This is Shaka Zulu, Chairman of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party. We are a revolutionary nationalist party, inheritors of the revolutionary tradition handed down by the original Black Panther Party. On behalf of Comrade Rashid, I would like to express our unequivocal support and solidarity with the Black Riders Liberation Party. The capitalist, imperialist attack on your party and your comrades certainly represent an attack on all revolutionaries, especially Black revolutionaries fighting to liberate the Black neo-colonies.
If we fail to mobilize a corresponding attack of people power against our oppressors, we would end up legitimating their brutality by default. Our oppressors have constantly attacked us, but it was only 40 plus years ago that we formulated an organized response with the ideological weapon of revolutionary nationalism and communism. They attack us, and they will attack us in the future. But if our stuff is together, we can surmount the strategy of the bourgeois fascist state, which will consist of a full panoply of vile reactionary propaganda and violence, by relying on and working with the oppressed masses and the various colonies here at the [unclear] prison house of nations. We should already be prepared for the common balance of the fascists if we are practicing true revolutionary politics.
We must be about the business of building base areas of social, cultural and political revolution in our oppressed communities. We must rely on the people, the power of the people. This is the correct way to win the war of liberation against our bourgeois enemy and the ruling class. We must revolutionize and commonize the Black lumpen mentality with the politics of Pantherism, always mindful that the vanguard element must consist of proletarians, the Black working and white working class. So comrade, we’ve join you in solidarity and struggle, but we also open our doors, so to speak, from one revolutionary party to another on the principle of Panther love. Stand strong. Stand up. Always resist. Dare to struggle and dare to win. Build Panther power. Panther love. The future is socialist. All power to the people.
These commentaries are recorded by Noel Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
