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make a living . Unlike the lumpen-proletariat, these workers do not become
"declassed" in consciousness, for they either look for employment or work
as part of the labor force when the opportunity presents itsfelf . As a
result of their seasonable unemployment they are constantly in the streets
and are referred to as the street force .
Self-determination refers to the
concept that subjected nations oppressed
by a colonial power have the right to national independence .
Reparations is a concept that a
nation or group of people wrongly
abused, colonialized, and/or victims or genocide, have the right for repayment
of the crimes committed against them, by the government which committed
them .
Genocide refers to a conscious government policy to destroy a
group
of people, such as an ethnic minority, cultural
grouping or religious
group .
The black cultural revolution is a process by which the consciousness
among Afro-Americans of their African heritage and
"blackness" is encouraged
. It alters their cultural identity with their European-American (Cau
casian) oppressor and the values of the European-American capitalist system .
The national black strike is a
concept of black workers conducting a
general strike to achieve the goal of self-determination and national independence
.
The concept is based on the assumption that black workers hold
strategic, unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in major industries, such as,
steel and auto ; and that a general strike coordinated with mass demonstrations
and urban guerrilla warfare, could paralyze the U .S .
economy and
create a revolutionary crisis in the United States and the world capitalist
economy .