The well-learned lessons of the past that we need to remember in the present antifascist fight for our futures.
Revolution In These Times delivers veteran Black Panther Party member, Black Liberation Army leader, and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin-Wahad direct in his own words to offer us an analysis of how today's resurgent right-wing agenda is an outgrowth of the ongoing and historical political struggle between the oppressed masses and settler-colonialism of America and Europe. Bin-Wahad not only explores how white supremacist politics have recaptured the American imagination but also prescribes a radical grassroots response to counter this ideology and supplant the violent state repression that keeps it in power.
Bin Wahad pieces together fight-back strategies against the police and the state through a process of mobilizing in the streets, on the block, and in our communities, while gathering mass through antifascist coalition-building in a manner unrealized since the 1960s and 1970s. In this series of interviews, Bin Wahad grounds us in the now, seamlessly weaving together firsthand accounts of his own and other’s revolutionary past in the history of struggle, alongside lessons for today.
1. The evolution of Bin Wahad as a gangster to a leader in the Black Panther Party
In this series of interviews, Bin Wahad speaks about his youth growing up in New York and his association with gang life and street activity, and his discovery of movement politics that brought him back from the edge to a life dedicated to revolutionary activity for his people.
2. A Soldier's Story: The Black Liberation Army
Bin Wahad, Sekou Odinga, and Blood McCreary talk about the political environment that led to the creation of the Black Liberation Army and some of the actions that the group took to further their revolutionary organizing.
3. The Face of White Supremacy: The US government
Dhoruba explores the relationship between the overt resurgence of white supremacy today and the historic fight he and others engaged in during the 1960s and 1970s. Bin Wahad talks about how COINTELPRO never ended and how the control over Black people's lives has just gotten more sophisticated over the decades post-Jim Crow. How a super exploitative class of billionaires has emerged while “movement” activity has been captured by capitalist exploitation to sever the interest of the elites by keeping Black people attached to the democratic party.
4. Why Black People Need to be Anti-Imperialist
Dhoruba speaks on the crumbling US empire and how desperate it is to survive. Just like in the past the US's main goals are to control resources, people, and land. However, now they have applied a more “woke” strategy at home to build support for the military-industrial complex. Including going as far as to put more Black people and people of color in charge of the US war machine. Dhoruba hammers home how Black people need to continue to play their historical role of speaking truth to power and challenging US foreign power as opposed to adopting it as their own.
5. What Does it Mean to Fight Back Against Police Terrorism
The fight against police brutality is not new, it has been a primary driver of Black mobilization and uprisings for the last sixty years and will likely continue. Bin Wahad speaks on the increased power of police unions and how the police can’t be thought about as workers but as an army for the state to use to control and oppress Black people and to attack organizers and movements to erase any challenge to their control over Black people.
6. Why We Need an Anti-Fascist Fight Back Alliance
Bin Wahad speaks forcefully about the need for a multi-racial force that is able to coalesce around the proto-type fascism we are seeing in the US and the European world. Only through a united force of organizers does Bin Wahad see the ability to fight back and survive not only the violence directed against Black people but also our role in protecting the planet against the ongoing climate disaster being caused by the corporate elite that is bringing possible disaster to the earth.
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