The Razing of Occupy Oakland at Sunrise
[From CounterPunch] by MIKE KING Oakland. In the early morning on Tuesday, starting before 5 am, the police temporarily destroyed … Continue reading The Razing of Occupy Oakland at Sunrise
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Breaking with orthodoxy: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson on black liberation and the United Front against imperialism
Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism By Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson First appeared in Right … Continue reading Breaking with orthodoxy: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson on black liberation and the United Front against imperialism
Remembering the Real Dragon- An Interview with George Jackson May 16 and June 29, 1971
[Part of our series on military strategy in imperialist countries. Originally posted here.]
Interview by Karen Wald and published in Cages of Steel: The Politics Of Imprisonment In The United States (Edited by Ward Churchill and J.J. Vander Wall).
Karen Wald: George, could you comment on your conception of revolution?
George Jackson: The principle contradiction between the oppressor and oppressed can be reduced to the fact that the only way the oppressor can maintain his position is by fostering, nurturing, building contempt for the oppressed. That thing gets out of hand after a while. It leads to excesses that we see and the excesses are growing within the totalitarian state here. The excesses breed resistance; resistance is growing. The thing grows in a spiral. It can only end one way. The excesses lead to resistance, resistance leads to brutality, the brutality leads to more resistance, and finally the question will be resolved with either the uneconomic destruction of the oppressed, or the end of oppression. These are the workings of revolution. It grows in spirals, confrontations, and I mean on all levels. The institutions of society have buttressed the establishment, so I mean all levels have to be assaulted.
The Latest From the United Panther Movement
Right On 21 Right On 22 The Liberator 16 The Liberator 17 Serve The People 11 Red Heart Warrior … Continue reading The Latest From the United Panther Movement
On Elections: Kasama Project
Mike Ely of Kasama Project has an article giving an overview of Communist electoral tactics here. It makes it quite … Continue reading On Elections: Kasama Project
Still more from the Panther movement…
More documents from the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and affiliated organizations in the United Panther Movement. The other documents … Continue reading Still more from the Panther movement…
More from the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and supporting organizations
More material from the Panther movement can be found here.
From Kevin “Rashid” Johnson (NABPP-PC):
Kill Yourself or Liberate Yourself
Rashid art – NABBP George Jackson
From the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter:
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Red Sun Rising Vol 1: Essays and Articles from Rising Sun Press
[Note: The original link to the document died. The link below works.] Rising Sun Press publishes material from the New … Continue reading Red Sun Rising Vol 1: Essays and Articles from Rising Sun Press
New Book by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter
Overview from the publisher:
Follow the author’s odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves – and us as well – on Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments.
Rashid has been in prison for twenty years – the past eighteen of which in segregation (solitary confinement). Shortly after this correspondence between himself and Outlaw, he and his comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu founded the New Afrikan Black Panther Party–Prison Chapter. The NABPP-PC has since developed branches in various prisons across the u$ empire and has its own newsletter, Right On!
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Second Wave Anti-Revisionism and the Native Liberation Struggle
[This 1975 article by the Bolshevik Tendency/Bolshevik Union was republished by the Encyclopedia of anti-Revisionism here and by Rowland Keshena of Speed of Dreams here. Keshena’s introduction to the article is also included below.]
This is from the magazine Canadian Revolution (No. 4, Novemeber / September 1975), which was part of the second wave of Canadian anti-revisionism, a period in the development and history of Canadian Marxism-Leninism analogous to the New Communist Movement in the United States. It was written by two unnamed members of the Bolshevik Tendency, which would soon after this piece’s publication go on to consolidate themselves as the Bolshevik Union.
The BT/BU began its life as part of the worldwide pro-Chinese movement in the 1960s and 70s, following the rise of revisionism in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Following the death of Mao and the coming to power in China of Deng Xiaoping, the BT/BU would go on to side with the Party of Labour in Albania and its leader Enver Hoxha. However, after the Albanians recognized the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), whom the BT/BU saw as revisionist, to be their fraternal party, they broke with mainstream anti-revisionism.
This article comes from the period of their alignment with the Maoist movement.
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