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1969: YEAR OF THE PANTHER

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SAN FRANCISCO STATE STRIKE SPREADS

San Francisco State College has been officially shut down for the second time in a month as the results of a student strike which has grown to historic proportions. The closing of the school represents another victory for striking students led by the Black Students Union (BSU) and the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF).

Meanwhile, militant students actions hit San Francisco City College and the College of San Mateo. At City College several hundred black and brown students angrily stalked out of a convocation Dec. 11, and smashed windows on the campus. The militants were angry because they said that the college president had promised them an all-day meeting to discuss the issues raised by the strike at State. As it turned out, however, the meeting was limited to two hours.

Down the peninsula at San Mateo, black and brown students forced the school to close on Dec. 13. The militants called for a student strike and staged a rally which attracted up to 2,000 students. The rally was followed by a march which ended with windows being shattered in five campus buildings.

San Mateo president Robert L. Ewigleben threatened to expel all students alleged to have been involved in the action and to seek criminal prosecution. "People will be surprised at the number of suspensions, expulsions and arrests" at the junior college, he declared.

The closing of State amounted to a turnabout for acting president S. I. Hayakawa. He had planned to keep the school open into the holidays to make up for classroom time lost because of the strike. However, mounting pressure forced Hayakawa to reverse himself and instead close the school a week early for Christmas vacation on Dec. 14.

He had only himself to blame. Hayakawa is a hard-liner who has turned State into an armed camp. His tactics-bringing hundreds of police on campus, including the notorious Tactical Squad, which beat and arrested large number of students, teachers and community leaders -- polarized the campus, and indeed the city itself, in manner the strike alone could not have. Reaction to these tactics along with the continuing and escalating pressure brought by the strikers themselves necessitated that the school by shut down.

Hayakawa seemed to be enjoying himself, though. On a day when police clubbed students he gushed: "This has been the most exciting day since my 10th birthday, when I rode a roller coaster for the first time."

The influential Academic Senate, which represents the whole faculty, also began making threatening noises. First it overwhelmingly voted for a resolution ordering a speed-up search for permanent president to succeed Hayakawa. It condemned Hayakawa's "policy of confrontation" with students and said that it "can only lead to further violence with inevitable fatalities."

S. F. Student Demands

1. That George Murray maintain his teaching position on campus for 1968-69 academic year.

2. That all black studies courses being taught through various other departments be immediately part of the black studies department and that all instructors in this department receive full-time pay.

3. That Dr. Nathan Hare, chairman of the black studies department, receive a full professorship and a comparable salary according to his qualifications.

4. That there be a department of black studies which will grant a bachelor's degree in black studies; that the black studies department, chairman, faculty and staff have the sole power to hire faculty and control and determine the destiny of its department.

5. That all unused slots for black students from fall 1968 under the special admissions program be filled in spring 1969.

6. That all black students wishing so, be admitted in fall 1969.

7. That 20 full-time teaching positions be allocated to the department of black studies.

8. That Dr. Helen Bedesem be replaced from the position of financial aid officer and that a black person be hired to direct it, that third world people have the power to determine how it will be administered.

9. That no disciplinary action will be administered in any way to any students, workers, teachers, or administrators during and after the strike as a consequence of their participation in the strike.

10. That the California state college trustees not be allowed to dissolve any black program on or off San Francisco State College campus.

Third World Liberation Front

1. That George Murray and any other faculty person chosen by non-white people as their teacher be retained in their position.

2. That a school of ethnic studies for the ethnic groups involved in the third world be set up with students in each particular ethnic organization having the authority and control of the hiring and retention of any faculty member, director and administrator, as well as the curriculum in a specific area study.

3. That 50 faculty positions be appropriated to the school of ethnic studies, 20 of which would be for the black studies program.

4. That in the spring semester, the college fulfill its commitment to the non-white students in admitting those that apply.

5. That in the fall of 1969, all applications of non-white students be accepted.

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Letters To The Editor

Dear Brother Raymond

I am a G.I. stationed in Guam who was blind to the ways of the white racist pigs when I enlisted. I coped one of your Organization's papers in Omaha and brought here with me. I have been letting the brothers read it and it really moves them brother believe me.

What I am seeking bro is, information on how I can get a subscription to your paper? If you have any pamphlets or other literature. I would kindly appreciate it also. I will be looking for your answer every day brother. I begging, please don't let me down.

Trying to get
out the war
Brother Eric Burns

Dear Black Brothers

I wrote my letter to you in reference to the article of one Mr. Egbune written say around September 1968.

At the moment I have sent this particular Black Panther paper to the (NBS) Nigeria Broadcasting Service to be read on our radio - so that my people generally would see how some honkies had been putting up some ibos to be giving wrong picture of the situation of Nigeria to foreigners in order to win some sympathy which they do not deserve.

Please keep me informed and do write me for we still have plans for you in Nigeria -- one is we are arranging for one of your militant leaders to visit Nigeria and get us to know your love for us in this hour of our national tribulations.

- So long, "Vwezo Meusi"
forever

Yours Blackly, - Alfred

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MORE LEFT-WING CATHOLICS

ROME -- Young Catholic radicals are causing troubles for the Pope and the Church hierarchy.

A few weeks ago, as the Pope warned against "near subversive" activities within the church, a group of students stood nearby with placards charging that the Vatican is in collusion with capitalism.

Some of the students returned to hold up signs in support of Fr. Enzo Mazzi, who was tossed out of his Florence parish post for publishing a catechism against the orders of his archbishop. The catechism showed Jesus as a defender of the poor rather than a savior of souls, according to an Associated Press report. In Florence about 500 rebel parishioners supported Fr. Mazzi and defied authority by holding an irregular "assembly of prayer" in their church.

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B.S.U. MEXICAN STUDENTS REVOLT IN L.A. SCHOOLS

LOS ANGELES -- Fremont High School situated in the heart of the South Central community, its student body more than 90% black, had a black principal Tuesday morning (December 17).

It has also had an an effective strike in progress Tuesday afternoon, with less than a fourth of the students reportedly in attendance.

Reacting to heavy student, teacher and community pressures, the school board, after the stormy public session Monday night, voted in executive session to appoint Donald Bolton acting principal at Fremont. He was immediately transfered from his previous post as Los Angeles High School assistant principle.

When school board member Ralph Richardson announced the appointment to the crown in the board room, he was greeted with cat-calls and walkout. The reaction was prompted by the boards, failure to consult with students, teachers and community representatives.

Black Student Union leaders pledged to continue their strike as part of the fight for community control of the school.

On Monday the school administration had shut down the school for the day. Tuesday morning only half of the 3,300 students at Fremont reported for classes. After a BSU noon rally classroom attendance dropped to less than one fourth.

In the view of Fremont students, teachers and parents, the crucial issue is community control of the school administration and curriculum. This same issue, to one degree or another, has rocked several Los Angeles area high schools and colleges in the past week. Developments included:

Two major demonstrations were held at Hamilton High School in west Los Angeles, where one-eight of the student body is black. A sit-down by 150 students Monday dispersed when police came on campus for the first time. Student demands included a black studies program and reorganization of history courses to reflect the realities of black history. Joining the BSU in sponsoring the demonstrations was Students for a Democratic Society at Hamilton.

The American flag was hauled down -- and then burned -- by more than 300 students at predominantly black Crenshaw High School.

Mexican American militants at East Los Angeles College replaced the American flag with the banner of the striking AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee after a meeting with the college president, who refused to endorse the grape boycott. Subsequently, the U.S., California, Farm Workers, and school flags were flown side by side.

An abortive demonstration by more than 200 at Los Angeles City College followed a meeting between Mexican American militants, led by President Alejandro Murgula of Mexican American Students Assn., and College President George Gooder. According to Murguia, Gooder agreed that "some of our demands will be taken care of."

At the University of Southern California the BSU and the United Mexican American Students jointly announced that long negotiations with the administration failed to produce results -- and more demonstrative means are now in order.

The Valley State chapter of the American Federation of Teachers announced it is seeking strike sanction to back its demands, which include amnesty for students arrested in connection with Nov. 4 protests on the campus.

At Fremont High a week long series of demonstrations resulted in the resignation of the white principal, Robert Malcolm, and his one day replacement by the white assistant principal, Richard Browning. Even though Malcolm had "unconditionally" reinstated four black students suspended during earlier demonstrations, the momentum of the movement for community control swept on.

Monday, the Fremont teachers, most of whom are white, called on the school board to appoint a black principal, one who enjoys the confidence of the students, faculty and community.

The teachers and the BSU joined in the belief that Mrs. Ida Barrington, the black vice principal for girls at Fremont, would fill that bill. But the school board appointed Bolton.

The appointment of a principal responsive to the students, teachers and community is but one demand of the Fremont BSU. It has, for the time being, become the most decisive. Bolton, in his attempt to maintain the school operation Tuesday, conceded that community control was the key issue at Fremont.

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FT. HOOD THREE ON SPEAKING TOUR

NEW YORK -- The Fort Hood Three -- the first GIs to refuse orders to Vietnam -- have been released from jail and are off on a national speaking tour. The three men, Pvts. Dennis Mora, James Johnson, and David Samas, served two and a half years in the U.S. disciplinary barracks.

The men have come home optimistic and with a desire to involve themselves in the movement. The W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America are sponsoring the national tour of the Ft. Hood Three, and detailed information concerning their schedule and speaking arrangements can be obtained from Carolyn Black and Sarah Doolittle at the DuBois Clubs, 34 W. 17th St., 4th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10011, Phone: 212 -- 929-2010.

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POLITICIAN & GIRL FRIEND INDICTED FOR SMUGGLING

NEW YORK -- A Federal Grand Jury has indicted a Maryland State Senator on charges of smuggling and conspiring to smuggle 17 pounds of hashish into the U.S. from Pakistan.

The Senator, Frank J. McCourt, 33, and his girlfriend, Donna Dixon Mason Harner, are being sought abroad in connection with the "crime." This indictment alleges that the smugglers "packed articles of clothing into a suitcase containing a false bottom which they knew concealed 17 pounds of hashish in Karachi."

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Sometimes the Pigs Catch Pigs

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Government has come up with an indictment of bribery and conspiracy against a former official of the Agency for International Development (AID) and a Belgian corporation executive.

According to an announcement from the Justice Department, the Belgian businessman, Josef Adrianssens, is accused of making payments to AID official Jack K Woll so that Woll would influence the administration of an AID contract held by Adrianssens' firms.

The press release did not say what underdeveloped country the contract work took place in.

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The Dips' Notebook

by The DIP

Recently a young black man came into the National Headquarter's office of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY and we had a pretty nice conversation. The thing that impressed me the most, however, was the reason he gave for quitting a government job.

Q-Why do you want to resign:
A-"I am resigning in protest to the thousand and one changes black, mexican and other minority workers have to go through in order to make it at this work-site and throughout this racist country. I am resigning because I feel that I can no longer contribute to this country's crimes of aggression against the viet - namese people and other peoples of color throughout the world.

I feel it's my duty now to dedicate my life for my people."

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TEACHER FOR NEW ALTERNATIVES

BERKELEY, CALIF. - Community control, racism and job security were among the topics aired in a panel discussion of the New York teachers' strike. Tuesday. December 17th. The program. "The New York School Dilemma," sponsored by Teachers for New Alternatives, was held at Lincoln Elementary School in Berkeley.

Among the participants was Ramparts writer Sol Stern, who, in a recent article, criticized the strike for its racist overtones. Supporting the New York teachers' union was Miles Meyers, vicepresident of the California Federation of Teachers.

Teachers for New Alternatives is a recently organized group of elementary, high school and college teachers interested in improving the quality of education through basic changes in our educational system.

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DESTRUCTION OF THE NEW PIGS

by "the Dip"

Chief of Pigs Gains has got some brand new pigs, Oakland Direct Action Committee. I received news from a representative of the black community in the East Oakland area about this organization, it is understood that the Chief of Pigs in Oakland. "Chief Pig Gains" and these people had a session (meeting) last week, the outcome being that these punks are allowed to carry guns and wear the uniform that the power structure gave them. Why? So they can help the local pigs to protect the white business in the black communities in the east bay. To me this is just another form of pigism against the people but for the punk power structure.

They could give me one of those monkey suits and a gun, but they'd be damn fools to think I would use it in any way against my own people. If things got out of control -- I, for one, would have no part in being a controlling factor to aid in oppressing my people. I just don't believe they have a pig sty that I could fit.

And to the punks that are so weak to fall for such everyday hog-fed brainwash, they must be expected to be treated as all other pigs.

"It is always better to be the penetrater than the target."

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OPEN LETTER

(Editor's Note: This `Open Letter' by Karen Wald is being published in response to Julius Lester's counter-revolutionary column, which appeared in several reactionary newspapers a few weeks ago; which was, in fact, nothing more than a sell-out, slanderous attack on Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and the BLACK PANTHER PARTY.)

Dear Julius:

Although our actual contact has been infrequent, I have felt very close to you since we first met, and our shared experiences, including writing for the same papers, added to this. But in recent months your columns have puzzled and confused me. I don't know you any more; I don't know where you're at; I can't imagine why you are saying (writing) the things you are.

In a recent column in the Guardian, you attack your former brother-in-arms Carmichael: you attack Eldridge Cleaver; you attack the Black Panther Party. Criticism is essential to the health of any revolutionary movement or organization, if it is valid criticism. But in surpasses comprehension to understand why, instead of meeting and talking with these brothers, you have chosen to use the media for the purpose of condemning them for inappropriate use of the media!

Some of your points surprise me. You accuse Carmichael of sometimes seeming to say "whatever was necessary to get the desired response, instead of saying what was necessary to build revolutionary consciousness." Are you saying that the response he was seeking was counter to building revolutionary consciousness? If so, why didn't you speak out and stop him then? Why now, when in your next paragraph you say he has ceased to perform this function?

Your accusations against Carmichael, in fact, seem to be only for the purpose of introducing your criticism of the Black Panther Party and one of its most articulate spokesman. Eldridge Cleaver. Aside from the incredibly impolitic timing of your attack -- just when the total forces of the state were gathering to put him back behind bars -- the level of your criticism is hardly that of a revolutionary and an intellectual.

Do you really believe that Cleaver's influence in the black and radical white communities in the U.S. and abroad comes solely from his status as an "ex-convict rapist revolutionary"!? Julius, that's THEIR (the pigs) game! It hurts to see you playing it. Cleaver has reached thousands of people -- and is desperately sought for annihilation by the Establishment -- because he has something to SAY! He has something to say to black people, and to revolutionary white people. He is valuable not because of his gory past, but because of his articulate espousal of the goals and program of the Black Panther Party.

And just as it is not Cleaver's jailbird past that signals his importance, neither is it the black jackets and berets of the Black Panther Party that makes them a vital organization today. It is the platform and program of the Black Panther Party which Huey Newton and Bobby Seale drew up nearly three years ago, and with which the Panthers have been organizing and educating the black community.

The Black Panther Party has built and organized in many ways, some tried and tested before among radical blacks, some revolutionary innovations. Yes, they taught the black man to arm himself for self-defense. Is that so startling a concept? Is rebuilding black dignity and self-respect new? Is it inappropriate to teach the black man to stand up against the brute power of those who would colonize him only because they HAVE the power? Is de-sanctifying the image of the policeman, the local and national administrator by calling him "pig" unhealthy? If you really believe it is only rhetoric to use words, why is it you, Julius, are carrying out your part in the revolution through the use of the written word? Isn't it because you think the written or spoken word has value, can change people, can move them to action? Are your words revolutionary, and Eldridge Cleaver's "just for entertainment?"

You use the example of the Vietnamese not "announcing" Dien Bien Phu in condemning the Black Panther Party for announcing to the world their intent to Free Huey. Aside from the fact that I never saw the Panthers lay down the blueprint of their battle plan in front of the enemy (and yes, the Vietnamese DID tell the French that they intended to drive them out of their country), your example is particularly inappropriate. For the Vietnamese more than any other people have taught us the valuable strategy of fighting the battle on many fronts. You say "the Vietnamese didn't even bother speaking to the French" before they defeated them at Dien Bien Phu. But they WOULD have if it had seemed wise tactically, just as they are speaking to the American government now. The Vietnamese fight on the military front, the political front, and the diplomatic front simultaneously. It is the key to their ability to endure and the reason why they will win.

And the Black Panther Party is doing just that. Yes, why are YOU so preoccupied with those? Guns aren't strange to the ghetto. What is far more interesting about the Black Panther Party is their door-to-door approach to ghetto residents. Their political campaigns for local office. Their petitions for police control boards and re-structuring of the police departments. Their community meetings. Their political education classes.

Before the Black Panthers marched on Sacramento, they fought for, and obtained a street light at a dangerous intersection near a ghetto school. Huey asked do you think ghetto residents aren't aware of what the Black Panther Party is doing for them? Do you think it's just the guns and jackets that are causing Black Panther chapters to spring up all over the country? Was it Huey Newton's black beret that made people -- and continues to make people -- willing to lay down their lives for him?

Before the Black Panther Party came along, SNCC and other militant black organizations were doing valuable work in organizing the black community. But it was Eldridge Cleaver's eloquent expression of the principles of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party that raised the level of struggle. For Cleaver was the first to create a meaningful working alliance between revolutionaries -- black, brown and white. The Black Panther Party -- sure of itself, of its strength, of its goals, of its program and of its independence -- was not afraid to tell whites, not only you CAN be revolutionaries, we EXPECT you to be revolutionaries. OUR job is to liberate the colony. YOUR job is to create revolution in the mother country. If we both do our jobs effectively, we will be working side by side. Stokely took the first vital step when he told whites. "Your job is to eliminate racism where it exists -- in the white community." The Black Panther Party took it one immeasurable step further in saying, "Racism is only the beginning. Your job is to eliminate capitalism and imperialism. And that will become our job, too, because none of us can survive unless we eliminate all three."

Julius, I cannot believe that you have really attempted to know and understand the phenomena that is the Black Panther Party, or the men -- Newton, Cleaver, Seale, Carmichael -- who are its best known spokesmen. If you had, you would not be attacking them in the manner you are. Sometimes the enemy doesn't have to sneak in from the rear -- he comes out of our own mouths. We should watch for him.

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KATHLEEN CLEAVER: (FROM NEW YORK RADIO ADDRESS)

The most outstanding problem that the black community and in particular the Black Panther Party as a vanguard of the Liberation Struggle will have to deal with in the coming months of 1969 will be the black bootlicker, the puppet placed on black people by the white pig power structure to suppress us. It has become very clear to me that the tactics that will have to be used in the future will be examination of that of withdrawal of white force that is used to suppress black people and an even heavier alliance on highly sophisticated, articulate, educated, hip brother bootlickers. There are many new little propaganda devices coming out that point these people out. "I Spy" is down; we got the "Mod Squad," and what's this other one: "Julia?" No, the one you were telling me about. "The Name of the Game." So I think what we need to do is begin to discuss for the benefit of people who have to deal with this the various aspects and roles of the bootlicker, from the present; the bootlicker, the pig in the Black Panther Party in the black leather jacket and the beret with the bullet around the neck, to the bootlickers all the way back to Tonto. Because one of the basic functions of the imperialist, one of the only ways that he is able to win and maintain and control his power over the people, he subjects and colonizes and exploits is to divide them and keep them fighting among themselves. You see this today in Biafra, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, the wars among the Indians to the struggles among black people. The Man will be doing everything. That pig Nixon will be doing everything in his power to perpetrate struggles, and divisions within the black community and the key man in this activity will be the bootlicker. We have one of his classic examples of a bootlicker in Thurgood Marshall, sitting on the supreme court, a black face handing out mother country racist justice. And when brother Eldridge Cleaver's petition for the stay of the order to send him back to prision was brought before him, he turned it down without comment. But, you see, Thurgood Marshall was not the man directly responsible for that. The person responsible for the juridsidtion over California in the supreme court is the famed white liberal, justice Douglas, and when the petition came to Douglas be unfortunately had a speaking engagement that day and he handed the petition. I'm sure, without comment, to bootlicker T. Marshall who had no choice but to do the white man's bidding, and he refused to grant brother Eldridge another second of mother country time. So what brother Eldridge did was off mother time and went on into his own time zone. Black time. Yeah, revolutionary time.

When I was a little kid I used to watch TV. It's ignorant too, but I used to watch it, you know, and like I used to always tune in to the Lone Ranger. Like that cat used to be a ranger. You dig? Like the first series in the Long Ranger series was like the Lone Ranger was riding with all these other rangers and they got ambushed by some Indians. You dig it? And like the Indians wiped them all out but just wounded the Lone Ranger. So like we played dead and he laid there two days and two nights with no water, bleeding from the stomach. You understand. The Indians scalped everybody including the Lone Ranger. That's why you never see him without his hat if you ever dig it. And like this chump comes along; he's the last of a whole tribe of Indians. He's the last Indian in this tribe and he rides along on a painted horse and he digs an integrated horse. You dig it? It was white. It had black spots and white and brown spots. It was an ethnic holting pot. you dig it? In essence, and he comes riding along on his horse and he digs the Lone Ranger gruveling in the dirt and he says like "Hmm --". That's all he ever says. So like he fixes the Lone Ranger up. I think we should stop and analyze the whole relationship between Tonto and Lone Ranger; `cause Tonto ain't nothin' but a bootlicker showing the pigs that are wiping out his people where the Indians are, assisting the oppressors of his own people, assisting his own murderers; a so-called brother senator Brook. He is a classic bootlicker. The US ambassador to Ghana at the time that brother K Nkrumah was deposed and therefore the man responsible for overseeing everything that was going on in Ghana was Franklin Williams, a black man, a graduate of Lincoln University, the same University Nkrumah graduated from, a brother who rode around in Cadillacs in white suits with white women. When Nkrumah was deposed, Franklin returned home for a promotion. The number of bootlickers that the pigs create are enormous, uncountable. Batista was a bootlicker that Castro wiped out. Ky is the bootlicker that Ho Chi Min will wipe out. Diem was a bootlicker. I mean, their means of creating bootlickers seems to be inexhaustable. They have the brother in the natural, in the black leather jacket who would join the party under the false pretense of helping his people and be reporting to the man. This so-called senate internal security investigation of the Black Panther Party that's in progress, the information for this investigation that will be handed over to these racist "crackers" from Mississippi is being collected by bootlicking brothers. A function of a bootlicker in a national liberation struggle is that of a traitor and thers's only one punishment that we can mete out to traitors and that doesn't even need to be discussed.

I think, that it must become very clear that what the black community and the vanguard must do is tighten up internally to protect and strengthen the community so it will be in a position to deal with the arms brought from the outside that the white racists will use. The imperialists, the Wallaces, the Reagans, the Aliotos and the Lindseys -- all the racists will mount their little attacks sending out the vanguard of the white racists: the clan, the birchers, the police. And our community has to be uptight. We cannot tolorate infiltrators traitors and bootlickers. One way, like Chairman Bobby Seale says, to combat bootlicking, handkerchief-head Negroes is to establish a new criteria of judging a or bother not so much as to whether he has an afro, and a dasheke on an is talking black, BUT WHETHER HE IS REVOLUTIONARY OR NOT. Right on. Because we have revolutionary people in our churches. We have people who will help us in elementary shool; we have teachers; we have nurses; we have all kinds of people who look to the eye as so-called typical Negroes. The only thing typical about a Negro that you can typify all black people with is that we all want freedom. That's the only typical thing about us. And bootlickers seem to think that we get freedom by helping our oppressors. That is a conclusion that will never work. Since they are providing aid, confort, and assistance to the enemy they are in fact an enemy within our midst.

It has always been said that before you can straighten up anyone else's backyard you have to get your own house clean. Brothers and sisters, we are going to have to clean house and get all the bootlickers their proper desert. I think the main problem with these bootlickers like you said, earlier, you know when we were rapping; you said the bootlickers don't think that they will have to answer the people for their actions. You see, what the black people have to do is make it understood and very clear that they do have to relate to the black community at large for everything they do. I mean if they draw their power -- their so-called power, and we know that the black people have no power in this country -- if they do draw their power from the people like they claim they do, their action should be made accountable to the people. Exactly. You black people are essentially on parole from slavery with parole officers watching over us to draw us back into the prison, into the gas chamber, into the concentration camps, into the muck and mire of their system at any and every opportunity through all the little devious means of black capitalism, poverty programs, scholarships or CIA training. One of the main recruiting grounds for CIA agents is the black college campus. Knowing that the CIA has been extremely active in Africa in the past ten years, we know who has been doing that work and knowing that the primary focus of international and domestic repression will be in the vanguard of the black liberation struggle. We know what tools they will use, the tools of our oppression. These tools of the pig have to be eliminated thoroughly, absolutely, wholly and completely. Right on. We must examine historical examples that have been handed down to us. We know that Nat Turner was not betrayed by crackers. He was betrayed by bootlicking, uncle tomming niggers. They must be dealt with in a revolutionary manner. They must be shown no compassion, no sympathy, because they are enemies of the prople. The only man that identified Huey P. Newton as shooting a policeman was not a policeman on the set, was not any observer on that scene, but was a black bus driver two blocks away in the dark, with sun glasses on. Two blocks away in the dark was a black man.

The brothers who pulled the trigger that assassinated Brother Malcom were black. So we see in this that in 1969 we will have to watch very closely those within our ranks, those who disguise themselves as being our brothers but who is reality are agents and tools of the power structure, in essence are black pigs. These are the individuals that the pigs of the power structure have created and they sustain them and keep them in a position to do harm to the revolutionary struggle of black people in America. We must keep them under constant surveillance and when they are detected, when they are exposed they must be eliminated, swiftly, immediately, and with no compunction about it. I know one thing: that the bootlickers will be made to stand before the people in the people's court and court will be wherever we catch them licking boots, and they will be made to account for their actions.

So we say in our conclusion that ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEOPLE, AND PANTHER POWER TO THE VANGUARD. Death to the pigs, black, white, green, yellow and striped.

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PHOTO EXHIBIT ON BLACK PANTHERS AT DE YOUNG MUSEUM TILL JAN. 19, 1969

The Pirkle Jones -- Ruth Baruch photographic exhibit on The Black Panthers is likely to be the most favorable communication between the bourgouise and the vanguard this year. The photos are of excellent quality and give a real feeling for the Bay Area Revolutionaries.

Ruth Baruch and Pirkle Jones convey their enthusiasm with the events they attended, with the people they met. There are some remarkable photos of Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, David Hilliard, Kathleen Cleaver, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas and Raymond Lewis. The show came close to being barred by City Hall. Since the success of this exhibit, however, requests for showings have come in from all over the country.

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REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #15

When you seize Columbia, when you

seize Paris, take

the media, tell the people what you're doing

what you're up to and why and how you mean

to do it, how they can help, keep the news

coming, steady, you have 70 years

of media conditioning to combat, it is a wall

you must get through, somehow, to reach

the instinctive man, who is struggling like a plant

for light, for air
when you seize a town, a campus, get hold of the power

stations, the water, the transportation,

forget to negotiate, forget how

to negotiate, don't wait for De Gaulle or Kirk

to abdicate, they won't, you are not

"demonstrating" you are fighting

a war, fight to win, don't wait for Johnson or

Humphrey or Rockefeller, to agree to your terms

because it's yours"

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DENVER PIGS

The Denver Pig Department had attempted to give many trumped up charges to members of the Black Panther Party here in Denver through false traffic tickets and trumped up arrests. They also stopped members of the party after leaving the Panthers headquarters here. The city officials and the support of the pig department has tried through mass media news to clear up the damage that was done upon the Panthers headquarters and to confuse the Black people in the community.

On December 30, about 10 a.m., Howard Phillips, the managers of safety, also attempted in less than 48 hours left in his position, to write a false court order upon the Black Panther Party to close the building down, but because we stand opposed to law and order as it is presented by the city officials and the pig department, they did not accomplish this attempt.

They also hold Brother Johnny Martin, a member of the New Jersey chapter, in jail on a trumped up charge of possession of marijuana, and a federal fugitive warrant from his home chapter.

Deputy Minister of Information
Ronnell Stewart

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LABOR MOVEMENT VS PIG RONALD REAGAN

SAN FRANCISCO -- The administration of Governor Ronald Reagan, having already aroused the ire of students and the black community, appears now to be heading for a confrontation with the entire labor movement on the issue of teacher grievances in the state college system.

If it comes to pass it will be no small confrontation.

The California state colleges -- with 188,000 full and part-time students and 8,400 full-time faculty members -- constitute the largest system of higher education in the Western Hemisphere.

TRANSFORMATION

The California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, with which the aggrieved union, the American Federation of Teachers, is affiliated, is the largest state federation of labor in the nation, representing more than a million organized workers.

The gradual transformation of what started out as student demands at San Francisco State into a formal labor dispute involving the entire state college system was just about completed this week as state college officials for the first time in a decade agreed to at least discuss grievances formally with union representatives.

In spite of the discussions, which began here Thursday, there is still a very real possibility that when Jan. 6 -- the scheduled ending of the Christmas vacation -- rolls around, the AFT will be formally on strike on all of the major state college campuses.

Dr. John Sperling of San Jose, head of AFT's State College Council, said on Wednesday (Dec. 18) that teachers are becoming "more and more militant by the day."

AFT represents between 1,850 and 1,900 of the 8,400 full-time faculty members in the system, Sperling says.

THE SITUATION

The situation as talks between the AFT and top state college officials began here on Thursday (Dec. 19) was as follows: o Formal strike sanction is being sought by AFT locals on three campuses -- San Francisco, San Jose and San Fernando. o Contingent -- or support -- strike resolutions have been adopted by AFT locals on eight additional campuses -- Humboldt, Chico, Sacramento, Fresno, Hayward, Sonoma, Pomona and Fullerton. (This means 11 of the 19 campuses could be involved.) o Despite the talks -- which Gov. Reagan refuses to call negotiations -- the attitude of the administration and the state college trustees remains hard line, and the Governor made it clear in his press conference Tuesday that he does not favor collective bargaining with unions on behalf of college teachers.

Both San Francisco State Local 1352 and San Jose State Local 1362 have formal strike deadlines set for 7:30 a.m., Jan. 6. The San Fernando State chapter has asked the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor for strike sanction.

Focus of the dispute shifted to the labor arena after Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, acting president of San Francisco State, closed down that beleaguered campus for Christmas vacation a week early after a continuing student strike frustrated his efforts to solve the college's problems by use of police force.

Since union grievances are inextricably bound up with student grievances, the effect of formal union strike action would be to align students, the black community and the labor movement in common cause if not in formal alliance.

A statement issued by the AFT College Council after the announcement of Thursday's meeting with representatives of the trustees made this clear.

"The AFT obviously welcomes this offer to negotiate but we have no intention of limiting negotiations simply to faculty wages and working conditions. The AFT strike issues clearly set forth -- as conditions for settlement of the dispute -- that minority students' grievances must be resolved and that any agreed upon programs be implemented.

"In addition, the constitutional and academic rights of all students must be secured. In order to make this point absolutely clear, AFT Local 1352, by unanimous vote of the membership on Friday, Dec. 13, set as a precondition for any negotiations that

"(1) The trustees publicly request the withdrawal of all outstanding warrants for the arrest of faculty, staff and students stemming from recent disturbances on campus.

"(2) The trustees publicly request the continuance of trials arising out of the current situation until the crisis is resolved, and

"(3) College authorities agree to hold off on all disciplinary action against students, faculty, and staff until the campus is restored to normaley."

The contingent motion adopted by the other locals declares that if any teacher is suspended, fired or denied tenure because of involvement in a campus dispute such as the one at San Francisco State then those locals will strike in support of the local involved.

The AFT demands include the negotiation and adoption of comprehensive rules and regulations governing grievance procedures and other working conditions.

Other major demands include job security, greater autonomy for the college, and a teaching load commensurate with other colleges and universities.

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MCCLYMONDS NEW PRINCIPAL

by Iris Wyse

McClymonds High School is on its "j". There had been mysterious fires. "illegal" assemblies, etc. Seventy-two students were suspended at one of the rallies that was held. One of the demands was that they wanted a new principal. The students and their parents held a meeting with the now-ex principal of McClymonds. They asked him questions, and he wouldn't even answer. He later got up and walked out. Over the Thanksgiving vacation he resigned. The reason the pig resigned was because he was scared. He oinked-oinked off the scene with his tail between his legs.

There is a new principal at McClymonds, and from what the students say he seems to be a righteous black man. His name is Mr. Jones. He used to be at Fremont High School. There are six new counselors, and they also have counselor aides, all are black. No longer will the students at McClymonds have to be the subjects of these racist devils. These students won't have to miss the opportunity to further their education, because some no good devil told them to take unnecessary courses. They won't have to listen to a so-called counselor tell them, "You work better with your hands than with your brain." For four years straight my socalled counselors have lied and jived with me. It's getting so bad I can't believe a word they grunt. Every black student I have spoken to and know, has had the same problem.

The Black Student Unions Sponsor told me that the students who are functioning the most are sophomores. The reason for this is because this is about the only thing they can participate in. All the clubs and organizations are for almost totally juniors and seniors, but in the B.S.U. every black persons support is needed and wanted. Usually seniors are on the central committee, they know what needs to be done because they've been at the school longer. There are seventeen students on the central committee. They have positions ranging from chairman to a cultural committee. The following are the names of the immediate Central Committee:

CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
GREG ALLEN

CO-CHAIRMAN
DONALD JAMES

MINISTERS OF DEFENSE
ROGER JOHNSON

HENRY HILL

BEN BROWN

SECRETARY
PATRICIA PAIGE

TREASURER
BERMICE MACK

There is a Social Committee consisting of a chairman and two co-chairmen. There is a public relations committee three students are on this committee. And on educational and Cultural Committee in which three students function. And last but not least a Newspaper committee.

The B.S.U. at McClymonds is starting a newspaper. I went to the meeting when they were discussing the paper. There are going to be articles ranging from: whats happening in their school, to a teacher of the week, they are also going to have revolutionary poetry, black history, and a complaint and suggestion column among other things. On the overall I think the paper is going to be very good, and the parents will know whats happening at the school also.

McClymonds High Schools Black Students Union is very together. All of their demands were met, by any means necessary. I say more power to you. Power to the students BLACK POWER TO BLACK STUDENTS. BLACK STUDENTS LIBERATION IS A BLACK THING. RIGHT ON!

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NEWS BRIEFS ABOUT WEST EUROPEAN STUDENT REVOLT

PEKING. (HSINHUA) December 10 -- Tens of thousands of Spanish students at Madrid University went on strike in December in protest against the brutal suppression of the student revolt by the fascist Franco regime. The striking students hung posters on university buildings protesting against the outrages committed by the authorities and demanding the withdrawal of Armed Pigs from the university campus. At the same time, a group of students demonstrated in the center of Madrid, shouting: "Freedom!" "Down with The Dictatorship!". and other slogans.

The student revolt has continued to mount in Spain in the past few weeks. 50,000 students of the architecture and engineering schools all over the country have begun a strike for an indefinite period. Protest demonstrations were held one after another by students in Barcelona, Valencia, San Scbastian and other cities. The reactionary authorities again and again restored to the closing of schools in an attempt to force the students to knuckle under, but this only aroused still broader protests and revolt among the students.

In Lisbon, capital of Portugal, 3,000 students of Lisbon University attended a rally yesterday to voice their opposition to the fascist dictatorial rule in Portugal. The reactionary authorities called out 150 helmeted "riot pigs." armed with rifles and submachine guns to suppress the students. But the dauntless students waged a resolute struggle against the hog force. The reactionary police had to retreat amidst the angry shouts: "Assassine!Assassine! "Out! Out!"

In the past two months the Portuguese students have persisted in their revolutionary struggle for the expanding and improvement of school facilities and against the government's fascist rule over the university.

In Italy, where the wave of student revolt has been surging, the students are heroically persisting in their struggle. Occupation of schools by the students continued in four of Italy's major cities yesterday. Technical Institute students in Rome invested school premises in protest against the reactionary teaching system. In Palermo. Sicily, the students marched through the center of the town, opposing the unreasonable teaching system. Meanwhile, the students in Milan and Genoa continued their occupation of schools.

In France, several hundred students of Grenoble University briefly occupied the office of the university rector yesterday in protest against the reactionary measures adopted by the university authorities to persecute the students.

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IN WHITE AMERICA TODAY

by Evette Pearson

The descendants of the god-fearing racists who committed genocide against a race of red men (so they can have a place to worship god freely) are; trying to commit genocide against you, black man. Your wife is jacked up on birth control pills. Your daughter is being eaten away syphilis. Your son is in Viet Nam, black man.

In white america today, god-fearing racists are buying guns, black man. The guns are to blow you brains out after they pray to the god that ordered black Adam out of the garden of oden. He'll whisper a prayer, give your wife a pill; deny your daughter medication, put your son on the front lines, and piously blow your brains out. Dig it, black man. He has the grace of god on his side:
Our father, (says white america)

which art in heaven

how I love this game.

Of all the blessings

you've given me this

game of pain

is closest to my heart.

I said I'd pray and pray

you gave me the U.S.A.

I joined the Trustee Board

You let me kill the Injuns, lord.

You blessed me with slaves

You blessed me with fools-

Then the niggers started going to schools.

Integrational Freedom!

Now It's revolution!

But I know

the lord is good

You grace is sufficient to silence niggers-

for good.

AMEN!

Dig it. They left their mother country to worship their god. They crossed the wicked seas with their hands cupped in prayer. They wiped out your red brothers and took over the land, black man. They brought you here to build their nation. Machines have now taken over the work your black hands have done.

Shrewdly, cunningly, he starts to do you in, Genocide.
Planned Parenthood

Birth Control

Vietnamese War

Prostitution

Venereal disease

Pigs, punks and

Tricky Dicky Nixon

Genocide. Dig it, black man.

It is time to deal with the situation. Educate your woman to stop taking those pills. You and your woman - replenish the earth with healthy black warriors. You and your woman can build the black Liberation Army to end the god-fearing, god loving racist white dog monster who is piously praying to his scurvy god to WIPE YOU OUT!! …… Panther Power…

Evette Pearson

OFF
THE
PIGS

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CENTRAL COMMITTEE, B.P.P. PRESS CONFERENCE

The Black Panther Party, existing as a true representative of the most down trodden class of poor black and oppressed peoples living in the confines of this racist, exploitative, decadent America, comes forth to DENOUNCE those PROVOCATEUR AGENTS, KOOKS, and AVARICIOUS FOOLS who found their way into the membership; and therefore, after finding their way into the membership of the Black Panther Party have violated rules, principles and revolutionary tactics of the Black Panther Party which is struggling to answer the basic political desires and needs of our people. These conspirators and opportunists who violate the rules and principles of the Black Panther Party have acted foolishly and raised confusion by acts of banditry. These are not members of the Black Panther Party. And the Black Panther Party wholly denounces their acts. For example, William Brent, who allegedly pulled an $80.00 holdup in our newspaper distribution truck is considered to be either a provocateur agent or an insane man. Others lately have also provoked confusion among the masses of the people. The Black Panther Party rules which have been in existence since Huey P. Newton organized the Black Panther Party (including the 3 main rules of discipline and the 8 points of attention) governed and administered by all leadership levels throughout the nation, functions from our Party's revolutionary principle of democratic centralism. Therefore, those who violate these rules are denounced as counter-revolutionaries.

The Black Panther Party doesn't advocate roving gangs of bandits robbing service stations and taverns. Any member who violates the rules of the Black Panther Party is subject to summary expulsion, and so it is with those recent violators of Party rules.

The rules and regulations of the Black Panther Party appear in every issue of the Black Panther Paper.

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REPARATIONS FOR VIETNAM

SPEAKING AT A workshop of the Montreal Hemispheric Conference to End the War in Vietnam, a man brought up a century-old lesson of history. British shipyards built warships for the slaveowners, which sank or captured well over a hundred American merchant vessels during the Civil War.

For this and other violations of the neutrality laws, the United States demanded, and by the award of an international tribunal, received $15,500,000 in reparations. That would be equivalent to $2 billion in relation to our present gross national product.

Now the United States intervened in a Vietnamese civil war, on the side of Vietnamese feudal landowners and militarists, equivalent to the southern slaveowners of the last century. Of course, the U. S. went much further than the British. Washington really organized the civil war. In an attempt to conquer the country through local puppets. And when that failed, the U. S. invaded Vietnam directly on a massive scale.

The U. S. has often been on the collecting side of reparations, sometimes unjustly. But until this decade the U. S. was always so powerful that it could avoid paying reparations for its own ravages of other people's lives, land, and property.

But times are changing. After the Bay of Pigs invasion the U.S. was compelled to pay substantial compensation for damages done to Cuba. Shortly an official claims commission will decide how much the U. S. Government must pay the Seminole Nation for stealing 80% of Florida from the people in a genocidal 7-year war during the 1820's.

Surely the issue of U.S. reparations to Vietnam will arise. What attitude should decent people take?

The allied power, including the U. S., agreed that Germany was liable to pay $20 billion in reparations to the USSR and other victims of German imperialism during World War II, although later the U. S. largely sabotaged carrying out that agreement. The U. S. has committed unlimited destruction, and the wholesale murder of civillans, in Vietnam, just as did the Nazis in the Soviet Union, Poland and other countries

AT LEAST A million Vietnamese people have been killed by the Americans or by puppet forces armed and directed by the U. S. Precious human lives can never be replaced with money or goods. Yet material compensation must be granted to the survivors. Using the racist standards of imperialism, the U. S. government has paid $34 per person to relatives of persons killed by its armed forces "by accident" in so-called "friendly areas." Such token payments measure nothing but the depravity of the U. S. military rules.

Here is a suggested standard. The U. S. grants each service man a $10,000 life insurance policy, for a token premium of $2 yearly. This may be taken as the minimum value of a human life. Applied to the million plus killed by U. S. imperialism in Vietnam, it comes to a total of more than $10 billion.

To this must be added the colossal property damage. In 1966 I wrote:

"If ever this war has a just settlement, the United States will have to pay Vietnam, North and South, over ten billion dollars. This will not be a gift, but a debt, reparations for the atrocious destruction committed."

There have been two more years of accelerated destruction. Now I would guess that to make economic amends, to pay its just material debt to Vietnam, the United States would have to pay the amount it is now spending in a single year striving to conquer and destroy Vietnam -- $30 billion.

THE CONSCIENCE of the majority of the American people is helping bring about the defeat of U.S. aggression in Vietnam, and the removal of all U. S. troops from that country. Decent Americans must also demand that proper reparations be paid.

It is not only a matter of conscience and morality.

Let some of the workers now producing napalm and high explosive bombs, aircraft and vessels to kill the Vietnamese, keep their jobs building the machines, producing the commodities, which the Vietnamese people need to rebuild their country, and to win the good life they have earned with their prolonged heroic struggles.

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NLF BEGINS NINTH YEAR

On Dec. 20 the South Vietnam National Liberation Front (NLF) was eight years old. It was founded to free South Vietnam from the dictatorship of the U.S. puppet regime, which had been trying to wipe out all suspected opposition or revolutionary elements since 1954.

By 1960 tens of thousands of South Vietnamese were in jails and concentration camps or had been summarily executed by the Ngo Dinh Diem regime, whose police and army were trained by U.S. "advisers." The only crime of numerous victims was trying to retain the land they had received during the resistance war against French colonialism (1945-1954). Diem used his armed forces to seize land and collect rent on behalf of the former landlords (just as Saigon forces still do today). The NLF was formed in response to spontaneous resistance to Diem developing throughout South Vietnam.

In the first months NLF fighters had few arms except rudimentary hand made weapons, but within several years a formidable armed force had been created. Many units were supplied entirely with captured American arms. Despite the leadership of U.S. "advisers," Saigon's forces were at the point of defeat by early 1965. In response the U.S. initiated systematic bombardment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and shortly after began sending an expeditionary army to South Vietnam, where it carried out a colonial-type war against the people.

Both of these U.S. efforts have failed. The air attacks did not break the will of the people in the North. And with the aid and improved weaponry provided by the North and the Socialist countries, the NLF armed forces have not only matched every increase in U.S. strength, but have defeated each successive U.S. plan for victory. During the past year the Tet and subsequent NLF offensives have forced the U.S. to regroup into enclaves around major cities and bases.

NLF successes can be obtained only by the tremendous energy of a whole struggling for liberali n under revolutionary leadership. The struggle against the U.S. has attracted the support of all elements of the population, including persons who remained aloof from the first resistance or even aided the French. This year the revolutionary coalition was strengthened by the formulation of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces. Comprising intellectuals, professional persons and others, the alliance works in cooperation with the NLF.

In recent months the NLF has gained strength in the countryside, consolidating gains from the Tet offensive. In some regions, a revolutionary administrative structure exists from the village to provincial level, all democratically elected.

The struggle in South Vietnam is part of the national liberation struggle of the whole Vietnamese people, whose country remains divided because the U.S. prevented the Geneva Agreements of 1954 from being carried out. This struggle began during the French conquest in the 19th century. The first major victory was the birth of the DRV during the August revolution of 1945 under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. The resistance against France began before the DRV was a month old.

In 1949 the French were suffering serious military defeats, and the U.S. began planning to increase its aid to the French, which hitherto had been disguised under such programs as the Marshall plan.

In order to protest against the U.S. intervention a demonstration was held in Saigon in March 1950 on the occasion of a visit by U.S. intervention, were Nguyen Huu Tho, a Saigon lawyer, and Nguyen Thi Binh. Both were arrested and detained by the French authorities. Today Nguyen Huu Tho heads the presidium of the NLF central committee and Mme. Binh, a member of the central committee, is representing the NLF in Paris. They symbolize the long resistance of the Vietnamese people to U.S. imperialism.

Although negotiations may get underway soon in Paris, this does not mean the fighting is over. Washington has recognized the futility of sending more troops, but cannot bring itself to stop fighting, still desperately hoping to save something. By statements and actions the NLF has shown that it intends to keep fighting until Washington perceives it cannot keep a single soldier on Vietnamese territory. R.W.

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U.S. MONOPOLY CAPITAL RUSHING TO MALAYA

SINGAPORE (Third World Press) -- While increasing its support for the Rahman-Lee Kuan Yew puppet clique in its frantic suppression and persecution of the people of Malaya (including Singapore), U.S. Imperialism has in recent years expanded its investments in Malaya, plundering its rich resources and ruthlessly exploiting its people.

This increase in investments has followed the signing in 1959 of a so-called agreement between the United States and the Rahman puppet clique to "guarantee U.S. investments."

The oil refining factory built in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, by the U.S. Esso Petroleum Company with an investment of 15 million U.S. dollars has become the biggest industrial enterprise in Malaya. In 1966 alone, this U.S. petroleum company raked a net profit of 2,300,000 U.S. dollars by selling petroleum products in Malaya.

The United States has even more ambitious plans for economic expansion in Singapore. A spokesman of the so-called U.S. "Embassy in Singapore" recently declared that U.S. "private investment" in Singapore would be increased three or four times within two years. At present, U.S. investment in Singapore alone is valued at 185 million Malayan dollars, even higher than the total U.S. investment of 60 million U.S. dollars (about 180 million Malayan dollars) in the whole of Malaya by the end of 1962.

The United States is doing its utmost to utilize the deep-sea port, cheap manpower and other favorable conditions of Singapore to build a base for economic aggression there. Recently, the U.S. Esso Petroleum Company reached an agreement with the authorities of Singapore of investing 200 million Malayan dollars to build an oil refinery there. Recent reports revealed that U.S. monopoly capital was also planning to set up in Singapore a fertilizer packing factory and a clock and watch spare parts factory to help dump U.S. products in Malaya and other parts of southeast Asia.

U.S. monopoly capital has already penetrated into many other industrial departments of Malaya, including rubber plantation, tin mining, car and sewing machine assembly, rubber tire manufacturer, building material, drugs, condensed milk, cleansers, tooth paste and batteries.

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Spanish Students In Revolt Against Fascist Tyranny

MADRID (Third-World Press) - Spanish university students held still more vigorous demonstrations and strikes last week to protest against the suppression of the student revolt by the fascist authorities.

A large-scale strike was held by more than 20,000 students of Madrid University in the capital of Spain. The striking students protested against the fascist authorities' savage suppression of the student demonstration of the week before. They declared that they would riot and fight to the end.

At the same time, students of Barcelona University also strongly protested against the closure of three faculties of the university by the authorities and the dispatch of riot-pigs to supress the student revolt in the university. More than 300 students of the medical school angrily demonstrated against the closure of the school by the reactionary authorities and fought heroically with the fascist police which were being moved into the school. The students pelted the gestapo bus with stones, overturned two cars and set one of them on fire. As armed-pigs arrived in greater number, the students were compelled to retreat into the streets. They erected barricades and courageously hit back at the facist dogs, who advanced to arrest them, with rocks and bricks. Over 70 students were reported to be arrested and brutalized by the police. Students of the law faculty also held a vigorous protest rally.

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JAPANESE HOLD ANTI-U.S. RALLIES

TOKYO (Third World Press) -- Japanese workers, peasants and students in Tokyo and Fukuoka held rallies and demonstrations this week demanding the dismantling of U.S. imperialist military bases in Japan.

In their rally and demonstration, about 700 workers and students of Fukuoka and nearby prefectures held aloft a red banner inscribed with large characters reading: "Long Live Mao tse-Tung's Thought." Speaking at the rally, representatives of the government, scared out of its wits by the Japanese people's liberation struggle, is trying vainly to put out the raging flames of the revolution. However, our struggle for the abrogation of the Japan-U.S. "Security Treaty" and for Japan's independence is a liberation struggle, final victory will surely belong to us -- by any means.

After the rally, the participants marched in defiance of suppression of the reactionary armed pigs to the U.S. base at Itazuke, where they joined forces with groups of workers who had gathered there earlier and broke into the worksite to be used for the extension of the base. They shouted: "U.S. Imperialism, get out of Japan and Asia!" "Down with the Sato government!" "Smash the Japan-U.S. "Security Treatment!"

About 2,000 workers of Tokyo and Kanto area held a rally also together with the peasants of Sunagawa Town at a square of the town near the U.S. air base at Tachikawa. The rostrum red banners inscribed with: "Long Live Maotse-Tung's Thought!"

Speeches were made at the rally by Ichigoro Aoki, pesenat leader of Sunagawa, and peasant representatives from Sanrizuka, China prefecture, and from Ibaraki prefecture, and workers' representatives from various places. They unanimously expressed the determination to unite closely and strengthen their struggle for the dismantling of U.S. military bases and the abrogation of the Japan-U.S. "Security Treaty."

The rally unanimously adopted a resolution strongly denouncing U.S. Imperialism's aggression in Asia, and against people of color.

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JAPANESE STUDENTS

TOKYO (Third - World Press) -- The patriotic Japanese students of Ryukyu University held a rally and demonstration in Naha City, Okinawa prefecture last week to voice their strong demand for the withdrawal of the bandit 3-52 bombers of the U.S. armed pig forces now stationing in Okinawa.

Following the explosion of a B-52 shortly after taking off from the Kadena base in Okinawa last month which resulted in injuring a number of local residents and damaging their houses, another incident took place in the same base last week when one of the B-52 bombers made an emergency landing after it takes off.

Furious over this incident, about three hundred students of Ryukyu University held a rally in front of U.S. Civil Administration in Naha City to express their determination to struggle resolutely for the withdrawal of B-52 bombers from Okinawa and the dismantling of U.S. military bases in the island.

Right after the rally, the students staged a demonstration, marching in high spirits to the Kadem U.S. military base, They shouted such anti-U.S. slogans as "Withdraw immediately the B-52 bombers" and "Smash the Japan-U.S. `Security Treaty'". Merging with another grop of people demonstrating in front of the base, they condemned the crimes committed by the U.S. bandit planes.

The forceful action of the students threw the U.S. and Japanese reactionaries pigs into a panic. The latter sent out about five hundred armed policemen to ruthlessly suppress the demonstrators. Braving the pigs' brutal suppression, the students stormed the base several times and fought bravely with the police.

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NAGA ARMED FORCES

NEW DELHI -- The armed forces of the Naga people, in defiance of the armed suppression by the reactionary Indian government, have in the past for months seized favorable opportunities in mounting repeated attacks on the enemy and fought them heroically.

On December 12, the Naga armed forces in Tengnoupal area of the Union Territory Manipur launched a surprise attack on the unit of reactionary Indian police, killing four armed police and wounding six. All the arms and ammunition of the police unit were captured.

In early September of this year, the Naga armed forces laid an ambush and killed three officers of the Indian troops, including a captain. In the middle of October, the Naga armed forces using automatic weapons opened heavy fire on a patrol unit of the Indian security force near Tungam, Manipur. On October 23, the Naga armed forces, in the vicinity of this place again attacked the reactionary Indian police forces.

Indian army chief-of-staff Kumaramanglam hurriedly rushed to Kohima, capital of Nagaland, on November 7 to make arrangements for suppressive measures. It was revealed that in mid-November the reactionary Indian government sent large numbers of troops to Nagaland from the military centers of Assam state. The reactionary Indian government also tried hard to sabotage the unity of the Naga people. It even provoked armed conflict among them in an attempt to quench the flames of their armed struggle.

The Nagas harbour great enmity and hatred against the Indian reactionaries. For years the reactionary Indian troops and police have frantically massacred the Naga people, compelling them to to into the forests and take up arms for self-defense. Now the Nagas are strengthening their cooperation with the Mizos, Kukis and other nationalities, and are gradually uniting with the revolutionary peasants in East India who have risen to resist the reactionary Indian authorities and Feudal landlords. The Naga sare expanding the scale of their armed struggle and dealing increasingly vigorous blows at the Indian reactionaries.

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INDIAN MAGAZINE DENOUNCES REVISIONISM

NEW DELHI (Pan. African Press) -- The Indian Monthly "Liberation" published an a rticle in its latest issue condemning the Soviet Revisionist renegade clique for betraying the road of the October revolution. It also denounced the Dange renegade clique in India and the revisionists of India for their counter - revolutionary crimes.

The article said: "By using the State machine, the Soviet Revisionist renegade clique, headed by Krushchev and his successors, Kosygin and Brezhnev, has restored capitalism in the Soviet Union and itself practises neo-

The article stated that the Societ revisionist renegade clique's "Invasion of Czechoslovakia conclusively proves that this clique has degenerated into social-fascism and social-imperialism."

It said: "This revisionist renegade clique is the sworn enemy not only of the Soviet working people, but of all the workers and oppressed nations of the world including the Indian people."

The article denounced the Dange renegade clique and the revisionists of India for stubbornly opposing the path of the Naxalbari armed revoluton. It said that after the twentieth congress of the C.P.S.U., they have openly renounced the path of the October revolution, the path of violent revolution, and have been trying their utmost to lead the Indian revolutionary people astray by advocating the peaceful "parliamentary road".

It said that the Dange renegade and the revisionist of India have openly stood on the side of the domestic reactionaries, the Soviet Revisionist renegade clique and the U.S. Imperialists. They have degenerated into the running dogs of U.S. Imperialism and Soviet" revisionism and lackeys of the big Indian landlord and bourgeoisie. The rising tide of the Indian revolution will sweep them away like garbage, however, widely they may now rage against the peasant struggle and against socialist China.

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Water Shortage In India

NEW DELHI -- A large part of India's Rajasthan State is hit by a devastating drought and the reactionary Indian ruling circles' cruel exploitation and a pathy have added much suffering to the people there.

Indian newspapers reported recently that heavy drought hit the entire Western and Northwestern Rajasthan, especially five districts bordering on Pakistan. Nearly 3 million people, or one third of the state's population, were seriously affected.

Poor peasants were forced to leave their villages, and in October, about one million villagers were roaming the cities and to was in search of work. Many of them especially children, were starved to death. A large number of cattle died of shortage of water and fodder. In some villages, carcasses of oxes piled up like hills.

Rain is the main source of water supply. But all tanks and reservoirs for collecting rain water had dried up. Under the ruthless exploitation by the reactionary Indian authorities, the people could not afford to dig enough wells. In the Jaisalmer district, 200,000 people needed about 100 tubewells. They only received 10 working ones. They had to share their ration, with their cattle, which they received on alternate days.

Food rations for the people in the drought-stricken areas tell far short of demand. The local princely families, though, had huge stocks of food-grains and fodder. So did the big landlords and usurers. With the help of the local bureaucrats they sold foodgrains at high prices to make fabulous profits from the misery of the people.

The reactionary Indian government forced the people, thousands of hungry people, including wome and small children were forced to build military roads. They were treated cruelly by foreman, wages were withheld for weeks.

Diseases were high as a result of the starvation and hot weather. The reactionary Indian authorities provided no medical facilities for the people. They even refused it. In Sangarh, a place in the drought-affected areas, a village woman was desperately looking for a doctor to cure her sick four month old child. A government doctor refused to let her bring the child near him.

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CHAIRMAN MAO'S WORK PUBLISHED IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY (Third World Press) -- A Spenish edition of "Chairman Mao tse-Tung on People's War" was published recently by the Marxist-Leninist Movement of Mexico.

A preface to the edition written by the movement says: the main social contradictions now existing in Mexico can only be settled through a revolution of a new type. This revolution will "establish a people's democratic government under the direction of the working class and will lay the foundations for the development of socialism hereafter. It is a new democratic revolution, such as that advanced by chairman Mao tse-Tung, the greatest contemporary Marxist-Leninist."

It continues: "This great movement has also made plain the strategy to the followed in the process of the new revolution, that is, the necessity to build a revolutionary party guided by Mao tse-Tung's Thought, contemporary Marxism-Leninism, the necessity to form an extensive united front of all the people under the direction of the proletariat and the necessity to launch a people's war."

It goes on: "It is necessary to establish solid bases of support in the countryside in order to hit the enemy where its domination is the weakest." "It is necessary to create a powerful people's army by relying on the revolutionary peasants, carry out an agrarian revolution and unfold guerilla warfare in order to occupy the rural areas first, encircle the cities and then take the cities," it adds.

The preface stresses: The recent experiences of the armed struggle in our country and in many other Latin-American countries have proved that a handful of people taking up arms in the mountains are not sufficient to achieve triumph in the revolution. "It is necessary to apply such Marxist - Leninist principles as that the people are motive force in the making of history, that weapons are an important factor but the decisive factor is the people, and that the revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them."

The preface says: "Chairman Mao tse-Tung has put forth a whole set of military theories for the seizure of power by the revolutionary people and it will be impossible to make revolution without applying these theories. Without Marxism - Leninism, Mao tse-Tung's Thought, there is no and will never be socialism in any country."

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GUINNEAN PRESIDENT

CONAKRY (Hsinhua) -- Guinnean President Sekou Toure at a recent meeting strongly condemned imperialism and its stooges for their sabotage of the african countries.

Speaking to several hundred officers and men of the garrison forces of the guinean people's army in the capital who were gathered in the people's palace on December 18, president Sekou Toure said that because africa has been dominated, exploited and humiliated by imperialism, it has borne in mind the characteristics of imperialism marked by ruthlessness, immorality, viciousness, inhumanity and opporition to progress.

The Guinean President denounced French Imperialism for trying to rehabilitate its rule over its former colonies. He said: "The struggle we are waging is not simply our own struggle; it is a struggle of the whole Africa." He added, "the struggle between Africa and imperialism is one for which all Africans with political consciousness should be mobilized."

The president pointed out that imperialism is active in every country and has its followers even in Guinea. He called on the armymen and people to be always united, maintain vigilance and be ready to punish the enemy and crush all schemers at any time.

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ZAMBIA VILLAGE BOMBED BY PORTUGUESE

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA (Pan. African Press) -- Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda denounced last week, the Portuguese colonialist for the bombing of a village in eastern Zambia by their aircraft and regarded the incident as their undeclared war on Zambia.

Kaunda said that the Zambian army would strike back hardat any enemy provocation.

The "Times of Zambia" also reported that a Portuguese plane intruded into the air space of Zambia's eastern province near Mozambique and dropped 18 incendiary bombs into a village near Chipata, capital of the province.

Under the support of U.S. and British pig imperialism, the Portuguese colonialists and the puppet colonial authorities of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia have constantly carried out military provocations and political subversion against Zambia because the Zambian people have persevered in safeguarding national independence and supporting the cause of African Liberation. These provocations have been stepped up in the past few months. The month before last, two Portuguese planes attacked a Zambian village. Last month a group of Portuguese colonial troops invaded Zambia from Mozambique but was beaten back by a Zambian patrol.

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TANZANIA CELEBRATES 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE

DAR ES SALAAM (Pan. African Press) -- The Tanzanian people celebrated the seventh anniversary of the independence of the mainland part of Tanzania last month (Dec. 16th).

Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, accompanied by Tanzanian First Vicepresident Abeid Amani Karume, and Second Vice - President Rashidi Mfaume kawawa, presided over the celebration held at the National Stadium here.

President Nyerere reviewed a guard of honor formed by the People's Defense Forces, people's community police, and members of the National Service Youth. He distributed cups and certificates to the peasants selected from various regions of the country for their achievements in agricultural production.

Among the thousand and more people present at the celebrations were Tanzanian government ministers, leading members of the Tanganyika African National Union and the Afro-Shirazi Party, foreign diplomatic envoys and representatives in Dar Es Salaam of the African National Liberation Movements.

During the celebration, President Nyerere made a speech to the nation over the radio.

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900 US AIRCRAFT DOWNED

KHANG KAHY (Hsinhua) -- A total of 900 U.S. aircraft were shot down by the Laotian Patriotic armed forces and people throughout Laos from May 17, 1964, to December 13, 1968.

The radio reported that on December 4, 7, 12, and 13, eight U.S. gangster planes were brought down in Sam Neua Province. Earlier four more U.S. planes were downed over the same province on November 24, 26, and 30.

The radio pointed out that this air victory dealt a telling blow to the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys in their war of aggression. It has also shattered their much vaunted "air superiority".

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CAMBODIA PROTESTS

CAMBODIA, (Pan African Press) -- The foreign ministry of Cambodia, in its note, December 12, to the U.S. Government and the Saigon puppet clique, lodged a strong protest against the intrusions into Cambodia by the U.S. and Saigon Puppet troops.

The note declared that the U.S.-Saigon puppet troops repeatedly violated Cambodian territory in Svayrieng, Kandal, Kompongonem Kampot, Kratje and Preyveng Provinces on November 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 29, and attacked civilians, personnel of the security force and the royal armed forces of Cambodia.

These are increasingly dangerous actions of provocation, the note said. The Royal government of Cambodia demanded that the U.S. -South Vietnam puppet troops put an immediate end to such provocations and compensate for the Cambodian losses caused by these attacks.

The attacks had resulted in the wounding of six Cambodians. The intruders kidnapped three inhabitants from Cambodian territory.

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CONGOLESE PATRIOTS IN ARMED STRUGGLE

KINSHASA, CONGO (Pan-African Press) -- The Congolese (Kinshasa) patriots on the West Front have been persevering in their armed struggle against the reactionary rule of the puppet Mobutuclique in spite of the brutal suppression and splitting maneuvers carried out by the U.S. Imperialism and its lackey the Mobutu clique.

It was reported that the valiant Congolese patriots recently attacked a military post of the puppet Mobutu's troops in the Kwilu area, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. The military action of the patriotic armed forces gave Mobutu the lie that the Congolese partiotic armed liberation struggle in this area had been stamped out.

Immediately after this attack, the puppet Mobutu clique, with the support from its U.S. pigmasters, hurriedly airdropped to the Kwilu area large numbers of paratroops to reinforce those puppet forces on "mopping-up" operations there. At the same time it sent out more aircraft to savagely bomb the villages in the area, massacuring the local inhabitants. These are fresh crimes committed by the Mobutu clique against the Congolese people. The patriotic people of the Congo will never forgive this puppet clique its crime against the country and the people.

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THAI RADIO EXPO

THAILAND, (Third World Press) -- The "Voice of the People of Thailand" radio, in an article in December 13, exposed U.S. imperialist aggression against the control of Thailand, and called upon the Thai people to persevere in their armed struggle to overthrow the reactionary rule of the U.S.-Thanom clique.

The article said that the United States had concluded a so-called agreement on "economic and technical assistance" with the reactionary clique of Thailand solely for the purpose of covering up the nature of the aggressors and traitors. An A.P. report admitted that 85% of the U.S. "economic and technical assistance" given to the traitorous Thanom clique was earmarked for the suppression of the patriotic Thai people. The U.S. "economic aid" is in essence a help to the Thanom clique to suppress the people so as to bolster the reactionary rule of this U.S. lackey. At the same time, it was aimed at perpetuating the U.S. occupation of Thailand and turning it into a new colony.

The article continued: through the dispatch of "advisors" and "experts" to Thailand, the U.S. imperialism has already controlled the affairs of the country. Puppet Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn revealed that in 1967 alone, U.S. imperialism sent 512 so-called experts to Thailand. The Thanom-Praphas clique formulated its policies in accordance with the dictate of the U.S. "advisors" and "experts" thus putting Thailand completely under U.S. imperialist domination.

The article bitterly denounced U.S. imperialism for arming the Thai reactionaries on the pretext of "economic aid" for frenzied suppression of the vigorously developing patriotic armed struggle of the Thai people. According to a Reuter report, it said more than 22 million U.S. dollars of the "economic aid" given to Thailand by U.S. Imperialism last year which exceeded 35 million dollars in toto were spent on expanding the police force.

Supplying money and weapons, U.S. imperialism instructed the traitorous Thanom clique to form the "village security force" to massacre the Thai people. Local officials of this clique, from provincial governors, district magistrates down to village chieftains, have undergone anti-communist training either in the United States or under U.S. "advisors" in Thailand. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has controlled all the intelligence information on Thailand.

The article pointed out that under the iron heels of U.S. imperialism Thailand has completely lost its independence and sovereignity and become a new colony of U.S. imperialists. This is a monstrous crime committed by the U.S.-Thanom clique.

The Thai people are determined to respond to the call of the Communist Party of Thailand and wage unflinchingly a people's war so as to drive out the U.S. AGGRESSORS, TO OVERTHRO FASCIST, DICTATORIAL, TR; Thanom clique which has usurped state power and brought misery to the people, and to set up a really independent, democratic new Thailand under the leadership of the Communists Party of Thailand.

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MOBIL SCHOOL

A primary school set up by the poor and lower-middle peasants of a production brigade deep in the mountains of Hope Province has played a big role in promoting Universal Primary School Education and in training worthy successors to the proletarian revolutionary cause.

The Tayingtzu - production brigade set up a primary school in 1964, but within six months it was closed down by the capitalist-roaders in the county and district on the pretext that it was irregular. The production brigades in Lwanping County consists of 173 households living in 13 villages and other scattered localities.

In 1966 they set up a school in which they studied and applied the thoughts of Chairman Mao. But this was not enough. This only made it possible for forty or more students of one team to learn. There were other teams who lived too far often over mountains who needed to be taught that couldn't come to the school.

The people decided to have a revolutionary school where the school would come to the students instead of the students coming to the school. Two teachers traveled from team to team over mountains, carrying small blackboards, in the summer and the winter to give daily lessons in peasants homes.

One teacher visits seven villages and some scattered households each day, teaching 69 children. Another goes to six villages and teaches 54 students.

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FRENCH FINANCIAL SITUATION DETERIORATES SHARPLY

December 23, 1968

PARIS -- The French franc bears the brunt of the violent attack and is becoming extremely shaky as a new storm of financial and monetary crisis is sweeping the capitalist world.

The present crisis of the franc is a new proof that imperialism is rotting with each passing day: it is also a striking manifestation of the rapid deterioration of France's financial and economic situation.

The present crisis of the franc came with a terrific force. In a few days, hectic selling of the franc and buying of gold and the west German mark which is comparatively stable hit the main financial centres in West Europe and the United States. The franc dropped drastically below the lowest official rate. The bank of France had to dispose of a large amount of gold and foreign exchange to buy the franc to prop up its position. In a little more than a week, the French government lost about 1,000 million U.S. dollars worth of gold and foreign exchange, equivalent to a quarter of its total gold and foreign exchange reserves. The crisis of the franc has not only made the French ruling circles panicky, but has also directly brought about a new storm of financial crisis in the capitalist world, throwing it into utter confusion.

The present currency crisis in France is the result of the further deterioration of its financial and economic situation. The strike by more than 10 million French workers last May and June, in particular, dealt a severe blow at the capitalist economy in France, greatly of the French franc.

The past six months or more has found France's industrial production stagnant, its number of unemployed rising, its commodity prices soaring, its foreign trade and financial deficits steadily growing and its gold and foreign exchange losing in large amounts. It was precisely in these circumstances that the confidence of the western financial circles in the French economy ebbed constantly, thereby greatly aggravating the crisis of the franc.

In the past few months, the French government has resorted to every conceivable means to extricate itself from the grave economic difficulties, especially to improve its foreign exchange, so as to stabilize the franc. At the end of May, it announced a foreign exchange, exceeding 50 per cent of France's reserves at the beginning of May.

To eliminate its trade deficit and improve its payments position, the French government began in early July to restrain imports of textiles, steel products and automobiles and subsidize exports despite objections from other West European countries and the United States. However, there was still no improvement in its foreign trade. From May to October, the trade deficit went above $22 million dollars.

Meanwhile, the measure to stimulate production by more government investment has brought about mounting financial deficit and another spiral of inflation and soaring prices. France's financial deficit this year has already reached 10,500 million francs. The rise in prices has far surpassed the government ceiling of 5 per cent. Recently French minister of economy and finance Francois Ortoli openly expressed his apprehensions over the inflation and price rise in France.

All this shows that despite all its struggle, the French government has failed to avert the trend of drastic deterioration of France's finance and economy. The current storm of financial crisis in the western world touched off by the crisis of the franc has in turn dealt a new blow at France's finance and economy and the position of the franc. The United States, Britain, West Germany, and other major capitalist countries have been trying their utmost to bring pressure to bear upon France for a devaluation of the franc so as to tide over the present storm of crisis. The French ruling circles are facing a situation more difficult than before.

In order to avoid incalcuable political losses that will result from devaluation of the country, the French ruling circles are going in for more fierce overt or covert struggle with other major capitalist countries in an attempt to shift the ruthless extortion from the French people.

In his television speech on the crisis of the franc on November 24, French president De Gaulle turned down the request of the United States. Britain and West Germany for a devaluation of the franc. He stresses that the devaluation, if made, would be a "bonus paid to those who have wagered on our decline". At the same time, the French president indicated that a host of measures would be adopted to pass the difficulties onto the French working people. He also proclaimed that "necessary measures" would be taken to cope with the resistance of the workers, peasants and students and to put an end to "all agitations and demonstrations, all tumults and precessions".

When submitting his "austerity" programme to the French national assembly on November 26, prime minister Maurice Couve De Murville indicated once again that the French people would be made to undergo more "suffering". He announced, among other things, a tax increase of more than 2,500 million francs, the raising of electricity and gas rates and railway fares and the freezing of workers' wages.

As all the imperialist countries are now in a grave crisis, the measures taken by the French ruling circles out of desperation can only further aggravate France's political-economic crisis. The Western Bourgeois Press pointed out that the series of "austerity" measures taken by the French government recently would undoubtedly make the picture of stagnant industrial production, huge unemployment and soaring prices in France still worse. It admitted that the French people, who had been tempered during the revolutionary storm last May and June, would probably start a new wave of powerful struggle to deal a still heavier blow to the rule of the French monopoly capitalist class.

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ITALIANS EXPERIENCE NEW AWAKENING

ROME (Hsinhua Correspondent -- The revolutionary mass movement in Italy has surged to new heights this year. Interwoven with each other, the movements of the students, workers and farmers are sweeping like raging waves across the whole of Italy and Fiercely pounding at the reactionary rule of the monopoly capitist class. This shows that the class contradictions in the country are fast sharpening and that the Italian people who have a glorious anti-fascist tradition are in a state of new awakening.

Progressive Italian students have stood at the forefront of the surging revolutionary mass movement. Their struggles against decadent capitalist educational and social systems and against the reactionary authorities' suppression of the mass movement twice spread to the whole country, once at the beginning of this year and the other time in last May and June. Recently, they launched a new wave of vast struggle and more and more universities and high school student have plunged themselves into the fight. In scores of Italian cities, many universities and high school were occupied by the striking students in November and December. Thousands of students again and again held massive demonstrations and engaged in bloody battles with the police who called out to suppress them. The heroic and stubborn struggle of the Italian students has rendered a strong support to and forcefully promoted the Italian workers and farmer's movements.

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ARABS PROTEST U.N. PARTITIONING OF PALESTINE

CAIRO (Pan. African Press) -- The Iraqi news agency and the Arab Lawyers' Federation recently protested against the resolution on so-called partitioning of Palestine formed through the United Nations 21 years ago under the manipulation of Imperialism headed by the United States. Their protest is against the so-called peaceful solution of the Middle East issue. They pointed out that the Palestine issue could only be solved by the Palestinian people through an armed liberation struggle.

A commentary published by the Iraqi news agency said: "We consider the peaceful solution, the security council's unjust resolutions and Jarring's negotiations an extension of the imperialist conspiracies against the existence of the Arabs. Our heroic people are determined to throw into the wastepaper basket of history all the peaceful solutions and unjust resolutions, from the resolution on the partitioning (of Palestine) to the security council's resolution last year and Jarring's mission."

The commentary said that today the Arab people were resolved to wage an armed liberation struggle. They had rejected all bargains represented in "peaceful solutions" which meant nothing but surrender to the imperialist criminal schemes and which enabled the Nazi gangsters to dictate the lives of the Palestinian people and to plunder the wealth of Palestine.

The Palestine issue, the commentary stressed, could not be solved by resolutions of the United Nations and its security council which are dominated by U.S. Imperialism, nor could it be solved through negotiations, political speeches or maneuvers. It can be solved only through the path of our people's armed struggle on the land of Palestine.

The commentary declared that the Arab people would persist in the path of armed struggle until the occupied Arab territories were totally recovered from the clutches of the evil pig invaders, enemies of the people.

In a statement issued in Cairo regarding the so-called U.N. resolution on the partitioning of Palestine, the Arab Lawyers' Federation said that the Arab people should have no illusion about the United Nations.

The Arab people, the statement went on, were increasingly certain from day to day that Israel was using the United Nations and its "envoy," Jarring, to maintain its demands and to consolidate its occupation of the Arab land.

Stressing the necessity to liberate the occupied Arab land, the statement declared: "The only way to attain liberation is by armed struggle which the Palestinian guerrillas are carrying out against the Zionist aggression and Israeli occupation."

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BLACK NIGERIANS WARN PIG KENNEDY, WHITE CAPITALIST

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted from the SUNDAY POST in LAGOS, NIGERIA.)

So Mr. Edward Kennedy, brother of the monumental John Kennedy, late President of the USA, plans to visit Umuahia, the last of the benighted and tottering citadels of the Nigerian rebels of the Central Eastern State (Biafra).? So this youngest and only surviving brother of Abraham Lincoln's pro-negro martyr, Intends to carry his months old anti-Nigerian (black) campaign right into Nigerian territory? We of the SUNDAY POST have been hard pet in persuading ourselves to disbelieve this latest intelligence about the antics of a Kennedy. For the very name of Kennedy has in the last few years developed into one of the symbols of all that is noble and edifying in the cordial and harmonious relations between the white races of the Western world and the black peoples of Africa. It has been the hoarding on which the U.S. Information Service in Nigeria has posted many of its gimmicks of publicity and public relations for its home government. During this period, the image of racist America has been substantially enhanced in this country, thanks to the house-hold by word into which the name Kennedy has grown.

But we realize that friends today can be enemies tomorrow, (the devil, honky, pig has always been the blackmans enemy) depending on the motives and objectives of men and nations. And so it has turned out that one Kennedy, of all the capitalist families and international tycoons in that country, has become leader of that section of America apparently dedicated to the dismemberment of Africa through active support for the Nigerian rebels. Truly, the history of the current Nigerian crisis will record the name of Edward Kennedy as one of the most tragically ironical elements in this country's relations with the United States of America. Or how else do we explain his recent activities in connection with the civil war? As a Roman Catholic of the misguided school, he rallies support for the (CIA) controlled International Charitable Organization CARITAS in their clandestine promotion of the rebellion.

He supports secession in Nigeria by rallying support for an unconditional ceasefire fully knowing the implications of such a move by the Federal Military Government. Mr. Kennedy engages in these and many other activities under the guise of a humanitarian concern for the alleged suffering of people in the rebel held areas. But, like many nosy American (hunky) capitalist of his type, this Kennedy brother does not seem to accept the fact that charity must begin at home. Right in his own back yard in the states, the poverty-stricken and politically incapacitated blacks are crying out of the heavens for all the charity and sympathy that the Kennedy's and their fellows can muster. But rather than follow the advice of Booker Washington and cast his bucket where he is, he seems more anxious to dabble in our civil war by flying illegally into rebel held territory over the Nigerian skies, against warning of the Federal Government and the Nigerian Air Force. The SUNDAY POST hopes Edward will have second thoughts about this; otherwise he will not only run the grave risk of going the way of his late brothers, but he will have succeeded to destroy through a few ill-advised actions and utterances, all the goodwill his family and country have labored for years to build in black Nigeria. -- To our beloved black African brothers - shoot every honky that invades the integrity of your nation. BLACK POWER ……

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TEXTILE CENTER

COLOMBO -- The newly-built textile centre at Rambukkana, 60-miles northeast of Colombo, was inaugurated at a ceremony yesterday. This textile centre has been built with Chinese assistance under the China-Ceylon economic aid agreement.

The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Dudley Sen-anayake; M. Jayawickrema, Minister of Public Works, Post and Television communications: A. Karunaratne, Minister of Social Services, E.L.B. Hurulle, Minister of Communications; R. M. C. R. Beligammana, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of home affairs, and P. H. P. De Silva, director of small industries and rural development.

Hsi Yeh-sheng, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Ceylon, was also present.

In his speech, Senanyake thanked the Chinese government for its help in building this textile centre. He said that a number of textile centres of the same kind had been built in Ceylon with Ceylon-China friendship.

Hsi Yeh Sheng said: we would make every effort to strengthen the friendship between the peoples of China and Ceylon.

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Flunkey & Master Will Share Grave

SAYS "PEOPLE'S DAILY"
OF CHINA

PEKING (Third World Press)-- The "People's Daily' published an article by a fighter of the Chinese people's liberation army, entitled "Flunkey Will Only End Up in The Same Grave As His Master". The article reads as follows:

Under the wing of U.S. Imperialism, the Japanese reactionaries have been putting the economy on a quick tempo war footing, thus accelerating that all-round revival of Japanese militarism. The bourgeois paper "Mainchi Shimbun" revealed that between April and September this year, the export of Japanese military supplies had increased by 19 per cent as compared with the corresponding period of last year, This shows the rampancy of Japanese reaction represented by Eisaku Sato and his ilk and deserves serious attention of the Chinese people and other revolutionary people.

Since the end of the second world war, Japan's economy, firmly tied to the U.S. war chariot, has been dependent on the United States. To turn Japan into a bridgehead for aggression in Asia, U.S. Imperialism has done its utmost to help Japan develop its own war industry and to accelerate the revival of the Japanese militarist forces. In their turn, the Japanese reactionaries actively serve the U.S. Imperialist policy of aggression in Asia by completing the encirclement of China. After coming into office four years ago, the Sato government lost no time in mapping out the "Third Expansion Plan" which had been made according to the Japanese-U.S. "Security Treaty". The total military expenditure envisaged in the third plan is equal to the sum total of Japan's military spending in the past 15 years.

In recent years, the reactionary Sacto government, in collaboration with U.S. Imperialism's massacre of the Vietnamese people, has eagerly provided the U.S. forces of aggression in Viet Nam with all kinds of weapons, munitions, napalm bombs, toxic chemicals and other war materials. Aircraft, warships, tanks and artillery pieces of the U.S. aggressor troops damaged by the heroic Vietnamese armed forces and people were shipped to Japan for repair. Among Japan's gains from the U.S. war of aggression in Viet Nam, the singel item of "Special Procurements" brings in 2,000 million U.S. dollars every year. The Japanese reactionaries have also been zealously exporting weapons, industrial equipment of arms production and various war materials to south Korea, Thialand, the Phillippines and the Chiang Kai-Shek bandit gang for suppressing the revolutionary struggles of the people.

Under U.S. Imperialism's instructions, the present "Self-Defence Forces" of Japan have been expanded to over 250,000 officers and men and, together with the reserves, a mounted to 750,000 strong. Equipped with "hawk" ground-to-air missiles, tanks, submarines and various other modern weapons, they have far surpassed both in scale and in strength the level of the standing armed forces of the old Japanese militarist time.

In fostering the Japanese militarist forces, U.S. Imperialism has socialist China as the target of attack. However, the Japanese militarist forces have their own designs. The reactionary Sato government has recently put forth a plan of so-called "Asia-Pacific Sphere" with a view to seize more commodity markets and raw material markets in the region at the same time, it used the occasion of the so-called "meiji reform centenary" to blatantly propagate what it called "The Motherland", etc. this clearly shows that the Japanese militarists are still indulging in the fond dream of "greater East Asia coprosperity sphere" of the past. They are full of aggressive designs for a comeback, hoping to ride roughshod over Asia once again by tagging after U.S. Imperialism.

However, history will not repeat itself. The current of the world has long changes course. Today, the people of the world are universally awakening and the world revolution has entered a great new era.

The Chinese people of the Chinese people's liberation army, are closely following all aggressive moves of U.S. Imperialism, Soviet modern revisionism and reaction of all countries. They are firmly on the side of the Japanese people and the people of the other Asian countries; they will strive for the overthrow of imperialism and modern revisionism, and for the building of a new world without imperialism, without capitalism, without any system of exploitation.

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NORTH VIETNAMESE

SAIGON -- "As the infantrymen pushed through the area pursuing North Vietnamese soldiers," reads a recent communique from the U.S. First Cavalry Division, "they discovered a bunker complex which was guarded by several pigs."

"As the troops broke through the underbrush, the pigs squealed warning the North Vietnamese soldiers. At the first squeal, the equally surprised Americans opened fire, killing two pigs. The North Vietnamese soldiers and the remaining pigs escaped."

Looks like Uncle Ho's folks knows where it's at as far as pigs are concerned.

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Chairman Mao's Works in Colombo

COLOMBO (Hsinbua) -- The great leader Chairman Mao's brilliant work "on coalition government" was recently translated into Sinhalese and published by the worker's publisher in Colombo.

Earlier, another brilliant work by chairman Mao, "the question of independence and initiative within the united front", was translated into tamil and published by Praja (people's) publishers here.

These works are widely acclaimed by the Ceylonese people.

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1969: YEAR OF THE PANTHER

1969 is the year of the Panther. This statement should not be misconstrued to mean that 1969 is the only year that will belong to the Panther. The statement is intended to affirm that 1969 is the year that the Black Panther Party will demonstrate its dominance in the sphere of revolutionary politics. The statement is not based on subjective analysis, but on objective realities.

The undeniable truth of the statement that "1969 is the year of the Panther," can be best seen by reviewing the dynamic rise of the Black Panther Party despite the despotic attempts of the establishment to suppress the Party's move to liberate Black people. The Black Panther Party cannot be suppressed by the establishment and its racist pigs because the Party exists by the will of the people and as Huey P. Newton has said, "The will of the people is greater than the man's technology."

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REVIEW OF PANTHER GROWTH AND HARRASSMENT

October, 1966 to May, 1967

The Black Panther Party started armed patrols in the black community and, as a result of their activities, were subjected to continuous harassment by the pigs.

May 2, 1967

Thirty members of the Black Panther Party carried firearms to Sacramento. The brothers carried their weapons into the Capitol to protest the state assembly's attempt to pass a bill infringing upon the Panther's right to bear arms as guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the Constitution.

May 22, 1967

Chairman Bobby Seale was arrested and charged with an obscure law making it a crime to possess a weapon in the vicinity of a jail, The law dated back to the 1800's.

October 28, 1967

Huey P. Newton was wounded and arrested following a shooting incident in Oakland. One pig died as a result of the shooting and another was wounded.

January 15, 1968

National Captain David Hilliard arrested while passing out leaflets at Oakland Tech.

January 16, 1968

At 3:30 am, San Francisco pigs broke down the door of Eldridge Cleaver's apartment at 850 Oak St., San Francisco, and searched the apartment -- without a warrant. Eldridge, his wife Kathleen, and Panther Revolutionary Artist Emory Douglas were present.

February 5, 1968

At 1:00 am, a Panther and his girlfriend were arrested for "disturbing the peace," after a rally at which Dr. Spock spoke. They were beaten in jail.

February 17, 1968

A "Free Huey" rally was held at the Oakland Auditorium on Huey's birthday. The rally was an outstanding success, attended by over 5,000 people. Eldridge Cleaver was the master of ceremonies.

February 24, 1968

Panther Jimmy Charley approached a pig who was in the act of assaulting a black person, and questioned the officer. He was promptly arrested and charged with "resisting arrest."

February 25, 1968

At 3:30 am pigs broke down the door of Bobby Seale's home, where Bobby and his wife, Artie, were in bed asleep. There was no warrant. The pigs said they were acting on a complaint indicating Bobby in a vague "conspiracy to commit murder" charge, which was promptly dropped for lack of evidence. Shotgun-toting pigs confiscated weapons and arrested Mr. and Mrs. Seale. Four other Panthers, in a car near-by, were also arrested a short time later, and charged with misdemeanors.

Third & fourth weeks of February, 1968

A rash of arrests of black men, either in the Panthers or identified with them. One of the incidents, took place in front of the Natural shop on San Pablo St., in Oakland. This incident happened when the pigs stopped the car of a black youth on an alleged traffic violation in front of the shop. The pig pulled the youth from the car, threw him against the car door and beat him brutally. About ten Panthers and their associates gathered around to protest and were arrested. This rash of arrests coincided with the visit of Stokely Carmichael to the Bay Area.

April 3, 1968

The pigs entered Father Neil's church in Oakland where the Panthers were holding a meeting. A black youth associated with the Panthers (but not authorized by them to possess a gun) was, according to the pigs, drunk and waving a gun outside the church. The pigs surrounded the church and entered it, about twelve of them, with 12 gauge shotguns held in front of them in a threatening manner. They were accompanied, inexplicably, by a white Catholic priest and a black clergyman, both from Oakland, David Hilliard came out of the sanctuary and refused to allow police to enter the sanctuary. Upon seeing Hilliard, the pigs lowered their guns and cast their eyes about, looking for someone else. The Panthers are convinced they were looking for Bobby Seale.

April 6, 1968

Several Panthers in cars in west Oakland on Saturday night, April 6, were approached by two pigs and menaced with guns. When the Panthers tried to defend themselves, shooting began, and the Panthers ran into a nearby house. After about 90 minutes of shooting by some 50 members of the Oakland pig department, who set fire to the house and filled it with tear gas, the Panthers were forced to surrender. With floodlights covering the house, Bobby Hutton walked out with his hands up. Someone yelled that he had a gun and he was shot. He was not armed; no gun was found anywhere near his body. Eldridge Cleaver, wounded in the leg, and eyes badly burned by tear gas, came out. In total, nine persons were arrested, including Panther National Captain David Hilliard. Two pigs were wounded slightly.

April 9, 1968

Two Black Panther women were going about Oakland in a car putting up posters announcing the candidacy of Huey Newton for Congress and Bobby Seale for Assembly on the Peace and Freedom ticket. Twelve pigs with shotguns stopped their car and searched it -- without probable cause. Throughout the day, petrol cars circled the Newton-Seale campaign headquarters. Sam Napler and other Panthers were physically stopped by the pigs from putting up campaign posters. The pigs have been spotted by Oakland residents tearing down Newton-Seale posters.

April 13, 1968

Four members of the Black Panther party were returning from Bobby Hutton's funeral when they were arrested on suspicion of robbery. Since it was Friday, they were to be kept over the weekend before they could be arraigned. This is a typical pig procedure -- it means three days detention instead of overnight before a court appearance. The robbery took place on Monday. Furthermore the robbery car was driven by one person with one passenger. Four people were arrested Friday. The car was in the shop being repaired at the time of the alleged robbery. On Sunday, after a weekend of work by Attorney Alex Hoffman, the "Suspects" were released -- they couldn't be identified as having even a remote connection with the alleged robbery. When arrested they were maced; they were taken in with drawn guns.

May 1, 1968

A sixteen year old girl was arrested for extortion for selling Huey buttons.

June 8, 1968

Bobby Seale was convicted of carrying a loaded shotgun near a jail. Chairman Bobby was sentenced to three years probation.

June 12, 1968

Eldridge Cleaver was released from Vacaville prison where he had been held as a political prisoner.

July 13, 1968

HUEY NEWTON was charged with murder. Judge Friedman denied a motion to strike a prior conviction of assault with a deadly weapon after HUEY had pleaded self-defense.

HUEY P. NEWTON'S attorney. Charles R. Garry, went to the State District Court of Appeal for a right to dismiss the prior conviction. It was denied.

July 15, 1968 & July 16, 1968

More than 6,000 people came out In support of Huey Newton at his trial. There were shouts of FREE HUEY, BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL SET OUR WARRIOR FREE and many others showing the feelings of the people that HUEY should be set free. The crowd was so enormous and the chants so thundering that the employees in the building found it difficult to concentrate.

July 17, 1968

HUEY P. NEWTON took the stand for the first time in his own defense, but only to say that he is a pauper. That he has no money and cannot afford to have people flown from out of town to testify at his trial. The purpose of the testimony was to make it possible for Garry to submit two affidavits from eastern doctors that testified to the fact that certain persons should not be allowed to serve on the jury of brother HUEY P. NEWTON.

HUEY took the stand and said that he was a pauper that he did not have a biscuit or a dime, that he did not have access to the HUEY P. NEWTON DEFENSE FUND, that he did not know much about it but if they would permit him to be free for a couple of days he could investigate.

July 18, 1968

Garry motioned that the jury for HUEY'S trial should be selected from his peers. He motioned that the panel in which they were going to select HUEY'S jury be dismissed. He called a number of witnesses to the stand to testify.

August 15, 1968

Yesterday three Black Panthers were kidnapped by pigs of several nations in Mexico City as they tried to fly to Cuba. The three were David Hilliard, National Captain; George Murray, Minister of Education, and Landon Williams, a brother being trained for captain.

August 16, 1968

Chairman Bobby Seale and Captain David Hilliard of the Black Panther Party were in Chicago speaking to crowds of 5,000 across the street from the Democratic Convention.

August 17, 1968

Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party Kathleen Cleaver was refused the right to enter Japan.

September 5, 1968

The final arguments by opposing attorneys in HUEY'S trial today, Attorney Charles Garry said that the trial of HUEY was a diabolical attempt to put an innocent man in the gas chamber or jail.

September 8, 1968

Black Panther Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.

September 28, 1968

HUEY P. NEWTON was sentenced to 2 to 15 years in state prison and removed from Oakland in five minutes. Judge Friedman refused all motions for granting a mistrial of freeing HUEY ELDRIDGE CLEAVER'S parole was revoked. His parole was revoked the day that the sentence came down on HUEY P. NEWTON as a measure to try and keep him from organizing anyone to act against the court's decision.

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October 1, 1968

Ronald Reagan, the racist governor of California, intervened and said that he felt that ELDRIDGE CLEAVER should not be allowed to give any lectures on any campuses. Of course since the students at U.C. made it known that they wanted ELDRIDGE to lecture regardless of the remarks made by pig RONALD REAGAN, ELDRIDGE said that he would give them 30 lectures just to spite Reagan.

October 9, 1968

ELDRIDGE gave the first of the lectures on the UC-Berkeley campus. In an interview afterward by several newsmen who asked questions like was your lecture good, Eldridge told them that they would have to ask the students that.

October 15, 1968

A warrant for the arrest of ELDRIDGE CLEAVER was issued because of his fa