People! Organizations! Groups! Yippies! Political parties! Workers! Students! Peasant-farmers! You the lumpen! Poor people, Black people, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, etc. etc. : we must develop a united front against fascism.
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  • 28 x 21.5 cm.
  • [2] pp.
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  • unsigned and unnumbered

People! Organizations! Groups! Yippies! Political parties! Workers! Students! Peasant-farmers! You the lumpen! Poor people, Black people, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, etc. etc. : we must develop a united front against fascism.

People! Organizations! Groups! Yippies! Political parties! Workers! Students! Peasant-farmers! You the lumpen! Poor people, Black people, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, etc. etc. : we must develop a united front against fascism.

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Flyer promoting Revolutionary Conference United Front Against Fascism in American held in Oakland, California, July 18, 19, 20, 21, [1969]. Verso contains two texts, "Why A United Front Against Fascism," and "Petition Statement for Community Control of Police."

“Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale told 4000 receptive people, mostly young and white, that fascism in America wears many disguises…

What is always underneath the disguises, said Seale, are the cheap weapons for fascism, ‘demagogy and terror.’

The demagogy occurs in the use of sly speeches and slogans in apparent approval of militancy, he asserted, and the ’terror falls forth’ when people ‘actually stand on their constitutional rights.’ …

The trouble didn’t start with the Panthers, he said—‘the trouble started ages ago—400 years ago in slavery.’ …

[The conference] was a multi-racial crowd that gathered at the behest of the Panthers—blacks, Japanese, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, a few Indians, but mostly young whites…

The crowd was lively and gave many of the speakers stating clenched fist salutes with shouts of, ‘All power to the people.’…

Roberta Alexander, a Panther, declared that a struggle has been going on for months inside the party to clarify the roles of Panther women.

Whether women are to type and perhaps perform sexual chores in the name of the party, or arm themselves like the men and share in the leadership is the question, she said.

‘Black women are oppressed as a class, and black women are oppressed by black men. That’s got to go, and it’s going.’ her fists struck the lectern.

‘We have sisters show can shoot as well as the brothers,’ she said. ‘And we are Panther women not home holding babies, but out there in the community doing field work…”—Ruth Greenlee, “Anti-Facist Meet Opens,” San Francisco Examiner, July 19, 1969

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