One cannot escape Jonathan’s loyalty for the movement and all it stands for as he utters threats of violence and bitterness for his enemies his keen awareness for organisation, his absorption for the revolutionary ideology of the Black Panther for which he and George so prematurely sacrificed their lives – Black martyrs of the people’s oppressed cause. George in the earliest pages of the book spread bare the soldier’s heart of Jonathan by the letters which he had written to his peer George as prison epistles, a true soliloquy of the Soledad Brothers and Sisters. He leaps to defend his kid brother Jonathan, an avowed communist revolutionary whose days were also cut short when a lad of merely 17 years. He had managed to smuggle out his manuscript only just a few days before his assassination in San Quentin jail on August 21, 1971. One cannot fail to notice the blood congealing, dripping not from one eye only -but both eyes, ears, hands, feet, brains and the heart. George Jackson, author of Blood In My Eye wrote with conviction of destiny, indeed imminent destruction. Transcribed & marked up by by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL. Williams: Blood In My Eye (November 1975)Įncyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archiveįrom International Socialism, No.83, November 1975, pp.?.
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