SUBVERSIVE INFLUENCES Ty RIOTS, LOOTING, AND BURNING 875 aggression * * * gs we} 83 to the anti-ts, sttugsie of the People of the whole world, . ; ; : . * & * . = : * as eS “ “The American egress? sittggie 33 by no Means isolate, They will for ever TeCeive boundless Svlapathy and ressinza Support from the 70p million Chinese People * & ax PERING BADIO BROADCAST, ITLY 2%, lst: “By its ferocity and its ruthless methods tn Suppressing the Negro movement, the Johnson administer rion has Sliven 2 profomea lesson to more and more Atro- Americans by negative example. This has greatly hastened their awakening. On ! the day Johnson his speseh, Rap Brown, a young Negro leader who has & CUrrenk To Aen tance meni te pag Stood out prominently int Strugsie, fortefnlly and Bointedly replied to Jonnson’s threats when he Save a presy Conference aad attended a mass meeting H in Washington, Brown saia that ‘the bises ian has the immutable WHI to be free and bag no recottrss bat to rebel? He £ ¥lolence is hecessary’ and that the black peeple must Set their guns because the white rolerg ‘don’t respect nothing but guns... | His militens: Speech reflects the determination of the: PEEING RADIO EDITORIAL, COMMENT Ty ENGLISH ON DETROFT RIOT, JULY. 30, 19872 “Ike switt and vigorous spread of the Afro-American People’s armed strugsle against racie} Oppression bas throes the White House into complete confnsion, Broves to the hilt thas the 03 THENS cizclag Who appear to be formidable eee more than a paper tiger, * = > ; ; Doon “The roariag dames in Detroit have scared the US Tuling circles, # 9 a» “It is tot the ightings Atronimericans WHO are afreia of the US ruling circles ; i it is the US relive cindeg Who are afraid of the Airo-American massey > * *, ee & = = = - 3 “More and more Atmo-Americang hare embarked on the road of combatting Connterrerolntionary tiplenca With Tevelatio: violence, This is what the US gabesters Tear most, « + = re the peopis in the United States unite, the revo. lationary people of the word thite, ang cegether wace a common struggle, the handfal of reactionaries in tha United Stars Will be completely isolated and » beslered ring Upon ring by the WASSES Of the people thos accelerating the doom o: US imperialism.” — : ae . PERING BApIO BROADCAST, ACGTS? i, Ist: “stooges Tike Martin Luther King issas Statements publicly Supporting the Johnson administration’s violence agains: che Aft-Americans, TRis at ance. Tmmaskel these champions of “nonviolence foy what they really are—~opnononts of the fevolutionary Violence of the oppresseq and supporters of the counter. ‘bene a revolutionary violeres of the oppressors, * * * = 8 8 ~ . ; “However, the lersi of political aWarotess of the AtroAmeriean inasses ig . daily tising and they have come to realize more clearly than ever the need to re- i Sist Wolence with Wolence, * # = Neither the U9 ruling circls’y violent suppres. : Sion Tor the humbee of ‘Loaviolence? preacsad by Martin Luther King and hig ils can prevent the -4 fro-American tmasse3 from taking the road of strugzte by Viclevee and promoting the -Atro-Amoertoen movement” : PERING BADIO BROADCAST, AUGUST 2, iss7- “Lyndon Johnson * = * mote a Speech on 27 July calling for the intensified ms Suppression of the armed Stitggle of Afro-Americans # = * and asked the Afro. a aumericans to be ‘law-abiding’ ang Tespensible’ and to ‘share in America’s prosperity” te & x s : a we @ “But what kind of str? is American law? Eriendrich {sic} Engels pointed ont long ago that bourgeois tai is a “whip? evainst the proletariat, #3 To the Afro-Americans, such laws mean that they must put tp with the privation of mMoropoly capitalism * * + The broad sections o? Afro-Americans and working People in the Untred States mrst destiny sock laws ana Stash the state apparatns oe
- FS sng TRS me gt 8 a mt nema gn, ant a ash eye ant ib PLY tank oma et Re seacoast Ml NN a = * « 910 SUBVERSIVE INFLUENCES IN RIOTS, LOOTING, AND BURNING organizers prevents virtually the whole of Harem and the other New York ghettos from being organized into tenants connects right now. Aloreover, block comncils irmiy based on building councils would ofer & natural basis for the organization of self-defenge. = = =? . SPARTACIST, MAY~IUNE 1383, PB. 5: “The illusion of ‘non-rioleac’ spread bY King end others is a criminal dte- erming of black people, and is consistent with the rote of these ‘leaders’ as agents of the power structure. The movement myst Serap these illusions once and for all end begin to organize the N ®gro Jeople to Cefand thamselvea from violence. ee oe SPARTACIST, MAY-JUNE 1957, P. St: : - “It is the duty of a revolutionary organization to intervene where possible to give these outbursts [riots] political direction.” . Lo ; ars . Me SPARTACIST, ISNUARY-FEBRUABY 1955, PPL, $2 0 os “On this basis Spazracisr stated early in July“... the bourgeois state now prepares to Sght openly in the Sirests throngh its police arm against the resi. gence of the struggle.” This prediction was Semikiogiy confirmed on July 18 end the days that followed eas ware atier Ware Of armed, specially trained elite police-—the Tactical Patrol Force—swept through Harlem indiscriminately beat- ing and terrorizing ell who crossed their paths, when the mood of the ghetto tnade it clear that the Killing of is-year-old James Powell by an oftiinuty police oicer would not go unprorested. ; . * ar) | ‘ s = Sw . . . " . a a) “James Robertson, Spamractst editor, described the rola of the cops in creating the riots and, in reference to attempts being madeto blame the riots on Commn- nists, said that ‘onfortumetely there aren't many Reis-in Harlem now—But there will ber” : Y rr: , : * * REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEXTENT (RAM) | ; : 2811 W. Diamond Street, Phitadelphia, Pa, 73 7 Onicre: oe Soe Pe - Winter 1933 i ee Porpose: —_ oo . From the Ram Manifesto of 1964: “BLAME wes oieially organized * ** by “ Aftmo-Americans who favored Rober: Wilkams and the concept of organized Violence. * * * ONE PURPOSE—To trea black People from the universal slave maser * * *, ONE ATM-—To derelop biack peeple through struggle to the highest attainment possible. ONE: DESTINS—To follow in the spirit of black revolu. Tlonaries * * * and to create a new world free of colonialism, racism, imparial- istn, exploitation, and national oppression.” . To gag = In hearings before the subcommittes of the Committes on Appropriations, House of Representatives, on Febroary 16, 1967. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, described the Revolutionary Action Movement as “a Negro organiza. Con * * * dedicated to the ovesthrow of the capitalist system in the Cnited Slates, by violence if necessary, and its eplacement by a socialist system ortented toward the Chinese Communist interpretation of Marxism-Lenints we SEN. Precise membership fientes cannot be Stated.owing to the Clandestine natuys ; oz the organization. However, it should be noted that RAM does not seek mass . . Membership. Instead, it operates on the principie of a tight-knit, highly selective inner ciréle of leaders who accomplish fheiz aims throvgh infiltration and sub. version of other Afro-American groups, through fronts, and through use of Negro cecnage gangs schooled in urban caerrilla wattais. RAM has units in Philadelphia (Some base), Boston, Cleveland) Chicago, Detroit, and New York Cicr. os - . . There are three levels of membership in the RAM organization: (1) fiela organizers, (2) active members, and (3) associate members. a * Docild: 32397477... Page 27
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152 . é BR couple of other pooplo there with us, but I ean’t remember oxnctly who, . = os Mr. Nonver. What was the outcome of that discussion? = Mr. ICinx, Wo realized our position was very good. Our position for influencing the convention was very, very rood beemise we had copie who, oven if they wore not members of the Communist Party, }.S.A. wore very much in ngreoment with our position, oven though those people who were not members of the Communist Party, U.S.A. would use rhetoric that may bo a little differont from that of the Communist Party, U.S.A. One ‘person that influenced people was . Rennis Davis, for example. te - Mr. Norver. His name came up in the discussion ? Mr. Krew. Right. : : Mr. Noxeun. He did not participnte in the disenssion? | Mr. Kimx. No; he did not. He had other things to do in othor parts of the conference, but ho was mentioned as a person who was vory, very close to the position of the Communist Party, U.S.A., on almost a every matter that would come up. ee As I mentioned before, Rennie Davis was involved, ver deoply, with Earl Durham, of the Center for Radical Research, and at Dur- jum’s request, Davis asked mo to work for him, Davis. BS So, you can see that Davis, even though his rhetoric may be a bib different, it is still very close to-his basic position. Ho is also very .- - glose, not only in his positions but in his tactics, because-no matter’. what anyone may say, 1 know for a fact that he, Davis,couldnothave .. ."| -. traveled to North Vietnam end other places in the Red-bloc coun-. _-; “»\-\tries without having very, very close contacts with the Communist -. JL Party, U.S.A. It is not possible to do that unless you do have close we ~gontacts. cons Pe veda bee. Afr. Norrsr. Was this meeting in Bleck’s room to which you Tae... _ferred construed as a party meeting, 2 party caucus? eee Op ng on as Mr, Kise. Yes. . sy --» My. Norpex. In other words, what developed there was an assess- ~~ ‘-ment of the party’s position and particularly within the black caucus - ‘orelatine to the National Conference for New Politics? .. 0. ice .5 7 - Mr. Kies. Yes. - ok ye, Mr, Nowret, All right, would you continue, please? .. 0 2 oy: i Mr, Kiex. Well, I can’t remember whether it was that day or the. <) next one, we were on the floor of the convention making various notes ~ '. and suggestions and the caucus had coalesced by that time. It wes,in -our opinion, in very good shape. We had people who had been involved — .-:4in SNCC, people who had been involved in RAM, people who had _ -- been involved in various things sreund the country, a few people -who eventually, I think, becaine members of the Black Panthor Panty, : -becatise there was always a movement of personnel through these vari- » ~ous organizations, So we started to fuke these various votes and renl- ized that the black cancus’ position was even better than we had believed at first, and we did eventually in that convention move it to. ‘quite a few of the party’s positions wanted on the war and on the ‘yparty’s definition of racism, and things of that sort. We got just about ; everything we. wanted, and that is borne out by the fact that the pnb lications and the statements that came from NCNP, especially-on th decision te haye the ticket of Spock and King which were basic parby © steel Sean, = 53216 Docld: 32397477... Page..29
| positions. -Lhore. were qilfe a few people who believed they wore renl | royolutionaries who didn’t believe it was becessary td have a ticket or a presidential campaign of Spock and King, but tho party believed it was nbsolutely necessary becnuse it grew oul of the dinlectical position they had. oe eee . Mr. Norven, Aro you. saying that Bon ain Spock and Martin Futhor King were chosen for x presidentin ticket by the Communist. Party, U.S.A. in fact? . . . ee My, 1Qnex, Well, the Communist Party, U.S.A. decided that those were the two of the best peopls that the party position could moye for, the purty personnel, ° . Co oa My. Norven. You ere not implying then that either Spock of King were or are members of the Communist Party? Mr. Kame. No. » My. Nonvzr. You are not implying thoti Mr. Kune, I doubt they would havo to be, we, : Mr, Norvzt.. Now, to go back to this black emucus, wasn’t it true that the blacka wore numericully inferior when it cams to tho voting? ' Moy Kink, ‘That ig true, : ~ Br, Noneze. ‘That the whites predominated or hold the majority of voting participants? oe Mr. tins, ‘That's true. Mr, Nonver. Was anything done nbout that? Can you elabornte on 2 ie be LEAL DA SALE ETH tale itetact less nila biy sited Yo the way the minority question representing the blacks was settled os far as the votes went, within the convention | _ Mr. Kine. Well, all through the conference or convention there was & theme that was promoted by the Communist ‘Party, U.S.A, years . ago, that because of the institutional racism in Amorien andallthose — ; ; terms they threw out, a convention like the NCONP had to do some- +. > thing that would negate the fact that blacks didn’t have as many votes as whites, and so one of the positions of the Communist Party mem- : bers was.to support anyons in the black causus and anywhere sise in : » the convention who wanted to change that numerical system: I, my- : : self, did not get to go to the Anal meeting at which the black caucns ‘ - ’~ ¥oted, yon know, on the specifics, but T was there-when they came back : * -> to the convention, because they had left, and there was soms arrange- '  thents made, I am not sure of the spscifics or the numbers brit there : Was Some arrangement made where the votes of the black caucus vere more than they would have been simply on the basis of numbers, per se. Mr, Norver. Would you continue on then with what happened at the convention, as you recall it? _ so “Mr. Kirx. Well, thera were several speeches amply covered by all «+> ‘the press, The one speech that struck ine was by James Forman, who 2. had been en informant—off the record, please, Senator Turonaonp. Of the record, _. (Discussion off the record.) ~ Senator Tirurmonp. Bacelr on the record, . Br, Norver. Are you speaking of James Forman? _ ’ Mr. Konus: Right. As you know ho had bean involved in SNCC and -& few other organizations in the South and PRVe 2 yary interesting “talk. As you probably well know, but I don’t think many of the people , : who this would know, spesches in conventions, especially in this --- HW 53216 Pocld: 32397477 Page 30