Archive of A Critical Theory of Police Power

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

Featuring Walter Rodney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Theodor Adorno, Erik Olin Wright, Nancy Fraser, and Benedict Anderson.

An excerpt from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's new essay collection.

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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. 

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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.