Venceremos
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Venceremos, Spanish for we will overcome, or we will conquer, was a radical political group formed in 1971 by Stanford University Professor H. Bruce Franklin and various other members of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Maoist Revolutionary Union, as a split from that group. The group took its name from the battle cry of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a revolutionary communist leader from Argentina and high ranking member of Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba.
Venceremos advocated armed self-defense of the citizenry, community control of the police, and reform of the prison system. To these ends, the group's members engaged in a number of legitimate activities, such as working to educate prisoners and defend war protesters. They also participated in various anti-war demonstrations.