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Within the course of the bitter struggle "for life or death" in the heart of world capitalism

NOTES ON THE MILITIES OF SELF-DEFENSE AND THE PROCESS OF

GENERAL REDEMPTION OF THE COMMUNITY OF BLACK OPPRESSES IN

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On July 4, 2020 at the Confederate Memorial in Stone Mountain, Georgia on the anniversary of the declaration of

that, although (for the moment) separated from the unified American army (all yet to be constituted), we hope will

still be able to assume and support both the self-defense and the necessary counter-attack and offense tasks. ,

within a social war that is fought (and predictably even more will be fought) without rest and in brute forms as

crude, merciless, implacable is the substance of oppression and total human alienation in the heart of world

capitalism, within power center and universal beacon of freedom and democracy.

The armed demonstration of July 4th was just a spectacular episode that took place in a burning moment of the

social and political conflict within the USA (which other similar ones followed) but it signals the emergence (the re-

emergence) of a not episodic but profound current of general redemption (moral, social, political) that runs through

the black community in the US and with it the renewed emergence of the eternal and historical "dilemma" of

perspective: the struggle for the independence of the "oppressed black nation-colony"; for the "right to self-

the field of the two bourgeois factions facing each other). We do it, as usual, in an undoubtedly rough way, largely

partial and incomplete. But in the meantime we want to mark the field in the fire of a struggle (of which the electoral

deadline of November 3 is only a passage) that if it transmits a great energy to us we know to be extremely fraught

and complicated beyond belief for the course of our Revolution. winning will have to drag and manage to captivate

the mass of unreserved people of every race and color. Always remembering (first of all to ourselves and to the

handful of our faithful) the revolutionary enormity of the "thing" in which it is located and of which the redemption

process of the black oppressed community of which we are dealing is part, that is, the fight " for life or for death ”in

progress, now finally possible within the inviolate and“ inviolable ”US sanctuary of world capitalism, within its

territory, within its main lair. (1)

"reverse racism", "anti-Semitism" and whatever else scandalous, decreed by the flock of white liberal-"progressive"

multicolored doves. Those in smell (stench, stench) of Open Society especially sensitive in sniffing… it stinks of

burning, that is, in smelling the signs of the ugly, dirty and bad Revolution that is preparing and that will extinguish

them without much compliments.

As far as we can see things from afar and from the outside, it seems to us that we can say that this judgment of

condemnation is wrong as it demeans a real movement of a mass of oppressed people that on the surface manifests

itself "as it can", given the weight of the defeats suffered and the general and international context in which the

question of race and class arises in the US heart of world capitalism. The current external crystallizations of the

renewed "Afro-American resurgence" can certainly seem and be very far from the "ideal" (in abstract) but it seems

to us that we need to grasp and value the profound meaning of the movement in progress (which for us must lead to

integrate it into the bourgeois state can and will never satisfy (a very considerable effort certainly implemented by

American capitalism which allowed it to crush the audacious challenge launched by the old and glorious Black

Panther "in the belly of the beast" as it was said then, together with the use of all means of the most ruthless

repression: lead at will on the rebels, centuries of jail inflicted on the militants, rivers of heroin made to flow in the

ghettos, etc.).

As the head of a black militia (NFAC, "Not Facking Around Coalization") says: "... until we learn to love ourselves, we

cannot love other people. … Black people yearn to belong to something, we have to give them something to belong

to. I would rather give my life for something as noble as the liberation of my people, rather than waste it by staying

alive being weak ”. The flower of the resurgent Black Power-Black Panther is reborn in the livid atmosphere of the

world capitalist catastrophe which, like that of 1929, is a prelude to a generalized destruction of capital, to a new

militants of the "authentic" BPP who demean them, of having, their ancient panthers, transformed in the course of a

time fraught with defeats and setbacks into tame domesticated animals, radical appendages of the liberal-

"progressive" fractions of democratic imperialism.

Let's drive a few nails, on the edge of time: from Trotsky to Malcom to today

In our opinion it is good and right that, in the meantime and in this passage of the struggle, the black community of

America or a combative part of it feels and expresses the need to organize its self-defense and the path towards its

own liberation. even in separate forms "from whites", separated from the rest of the proletarian class and the white

unconditional. In the meantime.

It is good and right, knowing very well that the horizon of the current black avant-garde organizations / militias is

Yesterday

It has been 87 years since Trotsky (exiled to Prinkipo, 1933), answering the questions of his American comrades

about the attitude to take with respect to the nationalist movement of blacks in America and their question of

separation / self-determination, said:

“Of course, we don't force niggers to become a nation; if they are, then this is a question that concerns their

conscience, that is, it is a question that depends on what they want and tend to. We say: if the blacks want it, then

we must fight against imperialism to the last drop of blood because we have the right to enjoy an independent

territory, where and how they want. The fact that they are now not a majority in any state does not matter. It is not

a question of the authority of the states, but of the blacks. (...) In any case, the oppression suffered by blacks pushes

them towards political and national unity. (...) If in America there were a situation such as to have already allowed

common actions between white and black workers, if fraternization had already become a reality, then perhaps the

beasts. It is necessary to make them understand that the American state is not their state and that they must not be

the guardians of this state. The American workers who say, "Negroes must be able to separate if they want and we

will defend them against our American police" are revolutionaries and I trust them. "

And 81 have passed since Trotsky (exiled to Coyoacan, 1939) always said on the same question:

"We cannot tell them to form a state because that will weaken imperialism and that will be good for us, white

workers. This would be contrary to internationalism. We cannot tell them: “Install here, even at the cost of economic

progress”. We can say: “It is up to you to decide. If you want to take a part of the country, fine, but we don't want to

decide for you ”. (…) The battle for the possibility of creating an independent state is a sign of great moral and

political awakening. It would be a huge revolutionary step forward ». (3) underlining ns

A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, and certainly the social structure and the objective and

Today

We can summarize what in our opinion remains deeply alive in them, today 2020 and beyond, in the following

points:

- It and only it, a community of oppressed blacks, must be able to decide the path of its own liberation: “we do not

want to decide for you”, it was said in 1939. And we say the same today. If the black community believes it has to

follow a separate path (we say: provisionally separate) from the white class brothers towards the goal it wants to set

itself, be it "national self-determination" or anything else, we internationalist communists will support it with all our

strengths. It is not the community of black oppressed that must "open" itself to the general revolutionary

perspective in the first place, but rather it must be an authentic class movement that "rises" to the level of struggle

only approached by the avant-gardes of the new Black Power (... "we must fight against imperialism, against our

a (then yes reactionary) sphere of national-racial identity. It will certainly not be the black proletarians who will

"close themselves off" and reject the plan of class unity if and when we are worthy of it. It is not the black oppressed

community and not even its current armed and self-defense detachments that are "backward": if anything, it is we

(the overall movement of the international proletariat and its white-western sections in particular) who are!

- The powerful re-emergence of the need / necessity for self-organization and self-defense is “a sign of a great moral

and political awakening, an enormous revolutionary step forward” as it was said at the time (1939), and so much is

true for the present. We emphasize the "moral" aspect of the redemption process, which is an absolutely concrete

and material aspect for the fight in which the oppressed black community is at the forefront. We will explain this

more precisely when we say about a particular point that we care about the NBPP claim program.

"... it would be a huge revolutionary step forward": it is, today, a huge step forward on a historical level that goes

beyond the destiny of the 40 million African Americans since they, as prophetically glimpsed by Malcom, are only a

force on the scales remains today more than ever for the black masses. It is good and right that their self-organized

and independent force frightens not only the bourgeoisie (including the black one!) But forces the American white

proletariat itself back to the wall, so to speak: it will have to "betray" its race and "his" nation to finally get to

embrace the class cause, or to know that he has to pay a heavy price. Malcom said in 1964: "It may be that the black

nationalists give you the impression (he was addressing an audience of radical left-wing whites, ed) that they

represent a small minority of the so-called black community, but it happens that they are made of cloth it takes to

set fire to the black community as a whole. This is one of those things that you whites, whether you call yourself

liberals, conservatives, racists or whatever you like, have to try to understand, and that is that even if the vast

majority of the black community you come in contact with can give you the impression of being composed of

moderate, patient, affectionate people, now accustomed to suffering and such, the minority that you consider

These prophetic words of Malcom are valid, by extension in time and space, for the whole white-western proletariat:

"this you must understand"!

So, that's good and right ... The avant-garde detachments of African Americans do well not to trust "whites" in

general. A whole bitter and long history of trust, bad response and atrocious betrayals explains their distrust which

is, in our opinion, more than historically justified. And we want to recall one of these historical betrayals suffered by

blacks in America that we generally tend to forget (and not by chance).

The weight of a history of betrayals and counter-revolution that we carry with us and within

In the 20s and 30s of the past century, a significant part of the blacks of America were attracted by the light

of October, by the communist message of authentic liberation that is addressed to all the exploited of all

races and colors. They integrated and enthusiastically joined the (not plethoric) ranks of the US PC. They

believed they had finally found in Communism the coveted "something" mentioned above, a true

community of brothers united and reaching out to the most noble and sacred of Human causes against the

inhuman power of Capital. As it should have been but it wasn't. As it should be but it still isn't. How it must

actually be!

The "communism" to which they had ardently believed and adhered in fact betrayed them. They were, once

Harlem-New York, Detroit) as "Hitler's Uprising". Riots who, according to the American "communist"

leaders, if not directly maneuvered, certainly played "the game of Nazism" (after being, Moscow

"communism" with all its international branches in tow, for almost two years, from September '39 to June

'41, linked to the pact with Hitler's Germany!). The blacks of America screamed in their despair: "You

whites (you" Communists "as well) ask us to shed our blood against Hitler's barbarism while you repress

and persecute us when we rise up against the Hitlers we have at home in your house. democratic America! ".

Past water of a story that no one now remembers or has never even known? Do you really believe that such

historic cuts etched deep into the flesh and spirit of peoples are wounds that the mere "passing of time" and

"the new conditions of the struggle" can heal? We do not believe it, and it is not a question of an

"informational / cultural" defect but of a prolonged absence in the battle arena of a lively and active

Americans are an indissoluble part) is individually aware of it or not.

Things have changed: "a harsh truth" that can be overturned

Undoubtedly one cannot think that the resurgent Black Power can purely and simply replicate the past BPP

experience. The new historical conditions objectively push towards an overcoming of that experience of

struggle "in the belly of the beast". They objectively push to overcome the unnatural (in abstract) division /

separation of the proletarian Force.

The authentic prophet Malcolm was wrong when he said (speech of February 13, 1965, shortly before being

assassinated): “It is therefore important for you and for me to understand that a solution must be sought that

will benefit the masses and not the privileged classes, of the so-called privileged classes, because among the

under the pressure of the objective historical current, it is the destinies and material interests of the

American community into its mechanism, and not simply and superficially co-opt a series of "Uncles Tom",

"courtyard negroes", "Charlie's servants", " buffoons with black bodies and white heads "to use the

expressions with which Malcom dubbed his purebred brothers who wanted nothing more than to

democratically share" the American dream "with the white master. The Obamas, the Colin Powells, the

Condoleeza Rice etc. etc. they are not "black-bodied and white-headed buffoons", they are bourgeois

representatives of a social class within an open society like the bourgeois one that does not work for closed

castes such as feudal societies. Their heads reason and act on the basis of intelligence and material interests

that have no color: those of the impersonal power of the Monster-Capital and its terrifying North American

tentacle.

But the power of American capitalism, however immense, has not been able to "draw to itself", integrate the

wants to get a concept into the pumpkin students) and have been so since the time (1970) in which the

Detroit League of Revolutionary Black Workers wrote in the introduction to its program: "The

subordination of black people and black workers to racism creates a privileged condition for white workers.

While imperialist oppression and world exploitation creates a layer of privilege for US workers, the white

labor movement has failed to address the worsening conditions of black workers, their key role in the

economy and the working class. The white labor movement has turned its back on the problems of black

workers. ... The white worker aristocracy collaborates with the US imperialist government in its struggles of

aggression ... LORN arose in particular from the failure of the white workers movement to address racist

working conditions and the inhuman situation in which the black people find themselves ". (6)

The imperialist raid of which North American democracy is the main architect against the countries and

people" to put an end to the ... endless wars in which America is engaged and who now wear it out instead of

strengthening it.

The harsh and harsh truth stated at the time by another notable black intellectual-militant (James Boggs, see

"The meaning of Black Revolt in the USA", 1963): "The truth is that white workers have profited from the

exploitation of the black ones for so long that joining now with them would make them the impression of

even cutting their throats with their own hands "so the slogan" black and white united in the struggle "was

groundless, it could just be a slogan" ideal ", that crude and harsh truth can materially take on a completely

different and opposite aspect today, it can overturn: these white American workers" cut their throats with

their own hands "if they remain united with" their "State," their "nation . And, more than "an impression",

this is a material fact that they can ascertain in the harsh experience for all those without reservations within

said it and we repeat it on purpose!

Finally, the "moral" aspect of the "African American resurgence" and the particular programmatic point of

the New Black Panther Party that is linked to it, we have alluded to above.

It is, in our opinion (sorry for the umpteenth repetition), of great importance that the Community

Insufficient? All you want, but in the meantime it is taking a step in the right direction ...

It is, however, a factor of galvanization and multiplication of force not only for the black community but for the

entire proletariat. Said and repeated unlike and contrary to a common feeling widespread "in the American

movement", perhaps even in the majority of it at a guess. We quote (and gloss) from a document that we have at

hand and which seems to us to summarize well this widespread "common feeling":

«It must be clear that small armed groups cannot take the place of the organized power of millions of workers

(editor's note: quite right! But the Panthers know this well…). Small groups cannot defeat the combined and

centralized power of the bourgeois state and its instruments of repression (editor's note: idem with potatoes).

Furthermore, while these actions have certainly brought a lot of attention to the Black Panthers, they have also been

used by the media, the police and the FBI as a way to marginalize and isolate the Panthers themselves from the

sectors of workers? " (7)

Moral of the fable "Marxist" ("Trotskyist") - corpse: we must not "scare" white workers, let's not say by using guns

but not even by showing them for demonstrative "show", otherwise they will not "gain support". That is, exactly the

opposite of what we claim (and so far nothing matters), the exact opposite of what Trotsky claimed and preached

that we have extensively quoted above! (and this should mean something for some comrades who claim to be his

followers, who among other things involuntarily suggest the idea of white workers reduced to a flock of sheep "that

should not be frightened", which it is not).

Therefore: organization, individual and group discipline. And fight for detox. Point 4. of the program of the New

Black Panther Party (a program which we have said to be bourgeois-democratic like that of the old BPP) is, in our

opinion, of particular and vital importance. It establishes, among other objectives of an immediate nature (right to

Panther who from 13 to 18 was a heroin slave). Each step taken to achieve the declared objective would represent a

huge real advance for the whole of the "proletarian community", victim and slave of Capital and its devious

weapons.

And here we plant it: we wanted, as said at the beginning, to mark the field. In the meantime.

May these largely insufficient and partial notes be, in some way, a useful thing for "their" struggle, which is

indissolubly "ours" and vice versa.

NOTE

1) We must not forget the revolutionary enormity of the "thing": the pivot of world capitalism, the United States of

America, was the concrete symbol of "popular capitalism", the accomplished "welfare society", even society "

world wars will be, even more than that between the first and the second, international; and the proof of this is

what we are emphasizing on the collaboration of Russian state capitalism in the “anti-crisis measures”; collaboration

which, culminating in the therapy of the extension of world trade between the two alleged blocs, even with its

ideological presentation alone proves, with dialectical force, that the next authentic crisis of overproduction will hit

at the same time all the monstrous production machines of the world, will be the crisis of the superproductive

madness that unites America and Russia in the vaunted competition by both of them ». (Communist program, no.

9/1958)

Really well excavated Old Mole!

2) The leader of one of these militias (NFAC), a rather famous rapper in the States, often leads super-armed shows of

force (for the moment only spectacular): he does not carry just one submachine gun, but two at a time! If the

reformist plan of the struggle were surmountable "technically" in this way we would be ... or almost on horseback.

Forum in New York. In "Malcom X, last speeches", Einaudi ed.

5) To get a vivid idea of the enormous and excruciating "black disillusionment" with "communism" (the dominant

one on the market, that is, the spoiled Stalinist brand) see the story of a black proletarian / writer (authentic

intellectual and comrade, finally driven by the disgust of Stalinist "communism" in American sauce towards black

nationalism): "American hunger" of (let us tell you) brother and comrade Richard Wright.

6) See "USA 1970's struggles, the program of black workers", Political Editions n. 2 of "Power worker" March 1971

7) Cit. from a 2014 writing by comrade "Trotskyist" John Peterson: "On the program of the Black Panther Party: what

perspective for black workers and young people?" recently proposed by the site marxismo.net. The large document

intends to "dismantle" the classic 10 programmatic points of the panthers from a "Marxist" point of view (the new

ones basically follow the 1966 program). In practice, "to prove" (for the umpteenth time) to blacks that class struggle