'A powerful – even startling – book that challenges the
shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence
and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the
end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black
Agenda Report
Anarchism and the
Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to
anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising tide of Black political
organizing, this foundational classic written by a key figure of the
Civil Rights movement is republished with a wealth of original
material for a new generation.
Anarchist theory has
long suffered from a whiteness problem. This book places its critique
of both capitalism and racism firmly at the centre of the text.
Making a powerful case for the building of a Black revolutionary
movement that rejects sexism, homophobia, militarism and racism,
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin counters the lies and distortions about
anarchism spread by its left- and right-wing opponents alike.
New material
includes an interview with writer and activist William C. Anderson,
as well as new essays, and a contextualizing biography of the
author’s inspiring life.