Table of Contents

PART |

‘THE GHETTOBRED ANARCHIST
Self Respect...2
‘Becoming a Living Representation of Revolutionary Ideals.... 2
Black Man, Woman, and Child: You're Not Inferior... 3
‘The Anarchist Dialectic of the Master Class & the Slave Class.... 5
Poverty Is Economic Oppression... 6
“To You Who Struggle With Self-Acceptance... 7
On Becoming Desd To Your Formes Sel... 8
“The Personal is Political and the Political is Personal.... 9
Dual Power.. 10
On Alchemy and the Revolutionary Miad... 13
Alchemy s 3 Revolutonary Science.. 16
Revolutionary Consclousness... 17

PART2

‘THE FACTORIES, THE FIELDS, AND THE FIREARMS TO
DEFEND THEM... 18

‘The Factories... 20
‘The Fields... 21

‘The Firearms... 23
FROM GANG WAR TO CLASS WAR... 26
(inclusion from “The Deprived & Depraved™)

To Everyone With a Gun in the Ghetto... 29

Although words are necessary,
-~ we must reate shields that will rotect us and spears that penetrate our enemies...

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“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon; we are created by our conditions, shaped

by our oppression. We are being manufoctured in droves Inthe ghetto streets.”

- Assata Shakur

“Let’s get down to business / mental self-defensive fitness.”
Chuck D,

Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther & political prisoner in Pennsylvania,
Was released into the prison population in 2013 after serving thirty
years on Death Row.

When | met Mumia in the prison library, | was immediately motivated

. by his calmness and remarkable sens of clarity.

. When [ was in solitary confinerrient in the early 2000's, | had a cell
- neighbor, Joe Blow, who was mentally reduced to smearing his feces on
© tis cell wall after 3 months in'the hole.

i How could ane person whose done 3 decades in solitary come out
mentally healthier than the one who went crazy after 3 months in the
¢ hole?

By exercising a revolutionary mentality.

Throughout his decades of isolation, Mumia managed to write

. numerous articles on the Struggle, rebelliously wroté books and even
managed to make a c.d. & appear on the radio.

Arevolutionary mentality can bring order aut of chaos in your lfe just as
well - whether you find yourself in “civilization” or on a cellblock.

“Self Respect”.

Before we can ever expect to be respected by other humyn beings, we.
must first uphold our own humynity and begin respecting ourselves.
Self-respect liberates you from the chains of a slave-like mentality &
marks the beginning of a truly revolutionary mind-frame in life.

This doesn't imply 3 need to wearing camoufiage & black beret hats in
Your day-to-day activities. You can be just as militant-minded without
Such ostentatious displays of the sort. You could be a sanitation worker
or a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit and still carry within you this
essential level of self-respect.

inife there'll be those who want to rob you of this possession ~
whether it be corrections officer or so-called “superior” at work.

It could be an enemy who envies your new-found sense of dignity and
privately wants to see you down on your luck instead of alive and up on
your feet.

Don't et them rob you of this possession. Self-respect is a fundamental
need in the fight for Self-Determination for yourself and for humynity as
awhole.

Don't let anyone take it away from you. It's one of the most important,
one of the most coveted and priceless things you could ever possess.

resentation of ionary Ideals

Atevolutionary mentality & the self-respect that it bestows to

a humyn being can be acquired through studying & reflecting on how to
make yourself a better person i life.

Acknowledging your importance within the world as

2 paramount individual with something substantial to contribute to It is
1o the transformation process within you and in the world!

Ina society of so many fies and facades, self-respect s an invaluable
virtue in becoming a living representation of revolutionary ideals. Truth-
speaking, or, Maak-heru, as the ancient Egyptians called it- is
revolutionary in itself, and like MLK said: “Truth, crushed to the ground,
will rise again.”

Speak truth to power, and watch (coercive) power diminish in strength
before you.
Reflect on your Revolutionary Mission in fife
Encourage those who've fallen prey to such a predatory system - such
as that of the government - to understand their importance and
relevance in the Struggle that we're at war in. s

‘Black Man, Woman, and Child

: You're Not Inferior

Black man, womyn and child: you are not inferior; and-our people never
were inferior.

Throughout history, we've been a well of remarkable depth which has
and continues to quench the thirst of knowledge-seekers from history's
most eminent schools of Thought.

Ancient Greek philosophers of high repute, such as Plato and
Pythagoras of Crotona, studied the Mysteries of life, high mathematics
& advanced astronomy in our schools in ancient Egypt (Kemet).

Plato, who was initiated in the pyramid at Giza at the age of 49, opened
his famous philosophical school known as the Academy. Tradition has it
that he was sold as a slave by the king of Sicily and was greatly
persecuted for revepling such mysterious secrets of ife to those who
would hear it.

Pythagoras, who taught that 7t s the part of a miserable man to speak
and to act without reflection;” received much of his philosophica light
from the Egyptian temple of Isis (and this after several rebuffs and
refusals). He later required of his disciples that they live in complete
(verbal) silence and abstinence for five years upon admission into his
school. Such was the intensity level of these remarkable teachings.

Moreover, the Greek Hippocrates - the so-called “Father of Medicine” &
# whom the “Hippocratic Oath” of those joining the medical profession
swear by ~ was 1900 years prior preceded by the great physician
Imhotep. He was the first-recorded multi-genius — an Afrikan who
studied medicine in ancient Kemet (Egypt) around 2630 B.CE.

The Greek historian, Heroditus, wrote of how the parents of Hercules
‘were Egyptian; and those who study history today can discover that
even princess Europa - of whom Europe was named after ~ was.

of Afrikan ancestry, as well.

This is the type of knowledge that our ancestors in time of chattel
slavery could've greatly benefited from had it not been a crime for our
-~ -~_people to learn how to read and write or speak in their native tongues.

No wonder in 1832, Henry Berry spoke on the floor of the Virginia
House of Representatives:

“We have as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may
enter the slaves’ mind... 1}f we could extinguish the capacity to see the
light, our work would be complete, they would then be on the level

with the beast of the fleld and we should be safe.”

Later on in history, as Malcolm taught, “was the fabulous, fabled city of
Timbuktu. Timbuktu was a center of learning where they (Black people)
had colleges and universities; and this Timbuktu existed as a hidden city,
or a forbidden city, to the white man for many centuries. He was not
permitted to o there, none of them had been there - it was for us.” (see

“Malcolm X On Afro-American History,” published through So. Chicago
ABC Zine Distro.)

Not only were the Black Moors of Morocco & the universities
they erected in Portugal & Spain considered the only light d
the Dark Ages of Europe for hundreds of years,

“In ancient times and even later there were Caucasians who regarded
the Blacks as superior people... There were...always Caucasians who
were affectionately drawn to the Blacks as by some magic.” (Chancellor
‘Williams, “The Destruction of Black Civilization”)

There are volumes of Afrikan and Afro-Amerikan encyclopedias
highlighting our achievements. Generally speaking, the idea of racial
superiority was an instrument of white European opportu
promoting lies, the spreading of ignorance and the de-humanizing lack
of belief in Equality.

Far freer than the Afrika of today, we collectively excelled in stateless
and chiefless societies. Through miseducation, those in power have
struggled to disarm our minds by conveying notions of white supericity
and Black inferiority. Century after century, however, our people have
demonstrated ~ in one way or another the equal capacity of
intellectual depth and charismatic resilience no authority could ever
repress.

Alexander Crummel (1819-1898), founder of the American Negro
Academy, wrote how.

“The ordinary, and sometimes the extraordinary American is uncie to
see thot the struggle of a degraded peosle for elevotion s, i its very
nature, o warfare, and that its moin weapon Is the cultivated and

scientific mind.” 7

He further overstood that

“The Negro mind, imprisoned for nigh three hundred years, needs
breadth and freedom, largeness, altitude, and elasticity; ot stint
rigidity, fior contractedness.”

‘The Anarchist Dialectic of
The Master Class & the Siave Class

Some say that a “master class” doesn't exist. This tends to be promoted
(ironically) by those in positions of authority and political power. This
generally includes governing bodies who believe or teach that
involuntary servitude died with the end of chattel slavery, in America, at
least.

Others proclaim that a “Master Class” does exist. This is attested by
those who acknowledge themselves as slaves, in one way or
another. These are prisoners (Constitutional slaves under the

13" Amendment), wage slaves in the workforce and those'who suffer
from inequality in social relationships in day to day life.

From this we may synthesize that a slave class exists for many, while a
master-class exists among the elite and powerful few. For in a capitalist
soclety, those who have more money and military organization have the
power over the necessities of life over those who don't have it.

Both classes do not deny that “class differences*yexist between the
higher-ups & those who struggle to survive at the bottom. To settle this
contradiction is to arrive at the over standing that this can be resolved
by the Destruction of “classes” & the overthrow of authority thatiit
implies.

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Class-clashing is necessary in the fight for freedorm as the organization
of slaves involves the fight for Equality and empowerment for the
masses; a people who slave for a master class that needs to keep the
consciousness & manpower of the people under subjection.

An Anarchist Revolution is thus a logical necessity for intellectual, socio-
economic and political liberation; in the relationship between those
‘who govern and those who are governed. For where there's no slave
there’s no master; and where there’s no master there can no longer be
slave.

Pover mic

As a truth-seeker In the ghetto, you may strangely find

Yourself asking “How am ! oppressed?”

You're oppressed by poverty. Poverty is economic oppression. You
struggle to financially provide for yourself (and your family if you have
one). Every day's a struggle in a government system that could really
care less if you end up homeless or not; f you die or survive.

A cut-throat, capitalist lifestyle creates chaos & disorder within you & In

the 'hood where drug deals erupt In turf-wars and gangbanging.

Gangbanging has Its roots in authority. Authority can only thrive in the

absence of Equality; and conversely, Equallty can only be foundwhere i
authority doesn't exist.

Now, in the absence of Equallty is, definltively speaking, Injustice.

Injustice has a profound effect on all of our minds. In every *hood, our

people suffer from the oppression of soclal injustice bombarded by

worrles & fears — worries & fears we watch turn many crazy, strung-

out, locked up or dead In the streets.

‘These are irrefutable facts our people struggle to come to grips with,

and it takes the application of knowledge to fix yourself in these ife-
condemning and twisted conditions. Conditions which breed today a

growing number of people llke you who find yourself reflecting.on the. ‘
reallty of writings fike these.

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We know that there's no Equaiftyin the United States as well as 4 ‘5
anywhere else where governments are found to exist in thisworld. v

If there was equality there would be no such thing as “Haves and Have-
" f there was really Equality, there'd be no such thing as Upper, Middle
and Lower closses. L\

As An=rchist reyolutionary Anchony : = /507 cce | +re r s,
poverty is one of the major cau: =* of “crime” which needs to be
eliminated. An Anarchist Revolution 1y to rid pursel: < from
economic oppression & =vary o impoveishing you,
‘me and the lives of our p-oplel 9

hthe pes o the humyn rzce.,

These with zuthority ver us ot went 1S o transcend Facause th
tmow of our potentiel ~in many times, aven more then we
understand orrr notential, oursslvas, 1's inconvertently fronic thet
wratve wrestad the whip from o1 sizve masters only to use It n loshins
ourselves 2nc h otherl

This Is known as internalizact opprassion.

The Mental Health Associstion of Southeastern Pennsylveni
describes “Internalized Oppression” thus:

“As the result of historic trauma, traumotized people moy
‘begin to internolize the views of the oppressor and perpetuate o eycle of
self-hatred that monijests in negotive behaviors. Emotions such os
| anger, hatred, and oggression are self-Inflicted, as well as Iflicted
members of one's own group, For example, selfhatred among
Blacks/African Americons who act out their aggression on people vo
. loOK Ik them.® (1ohnson,nd.)
In Survival Strategies for Africans i Americ, Anthony T. Bravsder
wledged how “Afticans in America an'on the comtinent (of

Africa) hove bheen conditioned by their former enslavers ond cofonizers

to wage war against each other and siruggle nonviolentiy agafnst thei
common oppressor.*

VWhen we refiect on our lives, we can clearly see that now's the time for
radiczl changes to he made — not eniy socially, but within oursei
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“sejore we can ever become wicle o heuled, we must be clzor abaut
exactly who we believe we are and! what we belleve \we ars here
i Jfor* Wacquelyn Small)

| There cornes a time in our lives when we must begin to question our
| | Purpose for why we're here.

| Growing up n & socity where ling ourselves and our awr has

| become an everyday realtty in North Amerika, It readily becomes
zpprent that a truly virtuous ife Is one In whigh we - as slaves In
different forms - become dead to who we formerly were,

As & people out-casted from the world of the privileged, we must
become one with the need to “X" ourselves out from who we formerly
were; fromall we've been confirmed into becoming. For us to

| slance e mportant weise sbove th eve of gangbonging
organlzed religion, and In general, the zombie-lke following of every
enslaving Ideal. .
‘With this being sald, it becornes ynavoidably clear thet something insicc
the revolutlonary has died. .
‘The lust for personal riches, for power over others (instead of
pover with others), etc, becomes overstood as soclo-cidal and no
longer a compeling force in the experience of day to day life.

Something inside drives the revolutionary to be willing to ot only die
for, butto also'killin defense of the oppressed & exploited
communities around the world, The systemically
Oppressed everywhere can relate to the characteristics of such an in-
ward death, and the revolutionary overstands desth as an inevitable
part of ife.
Something inside the revolutionary has aiso become alfve - aive like:
Osiris when Isi resurrected him by infusing into him life with the wings|:- -
of herlove and her wisdom. For love and wisdom infuses new Ife Into |
the revolutionary who overstands that we must rise from the tomb | -

of ignorance and come forth by day unto the light of intellectual
Tiberation, )

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Something inside the revolutionary awakens like the *holy nstinct of
revolt” taught by Mikhail Bakunin. Compassion for the neglected

masses (and orie’s seff characterizes the nature of the

“reyolutioriries this crumbling world has been longing to see and "
embrace. Becoming déad to our former selves means that we've
accepted within us the callto not only be willing to die for but to
also live for the peoplel o

The Personal s Political and the Political is Personal

As revolutionaries dead to the life we formerly fived {which was a lfe of
intellectual ignorance & ‘soclal contradictions), and when we look
deeper within ourselves and around us, It also becomes clear as day

* that the personal is political and the political is personal.

According to “The State of Black America: 2018 Conference of
{ theNational Urban League,” Black unemployment s twice as high as.
white unemployment. Economic disempowerment is a centuries-old
reality we've been challenged with, here in Amerika, affecting the
fhasses of s in‘a personal way. Wimmin, moreover ~ working the same
Iobs & positions as men ~ are still annually paid less than men when it
Gormes tomaking a fiving In this country.

‘Concening the infiltration of drugs Into our neighborhoods, Anthony
Browder noted the way that
“the C1A played o major role in the introduction of powder
and crack cocaine in the African Américan community in an
" efforttofinance anti-Communist forces in Nicaragua during
§ ¥ the 1970/gand 1980's.*
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“he politics of the ghetto across amerika - such as poverty, mass imprisonment, genocidal gang
1anging, drug dealing, & using becomes revealed as slavery to a government system hell-bent
1n keeping us divided and disempowered.

We're no strangers to being racially profiled by city police, humiliated
through strip-searches in prisons where the majority of us spend over
one-third of our lives; a virtual police state where so many of us serve
0p to decades in solitary confinement succumbing to madness.
That Is, madness or militancy. And in an age where so many of

us succumb to the forces of madness, a militant | ‘mind becomes one
most necessary to develop.

Arevolutionary mentality s a necessary force to develop among the
down-trodden of the earth who've been wrestled to.the ground in the
grips of government violence. It time we pick each other

up and overstand that the opposite of a downfall is an up-rise,
regardiess of where we wake up and find ourselves in the world.

It means that its time that we strategicatty revolt against being

50 savagely thrown down & collectively rise to reclaim our humynity,
dignity and self-respect. We must resist from any longer being compliant|
targets In the crosshars of government violence and organize violence
against it in myriad ways. .

Being Black, poor & radical, it's our obligation to turn the light

of Resistance on in the minds of those who live in dire straights,
stumbling, and reaching in darkness.

The more we realize we have the tools within us to use mentally, the

closer we come to utilizing them strategically against those who oppress
sl

Oual fowerl

“Those who have maximum influence over those physical resources [i.
food, clothing, and shelter], are considered to be very powerful. Those
who have limited influence are considered weak or certainly, lacking in

power.”
~Narim AKbar, (“Know Thyself")

DUAL POWER has been defined as the “creation of

alternative, libératory power to exist alongside & eventually oversome

state/capitalist power.” (James Mumm). We need more than mere

coping strategies; of wasting our lives struggling from paycheck to
paycheck, from one hustleto the next.

‘We need Dual Power fight now: the Setting up counter-cuiture

environments that meet the people’s needs,

while (injdirectly confronting the establishment from the grovnd 1in

In Active Revolution, Mumm overstood that “Dual Power theorizes o
distinct and oppositional relationship between the forces of
state/capitalism and the revolutionary forces of oppressed people. The
two can never be peacefull reconciled.”This implies the need to further
the advancement of alterative institutions of earning (such

_as Liberation Schools in the streets as well as the prisons as we />
see beginning to resurface today).
itimplies that we must be one auto-didactic (self-taught) + not only in
the liberating lterature that we study, but also as sincere students in
the adventure of lfe For while it necessary to firmly grasp the
meaning of life with our minds, (to paraphrase Paracelsus) — to

~ study Nature, we must travel her books with our feet. Moreover, we

© needto have each other's backs while working in tandem together.

As Mumm pointed out, “Counter power and counter-

institutional organizations must be in relationship to each other. The
Value of reconnecting countelsjnstitutional organizations with
explicitly oppositional counter-institutional organizations is a
safequard against the formers' tendency to become less radical over
time.” fomes Mumim)

For DUAL POWER to begin transforming our communities & our fives,
our essential needs must include,
(0n a personal level):

« the overstanding that despite how poor we are and
regardless of how many of us the system murders,
imprisons and oppressed — we must deeply root
Within ourselves a firm overstanding that we are
not inferior (nor “superior,” for that matter to anyone
eisel, S

the overstanding that we have the ability of making a
_ radical difference in the worid we live in,

3 « that we develop self-confidence instead of wallowing in
E . the more of self-doubt.
' On the grassroots/social level, these needs include):

1 « “strategic non-compliance*/ using a diversity of tactics

to reach specific goals. ~
“This should include that community organizers:
« Create a “phone tree” of contacts who kniow
1 how to turn on electricity and water when $ ,
| landlord's/banksters turn them off, forwhen we . 5
squat buildings in the city and rent-strike, with et
the supreme gol of the PEOPLE (of which we're @ 1

o 1ot e divteetion AP rmtbntind

hand with the training and active use of armed defense of
our communities.

t's our class that's been defending the interests of the ruling class by
serving in their military abroad, while the police oppress and continue

to gun us down right here in the crooked streets of amerika
The only reasonable alternative for us to arrive at, as an oppressed and

exploited people, is to stop working for the
system and.collectively begin broadly working against it.
Setting our differences aside (at least long enough to
collectively strike) will surely propel us forward. This change in
consciousness will mentally reflect in the change in concrete.
conditions as well, and elevate us.

The stave-born T. Thomas Fortune wrote that “Men organize themselves
for mutual protection.” It's evident that today, to protect

our neighborhoods from fascist police, slumlords and other predators of
the people, we must work towards overthrowing and collectively
overtaking them — which we can do relatively intact (as advised by Sun
Tauin The Art of War).

“The evil,” Mr. Fortune reminded us, “is far deeper than the throne, and
cannot be remedied by striking the occupant of it~ the throne tself
must be rooted out and demolished.” s the very idea of Government
that must firstly be fundamentally & thoroughly overthrown. “ft i this
System which constitutes the real grievance and makes the landlord an
‘odious loafer with abundant cash and the laborer a constant

toiler always upon the verge of starvation. Evidently, therefore,” Mr.
Fortune logically reasoned, "to remove the landlord and leave the
system of land Monopoly would not remove the evil. Destroy the

{atter (land monopoly] and the former [the landlord] would be
compelled to go.”

Locally, it's time we get out of the habit of surrendering our potential
to government institutions & get into the habit of thinking along the
lines of People’s Power for ourselves and our children.

It's a world-wide imperative that we organize with the working-class in
other countries to effectively strike against imperialism and aggressive
corporate globalization!

People everywhere are beginning to stir and now’s the Time to make
the necessary coalitions at home & abroad with those who are
solidarity-minded. Our commitment will be answered in proportion to
the destiny that we question, and the question of our destiny will be
answeredin proportion to our commitment.

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The next time you find yourself depressed at a job you can't stand or
find yourself one paycheck away from being homeless, think about the
‘words of this writing. The growing thrust towards socio-economic
revolution includes YOU! You're not alone in your situation, 5

we've grown insane in civilization, where the conformity into being law-
abiding citizen' only leads to the ekploitation and inferiorization of the
masses. The hunger, thirst, and isolation of those of us who thrive on
society’s margins n6 longer find morale in being imprisored by the
oppressive government powers. We can only find ourselves becoming
truly cultured and sane in being un-civilized and we discover

our humynity ethically in becoming “immoral.” [“immoral” is an
adjective and is defined as: not conforming to accepted forms of
moralit.] Against the Establishment which is based on

bloodshed, isolation and greed, we find ourselves no longer being ost.

On Alchemy and the Revolutionary Mind

Alchemy has been described as the science of transmutating base
metals into material gold.

In 1689, King Henry IV “declared the multiplying of metals to be a crime
against the crown.” The Act was later repealed by William and Mary
‘who together ascended the throne in €ngland,” encouraging alchemists
to continue honing the craft (for personal gain for the Kingdom, no
doubt.)

The roots of alchemy, however, reach further back into antiquity and
imply the need for a deeper understanding. It was

considered “the master science of the Egyptians.” Chem ( short

for (Chemet, o, “Kemet”) was an ancient name for the fand of Egypt;
and both words “aichemy” and “chemistry” are a perfect reminder

of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.” (Manly P. Hall, “The
Secret Teachings of All Ages”).

Despite the fact that many considered it, superficially, s a science of
changing base metals, they fail to realize that alchemy (on a deeper
evel) involves the transmutating of one’s mental state into spiritual
gold. Thus, true and personal alchemy is a Revolutionary Science; for its
a science of revolutionaries, in the deepest sense of the word.

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ANARCHISM

TBLACK REVOLUTIUON:
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Alchemy as a Revolutionary Science

The Revolutionary mind is goal-oriented and involves personal
refinement and transformation. Being psychologically ensiaved and
ignorant of the powers that we possess as rational beings, we've been
coerced into accepting impoverishment & degeneration of our minds,
bodies and spirits for the greater part of our fives.
The revolutionary recognizes that regeneration begins in the mind, and
hones this craft for the “goldening” of self & others. This can (at first) be
a painful process as it involves healing from painful memories and
purification from the social lls the majority of s have been
programmed into accepting.
“Try not to blame yourself if you've made emotional mistakes. For our
transformation to occur, the fires of crisis must burn hot — that is why
crises are life-altering experiences and poin is our greatest
teacher.” (lacquelyn Small)

As touched on earlier, throughout life we've accepted ideas that've
enslaved us in one way or another. With all our mistakes &
imperfections, however, we have within us the elements necessary to
nurture the seeds of free-thinking and overstanding of Purpose.

As revolutionaries, we have these seeds within us all; and as Hall

wrote, “Alchemy is not the process of making something from nothing; it
is the process of increasing and improving that which already

exists.” (The Secret Teachings of All Ages)

In the 21% century, the refinement (and multiplying) of the
revolutionary Mind in the prisons & streets pose a living threat in the
invaluable fervor mounting to overthrow the crown of government
power. A power which knows it will inevitably be toppled, paradoxically,
by the very social forces it has struggled so hard to create! (e.g., Counter
Intelligence officials resort to physical, psychological & chemical

warfare (drugs, as the Ervins teach) to destroy opposition and
perpetuate exploitation. (Organizers in penitentiaries are separated
from the general prison population out of fear of the potential which
can foment duie to an ever-evolving Mental up-rising.)

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These are but few ways in which the government apparatus fights to
repress and “de-generate” us. It sticks us in a rut and molds us mentally
frm birth in the hands of social conformity. Those in power who govern
and exploit us harbor an inherent fear that the masses will arm
ourselves with revolutionary ideology and “change our minds.”

Revolutionary Consciousness
Instead of letting your mind have contro! over you; resolve within
vourself to have control over your mind. All things revolutionary begin
with a conscious awareness of our situation. And as Jacquelyn Smalt
wrote once: “We must have an image of something in our minds before
it can be created. This psychological law explains sayings like ‘thought is
creative’ and ‘energy follows thought.”
Alchemy, as a personal, revolutipnary science has the power of
manifesting the potential the people socially can possess — from the cell
to the society that the cell represents. In a social context, the alchemical

process can be referred to as “building the new society in the shell of the
old.”

ina world where the majority of us are driven to feeling worth-less, our
faundation as a force of change must include overstanding our Purpose
in life. Na'im Akbar shared this overstanding when he

penned that “Every person learns within the context of their

education that they were born to execute some type of mission towards
the advancement of humankind and each person must seek to

identify what their mission might be.”

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit
of iustice is o virtue.” ~ Malcolm X

Being that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,

extreme measures need to be undertaken to bring balance (Maat,

as the Ancient Egyptians called i) into our lives and the lives of our

people. To transform ourselves as individuals, and to

effectively revolutionize our social conditions we need to

be motivated with the overstanding that revolution implies radical

change. A revolutionary spirituality implies the need for us to spiritualize

the material aspects of our lives aha to materiaiize the spiritual elements
‘within us as we advance.

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(=t~ TheFactories, The Fields, and
Y the Firearms to Defend Them

“The working class is able, once it so desires, to take control of
industry and thus establish a much more efficient and satisfactory
society.”

(From the pamphiet: “One Big Union,” by The Industrial Workers of the World)

‘You, me and our entire class of society’s underprivileged who
produces everything with very lttle or nothing at all to show for
it have - once effectively organized - the potential within us to
free ourselves from the stresses that come with the struggle for
survival of material needs.

‘Whille the study below is based on research conducted in 2020,
the final analysis will be found to resonate up to the hour the bell
of the social revolution is sounded. Its of the deepest importance :
for the masses - the have-nots who've been no strangers to :
struggling since we were born - to firmly grasp the magnificence
of our Worth, and our potential and power. Our Potential for
frecing ourselves from being taken advantage of by the

* government system is overwhelmingly greater than that of
the government system taking advantage of us alll

‘This has been a very fortunate truth for the less-fortunate of the
‘world ever since societies have allowed governments to exist, and
our social contract with the State has proven to be nothing less

than a taxing, hostile machine worth defying and reducing to
irreparable ashes
‘The more the righteous seeds of becoming free from social &

‘economic oppression be planted richly in the minds of the poor

and oppressed who are governed, the greater the potential

becomes to overthrowing the government with overwhelming

resistance; especially when the rational alternative of governing

ourselves (exercising autonomy) is given the necessary attention
" it deserves deep in the roots of our ethical nature.

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in
common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want
are found among millions of the working people, and the
few, who make up the employing class have all the good
things in lfe.

(From the Preamble to The IWW)

THE FACTORIES

+0f 2018, there are approximately 29,285 functioning factories
“oughout the country.

ese are operated by 12.8 million people. This doesn't include the
ditional 760,000 workers employed by temporary employment

encies, nor the unseen thousands of Prisoners manufacturing products
orison factories throughout the U.S. We constitute an entire army of |
xduction ~ one which can be victorious against poverty and capitalist

*ed when we unify to no longer demand, but to deliberately act to
sctly fulfil our neglected needs!

@ far outnumber the 249,962 factory-owning firms that has our class |
uggling day after day as wage-slaves, on a ratio of 51 = 1. In other

xds, for every one factory owner profiting luxuriously from everything
at the workers produce, there are Fifty-One workers who can deny
jitimacy to their authority and secure the factories for the workers and
& dis-possessed communities the workers are from!

is is why joining workers' unions, like the W, is paramount in building §
& Peoples' Power, as it swells the ranks of organized resistance

ainst our common exploiter ~ the capitalist class. Unifying to receive .
» fuits of our labor, as the deserving class that does all the work, will
lect the desire of a people sick of being daily consumed by the parasitic (/5.
2 who feast luxuriously off our bodies and minds. :

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ch a federation of Unions (which are frankly, organizations of workers
‘0 want something better anyway) will reserve an arsenal of potential in
+ paims of our very hands. We possess, within, the ability to paralyze
power of those who economically muscle over us with full-blown

sneral (Work) Strikes. We hamess potential in providing free food,
sthing, housing, transportation, cellphones and all other means of
mmunication freely to our communities, which will be soon
knowledged as “a given" - the way that things should've been, from the
ry start. .

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(Interconiinents! Connections)

The U.S. yovsmmet - through it Free Trade Agreements (FTA) ~ie
currently parirfe with 20 countriee; countrics thet purchesed nezry 49%
percent of ¢0de menuiectur-d i it fe:tori

incluc s Ce.

¢ geogrephicely zbove and Msxico

(20) couririe: only maks up s percent of the world's
popaleiion, ber -7 with workers in these countrias alone will
work sxponentizlly mors in our fever. Culisclively understencing the nesd
for ovsrihrowing our capitelist govemmenis wili be the pivoiz! move in
providing the material security needed for us ~ the lese-fortunate clace —
1o recaive the fruits of our labor i thes (20 counries) 2nd beyond.

“Imust intervene in teaching the peasants that their hunger
is sociaily constructed and work with them to help identify those
responsible for this social construction, which s, in my view,
crime against humanity.”
- Paulo Freire

‘The amerikan government doesn't have the best interest of the
people it governs at heart.

For example, according to the 2020 repoit-from the Center for
Responsive Politics in Washington DC, lobbying (the act of using
persuasion to attempt to create a climate of opinion favorable to
2 desired legislative goal), reveals its use as a lucrative tactic by
agribusiness people in persuading US. legislators in 2019, and its
been a very compromising e for years ¢
‘The capitalists i the agribusiness industry are huge donors to
political parties, contributing over “u8 million from the sweat of
farm laborers in the 2016 presidential cycle, znd more than 32
million, in 2018! Since 1990, the majority of such millions were
given to the Republican and Democratic partiet.

Huge contributions from these predatory businesspeople were
also donated to Liberal, Conservative, as well as Nonpartisan
Groups. Each year, hundreds of thousands of dollars - fleeced
from the farmers' output - are generously placed into the bank
accounts of political members of the Senate and House of
Representatives that influence the politcs that we find ourselves
itching for relief from today.

Moreaver, as a 2017 study published through AG Daily analyzed:
“Between 2004 and 2014, databases show foreign investors
doubled their American farmland holdings, growing from 137
million to 27.3 million acres which is approximately the size of
Tennessee. And while this represents only about 2 percent of
total US. farmland, the value of the land in question leapt from
$17.4 billion to $42.7 billion during the same period, according to
U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

‘The capitalists - those who take advantage of others for their
personal gain - are an offensive presence in general; especially to
those of us who know what itslike to be ripped-off and taken
advantage of for all of our lives. The cliché that “Business s never
personal” is ironically spoken from the lips of the very ones «+ho
make it their personal business to exploit you. A philosophy of
the parasite, meant to disarm you from resisting your and your
Peoples economic oppressors.

Across the country, the vast majority of economically oppressed
people (such &z us) make 2 social revolution against our

‘economic oppressors not only necessary, but inevitable as well;
and ifthe System that's taken advantage of us all of our lives gets
the audacity to ask why we've chosen a social revolution against
its government, we can, in right conscience, reply “You reap what
you sow!”

THE FIREARMS

“Do not confound us with the pacifists. We believe in fighting...and
we refuse to fight for the enemies and exploiters of humanity.”
Alexander Berkman

‘While a non-violent revolution is ideal, i all practicality, the
capitalist government and its armed and handcuff-carrying
police won't surrender to us our ruits for our labor without a
fight. And we shouldn't expect it to; it knows what it's doing.
1’ inconsolably heartbreaking that of the 38 million of us
documented as living in statistical poverty throughout the U.S.,
an unnecessary 16% (n.9 million) are children. This is
‘unnecessary: Over 40.8 % of agricultural land exists in this
country; and our class operates over 30,000 factories, producing
everything that we've been ordered to buy or face arrest, the
billyclub or the bullet

Arecent report from the Graduate Institute of International
i Development Studies in Geneva reported that the U.S. ranks 1st
in the highest gun ownership rate: 120.5 per 100 people. Yemen
ranks 2nd in countries in high gun ownership rate at 52.8 per 100

people. Canada - where 135 million (mainly Indigenous) children
live in poverty - ranks sth in the world's highest gun ownership
rate.

It should also be grasped that these numbers don't include
firearms owned by law enforcement agencies or militaries, of
‘whom we outnumber with staggering odds at a maximum ratio
0f1000 t0 6.

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‘This analysis, therefore, confirms that in the United States, the*
odds are in the favor of the People, who are more than able to
outgun those enforcing the law with overwhelming resistance,
once organized to secure the factories and the farms & defending
the means of production and distribution.

You can't grow an ear of corn from the barrel of a shotgun, but
You can use the shotgun to defend the soil that the ear of corn
ises out of. And it's important to overstand that the same
factories that are used by it's current owners to profit off us
in poverty with, can be taken over to provide for the very
working-class of us have-nots who operates its entire
production.

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LUCIA GONZALEZ de PARSONS
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lel MUNDQ

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FROM GANG WAR TO CLASS WAR:

The Acquisition of and Redirecting of Communlty Firspower

“Those who make peacsful revolution impossible makes a violent revolution >
inevtable." John . Kennedy

It would be ilogical o conceive that a future ree of being justfiably gunned-
‘down & exploited will be reached without such an element of sel-defense
(1., ammed rebellion) under an exploitive order whose history is founded &
meintained by the use of violent force and the (obvious) deadly threat o s
power.

Many gang bangars already possess the germ of a revolutionary, unawares.
S0 many of us who grew up in this atmosphere know poverty on a personal
level. Alot of us come from marginalized upbringing; bearing the emotional
scars of a broken home. Many of us were even physicaly, sexually and
mentaly abused.

“Thrown in juvenile detention & devoid of adequae famiy atteriton, e
desperately sought o relieve ourselves from afienation by forming ratemal
bonds.

‘The hugs we didn' find in the housshold, we found in gang-affated
handshakes out n the "hood and u-v. We grew up knowing poverty, warfare
and the necsssityfor organization, irst-hand.

‘Class war s the socialconfict resuting rom inequalites I a society based on |5,
ierarchy and priviege (e..,a sociely where thero are haves” whil there re &+
“have-nots,” “privieged" and “underprivileged'). 7

It the Struggle deep in the ancestral roots of our anti-colonial culture
‘which dares to resist for dignity & Seff-Determination of the People ll over
the govemed world.

‘The genocide which has been killng us of,in actuality, bear witness to the
degree of arsenal we have at our immediate (and potential) disposal should
‘our firears become collectively redirected in a united struggle for social
liberation.

‘The Zapatistas in southem Mexico who've fieed themseives from

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government s since 1994 wellundorstood Emilano Zapata when he
advised: "Do not approach the goverment with hatin hand but wih il in
st

The liberation of a community from government force requires an assisting
organizaion of anti-govemment rebeis with arms.

All governments are viscerally opportunists and can't cease from
descending into democratically-deprived community any more than a
Vulture can a victim of starvation deliriously staggering along the path of
destruction.

‘The purpose for arming ourselves along these revolutionary lines include:

1o prevent forced evictions & o protect neighborhoods engaging in
urban squatting & Rent Strkes.

1o protect our communities from unwanted aggressors (esp. law
enforcement); in short, to defend ourselves in every sector of the Resistance
by use of arms when such reinforcements are needed.

‘The Movement willalso find it exponentially substantial to manufacture our
‘own artiley. The information on how to o this can easily be found in
various books.

We share a responsibiity against the Forces of social domination, and as
revoluionary anarchists we must siive to make our practice ou theory and
our theory our practice.

TRUE LEAP PRESS i 2 racial snt acit, anti-capital
chy publating collective based in Chicago,

“The current open prejects of the group are diided be.
tveen our publication of Black Sucics and revoluonary abliiorst analys
and commentary, Prpier s, cdtcd by three members of the group, and a
groving zines-o-prisoner iro ran by one member, under the mentorship of
imprisoned abolionst activits, organizes writers, and artiss around the
county. We have been operative as callctive sinc the rlease of our fournal
in 2015

To every gangbanger. To every dope dealer. To every stick-up kid. To
everyone who's packing heat for protection or otherwise. To all who wake up.
with a gun at your bedside:

Know that you're worth immeasurably more than the bank accounts of all
the owners of you citys downtown buildings, combined. Reflect on your life
‘and prepare for the social revolution against the government system which
‘could care les if you starve or ea, g0 o prison for the rest of yourlfe, if you
live or you die.

Arm yourself with the knowledge presented to you from our underground
pamphlets and books. They are complementary weapons which sim to asist
You & our people from the parasites in power who exist to suck you dry

fromall your potential. We encourage you to re-define you relationship,
with your ivals and consider who the opposition of you and those ke you
truly, essentiall are and to reserve your bulles for worthier targets, as you
study. A class war is being organized throughout the world in the Struggle
for self-determination; by the have-nots of the world who recognize that,
according to the universal principle of Cause and Effect, we have the power
within us to take our destinies into our own hands.

Awar to determine your destiny instead of having your destiny continuing
being determined by a system that doesn't have your best interest at heartis
perhaps the most significant decision you could ever make in the history of
yourlife.

Join s, the mass despised sectors of society who've lost aith in politicians to
save us, as we mobilize to replace government capitalism with
intercommunal (community-united) co-operation. We welcome you with

open ams, open minds, understanding and love and invite You to join our
ranks!

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