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 b. The Guyanese peop
SOULBOOK dedicates this issue to: and the politica
Guyana in particu
I. AFRIKANS IN THE U.S. (NEW AFRIKA) victims of the "P
hoax, and the "H
a. November 5, 1979, U . N . Territory, hoax, both perpe
New York City. The significant dictatorship of F
manifestation of support for the C.I.A., and the
call of Self Determination and tional Congress.
Human Rights for the New Afrikan rights struggle.
Nation in the u . s . which was
shown by the New Afrikan revolu- III. AFRIKA
tionaries, activists, and our al-
lies in general, and ASSATA SHAKUR, a. The Patriotic Fro
the brilliant revolutionary, Black gles to achieve h
Nationalist woman, in particular. independence for
land of Zimbabwe.
b- To the New Afrikans of McDuffyyille, Fla.
who have manifested such a valiant struggle b. The brorners and
against the violation of our peoples human Azania who have
rights; to the Haitian brothers and sisters human rights by b
who come to Florida to starve a little 'sedition1 in th
better inside north american imperialism racist courts of
and who have come to recognize the need
for New Afrikan/Caribbean peoples solidarity IV. ANTI-IMPERIALIST THIR
in our comnon struggle against u.s. imperia-
lism/racism. a. !Que viva al Fren
Liberacion Natio
c. The victims of the "Peoples11 Tem- JFelicidades en
ple hoax and the murdered at la dictadura y s
"Jonestown", Guyana. lia abrutada de
II. CARIBBEAN b. The successful st
tinuing revolutio
a. The New Jewel Movement, the people Kurdish, and oth
and the revolutionary government ple in Iran agai
of Grenada who broke up the game perialist and th
of 'musical chairs1 neocolonial regime of the co
'democracy1 in the commonwealth
Caribbean by eliminating the c. The struggle of
Gairy dictatorship of Grenada by against the aggr
the only means available to the ialism of their
progressive forces: armed over- world.
throw of the traitors of the
Grenadian people.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SOULBOOK EDITORIAL
On the New Afrikan Nationality - pg.
NATIONAL LIBERATION
The Article Three Briefs
by Imari Obadele
New Afrikan Literature
by Baron James Ashanti
POPULAR ISSUES
Guyanese Peoples View of the
Jonestown Massacre
by Eusi Kwayana
A Black Political Prisoner's
Appeal
by Mahali Mchawi Obadele
NEW AFRIKARTS
Poetry
SPECIAL FOCUS
Portrait of a Black Revolu-
tionary Woman: Dara Abubakari
of the Republic of New Afrika
A Tribute to Walter Rodney
question arises whether o
thing left of value, whic
tected from the enemy, an
basis of our survival and
roots of our reforging of
The relevancy of our
zation is tied to the bas
kidnapped and stolen from
not the fact that the Afr
here involuntarily, as sl
tured servants of the eur
colony of north amerika,
agrarian technology that
to the mode of production
- pg. 8 Afrikan societies graphic
the significance of Afrik
to our condition and stat
- pg. 22 tion system? Is it not a
level of development of t
civilization created, by
expertise and labor the p
a mode of production neve
the western hemisphere?
- pg. 30 We believe that we b
Afrikan Civilization and
ways been Afrikans in the
sense of the word which C
- Pg. 38 so brilliantly elucidated
the CULTURAL UNITY OF NEG
has clarified that there
as Civilization which clu
can identifiably be group
- Pg- 45 Afrikan, from Ancient Egy
porary days has maintaine
of the Afrikan woman in a
societies. He has thorou
the centrality of the Afr
levels of our societies a
- pg. 59 tainly true with respect
Mississippi (albeit in di
pg. 69 is in continental and Car
Furthermore, that the Afr
thought of basing lasting
physics on pessimistic foundations; this sonality of our people.
becomes clear whetfcer we analyze the Blues that we became a NEW AFR
Reggae or more traditional Afrikan Cultural by relying on the OLD AF
Systems; the philosophical outlook predo- within us, the only psyc
minately rests upo*i finding the optimist in fibre which was able to s
even in the face of a severely bad sTtuaT passage' of the slave tr
tion, i.e. slavery, imperialism and capital^ ism of the plantation sy
ism. in11 process, as well as
Since we had to maintain our relations lation of the north amer
v,l±h our enslaved Afrikan brethren through slavery.
an imposed language which we were unfamili- Furthermore, the mo
ar with, we had to seek other means of soli- of Black people colonized
darity. This wras Because the first prere- the Afrikanity as expoun
quisite co resistai*ce is at least the rudi- zational context is so w
ments of solidarity- Regardless of whether all levels of our existe
our people spoke different languages and that it has been a signi
distinct customs we had to find a common fense in the face of the
mode of communication to bring about the process of the u.s. dome
solidarity of our people in the face of the tem. In fact, it compri
destruction of our Afrikan nationalities and in certain circumsta
(and the destruction °f Afrikan internation- many other Afrikan peopl
al Drum communications system which was at 'psychological makeup ma
least indigenous to m°st of West Afrika). munity of culture'. I s
Therefore this constant struggle to achieve many areas of the world
a NEW solidarity ol our people was and ion system built' - whic
makes us distinct for previously being and the Caribbean - the
Africans of various nationalities on our is based almost exclusiv
mother continent of Afrika. We were a Afrikan nationality or a
group of Afrikans from virtually all Black are still conflicts that
Afrikan societies determined to maintain based on the lack of int
what bound us togetfier as people in the Afrikan nationalities in
most principal sens£. and which had been nationality. However wi
transmitted through Afrikan women: our ized in the u.s. the cul
determination to resist our oppressors and homogeneous, absorbing a
to maintain our hum^ity. The Afrikans who elements into a body and
developed the plantation system fought clearly distinguishes it
against the efforts to destroy their of the european settler
Afrikan familial naines; and even when u.s., but undeniably anc
these battles were temporarily lost our ems of our Afrikan Civil
Afrikan ancestors continued to resist this the maintaining of the c
aggression against our humanity. Thus, on Afrikan women in all lev
account of this resistance our Afrikan ished and colonized socie
civilizational strengths and features be- optimism of our Afrikan
came the major part of the collective per- and piercing through the

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 wnich were forced cm our ancestors^ our
art-empts to bring about a new cohesion and National Libe
integration of our people would have been
destroyed long ago.
Therefore, in a word, it was because
of the PAN AFRIKAN character of our soli-
darity we were able to become a NEW nation-
ality in the face of resisting the de-
struction of our old Afrikan nationalities
by the imperialist slave traders1 and
slavemastersf plantation system. Thus, in
a real scientific and historical sense we
are Afrikans, but also a new Afrikan nation-
ality and hence we are NEW AFRIKANS and not
Afro-americans as we have been led to be-
lieve on account of the lack of maturity of
our Black nationalist ideology; which like
everything else which characterizes a
colonized people: our nationalism has been
forcibly arrested and distorted because we
have been denied the free development of
nations.
LONG LIVE NEW AFRIKA.1
REMEMBER THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE!
THE BLACK NATION CHARGES GENOCIDE.1!

'WE ARE OU
Black Struggle LIBERATO
 THE LEGAL FOUNDATIO
OF NEW AFRICA, NEW
AND THE PRESENT NEW
MENT

Prior to the united

cation. Acts of 6 August
1862 and the Emancipation
which went into effect o
"persons" - so dominated
Section 2, Paragraph 3 of
states Constitution; Arti
9, Paragraph 1, and Artic
2, Paragraph 3 of the sam
- kept in slavery in the
legally held to be a clas
Those held in slavery wer
race, since according to
Taney of the united stat
speaking for the majority
v. Sandford (1857) 19 How

'the traffic
united state
confined to t
That these enslaved Afric
of property prior to the
Proclamation is made abun
the same Chief Justice Ta
v. Sandford, Supra. He s

'Now ... the r

The Article Three Briefs in a slave is
expressly affi
Constitution.
... the right of liberty traffic in it,
would extend to the right to set up an nary article
independent state of its own ... ff and property,
to the citizen
states, in eve
might desire
By IMARI OBADELE
 three, all pers
years. And the government slaves within a
in express terms is pledged designated part
to protect it in all future people whereof
time, if the slave escapes rebellion again
from his owner .. and no word states, shall b
can be found in the Constitutior forward, and fo
which gives Congress a greater and the Executi
power over slave property, the united stat
or which entitles property of military and na
that kind to less protection thereof, will r
than property of any other maintain the fr
description. persons, and wi
acts to repress
2. However, in 1862, acting under any of them, in
his war powers and nas a fit and necessary they may make f
war measure for suppressing said rebellion,11 freedom.
united states President Abraham Lincoln
issued an Emancipation Proclamation, which And by virtue o
took effect on 1 January 1863. On that for the purpose
date, with that act, the Chief Executive do order and de
of the united states significantly enlarged persons held as
the new class of free men which had been said designated
first called into existance by the Con- parts of States
fiscation Acts of 6 August 1861 and 17 henceforward sh
July 1862 and which theretofore did not and that the Ex
exist in united states legal contemplation. ment of the uni
Moreover, this new class of free men was including the m
not made united states citizens - subsequent naval authoriti
united states Congressional debates settled recognize and m
this point beyond doubt - nor did the Acts freedom of said
or the Proclamation which created this new
class in any way include this class inside 3. In January 1865
the american political-social community.• Congress passed and Presid
This new class clearly was left outside a proposed Thirteenth Amen
of the american political-social community. united states Constitution
The pertinent words of the Emancipation slavery. That Amendment
Proclamation are these: what the united states Con
Lincoln had done in the Co
That on the first day of January, and what Lincoln had done
in the year of our lord one Emancipation Proclamation
thousand eight hundred and sixty

10
 extend the abolition of slavery to the
whole class of persons held in slavery in
the united states - became part of the
organic law of the united states when it
was ratified by the requisite number of
states in December 1865. Again, like the
Consfication Acts and the Emancipation
Proclamation before it, this Amendment
confirmed the creation - in legal
contemplation - of a new class of free
men but, significantly, left this class
outside of the american political-social
community. Like the Emancipation
Proclamation before it, the Thirteenth
Amendment contains no statement of
political or social rights in the american
community which were, by either the Acts,
the Proclamation, or the Amendment,
conferred by the american community, at
that time, upon this former class of
property now became a class of free men.
And subsequent history makes clear that
no conferring of political or social rights
in the american community was intended.
The new class was simply created and left.
4. But, being composed of free
men, as the Proclamation so emphatically
insisted and the Amendment confirmed, this
new class and its members individually
were possessed of rights - irrespective
of action or inaction by the american
community - simply because they were no
longer property but free men. We take as
our guide the american Declaration of
Independence, the foundation upon which
the united states Constitution itself rests.
This Declaration tells us that men, as
opposed to property, are endowed with
certain "unalienable rights11 and that among
these rights are life and liberty. The
new class of men, and its members
12
individually, though left
american political-social
nevertheless possessed the
right of liberty. Indeed
of this right becomes of i
tance precisely because th
left outside of the americ
social community.
5. And what exactly
of liberty? Mr. Chief Jus
writing for a unanimous co
1954 decision in Boiling v
US 497, 98 L.ed 884, 74 S
Although the Co
assumed to defi
with any great
term is not con
freedom from bo
Liberty under l
the full range
the individual
pursue, and it
restricted exce
governmental ob
6. It is of relevan
here that since the new c
outside of the american p
community, a "proper gover
could not be determined b
the americans alone: the
because of the Confiscatio
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment, two
communities, each with it
a proper governmental obj
definition no limiting of
class or for individuals
as an inherent right can ever occur in a
legal sense without the consent of said
class or individuals. And as we shall
show, the nationalist portion of the new
class never gave such consent to the
american community either explicitly or
implicitly.
7. Above all the right to liberty
inhering in the new class and its
individual members necessarily extended
to political activity. And the most
pressing political matter facing the new
class was the matter of its future
political construction and/or future
political relations. Certainly the
liberty of the class would extend to the
right to seek admission, as citizens,
to the american community. The right to
liberty for the class would extend to the
right to return home, to Africa; for,
these iTiea were in atnerica as the result
of kidnappirg and wrongful transportation.
The riprt 1 liberty would extend to the
r; ! Amoral emigration. And, not
t.he right of liberty in the new
vrviiid extend to the right to set
up an independent State of its own: for,
aitcr ftll. this class had been legally
»?^nf i ructed by the Confiscation Acts and
flie Emancipation Proclamation, and
confirmed by the Thirteenth Amendment,
r?ide of the american community, and
] '>!d itself on Mamericann soil in great *
ners, extreme poverty, enforced
ignorance, and severed homeland ties
precisely because of wrongful kidnapping,
wrongful transportation, and wrongful
exploitation, all by the americans.
Importantly, all four options - all
four of which would actually be pursued
by members of the new class in exercise of
their inalienable liberty
to the new class by the u
government when first con
existence of the class.
8. In his first me
Congress in December 1865
President Andrew Johnson
right of the new class to
tion, including necessari
return home, to Africa.
Johnson: "While their rig
migration and expatriatio
questioned, I would not a
forced removal and coloni
9e Earlier the uni
President Abraham Lincoln
authority given him by th
Act of 17 July 1862, soug
slaves freed by the war,
this same period Mr. Linc
island from Haiti, by ce
he attempted through the
Interior, in 1863, to se
the new class in an inde
their own, similar to Li
hundred members of that
Class which sought indep
actually went to the isl
project was ill-supporte
The rest returned to the
in a united states naval
their fellows in the str
full sovereignty for the
African nation - but, no
where they had been for
activity of the american
nment,11 to use President
in negotiating with this
created in the united st
 Council representing t
alist portion of the new class, point::s a result of these nego
clearly to the fact that the americani- Sherman issued his Spe
government understood that in additiorn Number 15, dated 16 Ja
to the right to join the american order set aside for Bl
community and the right to return homa-ie from Charleston south,
(to Africa) and the right to emigrate: rice fields along the
elsewhere, the new class also possessed, back from the seas and
as a matter of that liberty which is bordering St. Johns Ri
an inalienable right of men, a fourth The Order further sai
right: the right to establish formally possession of which l
own independent nation. Moreover",, authorities will affo
having worked in conjunction with chant until such time as th
ion s Government in the united statttes themselves or until C
in the Haiti-ceded island project thees regulate their title.f
american Executive Government had give-2n accordance with the n
recognition to the independent New Af*rican of this Savannah-base
nation that had already formed among £» New African Governmen
ion of the new class. Lincoln's Order also provided t
ion was completely consistent with the and in the settlement
obligation which the Emancipation Procla- established, no white
mation placed on the united states to unless military offic
recognize and maintain the freedom of: detailed for duty, wi
such persons". It was, moreover, conssis- reside; and the sole
with the directions given by management of affairs
Congress in the Confiscation Act of 18162. the free people thems
to the united states
10. In like manner, proceeding and the acts of Congr
under powers granted by the united staltes thousand members of
Constitution and by Congress in the settled under this o
?°n!"cJtion.Acts and ^the President
-he Emancipation Proclamation otheur 11. Here, the
representatives of the united states ment of self-governm
xecutive Government extended recognition communities under th
to other centers of Government of the united states on lan
itew African nation. During the cans claimed ultimat
Christmas season of 1864 for instance the New Africans had
united states Secretary of War EdwS title by General She
GenP?^ S-?^nt°S 3nd United states A™^ for the Congress and
General rWilliam Tecumseh Sherman met inn must be recalled tha
avannah, Georgia, with a Black Government united states Congre
Ib
 Wade-Davis bill of 4 July 1864, and
confirmed later by the Reconstruction
Act of 1867, was that the States in
rebellion had all committed "suicide"
as States and were now in the status
of territories. Under Article Four,
Section Three, Paragraph Two of the
united states Constitution, Congress
had and has "Power to dispose of and
make all needful rules and regulations
respecting the territory or other
property belonging to the united states,'
and General Sherman - proceeding under
the Confiscation Acts and the
Emancipation Proclamation - was acting
as agent not only of the President but
of the Congress. Thus, his transferring
of the land to the New African communi-
ties was completely in accordance with
the law. And the placing of the communi-
ties under united states protection with
only possessory titles put the New
African nation here on a footing with
the various Indian nations. That
neither General Sherman nor the South
east Coast New African Government
expected the New African communities
to remain for long under united states
protection is clearly captured in the
words of General Sherman's order which
envisioned the development of New African
military capacity. The General promised
the protection of united states military,
authorities "until such time as they can
protect themselves ..." It is to be
kept in mind, however, that this center
of the New African nation, while in a
subject relationship to the united
states, was nevertheless a center of
free men possessed of the inalienable
16
right to liberty, inclu
determination, just as
British colonies in am
parallel with the Thirt
with Liberia, is furthe
the language used by Ge
Saxton, who was placed
Executing the Sherman or
General Saxton, was cal
to testify. Said he:
Special Field Order Num
their colonization on f
... Public meetings wer
exertion used by those
was to execute this ord
emigration to the Sea I
faith of the Government
pledged to maintain the
12. Similar cente
African nation under Ne
ments were established
Captain John Eaton, nam
of Negro Affairs by Gen
Grant in 1862, had, by
72,500 members of the n
cities on plantations a
villages, "almost all o
tendant Eaton reported
self-supporting - the s
industrial class anywhe
planters, mechanics, ba
draymen, etc., conducti
on their own responsibi
as hired laborers." Da
ippi, in what is now Wi
including the plantatio
rate President Jefferso
occupied by the Union A
1864. Here a New Afric
was established with al
under its control and w
 logistics of removing
under New African sheriffs and judges and or, at least, nthe Negr
other officers. Again, as on the East armed and disciplined.1
Coast, the centers of New African Lincoln went on to add
Government in Mississippi remained that it would be bette
under the protection of the United all to some fertile co
States Army and ultimately subject to climate, which they co
united states law, like many of the themselves.11 Thus, by
Indian nations. But also, like the did the american gover
East Coast centers of the New African the fledgling New Afri
nation, these communities were the right of the new c
established on land that was in terri- of its inherent libert
torial status, and they were composed Statehood.
of persons who, like the residents of
the Thirteen Colonies, possessed the
inalienable right to liberty.
13. Moreover, the Liberian
experience was quite close in point of
time to Presidents Lincoln and Johnson,
their subordinate officials, and the In its mild form,
united states Congress. Liberia was
settled by the private enterprise of means civil diso
freed slaves and white supporters, with non-compliance,
united states government help in 1822. resistance. In its
In 1847 it was declared a republic. treme form, it
The words and deeds of the said united rebelliousness, r
states officials with respect to the subversiveness,
Haiti-ceded land, with respect to the
South Carolina Sea Islands, and with tremism. All of
respect to the Mississippi frontier were applied by
make clear that a similar establishment States governme
was envisioned by them. leaders and to a
Black protest th
14. Consistent with this impressive sojourn in Amer
pattern of recognition and with an
understanding of the right of the new especially durin
class to independent Statehood, Presi- These same wor
dent Lincoln, following the passage of used against us
the Thirteenth Amendment by both houses our deterioratin
of the united states Congress in the 1980s.
January 1865, and his signing, but prior
to ratification by the States, directed
General Butler to report to him on the
20
r
New Afrikan Literature
by Baron James Ashanti
!!Theart of revolutionary
literature linked with
concrete social practice ...
can raise the consciousness
of an oppressed people.11
(first installment)
The thrust of this b
to show the need for a c
among Afrikan People in
tential role that literat
the movement towards Afri
the North Amerikan Contin
of this independent Afrik
insured by its scientific
mental form.
This is not a survey
terature, but rather a t
venue, a catalyst for di
kan writers in amerika.
progress within the lite
ternal struggle, in the
philosophical debate. T
are certain trends within
plines and the possible
dencies have on the mass
as the perceivers of art
dencies mentioned may be
in one discipline than a
cies are quoted because
are universal within the
I have mentioned th
and Neo-Afrikan literatur
comes by way of explanati
Conferences and seminars
arts and letters it is d
that as one listens one
and sisters born in the
the afrikan diaspora as
This is said as if we ar
happen to be black, as i
people came to amerikan
legal settlers and immig
tionary Black Nationalis
11 just because you1 re bor
make you a biscuit." When Afrikans from
the continent refer to us as Black amerikans
a dichotomy is drawn between us and they
Perhaps our continental brothers do not per-
ceive the alienation which is caused by
their perpetuation of that kind of social
balkinization. The dynamic mentioned is
particularly interesting because some of the
same brothers who participate in it claim
to be Pan Afrikan in their world view.
Although Afrikans in amerika have developed
New Afrikan culture where we populated the
south as slaves, we are still nonetheless
Afrikans.
Using an empirical approach to Jamaica's
cultural mores, who can deny that there exists
Twi, Hausa, and Igbo linguistic influences
upon the Jamaican Nation-Language? In
the same country, Jamaica, who can deny
the fact that the Pocaimina and John Canoe
religious sects have large Afrikan influen-
ces which guide their modus operandi? Who
can refute the fact that there are start-
ling similarities between the Haitian Re-
ligion of Voodoo and the Continental Afrikan
religion of the Yoruba Peoples? Who then
has the falsfied courage to examine the cul-
tural mores of the Sea Islands (located off
the coast of South Carolina and Georgia)
and say that the presence of the Ewe, Yoruba,
F^nte, Twi, Bambara, Melinke, Wolof language
does not exist in the Gullah Dialect?
The present study,by revealing the
very considerable influences of several
West Afrikan languages upon Gullah
will, it is hoped, remove much of the
mystery...(1)
As an Afrikan people kidnapped from our in-
digenous and original sociological environ-
ment, we, in amerika, were never given a
choice after our so-called "emancipation"
from chattel slavery CL863
or reject amerikan citizen
captive Afrikan people who
up the Afrikanity,
Taking an objective l
of oppression which Afrika
in amerika, we must clearl
tool such as culture, whic
into weapons of colonial
be allowed to exist in an
of upward mobility or righ
We, as an Afrikan peo
amerika by an illegal set
in a life and death strugg
worlds1 colonizer, amerika
more apparent and explicit
closures that the amerikan
fered with the internal a
vereign governments of: A
MPLAfs Angola, the People
Viet Nam, Revolutionary C
the Congo, etc., etc,,, As
we have in amerika, a fir
with the world's jailer.
slavement of Afrikan Peop
as one nation within the
legal settler nation, whic
form for the euro-amerikan
tion which in turn create
basis for the rise of ind
as a system of world wide
workers, Yes, Afrikan Pe
do have a specific first
the world's jailer, for a
mother country of world w

the world's jailer.
Afrikan People in amerika exist in a
modern age which holds historic significance
for mankind. It is a time for celebrating
the victories of the world's National Libera-
tion Struggles, It is a time for cele-
brating the victories of a United Vietnam,
of Angola, and Mozambique. It is a time
for the destruction of the racist regimes
of southern Afrika, It is inhumane for one
to submit to one's oppressor, because relen-
ting to oppression denies the oppressed their
humanity.
The fact that the Afrikan masses are
lander seige from the dominate euro-amerikan
proletariat of amerika is more palpable in
view of attacks of certain white left forma-
tions in Atlanta, and New York and Boston,
using physical intimidation of Afrikan Grass-
roots organizations and workers; in Boston
as members of the white proletariat (some
would call the working class comrades)
went on a rampage, culminating in an Afrikan
Lawyer being clubbed with an amerikan flag;
in New York as Afrikan Workers' homes were
bombed after they moved into a predominately
white neighborhoods. Amerika's bourgeoisie,
after erecting a world platform of exploita-
tion from profits squeezed from an Afrikan
underclass goes even further. The amerikan
bourgeoisie, in the form of Nelson Rockefeller
own a monopoly on the synthetic heroin, Me-
thadone. Methadone maintenance is in fact
a chemical war of attrition.
As Revolutionary Black Nationalist, our
analysis of any portion of our liberation
struggle must be scientific, for we can no
longer allow critical analysis to be directed
from a vague emotionalism which was the hall-
mark of Black Cultural Nationalist in the
mid 60's and early 70's. These are hard
times.
Try as we might, Afrikan People cannot
prove to themselves, nor to the world's
anti-imperialist and to the
that they are a free people
and be telling the truth at
We may be the only slaves
drive luxury limousines, bu
slaves.
If we are not free, th
of Andy Young notwithstandi
are we? We are a colonized
colonized People we can onl
through political struggle,
to culture only a National
can produce a National Cult
terature is an extension.
beration front should creat
dialectical materialism whi
jective reality, which when
with historic due process,
definition of themselves an
ship to self determination:
To fight for a nationa
in the first place to
beration of the nation
keystone which makes t
national culture possi
Culture is a survival vehic
It is through a literate fo
that scientific investigati
of scholarship can be pursu
be truly said that there is
of civilization without the
scientfic investigation and
sive techniques of scholars
The role of literature
a vehicle of literal commun
the stage of the Afrikan Li
inside amerika, can carry b
and supportive impact on th
Movement. In the sphere of
Afrikan Literature can be u
elements of their working c
Manifestoes and position pa
valid forms of literature,
ture can support a National
on a day to day basis throu
tion of revolutionary princ
poetry, drama, novels, songs, etc. When
the disciplines mentioned are produced with
the intent of political struggle and Afrikan
Self Determination those themes become Popula
understood by the Afrikan Masses on a daily
pragmatic level and internalized.
The art of revolutionary literature
linked with concrete social practice and
scientific political development can raise Is
the consciousness of an oppressed people
domestically colonized as an Afrikan Nation.
The function and phenomenon of conscious
raising is particularly relevant to oppressed
peoples. It is through this aspect of self-
determination that a people can analyze their
alternatives to colonization.

2.6

Guyanese/Peoples View of The
Jonestown Massacre
; (municipal and district c
by Eusi Kwayana
lf ... in Guyana 914 persons, some
80% of them Black ... could die, mostly
in one locality and alf on the orders
of one man.11
30
The Editor:
It is the general opinion
of Guyanese that the Jones
took place because of the
cratic way in which the r
governs under a fairly de
written constitution.
For example, on Janua
not two months after Jone
parliament, by a majority,
law which postpones local
elections for the fourth
The disputed referendum t
referenda took place only
Thus the massacre is symb
wedged in between two majo
of democracy.
Guyana is a country
ministers and other leade
ruling party (PNC) were r
declare in writing to the
Mr. Burnham, by March 31,
their assets, "wherever h
The Leader in turn w
to submit his own assets
The opposition in parliam
from the government in 19
that assets would be publ
July or August, 1975. Th
published then.
Finally, after other
publish, in a press inter
Guyana Chronicle during t
campaign, the PNC Leader
and a party committee had
 Apart from the poli
assets submitted and found them to be Guyana Defence Force, Gu
in order and that he had decided not to the Guyana National Serv
publish them. armed force - and the Gu
Militia, which is a PNC
It is this climate that Jonestown there is the YSM cadres,
became possible. For this reason also, military group of the PN
the issue is seen at home as human Socialist Movement.
tragedy made possible only by the
political culture of Guyana, or rather, A University of Guy
the culture of its ruling party. into our "military balan
Dammas) has estimated th
As organisations which fall outside officially armed unit to
the ruling party and its sphere of inhabitants of Guyana.
influence, members of the Council of loyalty of the troops -
National Safety are painfully aware of been little question of
the readiness of the security forces and regime is able to deal w
their various intelligence arms to threat to security and a
infiltrate, penetrate, impose surveill- peace.
ance over and carry out searches against
those who do not toe the line politically, When, therefore, it
that the police and the
Powers callous or cowardly to i
shooting at Port Kaituma
The security forces, the leader- what were the general in
ships of which have all proclaimed these forces in relation
allegiance to the ruling party and the Temple. Our information
Prime Minister personally, are armed had always been told tha
with tough laws such as the Firearms not within their jurisdi
Act and the all embracing National developed as a "state wi
Security Act. This NSA bestows certain on the direct instructio
emergency powers without the need for regime.
the declaration of a state of emergency.
The Gover
Under the Firearms Act firearm
licences are issued on the decision of . ^wors
the Minister of Home Affairs. and
spends
There are laws for the expulsion
of undesirables. In fact two Afro- on the
americans were in January 1973 simply comfort
arrested and expelled without ceremony.

3Z
Minister Burnham, in National Service uniform

The Council of National Safety was
formed as a response to the fact that
in Guyana 914 persons, some 80 percent
of them Black, an undisclosed number of
them Guyanese, some 200 of them children,
a number of them Amerindian and all of
them human beings, could die, mostly in
one locality and all on the orders of
one man.
It was also formed.because of the
certainty that this could happen only
because our government, well reputed for
its powerful defence of dispossessed
Africans in Southern Africa, could
violate our national sovereignty by
aiding and counselling the development
of a state within a state, based on
undemocratic rule, within its borders.
Although the Prime Minister who
heads this government has not condes-
cended to address Guyanese on the issue
of Jonestown, he has given interviews
to sections of the u.s. press. In one
newspaper, he is reported as saying that
he wants to "close the chapter of the
People's Temple as soon as possible11.
The state-owned Guyana Chronicle
and radio stations have declared that
the government has no intention of
holding an enquiry. The whole thing
is, it seems, Man american problem".
And it is only left for the u.s.a. and
the Guyana governments, we are told,
to work things out.
This is not the view of the Council
of National Safety. The majority of
the small and dwindling population of
our country is far from callous.
Rather than seeing it
american problem, we see i
linking the people of our
- one large, one small, an
aims at attempting to esta
at the level of press, org
and individuals, around th
issue.
Commonweat
urged on Hum
violations in
Far from working to "
the people are demanding a
enquiry" into the secret hi
Jonestown, from the granti
land and the renaming of a
Kanaua Creek basin to the
the inventory taking.
On December 19, 1979,
citizens broke a police ba
a one-mile demonstration i
demand an independent enqu
police failed to break up
although they made physica
do so. A rally held the s
Bourda attended by a crowd
"the largest in recent tim
the CNS demand for an enqu
Jonestown.
Issues
As a result of overwhelming demands
from the people, the state-owned Guyana
Chronical has vaguely reported that the
government has agreed to set up a
Commission of Inquiry into the "entire
tragedy of Jonestown11 headed by a person
of "judicial stature". No information
has been given about the terms of
reference and the personnel of the
proposed Commission.

The Council of National Safety will

not regard as serious any inquiry that
fails to encompass every aspect of Jones-
town, from its establishment to its
destruction, and to satisfy Guyanese
that the Commission of Inquiry is
genuinely independent.
Give support to the onl
Several of the issues the CNS pro- in Guyana which has dem
poses to raise will touch on Guyana- inquiry into the "Jones
u.s.a. relations. Why, for example, Send check or money ord
was Congressman Ryan allowed to go on Working Peoples Allianc
his mission without police protection? send donations to:
What information about operations of
the Peoplefs Temple in relation to c/o Boxholder
Guyana was given to Guyana by the u.s.a.? P.O. Box 1718
How could the same u.s.a, which complains Hyattsville, Mary
about due process of law in the Stoen
case, wink at rigged elections and
fraudulent referendum statistics in
Guyana?!

EUSI KWAYANA
Secretary,
Council of National Safety
(CNS) Georgetown

3b
 A Black Political Prisoner's Appeal
Mahali Mchawi Obadele
it
... near a place called Leland,
Mississippi I passed a patrolman who
signalled me to pull over. I did, and
when I looked up through the rear
veiw mirror the patrolman had drawn
his revolver and was taking aim ....
He then fired at our car."
Dear Soulbook:
I am in real need of you
state as briefly as I ca
surrounding my case:
Firstly, let me state th
been once convicted of a
24 and Scott, 26, were b
the Federal Prison syste
consider ourselves membe
taking into view the tre
the many others that are
here receive, i.e., our
we had hopes of going ho
leaving this place, the
Being we have in no way
citizens. This letter t
true need. As we have n
time and are in dire nee
assistance. I will now
of our situation, and wi
honest and directly to t
In September, 1977, whil
Mississippi, North on Hi
at a small store near Vi
co-defendant went in to
good articles and cigare
time he had a verbal exc
store owner, a Mr. Max H
words and Holden called
stated that he could not
in his store. My co-def
punched Holden in the face, out of anger.
He got back into the car and told me what
happened. We then drove up the highway
and stopped and purchased the things we
wanted at another store.
When we left Holdenfs store, he called
the police and stated that we robbed him
of $350.00 and pistol whipped him in the
head.
A few hours later near a place called
Leland, Mississippi I passed a patrolman
who signaled me to pull over. I did,
and when I looked up through the rear
view mirror the patrolman had drawn his
revolver and was taking aim. I was
shocked.1 He then fired at our car.
The bullet hit the upper door on the
driver's side, and knocked a piece of
chrome from the door. (This evidence
however, was completely overlooked and
skillfully covered up with the help of
our so-called attorney). Also, let me
state here that we were traveling with
all of our personal belongings in the car.
A number of firearms included. The
patrolman received return fire and was
wounded in the face. I did not make the
connection of this exchange, with Holden
until the other officers that arrived
stated that we were suspects in a bank
robbery in some town that I can't recall
the name of. When the F.B.I, came they
must have realized that they made a
mistake. Then I heard something about
a store robbery.
We first went to court for the alleged
robbery, Vicksburg, Ms. in Judge Ben
Gouder's court. While there we talked
to two different court ap
Each of them said, after
that they could not handl
various reasons. Like th
go to court, the court ap
J. Mack Varner. They sai
lawyer we had, had taken
him if they really think
trial for our lives on th
moment with him. We sat
felt him out. His true
shortly. He even made a
: "I'd rather be out somep
to be here messing with
said shit, We decided t
best thing to do was to
and see if we could obta
tance from some other pl
deal with our own defens
him to see if he could g
• in order for us to get a
him and him with our cas
flatly refused this. He
were going to trial that
made it clear that he wa
to go to trial. We prot
what they were attemptin
The judge continued the
afternoon! Stating that
enough time to acquaint
Varner and him with us
did. The man was clearl
sell us out. When we we
court that afternoon, we
dismiss Varner and try
see'k legal assistance e
to defend ourselves. G
We then began to protes
let the people be aware
attempting to do to us.
they tried to go on with the railroading
procedures, we protested. Each time we
were taken out .of the courtroom to the
judge's chambers and threatened by Gouder,
Finally, he ordered us gagged in the
courtroom and that was how the trial went,
With us gagged and handcuffed and Varner
acting as if he was defending us.
They had already intimidated Forbes, age
17, the day that we were arrested, and
told him that he would get total immunity
from the charges if he said what they
want him to say. You know how that is
done, don't you? He did as he was told
and was not charged of anything to my
knowledge. We were tried and convicted
and sentenced to serve a term of life in
prison without parole, all in one after-
noon there in Judge Gouder's court in
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The trial in Washington Co
Ms.) was a repeat of the s
was not as overt. We were
the court, attorney's John
Sidney J, Martin, I can r
objecting not once during
the whole proceeding. We
him to fight, but he would
just sat there. He even
pass color photos, picture
wounds that were taken bef
You can imagine the affect
the jury. Some even openl
in court,
We were convicted and sen
thirty (30) years, after w
life without parole sente
patrolman who was wounded
We had not heard from Mart
a week ago, he came here
some research he had under
that by Mississippi law, w
death of said patrolman,
time be re-indicted for c
and to use his words, nyou
get the Gas Chamber11. He
would return with a paper
sign if we wanted to. Wh
bringing us was another "
done before our trial. T
wanted us to sign was sta
would like to drop our ap
supposed to have filed, a
time, drop all possibiliti
in the future. He also s
one else knows about this
we should not make waves
appeal thing, and chances
won't hear anything else
All the times that I've w
in the past, I RECEIVED N
now all of a sudden he ma
down here to talk with us about the
appeal thing. He made it a point to keep
a picture of the gas chambers in our
minds. We did not sign the papers, and POETRY
asked him to get a continuance on his
brief time limit. He said he probably •*
can.
This is our present situation here. You
can probably see what the thing is. Our
situation is bad. Being both parolees,
poor and on top of that, Black. You
know also that in this race/class orientec
society that this does make a difference,
I realize that I am sometimes blunt here.
Believe me, its only in my efforts to
be totally honest and to the point with
you. We need help in the form of a
criminal attorney who is "willing11 to
help us attempt to bring out the facts
in this matter, and bring this into the
courts. A grave injustice has taken
place, and I guess it will even be taken
further (the gas chamber) if we don't
somehow retain an attorney who truly
wants to get at the truth and defend my
co-defendant and myself. You have our
permission to share this letter and
statement of facts with, anyone that you
believe to be interested in the courts
dispensing justice, and assist us in
this matter.
Any effort you make to help us in this
case would be greatly appreciated, as
we are on trial here for our lives,
You have our regards,
Sincerely,

Mahali McHawi Obadele

New Afri
 spectres
Revelations wraiths, destroying your
desecrating your
Behold the book was placed before me and alters, and your benedict
it bore the seal of death.., cold kiss of destruction
And a voice commanded me to read flee screaming to your gr
there of And go forth prophesying of will fatten and grow stro
things to be ... food of revenge and wax m
And the writings of the book were black Afrika will Triumph
a brand untc my eyes blinding me. castrated sons of her fle
it is written, Selah forth new life
And in the day of the night which is to long live Afrika
come mighty tremors will gird the earth,
shaking it as a leaf in storm, then will C
issue forth the trumpeter winds, the
dark winds that burn sere and scorch the
flesh and it will be a sign
and in the day of the night to come
your white and blue skies will yellow
and taint with the breath of the lion,
and the enchroaching jungle
will heave and move forward. And your
pleasures will be carrion and ashes.
Selah
And in the day of the night to come the
children of your blandness spewed from
your bloodless loins
will be gutted in an orgy of blood,
and their bones affixed as crosses on
your doorsteps to guide our way in
darkness. Selah!
And on the eve of the night which
is to come
You will quake palsied with knowing,
and You will run to your hiding
places, away from the black wrath
among you, to find your retreat
blocked by jungle, the black hordes
surrounding you, and it is night.
And in this night from the airless
tombs which you have sentenced unto us
we will issue forth, a mighty army of
THE REVEREND ELDRIDGE LEROY CLEAVER SPEAKS
idealistic fool—J
ABOUT SAL-VATION
Excuse, vie friends, back to

The Lorrrd works in mysterious ways, friends. Stranded in Paris, with Kat

Five years ago, followers, I couldn't face

I was a lost man, hunted, debauched moved with demonic swiftnes

unrepentant; wallowing in bridge over the Seine: a si

sin and selfishness: a fugitive into oblivion, darkness blo

from all that is fine and decent; filled time itself. Then love sm

with barbaric passions, utterly lost. upon me: blessed with Grace

To Cuba, Algeria, all Africa, I wandered having visions: my life and

among alien races, unable to stifle the gods flashed before me

evil choking the beauty in my of satanic darkness: I

rebellious soul. Mao and Che Guevara, L

Then forced to the final quick of the Castro outlined in hor

blade, harassed and brutal, restless, with ruined cities, st

insane with bitterness, I made a vow millions, fire, plague

to end my worthless life. Yes, friends, corpses; well I tell y

suicide! (What could I do, my books were burning in eternal dam

confiscated, my royalties, my drowning in howling fu

international image—all of that sometimes—sometimes n

money, that—thousands of can still hear their s

dollars—and Don Cox, that I—I looked up into th

 white glow of the moon and saw I know, in my heart, He'll

His blessed face: saw JEEEEEEEEESUS prayers

smiling down at me and knew that I and forgive. O Yes!

had found SAL-VATION.

People doubt my sincerity.

Yes Friends, as the scriptures say, He meet mine and quickly dart

washed me white as snow! And now They observe my conservativ

Borrrrrrrrrn Again dress and life-style

I renounce my sinful ways: slowly shake their hea

the maaaaaad anarchism and hate-filled or mutter dark threats

days, 'Traitor, agent, sell-out"

when I mounted a wave of black- the spittle of words flung

jacketed violence and denounced by those with whom I braved

my birthright, spat upon OUR FLAG, life and death (those same

fought cops and avowed bow their heads to Black ha

Godless communism! Africanism and other alien

Yesssss, friends, if He can forgive Who speak treason against o

a sinner like me, a man who renounced conspiring with Castro or b

his country, his FLAG, who robbed, in carnivals of bloodlust a

and raped innocent white women, plundering New York, burnin

smoked dope, hung out with Black looting our cities in orgie

Communist criminals black savagery, returning u

50 jungles of our inglorious P

 But I say, as He said: "Forgive
them Lord, they know now what
they do!"
0 you angry, discontented, you howling
masses, you wretched sinners raging for
a believable dream—JEEEEEEEESUS
IS CALLING!
Won't you join him in a real
revolution—that marches into
the slumbering soul, rouses
the trumpets of the heart
to announce the Son of God?
Won't you join him, friends,
won't you submit to Love and
SAL-VATION? Won't You?
—USHERS PLEASE POME FORWARD
WITH YOUR OFFERING PLATES!
Askia M. Toure
52
State of the Union
Without laughing, I imagin
message on the state of the Un
In the substratum we have
of iron
50 years of cobalt
But what of 35 years of su
bauxite,
what is there in the heart
Nothing, zer
mine wi
cavern
not a d
Emnet Till
your eyes were sea shells wher
headiness of your 15 year old
your young eyes were never old
or rather upon them weighed,
more than could all the sky-sc
of executioners or witch burne
five centuries of bad gin of f
of fleshy paunches filled with
bibles
five centuries bitter mouth of
they were, five centuries old Er
fJ re centuries is the age with
stake of Cain
Emnet T
"in the
not a dr
and as for yours, may it hide
it mingle with
ny bread
—MBoy from Chicago Message sur 1'Etat
is it always true that you
are equal to a white?1! Sans riref j f imagine au Co
He believed so. Even at the edge of night 1'Etat de lfUnion: situation t
at the edge of the Mississippi drifting between
the high banks of racial hatred its bars, its plus ne nous reste au
barriers, its sepulchral avalanches he believed. 50 ans de cobalt
He believed that a negro was equal to a white. mais pour 35 ans de so
bauxite, au coeur quoi
—-l!Boy from Chicago..."
Rien, zero,
So much sweeps away the wounded pride of racial
vanity and it. cracking of whips mine sans mi
listen to the smooth singing of the bird of the caverne ou r
blood in the blue hedge of the veins de sang plus
he foresees, mounting in the surprisingly blue
field of sky Ermet Till
above the drowsiness of the bluffs
—the step of a mourner, the step of a gleaner— tes yeux etaient une conque ma
your stealthy step, 0 vehement sun bataille de
vin de ton sang de quinze ans
then the night remembered its arm Eux jeunes n'avaient jamais eu
and Big Millam's heavy pistol ou plutot sur eux pesaient
on the living black wall of golden flesh plus que tous les gratte-ciel,
wrote in rusty letters the sentence and the tortionnaires v
state of the Union: de bruleurs de sorcieres,
cinq siecles de mauvais gin de
panting hunming screeching de grasses badaines remplies d
boring drilling bobles rancies
the earth says barks bibles cinq siecles bouche amere de p
bulldozers ils avaient cinq siecles Emnet
the sky says sky-scrapers cinq siecles est 1'age sans ig
I say silence Emnaet T
I say enough
20 years of zinc flau coe
20 years of copper de sang
15 years of petroleum
and the 180th year of these states et pur le tien, qu'il me cache
but in the heart—painless clock mon pain
nothing, zero il se nslle
not a drop of blood --"Garcon de Chicago
in the brutish sterilized white c'est-il toujours vrai que tu
Jieart. autant qufun blanc?"
Oi by aime cesaire
II ciroyait. Mane au bord de la nuit
au bord du Mississippi charriant entre les
hautes berges de la haine raciale ses barreaux,
ses barrieres, ses tonbales avalanches,
il crut. II crut qu'un n^gre valait un blanc.
-"Garcon de Chicago..."
Autant en enporte le froissemont du vent racial
et son
cliquetis de fouets
lui eccute dans le bleu toitsson des veines
chanter egal 1'oiseau du sang
il devine par-dessus le soraneil des berges
tranter dans le bleu chanp surprenant
—pas de pleureuse pas de glaneuse—
ton pas furtif soleil vehement
alores la nuit se souvint de son bras
et le gros colt de Big Millam
sur le noir mur vivant de chair aurorale
en lettres de rouille ecrivit la sentence et
1'etat de 1'Uhion:
haletements vronibissenients miaulercents
forenEnts perforements
la terre dit banques bibles bulldozers
le ciel dit gratte-ciel
je dis silence
je dis assez ASSATA S
20 ans de zinc
15 ans de cuivre Black Free
15 ans de petrole
et lfan 180 de ces etas
mais au coeur-indolore horlogerie
rien, zero
de sang pas une goutte^
au carne blanc coeur desinfecte^.
par aime cesaire
(reinprime de Presence Africaine)
 New

Special Focus I
PORTRAIT OF A BLAC
WOMAN: DARA ABUBA
REPUBLIC OF NEW AF
Of late, much contr
focused on the flrole of
in our struggle for nati
Amid this furor we must
clear delineation of Afr
European development dem
Cheikh Anta Diop. He sh
different material reali
in alternate paths of ci
development and also pro
in the perceptions and s
in these two fundamental
superstructures.
-r.T^kPj? .*.ii'•;«,;•. .:.-..- •-'.> .9,:'•--*•: .
•- •-'%i*(n^iV5
 It must be further noted that our
current struggle against white colonial
settler domination is not only a struggle
for political and economic independence,
it is also a confrontation between our
"Afrikan ethos and the attitudes of our
colonizer. Of course it goes without
saying, we cannot build a new nation
without rejecting the values imposed
upon us by the slaveholders. Such is the
case with our perception of our women - on
which Diop counsels us, "... when the
security of the group was the primary
concern, the respect enjoyed by either
of the sexes was connected with its
contribution to this collective security.ff
This axiom is still functional for us as
we are engaged in a collective struggle
for survival.
all of our resources - hum
fernale) and material - in
self determination is Sis
Abubakari.
Dara Abubakari was
third (3rd) President of
of New Afrika at a nation
Waveland, Mississippi in
She thus becomes the firs
" this nation building Blac
to be "born and bred" in
Her life spans sixty-five
-. which she has been both a
witness to the evolution
struggle.
Born into ?n activi
Garveyites, Dara soon joi

While Diop has provided us with the

scholarly/theoretical framework from which
we can determine the nature of'both males'
and females1 level of participation in
our liberation movement and our civili-
zation in general practical examples
have been provided for us by the
liberation movement itself. The fact
of the matter is Black women like
Queen Nzinga, Harriet Tubman, Fannie
Lou Hamer, Queen Mother Moore, Assata
Shakur, and others have demonstrated
that in theory and practice the struggle
for Black national independence and
Black womens1 rights are inseparable.
Their bold deeds and clear insights
should have put the sexist/anti-Afrikan
restrictions advocated from certain *The presidency of the R
sections of our movement to rest. Yet being contested by forme
another testament to our need to employ Imari Obadele.

bO
a Baptist minister and her mother,
a Missionary in their struggles for
Black self determination. In the 1930fs
she was an activist in the defense of
the Scotsboro Boys, five (5) young Black
men who were framed for the supposed
"rape11 of two white women on a southern
freight train which stopped at Scotsboro,
Alabama while enroute to Memphis, Tennessee.
Sister Dara»s deligent involvement in
court cases concerning injustices against
Black people from the 1930fs to the
present gained the recognition of
Amnesty International in the inter-
nationally known organization that inves-
tigates acts of political repression
in countries the world over.
In the late 1950fs Dara helped
organize the New Orleans Public Education
Association and later became president
of Citizens for Quality Education, two
groups working for improved public
school education. She was a founding
member of the Southern Conference
Education Fund (SCEF), a southern based
inter-racial education organization.
Dara served as assistant to the Executive
Director and a member of the Board of
Directors of SCEF. Dara was also both a
Vice President and President of the SCEF
Board of Directors.
"Way back in '53 I used to think
that there was hope that maybe Black
and white people together could solve
all the problems," she states, "... I
learned it is not true. I am a self
declared separatist now." So from 1968,
when the Republic of New Afrika was
founded in Detroit, to the present, Dara
bfc
has been engaged in buil
nation for Black people
borders of the present d
Sister Dara's poli
have also included strug
welfare rights front. S
Queen Mother Moore are
of the Universal Associa
Women, a southern based
organization incorporate
in 1958 and instrumental
Black families restored
rolls in Louisiana after
denied welfare benefits
mothers in these familie
to have given birth to c
wedlock, so called ille
Also at this time,
with the struggle for we
23,000 families of Louis
Universal Association of
Women, under the leaders
Mother Moore, the organi
President, and Sister Da
Secretary, began a refin
concept that Black peopl
constituted a nation in
captive nation for which
necessary and to which r
due. This claim of reco
nationhood status for Bl
u.s. was filed in 1958 a
Nations by Queen Mother
the Universal Associatio
Women.
Also engaged in vo
in New Orleans in 1963,
 voter registration proje
day and evening classes
and mounted a series of
against discrimination i
registration. Dara was
times for this campaign
"citizens11 of the u.s, i
exercise their right to
ironic, because years la
President of the Nationa
now President of the Rep
Afrika, Dara is register
people in the south and
u.s. to seek land and in
asking them to become ci
Republic of New Afrika.
Sister Dara f s trav
her to Cuba (during the
travel to that country)
in Latin America and Eur
occasions representing t
Nationalist Movement in
efforts to secure intern
recognition and support
liberation struggle. Su
for over 45 years is rem
you realize the toll of
and setbacks we've faced
to a very active public
Assassinations has been married for 44
Police Murders mother of 10 children, g
40 children and great gr
Drug Deaths She is truly a testament
lishments of Black women
for national liberation.
POLITICAL PRISONERS
Armed with the the
derived from practice we

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resources in our struggle for indepen- a Tribute to:
dence. Discarding european derived
perceptions we can build a movement
that expresses our needs and aspirations
"So, Comrades, let us not pay
tribute to Europe by creating states,
institutions and societies which
draw their inspiration from her.
Humanity is waiting for something
other from us than such an imitation,
which would be almost an obscene
caricature.

If we want to turn Afrika into

a new Europe, and america into a
new Europe, then let us leave the
destiny of our countries to Euro-
peans. They will know how to do On Friday, June 13,
it better than the most gifted among town, Guyana, Walter Rodn
us.
Pan Afrikanist and brilli
was assasinated by order
But if we want humanity to advance of Forbes Burnham. This
a step further, if we want to bring shows the world a despar
it up to a different level than that and Corrupt Guyanese Gov
which Europe has shown it, then spirit of Walter Rodney
we must make discoveries. live in the hearts and mi
and colonized people eve
If we wish to live up to our
peoples' expectations, we must seek Long live Walter Ro
the response elsewhere than in
Europe."
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