
Black Scare in California: Blacks, Reds, and Revolution in the 1960s and ’70s
Blacks, Reds, and Revolution in the 1960s and '70s
This article will be released in full online September 29, 2025.
Joel Wendland-Liu reviews Armed Struggle?, Gerald Horne’s exploration of the state violence and repression that were successfully employed to demolish the Black Panther Party and its influence throughout the 1960s and ’70s. Though Horne’s recounting, Wendland-Liu writes, we can take powerful lessons about the roles of race and class in the militant drive toward liberation. | more…