01/19/2023
“Martin Luther King Was a Lawbreaker” by Martin Sostre
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On the second anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, revolutionary anarchist and anti-imperialist political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute to Dr. King warning the people of the white power structure’s attempts to deradicalize and distort Dr. King’s legacy. Sostre writes that Dr. King was a revolutionary whose life was defined by militant acts of rebellion in the streets against white authority. Today, Sostre’s essay is as relevant as it was in 1970 with exploitative corporations, police departments, and prison administrations all celebrating Dr. King’s legacy despite working in total opposition to his revolutionary message. In resistance to this whitewashing of Dr. King’s legacy, in the words of Sostre, it is our duty to alert our people “to this plot for mass deception now being executed through the enemy’s controlled news media.” Dr. King was a rebel and revolutionary whose life was dedicated to fighting for the people in the streets against racism, capitalism, imperialism, police, and prisons. We honor Dr. King’s radical legacy by carrying on this struggle for liberation.
The above photos include excerpts from Sostre’s essay. Check the full essay below. Thank you so much to the Martin Sostre Institute for compiling and re-publishing this important essay in 2022.
https://offshootjournal.org/martin-luther-king-was-a-law-breaker/
[ID 1: cover of Martin Sostre’s essay. “Martin Luther King Was A Law-breaker” is written over a background showing a Black person’s face in side profile with red in the background space in the top left and blue in the background space in the bottom left. The letters of the title vary in color between light blue, off white, and light red.
ID 2-6: screenshots of essay excerpts with black lettering on white background]
