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.
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak
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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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The word “common” is not just any word: 32 years after the Zapatista uprising.
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It is being reported in by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs that former political prisoner, Black Panther, and co-founder of the Black Liberation Army, Assata Shakur has died of old age and related health problems. : r/Anarchism
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In 1971, community and civil rights activist Ann Atwater was forced to work alongside Ku Klux Klan leader C.P. Ellis in Durham, North Carolina. By the end of their 10-day meetings, Ellis renounced the Klan, tore up his membership card, and spent the rest of his life fighting for equality. : r/HistoryUncovered
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