Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

apgromr~,x~ .hixt~-~this is not always correct . In fact, i~t is rar case . o would que-
sti.on the heroism 'of the Black Peop~.e of Monroe, Pdorth a, fighting ' ag~inst the KKK
and the whit© racist police? And the courage
ess in battle of the Ca~ombian peati
ants, who were the principal victims o ~t terri~le ten-year civil war is~ which more
than 100,000 of them fell? Who .,zu deny that the sacrifice and~olidArity off' the Paris
workers during the 'tJun~, .'d~ ~and the Commune are mr~t again in 1952 i.n the .40,000 miners
and industrial wo~r of La Paz, the heroes of the first American workers' revolution?
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Self-d,~f~nse does not suffer from a lack of boldness among its promoters . Quite to the
con~~i~y, it frequently suffers from a profusion of admirable sacrifices, of wasted heroism
leading nowhere . . .that is, leadin; anywhere ©xcept to the conquest of politica l power .
It is therefore better to speak of armed spontaneity . Its very ideological origin reveals
to us the^ epoch in in~hich it was born : prior 'to P~arx . The Indian upriaing led by Tupac Am
aru II in Pexu at the end of the eightec,nth centur~_vc; -~ra1.1,..-~a-ve- been called self-defense
. Th© Indians rose up, by the terls ot~ thousands,, drove out the criollo landowners,
killed the Spaniards on the spot, and recovered the land stolen from them by the eneomien
,da system . The movement, however, was quickly dissipated in local vicstories ; themans,
a~s they approved the coast, occupied thca lands and remained in the mountains : no more or
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