WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

Tonight we will review the “Reply to William Patterson”  September 19, 1970.  The leader of the American Communist Party wrote a letter to Dr. Huey P. Newton, a letter criticizing the way THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY  and how we were waging Revolution.  Comparing the Marxist-Leninist Communist Revolution to our Black Revolution here in the Black Community.

“When Mr. Patterson discusses the social phenomena  that brought the Party into being, he makes no mention of the primary aspect; the economic exploitation of Blacks. His conception that the Party was primarily a self-defense group agains police brutality is a most narrow interpretation of the concept of self-defense by the oppressed masses. He also seems to have no understanding of the historical predecessors of the Party, especially Malcolm.  He fails to understand the lessons learned by the Party through the failures of such civil-rights organizations as SNCC, NAACP, etc. (i.e. power politics, mass force.)  Mr. Patterson questions weather Blacks should have their own organization to fight for national liberation.  While he often says the struggle is for national liberation he really does not believe that Blacks in the U.S. are a colony.  He talks about "the price they might have to pay."  Does he propose that Blacks wait for the White labor to lead the liberation struggle at a time when White Labor subjectively view itself as a beneficiary of capitalism?  Labor unions are presently stooges of the capitalist warmongers.  In an attempt to label the Party a nationalist (that is, not intrested in the struggles of people of other races)  he completely fails to understand that our freedom and dignity is necessarily tied to the freedom and dignity of the oppressed masses of the world."