A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Abolitionists must actively show their solidarity with the Palestinian people, call for an immediate end to the Israeli military attacks, and urge the end of the occupation of Palestine as a key demand of the global abolitionist movement.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

An event reflecting on the killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk by a police officer in Nanterre (France), its embeddedness in global systems of racialised police violence and the importance of trans-national anti-carceral solidarity. Registration required.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Join us for our autumn 2023 bookclub. We’ll be reading Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean. Sept 19, Oct 17, Nov 21.

G. Ryan explores how we as Abolitionists can address the harms and suffering experienced by animals

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Similar to police in the UK’s recent public exclusion of officers involved in highly-mediatised violence, SVU is a project of legitimation; obscuring the structural violence of policing to make it easier for the public to trust the police.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Police racism does not result from a failure to provide ‘appropriate and professional service’ to racialised communities, as suggested by the Macpherson & Casey reports, because racism is fundamental to the project of policing itself. / Written by S Lamble and Megan McElhone / Published by the Institute of Race Relations.

Report shining a light on violence experienced by young people and how to address it, including through better funded youth services and a rolling back of police powers / Produced by Liberty, the Northern Police Monitoring Project, Release, No More Exclusions, the National Survivor User Network, INQUEST, Kids of Colour, Art Against Knives, JENGbA, Maslaha.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

This article argues that defunding the police is necessary in Britain. It responds to critics who suggest that defunding the police is US strategy that doesn’t translate well to the UK.

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1983) No. 13

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

All violence in prison is unacceptable and we must address that, not demonise marginalised groups.

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1982) No. 11