This is an interesting interview conducted by Bill Kauffman in 1986 with the former Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver, who was leader of the armed struggle wing of the Panthers in the 1960s, was involved in a shoot out with the cops in Oakland in 1968, jumped bail and spent 8 years in Cuba, Ben Bella’s Algeria, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. Kim Il-Sung’s wife named Cleaver’s daughter. But his experience of living in Communist states turned him into a libertarian. By Bill Kauffman and Lynn Scarlett Reason The
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