International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Black Power

The Week Vol. 8, No. 18, 2 November 1967 · p. 14 of the scan · 265 words

The scan: The Week v8 no18.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.

does not mean the lies and distortions the capitalist press has told you that it is. It means simply thet the Blacks of this world are out to liquidate capitalist oppression of Black people wherever it exists by any means necessary. This is the one excuse the Third World has for its existence. It means that Afro-Americans in the States are on the move. It means that we are out to question the European Preferential Act and Anti-Asiatic Bill of Canada, It means we challenge the White Australian Policy to the hilt. It means the Blacks of Southern Africa realising they have no right to live as men till they learn to die as men. It means that the Blacks of Zimbabwe are not only ready to die for freedom but, more important, are itching to kill for it. It means, above all, that the men and women of Vietnam whom we have gathered here to support today, are ready to move from cradle to grave with their heads high in the knowledge that their revolutionary example is the best sermon, and the only way to end Yanks' inhumanity to man.

Long live the heroic peoples of Vietnam!

Long live BLACK POWER and the U.C.P.A.!

Long live the "Che's" of South America, dead or alive!

Long live the Nkrumahs of Africa, however long it takes

them to return to power!

Long live the Red Guards of China!

Long live Brother Stokeley, Rap Brown and the heroic

Afro-Americans of North America!

Long live sanity in man and manhood in the masses!

And long live International Revolution!

← The Meaning of Black Fower(obi Egbuna →

Something wrong on this page?