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Te Re eter me RE SNR I By an me ahah mr ee = tet ay 2 * ~_ =. co] "ization, re are ne friends of Randolrh Hearst or the class to which he velongs, that (oer tice® system which would use our cvast.connection with the SLA to frame us for the t ‘schools, communications, and much of the housing -~ in the United States, and through- hee Sar of 5 2toe Mg eee pee ey Le Been, ae a we cet ese dewey Se ewer LL tic of the Federation, to mrdier Foster. Violence alone cannot begin a revolutionary i rractice, but only the failure of that =ractice: useless self-sacrifice. Violence, when necessary, can savvert revolutionary strategy, but never ori:-inate or -iuatify , : ‘By resorting to abstract violence, the SLA not only separated itself ffor the . rest of the revolutimary movement, but became the example to avoid, the sterectyre Ee of the “mad terrorist” so indispensable to our oppressors to put us down even more car with new lays and restrictions. The surest wey to dictatorship is a revolutionary” movement represented ty provocateurs. “owever, we have not given end will not..zive information regafding our lotation or the location of the SLA to the authorities, for the following reasons: ~ : . 1} “hile we no longer consider tie SLA to be a genuinely revclutionary organ- is, the clase thich orms and controls the means of life -- the factcries, land, M6 out the werld. 2) Ne are fully aware of the biased and politically rerressive nature of the revolutionary movemert and halt our activity. 3) “e are in hiding since the split, expecting reprisals from the SLA. 7-15200 We joined the SLA serarately, not knowing each other at the tine, .ut for similar ~ ~ reasons, as we later discovered, nanely, that we could no lonser tolerate the quality and conditions of our private and Fubdlic lives -- rerressive education. that was no ocre than an essemily line for making obedient sleves, boring and humiliating jobs, de- lining ‘standards of living’, and a polluted, ugiy environment. And, as far as we could see, things were getti g worse. 4All-the reforms ve fought fer in the '60's had failed, or been taken back, and were inatenuate to start with. All of us were frustrated with the civided factions of the. so-called revolutionary left. That movement was based om guilt, on elrays making the revolution for someoody else, in the name of somebody else's oppression, supposedly greater than our own. “*t was done inated by egotisticel leager-bureaucrats and leader-stars who cared only about their "revolutionary" careers. They led a mass of follower-lackeys who proved their orn decreritude by tolerating and in fact creating such leeders. The con*usion of anti- War groups, sexual literation groups and national liberation groups were all yresenting the image of militant opposition, cut we wanted to do more than merely talk back to the TV screen. We were looking for -rothers and sisters who felt as urgently as we gid that the time te seize back our lives was now. The Symbionese people we contacted were self-discirlined, serious and efficient revolutionary cadres, willins to risk anything in order to gain everythinz. «shen we joined in the first founding conference fd 7 . WS Lue ietedvese Jrleostaen les> duae, ~ thoughs ze sed round 2 dlece ver ourselves in a revoluticnar;ss:vanization that was on its wey ceyond the Left, old and "new", “Fe joined in august. : During the early stage of the writing cf the original Reclaration of the Syubionese ‘Federation m= not the eens anne that then Ora bid Love lee. oe gk ee a