Kevin Rashid Johnson

On January 23, 2007, nine men were charged in what is being called a campaign of “chaos and terror” that saw at least three police killed from 1968 to 1973.  Emphasis is being placed on official claims that most of

This article first appeared in Socialism and Democracy, no. 43 (March 2007)

Most people don’t quite relate US prisons to government-sponsored torture. We can thank the mainstream corporate media and politicians for this. Since the 1960s and 1970s they’ve persistently

No people can wage a struggle for self-determination and independence if they are wiped out of existence.  The imperialists realize this and so should we: This is in the concrete reality that makes survival programs key organizing work for New

The economic nature of racism is not simply an aside… Racism is a fundamental characteristic of monopoly capitalism.”
George L. Jackson, 1971

Introduction

Many people believe that racism – indeed the very concept of race itself – develops automatically when

An Appeal on Behalf of Comrade Hasan Shakur and All Death Row Inmates

By Minister of Defense, Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson

When Amerika’s ruling elite wish to rationalize their violent schemes against other nations, (predominantly those of people of color), they

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of

The tool of analysis is for us a further development of the historical materialist method, the dialectical method. We will not even waste our time debating the values of Marxism with those who are essentially hung up on white people

As a policy of atomizing the Nation of Afrikans in Amerika, the U.S ruling class has cultivated a sense of isolation from the rest of the Afrikan world. The reason behind this policy is to keep us from seeing ourselves