John Moore provides a brief reflection on last month’s event: Activating the Archives: Prisons, Abolition and Histories of Resistance organised by Martha O’Carroll and Margaret Malloch from the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

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.

Superficial reforms will do nothing to end the harms of policing. The Metropolitan Police must be defunded and abolished / Written by John Moore / Published by Verso

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. 12

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

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1982) No. 10

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Fifty years ago prisoners in France’s Nancy prison protested - this is their story and how it related to the wider prisoners’ movement in France in the early 1970s

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1981) No. 9

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1981) No. 8

Book review of Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1981) No. 7

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