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. . * |. . . “of the Syxbionese Feieration. We resigned collectively froz, “oe ere ex-neubers the Pedorstion ote! after the assagtination off. Marces Fester. we nad intended simzsly to disPOciate ourselves from the SLA -raotice, bv; ceasing to rer, vith then, Since the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst end the’ pub! ication of the . Declaration, hovever, ve feel compelled to make e public etetenent concernins cr ‘ criticisms ef the Sia and our history with the Federation, teceuse cf their festric @uisre; resentation of the revolutionzry movement. ‘he obvious first step is to Geal with the SLa'ts trazic nisuse of violence. The revolutionary role of "necessary" violence is the opposite of rhat the S14 believes, ard practices, as recently, where they @ecided, se: arctely rom the. rest of the Federation, te murter Foster, Violence alone cannot berin 2 revolutionary Fivractice, out onl; the feilure of that ractice: useless self-sacrifice. ‘“inlence, “Svhen necessary, cen sari prt reveluticnary stratesy, but never orisinate or justify a it. : ‘By resorting to abstrect violence, the SLA net only. seperated itself ffor the Grest of the revoluticnary tovesent, but became the exarple to avoid, the sterecty:e -¥of the "mad terrorist” so indispensable to our oppressors to put us dom even sore with new lavs and restrictions. ‘The surest way to cictatorshir is e revclutionary smovenent rerresented ty rrovocateurs. Lovever, Te’ nave not given and will not rive tinformation recerdizs our location or the location of the SLA to the authorities, ' gfor the folicving rezsons: . _¢€ 1} -uhile we no longer con ‘sider the SLA to be a genuinely reve lutionary organ- ization, re.are ne friends of.Randoitch Bearst or the class to which he celenss, thet is, the cless thich srns and controls the ceans of life -- the factcries, lend: sschools, conzunicaticss; and much of the housing -~ in the United States, and throug ,out the verld. - . , : $- 2) %e ere fully arare of the tiased end politica ally rerresfive nature of the Br justice” systeo rhien would use cur rast connection rith the SLA to fraze us for th “_srevolutionery movenert and halt our activity. ; ¢ 3) Ye are in hicing since the split, expecting reprisals froa the SLA. : * _ & ' We joined the StA “ pereretely, not knowing each other at the time, :ut for sinil - ‘4Areascns, as ve later discovered, nanely, that we could no lon-er tolerate the qualit fana conditions of our rrivate and rubdlic lives -- rerressive education that was nor then an essen’. ‘ly line for mzking.otedient slaves, boring and hunilieting jobs, de- lining 'Btandards of living", and a polluted, ugly environaent. 4nd, as far as re ould see, things were getti g worse. 411 the reforms re fought fer in the '60's thad failed, oz been ‘aken beck, and rere inedeauate to Start with. all of us were sfrustrated wath the civided factions of the so-called revoluticnary left. That Mpovenent ras based oz -vilt, cn elrays vaking the revolution for sonecody else, in ithe nane of sotebody else's oppression, suprosedly greater than our own. “t ras dor Wnatea ty egotistical leeder-tureaucrats and leader-sters rho cared only about their ‘} "revolutionary" carsers. They led a mass of follewer-lackeys sho rroved their om Becrer tude ty tolerating ard in fact creatine such leaders. The con*usion of enti- war groups, sexual.literation groups and naticnal liberetion groups rere 2il rresen the ineze of nilitser*: orposition, tut ve wanted to do more than nerely talk tack to N the TV sczeen. Te vere looking for -rothers end sisters rho felt as urgently £S re ;@id thet the tine tc seize tack our lives was nov. The Symrionese reople *e contac _ Were self-discirlined, serious and efficient revolutionary cadres, willins to risk . ~paythine in ¢rder to rain everythins. chen “ef the Synbionese Feierztion last dune, we vin a revoluticnary. organization that was on Ute joined in ausust. Daring: * he early stage of the eriting of the original Decleration cf tne sysbic “Federation ~=, . not. the same one that the SLA hed | putlishéd in the ererers -- basic Swe eam Lie : z ‘ 25 Fou -r is 7 Joined in the First founding sontes 7 + =- 7 - mews curht we nad Found a plese Fre curso big its S way teyond the Left, old and "pew ad fe a he