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Follow the authors odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselvesand us as wellon Marxism and Maoism, the Five-Percenters, Dialectical Materialism, Dead Prez, Capitalism, Racism, Imperialism, Class Struggle, Revolutionary Nationalism, New Afrikan Independence, Psychology, and a host of other subjects, as they grapple with how to promote revolutionary consciousness in the most hostile of environments. Rashid has been in prison for twenty yearsthe past eighteen of which in segregation (solitary confinement). Shortly after this correspondence between himself and Outlaw, he and his comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu founded the New Afrikan Black Panther PartyPrison Chapter. The NABPP-PC has since developed branches in various prisons across the u$ empire and has its own newsletter, Right On! A number of Rashids essays written as Minister of Defense of the NABPP-PC are also included in this book.

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D efying
the Tomb

Selected Prison
Writings and Art of
Kevin Rashid Johnson

featuring exchanges
with an Outlaw

Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson, Featuring Exchanges With an Outlaw

ISBN 978-1-894946-77-3

Published in 2010 by Kersplebedeb, second printing 2013

Copyright Rising Sun Press

All rights reserved

Cover artwork by Rashid

Cover and interior design by Kersplebedeb

To order copies of the book, contact:

Kersplebedeb

CP 63560, CCCP Van Horne

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

H3W 3H8

Printed in canada.

Kevin Rashid Johnson is a New Afrikan Communist prison organizer and intellectual in the United States and one of the founders of the NABPP-PC (New Afrikan Black Panther PartyPrison Chapter). His writings, and updates on his situation, can be found on his website at http://www.rashidmod.com.


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Dedicated to the People, to the veterans and fallen warriors of our centuries-old liberation struggle, to the first wave Black vanguard Black Panther Party, and to our martyred comrade, Hasan Shakur. It aint over yet! The struggle continues!!

All Power to the People!!

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, and fulfill it or betray it.

Frantz Fanon

Foreword

by Russell Maroon Shoats

On being asked to write a foreword for this book and after reading the - photo 1

On being asked to write a foreword for this book, and after reading the manuscript, I became excited about contributing my views about the authors writings, ideology, life and work within the ongoing struggle for Black self-determination and against the universal plague of capitalism, that has advanced to the stage of a global fascist empire. Having been directly involved in similar efforts for close to 40 years, these are issues I care a lot about, and have also learned something about.

Ive been in prison since 1972, when I was convicted of participating in a retaliatory attack on a Philadelphia police station in 1970. That action was in response to the ongoing killings of local Black youth, and the generalized murderous suppression of the Black Movement for Self-Determination, and of the Black Panther Party (BPP) in particular. Having then been a member of an armed clandestine unit of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), or Afro-American Liberation Army which were one and the same we operated as the offensive arm of the BPP and of our movement in general.

My excitement was due to my belief that the work that our author and his close comrades are doing is pivotal to our ongoing struggle, leaving me very encouraged by these efforts. Yet, when I was earlier invited to join their fledgling New Afrikan Black Panther PartyPrison Chapter (NABPPPC), I declined. Now I know that sounds contradictory, and maybe a product of the ego, not wanting to follow younger comrades who were not even born when I first got involved in our struggle But at 63, with no immediate prospects of voluntarily being released from prison, Hell, Ive been in 23 hour lock-down for over 25 years, and serving over two natural life sentences plus Ive ducked so many police bullets, nightsticks and jailhouse shanks, as well as suffered through the deaths of so many comrades, relatives, associates and friends, until Ive long ago submerged my ego to a stronger desire to just continue to soldier on in whatever capacity I can; knowing that such a never-say-die attitude provides its own ego gratification, as well as provides encouragement and inspiration to help fuel our fight.

Ancestor Harriet Tubman used to say: Go free or die! Over time Ive come to see that, as she did; freedom from pride of place, deriving satisfaction from adhering to a cosmic set of ethics.

No, Ill explain why I declined their offer later on. But back to why the authors efforts are so important.

More than anything else, the author is interjecting some much needed revolutionary anti-capitalist views and class analysis into our contemporary efforts. Moreover, hes doing a lot of homework so that he can understand and pass on lessons learned by others who have also fought against this problem, helping him to better explain and struggle against various economic, political, and social phenomena that continue to vex many who desire and work towards revolutionary change. In fact, it has been so for millennia.

In Civilization or Barbarism, Cheikh Anta Diop informs us that as far back as three thousand or more years ago, the rebels against despotic rulers of ancient Egypt were never able to achieve their goals due to their inability to fully understand the various class strata that under-girded that society. More directly, the true forerunners of the NABPPPCs efforts would be best perceived as beginning with the kidnapping and enslavement of their Afrikan Ancestors from that continent, while modern capitalism was in its infancy. And ever since that time, there has been an internal ideological struggle taking place between various elements and factions of the Afrikans affected, both on the Afrikan continent and throughout the Diaspora. That struggle deals with how best to achieve freedom from slavery, as well as self-determination in the economic, political, social and cultural spheres; with the ending of slavery being the only aspect easily agreed upon.

In truth, similar struggles were also being waged against many of the same forces by other peoples on other continents. In political and social matters Afrikans everywhere wanted as much control and say over their lives as possible. Coming from societies where for centuries they had developed traditions that ameliorated much of the strife and antagonisms between classes mainly due to their ability to reject too much down pressure from the upper classes by simply migrating throughout the vast continent their political and social institutions relied more on consciousness building than anything else. This held true even amongst the large empires like Ghana, Mali, Songhai and the Ashanti: and even more so amongst the smaller states and the stateless societies found amongst the Ibo, Twa (pygmy), Sans (bushmen), Khoisan, Bantu and Niger/Congo peoples of west and southern Afrika. All of these were areas that provided the most kidnapped peoples who were enslaved in the Diaspora.

In economic matters, however, we return to where our author is so important. The forerunners of his NABPPPC in the Diaspora found a robust mercantilism which their enforced labor fueled that evolved over the centuries into mature capitalism/imperialism, the likes of which were unknown earlier: especially amongst their Afrikan Ancestors! Thus, instinctively, the need to exert ever more demands on the Afrikans, who tenaciously held onto remnants of their traditional communal institutions and practices, caused many hard pressed individuals and groups to try to come up with ways to try to synthesize their efforts to achieve freedom and self-determination within a capitalist framework. While others began to examine what certain Europeans who were wrestling with similar forms of capitalistic exploitation like Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, and later V.I. Lenin were discovering. And that was their determination that capitalism at bottom was a predatory system that needed to be abolished.

We can clearly examine this struggle between liberationists in the New Afrikan Diaspora by studying the clash amongst the leaders and followers of Marcus Garveys United Negro Improvement Association and African Communities Leagues (UNIAACL) and the African Blood Brotherhood, led by Cyril Briggs, who were confirmed Marxists. Garvey, although its not generally known, organized and led the first and only Global Pan-Afrikanist Movement, with millions of members in both hemispheres. Garveys economic ideas and inspiration was derived from Booker T. Washingtons Black capitalism, which was best manifested through his Tuskegee Institute in the then segregated U.S. South.

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