“Political Struggle in the Teeth of Prison Reaction: From Virginia to Oregon”

  This article was downloaded by: [68.101.71.98] On: 13 May 2013, At: 15:56 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Socialism and Democracy Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/csad20 Political Struggle in the Teeth of Prison Reaction: […]

Oregon prisoners driven to suicide by torture in solitary confinement units

  by Kevin Rashid Johnson Introduction I am not one prone to fits of temper. But a few days ago I almost lost it. My outrage was prompted by witnessing the steady deterioration of another prisoner, resulting from particularly acute mental torture inflicted in Oregon’s Disciplinary Segregation Units (DSU), which duplicate almost exactly conditions of torture […]

Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party

The following is an essay Kevin “Rashid” Johnson just sent me and asked me to post. -k I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd Collective (AA3) and New Afrikan Peoples Liberation Army (NAPLA), which claims to respond to an article I wrote elaborating the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter’s […]

Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson: They waited, wanted and watched for me to die…

by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson Things I don’t do Even before I began my political journey in 2001, I maintained certain principles – a variety of things I just don’t do. And usually, if ever I deviated from those principles, even in error, I’d end up in a tangle of trouble. February 2013 was an ordeal. […]

History of the Black Liberation Army.

One of the most militant groups, Of the 1970′s, Were the Black Liberation Army(BLA), From the early 70′s to early 80′s, Here’s some information on the Black Liberation army, On the low, Two former Black Liberation Army members From New York, By the names of Anthoney Laborde and James York, Were Knocked for X’ing(Killing), A NYPD, […]

Message of Thanks from Kevin Rashid Johnson

  A message from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, just received by an outside supporter: My deepest gratitude and love goes out to all who extended themselves in word, deed and even thought, to support me and make inquiries on my behalf in this recent ordeal with prison officials. Many of you are aware, without knowing the […]

The New Afrikan Black Panther Party – An Introduction

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! My name is Shaka Zulu. I am the Chairman of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP), a revolutionary nationalist vanguard Party in the tradition of the original Black Panther Party. Our ideology is called Pantherism, illuminated by Marxist-Leninist- Maoism (MLM). Pantherism is the theory and practice of socialist revolution […]

Kevin Rashid Johnson and Oregon’s Isolation Torture Unit

  This is an update about Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a prisoner activist and intellectual who is currently in a dire situation in Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon.   As was reported last week, Rashid has been in the midst of a health crisis for almost a month now, which has included periods of severe […]

Wimyn Hold Up Half the Sky!: On the Questions of Wimyn’s Oppression and Revolutionary Wimyn’s Liberation versus Feminism (2008)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson “Women comprise one half of the population.  The economic status of working women and the fact of their being specially oppressed proves not only that women urgently need revolution, but also that they are a decisive force in the success or failure of the revolution.”  – Mao Tse-tung, Peking Review, 1974 […]

(UPDATE): Oregon DOC and Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a New African Communist prison organizer and intellectual in the United States and one of the founders of the NABPP-PC (New African Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter). He has spent most of his adult life in the prison system and continually been subjected to political repression and violence in retaliation for his […]