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Richard Williams And Tom Manning
Back On Trial In New Jersey

Out For Blood

On January 204, 1991 antimperials political
priscners Tom Manning nd Richard Wilams sppeured
nNewJersey superorcoun for s hearingodecide legal
fssues before Willam' retrial for the el defense kil
ing of a state uooperin 1981

Manning 1nd Willams aro_sccused of being.

meambers of the Unitd Freedom Fron (UFF), which

Jaimed esponsiilyfo the bombings of orporations
supporting the fascs regime in South Africa, o major
s developers for the llgal ws. wars in Cental
America, and of ws. miliary instlltions during the
1980s. Manaing and Willams,togeher with comnrades
Ray Levassear, Pt Gros-Levassur, Carol Masning,
Barbars Curt-Lasman, and Jaan Lasma, form the
8100p known as the OHIO 7.

"The two stood il for th shooting during 1986
7. Manning was comviied and sentencedioifeplos 30
‘years. The uryin Willams' wia ws ivided, wih the
‘majority voting for acquital. Marning bas mainiained
roughoutthat Willams was ot with him o th sight
ofthe shooing. However, e st s now preparin for
Willams'retil

During his hearing, e state was seking permis-
sion o take blood samples which hey could then com.
pare with bood foundin Masming’s st the shoot
out. The staehopes tousea dubious new DNAes oty
and link Willams o the shooting.

Manning's lawyers argued hat sumple of bis
blood s irslevant 1o Willams* el since Manning
haslready beenconvicted ofthe shooting, The defence
contends hathesate rally wanis the blood 1 compare
‘with that found 1 the sceneof n amoured car expro-
prinion in New York which they suspect was 4 UFF

“The judge rled tha a bearing would be eld at 8
Tatr dae o dtermine he eliabily o the blood test,
‘which has never beenutedin s New Jersy cour. Afler
this determination, the jodge said be would decide
whether & blood sample from Marning was wamancd.
Howener, prison offcals forcibly took blood samples
from b men,despt hei physca resstance.

Williams’ Lavyer was successol in forcing the
public defender's office o py fo the expert witneses
ecessaryforhis defence. This wasa precedentseing
decisionbecause Wilamssbeing defended by bisovn
lawyer, Lymn Stewar, who is donstng her service.
Both Manning ad Willams see this a5 n imporuant
decision which may help with future casesagaistrevo-
Tutionaries and oher atvist.

However, the implicatons of this decision for
Willams* defence havebeenextremely curailed by the
stat, who sre only providing $20001opay forhisexpert

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(L-R) Jaan Laaman, Richard Willams,
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witnesss.Given that scienific expets outinely chirge
upeards of 150 pex hour fortheir services, this sum s
‘bviously unacceptable and will ot cover even two
weeks of court costs, What lsle is et of e facade of
“jusice” compltely crumbles sway when we reslze
hatthe st self i spending hundreds of hoosands of
dollarson their own expers. It s clear that n oversl
Iackof money isnothe case her. Rathe it part of the
coninaing aiempt 1o deny Willams the resources
necessary fo his defence against tis vindictive prose-
The New Jersey prosecutors ar also rying 1o
bring e cas 1o courtas soon a possble,srguing the

necessty of speedy i The facthathe sae of New
Jersey was quitehappy o tum Wiliams over tothe feds
for four years duriog the sediton wial in Springfield
‘makes a mockery of this clam. It s again an obvious
atemptolimit he prepartiontime of Willsns andhis
somey.

T other OHIO news, Basbars Curi-Laamanhas
been approved forparole and s expected o be released
in November, 1991, However, Carol Manning, whore.
ceivdthe dentcal sentence as Curzi-Laaman, was de.
nied paroleafie refusing 1 assst prosecutors wih heic.
caseagsnst Wilams, Shis notexpected tob eleased
il she complets her senence in 1994

Alarm Clock Trial Winds Down
Ingrid Is Finally Free!

The following aicte on ngridSirobls somewhat
datedinthat she wassenencedin October90,well ver
7 months ago. But we've decided, fora number of .

sons, that i was important t0print . We are on o the
Jew publications in North Amrica that covers armed
sirgsle within advanced capitalis couniiesand con

segenilyone of the fewihat wouldcove Ingrid' caseas
well as the siraggles taking place in Eurcpe. In pas
lssues we have included information on Ingrids st
ation and therefore we el that i was imporiad 1o
Jollow-up on it The fuct that virtually o one ls has
Peported on tisina i (cher pulications have con-
ered earlie paris o her and Ulla's siuaton) also con
ribued o this,

In the afiemoon of October 290 the court in
Dusseldorf announced the inaljudgement inthe proc-
ess sgainat the weterjoumalit from Koln, Ingrid
Sitob: 3 yearsfor being an accesory o bomb aack
‘0 two-tindsof al sl costs,

Ingridhas lreadyserved 2112 yearsunder spec
custody sccording o 1294, incloding,solation n
Windowless cll and vists sepuried by a val. The

renaning period of 112yearhasbeen suspended. Inged
herelor remains free nd does not have 0 go back
prson. One observer the court case commented that
“Fis, L was very happy,for | had prepared oyself that
they would eshaps throw he back ol This s he
feeling tha overcame s sl when on October 22 we
esed tis on th news Ye i, we were aleo furious,
Furious because it s and remains lirlly a terroriing
judgemen, one which without 1298 would nok bave
been possble. il e are happy because the cngoing
heeat of our friend and ellow ighter being jied has
beenifed nd the whole e s at st nded: lmost 3
years of soldarty work, pison vsits, coun vsit,
emonstations, leters, manifesttions, much work and
many worries sbout ngrid, and always the impoteat
anger ith e judges, with theprosccutors, some media
‘people, angerwith the armedsecurty srvic pigsatbe
cour, snd more, Wih every means s hirdisposal,he
Secury service authoriis had tried o ur Inged o
& symbal of the proto-terorit: the ice-cold smilng
feminis who from hercegant 3 bedroom house would

contmued onthe back page

The Reason Is Simple Enough: Why I Fight

by Reymond Luc Levasseur

Jalsothin i god idea o 0 have anyfsed
notions inone's ead. dont ward any one 1o 1ll e
her ] shoddou myattenionfir. f downthe lne we
cantry o respect ach ter accordin 10 he pincipe
ofslf determiraton then we can begn 1o move for
. Thereare enoughof s 1o goarousdandyoudon't
have oo what ] doandvicers. | o hisand youdo
b, thre s ety o oom.

Lune Jordan,

My frstactofsabotage was commitied when was
sevenizen yeas old - severalyears before my millary
sevics nd tour in Viet Nam, severs]yearsbefor the
Viet Nam experence joled my consciousness snd pro-
pelled me i ifeime of polticl ctvism.

1 wasshown how io temporaily dsable machin-
ery by French.Canadian workers. The objecive was o

e line st how many sho heels we couldproduce
per bour, beyond which t became exhaustive and dan-
gerous. A shotrspie in non-union shop which bad
piifullylow wages. Theobjectlesson wasthat we could
penetrue the vener of omipotence tha the company
maiataned. We had our digaity - dispellng, in some.
mall way,the shadow ofthe mills that dominated our
lives.

U5, impeialim s the mest powerul and violent
systemonthefaceof heearhIn 1967, in Vit Nam, this
‘was brought home 10 me. In 1991, s being ramimed
home 1 the people of Iraq and Palestine. The entire
historyofhe US. i builon theft snd violence. Wikin
US. bordersisfound s lgacy - the ractured natons of
Naiive Americans, Mexico, New Afks, snd Puerto
Rico,

It s o only he viokene of the bomb and the
bulls thatis bulishly amerkan, it s alsothe violence of
the spiri; th violence of awarped sconomic/poliical
sysiem ha forces one generation aferanoher (o watch
theischildren die fom starvadon, malnuirton discase
and social neglect. A violence which demoralizes and
dchilses people whose human potentl evaporates
efor theis vry eyes. An imperialism that has always
savoured panicoary violet action against peopl of
color,

My own lfe experiences have left the taste of
sweat and blood indelibly stamped in my mind: the
conditions of work. Low payin non-unon,as-busting.
azardous jobs in mil,fctoies,felds and consiruc-
tion sites; millary servie and camage in Viet Nam;
police viclence - the fist o which 1 wassubjeced o1
Boston's Dorchester neightorhoods; prisons, where
T've beenin some of the tion's worst. My dentty 85
a workerlrevoluionary permits me no rerea from the
suffring of thers,be it n I Sabvador, South Afic,
Palestine, Puerto Rico, o the South Bronz. From &
vantage poiat inside the belly of imperalism, 1 feel
compeled nd duty bound o sct. Not s Lonce did-an
‘amed soldie of the US. mliry, iling and operating
the machinery of war. This time 45 a worker amed. A
soldie sill & wr, operaing from whatever level of
esitance tht can be mustered o chalenge those who
explotand kil forproi

Thave beenidendfied withactsof rmedesisance
hat nclude the bombing of US. miliary facltes,
corporations oing business with the aparieid regime.
of Souh Afrca and colonized Pucro Rico, and the
reserch facilies of war prfiees. I the wake of the
Sowelo uprising and massacr, wih e whalesale
massactes of Salvadoran people, the United Freedom
Front responded with smed propaganda. US. millary

facilis were exensively damaged.

“These actons were intended 1o brng o the ata-
tion ofthe American pecpl the crimes commited by
their own govermens nd US. corporatons. They
were 10 seve s an example that the sysiem is not
invincible. Tha the demands ofthe appressed mus be
heard

1 do believe that such acts of resisance are &
poltcal necessty if we are o develop 1 capaciy 1o
respond to the violence of th Stat that is more than
simply symbolic. I is ecessary, f we are 10 build &
resitance movement that will ead 1 0ur ovn emanci
pation, rthe than merly creaing 8 movement for &
revolution others will make.Such act se heregalty
confirmed in inimaional law, such s the Norcmberg
decisions.

‘Withinhe conextof exposing and preventing the
commissin of heinous crimes agsint humaniy, we
can'tallbeexpected ofunction withinthe parsmetersof
What is considered "clsn” and acceptaie poliical
activiy. Nor should we it for everyone’s ideas of the
proper abjective conditons to be in place. Some of us
‘willtepoutof e reslmof subjectve condiions sdget.
“diny"andbloodied whil engaging he nemy. Hisory
i e with examples, This s 3 dangerous and diffclt
sk given the powerful security apparacusof he S,
the compliant a0d collsborting news medis, nd 3
rluively weak Left

Inothr pansof the world, beration moverments”
Key focus it freedom; with most USS. efprogressive
movements the focus s non-violence. I s not only
eriicamofouractons andourselves whichcomesfom
the Left - it s condemaation. However, 've no heard
condempation coming fort from Soweto, Morszen
Province, Pouc,or he ghttos and barriosof Amerta.
Norwould L anicipae any condeannation by th people
of Irq and Plestine should there have been 8 more
Torcful response within this country to mperilism's
Iatestadventure. Many efists and progressives recently
opted for the slogan “support th troops, no the war”
vinlly sbialving American soldies for sy resposi-
bility in teir actons. Yet these same folks sbandon
politcal prsoners/pows inthe U.S., holding usrespon-
sbleorpoliicaimilay acions hey o't approvef.
they are even aware ofour exstence.

“The more secuarian organzations respond nega
tively 0 armed acions. They don't recognize anything

tisn'ontheragendaorunder beis conrol. Bthere
s sometbing more insidious a1 work with polcal
movements a5 whole,composed inlrge par by white,
‘middie-class acliviss, How i i that they can ditste o
themost opprssed peoplein Amerika the mesbods hey
will i 1o obuin her iberation? (Amerik's longest
heldpolitca prisoners ae from the Black Liberaion
sruggle) Are we expected o it before we ess for
tome llaminating end o white supremacy and classco-

optaion/collsboration? And what of those millons
subjected 10 plice viokace and grinding povery,
dowmpresed inthe srees and prisons of al kinds, who
will i tomorow, next week, snd next year. Are e to
berlegatedioinfeiority i the movemens,he way we
have been in soiety? Amerik has a way o wming on
e, of abusing it young and devouring s cldcrs. We
live in + country where people support the muclear
desrucion o Hiroshima nd Nagasaks th invasionsof
Grennda snd Pansrs. The Mid-East War. The murder in
Cenral America Simply put, the diffculy of winaing
hears and minds should not preclude uncompromising
scsof armed esstance.

A single spark can sast prire fie - assuming.
thre's bt ofcry inder about. There aze examples of
Native American resisunce, Nat Tumer's revolt,Jok
Broun's ad, El it de Lares, Puerto Rico - eventhe
legenday Boston Tea Expropeition. There are thous-
sande of other exampls throughout the history of
‘common people. They e ragmeaied, divided by time,
70095, issues, butarmed resistance s aral parof
ourhisiory. It was nthe 60's, 70's and 80's and willbe.
agsininthe fuare. I docsn'thavetobe achapieroreven
afootnoteinthe books orealize that such esistanc has
provided some degree of inspiation and dirction to
many whose lives were eveled by oppression.

Many of the Sam Melville-Jonhan Jacksen Uni|
United Fcedom Front actons were done i soldarty
with seuggls subjected o the fullfoce o US. mper.
lism. Movements fighing for the very lives o their
people. Theserearguard actions were asmall thead of
supportwitinthe larger conext. None of these acions
were 1 th detriment of the siruggles they supporcd,
nortothe acivesof hose crganizaions which workin
the genera pablc. Ant.imperialism requizes & mli
dimensionsl, mai-evel approsch.

“The govemment, of course, has responded 1o
millant snd amed essance with exiensiv countein-
surgency efforts. This should sarprise o one failsr
with it govermmens”criminal acivity. The esson s
simple enoughs thy fearhepotenial of such essance
10 prolferate and develop inio formidable movemments.
They dtes the example a5 mch as the aciions them-
selves They flly resizethe potenvilof e oppressed.

Marion Pison, April 1991

(Wrte o: Ray Levasseur #10376.016, P.0. Bex 1000,
Marion, IL, 62959 USA. If you want mare informaiion

o Rey, the Ohio 7 and poical prisonersp.ow:’s you

can et the ollowing books, bookltsand pamphlets

“rom u: “Unil Al Are Free: The Trial Statament
(OfRayLucLevassewr”($1.00plus 75 forpos.
age),“Ohio?.On Trial”(FREE plis .75 pos.
"age),"Can't Jal Th Spiri: oliicalPrson-

ers In The US.* ($12.00 pls $3.00 post
age). We also carry other books on armed
strugsle, ani-imperialism ard more. Our
Jll mailrder list should be_available
Shortly. Remerber we can's cash cheques,
and money rders st not be made out 1o

Ao The Spiris st leave thems lank. We
prefer cash bu conceal i well)

“You've got to struggle on all levels, with weapons
or with leaflets, and with ideas...”

An Interview With Tom Manning
April 12th and 19th, 1991

‘Could y0u trace your own development as &
Fevolutionary - hedevelopment of your owa politial
consclousness - and partcularly what motivated
your decision to move from above-ground commu-
ity organizng and politial activity to dandestine
activty.

The need or revolutionis obvious depending on
‘where you're from. I you'r siting in suburban house
‘with 8 two car garage and birdbath in the back, with
‘your25° TV eling you t you'r OK and the world's
‘OK,that'scnething Myslf ] came up from he pojects.
Iprew pinthehousingprjecs ithe city. Wi the lack
of hings we needed i the{amily and n the community
it was slways cbvious that something was wiong, But
‘wih thecondiionng you g from the sysem, i's hard
1o make n analyss ¢ that time why you'r iside that
Kind of sisstion.

‘Whenl gotoutitoth world,basicallyjoning the
service, just being around people from all around the
couniry, it was almost ke, ¢ frst, that | was dropped
fromthe moonintothemiddleof his populaionthathad
o ides whator where]came from, orvice versa. I wis
becauscof i conditioning, o growing upin the inner-
ity n the projects, lways bascallyon theedge..itwas
a0 on-he-edge exisince.

‘As thtime prssed n th sevice | staried mecing.
ther people from diferntcites,iner
New York, New Jesey,

sartedtormake th el ation hat ther retwo cltues
wilhinhe on, e havs and th have-nots. That's how.
we nsed o denify. We wsed o assocst togetherslong.
those lines in the service.

Once I got o Victnam, being realy aware of the
diffren backgrounds in people, when got 0 Vietam
clarof americaand whatamerica
expected, what it claimed snd what was acually hap-
pening over in Viewam. So all of tht added p.

‘Coming back o the Suates ater Viewam it wasn't.
long befor | ended upin stateprison. I's s place where
1ot o Vietmam veterans ended up . that e, That's:
‘when 1 fist saned puting all o this in some kind of
perspecive, and also seing what was going on on the
outside. | wasinpison duringthe te ‘60, fom 66 on,
‘when all the demonstatons were happening, basically
around e war bot tere was sl something of the ivil
righs movement going o0 thn.

‘Then came 1968, with Marn Luther King being
xecuted and theuprisings n he ciies, st g ealy
milant nside. We ook patn o of worksrkes and
hungersrikes nd tings like that, and al the batings
and ship-outs and everyting that oes slong withthat
kind o st

Thar' whea | sried making a decision on where
1as going tobe,on whatside of the stoggles that were
going on. At the same time there were a ot of racial
problems inside, whit prisoners fighiing agains Black
prisoners, tc., od basiclly | made some cholces thn,
with the reading 1 wa doing and th peopl that [ was
getinglocked up wih n sgregation, tat there was &
noed for revoluionriesout hereand ifand when | got.
outof the oo, tar's what | was going 1o do. Take 10
the sres, basicaly.

Afer gecing out in "71... | staried lookng for
peopietohook upwihio dosomekindof polical work,
‘ot knowingfor ure what exacly wanied 0 do. was
auacted o thevery millant stanceof the Paribers

he tings that the Weathr Usderground weredoing. |
wasa'srealy clearon wha the Weather Underground
wasabout b ked hat way,clandestne resistance. It
o6k me couple o year o find people who had the
same affiaiyforhos kinds of aciviie, bt eventualy
we did hook up.

Part o the patern of armed resstance which
We've seen over the past 20 years, speciically by
‘whiteani-imperlalists, are actions done L solldarly
‘it or in support of anl-colonial struggles and 1>~
erationstruggles L the “Third World” (Latin Amer-
s, Africs Southest Asia, etc. Whatsth elaton-
ship etween armed rsistance I North America and
the revautionary strugels around the world?

Let me speak jst from my oun experience. |
saned sruggling from s el need, rom e experences
of whatlgrewupinand what knew and el those needs
were, oot in soliarky with anybody else. s nok a5
though L siared from some kindof ntellectual absrc-
tion. Lknew where | came rom and knew the people |
was working with.

‘When was doing sboveground work, was goi
downto the welfare offceand jumping on e desks for
families who needed hesing oil 1o get trough the
winte, those Kinds of things. We wer doing a lot of
priso support work fghting forprisonesright nide
‘0 fghing forsuppor for the failesovtsde. Most
familis outside are poor people, working and po
people. So tha' the bassof wher I come from.
mrs fromannsideou kind ofpespecive than ouiside
in- n n suppor o in sympathy knd of erspective.

Tt was basically relization that my siggle snd
thestrugglesof where 'mcoming from resmilartothe
suggles of people i places like I Salvador. They
don want 0 ake oves the world ot anyting like tht,
ey justwant o mprovetei o 1o the point wherei
livable and bas some kind of hope and some kind of
foturetoit.That'sall we wee fghing fointhe commu-
s I'susta mater ofealizing that your communicy
s thesame asteircommnity, and that makes both of
hese communities our communiy.

You and your comrades, the OHIO 7, are
among the more than 200 politcal prisoners and
prisoners of war currently beld [n US. prisons. Do
you fee that there s an Increasing awarenessof the
existence of PPIPOWs n the U2

Ther is anincrssing awareness of politcal e
oners and why ther ae poliical prisoners, bt not
much as e would ke o tink. We end o have lotof
contact witheach ther, and with eople who have been
fnvolved for a long time newly coming togethr

ganize around PPIPOWS, so i ivesus th fecling that
‘we're eschingout snd we'rerally gecing somewhere.
Bt then 1 have conisct with other peaple sround he
counry and they don't even know there are poltcal
prisoners. lamazes me whea 'mintouch with someone
doing pliical work omewhere, ke downin Kentucky
orsomewhere. Allof asuddenl indhis new connecion
andhere's someone who's beea dong community work
for fifien years and they've neves heard of any of the
poltcal prsonersexcept he ones who've been on "60
Mintes” It smazes me with ll he energy 1 e going
{nto s politicl prisoner suppor work and swareness

‘work, it smazes me bt it hastreally gotien ot ntothe
commnity,ino the wide communiy. You have the
‘movement communityand thenyou havethe es of e
workd, and it scems ik we're ot geting out there.

During the pastfew years we'veseenlcreasiog
attempis by the .. government t criminallze ress-
tance. The state has been using things ke anti-rack-
eteering (RICO) laws,orignally desgnes tofightr-
anized crime, and seditous conspiracy laws o
prosecute clandestine ctivists. We certally saw this
In the case of you and your comrades.1's also been
used extensvelyagalast Puerio Rican lndependentls-
125, What do you see a the tate’s agenda In using
these s and do you think they pose a threat o
‘above-ground organizing 15 well?

First of all 1 tink the use of RICO aganst the
Puerto Ricans andhenagaintus s bsiclly anatiempt
1o deny the facttha threare poltical prscners, andul-
timatelythat thre is s ned for politca sugeleinthis
couniey or in those aess which hs country res o
dominae. The firs aspec of crminalization is denying
he jstnes o the siruggle.

The use o RICO gainst us and riginaly
the Puerto Rican comdes, i 4 test. They used it sc.
cessully against the Puero Ricans. They got convic-
tions. They gotbig time. The next sep, once you'veused
it succesfuly agiast people of colour is 0 seeif you
canuse it against whitc peopl. Basiclly, I hink thar's:
‘Whatthei rogression was. I hey can successfully use
it aginst us, this small groupof whitepeople beingthe
OHIO, i next iep would be o use i aganstpeople
inabove-ground work. They canilrit. Allhey vegot
todo s find two cts that have some ind of sspect o
hem thtthey canclasiyss“criminal". f hey canfind
those two act,then ey can make conspiacy out o
any kindoforganizing thatyou can imagine. Anywhere
Where you're puting out 4 message and an agenda, i
heycan ttach two acts togetherthat ey ca usify.
“eriminal” then they've ot & RICO conspiracy.

Do you tiak that theleft s whle i theu.. s
‘aware of ths threat and are taking It serously?

Notthe et s whale,bo ] don'tink the ef a5
whol inthis county has eves come 1o any kind of
consensuson nyihing Ther arepeople who re king.
itseriously, and ha's why we gotasmuchsupportas e
id around tha wial. We didnt et as wide range of
support a5 we would have liked 1o have hd. One o he
things with e OHIO is tha we've aways ried o
reach outand be asinclusive as possible n eveyihing
we didor sid,oven whil we were undeground,inour
communiques and suff. But the suppors we G get
around th ral was people who undertood what ey
were siuggling agains. They weren'tsupporing per-
sonaiies or anything like th. They undersood the
serousness snd the potental caomity of what was
coming down hee n Springfel

It seemed ke I both the OHIO 7 Seditlos
(Conspiracytial, and lso the recent Resistance Con-
spiracy Case, there was, n many was, a successul
attempt b the goverament (o solate the clandestise
activists from the aboveground ativss by throwing
‘around accusationsof ierrorisu”, trylog toltim-
st people andstop them from dolag support work.

ik alotof heisolation wasdone whilewe were
il underground. 1 tink they accomplished tht 10 3
g00d degree, beween tei propaganda ad hereror-
izingf the communiy.Once we hadbeen captured- we
were otlly solaied when we were frst capured - any
breakihroughs we made sl were majo victoies. It

—continued on pge S

Tom Manning nteview continued..
‘was a constanly progressng hing, andit sl i, that we
aregeing ou of hat slation and we are eaching out.
‘Whatwe were bout when we were acve inthe ield and
‘what we sill ar sbou,even though we can only work
i limited fushion now. s constant. Anybody who
akes the time 1o lsten 10 it and who takes the time 10
makeallthe connectionsthatwe've shvays made under-
stnds where we're comingfrom. If they re ot geared
forthatmodeaf operation,hen a st hey can support
it nd undentand it Armed sruggle against the same
enemy, no matier whatyour geographic o geopoltical
borders ar, hasthe same necds.

In the upcoming trlal that you and your com-
rade, Richard Wiliams,are nvolved o in New Jer-
sey, the state s attemping (0 Introduce & new blood
screening technique. You and Richard have been
struggling, both phsicall and lgally, 1o defeat the
Introductionofhis testing. Whats this st and what
threatdoyoo and Rchard hink I pses a5 prosecy-
ton ool partculaly n poitica cases?

Firt 1o spesk to that hysical siuggle. Bach ime.
they've aken the blood - going al the way back o the
day st was captred whenthey wantedhairsamples,
andit ook iieen FBl agentsandcitydeectvesinNor-
olk, Virginia t gt that- we'vetaken psitonof non-
‘ollaboraton,nt pasivenon-collaboraton bt aggres-

ive non-collsboration. Anything | can make them work
harderfortogetwilleven houghthey lloimately et
it snyway. That's jost consistent with my posiion on
armed svggle. 'l ightthese peopl any way Ican,by
ny means necessry. Richard has he same pos

forthe system that 'm struggling ngena. They [he
sae] areeying 10 ge more it fortei bk out of his:
wial. Anything thy by o ge over o us inhis ia we
willcontest. That goes equally for th bioodtest.
Tdon'twant o give the bloodany specifc sigifi-
cance. I an unproven, new scienific est. I's been
‘wsed n roughly 400 wils i this counry 1o ane degree
o another, succesfuly or unsucsesfuly. As people
understand the newnes of i, nd s develops, i's ke
anything ele. The more youleam sboutit e moreyou
realize how lile you knew about i yeserday. Tha's
whatis happening wit this echnology. ' jst lke
‘olocprnts orle-deectors tht thy thought were sl
‘powerul and convincing en years ag. You cn'tget
lie-detectoriestmony in’coursoom hes days. Liink
tha's ventaally what's going o happen withhis blood
est. On that aspec,that's how we's chllnging i

Justto Wrap up, given theeverIncreasing state-
of represion In North Americs, what do you ee as
theroleof landestinerevolutionaryorganizations i
the .. and Canada during the coning years?

They'se coming 0 take this phone ightnow, 10
Tl be rea quick. Basically, the roe of amed strgle
anywhere is conditioned by ime and plac. Al some
poin, i placs like Fl Salvador, it becomes the main
hrust, Right now, amed suuggle in this counry is
basically amed propaganda, s demonstraton wo. For
people a5 8 whole, amed strggle ivesthem anher
option o igh the ystem with,

You've got o struggleon alevls, with weapons
or with leaflet, and with idess.

Write o Tom and the restofthe Ohio7:

Editorial Notes

Here wears withyet anoher s and s peopl
mayhave noticed we have a new addrss. The eason
forhisis thtour grouphasundergone some changes,
it some comrades leaving 10 do other politcal
‘work. The old address will continue o be acive und
‘we cncourage peope o contue 1o send mail here
Sometime nthe nea utare s new publication caled
“Int The Surees” should be coming out fom this
address (Box 475, 253 College St, Torunto, Ont.,
MST IRS, Canads). We, on the oher hand, will
continue our work witha a intematiolistperpec-
tive 4nd we once again ask that comrades send us
informaton on e strugals going on n their partof
the world. As well we'r contiuing 1o work on our
other projects,paricuary the magazine version of
‘A The Spie. A chronic hortageof money conti-
810 be problem, 50 once again any help wouldbe
sppreciated

Finally, we would ike o say tha we give raay.
thanks t & comade from Toroni for the Ohio 7
aricle andthe Tom Manning nterview.

“Tom Masring 4202873 - 4B
Richard Willams 479372 SH
Treston Sse Prison

Nl

Trenton, NI

08625 USA

Busbara urzi-Lasman #18213.053
‘Carol Mansing #10375-016

“Asfuras e galthing. bt o sy lgal because
o puts the connocton of lgality o e il bt for

the sake of gtingth conversation going we'll o wih | Jaan Laaman #10372-016
the word“egal"- wecan ettt as moch s we cantest | P.0. Box 1000
snyihing el inhis sl Basiclly, what happened out | Lesveawor, KS

on the rosd was 8 self-defense ammed confronaton | 66048 USA

betweenme anda cop, whollookatasa frontlnesodier

FCI Lesingion
3301 Leestown Re.

Lexingion, KY
40511 USA

(Ray Levasseurs addres is on pg. 2 and Pa Gros.
Levasseur s o longer imprisoned.)

“Thanks For Your Saldarky

1 would very mach moch like o come et o, one o oe,
towns nthecouneyside...pter you and el you that als et sdess forthe pain
that the los o your friend,your comrade, caused you..; but my condemaion i
exiensive, a5 awaysfora evolutionay.

T'would very much like 1o shake your hands, one 1o one, and whisper while
looking i your eyes, your eys that know how o expresseveryting decp inside,
thank you, THANK YOU FOR SUCH SOLIDARITY! Bt hick walls, waiched by
‘o amed with machine guns separte 1.

‘Twould very mach ike 1o nvit you, one 0 ne, o come see me and thus meet
o alk 1 you of allhe doors that he o of your comrade apened, but i you re.
fiend of a evoluionary prisoner you are ot llowed 10 look ino his yes.

1 would very mach ke 1o write each of you a long leier ful of hopes and
dreams, bt the mail bowof eachpoiicl prisomer s 1 snall tha oy two censored
leers sod elegrams ft pr week.

'S0 MUCH FURY!

They dontevenletyou walk nthe prison couryard, because 0 doso you st
Showth gusrdyourclothes nd your body snd llow yourself o be molesed,before
andaferne ortwolousyhours nthe couryard per day. Inacouryard that st even
ey fet.

They don't eve et you spesk to your family, o your chidren, becsuse o do
his you mustpot up with everything that you sy during those dam ey minuies
(in the best insiances) that you'r alloted being listened to, writen down and
recorded.

You can' even have yourchildren spend a few hours with you, becausethey
most be searched before nd atr el visi.

They don'seven et youlive withyour comrades, WITH WHOM YOUSHARE:
LIFE AND DEATH, becaue they say tha even disurnd, we are more dangerous
when we ae togeber. What an llusin!

“They know very wellthat that i no e, thas the goal s not secuity (bt we.
e well protected) bt he goal i omethingele, the anibilation of our ideals. But
theircaculaions havefailed,for w 100 know how 1o “protec” ou deal.

They caisolat o for days, weeks, moths...hy can reaien us it us, ven

ke away ourighto reunifcation hrough the hugersiik by srapping ustobeds.
Bt the ideal, ey doa’t reach them.

You, Kepa (4 GRAPO prisoner who died during prvious hungersrke - od),
youcan explain i, because you know it wel,we know you welland we know tht
‘youwantd o LIVE, LIVE AND LIVEI And you Sevi who was ext. They et you
e soditscenainthat when you saw death spprosching, i your ouleched el
heyesofyourhildren, the people youloved e most, the colours,he fowes, he
counsyside, e towns,the people, e musicthe duncs,the aughie, th ksss, the
embraces, he celebrations. LIFE| Bo you didn' give up you did't give them the
plesarsoftouching your desl of LOVE and REVOLUTION, of DIGNITY sd
REVOLUTION, of STRUGGLE and REVOLUTION.

Keps, you idn't s your e daughir growinto woman. Sevi, three days
befor they pronanced you dead, while you were sirggling 10 kep your heart
eating, rceived telegram forthe 3rd bty of ou e Aida:

*..And every 13t of May

out flowe grows aller

ind the most besuifl coloured peuls

and the sftestand swectetscris.
-Sevi

They never Lt you kissour e dancer
They took away our most basi human rights ike hey've done 1 ll evolu-

ionarie, bt they nver ucceeded inaking sway ous evolutonary idess. NEVER,

‘COMRADES, NEVERI T 1S THAT WHICH IS OUR COLOSSAL VICTORY!

LOVE AND STRENGTH!
WEWILLWE

RosarioNarvaez
GRAPO politcal prisoner
Yeseias,Spain

(Reprited from Correspondances Revoluionaies)

‘Alarm Clock Trial Winds Down continued...
blow up mercilessly thase poor lle defenders of the
Luftbans; he leader of » emorist group who gocs
around blowing things up and irng st everybody; the
alamn clock boyer who was trpped by those unbelieva-
bly shrewd (male) sleuts of the Bundeskriminalams
(FederslCrminal Ivestigaon Bureau-ed ), women,
‘who wasstupid enough not t el anyone fo whom she
had purchased the alarm clock, etc. I s difficult to
detend yourelf sgainst somany ies sndnot It yourself
become inimidated. Never did ngedliveinan elegant
3 room house. Nor re th Revlutionay Cell akiller
commando s Rebenann's (Federa St Prosecusor -
ed) nighumare.

On the conrry the truth i, a bfore, that ngrid
livesina Kolnhouse conssingof 2 2l roomns, and.
sl clocksae by definion instruments ofeveryday.

bt b Schdmhedeien
Osarimene on Ares 6215

Vetideron raner Ko a bestebenden Vetniats i

eerieinficher ey

Decermber 1987 was inany cas wel-planned ndaimed
at prjudgement and convicion (“The Rote Zora and
their Alamn Clock” was what it sid in Stem magazine
forexample fterthe arestof Ingrid ad Ul in Decer-
er 1987, and tisanicl spoke about the remendous
detecion succsses.

Wel, they did no succeed in thatl And we can
drink 10 tha everywhere, i the Kitchens, and in the
“conpiratoril backrooms”; and drisk sgai to Ingrid
hatit may go well wih hec outsde fromth prison she
satinfor2 172 years 100 many; and dink again 10 us i
ogether, o everyone who refused 1o go long wih the
arestof Ulland ngrd and who opposedit; who wrole
tolngridiajalinspteof mail-meniorng, whostiendod
couninspii o LD, copying, who demensirated in spite
of the hordes o igs rmed with dogs;who proested 0
the offcial governmen stutionsandsometimes aly

isolation cell.

.and begins with ideals of
‘beauty, misogynist advertis-
ing, discrimination at the
workplace, Paragraph 218,
women s sex-objects,
which prevents a radical

tion

“Freedom for Ulla and

o s St | [

Freiheit fiir Ulla und Ingrid!

tertor which day after day in millions of bedrooms
loudly tea from their sleep the stodent and the worker,
some even out of dreams shout & eter world™

“The tnth as far a the Revolutionary Cells and
heissisterwomen's organization Roe Zora s hathese
areane of the few il milant and amed groups n the
€x-BRD who do not simply advance over & road of
corpies bon often suack the sysem creaivly and
shrewdly and aboveal distinguish themselves because
hey are agans all social.chritian democratc green-
ralisic polics, and defend the accommodation of
asylum politcs his may be old fashioned n the Great
Germany ofheyear 2000, but no therefore necessarly
bid

Thetruthis thatalsothe ccusers from e house of
Rebanann in Karsruhe wansod 0 givea cler signal, in
the form ofan investigive succes, o al the ctivists
and othr serious crics of German sylum and setle-
ment polcis. The house-searches and the campaign o
criminaliz Ingrid nd Ulls nd many other women in

RAF Action

On Apsl 91, in Duseldor, Germany, the
Red Army Fractionssassinated Deev Rohwedder,
ihe head of th goverment sgency responsible for
thecconomic restructuring of asiem Germany. The
government tus, which he headed, i responsible
forthe privaizaton of over 000 saic companics of
the former DDR. The privaization process s re-
sukedin unemployment for hundreds of thousands
of eas German workers. We hope 1o have the com-
manique incur pextissue

screamed in fury a tis whole pig mess. All of
together ensurd tha ngrd served no , b oly 2172
‘yearsin theie prison. 3 years and 8 emendous sum of
‘councosts is an extremely high punishenent for some-
one whose oaly misdeed s o have bought an slam
Clock and who refuses to give information sbout ts
‘wheresbovts. Dbt rgues i th favourof e accved:
i i wht i reads i the sl urren school books,of
course this i just on o the normal fck th children”
{actcs, Buthis should ot deerus from hlding tis p
a5 standardfo usic in the ex-BRD and the preseat
Great Gemnany; especilly for those who suffer under
allhese lies.

INSPITE OF IT AL KEEP FIGHTING
“This isthe imporuant concusion rom the Strobl
councasel Many qute diffren people have worked

around it nd i hak was achieved,then we alsoackieve
something for cachoter, t et inpart,and fo some.
oneinjailibe differencebetween 3 and Sisconsiderabl.
Thousandsol peopl did something o opposethe st
of Ingrid and Ul, especially in the cirle o women
there remained a large potenil for oppositon, This
protstis bt described with qute from Ulrke Mt
of:“Protestis f sy I o longer acespt his o hat”
Resisunce i il scetoithaithatwhich | don't scceptno
longeroccurs.” Thatis exscly what we sortof schieved
duringhis campaign. We hav no power, we know tha
bt we arenot poweries for we are manyif we wan
be, and i tis way we can develop, s minimum,
publicly worksble presnce whic s ablewestablishit
Sl inspte o the secuiy-sevice Jod, molt-medi and
elcopter-protected pr-jodgements. That gives ood
feeling: 10 imagine the rage of the Lord-sccusers in
Karsruhe sbout the massatendance at Ingrid's cour-
case i spte of all the conrols; thei fy sbout every
leter of proest andevery newspaperarcle that didnot
it e her fry about the women and men who fa
1989 is spie of threis of torwure would not provide
personal estimony: thei fury over every S10 il con-
ibuted 1o the soidaity account; their fury over our
versailty and trngih

‘Besides al our mixed emorions over the judge-
ment against Ingeid, we know that it would have been
‘worse if we had done notbing. We have leamed a kot
from oursolidaity work with Ingrid, nd this runsfrom.
aloss o lluions sbout his Siae, o ke plessureinthe
experience of our own sucngih. And what we have
leamed here shouldbe applied 10 the many oter sus-
pects who with similar citcumstances s Ingrd were
‘rested andcondermned,bot who argely withoutll s
public tenton haveanded i jil foryeas. Therefor,
the sicke from Hamburg:“Ingrdis ol Howdo we el
the next one ou?” is not nsive fake opporiunism a1
*Konkret put it This is sn opportunity for us to fght
‘withsolidaity and fryforthe cancelltion of 1298 and
o forthe freedom ofall poltca prisoners snd ight-
ing prisoners. Ths is for us an sbiolut, acute requre.
ment worthy to ary on with,

(Takenfrom Clockwork 129, an antirepression maga
aine from the FRG. For more information on Ingrid
StroblandUlla Penslin,Rote Zora and the Revoluion-
ary Cels, andother sruggles in Germany you can get
the following books and pamphlets from ws: “West -
German Represtion Of The Women's Moversent: The
Pariarchy's War For Conirol Of The Womb (53,00
plus S1.50 posage), “A Herstory Of The Revoluionary
Calls And Rote Zora: Armed Resistance In West Ger.
many" (51.00 s 075 postage), “Red Army Frac
tion: Documenis Ard Chonology” (52.00 lus $1.00
pastage), “Poliical Prisoners On Hungerstrke In West
Germany" (8200 plus 51,00 postage), "West Germany
186" (8150 plus $100 postage) and *Squating In
West Berli” (400 s $200 posiage))

‘Am The Spitit s an in-
formation calletive fo-
cusing on miliunt and
revoluionary srgles
Our perspecive s 2
tonomaus but we sce &
need o discuss s0d
analyse sl forme of et
reisance in order 1o
contibute 10 8 tevol:
tionary procsss, W wel

g come and encounge
others 1o join us in our
work.

La Lscha Continuat

Subscriptions or his bulein are $10.0 for 10
fssues. We will o be publishing 8 magazine thatwill
expand upon what we cover in the bullein. At this
moment we hve no subscripion ate for it ut wehope.
o publis it t east twic year. The bulletin will come.
outatlast 101imes a year on a near monthly basis e
s a0 i the process o seting up a small mailorder
lerature sevic. Plessesend $1 or the mailorder s,
‘We acceptcash (concea it wellor money odersbut 0
choques. If sending 8 money order please do not pu
*Amm The Spin”jutleave it blsnk. We lookforward 1o
bearing from you.

Am The Spist

clo Wid Seed Press

P.0. Box 57584, Jackion Sn.
Hanillon, On.

L8P 4X3' CANADA

Tom Manning inierview coninued...
‘was constanly progresingthing,andt il i, tht we
ar ging outof ht olation nd we ae reachingou.
What we were about when we were acave it ied and
‘what we sl are sbout,even though we can only work
in s limited fahion now. 1 constant. Anybody who
ke the time 1o lsen 10 it and whe takesthe time 10
‘makeall he connectons thatwe've ahways made under-
sands where we'r coming from. If they're not geared
forthatmodeofoperation,hen t et hey can support
it and understand it Armed strugle against he same
encmy,no matier whatyour geographicorgeopolitical
borders are has th same needs.

In the upcoming tral hat you and your com-
rade,Richard Willams,are nvolved in i New Jer-
sey, the tate s attemptin (0 Introduce a new biood
screening technique. You and Richard have been
struggling, both physially and lgally, to defeat the
Introduction ofhi testing. What I thstst and what
threatdoyou and Richard think I poss 25 prosect-
ton tol partculary in poltical cases?

Firt o spesk o that physical strggle. Each ime
they've tken the blood - oing all the way back 1o the
day aftr] wascapured when hey wanted aiesmples,
andit ook iteen Bl agents andcity detcivesinNor

Lok, Virgini to gt that - we'vetaken poiton of non.
collboration,notpassive non-colaboraion botaggres-
sivenon-collsboration. Anything I can make them work

s
armed suggle. 'l ight these people say way Lcan, by
any mesns necessary. Richard has the same position.

forthe sysem that I'm strugaling sganst. They (e
sate]aetrying o get more biefor heir ack outof s
ral. Anythingthey try o get ovr o0 s ntis wia we
‘will conest. Tha goes equalyfor the blod tes.
Tdon't want o giveth blood sy specic sgnifi-
cance. s n unproven, new scenific test. (s been
wsed in roughly 400 wials n his couiry 1 one degree
or another, successfuly or unsuccesiully. As poopl
nderstand e newness of i, and as it evelops, i's ke
anythingelse. The more youleamaboutt e more you
sealize how linle you knew sbout i yeserday. Tha's
what is happening with this technlogy. s jost ke
volceprints o liedetectors that they thought wer
‘powerfl and convincing ten years ag0. You can't et
lie-deteciortesimony inscouroomthse day. I hink
hat'eventaaly what's going tobagpen with this lood
st On that aspec, ha's how we're challening .

Justto wrap up iven theever-incressng state
of represson in North America, what do you se as
theraleofclandestine revolutlonar organizations i
the . and Canada during the coming years?

They re coming o ake this phone ightnow, 50
Tl be eal quick. Basicaly, the role of amed srugle
anywhere is conditioned by time and place. At some
point,inplaces lie EI Sabvador, it becomes the main
st Right now, amed suvggle in tis county is
basically smed propagands, s demonstrton wo. For
people 15 whole, amed strugle gives them ancther
opeion o ight he syiem with

You've got 1o struggle on sl levels with weapons

or with lealts, nd with idess.

Writ lo Tom and the rest o he Ohi

Editorial Notes

Hore e wewithyt oo o sndaspoope |
maybavenoiced wehave anew adres. The e
fortis s tou gropharundergone some crnget,
‘with some comrades leaving to do other political
‘work. Thed e il onine e sctve
v ecourge peple o contie o e i .
Somcime e nas e new pblcatoncal |
it The Stets” shovld b coming ot from thi
adies (ox 475, 253 Callge St. Tornt, Ont
MST 1R, Conde). We, on the v b, i
contn i wok i n reron e
e nd we one apin sk hat comrads e
oo n e sugales gingcn e putof
{he wrld. As well wee comouing o wok o oo
e prjects, paniclary the magzin veion of
‘Am The Spirit. A chronic shortage of money contin-
‘ueato bea problem, 50 once again any help would be
iy ,

oy e wosd keto sy st v ivemany
hank o corad fom Toroto o e
rice e Tom Marain i,

“Tom Mansing 4202873 -4B.
Richard Wiliams 479372 SH
Trnton Stae Prison

onsel

Trenton, NI

08625 USA

Barbara Curzi Lasman #18213.053
Carol Manning #10375.016
ECL Lexingion

Asfarasthe egal hing- 1 atctosay legalbecause
hat puts the connottion o egality onthe rial,but for

he sake of getingth conversation going we'll o with | Jaan Lawman 410372016
the wordlegal"- we cn st that s much s we canest | P.O. Bos 1000
anyibing els inthis il Basiclly, what happened out | Lesveawor, KS

o the road was 8 elfdefense armed confronaton | 66048 USA'

betweenme and cop, whollook atas aron linesoldies

301 Leestown Rd.

Lesingion, KY
Aos11 USA

(Ray Levassear's addres is on pg. 2 and Pa Gros-
Levasseur s o longer imprisoned.)

“Thanks For Your Saldarly

1 wouldvery moch moch ke o come et you, one o one, in e srets, nthe
v, inthe counrysid.. b you ndelyou tht Ll el sdacss orthe i
i o ofyou ried your comrad,caused you... bt my condemtion
exensive, s hways or evoluionary.

T would vry mach ke o shake your Bands, o 10 cne, nd whiser while
lookin i yor ycs, yourcyes that Know o o xpress veryling decp nside,
ark yo, THANK YOU FOR SUCH SOLIDARITY! Bu tick walls wached by
e evd vih machine gons spar -

Twould very much ket vt Y5, 00 1006 o come s me andhus et
you, k10 you ofll he dors thathe o fyour corrade opeed, bt i you s
end o revoltcnsy prisoer you e ot allowed o ook o bis yes.

1 would very much ke o wrte eac of you long lter fll o hopes and
dreams, b mailbo fech pitical prisones 0 sl htlywocensorsd
Tetrs s legrams it e weck

SOMUCH FURY!

They don'tevenletyou walkintheprison counyard,becanetodo o yourmust.
howthe g yourclshe nd yourbodysnd allow yourslf o e molstd,before
andfcron rtwolossy hours e couyard e oy I couryard o even
vy fc.

ey do't v e youspsk 0 you iy o you hilden, becaus 0 o
i you st ot p with everytin ity s during hose dann ety it
('t bont stancs) that you'e lloed being lieoed 1o, wre down d
rconded

Youca't v hav yourchildre spend few hours with you, because ey
st e searched belore and s i Vi

“They doncvenleyouliv with yourcorvades, WITH WHOM YOUSHARS
LIFE AND DEATH, beckuse they eyt ven isamed, w are more dagerons
When we e ogether. What anlsion!

Ty know vy wel hat s ot e, tht the gl s no securiy (i we
e well protced) but e goul i semething o, e il o our deals Bt
b calulions ave fld. o we 10 Know how o “prtet”ou deals.

“They can s us fordsye, week, s, thy ca hreaen s, it s even

ke away ourightt re-anification hrough he hungerstike by sirapping us 0beds.
But the ieals, they don' reach thern.

‘You, Kepa (4 GRAPO prsoner who died during previous hungersrke -od),
youcan explain i, because you know it wel, w know you well and we know that
You wanted o LIVE, LIVE AND LIVE! And you Sevi who was et They letyou
e andi'sceainthat when you saw death spproaching, inyour souleiched self
e eyesofyourchikdren, thepecple youloved the o, the calours,heflowes
countryside, e towns, e people e music the dances,the aughie, the kisss, he
embraces, th clebrations. LIFE! But you didn' give up you dide't gve them the
plesure of touching your deal of LOVE and REVOLUTION, of DIGNITY and
REVOLUTION, of STRUGGLE and REVOLUTION.

Kepa, you didn't s your e daughir rowinio a woman. Sevi, hee days
befor thy prononced you desd, whil you were stuggling 10 keep your heart
beating, received a telegramfor e 31 birthday of our lle Aid

. And every 13th of May

our lower grows aller

‘nd the most beatifulcoloured petsle

indthe softestand sweetet st
-Sevi

“They never et you Kis our e duncer.
“They tock away our mos basic human rghts ke they"ve don 0 allrevol

tionaries, bt hey peves succeeded intaking away ous revolutonary ideas. NEVER,

‘COMRADES, NEVERI IT IS THAT WHICH IS OUR COLOSSAL VICTORY!

LOVE AND STRENGTH!
WEWILLWIN!

Rosario Naracz
‘GRAPO policl prsoner
Yesei, Spsin

(Reprited from Correspondances Revoluionaies)