and boundaries superfluous. US imperialism's endless war on the planet's people united them as communities and made revolutionary cooperation a requirement for the people’s liberation. The theory of revolutionary intercommunalism called for a worldwide planned economy to rid of the ills of the US empire.

“As one nation is liberated elsewhere it gives us a better chance to be free here.”

Few who discuss Huey Newton or the Black Panther Party today have given proper attention to the theoretical contributions that they made to the science of class struggle. Even supposedly sympathetic accounts such as Stanley Nelson's documentary ignore the ideological underpinnings of one of the most influential organizations in US history. To highlight the Black Panther Party and Huey Newton's class politics would be to reject the very systemof domination that represses them. The question of class analysis is the line drawn in the sand by the US ruling circle. Step over that line, and one risks subjecting themselves to political isolation, repression, and even death.

This doesn't change the fact that the political movement in the US is desperately in need of a class analysis. Recent developments have intensified the contradictions of class in the US, especially with the ascendancy of Donald Trump and all that transpired during the tumultuous 2016 Presidential elections. The ruling class has conducted an assault on the consciousness of poor and working people by linking Trump's victory to white backlash and the rise of fascist bigotry. This has negated the class element of the state, whereby Trump took advantage of the