LW: We need to understand, embrace, and feel in our core beings the values we fight for--and to apply those in practice. Safiya lived as she spoke: If you say you want justice, then you can do something to achieve it. She also shows why and how the battle to win release for political prisoners is completely fundamental to achieving justice as a whole.
Safiya's collected writings also help us to understand that the revolutionary movements of the mid-20th century do not belong in a box marked "history." The tenets that underscored that era continue, in different forms, today.Â
What made the period revolutionary was not just the levels of struggle in which we engaged, but the understanding we had that a fundamental change of the system of imperialism was necessary. I hope that recognizing the holistic view of political history Safiya depicts will help us agitate among Left groups throughout the U.S. to add to their programs the demand to free all political prisoners.
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