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Published April 30, 2016 by Tantor Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-5159-0576-9

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the United States, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in sixty-eight U.S. cities and powerful allies around the world.

Black against Empire is …

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the United States, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in sixty-eight U.S. cities and powerful allies around the world.

Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement and its disastrous unraveling. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power.

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Huey P. Newton had two ideas that are worth knowing.

1) Armed community defense is a strong revolutionary tactic that had the power to inspire ghettoized black people in the late 1960s. The CIA felt it was necessary to remove this threat using subterfuge with their Counter Intelligence Program (Cointelpro). By ending the Vietnam War draft and other methods, the US government stopped the insurgency by pacifying Black Panther allies.

2) America is the last large colonial power. Past colonial powers conquered other countries and placed them under colonial rule and later, allowed them self-determination. America imported a colony of black slaves. Slavery Abolitionists fought the Confederacy to liberate America's colony incompletely. Jim Crow laws, white supremacy, the drug war, racist loan laws, hiring practices, and policing continue to treat Black Americans as a colony and not equal citizens.

Current police violence and state repression are suppressing police abolitionists who …

Huey P. Newton had two ideas that are worth knowing.

1) Armed community defense is a strong revolutionary tactic that had the power to inspire ghettoized black people in the late 1960s. The CIA felt it was necessary to remove this threat using subterfuge with their Counter Intelligence Program (Cointelpro). By ending the Vietnam War draft and other methods, the US government stopped the insurgency by pacifying Black Panther allies.

2) America is the last large colonial power. Past colonial powers conquered other countries and placed them under colonial rule and later, allowed them self-determination. America imported a colony of black slaves. Slavery Abolitionists fought the Confederacy to liberate America's colony incompletely. Jim Crow laws, white supremacy, the drug war, racist loan laws, hiring practices, and policing continue to treat Black Americans as a colony and not equal citizens.

Current police violence and state repression are suppressing police abolitionists who would free America's colony and provide de facto equal treatment under the law.

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