When some I, FOR ONE, would like to impress, especially upon themselves leaders, the importance of realising the between the struggle of the American in this country and the structe world. As long as we think — as one of mv of the side of his mouth here a couple of Sundays ago Mississippi were we worT never get Mississippi straightened out struggle has in struggle. Secondly, we need allies. But when we realise how large this earth is and how people there are on it, and how closely they resemble us, then when we turn to them for some sort of help or aid or dic- to form alliances, then we'll make a little faster progress ..
I think it's important to show the importance of keeping an open mind being dumb eneugh to let someone put something over on us ... But you and I are living in a very deceitful and tricky country deceitful and tricky government ..
They make the me up as if all of us are criminals, all of us are racists, all of. us are addicts, or all of us are rioting. how they do it. legitimately against the injustices that have been heaped upon you, they use the press to make it look like you're a vandal. It vou have the right to be a vandal.
gres image-making role, criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal ... If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are loving people who are doing the oppressing ...
Right now, defenceless villages bombed, black women and children and babies are being blown to bits by airplanes. Where do these airplanes MALCOLM X, the North American black leader was gunned down 21 years ago on 21 February 1965. He stressed many times how important the world struggles of the oppressed and for national liberation were for black people in the USA. In 1964 he toured Africa and the Middle East to win support for the black struggle in the USA and to learn about the battles going on there. In 1964 the US and Belgian governments sent troops and planes to crush a popular uprising in the Congo (Now Zaire). On 13 December of that year Malcolm X delivered a speech against this crime. We reprint an extract of that speech from the book Malcolm X Speaks.
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were a vandal, you powerful in its it can make a being oppressed and in the Congo, being alt come from? The United States ...
media) won't write that American planes are blowing the flesh from the bodies of black women and black babies and black men. No.
Why? Because they're American As long as they're American planes, that's humanitarian. As long as they're being piloted by anti-Castro that makes it all right. villain, anybody who's against him, whatever tney do, Wal. s nullanlanal . .
They take the press with their COLErOI YUl with image. land they make mass murder, cold-blooded murder, look like a humanitarian project. All these thousands of black people dying, have no compassion in your hearts whatsoever for them, because the victim has been made to look like he's the criminal...
So I say, brothers and sisters, it's of worrying about what's in Africa before . we get things straight over here. . It's a case of that the Afro-American problem is not a Negro problem, or an American problem, but a human problem, a problem for humanity. When you realise that, when you look at your and my problem in the context of the entire world and see that it is a world problem, and that there are people on this earth who look just like you do — who also have the problem inen you become allies and we can put forth our efforts in a way to get the best
Socialist Action 5 March 1986