The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations convenes for its fourth Electoral Campaign School June 13-14, via Zoom Webinar. The Electoral Campaign School is a means by which the Coalition opens up a new front in the struggle for black self-determination within the U.S. and elsewhere. It will challenge the monopoly…
Category: Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
#OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study: The Regional Strategy
Uhuru Comrades! For this Sunday’s study we will conclude the “Unity of Theory and Practice” series with the Party’s Regional Strategy, introducing our National Director of Organization Chimurenga Selembao and our regional leaders: Malika, Matumb, Bakari, and Kobina. Join at https://apspuhuru.org
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture): From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Whittier College, Whittier, California – March 22, 1971 Stokely Carmichael was the controversial and charismatic young civil rights leader who, in 1966, popularized the phrase “black power.” Carmichael was a leading force in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), working in the Deep South to organize African American voters. In the process he was beaten…
Speaking of Anarchism, Racism and Black Liberation
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin May 3, 2015 Originally titled “Anarchism and Racism,” this editorial was written in the early 1990s around the creation of a new publication focused on Black autonomist politics. This is the first issue of the Journal of Anarchy and the Black Revolution, and although I do not think it will be the…
Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition, from W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral by Reiland Rabaka Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois’s Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka’s Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies…
The Black Anarchism Reader
The Black Anarchism Reader In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little…
Blacks Need to Organize for Self-Defense
“Whether we’re in large numbers like we are in Mississippi, or in small numbers like in Minnesota, our lives are in jeopardy and it’s important for us to build community networks to defend ourselves,” said Akinyele Umoja, professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University and author of the book, “We Will Shoot Back:…
Kwame Ture: The FBI and CIA
One of Kwames Best Lectures: Kwame Toure’ Delivers a Very Powerful Focus analysis on the FBI CIA & Revolutionary Struggle…
The Weapon of Theory
Amilcar Cabral Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we…
Lucy Parsons: A Lifelong Anarchist
Described by the Chicago Police Department as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” in the 1920s Lucy Parsons: A Lifelong Anarchist Lucy E. Parsons – The Anarchist Library
Black People Have a Right to Rebel
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin July 29, 2005 Lorenzo Komboa Ervin’s analysis of the place of the 2001 Cincinnati riots within the history of US urban riots and the struggle against racism. A massive anti-cop rebellion has broken out in Cincinnati over the police shootings of 15 Black men, ranging in ages of 12-44 years old, all…
Burn Down the American Plantation: Call for a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement
Burn Down the American Plantation: Call for a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement The foundation of the political conflict today does not begin with the rise of the far right, but is situated in the context of the US Civil War—a war that never actually resolved the social contradictions at the heart of American society. Slavery has…
