The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.
George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson” and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.
In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.
Fay Stender, George Jackson’s former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say “I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most” before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
George Jackson
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One year ago today my friend’s wife used her allergies/asthma as an excuse to threaten to throw away the cat litter dispenser I used because the ‘ammonia smell’ was setting her off unless I scrubbed it clean. So I did, then and there. On the day I was going to drive out to visit my sick friend two states away. On that same day they told me I was no longer welcome to live with them.
Hate that, when people try to find an excuse instead of just saying what they actually want. Like, if you’re gonna stab me, please stab me face to face.
It wasn’t because they were shy, it’s because they wanted to get a quick extra ‘fuck you’ stab in before they really fucked me over. When I was at my friend’s place they informed me that I had already moved out and started threatening me with abandoning my cats outside if I didn’t clean my shit out by an arbitrary <30 days later date. When I got back they screamed at me and threatened me with cops, when I came back later the locks were changed. They were abusive when I lived there and they abused my cats right in front of me out of spite when I came to collect them. They threw my shit out on the street and stole what they liked enough to keep. I was homeless living in a hotel for 3 months deleting all of my personal savings. I work for amazon delivering boxes instead of in IT like I was studying for.