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Part history, part biography, and part police procedural, Subversives reads like a true-crime mystery as it provides a fresh look at the legacy of the sixties, sheds new light on one of America’s most popular presidents, and tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and unchecked power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[An] electrifying examination of a newly declassified treasure trove of documents detailing our government's campaign of surveillance of the Berkeley campus during the '60s.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMatt Taibbi, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Fiercely reported.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Magazine, The Approval Matrix (Highbrow, Brilliant)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Armed with a panoply of interviews, court rulings, and freshly acquired F.B.I. document, Rosenfeld shows how J. 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Profound thanks to Seth Rosenfeld for outing the truth and speaking truth to power.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCarlo Wolff, The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Several books have dealt directly or tangentially with the Berkeley student revolt, but Seth Rosenfeld's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubversives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents a new and encompassing perspective, including a revisionist view of Ronald Reagan and a detailed picture of FBI corruption. The details of the story did not come easily. It took Rosenfeld, a former reporter for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eExaminer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 25 years and five Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to finally get all the material he requested from the FBI. The bureau fought him every inch of the way, spending more than $1 million of taxpayers' money in an effort to withhold public records, until it finally had no choice . . . A well-paced and wide-ranging narrative . . . A deftly woven account.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Vivid and unsettling.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Orleans Times-Picayune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Seth Rosenfeld fought the law and the people won; there can be little doubt of that . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubversives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deepens our understanding of the political underpinnings of this period with the aid of many new details . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubversives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will automatically become an essential reference for students of sixties unrest, of the career of Ronald Reagan, and of the FBI's long history of illegal shenanigans against American citizens.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBarnes and Noble Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Stunning revelations.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNPR, \"On the Media\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubversives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story the FBI didn't want told.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuernica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubversives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is more than a documentary history--it has the insight that comes only with relentless reporting. This book is the classic history of our most powerful police agency and one of the most influential political figures of our time secretly joining forces.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLowell Bergman, Investigative journalist for The New York Times and Frontline\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[A] galvanizing account of the student radical movement in the 1960s . . . This book is the result of 30 years of investigation, including Rosenfeld's landmark Freedom of Information fight, which resulted in the FBI being forced to release more than 250,000 pages of classified documents (Rosenfeld's appendix detailing his struggle is gripping in itself). Besides FBI files, Rosenfeld relied on court records, news accounts, and hundreds of interviews. Clearly, he has the goods, and fortunately he also has the writing skills to deliver a scathing, convincingly detailed, and evocative indictment of the tactics of the FBI and of Ronald Reagan during his rise to power against the backdrop of Berkeley in the sixties.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eConnie Fletcher, Booklist (starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[Rosenfeld] painstakingly re-creates the dramatic--and unsettling--history of how J. Edgar Hoover worked closely with then California governor Ronald Reagan to undermine student dissent, arrest and expel members of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, and fire the University of California's liberal president, Clark Kerr . . . [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubversives\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] is narrative nonfiction at its best.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Masterfully researched . . . A potent reminder of the explosiveness of 1960s politics and how far elements of the government were (and perhaps still are) willing to go to undermine civil liberties.” ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“All students of the sixties are indebted to Seth Rosenfeld for his years of persistent work prying documents out of the FBI. 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This book should be read not only by those who have a specific interest in Canadian histories and social justice movements but by anyone interested in the abolitionist and revolutionary potential of the Black Lives Matters movement more broadly.\" Angela Y. Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A crucial work in chronicling Black experiences in Canada. If you only read one book this year, make it this one. Policing Black Lives is a comprehensive and necessary book for anyone who cares about the past, present and future of Black life in this country. Brilliant work!\" Black Lives Matter Toronto\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this eye-opening and timely book, Robyn Maynard deftly and conclusively pulls back the veil on anti-Black racism in Canada, exploding the myth of multiculturalism through an emphatically and unapologetically intersectional lens. In compelling and accessible prose, Maynard provides a sweeping overview of Canadian state violence from colonial times to the present, seamlessly articulating the relationship - and distinctions - between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness, and centering Black women, trans and gender nonconforming people within the broader narrative. Through an analysis squarely situated in the global socioeconomic context, \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives \u003c\/em\u003eexplores parallels between state violence in Canada and its neighbor to the South, as well as the unique legal, social and historical forces informing criminalization through segregation, surveillance, “stop and frisk”\/carding\/street checks, the war on drugs, gang policing, the school to prison pipeline, welfare “fraud” and child welfare enforcement, and the conflation of immigration and criminality. The result is both eye-opening and chilling, firmly pointing to shared fronts of struggle across borders. 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They identified the sources of social problems in social structures and relations of inequality and recognized that the institutions preferred by mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were actually the causes or enablers of those harms in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects critical writings on criminology from radicals and thinkers like William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikahil Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., a scholar-activist, is an Assistant Professor of criminology and criminal justice at Salt Lake Community College and has published over fifty scholarly articles or book chapters and forty books. 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His primary research interests include sustainable communities, all things environment, anarchist studies, and radical pedagogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeff Shantz is an engaged activist scholar who has taught anarchist theories and practices in a variety of university classes and community-based courses, and who has decades of community organizing experience within social movements. He currently teaches critical theory, elite deviance, community and human rights in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Shantz is the author of numerous books, including Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism(Punctum, 2013), Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red\/Green Vision(Syracuse University Press, 2012), and Constructive Anarchy (Ashgate, 2010). Shantz is the co-founder of the Critical Criminology Working Group and the founding editor of the journal Radical Criminology. Scholarly interests include critical theories, migration, critical surveillance studies, corporate crime, transnational crime, and social movements. Samples of his writing may be found at jeffshantz.ca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-kinna\" title=\"Ruth Kinna\"\u003eRuth Kinna\u003c\/a\u003e works at Loughborough University and is the general editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. Her recent publications include Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition (Edinburgh University Press) and Anarchism 1914-18: Internationalism, anti-militarism and war, co-edited with Matthew S. Adams for Manchester University Press. She is currently working with Uri Gordon to produce an edited collection for Routledge, the Handbook of Radical Politicsand with Alex Prichard and Thomas Swann on the project Constitutionalising Anarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuis A. Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Policing Dissent, Contemporary Anarchist Studies, and Shutting Down the Streets. His work also appears in various book chapters and journals, including Social Justice, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Criminology, and Qualitative Sociology. His most recent research focuses on the alt-right and the emergence of neo-fascism. Fernandez is currently serving as the President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175308996701,"sku":"9781849353793","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/anarchistcriminology.jpg?v=1654988455"},{"product_id":"the-end-of-policing","title":"The End of Policing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling bible of the movement to defund the police, in an updated edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called \"Things I Can't Live Without\", this book explains that \"unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference\" in reducing police killings and abuse. \"We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself—the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe End of Policing \u003c\/em\u003ecombines the best in academic research with rhetorical urgency to explain why the ordinary array of police reforms will be ineffective in reducing abusive policing. Alex Vitale shows that we must move beyond conceptualizing public safety as interdiction, exclusion, and arrest if we hope to achieve racial and economic justice.” – \u003ca title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e, Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, Co-Founder of Critical Resistance, author of \u003cem\u003eGolden Gulag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Offers a compelling digest of the dynamics of crime and law enforcement, and a polemic against the militarization of everything. Vitale calls for a dismantling of our very notion of the police: a sprawling, untethered bureaucracy permitted to use lethal force and unaccountable to the people.” – E. Tammy Kim, \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe End of Policing\u003c\/em\u003e's great strength lies in demonstrating that if the shape of American policing is historical, it is also contingent. We could have made different choices regarding how we set about securing the public against the array of threats that confront it, and – refreshingly, at this moment of general despair – Vitale believes we still can.” – Adam Greenfield, \u003cem\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Deeply researched, but also vibrantly and accessibly written, The End of Policing is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the dire state of policing today. Alex Vitale shows compellingly that as long as we ask the police to shore up a fundamentally unequal and dysfunctional social order, superficial ‘reforms’ won’t do much to help. And he offers concrete alternatives aimed at restoring communities and getting police out of the business of trying to contain social problems that they cannot—and should not—control.” – Elliott Currie, Professor, University of California, Irvine, author of \u003cem\u003eCrime and Punishment in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An extremely vital book on policing. Should be assigned at all police academies. If only the Philando Castile jurors had read this.” – Jeffrey Fagan, Director of Columbia Law School's Center for Crime, Community, and Law\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Challenging standard accounts of how to reform policing, Alex Vitale argues that true safety demands directing resources away from police and prisons and towards economic development, education, and drug treatment. Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it.” – James Forman Jr., Professor, Yale Law School and author of \u003cem\u003eLocking Up Our Own\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Unfortunately, neither increased diversity in police forces nor body cameras nor better training make any seeming difference. We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively.” – Rachel Kushner, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In a tightly constructed monograph filled with reform suggestions, Vitale decries the evolution of police agencies as tools of the white establishment to suppress dissatisfaction among the have-nots. A clearly argued, sure-to-be-controversial book.” – \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In a chapter on each issue, Vitale sets out the problem in depth, explores the liberal view of reforms that seek only to remove the worst excesses of police conduct and to restore the legitimacy of using force in the interests of society, and then offers ideas for alternatives.” – The Network for Police Monitoring\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Vitale’s amassing of trenchant facts into an enticing intellectual framework makes The End of Policing a must-read for anyone interesting in waging and winning the fight for economic and social justice.” – Michael Hirsch, \u003cem\u003eIndypendent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The End of Policing is that holiday argument book, the relatively brief stack of facts you can hand to a relative who still talks about those nice guys who helped out with the flat tire and doesn’t see why any lives have to matter more than they already do. A thorough rinsing of the American criminal justice system.” – Sasha Frere-Jones, \u003cem\u003e4 Columns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A welcome challenge to reformist thinking and a powerful argument against social and economic injustice, inequality and racism.” – \u003cem\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Suggests a radical alternative that, on the one hand, abolishes corrupt and lethal police policies designed to contain the racialised poor and, on the other, develops and sustains safer communities.” – \u003cem\u003eRace \u0026amp; Class\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Offers a convincing argument that the traditional roles played by police forces have been largely counter-productive.” – \u003cem\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A compelling critique of modern policing.” – Peter Stauber, \u003cem\u003ecounter fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175310504029,"sku":"9781784782924","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/endofpolicing.jpg?v=1654988463"},{"product_id":"paramilitarism-and-the-assault-on-democracy-in-haiti","title":"Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial and political backers, in Haiti but also in the United States and the Dominican Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe product of years of original research, this book draws on over fifty interviews—some of which placed the author in severe danger—and more than 11,000 documents secured through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. 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What comes through most clear are the lies and deceit of the U.S. government and other Western representatives, for whom ‘democracy’ is but a smokescreen for systematic and far-reaching efforts to prop up a decadent local elite, turn the country over to transnational capital, and repress through paramilitary terror any resistance to its plan for Haiti. This book is must reading for all those concerned with the political and paramilitary machinations of the new global capitalist order. It shows just how far the elites who dominate that order are willing to go to hold down the people of a tiny island nation that face one adversity after another and yet continues to struggle for freedom 200 years after they threw off the shackles of slavery and colonialism.\" William I. Robinson, professor of sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; author, \u003cem\u003eLatin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book offers the most substantial and detailed account yet written of the paramilitary insurgency that contributed to the internationally-sanctioned overthrow of Haiti’s constitutional government in 2004. Based on an impressive range of newly uncovered documents, the book provides a thorough and convincing analysis of this scandalously under-studied sequence, including a careful reconstruction of the struggle for power in the Haitian police force in 2000-2001, the Contra-style subversion campaign of 2003-2004, and the role played by the neighboring Dominican Republic. The result of this campaign more or less destroyed Haiti’s precarious democracy and crippled the country’s capacity to invest in its people or to respond to disaster; an understanding of the coup of 2004 and its consequences should remain central to any discussion of Haiti’s reconstruction today.\" Peter Hallward, professor of philosophy, Kingston University, London; author, \u003cem\u003eDamming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book offers a brilliant diagnosis of the history of political violence in Haiti. Jeb Sprague, who is a PhD student in Sociology, having interviewed some of the principal actors behind Haiti’s transitional period, brings to light many political events from 1990 to 2005. The book highlights the contemporary phenomenon of paramilitarism in Haiti and looks closely at the ways in which it was revived in the early 2000s. From the investigation of the role of paramilitarism in connection to the coup d’état occurring in 2004 to the election of Michel Martelly in 2011 and the return of Jean-Claude Duvalier, the author examines different elements attempting to keep democracy away from the Haitian people. Here’s a book that I will recommend everyone to read.\" Jean Sénat Fleury, Haitian investigating judge of the Raboteau massacre in Gonaïves, former instructor at Haiti’s National Police Academy (1995) and trainer and director of studies at the School for Magistrates (2002); author, \u003cem\u003eThe Challenges of Judicial Reform in Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"One might quibble about Jeb Sprague’s evaluation of Lavalas’s historical accomplishments, but one cannot deny that his book is a major and provocative contribution to our understanding of the travail of Haitian paramilitarism since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti is a must-read not only for Haitianists, but also for anyone interested in the processes of political destabilization and popular disempowerment.\" Robert Fatton, professor of politics, University of Virginia; author, \u003cem\u003eHaiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a crucial story. For too long, the role of paramilitarism in these events has been recognized but little studied… Sprague is not only concerned with internal Haitian politics, however. The author correctly asserts that Haiti’s battle for popular democracy was never isolated from the broader and profound changes in the Americas… the book reinforces the important point that the survival of progressive movements in the ever-shifting world of Haitian politics is a remarkable testament to the strength of their desire for full inclusion in a process that was set up to keep them out… [The] author does well to remind us why the conversation about Haiti’s recent political history clearly needs to continue.\" Matthew J. Smith, senior lecturer in history, University of West Indies, Mona; author, \u003cem\u003eRed and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is clear upon reading Jeb Sprague’s recounting of the last 20 years in Haiti that the violence had the consistent purpose of weakening the popular movement in its aspirations. The demands are nevertheless the same, and will so remain until such time when there is genuine economic and cultural integration in Haiti. As long as poverty remains structurally entrenched, so will political violence … Jeb’s book is a reminder of Haiti’s delicate nature, like a powder keg ready to explode at any minute. He reminds us that, unless the majority’s concerns are also on the list of policymakers’ priorities, Haiti will remain unstable.\" Hyppolite Pierre, adjunct faculty in political science, American Military University; author, \u003cem\u003eHaiti, Rising Flames from Burning Ashes: Haiti the Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is very disturbing … too important a book not to give as much exposure as possible.\" Norman Girvan, professor emeritus in Economics at the University of the West Indies; author, \u003cem\u003eCooperation in the Greater Caribbean: The Role of the Association of Caribbean States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sprague’s demonstrated expertise on the history of Haitian paramilitaries leaves little doubt that we are witnessing another attempt to turn back the clock by relegitimizing a military force whose wars have always been waged against Haiti’s majority poorest populations… [The author] waited six years to gain access to 11,000 U.S. embassy and State Department documents through the Freedom of Information Act, and he tirelessly catalogs and contextualizes the most salient information that could be gleaned from these documents… He knows that there are many who will resist his claims, and that the exhaustive work of documentation, contextualization, and the organization of events in a clear time line is crucial for his book to be heeded by skeptics… He has set the bar high for those who might seek to counter his claims. Focusing on a period in Haiti (2000-04) that coincides with the dawn of a post-9\/11 era in which truth has become a troublingly flexible concept, his book restores faith in the power of evidence and tireless research to prove what really happened.\" Valerie Kaussen, associate professor in romance languages and literatures, University of Missouri, Columbia; author, \u003cem\u003eMigrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What I have read is good. We need to expose young Haitians themselves to the analyses by foreign scholars who are in solidarity with the democratic struggle. 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Over the next several years, each of the ten cases slapped against him fell apart. At long last, Ferreira was acquitted of all charges. As he exited the prison, moments away from freedom, he was rearrested by plainclothes police. He never got to glimpse his family waiting for him just outside the prison gates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn stark and riveting detail, Ferreira recounts the horrors he faced in prison—torture, beatings, the general air of hopelessness—and the small consolations that kept hope alive—strikes and solidarity among inmates. His memoir is a timely reminder that across the globe policing and incarceration are institutions in desperate need of being dismantled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArun Ferreira, a human rights lawyer and member of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, was branded and arrested as the leader of the propaganda and communications wing of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2007. He was acquitted of all charges in 2014 only to be re-arrested in a coordinated police crackdown in 2018. 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His account of the ruinous effects of post-9\/11 anti-terror laws is instructive and applies far beyond the Indian context.” Nermeen Shaikh, Cohost of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Now!\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this chilling account of the uses and abuses of the law by agencies of the state, Arun Ferreira describes the harrowing treatment faced by political prisoners in an Indian prison today. Alongside, he provides a deeply moving story of the bonds of solidarity that develop between prisoners from widely separated groups and social strata. 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Anyone aware or affected should get the chance to hear from courageous people like Arun Ferreira; his stunning memoir reveals the poignant human texture as well as the political implications of his prison experience. The need for such bearing of witness has only grown more timely. For readers in the West concerned about the rise of global fascism, and especially young readers in the South Asian diaspora seeking connections between their political\/cultural contexts, accounts such as this one are crucial.” Maia Ramnath, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrior information of officers’ transfers was crucial to predicting our treatment in prison and was often the subject of discussion. Due to archaic prison rules, the subjective whims of prison officials ruled our lives. The power of these officials permeated every aspect of our lives. For instance, only the jailer of the yard could permit an inmate to write more than the single letter per month stipulated in the manual. These discretionary powers made daily life in prison extremely arbitrary. While one jailer would allow a visit to the library, another would ask for the superintendent’s permission to be obtained. While one would allow books and magazines to arrive by post, the other would not. The same went for the superintendent of the prison. While one superintendent encouraged me to pursue academics, his replacement created numerous obstacles. Hence, a reasonable officer on duty was an essential condition for a relatively peaceful incarceration. Transfers of officers would always upset this status quo and force one to get attuned to the desires and tastes of the new man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe new jailer assigned to our yard in place of Taksande was a young man who was very soon nicknamed Dabangg. Like the Bollywood character he was named after, this officer regularly trotted around the yard with his sleeves rolled up, swinging his baton. This became even more pronounced if a female jail employee or inmate was in sight. Dabangg would, at the slightest opportunity to prop up his macho image, immediately move into action and pounce fiercely on the nearest hapless victim. This would also be with an eye on making a quick buck from those concerned. A mobile phone unearthed, contraband seized, an urgent message to be passed on or cash to be received meant that Dabangg would collect protection money from all those concerned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf someone needed to be taught a lesson in discipline, Dabangg would not hesitate to unleash his belt. His style of quick action and apparent justice through such dealings made him popular with many inmates, especially the ones who could pay. Each jailer has his own set of cronies, inmates who would do the deals for extracting money from the victim. When a particular jailer ruled, his cronies had a free hand. 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Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/jackie-wang\" title=\"Jackie Wang\"\u003eJackie Wang\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/carceral-capitalism\" title=\"Carceral Capitalism\"\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As the world we know is shattering more rapidly than we might have ever imagined, comes \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, an urgent call to build the new. These pieces movingly remind us that liberation will not transpire solely through opposition; it demands radical inquiry, imagination, creation. This collection brilliantly illustrates a core truth: we don't need ‘alternatives to incarceration,’ we need a wildly recreated society in which incarceration is unthinkable. \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Words\u003c\/em\u003e will nourish and fuel struggles for transformation.” Maya Schenwar, author of \u003cem\u003eLocked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better\u003c\/em\u003e and coauthor with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e of P\u003cem\u003erison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Making Abolitionist Worlds is a rich and compelling mixed-genre collection of radical perspectives that makes an urgent contribution to abolitionist world-making. Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis—what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed!\" J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of \u003cem\u003eHawaiian Blood\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eParadoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Indigenous Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Abolition Collective\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolishing-carceral-society-abolition-a-journal-of-insurgent-politics\" title=\"Abolishing Carceral Society\"\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom. The pieces in this collection provoke new questions that inform resistance strategies, and deepen our understandings of the systems we are seeking to abolish and the social relations we are working to transform. This collection will be a profoundly useful tool in classrooms and activist groups. The conversation happening in Abolition is essential reading for those participating in the thorny, complex debates about how we dismantle structures of state violence and domination. The writers and artists whose work makes up the inaugural issue of Abolition, rigorously explore the most pressing questions emerging in liberation struggles.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. Many of the submissions, however, are less concerned with dismantling what exists than they are with taking seriously that abolition is a project interested in building and in practical organizing. This comes through particularly in David Turner's essay, among others. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e asks us some questions that we sometimes prefer to ignore, like ‘What does it mean to transform human relations?’ This inaugural issue from Abolition pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, founder of Project NIA, and cofounder of Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls \u0026amp; Young Women, and Love \u0026amp; Protect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Abolition is a crucial contribution to radical social movements. While fighting against prisons and the death penalty as instruments of class rule, the journal amplifies the voices of the incarcerated, actively engages with organizers on the ground, and builds bridges across multiple movements. The first issue, \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From slavery to prisons, abolition has always been a project of courage and breadth. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e brings to bear the reflective, transformative urgency needed to confront today's violent world order. Of the struggle, by the struggle, and for the struggle: this auspicious collection offers not answers but pathways down which contemporary abolitionists travel en route to a future freedom. Check out their words, scope their visions—heed their calls.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e continues the radical, democratic tradition started by abolitionists to speak truth to power. In these dismal political times, it is a matter of the greatest urgency to create and sustain a counter-public sphere and an alternative print culture to sustain and expand American democracy. This remarkable and inspiring advocacy journal is poised to do precisely that for democratic activists as well as the broader lay public.\" Manisha Sinha, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Abolition Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising, the collective seeks to bring radical perspectives to a wide readership within and beyond academe. With the publication of its inaugural issue we are treated to the very best of revolutionary analysis. Anybody interested in upending a carceral and colonial order will find plenty of inspiration here. Something we all need and do well to pass along.\" Steven Salaita, author of \u003cem\u003eInter\/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Abolition Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. It aims to combine an abolitionist message with a democratic production process that prioritizes participation of those directly affected by incarceration. What a welcome and needed approach! I am confident the project will help intellectuals build ties of solidarity across race, class, gender, nationality, and other borders that block liberation and in its finest moments will help teach us, as Mumia says, to ‘fight with light in our eyes.\" James Kilgore, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold journal mapping new roads out of the inferno in which we live. As the editors’ Manifesto tells us, ‘abolition’ is a key strategy out of our carceral, slave-like society—the prison being the pivotal place for the perpetuation of an unjust political system. But the journal also sheds light on the many ways in which we’re imprisoned beyond the prison’s walls. With scholarly articles, poems and artwork, in a beautifully designed text, it asks us to open our eyes and support a liberation struggle against jails and jailers.\" George Caffentzis, author of In \u003cem\u003eLetters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Blood For Oil: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle and War, 1998–2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175351169117,"sku":"9781942173175","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/making_abolitionist_worlds.jpg?v=1654988783"},{"product_id":"have-black-lives-ever-mattered","title":"Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn December 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHave Black Lives Ever Mattered?\u003c\/em\u003e, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country's black population. Applying a personal, historical, and political lens, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEyNDkwIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-new-jim-crow-mass-incarceration-in-the-age-of-colorblindness\" title=\"The New Jim Crow\"\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/a\u003e and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th .\" \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, Starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.' We want to shout: Of course they do! To you, especially. In this brilliant, painful, factual and useful book, we see to whom our lives have not mattered: the profit driven Euro-Americans who enslaved and worked our ancestors to death within a few years, then murdered them and boughtreplacements. Many of these ancestors are buried beneath Wall Street. Mumia Abu-Jamal's painstaking courage, truth-telling, and disinterest in avoiding the reality of American racial life is, as always, honorable.\" Alice Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Prophet, critic, historian, witness . . . Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most insightful and consequential intellectuals of our era. These razor sharp reflections on racialized state violence in America are the fire and the memory our movements need right now.\" Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mumia Abu Jamal's clarion call for justice and defiance of state oppression has never dimmed, despite his decades of being shackled and caged. He is one of our nation's most valiant revolutionaries and courageous intellectuals. \" Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eWages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Mumia's] writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently.\" Cornel West\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"He allows us to reflect upon the fact that transformational possibilities often emerge where we least expect them.\" Angela Y. Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMUMIA ABU-JAMAL is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books, \u003cem\u003eLive From Death Row\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeath Blossoms\u003c\/em\u003e, which address prison life from a critical and spiritual perspective. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists (Philadelphia chapter). That same year he was arrested for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982, in a process that has been described as an epic miscarriage of justice. In 2011, after spending more than 28 years on death row, his death sentence was vacated when the Supreme Court allowed to stand the decisions of four federal judges who had earlier declared his death sentence unconstitutional. He is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In spite of his three-decade-long imprisonment, most of which was spent in solitary confinement on Death Row, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. From prison he has written seven books and thousands of radio commentaries. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills. His books have sold more than 100,000 copies and have been translated into seven languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mumia Abu-Jamal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780872867383\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: City Lights\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"City Lights","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175352774749,"sku":"9780872867383","price":24.85,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/have_black_lives_ever_mattered.jpg?v=1654988797"},{"product_id":"we-still-here-pandemic-policing-protest-and-possibility","title":"We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable.” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the “pre-existing conditions” that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Marc Lamont Hill offers critical insights into the whirlwind pandemic and racism have reaped. We Still Here appears at a time of intense study and debate about how we got here—and, most importantly, how we get out. Politics, history, strategy, and tactics are all that our side has. Read this book and we’ll see you in the streets.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor\" title=\"Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\"\u003eKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003c\/a\u003e, author of From \u003cem\u003e#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Marc Lamont Hill doesn’t shy away from the difficult questions, and he is willing to tell the hard truth. In this powerful book, his insight and commitment to justice leap from every page. Read it, be informed, and feel fortified in these trying times. Hill models what Henry James called ‘perception at the pitch of passion.’” Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of \u003cem\u003eBegin Again \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“We Still Here is a brilliant, timely, and inspirational book. Marc Lamont Hill gives a critical intersectional analysis of what got us to the present moment, but also paints a beautiful picture of possibilities for the future. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue, followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs this issue goes to print – almost a full year after our last – European countries boil in a General Strike, Occupy Sandy Relief challenges the US government for primacy in disaster relief, and the Strike Debt Campaign launches a Rolling Jubilee, seeking to buy up and write off Americans’ bad debts. Coordination, organization, struggle. The success of the Québec student strike that kicked off 2012 came on the heels of 2011’s Occupy movement, demonstrations against Scott Walker’s union busting, and the energy of the Arab Spring; we are seeing collusions and collisions between spontaneity and organization play out – the dialectical back and forth that Rosa Luxemburg theorized almost a century ago. Coordination and organization are needed to pull off a cross-continent day of strikes and protests; structure is required for a months-long province-wide student strike; energy, spontaneity, and creativity are needed to make these events visible, to capture the popular imagination, and to push disparate actions into a revolutionary movement. How do activists conceive of spontaneity and organization? How does the interplay between the two move us closer to a sustainable revolutionary movement? We ask these questions in our editorial, seeking to understand what it would take to use spontaneity and organization for truly revolutionary ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur interviews section begins with Robert Nichols speaking to lawyer, professor, and activist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e about critical trans politics and an appropriately strategic interface with the law. We then turn to Susie Day’s conversation with Josh MacPhee and Laura Whitehorn about the historical and contemporary roles of political art in social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are two articles in this issue: the first, by Ross Wolfe, takes on a key debate in left theory and struggle: the interrelated concepts of resistance, reform, and revolution. By understanding the historical lineages of these ideas, he attempts to better understand the converging role they play in the present. Next, Andalusia Knoll argues that activists should draw lessons from the of the 1999 student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Though the strike was ostensibly defeated, Knoll demonstrates that scattered throughout the campus remains an important infrastructure through which movements continue to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe next section is unique to this issue: we present highlights from Élise Thorburn’s extensive interviews with key activists involved in the Québec student strike. To our knowledge, this is the first English-language account of how activists built one of the most formidable movements in North America, detailing some of its internal debates and strategies. The interviews took place in May 2012, during some of the strike’s most catalyzing struggles. While much has changed since then, these interviews provide insight into how activists understood their movement, where it came from, and where they hoped it would go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo and half years ago, more than a thousand people were arrested in Toronto during the anti-G20 protests. While most charges were dropped, 17 activists were pursued as the movement’s “ringleaders.” After accepting a plea deal, six of the co-accused spent or are spending considerable time behind bars, while the others saw their charges dropped after living for more than a year under harsh bail conditions. Tom Keefer and Sharmeen Khan spoke with three of these activists: Mandy Hiscocks, Alex Hundert, and Johanna Adamiak. Taken together, their interviews present a debate on the import of black bloc tactics, state infiltration, activism behind bars, and the lessons we can take from the anti-summit mobilization and its fallout. Finally, we have book reviews: Neil Balan on Ilan Pappe’s Out of the Frame and Joshua Stephens on Gabriel Kuhn’s \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublishing a journal collectively and autonomously isn’t easy. After the launch of Issue 13, the UTA Editorial Committee decided to pause and undertake a restructuring process during the winter and spring of 2012. Over this time we thought a lot about how the project could better function as a tool for our readership and the broader movement. In response to feedback from our readers and comrades, we strategized ways of producing content more frequently and intentionally. While our dreams became more ambitious, our capacity diminished radically. Two of our senior editors, Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson, left the project at the start of the new year. One of UTA’s founders, Aidan Conway, and another long-time editor, Kelly Fritsch, were on leave for Issue 13 and subsequently decided that they could not return to the Editorial Committee. Lorenzo Fiorito, who joined us for Issue 13, also left to pursue other projects. The experience and skill of these editors has been invaluable to UTA. They are sorely missed, but we’re excited to see what’s in store for them. Finally, Tom Keefer is on an indefinite leave from the journal, but continues to assist with technical and administrative work. While our high hopes for producing a monthly pamphlet series remain unrealized, we continue to make it our priority to produce a high-quality printed journal with timely and rigorous analysis for those engaged in radical left struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo that end, we’ve changed the structure of our Advisory Board. In order to make engagement more effective, we’ve reduced its size and limited members’ terms. With this change, we say goodbye to many board members whose contributions have been invaluable: Kheya Bag, Honor Brabazon, Bryan Doherty, Eton Harris, Heather Hax, Chris Hurl, Chandra Kumar, Mike Leitold, Tyler McCreary, Shourideh Molavi, Garth Mullins, David Shulman, Kim Smith, Kalin Stacy, and Lesley Wood. We wish them the very best. Remaining on our Advisory Board are Kieran Aarons, Rob Butz, Chris Dixon, Mandy Hiscocks, David Hugill, Karl Kersplebedeb, PJ Lilley, Thomas Nail, Scott Neigh, Robert Nichols, Robyn Maynard, Ander Reszczynski-Negrazis, and Brett Story, who have provided us with crucial support in producing Issue 14.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are pleased to announced that Irina Ceric has joined the Editorial Committee, and that we have our first Associate Editor: Toban Black, who lives in Kitchener, Ontario. If you’re interested in joining the project, please visit our website or email us for details on how to apply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur commitment to independence means that we are entirely reliant on subscribers, sustainers, and donors. We urge you to subscribe or, even better, sign up to make a monthly donation as a sustainer; we wouldn’t be here without your continued support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we are eager to receive pitches for our next issue. Please send them to us no later than the end of January 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope that Issue 14 proves a pleasurable, provocative read – and we look forward to your feedback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor a revolutionary tomorrow,\u003cbr\u003e\nTom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, Élise Thorburn, and Simon Wallace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEditors’ Note: We were much saddened to hear the news of Neil Smith’s death in September 2012. His work was influential to many of us on the Editorial Committee and Advisory Board, and we remain deeply thankful for his support of UTA. He will be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLETTERS TO THE EDITOR\u003cbr\u003e\nPrison Abolition and \"Sex Crimes\" - Vikki Law\u003cbr\u003e\nIt's More Than a Class Thing When We Deal with Class Struggle - Ajamu Nangwaya\u003cbr\u003e\nCopwatching Everywhere - Alex Stearns\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Law's Fundamentally Violent Character - Irina Ceric\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEDITORIALS\u003cbr\u003e\nNotes on Spontaneity and Organization - Elise Thorburn, Adrie Naylor, and Robyn Letson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\nOccupying Then and Now: An Interview with Josh MacPhee and Laura Whitehorn - Susie Day\u003cbr\u003e\nToward a Critical Trans Politics: An Interview with Dean Spade - Rob Nichols\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eARTICLES\u003cbr\u003e\nTake it Back and Keep it: Strikes, Autonomy, and Legacy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico - Andalusia Knoll\u003cbr\u003e\nResistance, Reform, Revolution: Revisiting the Terms of Debate - Ross Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eROUNDTABLES\u003cbr\u003e\nOrganizing Against the G20 in Toronto: Interview with the Co-Accused\u003cbr\u003e\nSquarely in the Red: Dispatches from the 2012 Quebec Student Strike\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\nRadical Discipline - Joshua Stephens\u003cbr\u003e\nNot a Bunker But an Act - Neil Balan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175373025373,"sku":"UTA 14","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/uta-14_340_560_s_c1.jpg?v=1654988945"},{"product_id":"upping-the-anti-17-august-2015","title":"Upping the Anti #17 (August 2015)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe August 2015 issue of this journal of radical theory and practice, produced by anticapitalists in canada. Here is the editors' introduction to this issue, followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2015, as we prepare to release Issue 17 of Upping the Anti, there is no shortage of examples of global resistance to systems of oppression and exploitation. The Black Lives Matter movement initiated global protests and vigils against anti-Black racism, and racist police and judicial systems. While transgender people are still targeted and murdered on a daily basis, the oppression of transgender people is gradually starting to be featured in mainstream media outlets and confronted within movements. Indigenous people and warriors and their supporters continue to resist colonization in the form of resource extraction, the murder and disappearance of Indigenous women, and through settler-colonial legal regimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile inspiring examples of resistance are manifold, systems of oppression and exploitation continue unabated, signifying the depth and breadth of work that remains for us. The outpouring of Islamophobia during the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ debacle charged racial hatred throughout Europe and North America, resulting in more attacks on Muslim and Arab institutions, communities, and bodies. The rising tide of bigotry is further fuelled by the growing assault on nations in the Middle East in the name of ‘the war on terror,’ while the thousands murdered by colonial and tyrannical regimes in Palestine and Syria continue to be ignored. In Canada expanding xenophobic migration policies have locked up thousands of people without trial or due process in a system of indefinite detention, and international resource extraction pipelines are approved even as climate collapse grows ever more imminent. We fiercely resist, but at times it feels as though we barely make a dent. In this, Upping the Anti’s 17th issue, we strive to continue our tradition of bringing you a set of intertwining readings that, together, reflect upon our shared resistances to global systems of exploitation and oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an age that has seen the rise of digital media and dwindling attention spans, it is no small feat to keep publishing radical print media. With Issue 17 we celebrate 10 years of publication. Our successes in this long decade are due to the hard work of our editorial collective and advisory board, but also in huge part to your submissions, subscriptions, donations, and readership. Without readers and writers we would be a small project indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur 10th year has been a difficult one, with many setbacks. Although we increased our fundraising and tabling efforts over the winter, we were also robbed of a huge sum of our money from these endeavours, setting us back an issue. Our online fundraising plea helped rally our spirits, as the response to recover the funds and allow us to publish was overwhelming. Though it has been a challenge dealing with these setbacks, we are happy to present you with Issue 17.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe past few months have seen some members leave our collective, only to see a new batch of volunteers join. Sadly, Cara Fabre has resigned as an editor as she takes on other political projects and work. We also bid founding editor Tom Keefer goodbye, who submitted his own resignation recently. Tom Keefer started the journal ten years ago with Aidan Conway and Sharmeen Khan, putting in personal resources, a great deal of labour, and vision for the project. But in the midst of these resignations we have welcomed Devin Clancy and Jasmine to the editorial collective. We also welcome Karl Gardner as a new associate editor and Thomas Saczowski onto the advisory board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIssue 17 begins with our editorial, which investigates the role of international solidarity and the connections between the local and the global. We begin by questioning the political moment in terms of international solidarity, situating the moment historically. By looking at various examples from communist and anarchist traditions, as well as from contemporary efforts, we work through the possibilities of reviving the connections between local and international struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview section starts out with narratives of Indigenous sovereignty and resisting resource extraction from Freda Huson and Toghestiy of the Unist’ot’en Camp. Next, Sheila Sampath, Nicole Cohen, and Melinda Mattos from Shameless Magazine discuss ten years of radical print publication as a feminist magazine for girls and trans* youth. We then have an interview with Seattle revolutionary and media maker Sensei Gregory C. Lewis on his role in documenting Black Lives Matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our articles section, Sedge Ruiz and Alexander Reid Ross discuss contradictions in ‘green’ capitalism in their article “Energizing the Climate Movement.” In “Gaza, Lynchings and the Genocidal Logics of Settler Colonialism,” Linda Tabar offers analysis of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in the summer of 2014. She cites examples of the escalation of white settler colonial violence perpetrated against Palestinian native life and the pressing urgency of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe importance of BDS is similarly highlighted in this issue’s roundtables section. Greg Shupak leads a conversation with activists from Canada, the US, and Palestine on the tactics, victories, and criticisms of BDS as a strategy in the Palestine solidarity movement – especially following the 2014 Gaza attacks. Following this roundtable is a conversation led by Scott Price on oral history and its importance to radical movements across North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our book review section, Tyler McCreary covers Chris Dixon’s new book, \u003cem\u003eAnother Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements\u003c\/em\u003e, a thorough overview of North American anti-authoritarian resistance in which Dixon offers insights on autonomy, self-determination, and grassroots community organizing. Craig Fortier reviews Glen Sean Coulthard’s \u003cem\u003eRed Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition\u003c\/em\u003e in which Coulthard reveals the politics of recognition and reconciliation as yet another mode of settler colonialism and emphasizes the need to supplant colonial attacks with Indigenous resurgence and sovereignty. The issue finishes with Jenna M. Loyd’s review of \u003cem\u003eUndocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention\u003c\/em\u003e by Tings Chak, a Toronto architect and community organizer, who lays bare the interiors and exteriors of Canadian migrant detention. With a mix of graphic and analytical content, Undocumented reveals how spaces of detention attempt to bolster the divide between free\/unfree, status\/non-status, legal\/illegal. We are also very grateful to Tings Chak for providing us with Issue 17’s amazing cover art depicting themes from Undocumented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, UTA strives to cover topics that pique our readers’ interests and to continue to inspire debate about the systems that structure our worlds and the ways we resist them. We strive to publish your letters on the previous issues’ content in order to continue generating discussions on dismantling and replacing oppressive systems. Please consider sustaining us with donations, endorsements, and advertising, or with your ideas by submitting a pitch or a letter relating to the content of Issue 17 for our next issue. The pitch deadline for any content will be September 15, 2015. Please visit www.uppingtheanti.org for more information on submission deadlines and guidelines, and on the many ways to contribute to Upping the Anti. We are also looking for new editorial members in the Toronto area or associate editors and advisory board members if you want to help with the project outside of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThank you to all our contributors, sustainers, editors, and advisors. It has been a challenging year for UTA and this issue wouldn’t have been possible without your support, strength, and wisdom: Jillian Tobin, Geordie Dent, Tyler McCreary, Megan Hope, Natalia Saavedra, Ayesha Basit, Tom Keefer, Joanna Adamiak, Anabel Khoo, Adrie Naylor, Nate Prier, Salmaan Khan, Maija Duncan and Manuel Marqués-Bonilla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope you enjoy your read, and continue to support Upping the Anti as we enter a new decade of alternative print media!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn struggle and solidarity,\u003cbr\u003e\nJasmine, Devin Clancy, Lindsay Hart Sharmeen Khan, Amelia Spedaliere, and Elise Thorburn\u003cbr\u003e\nToronto, August 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEditorial: What Are We Waiting For? Rethinking Internationalism and Localism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\nCan’t Even Slow This Down - Ten Years of Feminist Print with Shameless Magazine: Interviews with Nicole Cohen, Melinda Mattos, and Sheila Sampath - Elise Thorburn\u003cbr\u003e\nIndigenous Sovereignty Fuels Pipeline Resistance: An Interview with Freda Huson and Toghestiy of the Unist’ot’en Camp - Amani Khalfan\u003cbr\u003e\nCities On Fire: Reporting From Ferguson and Black Lives Matter: An interview with Sensei Gregory C. Lewis - Sharmeen Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eARTICLES\u003cbr\u003e\nGaza, Lynchings, and the Genocidal Logics of Settler Colonialism - Linda Tabar\u003cbr\u003e\nEnergizing the Climate Movement - Sedge Ruiz and Alexander Reid Ross\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eROUNDTABLES\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the Kitchen Table to the Barricade: Oral History \u0026amp; Social Change, with Nassim Elbardouh, Sarah Loose, and Dan Kerr\u003cbr\u003e\nIncredible Breakthroughs \u0026amp; Major Challenges: A Roundtable on Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS), with Lisa Taraki, Chandni Desai, Max Ajl, and Lisa Hajjar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\nUndocumented: Making State Violence \u0026amp; Professional Complicity Visible - Jenna Loyd\u003cbr\u003e\nResurgence not Recognition - Craig Fortier\u003cbr\u003e\nCritique and Experimentation: Anti-Authoritarian Organizing Strategies in Anglo-America - Tyler McCreary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175373058141,"sku":"UTA 17","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/uta-17_340_560_s_c1.jpg?v=1654988950"},{"product_id":"a-world-without-police-how-strong-communities-make-cops-obsolete","title":"A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf police are the problem, what’s the solution? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e transcribes these new ideas—written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades—into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompellingly argued and lyrically charged,\u003cem\u003e A World Without Police \u003c\/em\u003eoffers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlso available in \u003ca href=\"leftwingbooks.net\/products\/a-world-without-police-how-strong-communities-make-cops-obsolete-pb\"\u003epaperback\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Grounded in a powerful narrative of the massive 2020 Black Lives Matter led protests of a police murder in Minneapolis that enveloped the world, scholar-activist Geo Maher moves to and from the historical roots of policing in the institutions of slave patrols, border guards, settler colonialism, and capitalism. This is a book that readers will want to carry around, returning to passages for inspiration.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAn Indigenous People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From the ashes of the Third Precinct, Geo Maher looks for what grows when the deadly shadow of the police is removed. He writes an urgent history of the present. The ingredients of white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism are baked into the cake called America, especially the institution of the police. You can’t unbake that cake. Maher contends creating a world without police is not only possible, but necessary.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/nick-estes\" title=\"Nick Estes\"\u003eNick Estes\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/our-history-is-the-future-standing-rock-versus-the-dakota-access-pipeline-and-the-long-tradition-of-indigenous-resistance\" title=\"Our History Is the Future\"\u003eOur History Is the Future\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e is provocative in the best possible ways: It dares the reader to imagine a future only without policing, but shorn of the capitalism and white supremacy that refashions a public in the image of the police. It situates the carceral and coercive institutions in the US within broader global currents of imperial violence. And it demands that we together build strong, antiracist, and egalitarian communities that can defend themselves here and across national boundaries.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sinews-of-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula\" title=\"Laleh Khalili\"\u003eLaleh Khalili\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Geo rips away the band-aid of liberal police reform to expose the open wound of racism, colonialism, and economic exploitation at the heart of capitalism and its police and shows us that healing that wound will require deep global transformations rooted in community empowerment.” Alex Vitale, author of \u003cem\u003eEnd of Policing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Stunning in conception. Forceful in argument. Expert in proposing remedies. In sum, this is a book that must not only be read—but studied.” Gerald Horne, author of \u003cem\u003eFire This Time \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“No reasonable person can read this book and still believe police are good for us. Geo Maher proves on every single page that ‘\u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e’ is no utopia but a concrete necessity if we want to preserve life and make our communities safer. And he shows us precisely how it could be done. Take this book everywhere. Read, share, act; defund, disarm, abolish. ” Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Maher’s prose, trenchant and unapologetic, helps us write a poetry of abolition.” Tyler Wall, author of \u003cem\u003ePolice: A Field Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A thesis sure to stir plenty of controversy but worthy of discussion.” \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A clear-sighted and passionate case for abolition that is ultimately an argument for changing the world as we know it. Maher’s work is steeped in historical understanding and revolutionary insight, but it is, above all, determinedly hopeful and humane in its vision of another way of living together that is absolutely possible.” Priyamvada Gopal, author of \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Empire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Thanks to the tireless organizing work of the ‘stubborn agitators, zealots, and fanatics of the best sort’ who inspire Geo Maher, police abolition is an increasingly widespread political demand. \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e dismantles every argument cops and their supporters offer to defend our present world with police, incisively detailing their flaws and falsehoods. In our future world without police, Maher’s persuasive book will serve as the institution’s autopsy report.” Stuart Schrader, author of \u003cem\u003eBadges Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Geo Maher not only demonstrates definitively that police serve a wealthy white elite and don’t protect us, but also illuminates the path toward abolishing policing. By describing concrete local and global experiments in grassroots resistance, he brings clarity to how community organizing works tactically and politically to make policing obsolete. \u003cem\u003eA World without Police\u003c\/em\u003e offers inspiring assurance that we can achieve the vision embodied in its title.” Dorothy Roberts, author, \u003cem\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShattered Bonds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e, Geo Maher considers modern day abolitionist movements against policing. Through the flames of the 2020 uprisings, he illuminates a long history of abolitionist struggles for freedom, for democracy, and for the radical transformation of the world. An urgent text for our times.” Christina Heatherton, editor of \u003cem\u003ePolicing the Planet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA World without Police\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the unfinished business of ‘abolition democracy’ in the twenty-first century. Amidst a cycle of rebellion, Geo Maher deftly illuminates how policing is a ‘racket.’ The power to transform society, he argues, lies in the visions of radical democratic movements to abolish the police. ” Jordan Camp, author of\u003cem\u003e Incarcerating the Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is the ‘thin blue line’ if not a border, writes Geo Maher in his terrific new book \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e. In nine beautifully written chapters, he takes us on a terrifying tour of that border, reminding us that cops have never engaged in law enforcement, crime fighting, or public safety. The claim by cops and police reformists that policing secures democracy and civilization against savagery and barbarism is a cruel lie that hides a sadistic police history of white supremacist violence against the poor. We’ll never be free as long as cops patrol our streets, and Geo Maher’s book helps light our way in our struggle to build a world free from the plague of police.” David Correia, author of \u003cem\u003ePolice: A Field Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An essential introduction to the case for abolishing the police.” \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e, [Maher] advocates for police abolition alongside community safety.” \u003cem\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/em\u003e (“75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer”)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Geo Maher\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781839760051\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175376859229,"sku":"9781839760051","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/aworldwithoutpolice_16e58654-898b-487b-b8a5-2ac416c9b5ea.jpg?v=1779564300"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/collections\/throwingrock2.jpg?v=1652123587","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/collections\/policing-repression.oembed?page=13","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}