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NEWSPAPER OF THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN C O M A W F R
P.O. Box 406 Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N.Y. 10009 JULY/AUGUST 1983 No. 2
In spite of adl this violent intimidation on the
part of the state, over 300 people entered the
area. 1BAKC, INCAR flntemational Commitee
Against Racism^ and CEDAR, a local pacifist
group, accounted for about 150 arrti-Klan
demonstrators. Another 50 were unaffiliated,
but anti-Klan. Police also let throu^ 75 to 100
open Klan supporters, mostly bikers, who
attempted to intimidate people.
At noon the Klan emerged from the front
door of City Hall, in their hoods and robes,
carrying a large .Amerikkkan flag and a banner
reading "Peaceful Patrbtic Protest by the KKK."
Bill Wilkinson, Grand Dragon of the Invisible
Empire of the Knights of the KKK, spoke
throu^ a large sound system. At times he was
drowned out by "Death to the Klan" and other
chants. The Klan played "God Bless America"
and other patriotk: songs over the speakers and
returned to City, HaU after *5 minutes.
After sneaking out the bad< dcxsr, tiie Kim
left town in a feeding caravan led by patrol
cars. Local teenagers and anti-Klan activists
slipped through police lines and showered the
Klan with stones, shattering a windshield on one
Klan car.
Arilonio Kbn mavch
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In Houston, the police called it
"state-of-the-art" crowd control. It meant 1800
poBoe on ?,000 rfemonstrators, plainclothes "tails"
on all known anti-Klan activists, selective
seardies of demoretrators, and a midnight raid
on an anti-Klan punk benefit.
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*• In Meriden, the press called it "a peaceful
day." There were roadblocks at interstate exits,
pat searches of everyone entering the vk±uty of
Town Hall ^occupied by the KKK^ and snarling
police dogs on chains.
*• In San Antonio, so much of the city was
sealed off by police barricades that protesters
hardly saw the Klan, and even the Klan
complained that they were being denied their
'Vighf to a pitolic rally.
*• In a suburban shopping mall in Connecticut,
cops outnumbered shoppers and SWAT teams
lurked in the lingerie when the Klan came to
recruit and anti-Klan demonstrators stopped
them. A New England factory town was turned
into what kxal papers called "an armed camp"
in a futile attempt to herd demonstrators into a
stadium with the Klan!
AmeriKKKa, 1983. Never has so much naked
police power been mobilized to protect the
ability of fascists to march and rally in the
streets. These events show not only the state's
commitment to build the Klan, but also the
growing strength of the opposition. The
resistance to the Klan is becomir^ a movement,
and nowhere can the Klan march without
massive oolice protection.
'See centerfold for photos.>
Houston, Texas
The KKK that marched on April 2 in
Houston was the same "Knights of the White
Camelia" and "Klan Boat '^atrol" that met with
disaster in Austin on February 19th. Based
primarily in the Houston/Pasadena area, they
were marching doser to home this time.
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history of leadership from groups lB

EDITORIAL
FROM THE NEW AFRIKAN
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT
ar Is War
Even as Black mavors are elected in Chicago
and Philadelphia, even as the talk about a "Black
presidency" grows more clamorous, even as
thotsands of New Afrikans 'Blacks^ are being
mobilized to march in Washington, D.C. on
August 27th under the barmer of symbolism and
reformism, even as all this takes place, the
conditions of War in Amerikkka are escalating
and intensifving.
This war began with tiie coming of the first
europeans to Africa for the purpose of buying
and trafficking in human beings to serve as
slaves. This was the commencement of a war
between the oppressed, enslaved and eventually
colonized Afrikan masses and the oppressing,
enslaving and colonizing europeans. Everywhere
that Afrikans were dispersed became a political
and militarv front in this struggle for freedom
and to end oppression.
This reality of war was in no way diminished
by the fact that Afrkans acted as middlemen,
translators and mercenaries for the barbaric
interests of the white marauders. Here in
Amerikkka, during slavery, this reality of war
was in no way diminished by the role played by
Uncle Toms, house n s, snitches, and
mercenaries. And even in this day and time,
our budding war of New Afrikan national
liberation is in no way diminished by the
existence of reformists, traitors, snitches and
black ruming dogs of U.S. imperialism. They
exist just as our movement exists. They serve
W bolster the tyranny of the U.S. bourgeoisie,
just as — in counteroosrtion — tfie masses of our
people seek to free ourselves from Amerikkkan
domination.
There is War in Ameri

FBI Klansman Cleared
in Liuzzo Murder
!Iune 1. A Federal judge denied a suit
against the FBI by the children of civil rights
worker Viola Liuzzo, murdered in 1965 by
Klansmen, one of whom was FBI agent Gary
'''homas Ro>we. Liuzzos argued that the FBI
knew of the plan to kill their mother, and in
fact, Rowe fired the fatal shot. The judge ruled
that though the FBI knew of the plan they were
under no obligation to stop it because "no
specific Federal statute was violated." He
accepted the FBFs argument that Rowe's shot
had missed. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. said, "I swear it
was as if he 'the judge) had not even gone to
the trial ... because I feel verv strongly th^t we
proved negligence and all the facts ^^were
overlooked." Still on the FBI Payroll, Rowe now
lives in Georgia under a new identity.
Punk Rockers Attack
Nazis in Germany
West Germany, May 21. Five thousand punk
rockers and angry youth surrounded a hall where
SS veterans were having a reunion dinner,
chanting "Nazis go home!" A VW bus filled with
uniformed neo-Nazis was attacked by the
demonstrators, the doors were torn off and the
Nazis teargassed, before the protesters were
driven away by police with mace. Also in
Gamany, youths threw stones and eggs at US
tanks in a NATO parade and greeted US troops
with mod< Nazi salutes. The parade reviewing
stand was bombed, and the police shrewdly
commented, "There is almost certainly a political
motive for tfiis bombing."
Klan Prison Escape
Alabama march
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Alabama March
Protesters carried out a weeklong, 300 mile
march and nriotorcade from Eufaula, Ala., to the
state Capitol in Montgomery to protest the
shootings of three Black people by police ance
Easter. About 1200 people began the march,
which departed on the 20th anniversary of
George Wallace's attempt to prevent two Black
students from enrolling in the University of
Akibama at Tuscaloosa.
USA vs. Puerto Rico
On June 2 9, four Puerto Rican
independentistas and community leaders in
Chicago were arrested and charged with seditious
conspiracy and being members of the F.A.L.N*
by Chicago's equivalent of the Joint Terrorist
Task Porce. Alberto Rodriquez, Jose Rodriquez
and Eddie Cortes are being held on $10 million
baiL Alejandrina Torres, stepmother of Puerto
Rican freedom fighter Carlos Aft)erto Torres, is
being held on $5 million bail. The excuse for
these arrests of public activists was that they
were planning to return William Morales to this
country before his arrest and were planning a
bombing of U.S. military installations on July
"th.
At 5:30 a.m. the following day, 50 jumpsuited
agents invaded the Puerto Rican High School and
Cultural Center for hours and stole equipment
and files and seized h cars, including
Alejandrina's. The F.B.I., State officials aid
Chicago police later held a press conference
laving out their story to justify this
counterinsurgency attacrk on the Puerto Rican
community and revolutionary activists. More
arrests and attacks by the government are
expected. A mailgram and phone campaign is
going on to stop these attacks on the community
immediately. Phone or Writet U.S. Attorney
Daniel We** at 219 So. Demfaom, Chicago, 111.
60601, Ol2> 353-3527 x672» to demand (1)
Return all equipment and materials taken from
the Puerto Rkan Cultiial Center; "^2) Return the
ft cars impomied to their owners; and (3^ St

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Austin Update:
Charges Fought
The Klan in Texas is attempting to establish
a stronghold in relationship to the Black arrf
Mexican struggles. Texas is part of occupied
Mexico and forms part of the illegal border
fhence, the Klan Border Patrol that works with
the INS). Texas adjoins the national territory of
the Republic of New AfrB

Fighting RICO:
An Interview with Silvia Baraldini
In the fall of 1982, in the aftermath of the
ireuocessful Brink's expropriation, the US. began
the RICO conspiracy trial. The first major
political conspiracy trial of the decade and the
opening gun in a new drive toward hei^^ttened
represskan, RICO is the government's attempt to
destroy once and for all the ability of the Black
Laseratnn Stuggle — in this case elements of
the New Afrikan Independence Movement — to
build a revolutionary struggle for land and power.
Of the deven indicted, foia-, including two white
people, are still free and being sought by the
FBI. Others such as captued BLA sokiier Sekou
Odinga and Silvia Baraldini, a white
anti-imperialist activist in the pdblic mov«nent,
are on trial and fighting the case by exposing
and resisting it as oointerinsurgency. We print
this Interview in full solidarity with their
politkal aims. This RICO case is bdi^ tried
under extraordinary security by Judge Kevin
Duffy, an out-and-out radst noted in the press
for his anti-semitism. Robert Cordier of the
FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force sits at the
prosecution table. As Silvia Baraldini said In
another context, "TTiis trial is m feet the test
case for the new FBI guidelmes." This fftterview
was conducted in late June, 1983.
DEATH TO THE KLAN: Why are you indicted
in this case'' Why do you say it's a New
Afrion case?
SILVIA BARALDINI: U.S. imperiaUsm indicted
eleven people cn charges of racketeering, bank
robberv and accessory after the fact. Among
those indicted are members of the New Afrikan
Independence Movem«it, including Sekou Odinga,
New Afrikan Pr'soner-of-War, and three North
American members of the revolutionary
antt-imperiaiut mowsnent* Imperialism^ position
is that'^ft'^^i^''pn!Mi0^illtll|i^^^~'Cfrl)i'iiiMl tftterpHseb
This is a lie. What is being tried is the right of
self-determination and socialism. Sekou Odinga
Stated in Ws ooening statement; Tod^ there is
brother revolution g/c/lg^gj^fjfaiM'
'•Wem^ Revolution. lam a New A'
not consider myself an American
consider myself a New Afrikan citizen. You
may have heard the term the Republic of New
Afrika mentioned by the Judge — or if you
havent you will. The Republic of New Afrika is
the name given our nation by a group of Black
people who came together in I'JfiS and who
decided to declare ourselves free and
independent of the U.S." Despite the
government's denials, what has emerged during
the trial is the reality that members of the
Black Liberation struggle came together to build
a clandestine apparatus. These forces engaged
in a number of expropriations and liberated
Assata Shakur from captivity. These efforts are
part of ai overall strategy to free the nation
and its land base: Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina. This is what
imperialism is trying to defeat.
I am the only North American being tried
in the RICO case. I am a member of May 19th
Communist Organization and I believe it is
because of the organization's principled support
of the New Afrikan Independence ^tovement and
its right to wage armed struggle that I have
been indicted. The government's theory is that
a number of North Americans worked with the
New Afrikan clandestine forces, so it is essential
to their strategy that a white revolutionary be
tried. I have worked politically with a number
of the people indicted, in particular on behalf of
my organization; I have participated in the
defense of New Afrikan political prisoners and
struggled to expose COINTELPRO. What is on
trial in my indictment is North Americans'
committment to the self-determination of the
Black nation in particular, our committment to
the defeat of U.S. imperialism and to the
establishment of a socialist society.
What is the government
with this case?
trying to accomplish
Our case 'S part of US imperialism's
counterinsurgency strategy in the 80's and the
consolidatron of its fascist infrastructure.
Counterinsurgency is being waged against
national liberation in Central America, in the
^^iddle East and right here at home. The aim is
the total destruction of oppressed peoples'
capabilities to organize themselves into
revolutionary movements that will challenge and
defeat US imperialism, '^'e have learned from
the history of other struggles, such as Vietnam,
Mozambique, Nicaragua, that only one strategy
can liberate oppressed nations — protracted
people's war. Counterinsurgency in the 80's
inside the U.S. is targeting the beginnings of
that crucial development within the oppressed
nations inside the U.S. empire. t.'.S. imperialism
is targeting the armed clandestine forces and the
Silvia Oaraldini
and Native
targeting the
struggle whose goal is tihe transft
white oppressor nation into a non-oppressor
socialist society.
Counterinsurgency has short and long-term
goals: the criminalization of the New Afrikan
independence Movement by trying freedom
fighters, activists and supporters under a law
aimed at organized crime; the isolation of
revolutionary forces by a media campaign that
calls them "terrorists" and "mad dog killers"; and
the creation among the people of a fear of
revolutionaries 'this was successfully done by the
CIA in Chile'*. Other goals include the
institutionalization of fascist "legal" procedures
such as anonymous juries and witnesses and the
gathering of intelligence against the movement,
"^^ost importantly, the goal in this RICO case is
the defeat of the armed clandestine forces of
the New Afrikan Independence Movement at the
beginning of their development when they are
weak and the enemy still very powerful. The
RICO trial is also being used to erase the
differences between the armed clandestine
movements and revolutionary public
organizations. If the government is successful in
establishing that common ideology constitutes a
conspiracy, this will justify infiltration and
provocations against many organizations as
provided for by the new FBI guidelines.
What are the differences between this and other
famous politksl conspiracy cases li

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The Chicago Mayoral Election:
A No-Win
This past April, after a two month campaign
marked by racist hysteria — described by one
observer as being "like one long, continuous Klan
rally" — Harold Weishington was elected as
Chicago's first Black mayor. The city was
thrown into turmoil as 80% of the white
Democrats crossed party lines to vote for tfie
white RepLfoUcan candidate, Bernard Epton, while
an unprecedented number of Black voters, along
with a large coalition of progressive/left white
groups and individuals, turned out to vote
Washington into office. The national Democratic
party threw its weight behind Washington, while
the local Democratic machine balked at the idea
of a Black reform-oriented candidate and
supported Epton.
The Washington campaign and election had an
impact far beyond Chicago. The depth of white
racism that was displayed drew national
atteitkjn. Washir^jton's vkrtory has sparked voter
registration drives in Boston srid other cities, and
progressive coeilitkms are forming to campaign
for Black Democratk: candidates. 3ssse Jackson
is conducting his Southern crusade for voter
registration (meeting with the lUcss of George
Wallace) and promoting the idea of a Black
Presdential candidate.
While many have hailed Washington's victory as
an advance for the Black struggle and for all
progressive people, it is our opinion that the
campaign was in fact a blow to progressive
stri^gle. l*4ow that the election is over and the
smoke has cleared somewhat, Chicago is left
with two big problems. On the one hand we
now have a significantly more organized and
more blatantly racist white commuruty. And cn
the other hand the Blac^ community and the
pn^pessive white movement is now united behind
a strategy of seddng to bring an end to racism
and exploitation through the electoral process —
through working within the very system which
thrives on the oppression of Third WorW people
and the e^qploitation of all working dass people.
A BREEDING CSROUND FOR THE fCLAN
Situation
Radst propaganda distrixited by Chicago polioei
spurring on the racist offensive. Aldermen
treated the existence of a Black Democratic
candidate as a crisis and opted for the white
candidate. Since Washington's election the
"Machine" has continued its fight for white
power and for the ability to maintain their
extensive patronage system that Washington is
threatening to dismantle. Twenty-nine white
Democrats led by "machine" leader Edward
Vrdolyak formed a hloci< to attempt to control
the City Council. At the first City Council
meeting that Washington presided over,
Washington adjourned the meeting prematurely.
The "Vrdolyak 29" then took over the council
and appointed their people to all of the
important chairmanship positions. The 29 had
COB
Chicago is now a fatile breedff^ gromd for the
KKK and other white stpremacist a-ganizations.
It has maffiy white 'ethnic' neighborhoods which
have stayed all-white throu^ a combinatkxi of
official police vfolence, city government policies
and vigilante attacks. Last summer three Black
men who dared enter the all-white neighborhood
of Bridgeport were attacked; one was
deliberately nn over by a car and then brutally
beaten with a baseball bat. A week later when
a small groip of Black and white demonstrators
marched through Bridgeport to protest tills racist
attack, over one hundred white Bridgeport
residents came out to wave posters that the
Nazis had handed out which said "N-»--r
Beware" and "White Power." There have been a
number of white power rallies in Chicago in
recent years. There are several KKK and Posse
Comitatus chapters around Chicago and
throughout Illinois, and Nazis and a neo-Nazi
groiq> called the "America First Committee"
operate openly. In southern Illinois the
"Christian Patriots Defense League" has a
paramilitary training camp and has trained
hundreds of white people in preparatton for "the
coming race war." These groi^ have done tiieir
best to promote racist hysteria around the
Washington election and are taking advantage of
the opportunity to recruit new people to their
organizations.
In the face of this right-wing onslaight, many
white peopte took to wearing Washington buttons
to symbolize their opposition to the racism that
was sweeping throt^ their communities. Otfiers
were moved to join Washington's campaign.
Altho^ ttie motives briiind tiiese actions were
well-intended, it is unfortunate that the
anti-racist sentiment was expressed in support
for Washirgton, for there is no evidence that the
election of a Black mayor will bring about any
significant progressive change.
Four hundred years of violent repression
against the Black liberation struggle has diown
us that if Harold Washir^ton's election was any
significant threat to the status quo then we
wcxild not have seen his victory at the polls.
We would not have seen the constant parade of
Democratk: national bigwigs like Mondale and
Kennedy coming to Chicago to lend their support
for Wa^ir^ten. Were Wadiir^ton fvmdamentally
challengir^ the system that denies Black people
their humjin rights, then Chicago's business
community would not have endorsed his
nor would the leading local
Democratic primary, masses of white tife-lor^
Democrats flocked to Repii>lkan headquarters to
carr^jaign for Epton. As the campaign developed
there appeared tiroughout the white communities
many different racist flyers that urged white
people to vote for Epton. Some of these flyers
were from local Denrxjcrat precinct captains who
referred to Epton as "our great white hope."
Others appeared to come from organized white
supremacist grouos like the Klan and Nazis:
these referred to Black people in derogatory
terms 'such as "baboons"), degraded Black
culture, and warned of the terror that would
stafl< the stteets of Chicago if Washington were
elected. The slogan "Vote White - Vote Right"
appeared on t-shirts and posters. Shortly after
the primary, some psteons of a white southwest
side bar huig Washington in effigy. A niob of
Epton supporters, aUong with a contingent two weeks later. Ir^^^i^«s* ade bar
: orrlelection night the patrons ^^^te

Freedom Fighters Go to Court,
Police Attack Supporters
Black
Nation Day
Jared
Bloodwing
A pre-trial hearing in the case of the Brinks
Freedom Fighters erupted into violence when police
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city government, who granted the permit and
sent its police force to escort the Nazis and
Klan in and out of Bronson Park and protect
them dtring the rally.
At a ore-demonstration Anti-Nazi rally, the
Coalition Against Police Brutality of Battle
Creek, Michigan, err^hasized fis need for Blad<
people to defend themselves against the Klan
and police terror. They cited the murder of
Robert ^Kimau) Guy by the police after he was
threatened by the Klan, because of his work
organizing against killer cops and fighting for
New Afrkan liberation.
The Nazi rally, also attended by the neo-Nazi
America First Commitee from Chicago, was
initially organized as pert of an anti-gay crusade
led by Rev. Edward Vamer. On April 9th Rev.
Varner, and the Nazis and the Klan held a
meetmg in the Kalamazoo Public Library to ban
all books that mention homosexuality. That
meeting was disrupted by 300 - *00 people. The
May I'fth rally was the Nazis' and the Klan's
attempt to come back and organize in
Kalamazoo. They dM not succeed.
Westfarms Mall, West Hartfrrd, Ct.
After a court order allowing the National
Organization of Women ^NOW^ to petition in
Comecticufs largest shopping mall, Westfarms
Mall, the KIcBI ennounced that they would hold a
recruiting drive at the mall on May 22nd. Mall
officials said they would allow no Klan or
anti-Klan activity at the mall. Police said they
would secure the area with three police
departments. The Klan raid they would leaflet
in their robes if anyone tried to tlrow them out.
NOW said nothing. JBAKC organized in
Hartford and "crashed" the mall's press
conference, callir^ on all anti-racist people to
come out on that Sunday to stop the KKK from
recruiting.
Westfarms Mall was fiill on May 22nd, but no
ore was shooping. Anti-Klan activists, press, the
curious, plainclothes cops di^yised as janitors, a
few Klan sympaWzers, a Nazi teenager, SWAT
teams hidden everywhere — it was a new phase
in the struggle against wtiite supremacy. Since
alfliost evgrYQDe.wgsjaretending to be shoppinHj.
"wM~wl«i?E^ TT«
tfielcSin
to take any chances, so they sneaked them In a
Jannes Farrands
Connecttcut Grand
Westfarms
Mall
Dragon
presented over 500 postcards signed locally
demanding that the Klan not be allowed to rally.
Citing the "violence" of anti-Klan groips, the
back door. However, it wasn't the mall, but the
people, that stopped the Klan from recruiting at
Westfarms. Outside, after the Klan left, mall
and police officials were surrounded by 150
people chanting "Death to the Klan" in a
militant demonstration. Police attacked the
demonstration, making two arrests, but only
after the point had been made that the Klan
can riot orj^ize anywhere without oppositfayi,
even in a rfiopDing malL
New Britain, Ct.
Soon after their Meriden rally, the Klan
announced a rally in nearby New Britain, Ct., on
June 25, Gay Pride Day. Grand Dragon James
,EMtr^nd^imed it as ^^lgg±^jgmmg^g^m^
llilHiiP:;$aid he h i U M m H H M
town's Polish population. JBAKC spd

KNOW YOUR ENEMY
California Klan Leader
Tom Metzger
"3ust watch us. Just listen. Imagine
anything you want. Imagine we're just a
few sophisticated people who are going to
get what they want. Imagine we're a
massive movement. Whafs the difference.
No one's going to stop us. We're
professional. We're very determined.
We're up to date. We have youth."
-Tom
Metzger
Tom Metzger, ¥t years old, has emerged as a
leading Klan ideologue and organizer. Based in
Southern California, he heads two white
. sipremacist organizations — the White American
Political Association fWAPA) and the
paramilitary Ku Klux Klan of Califomia. In
describing the difference between the two.
Metier has said that WAPA "is public and the
other is an underground secret organization."
EvoiutiGn of a KJan Leader
Tom Metzger claims to have grown up a
liberal in Indiana and Florida. It was in the U.S.
Army that Metzger says he coalesced his
"segregationist" views. During the 1960's he
worked for Ihe Doi^las Aircraft Company and in
^96l^ supported Barry Goldwater's presidential
campaign. Following Goldwater's defeat,
Metzger joined the John Birch Society and
quickly rose to a leadership position. He stayed
with this organization for nearly ten years,
finally leavff^ because he didnt lielieve the John
Birch Society was action-oriented enough. "You
have to translate knowledge into action,"
Metzger said. He then formed the White
d, which in 1974 merged with David
'Duke^ K n i ^ of the Ku Klux Kl«., Five years
KKK
"I do not support large public gatherings
where our enemies may easily catalogue
each and every member. Either one must
conform to a cellular, unconventional
svstem of activity or ^to^ front group
activity ...
"''The Klan's) mission will only be successful
by taking that direction and to cease
trving to make the Klan a large-type
political group. To attract large numbers,
front groups may be developed and/or
existing public organizations and parties
infiltrated for various activities and long
range recruiting programs of skilled and
professional members ...
"These tactics are tried and proven ... I
suggest strongly that you proceed along
these lines ... with no national files, no
identification cards and none of the public
robe demonstrations that serve as useless
targets for the groups as a whole."
These are not the words of someone on the
"lunatic fringe." It is the beginnings of a
strategy for holding power, a full strategy to
build the infrastructures and paramilitary
caoacities for fascism and genocide.
A Closer Look
During his years with David Duke and later,
as the KKK of California, Metzger attempted to
combine both ptislic and paramilitary activities in
the same organization. He created new black
uniforms and talked openly of organized
paramilitarv training and teaching children how
Grand Dragon Metzger at home.
important arena for front groip activity, and he
has used this pitolic arena to legitimize the Klan
and project it as a "peaceful" organization
concerned with "white rights." Before running
for office himself, Metzger served as campaign
manager for David Oti

72 A m i t > t ^ ^
FROM FREEDOM FIGHTERS
The John Bfown Anti-Klan ConmittBe si^jports
ihe developraent and growth of the armed
clandestine movements in this country. We
reprint the c(nnmuni

Ziamibtl^^ 13
Silvia Baraldini from page 5
example of the steadfastness we must
collectively build if we are going to win.
Non-collaboration means refusal to talk to the
FBI, to the US attorneys, or to any investigative
arm of the US government. Non-collaboration
means the recognition on the part of the public
movement that what we do has an impact on
the ability of the armed clandestine movement
to develop and grow, and that our silence helps
keep the state from being able to destroy the
armed clandestine movement.
Why were you invited to Thrtebwe
twice?
May 19th Communist Organization in 1977 began
actively to work with the Zimbabwe African
National Union (ZANUl We sipported the party
in their struggle to lead the Zimbabwean people
to independence, to overthrow the white settler
regimes and to end the presence of British
imperialism in their country. ZANU was founded
in 1964 and from the beginning it believed that
victory could only be achieved if the
Zimbabwean people, especially the peasantry,
were mobilized to actwely became participants
in a war for liberation. As of 1979 ZANU had
liberated two provinces and effectively controlled
two others out of a total of eight. The white
settler regime was pinned to the major urban
centers. It was at this point that, trying to
salvage what it could, imperialism offered a
settlement and free elections were held for the
first time in ''0 years. ZANU invited friends and
supporters to observe the elections because of
the attacks being waged against the party. May
19th was invited to observe the elections, to
attend the independence celebrations arid
returned a year after to see how the nation was
changing. Solidarity with the national liberation
struggles in Southern and central Africa is part
of the anti-imperialist movement inside the
United States. US imperialism is South Africa's
foremost ally and US multinatioral corporations
dominate the economic life of countries like
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Zambia. The
struggle to build a socialist society in Zimbabwe
is very important far the future of Southem
Africa. A ^BBHg socialist Zimbabwe, along with
, could provide a rearguard for the
liberation movements challenging the
apartheid regime in Azania/So^JM^icaT. The
emiJWIIiaft'lJiifcigtiaiil^^
also
iBiW'fff
,,.,Afejfia*«And. bring closer the overthrow of
^dictators lil« Mobutu in the Conga ,
i t i n u e N e x t Issue:
Inciudii^H^ fifpht against trcHtoK, the
conclusion of the RICO trial, and more..'.
Enemy: Metzger
from page ] 1
Southem Ccdif ornia has a hig^ concentratfon
of military bases and aerospace industries.
"Secret" camps exist for training Salvadorean
ri^tists and Nkaraguan "Somocistas", as well as
an Alpha-66 (anti-Cii>an) paramilitary camp. A
klavem at Camp Pendleton was ejq^osed when
Black marines attacked a Klan meeting. Chula
Vista, near the border, has the highest number
of retired military peopte in the country and the
border itself is becoming more and more
militarized. Watts, in Los Angeles, was the
scene

14 /h0^;h;»ej^
Vfcfory fo flie FLNC!
Struggle in the Congo
to overthrow Mobutu, but to build i socialist
society so that the Congolese people will have
power over their own lives and the future of
their nation.
The Congo is in the heart of Afrfca. If
contains strategic minerals necessary for the US
military machine. Large uranium deposits are
mined and most of the world's cobalt is
extracted from the Congo. Its central location
makes it key to the maintenance of all the
surrounding neo-colonial countries. Zaire
provides bases for the CIA-backed UNITA to
carry out counterinsurgency aimed at
destabilizing the socialst nation of Angola. This
is why the US has intervened in the Congo four
times since 1960 to prop up the neo-colonial
government of Mobutu. In a recent defense
pact with Mobutu, Israel has brought 5-6,000
troops into Zaire, supplying arms arid military
training, in exchange for recognition in Africa
and economic expanaon. The US hopes to dean
up its image, as Israel does thie "dirty work."
This highly militarized situation can only be
defeated by the F.L.N.C. strengthening their
strategy to build the people's war.
The demonstrations and action for June 30th
not only built support for the F.L.N.C. and the
struggle in the Congo, but also demanded
US/NATO/Israel troops out of the Congo.
Fi^tir^ the build-up of imperialist troops in the
Congo is part of building an anti-imperialist
movement committed to fighting the
Klan/oolice/military war machine the US
government is building against natioral lifceratibn
stri^gJes and tiie anti-imperialist movement, SBid
exposes the U S ' i a ^ i t i , , rnntinilinp role in
the Congo. These dernonsttarBWilii^^a-kxisly
critfcized the People's Reoublk: of China
militarv troops it maintains in the Congo to^
support the Mobutu regime ani to guard Chinese
investments in the area.
Victory to the FiJM.C.!
•GOLD •COAL A COPPER
•COBALT ^DIAMONI^ ^MANGANESE
> RAILROADS />6 OTRAG
*The ^laded area was leased to 4w German fkm OTRAG for misale testkig.
The Germans effective^ have rmaned ooiofUal control of the land, resources
and people in IIBS
Not a penny
nota
not a man 1x>MotHrtu
June 30th is celebrated each year as an
interrational day of solidarity with the struggle
of the Congolese oeople fightkig to overthrow
the Mobutu regime in what is now known as
Zaire. It is also a day to build support for the
National Liberation Front of the Congo
(F.L.N.C.), the revolutionary vanguard of the
Congolese striKjgle.
Demonstrations were held m New York City,
San Francisco, Wa^ington, D.C. and Boston and
there were political action tables in Austin,
Chkago, and Portletfxl. In Los Angeles on July
1st, a coalition of groups sponsored at program
keynoted by Serge Mukendi, the F.L.N.C.
Reorwentative m the U.S.
Since 1968 when the F.L.N.C. was formed, it
has canned forward Patrice Lumumba's legacy,
initiating armed struggle to overthrow
neo-colonialism. After Patrice Lumumba's
assasination by the CIA in l^O, the U.S.
installed Mobutu, who is called the "Shah of
Africa", to safeguard imperialist econornic
interests h the Ca^ and repress the Congolese
oeople wt\o had just won their itxlependence
from Belgami. fti 1977-78 the FX.N.C. liberated
three provinces, establishing liberated zones in
mineral-rich southem Zaire. Mobutu's forces
w«-e unatte were inable to contam tiiis uprismg
and 20,000 NATO troops, mcludmg the US 82nd
Airbom Division, were bnx^t m to defeat Hhe
r^llion.
Since .1978 the I*.L.N.C. has. continued to
build tfie strateiy of peopled war.' Their slogan
"Conquer or Die^' means that the total Bberaticn
of the Congo is more than just replacing a
colonial government with an African one. Under
Mobutu, only 1.2 million out of 30 million
people are employed, 50% of the children die
before tfiey are 2 years old and many women
have been forced to turn to prostitutkn to feed
tf»r bilk's. The FXJ^.C. is fiehtkis not iust
Congolese Children IMarching^
in Liberated Zone

News Briefs, from page 3
Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter
Captured
Killer Cops: Houston
A Houston cop was acquitted of murder charges
on May 20th and then offered his job back.
Deputy Constabte Earl Jeffrey Johnson shot and
killed a 20 year oW Black man. Glen Simpson, in
front of his own mother and neighbors after
allegedly stopping him for speedir^ January 30th.
Johnson *ot Glen Simpson at point-blank range
in the head with a .357 Magnum, claiming
Simpson had a weapon, which of course was
never found. The Wller cop was then rescued by
a polk» team armed with AR-15 automatics.
Due to community outrage, Johnson was charged
with murder, the first time a Houston cop has
ever been indicted for murdering someone while
on duty. Black jurors were excluded by the
prosecution which claimed they would make the
trial a "race issue".
KKK at Long Island High School
A dummy with a black face and "KKK"
written across it was found hanging from a
backstop on the Farmingdale, Long Island
baseball field on June 1*. Police say the
dummy was "the work of youtii rather than any
organized Ku Klux Klan." The sdx»l of almost
3,000 students had been the scene of white
supremacist violence for weeks and had iDeen
shut down for three days due to Klan-type
attacks on the 112 Black students.
Please Send
News Briefs!
Puerto Rican revolutionary William ^^orales
was captured near Mexico City, four vears after
his dramatic escape from UJ5, counterinsurgency
forces in New York Citv. He is wanted as a
member of the armed clandestine F.A.L.N.,
which fights for ind^endence and socialism fa-
Puerto Rico. After his capture, police raided a
house where he was thought"*to have been
staving and three peopte and a policeman were
killed. J^er Toro of the FBFs Joint Terrorist

16 Z^umibiM^
WHO WE ARE
POETRY
The -Ttrfm Brown Anti-Klan Committee is a naitionai orgaruzatkm that mobilizes white
people to f i ^ white supremacy.
We were formed in 1977 m response to the struggle
of Blad< and Puerto Rican prisoners gainst KKK orgaraang among New Yori< State
prison guaids. In the last year we have fought the Klan and killer cops and built
solidarity
with the New Afrikan Independence Movement in San Frandsco, Lc3s Alleles,
Houston, San Antonio, Kalamazoo, Chicago, Boston, Omectioit and New York.
We look to the leadersHp of national liberation strtiggles f i ^ i ^ for freedom from U.S.
domination and to the New African Independence Movement in particular. We are a
solidarity organization for the New Afrikan Independence Movement — tfiat part of the
Black LBjeration Movement whk*i fi^rts for land axf independence for tfie Black nation.
The fight against the Klan is fundamentally a f i ^ ^;ainst U.S. imperialism. We know
that the state can never "ban" the Klan. We are committed to building an
anti-imperiaiist mass movement against white si^xemacy. We unopncfitionally st^iport all
singles of Black communities agaJhst the Klan and police terror. We ^ | ^ r t New
Afrikan Freedom Fighters and the buikfing of armed stniggle here in the heart of the
U.S. entire. We td