Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding…

If you like book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you'r…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

Buy this book on Amazon
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

Buy this book on Amazon
Forest of Noise: Poems

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the c…
Buy this book on Amazon
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominate…
Buy this book on Amazon
Washington Bullets

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and…
Buy this book on Amazon
Discourse on Colonialism

This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbea…
Buy this book on Amazon
Assata: An Autobiography

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Buy this book on Amazon
Radical Intimacy

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism.

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' mean…
Buy this book on Amazon
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, bei…
Buy this book on Amazon
On Palestine

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinian…
Buy this book on Amazon
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class…
Buy this book on Amazon
Orientalism

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this…
Buy this book on Amazon
Blood in My Eye

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, G…
Buy this book on Amazon
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and clima…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future

The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved…
Buy this book on Amazon
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Buy this book on Amazon
The End of Policing

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversa…
Buy this book on Amazon