The Actuality of Abolition
A new book by Geo Maher makes a forceful case for the necessity of building strong communities that can abolish the police.
Book Reviews
Nation of Immigrants or Settler Colonialism?
A new book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz shows how the myth of a “nation of immigrants” has been used to erase the history of Indigenous peoples in the US.
Jailbreak of Disability
The abolitionist movement stands to gain key lessons from mass deinstitutionalization, argues Liat Ben-Moshe's latest book.
How Wall Street Trapped American Cities
City budgets are key targets of local organizing and Defund campaigns, but cities themselves are bound by much larger financial forces. A recent book by Destin Jenkins details how cities became trapped by banks and credit rating agencies intent on austerity and racism.
A Broadened Sense of Abolition
Our understanding of innocence, guilt, victims, and criminals shapes the worlds we are able to build. New books by Mariame Kaba and Harsha Walia pry open political possibilities.
License to Loot
Vicky Osterweil’s new book, In Defense of Looting, provides a robust defense of uncivil disobedience and its potential for both radicalizing and exacting change. By dodging the essential issue of organization, however, it leaves many questions unanswered.
A Central Cog of Racist Order
Simon Balto's Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power tells the racist history and development of the Chicago Police Department.
Bohrer’s loving, fuming critique
Ashley Bohrer’s Marxism and Intersectionality is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh.