How Black Panthers Turned To North Korea In Fight Against US Imperialism

How Black Panthers Turned To North Korea In Fight Against US Imperialism
Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver addresses students at American University in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 18, 1968. (AP Photo)
Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver addresses students at American University in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 18, 1968. (AP Photo)

“Broken wine bottles and hypodermic needles are very effective. Pork chop and chicken bones can even be utilised as weapons,” the Black Panther newspaper instructed its readers in 1970. If the tone was familiar to them, the source of inspiration might have seemed less so: “This is ‘Juche’, relying on what you have, to sustain your resistance,” it explained.

The article was testament to an unexpected alliance. On one side was the California-based revolutionary socialist movement, declared by FBI director J Edgar Hoover “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country”.

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