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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  • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago
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    oof. I mean, I would take that a little personally tho, tbh. Only difference between me and Hamas is where I was born, really. I’m not really content with just being in an “in-group” of Good People Who Do Not Deserve To Be Indiscriminately Bombed, because that feels just like a roll of the dice, where if anything were slightly different, they might as well be saying they should blow me up…

    • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      Me either, I try not to sit comfortably and let shit like that slide. I guess I’ll start digging in my heels harder.

      I mean it’s not like I sat comfortably last time he brought it up, we had a huge protracted fight over it. He called “no politics” in the end but maybe I should break truce lol