From Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages. This article is the fourth in a series about prison expansion in Ontario that starts here.
abolition
Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages: Fighting Against Recuperation
Against Carceral Communism, For Abolition Communism!
From Haters Cafe
Written for Haters Magazine by Simoun Magsalin. To be featured in the forthcoming second issue. Zine version will be available when we finish it.
TOTW: Imagine abolition
“Anarchism” is just a name
From Freedom Press UK
a review of Anarchism and the Black Revolution and The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
William C. Anderson on The Nation on No Map
This week we are really pleased to feature Scott conducting an interview with author and activist William C. Anderson about his new book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition which is out now from AK Press. In this interview they speak on the book and its many facets, and Black anarchism more broadly, some of the failures of euro-centric and white anarchism, and many many more topics.
Abolitionism & the Threat of Reformism
from It's Going Down
An Online Panel Hosted by Forest City Anarchists
Announcing an online forum on abolitionism and the threat of reformism. Hosted by Forest City Anarchists.
On Saturday October 23rd at 7PM EST, join us on Twitch for a live discussion about abolitionism, the threat of reformism, and how it all relates to the state. We have several guests lined up to cover these topics and then follow up by answering questions from the audience.
State of War
via It's Going Down
State of War, an Excerpt from “The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism & Abolition” by William C. Anderson
Saying “stop killing us” and asking an oppressor not to oppress is not going to work. Taking the life of the system we’re up against through abolition is much more complex than simply fighting people in the streets
Melting Mountains of Ice
from Center for a Stateless Society
by Jason Lee Byas
The following is one of three introductions for the upcoming C4SS anthology TOTAL ABOLITION: Police, Prisons, Borders, Empire and is being published here as a teaser for the book.
Madness, Disability, and Abolition
From IGD
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with the author of the text, Madness, Disability, and Abolition, a two part series that ran on It’s Going Down which explored the history of the criminalization of madness and mapped out what an abolitionist approach might look like, along with examples of projects already being put into place.
Madness, Disability and Abolition
The primordial mutiny of anarcho-Blackness
via Roar Magazine
Anarcho-Blackness is a qualitative shift of what anarchism is and does, describing the insurgency that defines the abolition of hierarchy and the state.