“Black Left Unity: This Way Forward!”

The Black Left Unity Network is seeking short essays (2,000 to 3000 words) on the theme “Black Left Unity: This Way Forward!” for the debut issue of our online publication, The Black Activist: A Journal for Black Liberation.

Essays should focus on the following issues/questions or related issues:
• An assessment of the current period and the necessity for black left unity
• Mapping the current black left. What are the various but fragmented manifestations of black left activism today and how can they be unified ?
• Defining a minimum black left platform that will ensure maximum participation
• What lessons we can learn from the history of our Freedom Struggles, e.g., resistance to slavery, the Haitian Revolution, Reconstruction, Garveyism, Pan African anti-colonialism, the civil rights, black liberation and empowerment movements of
of the 60s and the 70s, and the anti-apartheid movement, African liberation support activism, anti-police brutality activism, and Reparations activism of the 1980s and 90s.
Please feel free to forward this CFP selectively to potential contributors. We especially seek contributions from sister activists/analysts and young activists/analysts.

Please forward a note of intent to contribute and a half-page abstract no later than June 15th, and completed essay no later than August 15th. Abstracts and completed essays should be sent via email attachment to: blackactivistjournal@gmail.com .Inquiries may also be sent to this address.


Editorial Collective:
Ali Al-Sabbagh
Sam Anderson
Rose Brewer
Yusuf Nuruddin
Tony Menelik Van De Meer