Recently Chairman B. Kwaku Duren of the New Panther Vanguard Movement (NPVM) wrote a few words in response to my article “Reparations or Revolution?” This offers a good opportunity to contrast the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter’s line with … Read the rest
The Black Brigade was co-founded by two prisoners in Pennsylvania, Nathaniel Lee and Samuel “Angel” Coley. “Angel” was a former member of the original Black Panther Party and a founder of the Philly Panthers’ Free Breakfast for Children Program. He … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
The economic nature of racism is not simply an aside… Racism is a fundamental characteristic of monopoly capitalism.”
George L. Jackson, 1971
Many people believe that racism – indeed the very concept of race itself – develops automatically when … Read the rest
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 … Read the rest
… Read the rest“[T]he existence of a political vanguard precedes the existence of any of the other elements of a truly revolutionary culture.”
George Jackson, Blood In My Eye (1971)
“A revolutionary party cannot be built on the quicksand of ideological confusion. Obviously
Since last year, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC), and especially its highest security level prisons located in rural southwestern Virginia, have been waging a battle to whitewash abuses occurring, and to demonize prisoners housed at these remote prisons. Routine … Read the rest
… Read the restSingle 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
