revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

APPENDIX A : Selected RAM Documents
The 12 point program of RAM
(Revolutionary Action Movement)
1964
PROJECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
1 . DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL BLACK STUDENT ORGANIZATION MOVEMENT
ASM, the Afro-American Student Movement, the student branch of RAM
was formed to organize black students into a strong, well-organized
student movement that can fight against injustices, against Afro-American
students and black people in general .
PURPOSES :
1 . To educate the Afro-American to the economic, political, and
cultural basis of the racial situation in the United States
and the world .
2 . To develop unity with Africans in the United States and the
world .
3 . The unite and organize Afro-American students to become active
in the Afro-American Liberation Struggle .
These purposes would develop revolutionary cadres in the high schools,
junior high and colleges . The climax of such a program would be the
development of a nationwide black student school strike which would
repudiate the educational system . This strike would be over what black
students are and are not taught . ASM's purpose is to show black
students that the only way to succeed in life is to cause a revolution
in this country . ASM would develop groups around black history,
students rights . and also over conditions under which Afro-American
students must operate . This all-black national student organization
would build to establish total social dislocation . With students
demonstrating the guerrilla force will have a base for mass support .
It should be noted that this support is coming from youth . This will
eventually rally young black workers and the unemployed . ASM will
politicalize the black student community and will serve as the vanguard
in the struggle . When the Afro-American student strike is initiated
it will be left to RAM to have other segments of the black community
to strike in sympathy . If guerrilla warfare is being waged, this strike
would be in support of the guerrillas . ASM on campus would develop
political parties to take over student government . The objective is
to obtain power in black colleges .
2 . DEVELOPMENT OF IDEOLOGY (FREEDOM)SCHOOLS
The purpose of the "Freedom" schools would be to develop cadres,
with the revolutionary theory and doctrine of RAM . These schools will
teach the history of the movement, current events, political theory
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