Records
Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...
Anarchy Can't Fight Alone
Kuwasi Balagoon's essay on anarchist participation in Black liberation struggle.
Black August Resistance — Ashanti Alston Letter
Prison letter on Black August Resistance from former Black Liberation Army member Ashanti Alston.
Break De Chains — National Committee for Defense of Chesimard & Squire (1973)
Defense-committee pamphlet collecting messages and statements from imprisoned Black Liberation Army members, produced in support of Assata Shakur (Jo Anne Chesimard) and Clark Squire (later Sundiata Acoli).
On the Black Liberation Army
BLA history by long-term political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim.
Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation
Angela Davis's foundational essay on political prisoners, the carceral state, and Black liberation.
Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation (2018 reprint)
Angela Y. Davis's foundational essay on political prisoners and Black liberation; 2018 Boston ABC reprint.
Prison, Where is Thy Victory?
Huey P. Newton's classic essay on the politics of imprisonment and Black liberation.
Prisoners of War — The Case of the New York Three
Case pamphlet framing Herman Bell, Jalil Muntaqim, and Nuh Washington as prisoners of war from the Black Liberation struggle.
Repression Breeds Resistance
Akinyele Umoja on state repression of Black liberation movements.
I Will Not Crawl: Excerpts from Robert F. Williams on Black Struggle and Armed Self-Defense in Monroe, NC
Excerpts from Black liberation leader Robert F. Williams's writings on his Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter and his advocacy of armed Black self-defense in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before his FBI-driven flight into exile in Cuba and China. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).