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…
Category: Black Anarchism
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…
The Anarchism of Blackness
William C. Anderson, Zoé Samudzi Present incarnations of an unfazed and empowered far right increasingly demand the presence of a real, radical left. In the coming months and years, the left and left-leaning constituencies of the United States will need to make clear distinctions between potentially counterproductive symbolic progress, and actual material progress. Liberalism and…
Capitalism, Marxism, and the Black Radical Tradition: An Interview with Cedric Robinson
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson It is the task of the radical critic to illuminate what is repressed and excluded by the basic mechanisms of a given social order. It is the task of the politically engaged radical critic to side with the excluded and repressed: to…
Vibrant, African Anarchism
Towards a Vibrant, Expansive, African-Based Anarchism By Ashanti Alston I am always on the search for cutting edge, challenging thinking within anarchism and other fields of revolutionary theory: the search for how to get beyond ‘stuck.’ As a Black anarchist I have looked for writings specifically related to the problems and challenges that I face,…
Black Anarchism : A Talk by Ashanti Alston
Ashanti Alston : Black Anarchism – PDF Edited transcript of a talk given by Ashanti Alston at Hunter College on Oct. 24, 2013. Ashanti Alston is an anarchist activist, speaker, writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army (BLA) and a former political prisoner. Ashanti was also the co-chair…
