MIM Notes: In your newspaper, "People's War," your "Mission statement"
uses the word "intercommunal," but not Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Does the "People's War" consider itself Marxist-Leninist-Maoist?

[Reply from People's War magazine]
1. PW Magazine is an revolutionary mass 
news organ published by the People's Community 
Organization(PCO), a mass organization which 
organizes around the issues of survival and 
independence of the oppressed black, brown, red 
nations dominated by U.S. imperialism in North 
Amerika. Though communists work within the PCO, 
the PCO is not Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, but 
rather anti-imperialist and intercommunalist
(internationalist). 

The PCO upholds the revolutionary 
intercommunalism of the BPP under the 
revolutionary Maoist leadership of Comrade Huey 
P. Newton and today recognizes the revolutionary 
leadership of the Ghetto Liberation Political 
Party. Thus while PW does not claim to be a 
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Organ, but rather 
a "revolutionary Hip-Hop Magazine and 
Intercommunal News Service," we are definitely 
friendly to revolutionary M-L-M and genuine 
Maoist revolutionary Parties around the world 
and the struggles under their leadership.  

MIM Notes: Can you give us some reasoning on the 7 heads pictured on page 18
of the People's War issue of the summer 2003? Who are they and how 
do they fit together?

[PW Magazine defers the question to the GLPP]
We forwarded your second question in 
regard to the banner printed on page 18 to a 
GLPP representative.  We received this 
reply: “Certainly. The Heads pictured are Marcus 
Garvey, revolutionary African nationalist, anti-
imperialist leader and organizer of the largest 
anti-imperialist movement of the Black nation in 
the beginning of the 20th century. (Marcus 
Gavery’s class position was that of the left 
wing of the national bourgeoisie of the Black 
nation and with criticisms we recognize the 
progressive thrust of his Pan-Africanism and its 
historical role); Lenin, revolutionary communist 
and leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution 
which ushered in the world’s first socialist 
state. We uphold the Russian Revolution from 
1917-1956; Elijah Muhammad, revolutionary 
African nationalist leader, whose Teachings and 
anti-integrationist stance contributed to 
development of a revolutionary consciousness of 
African working class as later represented by 
the Malcolm X and the BPP. (Like Garvey, Elijah 
Muhammad’s class position was that of the left 
wing of the national bourgeoisie of the Black 
nation, and with criticisms we recognize the 
progressive thrust of his metaphysicism and its 
historical role); Mao-tse Tung, chairman and 
leader of the CPC, leader of great 1949 Chinese 
socialist revolution (which altered the world’s 
balance of forces in favor of socialism), 
opponent of the white nationalist revisionism 
and Soviet social-imperialism, leader and 
inspirer of the GPCR which was overthrown by the 
revisionist elements of the CPC in 1976; Malcolm 
X, revolutionary African nationalist and 
internationalist, his anti-capitalist pro-
socialist, pro-self- defense  position in his 
last years particularly contributed to the 
founding and development of the BPP; Kwame 
Nkrumah, African communist leader, revolutionary 
Pan-Africanist. Unlike forces claiming to uphold 
Kwame Nkrumah’s line we recognize Kwame Nkrumah 
as carrying out the historical work of applying 
the universal truths of the intercommunal 
working to the concrete problems facing the 
revolution on the African continent,  namely 1.) 
the need for an independent revolutionary 
Communist Party to led the revolution in Africa 
2.) the need for an all African People’s War 
under the leadership of this Communist Party 3.) 
With the political goal of one unified socialist 
Africa under the leadership of a revolutionary 
proletarian dictatorship in alliance with the 
African peasantry, at the service of the World 
Proletarian Revolution the establishment of 
world communism; last but not least is Huey P. 
Newton, U.S. African communist leader and 
revolutionary organizer. Founder and leader of 
the Black Panther Party, which we uphold and 
recognize was the most advanced Communist Party 
in the history of the U. S.. The GLPP is a 
revolutionary Communist Party guided by Marxism-
Leninism-Maoism Ingiaye thought and considers 
itself the political and ideological 
continuation of the original Black Panther Party 
under the leadership of HPN.  

These are seven persons, out of many 
others such as Stalin, W.E.B Dubois, George 
Jackson, Chairman Gonzalo etc., who we uphold 
and recognize as positively influencing the 
revolutionary movement of the oppressed Black 
Nation under the leadership of the African 
working class in general and the revolutionary 
work of the GLPP in particular.”

We send friendly greetings to MIM Notes and are 
thankful for this interview and look forward to 
further struggle. 

In Solidarity, PW Magazine