Context: From September to November of 2025, Eric King, a white anarchist and former political prisoner, went on a campaign to fedjacket and dox one of Malik’s siblings and outside supporters. Eric began spreading public rumors that his target, a woman of color in the prisoner solidarity movement, was an undercover cop who had stolen thousands of dollars from political prisoners. The public statement he shared which claimed that this person had infiltrated the movement was left up for over a month, long after the claims had been proven false. Though Eric has since deleted the statement, he has failed to meet any of his victim’s demands for accountability — namely, an apology and a public retraction of the lies he spread. He continues to be widely celebrated in anarchist and prisoner support spaces across the united states and platformed by major publishers, podcasts, and documentaries. Malik condemns Eric’s actions, and speaks on the serious harms and even violence that has historically resulted from making false accusations against others without evidence. A full breakdown of the events is available here: <https://pdxantirepression.noblogs.org/2025/12/15/no-kkkings/>
Within the microcosm of society that is prison, people must be careful of the way they tread. Careful of their thoughts that become their words, careful of their words that become their actions, careful of their actions that become their habits, careful of their habits that become their character. Or so the saying goes. It’s a prudent way to live. In prison, it’s the only way.
So for example, claiming that someone is a rat, cop, fed, or sex offender isn’t taken lightly [in prison]. Nor should it. If someone hits the main line, and you know for a fact, 100%, that they ratted, you can give the time, date, and place, but you still have to produce paperwork for your claims. Any accusations as serious as that require empirical evidence.
Too often in prison, I’ve seen people get slapped as a bad dude simply because the most popular person with the most clout said so, and others just follow their lead. Clout [can be wielded] as a blunt object hitting someone over the head. That type of pettiness can and does lead to real world violent consequences. It’s incredibly sad to see.
In the larger world beyond prisons, especially in organizing spaces, fedjacketing carries the same heft, the same weight. If you regard the Black Panther Party highly enough to champion their successes, you must also be critical enough to analyze their failures too. COINTELPRO had a memo that read something along the lines of, “Huey’s ego, hubris, and paranoia is working so well against the Panthers, we don’t have to do much.” Huey started slapping jackets on people left and right without evidence, based on nothing but his own ego, and these claims were [believed] by others due to his clout. These actions resulted in actual violence, and sometimes death, of the very people he claimed to fight for. All because of his ego and a petty need for control.
Even as anarchists who supposedly reject top-down structuring, there is still a tendency to defer to the most established or prominent person in the scene. It boggles me.
Huey’s hubris, ego, and pride aided in his and the Panthers’ downfall. It certainly wasn’t the only reason, and I do not seek to smear his name. At the same time as an anarchist, I have critical thinking skills. We must know the history of our movements — the good, the bad, and the ugly — so as not to make some the same mistakes that people made before us.
If you think fedjacketing someone is not that serious, and attempt to minimize it as petty infighting, you’re wrong. Those who feel that way probably also believe we’re not actually “ready” for prison abolition. These are the same people who practice long-range politics, which as George Jackson said, we know does not work for the man who expects to die tomorrow. These people see revolution as this far off, abstract thing, and are stuck in the realm of theory. Of course, in theory, no one can get killed for being labeled a rat, a cop or a fed. In practice, nothing could be further from the truth.
Petty differences and infighting in organizing spaces are of course problematic. But unfounded labels and accusations are actually dangerous. Just as dangerous as having an actual cop or infiltrator in your circles is falsely accusing someone of being one and slandering their name and reputation in the process. In truth, fedjacketing is more reflective of the character of the person making the accusation, as well as those who blindly believe them with no inquiry or evidence.
Someone being new to a movement and having energy and ideas that you think are naive or not gonna work doesn’t make them a cop or fed. It makes them creative. And them moving forward in spite of your attempts to gatekeep what can and can’t be done doesn’t make them an agent of the state. It makes them independent, autonomous human beings. Trying to smear their name and ostracize them because they did something you don’t like only makes you an egotistical ass on a power trip. And it makes you dangerous to the people and the movement. Your credibility is shot. At least with me. Because do we play at revolution, or do we make it?
If we are fedjacketing people purely out of ego and spite this early in the game — as dysfunctional and fractured as we already are — what the fuck are we doing? The Panthers at least had nationwide and international chapters. They had programs attempting to meet people’s needs. They were armed, trained, and militant. They were a real threat to the established order. They had something going, in spite of all their faults, before their systematic destruction began. And they inspired and were inspired by movements all over the world. We have nothing even close to that right now, and yet we’re doing the government’s job for them? Dividing and conquering ourselves for them?
That’s not what “we got us” means. If this is the current state of the struggle, I fear for us. There is no reason new energy and blood shouldn’t be welcomed, even if you don’t personally like someone. We’ve not yet seen the world we hope to build, one devoid of systems of coercion and oppression. No one knows what that will look like, and we all have ideas about how to get there and what should happen after. That’s the beauty of anarchy. It’s fluid. It’s open. Like water, it’s formless. This means we won’t always agree or even get along. But undermining other people’s actions just because you don’t like them is antithetical to revolution, and slandering them with unfounded accusations [of being a cop] is counterrevolutionary, dangerous, and cowardly. It’s collaborating with the enemy — just like those Palestinian militias funded by israel, fighting Hamas on behalf of the oppressor.
If we hope to get to a level where direct, open resistance is possible, where we can truly demonstrate international solidarity against our occupiers, the world occupiers, the u.s., to free Palestine, us, and the world — we need to treat [fedjacketing] as a serious offense. Train how you fight. It’s something I learned as a soldier. You take every field exercise, every event, as serious as live combat, so when you are being shot at, it’s second nature, muscle memory. Get low, identify contact points, direct return fire, shoot, move, communicate, and kill. Your training should match real life. Theory and practice must coincide.
So if in theory, in training, you are fedjacketing someone who simply doesn’t agree with you, how the fuck can you be trusted in open conflict? In real direct action? When the most lukewarm, minimum solidarity action triggers you to an ego-based counterrevolutionary maneuvers? And what does that say about those who uncritically follow suit?
Now, I recognize I’m nobody. I don’t pretend I need to be listened to or my warnings heeded. However, the person harmed [in this instance] is my sibling, and I am fiercely mama bear protective of the ones I love. So putting someone I love and care about in danger, like what was done to her? I take that seriously. As deathly serious as real world combat. And I react fiercely and unforgivingly in defense of them.
Smearing her name, doxxing her, making crude accusations with no evidence — do that shit to the pigs, to the enemy. Not someone in the struggle. Not a sibling. Certainly not mine. ‘Cause I’ve got four years left in prison, and I hold grudges. I certainly feel that we are not the sum of our worst actions. But it’s about whether we take accountability for them and how we carry ourselves forward after that. We all have ego that needs killing and pride that needs swallowing, and I hope that’s what plays out here.
However, whether accountability is taken or not, if Eric or anyone else endangers one of my siblings ever again in a manner like this, I will, with all my revolutionary love, fuck you up.
Love, rage, and solidarity,
Malik