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You’re listening to Back in the USSR, here on CFRU
93.3 FM, I am Siegfried. Tonight I want
to pay tribute to a revolutionary, an African-American, a man who fought
against racism, stood up against imperialism, and unified people – black
people, white people, latino people – against their real enemies, the American
ruling class. And they killed him for
it. They killed him for it. He gave him life for what he believed
in. I’m speaking of Fred Hampton, of the
Black Panther Party, an unapologetic communist who was murdered in cold blood
by the Chicago Police at the age of 21 while asleep in his own bed, on December
4th 1969, along with Chicago Black Panther leader Mark Clark. And thus these two men joined 26 other Black
Panthers who were executed by the police in 1969. Even though this crime took place 49 years
ago, we still see how trigger-happy American police are with black lives, and
how eager they are to take down political radicals who try to mobilize people
against a racist capitalist system.
Tonight I want to pay tribute to this man’s life, his work, his
legacy. And I don’t want to do it in my
words, but his own. So we’re going to
start with Fred Hampton in his own words, words that he addressed not only to
his own people, but to the oppressed and working class people of Chicago and
America.
Fred Hampton “Political Prisoner”Link
See that’s Fred Hampton: you don’t fight racism with
racism, you fight racism with solidarity.
You don’t fight capitalism with black capitalism, you fight it with
socialism. And he put this into practice
in Chicago, as the Black Panthers did all over America, whether it was
patrolling and standing up to abusive police or having free breakfast programs
for kids or building alliances with other oppressed communities. This is what Michaela Warnsley of the PSL
wrote about Fred Hampton in an article entitled “Fred Hampton: An Exemplary
Life” from 2015.
“Fred Hampton: An Exemplary Life”Link
Fred Hampton “You Can’t Kill the Revolution” Link
All power to the people. This is the message of the Black Panther
Party and this was the message Fred Hampton lived and died by. He lived for the people, he struggled for the
people, and he died for the people. And
that dignified example that he set as a revolutionary still holds to this day,
still shines to this day. This is
Michael B Jordan reciting one of Fred Hampton’s speeches at MLK Now in 2016.
Michael B Jordan recites Fred Hampton Speech Link
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Brendan Campisi on state repression of the Black
Panther Party and Fred Hampton’s internationalism in Chicago Link
The Murder of Fred Hampton Movie (1971) Link
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