LONDON -- Kwame Ture, the former militant Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael who was banned from Britain in the late 1960s, returned Saturday to preach his gospel of revolution.
Kwame Ture, now 42, is in Britain for a series of lectures he says are to 'raise the level of consciousness of our people, which is the fundamental lever for revolution.'
His black sponsors wrote the Home Office twice noting that Kwame Ture was not coming for 'any illegal purpose' and any interference by immigration officials would be seen as a 'calculated insult to the black community of Britain.'
When he was known as Carmichael, Kwame Ture was banned from Britain in 1967 for his attempts to stir racial violence. He has also been banned by France and Trinidad.
At news conference soon after his arrival in London Saturday, Kwame Ture was already onto his lecture theme of revolution among the blacks, calling for the 'destruction of capitalism.'
'Our people lack solidarity. This is our fundamental weakness and this lack of organization is to be found rampant wherever our people are to be found,' he said.
'Until Africa is liberated, freed and unified under socialism, Africans throughout the world will not be respected.' Kwame Ture resigned in 1968 as leader of the Black Panther movement.
