“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” – Antonio Gramsci Wildcat In November 2011, news of a double suicide after a failed bank robbery developed into one of the biggest scandals in postwar German history.1 Even now, it remains unresolved. For thirteen years…
Category: White Supremacy
Towards Unsettling Paths
“If non-indigenous anarchists are to develop ways of interacting with indigenous peoples that are different from those of political organizations they must begin from direct communication, solidarity and trust. Anyone who really wants to act in solidarity with others does not stumble around inside their homes, uninvited, stinking of arrogance and ignorance, and taking up…
Brink’s Trial : Opening and Closing Statements
Brink’s Trial Opening Statement By Kuwasi Balagoon July 11, 1983 My name is Kuwasi Balagoon. The name is of Yoruba origin. Yoruba is a name of a tribe in western Africa in what was called the Slave Coast, and now called Nigeria. Many if not the bulk of slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere were…
Back from Hell : Black Power and Treason to Whiteness Inside Prison Walls
By Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin The federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana had the reputation of being the most racist and brutal prison in the federal prison system. The city of Terre haute itself had been known in the 1920s as one of the strongest base areas for the Ku Klux Klan in the Midwest. As…
Europe’s “Nouvelle Droite” Co-opting the Counter Culture
Editorial Comment: “Co-opting the Counter Culture” was written several years ago, but it is relevant and urgent reading today in light of the crisis in the Ukraine combined with the rising popularity of the “nouvelle droite” globally. Apparently disconnected phenomenon are deeply connected, carefully orchestrated events that have been manifesting a definite agenda in incremental…
“Racism has to be challenged” | An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
By Jessica Garraway Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin is a veteran community and anti-racist, anti-colonialist, and anti-prison organizer. He was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Black Panther Party, and is a founding member of the Black Autonomy Federation. Lorenzo is the author of the underground classic, Anarchism and the Black Revolution as well…
Nazis, New Jersey State Police and Assata Shakur
By Hans Wolff August, 1998 There have been persistent reports of a Nazi subculture in the New Jersey State Police, which has long had a reputation for violence and racism. Recently, the State Police was the subject of a review article in the New York Times, which cited years of allegations and a landmark court…
Masked Racism | Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex
Angela Davis Born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama A radical Black activist, author and academic, Angela Davis received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1965. She later studied as a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego, under the Marxist professor and ‘One Dimensional Man’ (1964) author Herbert Marcuse. Davis joined…
Assata Shakur’s Letter to the Pope, January 22, 1998
Thursday January 22, 1998 Your Holiness, I hope this letter finds you in good health, in good disposition and enveloped in the spirit of goodness. I must confess that it had never occurred to me before to write to you and I find myself overwhelmed and moved to have this opportunity. Although circumstances have compelled…
“Assata And The Pope” | Interview With Assata Shakur
By Karen Wald Interview by Karen Wald of Assata Shakur during the Pope’s visit in January 1998 Q: The New Jersey State Police asked the Pope to intervene on their behalf to get the Cuban government to extradite you to New Jersey. Before asking your reaction to that, I think it would be a good…
