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¢ wan . 7 .. A oy wi J rEg Beh 0-19 (Rev 10-1-64) ; : Tolson ace Six as TED MILI DeLoach ; ! —_ ew Casper REPORT FROM ALGERIA ; _« oe wee Callahan ; : - Conrad a we : | African Reactions to Malcolm X’s i" By Henri Dumoulin . ALGIERS — In the course of his recent visits to a number of African capitals, the American Black nationalist leader, Malcolm X, gained much sympathy in mili- tant African circles, Two weeks before his assassination, for ex- ample, in its issue of Feb. 13, 1965, the Algerian weekly Révolution Africaine devoted a double-page center spread to an article entitled “Roads to Liberty: Rev. Martin Luther King or Malcolm x” The atticle reads, in part: .— “Parallel with the intensification ef the pacifist struggle for civil rights in the South, a militant spirit has, for some time now, animated the struggle of the black communities in the ghettos of the North. The unemployed youth are demanding their rights to justice and to jobs. In Harlem, the tenants of the overcrowded slums are con- ducting rent strikes. The tradi- tional integrationist leaders, re- garded as toc moderate, are less. and less followed by black work- ers who swell the ranks of na- tignalist organizations . . . and state their intention qf using vi- olence, if necessary, to defend themselves against the violence of the racists. The idea of a sustained struggle against the oppression of the rich whites — who completely - dominate the economic life of the black ghettos ahd exploit its in- habitants -—- is spreading fast. ; “Uneasy in the face of this up- 2 surge of militant feeling, New 4 York's officialdom has imposed a « virtual police reign of terror on , Harlem, while the press whips up a a campaign of racist hate . e “Fearing above all that the op: », pressed black masses will be w: -}-to revolutionary socialist id p: the municipal authorities reinforce their oppressive measures.” . And Révolution Africaine cori- cluded its article as follows: “The black people of the United States are descendants of the slaves brought from Africa in chains and they are still, today, a colonized and superexploited people within the very bosom of American s0- ciety, Objectively, the struggle against discrimination and- racism is a struggle against the ¢ structure the economic d , political organization — att the as Te OR ee a aa Malcolm X United States, and a struggle for a new social order. . “The struggle of American Ne- groes for equality and justice is thus part of the great world movement against imperialism and the exploitation of man by man. American Negroes have already begun to be aware of their kin- ship with all the world’s oppressed and feel themselves more and more in solidarity with all peo ples marching toward liberty and fulfillment of their potential as human beings.” In the light of such an article, one can imegine the feelings of the most clear-sighted and informed African militants at the news of the assassination of Malcolm X. They immediately recognized the hand of Yankee imperialism be hind fhe hands of the assassins. The Algerian daily, Le Peuple, headlined its issue of Feb. 27: “The weakness of the American authorities is at the root of the assassination of Malcolm X.”- In a number of African capitals, there was a wave of protests over the assassination — from Accra, where it was declared that the "" bifick people of America would. not be discouraged but would bat- tle on to the end, to Cairo, where ‘various East Afri ~ perlalists saw Ine worker _ Roasan HtVoeyy movements, includi Sullivan sutoland, condemn Tavel nation, Trotter The Secretary of dicale Pan-Africain Tele Room Labor Union] dec Holmes brutal murder of M Gandy give impetus to tl of the Afro-Americ J. Jeune Afrique (., ~/ ia + v the weekly publi - ri carried an afticie tr P, correspondent, cor" which said: v “It was difficult | night of the day’ colm was struck ¢ of Feb. 21, to find in the streets of H the assassination ; the Organization 7} 7 can Unity did not result of a big « cotispiracy to wh py sLock a viewed more tha the black ghett old and young, All agreed that, consideration th /LL sibility of the 1 of Elijah Muham of Malcolm X t cumstances suffic excite grave sus NOT atch ine role of the whitdhe 46 App §°°1984 ——_ authorities and s Times Herald Mime March 6 if “aahing’ Daily ‘Yexe a Africaine again The Evening Star ticle to the deatvew York Herald Tribune “Malcolm X \Wew York Journal-American less than a fearli Trevolutionist, spew York Mirror pressed people New York Daily News to lead om thes... york Post - liberation. “That is why The New York Times Pion of ‘Afro-Ai and a partic The New Leader enemy, The Wall Street Journal ——.—__ ~ “In his strugiphe National Observer can recism, People's Worid hesitate to in question and seDate all the forces THE posed to U.S, in PAGE _* “This concept LITANT Political and m wruggle of the ba (S