The Black Panther Party

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Authors of "When Theory Meets Practice: The Black Panther Party's Brief but Unignorable Four Years in Boston", Prasanna Rajaskearan and Joe Tache join Brett to discuss the history and philosophy of The Black Panther Party.

Topics include: Malcolm X, black nationalism, Marxism, the Rainbow Coalition, the Boston chapter of the BPP, the FBI, Maoism, Huey Newton, Fred Hampton, Angela Davis, feminism in the party, and much, much more.

Our guests can be found on twitter: @pvrajasekaran and @thejoetache

Outro Music: "Police State" by Dead Prez off the album "Lets Get Free"

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0:18.1	Workers of the world, unite!
0:30.4	Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Revolution!
0:37.0	Every left radio now, opposed the system anyway you know how.
0:44.2	You like the left to get the capital of the slides,
0:48.2	and liberate the proletariat's mind.
0:52.1	Far from all who are the class, far from equality,
0:55.8	I guess the right way fascist ideology to get in and turn it up loud.
1:04.0	Revolutionary left radio, starts now!
1:09.8	Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your host Ann Comrade,
1:13.2	Bredo Shea, and today we have Prasana and Jo on to talk about the Black Panther Party,
1:18.4	and even touch on the Boston chapter of the Black Panther Party, which is a part of the
1:22.8	history that doesn't often get talked about. So I'm super excited for this episode.
1:27.1	Prasana and Jo, would you guys like to introduce yourselves and say a little bit about your
1:30.0	background before we get into the conversation? Yeah, I guess I'll start.
1:35.5	Simon and Jo are my student at Northeastern, along with Prasana, it's where we met.
1:40.4	And it's hard, I guess I've been going, undergoing a really rapid political
1:47.2	transformation pretty much since I think the death of, or the murder of Trayvon Martin.
1:53.2	So we were, it was the end of our freshman year in college when Brown was killed, and that kind of
1:58.9	catalyzed even more my racial radicalization, and then within the past honestly six months or so,
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