Dr. Mutulu Shakur, A citizen of the Republic of New Afrika, discusses the terms and conditions of his incarceration.
An Interview with Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Posted January 22, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Fascism, History, Interview, New Afrika, Political Prisoners
What is the Republic of New Afrika (RNA)?
Posted January 22, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: History, Mass Work, New Afrika
This was originally posted here.
The Republic of New Afrika flag is that first used by Marcus Garvey.
Q: What is the Republic of New Afrika (RNA)?
A: In the late 1960s, at the height of the Black Power Movement, two acquaintances of Malcolm X, Gaidi Obadele and Imari Abubakari Obadele assembled a group of 500 militant black nationalists in Detroit, Michigan, to discuss the creation of a black nation within the United States. On March 31, 1968, 100 conference members signed a Declaration of Independence outlining the official doctrine of the new black nation, elected a provisional government, and named the nation the “Republic of New Africa” (RNA).
The RNA believes that as a nation, black people are entitled to the full rights of a nation, including land and self-determination. Furthermore, Amerikkka as the land upon which Black People (New Afrikans) have lived, toiled and made rich as slaves is theirs; it is land that Blacks must gain control of because, as Malcolm X said, land is the basis of independence, freedom, justice and equality. The RNA even identified the five states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina as Black People’s land. According to the RNA, gaining control of our land is the fundamental struggle facing Black People; without land, Black Power, rights and freedom have no substance.
Interview with Dr. Imari Obadele
Posted January 22, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: History, Interview, New Afrika
Our esteemed revolutionary nationalist elder, the Honorable Dr. Imari Obadele, Philadelphia native, associate of Malcolm X and one of the
founding mothers and fathers of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, has made the transition to the Ancestors. May
the Creator be pleased with his soul. Free the Land! Peacecomrade.org will will have more to say on this in the near future.
Dr. Imari Obadele:
The Father of the Modern Reparations Movement!
Text Written By Robert C. Smith
The issue of reparations has increased attention in the last several months. Local and state legislative bodies have taken up the issue; articles have appeared in leading newspapers and magazines; it has been a topic of lively debate on the Internet and local and national television and radio programs; and Randall Robinson’s TransAfrica conducted a nationally televised symposium on the subject. Also, The Boston Globe reports that Harvard’s much publicized “dream team” of African American intellectuals are considering legal and legislative actions to secure reparations.
In virtually all of this discussion, hardly any mention has been made of Imari Obadele, the individual who probably should be described as the father of the modern reparations movement.
That Obadele’s work has been ignored is not surprising, given how the mainstream media, black and white, covers African American politics. This coverage is frequently uninformed and almost always biased and myopic, focusing mainly on the familiar disputes between black liberals and conservatives and black Democrats and Republicans, while ignoring – relegating to the fringes – the powerful tradition of nationalism in the black community’s politics.
Bishop Henry M. Turner was the first African American leader to call for reparations. He did so near the end of the Reconstruction era. The Nation of Islam has, since its inception, called for reparations, and the Republic of New Africa (RNA), organized by Obadele and his Malcolm X Society associates in 1968, demanded payment of $400 billion in “slavery damages.” However, the modern movement for reparations did not take organizational form until 1988, when Obadele and his associates formed the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA).
NCOBRA initiates litigation publishes a newsletter and sponsors national and regional conferences. Professor Obadele gave the closing argument in a mock trial at Bethune-Cookman College in 1998, where a bi-racial jury voted to award reparations. At its tenth annual convention held in St. Louis in June 1999, NCOBRA adopted the “Six Down-Payment Demands on the U.S. Government,” which demanded that a billion dollars each be given to ten black colleges, that a billion dollars be placed in a black economic development fund, that $20,000 be awarded to each black family, that a billion dollars be given to black farmers, and that all “political prisoners” be released. For more information, visit the NCOBRA website.
Imari Obadele is currently a professor of political science at Prairie View A & M University, where he has been on the faculty since 1990. A leading scholar of nationalism, Obadele served for twenty years as Provisional President of RNA and is currently a member of the group’s national legislative council. The principal aim of the RNA since its formation has been the organization of a plebiscite among African Americans in order to determine whether they would wish to form an independent nation-state within the current boundaries of the United States. Professor Obadele has written extensively on the right of blacks under prevailing standards of international law to have been accorded after the Civil War the opportunity to choose independent nation-state status rather than forcible incorporation into the United States. Read the rest of this post »
Fred Hampton Jr on Derrion Albert and Chicago Politics
Posted January 15, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Interview, Mass Work, New Afrika, News
Reprinted from The Liberator Magazine. Check out the original link here
“Non-Independent People Don’t Make Independent Decisions”: Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. Speaks on Derrion Albert, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Media Propaganda (Part 1)
Original Interview Date: October 13, 2009
Liberator Magazine: Could you tell us a little bit about the climate in Chicago at this time—since his death took place a couple of weeks ago—we just wanted to know what’s the feeling among the people since the incident?
Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr.: We’re clear that we have to do a lot of damage control as far as the propaganda that’s been put out by the media. So, this case with Derrion Albert—who was tragically beat to death—has been utilized by the ruling class, United States government, City of Chicago as propaganda to help call for martial law, the national guard, as well as help contribute human resources to the same policy that helps the same institutions who stood side by side with Richard Daley (who is the current mayor of Chicago) when he implemented programs such as Renaissance 2010. And this is a major program that is responsible for the death of Derrion Albert and so many youth not only in the Chicago schools but in the general community. In fact we see the death of Derrion Albert and those who are responsible as Gangster Daley, Arne Duncan—National Secretary of Education, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools—as well as other officials in the City of Chicago.
Liberator Magazine: Okay now… could you elaborate on the situation with Mayor Daley. He is the mayor of Chicago and you mentioned that he is involved in some other aspects that people probably are not aware of.
Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr.: I can give you a little background on the history of Chicago. Frank Sinatra said Chicago was his kind of town and he meant that “gangster-gangster”…the whole politics of the infamous Daley Machine. The Daley Machine became infamous with that of his father, retired mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley Sr. In fact, he is credited with things such as helping put John F. Kennedy in office in fact, Daley was referred to as the “King Maker.” And the Daley machine was so Machiavellian that when Dr. King came to Chicago, Daley had Negro preachers denounce King when he came to Chicago. And it’s a machine that has the ability to put up a façade or front of freedom. Many people brag about in the 1960s, how Chicago had William Dawson [1st Black Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and one of the 1st Black Congressman] however, at [our] expense. There are reported cases where they were literally giving chickens to voters to come out in support of whoever Daley acknowledged, or whoever Daley pinpointed we should support. The Daley Machine had a close relationship with the University of Chicago, the same University of Chicago that created the nucleus for the Atom Bomb, and also implemented the Woodlawn Experiment. I want to make a special note about the Woodlawn Experiment—this was a tactic created in the 1960s with such entities as the University of Chicago, Sears & Roebuck, First National Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation and over $100 million cold cash money to be used for what was referred to as street gangs however, these were the youth. The fiscal agents, who the money went through, were people such as Rev. Arthur Brazier, Rev. Leon Finney. Simultaneously the Chicago police dressed up like the disciples and did drive-bys on the Stones head quarters and they created a crime epidemic which drove the property value down, and allowed the University of Chicago to gain all of that property. Read the rest of this post »
The January Communiqué: PRPBN Extended Shakur Dinner Held Dec 29th-Jan 3rd
Posted January 15, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, New Afrika, PRPBN, Statements
The January Communiqué:
PRPBN Extended Shakur Dinner Held Dec 29th-Jan 3rd
For Release: 1/14/10
On Dec 29th the Polymathematicians greeted each other at the opening of the extended Shakur (thankful) dinner held to mark the end of a successful 4 month rectification period within the PRPBN focusing on the question of Culture.
The extended Shakur took place from December 29th through January 3rd and took many important decisions. The meeting adopted the broad proposal of PRPBN Chairman Comrade Tommy Ingiaye and formulated the forthcoming steps of the party in the next period.
After prayer and salutation of the ancestors, the party chairman greeted the party in Peace and congratulated the ranks for great successes in the past period.
2009 will be remembered as a year full of tremendous internal struggles and all-around advances for the revolutionary movement under the leadership of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, comrade opined.
The Polymathematic Community is increasingly being acknowledged as the most advanced expression of the new revolutionary movement developing among original peoples in the 21st century. He reminded them that these forward steps were achieved at great cost and asked the entire Party to be prepared for even greater sacrifice. He went on to point out the significance of the year 2010. He said the party was the young vanguard of a new revolutionary movement that was born out of Hip-Hop in the 90s, which came of age in the 2000s and that in this decade would be “decisive.”
In this situation the party must be keenly interested in developing higher its organization and advancing a mainstream movement for social revolution.
Enemies have also noticed our sucess and have taken keen interest in the peaceful work of the Camp, comrade pointed out. In this context, the party and the masses of people must remain ever vigilant to the threat of bourgeois subversion and the wiles of Satan.
The party, a special and unique organization among the people, is conscious of the weight of the moment and the stakes of the time.
“Because of this noble program, we are keenly conscious of our limitations and with God’s help, we will overcome them and fulfill our responsibility.”
To carry out its historical role, Chairman offered four areas that the party’s could focus upon in the next decade: those are that of Prayer and Family, and Education and Work.
“Comrades, these are the things that are good for us, on so many different levels, collectively or individually, personally and publicly, as an entire party or us as single revolutionaries.”
The broad proposal of the chairman was received with militant applause as the ranks of the party were unified in full agreement.
Other comrades spoke and expressed thankfulness for the four month period and pointed out that while though a great amount of work was carried out even during this period, it was both wise and prudent for the party to take time to focus on itself and its own culture.
Comrades expressed their deep love for the party and their strong desire to see the Polymathematic –led revolutionary movement advance to a new height.
The Shakur then held an extended building session where all comrades put forth their views so as to reach the correct conclusions.
New Afrikan Delegation Denied Entry Into Occupied Palestine
Posted December 22, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Fascism, Mass Work, New Afrika, News, Oppressor Nation, Political Prisoners, United Front
We received this from the National Jericho Movement. For more info please see link to the right.
Jericho Press Release on the Arbitrary Detention of Delegates to Convention in Jericho, Palestine
On 11-23-09, two members of the National Jericho Movement, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (a former member of the Black Panther Party and former political prisoner) and William Naji Fenwick, were denied entry into the settler-state of Israel at the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge.
They were invited by the Palestinian Authority in Jericho to attend “The International Conference on Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons,” in what we recognize as Occupied Palestine. Dhoruba also had the task of documenting and recording the conference for other media they represent.
It should be noted that EVERY conference attendee who arrived for the conference through Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv was allowed access into the Territory. It should also be noted that the (US) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Delegation to Palestine had just arrived in Palestine the day before without any complications to participate. They were invited by the Federation of Independent Unions of Palestine and met with the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) (the PGFTU is the largest trade union in Palestine).
Dhoruba and Naji were the only African men on a regularly crowded bus headed toward the border when they were singled out and pulled off. They were held for 11 hours, interrogated and strip searched. Racial profiling is indeed international. In light of this, we must not forget that an Imam of African descent, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was just murdered by the FBI in Detroit on October 28; that people’s attorney 70 year old Lynne Stewart was just forced to begin her prison term on November 17 for defending Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman … as well as other political activists who have been imprisoned for decades. Jalil Muntaqim of the Black Liberation Army, one of the longest held political prisoners (38 years), was just denied parole, as well as Native American leader Leonard Peltier. Mumia Abu-Jamal, Marilyn Buck, the MOVE 9, Tom Manning, David Gilbert and many others are still near or over 3 decades of political imprisonment. Our struggles are one.
International Law supports freedom of movement and travel. But the reality is that the spotlight is increasingly on the evil of settler-states.
WHAT IS THERE TO HIDE? OR MAYBE THE QUESTION, AS PERTAINS TO THE SETTLER-STATE OF ISRAEL IS: What are you trying to SILENCE?
Is there something about the voice of Dhoruba bin-Wahad that the racist settler-state of the Middle East does not want to possibly resonate within the righteous resistance of Occupied Palestine? Sovereignty? Justice?
We thank Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Naji Fenwick for their gallant effort to represent our voices.
Therefore, we ask all you who hear, who see this, come forward with us to denounce this injustice and stand shoulder to shoulder with our warrior voices, here and abroad.
- We stand for the right of Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Naji Fenwick to enter People’s Palestine at the invitation of the Palestinian Authority to attend/participate/document the conference on Palestinian Political Prisoners and Detainees in Israel .
- We demand that all governments and states respect the international law that supports the right to travel, and that the US of A in all its democratic majesty intervenes on its second-class citizens’ behalf. Do not detain us anywhere in the world.
- We demand that African American/Black elected officials and national leaders address the issue of Israeli Occupation of Palestine in general, and more specifically the International Racial Profiling of African Americans by the Israeli government.
- We support the goals the Palestinian conference to free all its political prisoners, and reach its ultimate goal of a non-bamboozled sovereign, free Palestine .
- We support all solidarity efforts of oppressed peoples to work, build and fight together to end a 500 year old white supremacy that continues to grip the throats of peoples’ cries for freedom and salvation
- And lastly, we have our own battles for multiforms of sovereignty here in the brain of the US monster and its democratic fascism. Our acts of solidarity extend from the core of our battles to free our own political prisoners and TO BE FREE … BY … ANY … MEANS … NECESSARY.
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
FREE PALESTINE! WE ARE TRULY ALL PALESTINIANS!
National Jericho Movement, USA
Co-chairs: Ashanti Alston & Kazi Toure
401-248-5011
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study
Posted December 22, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: History, New Afrika, Revolution
The Black Revolution is full of rich history. Peacecomrade.org republishes this important study of the former League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a Black worker’s revolutionary formation active in the late 60s and early 70s. While the PRPBN upholds and continue along the path laid down by the thought of Comrade Huey P. Newton and rejects the “workerist” and economist orientation of LRRBW, we believe all aspects of our experience must be considered. As always, republishing material does not necessarily imply Peacecomrade.org’s agreement or endorsement.
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study
By A. Muhammad Ahmad
INTRODUCTION
To approach a study of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, an independent Black radical workers’ formation in Detroit, as a consequence of the Black liberation movement, several questions should be answered in the research We should ask ourselves the history of Black workers’ relations in white unions. Also, is there any particular phenomenon that contributed to the League emerging in Detroit rather than in any other city? While the scope of this paper is too short to address itself directly to these questions, it is hoped that some underlying factors tracing the development of the League are answered. The purpose here is to present an objective analysis of the historical factors leading to the development and demise of the League.
In order to adequately address the LRBW as an organizational development within the broader context of the Black liberation movement, it is necessary to make a few preliminary remarks concerning Black workers in unions, particularly the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the automobile industry.
Black workers involvement in large numbers began during the first imperialist war, when there was a shortage of laborers and Detroit was becoming the center of the auto industry. In 1910, there were only 569 Blacks out of 105,759 auto workers. During the war, thousands of southerners, both Black and white migrated to Detroit in search of work, By 1930, there were 25,895 Blacks among the industry’s 640.474 workers.
The southern whites who migrated to Detroit brought with them racist attitudes. The large Polish minority who made up a large proportion of the work force in the auto plants began to display the same prejudice against Black workers after the southerners came. The auto industry was one of the last major industries in the United states to hire large numbers of Black workers. Blacks were excluded from regular jobs in most auto plants. Until 1935 only the Ford River Rouge plant hired Black workers in large numbers, Black workers who did work in auto plants were confined to janitorial work or to the unpleasant back-breaking foundry jobs that white men did not want. Except in the Rouge plant, they were barred from skilled work.
Approximately one half of the Negroes in the iundustry were employed by the Ford Motor industry and 99 percent of these in the huge River Rouge plant. The Negro employees of General Motors and Chrysler were also concentrated in a few plants: Buick No. 70 in Flint, Pontiac foundry in Pontiac, Chevrolet forge in Detroit and Chevrolet Grey- Iron Foundry in Saginaw – all of General Motors; and Main Dodge of Chrysler in a Detroit suburb, Few Negroes were employed in automobile plants outside of Detroit. (a)
Of the auto manufacturers, Ford developed a policy of hiring ten per cent Blacks in his work force at the River Rouge plant. the story goes that at the beginning of the 1921 depression, Black workers employed at river Rouge and Black middle-class leaders from Detroit approached Ford and talked about his racist bias in layoffs. Ford is then said to have changed his hiring policy at river Rouge. He placed Black workers in all departments and occupations at the plant. But he didn’t extend this policy beyond River Rouge.
Recent Scenes From Revolutionary Nepal
Posted December 22, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Nepal, News, Revolution, South Asia
Film: Development Flows From The Barrel of The Gun
Posted December 22, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: General
Harry Haywood: New Afrikan Communist Pioneer
Posted December 22, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, History, New Afrika, Revolution, Theory
With serious disagreement with the white nationalist revisionism of the CPUSA throughout most of its history, Peacecomrade.org upholds the revolutionary nationalist, proletarian internationalist and anti-revisionist legacy of black freedom fighter Comrade Harry Haywood and that entire generation of Black communists who waged an often lonely and bitter struggle for a real revolutionary program based on the concrete conditions of the USA.The limits of this effort however were their integrationist class collaborations with the white nation petty- bourgeoisie; a stubborness and failure to fully grasp Garvey, Lenin and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on parasitism, super exploitation, and the rise of the darker peoples of the planet; and most importantly, an wrong orientation on the question of building the independent power and autonomous organization of the oppressed. For the revolutionary movement in the USA however the entire situation would soon change with the emergence and rise of the Thought of Comrade Huey P. Newton. The following is republished from the site The Marxist-Leninist.
“Of all the Afro-American figures in the history of American Communism, none was more important in ultimate impact than Harry Haywood” – Encyclopedia of the American Left
Harry Haywood (1898 – 1985) was a member of the Communist Party of the United States, serving on the Central Committee from 1927 to 1938 and on the Politburo from 1931 until 1938. After the CP’s turn towards revisionism Haywood helped to found the New Communist Movement.
He is best known as the main theorist of the African American National Question. Specifically, Haywood developed the theory that African Americans make up an oppressed nation in the Black Belt region of the South where they have the right to self-determination, up to and including the right to independence. Harry Haywood led the CP’s work in the African American national movement for some time, both as the Chair of the CP’s Negro Commission and as the General Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, where he was instrumental in organizing the Sharecroppers Union and the Scottsboro defense. He lived for four and half years in the Soviet Union where he helped to author the 1928 and 1930 Comintern Resolutions on the African American National Question. During the Spanish Civil War he served with the international brigades.
Following the CPUSA’s turn toward revisionism in the late 1950s, Harry Haywood turned to the Chinese Revolution led by Mao Zedong for inspiration and guidance. He became a leader of the anti-revisionist New Communist Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, first as a founder of the Provisional Organizing Committee, and then as a leader of the October League / Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).
His major writings are Negro Liberation (1948), For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question (1958), and Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro American Communist (1978). Importantly, Harry Haywood’s analysis laid the foundation for later Marxist-Leninist theoretical work not only on the African American Nation in the Black Belt, but also on the Chicano Nation in the Southwest.
To view the Harry Haywood Archive visits here.
Final Report: Nepal Visit 2009 Members, WPRM Britain & Ireland
Posted December 11, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Nepal, News, Revolution, South Asia
Three Members of the World People’s Resistance Movement (Britain & Ireland) recently spent a month in Nepal from August to September 2009 [all reports are available online at www.wprmbritain.org]. Please post comments, suggestions and criticisms.
Two of our members had been on the 2nd International Road Brigade in April 2006, but its fair to say Nepal looked like a different country than it did back then. No longer underground and fighting a People’s War, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has now opened offices and operates legally in every village in the country. The monarchy is a relic of the past, abolished in 2008, and the Maoists, after having led the government for nine months, are now leading a popular protest movement against the current government with the aim of creating a third Jana Andolan – People’s Movement.But similar to 2006, party leaders and supporters alike were keen to welcome us to Nepal, help us with whatever we needed and talk to us at great length about the situation. With huge smiles, warm shakes of the hand and the constant raised clenched fist of lal salam, red salute, we were able to see much in our one month visit. We travelled to the districts of Rolpa, Dang and Banke in the mid-west, Kailali in the far-west, and Dolakha in the east as well as Kathmandu. We met with leaders and cadres of the UCPN(M), especially members of the Young Communist League (YCL) and various Cultural Groups. In Kailali we visited the cantonment of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 7th Division, and in Dolakha we visited a model school. Along the way we spoke to many party supporters and ordinary masses about their thoughts and experiences of the struggle in Nepal.
Through our communication with party leaders and supporters it was easy to forget how impoverished Nepal is. Materially speaking, Nepal is a semi-feudal, semi-colonial country which has suffered for centuries under feudal monarchical rule, and especially under the control of Indian expansionism, a localised form of imperialism. Yet for all its material poverty, the UCPN(M) has taken up the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and applied it creatively to the concrete conditions of Nepal, the results of which are there for all to see. Nepal is materially poor but ideologically perhaps the richest place in the world today. The success of the UCPN(M) in fighting the People’s War (PW) and building up people’s power in the countryside showed the firm grasp of MLM by the party. In the changed situation since 2006, the Maoists seem to be increasing their strength, and we aimed to investigate how much this is still based on their firm grasp of ideology.
For people who think communism and revolution are historical relics, the Maoists in Nepal have turned history upside down and shown the continued relevance of this ideology, possibly greater than ever before because of the deeper level of imperialist exploitation existing around the world. But the history of revolution in the twentieth century and before is not forgotten. Instead the UCPN(M) aim to synthesise this experience in order to apply MLM at a greater level in the twenty-first century. In this synthesis they have placed special emphasis on the question of democracy, on how a New Democratic and Socialist society can be run while exposing and opposing revisionism from within and imperialist from without.Our visit was inspired by the need to investigate the objective situation in Nepal in order to gain a better understanding of the unfolding revolution there. Since April 2006 the voices in opposition to the UCPN(M) have grown stronger. In general it seems that the mood which was once euphoric in its support of the Nepalese Maoists fighting the PW has considerably waned, to the point where the party is openly condemned by some. Support for the legitimate struggle of the Nepali people has therefore been withdrawn, at exactly the time it is needed most. Through various discussions and meetings we had had in Britain and Ireland, as well as certain published documents from around the world on different stances towards the revolution in Nepal, we felt that there were many issues to investigate. The first issue relates to issues of strategy and tactics and the question as to why the UCPN(M) shifted from the strategic offensive in the PW to the political struggle centred on the Constituent Assembly (CA) and the new constitution. Particular concerns surround the supposed disarming of the PLA, demobilisation of the YCL and scrapping of the people’s power in the old base areas. The second important issue is on the question of the state and relating points on the democratic republic as a sub-stage of the New Democratic Revolution (NDR) and crucially whether the Maoists have abandoned the idea that the old state needs to be smashed but can instead be reformed. The third main issue centres on the role of elections, specifically in the future New Democratic and socialist states, and the role of Cultural Revolution. Further to this we wanted to gain a deeper insight into the practice of two-line struggle within the party. Following is our report of the situation there. Read the rest of this post »
The Night Fred Hampton Died
Posted December 3, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, History, Huey P. Newton, New Afrika
Never Forget, Never Forgive!
Peacecomrade.org remembers the martyrdom of black communist revolutionary Comrade Fred Hampton by the US imperialists on Dec. 4th 1969. The following is an excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader’s death and its aftermath by People’s Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas. This article was originally published here.
By Jeffrey Haas
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther JEFFREY HAAS (Lawrence Hill)
Maybe we all have points at which our consciousness changes and we cannot return to our former path. For many political activists, that dividing line occurred in the late 1960s. We were fed up with a system that thrived on war, racism, and patriarchy. We were young people who at first hadn’t understood why the United States was waging war in Vietnam but who by 1969 believed that it was endemic to an unjust system we felt compelled to stop or overthrow.
I was part of a small group of lawyers who wanted to get involved. Fred Hampton was the young chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. In the spring of 1969, after Hampton recruited some of our members to help with the party’s legal problems, we made the decision to form the People’s Law Office, an independent practice that would represent Hampton and the movement as a whole.
In the early morning hours of December 4, 1969, Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated in a raid conducted by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in conjunction with the Chicago police and the FBI. Our fledgling practice sued the government on behalf of the victims’ families and the survivors of the raid. It was 13 years before the case was settled, for $1.85 million, coming in equal parts from the city, county, and federal governments. I’ve now left the PLO, but for the last 40 years it has continued to represent victims of abuse and misconduct by police and other government officials.
The Hampton and Clark families and the survivors of the raid are being honored at an event on November 5 at the law school at Northwestern University, where Fred spoke to the students and faculty exactly 40 years ago. It includes a reading, a discussion by a panel of scholars and writers moderated by Bernardine Dohrn, and a public reception.
What follows is an edited excerpt of my new book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, about the murder, the government’s cover-up, and the survivors’ pursuit of justice. —Jeffrey Haas Read the rest of this post »
Power Anywhere Where There’s People
Posted December 3, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, Huey P. Newton, New Afrika, Revolution
Power Anywhere Where There’s People
A Speech By Fred Hampton
Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhDs, but that’s not true. And even if they did, it wouldn’t make any difference. Because with some things, you have to learn by seeing it or either participating in it. And you know yourselves that there are people walking around your community today that have all types of degrees that should be at this meeting but are not here. Right? Because you can have as many degrees as a thermometer. If you don’t have any practice, they you can’t walk across the street and chew gum at the same time.
Let me tell you how Huey P. Newton, the leader, the organizer, the founder, the main man of the Black Panther Party, went about it.
The community had a problem out there in California. There was an intersection, a four-way intersection; a lot of people were getting killed, cars running over them, and so the people went down and redressed their grievances to the government. You’ve done it before. I know you people in the community have. And they came back and the pigs said “No! You can’t have any.” Oh, they dont usually say you can’t have it. They’ve gotten a little hipper than that now. That’s what those degrees on the thermometer will get you. They tell you “Okay, we’ll deal with it. Why dont you come back next meeting and waste some time?”
And they get you wound up in an excursion of futility, and you be in a cycle of insaneness, and you be goin’ back and goin’ back, and goin’ back, and goin’ back so many times that you’re already crazy.
So they tell you, they say, “Okay niggers, what you want?” And they you jump up and you say, “Well, it’s been so long, we don’t know what we want”, and then you walk out of the meeting and you’re gone and they say, “Well, you niggers had your chance, didnt you?”
Let me tell you what Huey P. Newton did.
Huey Newton went and got Bobby Seale, the chairman of the Black Panther Party on a national level. Bobby Seale got his 9mm, that’s a pistol. Huey P. Newton got his shotgun and got some stop signs and got a hammer. Went down to the intersection, gave his shotgun to Bobby, and Bobby had his 9mm. He said, “You hold this shotgun. Anybody mess with us, blow their brains out.” He put those stop signs up.
There were no more accidents, no more problem.
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Photos from 2009 Open House: The New Education and The New Mind
Posted December 1, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Mass Work, New Afrika, PRPBN, Polymathematics, The New Education, Youth
Polymathematic University’s successful 2009 3rd Annual Open House “The New Education and The New Mind” was held February 21st 2009 from 2pm-7pm at the African American United Fund Conference Center in Philadelphia, PA.
After opening with a libation, presentations were given by Comrade Rell Stylez, the Proctor of Polymathematic University, Comrade Tommy Ingiaye, the Chairman of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, and Chairman of the David P. Richardson Education Coalition, and Deja Ragsdale- Principal of the Model School Collective. Invited guests and panelist included Dr. Walter D.Palmer- Founder of Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School, Bashima Bey-Motivational Speaker, 4th assistant President General of the UNIA, Imani X- Philadelphia Freedom Schools, Lifoma Salaam-Professor at Howard University, Minister of Education Republic of New Afrika, Christopher Wells- Teacher, Model School Collective, Anntranette Harris-Educator, Activist, Founder of Holt, Hawkins and Harris Foundation and Green Energy Consultants and Nyanza Bandele- Educator, Revolutionary Activist.
Comrade Rel Stylez presented a insightful paper on “On the History and Development of the Struggle for Community Control of Education”, Chairman Tommy Ingiaye delivered an enlightening presentation entitled ”Epistemology, Youth Development and the Number 3″ while Sister Deja outlined the idea and progress of the effort to develop a model revolutionary school. This was followed by an hip-hop performance by the Beat Rhymes and Life crew, followed by a awesome panel discussion on independent education.
Polymathematic University is an new center for revolutionary education led by the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation.To read the call for the 2008 Open House click here.
The Economic Crisis: How It Impacts African-Americans and Labor
Posted November 23, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Mass Work, New Afrika, Political Economy
The Economic Crisis:
How It Impacts African-Americans and Labor
by Muhammad Ahmad
Lecture delivered at the Economic and Black Labor Forum, the Philadelphia Community Institute for Africana Studies, 22 October 22 2009. As always, views expressed here are those of the guest authors concerned.
The present Great Recession is the latest and largest crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression of the 1930s. During the Great Depression over half of all African-American men were unemployed. The present Great Recession is much deeper because the finance sector of capitalism has exhausted its debt. The Federal Government is in debt; the states are in debt; most cities are in debt or near debt; and consumers (the working class) are in debt. This crisis, the worst in 90 years, has a greater impact on African-American workers because they are concentrated in the public sector.
When state governments are in debt and the financial bubble bursts, the future of public-sector workers is threatened, a future they have built through the unionization process. It is essential that African-American workers, particularly in the public sector, protect their self-interests and power by transferring their labor power into an economically and politically self-reliant form, by creating a black workers’ society.
African-Americas are the majority or near majority of the population in 26 or 27 large cities in America. Between 1910 and 1970 six and a half million African-Americans left the South. Today 58-65% live in urban areas.
What I will concentrate on is not only the crisis, but alternatives to the crisis. In the 1930s unemployment was as high as 25% of the entire population. Today, “[o]fficial U.S. unemployment is over 9% while real unemployment, taking into account all those wanting jobs and part-timers desiring full-time work, is close to twice that.”1
It is estimated that 122,000 new jobs need to be created each month in order to come out of the present crisis.2 We should realize that the crisis is great. It is serious and it will not be the last. Economic crises tend to reoccur at times that we cannot predict.
In 1963 James Boggs said that with the increase in automation in the production process, capitalists would be able to produce more goods (commodities) faster and with fewer workers, which intensifies unemployment. Racism in the labor market keeps young African-American males a permanent and marginalized sector of the working class.3 There are not enough workers with buying power to purchase all of the commodities; the stores are full and everyone is in debt. There is a global glut of overproduction and under-consumption creating this crisis and a falling rate of profits.
This is the structural crisis of monopoly finance capital: the latest of three major stages of capitalism. Read the rest of this post »
The Murder of Fred Hampton
Posted November 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, History, Huey P. Newton, New Afrika
Peacecomrade.org posts this very important documentary about one of the most outstanding communist revolutionaries to ever set foot in Amerikkka. Long live the spirit and red path of Comrade Fred Hampton! Long live the Revolution!
Comrade Dr. Huey P. Newton interview on Firing Line (1972)
Posted November 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: History, Huey P. Newton, Interview, New Afrika
Relations Between the Black Nation and Red China Pt 1
Posted November 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: China, History, New Afrika, Revolution
Relations Between the Black Nation and Red China: Pt 1
By Comrade Rell Stylez, Proctor, Polymathematic University
This is the first in a three parts series. Part 2 and Part 3 have already been posted. The following essay appeared in the Winter 2006 volume of the Polymathematic Review, the official theoretical journal of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation.
The history of the special relationship between New Afrikan and Chinese revolutionaries is very important for us to study today in our mission to build revolutionary intercommunalism. The struggles are paralleled by a couple of factors. First both are products of great ancient civilizations built by the original man, woman, and child. The ancestors of the black and yellow people gave great contributions to world knowledge in mathematics, science, spirituality, philosophy, literature, culture, etc. Secondly the black and yellow have suffered under the yoke of white nationalist imperialism witnessing the murder and exploitation of millions of their people. The third factor and the most important, the New Afrikan and Chinese masses have resisted the repression producing some of the most powerful movements and leaders in the history of world revolution.
Chinese history has countless lessons that the Black Nation should observe. The Boxer Rebellion was a struggle the Chinese masses launched against the European and Japanese invaders. From March 1898 to June 1900 Yi Ho Tuan or the Righteous Harmony Society later to be known as “Boxers” led thousands of poor Chinese peasants to attack white Christian missionaries and properties of the imperialist foreigners.
At first the Boxers were attempting to overthrow the feudal lords and drive the white imperialists out, but the outside infiltration of China was so deep that the Boxers and feudal powers united. In June 1900 the Boxers ran the parasites out of the cities of Beijing and Tianjin. An imperialist alliance developed between America, Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Russia, Germany, and Austro-Hungary in reaction to the Boxers called the Eight Nation Alliance. Together they sent 45,000 troops into China and removed the Boxers from power. Though the feudal lords capitulated to the alliance due to their class interest, the poor Chinese continued to struggle.
China’s Bourgeois Democratic Revolution
Around the period of imperialism in the early 1900’s as the various European ruling classes raced across the globe to colonize the original people, the original man, woman, and child were studying the imperialists’ ideologies. After the Chinese feudal lords sold out to the imperialists, the Chinese people began to long for a republic where they thought that bourgeois democratic rights would uplift their country . A young bourgeoisie was developing in China using the imperialists’ own democratic principles against them to justify the Chinese right to independence from the decaying feudal lords and foreign powers. From 1911 to 1912 Chinese nationalists led the masses to overthrow the feudal Quing dynasty in the Xinhai Revolution and established the Republic of China. The first president Dr. Sun Yat-sen and leader of the Kuomintang Party was a staunch Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist. He developed the “Three Principles” which were “nationalism,” “democracy,” and “government for the people.” These “Three Principles” inspired the Chinese masses to carry on the fight against imperialist aggression and for self-determination.
While the Chinese nationalists and their party the Kuomintang was implementing their bourgeois democratic program the class struggle in China was intensifying. The Chinese nationalists who were the new bourgeois ruling class were still struggling against warlords. The warlords were powerful leftover landowners from the previous feudal system in China. They had an interest in maintaining feudalism in China because they accumulated their wealth through the feudal class structure. The warlords controlled northern China and were allied with imperialism against the nationalists. while the Chinese masses were suffering from extreme poverty. Read the rest of this post »
The Polymathematic Approach– Choosing the Path of Righteousness
Posted November 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, New Afrika, PRPBN, Polymathematics, Theory
The following essay appeared in the Winter 2006 volume of the Polymathematic Review, the official theoretical journal of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation.
The Polymathematic Approach– Choosing the Path of Righteousness
Symbol of Maat. Maat is an Ancient African concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice--- in short righteousness
By Sister HH
It is important that as revolutionaries we understand the need for theoretical and ideological struggle. It is only by constant re-evaluation that new and improved strategies to be utilized in our liberation will come alive. I pray that this may aid us all.
We must in this day and time be aware that the Light which is God is so easy but so hard to reach. It is the ultimate test of our earthly lives to each day become ever closer to the Most High God. But how do we do this? Just how do we become closer? While Lauryn Hill may be quoted as saying that “there come many paths, but we must choose one,” we have to understand that this path does not necessarily mean that we must choose the Islamic path, we must choose the Christian path, we must choose the Bahai path, etc. It simply means that we must choose the path and program of righteousness, which means to submit to the True and Living God by aiding our worldwide families and contributing to the downfall of wickedness, modern day Babylon, the capitalist worldwide system of oppression.
Now as for me and my house, we praise the Lord! I am by many people’s definition a Christian, but as self-defined I am a revolutionary Christian, that is, a follower of Christ that is of a new type. I confess with my tongue and with my heart that Yeshua, the anointed Son of God was sent with the truth that included the teachings of the Five Jewels. Yeshua, a Black man, who was indeed God on Earth was sent to the world to deliver us from sin. He was sent with a purpose and a message. A message that included the words, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God,” and “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness for they will be satisfied.” In fact we should overstand and study all of the Bible and look at it with “African eyes.” We must actively seek to understand the scriptures and apply the Five Jewels in context. In so doing we will find the true meaning of being “iced out.”
The First Jewel of Mass Work
We can begin by looking at the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew. It is in this book that we find the Beatitudes. These blessings were an opening to the sermon that Yeshua gave on the Mount to the multitude of poor Black Hebrews of the time. “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of God.” This Beatitude refers to the 1st jewel, Mass Work. In order for us to make peace, we must work hard to get it. There is war before peace, hunger before peace and overall heartache before peace, but with dedication, work and organization, we will find it. And all the while us chosen people are gods on Earth, children of the Most High God. His/Her favor rests on those that does the work of the righteous!
The Second Jewel of Power Refinement
“Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for they shall see God.” This is the first of the Beatitudes and is related to the second jewel. The second jewel, power refinement, invokes us to carry out the duty of challenging ourselves and transforming ourselves, all while we humble ourselves. The first beatitude calls for the same thing, for a poor spirit is a humble spirit. It is not a boastful spirit, it is modest, and open to dialectical change. In essence this is the ultimate task in being a revolutionary; to commit class suicide and rid oneself of selfish decadent behavior and bourgeois lifestyle in order to aid the people and our struggle. Read the rest of this post »
Public Forum: The Philadelphia Student Movement: Then and Now
Posted November 9, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: David P. Richardson Education Coalition, Mass Work, New Afrika, The New Education, Youth
Public Forum: The Philadelphia Student Movement: Then and Now
Saturday, November 21th 2009
2-6pm
New Africa Center
4243 Lancaster Ave
Panelists:
*Stephanie Tishdale ,
Educator/ Associate Editor of The Liberator Magazine
*Pili X,
Minister of Youth, Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation
*Dr. Muhammad Ahmad,
Author/Professor of African American Studies
*Desmond “Yung Prince” Anthony,
The Beats, Rhymes and Life Hip-Hop Multi-Media Program
Please join the David P. Richardson Education Coalition as we host a student-community discussion on the state of student activism in the city of Philadelphia.
About the David P. Richardson Education Coalition: The David P. Richardson Education Coalition was founded in 2007 to inform people of the historic student walkout that occurred on November 17th, 1967 and to once again inspire and ignite a fire within our people to create change throughout the Philadelphia School system for our children, through education, commemoration, protest and legislation.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
On the Importance of the November 17th, 1967 Black Student Rebellion
Posted November 9, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: David P. Richardson Education Coalition, History, New Afrika, The New Education, United Front, Youth
On the Importance of the November 17th, 1967 Black Student Rebellion
By the David P. Richardson Education Coalition
Hundreds of Black Youth Rallied in Front of the Philadelphia School District Building in November 2007 under the leadership of the David P. Richardson Education Coalition
“Awake youth of the land and accept this noble challenge and salvaging the strong ship of civilization by the anchors of right, justice and love”
Valedictorian Speech, Ella Baker 1927
“You’ve got to get out there in the real world where other people are. When you are trying to impact public education, you should be able to say, ‘This is how the curriculum should look, look at how it’s working with these kids.”
John Churchville
On November 17, 2007, community organizers, political activists, university scholars and students from around the city of Philadelphia commemorated the 40th anniversary of the 1967 protest in which 3500 high school students marched to the School Board. Hundreds of Black youth answered the call. The 67 protest led by the late State Representative, David P. Richardson (a high school student at the time), charged the School District with educational negligence and demanded the district provide a better education for Black students, which included the teaching and learning of Black Studies and the hiring of more Black teachers and administrators (the lost of Black teachers/administrators resulting from the 1954 Brown vs. the Board decision also impacted northern urban centers). While it is important to remember this event, it is equally important to understand its historical context within the overall experience of New Afrikan people and the impact this protest has made in the last forty years on the educational experience of New Afrikan children.
African people have always created societies in which they’ve educated and governed themselves. Unlike western societies, education for Africans was not viewed as an individual commodity, but the collective responsibility of a community to reproduce knowledge, continue cultural memory and advanced the principles of humanity (righteousness, justice, and love). Our recent experience in the western hemisphere required that while we liberate ourselves, we must also find creative ways to recreate our societies, remember our ancestors, reeducate ourselves and express our humanity within new existing social structures(slavery, segregation, colonization, state sanctioned public systems, etc.), that were designed to prevent us from existing as a New Afrikan people. The 1967 protest of high school students (and the remembering of this event) was/is not a separate event in the African American narrative but a continuance of how African people remember who they are and what they must do to advance their liberation.
The more notable movements organized by students such as the founding of Congress for Racial Equality, RAM, the Black Panther Party, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Freedom Schools are often written in the context of the 20th century Civil and Human Rights struggles. What is often left out of these histories is the social and political impact these movements had on local educational struggles within the various Black communities. For example, members of these organizations would form community-based organizations that provided breakfast programs for children, after school tutoring and organized study groups also known as commmuniversities. In Philadelphia, John Churchville of the Black Peoples Unity Movement (a grass roots organization designed to unite Black people across religion and political ideologies) was approached by a young high school student, David P. Richardson and was asked if the BPUM would assist him in organizing high school students in the now famous November 17, 1967 protest. Administrators of the School District of Philadelphia responded to the demands of these young people by passing a resolution that required the creation of African American curriculum guides. The district organized a team of community historians, educators and well respected community activists to begin writing an integrated curriculum guide to infuse African and African American history within existing school curricula. Several years after the protest, the department of African American Studies was founded. Although, the department (now a program) existed for over thirty years, the resolution was short lived and African American history and culture would be taught indiscriminately by Black teachers who had been doing so prior to the protest. By the 1970s, the education and curriculum concerns by African descended communities in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean resulted in the proliferation of independent African schools, curriculum guides and teacher training programs by scholar activists such as Asa Hilliard, Barbara Sizemore, Jwanza Kunjufu, Leonard Jefferies, Adelaide Sanford and Molefi Asante. Although throughout the 1980s and 1990s there would be no district wide inclusion of African American Studies in K-12 public educational systems, students in several high schools across the United States would place demands within their respective school buildings for African American History courses.
In 2005, individuals who participated and/or remembered the November 17, 1967 protest demanded the School District of Philadelphia enforce the initial resolution. In February 2005, the School Reform Commission (new governing body) conceded to the demands of the Black community and mandated that all curricula include the history of African people. This mandate also included the creation of a required high school course in African American History in which all students must take in order to graduate. While this small victory is a testament to the David P. Richardson and the students who initiated these demands in 1967, children of African descent continue to be traumatized and criminalized in public education systems across the United States. Therefore the fortieth commemorative events which include but not limited to student protest, town hall meetings and community lectures will be more than a ceremonious act of remembrance of David P. Richardson, but will include an intergenerational conversation between those who remember (our elders) and those who will continue the struggle for liberation (our youth) .
Polymathematics Rejects and Challenges both Atheism and Idealism
Posted November 9, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, New Afrika, PRPBN, Polymathematics, Revolution, Theory
Polymathematics Rejects and Challenges both Atheism and Idealism
By Comrade Elijah Muck Muck
The PRPBN is the only revolutionary socialist movement in the world which gives the Glory to God
The Polymathematicians are part and parcel of that 5% of the population of the Planet Earth that know and teach the true identity and reality of God to Man Woman and Child and Show and Prove God with revolution, peace and happiness. We are the new revolutionary movement of the poor and the righteous among the original people in North Amerika and the world.
The science of Polymathematics rejects and challenges both the worldview of Idealism, or the blind belief in a Spook Mystery God (purely spirit or external God) and also the worldview of Atheism, the blind denial of God’s existence or reality. We feel strongly that BOTH are without sight.
In confrontation with the material world which is infused with politics and class struggle, the Original people that have taken up theoretical atheism, idealism and metaphysics have “thrown out the baby with the bath water.”
Blind Religion is ideological-escapism from the right— spookism, metaphysics, and superstition. On the other hand Atheism is a form of ideological-escapism from the left. It’s a “left” intellectual cop out, a particularly crude method, the “denial” method of negation.
In this day and time, While they deny the existence of God or make God other than what He and She Is, we affirm the oneness and reality of God and keep His and Her commandments.
This is very important and without this all is really in vain.
The new revolutionary science, or anti-ideology, of Polymathematics is beyond the sectarianism of Religion in the bourgeois world, by proclaiming and verifying God’s Reality and Absolute Oneness ( affirming the material reality and unity of all the worlds) and message of Scientific Obedience, uniting those of different faiths (from among the most revolutionary class, the value producing class) as One Body to be True Worshippers, so as to Achieve World Righteous Communism through an tremendous and continuous worldwide revolutionary upheaval.
This positive orientation is only natural, as Polymathematics is rooted in dialectical materialism coming up out of the method of the original culture of Nile valley and the seat of today’s Mecca, teaching the likeness of the what the prophets taught, that is, Freedom, Justice and Equality.
Polymathematics, the mathematical notation of the Five Jewels of Peace and its Restrictive Law proven true at no limit of time, is the new stage, the stage the creates the preconditions for the perfection of the revolutionary ideology of the all original proletariat, taking the leap into Truth (mathematics) fully conscious and fully prepared for the global revolutionary seizure of power, the organization of the world economy and the construction of righteous world communism (Hereafter) and the Open Rule and Reality of God. It is the next stage, that of anti-ideology. This is of world positive importance!
The Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation is the only revolutionary socialist force in the world that gives God alone the glory and attack Satan openly with Civilization, Revolution and the Truth of God. Upon this Earth, the Devil ( the unoriginal, the liars, the evil doers, the exploiters, the capitalists, imperialists, fascists, revisionists, etc) has said he and she is God, so the people worship the Devil, but they don’t know it!
But they are being woke up today through revolutionary struggle and they are meeting the real God, the Most High.
Polymathematics then, at its core, proclaims from the mastery of “many sciences”, the One synthesized and harmonious revolutionary science of Righteous Obedience to the Most High God, evoking Man, Woman and Child into living a civilized existence through the narrow path of the Five Jewels of Peace and its Restrictive Law.
Mathematics is Life. Polymathematics is the revolutionary program of the inside OUT. Our banner will forever be the noble banner of Peace! This is our Way. Join us, O sons and daughters of Africa, Asia , South Amerika and the world in the noble fight for the liberation of the entire planet and all that’s in it. PRACTICE AND TEACH THE PROGRAM! CIVILIZE THE BLOCK! BUILD THE CAMP!
THE FBI RAID AND SHOOTING DEATH OF IMAM LUQMAN: Updated
Posted October 30, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, New Afrika, News, United Front
Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah Assassinated by FBI Agents in Dearborn
11 arrested on complaints while community expresses shock and disbelief at federal claims
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
Detroit
A well known African American Islamic leader in Detroit who headed the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque on the city’s west side, was shot to death by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on October 28 at a warehouse in Dearborn. Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, was killed during the course of a series of raids by both federal agents and local police departments resulting in the arrests of 11 people.
Corporate media reports on the killing of Imam Abdullah and the arrests of the others, has been framed as a “counter-terrorism’ operation. This is being done despite the fact that the raids were conducted based on criminal complaints that have no specific allegations of violations of federal law or acts of terrorism.
In a joint statement issued by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, it states that “The eleven defendants are members of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years and known to be armed.”
However, many people who knew Imam Abdullah and the members of Masjid Al-Haqq say that the group worked to rid the severely oppressed community where the mosque existed of the social ills resulting from years of exploitation and neglect.
Even the mosque itself fell victim to the economic crisis that is worsening in Detroit. On January 20, Masjid Al-Haqq was evicted from the building where they had been housed for years as a result of tax foreclosure. The mosque relocated at a home on Clairmount which was also raided on October 28.
Dawud Walid, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Michigan chapter, said of Imam Abdullah that “I know him as a respected imam in the Muslim community.”
Walid continued by saying that “We have no information about illegal activity going on at that mosque. Of Imam Abdullah, Walid said he “would give the shirt off his back to people. The congregation he led was poor. He fed very hungry people in the neighborhood who were Christian. He helped and assisted a lot of troubled youth. People would come up to him who were hungry and he would let them sleep in the mosque. He would let them in from the elements.” (Detroit News, October 29, p. 15)
The CAIR leader said that “They have no linkage to terrorism nationally or internationally. What in the world does Islam have to do with these charges? Why is religion being brought into play?”
Resurrecting Cointelpro
Not only is the FBI and the corporate media utilizing the false construct of “Islamic extremism,” it is also attempting to draw a direct link between the revolutionary movements that emerged during the 1960s with the arrest of the Masjid Al-Haqq members and the death of Imam Abdullah.
Because of a close relationship between Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, and Imam Abdullah during previous years, the role of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party (BPP) have been evoked in news coverage of the FBI and police raids. Imam Al-Amin was a field organizer for SNCC and would later serve as national chairman of the civil rights and black power group in 1967-68.
Al-Amin, who is currently serving a life sentence in Georgia after being convicted in the death of a deputy sheriff and the wounding of another in Atlanta in 2000, also briefly held the position of Minister of Justice in the Black Panther Party during 1968. Imam Al-Amin served as SNCC chair during a period of extreme repression against the organization in 1967-68.
Al-Amin has always maintained his innocence in the deaths of the law-enforcement officers in Atlanta and has sought to win an appeal of his case for many years. Reports from the Georgia prison system where he is being held indicate that he has been harassed and placed in isolation on numerous occasions. Read the rest of this post »
Solidarity with the Nepalese Revolution!
Posted October 30, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Nepal, News, Revolution, South Asia
The Comrades from the WPRM (Britain and Ireland) have been carrying out an extremely valuable and timely service to the international proletariat through their series of interviews, reports, and articles etc from Nepal. Please visit the following link to access some very important documents about the revolutionary situation in Nepal. Especially now, as the revolutionary forces headed by the UCPN(M) on the one hand, and the reactionary US imperialist and Indian expanisionist backed bourgeois forces, appear to be headed to a decisive showdown, our active support for the Nepalese revolution and the Nepali people is Paramount. To read the WPRM (Britain and Ireland) reports click here.
To review statements of the PRPBN on Nepal see:
Solidarity message from the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
The Black Nation Welcomes PM Prachanda
Editorial: On Recent Controversies Over the Revolution in Nepal
The Attack is Vicious, But a Weapon Has Emerged
Posted October 21, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, New Afrika, PRPBN, Revolution, Youth
The Attack is Vicious, But a Weapon Has Emerged
(Republished From Original World Vol 1, Issue 3 2006, Revolutionary Mass Organ of the PRPBN)
By Sister HH
Like the strand of DNA to the human body, the Black family serves as a building block. The absolute foundation; the building block of the Black nation is the Black family; the unity of the Black man, woman and child. With this as an absolute truth, it therefore comes to no surprise that the ultimate attack on our people is the attack on the black family.
Yes, we are being taken down like suckas, from every angle. Black men are being removed from the family in a variety of ways. The pigs arrest our brothers, lock them up like animals and implement the new age slavery, which takes place in the penitentiaries. Some of our brothers are mentally enslaved, falling into the decadence of a society that teaches us that “anything goes,” and are being sucked into the DL lifestyle. Some of our brothers are so brainwashed that they would rather marry and start families with white women, for they have been subjected to hundreds of years of bamboozlement, believing that a white woman is the epitome of womanhood, and therefore the ideal wife. Ahhh, yes, our people are in dire need of awakening and revolution.
We cannot talk about the family unit without discussing the current status of the black woman; for she too suffers physically and mentally. Sisters can be seen pushing strollers, holding the hands of black angels crossing the street, and pregnant all at the same time. All the while she yells at and berates her children in front of the neighborhood, embedding into her children the self-hate that she herself manifests. This behavior is a symptom of the frustration that the Black woman feels because she is left to raise her children alone. Perhaps she is the sister that believes “she doesn’t need a man.” This is a lie that she has been taught by the white feminists. Maybe she is a sister that finds pleasure and gratification from having sex with many different men, but becomes frustrated with the consequences of the act i.e. children. This too is a manifestation of the “anything goes complex.” Or, she could be suffering from the “single mother syndrome.” The father is removed from the home because of the various reasons listed above, and she is forced to raise the children on her own, and now she is frustrated with the tedious task of raising three or four children all by herself. This list can go on and on.
We may understand and examine the reasons behind the current state of the black family, but what tends to break the heart of our people, our ancestors and our God is the fact that our children, our precious little ones, are often the people most damaged by the attack on the Black man and Black woman. Our children have lost respect for the elders, their parents and in so doing have lost respect for themselves. At any given time we see the results of the war against our people when we see the welfare of the black child.
It is criminal enough that a large majority of our children are not blessed to have the completion of the family circle, with both parents raising them up into righteousness; but their situation becomes far worse when this phenomena is coupled with the vicious propaganda that our children are exposed to via the evils of the capitalist world powers. Examples include but are definitely not limited to: sexually suggestive and violent music falsely labeled as hip hop but is really manufactured “hip pop” created and supported by the capitalist media conglomerates ( who could care less about hip hop let alone our children), the exploitation and degradation of their parents (the black workers) by the same corporate monsters, and the continuous miseducation of our children within the racist school system that is set up to keep our children misinformed about their true nature and dependent upon the system for survival.
This cycle will continue to exist until we (the masses) rise up against our oppressors; utilizing the values of independent institutions and collective economics. We need to govern ourselves, teach ourselves, support ourselves and protect ourselves. We cannot depend on and trust in a government that has never shown itself to defend, educate, support or protect us.
It is imperative the we save our nation, and continue to develop organization and practices that will best serve and save our people. First and foremost we must start with our individual selves. By channeling the God that is within us and around us, we must use Power Refinement and strive to make ourselves better. We should read and study about our history, revolution and organization. We need to eat healthier foods and practice healthy loving relationships between man and woman. Once we have grown and nurtured the light within ourselves, we should pass that light onto others, by being living examples to our children and our peers, sharing the divine knowledge that we have attained. As the wisdom is passed down, that internal revelation, simultaneously becomes external, and we can build up our nation through activism and unity with our people. We should develop our own institutions; schools, temples, markets, restaurants etc., and support one another as a survival and independence movement. This movement is part and parcel to the struggle, to revolution, and must be understood as a process, and not the end all and be all. For the end all is freedom! Family, land, clothing, shelter, culture, etc. for all original people’s of the world.
Let it be understood that racist capitalist Amerika is like a disease that is slowly but surely seeking to kill us. By attacking our primary unit, our DNA, our precious family, we are falling from a mighty blow. It is up to us to fight for our survival, for our freedom. It only comes through recognition of the problem, and actively pursuing a solution. Will you allow your family, our building block to be destroyed? Or will you take up the best weapon to fight the beast? Perhaps you should peep those 5 Smooth Stones. JOIN, SUPPORT, AND DEFEND THE POOR RIGHTEOUS PARTY!!! PEACE!!
African Socialism Revisited
Posted October 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Revolution, Theory
African Socialism Revisited By Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Nkrumah carried out the historical task of applying the universal principles of the international proletariat to the concrete conditions of the African Continent.
Paper read at the Africa Seminar held in Cairo at the invitation of the two organs At-Talia and Problems of Peace and Socialism.
The term “socialism” has become a necessity in the platform diction and political writings of African leaders. It is a term which unites us in the recognition that the restoration of Africa’s humanist and egalitarian principles of society calls for socialism. All of us, therefore, even though pursuing widely contrasting policies in the task of reconstructing our various nation-states, still use “socialism” to describe our respective efforts. ‘The question must therefore be faced: What real meaning does the term retain in the context of contemporary African politics? I warned about this in my book Consciencism (London and New York, 1964, p. 105).
And yet, socialism in Africa today tends to lose its objective content in favour of a distracting terminology and in favour of a general confusion. Discussion centres more on the various conceivable types of socialism than upon the need for socialist development.
Some African political leaders and thinkers certainly use the term “socialism” as it should in my opinion be used: to describe a complex of social purposes and the consequential social and economic policies, organisational patterns, state structure, and ideologies which can lead to the attainment of those purposes. For such leaders, the aim is to remold African society in the socialist direction; to reconsider African society in such a manner that the humanism of traditional African life re-asserts itself in a modern technical community.
Consequently, socialism in Africa introduces a new social synthesis in which modern technology is reconciled with human values, in which the advanced technical society is realised without the staggering social malefactions and deep schisms of capitalist industrial society. For true economic and social development cannot be promoted without the real socialisation of productive and distributive processes. Those African leaders who believe these principles are the socialists in Africa.
There are, however, other African political leaders and thinkers who use the term “socialism” because they believe that socialism would, in the words of Chandler Morse, “smooth the road to economic development”. It becomes necessary for them to employ the term in a “charismatic effort to rally support” for policies that do not really promote economic and social development. Those African leaders who believe these principles are supposed to be the “African socialists”.
It is interesting to recall that before the split in the Second International, Marxism was almost indistinguishable from social democracy. Indeed, the German Social Democratic Party was more or less the guardian of the doctrine of Marxism, and both Marx and Engels supported that Party. Lenin, too, became a member of the Social Democratic Party. After the break-up of the Second International, however, the meaning of the term “social democracy” altered, and it became possible to draw a real distinction between socialism and social democracy. A similar situation has arisen in Africa. Some years ago, African political leaders and writers used the term “African socialism” in order to label the concrete forms that socialism might assume in Africa. But the realities of the diverse and irreconcilable social, political, and economic policies being pursued by African states today have made the term “African socialism” meaningless and irrelevant. It appears to be much more closely associated with anthropology than with political economy. “African socialism” has now come to acquire some of its greatest publicists in Europe and North America precisely because of its predominant anthropological charm. Its foreign publicists include not only the surviving social democrats of Europe and North America, but other intellectuals and liberals who themselves are steeped in the ideology of social democracy.
India: Interview with Comrade Ganapathi, Leader of India’s Growing Maoist Rebellion
Posted October 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Interview, News, Revolution, South Asia
(New Afrikan revolutionaries should pay close attention to the revolution unfolding in India. Peace. )
This interview is originally published on India’s weekly Open Magazine
India: Interview with CPI(M)’s General-Secretary, Comrade Ganapathi
At first sight, Mupalla Laxman Rao, who is about to turn 60, looks like a school teacher. In fact, he was one in the early 1970s in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar district. In 2009, however, the bespectacled, soft-spoken figure is India’s Most Wanted Man. He runs one of the world’s largest Left insurgencies—a man known in Home Ministry dossiers as Ganapathi; a man whose writ runs large through 15 states. The supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) is a science graduate and holds a B Ed degree as well. He still conducts classes, but now they are on guerrilla warfare for other senior Maoists. He replaced the founder of the People’s War Group, Kondapalli Seetharaamiah, as the party’s general-secretary in 1991. Ganapathi is known to change his location frequently, and intelligence reports say he has been spotted in cities like Hyderabad, Kolkata and Kochi. After months of attempts, Ganapathi agreed to give his first-ever interview. Somewhere in the impregnable jungles of Dandakaranya, he spoke to RAHUL PANDITA on issues ranging from the Government’s proposed anti-Naxal offensive to Islamist Jihadist movements.
Q: Lalgarh has been described as the New Naxalbari by the CPI (Maoist). How has it become so significant for you?
A: The Lalgarh mass uprising has, no doubt, raised new hopes among the oppressed people and the entire revolutionary camp in West Bengal. It has great positive impact not only on the people of West Bengal but also on the people all over the country. It has emerged as a new model of mass movement in the country. We had seen similar types of movements earlier in Manipur, directed against Army atrocities and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), in Kashmir, in Dandakaranya and to some extent in Orissa, after the Kalinganagar massacre perpetrated by the Naveen Patnaik government.
Then there have been mass movements in Singur and Nandigram but there the role of a section of the ruling classes is also significant. These movements were utilised by the ruling class parties for their own electoral interests. But Lalgarh is a more widespread and more sustained mass political movement that has spurned the leadership of all the parliamentary political parties, thereby rendering them completely irrelevant. The people of Lalgarh had even boycotted the recent Lok Sabha polls, thereby unequivocally demonstrating their anger and frustration with all the reactionary ruling class parties. Lalgarh also has some distinctive features such as a high degree of participation of women, a genuinely democratic character and a wider mobilisation of Adivasis. No wonder, it has become a rallying point for the revolutionary-democratic forces in West Bengal.
Q: If it is a people’s movement, how did Maoists get involved in Lalgarh?
Ideological Struggle is A Class Struggle: There Is Greater Ideological Struggle as the Revolution Consolidate Itself
Posted October 19, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: New Afrika, PRPBN, Revolution, Theory
Ideological Struggle is A Class Struggle:
There Is Greater Ideological Struggle
as the Revolution Consolidate Itself
B y Comrade Elijah Muck Muck
Today We are at war in the word . . .
That is essential what it will be in the hood as the revolution consolidate itself. An inter-class ideological battle is waging in the Black nation between the black petit bourgeoisie on the one hand, and the Black working class on the other.
Due to the developing revolutionary situation, all classes are putting forth their own program to the masses.
The battle of ideas, approaches, solutions, and interpretations of events and phenomena will heat up in proportion as the revolutionary forces and the masses move to build revolutionary survival institutions which born and sustains revolutionary consciousness and revolutionary culture, and constitutes the new power of the people against the oppressive power of the old state.
What will we side with? The views, opinions, and the teachings of men or the revolutionary revelation of God?
We Polymathematicians reject the individualism of decadence Amerikan bourgeois savagery. The revolutionary culture we are developing and spreading revolves around RIGHTEOUSNESS and around the community’s survival infrastructure, our revolutionary political power, which is consciously created and defended by the by the righteous with the active and full participation of the entire nation. The task of the Party is to win the battle of ideas through organizing the block.
Guided by living wisdom, knowledge and understanding contained in the Five Jewels of Peace and its Restrictive Law, the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation continues the best in the tradition of revolutionary black socialist practice, which has allowed us to theoretically chart into uncharted territory.
Our firm adherence to the discipline of Polymathematic DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM rooted in the Nile Valley Science of the Ancients is what is allowing us to ALWAYS GROW ideologically like Malcolm grew and like Newton grew. Because of this our young Party has made numerous ideological contributions to the new great wave of revolutionary resistance and we hope to make many, many more.
Surely the sparks that one sees today will be tomorrow’s prairie fires.
In this, the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, under the tested and principled guidance of our Chairman the Honorable Comrade Tommy Ingiaye, follow in the traditions of Comrade Newton as being scientists dedicated to universal social change.
Of particular interest to the revolutionaries of the world has been our Party’s ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, in particular the question of REACTIONARY INTERCOMMUNALISM and the new stage of world imperialism at a time when REAL SOCIALISM, DIALECTIC SOCIALISM righteous and proletarian, is advancing to its final victory on a world scale and the old exploitative forces of white power are in their death throes.
Outlined in works such as “Speech at Boston College” and “Declarations and Resolutions”, comrade Newton’s dialectical materialist thesis of reactionary intercommunalism constitutes a major creative development of revolutionary Leninist political economy.
We say that it is precisely the sectarian rejection of and misunderstanding of Comrade Newton’s revolutionary thought that is among the principal reasons for the serious ideological crisis which has secretly beset the Black liberation forces over the last 40 years, causing this tendency to capitulate to the national bourgeoisie, causing that tendency to capitulate to the white settler left liberals.
Out all of nearly all the new revolutionary formations formed in the past 30 years, only the PRPBN, which upholds the earth shaking contribution of Dr. Huey Newton, has been able to advance and flourish.
Intimately connected to our scientific contextualization of the new stage of parasitic white imperialism, properly called reactionary intercommunalism, is the analysis of FASCISM in the U.S. offered to the movement from the theoreticians of our Party, which we see as a continuation of the fine work done in this area by Field Marshal George Jackson. Field Marshal George Jackson was a defender and Helper of Comrade Newton and the Black Nation during the spilt and promoted the revolutionary line of Comrade Newton within the Party and in the larger revolutionary movement.
Another major theoretical and ideological contribution made by the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, which makes its unique and new in history is the dialectical materialist and communist understanding, THE BLACK UNDERSTANDING – as opposed to the dominant white ruling class’s and national bourgeoisie’s religious or cultural nationalist understanding, or the Atheist or Agnostic views rooted in European thought– OF HOW WE ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH, the original mothers and fathers of matter in motion itself, the actual and masterful creator of matter and motion its self, our fathers, our mothers.
We believe the Original peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin Amerika scattered throughout the world are destined to righteously rule the earth by seizing control of the heights of the global economy, transforming it, and placing it at the service of Man, Woman and Child. We, the children of Africa who are “strangers in a land that is not their own”, will lead. Without apologies, the Polymathematicians are black communist revolutionaries of a new type who struggle to complete the unfinished Black Revolution, here and abroad.
Tribute to the Honorable Dr. Imari Obadele- November 7th 2009
Posted October 14, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: Mass Work, New Afrika, News, Political Prisoners, Revolution, United Front
Join
The Republic of New Afrika
In a Tribute to
The Honorable Dr. Imari Obadele
in Atlanta, Georgia
On Saturday, November 7th 2009
7pm -10pm (program starts promptly)
Royalty Banquet Hall
879 Ralph Abernathy Avenue
S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30310
Speakers:
Kwame Afoh, Former RNA President
Chowe Lummumba, MXGM
Sis. Iuuyla Ferguson N.A.L.F
Abul Akbar Muhammad,
NOI International Representative of Honorbale Minister Loius Farrakhan
Ahmed Obafemi, New Afrikan People’s Organization
For More Info:
Philadelphia: (Hamid) 215-228-3101 or PRPBN (Philly Branch) at PRCPBN@gmail.com
Atlanta: (Sis. Nisa) 404-798-5607
FREE THE LAND !!! BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!
Report Back From A29 Mobilization In Philadelphia
Posted September 25, 2009 by poorrighteous7Categories: General, Mass Work, New Afrika, News, PRPBN, Political Prisoners
PRPBN Youth Leader Comrade Pili X Lead March
Philadelphia PA. On Saturday August 29th 2009, residents of the Black Community and revolutionary activists held a successful march and demonstration in the heart of Black and Latino Philadelphia calling for the immediate freedom of all U.S. Political Prisoners and prisoners of war. Many dozens of masses participated in the mass action which was called by the Philadelphia Black August Committee (PBAC).
“Free all Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War Now! “Down with the Genocide which is the US Prisons System!” “Build the Black United Front!!” where some of main slogans of the demonstration and march.
Significantly, the initiative, spearheaded by the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation and the New Afrikan Liberation Front, was the first major oppressed nationality-led action around the issues of political prisoners and prisoners of war in some time.
Also the fact that it was carried out in the oppressed community itself and was majority youth is not without significance.
Speakers included Baba Khalid Abdur Rasheed of Philly Jericho; Brother Diop Olugbala, of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement; Comrade Tommy Ingiaye of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, and coordinator of PBAC; Puerto Rican Community Organizer Brother Adam from Bronx NY ; Speakers from Autonomous / Anarchist / Anti-Authoritarian People of Color-Philly; Brother King Samir from the newly formed Khalid Muhammad Black Militia Movement; Sister Theresa Shoatz of the Human Right Coalition(daughter of New Afrikan Political Prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz); Brother Hamid Aziz, New African Liberation Front; Brother Musafa Life of the Tribe of Life Organization, the Elder Raheem and the poet Infinite performed among others.
The rally was also honored by the presence of recently released former New Afrikan Political Prisoner Ojure Lutulo who lent his strength and support to the effort.
Sister Pam Africa of the International Friends and Family of Mumia was scheduled to speak at this rally, but was unable to attend due to “not felling well.”
“Whose Street?, Our Streets!!”
Following the speakers, demonstrators carried out a militant, unpermitted march which successfully closed down one lane of traffic on Erie Ave (in each direction) as the protesters made their way though the community raising various revolutionary demands and slogans. Thanks to the security provided under the leadership of the Black Legionnaire of the PGRNA, the pigs where unsuccessful in their attempt to intimidate the masses. With signs, banners, and petitions and revolutionary literature, the masses, especially the youth, welcome this dynamic political activity in the community. Many community residents stepped forward to volunteer to work in various projects.
The mass action successfully achieved its objective of building public opinion in support of the freedom of our comrades locked behind bars. This work will continue day in day out until we all are free.
