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Some Notes Towards
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Insurrectionary
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The Black Communes must arise

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Black Armed Joy:

Some Notes Towards a
Black Theory of Insurrectionary
Anarchy
This essay is dedicated
to the memory of our
revolutionary elder,
theorist, and warrior

Russell Maroon Shoatz
P hcomy v i prialy by e of e comds il we v dicaing
the filures of non-violence asa actic and philosophy. She said something along
the lines of “l was aised by radicals from the 1960s and 19705, If you were a Pancher
and you got caught, you were doing something wrong”. The zine is a product of a
variety of conversations among Bl hiss 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 anarchise_posicion. thoroughly rooted in black
radicalism and black revolt mean? How does the current white insurtectionary
st milieu fail? How can Black revolutionaries extend the insurrection

What is Insurrectionary Anarchy?
To those who are unfamiliar, “anarchism’” does not mean “chaos” nor does
“mindless destruction’”. Anarchism is the concept of social
self-rule etymologically wranslating from “anarkhos” in Greek meaning “no rulers”.
Therefore, In the words of Elder Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, “Anar

revolutionaries, who seck a staeless, clasless, volunary, cooperative federation
of decentralized communes-based upon social ownership, individual liberty and
autonomous self-management of social and economic. life”. When we discuss
insurrectionary anarchism, we are discussing a tendency within the anarchist
urrection as the primary. revolutionary practice
Insureection meaning, the social phenomena of unmitigated rebellion; the forceful
redistibution of private propercy, land, and justce by the unseuled masses. The
concepe of attack and constant conflicwuality with hierarchical forces is central o
insurrectionary anarchism. Insureectionary anarchists do not believe that we can
simply “dual power” or *vote” our way to freedom. The institutions which currently
uphold racial capicalism and all other forces of domination muse be smashed. There
can be no revolution withou revolutionaries who must be engaged i taking milicant
actions against the State and Capital. Finally, insurrectionary anarchists value the self
activity of the massesas imporcant. While not neglecting organization, insurrectionary
anarchists understand that insurrections as a revolutionary phenomenon ae socia,
not miliary. The selfactivity of the exploited and the oppressed drives revoluior
ot the actions of Leninist partis or so-calld revolutionary unions. Insureectionists
emphasize the informal nature of revolution and organization.The revolution to.
destroy this world happens from the botom up and includesall or does not oceur at
all. We define th
eritique to clarify for readers who are unfa

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movement that focuses on i

erms of insurrectionary anarchism here before we launch into our

and to avoid any confusion.

Towards a Black Insurrectioni

Anarchy

It s our dty 10 fight for ur fedom.
It s our duty 1 win,

We must love cach other and support each other
W have nothing tolose but our chains.

- Assata Shakur

The Critical Moment
It is imperative that we develop a Black insurrcctionary anarchist position. The
history of Black struggle in this kountey i a hiscory of revolt by any means necessary.
Itis a history of constant arack by the Black masses against the capitalist and colonial
powers which enslaved Black people. 2020 reminded many of us of this history and
legacy. Despite this, many Black liberals hope to erase the George Floyd rebellion
from our memories. Many on the Black “Left” hope to do the same so they can suck
us into the same 50 year old organizations that have filed to produce anything other
than symbolic protests and uselss conferences

Our History
‘Going even further, many on the more reformist and authoritarian ends of the Black
Lefi wish to reduce the history of Black people and Black radicals down to simply
formal organization. Despite ifing up figures such as Assata, they label any sort of
Black rebellious activity as “too fasc or “not ready” or complain bout the ulera-efe
“ruining their plans for revolution despite the rebellious actions of Bl
the summer of 2020. They do not want black people to study the Black Liberation
Army’s tacties. They wish to erase Kuwasi Balagoon and his rebellious ways. They
wish to rase how Assata Shakur was liberated. They wish to erase the general srike of
the Slaves. They wish to ignore the Maroons. They just want us to participate in their
reformist campaigns to “Defund the Police” or “Community Control of the Police”
“The Black insusrectionary must rejec these postions.

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The Coming Insurrection
We seek unmediated and uncompromising conflict with State and Capitl. It s
abundantly clear that last summer, the Black masses proved they were uninterested in
“Defund” or *Community Control”instead opting to fight cops and loot businesses
We reject non-violence and compromise. In the words of Elder George Jackson,
“We must accept the evenuulity of bringing the USA. to its knees; accept the
closing off o eritical sections of the city with barbed wire, armored pig carierscriss-
crossing sreets, soldiers everywhere, tommy guns pointed at stomach level, smoke.
curling black against the daylight sky, the smel of cordite, house-to-house searches,
doors being kicked in, the commonness of death.” We all saw the Third Pre
Minneapolis burnt to ashes. We reject “tactical” artest, We reject symbolic protests

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and marches that continually lead to more violence from the police with nothing
in return. We share fundamenal belief that the Black insurrectionist should sck
o dismantle all oppressive systems even within the so-called “radical” organizations
and scenes. Living anarchy means living by principle. Living by principle means we
dismantle systems (as best we can) in this world ac this moment

The Importance of the Attack
Although there have been some formations such as Salish Sea Black Autonomists
which have linked Black radicalism and insurrectionary anarchy; we feel that it is
aually imporcant 1o point to how atack and conflictualiy are cenural
any serious Black anarchist politics concerned with revolutionary change. With
the resurgence of interest in Black anarchic forms of radicalism wih the works of
William C Anderson, Zoe Samudz, the Anarkatas and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin,
we chink it is important that Black anarchises do not fal into the trap of believing
that only prefiguration will be enough for revolution. We must physically arcack the
white power suructure by any means necessary: Simply building Black owned co-ops
is not enough. While we believe the work of the people in Cooperation Jackson is
important, it is insuficient o simply build co-ops to “opt-ouc” of capitalism when
the realty is thae the State could casily repress these “communes” through laws or
through just sheer force. There is no way out of this capital nightmare, but through
relenless ateack, struggle, experience, and introspection.

On so-called “Mutual Aid”
‘We find that the resurgence of “mucualaid” a practiceis important or us o crticize

A lot of *mutual aid” work being done is in reality just redistributive work with
a radical label. While we are not opposed to this type of work on principle as it
helps build relationships between revolutionaris, the issue is that real mutual aid
a5 2 concept is more present in black queer communities doing GoFundMes for
one another than in radical organizations doing what amounts 1 lefist branded
charity. We posit, if the id does not contribut to the development of
a revolutionary subsistence economy; then it is not “mucual aid” that i inclusive of
sociery and must be critcized. Unforcunately, most “mutual aid” chat happens now
is not mutual in nature. Further than that, it does not confront power. We believe

t of mucual

the the mutualiey of mutual aid i crtical as well as an insurrectionary element. For
instance, many on the Lefc have dismissed the mass looting that happened in 2020
as the actions of eriminals or as “nor political” while in fact, Black people liberating
resources and commodiies f

m corporations is far more revolutionary than
much of the “organizing” done by lefist or abolitionist formations in this kounry.
Expropriation from the capitliss will ereate the basis for our subsistence economy.
We must think of the revolutionary bravery and solidarity these acts inspired as
we ook toward militant property, land reclamations, and capital expropriations in
the future. We should look more toward these types of examples of mutual aid as
opposed to a more charity-NGO driven model. Our critique of mutual aid s similar
0 our eriique of “dual power” o the “solidariy economy’”. Alone, mutual aid is not
enough to confront and destroy capital. We cannor simply “opt-out” of capitalism.

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We must become ungovernable. The Black Communes must arise out of the Black
insurrection as we learn from our elder Lorenzo Komboa Evin.

Against White Insurrection

W dedicate thi section to the memory of Antonio Mays Jr who was
murdered by a whise lfist at he so-called CHAZ We abo dedicate his
setion to Michael Reinhoel, Evic G. King and David Gilbert. We eneourage
white revolusionaries in amerika to follow your revolutionary examples. If
there i 10 be revoluion realized there must be les talk, more action.

From our vantage point, the insurrectionary anarchist milieus in the United States
are mostly white in composition and analyss. Their racial analysis docs not really
recognize the insurrectionary capabilites of the Black masses, and their attemprs to
are ofien festishizing. Most insurrectionary anarchist analysis and theory focuses upon
Eutope as the primary example of revolt. When the insurrectionary milieus such as
the white boys a1l Will o focus on Black revolt,they downplay the racil dynamics
of the riots by labeling everything as “multi-racial”. Without a proper understanding
of the experience of being Black, there can be no understanding of how o nurture the.
Black revolt beyond ies infan stages. Needless to sa: chis experience and leadership
must be led by those living beoween the margins of racil capicalism; women, rans-
folk, lesbian, gay, and other sexually and racially oppressed geoups. Beyond thar, we
understand the youthful character of the insurtection as those young:people living in
our cities have the most to gain from the beginning stages of our revolution. While
the character of the 2020 George Floyd rebellion was not limited to just Black people
participating, the white insurrectionists secking to universalize the black revolt are
the “All Lives Matter” types of the anarchist movemen

We risk being accused of perpetuating the “white outside agitator” myth by writing
this essay butthe reality is that whiteness and anti-Blackness continues even during a
riot and afte i, It is anti-maerialist o ignore these realites by suggesting that once
we all get into sureet, all of our actions are the same in the eyes of the Stae. These.
white insurrectionises il to grasp how their own whiteness continues t exise within
and beyond the rot,instead opting to believe that raceis magicall transcended when
they smash 2 window. White insurrectionists fail 1o engage with the long histories
of Black insurctionary history in this kountry by trying t impore surategies and
tactics from other revolts here into the United Stats.. lease shut the fuck up about
France. This is not to say there are not clements of struggle in places like Palestine
and Rojava or Central & South amerikan struggles against the state and police. Our
oppression i similar in form and structure and so, our methods of resistance will also
be similar. Indeed, we believe white insurtectionists have very e to teach us about
our struggle. For instance, the fear and critique around guns at demonstrations that
emerged Last summer from a number of “anarchist” publications and report-backs
speaks to this. Armed struggle hasalways been a part of Black insurtectionary actvity:

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Furdher, it makes absolutely no sense to struggle against stae and fascit violence
using lesser means of violence compared to their own.

Let us remember, amerika has the largest amount of ivilian arms available 1o public
citizens in the *developed” world. In fact, armed struggle s a core part ofthis kounry’s
founding documents and cultural development. We plan on using every element
of amerikas creation to desteoy it. Why is it not asked why George Washington,
Lincoln, even Stalin, Mao, and white anarchists across the world, utilize(d) armed
seruggle? There are no changes to power or dominai
we are well avare of the existence and “doomsday preparation” of far-right miliia
and fascis cell that are inent on furthering our extinction. We are also avare of
the infiltration of these accelerationist fscists into our so-called federal, stte, and

but with force. Intuitive

local law enforcement agencies and the national milicary. Therefore, we wil wage war
against white supremacy on all frons. The white lefe may believe thatcither we have
a death wish or that ou lives ae dispensable and we are ntent on proving otherwise

“symmetrical warfare” or “horizontal

The white anarchists handwringing about
violence” refects a, perhaps willful, misunderstanding of history and pover in this
Kountry. This kounry has alrady been in a civil war, the temnants of which form
the foundations of the curtent cultural war. The 2020 rebellions resurfaced white
anarchises historic apprehension toward Blac ry methods, namely guns
ac protess/direct actions. We recommend they take a moment to reflect o the reality
that, in the United State, Black people have been and will continue to be forced to
face down white people who continue to act s proxies of the State. We intend to do
as our ancestors did and use any means availabl to fight these people regardless of
some white anarchises fear of guns. dris Robinson speaks dircctly to this white fear
in his open leccer to Michal Reinochl (shot and killed a facist in Pordand):

“What the double-standard with regards to your stutation reveals s how violence
in America will always necesarly have a profoundly racial dimension. And it s
precisely this-the terrifying core of racialized violence-that they are tying to
repress when they lie o both themselves and others when they say that thei issue
with what you did is a question of strategy or tactics. | mean, give me a break:
in a country that i lierally savurated in violence, from blind mass shooters o
murderous police, no one can honesdly claim that the few shors that you let off
could in some way be miscontrucd as an escalation. There is simply no way to
avoid the spral of violence that began at the very moment when the first wooden
ships reached the shores of the Adantic

“The white left in the current era must become wiling to not only come o terms
with the fact that some of their own family members, so-called friends, and idols
will have to be put down by revolutionary violence if they act a violent sate prosies,
fasciss, or acises. Those that do not understand our struggle may see this position
as “adventurion”, but it s only common sense to mitigate racialised violence with a
united front of counter-violence that transcends the psychological and social 1
boundaries of setler-colonialism at subsequent sages of the armed conflict. In other

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words, we seck to generalise the armed conflet amongst the people on the nordh
amerikan peoples united against the sate, allstaes until the hegemonic machinery
and points of production for ruling lass consumerism are reduced to ashes.

Greg Jackson criiques the whitelei n his “Aushoritarian Lefis: Kl the Cop in Your
Head i the world of anti-blackness, whiteness is law and order and white people
are depuized (made into cops) by the state meaning their actions are a result of the
“natural way of things”. White led communes and autonomous zones replicate the
scates actions on a smaller scal. This is what Jackson alludes t in his essay real white
“comrades” know the importance of Black autonomy is killing the cop i
“Thus, We will fight against white led “autonomous zones” a they replicate the state
and antiblackness as shown in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd rebellion,
umed CHAZ two black boys ended up shot and one
ended up dead. This is not insurrection acall Insurrections require deep neeworks
of care and love or they will dic out before they can develop into a revolutionary.
movement. These white led anti-black autonomous zones must be attacked with
the same ferocity that we attack the cops and the white miliias. It goes without
saying that white lefiss who kill black people and reimpose white supremacy onto.
supposedly liberated spaces are our enemics.

swhen in the autonomous zon

Supposed black anarchists or lefists who cover for the White les violent and
anti-black tendencies must be considered enemies as well Tokenism exists within
anarchist spaces. We are tired of yt people claiming that their groups are muldi-rac
and unproblematic because they have the one token black anarchist. I i strange
that anarchists and the Lef in a broader sense scem to understand tokenism less
well than liberals though this speaks to the ailure of any sore of yt anarchist political
orientation towards race. It is clear that anarchism exists as 2 scene rarher than a
revolutionary movement when there are multiple majority white “anarchist” projects
in majority black or POC citics. Furthermore, publishing a black anarchist book
o having one black anarchist in a project does not mean your anarchist project is
not colonial. I you are a black anarchist covering for white anarchist nonsense, you
should stop. We dont care i these people are your “friends’. If they reimpose white
supremacy on black people even as “anarchiss”, they are enemies

“The white lfe, for the frs time in human history, must
collecively prioricize the rest of the world' wellbeing in
mind over their own cultural racism and privilege. It is
the job of all other oppressed afinity groups across the
Kounery to ensure chat they have no choice but to act
in our interests. We are not our elders. We do not have
the time or patience to wait for the white lef 1o garner
the moral capacity o become true revolutionaries while
we are slaughtered like dogs in the steet. Either you will
aid the revolution as comrades or we will atiack you as
enemies uniil you do

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So, What Should Be Done?

We must begin 0 realize tat ondy the community willeffcively deal with
the matter. Not the racist capivalis sytem, with it represive polic, cours,
and prisons. Only we have the pychology and understanding to deal with it
now we st develop the will No one el cares.

- Lorenzo Konvboa Evin

We believe in evolutionary and revolutionary change. Evolutionary change means
prefiguring ourslves and immediate comrades towards organizational changes we
make on a daily basis towards our end goal of revolutionary abolition of the
state. Our evolutionary changes opens the door to an insurrectional opening once.
the caulyzing event occurs. Revolutionary change is the accumulation of actions
by che whole of the people that result in 2 mass movement with the goal of aiming
of all humanity’s resources towards the abolition of the state, capitalism, authoriy;
and domination, simultancously. I involves the whole of humanity in constant
conflicuuality with forces of oppression on an interpersonal, community, national,
and international level. The insustection is a social event which means it has soci
implications that span international borders. Thus, as the shackles of empire and
miliariom are attacked and destroyed in this nation-stat, it should be made ic all
the more clar in other nation-states how to atiack and destroy the nacion-staee.
1f amerika falls 50 t00 does the manager of international capitalism and colonial
oppression.

“The Black Insurrectionary position secks to replicate the destruction of “31d Precint
everyday and the takeover of an “Attca” every hour, until the amerikan project is
deceased and the land has been reclimed from those who it was stolen from. In
other words, it secks endless rebellion and uncompromising counter-violence to.
deconstruct our violent world into the peaceful one from which it came. Since the
state and fascises will not hesitate to use all weapons at their disposal to achieve its
aims, so will we to achieve the complete abolition of amerika as a nacion-state in the
social, economic, policical, and cultural sense.

In order to prevent the isolation of Black & Indigenous revolutionaries and
subsequent concentration of repession by the repressive stae and fascist populists
on our communitis, the movement will necessiate the courageous actions of
revolutinaries of every color, creed, and age but especially, white revolutionaries
We say this because of your histori failure to act. We refer o the words of Black
Liberation Armys *Open Letter To The White Lei In The U.S.",

It should come as o surprise then, that the White-lft in modern western nations
is inhibited by their own urge for bourgeois legitimacy, by their own cultural
racism, and by the very process of western, working class cooptation. The sum of
these parts add up to the revolutionary bankeuptcy of the taditional White lef in
the modern capivalist nations”

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‘We believe that for any actions taken by white anarchists, socialists, communises, and.
whatever else you all call yourselves to be truly “revolutionary”, not only must they
avtack the white power structue a the pressute points of capital in solidarity with
other asisting forces, but they must arcack the white power structue at home. This
means creating the psychological break with whiteness and privilege required for
establishing nev relaions amongst human beings and nature eslf. In other words,
o preserve the lives of countless of oppressed Black and Brown folks across the
world, you all will have to betray your white priilege to become a white infiltraor
with intenions of eliminating your former fumily, frends, and compatriots who.
refuse change. Third World peoples do not have the time to wait for the “difficult
conversations” you had during summer 2020 while now at the beginning of
2022 we have endured numerous show rials since the 2020 uprising illusrating
the amerikkkan justice system's desire to avoid further rebellions by the masses by
conviing infamous murderers like Chauvin and Poter while the rest of the pigs get
away with murder and assault everyday. This means white revolutionaties organizing
their own anti-fascst teams to combat the state and facist racism beyond just saging
counter-demos. In the example of Michael Reinhoel, shoor to kill

We do not believe in satist solutions. We do not suppore effores t “scize” state
power,either. Each of our methods is means towards an ends of abolishing the sate
We prefer methods of decentralized organizations based on common afinicis. Once
they are formed we should grow these networks among local groups to national and
international neoworks of aboveground and underground sell-organized resistance.
‘We prefer making decisions in a seres of votes and consensus gaining meant to garner
understanding and establishing solidarity among comrades in our network and in
our communities. We encourage exchanging skills, ares, and trades and exploring
new ones to eventually teach 1o others as we create new structures for employment
and self-organization within our communities. We will have to develop our own
autonomous rade unions and apprenticeships o challenge thestate and white acism.

We currently abserve what can be considered low-intensity wasfare among the young
people in our communities. We must initate the creation of forums and safe spaces
o discuss community-led interventions to deter, rediect, and reduce the violent and
iy in our commaunity at which poin the hatted, despait, and desolation
that plagues our community will be converted into revolutionary armed joy against
the stae and capitalism.

We observe that we must culivate a revolutionary culture to provide a couner-
hegemony to the dominant themes of intracommunal violence and personal robbery
offered by reactionary rappers Lil Durk, King Von, Pooh Shiest, Dolph, Nudy, other
celebrites in heir music, and even the sports celebrites. These celebritis have been
given amenities and been propped up by the white power sructure for a reason.
“This does not mean we cannot mourn them or enjoy their arcs and talents but that
we should understand their purpose and function. There i a reason that rap went
from an art form that was inherently conflictual, underground,
0 one that has been coopted and mass-produced for profis and for white people.

counter-cultural

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A reactionary life of drugs, money, and fame may be appetizing to some but we
must somehow invent ways to make the coming insurrection more appealing o
black youth. We can build new futures based on our own dreams and communities
We must develop a new sense of care for one another and develop solutions to the
violence by any means necessary. Let it be known, we can avtack the state and white
supremacy and build our community simulcancously. “Black-on-Black’, i a white
ime” uslf. Abolish the kkkriminal justice system. Free all political
prisoners. Free Larey Hoover. Free Tay-K. Free Palestine.

A failure 10 act is an implicit approval of sute-sancioned genocide. For example,
as of December 2021, Black people comprise 29.6% of Chicago’s population but
we account for over 80% of all homicides. So-called “Hispanics” comprise 28.8%.
of the city and just 13% of all homicides. Whites comprise 50.0% of the city and
st 3.8% of all homicides. We observe that the vast amount of mental health and
educational resources, healthy food options and after-school opporunities lie in the
white communities. These esources must b seized and reproduced in all underserved
communities over the course of the insurrection to benefit all. Otherwise, they.
must be destroyed o benefit none. Revolutionary violence must be spread to the
afflent areas in the suburbs to create a new field of confic for the sate. It must
be understood that the city, county, and state police, and by extension, the army are
what holds this violen arrangement in place, by force and so, they must be destroyed
by force. We must build neoworks of protcction and movement from within our
communities and without

History tells us to be wary of the
complicity with white suptemacy: In fact, we believe it to be intention.
inaction due to the characterization of colective movements for liberation by white
people since we were brought here as slaves. Throughout our time on this continen,
status quo with Black people as victims of racialised violence via save owners an
later police has been quite acceprable. We understand that we are seill slaves in this
system and you understand this as well. A filure by the white lef o organize a
counter-violence to white supremacy in coaition with us will resule in the Black
people lef with no other choice but to move on the white community with force.
T nothing, we will prove that we are all humans that can live and die by violence all
the same and atthe same rates. n the words of Elder George Jackson, “Our pledge is
0 arms, our enemies are instiutions and anyone with vested interests in them, even
if that interest is only 2 wage. If revoluti ind the
sooner begun the sooner done.” That is our pledge, in the event that 2 revolutionary.
movement against the ruling-class is made imposible by the white masses across the
kountry.

means civil war — we accept

Black youth matriculating through the amerikan university system must accept the
universiy as aste of white supemacist machinery and work to bring s operations to
a halt, We must take whatever information is useful from the universities back to our
communities t educate, organize, and propagandize those both younger and older
than us. The university, much like the state tself, only serves the further development

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of the neo-colonial class of Blacks and the cooptation of movements led from the
bottom-up. The university in amerika whether “historically black” or otherwise is
the pit of “crisis management” chat wil never find actual solutions for the problems
it creates It is a cespool of student loan debt and worker exploitation. We musc
leave bourgeois afiliations and corporate opportunites behind at the universities in

preparation for the coming insurrection.

“The only alternative for the masses to revolution is death. The protracted genocide
of the oppressed masses are reacting to COVID-19% policical, social, and economic.
erisis and the slow collapse of thi system. The time for change is now.

“The current insurrectionary tendencies in the United States tend o lack any sort of
genuine politics which are ant-oppressve or move from the Margins as the Anarkatas
say. They instead tend 1o be dominated by men who just wan to fight. We do not
believe there is revolt without care. This is complecely erased by the *insurrectionary”
tendencies who dismiss all collecive care work and long term organizing which
prioriizes building relacionships as “liberalis’. We fl o understand how a serious
insurrection will be sustined without deep networks of care and love let alone

supplies and infrastructure.

We must begin o build dual-power. We want o be clear that dual power if it is
buile must be ted to the insurrection. Lefist cooperatives or projects that do not
serve the sponancous revolt of the black masses are simply vanity projects. We sce.
this with how most “infiastructure” buile by lefists was ireelevant to the George
Floyd uprising. Dual Power, as defined in anarchic terms, i the srategies of building
selforganized counter-institutions to combat the current decadent, capitalisic
institations. Emphasis on the combar part of that sentence. As we build our afinity
groups we must come up with new alternatives to the current power structure to.
begin building. New systems of justice, iesh food gardens, community entertainment,
community defense, exc. As insisutionsare destrped, new consensus-based, horizontalized,
selfomanaged siruetures will ke dheir places At the same time, we must begin armed
squatting of our homes and community centes to defend ourelves from genriication
and forced diplacemenss. I may end up being inevitable, but we will also need o find
suitable placesfor communitie n the event our homes are destroyed by the captalsts
miliary bombs. If it happened 1o MOVE in 1985, i can and will happen today:. We
must build solidariy nevworks and ereate anarchic solutions to the problems faced
by those secking refuge at the southern border. We must do this al at the same time
‘and the revolutionary anarchist minority can start action in these areas immediately:

‘We should especially prepare for an escalation i repression and likewise in resistance
should a general surike develop among the Black masses over the course of the next

We must have suppore and love for our homies who are locked inside of the prison
for making the ultimate sacifices for the revolution. We must also devise clever ways
of aiding in their liberation. The actions of buiding care nevworks (we d

mutual aid as we feel that his term has mosty been co-opted) i an insurrectionary

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act if done in a way that does not mediate conflice with the State. Many of our
comrades cannor risk arrest, injury or death because they are providers for others or
they cannor participate on the strets because of disabiliy. I insurrections are meant
o be social and not milicary, why do most insurrctionist formations and theories
seem to no include the most marginalized in our society? Everyone must take part in
an insurrection, and that requires us o center the most marginal

The Prospect of Revolutionary Violence

This section is dedicated 10 Sandra, Rekia, Breonna, Korryn, and many
mare we lst too oo W love you. We fightin your memory

1 don' have any illsions. Words ar or are not comprehensible according to
sheir actual situation. We only give them space and credibiliy if they fall into
our patterns and eetainsies. Defonce mechanisms become automatic and
prevent she vry reception of the message. If that was notso the lluminists
would have defnitively changed the world wo hundbed years ago

- Alfredo Bonanno

Make no mistake - we intend 1o use every method at our disposal to create a
new world. This means in a literal sense, changing ourselves, the world around
us and the conditions of those changes by any means necessary. We understand
the revolutionary poreniality of violence over the course of the insurrction and
subsequent revolution and we also understand the teactionary propensity for violence.

sexual, and cultural oppression. We understand
ly at our disposal has been the wilizaion of arms in the
seruggle. T i important to note that this is not the only tool at our disposal but an
ongoing development and synthesis of current and past struggles. Indeed, both the
lie and blood of our current youth, elders, and ancestors has been spilled to provide
the cconomic impetus for the current ruling-class corporatst arrangement and the
sociological impetus for the pervasive racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
plaging our curtent society. This system cares nothing about our lives, familics,
homies, or hopes and dreams which we intend to protect wih arms as we attack cach
of capital's major productive poins. These seratgies will develop as future rebellons
develop into longer insureections, as society shifs into a condition favorable for the
revolution that is fomenting amongst the masses of dispossessed peoples. We will
unite, inspire, and protect our community and build bonds with autonomous armed
revolutionary projects across the world. We desite the destruction of capital, poi
racial and sexual hierarchies, and all forms of sexual and culwural oppression. The
insurrectionary movement of the near furure will build upon the aforementioned
networks of care developed through revolutionary reclamations of capital and
property to create conditions favorable o the growth of a Black Commune. The only
Way 10 begin to protect these revolutionary projects while delivering blows 1 the
state i by the understanding and proliferation of Armed Joy:

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By “Armed Joy” we mean the selC-organized armed sruggle of the committed Black
anarchist minoriy affecting and proliferacing among the Black masses at-large 0
provide the gasoline fuel for the vildfire that will eminendly burn the amerikan
plancasion in alis capivalsec splendor and initiae the long-awaited socialrevolution
at the critcal moment. By iniviating this atcack, we intend o give our children a
fighting chance 1o survive on chis planet regardless of the fears of white amerika
in general and the almost non-exisent white let in particular here in amerika. We
understand from the fatalites in kenosha that the state wil aid fscists thatkill whites
that stand against their occupation whether peaceful or otherwise. We encourage
dedicated non-Black comrades 1o struggle against oppression in their own unique
ways while genuinely learning from the struggle and leadership of Black comrades
We must find the best ways to resist together. However, we will not hesiate to use
arms against those “alies” who willully misinerpret our actions to justfy state
repression or whose recklss actions engender harm upon our communities. Due to
the capitalises” greed and reckless oversight in placing copious amounts of drugs and
guns in our community, our communities are already wel armed and proficient in
the use of arms as tools of destruction and self-hate. They will be made o see who the
eal enemies are. The weapons the capitalists created to destroy us will desteoy them.
The capitalist’ international weapons manufacturers are also our enemies. There
be o peace unil all the oppressive modes of production are destroyed. That is,
our last gun will be stripped and destroyed when the lase capialist s dead and the
methods of reproduction for irearms are no longer necessary. Uniil then, no cop is
innocent and no milicary officer will be spared our bullets. We urge the new klan-type
miltias to think wice before attacking our communities as well. We will not hesitate
o defend ourselves. We argue that the violence that once made racial capialism in
general and amerikan fascism in particular the cultural and economic center of the
world will destroy it and all it represents from the inside-out.

Conclusion
“This document by no means speaks to the objective will of the black masses as 2
whole. It is simply a reflection by a few anarchist comrades in our an attempt to.
document insurtectionary anarchism and the path forward to insurrection
it This document was a product of conversations and struggle. We welcome ertique,
seudy, and practice. The social revolution in the context of the United States will
flow from the actions of the black masses. While anarchists and insurre
must participate, we understand the black masses guide the course of history. We
emphasize enough that black anarchises and revolurionaries must take up
the ervical questions of revolutionary srategy in the coming years. We cannor allow
white anarchises or Black vanguardists to dictate how we move. We hope to sce.
this document generate discussion, organization, and further action within black
anarchist cicles. While many black anarchists are busy doing anarchy, we do feel that
black anarchist throught needs more reflection and theorization in order to broaden
the scope of what is possible. Forward ever towards black insurrection and the black

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References/Recommended Reading List

We Will Shaot Back by Alinyele Umoja
Assata: An Autobiography by Assaa Shakur
Armed Joy by Alfredo Bon.

A Soldiers Story: Revolutionary Writings by « New Afiikan Anarchist by Kuwasi
Balagoon

Revolutionary Struggle & Insurrection by Alfredo Bonnano
Anarchy by Estico Malatesta

In Defonse of Laoting by Vicky Osterweil

Reparations as a Verb by Salih Sea Black Autonomists
Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Konvboa Esvin
Some notes on insurrectionary anarchism by sasha k

Blood In My Eye by George Jackson

Wietched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Anarkata Statement

Wild Thing Wisdom by AFA

Move Like Mycorrhizac: Suggestions for Prasis by AFA
Building a Midhwest Revolutionary Abolisionis Movement

A Brief History o te Black Panther Party and it Plae in the Black Liberation Movement
by Sundiata Acoli

Black Fighting Formations by Russll Maroon Shoatz
The Dragon and the Hydra by Russell Maroon Shoatz

Real Resistance 10 Slavery in North American by Russell Maroon Shoatz
The Black Liberation Struggle in Philadelpbia by Russll Maroon Shoat

16 Things You Can Do To Be Ungovernabl by Indigenous Action
Notes:

Notes:

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?

“We must become

ungovernable...”