“We are not outnumbered, we are out organized” – Ancestor el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Like i said before we are at war with fascism. The police state is one of fascisms many tentacles. For as long as we (Afrikan people resisting) have existed and been under threat of subjugation and erasure we have resisted against these forces of evil. We have organized ourselves and defeated our oppressors time and time again. At this point in time we are out organized by the police state.

The united snakes of amerikkka have over 750 military bases in over 80 countries (that we know of). That’s just the u.s. think about all the other military installations the other imperialist nations of the world have in foreign countries. I understand that many people probably read these statistics about the ways in which these imperialist powers control and surveil our world and feel like we don’t have any power in this world and there’s no point in trying and that’s exactly what this system is built to do. It crushes you from the inside and out and leaves you beat up on the side of the road with intention of making sure you never try to fight back. We have to fight back. I have learned a lot from organizations/communities such as the Black Liberation Army (BLA), the Black Panther Party (BPA), the Afrikan maroons and Kalinago people of Wai’tukubuli (Dominica), the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), and many other Afrikan and Indigenous folks throughout history. Our people have always resisted and that cannot end with us. Another important point is the distinction between revolts and revolutions. Revolts are reactionary events, e.g. the 2020 uprisings in Minnesota as a response to the assassination of George Floyd. Revolutions require mass organizing and much more planning and time, they are revolutionary, e.g. the 2019 Sudanese Revolution. Revolts are important but we must understand that these alone will never achieve the liberation that we seek. Only the organized masses can bring about revolution. Real revolution, not counter revolution. Unlike the revolution in Sudan in 2019 what followed and continues today is a counter-revolutionary war being fought between two genocidal armed forces who want power and have betrayed the people they swore they would unite to protect. With the recent student protests in Bangladesh and their achievement of ousting the president, i am still concerned by the next steps, because similar to Sudan in 2019, there will be a transitional government. It’s in times like these where those hungry for power try to swoop in and gain control. This is why even as magnificent as mass mobilizations are, we also require organized mass mobilizations that can move beyond reaction and towards real action that brings fascism/authoritarianism to its knees. Piece by piece we will tear this whole thing down, but not if we don’t try, day by day we will take more and more power back into our control, but not if we don’t try, nothing is possible if we don’t even try. Revolutions take more than day, more than a protest in the streets, revolutions require dedicated souls who understand there is no other choice but to fight. There is no other choice.

“if we’re not careful we’ll allow mobilization to become events, the struggle is never an event, it’s a process, a continual, eternal process, we say it is our job to use mobilization to drive us to organization, you know our theme is organization
we want power
we don’t want money
we don’t want fame
we don’t want fortune
we dont want popularity
we want power!
POWER!
and power comes only from the organized masses!
power comes only from the organized masses!
therefore since this is what we are concerned with, power
and we as Pan Afrikanists have every right to be concerned with it
Afrika after all is the richest continent on the face of the earth
properly organized she will be the most powerful on the face of the earth”
– ancestor Kwame Ture
Even if in our lifetime we don’t get exactly what we want we are planting the seeds for those who come next to have more solid ground to stand on, it’s what our ancestors did for us, and they did it by building alternatives outside of the capitalist, colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, homophobic, transphobic, and fascist world. We are planting seeds because we have love for tomorrow.

interlude – what makes you feel loved by aja monet



There is so much more to be said about organizing and the importance of being in an organization that is principled in its fight against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, and Fascist Violence. Which is why i suggest folks read this manual created by a comrade and member of the All-Afrikan Peoples Revolutionary Party.
A Guide For Organizing Defense Against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, And Fascist Violence (ahjamu Umi) (z Lib
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Chap 8 – Community Defense Work; A Summation
Many of the details displayed throughout this manual for how to construct a community defense project are structured around the core elements necessary to build and maintain the work, but the ideological aspects that guide the work should never be overlooked and under appreciated. The basis behind any human action is always the ideas that guide that action. As Kwame Nkrumah said “thought without action is empty and action without thought is blind.”
With this perspective firmly cemented within the work it should always be understood that community defense work should never be seen as isolationist work not connected to the larger struggle for human dignity and forward progress. Also, community defense work is not mutual aid work. Work that is defined as mutual aid work i.e. providing much needed resources to the community, is vital work, but it differs from community defense work in the sense that while mutual aid work can happen with people who have no consciousness about each other’s political ideas and objectives (for example, people coming together to feed people in the community can do that without any inkling about the politics of the people they are working with to carry out the work since their only objective is providing food), in community defense work, all of the work is always guided by these ideological principles. And, these principles should be revolutionary principles. In other words, everyone engaged in the revolutionary community defense project should be guided by the same revolutionary ideological tenets. This is important because a community defense project designed around creating greater community safety is a project where police are unquestionably seen as the enemy of the community. This is a revolutionary position rooted in people power and police abolition. Any effort to remove revolutionary politics from community defense work can result in the work becoming de-fanged by reformist attacks against its intent. Police abolition becomes police reform and your community defense project can easily turn into another bourgeoisie police/community process where the community is unwittingly turned into snitches for the police (which disempowers the masses while strengthening the state/police).
The only way to prevent this type of community cooptation is for the work to stay firmly rooted in revolutionary political education. Using the example of community safety, with a revolutionary political education focus, this work is only one component in a broader effort to organize people, not just to abolish police, but to do so in the context of creating a revolutionary society where people organize the state to represent people’s interests instead of repressing them. In the case of the objective behind this manual, its specifically to organize community defense efforts across the U.S. as a part of our worldwide revolutionary Pan-Africanist work. As we advance that work the idea is that as we gain an advantage in the political ideology arena in Africa. From this, we can hopefully begin to contribute to the mass uprisings happening in Africa today. Millions of Africans, all over the African continent, continue to rise up and protest everything from worker exploitation to homophobia, to police terrorism to neo-colonialist corruption. Most of that is spontaneous and the protests in Nigeria, Kenya, the Congo, Algeria, Zimbabwe, etc., are not organized in conjunction with one another. What we plan to do with our organizing efforts is create mass political party work that unites and increases the organization of these uprisings. Where we create the capacity to engage enough people in ways that can effectively shut operations down as a tactic to increase the consciousness around these anti-exploitation issues while building intense pressure on the capitalist system. While this is happening throughout Africa, the value of community defense work throughout the U.S. (and Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, and Central and South America, and Asia) is for that community defense to serve (using the Pan-African struggle as an example) as the U.S. branch for that Pan-African struggle. When Africans effectively shut-down the zionist-controlled diamond industries throughout Africa, we are going to need Africans in Europe, the U.S., and the rest of the capitalist world, to ensure not one diamond moves one inch. That it stays in the diamond mines in Zimbabwe, Azania (South Africa), Zambia, the Congo, Sierra Leone, etc. We are going to need Africans in the U.S., etc., to ensure that not one product produced anywhere, moves anywhere. Rubber, diamonds, gold, cobalt (cell phones, laptops, flatscreens, etc.), lithium (car batteries), bauxite (aluminum products), steel, zinc (automobile production), etc., not one product is moving. The community defense projects, designed to organize communities is done with the intent (through the political education program as well as the practical work which will help the participants realize how powerful and effective they can be) to move those participants beyond just the focus on the neighborhood where they live, but to the world that produces the conditions that shape their neighborhoods. With this level of consciousness, people can begin to understand their role in Los Angeles, New York, Houston, etc., is to build capacity to challenge the conditions that oppress people not just in their cities and towns, but throughout Accra, Nairobi, Joburg, Dakar, Asmara, etc. With this vision, community defense work is done on a neighborhood level with the intent of building a worldwide vehicle for systemic change. This gives life to the clique “think globally, act locally.”
Here’s to the sincere hope that this manual can contribute to organizing efforts all throughout the African diaspora in the U.S. as well as encouraging the production of similar manuals for organizing efforts in Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, Central, and South America, and the rest of the world. Until Africa is free, no African anywhere will be free and Africa as one unified socialist continent will contribute towards the worldwide march towards scientific socialism, leading to world communism, which will advance the entire planet towards everlasting peace.
“Its quite possible that you can watch something and develop a valid perspective from doing so, but clearly, the most effective way to properly understand something is from actual experience engaging that thing. With our struggle for justice and liberation, there is no degree of sideline observation that will bring about our liberation. Only the active participation of the masses of people in our liberation struggle will achieve it.
We believe that every human being has the ability to transform from reactionary to revolutionary. And, with the right day to day practices engaged, we can see the results of this transformation in millions of people.” – Ahjamu Umi

the following is an excerpt of the acknowledgments from A Guide for Organizing Defense against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, and Fascist Violence by Ahjamu Umi
Acknowledgements
Without the selfless examples of the following African and other comrade organizations and entities we would not today be able to envision the potential of mass work to challenge institutionalized systems of oppression. So, we begin this manual by thanking those often unheralded and unknown faces who contribute and contributed so much to enable us to have the opportunity to advance our struggles towards eternal victory. This list is certainly incomplete, but it is an attempt to recognize the honest and valuable contributions these bodies have provided that are often either maligned or ignored:
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
African Blood Brotherhood (ABB)
Convention People’s Party (CPP)
Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG)
African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)
Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
Land and Freedom Movement (Mau Mau)
Pan-African Union of Sierra Leone (PANAFU)
Zimbabwe Movement for Pan-African Socialists
Amilcar Cabral Ideological School (ACIS)
African Maroon Societies
African/Indigenous Quilombo Societies
Black Panther Party (BPP)
Black Liberation Army (BLA)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)
Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party
All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
All African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)
Nation of Islam (NOI)
Black Alliance for Peace
New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO)
Republic of New Afrika (RNA)
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)
Cooperation Jackson
Black Hammer
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
American Indian Movement (AIM)
International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
Red Nations
Four Directions
Irish Republican Socialist Party/Network of North America (IRSP/IRSNA)
Anakbayan
Gabriella
El Partido La Raza Unida
Union Del Barrio
Brown Berets
Socialist Cuba
Socialist Venezuela
Socialist Bolivia
The Libyan Jamihiriya
The Viet Minh Front
Young Koreans United
learn about the revolutionary organizations that have fought tirelessly for the liberation of their people.

Chicago’s Rainbow Coalition. Photo courtesy of Cha-Cha Jimenez.
Fifty Years of Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition

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