Amu Gib’s From the Prison Notebooks is a hybrid collection of personal notes, snapshots overheard in the house block, pieces of conversations, ideas for the future, and research brought to them by friends on the outside, all mixed up with quotations from the texts Amu reads inside prison, where both reading and citing are political acts. The fragmented form of this text mirrors the fragmentation of the experience of incarceration, especially the fragmentation of time. 

Tommaso Biagi makes the case that carceral institutions systematically destroy the conditions that make justification possible, this makes the reformism category mistaken rather than merely insufficient.

The blog post uses the topic of ‘hate crime’ to initiate a broader discussion of cracks in Scotland’s liberal imaginary as a place that is safe for queer communities.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

In the second half of this article Emma Gant, Holly Mogford and John Moore explore the possibility of developing abolitionist practices and organising in Cymru (Wales).

In the first half of this article Emma Gant, Holly Mogford and John Moore explore the abolitionist principles that should underpin abolitionist organising in Cymru (Wales).

Charlotte Carney argues that the International Court focuses predominately on individuals from the global South, refuses to look at the structural causes of conflicts, such as colonialism and the global economic order, and relies on imprisonment. It creates an illusion of addressing conflict whilst effectively giving impunity to western leaders. It should be abolished.

Erika Severyns argues that if community music is to contribute meaningfully to abolitionist futures, community musicians must move beyond the language of empowerment and inclusion and towards structural critique. This means situating our practice explicitly within the context of carcerality rather than sidestepping the political conditions that shape our work.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

This article considers the violence of policing and the state repression of protesting by reflecting on recent clashes with the police that erupted during a national demonstration in Turin, Italy, on 31 January 2026.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Neda Naji, a left feminist writes about the ongoing repression in Iran and argues for an abolitionist response grounded in care.

Join us for this pilot project on creative methods and abolitionist scholarship in collaboration with the Centre for Communities and Social Justice (University of Greenwich).

So when anti-trans narratives talk about the women’s being made unsafe, they mean it is being made unsafe for a particular set of women who are worthy of protection: those who are in close proximity with the idealised form of woman.

Participants in Irish inquiries have not been silenced or ignored in any simple sense. Instead, they have been drawn into inquiry processes which offer them some public recognition, but carefully restrict their political agency. 

The carceral approach put forward by the ‘modern-day slavery industrial complex’ focuses on punishing the perpetrator rather than being centred on what migrant domestic workers actually want and need for a life of safety and dignity: the right to work and settle in the UK

Sex workers want real, viable economic alternatives, not more policing. Feminists of colour have long criticized radical feminists (and broader anti-violence work) for its focus on interpersonal violence at the cost of institutional violence.

Focusing political attention on the politics of listening helps to avoid an individualist politics that leaves survivors isolated and vulnerable in an ‘economy of believability’ that is stacked against them, and leaves them open to excessive scrutiny, including from feminists.