This 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. As such, they
provide a clear example of the way in which solitary confinement
continues to be used as a tool of political repression against
thousands of prisoners in California today.
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