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Angela,
/ worry about you...

That's what George Jackson wrote to
Angela Davis from his prison cell, pointing out
that as soon as Black liberation leaders in the
U.S. come close to understanding the root
cause of the struggle, they get killed. Now
George Jackson too has been murdered.

George Jackson wrote to Angela:

Do you know (of course you do) the secret
police (CIA, etc.) go to great lengths to mur-
der and consequently silence every effective
black person the moment he attempts to ex-
plain to the ghetto that our problems are his-
torically and strategically tied to the problems
of all colonial people.

This means that they are watching you
closely. | worry. If something happened to
you | just wouldn't understand.

It's no coincidence that Malcolm X and
(Martin Luther) King died when they had just
put it together (two and three). | seriously be-
lieve they knew all along but were holding out
and presenting the truth in such a way that it
would affect the most people situationally—
without getting them damaged by gunfire.

You remember what was on his lips when
he died. Vietnam and economics, political
economy. The professional killers could have
murdered him long before they did. They let
Malcolm rage on Muslim nationalism for a
number of years because they knew it was an
empty ideal, but the second he got his feet
on the ground, they murdered him.

We die too easily. We forgive and forget
too easily. Gentle and refined people, aren't
we? We'll make good Communists, if some-
one deals with the fascists for us. Pay no at-
tention to stuff like that. | have more faith in
our resilience than is healthy for me.

ECCLES, Morning Star

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 PAGE 10

Hall-Tyner CPUSA teal

NEW YORK — The Commu-
nist Party of the United States
announced its ticket for the
1972 elections—Gus Hall for
president and Jarvis Tyner for
vice-president—on a program
stressing the fight for peace,
against racism and for “a revo-
lutionary shift in priorities.”

Gus Hall, 61, a former logger
and steel worker, is general sec-
retary of the CPUSA. Jarvis
Tyner, 30, an electrical work-
er by trade and former shop
steward and active in black
community struggles, is presi-
dent of the Young Workers
Liberation League.

Tyner emphasized that “this
is a team representing two gene-
rations of struggle.” He pointed
out ._with evident pride that
“ours is the only party with two
workers as candidates.”

Outlining the main themes of
the Communist Party’s cam-
paign, Hall said that “the Unit-
ed States is entangled in a
series of inter-related crises,”
the root of which is capitalism.
The propellant is corporate pro-
fit.

Speaking of ‘‘Nixonomics,”
Hall said “the Nixon so-called
price and wage freeze is a cri-
minal act of deception. Wages
are frozen and rolled back...
Nixon speaks of the need to
sacrifice, but says nothing of
profit freezes or price _ roll-
backs.”

“These United States,” he said,
“need a new direction based
on a new set of values and pri-
orities . . . This must be ‘based
on a radical departure. And
Communists, with our world
outlook based on the principles
of Marxism-Leninism, can pro-
vide that new direction.

HECHT MINH ces

a handshake.

“In our campaign, we are go-
ing to say it as it is. We are go-
ing to expose the roots of the
problems that are corroding the
overall quality of life in our
land.

“We are going to advocate
revolutionary concepts, radical
solutions and fundamental
changes.”

Calling for a ‘‘people’s coali-
tion of the working class, the
Black, Chicano, Puerto Rican,
Indian and oppressed minorities,
women and youth, the profes-
sionals, intellectuals, farmers—
a mighty political force that
will break the stranglehold that
monopoly corporations have on

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Slaughter, fire, pestilence,
homelessness, flight and starva-
tion are the rulers of Bangla
Desh _ today.

The origin of today’s horrors
rest in the policy of British im-
perialism. When in 1947 it was
clear that Britain could no long-
er hold India, Mountbatten was
sent out to negotiate. The con-
dition of independence was par-
tition.

But not only was India, as it
is now called, partitioned from
Pakistan; Pakistan was made to
consist of two pieces, over 1,000
miles apart. The line was drawn
not on- national or linguistic
grounds, but on the basis of re-
ligion. The old imperial tactic
was used once more.

The situation as reported in
the London Times:

“Pakistan, the predominantly
Muslim nation which resulted
from the partition of the British
Raj in 1947, consists of two
separate territories, divided by
a thousand miles of India.

“West Pakistan (main city
Karachi) has always dominated
the divided nation, not only in
terms of wealth but also by its
control of the institutions of
government, It, in turn, is domi-
nated by the Urdu-speaking
Punjabis, who run the army.

“East Pakistan (main city
Dacca), populated by the Ben-
galis, with their own distinct
Bengali language, covers an area
less than a fifth the size, but
has a somewhat larger popula-

tion than West Pakistan. Most
of the nation’s Hindu minority
of around eight million was
concentrated in East Pakistan.

“Towards the end of the

1960’s the discontent of the im- °

poverished Bengalis of East
Pakistan found expression in the
rapid growth of the Awami Lea-
gue, which was devoted to
achieving some degree of inde-
pendence from West Pakistan.
Its leader was Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman.

“With the resignation in
March 1970, of Pakistan’s mili-
tary dictator, Ayub Khan, came
the Awami League’s chance.
Ayub Khan’s successor, General
Yahya Khan, was determined to
hand over power to a democra-
tically-elected civilian govern-
ment, which would draw up a
new constitution. On the prin-
ciple of ‘one man, one vote,’
East Pakistan would gain a
dominant say in the govern-
ment, because of its greater
population.”

This was the
course of events:

Dec. 7, 1970: The Pakistan
general elections gave Sheikh
Mujib’s Awami League 167 out
of the 169 East Pakistan seats in
the constituent assembly — an
absolute majority for the whole
of Pakistan.

Feb. 13, 1971: President Yah-
ya Khan announced that the
constituent assembly will meet
on March 3.

Feb. 15: Z. A. Bhutto, leader

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