Chicago, IL – Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. has spent his entire life fighting to carry forward the revolutionary legacy of the Black Panther Party. Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. was assassinated in hail of bullets from a combined Chicago Police Department, FBI, Illinois States Attorney’s Office death squad on December 4, 1969. The 4:30 a.m. raid was part of a nationwide counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) against the Black Panther Party and other revolutionary organizations.

Chairman Fred Jr. has always kept the revolutionary struggle front and center. August 30 is Chairman Fred Sr.'s birthday. Every year the Black Panther Party Cubs have a celebration of his life on that day. For many years the Black Panther Party Cubs struggled to force city hall to rename the 2300 block of W. Monroe Street after Chairman Fred Sr., since 2337 W. Monroe Street was the site of his assassination. The Black Panther Party Cubs mobilized the people against the racist mayoral administrations of Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emmanuel, who were intransigent in their opposition to the renaming campaign.

Now, the tables have turned with the election of progressive Brandon Johnson to the mayor's office. Johnson was a former Chicago Teachers Union organizer who played a role in organizing the 2012 teachers’ strike. He was elected mayor with wide support from labor and the Black and other oppressed nationality communities, as well as progressive whites, in Chicago.

It truly is a new day in Chicago as Mayor Johnson presented Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and Mama Akua N'Jeri with a proclamation declaring August 30 as Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. Day. Mama Akua was moved to tears of joy upon the mayor's handing over of the proclamation to Chairman Fred in front of 2337 W. Monroe Street.

Mayor Johnson said, “It is truly my honor to celebrate the life, the legacy of a hero. I'm grateful that Mother Akua and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. embraced me long before I was ever mayor of Chicago. They truly embody the very nature and essence of Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. You know, often times I think about the soul of Chicago. Chairman Fred embodied what clearly is a demonstration of power, a demonstration of one of the strongest, if not the strongest force on the planet. And that's love. In this role, I think an awful lot about Chairman Fred, to be quite frank with you. Not just simply because I live on the west side of Chicago. But that is part of it.”

Johnson continued, “But I think about Chairman because the world is extremely vicious when a Black man displays love. They saw it as a threat. So much so that it was a coordinated effort to remove that threat. But how many of you know that love conquers all? So we live forever through Chairman Fred. And as mayor of the city of Chicago, I have the privilege of investing in people and standing up for those who have been marginal. So when America talks about Medicare for all, I point to the Black Panther Party, that healthcare for all is a Black liberation ideology. When children across America get to eat breakfast before they go to school and get to have lunch and dinner, that's the love demonstrated by Chairman Fred! That's the West Side of Chicago embracing the fullness of who we are as a people, and now the rest of the world benefits from his life. So: Mother Akua, Chairman Fred Jr., it is truly my honor to provide you with this proclamation declaring this day officially and forever Chairman Fred Hampton Day!”

The applause from the crowd was thunderous and cries of “Long live Chairman Fred!” were raised.

The Black Panther Party Cubs continued this historic day with visits to the Emmett Till Home on 6427 S. Saint Lawrence Avenue and the site of the former Spurgeon “Jake” Winters Medical Center at 3850 W. 16th Street.

Solidarity statements were read by the New Era Young Lords and Illinois State Representative Danny Davis at the Black Panther Party mural at The Wall on W. Madison Street and California Avenue and ended up in Chairman Fred Hampton Sr.'s hometown of Maywood for the Hampton House Historic Landmark Designation at 804 S. 17th Avenue as well as the Fence Memorial unveiling at the Hampton Aquatic Center at 200 S. 3rd Avenue in Maywood.

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Chicago, IL – International Revolutionary Day convened at noon, at Ground Zero, as it does every year on December 4 here in Chicago. The Black Panther Party Cubs refer to 2337 W. Monroe as Ground Zero and say the Black community's 9/11 occurred here 1969 – with the government assassination of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr. and Peoria Chapter Defense Captain Mark Clark.

Chairman Fred, Sr. represented the left wing of the Panthers – he always talked about the party as being a part of the international proletarian revolution, and he was for class unity; he sought out Puerto Rican and white working class revolutionaries to bloc with.

This year at Ground Zero, Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. of the Black Panther Party Cubs and Comrade Mother Akua Njeri gave a virtual tour of the events of December 4, 1969. Solidarity statements were read from individuals and organizations. Afterwards, Chairman Fred, Jr. and the Cubs led a march from the site to The Wall, a mural of Chairman Fred, Sr. done by the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective at the corner of Madison and California on Chicago's West Side.

Later in the evening, International Revolutionary Day was re-convened at the Fred Hampton Memorial Museum in Maywood, Illinois, Chairman Fred, Sr.'s home. The family of Mark Clark was also in attendance.

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Chicago, IL – The memory of murdered Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr. was marked at a “Streetz Party,” August 30, at 2337 W. Chairman Fred Hampton Way (also known as Monroe Street), the site of his martyrdom. Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr. would have been 70 years old on August 30 of this year.

To mark his birthday, Chairman Fred Jr., Comrade Mother Akua Njeri, and the Black Panther Party Cubs organized the event, which opened with a libation, a minute of silence and a clenched fist salute for the young revolutionary leader.

Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr. was assassinated by state forces early in the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, along with Defense Captain Mark Clark.

This year's Streetz Party was special because it featured the grand opening of the Chairman Fred Hampton Memorial Museum in Maywood, Illinois, at the house where the chairman grew up. More information is available at savethehamptonhouse.org.

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Chicago, IL – Dec. 4 marked the 48th anniversary of the assassination of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, and Defense Captain Mark Clark. They died in a predawn raid by a joint operation of the Chicago Police Department, Cook County State's Attorney's Office and the FBI.

Every year since 2001, people in solidarity with the Black liberation struggle gather at 2337 W Monroe Street to join Hampton’s son, Chairman Fred, Jr., Hampton’s widow, Comrade Mother Akua Njeri and the Black Panther Party Cubs in observing International Revolutionary Day (IRD) in remembrance of Fred Hampton’s contributions to the struggle.

In 1969, Hampton was organizing revolutionary education campaigns, serve the people programs and working for unity around street organizations (‘gangs’). The FBI was implementing their Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) against the Panthers.

COINTELPRO and the state's war against the Black liberation movement was the theme of Chairman Fred, Jr.'s statement for IRD 2017. The statement read in part, “the Oct. 21 position by President Trump to release the long-blocked and classified JFK files, although redacted, not only opens for an objective re-analysis of the Kennedy era, its respective administration and subsequent assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy…from the perspective of a people, who have in particular been subjected to attacks, assaults, as well as assassinations, deem it pertinent to seize the time to recall the policies, positions, and practices implemented on the Black community today, yesterday, and proceeding into the future, in particular those which were responsible for the military defeat of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, the infamous COINTELPRO.”

The statement added, “We call on that same administration that acknowledged the Kennedy files be re-opened to release the COINTELPRO files – release 'em all!”

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Chicago, IL – Every year on August 30, the Black Panther Party Cubs and Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. (the son of martyred Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr.) throw the Chairman Fred Streetz Party, a commemoration of his father's 1948 birthday. Chairman Fred, Sr. was assassinated on Dec. 4, 1969 in a 4 a.m. Gestapo-style raid carried out by the Chicago Police Department, Illinois State's Attorney’s Office and the FBI.

As is the case every year, forces gather at Ground Zero, 2337 W. Chairman Fred Way (‘Monroe Street’), the site of his father's brutal state murder. People come from all over the world to remember Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr. and his message of revolutionary proletarian internationalism. Representatives from New York City's December 12th Movement were present, as well as a representative of the Revolutionary Movement of the Left (MIR) from Chile, along with members of New Era Chicago. Also in attendance was up-and-coming Chicago hip hop artist Vic Mensa.

Chairman Fred, Jr. opened the gathering, stating, “Certain dates stick out with us because of the significance of them. Even if you're not outside, when you're held captive out at the concentration camps, you stop what you're doing, out on the college campus, the street corners, whatever. You feel a sense of, it's inspiring, not only to the colonized community, but it sends a message to the system, saying that, regardless of how brutal the attacks are, regardless of how many times they place individuals in isolation for acknowledging certain forces, regardless of how many books they ban, regardless of how much they don't teach, we want it to be instinctive to acknowledge those who fought for us. Right on?” The crowd responded, “Right on!”

After opening statements from Chairman Fred, Jr., Comrade Mother Akua Njeri, and Black Panther Party veteran Billy “Che” Brooks, statements of solidarity were offered, and the assembled revolutionaries marched down to The Wall, the Chairman Fred, Sr. mural at Madison and California.

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Chicago, IL – Every year on Dec. 4, International Revolutionary Day commemorates the assassination of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr. and Defense Captain Mark Clark, by the racist Chicago Police Department, the FBI, and the State's Attorney’s Office. The Black Panther Party Cubs under the leadership of Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. convenes International Revolutionary Day at 2337 W. Monroe, the site of the 1969 terrorist attack in an effort to etch the memory of this cop death squad operation on the consciousness of revolutionaries worldwide.

This year, Comrade Mother Akua Njeri led the assembled crowd in a five-minute silent vigil for the martyred revolutionaries, with clinched fists held high. She described the 5:00 a.m. terrorist raid in detail. She was 18 years old at the time, and eight and a half months pregnant with Chairman Fred, Jr. The CPD terrorists actually used machine guns in their assault against the young Panthers, and executed Chairman Fred, who had been drugged earlier by cop snitch William O'Neill, with point blank shots as Comrade Mother Akua was forced to listen in the next room. As she was dragged out of the apartment, cops threatened her by placing a loaded gun against her belly. Her retelling of the story was harrowing, but it is necessary that people understand the terroristic nature of the cops.

Chairman Fred, Jr. then spoke on a wide array of contemporary issues. He said, “The policy of the state is to create chaos and restore order. They are picking off our legitimate leadership and representatives and then issuing us poverty pimp programs and opportunist-based organizations. They have created the cartels and continued the counterinsurgency against our community. They have agent provocateurs strapped with state-issued weapons while wearing wires. They are funding the same ones killing us. Neither Rekia Boyd, Ronald Johnson, Dakota Bright, nor Laquan McDonald were gunned down by the CPD because of a 'war on crime', Alton Sterling was not shot for selling CDs. The deal is, the reality is that – just as the U.S. doesn't deploy troops abroad to 'protect democracy' – the police occupy our communities, not to protect us or preserve peace. They are deployed to disrupt, destabilize and destroy our communities. For there is no war on 'gangs', guns, or drugs – it is, in actuality, a war on us.”

Black Panther Party veterans were in attendance also, including Harold Bell and Stan McKinney, who was the last Chicago Panther to leave Oakland in 1977. Both spoke on their experiences with the Black Panther Party in Chicago.

All the Cubs and their supporters re-convened later that evening at the Swift mansion at 45th and Michigan on the south side. Chairman Fred, Jr. and Professor Kelly Harris of Chicago State University gave a fascinating, in-depth presentation on COINTELPRO, the FBI secret police's counter intelligence program that targeted the national liberation movements and communists for repression. The ensuing question and answer session brought forth a rich discussion, including commentary from Benny Lee, a former leader of the Insane Vice Lords, about the July 22, 1978 prison rebellion in Pontiac, which spurred the creation of the BOSS (Brothers of the Struggle) organization, which included Lee and Gangster Disciples chief Larry Hoover. 17 people were charged with murdering guards during the rebellion. Ten were acquitted on May 10, 1981 after an eight-month trial costing $2.7 million. Charges were dropped on six of the remaining seven, including Hoover, who was 30 years old at the time. Pontiac began the practice of 23-hour lockdowns afterwards, which became the norm in many prisons.

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Chicago, IL – Over 600 people marched here, Dec. 4, to protest the failure of a grand jury in New York to indict the cop who killed Eric Garner. Many signs at the march noted that Dec. 4, 1969, was the day the Chicago police assassinated Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression states, “To stop police crimes, we have to end police control of Black and Latino communities.”

The march began in the Loop, seized Lake Shore Drive, and continued for over five hours.

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“You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.” -Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton is a hero in the struggle for Black liberation, revolution and socialism. He should be remembered and his example should be followed by all progressive and revolutionary people. Hampton was the Deputy Chairman from the Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party. He was one of the most dynamic leaders in the Black Panther Party nationally until he was cut down in cold blood by the government at the age of 21.

On Dec. 4, 1969 Fred Hampton was assassinated while sleeping in his bed by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Fellow Black Panther Mark Clark was also assassinated that night. The murder of Hampton and Clark was part of the FBI's plan to disrupt and neutralize the Black liberation movement and the Black Panther Party specifically.

Despite his young age, Fred Hampton made tremendous contributions to the movement for black liberation, working class revolution and socialism in the U.S. His example still shines and inspires people fighting for change almost 40 years later.

What Did Fred Hampton Do?

Fred Hampton was born in 1948 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in nearby Maywood. While a teenager he got involved in the NAACP and his leadership abilities quickly became clear as he led campaigns to improve services in the Black community. When the Black Panther Party became established in Illinois, Hampton joined in 1968 and became a Party leader.

Hampton's work over the next year made the Chicago Black Panthers one of the biggest and most successful chapters in the country – and therefore also one of the most targeted by the FBI. Fred Hampton did an amazing amount of organizing during his time as a leader in the Black Panther Party, before his assassination. He organized weekly rallies, worked closely with the Black Panther Party’s local People's Clinic, taught political education classes and launched a project for community supervision of the police. Hampton was instrumental in the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children Program. He also engineered a truce between some of Chicago's street gangs and built alliances with radical and revolutionary organizations of other nationalities, including the Puerto Rican organization Young Lords and the mostly-white organization Students for a Democratic Society.

In their political organizing, Hampton was adamant that the Black Panthers must raise the political consciousness of working and poor Black people toward socialism. He said that people learn through observation and participation, so the Panthers' programs were modeled to show people in practice what socialism is, and to get them involved so people could learn from their own experiences in the struggle. He always said “all power to the people” – making clear that change is made by the masses of people and that the goal is to win real power, not small reforms that leave the existing power relations in place.

Black Liberation, Proletarian Internationalism and Socialism

Why were the Black Panthers particularly singled out as the supposed ‘greatest internal threat to national security’ by FBI head J. Edgar Hoover? Because they were succeeding in organizing large numbers of Black people to fight for revolutionary change with a socialist vision. They were inspiring hundreds of thousands of people of all nationalities toward revolutionary and socialist politics. They launched programs and campaigns to fight for the felt needs of the masses of poor and working class Black people and organized thousands of mostly young Black people into a revolutionary organization.

They dedicated themselves to overthrowing white supremacist capitalism in the U.S. and replacing it with a socialist system based on the needs of the people. Following in the footsteps of Malcolm X, they upheld the right to armed self-defense. They identified with the national liberation movements and socialist countries in the Third World and they studied the writings of Mao, Fanon, Lenin, Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevarra, Kim Il Sung and other Third World socialist revolutionaries. The Black Panthers' socialist politics and identification with anti-imperialist liberation movements around the world caused the ruling class see them as a real threat.

Working Class Stand

“You're gonna have to keep on saying that – I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.” -Fred Hampton

The Black Panthers didn't mainly focus on organizing the working class as such. They tended to focus attention on the lower sector of the working class in their communities and on the ‘lumpen proletariat’ (poor people who are basically outside of the formal economic system and get by on the 'informal economy', hustles, petty crimes and the like), and they also had a large base of support and members from petty bourgeois and student backgrounds. But Fred Hampton always spoke of the working class, the ‘proletariat.’ From his practice it's clear he was talking about the working class as a whole – including the lower sector and the lumpen, but not just them – the working class as a whole.

In his speech Power Anywhere There's People, Hampton said:

“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.”

Hampton also said:

“You know, a lot of people have hang-ups with the Party because the Party talks about a class struggle. We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-tung and anybody else that has ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution always said that a revolution is a class struggle. It was one class – the oppressed, and that other class – the oppressor. And it's got to be a universal fact. Those that don't admit to that are those that don't want to get involved in a revolution, because they know as long as they're dealing with a race thing, they'll never be involved in a revolution.”

As can be seen above, Hampton spoke clearly of the fact that there is a multinational working class and that there are poor people of all nationalities. He talked about the need for working class and oppressed people to unite, and he initiated the original “rainbow coalition” of radical and revolutionary forces of different nationalities.

As a leader in the Black Panther Party, Hampton primarily built the Black liberation movement. This basic orientation of building the Black liberation movement is correct, since Black people as a whole suffer national oppression in the U.S., and the fight for Black liberation is vital and is revolutionary. Historically, the Black liberation movement has played a key role as a motor in propelling forward broader movements for change in the U.S.. The Black Panthers definitely played that role, inspiring many other people to come to revolutionary conclusions, and providing inspiration for the formation of organizations similar to the Black Panthers among other oppressed nationalities, such as the Brown Berets, I Wor Kuen, Young Lords Organization and the American Indian Movement.

While based in and building the Black liberation movement, at the same time Hampton correctly emphasized working class leadership within the movement and upheld a working class orientation overall. This was controversial, as some other Black organizations criticized the Panthers for working with white people and people of other nationalities at all and many also criticized the Panthers for focusing so much on class instead of just focusing on racial oppression.

Organize and Involve the Masses – Connect the Day-to-Day Struggle with Revolutionary Goal

“Any program that's brought into our community should be analyzed by the people of that community. It should be analyzed to see that it meets the relevant needs of that community. That's what the Breakfast for Children Program is. A lot of people think it's charity. But what does it do? It takes people from a stage to another stage. Any program that's revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change. We say that the Breakfast for Children Program is a socialistic program. It teaches the people basically that – by practice. We thought up and let them practice that theory and inspect that theory. What's more important? And a woman said, “I don't know if I like communism, and I don't know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program…”

Fred Hampton had a great ability to connect the daily struggle for immediate needs (reforms) with the larger revolutionary goal of transforming the whole society. He was able to put in practice and help people understand that we have to fight to improve poor and working people's lives now through struggle, but without getting stuck in reformism and forgetting the need for revolutionary change. His ability to link the struggle for reforms with the struggle for revolutionary change was one of his greatest talents. Hampton avoided the errors of reformism for its own sake on the one hand, and 'ultra-left' revolutionary talk without action on the other hand. Revolutionaries need to learn from Hampton's ability to put in practice what Marxist-Leninists call the 'mass line' – organizing around the particular felt needs of the masses, and out of those particular struggles drawing the general lessons of the need for revolution and socialism to truly win freedom.

Cruelly Murdered for Serving the People

The murder of Fred Hampton is one of the sharpest reminders in recent history of the ruthlessness of the ruling class in the U.S. It shows the naked oppression that the U.S. government won't hesitate to use when working and oppressed people – particularly oppressed nationalities – start to organize effectively and gain mass support for fundamental change in the interests of poor, working and oppressed people.

There were many black progressive and radical organizations in the late 1960s, and they were all seen as a threat and targeted by the ruling class – whether the pacifist Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the revolutionary nationalist Malcolm X and his Organization for Afro-American Unity or the socialist Black Panthers and their leaders such as Fred Hampton and Huey Newton.

The FBI targeted the Black Panthers nationally, as part of their campaign of harassment and disruption of the Black liberation movement as a whole. Panther offices were raided around the country, prominent leaders were framed up and jailed on bogus charges, different people and groups in the movement were purposely turned against each other by writing fake letters from one group to another and spreading false rumors. And in the case of Fred Hampton, along with Mark Clark, Bunchy Carter and some other Panther leaders, there was outright assassination to try to silence the Panthers' revolutionary spirit.

As part of this national counterinsurgency campaign against the Panthers, the FBI encouraged and helped the Chicago police launch an all-out assault on the Panthers in Chicago. The Black Panthers leaders were physically attacked and their offices were raided multiple times, including twice in July 1969 and once in October. During these raids over 100 Panthers were arrested. As another form of harassment, in May 1969 Hampton was prosecuted on ridiculous charges of stealing $72 worth of ice cream in Maywood two years earlier, and sentenced to two to five years in jail, though he managed to obtain a bond appeal and was released in August 1969.

The government's neutralization campaign culminated in the brutal raid on Hampton's apartment on Dec. 4, 1969 in which he was killed in his sleep, with his pregnant wife in bed next to him. The Chicago Police Department had been given the layout of the apartment by an FBI informant who had infiltrated the Panthers. Hampton was also drugged that night with the powerful barbiturate secobarbitol by the FBI informant so that he wouldn't wake up during the police assault.

The FBI took a particular interest in Fred Hampton. They opened a file on him in 1967 that over the next two years expanded to twelve volumes and over 4000 pages. By May of 1968, Hampton's name was placed on the ‘Agitator Index’ and he would be designated a ‘key militant leader for Bureau reporting purposes.’ FBI head J. Edgar Hoover had put in place a policy of trying to ‘neutralize’ key Black leaders, which meant in practice the fate that Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. received in 1965 and 1968 – assassination. National Black Panther leader Huey Newton was also imprisoned on trumped up murder charges and the Party had a national campaign to fight for his freedom, which they ultimately won. By tagging Hampton as a ‘key militant leader’ the FBI put Hampton in the company of those great leaders and he ultimately shared their fate at the brutal hands of the FBI and Chicago police.

Like other Black Panthers, American Indian Movement members and Puerto Rican independence fighters that were killed or jailed on trumped up charges; like socialist and anarchist leaders from earlier generations such as Sacco and Vanzetti or the Rosenbergs who were jailed and executed; and like Black liberation fighters from earlier generations like Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey and Gabriel Prosser, Fred Hampton is part of a tradition of revolutionaries in the U.S. who were cruelly cut down for trying to mobilize the masses of people to challenge the existing order and fight for liberation.

Be Like Fred Hampton – Live for the People

“To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather.” - Mao Zedong

We need to remember and celebrate Fred Hampton. We need to popularize his contributions toward Black liberation, proletarian revolution and socialism in the U.S. Fred Hampton's death was felt deeply by freedom-loving people everywhere. His death was definitely 'weightier than Mount Tai.' His contributions were so great in such a short period of time, that like Che Guevara he is still remembered and loved almost 40 years after his death. We must continue to learn from Fred Hampton, and strive to be like Fred Hampton – to serve the people and continue the fight for Black liberation, proletarian revolution and socialism!

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