The Revolutionary People's Communication Network was an organization created in 1971 by Kathleen Cleaver and Eldridge Cleaver and their allies after the Cleavers' expulsion from the Black Panther Party while the Cleavers were living in Algeria.[1] It included subgroups such as the Black Liberation Front.[2]

In an interview with Madeline Wheeler Murphy Kathleen Cleaver stated "The ideological split in the Black Panther Party prevents us from having communication. We are reorganizing to develop a communication/information network through the Revolutionary Peoples Communication Network." She moved back to the United States to promote the organization.[3][4]

The group published a newspaper called Babylon as well as other publications including Humanity, Freedom, Peace a collection of works by Geronimo Pratt.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Rights leader Kathleen Cleaver". Florida Memory Project. State Library & Archives of Florida. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Johnson, Chris. ""Machinery to Link Us Up": Britain's Black Liberation Front and Transnational Black Feminism". University of Memphis Brown Bag Series. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Murphy, Madeline (1988). Madeline Murphy Speaks. C H Fairfax Co. pp. 163–180. ISBN 0935132120.
  4. ↑ "Interview with Kathleen Cleaver". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "BABYLON REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Volume 1, #1". BeatBooks. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Alvarez, Alberto Martin; Tristán, Eduardo Rey (August 2016). Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives. Routledge. p. 221. ISBN 9781138184411.


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