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The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1968)
Reaction Without Positive Change: White community is still motivated, in its relations with Black community, by master-slave mentality. As government threatens to use tanks for the long, hot summer ahead, Williams cautions to stand by for a new phase of violence; USA: The New Auction Block – Williams compares African chiefs selling their people into slavery with modern-day Black mercenaries being bought off by white power structure; US Aggression in Vietnam: The Quagmire of Death re: more and more Blacks being pressured to fight white man’s racist war in Vietnam; Kangarooism: The Plague of Bigoted Justice – Williams likens America’s racist court system to institutionalized lynch mobs, says a liberation struggle must not be hampered by limiting itself to only one method of struggle; Beware the International Liquidationist Movement – infiltration of Marxist movement to insist that the struggle is more one of class than of race; In China: a New Wonder of the World, re: Williams’s recent tour of China and his witness to the indomitable spirit of the Chinese people; Fear Not to Be Called Racist – white supremacists using racist designations to shame Blacks out of self-dense and unity.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (October 1966)
China's 17 Anniversary: Afro-Americans Represented - speech at rally by Robert F. Williams Message from Mammoth Peking August 8th Rally re: American Black struggle; USA – The Impending Crisis re: racism and imperialism natural attributes of capitalism social system; China: Glorious Red Guards Dash the Evil Hopes of Reactionaries Everywhere – re: Red Guards of China are servants of the people; Lie Down with the Devil and Die – re: fate of blacks who take up whites’ battle standard; Kill Baby Kill re: those who “peacefully” submit are also dead.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1965)
Speech: Delivered at the International Conference for Solidarity with the People of Vietnam Against US Imperialist Aggression for the Defense of Peace. Hanoi Democratic Republic of Vietnam. November 25-29, 1965; China: America’s Shades of Waterloo – re: advances of Chinese society played down and belittled in America; Carpetbaggers of the Fourth Estate – calling for careful scrutiny of “slight-of-the pen” artists who insist that all manner of publicity good for the nationalist cause, also beware of so-called leftists who spread lies about Black nationalism abroad to thwart unity among Afro-Americans, Latin Americans, Asians, and Africans; An Oscar for a Gorilla – re: right to vote, Selma and Marion, AL; Malcolm X: Death Without Silence – re: Malcolm X’s assassination; The Impending Heat Wave – re: Civil Rights Bill, right to vote, white supremacists continuing to have access to weapons.
Imperialism Study Session / Assata News (FICS)
Side A
1975: Talk/political session by two presenters, from a Marxist-Leninist standpoint, on issues related to imperialism and “the national question,” how it relates to (1) struggles by colonized nations against imperialism and (2) to US oppressed populations. How channel national aspirations of oppressed people into revolution? Discusses Lenin and Stalin’s writings, what unifies an oppressed nation, how internal class structure and the contradiction between capital and labor relates to national liberation movements and socialist revolution. Chinese example that some elements of bourgeoisie, although they were exploiters, could be allies in anti-imperialism. Gives examples, such as Ireland and Vietnam, where other factors and contradictions, such as race, religion, etc. can play a significant role in the growth of anti-imperialism and lead to more sectors becoming socialist. Second section discusses the national question in terms of groups within the US, such as Black, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Hawaiian and how this relates to the controversies on how the left should be organized—one organization that includes all groups, or separate organizations representing the internally oppressed groups? Gives examples of differing positions. Tape ends before discussion concludes. Woman presenter is identified as “Mickey,” man not identified on tape.
Side B
This is a 1977 Freedom Is A Constant Struggle program. Opens with music and poetry, then interview by Barbara Lubinski with José Medina, Mexican political activist who is resisting deportation, on repression in Mexico, and his activism in the US, including against police brutality, with CASA on defense of undocumented workers, and his own case on immigration requesting political asylum. Then poem by Assata Shakur “Rhinoceros Woman,” recited by Heber Dreher mixed with Freedom Singers —“Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me round.” Excerpts from Assata Shakur’s May 1973 statement “To My People,” read by Heber and Barbara, followed by detailed report by Barbara on the news that day of Assata’s conviction in 1977. Poem by Assata, “What Is Left?” recited by Barbara. William Kunstler, one of Assata’s lawyers, interviewed on the conviction, comments on his own illusions as a white man that there could have been an acquittal. Bibi Angola on her talk with Assata after the conviction. Lewis Myers, another of Assata’s lawyers, on the “tremendous racism” represented by the trial—we can never forget that she lives in our hearts and until she’s free none of us is free.” Closes with Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick full version of Freedom Is A Constant Struggle.
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