SOME SOLUTIONS: OR THINGS TODO
BY, SUNDIATA ACOLI

SOME SOLUTIONS: OR THINGS T0 DO

This ie the siree o
request for “some solut;
for guerrilla activities.

908 and loarn from them, synthesize their
bettor, articulated principles and motheds,
inda anong the maaves, and call upon pach ey
Put these principles and mechods st ice 30 as o solve
Nooir Problems and help thea achiove 1iberatien cog

== Mao Tee Tung, Gt Organized:

hasebers pis,d, a1l sttompt in ehat direction. The solutson so
Thogs f0%le’ probleas lies in beople's was foriorions Liberation.
oo, Y2, &round this fact, But & pesplers ariTial, process of
Chen. T, 25490 by stage, untii 2 whold peopie cers snrs IF it, and
Tio,! thore re 1aakS, ¥in 'thedr Troadbn:” At "ehen Sresh 1y 2
3 gurti3.7d00d many chings that people can do cho o 1O
Kope i3 b soii e activities in thensalves.” bt 1t oaer oty tirmly
Kopt in @ind that the ultimae activitias i3 tg
eripbute to the goneral mass movement tovard pencie: s tho old
Atcikan proverb says:
guerrilla activities of o
river is people's war..

ot ehing Wo should do is to detine ourselves concretaly,
aneay (o a2 cuz objectives concretaly, and We. swrts Ty ELCt our

ST JUEatony Our stratesy 1s doterminel By"ee 5o fi0) 020
e el SonaR o igatear s dotes Cireutatanccs ve 1
CEniitins tnder. The process otls vt o' Bacer nesenen o 4xe
v (oot Sorrseely; Solning cor's{ouaion bomsrern1s? QLTS SUF
B1°08, (srrasesy) scetraingly, " hun docormining spe ALl iniEiny, 0P U
Sl Tlane (actice) €8 Tonikre oo chyectives, Aap e apELict:lon
=t e dafined Sonccatarns

LfonaY"boaz 1o mind that the people are not fighting for
SN RiEE, I g0 n anyond's head Thay are fingeics e
Vs ojerial banetits, to 1ive botter and 1y peacs. e nd,
Chilgreny®® 9° forvard, to guarantos the futeve ot rpere
children...~"__ Nailcar cabas
T oS atindsdons ‘moan We dotine things in tangible, pateriar
RS = $0mChing You can so0, foel, and touch: macter s pyosterial

up space and has weight, numbors, percentages, and guantities that can
B Eoemcad of "measired - and ot just in terms of philosophical
oncept

O aying out our strategies and tactics, We mist slvays resssber
chat the ‘adin iosue 15, and aluays has been, CONTROL. W are controlled;
O e e Sont ol ar The exict way We ace controlled has beon
Gofined in many vays — 43 slavery, as ‘aparthoid, Caste, segregation,
e erinimacion, ‘Thcisn, clase, colonieliem, heo-colonialisa and
Earety as imporialiin. But 'the main issue Tesaine that We are
ol Inas contiol, o satter what fora it takes, must be
ComeTately broken — and e mst control our own Lives before We can
e vell” ouceeiven “freo.- Our strategy mst be designed to resoive
755 sain {ob06 oF Contiol o ouE satisfaction and on our own terss.

o beforo Mo can talk about tactics (things to do), it is
necessaty ve backsrack somevhat and make a briet analysis of our
Ceariad, e sooa oncrote definitions, drav up a goneral strateqy —
e Then ok atout Cactics in relation to that stratesy: ib that vay
he “Taccics (things o do) won't seem suspended in mid-air or
inconnectad to the Teal world:

BRIEF ANALYSIS OF OUR SITUATION z

In the last 30 yaars Wo have seen the steadily rising currents of
Third World national liberation movements and socialist revolutions
hroaghout the world. We have witnossed one Third World nation after
Snoehor break free of isperislism and regain control over its own life
ind destiny. Inperialisa is the international systes of colonizing and
neo-colonizing nations; it is capitalism operating on the internat:
Tovel. Colonised nations are controlled directly by foreiguers inside
the. nation; nao-colonized nations are controlled indiroctly by
foreigners through the nation's own Uncle Toa's, puppets, and agents. To
e ety Llperialits, 1o intornational Cepiealisa‘s oystes of
Sontrolling nations in order to exploit thes. This is the age of
Geciining Laporialism, declining colonialisn/noo-colonialisn ~- and the
Ziac of Fhird World 1iberation and socialist revolution.

“0f all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our
research, And whon you 800 that you've got problems, all you
have o do i3 examine the historic metbod used all over the
World by Others who have probless similar to yours. Once you
See how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can
get yours straight.”
- Malcolm x: Malcola X Speaks

Ve study history, using the historical, materialist sethod,
policics, “var, dialectics and urront eveats in order to understand tho
Tronia S Sebolopmane 2 docioty. o acers tiose Lreads Tt ure o0
he"fioe or coning into boind, these trends that are dying or decaying.
e e o e chie knouiodos. %o chanvs ot ‘condrats
oadictons for the berier. So. if this s the age of declining
operiaiiun ‘and “the rise of Fhird Worid liberatice and scoiaiist
Zobolation, then wa Blacks in the U.S. had better put our struggle in
That concort and get in svep with the Fest of the progreasive new world
hat is coning f We want to Soive our problems.

pane 1
DEPINING OURSELVES CONCRETELY

We get in step with the rising carreats of Third World mational
Aiberation by tizet detiniag curselves concrately as & BLACK MATION, o
Gomestic, oppressed Black/Afrikan nation that i neo-colonized by

(operiaiisn, That, in itself, imediately puts cur struggle for freedom
{P2he vorla context. It makes us part of the great majority of the

Tost Of the world —- the Third World nations of Afrika, Latin Averica
the door for us'to receive material and political
ssive Third World nations, socialist nations, other

; the 0.A.U., the U.K., national liberation movesents

and socialist movesants.
2 "minority* in U.5. society is to
hut the door to this outside aid from our international brothars and

their assistance would be looked upon
al atfairy of anothor nation-
nation. The tern minority” is used to perpets

nors, - wher

adults in world society. Adults see thems
society and denand to bo troated accordingly .
certain restrictions on their freedon boc: 3
vill do what is best for thes. An adult walking around in seciety
¥earing diapers is a fair representation of Black people in the Jg.
and how W 1ook to the rast of the vorld. We don:t even Know whe We are.

ARE ¥E A BLACK mATION? 3

To concretely answer this question, it is necessary to examine the
origin of nations and how they aris

“The emergence of nations is an agonizing revolut:
process, which of necessity is born of husan political and
Sconomic evolution -- and erupts, suddenly, upon the face of
history. This national emergence is, in tuin, the rosult of a
Long process of racial and ethnic fusions, psychological and
cultural olding, and transformation in the political and
economic relations of humanity .-

-~ Julic Rosado: Grito de Lares: Definition of a Nation®

The above in particularly truo of oppressed nations. And, like any
gther process of ' development, nations are conceived, siven bireh
govelop and 1ive. They Can also docay or change inve otber foras .
including this opposites: But ations do not speing from wor domel
In, 8 vacuun. Oppressed nations are forsed in Fasponse. vo’ sous fors o
yidesproad oppresaion — you aight call 1% “a natioeal oppreseion s s
12 4 videspread, usually'long-term, oppression of s persiculer bossis
untll, although'they may be Gissimilar in the beginhing, the ihcests
SIItERY, gPRrstion, pecemen che “seninant aotet "Ta"Yhaping "theis
2iailarity and it literally fuses them together into oné maople - &
unique - U8 3 nation is born irrespective of the VALL Of men.
Iegardless ot whether it in conscious of iteelf or nov. eed
notwithstanding whether it has the pover to define 1tecLf as a mation st
the time and make it stick.

“Atrixans forcibly and brought o the shores o

o Rompics cnme trcm Slaviace b it Taryiag. susioes

and tribal traditions, as well as diffarent costinestas

Iogions of Atrika. The real fasions of thess AEeiren

a3t ines ons into lo or historical porsonslit

ocourred in North Amerlca under the haran raes

of Anerican colonial and post-colonial chace

Today”s deacendants of these “fased® Afrirens

s

== Richard Dhoruba Moore, BLA: The Connection

The actual birth of the dopestic Black Nation is pinpointed more
closely in the folloving docusents

~Thus, law and custom in Rorth Acerica by 1660 had forced
the emerjonce of a now Afrikan nation here. That nacion
omposed of Atrikans from many difforent nations and tribes
in Afrika, with white genes injected by the slavemasters, who

t10ne

oy,
04 unique

alpost invariably left their children with the Afrikan
Fothars and Afzikan group, and with Indian gones. Colonial
Tavs and practices of oppression by vhites facilitated the
omozgance of a New Afriken nation in the Eoglish colonies one
hundred years before the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Bdted yatey bofors the s, Declatacicn,of Inepmins
It nation cummted b e sesentisliy e 4

interaction of all Afrikan peoples hero with an essentially
homogencous opprosiion.
- taari Obadele I, WA: Memorandus of Law.

So, We are indeed a Black Nation and have been 3o for 319 years.
It is time to raise the RED, BLACK and GREEN flag of Black Liberation
and strike for our national iiberation and for real freedom.

DEPINING OUR OBJECTIVES COSCRETELY

We strike for real freedom by first defining that freedon
concretely. We do that by dofining our objectives as i once,
‘autonomous (self-governing) districts and woclalist

Independence as an objective

A better vord to use than separation is indepondence. This vord

operetien Js Aisused The chirteen colonies epatated froa England

e they called it the Declarstion of Independence; they don't call

5 e Sedittation of Separaion..When you're independant of

S5mocna, you can separsve frun thaa. Tf you cant. separate froa thes,
. 21 ovte o S7asdon By poopls suéforisg long

e Midthr sl Toote. o Y poople suttor -corn

Son by s govornmant and peopie s %o ‘bréak the bonds with that

' w24 sdC U Visvever now Foundation ia “sost lixely %o effect
T inle io universal law, natural law and

al1 ‘ovor 'tha world siaco ime immemorial.

Unahover n oppressed peopla‘s nacional comsciousness and golitical

‘consciousness reachos the stage where they collectively becoms awars of

hamaeiven s oual to othars in society, Yot ate not trested equally,

onse “is %o break alleslance with that opprasaiv

oment by Sefining theaseives sa & new nation, declaring their

o tepangonce 'and £13heing & people’s var €0 vin that indepandence. For

Coat Tragton, for Teal self-detorsimation, We must first gain 3

o ioce beesk. fiom ha prosent Governmant, a0, that e can deteruine of

Corben: treg will which fuvure atrangement is -most likely to effect our

vy and Sappiness.+ A Drosk fron this provent Sovernmont necesaita

et i Ts T cbjoct ive bo concretely defined as indepandence-

Land as an objective

Zand i3 a concrete definition of freedom and independenc
1land ‘means land. Land is territory, turf, earth, ground; it
stutt that states, provinces, regions, boroughs and districts are made
of: Many Whites (and Blacks) profess ignorance of Black demands for
fand, claisming that Blacks do not predominate or fora a clear majority
12 sy Particular state in the U.S. That is an attespt to skirt the main
issuo: Blacka wore forcofully broight to the Black Selt South vhers ke
onca_prodoainated We vere forcefuily disporsed and scattered froa tho
Black Belt by terror, acute promeditated poverty, the Klaa, starvation
and_genocidal governmental campaigns similar to those that almost
Qdispatched the Native Agerican from this entire contineat.

‘Rovolutions are not dinner partios, or any other such neat and
tidy atfair. As Hao said, -A revolution is an insurrection, an act of
violonce” sy whien ‘one’ class overthrows another.” By siailer elogy,
national 1iberation ig an insurrection, an act of violence by vhich ane
hation breaks free of another. National liberation/Black Liberation of

s

ovorRioned Davion is in itself o rovolutionary struggle. and if
4nything, it is the expropriation of the wesich ani sany
o ng it amang the

d opp:

no Faiiimated that 701 of the land in the U.. iies in the hands
Thesous hiind S1ass ‘and, government. Blacks are completels wieres
their/our rights, Native Anerican consent, to clain the Black pri
et ting s, dosentic national homeland - and o Cake” the ‘hack Joit
the ruling Class and governaent.

Pishough Blacks'do not predominate thronghout the entire Black
Piack poare are still distinct regions vhere Blacks o predesiomies ok

dong the Mississippi River from the

hrough Louisiana, other vast regions i

ion in Georgla. Also Black

P05t Of the population of large distiiers of ariock

; Bedford-tuyvesant in Brooklyn, Harlen in Nanhatean, Sion

Cnisego ehia, Robury in Boston, Central Ward in Newark. sencivics'sh

a0 anaghington, D.C., Dotroit, Sth and 3rd Wards Ln Howsson saeit
in Los Angeles, and ‘other ‘Black urban districrs.

e Gumsane dofining freedom in’terms of concrete space and
Coneae "usbors. It saans a Black Independent Nation-Scace aCriied e
ferns of concreto space: the Black Belt region i i for
ingtance. ‘It als
E5tiasd in terms of concrete numbers: the Black wrban Gisiricer Toies
cities, for instance.

Autongmous Distcices as an Object.ive
23) districts seans dotining frocdon
(430 space}. It maans Shat shonsver s
; o i, e Solaard (35030, 5 s
CioSongresate in s particular dlserict, they then seromtinttiy horeCLe
iy cament of that giscrice i} they oo
ramant Bouns having Sompleve contesl of
gre’s oconoaic, political, social and. calteral 15ee’ Sapemi ol
districe wieh tho Uncestricted cight 5 forh cespemics ot iELedt it
8 ealearal el et Tk, - troaties and fedoratioss
e S st
ido 4 maans of politicel mu nca’to the large Black
Sebin Gisericts o Pharian, seban Areerorenc® o e laras Black
zegions "elseunere, oo’ "Shvioualy. - inis vouts Sien prieck
autonony /independence to large nusbers ‘of Mative Meseicoies cELIAS®
Ricans, “Aslan-azericans, and any other. oppresic
natiomality/class’ in “Whatover tercitories they sctupy i TR el
chooss. Control, apace, Musbers and materisl beci!ars! cohers
datinitions of treedam; vithout then, - fresdont only maens Fosts tres
o mybes

Mo have to keep in mind at all tines that we are not fighting for
integration, nor are we Fighting for separation. e are Eigheing
{91 Tocognition a3 human beinga. We are fighting for the Fight to
Live as free human beings in this society in face. we aee
2ctually fighting for righte that are evan greater than sivil
rights and that is husan rights.-

- Malcoln x

o should odon concretely as soctalist
revolution 80 a5 to equally stress the necossity for frecim foot

lass oppression. Our main form of oppross ion is metiscs
shat is, across ‘the board oppression of all peopie of
Afrikan descent in anerika, the 8i0n of our Black Mation, Our main
\eapon for coshating this Rational oppression is our mationes lineiariin
struggle for Independence, Land, Autonomous Districvs {ams sic’

Afrikanism to be discussed lator). But sational liberation alone won't
Solve all our problems. Thero is a dual, even multiple, nature to our
problems. As ong as U.S. imporialism ex: St mat have nations to
Sominate and expioit. Mo independent nation will be safe, especially a
eak, new independent Black Nation.

The seeds of imperialism are rooted in capitalism, an economic
ayston based upon private ownership of the means of production and
Hatribacion, which are operated for profits. Capitalism fosters a class
Society: Tt focks the real power in the hands of an elite ruling clas:
hereby enabling them to exploit the working Class, oppre
nationalities and other opprossed cle Class, stated sinp)
Gdetermined by the type of work (or non-work) one doés for a liviag.
“hen US. lmperialiss i destroyed, unl
Sppression are uprooted in each nation, imperialism will eventually
esurface. Some other capitalist nation would sizply take the place of
G75. imperiaiisa and continuo business as usual. Or, thero are those
Vithin our own nation who would take the place of our foreign oppressors

and continue as usual. Oppression of whatever form is still oppression
nd We want no part of it.

‘The Black Wation is oppressed on the basis of both nationality and
class. To gain true liberation, Wo Sust wage a dual or two-front
Straggle sissltancously. One is a national libsration struggle to £roo
%5 from U-S. imperialisn; the second is 4 class struggle to free us from
Capitalish and a1l its manifestations, internally and externally. Class
Seruggle, or socialist revolution is the main weapon for Coabating
Capitalism. Socialist ravolution, as a concroto definition of our
freedon, covera the other front in our struggle: fresdom from capitalism
and class opprossion.

“A11 nations will arrive at socialisa, that is fnevitable, but all
will do 90 in not exactly the same vay, each will contribute
Something of ita own to Soms forn of Uemocracy, to some variety of
the dictatorship of the proletariat, to the varying rate of
Socialist transforsation in the different aspects of social life
2LV Lenint A Caricaturo of Narxiss

The U.S. will arrive at socialiss, the Black Nation, t0o, but aot
necessarily in exacely the sams way. Any serious analysis of sccialisa
Tucure in amerika Bust a1%o take Lnto consideration its opposing
fandancy: fascisn. The Black Nation Say arrive 4t socislisa afcer
broaking troe and independent of a weakened 0.5. imporialism —- of at
he Clinax of 'a multi-nationalist socialist revolscion that descroys
5. Cnporiaiisn and rosalts in self determination for the Black Nation
S Pothaps by some route batwean tha two. The path taken by tho Black
Wation depends upon severel conditions, o0e being the attitudes and
actions OF ‘oppreased Whites tovard socialist revolution and self-
Seteminacion for oppressed Gomestic nations Guring fareher 0.5

“The' common point for revolutionary unity between Blacks and other
domestic opprasied nations revolves aZound Joining in Common straggie
Sgainst U-E: Smperialisa for national 1iboration and self-deteraination
£33 oppronsad nations. The comson point for ravolutionary unity
betvoon Blacks and Spprossed Whites rovolves around Joining in coson
eruogle sgainst V.3, imperialisn for socialist Fevalution coocurrent
“ithSale dataraination for dossatic opprossed nations and ail
Vations. The fundamental issue of & principled Black/White ailisnce
Toste “upon whocher oppressed Whites concretely Suppore self-
Goterminition for the Elack Nation or ot

T Black (and/of Third World) strugile for self-deteraination can
icsolf set ot 8 struggle for sodialist revolucion in smerika, and 18
ona-zonson Sy 1o T2 fesele S rmolueionary stroggier 1o 13 dlanet
Cortain that the U.S. goveramest vill tarn increasingly toward -open-
fercion In actempting Lo scom tho tido of ita decline. 1¢ has aiers

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Zoaction inside this country. Today, a race war in
¥ill indead touch off 'a var (with political and resiss
gyertones) around the world -- and nobody or very fou will ba terr ih
pacticular, no racist will be left, and probably very fow capiosiisis
either.
The Bain task of conscious Blacks, at prosent, is to unite the
Black Hation around the goal of

Jolution o U.S. decline lies in socialise rovolution
Path elt-detornination for domestic opprossed nations. Bofore thare cay
De,any Black/Wiite unity, there mist first be some Black weiry.
Black unity around

oo are our eneaies? Who are our friends? This is a quastion
Of the firat importance in the revolution, The bapis teemes
all previous revolutio

vas thair real frionds in ordar to attack
real enenos h real friends froa real enemies, we
maat make a genoral analysis of the economic status of verigis
classes 1 socisty and their respective attitudes toward
revolution.

- Mao Tee Tung: Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society

It is cssential that the question of enemies and friends be
nswered concrately and correctly, if our struggle is to Buccesd. e ar
3n Spprossed nation, a neo-colonized domestic Black Nawion: o ie
$Pocitic; gur mwin duy 1o bioak tha snema Somteed of our o
Lives and destiny. Impar. s the international system of coloniz.
nations, both foreign and domestic.

oD %2y that imperialisn is ‘class oppression manifesting itself
©on & national level' is nothing but Saying that emtive motiome
becone classes. *

== Atiba Shanna: Notes from a New Afrikan P.0.W. Journal

In gther words, imperialism turns whole nations into an oppressed
o Our main enainy is the system of imperialism/capitalism Lhae moc
s colonized. The hoad of isporialisn/colonialise/eapivalise ty hes
9.5 Tepresented by the U.S. govormwent. Then our main enemy 1o ti
D.8. governaent. But governnants and systems are crested and aeinemiiny
Py people, in particular, a certain class of paople. The systen oe
imper{alisn/colonialisn/capitalisn and the 0.5, government are all

saintained by the U.S. ruling class -- the super-rich. To be more
reciss, our main enesy is the system of imperialisa, colonialisa.
Zipitalisn and the U.S. governsent, all of which are nted in

F3osh by 'the U.5. ruling class: the super-rich and all those who aid
g bt hia ruling clans i saintaining dominance orer cur nacion s
Iooaghout the world. That in our main emesy, and primarily, this encay

o an osvernal onemy. Simply knowing our enemy is not enough. We learn
our eneaios in order to X thea.

he Black Nation is also mado up of various classes. It is
necessary to understand class divisions within the Black Nation 30 We
oan deteraine which class of Blacks are enemies and which are friends.

‘Thore, 18 o truo bourgeoisie (ruling) class of Blacks, but there
is a “national- Black bourgeoisie. Many act as the reprosentatives,
hokespersons, and agents of the U.S. ruling class (the true
SCfgeaiaie) in the Black colony. Halcoln X referred to them as “house
niggars,- -Uncle Toss® and - Teaders against the Black revolution.
B faentifiod thom a3 the "Big Six, the heads of the six biggest civil
Cights organizations, all of which are financed, controlled and directed
by super-sich Whites in the background with Black faces up front. Today
50a 6f thea have been advanced to "token® representation on the Boards
of Directors of the giant ruling class corporations of General Kotors,
Nonsanto Chomicals, the Ford Foundation and other ruling class
Ynaastries, organizations, fderal appointments and fronts as rewards
for Koeping the Black masses ignorant and passive while U.S. imperialisn
props. up Facist Southern Africa, rapes Northera Afrika and the Nid-East
Bor oil, plunders the entire Third World and implesents massive
genocidal poverty, police murder, drugs, behavior and birth control
Jampaigns ‘on domestic Blacks. Others head up government-financed
CRationalistict organizations, some even going so far as to wrap
theasalves in the -patriotic” red, white and blue flag of capitalism in
Cacatn for & fras hand to push massive amounts of CIA heroin in the
Black colony. All of these traitorous Black “bourgeoisie" are the main
nternal cncmies of tho Black colony. Those "national® bourgeoisie
Blacke"wno aia Black seli-derermination ad socialist revolucion axe

The Black petit-bourgeoisie (middle) class is mostly made up of
Black professionals. Thoso are the doctors, lawyors, professors,
intellectuals, politicians, judges, business persons, office workers
shopkesgers, dclenciste. shperstar sthigtas, enteridisers, sic vho
vork mainly with their heads or talents to make a living. Those petit-
Bougeoisis Blacks who aid the otemy -- sthletes/entertainers going vo
e tea. et1a “rons Supporting the' WhLte-controlled Recdosian
Government, Biack capitalists, paternalistic integrationists, “tum-the-
ek~ advocators of non-vioience - are aneaies. Those who side with
Ehe opprensed Black masses aze triende

Tho majority of Blacks are working class (proletariat). They

reprosent tho most poverful class for liberation and self-deternination
[o'the ‘Black colony. Most are friends. Those aiding the enesy are
The Black semi-proletariat is a phenomena of tho last half of 20th
Contury amerika, They make up an increasing proportion of the Black
tion, especiaily in the large cities. They are a direct result of
mporialisss strangle-hold on the Black colony's economics and other
VI2a1 Lnecicutions, the technical displacesont of masses of Black
workers and imperialisa's past ability to provide even its most
Sobioited segment with sinimal subsistence such as welfare,
Snapioyment, social security, veteran benefits, poverty programs, etc..
Lo Meop tha ‘Black Nation totally dependent and just below the flash
boint."As a result, there are fow whole generations of Black youth
Doowing up who have never held a job, nor wero/are they able to find
Sner They can-t be classifiod as worksrs because thy have never vorked
on oF two part-tine jobs in a lifetime doosn't make one a worker) and
{hey cone ron households where the head of the house has never worked

saaie Classical sense, although raising a family is work indeed. This
L porbne feariat Lo young, has consclousnas, s basically friengly e
o Troforoe, (OF national liberation and revolution it orgeeies) 20
8uCh. Those who aid the enemy are enonics.
nis e (PloRoDena of the last half of the 20tn century in
oehmeo ho flooding of the Black colony with haroin. ossre Lyt
e eieth g Sisplacement of vorkers, heroin sraffickirg srosii)
I ehe aced, he increase of th Black luspen-proletariat soorcmm) ciil!
the bonioan cencers. This Black -lumpen” ropresents the Socre maii it
the semi-prolotariat and many have @ prodator connsiocn Some White
amerikan “arxists* use this class Scapegoat to make a1l typas of
1ony, blaming the victis instead
e it 3 a cover for denouncing aij
ionary violance, in a brazen attemst eh
Movement . ‘Prodators

Sbervize che enomy viil oinve .
e Ememy“Hoqasd the enemy and prey upon Black and spprasses pesplr e
Sooanemy indeed. Those alding and fighting for natione: §inerochig 213
socialist revolution are frienda, indeed.

Jre bocoming a vanishing

g0 farns. Masses of Black
They were/are driven from the leek
; fxaud, government and induserisy 1ang

Again, siaply ough. We learn our enemies in
order’ to attack onds in order to wnite with
thea.

DEPINING OUR PRIENDS CONCRETELY 9
"™he enemy of my enesy is ay friend.” -- 0ld Afcikan proverb

5,350 in Axikan people, a domestic meo-colonized Atrixan nation.
ML Alrixan peoplo are”our brothors and sisters: maroheetion.
Docetsarily mean all Afrikans aso our friends and cemtiden Sad o o't
Soen 4o ure one Pecple. We aro tramsplasted Afc ikans whe.pave boest 1200
At omainiue Afcikan fation by the harsh consitions of commnony ooed
jational opprossion in amerika - te suse vay the coreinan bt LT te
iz intermationally oppressed und Afcikams sre oppresessshoutyAtr ikl
Yerl; ou Liberacion lsintrically bousd up in e Tiendlt, b8
4Feg om0 e can never bo Sruly oo Tneil b1 Areive, ans ahiranc
L ofeln Andepandont” and” soCisiist, vhieh e indo osALiikans)
Soyeliticaary panAtrikaniam, ot tho bust contribation e cun semcomS
S s e basion 84 Rl o FenMrikanies (3 (o slpport 1f
Sonretely, mmile resolutely tighting for our on 1iberssise SUEETE LS
in'the Be1y"of ‘he main Jease ThesBe' Sooo el

9ur sain enemy s imperialiss, our main friends then are anti.
SoRUEATLINE 7 Shome who Tight asalnat u'S. smperielise adjer niie
goncrete aid and suppore to'our national liberscion.srmuamms ok, Iire
Serional liboration and socialist revelationary stevagis T2h pern it
anifmoomy (s a1%0 capieal izn. "The 0.5 govornamt st thd eerils
class. Lixovise, our frionds are thoss who fighe spaiam: comtcse i

4.5. governsent and the ruling class or give concrete aid and support to
these struggles

o e *international level our friends are the progressive
indepandent AfFixan; Third World and socialist nations, all tho
o Sed and neo-colonized nations and national liberation movesents,
2 fo¢ fovoiotionary sovements and the wholo of the intarnational
rolevariat or world's working class struggle against the world's ruling
Slase.

on the national level our friends are the other domestic opprossed
natioms, mational minorities and national libaration movements, in
A Suiar, those vaging armed struggle against U.S. isperialisai’the
A vo Amaficans, the Paerto Ricans, the Chicano/Mexicanos, the Asian-
A eans. Our 'rionds are those oppressed White classes waging
Ao ajonary struggles against U.S. imperialisa, capitalisn and

i 'chose, who concretely support self-determination for all
dopestic oppr Mations - in particular, those who wage arsed
o agle. Our friends are all those: the anti-imperialist, amti-
SeniSalise, nationalist, socialist, comsunist, anarchist and any others

colonialisn and concretely support

Self-determination for oppressed nations.

ociae the Black Navion, our friends are the Black working class,
the semi-prolotariat and the farmers/farmworkers -- and those Black
enit hoargeotsis, luspen,” and "national- bourgooisls who with
Pt i tragoie for Black self-determination, national liberation and
himria Gavolation. Again, knowing is not enough, We learn cur real
ofends in order to unite with thes to attack our real enemies.

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SOME SOLUTIONS OR THINGS TO DO

“It is sufficient to estimate the encmy's sitsation correctly and
to concantrate your strength to capture hia. There is no more to
£0 Chan chis, Ba who lacks forosight and undorestimates his enemy
will surely be captured by his.

-- Sun T2ur The Art of War

The following 10-point strategy is basically the core of a 1977

position paper presented by the Atrica s osialist Party: i"
Poditicd G¢ and fusod it with selected poritical ob: "t the

Ropiblic of Mew Afrika, the African Peoples Party,
NPioaaTiocs, 'und ha Biack Livoration Arhy Lo arcive at the followings

10-Potne seratogy

1. win Blacks to indopendance.
2. Build Black indopondent institutions
Build Black political forsations.

4. Create a National Black United Front.

5. Win domestic support for Black indapondance.

6. 7use indepondent institutions into a national Black su
Tuse i 1 Black support.

7. Ccreate centers of dual or contending governnental powers
6. Win international support for Black independence.

5. Move the Bleck masses tovards a peopl’s var for indspandance
and socialiss. peow! o

10. Fight to wint
organizations

“1f vo must have justice, we must be strong; if we must be utrong,
vo muat come together; if we must come together, ve Can only do
o Through the systes of organization...Let us ot vasto tize in
Sreathyess appeats to the strong while wo are weak, but lond our
ina: "anergy and effort to the accumulation of Stréngth asong
Sacesives By which we will voluntarily ateract the strength of

others -- Marcus Garvey: "Philosophy and Opinions®

The seven basic organizations, or their equivalents, necessary to
iapleaant the 10-point strategy are:

1. Black Poliical Party.
2. Black Mass Organizations.

3. Black Amy.
4. Wational Black United Front (NBUF).

5. Black vanguard Organization.

6. Black Provisional Governsent.

7. Wational Black Liberation Front (NBLF).

A Black Politi arty is necessary to inject the science of
politice into the mags struggle. Its main duty is to educate and
Seganize the masses around political objectives. Primarily it uses legal
Goans and is & public organization, but Goos not refrain from the use of
Sxtra-legal means when necessary, and is responsible for implementiag
She political line.

‘Black ‘organizations are the masses organized. These are
the various grans-root organizations that the pecplo themselves organize
to deal with their day-to-day needs and oppressions, i.e., community
eganizations, labor unions, vomen's, youth and studént organizations,
Cenant organizations, food cooperatives, independent schools, urban and
Caral communcs, health clinics, legal clinics, professional
Srganizacions, Ghild care cnmters, block associations, religious
Grganizations, eto. Those organizations are the foundation of the mass
Zovessnt and the implesentation of the mess line.

Tho Black Army is & People’s Amay whoso prisary duty is to defend
Black people, fight the onemy and educate and organize the people
silitatily, It is an underground organization that prisarily uses extra-
Tagal means and izplesents tho military line.

A Hational Black United Proat (NBUF) is necessary to combine
the various political and mass organizations under one national banner.

jent. the mass movement with one voice

Stage of <the struggle. Prisarily the NBUF i
Sgenization, mostly ubes logal mans and implenenta the mass lines.
A Black Vanguard Organization acts as the Command Center for
the Black movement. It is a Secrot politico-military organization of
nal revolutionaries which merges the political, military and
224 "eadoranip into & single mcleus. Tta eain duty i3, fo fusction
“he hidden nerve conter of the Black sovesent, cordinating the struggle
ind giving political and military direction to it. It uses extra-legal
2oans and i3 responsible for formlating political, military and mass
Policios and directive:

‘The Black Provisional Goveramest represents the New Afrikan
Poopla's Govornsent in ombryo. Its main duty is to sorve as the
Tegitinate government of the Black Basses, in particular, those
switching allegiance from U.S. imperialism to the Black independence

sovesen. It 1 aiso responsible for creating contending conters of
Sovernmencal povers in the contested regions and diseriees: Primeiny
£5"an above-ground organization, wes legel means and s Sesporeiiislfac
implesenting tho stats policy of the Black vocking ciasser:

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TACTICS: INPLEWENTING THE 10-POINT STRATEGY

The essence of the strategy is to set the masses
in motion tovard people's war for independonce, land, sweemecoes
{districts and socialist revolution. Tactics toll s what to ao e
how to Put the strateqy into action. Primarily, these tactics are the
Hexible application of four basic principies: Agitate, Biwcate.

janize and Fight! They are laid out in reforence te oreanisetiaes
Political, Wilitary, Hass, Provisional Government and. Vangeard
Organizations. By defining tactics for organizations, that alsg Gebier
hat 2n individual Can do as a member of o particular organization of in
solidarity with it.

Winning Blacks to Independence
To yin Blacks to indepondence, it is first necessary that they
know 2nd ‘understand the independence concept. Walcols ¥ long agy
explainod this concept in simple terms. In effect, he said e o3
gehools do not work for us, not because they aren'i *integrated.: ber
because We don't control "thes. They are labeled -segregated. her
because they are all Black, but bocause We don't contrel them. Whive
schools are all White, yot'they are not labeled "segregated: besmsce
Fhites control their own schools -- and ours, t0o. Be applied the ames
roasoning to why our commnities are
they are al) Black, but because We don't control the ccomomic.
ind social aspects of them. Wo don't control our commanities s
businesses are controlled by outside finances, housing is controtied by
guseide landlords, politics, police, hoalth and socis services.:severy
mejor ingtitution is controlled by cutaide adminiscrators. Ther makee il
2 golonized people. The first concern of a colonired peepie in
‘independence.

The' fundasental tactic for vimning Blacks to independence is
piaies 3 videsprond aplacon S olich on Citpa i TSNS 32
Black Mavion By Sactog " discuseing. dobatlng and seiay svery

{1able technlquo o clarisy ang ‘indepandance concepts, dess
and slogans that porsuada Blecks <o indopendonce. Felies Erder oy
brutality,”nioh unemploybent, drags. Migh criee, Wioh price bnd
Bousing, e schools, ‘prisens,’ poor medita care. Corrage Eatiidian
uncle Tom leadors, oic: - ali Gre prine issecs v agiietd sovicsnd
2pread the concept of Black indepanchnce and Contrel oF oue can LRtatne

232 concroce sotation
Tactics for Black Political Parties inclade laying out the
ideological foundations of Black independanca a5 she Tirst Besp o
formlating political lines to win Blacks o independence. A momas ot
“political® Blacks stiil labor under the iiusion Toae aaa
goal is apolitical, bourgeois, reactionary or ovem ~reciber aie 1s
incorrect and mst'bo thoroughly rooted o3t At the. Ldsigioal Level’
Scientitic socialiss fupdamatally amd consistantly uohords tha isme of
oPprossed nations to self-deteraination, inclading the risht o smact

and theso concepts mst be thoroughly spread throughout the Black
Ration

Black United Fronts should in a national campaign to unify
around the position of indepondenca: Agitation and saicacion shaiil
focus on the oppressive nature of Black 1ife, Stemaing primsrily fees

tne face hat e do aoe cencrsl the economic, politicsl and sacial
ShmdsS e B commumisi

8 O R SO o e can win Blacks to indegendsnce Shrough
e ey “Socialist-based_poiivies in their
B e 5 hote concepts. throuth the commnity: A
Ao D emontontinetieagions. crganizeq on seclalis
e g iy T T
BTl ane e resting independence conoepss - and a 1iviag
i)

12 P55 provisions) Government. can spread. indspendance Ldeas by
e o e uthan distri from City Ball
ssitating tor the 30o88 0L % Yhack sounties 1o cho Black Boit Souea.
S A ATl e el i it 2

Sodpanaence poLis

et BOLIELS concribute by organizing and fighting undor 30
e e Wby carcylg out srmed propagania
ot Biatk Arey. brigoters. shouid declare Chasselves
SRS, et NI, P et Bhac,Lndogondence.

o T e o sonkibute by secting Briority in she
i AP 28T adepondance and hatnessing che fuil
e o avioont Sovara stvining Shis 9oa1- )
i Biack tpdopenene. 1osciusians and oticical pormions |

g Bt o e Eaawk iadogondsnt, Laseittions is o
un T S supaitons abveasy Gxisting o 5o £ind cuver pocpls wiSh
e e Y afgaatac your ow. nother tactic, 8
pimtiar beeds om0 coms SoToir's Tastitucion slresdy existiog in the
Sty

1% uass oxganizations should set up socialist-based iadependent
snsestat i1 2hE it iaa OF, Tndepondens achoais. chila care centors;
o T e e ¥ive hovses and faras, tiade unions. beaith

There

on Tacet of our lives, These institutions
a0ds of all Black people in the carly stages. The other side of the
ot Livolvas taking over the colonizor's institutions already existing
S our community, 6.g., public schools, housing, bospitals, industries,
osTnssaca, atc, and pucting the workers and the people who use these
Sastitutions in control of them.
The basit tactic for taking over an existing imstitution is to
agitate, educate and organize those Who inbabit and/or patronize the
‘atudonts, otc.) to occupy it and take it

that is constantly on the offensive so as to relieve prossurc on the
Daopla's atatic dofense of their institutions (of districts).

‘Basic tactics for building indopendent Black political formations,
i.0., Poiitical Parties, United Pronts, Provisional Governments,
Vangeard and Ardy, is unchanged. As alvays, it is to wholeheartedly
arve the needs f the peoplo and root one's main base of economic,
Political and mass support in the Black working classes.

Building the Black Army and ilitary Formations
Acmy defines itself as... a political-military

organization vhose ‘objective is to fight for the
idopendeace and seif-detarmination of Atrikan people in the

United States.*
== Dhoruba Noore: Case of Dhoruba Moore and on of the
0 cas Repress:

The fondamental tactic for building a Black Army is the initial
ovamcacn of a samil, secret, Nardcore nuclous of the sost peritiseiis
dvanced, disciplined and dedicated coarades, having mo serer coiticoill
SRCePE S0, FAght the anemy, build the army and Win or Di. Avem mers
core is built the Black Afmy.
et Y 18 too smll, at first, to defend all Black people.
i3 to fight tho enemy and set correct oxasples mev
defend themselves. Tha main

ate targot: gns: a sustained series of
ited objectives and duration.
re countloss, depending on the rate of success of G -
of the people ‘and the or decay of the aray.
The Black Army 13 & and building 1t 1s a two-way
process. As the Black strength, the people must buily

Sreix,oun local military fornations and self-defonse forees (wieh miiy
Acay help, 'if needed). Committees are necessary to
organize the commnity for section-by-section, block-by-block meiiniy

Sopforn secrot self-defense teams, commnity patrols, cifle cioee
204 sommnication and logistic natworks. Rural atess,
Black Belt South, must also develop people's militis for
ind Clandestine guorrilla wnits in sinilar fashion to sompiimce noe
urban districte.

fimy mves on 10
of ‘personnel, armasence,
intel1igence, ‘and transport
concrets £roa the
Sho Black.

inication and

422, 5950, Toguires
effective tactic for bujlding
one's own guerrilla unit ang

(e, et oo Sl i o et 50

St LI Sy S oo T
Tk e e Blck vangacd i thi suare e 52 2 pneiey

e

Croating a Natdonal Black unicod Prone
Rt Lol Bk ST T, mendod co botta che sisck sans
It 1n nocessary vo ‘combing. the vatisss s

strugsle. Ono ceason Afrikan and other anti-imperielist comstsies dons
give graater o the Black soveaent in the U.S. is bocause no e

T S3atSa, A Sroly wpeska”for tho"aajordty or tre ‘Biack
oasses. The creation of a Front vowld go a 1ong vay In selving iy
i fandamntal taoti for croatiag o netional slack untsed Froms
i3 %o call a natiowid conference whore every spoctrus of the Bioey
i e e e
orsanizations, Provisional Governents, trads unions, workers: women.
TR, Stadonks, woltare cosiploney nciya s (kert, vomen,
Prisoher’s arowbs, vetarans, roligiows, stc. Scheduie beiet sesge;

discussions and workshops to arrive at a conferance-wide agreement on
\nat Blacks must do to' gain independence. Put tho agressont into a
formal plan. Create the necessary organizational structuro and divisions
of labor to carry it out. Assign responsibility for each part to various
organizations and reprosentatives present. Then Start carrying out the
Pl factice for Political forsations, Nass Organizations and
ropresentatives of the Black Army and Vanguard are: support and attend
such a conforence and koep the mainstreas on a revolationary course
throughout the conference and the existence of the Front; work tovard
eventual acceptance of armed struggle as the primary strategy for Black

Sropandence. Is
Winning Dosestic Support for Black Indepondence

The' fondasental cactic for winming domestic support. for Black
indepandonce i3 Lo Tount an intensive CAspaign to infora, educate
aceively ‘seek the support Of other dousstic nations and nationalities:
Sho Native Asericans, Chicano/Mexicanos, Puerto Ricans and Asian-
Aaericans - and the progressive lesents of the oppressed White Classes.
o get. concrate supbore We Mt 9ive concrate and resolute support to
the Gonestic Third World independence, nacional 1iberation and busan
Tights struggles and o the progressive and revolutionary movesents
among Wnite oppressed classe

‘Black political Fartiss should lay out the political foundations
of BlLack independence o other donestic oppronsed Groups. Hany are under
e Laprasaion that Black independence is a rojection of thea or that it
{2anSpolitical, chauviniseic Dlack soparatist move o thoy 4isply ee
it ‘35" threat o thes. These misconceptions must be thoroughly
aiapeiled ‘and it ‘must be made clear that Black independonce is a
“affiraation of curselves: and a rejection of no ther nationality:
stand whorenearvedly for the independonce of all other domestic
oppressed nations, against oppression of any nationality, for the

liberation of all oppressed Classes and for the waging of world
revolution until all people everywhere are free. In particular, We are
for the free voluntary association of nations d “not ‘for the
domination of some nations by others, as is the present situation in the
U.S. That is true solf-detarmination that Wo seek; it is grounded in
basic scientific socialist principles and is a throat to no one except
the system of U.S. imperialism and those who wish to dominate others.
Thesa concepts ‘mist be thoroughly spread throughout other domestic
Forces

Tactics for the NBUF, Political Parties, Mass Organizations and
Provisional Governpent are: forn working alliances, coalitions, united
fronts and combined caspaigns with other domestic oppreased forces on
all progressive and revolutionary issues; wago mass demonstrations,
strikes and participate in other actions in solidarity with comsoh
goal

The Black Army and Vanguard should form secret comunication and
links with siailar elements of othor domestic oppressed forces to
coordinate mathods of reciprocal support and the formation of combined
political and military campaigns.

Fusing Independent Institutions into a National Black Support System

Ay serious struggle for Black independance roquires that thare be
a material support base for that struggle. Although domestic and
international support is necessary, desired, o be vigorously pursuod,
and post 1ikely forthcoming —- S¢ll, the best policy is to depend
prisarily upon -self-reliance’ and one's own poople. Our people must be
our mountains, othervise our struggle for -indopendence’ is seriously
comprozised fron the beginning. Ono mothod for building self-reliance is
to fuse our network of indopondent institutions into 4 national Black
support systen.

The fundamontal tactic for doing this is by mousting a massive,

nationvide educational and organizational campaign, backed up by
concrete practice tovard this ond. These campaigne. shodid stross “ials
reliance” and the necessity to restore the sease of -comsanity- thit
once oxisted in Black society as personifiod by the -ercested Famiiey
Concep. y “or ‘comsunity, the
remaining Black commnity should Practicing Self-reliance by aise
cosponding to tho aid of that family of commnlcy: A Black somumity
3Bl to raise and deliver medicines, Clothes and oquipmont ca Mammrac)
Can'suroly doliver tho same o ALalasipet o Horode

The WBUP, 'independent institutions and Political Farties should
gducate tho Black massos on -gelf-rellance" and Grganise. -Resnie
Depota- (by collecting quantities of food, clothing. Moo
Solischive Pousing Tists) Nom squigment, oo’} in such bisck sisirict
foc deiver o loca) famitien ‘seruok by Calumity (Hire, robbery. desth
25c.) and to Black communities hit by disasters’ (Sfritamen L bincqacn!
Fiots, quarantines, orc.):

Factics for ‘the Provisional Government are: create frontier
Sommunities, o the Black Bolt Souwen (o7 arban dlstrices) g solieit
support. of these communitics by popularizing the Comceps bt aiobict
Teolla: ana “marciec Tebman Tola T

Tho Black Army can contribute by taking the main responsibility
for delivery or inflitration of porsonnel and Sqeipmest ince Sioet aac
hit by riots and quarantines.

The Black Vanguard can contribute by setting a priority on
reliance, ‘thon harnessing the full welohe oi tho
Dovesent, together with domestic allinces, to bring senc
Eransition to this stage.

Croating Contars of pual or Concanding covernsantal Powers

o Seeioos 155, Sechorieneon e eh T om0t tho
BEoF1e, mouning the pecole thesselven secids whes vttt b sers Of th
BuaTa"ce ST (e Sovormontar 2t Prosoe, every majer avmace s 12t 20

o
authority from the will and consent of Black people.

The fundabental tactic for doing this is: in those areas and
institutions where We are the overwhelming majority, organize. a
onsensus for Black control, take control, then stand ready to defend
e

tontas, 150 L, hre puserical majority within the Black ghoto
colonies, its schools, housing, hospitals, consumption of its business
goods and social services and as workers in factories located therein
The same holds true for some Black Belt South counties and rogions.
Tactica for Mass Organizations are: organize the takeovers of
colonized institutions existing in cur communities. School should be
taken over through strikes, boycotts and
control of the school, inc!

“nationalize” factories, bupinoos
institations in Black comsunitios. Once & chool, house.
other institution is taken over, an appropriate -peopi
Tenant Committee” or “Workers' Committee: should be set ap to
adainistor the institution and to organize -self-defense’ comittess tg

Tactica for the Provisional Government, NOVP and Political Parties

are: sount a massive o to collect petitions in the Black
districts of urban centers " = and “self-rule- for the
districe. Political Parties should run o tes on a *self-rule-

ey N T
T R P R

o e om0, S ST LA T 2
ooty oot loy s eplent of 8 ik Dol SH i om torces

forces o e eatic caspaig to drive them out and FREE TEE LAND!
" & Van pu top priority to armed struggle and

e . PoLe) for this purpose. This
AEVEcecy torcas sotually carrying oot aliicary
L e %8 °* ho Black Aray, independont guerrilla sroups 5o}l
g 3 ind tho Biack Vanguard, barged with those eloments of the
e o ‘inited Pront, Political Parties, Provisional Goversaent
B oL B O iows that adhere to the principlo of armed seruggle as
tho primary strategy for gaining Black indopendence. Unifying factors
e Py v iou 0f the WBLF afer all those actually fighting, those
“in Taenica] interest in armed struggle as the primary Strategy, those
D et oo} vorking class interests and thove with identical interest
e anizied Organization with a single comand center under the
o S i iticomilitary loadorship that s techaically capable to
et the st agsle. The resulting fusion is & National Black Liberation
e mable of assuning leadership of the Black independence Bovesent.
B e his atage is to direct and coordinate tho military,
152, 3% Eass strugglo and its alliances with other domestic forces
oot Victortes in the contested areas. It also works with other
e ices tovard the davelopaent of & Malti-National Liberation
Front for Independence and Socialisn in the U

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e eeermaciona swors o lack
et el sactic Lo vinping AT TS Sy
indepesioncs, 3 e AP0k itk 0 Y0 n"eo gl Snaiamt 0.5
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Lpaciattan e oommsed 1o, ot e Chanteice, sovears. o
o e e S Hecioas ooty vsind
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STty seek e Smtarmtr e T R e cosetics
Tort SF ek peeele O ot e oot ity camaiies
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%o dezonstrate that Wo represent the will of the masses of
424 that Wo want independence.

gaintho best tactic for receiviag support s to give concrote
support. to those countries and movoments that wage anti-imperialist
SEESG3lo. Ve et Wage campaigas Ta support of and in ol darity with
their struggles.

Tactice for the NBUF and Political Parties are: fora open
communications and links with progressive Afrikan, Caribbean, Third
SorTd"and Socialist nations, movesents and international organizations
nd initiate dialogue around concrete reciprocal support for the NELE
37 Thack indopondonce. Organize mass demonstrations, otrikes and
Political campaigns toward winning international support. Sponsor
Pondraising and speaking tours in tho U.S. for international
Fepresentatives. Work towazd the formation of an Afrikan International
for the liberation of Afrikans at home and abroad and for the total
Soification of the Afrikan continent under scientific socialiss.
Concrotely support true Socialist Internationals.

Tactics for the Provisional Governseat are: seek a U.N. £loor vote

heimaing that Blacks in the U.S. are indeed a colonized nation and that
aciamLE has all the rights accorded movements in ormer merehitay
Fage o ¥ax of national libaration against colonial doaiastie
Fogipes —- and that captured froodon fighters ate mor oo

Gejoqiack Natlon. other tactics for the Provisional Govermers cec oelt
Sna%es, 9 intornational. convantions to lobby for separs nt i perd
AtfiraacX cindependonce, give early recognition vormew prosieeiis
Peraean, Coribbean, THird World and sotiaiist sowerniiodreoIre

lence. Croato ma:

Tt o svpport prose
World and Burope. ”

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sooperation in political and ailitary campalgns ang or tn

areas of armaments, rear ar interchange of
personnel and logistics.

hip st o esS Black Aray in gaining intornational support for

Bl itary campeiack indopondence aro: the Initietion of reciotocstics

Peadgat, Sampaions against selocted giant mlti-naciosal cebiceond

headguartered in the U.5., simila 2gainst reactionary foreign

o¥ions deish porvomel dnd installations in the U3, and ivieity

tions against foreign tyrants who flea to the U.5. for ssyien. /%

N anGtas, jilack Massos towards People’s War for Indopendence, tacs,
Autonomous Districts and Socialist Rovolation

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Chicano/mexicanos struggle for nationay Liberation and regaining of
REIE A B T
Aseric le for domestic and husan rights; We unite againat
nationalities; We unite vith the oppressed White

68 on progressive goals and with revolutionary Whites on socialist
Cevolution in cthe U.S.; and We unite with progressive international
Countrics, movemsnta and organizations on comson goals. That, in itself,
011 divide the onemy, yet We must divide him further while uniting our
Yorces furcher at overy stage. Victory is dependent on our doing just
that.

Tha other factor required o win is detormination. Bven & pecple
€% comes to that, can win Lf they are deternined to win.
‘he weak could never beat the strong —- Of the fow beat the
"ould 'be no Davids, only Goliaths; no Cubas, Viet Naas,
ozam. Sagolas, gimbabwes, Nicaraguas or Grenadas...only U.S.
operiaiion: Hoge of these countries had sose help, but ail started
alone. Alone, with only a fow and facing great odds, yet they struck the
oppressed

firat blov for their froedon, dotermined to win o die. For an oppr
nation, Fignting vo vin also ssans £ighting vith the determinstion to
win ot ‘ale.

Whon a people fight with that determination, they discover that
<ho enomy can dle, too. They learn that tho enemy is no cabbage -- that
15, a1l head and no buttocks. Just as he can hurt us, We can also hurt
hin. Ho can strike in our community; e can strike ‘in his; he at our
food; We at his food; ...our water, his water...and go on. Wo have Do
factories; ho doos. We have no oil wolle; ho does. No railroads, no
pouer plants...ha doss. Ho has more to strike with initially, but he
2750 nas more for up to strike at, and 8o to speek, more to loss. And 8o
§¢"goes, back and forth, round and round, in wider and wider circles
untl 3¢ engulfs the whole country and 1y beyond.

poople s War is & gradual, inteatlonally drawn out, dragged-on war
to provent it from rapidly escalating beyond the point of sustainability

and to give the people tise to learn war, to build strength,
Goternination and £o grow - and to wear the enemy down bit by bit uatil
the' Balusce tinally Shanges in our favor to Dring amout wis totsl
Gestruction or capitulation to our demands for Independence, Land,
Natonoacus Districts and Socialism. Whichever coses first, our duty
Tenains o build a truly liberated Biack society and to support and wage
Vorld revolution until all people everyvbero are £ree.

Build to Win

War for Indopendence and Sccislism
Marion Penitentiary, L - 10/10/80

Sundiata Acoli vas born Jamuary 14, 1937 in Decatur, Texas. B is
a nesbar of tho Alack Liberation Arzy and was proviously & menbor of the
Black Panther Party in Barlea, Nev York. Both organizations were prisary
Eargets of the govarnment-s COINTELPRO Campaign that bogan against Black
organizations in the 60's.
on May 2, 1973 Sundiata asd two comrades, Assata Shakur and Zayd
Shakur, were traveling tho Now Jersey Turmpike. At that time, Assata
Shakur’ vas tha main focus Of a COINTELPRG orchestrated, Bystorical
nationwide "wosanhunt . The izplications were that she was to bo -shot
Gnsight.* wew Jeraey state Trcopers atoppod the auto a which the three
Vere traveling and subsequently opeaed fire on Assata while she was in
The car with her hands in the air. Sayd was killed, Assata was voundod
lired, one State trooper was Killed and another woundod, and
Sundiata vas captured. Tho state thon ualoashed a hystorical mass bedia
Canpaign to create an atmosphere that guarantoed a legal lynching.
Sundiata and ASsata wore convicted for the death of the state trooper in

separate trials. Both were santenced to "Life plus 0 years consecutive™
in the New Jorscy State Prisons.

political background, both were immediately subjected
Br31on onditions possible. Sudiata vas contined 1o the

on Unit'at Trenton State Prison for
1zost five yoars in a cell smaller than the SACA

gamp located'deep in the Shawneo Nat ional
anks of She Mississippi River. He was contined thers as & mers it
A%haeing hin from all friends, family and attorneys, even thougs o Lb
Bontinee PFL%oner With no’ fdderal Sonvictions, wArramcs or ehecos

2, dical oxanination contiraed that sundiaca has been heavily
Tpos0d, o Suborculosis sinoe ontering prison. At Mexios: v prieril)
2% locked down a1l day excepe. for svo-hour xercise periods SHArSIeEE
P LR e s i ey
19, PEison programs o oxjanizations, no skate feu Besky: L aaCel)y
library, no freedom of movement, and all maii and other (or-gol

a prisonor froa any other
Dousing unit. Sundiata's conditions of confinement are simiiar th crocs
8 Who are confined in various prisens

For more information, write tor
Sooaiata Acoll (Squire, #39794-066); USP Allemwood, unit 3; P.0. Box
3000; White Doer, PA 17867

Sundiats Acoli Preedom Campaiga, P.0. Box 5538; Mamhattanville
Station; Harlem, NY 10027

CROSSROMD (SUPPOTt Metwork, 3420 W. 63rd Streat, Chicago, IL 60629;
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overview

AMtor more than a year of writing monthly book reviews for the
Barning Spear newspapor, Sundiata felt it was time to wind ep tne
colum. Around this tims, Althea Wateon of Plainfield, N.). rers thy
LoteeTansolu, OF the Burning spear and askod Sundiata for -some
solations -- or things to do for those not ready for geerriiie
ifarities; Sundiata repliod that he would write a brief seriss to that
gtfect, then close out his column in the newspaper. Tho reeuiting sorin:
2ought to pull out the relevant parts of each past book revier, Lie ches
togother in some coherent fashion 90 as to provide answers o hec
Juestion ~- and also to provide a basic foundation for tne theory:
strategy and tactics of the Black I 5

the Bight to the' foderal prison systom. Shortly afterwards mo wer

2211 and other forms of correspondence or contact with he oetsiee oliy
dre heavily consored, blocked or sabotaged. He never compisiad ric
series in the Burning ‘Spear.

T, Septenber, 1960, a yoar after his transter, he vas contacted by
Akbar Muhamad of the Afrik 10°s Party’ (APP) and asked to
Complete the geries #o that it could be made into'a pasphiet. Le ey
Sompleted shortly aftervards and forwarded to APP. The complate Lorins