Attention of e ne Calling itself the BLLCS dexonst: n Cotoner ley ana distributing han uuscurs end a ible for 2 widcly » and USCO fer coppi nized religion, ané appearing Yor the Establishuent hn Wove..ent ané Bleck Mask have uarched together under th. black beer, and held a strect necting where wity in thought ond action wes rcalized between the two froups. In the hopes of further solidsrity with the Bleck Mask, we here reprint the initial stetouent + Resurgence ¥ A new spirit is rising. tts we burn with revolution. sinc of your oath. +ruccle enmmot be hung on walls plows of rcvolt. 1é ..cn of the future, we arc all ne past fall under +) crilla, the blacks, at your heels. your oulturc, your scicnes, your art. ose do they serve ? mrdcr cannot be conccvled. atri-list, thc banker, the bourgeoisic, with their ca pretense and vulerrity, continue to stockpile ert sleuchter bh ty. nas friled. The world is rieing uceinst your oppression. There arc ten st the Cotes secking @ now world. The nachinc, the rocket, the conquerin;; of spoce and tinc, these arc the sceds of the future, which, freca fron. your varbaris: will carfy uc forward. We erc rondy - LAI THE STRUGGLE BEGIN, Benn Morea Ron Hahne Everctt Shepiro BLACK NASK P.O, Box 512 Cooper Station New York N.Y. 10003 As of this writing, the first issue of a bulletin, BLACK MASK has becn icsucd. Available from the above or in lower cast side bookstore! the magazine of the New York Federation of Anarchists, GOob BOUD, is cxpeoted to !< issued in November. It will be available trom the TORCH 6.1 cast 9th street. The Rebel Worker group in Chicago has issued_a pamphlet on the blackout, available from the Solidarity Bookshop 1644 Meycr Court Chicago 60614 Illinois. Red and Black, a new anarchict journal available from J. Grancharoff Box 47, P.O. Kingsford N.S... Australiaming from the east, head ‘Then as I stood there, t4o men were co i rose the day-break star, The) first 1ike arrows flying, and between them rose the day: ° cane and gave a herb to ne ond said: “with this on earth you shall undertake anything snd doit." Te was the day break star herb, the herb of understandings an¢ they told we to drop it on the earth, 1 sav At falling far, and when 4 struck the earth it jossoms on one stem, rooted and grew and flovered, four bi fa blue, a white, a scarlet, ‘and a yellow; and the rays fron these streamed upward ‘to the heavens so that all beings of the earth with roots and legs and wings sav it and in no place was there darkness. And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and sew the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over ne ow there was a wooden cup in his hand and it was full of water and in the vater was the sky, vrfake this," he said, "It is the pover to make Live and it is yours." Now he had a bow in his hands. "Take this," he said. "It is the power to destroy, and it is yours. “BLACK. ELK SPEAKSBLACK MASK No.1 Nov. 1966 5 conte A new spirit is rising. Like the streets of Watts we burn with revolution. We assault your Gods - - We sing of your death. DESTROY THE MUSEUMS - - our struggle cannot be hung on walls. Let the past fall under the blows of revolt. The guerilla, the blacks, the men of the future, we are all at your heels. Goddamn your culture, your science, your art. What purpose do they serve? Your mass-murder cannot be concealed. The industrialist, the banker, the bourgeoisie, with their unlimited pretense and vulgarity, continue to stockpile art while they slaughter humanity. Your lie has failed. The world is rising against your oppression. There are men at the gates seeking a new world. The machine, the rocket, the conquering of space and time, these are the seeds of the future which, freed from your barbarism, will carry us forward. We are ready - - LET THE STRUGGLE BEGIN.The Statenent, on the first page vas ietued as Beet GE an setion taken ggainst the Museum of Modern art. The accom wanying prise relesse ‘was rartiel explenction On Monday, meant as a October 10 at 12:30 p.m, Ye will close the Maseun of Molern art. This symbolic action 1s taken at & time when America is on @ path of total destruction, ani signals the opening of another front in the vorld~ wide strugcle against suppression. We Seek a total revolution, cultural as Mell as social and political — Lit ‘THE STRUGGLE BEGIN, A number of copies were also sent via the mails, eeerecronse to which we received the following jeter. | For further clarification of our ideas ant actions we publish toth the letter and our responee, Deer Frienis: The serivbling on your leaflet enclosed was ny tmedtate reaction J Muty nese wlth this thoes the War Flants, cr the Fentagon or City Halls or the Frecinct Station" _/ but George thinks it's too Plunt and tactless, T don't egree, really: I expect revolutionaries to be thick-ekinned enough to stand Tough treatrent without confusing their frienis with their enenies. But he's too tusy right nov to write you hinself. Thanks for sending the stuff —- tho I couldn't disagree wore, I hope you'll keep us on your ailing list, and vetli edd you to ours. But why oh why start with the miseuns?9? Te you want to asssult ‘the gods, attack relizion; if you want to end the slaughter, attack the war machines Af you oppose oppression, attack the state Or 1a it really only the pretense and vulgarity — not the Fover -— of the bourgeoisie that tugs you! If tos Atte not enough to build «revolution on, The mn’. pover it takes to overthrov a systen von't cone fren the small minority of us thet are concerned with culture; t'11 come fron the mass oppressed ty power. "And most of them don't give a dann whether the Museum of Modern Art is open or cloned, or wnether it @tists ut all; their problems are meh © vital, like whether they're toing to die In Vietnen or from a cop's tullet in the back. Like the vaste of their pastionate youth in the stultifye ing routine of classrooms decades tehind the verta they!re groving into, Like having to sell. thei hunanity” in eight-hour slices to pay the rent acd the groceries —ani not even because production en Longer needs it, but Just beesuse tt'e whet the Wielders of pover decree, Sures LLT THE STRUGGLE BEGIN, nip at their heels, hurts! But let's not just let's strike where it really Love, Louise Crovley Dear Toutee: d-ink of your " eitle the red~ ‘ reaction" prevented. you from reading our states (4f 80, another 4s enclosed) but assuming you ¢ read it, I hope a few coments Will belp cles: four misunderstandings. "tour firet question te Muky start with the y seuns", I assume you mean vhy do we start vith » seums, since no where do we say that others shoy start here, or for that matter that they sho abandon their present course to join us, in fa quite to the contrary we state that we are going Join them, by “opening another front", We ful Fealize the manpover it takes to overthrow a syst, won't come from a small minority but we are not. small minority since we ere joining a world-vi struggle, vhich has many fronts. As creative men we sey "destroy the museums" y we ere no more interested in closing the Modern k than you are, it is instead symbolic to us of tl total suppression of man, Why does the ghetto dvel: gr attack the slumlerd instead of the more poverh ‘bankers behind them or the capitalist system itsel: Because @ main strikes at that which directly co fronts him. We don't question this action, yet ; Fevolutionaries we hope it is taken with knowled, of the total picture or that it will at least le to a deeper understanding, Yet you question us, ¢ creative men, for attacking the museums. You fs have realized that we sav this es part of a wid struggle since we linked ours ives to the "guerill: and the "blacks" and quite literally stated "we ee & total revolution, cultural as well as social « political", T assume then that @ cultural revolution as part ‘The fact thet you think only a small minority cengned with culture ie pert of a tasie missa cutee’ nich equates culture with western-bourges seers the Vietmnese are fighting egeine ¢ destruction of their culture as vel], You question the relevance | of wider revolutio a the corey everything instead of allowing it 8 cannot be achieved without revol T can it be achieved without t Close the warplents or t the precinct station -— t let their culture fall too. @@ creative force, Pentagon or city hall or don't stop there,Albert Camus: Interview in Demain; issue 24:30 Oct. 1957 The notion of art for art's sake is ob- NMously alien to your thinking. That of Com tuent" as it has been made fashion able of late 4s equally 0, Taken in ite Present meaning, comitoent consists in making one's art subservient to 4 policy. It seems to ne that there is sonething nore important, vhieh is characteristic of your work, that might te called inserting ‘that vork’ into its time. Is this correct? dnd, 4f St is, how vould you describe thet, Ansertion? Icon accept your expression: inserting a vork into Sts tine, But, after all, this desorites all iter- ary art.” Every writer tries to give a form to the passions of his tine, Yesterday it vas love. Today ‘the great passions af unity and Lberty disrupt the world. Yesterday love led to iniividual death, Todey collective passions mke us run the risk of universal destruction. Today, just as yesterday, art vants to aave fron death & living imge of” our passions and our suffering Perhaps it 1s harder today. It 4s possitle to fall in love every ones in a vhile. Once 18 enough, after all. But it 4s not possible to bee militant in one's spare tine, And so the artist of tolay becomes unreal if “he remains in his ivory tover or sterilized if he spends his tine galloping around the political erent, Yet between the tvo lies the arduous way of true art. It seene to me thet the writer mist be fully avare of the dranas of he tine apd that be must take sides every tine be cen or knows hov to do so, But be must also mintain or resune fron tine to tine a certain distance in re- lation to our history. Every vork presupposes content of reality ani a creator vho shapes the container, Consequently, the artist, if he must sbare the misfortune of bis tine, ‘must also tear himself avy in order to consider that misfortune ‘ant give dt form, This continual shuttling, this tension that gradually becomes increasingly danger- us, 1s the task of the ertist of tolay, Perhaps thie means that in a short tine there will be no nore artiste, And perhaps not. Tt is a question of ‘tine, of steength, of mastery, and also of chance. ‘Th any case, this is vbat ought to be, There remains vbat 10; there remains the truth of our days, vhich 18 less magnificent, And the truth, as Tove it at least, is that the artist 1s groping his way in the dark, Just Like the mn in the street = incapable of separating hinself fron the vorld's Risforttne amd passionately longing for solitude and Silence; dreaming of justice, yet being himelf « jource of injustice; dregged —even though be thinks be 1s driving it — behind a chariot that 1s bigger ‘than be, Im this exhausting adventure the artiet can only drav belp from others, and, 1ike anyone loo, be vill get belp from pleasure, froa forget- ting, ami cleo from friendship end adairation, And, Like anyone else, be vill get help fron hope, In my case, I bave alvays drava my hope fron the idea of fecundity. Like many men tolay, I an tired of criticien, of disparagenent, of spttefulness — of nibilien, in short. It is essential to condenn vist must be condemed, but sviftly ani firaly. On tbe other hand, one should praise at length vhet still deserves to be praised, After all, that is viy T on an artist, because even the vork that negates still affirms something and does homage to the wretched and magnificent 1ife thet 18 ous, When a mn speaks as you do, he ie not speaking solely for hinself. ‘He 18 inevi- tably speaking for other. Ani be is speaking for sonetting. In other vords, he is speaking in the nape of end in favor of en for vhoa those values count. Who are ‘those nen and vhet are those values, To begin with, I feel a solidarity vith the comon man, Tonorrov the vorld my turst into fragents, In that threat hanging over our heads there 1s @ ‘ese0n of truth, As ve face such a future, hierarch- ios, titles, honors are reduced to what they are in reality: a passing puff of smoke, And the only certainty left to us is that of naked suffering, semen £0 all, Anterningling its seote vith those at & stubborn hope, ine “e Im all your work there coexist philosophi= not optim Confidence in the spirit rather than in min, in nature rather than in the universe, in ‘action rather than in its results, Do you ‘think this attitude — which is ‘that of ‘the rebel, for the value of the revolt makes up for the vorld's absurdity -- can ‘be adopted ty the majority or is it con denned to renin the privilege of a feu vise men? Is that position really ao special? And do not the nen of today, threatened and yet resisting, Live in ‘this manner?’ We stifle and yet survive, ve think ve fare dying of grief and yet Life vins out, ‘The men of cur tine, whom we encounter in the streets, show in their faces that they knov, The only difference is that some of then sbov more courage. Besides, ve have no choice, It is either that or nihiliea, Whether totalitarian or bourgeois, then those in Aividuils vho refuse to give in will stand apart, and they mist accept this, But in their place ant Within their means, they mst do vbat is necessary 0 that all can live together again, Personally, I have never vanted “to stand apart, Yor the mn of today there is sort of solituie, whieh 1s certainly the harshest thing our era forces upon us, I feel its weight, believe me, But, never ‘theless, I should not vant to change eras, for I leo know ami respect the greataese of this one, Moreover, I bave alvays thought that the veximus danger inplied the meximm hope. @| * | ZR CONCEDES NOTHING WITHOUT A DI (Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the ‘exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue tll they ate resisted with either words or blows. of with both * For many years black people in he black belt of Alabama have been the victims of & Sicious system of political, economic and social exclusion. Political e- lusion ts maintained ia many wavs the Genfal of tye Fight lo vote service on Juries, access to political offices, and by naked brutality acting under color of Jaw of just a plain white sheet, Although ack people are a umerical majotty of Lowndes County, Alabama the" Democratic Pass only proves them with white anates ho wit wamere 10° a polley af while supremacy The Lowndes County Freedom Oreanieaion ants" pollen tat ja'reaponsive lo the needs of the poar-reoponstve. the ced for education, decent Taw onotcement paved was, decent housing. tod Imedtea trelles. ad all he things they hope for themselves and thet eildven On November sth, black people in Lowndes County will have @ chance to cant ballots for candidates representing these interests. "These candidates. runnin under the symbol of the Black Panther. if elected. will be in positions of control ‘These will be black people in control. seeking to use the county governing mech anism for the benefit of all persons in Lowndes County. THIS: POLITICAL, EFFORT 18 SIGNIFICANT FOR BLACK PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY, AND NOT JUST IN LOWNDES COUNTY THIS FFFORT NEEDS THE SUPYORE OF ALL BLACK PEOPLE WHAT YOU CAN DO TO NEL? The Lowndes County Freedom Organization will need money for gasoline to make sure that everyone gets out to vote on November 8th, Candidates need money to help in the canvassing of the county tieiqsen nom and November san ‘The word needs to be spread about whats happening in owndes County, On election day support rallies should be hetd H the people of Lowndes County Vote fraud. or violent assult against the Lowndes County Etecdom Organization on election day is a real possibility. "Some form of action maybe meceeeeny ‘You may be called on to help A MICTORY FOR THE LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM ORG: ANIZATION 3s VICTORY FOR Us. ‘ © sible history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions made to hetewarhave been born of cament sagen Ui there 1s no steugale there is no progress. Those who profess to favor feeedom This struggle may be 2 moral one, ; wit may be a physveat one, moral and physical, bu 7 ahd it may be bot it guint bea strug Be box syce Lowa s cory 13 i) Nelson SS ERED Do GME IZATION Atlanta, Georgia30313. Hee 1 Bow tan ATION Phone 04 88-0131 Honesto, AbabamaBLACK MASK No. 2 Dec, 1966 5 ce The Total Revolution One continuing purpose of this nevsletter will be ‘to fuse fractionalized struggles into a functional ‘whole, ‘Too long ve have vitnessed the veskening ani ‘evential destruction of radical novenents ty their forced specialization. Obviously one must function within an area of person] confrontation be it the factory, the ghetto, or the university, but there mast alvays be the inner direction of a’ totality, ‘The Labor unions concern only with vages and works conditions bas all but eateculated their celging redicalion, The negro novenent, for integration vould, have fallen into the same trap, but now the ory of “Black Fover" will put an emphasis on comity con trol, revitalising their struggle, just as the goal of vorkers control of production, especially unter ‘the impending changes of automation and cybernation,The Total Revolution (continued from front) ‘the rank and fil vould do for o (assuring them of & Voice when labor is no longer necessary and impeding The tive of the velfare state). ‘Ab creative, men we must peck a siniler changes which joined with the struggles of others will bring ‘tbout the total revolution. ‘cannot be conce: Saly with the aesthetic revolution, because without g vider change it will com to nothing. The revolv> fhomry urge of the creative man has slvays been © Wart of his desire for a deeper understanding of Vite and the forces which affect it, but without ¢. Concentrated effort at changing the negative forces Garectiy, he will never see his vision realized. We fave seeh Van Gogh's dedication to life and his deep Rttachment to the conmon man completely subverted. Nov bie work 18 ipolated from life forced to hang in The same has happened Tefected one of the most radical aesthetic changes Sf cur tise, Jackson Pollock. Not only bas hia, vork foon nade to serve the aggrandizenent of the bour- [potele, but the respect be accrued for Anerican art Bet teen used to sell "Coca-Cola" to the world. Art has become another tool of the imperialist. Wevcan see this sane failure in a movement which even more directly sought to join art ant life. The German Beubaus, founded by Gropius in 1919, had et Sie roots the peed for a creative commnity to func- ‘Mee tithin society and belp transform 4t to @ high Nithetic level. This experiment vas crushed by Hitlers rise to pover but its effectiveness bad been Sonetantly drained by @ capitalist oriteria, rather {fon tumen necds. we can see this nore clearly in ‘vhere after ite forced exile from Germany, ‘Staller ideas and programs vere initiated ty Moholy- Yeey at the Chicago Institute of Design, The Ameri- tan reality, took the ideas of standardization, and Simplification and turned them into n excuse for Sterilization and dehumanization. ‘The aesthetic revolution of today must be a part of the total revolution. A revolution whieh will wing about a society vhere the arte will be an in- tegrel part of life, as in primative society, ant oe an appendage to'vealth, A society where man bas ontrel, of his life and the economic veelth of his omunity, A society free of bureaucracy, toth Geelitarian and bourgeois, A society where "to each ecording to his needs" is" the rule, not the excep- ition. BM, The following are excerpts fron groups which seem to be moving in the same direction (anticipated by the Dadaist and Surreelists), and reflect ite uni- versal presence, These fev selections are not meant po s complete listing, since there are other groups Yor nationally and internationally which have eimi- Tar temiencies, Situetioni: International: The case society of altene control of 7 macecey} of totalitarian spectacular consumption reigns every- BLACK MASK P.O. BOX 512 cooper STATION New york, N.Y. 10008 Trcom tn oe shane snore i nie fn Se tg te Gare Bre tety cannot be understood without tome ems Soe ip ash she crests Se a Bi Ste mgiea he rtsis aa Bea & SP ghia aS ni Shae ie Se are Sale ae egeirien eaten goa he be Seg tee ser ee Ae eS eer Heatwave: London ut in different terms, it 1s the concept of ‘total revolution vnich bas been lost. Tt bas degen toad into @ theory of the rectification of econom Skited political structures, vheress all the most ASateel periods of tbe past revolutionary moverent reas ininated by the desire to transform the whole “ture of hunan expierience, to create a world in Thich the desires of each individual could te real- feed, without restriction... Finally to create the Fevolutionary praxis by vhich this society and this ‘civilisation can be destroyed, once and for all. Reb Worker: Chicago More than ever, vith everything continually at stake, wo find 4t necessary to affirm the impassion- ed use of the most dangerous veapons in the arsenal of freedom, MAD LOVE: Totaly subversive the absclute eneny of bourgeois culture, POBTRY: (ae opposed to Literature) breathing like a machine gun, extermim- ‘ing the blind flags of inmediate reality. HUMOR: ‘the dynamite and guerrilla werfere of the mind, & effective in its om domain as material dynanite ont guerrilla varfere in the streets (when necessary, hovever rest assured, ve shall use every neans st our disposal.) SABOTAGE; ruthless and relentle destruction of the bureaucratic and cultural mecbin- ery of oppression, Te ie, necessary at tines (ax ths ie cm of then) to epeak bluntly: ve affir deliriously and simply the total iteration of xen. Resurgence Youth Movement: NYC The messianic vision of a total revolution tt vould transfor every’ social “relatioaship, Ve eraze the concert of Worker as it vould the” cone of Capitalist vas carried ty a minority in the T cal noverent, Anarchists, Syndicalievs, and Tecurring heretics of the spirit vho ambushed Bt pean culture in the 20's and 30! Myestatenont of thls revelutionary teary kee statement of Anarchist Seclalien tnt Comminion fhe ceatae to teeta of © totally free revoluts: tion that ve propose "is a mind tevlution, © revolution, a soul revolution. olution, & eL. Moholy-Nagy: Vision in Motion 07 ‘The true artist is the grinistone of the senses; be sharpens eyes, mini, and fe be interprets Adeas and concepts through his midst of vast sociel controve: to take sides ani proclein his stand; indeed the artist has « formative ideological, function, otherviee his work would be only an exer- cise of skill in composition, Hitler vas avare of ‘this, He propaganiized trash, be tried to destroy modern art, science, ani philosophy as the greatest Sources of opposition to his vicious system of oppression, Ho banned the contemporary, the "degon- erate" art, as he called it, fro the galleries ant museums, burned books, and fortade the teaching of Einstein's theories, He vensed that the content of art is basically not different from the content of our other utter- ances, The only difference is that art is produced mainly by subconscious organisation of the means implicit in the cultural and social setting of the period, To be sure, there are munerous opportunitie for expression ani research in all fields but among ‘them only a fev which are positively related and favored by the dynamic forces of the age. In in tultively choosing certain esthetic or technical Problems, the most sensitive and advanced artist 1s & tool for the recording of the tine-expressive contents. That is, form ani structure denote defi- nite spiritual trends, The vork of the artist cor— responds to the creative problems in other fields, complempnting them in the structure of civilization of that particular period, Art may press for the sootobiclogical solution of problems just as energetically as the social revolu- ‘Aonaries do through political action, The so-called “unpolitical" approach of art is a fallacy, Pol- ities, freed from graft, party connotations, or more ‘transitory tactics, is mankind's method of realising ideas for the welfare of the community. Such a “weltanschauung" is transformed by the arts into enctional form, ani becomes retroactive in the realn of the conscious existence, This suggests thet not only the conscious but also the subconscious mind absorbs social ideas which are then expressed in the specific media of the arts, Othervise any protlen could be successfully solved only through intellec— ‘tual or verbal discourse, The difficulty lies in mass participation, The masses are filled vith a petit bourgeois ideology, the masculine supermn ideal promoted by papers and radios, books and films => by the unofficial education which the people have been taught to enjoy in spite of lip service to casual revolutionary political ideas, Once their sensitivity is killed, they are unable to receive the message of art whether contemporary or old. ‘The success theary of the profit economy pays a high premium to the anti-artist, Artists are con sidered effeninates who do not have the stanina to participate in competition, This is not only untrue, # are most cliches, but tragic since at present art, 48 perhaps the only field vhere convention does not completely suprress sentiment and vbere the ountpo- tence of thought and the independence of exction are kept relatively intact, To follov the divining rod of intuition and expressive desire may often act as @ peychological 1ifesaver especially in periods of hidden and open suppression of inlependent thought. ‘The phrase that "the artist represents the con- sciousness and mnory of kis tim" is a good charac terization of his function, lo society can exist without expressing its ideas, and no culture and no ethics can survive without participation of the artist who cannct be bribed, ‘Art represents the uncensored statezent of its author; this is one of its ost positive character- istics. No one but the painter, the euthor, the composer is the sole mster of his performance,” The Simpler his medium and the less investaent it in- Volves, the easier it is to avold possible censor ship ami to preserve the ways of genuinely free expression, Through his sensitivity the artist becomes the seisnograph of events and novexents pertaining to the future, He interprets the yet. may path of soming develoments by grasping the dynanics of the Present and by freeing hinself from nogentary noti- vations ani traneitory influences bat [not] without evaluating their tremis, He ie interested only in the recording and communicating of his vision, this is what materializes in hs art. He cannot aisuse guch a situation, To be a "fulltime" worker, « “professional,” involves a oral responsibility. This is vay the secured existence of the unconrro- nisin, ot incorruptible artist 1s so important to goctety.... The silly ayth that the genius has to “suffer” is the aly excuse of a society vhich does act care for its productive menbers unless their Work promises imediate technological or economic applications vith calculable profit, Each generation differs from the preceding one in tho determination of ite task, The tosh et naan generation is to search for its roote, ‘to understand the significance of natural 80 that everyone may become avare of the essenticl Purpose of living: the preservation and refinenent of the biclogical neture of the individual within e harmonious social existence, The value of existence vill be measured in social mecha: To met the manifold require & definite progran of Inman yaluon, ‘there mst com “a nev mentality aoe ee ‘type of personality, The common denominator is the fundanental acknowledgment of human needs; the task Ag te recognize the moral obligation in satiefying ‘these needs, and the aim to produce for human needs, not for profit. ©“Cannon-Fodder Can Talk” Statement by Pvt. Dennis Mora Contrary to what the Fentagon belteves, cannon fodder can talk, St ue 0 Tt 4s saying that ve are not fignt- Ane for "freedom" in South Vietoan, but supporting © Bitler-loving dictator. It is saying thet tt will not accept as a rationele for exterminating a whole People, thearies of doninoes, Chinese "aggression" or arguments of "appeasenent."’ It further saye that, ‘the only foreign pover in Vietnam today is the United States and that the Vietcong i# an indigencus force which has the support of most of the people and is in control of 80% of the country. Tt 18 a var of genceide, A genocide vhich has at ite disposal the technology of a military chasber of horrore from bomblets to Ba palm, gus and defoliante,, ‘The American people are victine’ of their var ine Yery real sense. Apart from the tragedy of losing American boys in a var ve cannot win, the wer ie © colossal vaste of resources vhich are urgently need gd here at home. The hypocrisy of « war on poverty is clear. Tt is all guns and no butter, The wer has created inflation and the chief sufferer is the working man. Corporate profits soar and union men are told to bold to 3.2 wage increase in the "ne— tional interest." Free lunch programs ere cut by 808, Are ov ready to accept, in the national interest of course, the mlmutrition of our children in order to incinerate Vietnamese children? This 18 the price ve must pay for military miracles. Joint statement by The Ft. Hood Three We are Pro. James Johnson, Prt. David Same, and Pvt, Dennis Mora, three soldiers formerly stationed st Fort Hood, Texas in the same company of the 142 Signal Eevtalion, 2nd Armored Divieion, We have received orders ‘to report on the 13th of July at Oakland Army Terminal im California for final pro cessing and shipment to Vietnam. We have decided to take a stand againct this var, whieh we consider immoral, illegal and unjust. We are initiating today, through our attorneys, action in the enjoin the Secretary of Defense ami the Secretary of the Aray from sending us to Vietnam. We intend to report as ordered to the Oakland Arsy Terminal, but under no circunstanci will ve board ship for Vietnam, We are prepared to face Court Martial if necessary. We represent in our backgrounds a cross section of the Army and of America, Janes Johnson is a Negro Devid Sanas is of Lithuanian and Italien parents, Dennis Mora iss Puerto Rican. We speak as American soldter: We have been in the army long enough to knov that ve are not the only G.I,'s vho feel as ve do, Large mumbers of men in the service either do not under. etand this ver or are against it. When ve entered the argy, Vietnam was for us only a newspaper box score of G.I,'s and Viet Cong killed or wounded, We vere all againet it in one vay or another, but we vere willing to "go along vith the program,* believing that ve would not be sent to Vietnax. We were told from the very firet day of our in- duction that ve vere beaded for Vietnam, During sic training it was repeated often by sergeants officers, ani soon it became another meaning]. st that Was used to make us take our training ously. x on Vietnam became a fact of lite shiiti ptitoms ots ft af Ute an ciengrar sere tee cee es me ge, ee faa = srie fe ee, ahi Ee Se tis bee BS Te ngantonos steht ae ceea Te, aS Ee Sete Me me rnae oe sera een foe eee Ber bee Soa a oe Sola Sram at tr nt it See eset ceca phe Learn, Pop art and its siblings are little more than ‘apotheosis of capitalist reality. Even the revolt ve, Viet Genocide too often becones yet another career building ginmick, Rather than posing a threst to the status quo, hippy culture furnishes whole nev industries with vast empires of unexpected profits. Capitalist pronoters heve shovtlitzed the Unde ground into'a perversion of rebellion vhich is not even @ reasonable facsirile, The pursuit of th perpetual High is nothing more than the velvet down fon the inside of the imperialist iron glove. Whi sveet lovy-dovies chant kedshne in Vadhatter perks, the kids of Asia are napalned, The vast com apiracy for global crine tools up for its greates* atrocities and "rebels" protest with yellov ehrysam ‘themuns and paper sutmarines, The tells now tellin’ are not for guru Malccln tut for the system vhict assassinated him, Creative man undertakes the poet] of the deed or he flounders with the death strivert fand suicides of this sad demented nation. Creative pan does not entertain or shock the bourgeoisie. | He destroys then "= Dan Georgaks?we Bencett, Public Relations "Flees wednedey, August 29, at 20 2%, fers nednenday, Rug ok nce: Hotel Attar, Yacht oon, #eb Fir Scents tae hbtewipyt vest York en route to Miss Anerice contest; Stope at Hotel Astor Brautif Charlotte Ann Ca: epi of 192," vill say dieu York tonerroy warning Wedine! 2), at 10 a.m, in the Tacht Roos cr of the res Asericn” Pages * bas dark blonde curly eyes, 40.5" 8 tall, and + She WALL wear practice measures 37-2 shorts for th 5 Gld and a soph Delta ege in Cleveland, Misslesippl. cho 4: fan honor graduate of 'Buropa (His ) Bagh School, one of four daughters, ani resides in Walthall, Missisuippl, vith ber father, * crecer-fater, and to Celbup pol tate An excellant bersevcamn, art comer of @ horse, ater aie, sketeheay free times pared en'A1I"Statetoene te Shtapion vishe In Nigh scheane tits Carrelt vas Also Veteter County Pore try Gunen. Ste wes chosen “Hise, ainey Eo ower 47 samen tention on the baste oe ee fit and talent competitions, her tedtec! ght Song-and~dance skit got one of the biggest ovations in the bistory of ast ©" mothe: city clerk Miss Carroll is She also svins, dives, ngs, dances ani vasThe New Establishment ——— sue folleving letter vas sent to the'East Vitlage cohen atveral weeks ago ty the Black ask group Seas halter! the seary article "You Are a God tot res Geet hn uw last E-V-0, ip one of the best tet Line coe table ‘open’ ‘ve have yet sewn == 196 Steel te getting near” or Leary, te are not. "Goda" ios! sens ten "Like those wetied by thie eysten You try be, herd to protects Sear ttSond destructive, rebelvious actions, plesss", The Luce Putlications know @ good” thing’ when they ree ee TE noueh of them (ects, Santo Dontnecy Wsenss) *vrop-Out" we won't have t9 wipe them cue Ent they won't "Dropout = instoed they Milt drive you out -- you power, hungry, politicians, you cor 3ojeed poetes: you Madison, Avenue, Gone Chae'is she woot practical aiterating messese" thet prophet Leary brings us? "Your state of eon iE ubhebs ts reFleoted, tn your environnont. You SERRE jour environtent.< lly Leary, we don't create Surcnvironment; has boon’ created Tor ue ty those Neu creatares of government. and tusiness. Bat teva nev ones one bullet on the asties of the ald, ope there nam doesn't have to, be "og Ur pridse) to enjoy’ the, fruits of this world), one Short eli sen will ve "Tunedeia" a= Tuned tn to/3see Sean ite glory: | to Seetructive, reveliioas ace tions" “"pSuvelse2 Everyone in Harlem can "Turn-On tie'farden won't, “change, "Everyone "sn" India con FRlentiet tue hunger won't vanish tye you gen "incon Lene ant forest iy ue we ean't =~ But then Ze aren't Gots Tuts Intter Se 'not meant ax a oriticton of drugs an gonerel bat of Leary in particular. Drugs sre end spconerel “at Sercona’ matter for the tndiviguat to RRS Re “code “amt, courte) but Leary £5 another deoide (m0), SES otucy of religion and his attempts ELT hue Mot apnea, rebellion make him the oneny Sect tee Bet ses and courte: Needless to, say, shone ith ee ooee printed ani Leary still tnnabive the Letter te PE pv.g. serves, as oracle for the MRD ee catasonaene.* Fee eee ont hag at the rind sapring narthe Mee cata ry characteristise. of” the elds and anttoreyohat egg dominant. rolet beatdes TSE PSS HOOD align Chabere gctine oo Seleonmn for nae AP Suaaniam (ihis represents no’ con yout Fsndatan om Dan theology ie hot the object, Fisee ance yell doy oo long ae 30 provonta Sevolu ny relseton, 2571 ogo" foilowe clove behind, ‘The moet Eoajy ant toe roe (Nee esha ts ene sake ous aspect, Of chet aeoke to, cover Steel? and mantel vith wrigtisfied youth with a” falce iia peniton’, The artists spank pet cae ear, bat rerye the sopieeae S55 foes"ehtnee at he fen" Sr the sti years, (The, 2°"rbel pots are in the serects university whitey, Burn’ And the Bast Village crying "Durns BPs Fehon tut elle the, Feactionesy Sine: Ml we are flesh and whose lives are being se thus 4 Yourgeoss sponse: (gainst, the war fete ell year. Ao Anarchists ve feel partiewlarly distur, thie lest distortion, the nature of which cq’ Shoun by one recent, example. In his profacg “Interview with an Anarehise” (a 6o-called Anarty! iho sees revolution as "almost imposeible so gq: geste mitilating 1-B.M, cards and Jenning paris’ fetere! What an’ enoy cop-out for the bourgel, Tenegade who realizes his inherent interest int Serving this systen) the editor states, "he U.sy fea denocracy founded on the proposition that qi ren ore created equal and have the inalienable rig Yo control their ow destiny. A principle of ener 18 inherent in our covernnent in that every” for yours, the opportunity presents itself to overtiss the administration ty non-violent means of fra Glections",, Bullshit, America is a non-denoctay Ghich placés property ‘Tights above hunan rights “anarehy" is inherent. in covernnent tut "Anarehisy! opposes a1] povernment. We don't overthrow tie ai Binistretion every four years but rather chane Jallers ant there are no free elections vipn etm hen control the wealth (be it the canitalist o the weet or the state-turemucrats of the east), Ba La Poetry Comes Out of the Barrel of a Gun ‘The venkutlied and veakainted love to live in cel and beauty vithout partielpeting in struggle. Thelt favorite Scone ie peaceful” existence tehint the We elence of a strong military “and police force sis they plously decry (with words) but never orf (uSth deeds), They geek to reconcile irreconctlablst in order to frevent hostility. ‘They are ashaned { go, to the Right and they are afraid to go to i Lett. They escape to obscure vapors of nysticlaa charming bovers of estheticisn, They raid Inia {2 the sick religion Which has” maligned 1ife on tt Subcontinent. ‘Their esthetician essunes the chanel on form of anti-art and the-end-of-art-as-veknov- Proclaiped in evermultiplying incestuous, publie- ‘stions/billboards/events/happenings et. naseun. THe solution to an increasingly ugly world, te to. oD Smagttetes ematiAuthe'y Feige “ataetnetont clonked vith the tallenit phrases wel "have “cone the oni of polities, ‘The unity of opposites exp Stdgd Wy seeters as" varied an Lao. apd Mare 10 PE, some new. enlighternen one LOVE has driven him to declare var on the enea? to exsrees his late forthrightly is regarded as 2% ster spawned in « Union Square sever. The taste, sakere declare this" "senson of ccstines, aes noise, intellectualized conic books & ell’ freak Ot ertraordinary, But the ced ood teak ie that (cont. pase 7BLACK MASK APRIL 1967 5 conte he normally constituted bourge: ie possesses rather less imagina- on than a worm and has, in place of a heart, a larger-than: i rn which only troubles him when there is a change in the weather--the itock-exchange weather. H. Arp (dade 1916-1920)a" ue BLACK MASK ooo 2 PER STATION NEW YORK, N.Y, 10008, Editors Benn Morea Ron Hahne Bo i ot seg nner sate so emg, ta wae ol taf Ma tem ae, Shite meat eh hd erga e ity a got wae ae tte So ane SOS sea iar nding Chas uae oe cee SEP eats SSePaE surety crac te oe Sey wat “Seiten ae ce Seat ie, tatiana Samet Pooks tave told usr for too mny gore att tly whet is needed. a Tay gga no SY for freedon of the aind as they silently prepare you for a profiteering society, “Where are those who tolerate no more textbooks and diplomas in the midst of a culture ‘that constantly destroys the creative ‘orcs, sup Presses the minority race,stifies iniividual thought nd plunders through villages in foreign lands buro~ Ang to death innocent victine, uhoee only crime is ‘their quest for freedon fron military rule. As “this government continues with cutrageous crines of exploitation and slaughter against others Peoples — so the anger and the revolutionary spirit of the vorld is mounting. Just how much longer can odds with the huge masses of the vorld) exist on sheer trute force and oppression? How much longer can 1t support military dictatorshipe throughout the world, viile at hom the same oppre sion continues. A refusal to concede in Vietnes W101 open the question. -Mibat. then does this nation do?" Napalm every Who doen't quite Agree vith its foreign policles? Revolution! Not to simply satisfy tmediste social needs, but total revolution A total rev- lution against = society that denies ani destroys aL thet ie precious to mn for the ake ot Commodity gain — A total revolution where the needs of man coms first — Where mind ani epirit are free, Free fron bureaucratic and. econmic. enslave! ment. Free from countless indignities ani atrocs Kei. Free from "big brother" and the totalitarian mind. Free to te himself as only le chooses. Ral “Students” or Revolution nee eS PURE SL tS fo on SS Ree SS reces S Stasis “he ie intretin gohae = ‘mada of the groving radioalian of the Aaerican 0, but it mut also student, and rightfully 00 it 4% mur #120 be ay cognized that as sti ney costpy soettite ‘Se Souer within the prevailing esc S ants could ais Syston, Wheres workers or pea oot of production (industriel or ¢ctly Control, the, menne of production (Industrial regi? cultural), students ean only af ij ough thes: role as “connmere Lesa easels a8 non-consumers (non-spect i. se thy latter role, a5 non-consuner (nomspectator) ‘thay they are able to veuken the basis totalit onest Scthc"Gt Sar eu "to te degree thas 22 Least” “Bat thas te only half’ the battles Fo mel ving Given up the rote! Of ‘viewer tiny cutie Tint ottdcer, st which tine ra Beet Se aay avthocitarian structure must — "with forcetet Shen 10 in preciooiy thie which bs deterniond (ot Hintarically the most revolutionary role be pentt ty thoes with the Teast to lowe, those most eieae’ ok forces to whom Life” Se Little better than Beck Deteaeion more aniagous to Elack Americana tt to American students (white or black); one closer Wicte"than to Berkeley. Yat we have. no dntentgt of writing off the stident-ltt or casting thes ioe SUies oF Mnotivity, tut chaia it ie omy en 1 Stulents, non-conmamts and non-apectatore thet can realise a revolutionary ‘rele, since” tery] Stusent ta ultintely to te « treinee for an Sootal onder; vnile it 4a” by rejecting the sare? Spectator Cotulent) and realising that Life must” of Flayed in its gotality thet they” will becca sate Lo'tecert anything tess, tetngiag then cinacs lt thooe "ith nothing to dose, but world “to ratte Sd therefore closer to revalution. “The recente ate Pools thet” stalent activistey, "upon graieat icy Enter” the "professionel". cccmuntey and ase 3? Fadicaliee it from within tr at loust defeating ad st voret anti-revolutionary, “One must reeliae they he profensionsly Liberal und miaile clasees sretnst Tncapabie of Tevciution sinee, thay "bolt Privileged pooltions in the existing scetesy” and’ oe Sepenient upon ite continustion, inte as) fee Ty suegest thet stuente stanton their snaaiet ald training, but rather that they withiray thea frat gyeten which in order “tov enist aust prevent torte SUL Fealisation and place then instead st te service of humanity and revolution. Ait here oe mict capiaticaliy reject the concept ef rewelution ae t surrenier to political smchingtions, while resnaise the role of spectator, ami instead “gopoce, it with the concept “Gt revolution as the ability of ma te coutral and “effect, ia Life and envivenerar coo pistely, rough "communtsed aceivsty’ on ail lew 15 a real neod for eduonterss Zohentastey art? iste, etc, bit this need “can only “be Fulfilled ty thele demtods for full participation “in ‘the costal fatric not ty their sccoptance cf tne aibteed sole Aspoged' fron above. fhe trun scientist, artiees ec, Yecoies revolutionary through the, mcceprontsisg Pursuit of his work at the efpense of a "career" ax) Stten bis iife (a case, at poise ‘would be wilbele Eeich, ‘vho reclining hie role”"an” scientist wae aot separate from thet of ‘thn social reveluvicmsr? found hineeit constantly at ode with autuoriterit soctoty and having’ fled” ‘heat Germany, eventaally died in an American prison) a=eT ie World- we Pee ae TR a ae In Strasbourg, France a group of "studente" have attempted a study of the new forms of revolutionary activity being manifested ty youth, The following excerpt is from transiation of their trochure made by par- ticipants in the Strasbourg action which included the liquidation of the official Dureaucratic "student unten". After # long period of lethargic sleep and perma- pent counter-revolution « nev contestation bas been taking form for some years. Youth seems to be the carrier..., In reality this revolt of youth against ‘an imposed way of life 1s only the advanced sign of a vaster subversion which will englote all who suffer more and nore under the impossibility of living. It 48 the prelude to the next revolutionary epoch.” Only the dominant ideology md ite daily organs (utilising the proven mechanisn of the inver- Sion of reality) can reduce this real historic move- ment to a psoudo-category: The Idea of Youth — of Which 4t 18 the essence to be revolted. ‘Thus @ peu youth in revolt 18 recuperated by the notion of the eternal revolt of youth which reappears each genera- tion and which naturally looses inpetus ae "the young min is taken into the seriousness of produc- Yon". The "revolt of youth" has been and still is the object of @ gemuine inflation of journalism which makes this revolt @ "spectacle" to te conten Plated in order to prevent it from being lived. It ip an accepted deviation — already integrated, necessary for the continued fumetioning of the Social system, This revolt against society actually oures society since it is supposed to last only art part of life and remain confined within ‘the apartheid of "youth problems" — as there is a femle "protlen" or a negro "protien". [They are viewed as "problems" calling for reform instead of as social crisis demanding revolutionary change. So the "negro question” becomes one of Neivil rights rather than, as Malcolm X demanded, "Human Rights". One of ending "injustice" rather than ending the systen which creates "injustice"...ED) In reality, if there is a "youth problem" it is only that the Frofound erisie of society 1s felt with more ac- Cutness by youth and vhat ought to surprise us is not that the youth have revolted but that the adults are so resigned. In the most concise vay the"Blousons Noir"(Teddy boys, youth gangs) in every country express with violence their refusal to be integrated, Yet the abstract character of this refusal offers them no mans to escape the contradictions of « systen of which they are the spontaneous negative product. ‘The Provos constitute the firet attempt to go beyond the experience of the "Elousons Noir", the organisation of ite first political expression, . vat ‘They were born thanke to an encounter tetween some dregs of decomposed art in search of success and a mss of revolted youth in search of affirmation. Since the formation of their organization the two temiencies have remained distinct: Tbe mass without theory found itself straight away under the tutelage ofa thin layer of suspect leaders vho tried to mintain their "pover" by the secretion of "Frovo- tarian' ideology... Whereas the need is no le than an uninterrupted revolution to change life, the Provo hierarchy believes (as Bernstein believed to transform capitalism into socialism ty reforms) that At 4s enough to provide sone inprovevente in order to modify everydey life, The Provos in choosing the frageentary end by accepting the totality... Having lost hope of transforming the totality, they lose hope in those forces which alone hold the means for a poseitle transcendance. The proletariat is the noter of a capitalist society. and therefore its portal danger: everything 4s done to repress it (political parties, bureaucratic syndicates, police, nore often than against the Frovos, the colonisation of his whole life) for here is the one really men— facing force, (In America thie vould be the blacks, Puerto Ricans, Hexicans, poor vhites and unskilled laborers rather than the higher paid "workers", ‘though automation and the grovth of wild-cat strikes vill radicalise many of these. Yet we must not forget that the goverment still found 4t necessary 1 Jages Hoffa — as an attack on organized labor,..ED] The Provoe bave understood nothing of ‘his; unable to criticize the syste of production they remain prisoners of the whole system. When during an anti-syndicaliet vorkers riot their base rallied to direct violence, the leaders vere com pletely overtaken ty the ‘movement and in their Tevilderment found nothing better than to denounce this "excess" and to call. then beck to pacifisn, dismally renouncing their program of provoking au- thority, in order to show ite repressive character, and crying that they were provoked by the polios, The revolted base of the Frovos can coue to # revo- lutionary oriticisn only ty rejecting these leadere ‘and beginning to rally the objective revolutionary forces of the proletariat... There only oan the Frovoe rejoin the real “contestation vhich already has a base anong then. If they truly want to trans— form the vorld, they “have only to paint in white ‘those who seek'to content themselves,y “Hell No” Native-American Appeal The Indian's objective tolay is enough, stated i they cane eaenin every single acre of land ia thet thay And to Teceive proper indemity for all y cannot regain, All of this in order that ‘thay may lay the econonic foundations for rebuilding an Indian vay of life, To tring to an end, finally ‘the intolerable conditions umler vhich they live today, conditions which give then a life expectancy of 43 years. Is there a racial crine vorse thin the theft of life itself? Mo other group of people in American society has a life expectancy a8 lov as the Indian, And the time has cone to put an end, once and for all, to the cruel farce of attonpting to integrate hin into a soolety for which he 1s not adapted, historically or culturally... ‘The negro aims at nothing less than full integra ton into American society. He is nov fighting to Dave his children bussed to predoninantly white schools, for his right to live in a predonimntly White reaidential district, for his full stare of Jobe et all levels, for his civil rights, in short, for an end to every single fora of racial discria- ination against bin in America, And be bas every Tight to these objectives, if that is what he really vents tenis te not the Toiians goals. [Bor is it the Yisck ments —~ eee article folloving,] He te fight~ to. retein bis identity not to lose fae cegmratag to tit aos ae He TEE Boned sto He ope ar ins v ighborbood.«.. —— nie tbe Indien Nants his ovn way of life, and vho 4s to aay that be is vrone! Shat’nave, no broken treaties revities Oe national east = and whose decisions are fea, ve Teprese! on have TePiSooo ania be aust, join in 6 comtes ries, belping then To eather minority groupe in Anerscte ep ne for Indiens Assoc. val of Averioan ‘The Sarr rng, Tacoma, Washington can, Puerto Rican Unity fro-Amerl ’ a very Sa yentity 19 coun sorts 0 ie Seg, we as see ease as fou arate the question u in the U.S, talk about Antograts el ane ios. of bisck children being atic ty ‘to wiite schools, black parents being able ¢o ‘tt Into a vhite peighborhood. This amounts to. yu ‘that nothing black — nothing of our oa — aan Gods The sooty tances our prose to ty agi te vitt an onsite, sl 90 certs tla & features Troughout tha country, but especially in thy ‘esk people are denied knowledge of their bieea? nd culture; They ere taught that they are vor” ese, Ina sinilar vay, Puerto Ricans Who. com the U.S. also experience pressure to accept yi? values of the doninant society in order to be gt cxsett. lack Fover mane for us Liberation from oppres, sion ty the racist vhite pover structure of the Dis, Te means that ve will control our ovn Afro-Americas coommities, That ve will direct our affetre, ‘Tat We vil tave power in the political and econoaie arens.... Put our vision ts not merely of & soctety te which tack men have pover to rule the Lives of other tlack men, The society ve seek to build ack people 18° not an oppressive or capltalietie sootety. It is a society dn vhtch the epirit of community ard husanistic love vill prevail, We a not want merely to tee Hack money go into Hack pockets; we want st to go into the comms) pocket, We vant to. see the cooperative concept applied i jiness and tanking end housing, In schools ve vast ‘the community to decide hav the schools should te rim — not @ group of administrators vbo do. nt volerstind the probiay of the commity. : seok, therefere to change the pover tacts the vorld,” The poverless should nov begin to have pover, This 4s ope reason vhy ve refuse to fight 2 ‘Yo Anerican aray against the Vietranese poorle. The Anericen army takes advantage of the Afrontanricse masses. It uses then to fight our ovn brothers. Tt tells Us that ve are going to fight for a ‘Sensercy" tate tn te Eypectioy of tat cal We know in our flesh and in ot blood, whet, Aserictt encerscy neans, For this reason ve are absolitel] stint sttclotay — oyom to the drafting ro je of any nationslity vbo are opr Lie un, “It ve are to fight ve vill fight — bit 42 our oun country, to Liberate cur people, ve bm cndy one anuver'to the drafts “Hell Mo! : cnt Mi ,stamd vith poor of the earthy mt ite. Brothers of Ferto Rico let ue uni gehleve our goals, The forces. of oppressions 83° howeh very poverbt ae only afnority cower! Power veich all the oppressed of tbe world Wield. We should renester these vordai The POS shall never be crushe reaus oo ‘the earth, ee oe TE 4 gPetch by Stotely Carmichael — wniv, of Puerto Rico, January 25, 1967. aHell No! Elacks won't go!" Waiting in Central Fark for the April 15 Mobilization farce to set underway, the Harlem contingent is spotted making their way down Central Fark West. They would not take the legal parade route, but would march down Seventh Avenue instead, mims police, barricades, or parade permit! Screans fron the park’—~ "We're joln~ ing thon!" Thousan's of people break the parade ine and begin running out of the park — jumping benches, fences, knocking over pedestrians. The militant spirit of the blacks has caught on! Down Fifty-ninth Street, revolutionary banners, MF flags, black flags. The crowd of elght to ten thousand treaks into a mad stampede -- they realize they have the streets! (the peacenike and bourgeoisie sait impotently in Central Park, unavare of those iho have troken the line). Twenty-five abreast move dom Seventh Avenue, raffic 12 paralyzed for blocks — pedestrians stare unbfounded. Police have no idea what is happening. ve blacks “in front, the revolutionary contingent, verchists and some not even avare that they have ‘oken avay from the mildness and futility of "dex, wstrations", This 4s no longer a "demonstration" eae people bave Joined vith the Zengakuren of Pan, the students of Spain and Latin America. hey. ution! Not reforniem, “Hell no! We ain't going! —— iow many kids dtd Ne Phot you kill today" into Times Square, 411 hell has broken lose! Twenty-odd blocks ‘now filled with people. Revolutionary banners surround the Times Sq. Tecruiting station -- a surreal sight indeed! Led ty the revolutionary contingent, the crowd surges up Forty-second Street’ (the Harlem group had already turned into Forty-sixth Street enroute to the U.N. Fearful drivers roll up their windows, Traffic 45BLACK MASK P, 0. BOX 12 Editors Benn Morea Ron Hahne COOPER STATION NEW YORK, N. ¥. 10003 (cont.) halted on the busiest street in the city! ‘Approaching First Avenue, the police! Suddenly, those in the front line are clutted — in the niddl they are surrounded and practically crushed ty a hunan chain of police. Ina group the marchers had remained poverful. Yet, unprepared for the police fand their brutel methods they were easily divided and quelled. ‘This action was never reported in the New York dailies -- but it did happen and it must happen again and again! - Janice Morea The April 15 Yass Mobilization which say at least 300,000 people march to the U. W. has cone and gone. The’ war remains! The preceeding account. of the "mreak-avey" march ~~ which was exactly that, physi- cally and Feycolocically, first ty leaving the Line of march and its prescribed route and second by Jeaving the concept of "symbolic" protest, with its inousbent belief in moral prrouasivenss, for the road of direct action -— ani the folloving article Sn tresistance point out the tvo most inportant. Girections. Neither excludes the other, while both contribute to singular end -- not of war — but of that which produces war, But more inportantly the idea of resistance, based on soctal and economic struggle must also form the baste for the first, Gthervise it too vill renein "protest" though of & nore radical nature ‘A coment on the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam Nov, reprinted from ‘ithe New Orleans Movement for e Democratic Society" newsletter. readers will recall in our last neveletter tuat' we "connented. on the "Spring Mobilisation ty stating our refusal to support it. We tolnted out that (1) denonstations in New York aed Sen Francisco, long the traditional centers of political activity, would do nothing to build the Deceseary long-term novenent based on @ perspective of strugele with the Government and consisting of those oppressed classes with the pover and notiva- tion te establish political and economic democracy; and (2) the vhole undemocratic way in which the dem onstration and. the coalition behind it was put together pade it unacceptable to anyone desiring to bulld e movenent controlled by its members rather than a feu "Leaders" +.+++ Consider the 1963 Mareh on Washington for Freedom and Jote. was anybody liberated? Did anyone (except ‘the organizers of the mrch) get a job? Racism, ve gaecamnsary ofan menses UBT coed politica! systen, You aid not end racien by gotnd to Washington and Yeesing the Government ¢ #500 ‘oppressing black people. Victories over racism SEbrty black poorie when ard oniy shen Shey organize enselves for political and economic pover. cee eS. covbrnaent bas’ teen involved in Agere ston against the people of Vietnam, North and South, for 13 years -- or 20 years if ‘you incluie U.S- Support for French imperialism. The var in Vietnam je hot a mistake; it. is the result of a carefully Ginesived if net alvays completely successful plan {S'greserve and expand U.S, economic enslavenent of SCuth East Asia. No. demonstration no matter hoy "prond” and "reaponsitle” is going to convince the U.S, Goverment and the tig corporations to give UP South East Asia! It stould be abundantly clear to the southern movenent thet we too can only score Mietories over the Government's foreign and domestic policies of oppression and violence when ve organize Dureelves to vin political and econonic power. ire ve brothers to the Vietnamese people. strug- gling alongside them against a comon enemy which Sppresses us both? Or, are we merely appalled at the paked trutality of genocidal var and vish our rulers Would cone up with @ more sophisticated way of keep ‘ing these "uppity gooks" in their place? The main thrust of the "Spring Mobilization" stuff that we've teen iniicates that, for then, the min question is war or peace, And they're for peace. The Vietnamese feel sonewiat differently about the natter, They are for their 1iterstion firet and peace second. ‘They vill not live in the barterous Npeace" of U.S, imperialism, They vould rather die free than live as slaves.... For the Vietnamese, the Literation of thelr country from foreign occupation and domestic tyranny is not negotiahle, We and many people agree. Fut ve think this not only holds true for Vietnam int for our ovn country as well. We wil] struggle to build @ movement of "struggle", ve will fight to build a fighting and winning movement. ‘Since no tyranny concedes anything without political ‘and economic pover being brought to bear against it, we intend to build a novenent that will force the pover structure to concede all of its pover to the people, We are not and will not become the "Loyal oppo- sition". We are not loyal to U.S, Inperialion, Our loyalities are to the American people and their Liberation, The Vietnamese end all the vorld's oppressed and struggling peoples are our trothere, their eneny is also ours. I suspect this is where the lines will te drawn; when the current chaos in the left settles dom a bit, we vill cleerly see on one side those who do not feel themselves oppressed in this country and ence do not look at things fron the view of the oppressed here and in Vietnam, and on the other side ‘those who are oppressed and ready to unite with all other oppressed peoples, We hope and believe our brother southern movements vill make their choice and follow the example of the heroic Vietnamese people: Better to fight for liberation than live in peace as a clave. When ve resist, we vill vin. — Ed Clarka = Revolution or National Liberation? ae Our support for the Vietnamese ye ts unequi¥~ ols THe is cortwr'y tat an ack oF cared 882" sion ty a major power seeking to conquer & , Pelatively backward ation, (tectsclogieally not faraliy) for economic. and. political res#omts 12 speak of negotiations is criminal; even te call for Immediate unconditional vithdraval of all American Pereonel, military ani noo-ailitery, 4s insufficient Tice the vorld {9 full of potential Vietoans via?e thoy can te transfered, but rather ve must seek °° oe ‘the source of thie tartarien — Asericen a italien, But is that encugh? Has capitalion been Stee AE Ean ae granny oer mo, (08 it 1s umquestioatly the ost, active today)? ‘think not! Therefore the call for its defeat both Interoelly and externally must, be aceonpanted 1 ‘that with which we hope to replace it, Hot "National, Liberation" bit "Total Revolution" ‘The irony 18 that Vietnan, which 4s vaging & "Wat of Liberation’ (south) and om of defense eeaine’ jeault (north) 1s cloter in nany ways to. vist ve seek, due to the nature of their struggle, ‘han ery Shere elee, The north under the reelity of American ‘bombs bas been forced to de-contralize,, placing con trol of profuction in mary areas into the bande of fhe local population with a minimum of interference fro Hanoi, while in the south the "1iberated" arces ‘the existence of a singular Comon enexy. We are sure this situation will change for once the war 4s concluded, assuning the Auers cans heve been prevented fron carrying out, the total destruction of Vietoan (north and south) the naturel function of goverment to suppress (to govern) the Jaseos will reassert iteolf, Once the var 18 over, the masses must struggle to retain conplete control Sfthe land and means of production for the seeded Cask of rebuilding, not the "Soctalist State", but Tether the comuist (libertarian) society. | Not Tfational Literation’, vhich though freeing Vietoan (from foreign domination leaves the economy under the control of the sanagers and bureaucrats tut "Revolu~ ‘fon" vith dts ovn institutions of self-mansgeent, Tidkers couneils and communes. Wot "National Liber~ weiter but "total, world wide revolution’, BM. The "Klefts”: Warrior-poots pron and Shelley vere Kleftie poets, And Maya korg. And De Sade, Brothers of the Greek trigends tino choose the freedon of the peeks over boniage to the Turkish Bey, fron their somtain strongholds the Klefte raided the rich, the quislinge, and the cpirescer hintelf, A share of the booty vent to the Slllngere who toon understood the Klefts (thieves Mere thetr oun true soul, And st night around their Tires the klefts danced and made up porns to sing to one anotter, Ani in the valleys the young nen beard my and one by one, the travest made thelr vay to , ery of to Like Boudeletee ease ta tance before the le Larch, Terforste ge an Me ey tine x . sucag 20) Ee Boh es en, atta it penta AES erst and Spetacls ‘The watt ceuldon of we eatllelieet ant Bis Yeeren ay ep rae = Dan Georgaiet of whom 18 tue aaest ihe otiehe State of TY. tot 2 se murder. The charg ut, $0 Any c886) SE ba 30) ng en ase citizens of these Youn Oe freedom to thy if So, in prison, they vous ibe ee Ashan jungles», defending the 7m jestern World, But te Rene te norality of voted cannot possitly teen subjected Abel aie have Stamaeee, nor by anyone who desires to 1ive. if our common fh a yin the mame © mad we areal *2 Forgas of our common Surriml, aa for ovocting the ovtrages perpetrsted to J . — Janes Feld, ageinst theee en, . inet et crormtion on the Harlem Six, cr for copies of tbe petition ty Jame Baldvon,. fom ich corses ce ia excerpted, contact, the Charter Grovp, Hex 46, Cathodral Station HE "10025; funds needed for court appeals, ots. eng ie rtave the Harlen Six. Or 18 $t 6,000 or 6,000,000; vietins of racist, violence, Whether Syogai” or ‘Riegel 4 ds all the cane, Jamee Fovell, Laid ty an off duty cop (W.Y.). Leonard Deadvyler, EXHed ty on duty cope (L.A.). Four dead ~~ Herlen Jee, Thirty-four deed — Watts 1965 and hov any Grousenis nore. Genocide. And now the summer ed- Moves, with dis talk of riots, But there ere no Tote, only the frustration, the enger, the rebellion fof the oppressed, There are no riots, only the en- raged violence of those, vho ere thenselves victint fof perpetual violence, Police trutality vas only the spark — the brutality of life vas the fuel. Ani {20 tite ue nt changed date, sonar dans fo now ve have plans for nore brutality and nore 7 setsto, it ihe task re tHemed == iota, Chattel slavery was violence as vage-slavery 18 violence (Froperty is viclence!), But no, it is only the rlctiny vio are vislent, So ve aie lant 2 ae ional Guard'-- viclence. We strengti- Sep eee ~ Miolenee. Ne crush discontent — vielence, Bit toy, 8 ony the victine vho are viclent. The City of Cleveland pakes plans to destroy Black youth Sa Mathona) Rifle Association calls for = violence. Atlanta readies arsored vehicles — viole sabia clence, But no, only the victins are int since sett Soce th envicement t8 satntatned ty vie hs eters az alternative to the violence of the ess" Tat ts hy veg revelation ® re desparate gen, thirstiag for 7s ge and f11]ed vith tate," (Enrico Malatesta-192) wattBLACK MASK AUGUST-SEPT, 1967 5 Cents A new dynamism exists; one fueled by science and fired by revolution. One which has followed Futurism, Dadaism and Surrealism to a point where they must be left behind. Where they attempted to revolutionize “art” we must change life. We seek a form of action which transcends the separation between art and politics: is the act of revolution. Each culture determines those forms which its art will take and we seek nothing less than the destruction of this culture. We have an art which is a substitute for living, a culture which is an excuse for the utter poverty of life. The call for revolution can be no less than “total”. To change the wielders of power is not enough, we must finally change life itself. Man must seize direct control of his environment—socially, economically and culturally. We can recognize no power outside of the people, no elite (whether it calls itself revolutionary or not) which determines the political direction, no separation between politics and the rest of life. The same must be done culturally—a “total” culture needs no experts, no artists—it needs only men. MSVW MOV1E9 No. 7 AUGUST- SEPT. 1967 5 centsAll or Nothing For too long ve have vitnessed the degeneration ) of revolutionary thought into an argunent over method; as if the only question left open ves “How” and not "What". It ie time we questioned not only the means but also the content -- thought ss vel] action: For together they are the revolution but eparate they are a tragedy. If the end is the taking of pover by the people ‘themselves then the meanc must be the revolutionary organs of the people - vorkers councils, community councils, comimes, etc. If the end is’ the freeing of man culturally a8 well a8 socially and econonically then the veans exist in the destruction of "culture". If the end is the Liberation of naturel man then ‘the means mist be sexual as vell ae social If the end is the "totality" then the be Motel" — ell or nothing, @@ BM, At tines, amidst the scenes of riot end destruction that made parts of the city lock like a battlefield, there was en el- ost carnival atvosphere. WY. Tines 7/16/67 Said Gov. Hughes after a motor tour of the Fiot-tlighted streets .... "The thing that repelled me most vas the holiday etmos- phere ... its Like laughing at a funeral," ‘Mine 7/2/67 Yes! We laugh at this funeral, Poor frustrated wasp Hughes. Sure he cannot dig the ultinate reason fend hunan passion of Vhet he calls “criminal” up- rising. He belongs to an obsolete generation, the Jast of a systen at vkose buriel we cannot but burst, in joy. Esteeming the integrationist only so fer as ‘they inteerete es house-ovner in this dying systeny is only repelled ty their enjoyment, their holiday stnosphere,as soon as they transcend the counodity nelevenent and so do transcend him, He is right, she 1s stupid, Evidently the patriotic shit would jot stick to the Afrondmerican, Sure "they don't te so mich the white men as they do hate America", rice as St 4e abused and dominated by a handful white, clean vashed, cool blooded gangsters, In just of this America the Elack Man does not == Tony Revolution or its Abortion? ton has felled and will fail as 1, enc atglation 9 intact. Hen in revolutdonsry 5 tee oes have been castrated by the bureaucratic ap.” SeGa' of the state and its institutions of cons rete ocroton. False theories of organization ty Jed to the supression of man's desire to constrs, #3 ben iife. Those vbo recognize the miscamis, of the revolution know that the revolutis Sect aust be radically transformed, Genera) sejp, ESteenent, the conscious direction by all of ty Gnole of ‘Life can be ite only goal a9 the revola, Wiotery organization of comeile will be tte aia, Uo Lorm Collective as opposed to personal a. agenent, xust reign. ‘Tn the trict history of the heights of proletar. den struggles, the organization of workers council, for vorkers managenent of production have been ty nonents of revolutionary truth. Yow there is « nw proletariat composed of vorkers and non-vorkers vte Rave no pover over thetr condition, the meaning ext product of their activities. In the strugcle betwee fhe poier and the nev proletariat, worker? and aa Worker? coumeils will be organs’ through which nea Tise to resolve political, social and econonic que: tions in function of their ovn lives. The sevart- tion between these false cetegories, as the separe tion between work and leisure tine,” will eventually Ye dissolved, Comnodity production will be repleot by production for life. Work itself will te st- tacked and transcended to be replaced ty a nev ty of free activity, The nev proletariat will disappet When the minsteys of comodity production — neei- Jess jot, var, holds on automation, positions is ‘the buresiicracy’—— are destroyed. Councils may cone the universal form for this realization. The fight against, comodity production, agin ideology (vhich 1 ty necessity sectarian) in all it guises, against the State and the schisns it impos! Will be led by workers’ and commmity coumcils. Th ‘the role of councils will not be the self-sanageset of the existing vorid, tut 4ts contimual qualiteti” transformation. Man's total enancipation cep! upon his ability to freely construct his life. 7% step from mere survivel ina aysten to life mst,” mide if the revolutionary project is to be vari while, Man's attenpt to organize his mm 1ife = this tine not be thvarted. Life, not survival, © self-nanagenent, not subjugation must be the 600) © there is no revolution, ‘— Garol Ver > OTR aythe Sexual Revolution Withelm Reich (1935, 1944) GE a ‘The social concepts of the 19th cent, purely economic definition, ideological stratification vith their ‘po longer apsly to the guarding and affirming life ox the coe baody and the’ vintereete” Gestronise sed supymessing 1170 on the other... It the basic social question te thus concrete! formulated, then it goes without saying that whet ecomes the focus of social endeavor is the Living functioning of every member of society... In this connection, the significance which, over 15 years sg0, I bad to ascribe to acciel sexu) supmession, ssuaes gliAntic roportions. Sooial and individual sex-economy has proved the suppression of infantile ted adolescent eax Life to to the taste mechanten by vhich character structures supporting political, Adeclogical and economic serfdoa are proluced, It As no longer @ matter of presenting a white, a elle, a red or a black party nembership card Frove thie or that or the other mentality, It 1.8 question of fully affirning, of aiding and safeguard ing, the free and healthy life manifestations... in an umistakable manner vhich forever excludes any social fraud — or of suppmessing and ruining then, no matter with wbat ideology or alibi, ubether "pro- letarian" or "capitalistic", for this’ ar that re. Ligion, vbetber Jevish, Christian or Buddiet, This As true everywhere and’as long as there is lige, and must bp recognized 1f one 1s to put an emi to” the organised defraudation of the masses of vorking in- dividuals, 4f one vishes to prove in action that one tales one's democratic ideale seriously. The economic process, that is, the development of the mechines,is functionally identical vith the pro- cess of peychic structure in the people vho create ‘the economic process, who further or inhibit it and Who are influenced ty it. Economy without active enotionel human structure is inconceivatle; so is husan feeling, thinking and acting vithout econonte basis, Instead of talking #o much about dialectics, one should try to comprehend the living mutual rela- ‘t1onships between groups of people, nature and m- chines. They function as a unity, and at the cam ‘tine mitually condition each other, Certainly, at Wil not be possible to mater the present culttiral Process unless one comprebends the fact that the core of the psychic structure is the sexual struo- ture, and thet the cultural process 1s essentially deternined by sexual needs. Tie taal, alsereble,, allegedly umpolitioal* sexual life must be studied in connection with the Frotlens of authoritarian society, Politic does not take place at the diplonat's luncheon but in thie everyday Life, Social consciousness in every- day living, therefore 1s indispensable, If the mil~ ‘Mons Anbabitents of the vorld understoct the activ Aties of the leading tunired diplouats, everything Would be all right. Then, society and ‘usin needs would no longer be” governed according to armazent, interests and political exigency... ‘The economic order of the past 200 years has changed umn structure considerably. Yet, this change is insignificant compared to the conprehen- sive humin inpoveriehnent brought about by thousands of years of suppression of natural Living, particu lusly of natural sexuality. It ds only thia suppres— Sion over thousanis of years vhich has created the mass-peychologiical soll Of fear of authority and submission to it, of increditle bunility on the one side and sadistic brutality on the other, and by which the capitalist order of the past 200’yeare bas been able to extet, The fact should not be for ten, though, that "it was socic-econonte processes whieh, thousands of years ago, initiated this change 4m hunan structure. Tt 19 no longer, then, a protien of @ machine industry of 200 youre! standing, but of & umn structure of about 5,000 yeare’ standing a structure which thus far bas proved incepetle of putting the machines to its and revolutionary ‘the scovery of the lave of capitalist econoay vas, it alone is insufficient to solve the problen of humn eutmiseion to authority. ‘The core of happiness in life is sexual happines. Nobedy of any politicel importance hae ever dared to point this out. The statenent was mde, instead, ‘that sexuality was a private matter and had noth! to do with politice, The political reaction thinks otberw: Capitalist class morality is sgainst sexuality and thus creates the conflict in the firet place, ‘The revolutionary novenent elininates the conflict by. first creating a sex-effirmstive ideology and then giving it practical forme ... and a new order of sexual Living, That is, authoritarian social, order and sociel sexual suppression go hand in hand, and revolutionary "norelity" and gratification of ‘the sexual needs go together. "New revolutionary morality" in itself means nothing; it becomes con- orete only ty the fact of orderly gratification of ‘the meds, not only in the sexus) realm, Unless re- volutionary ideclogy recognizes the fact that this ia its main concrete content it renains eupty talk, in conflict with the real facNewark The only limit to the oppression of governaent 1s the pover with which the SCople show themselves capable of opposing ee Conflict may be oren or Istent; but it alvays existe. since the governnent does Sot pay attention to discontent and pop- Warreaistence except when it is faced ‘ith the danger of insurrection. Yinen the people meekly subait to the av, of their protests are feeble and con- fined to werds, the government studies its Gun interests and ignores the needs of the Geople; when the protests are lively, [nsistent, threstening, the government, Gopending on whether it’ ie more or less Gcherstendine, elves vay or resorts to Fepression, Bit one always cones back to Toourrection, for if the governnent doce ot give way, the people will end by re~ Belling, ani'if the government does give Ney, then the people pain confidence in Chenselves and eke ever increasing de- junds, until such time as the ineonpati- Dility between freedon and authority be- Cones clear ani the violent struggle 19 engaged. Te 1s therefore necessary to be pre~ pared, morally end materially, 80 that when {nts Goes bergen the people will energe victorious. Errico Malatesta -- 1920 ind co the vords of this Italian anarchist becone reel again forty years later ~- in Newark J. We [ust bein to realize that these ere no longer riots fat rather a2 Gov, Hughes clained, acts of “insu Fection" -- and ve mist act accordingly. To leave each ghetto at the sercy of the National Cuard is Yrccnin, rore und nore tragic. Until the blacks are Yoined by sections of the ubite working class they Uiil Lave te rely on their om strength. Their Strencth — an injury to one should be injury to alls walle the here are being skot in Nevark, Flack are keesing the machine going. Wile the Erothere are being shot in Novark, Elack aoliters ere dying to protect Mubitey". aiile ‘the brothers are being ahot dn Newark, the te attacked next. to Mey a, revolution and ve need Ce eee this is now Tee ok to crush ou solidarity evolutlonsry S0)0¢Gruan ue at ~~ white emt Black, R.A.M. other ghettos wait to ve ne put ne places eocotbars The te soitnntet Rah 2 EeethSie Sass "St Fer tibes), ihe Sh aoe asttaceorey. pune cognn an in ermatraers Of (pe nant eh tay The tebe orm Selene MIHRS "put an ectenpting to seek ge RAM, (Revolutionary Action Movenent) | they Sepa Rod Gavokttonary Acti, Eloy creates Ss CKta of rotenone nev Oey, 210% faa “emeis cite meant lay have toch content on Hine Seoteas URS: a7 Sandee “ceva Co rE Seay ate 8 elie to nore fares 00d, We, SP eran tt slo rot Se gente Seat aS hee foe ghloh on ebvg te tagenaion 2° Stith, “etn sputter geetaas oman, We sceivon Sa Storey: Ry aes owner ot tras bee eon used as evidence of "guilt". They claim R.A.M. ee a eae oe ea Earns sa eeeed toe coven ot oe Oo oe renee se ereeed ts caheeegtoassuioa ne aad chee Na aah ae a ei eer eed atan ue aeaente Sgt in eens gphtcieente ey ste omrezaes 6008 By gSarrale Ss SOLE Fan ree Ses meee oe thee page 30) District Attorney Mackel denies there ever opr 2) oatetn sctoey Rec omeee Cerys laren cal planes ma cal eer Stthe See Se as SSE i ott aes zeae ee ae cera ah aie meer, Se to toca a'r Palanan nce ee eae cine passel aaj ers tensed cia palere/ecsgoee een otitis peers rai te eater age arene, mlte Ease OS Seen gant nel teh eos tee octBLACK MASK Oct.-Nov, 1967 5 conts The New Proletariat The full measure of the black revolt has been only glimpsed in the July days of Newark and Detroit --a prelude. The revolution looms ahead and the problems are great: theory, organization, tactics, all must be exposed in the glare of the burning ghettoes -- not to explain, but to add fuel, to add a coherence which can bring our objective -- Revolution -- closer. BLACK MASK Theory must become a weapon with which we attempt to under- stand what has happened and affect what will happen. There can be no easy formula no “you do it and we will support you” poses, no substitutes for real thought and action. It is time we examined those frozen concepts of past revolutions -- not to replace them with new “rules” but to find what is worthless and (cont.) BLACK MASKThe New Proleta' cat, fro front fe ont pace) what is constant, what hs passed and vat 1s. possible, while at tbe same ae antes tee snhante thove. ideas” being posed today. wee ne fe note) populerity contest; 1t cen not cevenutien Miatural example of & bev fal svery Jee", ee ae ek mee oa, he aa Si Siatcth tos anew Ste om Conclusion. -Hhat 18 Dap dunlectie tnd Go be soarch for instant ideology Se re el Tee eeeeael a Gentle capitalist society; reification (thingifying). The eee tk Seek pe we eet oes De Se eeTee into Line, Tiny have. objectivied rev me ene Te ionger a question of soci ee ae eee ee annem ee ous the Doky best ots Red Book se ane Fen then taehin the Revlueton'< BY Foye aelioee the prover gout, te it Che oF lee ane eee une ol eS ween tener poseure while in fact. there ie no Fev revolutionary poste ier that wey — the peorle eR sg ecak win Ain foc, ae, Covatlcoeey ee eee ace ney Ain mil at a hors ie UNS Seu Folletos Convention = fimmldy oie tities 9 SS eon replaced ty Mio cousin he wits Stent could anything be more. apparent ‘he, woite ZAee, for eeptvuiation before tinch de tan EE, DOSE nace thoy? Obviously anny vere mare. ian oe ear slmerity concrete, but thie ee eee Stee (enw inauagert. parent) ney eeeritn cf ack, bales to ere Se eee ee ne nore ave deciied to eet ety UatELOD: yeh Wothere Tirety ten te whites ‘are cr ao thn sumer They can no Longer ride 8% mad brttae do Myatt ercastion has no calor barr an eeeee geet te chives better lesen, for only HONG echutiontey porer replace Black Power, ces coplaee martian, fe revebsticnsste, ve mrt not acoort anyt! eet ccemcg ty s recone ee cee ar, oie die wis eae toe oe Sa baa ee oe oe See meer = 3 oe ae ae ee fer Om te eee tant, peorde have vaged or tre waeing se reo fecteton struucles In not a. replaceeent Heme ecmery peemenioe. ee san not arena fog Pevolatios? Foo eitnoat relingtiining our bea Sy SE Ge, ovrdemly se suppert the Mee ae eet aggression tre we mint at Un seme Sane re eee tcnay tie pelitioany, seottng time crrect note dy om purponeey wha ie tnmble te tojuen oeere fon Me lekating fur tool. ia so seri at aE Serta de ae ese ek Sees ee een ee OT — «ee the recently ie ceactn nreperty, peisate oyetigy SEE Spewteney sey Reka sein ir stoma bongs 3. Tre testing tho struggle wattonat Pour geotmachnte, who" aro waging te. Ser oe. oe bility of another pene oe SOY oo arene fe ti agetnes Detray (or Fidel) wben capable of criticising ben thay cermtle sek ene querriiie band for the masses. 5 case tactice teceuse they are confused thecre:ia Gilly: they see the part aff sat taly Zarentages’ to small obiie unite (re eee ‘fe Peoples struggles ur Tete Sibot unde io not mv, Peoples strugeles rides) tearm for thousands of years) Yet not hay. {hinge 14 into an Adeolosy, they vere able 1, SEGtits Froly. to the elreometancee ent Sulton, Yet alvays a nase struggle and not ag thiend an iteels. Strategie mobility 1s a0 nvortax seetryet only a part, there must at the sane tine by Pata yet cisstions -- not political parties tt saree Sinect organe capatlo of waging the struggle Tut also of seieing povers capable of harboring thy mae ee e new society within the shell of the cla, create the guerrilla tani could not fulfill even if fe were succeseful militarily, At wetfon neceseitates the active and creative role fori Gusceasehey must have power directly in their seeiean aid the original Soviets (vorkers councils) tigen /eneineored the overthrov of Taarist Russia, Tt ees the proletarian which in secking its freedoe ‘hn tring the foal Blow to the state. For being the GEitone ‘of the econony ite donand fcr self-ranage- weet Ge dependent upon the complete destruction of Til hierarchical eystens: their freedom depenis on the totality -- ville at the sexe time, the totality Ye dependent on their freedom, Yet we have no im LONGI GE pentng 29th or "carly 20th contiry com Soa ae oura, The proletariat vas then synonyncu the vorking elase,for at that tise the econenis sie wes iplustrial ~” therefore the proletaria ut elenent vided has no pover over ite ovn life, While at the sem tne 1 the source of pover for Gthere =~ vas industrial, But that has changed. Yo! eave, hey proletariat, a proletaring whic met hot work or pover "in order for the systen to Mihction sncothiy. Pit ie thee cyternetio and tutor Bation extras upon vom the systen is being Bilt, Tete those, to lon 1ife ts denied so that others may live, who will carry the new banner — those to Shoe burn, taty, burn 4 the only Logical response. No longer’ will the denands te centered on wages, bt Fetter on potery forthe machines “can ‘do the lor jt the question Se —- Who benefite? As the demad of the imiustrial proletariat vas for workers! com rely so the denand of the ew proletariat vil for onevorkere' control. All pover to the vorker#! and non-verkere' eouncila, for their goale are nt Sontrary but rather the aaaei" ent thy realisation the final victory of mn. o ves — BLACK MASK PO. Ox 512 COOPER STATION NEW YORK, N. ¥. 10003,Culture and Revolution (Se Bourgeois culture is the enemy ar ie the bour- geois system iteel?, Not only the Reubranite and Goethes but the modernists also vill find thenselves on the scrap heap of vestern culture, Our history wrely teaches us hov to succeed at the expente of others, Yo artist can be anything other than the peduate of the business man ani the imperialist. ‘therefore it As not enough to institute a revolution of style and content (which only perpetuates the culture ty giving it new blood): the eulture itself mist te destroyed, For no natter how diseident the revolt, the bourgeotste enjoys it; it creates eub- jects ‘for his magazine culture — he absorbs the oere without living it. Ami so his 1 tisfied by A vhole nev business as rom on the ent of culture announced by Dale ani surrealisn; @ nev slick non-culture, Inctito- tiomalized Dada. Free verse — already declared ob- solete in 1910 by Futurista; happenings — theatri- cized dada acts; "underground" publications (Oracle, E.¥.0,, Int. Times) an art nouvesu religious revived replete vith eainte, gods and gurus (Leary, Cinstere ete.) and the latest gimmick —- the canned’ ornogra- iy of the Fugs end paychedelie profiteering. ‘Though the early novenents (futuriss, Dada, Sur reslisn etc.) vere vital as a spirit, a state of fury, their degeneracy into object art vas already inherent in their safe adaption of the "Jen", All "{sns" and Adeologies are the rendering of thought which is alive into formulae vkich are easy sub- stitutes for real activity. We need to finally clear the air: the "isa" 46 itself the eneny. “Without any reservations the revolution must be entirely aggressive can only be entirely aggre: sive®, A. Ereton/Gouter Attack. And 80 our 8 gression turns on you Andre Breton, You allowed yourself to be canonized; you tho grest declainer ‘of the "high image", But even worse are the defil- ers of surrealism: ‘Satre end Camus, Litterateus inthe "true" tradition, Extetentiglien: a die- guise for nonexistence,” No, Sartre, you vill not be saved by sitting on tribunals in judgement of the vest vale you yourself as philosopher/novelist are the weet, But Camus you disgust us: your death has cheated us out of the pleasure of killing you ourselves, But 1t is not enough to talk: we need to place dymamite at the very foundations themselves, not just tear off its branches, Art as alienation; the Anevitable outcome of « culture (itself the result of « sccio-econcnic aysten) vbtch 18 divorced from real Life, Hothing short of a complete social rev~ olution ean ent the separation which exists betveen culture and life; the tvo are inseperable, Can ve acoopt a regime a8 revolutionary which pays tart— ists" twice as much as workers and this in the midst of & "cultural revolution® (Neots China) or a regime toh celebrates its revolution (7) with « Tebatkor- sky recital attended in full tails by the ruling (Cuba) — or evert more basic can we accept any ayst revolutionary which perpetuates one-man management ae oppoced to collective rule, Can any systen which 18 economically based on hierarchical organization te free from the cultural hierarchy of artists and the tyranny of experts. Yet ve ourselves must not fall into the Either ve are propelled to action or it is ng ‘trap. mean Ywonne DeMigris Anne Ryder Jenny Dicken Everett Shapiro Ron Hahne Carol Verlaan Benn Morea ‘Tory Verlaan Janice Morea David Wise John Were Stuart Wiee (Ta ‘The abowdity of our civilisation has beocee spectacular; even the attenpts to alter it only re- produce that which should be destroyed (destruction Tring the one form Vbich carries its om conelt- sion). To repeat ourselves vbon ve can clearly see the past is nonsense, We must realize, the utter futil- ity of both the political revolution vhich sedkn ‘nov masters "(oot thnrefere nev revelation) and the cultural revolution which changes only the Froduct and not the meane of production. Dada” wao not Dade, dod the Diggers are less than Dada. Their theater “of the streets can te found in Zurich end Paris 1916-1921; having failed then it is already doomed. The mistake remins constant. The entirety of Life aust be changed and theatrice are note ough, Sure "everything 40 free", But hor do. ve wake concrete vbat’ is only ideclogy? The question 4s one of power — Rover over our Lives — and that means vow, eS waite Gurich 1916; Lenin and Taare ches nates, evening cones and they separate, om to ‘late’ Bolshevion the other Dude =— get they ‘were both to be failures in thelr success! on» becoming ‘the politician/dictator the other the post/artist, partial in view they could not be total in result, Bad then — 4t 1s vorse nov wien our dreena and the possibilities of technology are sc close, We must Rot *rcept the repetition ning planed by the Jett “sire to Beloberion) or. the Diggers (Ome ade ve must eee the ateolute necessity for a syn thee one vhich vill leave our culture and etvil- deat ina state tayont repair. One vhich in Sta tote 7 48 the construction/deatruction, thougtt/ ac Posed before only in fragments. BM,Children Protruding from the Earth “Fragments of clothing, books and furniture flew a0 Bigh that all in the vicinity knew the school vas Bomted. ‘Students were blented. Many were buried in the earth. I was amony those buried alive, I vas sug out “later “and” wi ‘There was nothing left trought to consciousness. but a bonb crater, 55 feet wide and 21 fect deer. Everything vat levelled. Farts of the children were protruding fron the earth. We found thelr heads 20 yards avay. Their bowels and intestines were scattered everyulere, Two of my children vere spattered on @ pair tree and bung from It. Children were pressed to the trench valis. Flood filled the trenches, Children clutched ‘their’ books tightly te their chests, The books were emeured in blood and ink. Some of then could speak @ little wnen dug out, Then Blood shot fron their mouthe, due to the!r crusted organs and they died, One Little iri, Hoang Thai Wha, trelve, could only Be recognixed ana identified ty her rubler shoe! Six of the children were too mutilated te be recog= nisable to the parents, One dug out became conscious and asked hoy nany of her friends died before hencr= rhaging. Little Hung's body vas found on top of un Finished poeme he had vritten, along with a notebook of paintings. He had Reprinted from: Bertrand Russell Feace Foundation Bulletin 342 Weot Bi Street New Tork, New York 10024 ss you see dir, they are murdering the children didnt have time to becom..i cant read your pooms jore dir. 4 cant read any’ poems anymore. perhaps ee becuuse i knov you had to ‘return to write them, fyou once asked "how much do we have to give then, before they understand! these are beautiful poome dur. but this 1s not our home, Niite “horses painted black inds/ no holiness, no mysticiem, it is a gane of the universe and {am tired of the illusions, ny wrothers and sisters are weeping and frightened in the darkness of their skulls, I am tired of travel~ ling only to find names in the dust. It is time to move agein lets say invard tovard the city of the Sun, The falcons at our side. So mny wonderful Nords/ in travelling have you noticed any fright- ened spirits of vietnamese children wandering. in the darkness...you see its like they created e fear machine & forgot how to turn it off & now they keep it is tine to move, at night into thelr o convince everyone that fear 18 the SEES ak oh those dnot phd nadve. Love~tne °°, Shilaren wilting vin Jeiuey flower ehilaren west ar the Light of tbe inner cunt. Ghidsrs you ave ite ei) sande of FLinge Like weg | SteiTeking s recent tome of Ho of Ov & 4 Whactante “Hernando, Gontales age 23 killed 44S CTE usae “tigntane. for the freedom of” fe SeaneSy ead’ age 2 deed age 29 dead age 2) “tga SCOMLEY children are being murdered SLOWLY citr BET EEE Slane to scrabble a fev Lines of poses ERE bun.tean you understand? ne matter hor you 35 the gas Gi davwer aoa ie America "we need nie 1 seragtnste hovers painted black for me perhaps’ Wyptiane neod disferent sirages small toete ont Pia tivere./ mase certain you are voll armndjest™ othe guardian of the arte sk then for directions / fimtines they dont know the anowers EMfucc you on to's Merer authority introduction? “Hirnamio Gonzales age 25 48 dead a 23 ie deed see 23 é.a-levy/cleveland ohig Oct 21: A Peace or Totality The present systen of death and oppression camot xint without waging var. U.S. napalm is alreet, failing in Latin America, and’ to” be sure, the Ue government would not. fai short of mapalming Ste oy Eisck "poration, To bring "peace" to Vietnas vill only bring war eisevber: The inpotence ‘of the peace movement. has served Anerica well —~ by channeling poseitie revolutions elonents into a safe form of protestation; by an, Suaging the guilt “of the monster itself, Dut te peace novenent 10 dead! And we mst mke sure It ip Feplaced ty a. living revolutionary movement uhich Will end forever atrocities such ae Vietnam, 300,000 strong "peace marching” within poltee barFictdes “on Sth “Avenue (April 15th) will aceow- plish nothing. Put the 10,000" who broke fros. te Siegen" parade route and marched through the streets of Manhattan to. shov their determination ant defy ‘the police — the Japanese students of the Zengant- en whose forceful demonstrations have totally block ed the streets of Tokyo — the oppressed. peoples of the ghattocs who have risen against the systen — these hold a revolutionary conecloumness no matter how embryonic. ile must develope a tradition of militant deno>- stration. Ferhaps only then vill some of the fut!l- Sty of today's movement disappear. There oan exist no peace under thie systen. But worse, there cen no Feal life! The poverty of life is apparent — the walls are crumbling! Lot us become Revolutioniets. Let us insist tt all pover be in the hands of the people, whether they'be American or Vietnamese, smBLACK MASK 8 JAN.= FEB, 1968 Seem "These swut, sheets, are today's Molotov cocktails throm at respectabtlity and decency in our nation. 1g p,iey encourage depravity and irresponsibility, and they nurture a treekdom in the continued capac. Aty of the goverment to conduct an orderly and ‘constitutional society. Rep. Joe Pool (House Un-American Activities Comm.)The State of the Union and the Dissolution of the State BLACK MASK Soper ST New YORK, N.Y. 10003 a ——— our constitutional aysten ie beconing & shanties ‘and sparcty" (Sen. Kuchal). “Advocating a shift from Sisstht orresistancere onal) tat vortferous boty of Young soi amnature elder ver obiectore. hae been to Thotte acts of anarchy’ thet costa sectrey presiely the valuee eye, "Us" ScvenaStacTe nes Htorlal)s she Pisnt’of Gisest te integral to 8 Eton secietyypctheteioe se lapoce into threey. ‘Bet hore omast. os ainte oo alsoemt aon dt tak fereor thon others “Ue tele ia ny Hoaky MSs "Times, tenasine)s "these pete "am hel, Taste, teeestoe) create eats Fealise verve teen thrcugh aiiticalt protons before SASSO Sneath nner fe te protons Sita’ gar society” not’ "tn "anarghy to oerthrow our systen" (Sen, ‘Robert Kennedy), “Those who use the Promos of Pretident Sehnaon or sf'the Seoretary ef Etats" overyulue they appear ea tn axeote for sistons or violent Lenaeior’ ft soptmperine the Soerinees Srpreselon of dlonent iy trviioy ansnshe, eee sae other things is self-defeating "(N.Y. Times). For tie) pert fou sonthet tia sesetar ot anarshy tas beonted ott flow aetethiohteree tay. Sea he food eld’ days "ct" inpetent dissent”? Dar Maer anyettre gone, Fhe simmer" of Clack reveit Wee ees tie vintef of vile revlstences an)” eitentnn core my youre Seached’ tea pote where beet a eat Ther" Fealetence’becone Soeet Foes "ESCH revelt ond , Bees ot the struggle vit tw tong — snd already the Govermeant 1s seeking, to wupoan thie eave eh the threat of Lamia te gee nomena ut that vill prove ee te a saute edged svord, for the Feveat roe re (took Saute Feeun."Geaddes’ the individual” atte ‘Zy°Pt bas she0 serve in Vietnam and'e greving onster of arefemmlte a riot at Ft, gina the report of “a troop insurrection in tes Rorthern sector of South Vietnam, The troops hers Foor whites have also shoun adice) activity. Nothing more heir interests lie than theis a the Detroit riots and the arre: nipers. The 8 And now, the white iiate threat to the fa real potential for clearly shove where Joining with blacks St of several white ial rebellion: Kennedy ana Fur THIS 15 ABSURD 5 WE DON'T WANT TO BECOME NIGGERS te don't vant no nigger demonstrations: ot op mothers running through the streets. No Stenity Ae pirations. Rurning. Stealing stuff, yi, & . Getting beaten. Whole lot of blacy hi, Wittre 1s Nice : Nice white denonstrations 19 nice: thinking Beings, making decisions, organizing marshalls, tet Bing stile tactice, confrontations with the'g Plas Faking ones Life (sort of) for higher things? ti, of precedents), buliding’» movenenty atanret, oct toate arafty'eey nie tn mh soot Bag Sroeaal anette’ 3 isr'@ fvous alk mar uraps 70 wrcazHoco, Seay on fhe vieh tue of th. TF eet wate ST atte seers ce eee TY watch tn fea," bit athletic, iesckite danse 8 guuvbed stupid, They’have a nigger fate tn store tS then. Getting teat is good for migeerss their ntererhood, Tt fite in with a fun Filthy vely tenamenta. Wegere get. beet eta time. Look at that one, running, caught. seas seying anything... ve could that. “We Imov hat “his fate ie, om and more nigger until he either kills bimself, ort, Eiedi” Gi reece" cnouating “ae, or WE WANT TO PLAY GAMES Games are liberating. Games are Utopian. We become enbodied in doing. One 18 forced to choose betwee, & doing, a doing which dose a doing which does on But doing is a tran mn @ doing which is not not ave the fee) ot ‘their “evel of we 2 doing which tot gand for whieh you get Soul nae Mesh 3 Ho other site: : oaaest Four busted, spite of curecicg ! t8PPed in a nigger tee ie Demonstrations: A Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory exiet as « mei 3 es fg neane of pect the ene 2g OBFaged and seek its de- tnet uneasy juncture: for the a must be reversed hag MASE Save ao subetitute 8 no need for, bour SE Sy Have “Sha ma for, ore to develop a form which has (cont. on back pase)Revolution and Psychoanalysis and Revolution There ete a deply nnted tip between india cad rah Character struct, Neverieeas rerolutbinnts have fed tare mice the sigcane oth for Oe Mihey have Fecognand they ether mites mann or tey ane principle of leadership. ‘ut our problem i preciay the understanding ste rlasonnip howe ssbovonive aspects of eharae lee structre in pers of socal cole to ih he rename af be i wcity ad the rem tree faesioot i Bufice tes Oat De tel te desiricon af helt political suceessot the reveltenary movement. The carrying over of ‘eeply rooted tourgeoie character altitudes into "tye revoationary morement signdies the weshenn oC Ghat punement BA them ts tment faces more than political probleme. or thal the polite! problems are mach deeper than they hare 40 far been understood tobe in Maren theory The burgesie lank between the bourgeois order makes sad paraphrase of Mare’ detamethe reroltonary movement conains within ste te seeds of 1 own destruction; he ld crder 's conned within the womb ofthe (A ths pout we necessarily enter pon the domain of poychoanalyta [As mip be expected. cur enemies are mone other than’ the poche nalysiss themaeives. 18 50 by ‘hance hat poychonaiysia as gone ‘rough as many eolgical spits, polemical intrigues and orgaiaa ‘The same. characterolopical mb: Lomas from carrying to comple tion their attack on the bourgeols ‘oval erder Inhibits anaysietatron, systematically attaching the boar rote enaracter structure. TParthermece, there is 28 i: tereay ensential relaonship be tween character atrvcture and Social structure, Upon te spe esis of these two modes of Ife fepends the fate of he revolutionary ‘Wiltelm Rated took wp the revo Nionary challenge implicit in the ‘lnsal findings of payehoualyss For the frat tine poyehoanays Tet the parlors of the bourgeoisie td entered the streets ofthe pole arial teas wo longer 2 theory esting on # foundation of lusery Indian, Dt linked tell 9p itn the great social struges of be Kime. To Belch the revolstions, puvehoanalyiawaa eaningess 8 fess it helped to. comprehend te tevgale agaist eataism;t0 Reich (he acess, peychoanalyss was npn coald mt help explain the adios of wei e, Resc’s paychoanyic ever ext ot wave. arias was crtcted for ts future to understand esther ase neurotic steing ota pal. Seal implications Mariam, had ‘laimed to strut on beni ofthe paressed, yet the oppression of ly 1de--the sexs! misery the pasenwa pote ton ther Marne Ory or Marxist racic. Ath same time Maram ad acarcelyunerstodthe basi lor ‘masa submission to ponerty and op Pression, ani bad been ierenn con emaed to stumble ie rong Since the key to submaaiveneys lay lathe cdeiiting ft reo Marnism tached 4 revounary ‘nthe ober hand, paychoanayaie Seriously the problem ul the gre eation of the neuron Analy ‘ere taking thelr bourgwoi patent ‘by ones an woe while perce by {he teas ofmlion were tng pe iced oy parents, aductone and ‘lita The duaterovs tela ‘souditons of eat society con lered of ia Hs tals, ae the source ofthe aeurosen therapy "hich vores thi emt ony ofa ‘nowt o Homan sinuicanee; more Important, ach an toni per spective neva becomes a lgtel prop for the exiting crder Wo have new come tothe croxof the malar; the development ota Alecia! wadermtanding har ctr and social troctere This tut explain the deasterou flare ft Marner and socialism as well fs develop 4 revoltionary ander ‘standing of bung hamas The Laer aust at became merely 2 problem {ote solved ater te revatio, a Reich esd to pat tn i earlier ‘wove. ater, the revoltonary Conception of sexuality most become the active priteple of Be reralae onary movement The latter mut Straggle to break down the repres- sie. siructres ip Roel Bal beep ‘wot only from lig, bat from te evolutionary stragle itll In the ast analysis, ony tat ewe to express the actual noes of lle inte daly exilence- tal la one Thich reverses the dyamic af re. breasion in ellcan accomplish te necessary eestruction of class ‘The content of class society can te expres in the comfortable ‘et tat human Le Is perverted in every sphere ofits actin, think tng a wel as doing, hating 28 well Ab toring, seeing 48 wel a felng ‘Mara, nhs erty wriigs, toeveed ‘ons perrernion Allerton wae ‘tor hin he deliberate epee al intellectuals 8 peychouaysis bas reveled to athe bikers unathod depth and Alnor limitless exensons ol he repression of fe in caplet $0: claty we may in good conscience ape 8 he em ager tceraep ation ie fees Wa ead concrete “he perversions og ae wt wimatcal hey are eget parts Cavey aba wile Tae ct at Certain plogie (eich are ly perversion oie) ape fo a {hme icra ay bag eat nrucur eset oan segoene tein of rere ‘onan ells erly rose ers ‘onprtnding ne pete! misery Lou vo. Selim ad era oneptione long Suna aresinom ting Sis Tolle ersore hat ‘onenporary socalis in tie Imorethan sab schoo tours concen of toed of toma tringe nou ast hw to ft bet the parent ede an Curses Only oni aie fpantetosregetor our owe ib. Tereowe, te driving fro INtomaticalyossoming fot Felteal sre, bt Taber Oe Contadicon vee De fousiy {ting han td he ea of qereroeneottentn eco sry We maya at ceowene ‘sey i od p wih an feng, bts oly slr ase ‘ort fel tml a human at Secearie opteat by sana ‘eottion “his trend sn Marae ought Mas teen ctiterated bye tloescenoe {fogoa and ean nthe soe ‘Siovenent, th etty ork e'to te found the element of 3 ‘evolionry maga! peony {he lars fo develop auth er Coley cena te hare ingen De ur are ceseribed ionton ia tuman tera, bt he exldon deeay be economic nse sei esrectere et enaracer” tod werewin he ner sre of tocnty tae -remained unepered ‘hun, wb expla he eam Felaoncip of human binge oe rode of their enrages labor, ‘Marna dogeneratd lt econo ‘nai wot ning ene Sarnia tev scmtne cape 25 the enue of revlon, be toy sever under oe al tecalapse cf Sytem, ands Cllr o any the neds of eahae cosmetic, seer oto at Tad tothe cone seiousoas oe aed deroy ‘stan rs apo olen, tte determi contct of aaaton fo smoprean Tate i Ova ay ie areedy a eyamic siguticnce ‘Tee revolsionry pte os theory of rereetion i ay ian ort lint, n enat ye wpe cre: tetera Put our efor undermined ty lune a wopuage, And language ts ‘ot the only rant king bla suite The torror of all our pat Siclgy tea teen separa td ie deaying as ie anne 4% (Reet of somoen nl Seal Int, 20 crated tne misery of Ser wn ive, brow thrall femal nto he conceptions and me ‘hose of the lsersion movement ae The teagay eal at we te tr vas lersion the Content was repression ‘Tes etn downy bck ‘othe tay langnge stb made {odasteoy sel ve mart lind tony © commenting cur feng ot Dodies,uberting al he siete snd orialcateporin tat bare fo tar on been agers rer Sion hore peciy, we wat bo feareclthemgnficance sien iC tenes: Ri ali ny sat faeaaweare evaaved yeas veeare mt Wve congrehend ie reanrect cur tiesto the Eletcen of turgeoserder (ever Sites, the conten for thf, serecton in he devcipment of 2 Toh and are angen “te” Thecontion of Lteraton ‘nthe presente mci i maton ode hin so becuse OF he slur a regret tae At atemat ot nia ers ‘berets sealy tl Vcnore the Srotare. mt of son mysteries tener neurotic tendency whch us tn timerey exer Flaten a ‘tat nome oes sll The prestrilie of Frew and Mechs work is tat proces trom theremin tat something ae been represand.forgten, almost teat Nisa aqueston state tes at prcentge of women are {eg or bow many pepe are Cll tandeagped ty arroaes? tow mary alr leno eco gat leon?” These are conepions of ‘taper. bart prcoloy ree an Rech wt tach eper Not sgl hur lg we ‘ised tputnaril ttre Estar si ouch wh te fates that sony Ime Bava critique of the teareeot rae tall The mans sie. he eri teens pete to beso came fsser tn Ingeraist arse ont Sea ae miter ace oo a. trical at are inevtale 3c tere of represen Tor Fred ann, masochism reed muetiness,ubmacieess, Stgressie moray. scare re Sela repression fun ex Salty The mum tot of these ‘haracteraicrarcrsel describe twurgeois society Cinaaton, according (Freud, Yas based ot fuck regression Therefore evolutionary plete clear: the Uberatin of feo ound opi the destretion of ciniination rwDemonstrations: (cont, from page two) mening and content for the masses of working and poor then we must think and act as revolutionists end not as outraged moralists). We must speak to the suppression of their lives as related to the oppression of others (e.g. the poorer vhites will put up lese opposition to black "riots" than to the Npence" movement — they understand the firet as a revolt against a suppressed life vhereas the latter de an exercise in bourgeois morality). But the re verse is not, a8 some would suppose, to concentrate fon an anti-imperialist struggle; not because we are pot anti-imperialist, but for the masses within the Yelly of imperialism this can only serve again as pourgeots morality. The essence of revolutionary a tee aa tee Sa eae Se tetas occa tonite enn esp iat ‘tut a question of identification: ve are the dom- trodden, And the most advanced form of “demonstra- Serene vale anette eee apenas eS ee renee Sr ye rta eres in a way which contributes to that emi. Not by re- fusing to join the struggle because it hasn't reach- arta a eee | Sees) pees gia leva ctey ot tin yresth tyone” inarehtp Re ens ag erersbae sop oe ee Tee ae ray tay aoe stantly expressed the fear that the demonstration Stanly exrenned te fone uae ote aed ais ove am Fomae of oe ee ce centred hereto ve some, of, te Sete, wpreumect ieorebionly ty coud 2c MP Se Mean eer hing, ‘The government understands this better | $Bdas” he goverment wer ety ee can ver eta Ntarded by 8,000 troops, 20,000 troope guarded the city of Wadtanghon iets, 7, Seren © te ere cent Mak ty 0 es Sets ry ted te aks Chuggle. Here the emphasis = etree, Hes Oe ete oP ak rene, Ty aoc hig a a at y gov ety ot or oe tat ia aioe moet iaetnanns sae Ta eee of SO SE ae Fo stutota Ht to The only value this cere there are still other pos Troteoe te satus, Sat 2 atanene tere CRSTSE an terd fot SE, te sae ts, Conversely EE scm fora of sotal revent whieh trenscents both Wev'tna pouitics. a. Fragments % Revolutionary Totaii, Y (Q) ‘he "poverty* against vnich man bas been consis, struggling, is not merely tbe poverty of ga." goods; in’ fact, in industrially edvanced cou. the disappearance of material poverty has rey ‘the poverty of existence itself. In cyber soolety it is the mediocrity of existence; ty ti privation of « real or social life: intellectual, enctional, ‘the impoverisinent of every "™l mension and every monent of man's existence, ae finelly defines the conteuporesy weaning o¢ ‘it “poverty” of our lives. because the poverty against vhich ve are strug)! is total: it is the repressive orgeniaation of 1 in ite entirety; depriving us of the opportunity ¢¢ be fully human, And vhen it ie life in its entizet, (iterelly the planet and species) thet is degreint by an encompassing culture predicated on Death, tim the only struggles hich ve can afford to’ cal) Npevolutionary” are those vhich seek revolution jy ‘Totality: the creation of a nev life in a nev en, ‘vironment vhich we ourselves must construct, We have teen forced to seo that vherever the revols. tion of ideclogy appears totsucceed” it reveals thet it is not revolutionary at ell: {t does not ‘the context or content of life. Bvery historical change, at best bas been radical reform: Jacobinton, Bolshevisn, Molen or Castroismo: all have reorguy. ved men's Lives in one or a few of their aspects, ‘wat they fear the transformation of life in its entirety videb begins vben men dare to rule their om Lives — the ap-srchos (Greek), meaning without rulers. . 411 of part revelutionary thought bas been confiont to the jrotleas of dividlog the eurplus of ater ext Sietettuting the scarcity ef goote and seredoes, for thom the bert form of sotiety" evened to be the Lin of scoleLion veh ‘cane ap! vith thw moet ration! Showers to these questions,” And becuase of ts te SEtinte cil of nis "pection of actos tt seretegy, van the protien of veining povery eat teatrol of the deckeion maliag process (pelttice) 12 order to Tecorganiae society “according to iieclog”. But the very basis of revolution has changed, ani only the general consciousness lags behind: ve have not dared to dream high enough, seeking only te eras? that vbich is inmediately beyond our reach, and thus succumbing even in our nost subline moments, to the limitations which have been tmposed upon us from outelde by those vho manipulate our lives; those wbo once dared to call thenselves our "Masters" Our problen is not the selmure of paver and tht establishment of socialism: for we have teen forced eine ‘het vhat is revolutionary about change 1° fiat monls tegin to take control of their ov 1 me struggle to throw off that which suppresse® mm. For the present the ultimate tactical questi: mut be, act the selmure of” power, wit it? EVOL RTOW BOOLNS' OREN PEOPLE TARE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LIVES, ‘the TOTALIST FO box 698’ Stuyvesant Sta, WIC 10009 aBLACK e.10 APRIL Blin Jade “EVERYONE CAN BE A DADAIST tn Berlin 1918 Huelsenbeck broke with Zurich and Paris Dada sa dynamic revolt, Dada could not be eategoreally bound, Least Saito the category of abstract art info which Tzara had led ‘Zorichand Paris introduced the tradition of fashionable mil use on-art. Berlin Dada, placed on a revolutionary basis, trans ended soa-art ima totaly undlferentiated attack Every form of revostionary subversion was encouraged: hysteria, “madness, abuse, back humor ete. It was a series of immediately compre hensible activities within the reach of everyone, ranging {20m spontaneous nonsensical gestures to photomontages, which like the crossed eyed portrait of Beethoren are In the most obvious tad ae. Berlin Dada at is best recognized the self-defeating function ofan art which appealed to freedom locked ina formal prison;for art puriies, through catharsis, what should be seized directy-- Ife, An alienated seriousness can only respond tothe tstheties of detached observation, Intuitively, Berlin Dada was die t the deathof all art as expression sublimated into paling music, theater, writing, poetry, film etc. All sacrosanct activi reswere magnificently negatedandreal ie recognizedand aif By Lite early Surrealism, although on a more direct, day today level, Berlin Daga caught the scent of apocalypse-- the end of all thote thousands of years of unculture-- repressed with genius the end of history tho assassination of fixed time-- the end of auxiely-- the third great turning point in the worl fara an event in geological history second: the beginning of eveilization thard:the highest point of eividization(return from alienation) Feraclus; “Homer should be turned oot of the ranks & flogged” Hucluenbeck; “What is German cultere? (Answer: SHIT)" Pythagoras: “beans are the cause ofall revolutions” Huelaenbeck: “Riots in the vegetable market” Surrealists and Shamans become inseperable. ‘THE ABSOLUTE REFUSAL & THE GREAT WORLD REVOLUTION Beyond this is the dawn of a paradise of delight: where our assionsepring Live in adieruption of our homes, food, temests, rotorvays; the point at which Marinett’s “the earth our sky, the stars ocr pavements”. and Rimbaud’s “feed hungers on meadows 1 sound meet (continued inside) BLACK MASK 5 Conts Lasime Tushinde Mbilashaka 4H. RAP BROWN FROM PRISON Parish Prison New Orleans, La waves clog manish contiuing tite ote Ide and oe ‘Dit of manhood with every stale comps wet le compromise tothe at any power in which one does not believe : No slave shld die avast deat There s44 pln where cs ton ends and cowardice begins, oe a For everyday Lam impr Ssoned 1 will refuse toth food and water. "seferthliterai os my peopl, My thirt for the Tams politcal pr folie privner, je lr my bei that Black ima te ire The Government hs takers patios tae eae fascist nature: Those who we cannot convey aad suse, ‘Ths government tas ot ha Death ean no tnger ser Death has teen the on fe must open others (ontinved inside)Berlin Dada ton) Berlin Dada sought deliverance {rom an intolerable world in the healing {reney of direct possession, Not art but all the organs: of individuality: hearing, tasting, feeling. touching, selling 4 super sensuality--the prolonged kiss and the handshake, dream ‘ing, day-dreaming, play perversion, discase, stealing (ust take hangs, they're free ), madness, hysteria, and tiolence.- “The ‘only adequate form of expression” p> __Wasthe barbaric disintegration which is poetry of tomorrow “refuse o procursor of the ‘examine the pros and cons of 1) aes mis» Johann Baader:schizophrenic, becomes the key Ligure of Berlin Dada. He «s Tzara’s “Ldvt” transcended the Tot Madman Guer Mla in Life--the man without aim or prospects, the lowest” of al, the shit of America, Tzara, the man of letters was horrified be ‘cause Baader 18 for real, Confronted with the non-intelligence of Raalcs, Tara who said “intelligence 18 tobe foundon the streets" ‘wap appalled. Hugnet wrote: "Baader's was a special case of coming to the revolution through individualism and madness! Baader rides a white horse into Parliament . Baader de realizes death death the most potent form of soctal coercion) in a ‘magnificent flight from taste and personal responsibility: Inviting 3,000 peuple to his wife's funeral (whom he loved dearly}, smiling he shaves off half his beard while her body 1s lowered into the grave. This act 1s equalled only by Franz Jung's hi-jacking of 2 German battleship as a present for the embarrassed Russian Bol sheviks ‘This 1s Berlin Dada. Like everything else twas forced to die when the revolutionary prospectsdied and its energy wasdiverted into the foreedacceptance of old forms, But at one point their cul tural rejection extended to al ideology (bourgeois and orthodox Marxist), Some like the bruthers Heartield and Herzefelde were DISCIPLINEDto work with Spartacus the most libertarian of past proletarian movements). Ext the rest, rejected by ‘professional political’ revolutionaries as ‘voluptuaries! were too radical for their time PATENT MEDICINES FOR EVERYTHING. LENIN? ALITTLE CHEMIST (W Meneine) Huelsenbeck’s programme-- a fantastic flip into the present called for “progressive unemployment” ina situation where mach Ines would do all the work, and where man, for the first time ‘would be free to “ullil himself”, In an avtomated environment froctine jassive leisure;levsure as relaxation, the interim state ‘remains antagonistic to positive fll meee Tae the Holly woadization ot the exd of high culture. The wesnuve consumer leisure denunded from media hike TV. fm, Pelgctry cle Tiss the insttutionaligation of emptine t= from Nutt mesa. msie aed painting, dancing and fun fm and thea er mehtlese sallatable chairs and coloured ripple sculpture fut the movelty wears off and "new" and mare “daring? eifects are ouht alter the rataun dtee of free" TW, Hree? cinema, lane eam 3D. Draw linea in your mind ue tartisically® programme LETTER FROM PRISON (cont) ur wiit to lve most no longer supercede Our WH to fay ie fighting wil determine WF our Face shall re, Ty gy Freedom is not enough re ioe ae one 6 arene tam ec pola (am tar dAnd for every Black Death there must be a Dien Bien Phy, ee ee parse ae el cel ool ee pare yourself both mentally and physically, for the maygp Ur avatems. The laws to govern you must be made by yoy. > oem pe" ainal the begining Of Te et fo y chary io what East ost of the love for my people. ym SOE TO AMERICA eee see ee ey le ee ee aap calla pen oer rear oa Seuatt nee or occ ioe ea, ee wy hae! bat ny Sout belongs to MY PEOPLE Taina sean binisioes (We sal Sommer 1804 ong H. RAP BROWS Fea (controlled yatses of course, isolated onanistic games andobsc tequations), Neurotic regression to childhood hobbies: a le an playing with an eleetric train ot that, ‘freely’ move through your own alienation: fr poet to fti-maker, to Lather, 1 architect, to big Busitess, Ta ppseude mat Ath point an histary, the ‘popular* success of Bertin Dads ve assured. It is louted from anti-universities through the under round press, to the lush art ma und the Havana cultural ck ‘Al the world will sun be able ty accept the distrte ‘maj of Berlin Dada, Synthetic play in exchange far the teaasior nation of a serie existence ity lived creativity. A closed wil Uf game olyects(e s aseball and the mode! electrve tran) 383 substitute forthe free play as Ide sselt But it could be inno other way. Late industrial soeiety mi constantly seek tw control and absorb radical aggression. i an tverready state of total mobilization against all possibilities. poisons Ide from the cradle to the grave But Berlin Dada released a libidinal energy capable of re lotumizing realty. With the conditions for freedom (a m02-¥1 based society) within our grasp, the play instinet is the ascend! ‘rineiple and the vehicle of Liberation. ‘Thus. what Huelseabe wrote in 1918 requiFes further elaboration “In Germany. Dadatsm became politica, «drew the altirale fonsequences ofits position and renmunced art completely And now we must pass thevugh the end of art ante pies ‘equipped with the play instinct in order to destroy politics B® the sensuousness of the Wve play snatinct which presuppises + ‘Total Revolution in fe, perception and feeling David & Stuart Wise L008" Does, ar a BLACK MASK P.O. BOX 512 COOPER STATION NEW YORK, N. ¥. 10003The New Proletariat: Nigger as class In Sept, "67 (see Black Mask no. 8, Oct. -Nov, '61) we carried an article on “The New Proletariat” which attempted to place the rents of that summer Into an historieal context (the emergence at's new revolutionary class) and to begin the needed processot ferotuionary coherence: that which could propel revolt to 4 level ‘there theory and practice could be unified - in revolution (until that unification we will continue to have revolts but no revolution; sdeology but no ideas). The effort 18 even more difficult now because we are writing before the fact, and time is running out. ‘The struggle has rea- hed a point of advanced confroatatiéa but the revolutionary pro- ‘ese has only begun to unfold. No popular (as opposed to politic~ i) form of organization has yet emerged which can carry on that ‘Those heroes who burned down Detroit have not yot ‘No counterpart snrugele ‘found the organizational expression for that act to the asvemblies of the Paris Commune or the Soviets (Workers CCouncila)of the Russian experience have yet emerged. There has ‘urban guerilla ~ but none on the been some discussion of tactics social forme which can make the revolutionary transformation: yet both are crucial - how to defeat “the man” and how to replace him, The bourgeois system is disintegrating and a vacuum is being created - but if we are not able to fill it, then they will be able to bold on (though only temporarily): and we will be dead. From Revolt to Revolution ‘Rrengiien this consciousness that we mucceed. We must expand the posatlitienof thie clans ind spread ite socal view: the ques ton of "Nigger" tranacende race and becomes one of ela CObriourly, at thi point in Ameries, that class ie most clearly black (with some white drop-osts) but hopefully will spread Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and finally poor whites, Malcolm X, ofall the blacYlevolstioniste, waa closest to this realization (that ie why be was Killed), He aw the need for “black” community and “black” organization (nationalism) and woud not compromise this for synthetic alliances - but he also gence of other revolutionary communities and Fecognized the ‘would not dey thet existence, "But the concept of Black bower fan in its search for “Ideology” go in an opposite direction =i ‘may ignore or Feject an historical and class consciousness and ‘may seeblack” as pigmentation per. se.» rather than as pigment tion in context of white racist civilization, and that would be tragic: or a *Nigger” is a nigger first and biack second. “When you live in the same kind of hovse, eat the same kind of op ‘watch Your children die when they're young oF sufler due to no education when they're old - and somehow not feel as tadott as “the niggers” because your skin is white, then you are victims of one of the vilest, eruelest hoates aver perpetrated against = people.” (Bob Analavage in the “Southern Patriot”). Jn a recont speech, Stokely Carmichael hit on an extremely ‘crucial point - he expressed what was moat important but applied {tim a totally backward way. "When you talk about alliances you recognize you form alliances with people who are trying to re build their culture, trying to rebuild their history, trying tore ‘build their dignity, people who are Lighting for their humanity.” Here is the essonco of revolutionary struggle; the struggle to be hhuman. But then he says, “Poor white people are not fighting for their humanity, they're fighting for more money. There are 4 lot of poor white people in this country, you ain't seen none of them rebel yet (our emphasis) have you?” The answer te plain they have yetto see the possibility of being human -and to the de- Gree that they do, 0 the revolution will emerge amongst them, ‘They must first see they are “Niggers". They must define their ‘own values and sub-culture which can struggle against the Amer Jean plastic death; and when this consciousness has spread so too ‘will the rebellions. ‘Then Stokley’s own answer ag to why blacks Febel, becomes aloo our best answer: “Do you think its because {ts Just poor Jobs? Don’t believe that junk the honky 1s running down. 1s not poor jobs - ata a question of a people fighting for their humanity, for their humanity, FOR THEIR HUMANITYI™ And there lies the revolution or is possibility. “UP AGAINST. ‘THE WALL MOTHER FUCKER!” BM,Revolution as Being eciaim a hee got rvoltion wo far ements wen Pe able Fevco-l toh A word Coe eat com oe say be rich in meanings So Tno a mere word. We agk, what Fra ton, herr, eet er eat ee ise content of Dat Toronto tate of our Bene Gopende Sonamers Dees eee Te uenion of what we are and wha we weal eeomesthe ef oh pee es he ma mg rom the oppression ofthe masses, bt woo ie cnet of a renin FA me imran sn Oe remit oti a Bg, a en ova ise men ‘Siig eo ih mit taht cea ent a ow mts er Beceem iin enlace on Dane See emanate ene i arg eee ere sa A THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION 1S THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION but why sa the sexual revolution the proletarian revolution? ‘The proletarian movement in the last analysis is distinguished ‘trom that ofthe working class; and even, in a fundamental sense, Ishostile (0 st. thes becomes all the more necessary to dia. inguish between the {wo when In our radical subculture proletar. fan ia taken a8 synonymocs with working class. The latter after ail is only a category of political economy. As such it revesiea Geep passivity when confronted not by the bourgeoisie (toward ‘whieh the working class has always shown an egalitarian hostility) but by bourgeois civilization. The transformation of the working Clase into the proletariat takes place therefore not in the realm of political economy, but in the realm of Being. If our use of these ferme difere somewhat from Marx's, st 18 still cloee to his early 1644 ideas, ‘The working class, by virtue of ite exclusion from the more aytematic atructure of sublimation that constitute bourgeole oo ciety, baa open to it the possibiity of discovering Being. But the first stage of this discovery is the grasping and comprehending of that exclusion. This for Marx 19, albeit implicitly, the transfor ‘mation to the proletarian outlook. For us, however, more is re (quired: the proletarian outlook 1s not simply the grasping of al ation, but the intuition of Being, or at least of the possibility of Being. It 1s out of this ooil that our Revolution grows. For us, the object of trade union struggles is to destroy work the object of ghetto struggles to destroy the ghettos; the object of ‘student struggles to destroy the schools. And how is this to be done? Is it not Utopian? True, our aim is the destruction of reality, and thus we are Utopian--aa Utopian as Detroit. Our Revolution can begin, even in thought, only under condi- ttons of the collapse of civilization. This condition is fulfilled to diy. The garbage heap affectionately called America by some, ‘is disintegrating into its component piles of crap; it 18 a profound ‘metaphor thatthe garbage workers refuse to collect the shit. In ‘numerous union struggles Being hae begun to leave traces of its ‘existence: strikes are now transcending their ostensible demands Being is everywhere at stake, yet it remains in ahadow, concealed by economic demands. To bring st into the light, to struggle on behalf of Being--thie is our goal Revolution 1g Sexuality ‘ampling civilization. eM w sing of & century tha “The Left is dead, rea as Imovement fr grace 48 ME ONE ie pg Gn the other aide of the wiolent lobe ate wast iy? Shere. the so ealled “Hippies” Mave stage theresa gee Br iippie devoted son of MABE Eda, TL Ashigg eet < eee No auch equivalent wilt us ase Mion to organize & fight, No such e ites. But this is because Itself strongly among wh the non-economic im eat AEE BIO bees day rst nant are concave m4 anergy, man demands on environment. & now freed from labor py ct thvomrpen of rentmty. Hove € cial ane rege, there, 000 yr old repression. But man, the beast, doeg mst himsei nhs desire & fears tem. FOr te momen ef Ma, fed wnat te partial incomplete a Bu amoune force ne ate eo e760 BY My gag, aaa ere etutre of he movements ta hy, eee ceeacae? jane ani are Mined i mash ROE, invoke them on the street. From the black struggie a biagy aa sone aSeeli an the repronsed mpage eet, hich must complemen! the “pple Uberaton of oa Impulse love eich shoveduathvdalectc- Th rerokag St simultaneously on several levels (psychological & tactical) tas how to be revolutionary includes learning how to move i 4% onary way, ™ @ Wepaletaces mas become consciovs of ourselves asparte tap, rejected clags-- we are not White -- but merely Light (ign ah brothers): because itis soul & not pigmentation that defines tne sn thie struggle. & what is necessary now for the Black commen As much as the potentially revolutionary Lights, 1s th fasion ay, 4 sill fragmented revolutionary movement intothe cohesive ‘hich will free us all: the growing milltantism of the so called, Lett” must not be aeperated from the social - sexual contends, “hippies” or from the armed Black cadres. likewise Bla sy defense & guerilia struggle need to be united w/emerging revi, ary Lights in a common recognition of the need to destroy the a (eat political liberation, the end of politics), ae well as aboities bourgeois commodity values (real economic’ liberation, the end ‘scarcity economies)& the abolition of bourgeois social. sexu mie (reat cultural liberation, the end of repression) a We are thru being assimilated: we will no longer make objects ow Artis ife/our mediumRevolution/tin a world basedon represent ‘our only message is Liveration. Our function is te make ote bat oueierstnant, shah ad a Tetotist P.O. boxt98, Stuyvesa, NoYey Nex. Loo ootnt sta. —« The Panther does not ai tac they kill the Hyena" “*e*°* the Lion tut togetherA new spirit i, Le ‘S rising. Like the streets of Watts we burn with revoluti ‘on. We assault your Gods -- We sing of your death. DESTROY THE MUSEUMS -- our struggle cannot be hung on walls. Let the past fall under the blows of revolt. The guerilla, the blacks, the men of the future, we are all at your heels. Goddamn your culture, your science, your art. What purpose do they serve” Your mass-murder cannot be concealed, The industrialist, the banker, the bourgeoisie, with their unlimited pretense and vulgarity, continue to stockpile art while they slaughter humanity. Your lie has failed. The world is rising against your oppression. There are men at the gates seeking a new world, The machine, the rocket, the conquering of space and time, these are the seeds of the future, which freed from your barbarism will carry us forward. We are ready -- LET THE STRUGGLE BEGIN, BLACK MASK Benn Morea Ron Hahne Everett ShapiroCASO 1) WAASNIN a PasFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OO EDIATE._ RELEASE, Om Monday, October 10 at 12:30 p.m, we will close the Museum of Modern Art, This symbolic action is taken at a time when Anerica is on a path of totay destruction, and signals the opening of another front in the world-wide struggle against suppression. We seck a total revolution, cultural @8 well as social and political —- LET THE STRUGGLE BEGIN. BIACK MASK P.0, Box 512 Cooper Station New York, N.Y, 10003 Additional copies of enclosed statement available.en othe Ie Army #86 ai actin as antinar demonstrators rush the Pen tagon doo, 8,000 TROOPS: “WE'LL KEEP THOSE MOTHERS OUT” ! LIKE HELL! WE'RE IN AND WE'RE STAYING IN ! ago vas een oles; Your ctl are Be lye» ier level of strule pent TM Pes White ran acy may yet eee om Newark an Detrl Oakland, Msa- crate gto oe way. What reveled sen ne comet ok mas srg aunt is ae organiato of. Like Zngazen ciara tte panom sr0tres of power orm i tem agin te assed frees of des vest ovate hr by eetrosig tel sete omnitence, This he mathing oo wih See, mace demonstration OF even ‘ounces aresin, the beginning of el cee soagtes Te pace morement dead At least death is on our sie, ‘The militancy of the struggle was mitigated at first by the 12 clock deal of the official demonstration ‘eadersbit." The simple truth of the matter was that Washington belonged to us, but we did not take At, did ot try to transform the eity Into a garden of spontaneous liberation: like the pentagon - painted & devastated - raped & immortalized by the spray cans of the revolution: “ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE” ‘But few came prepared, came consciously, and few- er still have let with a conscious understanding of what they personally experienced, or the naked bru tality ofan un-masked establishment beating the shit cot of its “protestors.” But the DC & US gover. iments were more conscious than the demonstra'ore ofemerging revolutionary agression: black white ang rred against the total apparatus of the state: police, federal marshals, paratroops, MP's (even soldiers have cops). Fear has been cast out by those who fought. They have transcended the alienation of the police inspired fear of freedom - of freely living. ‘The events have drawn their own conclusion: to und- erstand is to be able to see that conclusion. It is not enough to say this was different than past demon. strations: we should know why, 0 that it can be ad- vanced further. The Mobilization Committee's goals were never meant to be successful, and could only lead to the passivity of symbolic arrests. Hell no, we wort go! And that includes jail (unless unavoid- able). If we can march to the pentagon we can march through the pentagon. But new tactics are necessary: the first group to break through charged a lightly guarded area - violating the “rules” of the planned event. ‘The pacifists go to the front door where the cops are waiting - the revolutionaries go to the back door and break in. Our goal is to win, not merely to confront. LEARN, BABY, LEARN to BURN, BABY BURN. TOTAL STS ord BLACK MASKFreedom is not a t from Captain Fink The hippies have become victins of ‘their own ideology. In their rejection of the grand spectacle — Hollywood/Medison Ave./America — they have accepted @ spectacte no less destructive, one which substitutes synthetic pley for real life, while et the same tine they heve become tools of those Seeinst whom they have supposedly rebelled. They have been added to the rostrum of "stars" vho exter tain the corpse of the Bourgeoise, a corpse vhich seeke to remake the world in its ovn image, Baby, you heven't dropped out —- you've been forced out because this goddam system is rotten, But whet they will never allow is for us to remike our lives, because thet will signel their end: they mst instecd attempt to either recoup our revolt by making it into @ spectacle which reaffirms their vitelity vhile it dreine oure or they will seek to crush us, And ve must fight either. The one ty refusing to "pley their ganes" while real life is denied, the other ty open strugele. "If they want to play Nezis, ve ain't go- ing to play Jews", And so our struggle crosses thet of the blacke and together we can tear this shit dom, The American Indian wes forced onto reservations (concentration camps) he did not retire there to smoke and groove. Life cannot be limited to a "reserve" specified by those who seek to control us. We must decide where and when we will live, play or die, otherwise our freedom is a lie, Black MaskPr ” Flower Power? On May 30th the police assaulted a group of 300 people in Tompkins Sq. Park. Was this only the beginning? Two days earlier tanks passed through the lower east-side. Vietnam, Santo Domingo, Harlem, Watts..., Their struggle is our struggle. “FLOWER POWER WON'T STOP FASCIST POWER” Black MaskSe? 18 RISING, LU ME once detober 19, 1966, A tarduh of yg guys tnd gla, having atalked up fre Feu Tosk's Lover Zant Side scatt- ring esflete calling for Bie cloware of the Moses of Mer At stopped suet outeLde the Museun entrance by» waole Phalene of cops ant easboussiere, The story had leaked, 1 on the DalL as ever, had ened a nev and weny aval type of ‘rest sont before aeyone eens the capa at Least bave pot it clear goat oe wise Act La os. the Uireotor of the thse (Iarpeet cillation of ata sn the weels) ot on the atepe, wringing his lands, almoot fn vars, only too anxious to please iy are you doing this? He haven't secon arte. The group, unmaacs of Berore tie, clea Sack Mas ext, eerly one romney bark Dalaslava noods pulled down to thet ye cxwoked eietue seals skewered on ales, Hack Yas, aves to 25, arched frox Canal Steeet down Loner Sretuay to Wat) tre suitor deal in a oteok exsharge of tion evranaboya slain sbfoundeds the only people to avt seally aptiatt vere, pretictably ecoughy alas, a grovp of trotuhtproles veo howd up. A relative ep, al in alt. too uch eub-Conmittee of 100 ataft = fete. In fast all Hack Mark's easly fexperioeate with Provontype tactics were far sore trenchant and original wen a>plied to the eulture seen. Tt ‘us offtotal lepertaental! art rather ‘an official leftving rolstion that they'd Broken ost of. a gute... sd thay loathed That fivet year Blase Mask aeised every jossible opvertunsty of eid wp culture. Thay ooved So at eccent notice and saprovised as thay vant long. They heckled, Alsrusted and fevoerally embotaged dozens of art 0) Decturee, exsihé tions, spentnga. Ror a group that baled ‘cvartan and Dada as 186 ony 6 tye of alt was aia reteicaily onrosed to the oereanent, ultiedinnonional novolutlontaise of naessate experience dezarded by all Protabiy reat roterloue secapete wo the wresehng of the feday aaration seotnar on Modern Art srenaoned by the owe Stulont centee, Howla of ARD 1S 24D, SO THE MESES, BABY, and PORDRE 15 RAVLOTION, Tablee kicked cover, vindort exasbed, oe lee rowing cut. larry Rivers roughed wp a Dit so the beat Patariat samners The woreticnl ciseraion ~ "Pick off, you cunt" = equaily worthy of the venation ‘action wasn't slew to follow. In uot 48 vas the one ayatanatio atteapt the official avantearie sade to deal with then that allowed Slack Haak to pall off ets neatest ainele coup. A ane) of exverte on Puburtem, Dada of Sureabian atvertiged a "Trap for Black Mask? throughost the Tederaround (oto) press: e saupedup panel fuacuseion on the te revolution ‘etnirg of totem arty a Balt te which ‘hey iragitud, sorseotly, Bask Pasi ag bound to cise. Tay alto se barpthy, that thet ow emalltion and lt wae euch that SUaGk Pasi could only be pat dom, really ari, onee anf for all, Blane Yank exc led thaaselvae, ‘They run oC thouannds of puseably well printed ioveat ety five pasty = free aoun fove foody free boone = same tie suse place as the seb, a handed the out to thewt nares a te Tore a tue te ota un we comets erognel snternittently oe ot ne on Hak a MN vent lone the 2408 cotrackand Serre cole souersand (8 eateen, posticon cou dod the art ad etter coud Thoma the vslence. The ru va eat with hy te momma] avantensde fectigue of tepresaion: allente tm te neta, prusent wALEPO of facies oves the vealonage oocktasle, ot that slack Mask vaan't pretty an warvsegaable vies 4¢ St Sn tate 166, Toe two ont andaators ‘a a Be More of the grup, Ben are ide atrght cf the atrevtsy sot aisdleclaen dnopeute. ores Dad ete abcd up with the dedguant ret azgy, Deer on Hand done a viet An Singsing before be armed to painting ard dlacovers the ‘triate, Tale bcigreand allow! ‘he te et throu to Rotarian ‘reget any ~ to tn pea) Purim, ost purely delinquent of all 274 century art apeariende. 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This As ty Black Yan was sry onanced tan the relatively sore sophitionted Babel Mortar oF snot Touth Norse ory for that utter, the greet Marcu Rises, rom the atact Shey denazted comtete seally tried, vastever thie fucken, to create an oxguateation in Line vite hie. aion at the tine Left ony cow ‘onoe with woten they could Ldetity: ‘he pootsWatte MAGES, Only the labia" rejection of evuxrthing was at gtrhanded and deponto as tale on Only the Blake vere in a peattien hare My had to seally do soethay rot junt att on thet araen and tale ‘ELAGk Mats, along with the Proms Sttaationiete, vere the only viter at ‘the tie woo really erusped 8 valutiorany fowling cosine to te Toll dn the T-3. tease! sioter water ood that tere vas a realy pusStit aBw , anon of wh fm sto tne Looting, arton end BAEring op he Kigpian aaant really to@ #76 canes Sareea Me oes € 5 ° ted a couple of nevapaper — Haptesoms ciate coe ee sper et res “me Tae ena ent no Tene # 2 acusmtatinaisniat Pn mre ayy hd es ew cn tur ae a walle and aarone the one af the soot MENT - son aes ees tee —— - ‘tree in the ee ee oe wi ine tnt pean te ot tr ge vam planteret lghteare of corny sen Se 7 7 Nereis, "ONT Ys Sova nay nes - st eta mt ns Te ewe) te 2 oa ‘the Dox makes nure that nobody we ope i ~ or a mevety eine ‘Timothy Leary ate "(sie 7/an/er). fame Se crass daeleporte® fron Detrolt éanoribeg 4t08 mitenty the vole sonoommni= “et for sev 8 croaenly seeing & huge Bunch of ‘ention, the viole malaise ani sense of EI ‘tne sind but fF mastons akdpring through the ruthie, Pelle Lost in the middle of noviere et tele “ yd & seven or eight year old SAAPA into focum: the ‘under 4p Matting the oe ee ee renee oo ae : ea eee we cetatmnioe pia tne eegeapaan MD ie vid mega ptt oop a roan ame in esau, at Caines Miat Le ts 10 ot may tay indus tn ettog an panes EA onmumation of modem art; ita death — {¥Lty and through pesatvity, teclation. PM sguth exay fron revolution: fend vevizths DADAY And what 208h, hat se happening? Sect fuck ain ie TOF eding youth Sony ee ea CHontvctare can Beld a candle to the Ieteot poses are beleg exhibited eerie uit Ga viia oor. jartaric, slnost elesertal splendour eovled, bought and extubited agains As . of Detroit in flames? Playing vith the Sitantiontate have wait, TP'S ALL itn natant and Newsy Haske fire purely actatocratio philonopty, 4 SHO. A show that ctn only € cB yay decided to hold atrest neetings om sero beepesed By & nob of seminiliit _Deeeuse everoun pretends to be cn the Lowe: Pant Side. They vere crate toomage nena, engoring st = wouuse everyooe Sci Sizeg guess, Tiny muscled An at he alone in the toteh wlACLE. 5663 Goumaty aeetings Sm Toke sotaiatending vhich they oil Gonfomaity £8 s reign of terror. ‘ance Panky but thay were FOELIY @ coulan't break through the atatrust, on "Toe Destlen, Zeppe, the Crasy unt too michs The Local conmuntty fey escent the noet personal tenia, of World of Arthr own. Shit, the Lot leaderahit waa more interested tm toe Blacks of "61. Thoy vere atuck vith of, product ike these musk getting sroeresnively minted, Collese~ te vestae ant, moceover, showgh they nothing mone than the Aurthat bey cope to oome alone ant “hela! td decined their otm gos) ap "a form of frontiern yet of conmunar acclaty. Ita ther than getting mized up vith « ction wih trancende the separation nost gratultous, decadent and anlf- bunch of sable anaroniste, The tetwen art ant politice' they west geatmictine prnduote, Ite mort saorlty of the Hippies vere 9132 bere! vith poveisely thie separations gooboiah pre-neleage, And uo sore grooving on the Gceary vision of the ‘th the culturally ontented Hippies and that ite pre-release, Mat £¢ today BASE anf the Gras and felt much the the politically oxtented Yew tafe. ‘he opin of the sebel vill tenornow sane way. Specific groupe 1ike New tors the ophun of every nomial slob io ‘York Provo actually vent ao far as to net ce oon ond coed %Y the street. Reynela'e Tebscoo Corp Genounce Hlack Mask to the cops. everyting about Flower Fover they ration Pas alrendy patented the At the anne tine they teled deaper recognised that, out of the whole vaite rand nanen of every vartety of Pots ately to anap the uaukl Hew Left rente opposition, the aropouta were the group n ‘wenty Acapulco Gol8. Ten Congo srorovd militants out of thetr inertia: potentially closest to then. They too row. They!1L be tn the venta Sarena eect ecie had sebelled, in however helf-ersed ing achines yet, along vith the ontology yy anutt the ole of Le an it in, SAN I * Tnteltectually, they Iasbad out at Bask Mask completely aezved with these es the vole Vietnan ant Third Yori Serie curvtehion tat vonk was ie be Giant) Industries, at the condition of sams folded at any cost, that the Aterican isco Black Mask's agitation snapped Typooate they sustained. Moe after Areaz vas a9 mich crap and that 1if6 Fe ans toe they plugged the fact that the ‘o.ld be devoted exclusively to only effect of issue polition in Hippies thet thetr refusal to work taperioent with the perimeters of Lived 20" however ansonuetouslyy a poet general - and those regarding the other trperience: to a nev, posteindustrisl — reotry qocurate assesanent of the fide of the planet in partioular - is Useereyle. frvedea vhich could be granted ty ‘to aletzact everyone's attention sxay sextonation and eybemetion today ~ froa the terrible fucking state theyrd ean manaer, stwenee, 6 the poverty of saper eninsng pooete of 19th contery iin tems of th vo ee eey/pleasure frustration serhised ty a totally eelf-entructive ia anticlite eoonoay, there univer BE Sonstttone of passivity, feotation, pecome acnething completely intaresDIe, tte taiot laft has alloved the svectfic onjective phenomena of poder #ocint ciienetion to be passed over in tema Gf purely subjective neurosis. preotically, they tried to tum nto riote. To tum SReryone on to the complete shit of cvorything, the cara, the buildings, toe goods for mts imediate experience. ‘on 10 the physfoal exeitezent and queria of actually fighting £¢ all, Fighting S¢ M1y, here ant nowy fimting {¢ with thele hands not only (has sinis. To tum everyone on to tne faot that the only possible value, cor pleasure today, the only way to really get actoae to aryone else, to oneself, {8 to Join together to conbat the whole of reenity. 70 TURN THEM ON 1a, every aspect of Te tum ‘70 REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE. lack Yaak anv thenselven as 6 catalysts a nall, tightly-kntt guerilla unit, ite tection preplanned, fre objective to precipitate « state of ace hypnosis into a Reichian outburst of anriety, anger and feat ivity. They began to be in and around 10.3, and vere one of the groupe most tnvolved in the initial experiment with mobile tactics - the fret steps tovarde any future urban queritla = taking place at that time. The firet tne they were Involved practically in illustrating the ‘svorsous tactical superiority of ssall ‘estononous groups over huge remote. controlled erowés wae during the big Dean Rusk Geno organised by 5.0.5. in Novenber: roving bands blocked the BLACK MASK sain traffic Intersections, took ‘confrontation right off the area desis~ ated.by the cops, Jumped isolated cope they'd lured dove aldentreste, ate. (a mee ‘the tatli-in' at Macy’ Gepartoent store) during the Christnes shopping mush vas even sore effective. Large misters of people, either alone or in snail groups, flooded the store at Lte peak hour. None of then looked Like desonstrators, and they were tree to impersonate normal shoppers, floorvalkers and staff in varying They moved goods ‘configurations ‘hey around in a businesslike way. soiled, broke, stole and gave then vay. Hialf-starved doga and cate were let 1oose in the food department. A hysterical buzzard flew around the china section smashing more anf more hideous crockery as equally tysterical saleagizls either tried to catch or joape fron it. Decoys with flags and banners planted thensolves in the aiddle of groups of etraight middle- class shoppers who were promptly roughed up and hustled outside by copa and floorwalkere. Utter chaot State underground process began to break out into the open. And, a Durrougha renarke sosevhere, whatever it is that bas seeped and crawled its way out is With nindaight one could say that At wan at about thia tise, winter 67/ 69 that the whole ataonphere of the ‘began to change. A longtise ‘enough to make an ambulance attentent Puke. Perhaps even 18 onthe age tt was possible to have gone {lusicns. Not any more, not vith suburban housevifes practising in the rift range, not with cope patrolling every subway train. America 42 on the brink of & dletntegration unparalleled since the colloase of the Middle Ages. Ant, in thie cardhouse world, ite fall vill alaost certainly f1ip the rest of the planet over with {ti global night ent fire. To specify in temas of the tavante garte!, the tyouth revolt", oF wt fever. Politically the fiasco of the ge Whitehall denon in December (panavieson version of the October 27 panto dn London) not only apelt oot the futility of sacs demonstrations in general but algo that their — |