Archishman Raju Both Newton and King sought to create a united front for peace and socialism. “Both refused to be dogmatic and creatively synthesized ideas to apply them in their struggle.” We live in times of change, in a world where protest and rebellion but also confusion and anarchy define politics. A new world is…
Category: Huey Newton
Black Self-Defense is Important, But Ideology is Paramount
Yafeuh Balogon, a leader of the Dallas-based Huey P. Newton Gun Club, which advocates armed Black self-defense, said the club was inspired by the “founding of the Black Panther Party, more than half a century ago. When armed white supremacists tried to stage a show of force in the Black section of Dallas in 2016,…
Intercommunalism: The Late Theorizations of Huey P. Newton, ‘Chief Theoretician’ of the Black Panther Party
Delio Vasquez Black Panther leader Huey Newton holds a press conference in San Francisco after returning from a meeting with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai in China. Newton is facing his third trial on charges of killing a police officer. October 8 1971 On September 5, 1970, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party…
Intercommunalism (1974): The Political Thought of Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton On September 5, 1970, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), introduced his theory of intercommunalism at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. 1 He later expanded on this theory before an audience at Boston College in November of that year, and then again In February 1971 during…
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…
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…
