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Black Panther Party — Part 24
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APPENDIX
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"The New York Tiwcs" city edition, Tuesday, April 20, 1965,
page 27, reported that a new party of “revolutionary sovizbisn" was
formally founveco ca April t4, 1965, under the name of the PLP vhicn
ha- been know as the Progressive Labor Movement.
According to the article, “The Progrz=sive Laber Movement
was founded in 1962 by Miltca Rosen and Mortimer Scheer atter they
were expelled from the Communist Party of the Uniced States for
asscrtedly follosing tne Chinese Communist line." ~
A source advisec on June 3. 1968, that the PLP held its
Second National Cenveation in New York City. May 31 to Tune 2, 1368.
at shich time the PLP regssssrted its objecrive of the estaolishmeot
of u militant working ciass movement based on Marxism-Leninism
This is to be accomplishec through the Party's over-all revolutionary
strategy of raising the corscicusness of the praple and helping to
provide ideological leacership in the working class struggje for
state power,
The source also advised that at the Second Nationa! Conven-
tion Milton Rosen vas unanimously re-elected National Chairman of the
PLP and Levi Laub. Fred fterone, Jared Israsl, William Eptoa, Jacob
Rosen, Jeffrey Gorcos and Walter Linder were Elected as the National
Comittee to lead the PLP until the next convention...
The PLP publishes "Progressive Labor", a bi-monthly
magazine; “World Revoluticna", a quarterly periecical; and "Challenge-
Desifio", a monthly newspaier.
The April, 1969, issue of "Cha!leng*-Desafio" sets forth
that "Challenge is d2dicat-d to the peopie's fiagnt for a new way of
life--where the vorking men and women costret wieir own homes and
factories; where they themselves make up the ¢aliré governmeat on
every level and control tne schools, courts, potice and all insti-
tutions which are now used to control them,"
Source advised on May 8, 1969, that the PLP utilizes an
addirss of General Fost Office Box 808, Brooklyn. New York, and
alse utilizes an office in Room 617, 1 Union Square West, New York,
New York.
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