Black Control of the Black Community. Puerto Rican Control of the Puerto Rican Community ... Vote Socialist Workers.

New York: Socialist Workers Party. New York State Campaign, 1970. Illustrated broadsheet flyer, single sheet measuring 11 inches by 8.5 inches printed recto & verso.

Short diagonal creasing at two corners, otherwise Fine.

In addition to a poignant message provided in part below, this flyer supplies the platform of the Socialist Workers Party and solicits donations.

"Increasing numbers of Black and Puerto Rican people in this city are opening their eyes to the cruel and unjust system that oppresses us. It is this system which sends our sons to die in Indochina for "freedom" and "democracy" - in the name of the very rights denied us here at home. We fight against our Vietnamese brothers and sisters when the main enemy is right here at home.
That enemy is capitalism - the system of Nixon, Rockefeller, Wallace and Lindsay. It is the system whose two parties, the Democratic and Republican parties, come asking us for votes every year while Democratic and Republican officeholders send out brothers to die, unleash their vicious police on our community, and withhold needed jobs for Third World people.
In order to control our own destiny, Black and Puerto Rican people are demanding control of the Black and Puerto Rican communities - control over the schools, housing, police, hospitals …" ~Excerpted from the text.