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Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition (Book Review)

Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition is a much-needed short and accessible text offering a history of Black anarchic revolutionaries and landmark documents within the Black Radical Tradition.

Anarchism

The Last Shall Be First, Pt. III: Every Cook Is Still Governed (For CLR James)

"It's alluring to think of where [James's] theoretics might have gone had he owned the "anarchist" label, and began re-examining early writings on Black popular resistance in that light."

Police

Community Control of the Police: Is It Neocolonialism?

"Black people can not have “power” over the police because under colonization Black people have no power. Insofar as power entails the ability to overdetermine and shape the culture of policing, power will always be reserved for the colonial policing state."

Police

The Show Trial and Verdict in the Case of Derek Chauvin: Another Page from the Pig Playbook

"Offering up one low-level pig, whose bad day at the office ignited a firestorm of mass rebellion..is just collateral damage, as far as the pigs are concerned; so long as the status quo is maintained."

Trans Liberation

Femme Queen, Warrior Queen: Beyond Representation, Toward Self-Determination

"Through a revolutionary understanding of how to "center" Black trans women and transfemmes, we advance both Black women's liberation as well as the universal freedom of all African and oppressed people."

News

"I am Maroon!" The Historical and Political Importance of Freeing Russell "Maroon" Shoatz

"Maroon is in need of proper medical treatment. We can only ensure this with his immediate release... particularly with the steady surge of COVID-19 in the prisons and jails across this country. It is impossible to social distance in prison. He is our elder. Our hero."

Prison

The Law, Prisons, and Revolutionaries

"I remember the first time someone told me they were a Revolutionary. It was my man Khalil. At the time, I was a Christian. He was a Muslim. And we were both in prison."

African Liberation

Gimmie The Loot, Gimmie the Loot!: How the looting of the Congo is far more serious and deadly than the "looting" of a few American stores

"Kwame Nkrumah referred to the Congo as the heart of Africa. Mao Tse-Tung is quoted as saying that "whoever controls the Congo, controls the world." Thus, when the Congo becomes the free, the world becomes free. Africa becomes free. The resources of the planet become free. Humanity becomes free!"

Anarkata

Study, Solidarity, Spirit, Struggle: The Anarkata Turn, pt. 2

"Too much revolutionary community work of today has fallen victim to the capitalist habit of isolating certain variables from the totality they operate in..."

Black liberation

To the Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind

"We must establish a love of freedom. And we must center those on the bottom, so that we take charge of our destinies at last, and have full participation in the liberation of us all.”

Black liberation

Black Against Profit: A Primer on Capitalism and Racism (Pt. I of IV)

"The concept of racial capitalism...is important not only for understanding the foundations of colonialism and slavery, that hold up the edifice of modern capitalism, but also for uncovering the sources of Black revolt against that system."

History

Black Resistance, Black Organization, The Politics of Black Liberation: The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption 1919-1924

"Therefore, to view Black African resistance as mere anomalies within the context of history is to make a considerable mistake. In fact, Black resistance is the very touchstone of Black African history, of Black political movement."

Interview

Clout Culture: Queer Liberation and Social Capitalism

"Revolutionary activity should be the conscientious expression of unconscious striving for liberation by the masses and the margins; but clout culture means we are simply involved because we are loyal to individual figures or formations."

Education

Book Review: "Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Featuring Exchanges With an Outlaw"

"Defying the Tomb is a very easy and exciting read. However, it is also the very cornerstone of the kind of political education that the masses of our people need. I will even go as far as to say that this book is this generation's Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson."

History

The Black Revolutionary Organization That You Probably Never Heard Of: The Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) 1962-1969

"In these times of increasing militancy and spontaneity, the masses cannot be left to grope in a political darkness of struggle. There are plenty of positive examples of historical and political struggles that we can glean from."

Black liberation

Black Powder/Red Spark: Notes on Black Revolt

The ghettos of North America are strewn with Black gunpowder. All they need is a red spark.

History

On The MOVE: When The City of Philadelphia Waged War on a Black Community

"...the controlling, maiming, denying, poisoning, and outright killing of Black life through the mechanisms of the State was as American as apple pie. In fact, the destruction of all life forms is the core identity, fabric, and true functionality of American society."

History

Sharpeville-Langa Massacre: 60 Years Later

"As adherents of Pan-Africanism today, it is our duty to mark the 60th Commemoration of the Sharpeville and Langa Massacres differently from all other previous commemorations. Let us use this opportunity to draw courage from the fallen heroes as we advance towards a Socialist Azania."

Anarkata

Kickbacks, Ancestors, and Wildcats: The Anarkata Turn

"A group of kids in the hood did something anarchic without identifying as revolutionaries. A group of kids in the hood did something anarchic without even knowing who or what ‘the left’ or ‘Kuwasi Balagoon’ is."

History

The Last Shall Be First, Part Two: The Color Line of Labor

"...Du Bois was by the first imperialist war already thinking in terms that today would be called Third Worldist. He appears to hold that the fundamental contradiction, that conditions even class struggle, is the contradiction of oppressor and oppressed nations."

Decolonization

Go Back and Fetch It: Black Radical Ecology and the African-Centered Paradigm

"But Afrocentric paradigms locate divinity in the material world, such that change is most affected through engagement with nature. This allows us to see our empowerment and transformation within the planet."

Feminism

Policing Black Feminism is Pig Work

"[The colonized struggle] with one another for failing to meet the standards of gender behavior imposed on us by colonial oppressors."

Criticism

Dragging White Leftists, Part Two: Fred Hampton Don’t Know You

"If white leftists wanna imitate Fred Hampton, then maybe they should try merging their organizations with the Black mobs in Chicago – but we’ll wait til the ice caps melt completely before that happens."

History

"Great Garvey's Ghost!": On the Grandeur and Weakness of Black Leadership

"As revolutionary nationalists in the 21st century, we need sympathetic accounts of Garvey and of Black leadership that don't descend into crass hagiography..."

Criticism

Bad Faith and Afropessimism: Notes Toward a Debate

"...the social world is not a product of natural laws, but is sustained by free human activity... voluntary human attitudes can make a difference in shaping the structures and outcomes of that world."