Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day, Shanice Octavia McBean An abolitionist manifesto for everyone fighting for revolution FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description **Winner of the Bread and Roses Prize 2024****Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023**George Floyds murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly after, Sarah Everards murder by a serving police officer sparked a national abolitionist movement in Britain. But to abolish the police, prisons and borders, we must confront the legacy of Empire.Abolition Revolution is a guide to abolitionist politics in Britain, drawing out rich histories of resistance from rebellion in the colonies to grassroots responses to carceral systems today. The authors argue that abolition is key to reconceptualising revolution for our times - linking it with materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class struggle, internationalist solidarity and anti-colonialism.Perfect for reading groups and activist meetings, this is an invaluable book for those new to abolitionist politics - whilst simultaneously telling a passionate and authoritative story about the need for abolition and revolution in Britain and globally. Author Biography Aviah Sarah Day is a Black community organiser with Sisters Uncut and Hackney Cop Watch. The rest of her time is spent lecturing in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London, organising in her trade union branch, and reflecting on how to build workers power through anarcho-syndicalism.Shanice Octavia McBean is a Black writer and activist in Sisters Uncut. She grew up in Handsworth, Birmingham, before moving to Tottenham. Describing herself as a revolutionary and Afro-Marxist, she has also organised in anti-racist groups and trade unions. Table of Contents IntroductionThesis 1. A national abolitionist movement has erupted in Britain. Abolition is a tool to reimagine revolutionary politics.Thesis 2. Our journey to abolition in Sisters Uncut was long and bumpy: abolition is a road, not a destination!Part 1 - The Tools of Police PowerThesis 3. Race is at the heart of policing; without race policing cant function. Dismantling the police means dismantling race.Thesis 4. The police need public consent in order to exist. Withdrawing our consent brings us closer to abolition.Thesis 5. Coercion and control are the tactics of abusers, and coercing and controlling the working class is the job of the police. Abolition is class struggle!Thesis 6. Women have always experienced the sharp end of state violence: if your feminism is carceral, its bullshit.Part 2 - Roots In Empire: The History of Criminalisation and ResistanceThesis 7. Class struggle in the 18th century sparked a prison abolitionist fire. Abolition is nothing new.Thesis 8. The UK rehearsed its strategies of control and punishment in the colonies. Abolition continues anti-colonial and class struggle in Britain today.Part 3 - Systems of Criminalisation TodayThesis 9. From student revolt to urban rebellion, abolition must harness the radical energy of our youth!Thesis 10. Bordering and policing protects colonial, imperialist and capitalist wealth. Open borders is abolition and abolition is open borders!Thesis 11. From the streets to the cell block incarcerated people have organised to resist state violence.Thesis 12. The War on Terror expanded policing powers into everyday institutions. Fighting Islamophobic racism is central to abolitionist struggle.Thesis 13. Capitalist crisis, neoliberalism and gentrification drive racist gangs policing in Black communities. Abolition is a struggle against the whole system!Part 4 - Abolitionist FuturesThesis 14. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities have led fierce resistance to state violence. Abolition must unite different struggles.Thesis 15. Crime is a social construct, but harm is real. Revolution is an essential ingredient to building transformative approaches to harm from the community level up.Thesis 16. Revolution needs you…Part 5 - Symposium: Abolition in the UK Review A powerful analysis of the transformative potential of the abolitionist project. Day and McBean show why we must go beyond shifting a few dollars around to directly challenge the logics of capitalism, racism and patriarchy at the heart of the carceral state -- Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of PolicingVibrantly chronicles the cultural and political landscape of abolitionist practices in the UK. Day and McBean weave a powerful array of analysis, histories and voices - from organisers, scholars, unionists and/or incarcerated people - to offer profoundly necessary historical lessons that formulate the pathways that shape our abolition feminist revolutions -- Erica R. Meiners, co-author of Abolition. Feminism. Now.Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean speak with such eloquence, conviction and passion that readers will want to join their struggle for abolition revolution. Their trenchant and concrete analysis of the criminalisation of the Black and Asian youth, of carceral white bourgeois feminism, gentrification, police and state violence make essential reading. Lets heed their call for an abolitionist future -- Francoise Vergès, author of A Decolonial FeminismNot only does this superlative book expertly dismantle the dogmas of liberal anti-racism and carceral feminism which reproduce the systems of power, it also points the way forward to a post-abolitionist future in a meticulous, clear-headed way. Highly recommended -- Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the WitchA thorough, engaging and important read - that held me through new information whilst never sacrificing depth. Im so glad this book exists! -- Travis Alabanza, award winning writer, performer and theatre makerAn essential contribution to the debate on strategies for effective political action against systems of criminalisation. A must for read for activists and those who seek a deeper understanding of the development of international abolitionist movement and its relevance to radical and revolutionary politics today -- Leila Howe, founding member of the Race Today CollectiveAn energising, and timely contribution to global debates about abolition and the growing interest in the UK in building on the organising and resistance to state violence and challenging the racism, misogyny and harms of policing and incarceration. A book to help us imagine and develop a world without carceral injustice but transformative social and racial justice. -- Deborah Coles, Director of INQUESTThis book adds to the excellent emerging literature about police, prison and border abolition in a UK specific context. Abolition Revolution is very special because McBean and Day combine deep theoretical and historical knowledge with practical organising experience, specifically in the context of violence against women and austerity. If you feel that there must be a better way to deal with harm and violence then this book is for you. -- Yara Rodrigues Fowler, GuardianAmazing! -- A reviewer Review Quote Vibrantly chronicles the cultural and political landscape of abolitionist practices in the UK. Day and McBean weave a powerful array of analysis, histories and voices - from organisers, scholars, unionists and/or incarcerated people - to offer profoundly necessary historical lessons that formulate the pathways that shape our abolition feminist revolutions Erica R. Meiners, co-author of Abolition. Feminism. Now. Details ISBN0745346529 Publisher Pluto Press Series FireWorks Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0745346529 ISBN-13 9780745346526 Format Hardcover Series Number 7 Imprint Pluto Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 320 Author Shanice Octavia McBean Birth 1861 Death 1928 Affiliation Guru Nanak Dev University, India Position Translator Qualifications MSW, PhD Publication Date 2022-11-01 AU Release Date 2022-11-01 NZ Release Date 2022-11-01 UK Release Date 2022-11-01 Alternative 9780745346519 DEWEY 303.484 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161824481;

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