Building Black Anarchist Futures: A Review Essay

From Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies
Volume 43, Issue 2, Fall 2023
By Huey Hewitt

Full title: Building Black Anarchist Futures: A Review Essay on Lorenzo Ervin’s Anarchism and the Black Revolution and William Anderson’s The Nation on No Map

Black Anarchist Reflections, From Bash Back! and Beyond

From Bash Back

We are writing this document as black anarchist attendees of Bash Back! who are trying to grapple with some of the broader issues/organizational questions within the black anarchist milieu and how those convos came up during the weekend for us and our homies. While we come from a variety of political backgrounds, we share a committed desire to insurrection and revolt for black autonomy. It was great to meet one another and kick it over the weekend. We got to hash out the answers to some questions. There was a lot of necessary conflict at Bash Back!. While reportbacks are fun, though often misleading, our aim in this document is to talk in a broader, abstract way about some of the questions and dynamics that occurred for black participants.

anews note: the submitter provided the wrong image and erroneously confirmed that it was correct. thanks to all for the gracious reminders that we must check our shit multiple times before posting.

Another Response to Black Armed Joy

From Haters Cafe

The piece this text responds to is Black Armed Joy. Another response is referenced in the piece, it can be found here.
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Here we have another response to Black Armed Joy that was emailed to us. We hope that it further continues the conversations sparked by the original piece. Again, we want to emphasize this does not necessarily align with the views of the “haters collective”, we are not the authors, and we have no intention to speak for the author.

Black Armed Joy

This essay is dedicated to the memory of our revolutionary elder, theorist, and warrior Russell Maroon Shoatz
This essay was inspired partially by one of our comrades while we were discussing the failures of non-violence as a tactic and philosophy. She said something along the lines of “I was raised by radicals from the 1960s and 1970s. If you were a Panther and you got caught, you were doing something wrong”. The zine is a product of a variety of conversations among Black anarchists in the post-George Floyd rebellion although many of these strands of thought have existed prior to this moment. We have three questions we hope to address in this zine.

What would an insurrectionary anarchist position thoroughly rooted in black radicalism and black revolt mean? How does the current white insurrectionary anarchist milieu fail? How can Black revolutionaries extend the insurrection?

William C. Anderson on The Nation on No Map

From The Final Straw Radio

This week we are really pleased to feature Scott conducting an interview with author and activist William C. Anderson about his new book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition which is out now from AK Press. In this interview they speak on the book and its many facets, and Black anarchism more broadly, some of the failures of euro-centric and white anarchism, and many many more topics.

State of War

via It's Going Down

State of War, an Excerpt from “The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism & Abolition” by William C. Anderson

Saying “stop killing us” and asking an oppressor not to oppress is not going to work. Taking the life of the system we’re up against through abolition is much more complex than simply fighting people in the streets

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