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They fight for human dignity

By PHYLLIS CLARKE |

Negroes are not a majority their
program calls for proper repre-
sentation and sharing of control.

“On the state or national
level”, says Carmichael, ‘“‘it
means that black people can say

R™s in Chicago, in Cleve-
: land, in New. York—scream
sh the news media. Negroes
: \ arms—they shout in hor-
or. “Black Power”, as the bo-
8eyman.of America, is attacked

on F
all: sides, to white authorities: ‘We need
What is happening in the X million dollar to fix our roads,
€gro_ liberation movement? and we have X million votes be-

hind us.’ Without power, they
can only say, ‘Please—we need
esse

He adds: “Essential in the pro-
cess of organizing Negroes to
win power is the conquest. of
fear and the development of
‘black consciousness’,
pect, pride in the history. of
black people, our culture and
our institutions.”

He opposes the concept of in-
tegration which is based on the
acceptance of the fact that in
order to have a decent house or
education the Negro must move
into a white neighborhood,
which reinforces the idea that
“white” is automatically better.

In its place SNCC’s leader of-
fers this: “The acquisition of
political power responsible to
black people is the current stage
in our struggle to create a soci-
ety in which people can make
free choices as equal about all
aspects of their daily lives. This
is our goal and our concept of
integration.”

This goal has also become the
aim of the Congress of Racial
Equality which in its recent con-
vention in Baltimore endorsed
the concept of “black power”
As they state: “As long as the
white man has all the power
and money, nothing will happen
because we -have nothing. The
only way to achieve meaningful

Has the policy of non-violence
ane teplaced by one of viol-
nce? What are the prospects as

another summer of action has
set in?

What one has to start with
the fact that the years: of Jim

ae eves of the ghettos, of dis-

Selon, are coming to an

So the Negro people in the

a and the north are deter-
ined to wipe them out.

ae last few years have
“aes t some changes; but they
cls pe erased the essential
Saiit Inequality. There is in-
Se in jobs; inequality in
eee In education; an un-
is umber of Negroes are
ae Sent to die in Vietnam.
‘Sa growing concern

about human aigntys

ae face of the slowness of ad-
ae e in face of the problems
cant not even touched yet by
de ‘ng legislation, there has

veloped a new militancy in

Secti : ;
Ctions of the liberation move-
Ment,

is

ee Carmichael, chairman
i ee Non-violent Co-
this ating Committee, puts it
hae He Over the years SNCC
Gea concenied above all

: Making changes in the
ee life of improvished South-
orn “groes—basic changes, not
oe “enism”. Almost from its
"t, in 1960, SNCC realized
at political

and economic hange is to take power.”
peser was the key to this and eee P ‘
at Negro-controlled political Meanwhile the National Ur-

8toups must

: ban League and the National
achieve it.’

Association for the Advance-
ment of the Colored People have
flatly rejected “black power”.
Dr. Martin Luther King and his
organization have termed “black
power” an “unfortunate con-
cept’ but have not condemned
the goal of Negro political power
where Negroes comprise the
majority of the population,

be formed to

me right to vote having been
the ee the question before
eee communities in those
ity. ¢ where they are the major-
, 8 that the political control
ae their hands. The Negro
ple now be elected. For exam-
7 a Negro tax assessor “will
th able to tax equitably and

annel funds for the building of

etter ;
‘ter roads and schools serving
x €groes.”

At its recent convention the
Communist Party of the United
States adopted a resolution aim-
ed, they said, “at ‘shaking up’
the Communist Party and equip-
ping it to meet the demands of
the higher level of struggle now

“If elected sheriff he can end
Police brutality.”

Ins those ateas where the

self-res-.

south . , .

required to move from token to
substantive gains in the fight
against the savage Jim Crow
system.”

On the issue of “black pow-
er’, Claude Lightfoot, who in-
troduced the resolution, recalled
that since 1928 the CPUSA has
held that in political subdivi-
sions where Negroes constitute |
a majority they must constitute
the majority power in govern-
ment, and where a minority,
exercise their full share as a
minority.

He made a further very im-
portant observation, that token-
ism, cannot be ended except by
political alignment within’ the
country, by a break in the
stranglehold of the Dixiecrats in
the South and by a united black
and labor political thrust against
the city political machines in the
North. a

Such essential united Negro-—

labor action is already comin nd the ld

into being. In a demoisiration arow : 2 wor

early in July, in Chicago, 50,000

people joined to inaugurate the ==""——

action phase of the Chicago

Freedom Movement. Prominent

among the demonstrators were

tens of thousands of packing,

auto, municipal, shoe and other

workers. On the platform were AFTER a five-month investigation, the Guatemalan Association

Negro and white, representatives of University Students announced that 28 Communist leaders who

of labor, of civil rights, religious disappeared before the March elections were murdered by the secret

and civic groups. police . . . African delegates at the United Nations have made it
Thearepresentatiue DEOORF, clear that the fight for South-West Africa’s freedom would go on

ae : in spite of the rejection by the International Court at Th
Floyd McKissick, speaking at : : ee : i urt at The Hague
this Chicago rally, charged that of the complaints against South Africa on its administration of the

the press had misrepresented the mandatedsteritarys
black power controversy.

* * *

FRENCH scientists, writers and artists have appealed to the
French people for pressure to end the war in Vietnam. The signers
include Eugenie Cotton, Louis Aragon, Jean Paul Sarte, Andre Still,
and others . . . Every fourth seamen in the USSR has a College
education or special secondary schooling according to a recent an-
nouncement.

“Black people,” he said, “‘seek
to determine their future, the
road they shall take, whom they
take it with and how to do it.
We have that right. That is the
only meaning of black power.
It means self-determination. We
must have economic and politi-
cal power.

* Kak

THE FRENCH Communist Party has renewed its offer of talks
with other Left Wing parties over forming a common front against
the Gaullists in next year’s Parliamentary elections. They stated
that even if a common program could not be agreed on, they would
still favor an agreement on joint electrical tactics . . . Imports of
cotton from the U.S.S.R. in the west have doubled this last season
and particularly significant is the 43,000 bales imported by Canada.

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THE TIME has gone when any foreign power could dominate
the United Arab Republic, President Nassar recently told a cheer-
ing crowd in Cairo. Britain, on the other hand, had become “an
American colony to the extent that she cannot give an opinion on
any major international issue before choosing her words and con-
sulting Washington . . . Poland on July 23 celebrated its 1,000 years
of statehood with a display of military strength which included a
fly-past of 300 jets... .—

August 5, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5.

“Black power is not black
supremacy, and it. does not ad-
vocate violence. It is an instru-
ment of the people to achieve
democracy.”

The screaming headlines, the
shouts of horror, all reflect the
fear that the monopoly rulers of
America have to those concepts

on which their country was
founded—liberty, equality, fra-
ternity—that is, the goal of the
Negro struggle today, demo-
cracy.

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