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The '''Partisan Defense Committee''' describes itself as "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people." The PDC works in accordance with the political orientation of the [[International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)|Spartacist League]]. The committee organizes demonstrations and performs legal work in defense of "[[class struggle]]" prisoners. Its longest standing campaign has been in defense of [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]]. | The '''Partisan Defense Committee''' describes itself as "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people." The PDC works in accordance with the political orientation of the [[International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)|Spartacist League]]. The committee organizes demonstrations and performs legal work in defense of "[[class struggle]]" prisoners. Its longest standing campaign has been in defense of [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]]. | ||
It has also organized counterdemonstrations in response to rallies planned by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and white | It has also organized counterdemonstrations in response to rallies planned by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and [[white supremacist]]s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/89593542.html?dids=89593542:89593542&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+22%2C+1989&author=Jeff+Kunerth%2C+Sentinel+Atlanta+Bureau&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=MARCH+SETS+OFF+PROTEST+IN+ATLANTA+A+FEW+WHITE+SUPREMACISTS+DRAW+ABOUT+1%2C000+OPPONENTS&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023121133/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/89593542.html?dids=89593542:89593542&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+22,+1989&author=Jeff+Kunerth,+Sentinel+Atlanta+Bureau&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=MARCH+SETS+OFF+PROTEST+IN+ATLANTA+A+FEW+WHITE+SUPREMACISTS+DRAW+ABOUT+1,000+OPPONENTS&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 23, 2012|title=March Sets Off Protest In Atlanta. A Few White Supremacists Draw About 1,000 Opponents |last=Kunerth|first=Jeff |date=January 22, 1989 |work=Orlando Sentinel - Orlando, Fla. |page= A.11|accessdate=2009-11-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BL&p_theme=bl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB143BB21B795C3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Snow Muffles Threat of Rally Violence // Protest Crowd Estimated at 300 to 350|date=January 17, 1994|work=The Pantagraph - Bloomington, Illinois|accessdate=2009-11-05}}</ref> | ||
== Campaigns == | == Campaigns == | ||
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The Partisan Defense Committee describes itself as "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people." The PDC works in accordance with the political orientation of the Spartacist League. The committee organizes demonstrations and performs legal work in defense of "class struggle" prisoners. Its longest standing campaign has been in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
It has also organized counterdemonstrations in response to rallies planned by the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.[1][2]
Campaigns
The PDC describes the following 15 people as "class-war prisoners" and provides small stipends to them:[3]
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Leonard Peltier
- 7 members of MOVE
- Chuck Africa
- Michael Africa
- Debbie Africa
- Janet Africa
- Janine Africa
- Delbert Africa
- Eddie Africa
- Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three
- The remaining 2 of the Ohio 7
- Rice–Poindexter case
- Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa (f.k.a. David Rice)
- Ed Poindexter
- Hugo Pinell of the San Quentin Six
- Alvaro Luna Hernandez
References
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