TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE
THE WRITINGS OF HUEY P. NEWTON

Very rare 1972 Stated First Edition hardcover
Introduction by Franz Schurmann
Good, mylar-protected dust jacket has small top edge tear, slight edge wear.
Tight binding
Very clean boards
232 lightly tanned clean, tight pages
16 pages of photos

TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE opens a window on Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party - one of the most dynamic and revolutionary organizations ever to exist.
In these selections from Huey's writings and speeches, readers can trace the development of the activist personal and political thinking as well as the radical changes that took place in the politics, ideology and actions of the Black Panther Party.
With a rare and persuasive honesty, TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE records the Party's internal struggles, rivalries, and contradictions, and the result is a fascinating look at a young revolutionary group determined to find ways to deal with the injustice it saw in US society.
Huey P. Newton - co-founder of the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale - was its chief theoretician. Huey has long been a hero to many and is currently being rediscovered by people interested in the revolutionary struggles of people for liberation.



THE PARTY

The Ten-Point Program
Executive Mandate No. 1: May 2, 1967
Executive Mandate No. 2: June29, 1967
Executive Mandate No. 3: March 1, 1968
The Correct Handling of a Revolution: July 20, 1967
Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970
Resolutions and Declarations: December 5, 1970
On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party
and the Defection of the Black Panther Party from the
Black Community: April 17, 1971
On the Relevance of the Church: May 19, 1971


THE PEOPLE

Black America

Fear and Doubt: May 15, 1967
From “In Defense of Self-Defense” I: June 20, 1967
From “In Defense of Self-Defense” II: July 3, 1967
To the Black Movement: May 15, 1968
To the Republic of New Africa: September 13, 1969
Resolutions and Declarations: December 5, 1970
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed: June 5, 1971
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed: August 9, 1971
He Won’t Bleed Me: A Revolutionary Analysis of
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song June 19, 1971


White America

On the Peace Movement: August 15, 1969
The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements: August 15, 1970
To the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention: September 5, 1970
Reply to William Patterson: September 19, 1970


The Third World

To the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam: August 29, 1970
Letter from Nguyen Thi Dinh: October 31, 1970
Reply to Roy Wilkins re: Vietnam: September 26, 1970
On the Middle East: September 5, 1970
Repression Breeds Resistance: January 16, 1970
Attica Statement: October 16, 1971
Uniting Against the Common Enemy: October 23, 1971




THE BOUND AND THE DEAD

Prisons: July 12, 1969
Eulogy for Jonathan Jackson and William Christmas: August 15, 1970
Lonnie McLucas and the New Haven 9: August 29, 1970
On the Capture of Angela Davis: October 17, 1970
Eulogy for Samuel Napier: May 1, 1971
On the Dismissal of the Case Against Bobby [Seale] and Ericka [Huggins]: May 29, 1971



People are not innately greedy, nor are they innately uncooperative with each other. Therefore, it is our goal; it is the goal of the Black Panther Party, to create conditions in which people can start being human, can begin to cooperate with each other, can live with each other, in peace.
Elaine Brown - Black Panther Party
Every man, woman and child on the face of the planet earth has the right to the highest and the best and the most beautiful life that technology and human knowledge and wisdom is able to produce. Period. So we start from there.
Eldridge Cleaver - Black Panther Party