Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking from exile in Algiers, Eldridge Cleaver last month denounced Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard as incompetent and reactionary and demanded the reinstatement of the ousted Panther...
Huey P. Newton immediately defended Hilliard and the expulsion of Cleaver's supporters in the New York chapter. Newton also promised that his Oakland National Headquarters would study and respond to Cleaver's attacks...
...This exchange, conducted on a live television talk show, proved to be the first battle of a war still raging within the Black Panther Party. The March 20 issue of the Party newspaper, which is controlled by Newton, announces the expulsion of Cleaver and all other exiled Panthers. The lines are being drawn, but many questions are unanswered...
...Month. The party split has ideological overtones: the Cleaver wing denounces the Newtonites as insufficiently revolutionary. Among other things, Newton has worked to disassociate the Panthers from Weatherman, a move the Cleaver faction views with dismay. But behind the argument is a personality clash and a power struggle between Newton and Cleaver. Newton has a middle-class background and a preference for working within the System; Cleaver came to the Panthers from years of brutalizing experience in prison. Newton's approach is much more theoretical and intellectual than Cleaver's petulant activism. It was after Newton...
...Michael Tabor and Richard Moore, jumped bail and disappeared. With them went Tabor's wife, Connie Matthews, who had been Newton's secretary. Newton reacted by reading them out of the party as "enemies of the people." Last week Tabor and his wife surfaced in Algeria with Cleaver, and the New York pro-Cleaver faction produced a video tape in which the Tabors joined Kathleen Cleaver in attacking Newton. Mrs. Cleaver also took the occasion to deny charges in a recent issue of the Black Panther that her husband was holding her prisoner after having murdered her lover...