Archive of The End of Policing

A reading list for breaking police power.

Utopian thinking for a different world.

This year you call them family, next year call them comrade. 10 books for the young relatives!

Books that deal with the rise of fascism around the world, and how to defend ourselves against it.

Books that terrify the far-right!

Arm yourself with radical manifestos and revolutionary theory for a summer of struggle. ALL books are 40% off through the end of June.

The demand to 'Defund the Police' has been under criticism, either for being out of step with public opinion or miring the rebellious potential of last summer in obscure skirmishes over municipal budgets. Here, Kay Gabriel lays out the strategic wager of campaigning to defund the police, recording the political utility of the demand and accounting for the further organizing that it requires. 

Introducing this week's Verso Roundtable, analysing the movement for police and prison abolition a year on from last summer's protests. 

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.