When I was in the SWP in the late 60s, the slogan that the party supported and which widespread support in the black community was "Black Control of the Black Community." This was seen as the conscious expression of the demand for self-determination at that time. The concrete demands attached to this slogan included:
--right to police one's own community through a community-elected militia, like the Black Panther patrols
--right to control hiring and firing in the schools in the black schools. The Ocean Hill-Brownsville fight pitted the community activists against warhawk and class-oriented "socialist" Albert Shanker. All the sectarian Trot groups and the CP supported Shanker.
--right for preferential hiring in any government funded jobs in the black community, especially in construction. This was the sort of thing that Jim Houghton and Harlem Fightback had been doing for years.
--demand for federal funds to improve the infrastructure in the black community, most especially housing, hospitals and schools.
--solidarity with 3rd world struggles and refusal to cooperate with the racist draft. Muhammed Ali was the symbol of black nationalist resistance to imperialist war.
Whenever there were riots, the demand for "black control of the black community" was heard in one form or another from the man and woman on the street. The FBI and local police forces were absolutely determined to put a stop to this movement and targeted activists in the black nationalist movement for "neutralization." Dozens were murdered and many more were framed up on drug charges, etc.
This movement was one of the most openly revolutionary mass movements since the 1930s and it just boggles my mind to see such indifference or hostility to it among left circles.
Louis Proyect
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