Save the Life of Mumia
Abu-Jamal!
- Statement
by the Committee of the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
7 August 1995
As the
following statement by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement was being released, news came of a stay of execution for
Mumia Abu-Jamal. The RIM Information Bureau welcomes this partial
victory, which is the fruit of determined protest against this outrage
from inside the US and around the world. But it should also be clearly
stated that this is only a partial, temporary victory, and that
the US ruling class will certainly hit back. The struggle to save
the life of this revolutionary political prisoner will also surely
reach new heights.
The Committee
of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement expresses its full
support for the U.S. revolutionary political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal,
unjustly sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police officer
in 1981.
Mumia Abu-Jamal,
who had been a radical journalist and a member of various U.S. revolutionary
organizations of Black people, was sentenced to death after a mockery
of a trial in 1981. Mumia has continued to speak out for the oppressed
even from prison, including taking a firm stand to defend the life
of Chairman Gonzalo of the Communist Party of Peru. Now, after many
years, the authorities are preparing to execute Mumia for his uncompromising
revolutionary stance and as part of their overall attack on the
masses and revolutionary forces in the U.S.
U.S. imperialism's
exploitation and oppression within its own borders and throughout
its far-flung empire ultimately rest on its arsenal of death and
destruction. The U.S. imperialist state is driving this truth home
by moving to carry out the first legal execution of a political
prisoner in nearly half a century. With this brutal threat, it is
spreading a message of terror to all of its victims in the U.S.
and across the world who would dare expose and resist this vicious
system.
People from
all walks of life and in many countries are fighting to stop the
blood-drenched U.S. ruling class from adding yet another name to
the list of political prisoners they have executed - including John
Brown, the Haymarket martyrs, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Julius and
Ethyl Rosenberg. In the United States, the Revolutionary Communist
Party, USA, a participating party in RIM, has been fighting to defend
Mumia as part of its overall revolutionary work and preparations.
The CoRIM salutes this struggle and joins its voice to those who
demand that Mumia Abu-Jamal's life be saved and that he go free.
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