Honor the Memory of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

December 4, 2009, represents the 40th commemoration of the murder of Black Panther Deputy Minister of Defense Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago, Ill. We should take time to pay tribute to our fallen comrades this December. It must be understood that the Chicago police, in conjunction with the FBI, systematically planned and carried the raid and cold blooded murder of these two courageous fighters. The details of the government's slimy role in carrying out these murders are well documented and need not be repeated here. The point of this article is to reinforce that the U.S. government has a long history of engaging in violence against people when those people express dissent against the daily capitalist agenda. In 1969 it was the murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, among others. In 2009 its the illegal detention, torture, and murder of Iraqi and Afghani citizens. The systematic murder of Palestinians with weapons supplied to zionist israel by the U.S., and the murder of Mexican citizens due to the loss of social services as a result of the International Monetary Funds ridiculous structural readjustment programs.

We could go on and on talking about the terrorist activities that are financed and/or carried out against the people of the world by U.S. imperialism. The point here is that anyone in 2009 who still believes the U.S. is the land of democracy didn't pay attention to real history.

The other note regarding this issue is there these murders destroy the incorrect notion that free speech exists in the U.S. You can say what you want in the U.S. as long as enough people aren't listening and acting. When those things start to happen, you will immediately become the victim of repressive actions by the government. The murders of Hampton and Clark illustrate this just as the murders of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba, Che Guevera, Salvadore Allende, Steve Biko, and thousands of others. All of these murders were carried out with either directly by U.S. imperialism, or from its urging. We can go forward adding the overthrow of a number of legitimately elected governments from the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatamala in 1954, Lumumba in the Congo in 1960, Sukarno in Indonesia, Bishop in Greneda, Aristide in Haiti in 1994, and on and on. Democracy under U.S. imperialism is defined solely as the candidate backing the U.S. agenda is the one who will be elected. If not, he/she will be removed.

So respect goes out to the memories of Fred and Mark. Forty years later, the U.S. continues to be the land for a fee and the home of the slaves.

Let's get Dumb!

Those are lyrics to an E-40 song. He is of course the popular rap star from the Bay Area whose lyrics about getting dumb reference the dance that is associated with the so-called "Hyphie" hip/hop movement that has its roots in the San Francisco, Bay Area. Although many people dismiss these types of lyrics as simply "having a good time" we should probably take a few minutes to examine the ideas behind the lyrics closer. Its important to do so because we don't want to reduce the concept of getting dumb to E-40 and hip/hop. Our youth already carry so much blame for the condition of African people when in reality, they are not responsible for any of the ills the African population faces. Instead, we want to talk here about the ideological concept of information, its proper use, and why and how intellectualism has become to be viewed as a fatal disease by many sectors of the population.

Let's start by clarifying that we would much rather talk here and now about the struggle in Somalia, Darfur, Sudan, Ethiopia, Southern Africa, the labor struggle in Guinea, the continued fight to protect and grow the Cuban revolution, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc., etc., etc. We won't talk about any of those or related topics today because before we can have more effective information flow on those very important topics, we have to address this dirty four letter word that is so essential to us being able to advance as a human population; READ. Yes, the concept of sitting down, taking out a serious book (not a novel, magazine, or comic book), studying its pages, and developing an analytical understanding of the topic being studied and any topic from which a person takes an interest in understanding.

The world today is dominated by the capitalist/imperialist profit over people network which is led by the multi-national corporations of the U.S. This system strives on keeping people ignorant. Ignorance is a critical component of capitalism because the system maintains its dominance through violence, manipulation, exploitation, lies, terrorism, and a level of evil that people could never sanction if they understood what takes place daily with their tax dollars and in their name. Consequently, the system has to insure ignorance is maintained as the dominant ideology so that it can continue to nurture its exploitative relationship to the world's populations. This has been accomplished by making the studying of ideas unpopular. Instead, the citizenry is programmed to seek self enjoyment immediately at all costs. We are taught it is against your interest to wait for self satisfaction and that anything that doesn't directly benefit your stimulus within 2 minutes is certainly not in your interest and a waste of your time. This explains the proliferation of drug use such as meth, weed, alcohol, and estascy. It also explains why the World Health Organization predicts that 97% of the U.S. population will be overweight by the year 2012 (because food has become another drug).

With the proliferation of cable and satellite television and the internet, people can achieve self satisfaction 24/7. You don't have to be interrupted by news, even worthless news. Instead, you can play video games, listen to mindless music, watch mindless immoral reality TV shows that teach us that it is perfectly ok to marry someone for money, take advantage of people for money, or do anything that requires you to see people as a means to an end. In fact, the message is that if you do these things, you will be rewarded. Intellectual ideas are discouraged and any discussion beyond the most superficial aspects of society is considered strange. Think about it. If you go to your job and start a discussion about American Idol, Marrying a Millionaire, the NBA, NFL, etc. No one would think anything of that. In fact, most of the people you encounter would have input about those shows from their perspective of watching them. On the other hand, if you state that you don't watch any of those shows, people will consider you strange and if you start a conversation challenging the U.S. real reason for confronting Somalia or North Korea, people will avoid you like the plague.

This ideology of product consumption and superficiality is very profitable for capitalism while insulating it from the type of critical analysis that will immediately expose its contradictions. Does any of this mean people shouldn't be able to enjoy themselves? Of course not. What it does mean is that somehow, someway, we have to figure out a way to encourage people that critical study is a good thing. This is the essential point because even many of the so-called activists are very guilty of a very poor ideological foundation which contributes to the eventual gradual acceptance of capitalist ideology. An example of this is someone like the late Leroy Eldridge Cleaver who in the 1960s denounced capitalism and who in the 1980s was a spokesperson for reactionary capitalist ideology. For those who would turn their nose up at Mr. Cleavers radical transformation, there are much more subtle examples that we see everyday. One is the gradual acceptance that African people should accept some responsibility for their oppression and that token advancement has become some sort of demonstration of progress for Africans within the capitalist system. Equally insidious, and hand in hand with that confusion, is the also subtle suggestion that institutions that exist specifically to oppress African and other poor people, like police agencies, are somehow legitimate and to be respected. Anyone who makes these types of insane arguments cannot be engaging in consistent revolutionary ideological development. All revolutionary thinkers know the history of police agencies and the purpose of their existence. We know that the people will never have the same interests as the police, regardless of how good a person an individual police officer may be.

Of course, if someone is confused they will convince themselves that their new found "balanced" perspective of capitalist institutions is some sort of new developing ideology when in fact, it is nothing more than another example of how imperialism dumbs down the citizens of the planet to believe in its institutions.

For those who want true revolutionary change the time is now more than ever to encourage people to study. Nothing else is more important. We cannot stop people's suffering until people understand the problems we are facing, the reasons we are having these problems, and the people behind the source of these problems. People have to understand the role of power in keeping people oppressed and why power is essential to changing the suffering conditions some people have. People have to learn that power alone doesn't corrupt provided the masses of people have it because the masses of people, properly organized, are the greatest protectors of fairness and equality in the society. The first step to all of this is organized study to combat this ignorance that is so dominant today and that has to start with the so-called old guard who claim to understand the contradictions in this society. Many of these people haven't picked up a book and read it in years and it shows in their weak analysis of current conditions.

So for those who still strive to defeat imperialism, don't be discouraged the next time you run into someone who formally believed revolution was the solution, but who now believes Obama will solve the problems. Instead, start a study group and stick with it. One of the most revolutionary things we can do right now is develop our ability to think critically. Once people know how to think critically, they will act critically and once people act critically, capitalism's days are numbered. Next time, we will discuss socialism in great detail since this principled system is very rarely discussed today, even by the so-called people who claim to support it. We will discuss why socialism is a very positive thing for the majority of the world's population. Its as Bob Marley said in his prophetic song "soon we'll find out who is, the real revolutionary..."

The Fourth of the Lie

Here we are again... Looking at this year's annual lie filled story about the 4th of July representing freedom and independence for people living in the U.S. The lie will be presented in true imperialist patriotic fashion, complete with a smothering blanket of propaganda designed to tie the useless deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghani citizens and hundreds of U.S. service people to this fabrication about protecting U.S. democracy.

News flash: The U.S. wasn't founded on freedom and democracy and those things are not facets of this system today. The U.S. was founded on the exploitation of labor which was initially European labor along with Indiginous labor, and most prominantly in the South, African labor from the chattal slave system. Since the original U.S. system which was organized through the signing and institutionalization of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was all about protecting the land rights of white men, this set in motion the initial wealth of white people in the U.S. Since this wealth was based on land and was transferred down, it institutionalized the disparity between white wealth and the lack of wealth of people of color and poor whites (who worked to provide wealth for the wealthy white emerging classes). So, white people today, who have generations of land ownership, if you check that history in each case closely, there is no question that at some point, that land ownership is tied to the exploitation of folks. This is why the majority of wealthy folks are white and the majority of poor folks are not white. It has nothing to do with hard work as the African, Latino, Asian, and poor white folks have worked harder than most wealthy white people would ever imagine possible. This isn't democracy and it certainly isn't freedom. Instead, its capitalism and that's what you celebrate every July 4th.

To underscore the point that 7/4 is all about wealthy white people, all you have to do is do the math. Since the D/I was signed in 1776, we know that chattal slavery as an institution continued in full form for another 87 years until 1863. If you count the segregation period of continued exploitation, that is another 102 years until the Civil Rights legislation of 1965 which outlawed "legal" segregation. If you understand capitalist exploitation, then you continue to realize that this still continues so there is certainly no merit for any African or logically thinking person of any nationality to consider July 4th a day of freedom. Instead, at best, it can be what it really is; a day for rich white people and the wealthy people of color who apologize for capitalism to celebrate their continued dominance of the world's resources and benefits from the exploitation of the majority of the world's populations.

We strongly suggest that those who celebrate this July 4th enjoy that party to the fullest because last call is coming soon. That party is in its final hour. Everything happening in the world today; from the economic slowdown in capitalist countries, to the rise of countries like North Korea and Iran in challenging imperialist hegemony. Its not a question of whether everything about Iran and North Korea's positions are correct. Especially since uncle sam the pimp is in no moral position to question the legitimacy of any claim for justice. Its a question of understanding that people are no longer going to permit uncle sam to run buckwild controlling all of the world's resources for the capitalist countries while the majority of people suffer in silence.

We celebrate the true progress of human existence. This can never be represented by false claims to justice as those made by the apologists for capitalist and imperialist exploitation. This can only be accomplished by the mass organization and forward movement of all justice loving peoples of the planet. As that progress continues, the Fourth of the Lie will continue to be exposed for what it is, the justification of rich white supremacy and the statement of continued exploitation of the planet.

The Legacy of Kwame Ture (formally Stokely Carmichael)

June 29th marks the birthday of Kwame Ture who most people still know as Stokely Carmichael. The capitalist media defines Kwame as a former organizer and chairperson for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Prime Minister for the Black Panther Party during the middle and late 1960s. Then, as is typical with capitalist media, they provide no further information until they report to you that Kwame died in November 1998.

With such a weak source of infomration, you are led to believe people like Kwame are has beens who made some noise 40 years ago and basically spent the rest of their lives living off of the reputation they established in the 1960s. Most people fall for this confusion because of a lack of understanding about history. For example, people today believe that South Africa is an independent country free of apartheid because of the spiritual presence of Nelson Mandela. Most people know nothing about the relationship of Southern Africa today to the role of Che Guevara and the Cuban presence in the Congo after the illegal overthrow and murder of Patrice Lumumba in the mid 60s. It was that initial Cuban presence in the Congo that contributed to the later Cuban presence in assisting the liberation of Guinea-Bissau from European colonialism and the 10 year assistance of Cuban troops in overthrowing the colonial presence in Angola. It was the victory of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which could not have happened without Cuban military assistance, that weakened the South African regime and helped pave the way for Zimbabwean independence and ultimately, the fall of settler colonialism in Azania, South Africa.

When we look at the life of Kwame Ture, we have to closely examine the last 30 years of his life which were spent in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa as an organizer member of the Democratic Party of Guinea and the All African People's Revolutionary Party. Kwame spent those years helping develop the theoretical foundation of the African revolution as articulated by his mentor; Kwame Nkrumah in the Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, the textbook for Pan-Africanism.

Kwame's last 30 years was also spent laying out the foundation for the actual building of an All African Committee for Political Coordination which is the primary organizing mechanism to bring about Pan -Africanism which Nkrumah defined as the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. I remember when I first joined the All African People's Revolutionary Party in 1984, the party had basically one organizer and presence in Africa. That was Kwame's physical presence in Guinea. Today, the A-APRP has an active organizing presence in several African areas including Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Azania, South Africa, and Zimbabwe with contacts and work taking place in other areas of Africa as well. Kwame made his physical transition 11 years ago, but today the A-APRP is actively working to make Nkrumah's prediction about an All African Committee for Political Coordination come true. This committee will pave the way for a true A-APRP which is the life blood of the African revolutionary transformation to scientific socialism.

This theoretical and practical advancement of the African revolution can be gauged by looking at Kwame's work from 1968 to 1998 in Africa while also broadening your mind to understand the work of the A-APRP. At this stage of the struggle, the A-APRP's primary objective is to increase the political consciousness of the African masses to pave the way for a revolutionary consciousness which paves the way for a dominant revolutionary culture which will facilitate revolutionary change.

This is probably the most widely misunderstood aspect of the A-APRP's present program. Possibly, we just are not at the point where people can truly appreciate the necessity to achieve revolutionary consciousness before we can make any mass progress. Possibly, people just don't agree that the masses are the true makers of history so if the masses are not conscious, change can never occur. I'm not sure exactly what that answer is, but I think its a safe bet that Kwame's most important contribution to African and human progress took place between 1968 and 1998, the period where he was absent from the capitalist media. Not the period of 1966 to 1969 when he was in the capitalist media every day. RIP Kwame Ture and long live the African revolution!!!!!

U.S. Spies for Cuba? Please! Just Tell Us Anything!

The U.S. State Department has now announced that they have arrested Kendall and Gwen Myers, two high level state department employees, and charged them with providing classified information to the Cuban government for the last 30 years. This allegation has come with the usual full assortment of lies and propaganda about how the ugly enemies of America, who are jealous of the wonderful freedom that capitalism provides, are working overtime to sabatoge American democracy.

Of course, the U.S. version of this story will focus exclusively on the above premise that the U.S. is somehow wronged and betrayed in this story. Of course, the truth that the U.S. government has initiated, supported, financed, and perpetuated acts of illegal espionage, sabatoge, murder, and mischief against the Cuban Revolution since its inception in 1959. This sabatoge was amped up in 1962 (when the Cuban Revolution declared its intentions to build a socialist revolutionary system) with the imposition of the now 47 year old illegal political and economic stranglehold embargo against Cuba.

Beyond the embargo, what you won't hear in mainstream capitalist media is the truth about who is the spy and who is the victim as it rpertains to U.S. and Cuban relations. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC, can say whatever they want to propagate the capitalist perspective of the Myers story, but no matter what they can accuse the Myers couple of doing, or even what the Myers couple may have actually done, it pales in comparison to the vicious nature of sabatoge the U.S. has engaged in against Cuba for 50 years. Even the Iran/Contragate hearings over a decade ago revealed the criminal nature of the U.S. government when evidence was presented (to substantiate the U.S. illegal activity in Nicaragua as a result of illegal gunrunning with Iran) that the CIA worked with the American Mafia to organize over three dozen assassination attempts against the life of Fidel Castro. These attempts included sending people illegally into Cuba and having those people attempt to poison Castro's food, his cigars, locate and shoot him, and sabatoge government activities. There is now clear evidence that efforts were made to destory Cuban crops, illegally sabatoge medical research, sell drugs to Cuban citizens, and foment false opposition against the Cuban government. Even these heinous activities proved minimal compared to the support given to terrorists who conducted illegal and deadly operations against the Cuban people. These efforts included the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1977 that killed 73 people. This act was masterminded by Luis Carrilles Posada, a disgruntled terrorist in South Florida who currently lives in comfort on the dime of the U.S. taxpayers.

Then, there is the continued illegal radio and television propaganda that is beamed daily into Cuba in violation of international law. This, along with the continued illegal plane incursions into Cuba b y U.S. supported anti-revolution terrorists who bomb sovereign Cuba terroritory represents the systematic efforts to destabilize the Cuban Revolution. These types of examples could be given for pages and pages, but the point is that clearly, it is the U.S. government, and not Cuba, who is, and has always been, the instigator of espionage. As a result, anything anyone is doing on behalf of the Cuban government, whether it is the Myers, the Cuban 5, or even everyday people in the U.S. who simply desire justice, is just to try and give Cuba a chance against the big imperialist bully from the north.

But then, we know that the bully always perpetuates the myth that it is they who are under attack.

African Liberation Day 2009

African Liberation Day (ALD) is about peace and justice loving people in the world coming together to commemorate the struggles for a righteous world. This means that although ALD is specifically the struggle of African people (Black people) to regain our self determination on a worldwide level. ALD acknowledges that African people are humanist and support all just people's struggles. That means the struggles of the peoples of Europe, and even poor white people in the U.S., and of course the struggles of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, the struggles of the Asian peoples, Arabs, and all other segments of the human family.

ALD is about acknowledging that woman are full human beings, not physical commodities, who should be supported in their efforts to regain their dignity and self respect. ALD is about acknowledging people are more important than profits. That socialist development really means, free education, free healthcare, free childcare, a guaranteed job, housing expenses being no more than 10% of your income by law, and making sexism, racism, and other ills illegal. ALD is about recognizing that any person with common sense would at least want to examine the benefits of having those things in society.

ALD is about acknowledging the primacy of Africa and that Africa must be redeemed after centuries of exploitation. The core of the problem of African self sufficiency is in the redemption of Africa, not the U.S.

Finally, ALD is about acknowledging that the despite relative difficulties on some levels in recent months, life for citizens in the U.S. and the other industrialized countries is built and maintained on the exploitation of the majority of the world's populations and this has got to stop! The only way to stop it is through organized revolution because the forces who set up this system will never relinquish power without the demand of the revolutionary force to take it from them.

ALD 09 is being organized by the All African People's Revolutionary Party throughout Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Other organizations like the African People's Socialist Party are also organizing ALD commemorations. Unlike some of the pronouncements from people allegedly speaking for the APSP, the A-APRP will never set trip and denounce any organization's efforts to organize the people for liberation. We encourage people to support the APSP and all formations making an effort for positive social change. We encourage people to join the A-APRP, APSP, and all organizations working for change and we charge that anyone who doesn't understand the necessity of functional unity today is either the enemy or stupid because they are doing the work of the enemy for free.

On the West Coast of the U.S. the A-APRP invites you to attend ALD in Oakland, California on Saturday, May 30th from noon to 6pm at Bobby Hutton Park (Defermery Park) in West Oakland. For more info, call 510-669-9894

Swine Flu? What Concerns Should We Really Have?

In April 2009, we find ourselves in the midst of an international panic over the apparent spread of the swine flu. Mexico has approximately 160 deaths in recent weeks that have been attributed to this alleged swine flu outbreak. The disease has surfaced in several countries, including the U.S., Canada, and other technologically developed countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that the disease has pandemic potential. Since the primary objective of the capitalist media is to sell the story, not to educate, there is very little useful information going out to people about swine flu beyond encouraging people to wash their hands several times a day.

We know that swine flu is an influenza caused by a virus that usually infects pigs. The existence of this disease in human beings was virtually unheard of before 2009. In fact, according to the WHO, transmission from pigs to humans is so uncommon that before the current outbreak, there had only been about 50 recorded transmissions from pigs to humans in the last 60 years. When this transmission takes place, it is called the transmission of the zoonotic swine flu.

We also know that the strain currently grabbing headlines is a much more virulent strain than previously known. It is a virus subtype called the H1NI. Scientists are claiming that this 2009 strain has evidently surfaced as a result of a previously unprecedented combination of human influenza, avian (bird) influenza, and two separate strains of swine flu. The World Organization of Animal Health is reporting that the H1NI strain transmits much easier from pigs to humans than previously known strains of swine flu.

As can be expected, the WHO and all of the national health organizations such as the Center of Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S. have no idea what caused the violent mutation from traditionally known strains of swine flu to the H1NI strain that is apparently threatening pandemic levels now. Again, since ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and all the other CIA networks are in business primarily to sensationalize news to get you to watch so they can sell advertising space for higher premiums, as usual, the critical questions that should be asked right now are not being asked. The critical questions are not just how you can avoid catching swine flu right now. That's obviously the most pressing concern in this emotionally charged and nurtured environment in which information flows in a capitalist society, but the critical questions go far beyond just survival from the latest human menace. Swine flu poses a threat to human beings that it has never posed before. Why in 2009, are we faced with unprecedented mutations of swine flu, HIV, and other diseases? Why does everyone know one or more persons who have contacted cancer when 40 years ago that disease was unheard in comparison to current levels. Why does everyone today know someone with Altsheimers disease or dementia when 30 years ago these diseases were virtuely unknown?

We are not prepared today to provide answers to these questions, but we can provide critical food for thought. We believe that you would either have to be a terribly naive person or a proudly ignorant one to think that the recent proliferations of all of these pandemics and problems is just a coincidence. This point isn't to suggest that there is some secret society plotting against the people of the planet. We are not arguing that Skull & Bones, the Tri-Lateral Commission, or even the Council of Foreign Relations are planning to thin out the world's populations (although all of those groups play significant roles in causing stress and oppression for the majority of the world's people). The suggestion here is that the systematic and exploitative nature of the imperialist system permits it to cause human suffering just by the very mechanisms of its existence. Want an example? Corporations produce products as cheaply as possible in order to maximize profits. As a result, deadly chemicals are disposed of as cheaply as possible. Just like some of you may decide to dump motor oil into the sewer instead of paying to take that motor oil to an authorized recycling station, corporations decide to dump toxic chemicals into water ways in areas where they are least likely to get penalized for doing so. This standard practice has created toxic conditions in primarily technologically underdeveloped countries like Mexico, and in poor neighborhoods throughout the U.S. It would be foolish to assume that the influx of these toxic chemicals does not have some devastating impact on the human DNA of the people who inhabit the planet. By the same token, corporations use the same cost cutting measures (to maximize profits) to make food products as cheaply as possible. As a result, chemicals that are not compatible to human chemistry are being pumped full scale into processed foods that are consumed by millions of people daily. These toxic foods make up the nurtitional foundation of millions of children until their toxic substance begins to break down the bodies natural strengths and immunities (which makes us more susceptible to disease). Again, it would be terribly naive for anyone to believe this is not happening on a mass scale.

So, to summarize, we are not prepared to say where swine flu, AIDs, cancer, dementia, or any of these ills originates from. We are prepared to say that people need to stop listening to and expecting the spokespersons for evil to tell us the truth as it relates to our wellbeing. The capitalist news outlets are nothing more than mouthpieces for international imperialism. We need to talk to each other, recognize trends, and spread information to organize ourselves to solve these problems. We need to learn to not react emotionally to problems, or to attempt to ignore any problem we can't handle on an emotional level, but to learn to critically study problems and come to logical solutions that will benefit humanity.

The martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On April 4th, 1968, at approximately 6pm Central standard time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered by assassin(s) at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn. The government version of the story is that Dr. King was murdered by an individual assassin named James Earl Ray. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) characterized Ray as a white supremacist who killed Dr. King to cease King's integration work. The FBI points to the alleged story that Ray was captured on his way to South Africa to seek refuge in that apartheid society.

The true facts about Dr. King's murder are quite contrary to the FBI's "official" version. First we must start by saying it is a typical FBI tactic to produce a story and continue to tell that story until it is accepted as the official version of events, although no real evidence is ever produced to substantiate that story. This was the FBI's tactic in the frame up of Marcus Garvey, the murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, the murder of Annie Mae Aquash and other American Indian Movement activists, and the accusation that Saudi citizens carried out the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington D.C.

The facts in the Dr. King case are that King had clearly moved beyond fighting for integration. His work in the movement had advanced his consciousness to the point where he understood that African people, other people of color, and poor white people, are oppressed in the U.S. because of the unequal and oppressive nature of the capitalist system. This consciousness was consistently born out in King's later speeches, including the landmark "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" speech he delivered on 4/4/67, exactly one year before he was murdered. In that speech, King articulately attacked the capitalist system as the cause of human suffering around the world. He proclaimed the necessity to redistribute wealth (read socialism) and he called the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet Earth." It was speeches like this one that probably signed Dr. King's death warrant since his stature as a national and international leader for political/economic, and social justice certainly reasoned that people were listening to his passioned and scientific attacks against the system.

The FBI, as well as the Memphis police, have of course never been able to explain by the African police officers organization, which had volunteered to serve as Dr. King's private security during his time in Memphis, were forced to relinquish their station as Dr. King's security. They never explained why the African police association was removed and not replaced with any security as had been agreed upon. The police agencies also quickly denied the claims that a shooter was sighted in the bushy area behind the Lorraine Hotel by several witnesses, but the FBI and police have never explained why that bushy area was cleared, on orders by the Memphis police, the very next day after Dr. King's murder. A very unusual occurrence in any situation when charges are made about any area that clearly represented an evidence zone. Finally, the police never explained why they never interviewed any of the witnesses who saw the bush shooter or military personnel who were spying on Dr. King from an adjacent building.

Its a pretty clear picture that Dr. King was murdered by the U.S. government by way of the military in an effort to eliminate his leadership in the movement for social justice in the U.S. In the U.S. military warped sense of right versus wrong, Dr. King was no doubt viewed as a threat to U.S. security because of his calls, and the active audience he commanded, in changing the essential structure of the U.S. capitalist system.

Dr. King was murdered because he stood up for justice and his martyrdom should serve as a message to all of us not to be easily bought in the horse and pony show that is displayed every third week in January. Dr. King is not a person who is celebrated by the U.S. government. Were he alive today, he wouldn't be impressed with the tokenism represented by the election of Obama. He would point our attention to the mass suffering still being experienced as policy by the masses of poor and working people in the U.S. and by the majority of people around the world due to the policies of the capitalist/imperialist network. For that reason, we have to honor Dr. King properly by going beyond the rhetoric and speaking truth to power about the necessity to continue Dr. Kings call for fundamental changes to capitalist exploitation once and for all.

Uncle Sam the Pimp and the Myth of 9/11

Its not uncommon in 2009 for people to question the validity of the U.S. government's version of events that took place on September 11, 2001. Of course, you should know that the All African People's Revolutionary Party (and other revolutionary and progressive forces) have said since the planes hit that day that the event was the work of the U.S. government and nothing and nobody else. Eight years later, acknowledge the following facts:

1. The FBI originally named the attackers as Saudis. The CIA repeated it as fact, but no
evidence of this beyond those two claims has ever been produced.

2. The only proof of identity of the so-called attackers was the passports that supposedly fell
87 floors from the WTC inspite of the fact the planes, bodies, etc, disintergrated in the blast.

3. The U.S. government has never explained why no air defense was launched when the planes
veered off course.

4. Al-Queda has absolutely no history of carrying out anything even half way on the scale of 9/11

5. Iran/Contra Gate, Operation Mongoose (Kennedy assassination), etc., the U.S. government
has a long history of internal coups, plots, and other sabotage to achieve political objectives.

There are numerous other examples and countless books that address these issues. The point here is that 9/11 was simply the result of high level multi-national corporate decision makers with the cooperation of high level officials within the U.S. government. Osama bin-Laden, a former CIA trainee, had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. Al Queda had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 and top level U.S. officials are 100% clear about that.

The purpose of 9/11 was simply to create a national sense of shock and outrage that would pave the way for imperialism to carry out its dasturdly plans in Afghanistan and Iraq. Plans that were focused on controlling the oil and political direction of an entire region of the planet.

As we move past the 6th year commemoration of the illegal war in Iraq and the 8th anniversary of the illegal war in Afghanistan, remember that we are talking about the U.S. government here. The only thing the U.S. government won't do is tell the truth. Thousands of Iraqis and Afghans are dead along with thousands of U.S. young men and women who were lied to in order to get them to commit to U.S. military service. On this commemoration of this tragedy, we call upon everyone to spread the word that Uncle Sam is the world's most vicious and barbaric criminal pimp. Whatever bin-Laden has ever done (and we don't speak of him in a positive sense), its peanuts compared to the terror being passed on a daily basis in the name of the U.S. people. Let someone know you can't be prostituted that easily!

Neo-colonialism in Africa - from 1966 to 2009!!

February 24th, 2009 marks the 43rd commemoration of the barbaric and illegal overthrow of the Convention People's Party (CPP) in Ghana, West Africa. The CPP and its popular president; Kwame Nkrumah, were overthrown on 2/24/1966 by the self proclaimed "National Liberation Council (NLC)."

On March 6, 1957, no one in the CPP government could imagine that the euphoria that swept Ghana, Africa, and all of the technologically underdeveloped world would be muted a scant 9 years later. 3/6/57 signaled Ghana's independence from Britain. Newly elected Prime Minister Nkrumah proudly announced during independence ceremonies that Ghana's independence was meaningless without Africa's complete political and economic independence. From that moment forward, Nkrumah worked to fulfill that promise. His commitment to Pan-Africanism is clearly illustrated by his actions while president of Ghana. His government trained many revolutionaries who would come to play important roles in Africa's development such as cadre from the Zimbabwe African National Union, including Robert Mugabe. Ghana played a key role, albet somewhat manipulated in hindsight, in attempting to defuse the tragic events during the imperialist takeover of the Congo in 1961, and Ghana's efforts to assist other newly independent countries such as Guinea and Mali deserve recognition.

Nkrumah invited Africans from the Caribbean and North America such as George Padmore, W.E.B and Shirley Graham Dubois, Alphahus Hunton, Julian Mayfield, and others to play central roles in the Accra government. And, while the CPP was in power, Ghana embarked upon strategies to improve the infrastructure of the country in the areas of technological development, improvement of roads, and education that have not been equaled up to present day.

Of course, a fair question is if the CPP and Nkrumah were such a positive force in Ghana, how was it possible for them to be so easily overthrown? The answer is in the diabolical conniving of imperialism. Colonialism made Africa poor and Ghana is no exception. One thing the imperialists understand is that since revolutions take time to reverse the oppression trends of an exploitative regime, revolution depends upon its ability to win the hearts and minds of the people to support the revolution while the transformation takes place. So, if imperialism can do anything to interfere with the revolution's efforts to maintain the people's support, imperialism will do it and these people think nothing of lying, manipulating, creating sabotage, and committing outright murder to achieve those destabilization efforts. This is exactly what happened in Ghana. Imperialism aided the so-called NLC by assisting in setting up radio stations and other propaganda that promoted the backward and untrue concepts that the CPP and Nkrumah were stashing Ghanian currency away in Swiss banks. The fact that there was a very low level of ideological development among the cadre in the CPP, and in fact, massive corruption did exist (so much so that this is probably one of the reasons Nkrumah had so many Africans born outside of Ghana as his government inner circle), did much to buoy the claims of the imperialist puppets of the NLC. Since that low level of ideological development existed in Ghanian society as a whole, many people didn't understand why so many of Ghana's resources had to go to liberation movements and governments outside Ghana. Imperialism of course did everything it could to highlight this fact and that many of Ghana's citizens had very little while resources were being diverted to assist "communist" efforts in other countries.

Ironically, in Janurary of 1965, Ghanian intelligence sources advised the visiting Malcolm X that their sources had confirmed that the U.S. government had plans to assist in the murder of Malcolm when he returned to the U.S. Of course the Ghanian sources were correct, but they were unfortunately unable to create a storng enough intelligence effort to derail their own demise one short year later.

The NLC won enough support through its propaganda efforts and empty promises to successfully overthrow Nkrumah's government while Nkrumah was attempting to visit Southeast Asia to lend his efforts to helping end the war there. Now that 40+ years have passed we can survey the facts of this illegal overthrow. Fact one is the claim that Nkrumah had money stashed away has been proven to be bogus. In fact, its ironic that Nkrumah died with practically nothing while receiving medical assistance in Romania in 1972. Fact two is that the U.S. central intelligence agency played a pivotal role in assisting in the overthrow of Nkrumah's government. Fact three is that it was indeed the members of the so-called NLC, which was deposed of by the Ghanian military just a few short years later, that had been stashing money away in European banks.

The legacy of Nkrumah and the CPP is clearly outlined in Nkrumah's classic books "Class Struggle in Africa" and "The Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare." After the overthrow, Nkrumah was warmly received in the unprecedented effort by the Guinean people to make him president of Guinea. Nkrumah refused that distinction and was thus made co-president by equally Pan-Africanist Sekou Ture of Guinea. From 1966 until his death in 1972, Nkrumah spent time in Guinea writing about what he had learned while being in Ghana and since being deposed as that country's leader. He realized that although colonialism had left Africa, neo-colonialism, or the replacement of the European masters by trained African slave puppets (listen you Obama people) had become the system in which Africa would continue to be ruled by European capitalist interests. This is still the method that is utilized in Africa today. All of the conflicts in Africa; from the Eritrean/Ethiopian/Somalian conflict, to Darfur/Sudan, to Central Africa, etc., can be directly traced to the insidious efforts of neo-colonialism.

When you look at today's conflicts in Africa, if you study the legacy of Nkrumah and the CPP, his words warning us about neo-colonialism ring louder today than they did in 1968!

Remembering Malcolm X? Join an Organization working for justice!

February is the month to commemorate the martyrdom of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz; better known as Malcolm X. On February 21, 1965, at approximately 1:30pm at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York, Malcolm was gunned down by men who were more than likely affiliated with the Newark, New Jersey Mosque of the Nation of Islam. We know that the FBI had informants at the very top level of the Nation of Islam. We know that these informants made it a priority to sabotage Malcolm's relationship with the NOI, isolate Malcolm, and set him up to be murdered. So, it may be accurate to say these men were affiliated with the NOI, but we know it was the U.S. government that manipulated and engineered the murder of brother Malcolm. Or, as Amiri Baraka puts it "Black men may have fired the guns, but they didn't buy the bullets."

So, 44 years after Malcolm's murder where do we place Malcolm? Is he a speech snipet sayhing "By any means necesary" over and over? Is he a tee shirt? Is he a sample on a rap record? For the younger generations, is he simply Denzil Washington's portrayal of him? Or, is he someone the youth will increasingly not know at all? Well, there are many of us who know who Malcolm was. He was a principled man who was dedicated to fighting for justice. He was a soldier who could not be compromised. His ability to take the complex nature of the capitalist/imperialism system and break down its contradictions in a common everyday humorous fashion that has influenced all those who emerged after him like Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael), Jamil Al Amin (H Rap Brown), Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Maulana Karenga, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Kathleen Cleaver, Bob Marley, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Minister Ava Muhammad (and practically every minister in the NOI), and thousands of soldiers for justice of each gender and every nationality. His ability to analyze the cause of urban rebellions, international imperialism in Vietnam, Cuba, Africa, and elsewhere, and the African right to self determination is still studied by revolutionaries today.

Kwame Ture used to say that the best way to honor someone like Malcolm was to continue his work. This approach makes sense. If you have a relationship with someone and the both of you say you love each other, if your significant other only tells you they love you with no action to back that up, after a short while, you will be done with that person. This is a universal aspect of life. You can't say you love Malcolm, or anyone who struggled or struggles for justice, if you aren't doing anything to assist that work. You can't solve the problem as an individual because you will die and then what becomes of your contribution? The only way the problem can be solved is through mass organization. So, if you truly respect Malcolm, the only way to properly honor his memory is to join some organization fighting for justice and work to make that organization a positive force for social change. You can't do this by being the "Malcolm X of the police force" as an African pig once told me. That's absurd. We can't make Malcolm what we want him to be. He was a soldier for justice against imperialism. You can't be that while being an armed enforcer for imperialism? Join an organization working for justice. Do it today and don't stop until you die. When we are ready to do that, we will bring Malcolm's vision to reality. Let's get to work!

Why what's Right seems Wrong and what's Wrong seems Right?

The late Kwame Ture was fond of saying "capitalism makes things that should make sense crazy and things that should be crazy make sense." Does that seem like a silly statement to you? Think about it. I have often asked high school and other young audiences in recent presentations the same question. When they scoffed, I gave them an analogy to work with. On their campus, I asked them to visualize their quad where everyone gathers. I told them that if I was out there with a microphone and speakers; talking about how we all needed to get together and organize to end hunger, substandard education, health care issues, and the exploitation of the planet, about 99.9% of them would either pretend they didn't hear me as they walked by, or they would make fun of me. An example of what should make sense being made to appear crazy. On the other hand, I told them, if I was on that same microphone with any semblance of lyrical ability, and I began by playing music and rapping that all the B - - - -s and H -- es and N - - - as should come to the stage, I would be certain to get an excited group to come and surround me. A clear example of what should be crazy being made to make sense.

Well, you can use Kwame's statement to analyze the world we live in today on many fronts. In North America, the Indigenous people to this hemisphere, whose lands have been stolen from them, are now either forced to live in substandard "reservations" on their land, or treated like, and called "illegal aliens" for attempting free movement across their own terrorities. Meanwhile, the descendents of the bandits who stole the land in the first place walk around as if they have God's right to the territory. Clearly, this is something that should be crazy that is being presented as if it makes sense.

The Palestinian people, violently removed from their land and repressed to no end, rise up to resist this terrorist oppression, and their organizations like Hamas are labeled as terrorists while the Europeans who stole their land and maintain that theft are called "the peaceful partners of the Middle East" by the African president of amerikkka? Those are two examples of things that are crazy, but are presented over and over as if they make sense.

On the other hand, there are examples all over the place that illustrate how what should make sense is made to seem crazy. Today it is a fact that Austrailia and New Zealand are societies there were started when Britain unloaded its criminal and unwanted elements to each terroritory. Also, Britain, amerikkka, and racist South Africa conspired and supported the illegal zionist movement to strengthen it to steal Palestine from the Palestinian people and declare that legally Arab country as a so-called "Jewish" state. Now, they have even rewritten the United Nations history of that theft by erasing all of the resolutions that originally and correctly called the theft what it was, a racist grab of land.

Now, Africans, are scattered and suffering in dozens of countries today due to slavery and colonialism. We are unable to recognize each other as family when we meet each other from the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. We speak Arabic, French, Spanish, English, Wolof, Mandinka, Yao, Ga, Ashanti, Tegrinian, and a host of other languages, but yet we cannot recognize and talk to one another. Clearly the source of our problems lies in the process that split us up, kidnapped us, and scattered us across the globe. Plus, we have the historical right to reclaim Africa that doesn't exist in the examples of Austrialia, New Zealand, or zionist occupied Palestine (so-called israel).

It should be painfully obvious to us that the logical thing for us to do is unite oursleves and reclaim our motherland - Africa, and rebuild her as the correct methodology to solve our problems that can't and won't be solved in Puerto Rico, the Dominican, Brazil, amerikkka, Canada, Britain, India, and even Africa. But, when someone suggests this unity which is Pan-Africanism, this solution, which should make total sense to us, is made to seem crazy. You go figure.....

Tribute to Patrice Lumumba, Bunchy Carter, and John Huggins

Many people are thinking this weekend about the contribution and sacrifice of the apostle of peace, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As you are besieged this weekend with reactionary propaganda about Dr. King and the same old tired "I have a Dream" speech snipet, make sure that you remember, and pass on to the youth, that Dr. King was a courageous soldier for justice. He would never agree with Obama's dishonest statements in support of racist, zionist israeli terrorism against the Palestinian people. He would never have agreed with amerikkka's naked terrorism against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. If you don't believe that, do something profound today, study the words of Dr. King himself! Study his famous "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" speech from 4/4/67. Do that, and you will have to understand that the work of Dr. King and the agenda of amerikkka are diametically opposed to one another.

It is in that spirit that we take time to acknowledge that 48 years ago today, January 17, 1961, the hopes and dreams of the Congo, Central Africa, were placed on an imperialist path of destruction that mirrors the struggles all of Africa endures even today. Lumumba and his National Congolese Movement (MNC), rose from the ranks of the people to win almost 80% of the legislative seats in the Congo and thus end Belgium's colonial rule in that country. This was a very significant blow to imperialism because the MNC was committed to nationalizing the Congo's massive mineral wealth of manganese, diamonds, uranium, gold, and many others, from the oppressive and exploitative grip of multinational Belgium, British, and amerikkkan corporations. Although imperialism always talks of supporting democracy, the Congo is only one of many examples where when it actually happened, since it wasn't in imperialist's interests, it had to be destroyed. The end result was imperialism destabilized the entire Central African region in a way that still has not been resolved. The resulting sabotage enacted a war in that region that eliminated basic social services like water supply, food distribution, functional school systems, and basic health care. Now today, those services are still non-existent in most parts of the Congo. It was only in 2007, that the country was able to even have a semblance of an election, the first since 1961! Lumumba was murdered by imperialist agents at the orders of U.S. intelligence, but his sacrifice and the sacrifice of all those who struggle for justice is not in vain! We remember Lumumba and all those who struggle today and we vow to continue their fight.

It is also in that spirit that we recognize that today is the 40th commemoration of the murder of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins. Bunchy and John were the leadership of the Los Angeles Black Panther chapter. They were murdered on 1/17/69 in Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus. One of many links between the murders of Dr. King, Brother Lumumba, and brothers Carter and Huggins was that all were facilitated by imperialist intelligence manipulation and sabotage. All with the expectation of derailing the progress these soldiers were making towards organizing African people against capitalist/imperialist exploitation.

We know that the best way you can honor persons is to carry on their work. We will carry the banner of these great Africans and we encourage you to do the same! Join an organization working for justice today! Don't complain about what organizations aren't doing. Don't criticize other people's efforts. Get involved, lower the electronic transmission of your ego, and make a commitment to be humble and work to organize humanity for justice. If we don't do this, we haven't learned anything from the sacrifices of those soldiers who came before us.

A pig is still a disgusting animal!

amerikkka's police agencies celebrated 2009 and the election of the country's first uncle tom president by blasting a young brother in Oaktown, California. Then, a few days later, a young brother in Bel Air, Houston, was gunned down after being incorrectly accused by disgusting gestapo pigs of stealing a vehicle.

Even you Obama fans must see the contradiction in pigs continuing to shoot Africans down like its lunch time while your presidential idol doesn't even broach the subject of police terrorism against African, Indigenous (Latino), Asian, Arab, and poor white people. It was just a couple of short months ago that the terrorist pigs who gunned down Sean Bell in New York with 50 bullets were freed and cleared of any wrongdoing. This phenomenon of racist pigs killing African people isn't difficult to understand. The dehumanization campaign against Africans has been waged nonstop for 500 years as a justification of exploiting Africa and her children. As a result, today, African life has very little value to anyone, including many Africans. Africans die like flies in Africa, the Caribbean, and even under Uncle Sam and no one blinks because our lives mean little since the capitalist power structure has trained everyone to think of us as sub-human (and to do it unconsciously).

Police terrorism works systematically. Police don't have quotas on who to arrest or shoot, but they obviously have to arrest someone in order to substantiate that they are productive. Since that is obvious, then the question becomes who will be shot and arrested? Clearly, not the children and citizens of the ruling classes and the bougsie segments of society. They operate under a diferent set of rules. That's why Dick Cheney can shoot someone in the face, not report it for days, and then the victim is his most outspoken first line of defense.

No, its us, the dispossessed who must, as the movie "Bowling for Columbine" reflected, placate the racist fears of people in the society that those dark criminal elements are being dealt with. This is accomplished by people of color being arrested and controlled by police agencies around the society. We are guilty until proven innocent. This is the only logical explanation why pigs could shoot an unarmed Sean Bell 50 times and escape punishment. This is the only reason by African continue to be shot down like dogs by racist police not just in Los Angeles or New York, but in every corner of the world.

The late Kwame Ture spoke correctly on this problem when he said "police terrorism results because the police represent the enforcers for the power structure. Therefore, it is only when the exploited become organized and rise up against police terrorism by organizing into contingents of revolutionary violence against the enforcers of capitalist repression. When this happens, the people will empower themselves against the state and you will have protracted revolutionary warfare until victory results in socialist construction and peace and progress for humanity."

israel is the real terrorist in the Middle East

The last few days of 2008 have been dominated by news of israeli airstrikes against the Palestinian area of the Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine, or what the capitalist media calls israel. Hundreds of innocent Palestinians have been killed in these airstrikes. The capitalist media staunchly defends israel's right to engage in these monsterous acts under the guise of "protecting israeli's security against terrorist attacks." Allegedly, the popularly elected Hamas government has been launching missile attacks against so-called southern israel.

This defense of israeli aggression is so outrageous, it defies common sense. Regardless of whether you know anything about Middle East politics, let's start with the basic assumption that the country you know as israel today was actually Palestine before 1948 (please reference your geography/history for confirmation). So, how did Palestine become israel? The answer is during the end of the 19th century, some dishonest Europeans from different parts of Europe organized a conference which was called the first zionist conference in Balse, Switzerland, in 1897. The term zion was selected because of its biblical translation to a movement to return home. These Europeans met and devised a plan to steal land for the purpose of empowerment. According to the memoirs of conference leader Theodore Herzl, the strategy to put a religious purpose behind the quest for land was agreed upon because that would give the quest legitimacy while permitting the scam to escape logical rationalization and remain within the context of emotional and spiritual purpose.

These early zionists, according to Herzl, admitted they were not particularly religious, but that this guise would assist them in their quest for land. The next question was which land to seize. Several possibilities were discussed at the conference. Countries like Uganda and Veneszuela had viability, but each had issues such as lack of water and/or landlock. Finally, the country of Palestine was chosen because of its strategic location in the Middle East and because its historical location and significance would make the religious aspect easier to implement. Around the turn to the 20th century, Europeans who considered themselves Jewish were encouraged to settle in areas of Palestine. Since practitioners of Judiaism saw persecution in areas of Europe like Russia and Germany, many of these white people began to pick up and move to settle in Palestine. The effort was aided by the organization of the zionists. In 1917, Chaim Weizman, then a leading zionist proponent, established a partnership with General Smuts, the prime minister over the racist South African dominance of the African peoples in Southern Africa. To this end, a relationship of support from racist South Africa to the zionist quest was established that would continue strongly in the areas of political and economic support well into the 1990s. During these early periods of the zionist movement. Many people were confused into believing that the zionist movement had sincere roots in its stated desire to establish a home for practitioners of Judiaism that would be free from persecution for the religious practice. This is the reason Weizman was able to solicit and receive support from the NAACP in the 1920s to sponsor his speaking tour to African audiences around the U.S. to support the zionist movement.

Settlements continued into Palestine inspite of increased resistance to the forced settlements by the Palestinian people. In 1933, the Third Reich and its young leader Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. The Nazi persecution of its Jewish citizens is well documented and so its not a surprise that the overwhelming sympathy for the suffering incurred by these people during the Nazi rule resulted in overwhelming support for the zionist movement after Hitler's defeat. So, just three short years after the end of world war II, imperialist world support was so adamently in favor of this zionist state that the zionists were able to declare a seizure of the state from the Palestinian people in 1948 and the country was renamed israel with all of the support of the imperialist international community such as the governments of Western Europe, the U.S., and South Africa.

Fast forward to 2009. The Palestinians have been repressed and reduced to being forced to flee to the surrounding Arab countries. There are just the small areas of occupied Palestine where Palesinians are permitted to live like the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and less and less frequently, the Golan Heights. A couple of years ago, the more radical Hamas, a group committed to Islam and Palestinian self-determination, was elected the majority of the seats in the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. This reflected the frustration of the Palestinian people with the suffering they have endured and a willingness to accept, as Malcolm X often taught - "that extreme conditions require extreme solutions." Of course, the imperialist countries have never accepted Hamas legitimate victory or the desire of the Palestinian people to be free. The imperialist press has spent the last 60 years denying the suffering of the Palestinian people. Denying the destruction reaped upon them. Denying their lack of access to basic human rights and dignity.

So, we ask you several questions to properly understand this issue:

1. If someone kicks you out of your house, and you fight to get it back using whatever means are
at your disposal, how does that make you the terrorist?

2. Since Judiaism is a religion, like Christianity and Islam, how does a person establish a nationa-
lity based on religion since people from any nationality can belong to any religion? Also, how
is it that it is commonly accepted today that you can be a Jew, but not practice the religion?
Everyone knows if you don't practice Christianity or Islam, you can't say you are a member
of either religion?

3. Since all scholarly and academic reference indicates Judiaism started in Africa, how can
Africans who speak out against israel like the late Kwame Ture and Minister Farrakhan be
labeled anti-Judiac?

4. Finally, why is it so easily assumed by many people that the political movement discussed
here - zionism, is the same as the religion of Judiaism?

We know that the answers to all of these questions are found in the craftiness of the zionist movement and its efforts to hide its racist and imperialist aspirations behind religious intentions. Any person of God knows that God would never support a religion that steals land, represses and kills people, and exists based on the exploitation of millions of people (a primary export of israel is diamonds which have been shipped from Southern Africa to be refined in israel since the 1920s. This has been the standard processing mechanism for the so-called conflict diamonds).

The truth is that israel was established and is maintained on lies. The country exists to provide an imperialist ally in the Middle East. That is why the imperialist powers prop up israel (she is the number one recepient of U.S. foreign aide - a welfare state). The Palestinian people have every right to fight for their land back just as you would have every right to fight for your house if it was home invaded like Palestine was. Don't be confused by imperialist doubletalk. The Palestinian people are right and they will keep fighting until justice prevails!