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4 "Death can be as 1@.: es a feather, or it @ ® can be henvier than “it. Tai." tno Tee Tung Ostober 1, 1975 2915 Deisht Vay BerkeJay, Ca, 94704 Dear Tanfa, aa The world is awaiting your Statenent, We have heard too much from your ruling class pnrents and lawyers. You have waited tao long already; get your statenent to us or to some other trustworthy organization, and we will get it out to tne people, Those millions of oppressed people here and around the world who looked to you and your comrades for inspiration and guidance, are waiting for your statement, - Zour "shileeskin privilece” and yuur parents’ money were the main reasons you were not killed or wounded in your capture, If you had been black or brown, w~ nrcoSetiy would be visiting your grave site now, instead of sending you letters, Use that pigevrivilege, Tania, to help defeat the monopoly-capitalist system that can't ‘exist without it! Use those class privileges to help smash classes forever! There are many adventurists and groupies who play at revolution, The true revolutionary is the one who Stands strong during crises like this, That picture that went around the world, oF that phony "radical" lawer | Hallinan screaming his lies into the microphones e-- de=fang this viper, Tania! One clest atatenent of the truth fron you will stop the spread of these poisonous lies to the pecple, True Communist revolutionaries -=~ the new women, the new men, the new humanity --- can arise fron any class, Although the ruling clasa in General is the enemy of the human racc, many individuals from this class l have transcended their conditioning, and have become totally committed to the strucele, Maybe you are familiar -ith the eulesy Moo Tse Tuns wrote about Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor who devoted his life to the Chinese Communist revolution, He said in part: | "Comrade Hethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in | his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the | people, Every Communist must learn from him, ‘here are not a fev | | people who are irresponsible in their work, preferring the light and shirking the heavy, passing the burdensome tasks on to others and choosing the easy ones for themselves, At every turn they think of themselves before others, When they make some small contribution, they swell with pride and brag about it for fear that othera will not know, ‘They feel no warmth towards comrades and the people but are cold, indifferent and apathetic, In truth such people are not Cormunists, or at least cannot be counted as devoted Communists, --= We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him, With this spirit - everyone can be very useful to the people, A person's ability may be “6reat or small, but if tney nove tis s2tc'4, they are already noble» minded and pure, a person of wora}, integrity and above vulgar interests, . & person who is of value to the people,” . Continue to live like a revolutionary, so that the world will remenber you with strength-giving pride and- love, Tanin. Be unforgettable! ; The weight of us who live -—« and die em. in struggle, will crush the parasitic capitalist system forever, “there is no victory in halfeassed revolution.” Tania | . | - "I died in that fire on Sith Street, and ont of the ashes I was reborn,” Tania New Dawn Farty oo « . e Tm ee RAT LF tee ‘