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The End of Policing
Racialized police violence is a permenant feature of policing. Police reform NEVER ends police violence.
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Police: A Field Guide
An illustrated survival manual for encounters with cops.
Abolition and Black Struggle
The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.
Fighting Broken Windows Policing in NYC in the '90s and '00s
A recent history of broken windows policing with Joo-Hyun Kang, director of Communities United for Police Reform.
A Reignited Spirit: Black Women’s Lives in Britain
Lola Okolosie's Foreword to The Heart of the Race: a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism.
Tear gas: from the battlefield to the streets
In this excerpt from Tear Gas, Anna Feigenbaum describes the history of the Himsworth Report, used by governments around the world to justify the use of tear gas.
The real definition of the word "Curfew"
Policing is itself a kind of endless curfew. To the defenders of order, there are always fires that need covering because there is always disorder lurking in the populace, threatening to burn the system down.
66 Days
It took just 66 days to get from the first shelter-in-place order to the first riot. Joshua Clover writes on the current protests and riots that have sprung up in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and their context at a time of economic and social crisis.
Black Panthers’ United Front against Fascism conference
An account of the Black Panthers’ United Front against Fascism (UFAF) conference in August 1969 that appeared in the Old Mole, a paper of the Students for a Democratic Society.
There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches
An urgent collection of essays on the global pandemic, from n+1 and Verso Books.
Out of the Verso archive
... and back in print! From Stuart Hall to Ellen Meiksins Wood, stock up on these classic works of theory and politics. All 40% off until June 9th.
