Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

DLACK WEST INDIANS DEFY FRENCH
HOI~TKIES :/ Guadeloupe is one of
the two West Indian Islands controlled
by the Fr ench, Its capitol,
Fort de France, is famous because it .
is the birth place of Frantz~Fanarr - -
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and. greatest :3'~wla century Black Poet,
Aime Cesaire . //
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Paris, March second-- The"trial"
of black guadelaupe anti-colonial- w
ist fighters which was staged by
the French ruling circles ~to sup
press the guadelou~e national movewent
for independence has ended~in .
complete failure . The resolute- '°r .
struggle of the guadeloupe patriots
and the support of the French progressives
have turned he "trial"
into an indictment of French colon: ,,
ial rule . .vrv. : :
The scandalous trial started on ,; ; -,
Feb, 19 in Paris . The 19 Guade- w
loupe patriots standing trial (one
in absentia} were arrested Last . .~,t ;;f
May by the Fxench colonial author- : .,
sties fluxing a sanguinary suppression
of the demonstration of the
Guadeloupd. people . They were preposterously
charged with "threat- v
erring the ter~:itorial
the country " just
integrity of ~ , :rs : .
because they
demanded
rule .
an end to French colonial
The Black Guadeloupe anti-colon- A solidarity ~ ~commi+;tee was orialist
fighters put up -~ good fight. ganiaed by the French and progses-
in court, They are their barrister sives on the very day when these
turned the court into an frost-co- Black Guadeloupe anti -colonialist
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BLACK POWER ; nAGE :,1 . . "
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lonialist platform . ~T~ey,laid bare
the miserable life of the Guade"
loupe people under colonial exploitat
on and racial discrimination
and being deprived of all
rights . They voiced the just demend
' ` of the Guadeloupe people to
be the masters of their own dest
ny .
Before the sentence wad passed,'
SergE Glautle, . representative of
the patriots, declaxed at the court
that " we reaffirm our political-w
claim :,, .,,,,,, ours struggle is
just because it ,is the struggle
for the --~.iberation, di~ginity, and
progress'` 'of our people' ~~~
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