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... 3 “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. 5 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. 3 ; 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 well, 7 foust sz, ¢oursebves 53 | sings of cherg cterplliar cevaloping Into . hutierfly fter Toatime or rising Laovs has artived, Every ¢! ric's In our sth miust be overtrre: ;5 must a7 st of reconcilz cion within ourse Postlye - v Leata iohis such as “Fm o revolutionony wii £ % co. help tun this world into w betwer fnce,” e key + de transTormedon froin self- Inthe vorld sre our hom vorst 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. 12 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. 13 ANARCHISM TBLACK REVOLUTIUON: el 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.) 16 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. 17 & (=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. : s 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. . 20 i (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. 23 ‘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. 4 LUCIA GONZALEZ de PARSONS \ N T lel MUNDQ a5 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 T3 % 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! 5