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Revolutionary salute to #BlackPantherParty former political prisoner of the #Angola3 (over 4 decades in solitary) comrade #AlbertWoodfox passes on to the ancestors. Forever loyal to your trench of struggle. Love and solidarity to your family, friends and comrades. 
“It has been my experience that because of institutional and individual racism, African Americans are born socially dead and spend the rest of their lives fighting to live.” From the book Solitary, by Albert Woodfox
“February 19, 2016
I woke in the dark. Everything I owned fit into two plastic garbage bags in the corner of my cell. “When are these folks gonna let you out,” my mom used to ask me. Today, Mama, I thought. The first thing I’d do is go to her grave.”
I woke in the dark. Everything I owned fit into two plastic garbage bags in the corner of my cell. “When are these folks gonna let you out,” my mom used to ask me. Today, Mama, I thought. The first thing I’d do is go to her grave.”
#HueyNewton defines ‘#BlackPower’ as he and the #BlackPantherParty defined / developed it in an interview with Sechaba, mag of the ANC, Jan 16th 1970:
Sechaba: … we would like you to explain the relationship between the Black Panther Party and the Black Power movement..
Sechaba: … we would like you to explain the relationship between the Black Panther Party and the Black Power movement..
#HueyNewton: The #BlackPantherParty grew out of the #BlackPower movement, but the Party transformed the ideology of Black Power into a socialist ideology, a #MarxistLeninist ideology. The Black Power movement has a tendency to have a capitalistic orientation along the lines of …
..#MarcusGarvey’s program and the kind of organization that Elijah Muhammed has. The #BlackPantherParty feels that not even the Black bourgeoisie will be able to compete with imperialism, whose central base is here in North America…
52 years ago today, the American government carried out a planned political assassination of one of our nation's brightest young leaders.
Fred Hampton was my best friend and comrade, the Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the #BlackPantherParty. 🧵
Fred Hampton was my best friend and comrade, the Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the #BlackPantherParty. 🧵
I recruited and worked alongside Chairman Fred in the Illinois Black Panther Party, where we fought for the liberation of people across Chicago who had long been ignored by those in power.
We set up community health clinics and a free breakfast program for children. We helped broker a peace agreement between Chicago's street gangs.
And we formed the original Rainbow Coalition with the Young Patriots and Latino Young Lords to fight against economic oppression.
And we formed the original Rainbow Coalition with the Young Patriots and Latino Young Lords to fight against economic oppression.
#thread We just got off the phone w #BlackPantherParty #Seattle chapter branch leader in the 1960s/70s #AaronDixon, we spoke about the current #BlackUprising in the usa this last week. A few things to share w you from him and the convo ...
First of all he wanted to congratulate all the risen people and said this last week shows the power of the people against a veritable fascist trump. He emphasised that the power of the People is in flow and should be widened.
He congratulated the Black youth for their rage, tenacity and courage to face the pigs and confront the state. He said he has been waiting for this for 50yrs!
#thread Communist-led Vietnamese victory over the third(usa) imperialist occupation in as many decades happened today 45yrs ago, the socialist north and the Vietnamese ppl finally liberated and reunified the entire country.
#HoChiMinh, Vietnamese Communist leader passes away several years before reunification, he passes away in Sept 1969. His life story is an amazing one.
#HoChiMinh is a leading figure in the founding of the Chinese, French and Vietnamese communist parties founding.
