Mumia Abu Jamal is a journalist and former MOVE activist and Black Panther. He has been framed for the murder of a cop. He faces the death penalty. The evidence for his framing is clear cut. He doesn�t look like the Afro-haired person described by eye witnesses. Mumia has dreadlocks.
This case goes beyond just the frame-up of an innocent individual. It is political. Mumia has been an opponent of the racist US state throughout his life. He has exposed racist attacks on black people by the state. He has not equivocated even though it may cost him his life. The message the state, the racists and the ruling class want to put over loud and clear is that if you stand up against oppression it may cost you your life. Such threats inhibit resistance.
Workers have an interest in Black proletarians standing up against the racist state so we have every interest in freeing Mumia. It is the responsibility of the left and workers movement to organise protests and action to free him. CL supports protests by the Partisan Defense Committee which are proletarian based. Mumia is clearly innocent but we would defend him even if he was otherwise. Black people have a right to fight a racist system.
Of course, there is work to be done in Australia defending Kooris, Murris and other Black people who face similar repression. CL has defended the likes of John Pat and those on Palm Islanders who stood up against the system. Mumia is relevant here because of Rudd Labor's alliance with that racist barbaric state -- the USA. Free Jamal!Free Mumia Abu Jamal!
Of course, there is work to be done in Australia defending Kooris, Murris and other Black people who face similar repression. CL has defended the likes of John Pat and those on Palm Islanders who stood up against the system. Mumia is relevant here because of Rudd Labor's alliance with that racist barbaric state -- the USA. Free Jamal!ing right at the rate of knots. Even Whitlam's minor reforms were not acceptable to the ruling class. His government was ruthlessly deposed. Many decades later, Labor seems to have found a successful formula for its survival -- attacking us! We must reject Rudd and the constraints of parliament! Build a revolutionary communist party!