We cannot simply do away the police - we need to address the conditions in which people feel that police are the only or best option for responding to harm in their lives. We must build other means for preventing and addressing harm that will actually keep us safe.

Hejera Begum outlines 3 abolitionist reforms for the UK: Banning police being posted in schools, ending stop and search, and abolishing Prevent.

In this Abolitionist Digest, we highlight actions and writing that centres on defunding the police in the UK

Here’s a list of reasonably priced abolitionist books.

There’s a lot going on in the world of Abolition - Hello Minneapolis - Here’s 5 sources to help you keep up to speed.

Here’s 5 important abolitionist resources from the last 5 days. Please see below for an important solidarity action!

Our first instalment of Abolitionist Digest focuses on the Black Lives Matter Protests across the states and the atrocious police violence committed in response to the protests and that caused the protests.

Here is a record of some of Abolitionist Future’s past events.

This chart breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which expand the scope of policing, and abolitionist steps that reduce the scale of policing and its detremental impact. It is a UK-relevant resource adapted from a poster created by Critical Resistance in the US.

These posters can help us think about what safety is and to imagine the infrastructure we need to keep safe. They were designed by Amber Hughson @conflicttransformation

By thinking about why you feel the need to contact the police, developing your own skills around conflict resolution and educating yourself on what alternatives are available, you can minimise police interference in your area and avoid further endangering those who might be put at physical risk by their presence.

Dr. Adam Elliott-Cooper and Adam Pugh talk to Vice to give their ideas on what defunding the police would look like in the UK.

We take prisons, or jails, for granted - but how effective are they? And are there better alternatives? In this video, Dr David Scott, explores what a world without prisons might be like.

Writing for 4Front, Sara Chitseko argues that prisons fail to tackle the causes of social problems.

Prisoner Solidarity Network’s John Bowden tours Britain’s Prisons: HMP Brixton, HMP Pentonville and HMP Wandsworth.

Sarah Lamble argues about the need to create stronger connections between struggles for gender and sexual justice and movements against mass incarceration

This chart breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which expand the scope of policing, and abolitionist steps that reduce the scale of policing and its detremental impact. It is a UK-relevant resource adapted from a poster created by Critical Resistance in the US.

Campaigning against prisons and the police and attempting to build a just world, free of domination and an economy based on mutual cooperation are not new. Here is an overview of the long history of organisations and individuals in the UK working towards these goals, even if all were not explicitly abolitionist.

Opening Roundtable of the Abolitionist Futures Conference in 2018 with Beth Richie, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Deborah Coles. Friday 15 June 2018

Sara Chitseko of 4Front writes that body cameras, community policing and police training are not adequate responses to police violence in the UK