The New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO) was formed in 1984. From its beginnings, the NAPO was a coalition-based organization, focused largely on cadre-building and developing the grassroots support for a New Afrikan nation-state. Rather than seeing themselves as the immediate leaders of a political movement, the NAPO directly centered the local organizing struggles of various New Afrikan formations and attempted to bridge their collective struggles towards establishing the nation-state. In contrast to the PG, the NAPO was very explicit about being a revolutionary socialist, Pan-Africanist organization. The NAPO was clear that democratic centralism would be a key component in facilitating the development of their state power.