revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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In North America, the Black Liberation Army (BLA) formed in 1971 in
response to
the U .S . .government's attacks against the black liberation
movement . Fighting repression, the BLA battled police and the FBI from
coast to coast . By 1973, many members of the BLA had been either assassinated
or captured . There is an estimate that America has approximately 65
black prisoners of war, 20 black political prisoners and
550,000 black prisoners
in its concentration camps .
Urban revolutionary movements, which emerged in the 1960's and 70's,
have laid a legacy in the struggle for state power by the oppressed in Latin
America and the United States . They were reflections of upsurges of mass
movements in each area .