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In response to the May 2013 article
Rats
Undermine United Front Unity, as a brother of the struggle,
originally from Texas, I send mine to all you brothers and sisters back
home.
As leaders, we have to be serious about our roles in the movement,
accepting responsibility for any personal miscalculation made while
representing our units, party, cell, etc.
Period. No cut on it.
Communication is key when organizing the lumpen to unite. And most times
having a safe and secure line of communication can be just as important,
if not more important, than what is actually being said. Because what is
a line of communication if it is always being disturbed, interfered and
disrupted? I don’t know, but it isn’t effective communication I tell you
that.
So often we hear prisoners commenting on how great the power of snitches
and provocateurs are, and it bothers me that we are able to concentrate
so much energy on them instead of on the tactics of countering their
elementary crosses, and their state.
Sometimes we revolutionaries have to accept the consequences of our
miscalculation so that we can learn an experience that allows us to
identify the signs of the problem when it approaches again, instead of
being so quick to place blame or responsibility on another person.
I personally was caught slipping while in the possession of a wire
regarding economical development involving a select few. The flashlight
turtles ran up at an unexpected time to my assigned quarters. With the
choice of catching a narcotics possession/distribution charge or
dropping my line in order to dispose, I took the latter option and
became guilty of losing an important wire. I didn’t agree with the
charge by my peers or the penalty, but I did take responsibility for the
wire being lost. It is very likely that someone very close to me set the
authorities to get with my program, but the point is it was my
responsibility to safe guard the wire. I lost a lot due to one
miscalculation - like a comrade at arms on the battlefield - from great
allies who can never again support my campaigns, to resources of a
collective committee with it’s tentacles reaching into places all across
the seas. But on the other hand I learned that the ability to secure and
stabilize a line of communication with very important factions behind
the wire from state to state is very powerful. But for most it’s a
learned ability.
I suggest to all comrades that we learn to say who did it less, and
practice doing it more. Securing and stabilizing lines of communication
is a great place to start.
MIM(Prisons) adds: We’ve written extensively about the importance
of
secure
communications both behind the bars and on the streets. This is a
critical element of self-defense for the revolutionary movement. As the
state expands it’s tactics of infiltration and information gathering, we
must expand our defenses.
Revolutionary state of mind has a place in all ages. I was born too
late for the 60’s so I found mine in these pages of Assata, Angela,
Huey Newton and George. They really opened up my mind and made me
pick up the sword.
Because this whole damn country is caught up and in turmoil. And if
you truly wanna know why too much African blood in the soil, These
people kidnapped us, raped us, stole our religion and heritage. And
ask why I’m so mad, nigga ain’t that a bitch!
So I keep my mind focused on the correct political line, Cause with
the right tactics and strategies these suckas won’t be getting
mine. The urban guerrilla front was built to last long. We’re
starting from the bottom so the cadre’s strong. A revolutionary state
of mind is what the people need. To stop the imperialism, and the
capitalist greed.
In considering the art of warfare and conflict resolution, many miss the
significance of how much an effect of one’s party winning on the
battlefield of propaganda has on that party’s victory in the war.
Throughout history, effective information distribution has been a major
factor in a nation or group gaining/obtaining power. It is essential in
the United $tate’s retention of its global position today. So one cannot
stress enough the importance of the efforts at educating people about
injustice.
One of the main ways in which the U.$.government, and the various
governments under its jurisdiction, are able to brazenly contradict
their stated laws, purpose, and principles, is by ensuring the
effectiveness of its personal propaganda machine - the corporate media.
For instance, it is well documented and basically established that the
CIA is responsible for the introduction of crack cocaine into the
streets of South Central Los Angeles, with knowledge and possible
complicity from the Executive Branch. Yet in this “war on drugs” none of
those mid-to-top level responsible CIA/Executive Branch officials were
ever made to face “justice.”
On the other side of that, the average Tyrone, in any hood U$A, is given
decades to life in prison for selling a minuscule fraction of what the
CIA introduced into his community. And by the media, Tyrone is portrayed
as the violent dangerous criminal, while George H.W. Bush, and the
Clintons are labeled as heroes. It’s an irreconcilable contradiction,
yet it is accepted as reasonable by the general public, which is mainly
due to its well-documented public opinion manipulation tactics.
And with the Amerikan public being so bombarded with pro-establishment
garbage, some people don’t have any exposure to any info other than what
the corporate media presents, and the U.$. establishment’s response to
the rise of Wikileaks shows that this is by design. Anyone who stands
against corruption, repression, oppression, social imbalance, and the
other vile things that this nation’s ruling class works to promote, must
put much focus on a counter-propaganda campaign to show the people
precisely what the effects of their support for the antisocial U.$.
establishment’s policies and actions are in real life circumstances.
This used to be an uphill battle due to the Establishment’s exclusive
hold on the corporate media, coupled with there being no real
alternative means of info distribution. But one of the advantages to
this information age is social media, which can give one access to a
whole world of people. Now people don’t have to rely on the corporate
media as their sole means of obtaining info on current events. The
establishment has lost its grip on info control and the opportunity for
you and most anyone else to be heard is at hand.
And with the daily displays of official lawlessness recently
transpiring, and with the corruption adversely affecting more and more
people, that’s more people with an ear open to your message. Knowledge
is power and education is essential to knowledge.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We agree on the value of alternative news
and the need to have media around which to build a movement. This is the
reason MIM(Prisons) prioritizes Under Lock & Key, both in
print and on the web, as a key responsibility of our organization.
However, we do not think, as this writer implies, that the Amerikan
people are so mis-educated that they only go along with the government
corruption because they don’t know otherwise. In reality the Wikileaks
exposure has not led to any new uprisings by Amerikan citizens. The
government fear about information release is mostly related to
international exposure. Within this country they do have to worry about
the youth in prisons and universities where there is much broader
political consciousness and interest in the real news about what’s going
on. Amerikans overall are complacent because they are bought off by
their government, paid to enjoy a petty bourgeois life at the expense of
the international proletariat. And so Amerikans generally are happy to
believe the lies fed to them by their government. With Under Lock
& Key we hope to reach those at the margins who do not enjoy
the Amerikan dream, or who have not yet bought into it. Having a
materialist understanding of the social forces in this country will
allow us to have a greater impact with our limited resources.
Background on Campaign to Resist Restrictions on Indigent Correspondence
In a move that caught some of us off guard, the Texas Board of Criminal
Injustice has issued an order to drastically change the indigent mail
policy within the Texas Department of Criminal Injustice, which runs
over 111 Texas state prisons. In August 2013 the board convened and
decided that starting October 1, 2013, indigent prisoners will only be
allowed to mail 5 general correspondence letters per month! Indigent
prisoners were previously allotted 5 letters per week. The primary
reason cited for the drastic cut is the financial costs involved in
providing postage for the tens of thousands of indigent prisoners housed
in Texas prisons. However, there is a very real attack being aimed at
the growing number of revolutionary voices that are popping up around
Texas to expose the barbaric treatment and inhumane conditions that
exist in Texas. It is validation to many of us that our voices are being
heard by outside supporters, and this new policy is definitely a
retaliatory reactionary response to our activism.
Just this year alone has exposed so many major problems in Texas:
Texas surpassed 500 executions of human beings on June 26 2013.
A wrongful death lawsuit was lodged against Texas in regards to the
extreme heat (and the pigs joined the prisoners!)
Texas leads the nation in prison sexual assault and abuse cases
Rashid of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party - Prison Chapter was
moved to Texas from Oregon and the internet is buzzing with his detailed
report of the mistreatment and abuse he has incurred since arriving in
Texas.
Comrades, the U.S. Department of Injustice doesn’t give a shit about us.
In order to actuate change for ourselves we must unite in solidarity,
get active with USW and MIM(Prisons), link up with sincere activists and
media outlets who are sympathetic to our cause and “mash the gas” on
these oppressors. Texas hates media coverage, so now we are forced to
really make our correspondence count. Drop all the letters to
organizations that are only offering lip service with no action and get
with this movement! Share Under Lock & Key, increase your
political study, stand up to the pigs. Don’t let the comrades in
California be the only true revolutionary soldiers.
I have filed a
petition
in Los Angeles County Superior Court on the inadequacy of the grievance
procedure in California prisons. I’ve also written letters to the
California Attorney General’s Office, the LA County District Attorney
Office, the Governor’s office and various media outlets in order to seek
their assistance in forcing the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR) staff to honor their own policies and regulations.
All of my above efforts were to no avail.
The LA County Superior Court ordered an informal response when I filed
my petition. The California Attorney General’s office assumed the
position of respondent to my petition and asked for an extension of time
to reply to my petition, and then they failed to meet even that
deadline. Before the Attorney General replied, the court denied my
petition stating that I was not in compliance with the grievance
procedure, despite being unable to cite a single grievance regulation
that I hadn’t complied with. This judicial abdication of CDCR staff
lawlessness is routine in California state-level courts.
I had tried addressing the inadequate grievance procedure in the federal
courts, by way of a federal civil suit that I filed against California
State Prison - Corcoran. The ruling on this was that the CDCR’s
violation of their grievance procedure does not create a federal
constitutional violation, basically saying that the due process clause
is meaningless. The case is now pending in the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals, case number 12-17419.
My “take-away” from my efforts so far is that in dealing with these
government types (da pigs, bureaucrats, politicians, government,
attorneys, etc.) in general, you’re up against brazenly
socioeconomically biased, unreasonable, spiteful, hypocritical,
out-of-touch, legitimized sociopaths. They work together to justify
clearly unlawful behavior, and are adverse to a system of legitimate
checks and balances. They see barely disguised partiality, in the
disposition of their duties, as reasonable and good. We see evidence of
this daily. I mean, the recently exposed
NSA
spy program is beyond any reasonable dispute a violation of the
Fourth Amendment, yet they go on unapologetically violating the same
constitution that they claim to cherish, absolutely Orwellian with the
“double-think.”
What irritates me even more is the public’s complacency in the face of
this brazen tyranny by this nation’s power elite. The Declaration of
Independence states that it is not only a right, but a duty for the
people to replace a lawless government. When will we honor that duty?
Thank you for your time, consideration, and your work performed on
behalf of the people.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We agree with this comrade’s conclusions,
and of course, we harbored no real expectations of action from the
bureaucrats’ offices and courts going into this campaign. This is why we
constantly stress the need to organize people around these demands. The
pigs are not usually going to do something just because it’s right. They
are more likely do something when they are pressured to do it. And
pressure can only be applied when prisoners are organized for their
common interests.
This is class struggle of the imprisoned lumpen against the bourgeois
classes. When this struggle does not exist, our so-called “rights” under
bourgeois democracy disappear, demonstrating that they never really
existed in their own right. That is why we don’t hesitate to report this
comrade’s failures, because they underline that important lesson. They
also allow us to highlight the real victory in the grievance campaign,
which is prisoners across many states acting in unison, sharing
information and strategizing. Our strategies around this campaign need
to keep the big picture of the balance of power in mind so that we do
not get lost in an endless cycle of give and take with the pigs.
We are currently [5 November 2013] on lockdown since 29 October 2013 and
each housing facility on D facility is being thoroughly searched due to
an isolated “threat to staff” and weapon being found here on the SNY
yard.
On 26 June 2013, while being interviewed by Lieutenant C. Waddle
concerning the improper cross-gender and group strip searches of
transgender inmates, Lt. Waddle fabricated a spurious disciplinary
charge of “illegal sex acts” with my cellmate, which Sergeant M. Jones
wrote in a falsified report. Two days later I was placed in ASU
[isolation] and given an additional RVR for simply notifying Lt. Waddle
of specific transgender housing and safety concerns by her intentionally
rehousing me with a homophobic inmate!
Black & Pink has led an advocacy campaign, with letters of protest
to Warden M.D. Biter and CDCR Secretary Jeffery Beard, concerning the
sexual harassment and retaliation I have experienced at Kern Valley
State Prison.
When I filed a property appeal for items lost during the above
incidents, I was subjected to more retaliation, a punitive cell search
and RVR disciplinary action for “Falsifying records and documents,” by
Sergeant D. Williams and Correctional Officer Walinga. This also was
witnessed by my cellmate.
I believe that things may improve in the immediate future as a result of
my appeals, but I have suffered irreparable harm in my struggle for
equality and liberation. 602 appeals are currently pending in
Sacramento.
MIM(Prisons) adds: While all prisoners (both male and female) are
in a position of subjugation that leads to gender oppression while they
are locked up, gay, lesbian and transgender prisoners face additional
harassment, abuse, and oppression. As we discussed in our review of
The
Anti-Exploits of Men Against Sexism, fighting gender oppression in
prison is part of the battle against imperialism in general. We have
seen some
recent
examples of growing awareness and unity around this struggle, and we
will continue to publicize these battles and educate prisoners on gender
oppression in general. For more reading on gender, write to us to
request a copy of MIM Theory 2/3.
Many have seen the stunning October 28 video of police in New Mexico
assaulting a New Afrikan family after pulling them over on the side of
the road. To most of Amerika this type of footage is shocking for any
number of reasons. Whether it be because the teenage son was tazered by
police for trying to protect his mother from pig oppression, or because
police shot at the kid-filled van. Most Amerikans deem this type of
behavior unacceptable and they demand answers. Likewise, some within
Amerika agree that this behavior is not what those who “protect &
serve” should be doing, but they’ll come up with excuses for the police
such as, they only have a split second to react, and in the heat of the
moment hesitation can cost you your life. And then there are the more
convoluted excuses such as, the police did what they did because of PTSD
(Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), or any other such stress-related
condition associated with being a cop. And to the white settler-state,
and even to some from the oppressed internal nations, these idealized
excuses perfectly suffice. But the truth of the matter is that this type
of behavior on the part of the pigs is acceptable exactly because that
is how the police keep the oppressed in check. These types of abuses are
not isolated incidents, but institutionalized practices that are part
and parcel to maintaining white power in the United $tates.
To the Chican@ nation this type of police brutality is nothing new,
isolated or particular to New Afrikans. Rather it is part of reality for
the oppressed of the Chican@ nation and any other internal semi-colony.
For those of us growing up in the 80s and 90s in the ghettos and barrios
of Amerika this was certainly a daily possibility, especially whenever
we dared to venture out the hood and into or near the settler
communities.
Integration into the consumer economy via labor aristocracy wages has
brought privilege for the oppressed within U.$. borders via the stolen
super-profits and cheap abundant goods from the periphery. But the
reality of imperial dominance cannot be negated by class relations as
they continue to be modified by national interests and the principal
contradiction: imperialism vs. the oppressed nations. Leave it to the
apologists for national oppression in Amerika, the post-modernist
theorists and other petty-bourgeois intellectuals who would have us
think that we’ve reached some type of “post-racialism” and that
therefore it’s ok to paint oneself in black-face for example, or dress
up as your favorite Latino stereotype for Halloween because “race”
relations in the United $tates have never been better. And the hystory
of segregation is better forgotten. Yes “race” relations in the United
$tates have changed profoundly, but let’s not get it twisted,
segregation was ended and civil rights were won exactly because of the
strong national liberation movements and the threat of armed struggle
that underlined the Black, Chican@, Boriqua and First Nation power
movements of the 1960s and 70s. What humyn dignity we have today is not
owed to concessions and benevolence on the part of the oppressor nation
and their power structure. Rather they are rights won by revolutionaries
and masses before us; as there are no “rights,” only power struggles.
Pigs almost always walk away with a slap on the wrist for abuses of
power and attempted murder incidents such as the one in New Mexico, so
let’s not start believing that just because that shooting was caught on
video it’s gonna mean a conviction equaling the ones doled out to the
Black and Brown in North America on a daily basis. If we want justice,
we better go get justice and not expect it’s gonna be given to us.
Much has been said recently about the overtly racist remarks made by one
of the contestants on the “Big Brother” reality show. Viewers were
shocked at the nerve of some of the show’s participants, not only in the
fact that they would say such things, but in the contestants’ blatantly
unapologetic attitude afterwards. After all, this is the 21st century,
and according to some, we have moved beyond those inconsistencies in
Amerika’s past which had previously kept her from fulfilling the promise
of its ethos. Most Amerikans (white people in particular) like to
believe that although things like slavery and segregation are all a part
of our nasty past we should all just forget and move on from this
shameful hystory. Surely the United $tates has made great strides when
it comes to “race relations,” and Amerikans of all colors have never
experienced a more collective prosperity than they do today, never mind
the previously unthinkable: a Black man in the White House.
So why then does racism continue to exist? More importantly, how do we
eradicate it? To properly answer these questions we must take it back to
where it all began, and for this we’ll have to revisit some ugly truths.
Origins of Racism: Connections to Capitalism
People forget that Amerika is a nation of settlers founded on genocide,
slavery and annexation. This oppressive nation-building formula includes
the more subtle forms of national oppression and the many different ways
they are institutionalized and manifested in our society. One
particularly malevolent form of national oppression, which most of us
are all too familiar with, is of course racism and the more pernicious
racial ideology from which it stems. But racism isn’t simply some
oppressive philosophical dogma utterly disconnected from the real world.
Rather, racism and racial ideologies are direct products of national
oppression, which is engendered by society based on property relations
and the division of labor produced therein, which in turn has influenced
how humyn beings have come to interact with each other in the struggle
between the global “haves” and “have nots.” In short, racism has not
been around forever. As a matter of fact, the very concept of “race”
didn’t even exist prior to the 16th century. Racism and racial
ideologies have only been around so long as capitalism itself has been
around. The concept of “race” developed alongside the rise of modern
society and not as usually believed as a remnant of the irrational and
dark Middle Ages. What’s more, the concept of “race” has been directly
linked back to the primitive accumulation phase of capitalism, which is
itself grounded in the first rape and plunder of Africa and the
Americas. This primitive accumulation phase is clearly explained by
radical eco-feminist and author Maria Mies when she stated that:
“Before the capitalist mode of production could establish and maintain
itself as a process of extended reproduction of capital - driven by the
motor of surplus value production - enough capital had to be accumulated
to start this process. The capital was largely accumulated in the
colonies between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most of the
capital was not accumulated by merchant capitalists but largely by way
of brigandage, piracy, forced and slave labor.”(1) And furthermore, “One
could say that the first phase of the primitive accumulation was that of
merchant and commercial capital ruthlessly plundering and exploiting the
colonies’ human and natural wealth…”(1)
What should be kept in mind here is that as feudalism disintegrated
and capitalism came on the scene the common people, the peasants and the
soldiers, needed to be reassured that what they were doing to the people
of the colonies was not only in the beneficiary population’s interest
but the interest of the colonized as well. The European masses also
needed to be taught that the colonized were less than humyn so as to
discourage any feelings of solidarity amongst the oppressed. Hence, the
racial ideology was borne, which wasn’t just about the innate ignorance
and stupidity of the colonized, but of their innate treacherousness and
savagery as well.
Examples of Racism in National Oppression, Yesterday and Today
Racism as a building block for the rise of the modern western world was
as indispensable for that society as it is to the continuing subjugation
of nations and the integrity of the First World today. Testimony to this
is the way that the people of Islam have been demonized as “dark” and
“backward” by the “civilized” west who sees itself as “exceptional.”
Thus the role that racism has played in gaining public support for the
current wars of conquest is undeniable. One need only examine how
Muslims, who were Amerikan citizens, were vilified and attacked by
settler violence following the retaliatory attack on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon under the guise of “Amerikan Patriotism.” The
conscious connection of these actions to the collective white history of
colonialism in Africa is manifested in the term “sand nigger.” What this
“Amerikan Patriotism” really translates into is a special brand of
oppressor nation chauvinism, and a vehicle for white power in the 21st
century. It is particularly popular and appealing to Latin@s and New
Afrikans who think they can fully integrate into Amerika by becoming
agents of imperialism and uniting with the oppressor against the people
of the Third World.
Therefore the revolutionary character of militant Islam, seen when it is
waging war for the independence of Muslims from U.$. imperialism, should
be supported by the oppressed nation lumpen as it is objectively an
anti-imperialist struggle despite the reactionary views of those leading
the struggles, whether it’s Al Qaeda or Bashar al-Assad and their
associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism.
The struggle of the West and their “democratic” running dogs in the
region strengthen the victory of imperialism. Real communists know that
there are only two sides to a battle, therefore it is our duty to unite
all who can be united in the camp of the oppressed and build a United
Front against the imperialists and their racist backers! In his day,
Stalin had to combat those promoting a “third way” between the socialist
camp and the imperialists, pointing out that those who broke away from
the Soviet Union inherently joined the imperialist system, becoming
victims of it. The lack of a socialist camp today does not change the
bankruptcy of the third-way idealists. Revisionists today point to the
forces waging war in the Middle East and call them the “Two Outmodeds”
and are peddling a third way out for the oppressed. However, this third
way out is itself reactionary and anti-revolutionary, and if upheld will
in fact reinforce the very same imperialist structure it pretends to be
against, by weakening national unity of the oppressed. This is one
lesson we take from the theory and practice of United Front in the
Chinese war of liberation against Japan.
Racism as Pseudo-Science and Glossing Over of the National Question
Purveyors of racial ideology fancy themselves as being backed by
science, and indeed there is a “science” to racism, it’s called eugenics
and it stresses the genetic makeup of people as determinant of their
“natural” abilities and inclinations. Eugenics was developed as
justification for the oppression and enslavement of non-white people and
outlaws alike. It was, however, thoroughly criticized and debunked by
the wider scientific community for, among other things, not being an
objective and quantifiable method of analysis of the humyn species.
While most people today have hardly heard of eugenics it was certainly
popular back when England had stretched the tentacles of the British
empire (forerunner to U.$. imperialism) all over the Third World, while
here in Amerika the slave owning south was likewise using it for the
continuing oppression and enslavement of the New Afrikan nation.
The lack of scientific relationship to biology since there is only the
human race.
The creation of categories of inferior and superior based on arbitrary
characteristics and definitions.
The creation and perpetuation of a system of oppression of the
“inferior” group in all aspects.
The re-enforcement of a relative differential in treatment - and it’s
ideological justification between those considered inferior and those
considered superior.
The use of race as a principal means for social control.
Rendering irrelevant the experience and viewpoint of the subordinated
population except and insofar as interpreted by dominant populations.
This specifically has been applied to African descendants, Indigenous
peoples, Asians, and Latinos, those usually referred to as “people of
color.”(2)
Author Bill Fletcher, to whom the above is attributed, explains:
“Race is, then, not a state of mind, but a socio-political reality. Even
though there is no scientific basis for race, it occupies a real space
and the institutions of the racial-capitalist society reinforce this
reality every day.”(2)
We’d also add that the false concept of “race” is a social construct
originally based on power struggles between humyns in the pre-capitalist
era of slavery, and it has done much to gloss over the fact that the
oppressed internal nations of Chican@s and New Afrikans are separate
nations from the Amerikan nation (white settler-state), with separate
hystories distinctly their own. Therefore we speak of nations and
nationalities where most people speak of “race,” in order to refer to a
group of people who share a common language, culture, territory and
economy. The concept of nations is thus more accountable to hystory and
is firmly grounded in material reality. (See “Marxism and the National
Question” by J.V. Stalin.)
Methods for Resolving the Principal Contradiction
Despite the fact that the concept of race has been repeatedly disproven,
proponents of racial ideology and the national oppression it engenders
(and vice versa) hold steady to their un-scientific beliefs. And to a
certain extent this is fine. They have their beliefs and prejudices, but
we have science! We know where they stand and we know that the oppressed
people of the world will not sit idly by but will take up armed struggle
against the imperialists to impose the will of the people on today’s
oppressor nations. What isn’t fine however are the so-called allies of
the oppressed nations within the Amerikan “Left” who mistakenly call
themselves communist yet go about espousing the concept of “race.”
Whether they are speaking about the common cause of all the “races” that
are equally oppressed by capitalism-imperialism, or whether they are
agitating around the “race issue” here in Amerika, they’re of no great
help. They are immediately caught in the irrevocable trap of idealism,
and that is no attitude for a communist to have. First, these idealists
objectively hurt the revolutionary movement within U.$. borders by
elevating the problem of “race” to that of principal contradiction when
in fact there is no problem of race. There is a problem of imperialism
and national oppression. Secondly, they deny that the principal
contradiction is imperialism vs. the oppressed nations by emphatically
denying that there are any other nations in the United $tates besides
Amerika. Some have opportunistically come to acknowledge New Afrika,
while denying other nations’ existence, not because they are dialectical
materialists, but because they’re focused on pulling numbers to their
side. Lastly, by denying the concept of nations and national liberation
and instead focusing on multi-racial unity they deny the theories and
practice of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, as well as the
revolutionary movements they spearheaded and the many national
liberation movements that followed in their traditions.
Racism in the United $tates or any other place in the world will not be
wiped from the earth solely by educating it out of existence, but by
getting rid of the many material conditions and relations from which it
springs. Racism is a product of national oppression, hence we must focus
on uniting the oppressed nations for their own liberation from this
jailhouse of nations that is the United $tates. Only then will we
seriously be able to talk about combatting racism as a backward idea
from another period of history.
Conceived and birthed inside the belly of the beast Shaped and
molded by the Daughters of the Nile Eastern stars and various
travelers from the East Rising from the ashes like a phoenix
resurrected Attacked by clandestine forces, my body lies naked in my
cell unprotected Feeding my mental with the art of revolutionary
science Marx, Mao and Lenin - deep inside the womb Kicking the
brains out of falsehood in the same manner Comrade Rashid is in
Texas Steadily - Defying the Tomb Lost but not turned out,
everyday I’m facing hate It is I Comrade Malik The enemy of the
state! They have labeled me an enemy simply because I have a
revolutionary voice Senator Wendy Davis is an enemy too because she
believes passionately in her right to choice Who brands us enemies,
who labels us foes? Words of knowledge and inspiration expounded -
with the hope that you may grow Will you stand up and fight along
side me or will you choose to use drugs in order to escape? It is
I Comrade Malik A soldier for the people The enemy of the
state! I have witnessed beatings, degradation, dehumanization and
abuse When we cry out for justice in Texas there is always an
excuse Who will expose these hypocrites for who they are and
finally set the record straight? It is I Comrade Malik A soldier
for change The enemy of the state! They stole my freedom at a
corrupt parole hearing but they will never steal my drive like
Mamie Till I will fight injustice as long as I’m alive Who will
organize the people? Teach them, and show them the way It’s the
fox and the wolf the ballot or the bullet that is the order of the
day Imperialists have destroyed our families damaged our planet
and poisoned our youth The world is full of falsehood you can barely
find the truth Dictatorship of the proletariat! is what I’ve been
screaming for as of late Who will lead the revolution?! It is I
Comrade Malik and the new enemies of the state!
