Recent interventions in critical security studies have argued that the field has struggled to account for the racialised/racist foundations of security politics. This article engages with the US Black Panther Party (BPP), arguing that the Party did important work to show how security politics is dependent on racial violence. The idea that we can theorise global politics through struggle (`struggle as method’) is becoming popular within disciplinary International Relations (IR), but has longer lineages in Black radical thought. The BPP were important advocates of struggle as method, with tactics and strategies intentionally designed with a pedagogical purpose; through Panther actions (including community self-defence and survival programmes), and the state’s response to these, the mechanisms of capitalist white supremacy were laid bare. The article therefore acknowledges BPP action as a series of theoretical interventions, which demonstrated how the terms of US/white security are rooted in and dependent on anti-Blackness. It also shows how Panther tactics prefigured alternative, radical, anti-statist approaches to security, these conceptualised as `survival pending revolution’. The article closes by arguing that scholarship on critical security studies - especially as related to the racialised politics of security - should do more to work with and acknowledge its indebtedness to struggle as method.

最近对关键安全研究的干预认为，该领域一直在努力解释安全政治的种族化/种族主义基础。本文与美国黑豹党 (BPP) 合作，认为该党在展示安全政治如何依赖种族暴力方面做了重要工作。我们可以通过斗争（“作为方法的斗争”）将全球政治理论化的想法在学科国际关系 (IR) 中越来越流行，但在黑人激进思想中有着更长的渊源。BPP 是斗争作为方法的重要倡导者，其战术和战略是出于教学目的而有意设计的；通过黑豹行动（包括社区自卫和生存计划）以及国家对这些行动的回应，资本主义白人至上的机制暴露无遗。因此，文章承认 BPP 行动是一系列理论干预，它展示了美国/白人安全的条款如何植根于并依赖于反黑人。它还显示了黑豹战术如何预示着替代的、激进的、反国家主义的安全方法，这些方法被概念化为“生存等待革命”。文章最后指出，关于批判性安全研究的学术——尤其是与安全的种族化政治相关的学术——应该做更多的工作，并承认其将斗争作为方法的债务。这些被概念化为“生存未决的革命”。文章最后认为，关于批判性安全研究的学术——尤其是与安全的种族化政治相关的学术——应该做更多的工作，并承认其将斗争作为方法的债务。这些被概念化为“生存未决的革命”。文章最后认为，关于批判性安全研究的学术——尤其是与安全的种族化政治相关的学术——应该做更多的工作，并承认其将斗争作为方法的债务。