Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1947) is an anarchist and autonomist activist and writer, being a theorist for Black Anarchism.

Life

Early Activism

When he was 12, Ervin joined the NAACP youth group and participated in the sit-in protests that helped end racial segregation in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served in the army for two years, where he became an anti-war activist. In 1967 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and, a short time later, the Black Panther Party.

Works

Books

• Anarchism and the Black Revolution
• Black Capitalism
• The Progressive Plantation: racism inside white radical social change groups

Articles

• Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head
• Anti-Fascism and the Carceral State
• Back From Hell: Black Power And Treason To Whiteness Inside Prison Walls
• Black Faces in High Places
• A Draft Proposal for an Anarchist Black Cross Network
• It’s Racism Stupid!
• White on White Crime