COMMUNIST COMMENTS ON THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING/REFERENCE TO "BLACK POWER" CONCEPT

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06485476
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-02055
• Publication Date: April 10, 1968

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1. Attached for Headquarters retention are one copy each
of statemen:s on the death of MaFtin Luther King by the Dominican
Comunist Party (PCD), the Communist 14th of June Revolutionary
Movement (MR-1J4), and various trade unions. All appeared
in the 7 April 1968 issue of El Nacional.
2. The text of the PCD statement makes reference to the
visit of Stokely Carmichael to the Latin American Solidarity
Organization Conference (LASO), quotes a statement by Fidel
Castro on Carmichael and the concept of "Black Power," and
expresses the solidarity of the PCD with the struggle of
North American Negroes. The MR-1J4 statement, only available
in gist, says that King's death �reveals the profound crisis
exiting within U.S society and shows that for the 'racist
forCes," violence is the only law and is applied to internal
and external enemies alike.
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3. Neither statement issues a call to violence 011 the
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