Part 9 - DW63 DB101 004 009

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One essential fact runs through this brief historical survey. That is that the most militant, the most successful, the most insurrectionary struggles that have been waged in this island have been led by the most oppressed, the people of no property ... To understand this in its proper context it is necessary to thoroughly grasp that the British state rests on national oppression even more than on class exploitation ... Therefore when we talk of the most oppressed, we mean above all those workers who have national as well as class contradictions with the British state. (Keith Anderson, There is a Way Forward - let us take it) WAITING WITH FOLDED ARMS FOR ALL CONDITIONS TO RIPEN IS TANTAMOUNT TO REFUSING TO MAKE A REVOLUTION The revolution can be pushed forward only by the active struggle of the revolu- tionaries and the popular masses. Fundamentally speaking, a revolution does not always break out when all the necessary conditions exist, nor is it carried out always in favourable circumstances. Waiting with folded arms for all conditions to ripen is tantamount to refusing to make a revolution. (OJI 34) In all political struggles there come rare moments, hard to distinguish but fatal to let slip, when all must be set upon a hazard, and out of the simple man is ordained strength. (Kwame Nkrumah) REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE The best way to preserve national independence and peace and win the revolu- tionary cause is to counter the imperialist war of aggression with the war of liberation, answer the counter-revolutionary violence of reaction with revolu- tionary violence, and always meet the imperialist moves of aggression and war in full preparedness. (OJI 50) The people's armed struggle, the highest form of political action, is a revo- lutionary catalyst in the neocolonialist situation. (Kwame Nkrumah) The war for control of the U.S.A. is unique in that its heartbeat can be stopped only by placing our primary forces in the valleys and defiles of its city streets. ... Urban people's guerilla warfare may prove to be an even more effective tool than the classical type. The same advantages are present, the same possibilities, plus some that exist simply because the fight is taking place within the cities, the nerve centers of the nation. ... The cities of fascist U.S.A. - built straight up and with very little real planning or pattern, the twisting side streets, gangways connecting roofs, man- holes, storm drains, concrete and steel trees - will hide a guerilla army just as effectively as any forest. (George Jackson, Blood in My Eye) INTERNATIONALISM Chajusong of a party and a state is expressed, after all, in foreign relations. To exercise complete sovereignty and equality in foreign relations is fundamental in ensuring political Chajusong. Sovereignty is an inviolable right of all parties, all countries, and all peoples. There are big and small parties, big and small 7

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