Prairie Fire Organizing Committee - Revision history

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Manifesto

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RobSmith at 23:08, March 1, 2019

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RobSmith: /* Manifesto */

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Manifesto

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DavidB4-bot: /* External links */clean up & uniformity

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Progressingamerica at 01:12, November 16, 2015

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Progressingamerica: Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism (Full Text)

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Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism (Full Text)

AndrewLe: better category

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better category

RobSmith at 04:14, September 3, 2009

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 written to prisoners, women's groups, collectives, study groups, workers' [[community organizing|organizing committee]]s, communes, Gl [[community organizing|organizer]]s, consciousness-raising groups, veterans, [[community organizing|community group]]s and [[revolution]]aries of all kinds; to all who will read, criticize and bring its content to life in practice. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle."<ref>''Prarie Fire, the Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism'', Political Statement of the Weather Underground, published by Communications Co., (no place) 1974, Introduction and pp 1 and 75.</ref>
-''Prarie Fire'' urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> The PFOC also published ''Breakthrough'', a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world [[single party last]] [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
+''Prarie Fire'' urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and [[logistics]] for WUO members living underground.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> The PFOC also published ''Breakthrough'', a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world [[single party last]] [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
 ==Profile==

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 ==External links==
 *[https://archive.org/details/sds_papers The SDS Papers - Prairie Fire & The Port Huron Statement], Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism
+{{communism}}
 [[Category:Subversive Organizations]]
 [[Category:Weather Underground]]
 [[Category:New Left]]

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−	[[File:Jeffrey carl jones.jpg\|thumb\|341px\|right\|Jeff Jones, co-author of ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'' along with [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]], was wanted by the FBI for failure to appear in court to face federal charges of "crossing state lines to foment a riot." Jones currently is the Director of the New York State Apollo Alliance for clean energy and so-called "green-collar jobs." [http://apolloalliance.org/state-local/new-york-state/new-york-state-partners/] [[Obama administration]] Green Czar [[Van Jones]] was a founder and board member of Apollo Alliance. [http://www.apolloalliance.org/index.php?s=cio] ]]	+	[[File:Jeffrey carl jones.jpg\|thumb\|341px\|right\|Jeff Jones, co-author of ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'' along with [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]], was wanted by the FBI for failure to appear in court to face federal charges of "crossing state lines to foment a riot." Jones currently is the Director of the New York State Apollo Alliance for clean energy and so-called "green-collar jobs." [http://apolloalliance.org/state-local/new-york-state/new-york-state-partners/] [[Obama administration]] Green Czar [[Van Jones]] was a founder and board member of [[Apollo Alliance]]. [http://www.apolloalliance.org/index.php?s=cio] ]]
	'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''PFOC''') formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO), the [[terrorist]] spin-off from [[Students For a Democratic Society]] (SDS). The name came from a statement by [[Mao Zedong]], "a single spark can set a prairie fire." Its first pamphlet was ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'', written by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Jeff Jones]].		'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''PFOC''') formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO), the [[terrorist]] spin-off from [[Students For a Democratic Society]] (SDS). The name came from a statement by [[Mao Zedong]], "a single spark can set a prairie fire." Its first pamphlet was ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'', written by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Jeff Jones]].

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 written to prisoners, women's groups, collectives, study groups, workers' [[community organizing|organizing committee]]s, communes, Gl [[community organizing|organizer]]s, consciousness-raising groups, veterans, [[community organizing|community group]]s and [[revolution]]aries of all kinds; to all who will read, criticize and bring its content to life in practice. It is written as an argument against those who oppose action and hold back the struggle."<ref>''Prarie Fire, the Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism'', Political Statement of the Weather Underground, published by Communications Co., (no place) 1974, Introduction and pp 1 and 75.</ref>
-''Prarie Fire'' urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> The PFOC also published ''Breakthrough'', a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world single party [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
+''Prarie Fire'' urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> The PFOC also published ''Breakthrough'', a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world [[single party last]] [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
 ==Profile==

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 ==See also==
 *[[Communist front]]
 *[[Celia Sojourn]]

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 *[[United States]]
-==='''Status===
+===Status===
 *'''[[Community organizing|Organized]], ''possibly active'''''<ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=pfoc ATTAC Terror Report]</ref>

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 [[File:Jeffrey carl jones.jpg|thumb|341px|right|Jeff Jones, co-author of ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'' along with [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]], was wanted by the FBI for failure to appear in court to face federal charges of "crossing state lines to foment a riot." Jones currently is the Director of the New York State Apollo Alliance for clean energy and so-called "green-collar jobs." [http://apolloalliance.org/state-local/new-york-state/new-york-state-partners/]  [[Obama administration]] Green Czar [[Van Jones]] was a founder and board member of Apollo Alliance. [http://www.apolloalliance.org/index.php?s=cio] ]]
-'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''PFOC''') formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO), the [[terrorist]] spin-off from [[Students For a Democratic Society]] (SDS).  The name came from a statement by [[Mao Zedong]], "a single spark can set a prairie fire." Its first pamphlet was ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'', written by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Jeff Jones]]. According to Prof. Harvey Klehr:
+'''Prairie Fire Organizing Committee''' ('''PFOC''') formed in 1974, was the publishing arm of the [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO), the [[terrorist]] spin-off from [[Students For a Democratic Society]] (SDS).  The name came from a statement by [[Mao Zedong]], "a single spark can set a prairie fire." Its first pamphlet was ''Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-imperialism'', written by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Jeff Jones]].
-:It announced that "we are [[communist]] men and women" and urged its supporters to form an above-ground arm of the WUO. Chapters soon formed in several cities with perhaps a thousand members. Members of PFOC helped facilitate communication and logistics for WUO members living underground.<ref>Harvey Klehr, ''Far Left of Center: The American Radical Left Today'' (Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1988), 109.</ref> The PFOC also published ''Breakthrough'', a quarterly journal which routinely called for widespread violent resistance to U. S. imperialism, and ran article after article praising third-world single party [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictatorships.
+==Manifesto==
-==Profile==
+It announced "We are a [[guerrilla]] organization. We are [[communist]] women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. We are deeply affected by the historic events of our time join the struggle against US imperialism....Our intention is to disrupt the empire...to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the people of the world, to join the world struggle, to attack from the inside."
-Founding/Supervisory Organizations:
+==Profile==
-* Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence (DGI)
+===Founding/Supervisory Organizations===
 * [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO)
-Supporting Organizations:
+===Supporting Organizations===
 * Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
 * [[Workers World Party]] (WWP)
 * [[Youth International Party]] (YIP)
-Type of Organization:  [[Terrorist]]/revolutionary
+===Type of Organization===
-Location:  Ideological cover:  Openly [[Marxist-Leninist]]
+*Ideological cover:  Openly [[Marxist-Leninist]]
-Activities:  Urban [[guerrilla warfare]]; bombings; [[assassination]]s; riots; prison organizing
+===Activities===
-Target countries:  [[United States]]
+*Urban [[guerrilla warfare]]; bombings; [[assassination]]s; riots; prison organizing
-'''Status:  Organized, possibly active'''
+===Target countries===
-Assisted Organizations:
+===Assisted Organizations===
 * American Indian Movement (AIM)
-* Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)
+* [[Armed Forces of National Liberation]] (FALN)
 * Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
 * Republic of New Africa (RNA)
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 * [[Workers World Party]] (WWP)
-Derivative/Controlled Organizations:
+===Derivative/Controlled Organizations===
 * [[May 19th Communist Organization]] (M-19 CO)
 ==See also==
 *[[Communist front]]
 ==References==
 <references/>
-*[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=pfoc ATTAC Terror Report]
 [[Category:Subversive Organizations]]
 [[Category:Terrorists]]
 [[category:New Left]]