When did the “Civil Rights Movement” morph into the “Black Power Era” — or is that a false dichotomy. The best testimony on that question comes from those who participated in the process – people like Karen Spellman, an early activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and currently co-director of the Black Power Chronicles….
Category: Black Autonomy
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…
Authoritarian Leftists | Kill the Cop in Your Head
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Black Autonomy, April 1996 It’s difficult to know where to begin with this open letter to the various European-american leftist (Marxist-Leninist and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, in particular) groups within the United States. I have many issues with many groups; some general, some very specific. The way in which this is presented may seem scattered…
“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…
A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
By Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network – 9 Page Document Preface to the Second Edition This pamphlet is dedicated to all those suffering in the dungeons of North America and all those revolutionaries who have lost their lives in prison anywhere in the world. I first wrote it…
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and JoNina Abron | Black Autonomy, Civil Rights and the Panthers
Interview with two anarchist ex-Black Panthers about their involvement in the civil rights movement, the Panthers and the relevance of anarchism to black struggle. In May 2000 two anarchist ex-Black Panthers from America did a British speaking tour. Lorenzo KomBoa Ervin and JoNina Abron talked to groups ranging from white anarchos to mass black meetings…
