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ere’ tw é é {i.e., the proletariat) is anycne who has no power over their activities and the uses to which they are put, because they must sell them to somebody else. This does not refer to those benevolent “servants of the people” whose reali wish is not the power of the proletariat but their power over the proletariat, whether they be white, black, brown, yellow or red bureaucrats. Just look at China, Russia, and Cuba. In this respect, life there is the same as here: you take orders; you work for somebody else. These countries are still capitalist, only there, the state is the capitalist!! Once we are running things for ourselves, instead of following orders from the people who extort our time -- producing what they tell us, how they tellvus:-- we can start to remake the world in the way we want it to be. The SLA idea of ‘separate, sovereign nations" is backward and bourgeois. We will have to. plan*production on a #Orld=wide scale to'get what we want; ‘What people all over the world use every day already comes from:.all parts of.the world, not just - their ovm-part. But it is vital that we keep control over. — what is planned and what is produced, and not give up this pover to some new bureaucracy. -This means that we will have to oraqanize on the basis of councils -- assemblies of a11° the people concerned in communities, factories, offices, farms, etc., which make all decisions which concern themselves alone, and coordinate larger decisions by sending deputies to city- wide and regional councils, and finally to a world council. These deputies must not be representatives, elected on the basis of personality, to make decisions for us, but should be selected to carry decisions already made by the workers' assemblies to the city, regional, and world coordinating councils. The assemblies must. be~able to recall the deputy right away if-he or she deviates from those decisions. In conclusion, we want to say that the revolution will not be made by an army, no matter how well-intentioned or well-organized, any more than by a "revolutionary party’. . The brothers and sisters of the SLA are on the wrong road, road that leads to sacrifice and defeat. Political power does not come primarily out of the harrel of a gun, but out of control over the means of production and out of new social relationships. The revolution must oppose all nationalism, because national. “independence” in the modern world is a myth. ‘Instead, we stand for the interdependence of working humanity, whichis already a concrete fact. The freedom we will discover in overthrowing capitalism and in oF society together. - goes far beyond any “national freedom" * 96S ‘ESN > > wi ee wet O82 Dn Pas ! gty acts See Jayeretoes eer Rien ast st eae epee ane Wy