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…
Category: Black Panther Party
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…
Stokely Carmichael, Black Power and the Age of Political Repression
Abayomi Azikiwe Author’s Note: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) changed his name to Kwame Ture during the late 1970s after living in Guinea-Conakry in West Africa for a decade. The name was adopted as a testament to his work with and admiration of the former president of Ghana and co-president of Guinea-Conakry, Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou…
Haiti’s Fanmi Lavalas and the Black Panther Party
By Kiilu Nyasha (a.k.a. Pat Gallyot) This year of 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, October 1966, in Oakland, California. In 1968, prior to joining the Party, I was employed by Community Progress, Inc. (CPI), the nation’s pilot program of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on…
The Genius of Huey P. Newton
By Mumia Abu-Jamal The Black Radical Tradition In Our Time Conference Listen>> To those of us who were alive–and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land. To those of subsequent eras, youth in their 20s, the name is…
The New Black Panther Party : Reactionaries and Thugs
By Elbert “Big Man” Howard “They have crossed a line, a clear line in the sand.” Like many of my comrades, original Black Panther Party members, I have for years watched these strutting caricatures who call themselves the New Black Panther Party and expressed my disgust. First of all, I say there is no such…
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…
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…
In Defense of Self Defense
THE BLACK PANTHER “IN DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE” EXCLUSIVE BY HUEY NEWTON (Huey on Anarchists and Individualists as related to revolutionary struggle and the Black Liberation Movement) November 16, 1968. Page 12 BPP Newspaper Collection We should understand there is a difference between the rebellion of the anarchists and the black revolution or liberation of…
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,…
