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The Coming of a New Revolutionary Movement
by Comrade Tommy Joshua Al-Rafiq
Chairman, Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation

"It was through Hip-Hop that an entire generation of Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow youth enter history. It was Hip-Hop that carried them to the threshold of critical thought and self-organization.

At its best, Hip-Hop has always been more than an art; it is a people’s Movement, based on what one may call a pre-socialist cultural identity, which at its core objectively demands the leap into new revolutionary theory and practice.

In fact the advanced consciousness and working class cultural fervor of the Hip-hop generation has laid the foundation for the forging of a new revolutionary vanguard among the oppressed peoples of North Amerika and the world.

Under attack since its inception, yet nevertheless resilient, if it is to survive Hip-Hop culture must make a firm leap to stand against the reactionary Camp, which take advantage of this weakness, and today controls and influence Hip-hop to an alarming degree .

Hip-Hop culture is a positive form that deserves to be embraced, defended and even exhausted for the cause and at the service of a radical reconfiguration of existing society".

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http://peacecomrade.org/2010/05/10/the-coming-of-a-new-revolutionary-movement/