William C. Anderson Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism and rising relevance of Black anarchism. We also urge you to generously contribute towards a fundraising campaign organized by William to support Lorenzo and his partner…
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Speaking of Anarchism, Racism and Black Liberation
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…
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…
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…
Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Dedication For the second edition of Anarchism and the Black Revolution I dedicate this second edition of Anarchism and the Black Revolution to Comrade Ginger Katz, one of the founders of the original North American Anarchist Black Cross almost 15 years ago. It was Ginger Katz who almost single-handedly arranged for the typesetting, publishing and…
