a t i o n o f the people o f E l Salvador is an inspiration to oppressed people throughout t h e w o r l d . Our action is part of the growing worldwide solidarity w i th that struggle.

We in the U.S. are inside the bel ly of tiie beast. Solidarity is growing but alongside our protes t we must bu i ld an ac t i v e resistance to t h e U . S . w a r m a c h i n e . T h e g r o w i n g m i l i t a r i z a t i o n of our society means tha t the mil i tary is everywhere — and vulnerab le t o our a c t i o n . R e c r u i t i n g s tat ions dot neighborhoods, ROTC functions on campuses, fac tor i es produce t h e w e a p o n s , m i l i t a r y bases t r a i n the men . Resistance is not only an act of so l i da r i t y — i t is the basis for our own revolutionary movement.

EI Salvador w i l l win, Guatemala w i l l w i n , the people o f La t i n America and the Caribbean w i l l

ANAYA MONTES) ESTA PRESENTE! V ICTORY T O T r e FMLNAT » !

SOUDARTTY WITH T f f i PEOPLES O F C E N T R A L MMERICA!

BUEX) A REVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE MOVEMENT!

F IGHT U.S. IMPERIALISM! D E F E N D T I C NICARAGUAN REVCMJJTION!

Navy Commander and U.S. Security Chief (head o f t o r t u r e and coun te r i n su r gency ) A l b e r t Scfiaufelberger, m , rif^iteously executed by the revduticnary movement in E l Salvador on May

Revolutionary Fighting Group

T h e fo l l ow ing t aped message was received by U.P. I , on Saturday, January 29, c l a i m i n g r e s o o n s i b i l i t y i n t h e n a m e o f t h e Revolutiortary F i g h t i n g Group for bombing-o f a F e d e r a l b u i l d i n g on S t a t e n I s l a n d , which had occurred the prevkxis night. The F e d e r a l bu i ld ing contained F B I offices and recruiting s t a t i o n s for the U . S . N a v y and A i r Fo r c e .

" W e b o m b e d t h e F . B . I , o f f i c e on S t a t e n Is land. They are the p o l i t i c a l po l i ce . They a r e r e s p o n s i b l e f o r a t t a c k s i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s and a r o u n d t h e w o r l d . D e a t h t o T r a i t o r s . Free P o l i t i c a l Pr isoners. We are the Revo lu t i ona ry F i gh t i ng Group . "

United Freedom Front Communique #2

U.S. OUT O F E L SALVADOR HANDS O F F MCARAGUA

On May 11, 1983, the United Freedom F r o n t bombed the 77th U.S. Army Reserve Command Center, (800th Mil i tary Police group) Hempstead, N.Y. and the U.S. Nava l M i l i t i a Base, (Naval Reserve Center - Whitestone) Oueens, N.Y.

T h e P e o p l e o f E l S a l v a d o r have been struggling against a vicious dictatorship and living unde r c o n d i t i o n s o f e conomic e x p l o i t a t i o n , p o l i t i c a l repression, s t a r v a t i o n , and h u m a n su f f e r ing for generat ions. While in Nicaragua, where the People after a long hard f i gh t were able t o get r id o f the y .S. government supported dictatorship, Reagan fs''*fOw*??|^|^eand paying for a mercenary force to t r y ^ ^ W W I h U i f ^ the popular Sandinista govermvent.

W i t h t h i s a c t i o n , w e a t t a c k t h e U . S . ' T * " imperialist m i l i t a r y mach ine , a machine whteh has pumped hundreds o f mi l l i ons o f dollars in mil i tary aid to prop i p a m i l i t a r y d i c t a t o r sh i p .

The m i l i t a r y r u l e r s o f E l Sa l vador are outr ight fascists who rape, t o r t u r e , m u t i l a t e , dehumanize and massacre tens of tfxjusands of^ Campesinos and other civiL'ans.

Once again a president, R ^ ^ p s * this case, has lied t o the Amerkan People t o t r y to gain support f o r y e t another bloody war. These Ues w i l l not cover the t r u t h and r e a l i t y o f t h e People of El Salvador, nor w i l l i t stop their fight for freedom.

In an economy based.on agr icul ture , where the overwtielming majority of the land is owned by a f ew r i c h f ami l i e s ( the olig£rchy\ 70% of the children under 5 years are malnourished, t h e i n f a n t m o r t a l i t y ra te is c r i m i n a l l y h igh and unemployment and illiteracy are rampant.

R a t h e r t h a n a l l e v i a t i n g any o f t h e s e conditions, U.S. involvement has only served t o maintain this barbark: system.

The major i ty o f t h e People o f E l Salvador a r e i n , o r s u p p o r t t h e R e v o l u t i o n a r y o r g a n i z a t i o n s , F a r a b u n d o M a r t i F r o n t f o r Na t i ona l L iberat ion (FMLN) and the Denracratic Revolutionary Front (FDR) . We recognize the Revo lu t i onary leadership o f the FMLN/FDR and support the People's f i ^ for se l f -de t e rmina t i on a n d c e r t a i n v i c t o r y a g a i n s t t h e m i l i t a r y dictatorsh^J of El Salvador and U.S. imperialism.

"The t i m e for Revo lu t i on has arrived. The t ime for liberatian has come, the definite v ictory is in the hands of th is hero ic and courageous peopte who for so many years have shed t h e i r blood t o ob ta in the r i g h t t o be free, to enjoy democracy, real independence, soc ia l progress, sovereignty and seif-determinatiOTu" — FMLN

VICTDRY TO T H E P E O P L E O F E L SALVADOR! SOLIDARITY A N D SUPPORT TO THE

NICARAGUAN PEOPLE AND THEIR SANDINISTA GOVERNMENT!

S C U D A R m r AND REVOLUTIONARY SUPPORT TO T H E L O C K E D DOWN F R E E D O M FICMTCRS

AND TO A L L O^ATTO J U R Y R E N S l h K S ! FREE ALL POUTICAL PRISONERS AND

POWS!!! S O L I D A R I T Y T O A L L P R O G R E S S I V E I N D I V I D U A L S A N D O R G A N I Z A T I O N S OPPOMMG U.S. INVOLVEMENT C E N T R A L

AMERICA!

U.S. OUT O F E L SALVADOR! HANDS O F F NICARAGUA!

HASTA L A VKrrORIA S E M P R E

Ziamibtl^^ 13

Silvia Baraldini from page 5

e x a m p l e of t he s t e a d f a s t n e s s we must col lectively bui ld if we are going to w in . Non-collaboration means refusal to talk to the FBI, to the US attorneys, or to any investigative arm of the US government. Non-collaboration means the recognition on the part of the public movement that what we do has an impact on the ability of the armed clandestine movement to develop and grow, and that our silence helps keep the state from being able to destroy the armed clandestine movement.

Why were you invited to Thrtebwe twice?

May 19th Communist Organization in 1977 began actively to work with the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANUl We sipported the party in their struggle to lead the Zimbabwean people to independence, to overthrow the white settler regimes and to end the presence of B r i t i s h imperialism in their country. ZANU was founded in 1964 and from the beginning it believed that v i c t o r y c o u l d on l y be a c h i e v e d if the Zimbabwean people, especially the peasantry, were mobilized to actwely became participants in a war for liberation. As of 1979 ZANU had liberated two provinces and effectively controlled two others out of a total of eight. The white settler regime was pinned to the major urban centers. It was at this point that, t ry ing to salvage what it could, imperialism offered a settlement and free elections were held for the first time in ''0 years. ZANU invited friends and supporters to observe the elections because of the attacks being waged against the party. May 19th was invited to observe the elections, to a t tend the independence ce l eb ra t ions arid returned a year after to see how the nation was changing. Solidarity with the national liberation struggles in Southern and central A f r ica is part of the anti- imperial ist movement inside the United States. US imperialism is South Africa 's foremost ally and US multinatioral corporations dominate the economic life of countries like Z imbabwe , Mozambique, and Zambia . The struggle to build a socialist society in Zimbabwe is very important far the future of Southem Africa. A ^ B B H g socialist Zimbabwe, along with

, could provide a rearguard for the liberation movements challenging the

apartheid regime in Azania/So^JM^icaT. The emiJWIIiaft'lJiifcigtiaiil^^ also

iBiW'fff ,,.,Afejfia*«And. br ing c l o se r the overthrow of ^dictators lil« Mobutu in the Conga ,

i t i n u e N e x t I s s u e : Inc iud i i ^H^ fifpht against trcHtoK, the

conclusion of the RICO trial, and more..'.

Enemy: Metzger from page ] 1

Southem Ccdif ornia has a hig^ concentratfon of mil itary bases and ae rospace i n d u s t r i e s . "Secre t " camps exist for training Salvadorean r i^ t i s ts and Nkaraguan "Somocistas", as wel l as an Alpha-66 (anti-Cii>an) paramilitary camp. A klavem at Camp Pendleton was ejq^osed when Black marines attacked a Klan meeting. Chula Vista, near the border, has the highest number of retired military peopte in the country and the border i t s e l f is becoming more and more mi l i tar ized. Watts, in Los Angeles, was the scene <rf the first major rebellion of the eo s and today L A police ki l l over Black and Latino people every year. This is the bad<drop for the increasing growth of Klan activity in Southem California.

At least 3 K lan organ izatrons, including Bill WiDdnson's Invisible Empire of the Knights of the K K K and David Duke's NAAWP are workii^ in the reg ion. (George P e p p e r , M e t z g e r ' s " l ieutenant" until 1981, is now Califomia Grand Dragon for die Invisfcte Empire.) Yet , Metzger's

" 2 1 s t Century Klan," as he calls it, has emerged as a leaifing Klan force throughout the country.

Tom Metzger ca l ls on white people to unite in support of white r i ^ t s and to oppose issues like "busing, foreign product dumping and i l l ^ a l a l iens . "mAt the same time, the lynchpin of Metzger's work is to build up his clandestine military organization. His strategy includes "surrounding" cities like Los Armeies end the use of computers to compile informatkm for his KBI - Klan Bureau of Investigation.

Most significantly, there is no real separatkxi between Metzgw% vrords and his actkxis. While he woiks openly in "legitimate" piAlic arenas, his en t i r e program is guided by h i s v i o l e n t paramilita-y strategy building for race war.

"K I ever decided that the Nazi Party was the best for the white race , Pd be the biggest Nazi around." — Tom M e t i e r

F i v e Puerto R ican and Mexican leaders were sentenced to three years in U.S. prisons for reftskw to t a k to a Federal Grand Jury kwesdgating the Puerto R k a n Independence Movement, particularly the armed clandestine F . A . L . N . The five are menters or supporters of the Movinuento de Uberadnn Nackxial, a jxtlic kidependenoe oiiganizatnn that has led the Grand J i r y resistawe movement. T h w conviction for cr iminal (as opposed to civi l ) contempt sets a precedent for sdffer sentences for non-collaboratkxi, hut the reiatwely l i ^ sentences was seen as a defeat for the F B H e d prosecution, which at one point had asked for the death penalty. L e f t to r i ^ JiMk> Rosado, M v i a Cueto, Anckes Rosado, R k a n b Romero; not shown, Steven Guerra. ^

Criminalizing the Anti-Klan Movement from page 2

has begun to util ize a formula portraying the struggle over white supremacy as a con f l i c t be tween " ex t remis t s of the right and left." Agam, the Grand Jury Report statesjy."... they a r e hut opposite s ides of the s a m e co in :

li«b| I s ^ i ^ n s jrfap^ n^Mdiate A i ^ r i c a o ^

The government has tried to destroy the Black Liberation Struggle and any principled all iances it has had with white forces for WO years; not slavery, assassration, jailing, torture or counterinsurgency has been abte » dwtroy the pesiSaooiS'.'andHiBt^miination cT **

freedom. lormulation, trie state, often joined by reformist ant i -K lan groups, promotes the no-wki posrtksn t h a t t h e . W i w i h y i M bg ignorefd;. T h e s e

the hook by p o r t r a y i i ^ t t a s a inediatlng» noivracist •farce ofipaBed .tcv bulfi le ft and ri^ht. Y e t the focts are that the ihtefests of the stale and the Klan are the same: the makiteranoe of the U>S. empire and the contkiued silijtigatei of colonized natkxis at home and abroad, t h i s is why in L o s Ange les the Police Intelligence D i v i s i o n h a s t u r n e d o v e r f i l e s t o t h e compute r i z ed da ta bank of the J d i n B i r ch Society and the Senate Committee on Terrorism is now investigating the ant i -Klan movement. The anti-Klan movement and the Klan are not the same, and there is no reasonable, middle ground be tween t h e m . T h e o n l y s t a n d progressive people can take is to resst the Klan.

T H I R D L Y , res t ing on th is i d e o l o g i c a l foundation, the state is directkig the poUce to use " ex t r ao rd ina ry power " to con ta in the militancy of the movement. Police roadblocks, and searches of al l demonstrators have been c a r r i e d out in Texas and Connecticut where antirKlan organizers are confrontkig major drives by the K lan . In San Antonio, poBce deared a large part of the downtown area of a l l people while they escorted the Klan on its parade and SWAT sharprfwoters stood poised and ready to "keep the peace." In Austki and elsewhere those arrested for demonstratkrg agaktst the K lan now face heavy cha-ges.

In New Britaki, Conn. # « state attempted to force anti-Klan t*emonstrators into an enclosed s t a d i u m w i th the K l a n and po l i c e , wh i l e prohibitkig any ant i -Klan act iv ity in any other part of New Britain that da^. Large pictures of known anti-Klan orgaiizers were posted at the police dieckpoint mto the stadiivn so that these people wouM be klentified to- a l l police, local, state and FBL In Ccrmecticut a sn'ies of 'secret warrantsf allegedly resultkig from the Westfarms Mall demonstratson have been issued. Based on police photes and hearsay, these warrants can now be "dropped" on anti-Klan activists at will. This is a precursor to full scale preventative detention, which was actually proposed in New Britaki, when the Klan offered to point out and identify leaders of J B A K C , so they could be detained durkig the June 25 Klan rally. This is a new step in the state's strategy to criminalize and stop the growtfi of the anttJ<lan movement and must be fought.

thft l^o^b iJ I iy o f unity between masses o f ant i -Klan white peo|^ and the Blad< LSieratkxi Struggle inside the U . S . A revo lu t ionary a n t i - K l a n movement that fights under the leadership of the New Afrikan Independence Movement will be sfole to play a critical role m smash ing the power of the K l a n and the imperialist system that gives it life. But this will only be posable as long as efforts by the ant i -K lan movement to combat represaon are b^ed ki defense of Black people's human rights and m defense of .freedom fighters committed to freeing the Black natkx\.

This campaign w i * its kieok)gical, legad and police-FBI components can only be understood a s a fu r ther step in the codi f icat ion of U.S. fascism. The state's plan is to heighten the risks, Intknidate peopte and make it a crime for peopte to fight the Klan and the growth of a fasdst movement. This is made even more real as the state tries to undermine the militancy of the resistance by creatkig oonditians where the crowds cant even get near the K lan . Building and defending our movement can never be separated from siqsportkig those movements and individuals under attack because they fight for tfe liberation erf the oppressed nations.

The government undostands ttie power and potential anti-knperialist content of the anti-Klan struggle. These demonstrations have radkalized peopte who come out to confront the Klan and support Black liberatkxi; and they expose in real terms ttie imity of the police and the K l a n . This is why the U.S. is moving now to m ^ militant mass a c t i on aga inst the K l a n an il legitimate and rWcy form of protest, just as it is m o v i n g to attack t h e N e w A f r i k a n Independence Movement and other national liberation struggles within the borders of the U . S . I t is part of an overall plan to quell resistance.

In the period to come we dx>uld expect the government to further expand police/FBI powers. We believe that the anti -Klan movement has tremendous potential t o grow nationally, i f we continue to reach more people, to demonstrate against the Klan whenever i t marches or appears in public, to fight attacks on our movemeit and buiW uncompromising support for the right of New A f r i k a t o s e l f - d e t e r m i n a t i o n and self-defense. Death to the Klan!

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Vfcfory fo flie FLNC! Struggle in the Congo

t o o v e r th row Mobu tu , bu t to bu i l d i socialist society so that the Congolese people w i l l have power over t h e i r own l ives and the future of their nation.

The C o n g o is in the hear t o f A f r f c a . I f contains strategic minerals necessary fo r t h e US m i l i t a r y machine . Large uranium deposits are m i n e d and m o s t o f t h e w o r l d ' s c o b a l t i s e x t r a c t e d from the Congo. Its central location makes i t key to t h e maintenance o f a l l t h e s u r r o u n d i n g n e o - c o l o n i a l c o u n t r i e s . Za i re provides bases for t h e C IA-backed UN ITA t o c a r r y o u t c o u n t e r i n s u r g e n c y a i m e d a t destabilizing the socialst nation of Angola. This is why the US has intervened in the Congo four t imes since 1960 to prop up the neo-co lonia l gove rnment o f Mobu tu . In a recent defense pact w i t h Mobu tu , Israe l has brought 5-6,000 t roops in to Za i r e , supply ing a rms arid mi l i tary training, in exchange fo r recogn i t i on in A f r i c a and economic expanaon. The US hopes to dean up its image, as I s rae l does thie " d i r t y w o r k . " T h i s h igh ly m i l i t a r i z e d s i tua t i on can only be defeated by t h e F .L .N .C . s t rengthening t h e i r strategy to build the people's war.

The demonstrations and action fo r June 30th not only b u i l t support for the F.L.N.C. and the strugg le in t h e C o n g o , b u t a lso d e m a n d e d U S / N A T O / I s r a e l t r o o p s o u t o f the Congo. F i ^ t i r ^ the build-up of imperialist troops i n the Congo is p a r t o f bu i l d ing an a n t i - i m p e r i a l i s t m o v e m e n t c o m m i t t e d t o f i g h t i n g t h e K l a n / o o l i c e / m i l i t a r y w a r m a c h i n e t h e US government is building against natioral l i fcerat ibn s tr i^gJes and tiie anti-imperialist movement, SBid exposes the U S ' i a ^ i t i , , r n n t i n i l i n p ro le i n the Congo. These dernonst tarBWi l i i^^a-kx is ly critfcized the People's Reoublk: of China m i l i t a r v t roops i t ma in ta ins in the Congo to^ support the Mobutu regime ani to guard Chinese investments in the area.

Victory t o the F i JM .C . !

•GOLD •COBALT

•COAL A COPPER ^ D I A M O N I ^ ^MANGANESE

> RAILROADS />6 OTRAG

*The ^laded a rea was leased to 4 w German fkm O T R A G for misale testkig. The Germans effective^ have rmaned ooiofUal control of the land, resources and people in IIBS

Not a penny nota not a man 1x>MotHrtu

June 3 0 t h is ce lebrated each year as an interrational day of solidarity w i t h the strugg le o f the Congolese oeople f i gh tk i g to overthrow the Mobutu r eg ime i n wha t is now known as Za i re . I t is also a day to build support for the N a t i o n a l L i b e r a t i o n F r o n t o f t h e C o n g o (F.L.N.C.) , t h e r evo lu t i onary vanguard of the Congolese striKjgle.

Demonstrat ions were held m New York C i ty , San Francisco, Wa^ington, D.C. and Boston and t h e r e were p o l i t i c a l a c t i on tab les in A u s t i n , Chkago, and Portletfxl. In Los Angeles on Ju ly 1st, a coa l i t i on o f groups sponsored at program keynoted by Serge M u k e n d i , t h e F . L . N . C . Reorwentative m the U.S.

Since 1968 when the F.L.N.C. was formed, i t has canned forward Pa t r i c e Lumumba 's legacy, i n i t i a t i n g a r m e d s t r u g g l e t o o v e r t h r o w neo-co lon ia l i sm. A f t e r P a t r i c e L u m u m b a ' s a s s a s i n a t i o n by t h e C I A i n l ^ O , the U.S. insta l led Mobu tu , who is ca l l ed t h e "Shah o f A f r i c a " , t o s a f e g u a r d imper i a l i s t econornic interests h the C a ^ and repress the Congolese o e o p l e wt\o had just won t h e i r itxlependence from Belgami. fti 1977-78 the FX.N.C. l iberated three prov inces, establ ish ing liberated zones in minera l - r ich sou them Za i r e . Mobutu's forces w « - e unat te were inable to contam tiiis uprismg and 20,000 NATO troops, mcludmg t h e US 82nd A i r b o m D i v i s i on , were b n x ^ t m to defeat Hhe r ^ l l i o n .

S ince .1978 the I* .L .N.C. has. cont inued to build tfie strate iy o f peopled w a r . ' The i r slogan "Conquer or Die^' means that the tota l Bberaticn of t h e Congo is more t h a n just r e p l a c i n g a colonial government w i th an African one. Under Mobutu , only 1.2 m i l l i o n o u t o f 30 m i l l i o n people a r e employed , 50% o f the children die before tfiey are 2 years o ld and many women have been forced to turn t o pros t i tu tkn to feed tf»r b i l k ' s . The FXJ^.C. is f iehtkis no t iust

Congolese Children IMarching^ in Liberated Zone

News Briefs, from page 3

Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Captured

Puerto Rican revo lut ionary W i l l i a m ^^orales was captured near Mexico C i ty , four vears after his dramatic escape f rom UJ5, counterinsurgency forces in New Y o r k C i t v . He is wanted as a member o f the armed c landest ine F . A . L . N . , wh i ch f i gh t s f o r ind^endence and socialism fa-Puerto Rico. A f t e r his capture, police ra ided a house w h e r e he was though t " * t o have been staving and three peopte and a po l i c eman were k i l l e d . J^er Toro of the FBFs Joint Terrorist

<vas ^ m e d i a t e l y sent t o Mex i co t o supervise Mora les ' i n t e r r o ga t i on w i # ! e l e c t r i c shock t o r t u r e , w h i c h w a s c o n d u c t e d b y INTERPOL, , The U.5v has tr ied for almost t en yej^ra ^^destrov t h e F .A .L .N , b u t has b e e n w h o l T y l m s u c c e s s f u l because the F . A . L . N . is

p o r t e d b y many^.tn t he P u e r t o R i c a n cor f f f ^n i^ t es inside t h e U .S . A n intematknd campai f9n^^fes*n mounted t o supoort W i l l i a m Morales ' request for p o l i t i c a l asylum from the ^lexican ^ e m m e n t . The e n t i r e Puer to R i can i n d e p e n d e n c e movement and other p a t r i o t i c sectors have un i t ed behind th i s campa ign . So

• f a r the Mex ican government has responded to this support by not allowing the U.S. to extradite Wil l iam Morales. Write or t e l ^ r a m ; Pieudente Miguel de la Madnd Palacte Presktendal n i s t r i t o Federal, Medoo M r . Pres ident : I a * tha t Pwrto Rican patnot Wil l iam Mora les , r e c e n t l y de ta ined in Puebla , Mex i co , be given po l i t ka l refugee status in your c o u n t r y o r be depor ted t o a c o u n t r y o f h i s c h o i c e w h i c h is f r i e n d l y t o P u e r t o R i c a n independence. I hope Mexno w i l l r w t break i t s t r a d i t i o n o f protect ing the lives and l i i e r t i es o f L a t i n A m e r i c a n p o l i t i c a l r e f u g e e s . INnePFJ^TOHNCF FOR PUERTO RICO NOW!

Another Racist Attack in Brooklyn

Three Black hospital workers were a t t a c k e d by a racist gang May 3 in Brooklyn, only a mile and a half f rom Avenue X, where Wil l iam Turks was murdered last year. The t h e e had stopped at an a l l n ight newstand for c i gare t t es a f t e r m idn i gh t when they were surrounded by a mob, called racist names, and beaten. One man was h o s p i t a l i ^ w i th a oorxrussion and broken bones; several gf^the racists were also in jured be fore t h e a t t a c k was stopped by an o f f - d u t y cop. A f t e r W i l l i a m Turks ' murder only one of t h e a t t a cke r s , Gino Bova was ever b r r x ^ t to t r i a l . When Gino was acqu i t t ed of murder and only conv i c t ed o f second degree mansla i^ i ter , many warned that i t would serve as a "green l i g h t , " g i v ing rise to further attacks, such as this latest one. A f t e r t h e a t t a c k t h e r e w e r e p r o t e s t demonstrations: one at the newstand in Brooklyn by t h e J B A K C and one in Har l em by B l a c k c o m m u n i t y groups. Three persons have been indicted for assault: Joseph Wiggins, 19, o f 78 Bay 50th S t ; Ronald Sutter, 22, of 170 Bay 5'fth St.; and Eric Musial, 18, of 189 Bay (tTth St.

Killer Cops: Houston

A Houston cop was acquitted of murder charges on M a y 2 0 t h and then o f f e r ed his job back . Deputy Constabte Earl Jeffrey Johnson shot and ki l led a 20 year oW Black man. Glen Simpson, in f r o n t o f his own mo the r and neighbors a f t e r allegedly stopping him for speedir^ January 30th. Johnson * o t Glen Simpson at po in t -b lank range i n t h e head w i t h a .357 Magnum, c l a i m i n g Simpson had a weapon, w h i c h o f course was never found. The Wller cop was then rescued by a po lk» t e a m a rmed w i t h AR -15 a u t o m a t i c s . Due to community outrage, Johnson was charged w i th murder, the first t i m e a Houston cop has ever been indicted for murdering someone while on d u t y . B l ack jurors were exc luded by t h e prosecut ion which claimed they would make the tr ia l a "race issue".

Free Speech

Irish a c t i v i s t Bernade t t e Dev l in McA l i skey was barred f r o m the U.S. June 3rd, because of her support for the armed struggle against the Br i t i sh in Northern Ireland. A State Department spokesman sjiid she " in tended to p a r t i c i p a t e in a c t i v i t i e s c o n t r a r y t o U .S . i n t e r e s t s " by supporting hinger striker Nicky Kelly. The U.S. c la imed her speaking tour might win suport for the I r i sh Na t i ona l L i b e r a t i o n A r m y ( I N L A ) . McAliskey has made trips to the U.S. as recently as October , and her v i s a d e n i a l is p a r t o f heightened U.S. attacks on the Irish stn^ggte and sqjport for Brit ish repression.

More Free Speech

The governor of South Dakota is a t t e m p t i n g t o s t o p d i s t r i b u t i o n o f a book a b o u t t h e American India i Movement and the struggle t o f r e e POW Leonard Pe l t i e r . I n The Sp i r i t of C r a z y H o r s e by P e t e r Mat th i essen fV ik ingV documents FB I counter insurgency against the iKBan s t r u s ^ w d rewsJs j Q B W H ^ ^ ^ y u i ^ ^ J a n k l o w was c o n v i c t e d o f r a p i n g a n Ind ian

wrxTMn w h m h a « w a l awyer a t thft,.Ra«ebud

sued V i d % P H M

for $2« mffien but they hvie refused to puB the book off the shehres.

Slip of the Tongue

KKK at Long Island High School

A dummy w i t h a b lack f a ce and " K K K " w r i t t e n across i t was found hanging f r o m a backstop on t h e F a r m i n g d a l e , L o n g I s l a n d b a s e b a l l f i e l d on June 1 * . Pol ice say the dummy was "the work of youtii rather than any organized Ku Klux Klan." The sdx » l of almost 3 ,000 students had been the scene o f w h i t e supremacis t v io lence for weeks and had iDeen shut down for three days due t o K l a n - t y p e attacks on the 112 Black students.

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No-Win Situation from page 6

One of Brzezinski's recomrhendattens was

to support the nominat ion a t f edera l and loca l levels o f loyal black p i i j l i c f i g u r e s t o e l e c t i v e o f f i c e s , t o government agencies and the courts. This wouW promote the achievement o f a t w o f o l d purpose: f irst, i t would be easier to c o n t r o l the a c t i v i t y o f l o y a l b l a c k r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s w i t h i n exist ir^ inst i tut ions; second, the idea o f an indeperxtent blad< polit ical party now under d iscuss ion w i t h i n - b l a c k leadership c i rc les swauld sodrt Idse al l

I a . l 9 U ,

A New Y o r k S t a t e Judge was r e c e n t l y c r i t i c i z e d f o r using the rac i s t expression " a n r in the woodpile" in c o u r t . He was one o f the judges in Ant i -Spr in^ok 5 t r i a l , in which 5 an t i - impe r i a l i s t s were t r i e d and j a i l e d f o r pro tes t ing the U.S. t o u r o f the South African Sprinsdxjks Rugby Team in 1981. Judge Agresta, w h o r e f u s e d t o a l l o w t h e a n t i - a p a r t h e i d defendants t o see their FBI files, said his la t es t racist remark was "a slip of tfie tongue."

Reagan cn Brainwashing

Los A n g e l e s , J u l y 5. In an address t o the A m e r i c a n Federa t i on o f Teachers, P r e s i d e n t Reagan crrticized anti-Klan and anti-nuclear war study guides prepared by the r i v a l N a t i o n a l Educat ion Assoc iat ion as "propagancfa aimed at frightening and bra inwashing A m e r i c a n school c h i l d r e n . " The a n t i - K l a n guides refers to the U.S. as a racist society and the Klan as the " t i p o f the iceberg." Reagan also called for stricter discrolire codes and fewer bilingual prc^rams.

F t e ^ s f i r and Vo t e . " The Urban League is funded b y ' t h e Rocke fe l l e r F o u n d a t i o n ... D a v i d R o c k e f e l l e r is t h e l e a d e r o f the T r i l a t e r a l C o m m i s s i o n . The s t u d y was under taken wi th the view of increasing Black participation in the 1<^3 mayoral election.

I t s e e m s c l e a r t h a t t h e n a t i o n a l Democratic Party is the main backer o f th i s s t r a t e g y t o c h a n n e l r e s i s t a n c e in to the harmless electoral process by promoting B lack c a n d i d a t e s . By p u l l i n g t h e l e f t / l i b e r a l community into Oeniocratic party campaigns, they are t r y i n g t o isolate the revolutionary le f t . The Tri lateral ists and the D e m o c r a t i c Pa r t y wou ld l ike for us to forge t tha t the g o v e r n m e n t t h a t is e n c o u r a g i n g B l a c k p a r t i c i p a t i o n in the e l e c to ra l process is the same government that is building the Ku K lux K lan today . I t is the same government that refused t o conv i c t the murderers o f the 5 CWP members in Greensboro or the thousands of killer cops around the count ry . I t is the same government t ha t is unleashing grand juries against the New A f r i k a n and Puer to R ican independence movements , wh ich has tortured New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Sekou Odinga, and which recent ly approved new, more openly repressive FBI guidelines. These are key struggles at the center of building a resistance movement. But, immersed as they are in the " legit imate" arena o f campaigning, much of the left has refused to take on these s t r u g g l e s . They are ignor ing the danger signals o f increasingly fasc is t ic government repressfon.

The s i tua t i on in Chicago po ints t o the need to carry out careful study o f t h e ways i n w h i c h t h e U . S . is c a r r y i n g o u t counterinsurgency against the Black l i b e ra t i on s t r u g g l e and a l l p r o g r e s s i v e s t r u g g l e s . Electoral politics is part of a single s t ra tegy t h a t a l so i n c l u d e s t h e K K K and po l i c e violence. Unless our movement is b u i l t on t h e s o l i d unwave r ing pr inc ip les t h a t U.S. i m p e r i a l i s m i s t h e e n e m y o f a l l freedom-toving people ^whether in El Salvador, Palestine or right here in the U.S.) and t h a t i t can never be reformed — then we w i l l play d irect ly into the hands of the government and wi l l hold back the struggle t o destroy th i s system.

16 Z^umibiM^

WHO WE ARE T h e -Ttrfm B r o w n A n t i - K l a n C o m m i t t e e i s a naitionai orgaruzatkm that mobilizes white people to f i ^ white supremacy. We were formed in 1977 m response t o t h e s t rugg l e o f B l a d < a n d P u e r t o R i c a n p r i s one r s g a i n s t K K K orgaraang among New Yori< S ta te prison guaids. In t h e l a s t y e a r w e h a v e fought t h e K l a n a n d k i l l e r cops a n d bu i l t s o l i d a r i t y w i t h t h e New Afr ikan Independence Movement in San F r a n d s c o , Lc3s A l l e l e s , Houston, San Antonio, Ka lamazoo , Chicago , Boston, O m e c t i o i t and New York .

W e look t o t h e leadersHp of national liberation strtiggles f i ^ i ^ for freedom from U .S . domination and to the New Afr ican Independence M o v e m e n t in p a r t i c u l a r . We a r e a s o l i d a r i t y o r g a n i z a t i o n for the New Afr ikan Independence Movement — tfiat part of the B lack LBjeration Movement whk* i f i ^ r t s for land a x f independence for tfie B lack nation.

T h e f i ght a g a i n s t t h e K l a n is fundamentally a f i ^ ; a i n s t U .S . imperialism. We know t h a t t h e s t a t e c a n n e v e r " b a n " t h e K l a n . W e a r e c o m m i t t e d t o b u i l d i n g a n a n t i - i m p e r i a i i s t mass movement against white s i ^xemacy . We unopncfitionally st^iport a l l s i n g l e s of B lack communities agaJhst t h e K l a n a n d p o l i c e t e r r o r . W e ^ | ^ r t N e w A f r i k a n F r e e d o m F i g h t e r s a n d t h e buikfing of armed stniggle here in the heart of the U.S . e n t i r e . We td<e our name from tfie white fribolitionist freedom f i^ r ter who fought t o k e e p s l a v e r y out o f K a n s a s , who l ed t h e r a i d on Harper^ F e f i y in 1859 and who d e d k a t e d his life to the f i j ^ c«amst white s ^ j r emacy . A s Mateolm X sa id : "We n e e d a l l i e s who w i l l f i gh t and not tel l us to he non-A^olent. I f a « W t e man wants to be a i a l ly , just ask h im w*Krt does he think of 3ohn Brown. D o y o u know w h a t 3ohn B r o w n d i c f H e went to war . "

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POETRY by

Nev/ Afr ikan Freedom Fighter Kuwasi Balagoon

the Klan marched through a town

with an economically deprived New Afr ikan

and Chicane community

accompanied by police

who fol lowed anti Klan demonstrators around

and beat a Chicane woman for being a

Chicano woman, and clearly

opposed to racism

and beat a Chicano man after following him

around

cause he was there

but it wasn't really the Klan

it was just Austin

the Klan has been active

a beating here a murder there * , "

" the good ole boys"

and you say that you will deal with the Klan

but first we got to live together

that is not so. W e don't have to live together.

We won't be living together.

When we try you do the living and we do the

dying, for 400 years

so we will die together

like Sundiata, Zayd & Twyman

or like those working dass am>ed agents of the

^ q t e in Nyack

^understand and moke

suitable re arrangemer

cause it's not the Klan

or Austin

it's Amerikkka