Greetings and Solidarity to each of you. In recognition of your individual voice, influence, and cultural following among current generations of Black people/Africans in the Diaspora and on the continent, we salute you. While we only know you from the public domain, we know that many of you come from backgrounds where you faced poverty,…
Category: Black Liberation Army
Black Women With Guns
From Harriet Tubman to female members of the Black Panther Party, Black women have always played a role in armed resistance in the United States, said Jasmine Young, a doctoral fellow at the University of California’s Department of African American Studies. Young is working on a manuscript titled, “Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in…
Ahmad Sa’adat: Prisons, the Black Liberation Movement and the Struggle for Palestine Prisoners
Ahmad Sa’adat The following article, by imprisoned Palestinian national liberation movement leader Ahmad Sa’adat – the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – was originally published in French as the preface to the new French-language edition of “Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey Newton. On 15 October – the anniversary of the…
Black August by Mumia Abu Jamal
August is a month to assess and build upon the legacy of Black people’s resistance to the armed repression of the U.S. state and its agents. The author, the nation’s best known political prisoner, wrote this article August 4, 1993. Mumia Abu Jamal “George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political…
The Huey P. Newton Reader
The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI infiltration of civil rights…
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…
The Dragon and the Hydra : A Historical Study of Organizational Methods
By Russell Maroon Shoats “You have fifteen, twenty, fifty years of civil wars and people’s struggles to go through, not only to change the conditions but in order to change yourselves and make yourselves fit for political rule.” – Karl Marx addressing the IWMA, the body that would later become the First International. Marx’s words…
Excerpt from “Look for Me in the Whirlwind”
By Kuwasi Balagoon My father and mother were very law-abiding people, who paid taxes and got up early to go to work, ate miniature breakfasts and made sandwiches out of lunch meat or leftovers and made separate dashes five times a week to work, and kept a close eye on every paycheck and expenditure, slaving…
Anarchy and Organization: A Letter to the Left
By Murray Bookchin Anarchos magazine Anarchy and Organization originally was written in reply to an attack by Huey Newton on anarchist forms of organization. “In Defense Of Self Defense” Exclusive by Huey Newton (Huey on Anarchists and Individualists as related to revolutionary struggle and the Black Liberation Movement) The Black Panther, November 16, 1968. Page…
Anarchy Can’t Fight Alone
By Kuwasi Balagoon Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total 1ife, With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense to all,…
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…
