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oe of the Federation, to murcer Foster. Viclenze zlone cannot Lesi® @ oa . erectice, but only the feilure of that “yectize: useless seif-sazrifice. *‘iolence, when nececsery, can sappert revolutionary strategy, bat never originate o> auctity it. ‘ : ‘By resorting to abstract violence, the SLA net only separated itself ffom the rest of the revolutimery movement, but became the example to avoid, the stsrectyze of the “mad terrcoris:” so indispensable to our oppressors to put us con even more with nev lave cand restrictions. The surest way to dictatorship is a revolutionary movement rerresented ty provoceteurs. Hovever, we have nat given and will not “give - information regarding our location or the locetion of the SLa to the authorities, for the following reasons’ ao . : , 1) “hile we no longer consider the SLA to be a genuinely rev¢luticnary organ- ‘ dzation, we are no friends of Randolph Hearst or the class tc whicn he velonzs, that “ds, the class which owns and controls the means of life -- the factories, land, schools, communicaticas, and much of the housing -- in the United Stetes, and throusn- cut the world. . 2) we are fullz arare of the biased and politically rerressive nature cf the ——= justice" system which would use our rast connection with the SLA to fraze us for the revolutionary movenect and halt our activity. a an 3) “e aré in riding since the sclit, expecting reprisals from the Sia, We joined the Sia serarately, not knoving each other at the time, .ut for similar rezscns, aS we later discovered, Hanely, that we could no loner tolerate the cuaiity and conditions of our ;rivate and tublic iives -- recressive education thet ras no more than an essemtly line for aaking obedient slaves, boring and humiliating jobs, ¢e- clining "standards cf living", and a polluted, ujly environment. ana, os far 25 ¥e coulé see, things were getti g worse. &ll the reforms re fougnt for in the '60's . had failed. or beer. taken tack, and were inacecuate to start with. All of us were frustrated with the divided factions 5f the so-called revolutionary left. That movement was based ca guilt, on elrays uaking the revolution for semezedy else, in the name of somebcdy eise's oppression, supposedly freater than our own. twas dor -inated ny egotistica: leecer-bureaucrats and leader-stars tho cared cnly about their ‘rcyolutionary” careers. They led a mass of follover-leckeys rho yroved thei decreyitude vy tclerating end in fact areating such leaders. Tne con*usion Cc var grouns, sexzel liberation croups ana nationai liberetion croups were all cre the image of militant opposition, cut we wanted to do more than merely. tetk tac ° she PY screen. “ie vere locking fer -rothers end sisters the felt as urgentiy ss re did that the time to scize tack our lives vas nov. The Symrvionere teople we contacted were self-discirlined, serious and efficient revolutionary cadres, viliins to risk -anything in order to gain everythings. when we joined in the first founding conrerence ee es a La 1 ee r 1 fo be he a ered tae ae te cane Semel a re tN Sart ef wa fy Licesa. Tolatetith 2.80 June “2 thouocni ve hae found a ritee fer ourte + vv ee eS wee eeu le A . T_T Ss ng on its way teyond the Lele, ols ana "new. 1) er ee fe C+ otanne in e revolutasonary ozganizatio ta jeineé in august. During the eerly stege cf the rriting ef the originel Decleration of the Symeionsese “> Pederation -- not the sate ore thet the SLA hed vcutlished in the papers ~- pasic oe ay hi a Lee