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This episode discusses how movements can connect mutual aid efforts and survival programs to build a survival economy. Lorenzo and JoNina’s discussion places emphasis on the need to move beyond being passive consumers in order to foment a revolutionary alternative that can be a transition to stateless socialism. They look at relevant topics like the […]

This episode discusses some of the Black civil rights protests and anti-klan movements that practiced armed self-defense. Certain groups were linked to the NAACP and defended protesters at Southern civil rights marches. These self-defense groups laid the foundation for the emergence of the Black Panther Party in 1966, an organization that created a Black anti-fascist […]

This episode of Black Autonomy discusses building a poor people’s survival movement to mobilize the multi-racial masses of working-class and poor people around immediate needs while building towards revolution.  JoNina Abron-Ervin is a former editor of The Black Panther newspaper, author of Driven by the Movement: Activists of the Black Power Era, and a co-founder of […]

Dual power can be explained as the building of a transitional program for political, social, and economic transformation. It creates survival programs to oppose state power and creates a new type of autonomous public sector when the state fails the people. This is how to go beyond protest to building an anarchist societal infrastructure.  JoNina […]

In this premiere episode of Black Autonomy Podcast, JoNina and Lorenzo introduce the podcast and discuss elections, the Democratic Party, political power in Black politics. It also covers what it means to propose direct democracy as an alternative. JoNina Abron-Ervin is a former editor of The Black Panther newspaper, author of Driven by the Movement: Activists […]