revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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The international program of RAM was reflected in the documents in
official statements to revolutionary movements, such as "Greetings to Our
Militant Vietnamese Brothers" which appeared in Black America in
the Fall
of 1964, To All the Freedom-Loving Peoples of the World and Especially
Those Living Under White Racist 'Yanky' Oppression, 1966 and Message to
African Heads of State from RAM--Revolutionary Action Movement--Black Liberation
Front of the U .S .A . , 1966 . In all of these documents RAM expressed
its solidarity with those struggles and declared its
independence from the
imperialistic policies of the U .S .
RAM also included, in a number of the
documents which appear after 1965, mention of the, Vietnamese struggle .
RAM did not mention other people of color within the borders of the U .S .
either as potential allies or enemies except in a document written in 1966
entitled, To All
Freedom-Loving People of the World and Especially Those
Living Under White Racist 'Yanky' Oppression . In this document, RAM appealed
to "all oppressed peoples in the U .S ." to oppose U .S . military aggression
in other countries (p . 1) . But RAM did not speak to the historical
role or relationship between national groups within the U .S . RAM
seemed to see only two key groups--blacks and whites . Perhaps RAM did not
consider Native Americans, Latin Americans and Asians as very important
or powerful . It is not clear what position, if any, RAM had on these other
national groups .
The influence of Malcolm X on RAM's understanding of the international
significance of the African-American struggle was extremely important . He
was credited with drawing the links between the movement in the U .S . and
the revolutionary struggles in the Bandung World . In an article written
in 1965, an excellent analysis of the threat Malcolm posed to U .S .'s imperialist
world strategy was presented . RAM stated that Malcolm inter-