Recently I wrote an article/essay calling on the need for a Centralized Radical Student Youth and Student Congress modeled after a more radical and modern version of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization and movement that was once spearheaded by Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael).
For my anarchist comrades and others, I wanted to clarify what it is I mean when I say “Centralized.”
We are talking about a centralized form of communication and coordination of activities or actions. We seek to build a structure where various student organizations, groups, movements, and individuals are represented and have the opportunity to not only speak to others, but engage others in a collective forum, where We can brainstorm, strategize, have healthy ideological debates, and discussions on how to fight a common enemy—while creating the capacity to move and organize on a regional and national scale.
This time period is crucial in light of Trump’s attacks on education and political and progressive students exercising what is supposed to be a constitutional right; as he move to take a way funding for various colleges and universities and launches a general offensive against the radical left on campus.
As We see thousands come out and protest the genocidal war being waged against the Palestinian people, We ask, how can We broaden that struggle and further sharpen overall contradictions in support of enhancing an overall revolutionary struggle/process?
This is where the centralization comes in at. This is where the coordination comes in at.
Everyone still maintains their autonomy to opt in, opt out, and deploy whatever. We are merely trying to build a unified block that has the capability and capacity to move as a collective organism. An organism that has the ability to morph into other phenomena. An organism that can infiltrate and travel the bloodstream of a corrupt system.
Communication leads to Agitation, Education, and Organization. We have to have a vision of what We are fighting for and the change We want to see. But just as important, We must have or forge an overstanding on how We can go about bringing that change into existence.
In Solidarity/Struggle
Shaka A. Shakur