Red Voice

Prison Officials Continue To Deny Comrade Rashid Cancer Treatment (July 18, 2022)

"We must make Rashid’s situation and the plight of all who are imprisoned and suffering under torturous conditions mainstream topics of conversation as everyone on this earth deserves to have food, shelter, and healthcare."

Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

MY CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND THE DISEASE OF DENIED PRISON MEDICAL CARE (2022)

The suffering, deterioration and death of prisoners from lack of proper medical care is but another layer of the inhumanity that inheres in the U.S. mass imprisonment system. This system be razed to the ground and one oriented to healing people must be erected by the people in its place.

Black Panthers

Statement From The RIBPP On Comrade Rashid's Health - 07.04.22

At Rashid's request, I am writing to inform the public that he has prostate cancer. We will use this diagnosis to highlight the inhumane treatment, conditions, and intentional medical neglect that the imprisoned routinely face and the need to overturn a system that encourages this type of abuse.

African Liberation

The Wretched Shall Inherit The Earth, The Meek Shall Inhabit Our Worth: Some Parables for the Third World

These are four parables for those seeking a new way of being, in turning toward Autonomy, anarchy, abolition, full communism, gender/sexual liberation; toward African spiritual traditions, and a "root-grasping," revolutionary science, guided by material analysis.

Anarchism

Self-Criticism: How I Became a BAR (Black Anarchic Radical)

We should never be afraid of self-criticism. Not only where we fall short in practice, but also, equally importantly, where our theory falls short of reality. To stick to wrong ideas in the face of a changing world is to betray dialectics itself.

Criticism & Self-Criticism Within The Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP): Why And How We Practice It (May 2022)

"Opening ourselves up to criticism will ultimately win the trust and confidence of the people. The trust and confidence of the people will be necessary to build relationships and carry out the tasks we will take on while working towards a socialist and ultimately communist future."

Some Thoughts On The Panther Solidarity Organization, What It Is And What It Isn't: Programmatic Unity vs. Political-Ideological Unity (April 2022)

The Party unites programmatically with people whose politics are different from ours as long as the contradictions aren’t antagonistic, with the hope of winning them to a deeper political understanding or of gaining partial demands that lay the groundwork for more revolutionary gains.

Africa

Black Against Profit (Pt. 4): From Timbuktu to Babylon

With help from Wynter, Rodney, Gomez, Achebe, and Inikori, among others, the following essay will attempt to fill in some of the missing pages of primitive accumulation, concerning all that Africa lost in the vile traffic of our people across the Atlantic.

Labor

On Class, Pt. 1

"Class is defined by the consistent presence of specific roles in society, and relations to political power and production, held in common by many individuals, that persist over some manner of time or some set of conditions."

Trans Liberation

For Those Seeking or in Flight: Black Trans*feminist Nihilism

"Where Black feminism stumbles is a failure to recognize the noted absence within the historical record/archives of resistance and rebellion from Black trans people, specifically Black trans women/transfems."

ON THE EXPOSURE OF KEITH "MALIK" WASHINGTON AS A "ROCK STAR INFORMANT" (2021)

"It is impossible to weed out and prevent all infiltrators, but when uncovered they must be purged without remorse. This is my verdict on Keith."

ARE WE PRISON ABOLITIONISTS? (A RESPONSE TO BOB AVAKIAN'S "ABOLITION: REAL AND ILLUSORY") 2021

To abolish the military, police, or prisons means abolishing the state, which is impossible short of achieving world communism.

MY RETURN TO VIRGINIA: A TRIBUTE TO PEOPLE POWER (DECEMBER 2021)

"This is indeed a tribute to the power of the people, and I want to extend my thanks and Panther Love to the many organizations and people who raised their voices in my support and in protest of the conditions I was exposed and subjected to. But of course, the struggle continues!"

Disabled Black Slaves and "Free Labor": Towards a More Comprehensive Disability Justice

The American nation/Empire/State seeks “economic recovery” and the soothing of its nonblack psyche. It equates Blackness with being “dependent,” “defective,” and disabled. It concludes that disabled people have nothing to offer to said economic recovery, and therefore do not deserve to live.

Criticism

The Devil Wears Dashikis, Pt. 4: Theoretical and Practical Lessons for the Struggle (Conclusion)

"What does it say about the anti-colonial Left in an age of celebrity "activism" that a YouTuber like Gazi was catapulted to prominence, in part with the help of organizations in our movement?"

Criticism

The Devil Wears Dashikis (Pt. 3): Gussy Unmasked

You can run left, or you can run right, reactionary scum. There's not a corner of this earth where the ancestors won't see you, and turn whatever you try into dust. "Ma'at" is an ancient word that means "justice," Augustus. Yours is coming.

Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

INVENTING PRETEXTS TO JUSTIFY OFFICIAL CRIMES: PAGES FROM THE PIG PLAYBOOK--READING NUMBER 2 (2021)

"Officials (at Lucasville) have been murdering and brutalizing prisoners and blocking their ability to bring attention to the abuses without any concern for outside accountability or oversight for so long, they don't even feel the need to produce believable excuses for their criminal actions."

Criticism

The Devil Wears Dashikis, Pt. 2: #2BFrank About the Dangers of Clout Culture

"It was Gazi's penchant for bizarre and sadistic political commentary, rather than their humanitarian cons, that would propel them and their organization to infamy, which Gazi seems to identify with fame."

Criticism

The Devil Wears Dashikis: An Exposé on the Black Hammer Cult (Pt. 1)

The demagogic YouTuber known as Gazi Kodzo wanted to be “the leader of the anti-white revolution.” Instead they may go down as one of the more repulsive cult leaders in recent Black history

Political Prisoners

Imprisoned in Sundown Towns: The Racial Politics of My Domestic Exile (2021)

"It’s important that readers grasp from this discussion that racism is and always has been manufactured and manipulated by the establishment (the ruling class and government) as a counterrevolutionary strategy to divide and control the people."

Black August

STATEMENT BY THE RIBPP, RIWPO & PSO ON THE RETALIATORY TRANSFER AND RACIST THREATS BY SOUTHERN OHIO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OFFICIALS TOWARDS POLITICAL PRISONER, KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON

"Rashid is a long-time political leader, writer, artist, activist and organizer. He is being targeted by the state because of his political beliefs, his many published pieces documenting prison abuse and torture, and efforts at organizing for better conditions."

African Liberation

Violence or Values? The Essence of Revolution

As the oppressed, we will always be condemned by our oppressors for our acts of resistance. Capitalists are not opposed to using violence. They just want to be the only ones legitimized for using it. They wouldn’t have capitalism or America without violence.

Trans Liberation

Coming Out and (re)Claiming the Power to Name

"I would like to employ the "power to name" or more simply "naming" as a framework that not only encompasses coming out, but also transcends it, capturing an element of the queer experience that is specific to Black people."

Africa

My Gender is Marronage: A Revisitation

"A vulnerable soul... flies not because she is reducible to spirit or resistance but because she is a complex human responding to the conditions forced onto her."

Capitalism

Capitalism, Socialism, and Leftist Political Economy (Pt. 1): Basics of Capitalism

[Capitalists are] people who do nothing but skim profit by paying those who do all the work less than they are worth, and use this profit to control society.