The Dangerous Ghetto Hustler

All My life, all my entire life I’ve heard this phrase recited over and over and over again in regards to the critical condition, predicament, whatever-in-the-hell you want to call it, which most of Black America finds itself mired in; babies havin’ babies . . .havin babies. That’s been the rock-steady beat, the same beat, a […]

  source url: http://4strugglemag.org/2013/05/02/the-us-government-war-against-the-black-riders/ BY THE BLACK RIDERS, the new generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Turning the Tide, antiracist.org   For Black youth throughout the US, especially in Watts and South Central LA, Wolverine Shakur, AKA General T.A.C.O. of the militant Black Riders Liberation Party is a leader, a strong father and husband, a […]

Paul and Silas, Bound in Jail

Originally published Aug, 2004 by PETER LINEBAUGH Doing Time for Political Crime   Dave Gilbert, serving a life-sentence in New York, has just come out with an important, wonderful book, No Surrender: Writings from an anti-imperialist political prisoner, and Staughton Lynd, counsellor to death row in Ohio, has just published the scathing j’accuse of our […]

****Notice #1 to our Members and Family****

  ****Notice #1 to our Members and Family**** The Collective Black People Movement has been experiencing technical difficulties with the server of our website, Yahoo.  It all started around March 11th, 2013, when Java released the update to their program Java 7.  The CBPM website is built with the Yahoo Sitebuilder program that runs off of […]

The Prison Industrial Slave Complex, a profit-making industry

by the Pelikan Bay First Amendment Rights Campaign: Abdul Shakur, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero Kambon, Raridi Yero, Abasi Ganda, Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu I-Yapo Many within society, and rightfully so, may find what I am about to allege very incredible and absurd, beyond the capacity of their comprehension, but the truth must be told if justice is truly to be served. “Lessons from […]

Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It

by Ashanti Alston [A similar article appeared in Anarchist Panther, 10/99, vol. 1 iss. 1. This version was published in ONWARD (Spring, 2002).] “What motivates me more than anything else about anarchism and its relevance to Black revolution is that it has offered me some powerful insights into why we have not been able to […]

Education and it’s Meaning

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth century until the late […]

News from the Collective Black People Movement (CBPM) for March 8th, 2013

Happy Earthday Greetings to CBPM Members: Member #529 Dr. Kean Beam in Columbus, Ohio, http://www.cbpm.org/cipherherecords.html & http://www.myspace.com/9thcolumn ; Member #689 Tafari Melisizwe in Baltimore, Maryland, http://activeinfluence.wordpress.com/ ; Member #1,069 Ra in Memphis, Tennessee; Member #1,235 Shaheem in Atlanta, Georgia; and Member #1,242 Nick in Houston, Texas. Today’s featured member businesses on all 721 pages at the CBPM website are: Member #783 KJ […]

They Do Not All Sound Alike: Sampling Kathleen Cleaver, Assata Shakur, and Angela Davis

s Assata Shakur, Image with quote courtesy of Flickr user Jacob Anikulapo Welcome to week four of  our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,”  a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in Austin, Texas from February 28 to March 3, 2013.  The “Sonic Borders” forum is a […]

Marxism, Interracialism,and the Black Struggle

by Sy Landy CONTENTS OF Marxism, Interracialism, and the Black Struggle I. Marxism, Internationalism and Interracialism A. The Relevance of Authentic Marxism for Black Liberation, and Vice Versa B. What Is Internationalism? C. What Is Interracialism? II. Race: Capitalism’s Contribution A. Genetic Races: Ingenious Nonsense B. Race: Capitalism’s Generic Brand C. The Irony of Capitalism […]