Black History, Panthers & Socialism

Tupac Shakur was murdered 29 years ago today. His status as a cultural icon is beyond dispute, but the legend that’s built up around his tragically short life has often overshadowed the radical political outlook that shaped his work.

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In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at that…

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Alec Karakatsanis explains how both Republicans and Democrats have used the backlash to increase the powers of police.

475 likes, 20 comments - anarchicchasm on August 13, 2026: "Lorenzo Kom’Boa Ervin’s political journey carried him through the Civil Rights Movement, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, political imprisonment and ultimately Black anarchism. During his imprisonment, he encountered Martin Sostre, whose ideas profoundly influenced his political transformation. In Anarchism and The Black Revolution, Ervin outlines community councils, workers’ federations, labor organizing, cooperatives, mutual aid networks, self-defense units, community self-management, and decentralized revolutionary structures designed to confront capitalism, white supremacy, and state power simultaneously. His critique extends beyond capitalism alone. Ervin repeatedly challenges centralized authority, the vanguard model, and the belief that liberation can be achieved by seizing state power and placing it in the hands of a revolutionary elite. Honestly, while reading Ervin, it’s hard not to hear echoes of Mikhail Bakunin. Both argued that revolutionary movements risk creating new ruling classes and rejected the idea that freedom could be delivered in a top-down format as both insisted that liberation required dismantling hierarchy—not reproducing it under a different banner. Ervin is still alive today and remains associated with Memphis, Tennessee and both his personal accounts and writings remain to be poignant amongst Black Anarchist literature and the broader scope of anarchist thought and theory. *any misspellings in the literature is present within the text on Anarchist Library. Please yell at their editor and not me*".

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6,567 likes, 248 comments - africaawareorg on August 11, 2026: "Professor Jeffrey Sachs argues that Africa’s unity and Pan African integration could give the continent greater collective bargaining power. A more united Africa, he suggests, would be better positioned to negotiate stronger deals and defend its interests on the global stage. #africa #panafricanism #africaaware #africaunity #blacks".

dravonrangel on May 31, 2026: "MAGA dressed in spirituality might be one of the greatest threats to America because it teaches people to confuse hatred with holiness, racism with righteousness, sexism with tradition, classism with merit, and obedience with faith. You cannot sage your house and still support policies that tear families apart. You cannot quote God while cheering for children being buried under bombs. You cannot call yourself “awake” while defending a man who has built power by attacking Black people, immigrants, women, LGBTQ people, the poor, and anyone asking this country to be more humane. Trump did not expose America by accident. He revealed how many people were never fighting for freedom. They were fighting to keep hierarchy alive. And now we are watching people trade their humanity for proximity to power, wrapping cruelty in flags, crosses, crystals, and “good vibes.” That is not spirituality. That is supremacy with incense burning.".

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We are trying to build up support and allies, but we’re also conducting political education on the State, and the illegitimacy of its violence.

A misconduct report before the transfer noted that Malik Muhammad, a Black Lives Matter protester, was critical of Israel in communications from prison.

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Communal organization is a form of organization that socialist movements around the world have debated for a long time and, in some cases, attempted to put into practice. Abdullah Öcalan defines the commune as a form of organization that exists entirely outside the structure of the state, has no connection to it, and in which...

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