Jeff Jones speaks (Episode 6 of 12); United front against fascism conference

Free our political prisoners. It's the feeling of STDs. That the repression that the student movement is facing obviously is not nearly as severe as the repression that the Vietnamese people are facing. That the repression and the fascism that the black people and the brown people and all the people colonized was in this imperialist country who are fighting for their liberation are facing. And we feel and this is the most important thing that we can say. That was happening on the campuses. It is only intricately tied with what's happening to the people who are oppressed within the United States and throughout the world by the system of imperialism and its fascist terroristic repression. The fight is being waged on the campuses. One is waged solely on the campuses is a fight that can end up only on the campuses.

That's not where we're at at all. That's not where we as an organization of young revolutionaries are trying to move the student movement or trying to link it up with the working class movements. With support for the right of self-determination of black and brown people in this country and of all people oppressed and colonised by US imperialism throughout the world as the primary key upon which we're trying to build our movement. This is McClellan Committee. As these other committees in Washington. There's local committees all around the country that are keeping their eye on us almost to an extent. The same is a keep it on organizations like the Black Panther Party or the revolutionary international proletarian revolutionary organizations in this country. The repression that we have faced

so far has been slight. Even if the laws that the McClellan Committee and the other fascist congressional committees are trying to put forward are passed the repression now we are facing will still be nothing compared to the repression that the colonized people have been facing for centuries. Our fight. Against those committees. Must be one of ever increasing struggle ever increased militancy. Ever creased alliance. Alliances with the working class with the colonized people the people oppressed by US imperialism and its fascism. That's our strategy. That's our strategy for dealing with McClellan. We don't care that he's got a big board. Some of you may have seen the picture of it that's got the names of all the Ask the people on the campuses in the regions and the national structure. Just like in the Battle of Algiers where they had that board set

up. We don't care that he's. An act committee are proposing new laws. Our response our response to those new laws is going to be to come back this fall on the campuses. After a summer of building organizing projects with revolutionary working class you throughout this country. Our program is going to be to come back on the campuses this fall and hit them harder than they've ever been here before. We're starting off on October 11th in Chicago last year. Almost militant. Confrontation with the big power structure around the war at the time of the Democratic convention. Now those eight revolutionaries on trial for organizing that demonstration. They're trying to stifle us they're trying to repress us they're trying to slow us down. That's the time for

us to go back even harder stronger than we were when we were last summer October 11th. Give everybody a chance who's doing organizing this summer trying to reach working class young people to get them to come in Chicago and fight. In an international struggle. To get them to pull students off the campuses. The second and third week of the semester around demands like. Free all political prisoners. U.S. occupation troops out of Vietnam the black and brown communities and off the schools. Is. A. It's around those kind of politics. Revolutionary anti-imperialists anti-fascist politics that the student movement must build. Demands that are going to definitely be raised this fall for open admissions to those schools of the colonized people who have been denied access even to those institutions under capitalism. We must wage those demands continue to wage those demands in the tradition of the San Francisco

State struggle. Now let me just digress for a second because there's been an undercurrent run into this meeting about our internal struggle with the Progressive Labor Party from time to time. We've had to leave the floor to try to take care of some business outside the Progressive Labor Party after we expelled them from STDs six weeks ago. Passed the resolution. Past the resolution which is called Fight Racism. It has a three part it has three parts to it. The first part is OK we agree with it everyone agrees with it. Fight pig institutes on the campuses that's something concrete to students can do that's something we've been doing all along. Brothers and Sisters it can't stay shut down Oakland pig recruiters when they came there last year and one of the most militant campus struggles. The second part of their program is to fight community expansion into the background of working class communities.

That's right on. We've all been doing that. The third part of their program is to demand is to demand special hiring of black and brown people in the service institutions within the universities. That's. That's like in the in the cafeterias. Janitorial work historial work etc. there's not a single demand in their program for open admissions to the universities for students. Their position is that if colonise students are admitted into these universities it's not going to change the class nature of those universities. Those students are going to be bought off. We say that's bullshit. We say that's bullshit. We say people have been oppressed. And colonised by imperialism and fascism. Has a right. To get into those institutions and by doing that I'm going to change the class nature of those institutions and are eventually going to lead to shutting down those

institutions until we've destroyed capitalism. The faith. That's why we threw PLO out I asked yes and that's why you should support us for doing it. Now we have to be honest that to be honest in our criticism. The struggle that is going to ultimately defeat me. The struggle is going to ultimately defeat the United States imperialism the imperialism that is affecting the people of the entire world is going to be an international struggle. It's going to be an armed struggle. It's going to be a struggle it's going to have to take place in the third world against US imperialism and in the mother country against US imperialism. We have. We have we have some criticisms of the power of the

politics of the Communist Party. We think that internationally revisionism ultimately is not going to help defeat imperialism. Area. A A. We have. We know all revolutionaries especially the Black Panther Party agrees with our position. And we also agree that every vote every revolutionary in this country who supports the Black Panther Party is the vanguard party at a time when they're coming under the most intense fascist repression of any revolutionary organization in this country is coming under must be supported by any and everyone and everyone should support that. But we must be clear on how the final struggle will be waged and we must be a part of that struggle. Students. Students must be opening up the campuses to the working class must be going into the working class communities becoming part of the proletariat. I must be getting ready for armed struggle.

Now. Now I just want to end with the story one story. About a particular bit of repression that one STF person is facing because I think that there's an credibly important lesson for all of us if we don't hate capitalism enough by now all of these kinds out Tri-Cities must hate us make it must make us hate it more and must make us fight and fight harder to destroy it. We have a sister. Her name is Susan Parker. She's a member she was a member she still is a member of the as the s chapter for Collins Colorado. There were some explosions around Colorado early this year some power plants. The FBI came around. The FBI came around and picked up Susan Parker and some jive ass grounds and some tire tracks that belonged to someone that she knew were found in the side of one of the explosions. She was called before the grand jury and she was asked if she was asked a pig. She

was asked a pig on her brothers and sisters in the struggle in Colorado. She refused to testify before the grand jury. Way she refused to testify before the grand jury instead of Colorado and she has been in a Colorado jail since April. And she's not yet not until she does testify or until we can find some way to get her out. It's not just rhetoric there's reality to it. America living in America living under imperialism and fascism. Is like living in a prison. To an extent everybody except the bush was he is a political prisoner in this country and our program has got to be one big jailbreak. Way a. Free all political prisoners free power to the people.

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