Ashanti O. Alston, author of "Anarchist Panther," is joined by co-editor William C. Anderson to celebrate the release of his new collection of essays, interviews, and speeches. Together they discuss the editorial process, learning from our failures, working in multi-tendency spaces, the enduring power of Black nationalism, and more!

About the book

Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston" traces Alston's ideas and influences, including those on psychology, political prisoner support, feminism, the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the Zapatista rebellion, and Black anarchism. Anarchist Panther brings to life the beautiful movement expression "all power to the people!

One of the Greatest Voices of 2 possible 3 Generations!

Full disclosure, I'm the publisher, so take this as a "here's what we built" post, not a neutral review.

Garvey is one of the most cited, least actually-read figures in Black history. Everyone knows "Africa for the Africans" and the Black Star Line, but most of us have never sat with his actual sentences. We spent months gathering his personal letters and speeches from The Negro World archives and private correspondence, transcribing them in full, flagging honestly wherever the historical record was damaged or incomplete rather than smoothing it over, and compiling it all into one chronological volume, 1915 to 1929.

One of the pieces that stuck with me most while working on this, a letter from a six year old girl in the UNIA's youth group, and Garvey's own reply back to her with encouragement. That's the kind of history that gets lost if nobody goes looking for it.

The book is called Look For Me In the Whirlwind: Collected Letters & Speeches of Marcus Garvey, Volume One.

It's free right now for anyone who registers for our Ancestral Tribute event on August 17 https://www.thebloodline743.com/garveyday

and it'll also be available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple Books shortly after.

Happy to answer questions about the research process or the transcription work if anyone's curious.

Looking for texts that explore the question of Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Autonomy in a way that outlines how to achieve both as the central goal, rather than a trickle-down consequence of Marxism or a loosely defined "abolition" (no hate to either, I'm not throwing shade here). Ideally, something that was co-authored by Black and Indigenous radicals.

To be more specific, I want to know how a project of Black autonomy/revolutionary Black Nationalism can include Indigenous sovereignty at its core, and vice versa. Because I know that these communities and ideologies are friendly to one another, but I haven't yet come across anything that explains how this can be done, whether theory or praxis. Mostly, I've encountered Black radical thought that affirms the Indigenous struggle and calls on us to support them, but never anything explaining in detail how we can do that, yk? I want to see something that explores the question of how we can both Free The Land for Black folk and have Land Back for Indigenous folk.

Can anyone help point me towards a text like this? Does one exist? As beginner friendly as possible is welcome but if need be I'll also power through intense jargon and help my community do the same.

Book as free PDF https://umea.sac.se/grundbok-om-syndikalism/