Introductions and

Overview
OUR WORK TOGETHER

"For the vast majority of the planets peoples, the global

economy publicizes itself in human misery. Thus, the simple fact
is that liberationist movements abound in the real worlda
reason for attention far more weighty than the self-serving
conceits of capitalist triumphalism and incessant chants of
globalism which followed upon the disintegration of the Soviet
Union. Cedric J. Robinson

The Black Radical Tradition

presents a distinct conception of being and, consequently,

revolution

one that is not centered upon traditional, or even Marxist

constructions of the working class itself,

Instead takes liberation as its vision and its subject, the black.

within the spheres of cultures and histories mostly dismissed by

Marxist history, humanity is not only preserved but asserted.

resistance borne from a different consciousness of being in the

world

an uncompromising liberation from all forms of oppression

The Black Radical Tradition

draws upon an ever-present yet usually negated history of

struggle,

a radically different traditionnecessarily interrelated with

European strugglesbut uniquely situated.

not a variant of Western radicalism whose proponents happen to

be Black. It is a specifically African response.

Grounded in Black resistance more than five centuries in the

making

develops an alternative conversation, one that focuses on the

relationship between imperialism and liberation, not just poor
and rich, haves and have-nots.

a history that centers around the presupposes the humanity of

Black people

In this moment

two different but temporally identical experiences of this historical

moment have accumulated into a similar apex

capital flight, neoliberal asset stripping, unprecedented investment in

mass incarceration and immigrant detention, and wage theft have
escalated

radical protests over the past five years have produced robust platforms
demanding reinvestment in public education, in local economies and
Black communities, in food justice, the living wage, and the value of
Black life itself

redefined the concept of Black radicalism

The protests we now see in the wake of the election stand on the
shoulders of Black protest in the wake of anti-Black violence; they follow
on the heels of a tradition both intended and compelled to endure

The work we will do

a renewed and relentless practice of exposing the covering

conceit of racial regimes

Racist regimes do possess history, but they are hostile to their

own discovery has to appear natural!

Black struggle is compelled to disbelieve the fixity and strength

of the current regime.

This radical space