Yesterday was the birthday of George L. Jackson (Sept.23, 1941 - August 21, 1971)

Greetings All:

If ever there were a time when George Jackson's writings were right on target, it's NOW.

This righteous revolutionary "Soledad Brother" would be 64 years old today. It's hard to believe he hadn't even reached 30 when he was assassinated -- having just completed his second manuscript for the book, "Blood In My Eye," published posthumously. His first book was the 1970 bestseller titled "Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" with a forward by the famous French writer, Jean Genet.

Here are a few quotations from Jackson's writings:

We must establish a true internationalism with other anti-colonial peoples. Then we will be on the road of the true revolutionary. Only then can we expect to be able to seize the power that is rightfully ours, the power to control the circumstances of our day-to-day lives.

The fascist must expand to live. Consequently he has pushed his frontiers to the farthest lands and peoples. This is an aspect of his being, an ungovernable compulsion. This perverted mechanical monster suffers from a disease that forces him to build ugly things and destroy beauty wherever he finds it. I just read in a legal newspaper that 50 percent of all the people ever executed in this country by the state were black and 100 percent were lower-class poor.. I'm going to bust my heart trying to stop these smug, degenerate, primitive, omnivorous, uncivil...and anyone who would aid me, I embrace you.

So what is to be done after a revolution has failed? After our enemies have created a conservative mass society based on meaningless electoral politics, spectator sports, and a 3 percent annual rise in purchasing power strictly regulated to negate itself with a corresponding rise in the cost of living. What is to be done about an expertly, scientifically calculated contra-positive mobilization of the entire society? What can we do with a people who have gone through the authoritarian process and come out sick to the core!!!

There will be a fight. The fight will take place in the central cities. It will be spearheaded by the blacks of the lower class .... Real union activity will eliminate the corporative ties between the regime ruling class and labor. People at the top will be removed and the guy with the programmed mind will have no union boss to think for him. He will remain neutral or join us in our fight to liberate him. We will work this attack at the productive level indirectly by first building our central-city communes, which will revolutionize the all too conservative black laborer. We will build these communes against all resistance...

Our overall task is to separate the people from the hated state. They must be made to realize that the interests of the state and the ruling class are one and the same. They must...realize that the present political regime exists only to balance the productive forces within the society in favor of the ruling class. It is at the ruling class and the governing elites, including those of labor, that we must aim our bolts.

Elections and political parties have no significance when all serious contenders for public office are fascist and the electorate is throughly misled about the true nature of the candidates. Once cannot say all the people who vote are unaware....Those who are aware and still do nothing constructive are among the most pathetic victims of the totalitarian process.

The corporative state allows for no genuinely free political opposition. They only allow meaningless gatherings where they can plant more spies than participants. They feel secure in their ability to mold the opinion of a people interested only in wages. However, real revolutionary activity will draw panic-stricken gunfire. Or heart attacks.

The Black Colony, U.S.A., has little choice. We must enter the war on the side of the majority of the world's people...We fight to live. And we're learning to fight; it'll be a war, to the knife if necessary.

We can't wait until the generation that thinks of blacks as niggers and the rest of the world as gooks, chinks, spics, etc., has been educated away. It may be the reverse that happens; we niggers and gooks may be blown away first. Or if we survive, what will we inherit? A desert?

LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF GEORGE LESTER JACKSON!