Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition

About Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is an American writer activist and black anarchist. He is a former member of SNCC the Black Panther Party and Concerned Citizens for Justice. Following an attempt to frame him on weapons charges and for threatening the life of a Ku Klux Klan leader Ervin hijacked a plane to Cuba in February 1969. While in Cuba and later Czechoslovakia Ervin grew disillusioned with the authoritarianism of state socialism. Captured by the CIA in Eastern Europe he was extradited to the US put on trial and sentenced to life in prison in 1970. He was introduced to anarchism whilst in prison inspiring him to write Anarchism and the Black Revolution in 1979. Released after 15 years Ervin remains politically active. William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham Alabama. His work has appeared in the Guardian MTV Truthout British Journal of Photography and Pitchfork among others. He is the author of The Nation on No Map and co-author of the book As Black as Resistance and co-founder of Offshoot Journal. He also provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. Joy James Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College is a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Imprisoned Intellectuals; and co-editor of The Black Feminist Reader. James's recent books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes with Pluto include ENGAGE: Indigenous Black Afro-Indigenous Futures.