In this recently released episode of the long-running podcast, Millennials are Killing Capitalism, Shaka Shakur speaks from captivity in Beaumont Correctional Center in Virginia about the history of revolutionary organizing, recruiting, propagandizing, and more within prison walls.
As their website states, the interview was recorded before the historic and heroic Palestinian counteroffensive on October 7, 2023. Despite numerous other urgent matters, the podcast producers made releasing this episode a priority. In fact, as their website states:
“Shaka had reached out to me after the publication of our discussion with Thandisizwe Chimurenga and Yusef “Bunchy” Shakur on Sanyika Shakur’s political writings. He wanted to share some things and also offer the perspective of someone from Sanyika’s generation who spent many years studying and struggling in the same circles, and communicating with Sanyika through the Prison News Service and other publications that circulated behind the walls connecting New Afrikan prisoners and other political and politicized prisoners. Shaka also describes similar experiences of becoming politicized during their first period of incarceration at a young age, struggling upon his return to the outside & ultimately ending up back behind the walls.
Shakur shares his reflections on that era, on changes in the prison movement and outside support movements over time and on the disconnect that often exists between revolutionary rhetoric and revolutionary action in the US left in recent years.”
Shakur on The Necessity of Struggle
