it becomes a criminal act when cadres and activists continue to think and act as though they are protected by the U.S. constitution, state and local statutes, and the myths and lies fed the settlers and colonies of the empire about “amerikkkan democracy,” and other nonsense.

So-called bourgeois legality and morality died when the Portuguese landed on the African continent, when Columbus landed in the “Indies.”

The most “innocent”/“public” activity, is actual, or potential, revolutionary activity, and real revolution is illegal in amerikkka & too serious to be kept in a glasshouse

There is no such thing as “legal, anti-imperialist struggle,” or “legal, national liberation revolution”

The opposition moves on the belief that there are, or that there will soon be, connections between “public” and clandestine anti-imperialist, revolutionary activity. It is their job to discover any such connections—and they take their job seriously.

So, they tap anti-imperialist phones, tape anti-imperialist speeches and snap pictures of those who deliver such speeches. They also follow “public” activists, and otherwise keep close tabs on ALL their activity, no matter how “legal”

This is exactly what’s meant by “the party must organize so as to hide its most important resources ABSOLUTELY,” this isn’t limited to financial or material resources, nor to the stashing of such resources behind locked, secret doors.

What are our list important resources? Our cadres; supporters and sympathizers; networks; contacts and relationships. THE PEOPLE ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES. The vast majority of our resources are “public”

They work nine-to-five; live in housing projects; attend school; receive some form of welfare payments; some (not enough as yet) hold sensitive positions in the enemy state apparatus, its academic, media, business and service institutions...

We must have a secure movement and struggle, not merely secure vanguard organizations, collectives and units. We need an impenetrable wall of mass consciousness, an entire revolutionary class that knows about the purpose and methods of state repression

and how to defend against it, and how to turn defense into offense. —James ‘Yaki’ Sayles, “Reflections On Victor Serge’s...” from Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth