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A central goal of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists is to organize study circles among New Afrikan workers to establish secret connections between them and the New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist cadre; to publish and distribute literature, particularly geared to eventually connecting workers, eventually connect centers; agitate among New Afrikan workers and train a body of revolutionary New Afrikan trade union agitators. Now comes the key question: where to concentrate the work. New Afrikans organizational strength is at the industrial workplace and in the social service industries in the urban city areas. New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists should be good at drawing in unorganized and backward workers permanently into the ranks of the organization. The organizational assessment of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalists of where to proceed should be based on scientific data, trends, and motion. The creation of a dynamic revolutionary organization among New Afrikan urban workers is the first and most urgent task confronting New Afrikan nationalists today. Both economic and political agitation are equally necessary to develop the class consciousness of the proletariat; both economic and political agitation are equally necessary for guiding the class struggle of the workers, because every class struggle is a political struggle.5 Both kinds of agitation enable workers to test their strength on immediate issues and needs to wring partial concessions from their enemy and thus improve their economic conditions, compelling the capitalists to reckon with the strength of organized workers. Presently in almost every city, New Afrikan labor has been transformed from the private to the public sector. They are, for the most part in the public sector, service workers in service industries. The largest employers are the “new� multinational corporations of universities and hospitals. New Afrikan workers also are concentrated in transportation, water and garbage departments; as well as maintenance, sanitation, security, postal and other municipal services. In the private sector, hotel and office maintenance and retail service workers are found in almost every city. The next fight will be to achieve parity for New Afrikans in the construction industry in these cities. Legal struggle and mass resistance transitional stages: The New Afrikan national liberation revolution for Reparations and self-determination has taken many zigzag forms and has had several high tides and setbacks. It is important for people to understand that, before another mass revolutionary era can occur that would be sustained by transforming it into a mass resistance movement against the state, the legal means of struggle should be exhausted first, at least in the minds of the people. Waging a mass struggle for reform does this, and in the process of struggling for reform the people learn the necessity for revolution. At the same time, revolutionaries need to conduct literacy campaigns among the masses to enhance their ability to comprehend political theory. Reform struggles under capitalism to improve the lives and conditions of the people are important in them selves. They should not be seen merely as a means to an end. The struggle for reform limits the capitalists in their relentless drive to intensify exploitation of the working class. Material gains in our share of the social product and advances in democratic rights gives workers a stronger base from which to fight. 5. V.I. Lenin, Ibid. pp.40-41. 6. Bay Area Socialist Organizing Committee, 1980, Confronting Reality: Learning from the History of our Movement (San Francisco), p.12.