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On diversion: Against carcerality and prohibition on the road to abolition
Drug diversion schemes appear as a beneficial alternative to the harms of drug policing and the war on drugs. In reality, they maintain and expand the police’s reach, power and legitimacy.
Remembering prison struggles from 50 years ago
This article recalls the uprisings that occurred in British prisons fifty years ago and the role played by PROP - the prisoners’ union.
Race to the bottom reclaiming antiracism Bookclub
Race to the bottom reclaiming antiracism is our Bookclub book this year. We will be covering the book over a session in October, November and December. Join us
The Function of Police
The police don’t just exist. They are not a fact of nature. The police are brought into existence to serve a function, and a lot of effort and resources are put into keeping them in existence. Why? What are police for? —Produced by The World Transformed, Abolitionist Futures, The Upsetters and Prisoner Solidarity Network
The Abolitionist No. 5 (1980)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1980) No. 5
The Abolitionist No. 4 (1980)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1980) No 4
Freeing Education — Conversation 1: Deconstruction, Refusal, Departure
A panel to unpick the harms of schooling as part of a wider system of carceral feminism and imperialism, explore transformational work in progress, and take stock of the struggle in education from an international perspective —Organised by No More Exclusions, in collaboration with Haymarket Books, and Hajar Press
The Abolitionist No 2/3 (1979)
Read a full digital copy of this double edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1979) No 2/3
The Abolitionist No. 1 (1979)
Read a full digital copy of the first edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1979)
The Abolitionist Magazine Archive 1979 - 1987
Abolitionist Futures is pleased to host a digital archive of ‘The Abolitionist’ a magazine that was published in Britain between 1979 and 1987 by the group Radical Alternatives to Prison (RAP).
‘Aftermath’ by Preti Taneja
Aftermath starts with grief and shock, a violent act that has left many calling for an intensification of the punitive state. Taneja has resisted this and has instead recommitted herself to abolition which for her, ‘in the widest sense and at the cellular level is a word, a world, a choice to make. A resonance to action’
Borders, Bills and the Hostile Environment
A look at the growing erosion of rights in the UK — Panel organised by Shado Magazine