
George Jackson and the Right to Resist
Today we honor George L. Jackson — Black Panther Party leader, communist revolutionary, freedom fighter, political prisoner and writer — on the 51st anniversary of his martyrdom, August 21st, 1971. In 1960, at the age of eighteen, Jackson was accused of stealing $60, charged and sentenced to 1 year to life in prison. He would … George Jackson and the Right to Resist