When the State Declares War on Its Own People
Posted March 1, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, News, Revolution, South Asia, United Front
16 Characteristics of a Polymathematic Household
Posted March 1, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, PRPBN, Polymathematics
16 Characteristics of a Polymathematic Household
is clean,
thrifty,
you take your shoes off at the door,
is modest,
is adorned with plants,
is full of books,
refrigerator is full of vegetables and fruit,
there is plenty water
the t.v. is not on much
only peace music plays
there is a mosque in the household
there is love in the household
there is education in the house
company is welcome,
meals are communal,
God is revered
Attention NYC: “Latin American Revolutions of the 20th Century” @ The Brecht Forum
Posted March 1, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: History, Mass Work, Puerto Rico, Revolution, Theory
Peacecomrade.org highly suggest this class to all supporters of the PRPBN and the Polymathematic Community in New York City and all people interested in a creative approach to the study of the development of the Latin American Revolution.
Starting Every Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Latin American Revolutions of the 20th Century
From Pancho Villa to Castro & Beyond
By Comrade Adan Stevens-Diaz
We will look at four successful Armed Revolutions of the 20th century in Latin America (sorry, no unsuccessful or peaceful revolutions, perhaps in another study). We will go chronologically, spending two weeks on each revolution, starting from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, then going to the Cuban Revolution of the 1950s, then to the Sandinista revolution of the 1970s, and finally to the Zapatista Uprising of the 1990s. The first week of each revolution will discuss the situation and conditions that lead to each revolution, to the waging of each revolution. The second session will discussion the seizure of power and the first steps of the institutionalization of the Revolution. Short excerpts of films (about 30 minutes) will be shown for some of the classes. Books will be assigned for guided reading. The hope is that this will not be a lecture class, but participatory with all involved. Volunteers may be assigned to prepare a presentation of segments of the reading materials.
The Brecht Forum is located at:
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets,
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 242-4201 – Email: brechtforum at brechtforum.org
Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoats– New Afrikan Political Prisoner of War
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, History, New Afrika, Political Prisoners
PROFILE: NEW AFRIKAN POLITICAL PRISONER
My name is Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoats and I am a New Afrikan Political Prisoner of War, who at this moment is serving a prison sentence at the Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, state institution. I was originally locked up in January of 1972, and have since spent over 25 years in 15 different state, county, and federal prisons, jails and a maximum security prison/mental institution. Over 17 of these years were spend in the “holes” of theses various facilities locked down for 23 or more hours daily.
I was born in Philadelphia, PA, in August of 1943, one of 12 children in the household of Gladys and Russell Shoats. I attended school there until the age of 15, after which I was in and out of reforms schools and youth institutions until the age of eighteen , mainly due to gang-related activities. These gang activities, though not drug-related as the bulk of similar actitites are today, still had the same root causes: a lack of comprehensive youth-oriented programs in the schools and neighborhoolds, coupled with high unemployment and police repression in the New African communities.
I married twice and became the father of 7 children between the years of 1964 and 1970. During the early to middle 1960’s, I became increasingly politically aware and active in the New Afrikan liberation movement. I was a founding member of the Black Unity Council, a Philadelphia Grouping that eventually merged with the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969.
In August of 1970, at the height of the nationwide repression of the New Afrikan liberation movement, I became a fugitive after a Philadelphia policeman was killed and another was wounded in a retaliatory attack on a Philadelphia police station. In response to the heightened repression of the New Afrikan liberation movement in general, and the unjustified killing of a New Afrikan youth by the repressive poloice in the local community, from August 1970 until January 1972, the date of my capture and arrest; I was active on the armed front of the New Afrikan Liberation Army. Read the rest of this post »
City Hall 2 co-defendant Shabaka Mnombatha found guilty in Philadelphia
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Fascism, New Afrika, News, Political Prisoners, United Front
We received this from our comrades of the International Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement. Please support these brothers who only crime was defending the new democratic rights of the New African masses.
City Hall 2 co-defendant Shabaka Mnombatha
found guilty in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA–On Tuesday, January 26, Shabaka Mnombatha, a co-defendant in the City Hall 2 (CH2) case was found guilty of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Municipal court judge Joseph Waters sentenced Mnombatha to three months in jail, then probated the sentence.
In March 2009 the Philadelphia branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) leader Diop Olugbala and Mnombatha were brutally attacked by Philadelphia cops, then arrested. As usual, when Africans come in contact with any police agency in this country, they beat you up then charge you with assault. That’s what happened in a nutshell. InPDUM organizers and supporters, along with other community people were there at the city council meeting to protest the newly elected black mayor Michael Nutter’s proposed controversial city budget.
It was a budget that was closing down libraries and other essential services in the African community while at the same time super funding the police department to the tune of more than $1 billion. As the city with the highest incarceration rate and second highest hunger and poverty rates in the country, Philadelphia has a deep economic interest in police containment of the African community. It is that sector of the State (police, prisons, courts) who keep our people separated from food, and locked up in prisons and jails. The only “crime” that InPDUM and the CH2 committed was demanding that the billions of dollars which are currently used to wage war against the African community instead go towards reparations to the African community: economic development, jobs and businesses that serve our needs and independence: community control of schools, police and courts to bring the criminals in the government to justice. Immediately following the city council attack InPDUM waged an intense campaign to free the CH2. This campaign led to a victory during the CH2 preliminary hearing on April 28, 2009 when a call in and write in campaign, fortified with a militant mass demonstration outside of the courthouse, forced municipal court judge Teresa Carr-Deni to drop the felony assault charges from the CH2 Case. Soon after this victory however, the district attorney appealed Carr-Deni’s ruling to drop the felony from Diop’s case. After two judges recused themselves for fear of invoking INPDUM’s wrath, the DA was ultimately successful in having the felony replaced on Diop’s case. At the same time, the DA allowed for the felony to remain off of Shabaka’s case. This was clear evidence of the DA’s strategy and determination to see Diop behind bars while undermining the unity of the campaign.
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“Peace After Revolution”-Erykah Badu’s ‘Other Side of the Game’
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Hip-Hop, New Afrika, Political Prisoners
Dedicated to our comrade chairman, her 1 # fan.
Peace God! Peace Earth!
Who is the 5% in the Poor Part of the Earth?
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, New Afrika, PRPBN, Polymathematics, lslam
The Revolutionary Flag of Peace; The glorious Red Flag of the Sun and Communist Revolution finally united with the Star and Crescent of Righteous Islam
Who is the 5% in the Poor Part of the Earth?
They are the poor, righteous Teachers, who do not believe in the teachings of the 10%, and are all-wise; and know who the Living God is; and Teach
that the Living God is the Son of man, the supreme being, the (black man) of Asia; and Teach Freedom, Justice and Equality to all the human family
of the planet Earth.
Otherwise known as: Civilized People.
Also are: Muslim and Muslim Sons.
Socialism and Man in Cuba
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Cuba, Revolution, Theory
Peacecomrade.org publishes one of our favorite essays by Che ‘Socialism and Man in Cuba’. Peacecomrade.org upholds Che Guevara as a great communist revolutionary and fighter for the people, and we believe he has made positive contributions to the general body of socialist thought. It is not his well intentioned but flawed focoist military writings, but his works on socialism, internationalism, and anti-imperialism, that have had an lasting influence upon the PRPBN.
Socialism and Man in Cuba
Dear compañero ,[29]
Though belatedly, I am completing these notes in the course of my trip through Africa,[30] hoping in this way to keep my promise. I would like to do so by dealing with the theme set forth in the title above. I think it may be of interest to Uruguayan readers.
A common argument from the mouths of capitalist spokespeople, in the ideological struggle against socialism, is that socialism, or the period of building socialism into which we have entered, is characterized by the abolition of the individual for the sake of the state. I will not try to refute this argument solely on theoretical grounds but rather to establish the facts as they exist in Cuba and then add comments of a general nature. Let me begin by broadly sketching the history of our revolutionary struggle before and after the taking of power.
As is well known, the exact date of the beginning of the revolutionary struggle — which would culminate in January 1959 — was July 26, 1953. A group led by Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada barracks in Oriente Province on the morning of that day. The attack was a failure; the failure became a disaster; and the survivors ended up in prison, beginning the revolutionary struggle again after they were freed by an amnesty. In this process, in which there was only the germ of socialism, the individual was a fundamental factor. We put our trust in him — individual, specific, with a first and last name — and the triumph or failure of the mission entrusted to him depended on that individual’s capacity for action. Then came the stage of guerrilla struggle. It developed in two distinct environments: the people, the still sleeping mass that had to be mobilized; and its vanguard, the guerrillas, the motor force of the mobilization, the generator of revolutionary consciousness and militant enthusiasm. This vanguard was the catalyzing agent that created the subjective conditions necessary for victory.
Here again, in the framework of the proletarianization of our thinking, of this revolution that took place in our habits and our minds, the individual was the basic factor. Every one of the combatants of the Sierra Maestra who reached an upper rank in the revolutionary forces has a record of outstanding deeds to his or her credit. They attained their rank on this basis.
First heroic stage
This was the first heroic period, and in which combatants competed for the heaviest responsibilities, for the greatest dangers, with no other satisfaction than fulfilling a duty. In our work of revolutionary education we frequently return to this instructive theme. In the attitude of our fighters could be glimpsed the man and woman of the future.[31]
New York Times on Dr. Imari Obadele
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, History, New Afrika, News, Revolution, United Front
Here we post the following article that appeared in the 2/6/10 edition of the NYT. We do not agree with everything it says, however, we offer it as a service to our readers. Predictably the death of our revolutionary nationalist elder has been ignored by the larger US revolutionary movement. But always leave it to our oppressor to sense the significance of events in the lives of the oppressed. While the Poor Righteous Party has no organizational predecessors or ties to the old parties and formations of the 60s,70s and 80s, only an ideological and spiritual kinship, however, ties between the Party and the New African Independence Movement (NAIM) has been steadily increasing over the last ten years, with the Party taking a leading role in the building of the New African Liberation Front (NALF) on the ground as well as participation the National Elections and Provsional Goverment of the Republic of New Afrika in the recent period.
February 6, 2010
Imari Obadele, Who Fought for Reparations, Dies at 79
Imari Obadele, center, with a Huey Newton poster in the background, in a 1971 Republic of New Afrika news conference in Jackson, Miss.
Imari Obadele, a teacher and writer whose commitment to black empowerment fired a militant, sometimes violent effort to win reparations for descendants of slaves and to carve out, however quixotically, an African-American republic in the Deep South, died on Jan. 18 in Atlanta. He was 79.
The cause was a stroke, said Johnita Scott, his former wife.
Mr. Obadele (pronounced oh-ba-DEL-ee) was president of what he called the Republic of New Afrika, a country that existed as an idea. His provocative proposal was to have Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina — the heart of the old Confederacy — removed from the union and given over to black Americans.
The demand drew the national news media’s attention. The New York Times called it “bizarre.”
The proposal emerged in 1968, the year the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Black separatism was on the rise, with some advocates resurrecting 19th-century proposals for blacks to return to Africa.
Mr. Obadele, who had despaired of integration into white society, demanded American land as payback for the centuries of abuse blacks had suffered. He also asked for billions of dollars and became a leader of the reparations movement.
His organization saw itself as fighting a war of national liberation. It had a uniformed militia and engaged in gun battles with the police in Detroit and Jackson, Miss.; a police officer died in each.
Puerto Rico Is In My Heart-The Young Lords Party
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: History, Puerto Rico, Revolution, United Front
Peacecomrade.org upholds the Young Lord Party as the revolutionary vanguard party of the Puerto Rican people in the U.S. mainland in the late sixties and the early 70s before their descent into white nationalist Marxist revisionism and “multi-national working class” organizing efforts. During this period, the oppressed nations of the US Empire stood up, projecting their own revolutionary communist formations, independent from the imperialist oppressor nation in theory and practice. Obviously, such formations were heavily influenced by the Thought of Huey P. Newton and the work of the Black Panther Party, who for the first time, provided a sound foundation for the development of a genuine revolutionary movement in the USA. Peacomecomrade.org fully support the revolutionary struggle for the complete liberation of Puerto Rico from the clutches of US imperialism! Long live the struggle for a free and revolutionary Puerto Rico!
Hands Off Brother Ojore!
Posted February 9, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Fascism, New Afrika, News, Political Prisoners, United Front
Former Political Prisoner and Black Liberation Army combatant, Ojore Lutalo (recently released) was pulled off the Amtrak train in La Junta, Colorado on his way home to New Jersey from speaking at the LA Anarchist bookfair for “endangering public transportation”. After his recent release from time served as a POW, Ojore lived briefly in Philadelphia and was engaged with local activist, anarchist and New Afrikan projects. At time of the posting, we are aware that the comrade is out of the clutches of the pigs thanks to people’s mobilization for bail, and we have unconfirmed reports that the trumped up charges have been drooped. More on this story as we recieive information. Hands off Brother Ojore!
An Interview with Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Posted January 22, 2010 by poorrighteous7Categories: Africa, Fascism, History, Interview, New Afrika, Political Prisoners
Dr. Mutulu Shakur, A citizen of the Republic of New Afrika, discusses the terms and conditions of his incarceration.
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 »
