Archive of Policing the Planet

A reading list for breaking police power.

Challenge your imposed reading.

Featuring Priya Gopal, Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie and more.

40% off our May Day reading! Includes new reading from Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, McKenzie Wark, and Andreas Malm.

Connections between patriarchy, policing, and the failures of representational politics were brought into sharp focus last weekend by police violence at the vigil for Sarah Everard.

Our top 20 books on activism and anti-capitalist resistance, the perfect introduction to left politics.

Policing is many things and all of them are about mobility. Police arrest mobility through traffic stops and checkpoints, interrupt mobility with borders and curfews, monitor mobility by helicopter or camera, force mobility by firing tear gas or sending in police dogs.

A report on the history and present day reality of police violence in India.

Key titles on activism and global resistance, from movements for Black liberation and climate justice to labor organizing and anti-colonial struggles.

'From colonialism to apartheid and through to contemporary South Africa, it is the threat presented by the masses which means they need to be permanently contained, and this remains the enduring imperative of policing practices.'