There's a good 19-page piece written by Robert Winkler for the Ludwig-Maximilans University, which talks to the connection between the Red Army Faction (of Germany) and the Black Panther group of the US. I'd recommend a read of the whole report.
Winkler points out something that most people miss....the Black Panther organization was around before the Red Army Faction.
At some point, the Black Panthers went to a platform/agenda (9 points). Later, the RAF adapted the same basic points.
So the platform for the Black Panathers?
1. Simple basic freedom....although it's never specified to what degree or how it'd be different from Constitutional rights of the 1966 timeframe.
2. Full employment for blacks. Basically, if you didn't have real employment, the government would just create a job and give it to you. Along with this....a guaranteed income level was inserted....so it wouldn't matter if you dug ditches, or fixed transmission....you got paid 'X'. If you had zero training or education? Doesn't matter....the government was still responsible for finding you a job.
3. 'Robbery by the capitalist system' had to be ended in the black community. This was never explained in any great detail. In a Marxist system....capitalism would not be allowed to exist in any fashion. In this case....a lot of things would just disappear because capitalism would not provide (drugs, weed, booze, beer, etc).
4. Decent housing. Along these lines....they wanted the government to simply provide it. Cooperatives would be created and each group would run their own area. Looking back to the Soviet model....it mostly failed.
5. Mandated education for blacks that 'exposes the true nature of the decadent American society'. Basically, everything up to modern times would either be dumped or told by their angle of view. Black kids would get black education. Everyone else would get 'non-black' education.
6. Blacks would be exempt from military service (remember this is 1966 we are talking about).
7. End of all police assaults and attacks on blacks. If you think about it....the only way to ensure this is to have townships where blacks stay in their zone, with only black police.
8. All blacks released from local, state and federal jails. New charges would be done, with blacks only on the jury.
9. So we come to this one odd agenda item....a UN-supervised effort to be mandated...to ensure blacks got 'land, bread, housing, education, clothing justice, and peace'. Who would be on this UN commission? Anyone's guess.
Remember, this was all Marxist doctrine, which the Black Panther crowd developed their program around, and the current BLM seem to be on the same path today.
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