The First Lesson A Revolutionary Must Learn

Any Unarmed People Are Slaves, Or Are Subject To Slavery At Any Given Moment. If The Guns Are Taken Out Of The Hands Of The People And Only The Pigs Have Guns, Then It's Off To The Concentration Camps, The Gas Chambers, Or Whatever The Fascists In America Come Up With. One Of The Democratic Rights Of The United States, The Second Amendment To The Constitution, Gives The People The Right To Bear Arms. However, There Is A Greater Right; The Right Of Human Dignity That Gives All Men The Right To Defend Themselves.

Youths Are Passed Through Schools That Don’t Teach, Then Forced To Search For Jobs That Don’t Exist And Finally Left Stranded In The Street To Stare At The Glamorous Lives Advertised Around Them.

I Think It's Wrong For North America In Particular, The West In General To Make A Comparison Between The Economic Situation In Cuba And The Extraordinarily Developed Industrial Complex Of North America.

Institutions Work This Way. A Son Is Murdered By The Police, And Nothing Is Done. The Institutions Send The Victim's Family On A Merry-go-round, Going From One Agency To Another, Until They Wear Out And Give Up. This Is A Very Effective Way To Beat Down Poor And Oppressed People, Who Do Not Have The Time To Prosecute Their Cases. Time Is Money To Poor People. To Go To Sacramento Means Loss Of A Day's Pay - Often A Loss Of Job. If This Is A Democracy, Obviously It Is A Bourgeois Democracy Limited To The Middle And Upper Classes. Only They Can Afford To Participate In It.

There Is A Very Strong Socialist Movement In Jamaica. I Was In Jamaica Years Ago. All The Talk, All Day They Talk Politics. The Literacy Rate Is Very Low. Everyone Is So Interested In Politics, More Than Those Who Can Read In The United States.