Revolution in These Times: Black Panther Party Veteran Dhoruba Bin Wahad on Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance
Revolution in These Times: Black Panther Party Veteran Dhoruba Bin Wahad on Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance
Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Edited by Kalonji Jama Changa
Foreword by Joy James
Black Liberation / Antifascist Politics
Lessons for the antifascist fight now and to come rooted in well-learned lessons from Black liberation.
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.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781945335136
Published: February 18, 2025
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9 in
Page count: 240
Other Formats
ISBN: 9781945335419
Format: EPUB
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“Dhoruba Bin Wahad is a towering figure in the Black freedom struggle for the past five decades! His love for Black people and courage to serve and sacrifice for Black freedom are legendary! Don’t miss this monumental book!” —Dr. Cornel West
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Foreword: Remember the Panther Resistance
Joy JamesIntroduction: The Storm and the Whirlwind
Kalonji Jama ChangaGlossary
List of Figures
1. Lessons from the Black liberation tradition
Black leadership, state repression, and self-defense2. To be Black is necessary, but it ain’t sufficient
On Black encapsulation and appropriation3. The Unstoppable power of self-determination*
From “Power to the People” to the Congressional Black Caucus4. Recollections of a Black revolutionary
On Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, and COINTELPRO5. You cannot reform the police in a police state
Antifascist organizing and community control of police6. The limitations of a hashtag movement
Leadership by victimhood and organizing for power7. Soldiers’ stories**
A conversation with BLA veterans Sekou Odinga, Thomas “Blood” McCreary, and Dhoruba Bin WahadAfterword: Ode to Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Bibi Olugbala AngolaThe conversations in this book are edited and abridged versions of a series of interviews conducted for Black Power Media. The conversation in Chapter 3 is an abridged version of two interviews conducted for Black Power Media on August 1, 2020 and December 4, 2020. The text has been edited for clarity and flow. *The interview in Chapter 7 was conducted by Dr. Jared Ball, Kalonji Changa, and Kamau Franklin on May 23, 2021.
