The Black Panther Party was able to defend their community until the criminal, terrorist American police went and murdered them all. While the masses might not need a new Panther group exactly, what organizations can be founded that would be able to fulfill the capacity of providing social support and resources to the masses? Whether it is a labor union, a political party, I don’t care if it’s a knitting club that patrols the streets as long as it gives us someone else to call besides the pigs.
And how large does it need to be before it is viable to defend people from the pigs?
Just 2, but anymore is better.
In practical terms get organized with more comrades. I would reccomend studying COINTELPRO and NSA operating manuals to understand proper OPSEC from there perspective, learn how and why they would look for you, what tactics they will use and how they operate. This is important because like Althusser says, the police are an apparatus of the state; think of it as the boot, the eyes of the body of the state are the NSA and FBI (in america, if you’re not think secret police and info police)
Once you do disseminate this information to your comrades and make sure they learn. This is how you defend yourself against the pigs, by never getting caught.