Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Content by or about US-based anarchist Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1947-).

Lorenzon Kom'boa Ervin

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The Progressive Plantation: racism inside white radical social change groups

A short book discussing racism and anti-working class attitudes in radical groups, and how to fight…

Black bus workers fight "plantation" conditions - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

An article by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin about discrimination in the Chattanooga Area Regional…

Speaking of anarchism, racism and black liberation - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Originally titled “Anarchism and Racism,” this editorial was written in the early 1990s around the…

Prison cell

Back from hell: Black power and treason to whiteness inside prison walls

A personal account by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin of a cross-race alliance of prisoners against conditions…

Refusing the syndicalist v. primitivist debate

Ex-Black Panther and ex-political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on being a Black Autonomist, and uninterested in the syndicalist v. primitivist…

Protest against unemployment in black communities.

The need for a black labour federation

Ex-Black Panther and ex-political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin writes in his Anarchism and the Black Revolution about the need for a Black…

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron

Black autonomy: civil rights, the Panthers and today - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron

Interview with two anarchist ex-Black Panthers about their involvement in the civil…

Interview with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin from 1995

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin interview (originally published in Black Flag #206, Autumn 1995)

The 3rd World War: Message to the Anti-Globalization Movement

The Ballot or The Bullet?

There are no fair elections in America, certainly when the questions of race and political power are evident. It's interesting therefore to look…

Black capitalism - Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

Black Capitalism, by anarchist Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 2001.

Black People Have a Right to Rebel

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's analysis of the place of the 2001 Cincinnati riots within the history of US urban riots and the struggle against racism.