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DESCRIPTION:Hear John Parker, Workers World Party National Committee and International 
 Action Center West Coast Coordinator, lead a class on Lenin, 
 Self-Determination and The National Question. There will be lots of 
 opportunity for discussion and questions.\nSee Facebook 
 event:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/653379111380405/?ref_dashboard_filter=calendar\n\nFrom 
 the writings of Sam Marcy (deceased Chairman of Workers World Party) in 
 September 1971, when the government was doing everything it could to break 
 up the Black Panther Party and other liberation organizations.\n\nSam 
 wrote: “Is there an inherent contradiction between the right of nations 
 to self-determination and the building of a united working-class Party to 
 attract to itself workers of all nationalities from the oppressing nations 
 as well as from the oppressed nations? The answer is no!\n\n“The need of 
 the workers to organize themselves into a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist 
 Party and to unite them in the struggle against capitalism is an 
 indispensable necessity for a victorious proletarian revolution. 
 ...\n\n“[Some] say that each nation within the confines of the U.S. 
 should build their own Party and that since the workers of the oppressing 
 nation and the workers of the oppressed nation have different problems 
 arising from the nature of the oppression, it is impossible, at least for 
 now, to have a single united Party.\n\n“The logical conclusion of this 
 thinking is that the whites should have one organization, Blacks another, 
 Puerto Ricans another, etc. Assume that political evolution in this country 
 favored such a development. The result then would be that we would have 
 several Marxist-Leninist organizations. And if each had a generally 
 Marxist-Leninist program, it would evolve from a loose alliance of these 
 Marxist-Leninist organizations into a federation and finally into a unified 
 multi-national political Party. ...\n\n“When Lenin added to the slogan 
 ‘Workers of the world unite’ to make it ‘Workers and oppressed 
 peoples of the world unite,’ he summarized the historical needs of the 
 international working class to make the right of oppressed nations to 
 self-determination a basic part of the revolutionary working-class program. 
 The working class cannot emancipate itself without at the same time 
 destroying, root and branch, every form of national oppression.\n\n“Nor 
 can there be any unity between the workers of the oppressed and oppressing 
 nations as long as the workers of the oppressing nation do not recognize 
 and do not advocate the right of the oppressed nations to 
 self-determination. The right of self-determination can take the form of 
 secession, federation, a variety of forms of amalgamation, or any other 
 form, depending on concrete historical circumstances. ...\n\n“The right 
 to self-determination is a political right which oppressed nations may use 
 in whatever form they may ultimately decide as a nation. We must advocate 
 and support that right. But we do not advocate separation, secession, 
 federation or amalgamation. That is for the oppressed nation to decide. 
 ...\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/22/18746691.php
SUMMARY:Self-determination and the National Question
LOCATION:Workers World Office\n1305 Franklin #411 - ring buzzer, wheelchair 
 accessible\nOakland, CA 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/22/18746691.php
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