August 2, 1969 Page 9.
First of all, thanks to the Black Panther Party for making the First
U.F.A.F. possible; and then I want to say to all the beautiful people
who were there: "Power to the People" and let's get out there and put it
all into practice.
To those who attended the U.F.A.F. conference, the conference
represented not only the first constructive plan for action against
Fascism, but it was also a beautiful, unique thing in this respect: more
than 1,000 people from many different geographical locations and many
different lines of ideological theories were TOGETHER in unity against a
common enemy: FASCISM. They were made aware, if not already aware, of
the enemy and laid petty arguments and ideological struggle aside and
tried instead to deal with the one common big problem: FASCISM.
To those people who had been wondering why the PLP was expelled from the
SDS, it became increasingly clear. PLP, instead of working against the
enemy, had aligned itself with the pigs and was trying to work against
the people. PLP tried to disrupt the U.F.A.F conference by passing out
leaflets against the holding of the conference and against the vanguard
party, by distorting facts just as the pig "news media" does, and by
lying to the people. After asking one of these fools what the basis was
for passing out leaflets against the people's United Front, his reply
was: "The PLP doesn't believe the Panthers know what Fascism is." Since
even "apolitical" people know that the Panthers are being terrorized and
brutalized; and since the vanguard party has felt Fascism's foul boot on
its back more than any other group of people, his reply was not only
stupid, it was oinking in the faces of the people.
In the midst of speeches a few instigators would now and then seek to
disrupt the conference--yelling, telling people to walk out, etc.
To those who had never heard of the PLP before, and were now aware of
its existence, their reaction to PLP was not favorable, to say the
least. They condemned the PLP and started to seek out more information
about PLP and soon found out and understood why the SDS expelled them
from its ranks:
1) PLP not only refused to support the Vietnam N.L.F. and its
struggles to liberate the people, but also attacked the N.L.F and the
Revolutionary Government of Cuba,
2) On the campuses, PLP opposes most black student struggles. It opposed
demands for increased black studies programs and admissions, but put
forth a resolution advocating preferential hiring of minority
non-academic "help," i.e., maids and janitors --where these minorities
are already preferentially hired. This shows that PLP has an attitude
of bigotry and "white supremacy" and a lack of understanding, and
thereby a racist attitude; a slave-master-slave attitude as medieval and
as foul as any Ku Klux Klanner.
3) PLP has led unprincipled attacks on the Black Panther Party and the
League of Revolutionary Black Workers. In leading these attacks they
have lied to the people branding the Panthers as racists and saying
that the Panthers have "no class outlook and believe they are out to
fight a war against white people in general." Since this is obviously
untrue, even to many who didn't attend the conference, as far as most
people are concerned, not only are the PLPers sadly miseducated,
uneducated, or whatever, but since they, in their actions, so closely
resemble the lying pig news media there can be a direct line of
similarity drawn between the PLP and the pigs. Indeed, they can be
classified as pigs and charged with being enemies of the people.
Stupid as they may be and as absurd as their warped statements are, the
PLP means to be just as harmful to the interests of the people as any
lying, oinking, foul, pig politician; greedy, avaricious businessman; or
murderous, brutalizing pig would be. But the PLP's squeals grow
weaker and weaker as the people are now hip to their slimy snakelike
TACTICS. (See note at end of article.)
The PLP not only failed to disrupt the U.F.A.F., they were ignored for
the most part. The people were there to learn and work together on
important issues; they knew they were not there to listen to absurd
oinkings from the mouths of fools. By slithering in and out of the
conference all the PLPers accomplished by their actions was that they
exposed their true nature to the people: that as lying, snakelike
enemies of the people disguised as representing the true interests of
the people. Well, enough of the PLP and all other petty, insignificant,
worthless, brainless and warped so-called "progressive" parties like the
PLP.
The enemies of the people shall be dealt with by the people, for there
are more people than there are pigs.
DOWN WITH FASCISM
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
POWER TO THE PANTHER VANGUARD
Carole