The 2nd Regional Build of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation

Posted July 4, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Community Building, Hip-Hop, International, Mass Work, National, New Afrika, News, Organization, PRPBN, Polymathematic University, Polymathematics, Revolution, Socialism, Youth

The 2nd Regional Build of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation

“Arm the Spirit!”

Saturday July 24th

3pm-7pm

Location:

The New Africa Center

4243 Lancaster Ave

Philadelphia PA

List of Presenters (As of 7/20/10)


Adan Estenben X
RICANstruction Action Party (RAP), New York State Polymathematic Community (NYSPC)

Keturah Caesar and Nicole Harris
Philly Raw Talent: A Hip-Hop Dance Documentary

Rell Stylez
Proctor, Polymathematic University

Martin Droll
Euro-Amerikan Revolutionary Activist, Friend of the PRPBN

Baba Khalid
Jericho Movement, Republic of New Afrika

True Earth
Massachusetts State Polymathematic Community (MSPC)

Tommy Joshua Al-Rafiq
Founder/Chairman, Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, Convener, Regional Build

And the honored guest of the 2nd Regional Build,

Gabriel Bryant
President, Sankofa Community Empowerment Inc. (Philadelphia Chapter)

Plus a live performance from Hip-Hop Artist Kash Kuumba of the August 7th Movement/Taste of Power Entertainment

To Fraternal Entities and Supporters:

Please send all messages of support and greetings to the 2nd Regional Build of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black  Nation to prcpbn@gmail.com.

About the Regional Build:
The Regional Build of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, is the occasional  mass regional assembly of the Polymathematic movement in North America.  The Regional Build’s goal is to further encourage the organizational, ideological and spiritual fellowship of the Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and coloured revolutionaries in North America who unite around the Truth of the Five Jewels of Peace and its Restrictive Law in this day and time.


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Get Involved! Build with the Camp! Attend Mass Civilization Class!

Posted May 19, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Community Building, Culture, Hip-Hop, Mass Work, National, New Afrika, Organization, PRPBN, Polymathematic University, Polymathematics, Revolution, Socialism, Spirituality, The New Education, Youth

Mass Civilization Class of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation

Every Wednesday Evening 6-7:30pm

5600 Media St. Philadelphia PA.

Mass Civilization Class (MCC) is the calling together of men, women and children in this day and time to encourage each other in righteousness and revolution. MCC is organized by Polymathematic University under the guidance of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation (PRPBN). Political education sessions, revolutionary culture, health, current local and global events, community organizing,  and mass work are all addressed at the MCC.  All are welcome to attend in Peace! Hope to see you there! Peace!


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Barack Hussein (And I’m)-Young Huey

Posted May 27, 2010 by Admin
Categories: August 7th Movement, Hip-Hop, National, New Afrika, Oppressor Nation

An new autobiography of  Barack Hussein Obama, 44th president of the United Snakes of Amerika courtesy of the August 7th Movement:

SUPPORT NEW REVOLUTIONARY ART! SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT  YOUNG HUEY & THE AUGUST 7th MOVEMENT! Get more music here

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Arm the Spirit!

Posted July 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: August 7th Movement, Community Building, Culture, Hip-Hop, Huey P. Newton, Mass Work, National, New Afrika, Organization, PRPBN, Polymathematic University, Polymathematics, Revolution


The 2nd Regional Build of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation

“Arm the Spirit”
Saturday July 24th

3pm-7pm

New Africa Center

4243 Lancaster Ave.

Philadelphia PA

Peace it’s time for another Regional Build. The 2nd Regional Build of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, to be convened on July 24th 2010 in Philadelphia, PA has the following tasks and features:

1. Refocus the Party on the Spiritual War and Spiritual Awakening

Comrades! What makes the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation unique in the largely secular revolutionary movement, is its knowledge that at the center of the growing polarization and class, racial, gender and national struggle in the world today, is a great spiritual war and spiritual awakening among all peoples.

The Polymathematic community of civilized peoples, today unified around the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation, must develop correct programs and policies to address  this situation.

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Oakland After the Verdict: It is Right to Rebel!

Posted July 10, 2010 by Admin
Categories: National, New Afrika, News, People's Struggle, Pigs, Police Terror, Repression, Revolution, United Front, Youth

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The Polymathematic Critique of the Marxist Conception of Religious Phenomena Pt 1

Posted July 8, 2010 by Admin
Categories: PRPBN, Polymathematics, Revolution, Science, Spirituality, Theory

The following is the first in a series of essays by PRPBN Chairman Comrade Tommy Joshua Al-Raifq that will be exclusively published on peacecomeade exploring issues of religion, spirituality, materialism and secularism within contemporary Marxist and anti-authoritarian thought and practice.

The Polymathematic Critique of the Marxist Conception of Religious Phenomena

Our Honorable Brother and Comrade Tommy Joshua Al-Rafiq, Chairman of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation

EXCLUSIVE TO PEACECOMRADE

For the Polymathematician, that is, the dialectical materialist who bears witness to the Oneness and reality of God, Atheism is a caricature of a materialist analysis.

The Progressive and Metaphysical Role of
Marxist Materialism in the 20th Century Revolution

“Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.”

Source: Marx and Engels, On Religion, Moscow, Progress Publishers,
4th Printing, 1966, page 38

“Religion is the opium of the people–this doctrine of Marx’s is the cornerstone of the whole Marxist outlook on religion. Marxism has always regarded all modern religions and churches and all religious organizations as instruments of bourgeois reaction that serve to  defend exploitation and to stupefy the working class.”

Source: Lenin, On Socialist Ideology and Culture, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 2nd Edition, page 92

Our position is stark and simple: Deny the spook not the laws.

Marx’s position on religion which was part consistent, part radical anti-Hegelian idealism, was also,  We can say, satisfactory in  the  context of the historical conditions of the West’s grossly deformed understanding of the God, upon whom they actually waged war upon.

For Polymathematics there are two aspects here: 1)   Religion “as the opiate of the masses” and 2) What he had recognized as at the same time as a real expression of real suffering and a real longing for  deliverance from the suffering. Again we feel that these were progressive ideas in the context of the backwardness that they were developed.

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Jay-Z, Rich Righteous Teacher (Part II)

Posted July 8, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Culture, Guest Authors, Hip-Hop, National, New Afrika, Political Economy, Youth

The following article is written from the perspective of the progressive Black national capitalist class.  As always , posting here does not imply our endorsement of the views presented.

By Cedric Muhammad

By Cedric Muhammad

“Jay-Z can market just about everything but a breakfast cereal because he’s got huge talent and a savvy business manager, John Meneilly, a former Provident Financial executive.”

- New York Post; May 16, 2010; ‘Jay-Z’s 99 problems’

Please, can we stop being so spooky about Jay-Z, for just a few minutes?

Let me offer an approach to calm the hysteria down.

With all due respect to the conspiracy theorists and groupies on one hand, and the established Hip-Hop and mainstream media on the other – in 2010, anyone’s analysis or critique of Jay-Z’s career has little credibility with me if it does not factor in the role that John Meneilly – his business manager and adviser has played in it. It is actually a supreme compliment to Jay-Z and John Meneilly and a discredit to the journalism profession that the most talked about celebrity in the history of the Hip-Hop culture and industry has the least talked about business manager. Sadly, it is a sign of two things: how ignorant of business the Hip-Hop culture continues to be and why its media – talk shows, magazines and blogs – have little to offer those seeking to find a way through a global recession and music industry in transition. Last I checked as of the date of this writing there was not even a Wikipedia page entry on the man arguably most responsible, other than Jay-Z, for certain key business moves he has made. Nor, are there hardly any pictures of him on the Internet. Read the rest of this post »

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Immortal Technique Returns From Haiti-Here’s His Thoughts & Observations

Posted July 4, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Black Panther Party, Community Building, Culture, Hip-Hop, History, International, Latin America, Mass Work, News, People's Struggle, Revolution, United Front, Youth

Revolutionary Hip-Hop Artist Immortal Technique

Originally posted here

I recently arrived home from Haiti.

While I was there I worked in a few aspects of the relief effort including a solidarity mission to aid the Earthquake survivors. In addition to all of this Myself, Cormega and Styles P participated in a show to support Haitian Hip Hop and rebuild the community. I would like to thank Arms Around Haiti and Hip Hop for Haiti for inviting me to be a part of this movement. While I was there I saw both devastation and rebuilding efforts. I also broke bread with people who had lost their entire family. Literally, everyone but them was deceased. Then there were those whose grief centered around losing a mother, father, brother, sister, son, or daughter as a direct result of what happened. It should make everyone reading this feel blessed to have anyone in his or her life. Think about that… Now think about it some more.

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But They Can’t Kill the Revolution: Com Azad murdered by Andhra Pradesh Police

Posted July 4, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Fascism, India, International, Pigs, Police Terror, Repression, Revolution, Statements

We at peacecomrade.org send our heart felt condolences to the Party, Army, United Front of the revolutionary Indian people and the family of Com Azad.We are saddened and angered by this news.

Com Azad murdered by Andhra Pradesh Police


Source : ICAWPI

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

North Regional Bureau

Press statement

3rd July, 2010

It is not an encounter at all!! It is a cold blooded murder by AP Police!!

Red Salutes to Martyrs com. Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar) and com. Hem Pandey (Jitender)!!

Let us avenge the killings of the beloved comrades by the khaki clad fascist gangs of AP government!!

Azad was arrested at Nagpur on June 1st along with com. Hem Pandey

On June 1st, the notorious Andhra Pradesh Special Branch Police for its abductions and cold blooded murders, have arrested com. Azad, Polite Bureau member and Spokesperson of CPI (Maoist), and com. Hem Pandey, a zonal committee level comrade in Nagpur city around 11′o clock when they went to meet a comrade who was supposed to receive them from Dandakarnaya zone. Com. Azad reached Nagpur around 10 am on the fateful day along with com. Hem Pandey, after travelling from long distance. With specific information, the lawless goons of AP SIB abducted them, perhaps flown them in a helicopter, to Adilabad jungles near Maharashtra border and killed them point block and in cold blood. Read the rest of this post »

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EXPLOSIVE POLITICAL SITUATION IN PUERTO RICO/ SITUACION EXPLOSIVA EN PUERTO RICO

Posted July 2, 2010 by Admin
Categories: International, Latin America, News, People's Struggle, Pigs, Police Terror, Puerto Rico, United Front

Peacecomrade received this urgent report from our Puerto Rican comrades.

Some links to videos of this afternoon’s police assault on the Puerto Rican public this afternoon, for the “crime” of seeking access to the legislature as it debated the budget for the next fiscal year. http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/primeraplana/motin-en-el-capitolio/20100630224736http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/flash_news/las-fuerzas-estaban-listas-para-enfrentarse/20100630225322http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/flash_news/mas-escenas-del-motin-en-el-capitolio/20100630191331http://www.wapa.tv/noticias/flash_news/reacciona-el-superintendente/20100630191454http://www.primerahora.com/videosdelmotinenelcapitolio-397282.html ———————————————————————–… coverage on the Nuevo Dia web page:http://www.elnuevodia.com/violenciaenelcapitolio-733059.html
SPANISH FOLLOWS ENGLISH

ENGLISH TEXT

URGENT. URGENT.URGENT.

IMPORTANT NEWS TO DIVULGE TROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
EXPLOSIVE POLITICAL SITUATION IN PUERTO RICO

It is 5:00 of the evening of June 30, 2010, groups of students, teachers and citizens asked for entry to the House of the Laws and they were struck and tortured by the Police, there are numerous injured people, while the National Guard is mobilized towards the Capitol Hill. Violent shocks scatter for the whole zone of the Parliament and the repressions continue.

A constitutional coup has just been established in Puerto Rico.
After a year in which the present time government under the New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista, that attempts to join the Island to the United States trough statehood) tried to and succeeded taking over many institutions that form the base of the democratic government of Puerto Rico, an atmosphere of hostility followed by many reckless actions that threaten public peace had climaxed in violent and aggressive actions of this government against the parties of the opposition, the organized student movement, the labor unions, the press, the environment, as against every area and institution of Puerto Rico’s civil society.

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Chronicle of a Riot Foretold

Posted June 30, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Amerikan Terrorism, Black Panther Party, Community Building, Fascism, Guest Authors, Mass Work, National, New Afrika, Oppressor Nation, People's Struggle, Pigs, Police Terror, Repression, Revolution, United Front, Youth

New African Youth on the Streets of Oakland

Originally posted here

By GEORGE CICCARIELLO-MAHER

Oakland.

As the trial of former transit cop Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant rushes at breakneck speed toward its conclusion, spurred by the insistence of Judge Robert Perry and political imperative, ominous clouds of injustice begin to crowd the political horizon in anticipation of a verdict, which could come as soon as this week. But while it is this injustice that we should most fear, too many are focusing their fear and the fear of others on the possibility of a repeat of last year’s street rebellions should Mehserle be acquitted or convicted of a lesser charge.

What this view neglects is one basic fact, indeed the most basic fact regarding the Oakland rebellions: that it was only as a result of those rebellions of January 2009 and the fear that they might be repeated that Mehserle was even arrested and put on trial in the first place. Those rebellions were, in fact, the basic precondition for this limited form of “justice” to even be possible. Possible, yes, but far from guaranteed. And yet those who opposed the rebellions from the very beginning, denouncing them with delusions of “outside agitators” as irrational and desperate outbursts–in short, as “riots”–are busily trotting out the same discredited lines as always.

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The Many Voices Of Lauryn Hill: New NPR Interview

Posted June 30, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Culture, Guest Authors, Hip-Hop, Interview, National, New Afrika, Spirituality


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Jay-Z, Rich Righteous Teacher (Part I)

Posted June 30, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Culture, Editorial, Guest Authors, Hip-Hop, Youth

Jiggaman. J-Hova. Hov. To us at www.peacecomrade.org Jay-Z is a member of the Black national bourgeoisie, one that is increasingly moving to the right. The following article is written from the perspective of the progressive Black national capitalist class.  As always , posting here does not imply our endorsement of the views presented.

Jay-Z, Rich Righteous Teacher (Part I)

(I’ve) never read the Qur’an, or Islamic scriptures
The only Psalms I’ve read was on the arms of my n*****s

- Jay-Z, Intro off of the The Dynasty: Roc La Familia

If there were any track in the universe of Jay-Z’s catalogue, which I think represents the powerful puzzle of his personality and appeal it is the Intro to the 2000 Roc La Familia album. In terms of the deliberate amount of time he allows to pass before delivering his verse; the sound of the hot but haunting beat; the nonchalant flow, the penetrating wit; the jewels and gems of wisdom; and the provocative hints and nods (‘this is food for thought, you do the dishes’) that Jay-Z deliberately leaves, this one-verse track almost perfectly symbolizes the career and mind of an artist who I am convinced may be the most Selfaware artist that rap has ever seen.

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News from Oakland: Pig Johannes Mehserle Pulverized on the Witness Stand

Posted June 30, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Amerikan Terrorism, Guest Authors, National, New Afrika, News, Pigs, Police Terror, Repression, United Front, Youth

by Minister of Information JR

originally posted here

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(Below) This is the photo of Johannes Mehserle taken by Oscar Grant with his cell phone moments before Mehserle shot him in the back as he lay face down on the BART platform, restrained by Officer Tony Pirone kneeling on his head and neck. Note the taser in Mehserle’s right hand. Mehserle had to re-holster his taser before pulling his gun and shooting Grant. – Photo: Oscar Grant via Los Angeles Superior Court

On Friday, June 25, the BART cop who pulled the trigger unjustifiably killing Oscar Grant a year and a half ago, on New Year’s of 2009 on a BART station platform in East Oakland, Johannes Mehserle, wrapped up his testimony in one of the most important murder trials of the last 20 years. The courtroom was filled to capacity with reporters, Grant’s family and friends, and concerned community members.Mehserle began the morning with, “My main focus was on his (Grant’s) hands going into his right pocket. I remember the digging motion with his right hand. I was pulling as hard as I could to get it out. I made the decision at that point to tase him,” said Johannes Mehserle on the witness stand. “I didn’t know what his intentions were. I remember saying I’m going to tase him twice.” Mehserle made it clear that his defense was that he thought that Oscar Grant had a gun. “I thought that I didn’t want to get shot.”

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The Criterion of Truth

Posted June 30, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Guest Authors, International, Nepal, Revolution, Socialism, UK, White Nationalist Revisionsim
“Right doctrinarism persisted in recognising only the old forms, and became utterly bankrupt, for it did not notice the new content. Left doctrinarism persists in the unconditional repudiation of certain old forms, failing to see that the new content is forcing its way through all and sundry forms, that it is our duty as Communists to master all forms, to learn how, with the maximum rapidity, to supplement one form with another, to substitute one for another, and to adapt our tactics to any such change that does not come from our class or from our efforts”  (Lenin, “Left-wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder) (Emphases ours).

Introduction

We are currently going through an important period in the history of class struggle in the world. In Britain, the past eight years have been marked by a rapid polarisation of the society between the ruling class and the people, emerging shortly before and during the occupation of Iraq, causing a palpable loss of ‘credibility’ of the ruling class and politicisation of the working class and the masses, particularly the youth.

Today, the objective situation indicates an accelerating rate of decay in all spheres of life, which is increasingly compelling the masses to seek a way out of  the gradually more unstable living conditions. One example is the intensification of the class struggle in the North of Ireland. Also, the British imperialist state is at war with the oppressed nation of Afghanistan, a war which has become grossly unpopular, and increasingly heading toward a humiliating defeat. It has already been forced to retreat from its occupation of Iraq.

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A Note on the Polymathematicians: An Aspiring Civilization

Posted June 20, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Community Building, Organization, PRPBN, Polymathematic University, Polymathematics, Revolution, Spirituality, Statements, Theory

A Note on the Polymathematicians:
An Aspiring Civilization

By the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation  (PRPBN)

The Polymathematic Party is the intercommunal revolutionary association of the poor and righteous, dedicated to uniting all who love God and want Revolution and the liberation of all 196,940,000 square miles of Planet Earth.

“At the root, We can only Affirm we are Life concerned with Life: we are Muslims (advocates of Peace) concerned with the Soul and the Day of Judgment and believing in the unity and reality of One God; we are Polymathematicians concerned with the unity of the oppressed peoples, building Community, carrying out a total and continuous revolution. “

Peace,

Ours comrades is a project — an idea, a movement, a party, a community, a method and a poem. We are an aspiring civilization.

Though We fight for the complete independence for all oppressed communities and to end the oppression of nations by other nations, We cannot say We are Nationalists.

Neither the chief origin of the problem nor the final solution to the problem is identified here in nationhood or in the reform of the hierarchy of the nation-states.

And though We seek the end of the exploitation of labor and all class antagonism, We cannot say We are orthodox Marxists.

Neither the chief origin of the problem nor the final solution to the problem is identified here in the singularity of class or in the reform of the class hierarchy.

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Kil Ripkin – Not You

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Culture, Hip-Hop, National, New Afrika, People's Struggle, Youth

We received this from Hip-Hop Artist Kil Ripkin :

Peace and Love Family. Finally, I Present to you the long awaited video by Kil Ripkin titled “Not You” Directed by Science Projects and Produced by Eric G.
The Balancing Act out soon.

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Resist AFRICOM

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Amerikan Terrorism, Editorial, Fascism, Guest Authors, International, Oppressor Nation, People's Struggle, Political Economy, Repression, United Front

www.peacecomrade.org adds: Down with Imperialism! Africa for the Africans! Onward towards a socialist United States of Africa! Revolution is the Only Solution!

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AFRICOM and the US’s hidden battle for Africa

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Amerikan Terrorism, Guest Authors, International, National, New Afrika, Oppressor Nation, People's Struggle, Political Economy, United Front

AFRICOM and the US’s hidden battle for Africa

Ba Karang

2010-05-06, Issue 480

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/64223

Stressing that recent US military interventions represent nothing more than ‘the expansion and consolidation of Western capital’, Ba Karang takes a look at the emergence of the US AFRICOM (African Command) programme. The African continent’s emergence as a key oil and energy provider has not escaped the attention of the US government, Karang notes, and we are now seeing the ‘aggressive birth’ of AFRICOM.

What is the current meaning of the ‘War against Terror’ for Africa? The true intention of America’s recent military interventions in the African continent (both covert and open) is nothing other than the expansion and consolidation of Western capital. It all started in 2001 when George W. Bush declared his ‘War on Terror’ in the continent, but has developed in a manner that has gone beyond human imagination in the body counts on the streets of Somalia, in the jungles of Uganda and the DR Congo, and deserts of Sudan. The chief of the US African Command, General E. Ward, explained this in language more clear than that of any US politician when he stated that an Africa in which ‘African populations are able to provide for themselves, contribute to global economic development and are allowed access to markets in free, fair, and competitive ways, is good for America and the world…’
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Pedro Albizu Campos: ¡Por un Puerto Rico Independiente y Socialista!

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Guest Authors, History, International, Latin America, People's Struggle, Puerto Rico, Revolution, United Front

Originally posted here.

This article about the life of Puerto Rican anti-colonial fighter Pedro Albizu Campos comes from the February-April issue of ¡La Verdad!, the organ of Unión del Barrio, a revolutionary Chicano Mexicano organization fighting for socialism and national liberation

Albizu was a proud Black man, a Puerto Rican of African descent and an hero to our Party.

HIS AIM WAS THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL LIBERATION OF HIS PATRIA

ANTI-COLONIALIST RAZA WARRIOR

Forty-five years ago, one of the greatest Raza patriots in history died as a result of torture and poisoning by U.S. government colonial-capitalist agents. On April 21, 1965, his body totally devastated by prison torture, three months after being released from prison, Pedro Albizu Campos died in his homeland of Puerto Rico – “La Isla del Encanto” or as called by its indigenous inhabitants, Borinquén or “land of the valiant people”.

Compa Albizu Campos was the most important Puerto Rican political figure of the 20th century, a National Hero who sacrificed his life for the freedom of his country. He was a writer, political theorist, labor organizer, speaker, and leader of a political party, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico. Because of all these qualities, he was called “El Maestro”.

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Who’s Carrying the Political Torch in Hip-Hop Today?

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Community Building, Culture, Editorial, Guest Authors, Hip-Hop, National, New Afrika, Youth

By Seandra Sims

Gina Torres and Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur contributed to this report. Originally posted here

WHAT HAPPENED?

An interesting thing happened to Styles P in 2005.

The rapper released “I’m Black,” a song that lit a fire in the heart and minds of hip-hop fans of all colors and cultures. Fans waited and waited – for a video and a formal single, which never materialized. “I’m Black,” featuring singer Marsha Ambrosius, was a ‘hood hit without question.

The song was true to the streets, had a catchy hook and was a true inspiration to a lot of different kinds of rap fans.

Styles never fully explained what happened, chalking it up to “politics and bulls**t” in an interview after his album Time Is Money dropped a year later.

Rap veteran Willie Dee of the Geto Boys agrees and explains there is a concerted effort to stop music like Styles P’s from getting to the masses.

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Ice Cube Explains How Rap Music With A Message Was Shut Down

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Community Building, Culture, Hip-Hop, Interview, National, New Afrika, Youth

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A Tale of a Silly People Who Wanted Santa Claus But Instead Got the Gasman

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Amerikan Terrorism, Editorial, Fascism, International, National, New Afrika, People's Struggle, Pigs, Police Terror, Puerto Rico, Repression, Revolution, United Front

By Comrade Adán Esteban X

They had always been against the people of the streets. Blatant brutality, rounding up whole blocks and then you have to prove your innocence to get out, racist drug laws and the like. I bitched and moaned, and occasionally went to a anti-police terror demo, but was too afraid to do anything more radical.

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Gone but Not Forgotten. . . RIP Comrade Tupac Shakur (June 16th, 1971-September 13th, 1996)

Posted June 16, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Black Liberation Army, Black Panther Party, Culture, Hip-Hop, History, National, New Afrika, Revolution, Youth

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The B-Boy BBQ 2010 in Philly

Posted June 15, 2010 by Admin
Categories: August 7th Movement, Community Building, Culture, Hip-Hop, Mass Work, New Afrika, People's Struggle, United Front

Dope event. . .Hip-Hop is alive and well among the masses. Big shout out to www.rawtalentphilly.com!

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Dying Young: Suicide & China’s Booming Economy

Posted June 15, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Asia, China, Guest Authors, International, People's Struggle, Worker's Struggle, Youth

Posted By Member-WPRM (Britain) On June 7, 2010 

Source: China Study Group

A newly-installed safety net between dormitory buildings to prevent employees from attempting suicide by jumping off the rooftop— can it really help save lives? (photo by SACOM)

Since the beginning of 2010, a startling ten Foxconn employees in Shenzhen tried to end their lives. Eight died, while two survived their injuries. All were between 18 and 25 years old—in the prime of their youth—and their loss should awaken wider society to reflect upon the costs of a development model that sacrifices dignity for economic growth.

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Hip-hop and Politics

Posted June 15, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Guest Authors, Hip-Hop, National, New Afrika, People's Struggle, Youth

Posting here does not necessarily imply www.peacecomrade.org agreement with the views of guest authors.

This weekend one of hip-hop’s hottest acts, Drake, lent his talent to protest offshore drilling. On Sunday, the 23-year-old rapper performed at the ‘Stop The Offshore Drilling” rally at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.

In May, hip-hop veteran Talib Kweli released a single about another hot political topic. It’s called ‘Papers Please’ — and it voices his opposition to Arizona’s new immigration law.

Hip-hop and politics have been together for a long time, and there are no signs the two will break apart soon. Although there were the naysayers who once dismissed hip-hop as a fad and predicted its untimely demise, this is an art form, a culture, and a political movement that is not going away.

Starting out as the CNN of the ghetto, and a medium to express the hopes and frustrations of a disenfranchised community, hip-hop went from knocking on the door of the mainstream to becoming the mainstream. And over the years, hip-hop evolved from hating the president–and vice versa–to dining with the president. Who would have imagined just a few years ago that the president would have hip-hop on his iPod, or even own an iPod for that matter?

Black Music Month is a perfect time to examine the politics of hip-hop–and where it’s going next.

“Hip-hop had a long political engagement; hip-hop almost starts as a political movement,” says journalist and cultural critic Touré. “People from the street need a voice–we have no voice. So we have to have something to say.”

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Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks From Death Row in Pennsylvania to Brixton London

Posted June 14, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Black Panther Party, Community Building, International, Mass Work, National, New Afrika, News, People's Struggle, Repression, Revolution, UK, United Front

A Report by Nickglais of Democracy and Class Struggle

Mumia Abu Jamal spoke from his cell on death row to a packed audience in Brixton London in a legal call from his lawyer Robert R. Bryan on evening of 10th June 2010.

He praised the activism in Britain and how more than a million people came out to demonstrate against the invasion of Iraq.

He made the point that activism is not a part time activity but a lifetime commitment.It is that commitment that is necessary for changing the world.

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The 5th Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party, July 10-14

Posted June 14, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Guest Authors, Mass Work, National, New Afrika, Organization, Revolution, Theory, United Front

www.peacecomrade.org encourages all revolutionaries to study and  engage the political report of the 5th Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party, which will be held July 10-14 at the Kellogg Center in Washington, DC.

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Foreign owned “Oil Gushers” in Nigeria Dwarfs British Petroleum’s “Oil Gusher” in the Gulf of Mexico

Posted June 14, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Africa, Guest Authors, International, News, People's Struggle, United Front, Worker's Struggle

Originally posted here

Editors note: The ruling class media have inundated us with misinformation concerning the irresponsible dumping of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Although this is truly an environmental castrophy, the dumping of oil and the destruction of the environment in Africa, by greedy multi national oil coporations like British Petroleum, Shell Oil, and ExonMobil, go virtually unreported by a media that acts as if it is concerned about the environment.

This disparity in “reporting” is indicative of the ruling class media’s mission; to serve without reservation or shame the interest of “big business.” The ruling class media itself is corporate “big business.” Its interest lies in not telling the truth or not telling the story at all.

On the other hand, governments in Nigeria and in the United States are also at the beck and call of imperialism. Although both governments have Africans as their Heads of State, they administer an imperialism that is white power all along the line. That is why fast talking U.S. President Barrack Hussein Obama, and pimp dressing Nigerian President Good Luck Jonathan have nothing to say on the matter. They represent imperialism’s neo colonial strategy – white power in black face.

As we struggle with the question of the destruction of the invironment by the backward forces of imperialism, organizations such as the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project must take the lead on how we solve these problems as the Revolution defeats imperialism and everything it stands for. It will take All Power to the People to clean up the mess imperialism has made and is continuing to make.

And finally, we must not allow them to define this dumping of oil into the waterways and onto the land as “spills.” The misuse of the word “spill” gives them a psychological damage control advantage. This oil is not spilling into the ocean, it is gushing into the ocean, and onto the land.

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A New World From Below

Posted June 14, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Community Building, Mass Work, National, News, People's Struggle, United Front

We received this following call from our Anti-authoritarian friends. We wonder what role, if any, that revolutionary anti-authoritarian people of color can and will play in this convergence.  In any case, the Polymathematicians will be autonomous  in Detroit during the USSF, in the streets and neighborhood with the working class masses, as well among the main events, seeking to share, learn and connect with other like minded revolutionaries.

April 24, 2010

A New World from Below
Anarchists and Anti-authoritarians at the Social Forum
Detroit, June 23-27, 2010

We believe that social forums can greatly contribute to strengthening social movements both in the United States and internationally. The ecological destruction and economic disaster, coupled with disillusionment about the Obama presidency, makes the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit an urgently needed convergence. We hope to bring what’s unique about anarchist and antiauthoritarian organizing to the social forum, and spark conversations not only about strategies of resistance but also visions of reconstruction from the bottom-up.

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Jailed for $11: Sisters Locked up 16 years in Dirty South Injustice

Posted June 14, 2010 by Admin
Categories: Amerikan Terrorism, Guest Authors, National, New Afrika, News, People's Struggle, Pigs, Police Terror, Repression, United Front

Originally posted here
By Toure Muhammad -Contributing Writer-
Jun 12, 2010

(FinalCall.com) – The dirtiest thing about the South is not the “Dirty South” music genre, but institutional racism that shatters dreams and destroys families. For the Scott Sisters, who supporters say were unfairly sentenced to life in prison 16 years ago, it has meant watching their children grow into adults and mourning the loss of their father.

Since October 1994, Gladys and Jamie Scott have been serving two life terms each in prison, convicted of an $11 robbery. The Scott Sisters had never been in trouble with the law, but on December 24, 1993, the Scott County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi arrested the Black women for an armed robbery where no one was murdered, injured or even taken to the hospital.

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