{"title":"Fight Police Brutality!","description":"\u003cp\u003eOctober 22nd is the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall Axe Books stands with the struggle against police brutality, especially the loved ones of those killed by the police in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/familiesdemandingjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eFamilies Demanding Justice\u003c\/a\u003e! In support of the national day of protest, we are offering this collection of books on the struggle against police brutality, Black liberation, repression and revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEspecially of note, the Going Against the Tide reprint collection, \"On the Struggle Against Police Brutality\" which complies five articles from \u003cem\u003ekites \u003c\/em\u003ejournal detailing the history of O22, the 2020 uprising against police murder, and the contradictions and shortcomings of abolitionism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll sales of \"New Bones Abolition\" by Joy James benefit Families Demanding Justice (FDJ). You can read more about FDJ, sign onto this years call for O22, and find local protest information at https:\/\/familiesdemandingjustice.org\/. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"we-go-where-they-go-the-story-of-anti-racist-action-copy","title":"The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told To Alex Haley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the searing pages of this classic biography, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and activist, tells the remarkable story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley. Haley worked with Malcolm X for nearly two years; all the while, Malcolm did “not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form.” As clear-eyed about his own fate as he was about the plight of his community, Malcolm saw his truth-telling as a gift that would live beyond his own mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaised in Lansing, Michigan, Malcolm Little journeyed on a road to fame as astonishing as it was unpredictable. Drifting from childhood poverty to petty crime, Malcolm found himself in jail. It was there that he encountered the teachings of the Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad. The newly renamed Malcolm X devoted himself body and soul to Islam, quickly becoming the Nation’s foremost spokesman. When his conscience forced him to leave the group, Malcolm founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity to spread an inspiring message of pride, power, and self-determination across the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. This commemorative edition, published on the 100th anniversary of Malcolm X’s birth, is both a celebration of the lasting impact of his story and a chance to interrogate how far we’ve collectively come. In revisiting his incisive perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, we gain extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BCP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43093109080162,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/malcomx.jpg?v=1783298584"},{"product_id":"stand-up-struggle-forward-new-afrikan-revolutionary-writings-on-nation-class-and-patriarchy","title":"Stand up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003e“It was over 20 years ago that the book Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member exploded on the scene and gave us all a front row seat to explore the genocidal brutality of the neo-colonial world of gangbanging. A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AK’s, bats and beat downs ... it was in the belly of the beast (prison) that ‘Monster’ underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug ‘Monster’ and emerging through a re-birth as ‘Sanyika Shakur,’ a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist.” -- from the Foreword by Yusef “Bunchy” ShakurThis collection of writings by Sanyika Shakur, formerly known as Monster Kody Scott, includes several essays written from within the infamous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit in the period around the historic 2011 California prisoners’ hunger strike, as well as two interviews conducted just before and after his release in Black August 2012.Shakur rejects the easy answers and false solutions of the neocolonial age - integration and racism, the colonial-criminal mentality and subservience to imperialism - as the “oppo-sames” that they are. Firmly rooted in the New Afrikan Communist tradition, he skillfully uses the tools of dialectical materialism to lay bare the deeper connections between racism, sexism, and homophobia and how these mental diseases relate to the ongoing capitalist (neo-)colonial catastrophe we remain trapped within.Defending the legacy of New Afrikans’ historic struggle for Land, Independence, and Socialism, Shakur spells out a uniquely liberatory Revolutionary Nationalist vision. Annihilating the “amerikan” mental fog that has new generations continuing to self-defeat rather than coming together against the real enemy, Stand Up, Struggle Forward serves as a battle cry against all forms of oppression.Stand Up, Struggle Forward also contains a valuable account of political repression in the California prison system, including several of the intelligence memoranda they were used to condemn Shakur to years of solitary confinement in Pelican Bay. These internal prison documents clearly show that this prolonged solitary confinement was a direct result of Shakur’s continuing promotion of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist politics. 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Read the story of Black Panther activist Hampton’s murder by Chicago police and attorney Jeff Haas’s fight to bring the assassins to justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, “He’s still alive.” She then heard two shots. A second officer said, “He’s good and dead now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe looked at Jeff and asked, “What can you do?” The Assassination of Fred Hampton remains Haas’s personal account of how he and People’s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton’s assassins, ultimately prevailing over FBI stonewalling and unlimited government resources bent on hiding the conspiracy that led to Hampton’s death. Half a century later, Haas writes that there is still an urgent need for the revolutionary systemic changes Hampton was organizing to accomplish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot only a story of justice delivered, this book spotlights Hampton as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration for those still fighting against injustice and the brutality of law enforcement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BCP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43106983313506,"sku":"9781641603218","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/9781641603218.jpg?v=1783700032"},{"product_id":"look-for-me-in-the-whirlwind-from-the-panther-21-to-21st-century-revolutions","title":"Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in the annals of criminal justice and Black liberation: the New York City Black Panther 21. Though some among the group had hardly even met one another, the 21 were rounded up by the FBI and New York Police Department in an attempt to disrupt and destroy the organization that was attracting young people around the world. Involving charges of conspiracy to commit violent acts, the Panther 21 trial—the longest and most expensive in New York history—revealed the illegal government activities which led to exile, imprisonment on false charges, and assassination of Black liberation leaders. Solidarity for the 21 also extended well beyond “movement” circles and included mainstream publication of their collective autobiography, Look for Me in the Whirlwind, which is reprinted here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions contains the entire original manuscript, and includes new commentary from surviving members of the 21: Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph, and Shaba Om. Still-imprisoned Sundiata Acoli, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, and Mumia Abu-Jamal contribute new essays. Never or rarely seen poetry and prose from Afeni Shakur, Kuwasi Balagoon, Ali Bey Hassan, and Michael “Cetewayo” Tabor is included. Early Panther leader and jazz master Bilal Sunni-Ali adds a historical essay and lyrics from his composition “Look for Me in the Whirlwind,” and coeditors kioni-sadiki, Meyer, and Panther rank-and-file member Cyril “Bullwhip” Innis Jr. help bring the story up to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when the Movement for Black Lives recites the affirmation that “it is our duty to win,” penned by Black Liberation Army (BLA) militant Assata Shakur, those who made up the BLA and worked alongside of Assata are largely unknown. This book—with archival photos from David Fenton, Stephen Shames, and the private collections of the authors— provides essential parts of a hidden and missing-in-action history. Going well beyond the familiar and mythologized nostalgic Panther narrative, From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions explains how and why the Panther legacy is still relevant and vital today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43106983444578,"sku":"9781629633893","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/5050\/1218\/files\/9781629633893.jpg?v=1783700031"},{"product_id":"blood-in-my-eye","title":"Blood in My Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. 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