Selected Writings of Ali Khalid Abdullah

A Discussion On Prisons

Introduction

I came to prison in 1989/90 for the (alleged) crime of „Assault with Intent to Rob while Armed". I was sentenced to 10 to 20 years. What lead to my unjust incarceration was my philosophical and social objections to a major drug dealer who refused to take action when one of his drug sellers sexually molested an 11 year old girl. The girl was used as PAYMENT for her mother’s drug bill. Since the mother could not pay this drug seller sexually molested the 11 year old to clear the girls mother debt.

As a result of this being a clear violation of humanity, I and three other comrades sought to apply PEOPLES JUSTICE. During the course of seeking justice I was ambushed and shot in the chest where I almost lost my life. After recovering from the hospital, plans were made to terminate the major drug dealer and his seller. However, they were unable to be found, but we found out that this major drug dealer had a „front" business where he operated and had large amounts of money being laundered from and huge amounts of drugs sold. Our plans were to expropriate the funds that was at this front or phony business and destroy the drugs. The money was going to be redistributed back into the community to various charities and organizations that help the poor and shut down this phony business.

Upon entering the business it was discovered that the people working in the business did not know what was going on. They did not even know the person who owned the business. In fact, I later found out that we had went to the business at the wrong time and that all illicit activities were conducted late in the evening when there were other workers present. I and my comrades had went to the business in the early afternoon.

Upon discovering that the people at the business did not know what was going on we apologized to them and left. We harmed no one and we took nothing. However we were arrested several miles away and charged by the state. First, they attempted to have us give them information about what we were doing on there but needed proof. The police wanted us to cooperate with them to bust this place and we flatly refused. As a result we were used as sacrificial pawns and sentenced as common criminals.

Entering Prison

Since coming into the prison system I have continued to be politically active and working to help educate the men to change their thinking from that of a predator towards the people to being a supporter and asset to the people. Thus, I began to develop political re-education classes within the prison. Hold meetings on the yard and sharing with various prisoners about anarchism and what it meant. I began to share with them about kapitalism and how there is a direct relation or correlation to many of them being in prison, since many men and women are in prison for what I call „economic crimes" and what the law calls „property crimes".

As a result of gaining more and more acceptance among many prisoners and my working to organize them, the prison staff began to take notice of me and began to start harassing me by constantly shaking me and my cell down; restricting my mail; denying my mail; verbal insults and constant transfers from one prison facility to another. My sole purpose was to have prisoners begin to think in a revolutionary way because I saw the revolutionary potential that lay within these prisons. My goal then as it is now, is to politicize those who were not politically conscious and to re-politicize those who had some political views but not that of Anarchism. That was and is my goal. I believe that once prisoners have become thoroughly changed in their thinking and have a strong sense of themselves and a caring for those around them and all governments, that they would be very powerful in the battle to change the political and social conditions, not just in their communities but globally by connecting with others around the world.

In 1996, while I was housed at the Charles Egeler Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan, I was practically raging my battle against the prison administration’s inhumane treatment. Fight against the drinking water we were forced to drink which had a very fouled odor and smelled like sewage, because the water we were drinking came from old wells where there had been toxic dumping going on in that area. I was also waging war against prisoners bogus misconduct reports which could cause them to be denied paroles or to end up being locked up in the hole and „good time" taken from them and other corruptions they were doing.

As a result of my aggressive actions the prison officials came up with a master plan. One of their employees came up with a rumor indicating that I had given him information on another prisoner claiming that I told him that this prisoner was involved in illicit activities. This rumor hit the prison yard and soon I found myself being looked at by many prisoners in a suspect manner. Some prisoners began to believe I was a prison SNITCH while others completely dismissed this and knew this was a lie and that the administration was using the „divide and conquer" tactic, that they use all the time to keep us prisoners fighting and killing one another rather than to fight and kill them, the guards and other prison officials.

As a result of this rumor, I was stabbed coming from the chow hall, locked up in the hole and transferred to another prison. The Ernest Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon, Michigan.

Conditions Inside Prison

Each prison is different. Some facilities are more aggressive, hostile and crowded than others. Some are more laid back and easy to do your time in, but all of them are repressive and dangerous. Some are more strict with their rules while others aren’t, but prison is prison.

Every prison I’ve been has aggressive and repressive rules regarding political materials. The mailrooms are instructed to restrict anything that can be conceived as a threat to the facility. As a result, I’ve had much mail rejected, destroyed and denied. Even when I’ve filed a grievance or complaint against this, I am ignored and the rejection of the mail is upheld.

Also, because I am considered by the prison administration as a „high profiled prisoner", all my actions, activities, and mail is monitored heavily. Every phone call I happen to make, I believe, is also monitored. My cell is also routinely shook down, as is my body.

How I Spend My Time

In 1994/95 I began to have several discussions with some prisoners about there being a need for a prisoner organization that will address adequately and fully the concerns of prisoners and their activities inside these prisons. Thus, I formed and created the political organization POLITICAL PRISONERS OF WAR VANGUARD COALITION (PPWC). From the beginning we were called this but later changed our name to POLITICAL PRISONERS OF WAR COALITION (PPWC), which is the name we still have today, because we did not want to be considered a vanguard organization or an elitist type of group, but rather, autonomous and open to work with and support all organizations, groups, movements and individuals as long as they are about effecting the necessary changes that will benefit the people in general. I did not want to have a sectarian group at all.

Since the early beginnings of PPWC we’ve grown much and made much progress and have become an international organization in scope. So I usually spend 18, to 20 hours a day deeply involved in PPWC work, which includes responding to massive amounts of correspondence, holding political re-educational classes, writing pamphlets and other materials, connecting with other groups and individuals.

What I Feel About Prisoners

I believe that prisoners ought to be abolished completely. I do not believe in having prisons or reforming prisons to be more human because what prisons represent. Prisons are an extension of oppressive and repressive conditions caused by a decay in society that are linked to Kapitalism, imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, white male patriarchy, and have no place in a society as technologically advanced as we are today.

I believe that society should storm all prisons and smash them... demolish them because no prison solves the deep rooted problems which landed a person inside these horrid walls and fences.

Those in prisons for, what I call, „economic crimes", need not be in prison by the simple fact had there been a system which deals with all people in an equitable manner and where the wealth and resources are equitably distributed there would not be anyone in prison for acts to acquire economic gain. This is, in fact, a direct indictment against kapitalism, imperialism and the colonization of whole countries and peoples globally. However, because we live in a world dominated by kapitalism and imperialism which produces colonialism, class, racism, sexism, and the need to dominate form a patriarchal sense, which produces sexism and homophobia (due to religious doctrines), we have people who act out and commit social acts or crimes against the people in order to obtain the means in which to live, especially when we are talking about how kapitalism fuels racism; perpetuate a continuous underclass of disenfranchised people who become dispossessed and voiceless to those in political power and economic dominance.

Also, for those who do commit crimes against the people (due to some mental imbalance) they should be professionally treated by trained psychologist, psychiatrists and other health care professionals and not simply dumped and placed in prisons where they’ll only receive abuse, non-treatment and violence committed against them such as rapes. Psychologically imbalanced individuals should not be condemned and thrown away in prisons. And for those who have committed some heinous act against humanity should be dealt with (through a consensus by the people) of what punishment there should be. Further, I believe that it should not be up to the government or any of its rogue agencies to make such decisions because we have found that too many innocent people or psychologically imbalanced people have been thrown away in prison for years. Such a system does not work or benefit anyone. Instead of prisons who’ve committed wrongs against the people should be allowed to go and be reeducated and politicized so that they can appreciate the social value or respecting other human beings and themselves.

Inside AmeriKKKan Prisons

In Amerikkka, prisons are now used as cheap sources of slave labor. Prisoners are being forced and coerced to work so that prisons can sell the products from the prisoners labor and make profit. Kapital gains. That is another reason why Amerikkka has become the leading country in the world of incarcerating its own citizens. Over 1.8 million people in Amerikkka are in prisons, jails, or on some type of state supervision in the form of parole or probation.

The prisons build up in Amerikkka has been so flagrant that it has now been duped a Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) where justice is not the concern anymore and where innocent until proven guilty not longer apply. The new concept today is guilty and fight to prove your innocence.

Prisons in Amerikkka has ended up on Wall Street. Amerikkka`s main financial money and stock exchange, where individuals and corporations can now invest into privatized prisons for profit. These acts are all politically designed to: a) make more money with lest expenditures by using prisoners as slave laborers; b) create a new financial base using human beings as product; c) take away more jobs from non-prisoners and forcing prisoners to work those jobs , where by creating more poverty and class divisions for non-incarcerated people; d) squeeze out small businesses by giant corporations taking them over who can then buy up the small business while down-sizing its workforce; e) politicians can advocate and be reelected on the false allegation that crime is up in Amerikkka, whereby instituting and having more draconian bills and laws passed to easily incarcerate people; f) develop a permanent underclass (which is usually Blacks and Latinos because they represent the vast majority of people being locked up in Amerikkka`s prison system); and g) take away any and/all revolutionary potential threat by incarcerating those who have the potential of overthrowing the government.

How Do We Eradicate Prisons

We could change the concept of prisons and mass incarcerations instantly by simply following the following steps: 1) No citizen in Amerikkka or elsewhere in the world, should pay its government any more taxes as a complete protest to prisons and prison construction; 2) No citizen in Amerikkka or elsewhere in the world , should go to work. We could literally shut down kapitalism and its governments overnight in mass protest and DEMAND that prison doors are opened; 3) No citizens in Amerikkka or elsewhere in the world, should partake in any further elections of political officials and, in fact, we should storm their offices and throw them out into the streets; 4) We should not support anything, nor purchase anything that is directly or indirectly related to or deal with any prison. (This would crush the capitalist greed machine, because many businesses live off of the existence of prisons. This would cripple entire towns and cities where prisons are built causing major economic chaos!); 5) We should propagate, advocate, educate consistently to all people about prisons and make this a priority issue; 6) We should release bulletins letting the politicians, prison officials, police agencies and the general public know that for each life they take inside prison they will have to pay for that life taken.

How To Build A World Without Jails/Prisons

First, we must gain the support for the people. Nothing can be done without the support of the people on a grassroots level. Without their support we cannot advance anything and be effective at it. We must be totally aggressive and committed to the campaign of CHANGING OUR CONDITION BY CHANGING OUR THINKING!

Second, we must be interactive with the people and get them to participate in our meetings and other functions and activities.

Third, we must organize where we help meet some of the needs of the people on a grassroots level and win them over to our cause, which is true liberation and freedom.

Fourth, we must be willing to establish workable ties and links with all types of groups and individuals so that we’ll have a workable basis in which to operate in a positive manner, limiting any disagreements for the overall common good. All for us are affected by the constructs of kapitalism and all it brings, so it is from this acknowledgment, while minimizing any and/all differences, if possible.

In doing that we could create through mutual aid, respect, cooperation, direct interaction, free association, a workable basis in which we could then begin to establish (as a collective - a global collective) the means to re-govern our own lives without any rules, dictates, politicians or governments to establish what we deem as right and fitting for us.

We must clearly understand that prisons and jails are made to protect the property and the wealth of those who’ve greedily obtained this, usually and most often, at the expense of the average person. Therefore, it is important to destroy the foundation which fuels and perpetuate economic divisions, class preferences, race, sexism, etc. However, we cannot change anything, develop anything or live our lives in any meaningful way as long as we are too deeply divided on crucial and necessary issues.

We can build a world where there is no need for prisons; where there is global distribution of the wealth and resources so that no person goes hungry or homeless, or without medicine, but in order to have this type of world we will and must make tremendous sacrifices. And the sacrifices that must be made cannot come about in a peaceful means, because those who monopolize the world and control the world’s wealth and resources WILL NOT relinquish anything except by a violent means. But, if we are willing, then collectively we can fight for a free world free of the miseries we face and suffer at the hands of the few. The question is, are we collectively willing to make the necessary sacrifices?

Conclusion

In closing I’ll make a few quotes from some esteemed revolutionaries:

„Our insistence on military action, defensive and retaliatory, has nothing to do with romanticism or precipitous idealist fevor. We want to be effective. We want to live. Our history teaches us that the successful liberation struggles required armed people, a whole people, actively participating in the struggle for their liberty!" George Jackson, quoted in Blood In My Eye.

„What is this thing called government? Is it anything but organized government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey and if you don’t obey, it will compel you by force *** all governments, all law and authority finally rest o n force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment. You don’t question and imprison the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things that the government is doing all the time, you’d brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as violence committed is „lawful", you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but people using violence unlawfully." Alexander Berkman, in ABC Of Anarchism, (taken from Lorenzo Komboa Ervin’s pamphlet Anarchism and the Black Revolution, 1993).

„...[A]ll revolutions are violent because the oppressing class will not give up power and privileges without a bloody fight. So we have no choice anyway." Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, quotes in Anarchism and the Black Revolution, 1993.

„The only power any of these governments have is the power WE THE PEOPLE give to them. That’s it. It is the people who run the machinery of the world and it is the people who can make the machines top. There is no excuse for people to be dying of hunger in India. There is no excuse for people in Russia to be suffering shortages of food. There is no excuse for children to be dying in the streets of Brazil. There is no excuse for babies to be born malnutritioned in Afrika. There things are happening because WE THE PEOPLE have allowed the political leaders... leaders we have placed into positions of power to take over our very lives". Ali Khalid Abdullah, quoted in Prison Writings By Ali Khalid Abdullah.

Acknowledgments

Since my incarceration and the forming of POLITICAL PRISONERS OF WAR COALITION (PPWC), I wish to take this time to give a revolutionary Greetings of Solidarity to the following people who’ve been instrumental and helpful to me during these most difficult times, and who’ve been very supportive of me, PPWC and to the overall struggle for true liberation. They are:

My mother, Cynthia W. Ritsher, Jerry Peter, Vern Simula, Terry Cota, Mike Ward, Ian Jones, Anthony Rayson, Bonnie Kerness, Sekou Cinque T.M. Kambui (s/n William J. Turk), Che Gerald Hoskins, R. Na’il Partee, Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace, Robert King Wilkerson (a.k.a. the Angola 3), Albert Nur Washington, Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Khalfani X. Khaldun, Lorenzo Stone Bey, Maurice H. Carter, Harold Thompson, Chris Plummer, Mike Mann, Mike Lee, Breen Casey, Tamara A. French, Jason Wade Active Transformation, Claustrophobia, Morgantown ABC, Bart Dalle, ABC Gent, ABC Dijon / Maloka, Miguel A. Lorca, Inma M. Soto and all the comrades in Spain, those who were in the goupr Nick Latol (in France) ASH/ABC Stockholm, ABC Innsbruck, ABC Poland, Javier Mendez and all the comrades in Venezuela, Miguel A. Cortez and Norma G. Ortega and the all the comrades in Mexico, Alicia and all the comrades in Argentinia, Peter Hudis and the News and Letters Commitee, Kevin Glover and those with Chain Reaction, Robert Thasxton, the Anarchist Prison Legal Aid Network, Dave Negation, Chritine Jevett and the people of Derailleur, the Onward Collective, Off Magazine, Jeff Larson of Bar None, Jerome White Bey and all within the Missouri Prison Labor Union (MPLU), the I.W.W., Janine Africa and all of the Africa’s (for showing me how to be strong and not give in), Bahiya S. Shakur (s/n Amelia Johnson), Shango Mutulu Bey, Ammon RA Sumrall, Jamil Akbar Bey, Karen Hoffman Horning, Jahaun X McKinnly, Patrick McGuire and all within the ABC Winnipeg.

I also want to send a special love and salute to all the brothas and sistahs who were in the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, the Black United Front, the New Afrikan Independence Movement, Anti-Imperialist Movement, U.F.F., and other independent struggles who’ve been captured by the State and incarcerated for their attempts to being liberation to the people and who are either languishing in prisons or dead as a result.

I also want to acknowledge sister Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, Judy Clark, Susan Rosenburg, Marilyn Buck, Laura Whithorn, Ana Lucia Gelabert, JoNina Abrons, Barrillee Banister, and countless other women who’ve either died or are suffering in state or federal prisons, and to all the people who’ve come before or I haven’t mentioned here... my ability to fight and struggle for the people would not be possible had not been for them. So I HONOR ALL THE FALLEN BROTHAS AND SISTAHS WHO’VE DIED SO THAT WE MAY LIVE!

And lastly, I want to send a very special and heartwarming salute to a brotha I have admired for many years in his fight to bring Anarchism and Autonomy to Black People and that is Lorenzo Komboa Ervin. And let us ALL fight very hard to save the life of brotha MUMIA ABU JAMAL, LEONARD PELTIER and JAMIL ABDHULLAH AL-AMIN (formerly H. Rap Brown).

What is Direct Action (and how is it perceived)?

This question must be examined from the many angles so that we have a clear picture in our minds what it is we view as necessary direct action in order to be able to proceed in a principled revolutionary fashion. But to arrive at the answer of this question anarchists must first truly understand what is anarchism? We must continue to ask the question, what does it mean to be an anarchist? Why, you may ask? Because it is not a definition which can be made and put away safely and only retrieved in parts. Professing to be an anarchist doesn’t mean we have reached a point of certainty, or deliverance. It also doesn’t mean we have suddenly obtained all the truths and as such, are now privileged. Anyone who thinks like this is, in my view, a "lip-professed" anarchist, in words alone. The anarchist from the heart is someone who places themselves in question and as such, asks themselves: What is my life according to what I do and in relation to what I think? What connection do I hold on to daily, and what agreement or concessions made for my existence have I compromised, etc.?

Too many have taken anarchism and have attempted to lock it up in a bottle to preserve it. What many have failed to understand is that it is not a political theory per se. It is not a college curriculum but a way of life.

Our anarchism begins the moment we wake up and put our feet on the ground and from that point we must have a good reason for getting up, or it would not matter what we profess to be. We must know what we want to do because for anarchism for the true anarchists, there is no difference between what we do, what we think, but there is a continual reversing of theory into action and action into theory. That’s what makes the anarchists unlike anyone who has another concept of life and crystallises this concept into political practice or theory.

As a conscious practising anarchist we never separate thought from action, the things we do, the things which we carry out our actions are perpetual. The comrade who carries out these actions, succeeds in making them become an expressive moment of their lives, a specific characterisation, meaningful, joyful, desiring the essence of beauty, not to practical realisation, not the sullen or morbid realisation of a deed that had a mortal end. No! It continues and gives the breath of continuation which sustains our passion and gives us the thought that says "i have done something today." This moment! This present!

Therefore, direct action is predicated on the spontaneous NOW! The action needed NOW, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is not a reality for the anarchist but an abstract. Only the moment … the present exists and it is from this existence we act and act directly and precisely to the point in question.

The Italian anarchist, Alfredo M. Bonnano, stated in the book "The Anarchist Tension"; "…[I]f it is true that for anarchists there is no difference between theory and action, as soon as the idea of social justice lights up in us, illuminates our brain, even for a split second, it will never be able to extinguish itself again. Because no matter what we think we will feel guilty, will feel we are accomplices, accomplices to a process of discrimination, repression, genocide, death, a process we will never be able to feel detached from again. How could we define ourselves revolutionaries or anarchists otherwise? What freedom would we be supporting if we were to give our complicity to the assassins in power?"

This is a very strong argument and one that we must think critically over. Have we reached the point of our own responsibility? And if so, to whom have we been responsible to? Direct action is not an issue predicated on winning news reports or TV coverage. It is not about gaining masses of people for the sake of gaining masses of people. It is about the total eradication of all that is a hindrance to the substance of life and by substance I mean, the ability to live freely without someone else’s control or infliction on my being. For the most part, many who claim anarchy are not fully grounded on what anarchism is and think it is a part-time reality, when it is a practice that must be lived daily and perpetually, thus direct action must be carried out daily and without cease until there is total destruction of what was and allow the new to create from the ashes. This is life. This is the real purpose of being anarchist! The substance of nothingness "becoming" and "evolving" into being from collective creativity. And collective creativity cannot be a reality with restrictions or when one group of people are denied while another is privileged.

Today, kapitalism requires a different kind of person to those it required in the past. It used to depend on people with professional abilities. Now it thrives on non-people, with machines controlled by the few who own all the wealth of the world. There is no more pride in having acquired knowledge for employment, which was an extension of kapital’s ownership and class in the first place to create a division between workers. Today, kapitalism is its own force and the people are subject to this force. The machine has become the real entity and the people have become slaves or subservient to the machine, thus making the need for its total destruction more viable and needed today than at any time prior.

Huge production units based on assembly lines, for example, use robots or are built on the conceptual basis of islands, small groups together who know each other and control each other and work in accord. The "new worker" isn’t the people but the replacement of the people. Thus, all profits rest in the hands of the limited few.

As anarchists we have an obligation to destroy and create from our destruction a "new" groundwork. A new workplace, a new home, a new living standard. This can only be done by understanding the profoundness of sustained direct action against those that refuse to allow the people to live in a mutual and cooperative way. Those who refuse to allow the free association of people who have placed artificial barriers to keep us away from one another and thus alienated where we create our won unjustifiable fears about the next person, which has caused races not to know or trust one another. Which has caused the Kapital market… a new market in that it resurrects subdivision communities while systematically destroying other communities to support alienation and make profit.

Yes, direct action is essential and the only way we can obtain liberation is by applying direct action on a daily sustained basis.

June 2000

The Murder of Carlo Giuliani

The recent murder of our young comrade, Carlo Giuliani, 23 years old, during the protest of the G8 summit in Genow, Italy, to stop governments' attempts to force their "kapitalism" and "globalisation" down our throats, is a stark reminder that we are in a "war" and that we must react, respond and realise that this war is real.

The forces of corruption and greed have shown the world that they will stop at nothing to achieve their agenda, and will kill, murder, assassinate, beat, throw in prison, and go to any extreme to meet their objectives. Even though the voices of the people do not want your forced kapitalism and Empire Globalisation.

With the televised murder of our brother and comrade Carlo Giuliani, these sadists have shown the world … have shown all protesters and supporters that they will go to any extreme, any length to meet their objectives. We must NOW let them know that we will do the same. That we will go to any length and any extreme to stop them from oppressing us, repressing us, raping us, beating us, abusing us, killing us an destroying our world for the sake of another dollar to line their pockets from our misery.

Sadly, what this televised murder has achieved was to being having us point fingers and blame one another for Carlo's murder. The masters of "divide and conquer" have made it appear that we are wrong because we dare stand in defiance against the might of their guns, tanks and storm-troopers. Because we dare to throw rocks, bottles, sticks at them, or smash their windows or overturn their vehicles in our anger.. in our rightful anger, that they have a right to open fire and kill us. Now we have groups, and even some alleged anarchists, pointing fingers of blame at each other for the reason young Carlo was murdered. We must not fall for this trick! We must not accept any personal blame not point accusing fingers at one another for our young comrade's death, but to point the finger of truth at those who caused his death.

The kapitalist governments of the world who hold these meetings; their stormtroopers (police) who carry out orders to brutalise us; the banks and lending institutions who back and fund these governments; corporations ad mainstream news-media (who depict all protesters - all dissenters - as problems). We must not accuse nor blame the Black Bloc as the news media and political suspects are trying to do. We must not accept blame by the rhetoric of some organisations who are accusing anarchists of being trouble makers and for being the reason Carlo was wrongfully murdered. We must not begin to look at ourselves and begin having second thoughts, self-doubt, or internal blame for what happened. What we must do is plan, build and become determined to do whatever we must do by any means necessary to stop these kapitalist, fascist, Imperialist, racist, murdering oppressors. That means we must look at our tactics past actions and come up with new and more powerful means to shake the very foundations of the "tree of corruption" until victory is won!

We do not have time for tears, but planning. We do not have time for blame, but realise we have agents provocateurs among us and must begin to be able to detect such people and deal with them effectively. We do not have time to re-evaluate our stand against oppression, but to come up with new methods in which to meet the challenges we face and will continue to face until victory is ours! Now is the time for us to begin real action. We have seen - the world over - at every demonstration our voices are not being heard. We have witnessed the brutal assaults and we have seen our comrades arrested and beaten, some given prison terms for years and years for merely being at a demonstration or rally. How much longer do we have to suffer this ill-treatment?

Some may question the fact that the government has the military and po9lice on their side and thus feel defeated. Some may continue to say that we ought to make "peaceful demands" while the blood of our comrades stains the streets. And some may have been so frightened that they have lost all will to carry on. Perhaps! But I say this.. we must not fold now. The whole world is watching what we do!

If we are being attacked, abused, murdered, beaten up, thrown in prisons etc., then our resolve should become that much stronger and we should let these governments feel and see our resolve in every city and every state, and in every corner of the world, with action. Constant and daily action. Action in Italy. Action in Spain, Africa, England, Sweden, the US, all over Central and South America, Poland, Germany, Russia, New Zealand, wherever there is oppression, wherever we are being forced to live by the greed of the government and corporations. Our action should be maintained by day and by night, constantly! When we lose a comrade the oppressors should lose 5 of theirs! We need to develop this kind of thinking for we have seen - talk is cheap. Action is action. And those in power, no matter how badly some may wish, hope and cry for, will not give up that power and control over us unless we take it by means of continual force.

For those who cry peace, I say to you, "can peace bring back Carlo Giuliani? Can peace stop us from being murdered, the earth destroyed by corporations' and governments' greed? Can peace stop the police from abusing us in our lives? Can peace bring a world of starvation and hunger to the table of fair distribution?

If peace can do this without any action then I am for it. But if your peace talk means more of my comrades being murdered.. not only do I not want your peace talk, I don't want you around me because only an agent for the state will talk to me about peace an d accept violence to be lodged against me. Let us not forget what has happened in Genoa, Italy. Let us not forget because the world is watching.

Ali Khalid Abdullah #148130
3225 John Conley Drive
Thumb Correctional Facility
Lapeer, MI 48446 USA


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