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George Jackson Brigade — Part 4
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care either. We will shoot without hesitation any police officer
who endangers us. Also, we fully intend to get justice for 3ruce's
murder, but we prefer to retaliate against the nurders themselves:
officers Abbot and ratthews. . os tee!
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Bruce saw himself as an inevitable product of the mass movement.
Pose Years of struggle for progressive change taught him that poor
G and working people will not listen to conzunists who are unwilling
7 and unprepared to beck their derands with revolutionary violence.
> ‘Bruce understood the need for a movezent with real (not symbolic)
‘ F ’ teeth, and he set about changing this understanding into a reality.
- + His contribution to this process is beyond measure. Had he sur-
-vived beyond his mid-twenties, he would have changed far more than
the shape of Korthwest politics. _ Ste RE
” Bruce recognized end implenented the need to expropriate banks as
-° |. g@ means of furthering specific political goals. He also under=
-stood the possible risk of capture or death involved in such an
. undertaking. Unlike so many of his racist counterparts, Bruce ~~
ae did not believe the lives of U.S. comnunists to be sozehow nore
- 2 -precious than those of copraces throughout the world who are .
cmt fighting and dying in the international class war egainst inperial—
me . ism. ° . ; Steet - “ise oss,
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mountain on our shoulders.
The geath cf our comrade weighs like a
Ye loved sruce in life and we love him in Geath. His vassing
Jeeves us with more tnan grief and sorrow; it has kindled a rege
that. will not be abated until his killers and the class they
serve are destroyed along with the nisery and suffering they
bring to all humanity. ms toot, 2 ot
_We are learning to avoid the self-aprointed"left"; to go directly
to the people and to rely on then for our strength. The people
in our community have made enormous sacrifices and have given us
shelter and sustenance and safety from -the pigs. , Because of this,
the escape raid is a complete success. The victory belongs to
the people. , : _ oan
oo _Wetre also learning to rely on ourselves. Using urban guerilla
woes ‘ingenuity, muembers of the George Jackson Erigade reroved the —
torsion arch bars from comrade Sherman's mouth.
Our comrade is free, the pigs have been badly beaten and they're
throwing a temper tantrum. They are using their Grand Jury to
try to terrorize the people by issuing subpeonas to nuzerous
progressive people and hauling thea before their star chaater.
isow they have started taking hostages from atong pregressive
above ground fighters. Sut they will soon learn that tha people
don't terrorize no casily., And they would do well to rezember ._
that what goes around - coacs around. -,
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