Comrades, I was released from the LA County jail on 9-11-1973. I had done 30 days fort my arrest at UCLA in May of 1972<http://framework.latimes.com/2011/08/22/bill-walton-protests-vietnam-war/>. My first daughter had her first birthday on Sept 7th while I was incarcerated.
I came out and saw the LA Times article on Allende <https://www.google.com/search?q=Allende+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a>and the bottom dropped out of my stomach. His was a Marxism relatively free from the purported vanguardism, would-be hegemonic Stalinism that dominated the world-wide communist movement at that time from Cuba through Europe, even in some African countries, and, sad to say, Mao's China and Kim Il Sung's N Korea. The first and last thing that hit me about the coup and his murder was Marx' admonition that revolutionaries (paraphrase) cannot lay hold of the existing state machinery and wield it for our own use: <<One thing especially was proved by the Commune, viz., that “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.” (See The Civil War in France: Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’ s Association<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm>, 1871, where this point is further developed.)>> http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/preface.htm That lesson was learned again in Egypt with the sycophantic adoration of the Army while the leading (and perhaps the most important) question of the role of women in Islamic countries left off the table. We must *dissolve*, abolish, do away with not only the existing national-based standing army but also the local and national policing forces. The cops are not there to "protect and serve" the people. Neither is the US Navy "A Global Force for Good"<http://www.navy.com/about/gffg/?campaign=search_Reprise/Google/Navy+Taglines/a%20global%20force%20for%20good/mkwid/sTM8v5vir|dc/pcrid/5239758516/pmt/p>as it advertises itself. Both and all such agencies must be disarmed and disbanded and replaced by the armed people. Some examples: Community Police in Guerrero, Mexico<http://libcom.org/library/popular-justice-community-policing-guerrero-mexico-26032009> Tupamaros in Venezuala<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupamaro_%28Venezuela%29>-The group has refused to renounce use of arms to protect communities considered too dangerous even for police officers. In one such example in the high-crime 23 de Enero<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=23_de_Enero&action=edit&redlink=1>neighborhood in western Caracas, thieves, muggers or drug dealers who operate in the area run the risk of being executed by Tupamaros patrolling. JAI RAC-LA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cort Greene <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:00 PM Subject: [LAAMN] 40 years since the real Sept.11th-President Salvador Allende: The Last Speech To: Venezuela_Today <[email protected]>, csny < [email protected]> ** President Salvador Allende: The Last Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUx5Zp0Z9A El pueblo unido jamás será vencido - Chile 11. september 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-rnnitNBc -- JAI RAC-LA
