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Editorial : Repression of the Black Liberation Movement
From the second the first slave trader attempted to capture our Afrikan foreparents there was
violent resistance . In most cases the raids the traders carried out against our ancestors resulted in
their capture only because of the ruthless, beastly, inhuman violence he used to suppress and repress
their every reaction . Those battles resulted in our present but temporary defeat and enslavement .
Our kindness and division, combined with the gun, led to our captivity .
For centuries the war has continued . Sometimes in outright (armed) warfare and at other times
more refined tones . But the tactics used by the government the last few decades against the just
struggle for liberation and self-determination of the Afrikan-American nation reveals the important
fact that there was a secret war to attempt to crush the conscious resistance of our people.
The hidden, unannounced war against the Black liberation movement was the main aspect of the
U .S . ruling class' Cointelpro program, an anti-progressive and anti-leftist and especially anti-Black
clandestine war .
Cointelpro was/is the code-name for counterintelligence program . The name (like Federal Bureau
of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency) is misleading because it had very little to do with
intelligence and in fact was the reactionary right-wing U.S . government's secret war against Afrikan
Americans and other progressive forces . The casualties we've suffered from it has set the struggle
back farther than we'll probably ever realize . ,
Black leaders, whether moderate or militant, were targets in some form or fashion . It didn't
matter whether they advocated integration or separation, the ballot or the bullet, evolution or
revolution . If they organized, begged or demanded some power and equality for Blacks they became
victims of character and/or physical assassinations .
Why were Black Nationalists given the name "Black Nationalist-Hate Groups" and singled out
for extra special treatment? Because the Black Nationalists have historically been the most
uncompromising and revolutionary segment of the Black community and America . The
Nationalists' placing of the Afrikan-American problem in an international context (Pan-
Afrikanism), exposing the evils of capitalism and their grassroots involvement pose the most internal
danger to the American/European capitalists . As Mao explained, the evil system of colonialism and
capitalism developed and thrived out of trade, enslavement, and colonization of the Black race - our
emancipation will bring about the destruction of capitalism and colonialism .
Because the powers that be understood the implications of the programs and "noise being sold"
by Nationalists, they bought it . Agents were sent to play on our naivete and exploit our weak points .
Other important so-called public institutions (telephone, IRS, Post Office) assisted in these gross
violations of U.S . citizens' civil and human, rights .
Law-abiding Black citizens who exposed the duality in the system's promise and performance were
set up to be murdered, railroaded to penal and mental institutions, and their families' committment
to struggle destroyed .
And who comes along to follow up the governments overkill but the so-called leftists (who haven't
been able organize one iota of the working class) with the d*enouncing of our people's legitimate
struggle for self-determination as narrow and backward Nationalism .
Of course the facist programs have in some cases been removed from the public/government
sector, and now operate, more dangerously, privately (The National Caucus' of Labor
Committees/U .S . Labor Party, and the Trilateral Commission seem best fit to house them) .
Only through operational unity can we overcome these obstacles . We must put aside the
(ideological, religious, cultural, and personality) facades that divide us and consolidate our forces
around the issues of survival, progress, and self-determination .
All of America's technology and facism cannot impede Afrikan (or any other) people's
determined struggle to free their life, labor, and land for our own survival, growth, and benefit .