#black-anarchism — Public Fediverse posts
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The continuing necessity of Black anarchism
We can work with others, but we must be able to speak for ourselves
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/17/the-continuing-necessity-of-black-anarchism/
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Autonomies: **The continuing necessity of Black anarchism**
https://autonomies.org/2026/05/the-continuing-necessity-of-black-anarchism/
We can work with others, but we must be able to speak for ourselves Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Freedom News, 17/05/2026 I have identified myself as an anarchist since 1969 when I met Martin Sostre, a well-known Black political prisoner and … Continue reading →
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"..Ian talks with Philadelphia-based cartoonist Ben Passmore about his new book, Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance. They discuss the research and making of the book, Passmores anarchism, the themes of inter-generational struggle, contextualizing history through lived experience, and the pitfalls of mythmaking.."
Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)
https://thefinalstrawradio.libsyn.com/black-arms-to-hold-you-up-with-ben-passmore -
Black Liberation Army soldier and New Afrikan anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon was interviewed while imprisoned for a segment on WPIX-TV in the 1980s.
Kuwasi Balagoon interviewed on local news television, 1980s
https://youtu.be/bWn2B881BuQ#KuwasiBalagoon #Anarchy #Anarchism #BlackAnarchism #BlackHistoryMonth
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Freedom seeks contributions to “Black Anarchism” issue
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/18/freedom-seeks-contributions-to-black-anarchism-issue/#Anarchy #Anarchism #BlackAnarchism #Autonomy #BlackHistoryMonth
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Die schwarze Saat!
Gesammelte Schriften zum Schwarzen und Indigenen Anarchismus!
'"Unser aktueller politischer Moment ist geprägt von einem globalen Wiederaufleben Schwarzer und Indigener Rebellion und angesichts des antiautoritären Geistes dieser Kämpfe ist die Zeit reif, einen genaueren Blick auf den Schwarzen und Indigenen Anarchismus zu legen.
Schwarze Saat ist global das umfangreichste Werk für einen nicht-weißen Anarchismus, voll mit Beiträgen von Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Lucy Parsons, Michael Kimble, Sam Mbah, Hannibal Balagoon Shakur, Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas, Ashanti Alston, Pedro Ribeiro, Zoé Samudzi und vielen mehr."
Die Schriften von Elany und ihrem verstorbenen Vater Samuel aus dem Buch die Schwarze Saat als PDF.
https://feralfire.noblogs.org/files/2022/01/31416601-1_inhalt.pdf
#Blackanarchism #Anarchism #Indigenous #IndigenerAnarchismus #Book #Bookstodon
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William C. Anderson - The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
https://www.akpress.org/nationonnomap.html#WilliamCAnderson #Anarchy #Anarchism #BlackAnarchism #Autonomy #Abolition #BlackHistoryMonth
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"An investigation into the arrest of a Buffalo prison activist; an early proponent of Black Nationalism and Anarcho-Communism."
Frame Up: The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (1974)
https://youtu.be/R1AlmIAslY4#MartinSostre #Anarchy #Anarchism #BlackAnarchism #PrisonActivism #BlackNationalism #BlackHistoryMonth
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RE: https://todon.nl/@AnarchistMemes/115729166663124626
"Anarchists are just a bunch of white men"
Photo's of
:anarchismred: Kim Chwa-chin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Chwajin],
:anarchismred: Jun Tsuji [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Tsuji],
:anarchismred: Fumiko Kaneko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaneko_Fumiko],
:anarchismred: Ashanti Alston [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti_Alston],
:anarchismred: Lucy Parsons [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons],
:anarchismred: Ricardo Flores Magón [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Holmes],
:anarchismred: Lucía Sánchez Saornil [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%C3%ADa_S%C3%A1nchez_Saornil],
:anarchismred: Sam Mbah [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mbah],
:anarchismred: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Kom%27boa_Ervin],
:anarchismred: Ursula K. Le Guin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin],
:anarchismred: Michael Kimble [https://anarchylive.noblogs.org/about] and
:anarchismred: Emma Goldman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman]#anarchism #BlackAnarchism #AnarchaFeminism #AsianAnarchism #Alt4u
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Wooow, this is so amazing! :black_sparkling_heart:
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Two weeks from today Firestorm will have the honor of hosting an incredible online panel for the release of historian Garrett Felber's new book with AK Press. "A Continuous Struggle" chronicles the life of Martin Sostre, an under appreciated legend in the history of anti-prison and Black freedom movements.
Garrett will be joined by writer William C. Anderson ("The Nation On No Map") and revolutionary elder Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin ("Anarchism and the Black Revolution"). Together they'll discuss Sostre's incredible life and legacy as a jailhouse lawyer, revolutionary bookseller, yogi, mentor and teacher, anti-rape organizer, housing justice activist, and original political thinker.
Don't miss this event! You can sign up and find a copy of "A Continuous Struggle" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3372-the-revolutionary-life-of-martin-sostre.html. Can't make the event live? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording when we post it!
#BlackFreedomMovement #BlackAnarchism #PoliticalPrisoners #BlackPower #FeministBookstore #PrisonAbolition #MartinSostre #LorenzoKomboaErvin #FirestormCoop (- L)
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Coming up in March: Anarchist book circle @ Solidaria and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson. More info at https://organisera.org/events/c0dad937-6ee0-47c6-8cc4-16c5734ca50f
#Stockholm #Anarchism #BookCircle #Abolition #BlackAnarchism
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Kuwasi Balagoon, one of the key theorists/practitioners of New Afrikan Anarchism: "Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion.
It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total life. With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense to all, but progresses in a creative process unhindered by any class, caste or party.
This is because the goals of anarchy don't include replacing one ruling class with another, neither in the guise of a fairer boss or as a party. This is key because this is what separates anarchist revolutionaries from Maoist, socialist and nationalist revolutionaries who from the onset do not embrace complete revolution.
They cannot envision a truly free and equalitarian society and must to some extent embrace the socialization process that makes exploitation and oppression possible and prevalent in the first place."
From "Anarchy Can't Fight Alone" https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kuwasi-balagoon-anarchy-can-t-fight-alone
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The birth of Black/New Afrikan Anarchism
Black Anarchism was born at the heart of the post-1960s counterrevolution: the prison system. Ex-Black Panther political prisoners including Martin Sostre, Ashanti Alston, Kuwasi Balagoon, and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin theorized Black Anarchism as a new political ideology for revolutionary Black struggle in the late twentieth century.
Black/New Afrikan Anarchists criticized what they perceived to be shortcomings of the Black Panthers, synthesized anarchism with Black Nationalism, and theorized the Black Commune as the revolutionary form of Black self-determination. While they lauded the Panthers as the leading organization of the long 1960s, they criticized the party’s authoritarianism and hierarchical and patriarchal tendencies. Their disillusionment with the Black Panthers led to a wider critique of the Marxist-Leninist approach to Black Nationalism that informed their turn towards anarchism.
The Black/New Afrikan Anarchist synthesis of Black Nationalism and anarchism upheld an anti-state nationalism. They contend that Black Americans are an oppressed nation, but that national liberation can and must take place without establishing a new nation-state. Ashanti Alston argues that revolutionaries must go “beyond nationalism, but not without it.” As Alston remarks, revolutionary Black Nationalists in the Panthers had perhaps the most advanced politics of the era. However, he emphasizes that we must learn from their mistakes and articulate national self-determination in a non-hierarchical manner so that it does not get captured in the state.
In Anarchism and the Black Revolution, first written from prison in 1979 as a series of pamphlets, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin lays out a program for a “Black Commune” consisting of local community control coordinated through federations of nested communes (the classic anarchist “commune of communes” with a focus on Black Liberation).
It is striking that each of the leading theorists of Black Anarchism were ex-Black Panthers who critiqued the hierarchies of Black Nationalist and Marxist-Leninist parties from within prison walls. Black/New Afrikan Anarchism arose as a product of the neoliberal counterrevolution and the struggle against it. Although they were quite marginal within Black social movements in the late twentieth century, Black/New Afrikan Anarchist theorists in this era laid some of the groundwork (alongside larger tendencies like Black Feminism and Black Marxism) for the recent popularization of Black Anarchism and abolitionism.
#anarchism #BlackAnarchism #BlackPanthers #communism #nationalism #prison #abolition #history
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Do any readers and/or fellow anarchists have any recommendations for books or essays you'd consider THE introductory or encompassing text of Black Anarchism and Green Anarchism? Texts speaking on indigenous folk and anarchism are appreciated as well.
#Anarchism #Anarchist #BlackAnarchism #IndigenousAnarchism #GreenAnarchism #BookRecommendations
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R.I.P George Floyd: An indictment of police
While it is fairly evident that the size and organisation of a centrally managed police force have no bearing on the level of crime, it is just as pertinent for me to discuss the police in the abstract.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/18/r-i-p-george-floyd-an-indictment-of-police/
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Black Anarchist Futures
Ashanti Alston and William C. Anderson discuss the future directions for Black anarchism and its role in the movement for Black liberation.
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Black Anarchist Legacies
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, JoNina Abron-Ervin, and Modibo Kadalie reflect on their personal histories in the Black Power movement, and how their experiences in hierarchical revolutionary organizations - such as the Black Panther Party and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers - led them to anarchist/anti-authoritarian politics. Facilitated by William C. Anderson.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eWWXPu8mE&si=IYmVZDrQpPI03fMN#dialog
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I recently got published in The Anarchist Review of Books!
Check out my reflections on William C Anderson’s “The Nation On No Map” alongside thoughts by other Black, anti-authoritarian thinkers.
Very thrilled to work with AROB. Special thanks to the crew behind this project. It was exciting to open up a box of prints that even came along with a cute, surprise tote bag!
Visit The Anarchist Review of Books to read the full issue! They send free copies to comrades inside, so support them if you can!
#blackanarchism #anarchism #BlackLiberation #MutualAid #solidarity #books #bookreview #Literature #cats #cat #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi
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This is a short, interesting book on Black Anarchism. I've worked with Atticus a bit in a Chicago area activist organization.
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AK Press has made the following ebooks available for free for the time being:
- "The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition" by William C. Anderson
- "As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation" by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson
- "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" by Kristian Williams
https://www.akpress.org/featured-products/featured-topic-free-ebook.html
@bookstodon @abolition #abolition #ftp #acab #anarchism #books #reading #bookstodon #BlackAnarchism
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#Anarchism
#BlackAnarchismRadicals in Conversation #49: Black Anarchism Across the Generations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI1NCY4mG4E
The Black Autonomy Podcast is a series of discussions on anarchism and the relevance of its revolutionary ideals to the ongoing Black Liberation Movement
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/hxa9n-18f02e/Black-Autonomy-Podcast
Lorenzo & JoNina Ervin speak on B.A.F. the prison system, & Lorenzo's book "The Anarchism & The Black Revolution..The Idea Of Black Autonomy".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXLL_8vIa8
*edited to add image.
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#blackanarchism William Anderson's great advice: read Black anarchist and former Black Panther Party member Lorenzo Komboa Ervin on the differences between rebellion, insurrection, and revolution:
"The importance of recognizing the true differences of each level can define our strategy and tactics at that stage, and not lead us prematurely into a full offensive, when the enemy is not yet weakened enough by mass action or political attacks."
from Anarchism and the Black Revolution, which can be read online here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-anarchism-and-the-black-revolution
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Looking for something new to read? Try "The Nation On No Map" By William C Anderson (@williamcson). It's a great intro for people interested in Black Liberation without hierarchy. Here's a video of Robyn Maynard interviewing Anderson about the book (hosted by @firestorm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBbDm-o14fQ
#BlackFriday #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackLiberation
#BlackAnarchism #Anarchism #Literature #Books -
While #BlackMastodon is establishing itself and building a language (#blackfriday, #BlackFedi, etc.), I think it’s critical we carve out space and specificity for #BlackLiberation and #BlackAnarchism.
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:black_sparkling_heart: #Introduction #Intro
TL:DR: I'm mostly posting this intro to connect with other Black and BIPOC Anarchists or Anti-authoritarians. Hit me up! :Fire_Panafrican:
Hey, everyone
My partner and I are currently working on a docuseries, @Elememts_of_MA, about the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing. The project isn't exclusively profiling anarchist groups, but it is deeply anti-authoritarian - we're especially staying away from charismatic leaders and celeb "activist" types.
The whole thing is independent - no producers; everything is out of pocket. We've been living out of a van we converted so we could make this happen; which has been amazing. We've been on the road since May Day this year, and have already filmed some solid interviews as far north as Montreal and as far south as Puerto Rico.
However, I'm personally struggling to find Black organizations or collectives that aren't MLM, AADOS, authoritarian, Black Capitalist, nonprofit style groups. Reading and theory groups or media collectives are rad, but I'm really looking for groups that're doing interesting work on the ground (*not food distro*) from an anti-state-nationalist analysis.
Lorenzo and JoNina Irvin will appear in the film, among other radical Black people like Jessica Gordon Nembhard, The Northeast Action Collective in Houston, and Arm the Girls in Oakland. So, I'm not at a complete loss.
But, please send me all the rad groups of Black people you know that are creating long-term, democratic, mutual aid projects in their communities. They do not need to identify as anarchist, but they *cannot* be down with the nation state and have to be doing more than food distro.
Thanks a ton, y'all.
Beyond all that, I'm also really interested in connecting with people to write Star Wars analysis and fan-fiction. I think the galaxy far, far away is an interesting canvas to explore the tensions of autonomous world building vs authoritarian revolutionary movements. If I lived in that universe, I'd no doubt be getting into arguments with the Rebel Alliance.
Thanks for reading this long-winded post.
#Black #BlackMastodon #BlackAnarchism #Anarchism #Anarchy #Antifa #Antifascism #Antiracism #Feminism #DisabilityJustice #BlackLiberation #IndigenousAnarchism #indigenousFedi #BlackFedi #blackfediverse #decolonize #decolonization #TransLiberationNow #transliberation #LGBTQ #queerliberation #QueerLiberationNow #StarWars #Andor #SciFi #Literature #creativewriting #creativewritingsocial #documentary #documentaryfeaturefilm #documentaryfilm #film #antiauthoritarianism #antiauthoritarian #vanlife #anarkata #anticapitalism #antinationalism #AnarchismOfBlackness #AnarchistPeopleOfColor #APOC #democraticconfederalism #MutualAid #collectivism #Zapatismo #Farming #UrbanFarming #Gardening #FoodSovereignty #LandBack #internationalism #JinJiyanAzadi
