By Tom Watts

The social base of the United Panther Movement, which is led by the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC), is the majority of people on the planet; the Black, Brown, Asian and White poor people, the oppressed, the marginalized, the down-trodden, the caged and the hunted. It is the millions upon millions of people at the bottom of the social meat-grinder. It is the people for whom survival is an issue, for whom the police are just gangsters in uniforms who prey upon the weak. It is the people who are reminded every day that under this wretched system their lives don’t matter. Every second, a potential Panther is born in the ghettos, the barrios, the flavias, the shantytowns and slums that have grown around every urban center on the planet. Panthers are revolutionaries – they are “all-the-way revolutionary” – who are dedicated to serving the people, educating and organizing the people, and if need be dying for the people. “Pantherism” is revolutionary intercommunalism. It is illuminated by the “Science of Revolution” – Marxism-Leninism-Maoism – and the practical and theoretical contributions of Huey P. Newton and the original Black Panther Party (BPP) and allied formations in the revolutionary upsurge of the late 60’s and early 70’s. It is based upon a fresh analysis of how the world is hooked up today and what is new and arising. Pantherism is universally applicable wherever masses of poor and oppressed people are concentrated into communities. It combines the strategy of organizing “Serve The People” (STP) survival programs in the oppressed communities with a strategy of conducting revolutionary agitation, education and organizing to build community-based people’s power and transform the oppressed communities into base areas of cultural, social and political revolution in the context of building a “Worldwide United Front Against Capitalist-Imperialism, Racism and Police State Oppression.” It seeks to build broad alliances to address various problems in the communities and unite the masses of people to act in their common interests. Capitalist-Imperialism is in decline, as wealth and power concentrate at the top, there is a generalization of poverty and oppression at the bottom. Checks and balances are brushed aside as the ruling oligarchy of super-rich pull the strings of politics and government to serve their needs and greed. The tragic farce of endless war, austerity and “war on the poor” wears on the nerves and the constant reminder that the police can kill you or your children tears at the heart. Half the people on the planet are struggling to survive on $2.75 a day or less while you could fit the owners of more than half the world’s wealth on a tour bus. Private ownership of the means of production condemns the majority to lives of poverty, shortened life span and needless suffering. It holds back progress and causes wars. It is right to rebel against this rotten system and the racism and police terrorism that support it. If not for yourself than for your children, Stand Up and be a Panther! Dare to Struggle Dare to Win… All Power to the People!