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.