protecting our streets: police are never the answer? Over the last week, Britain and Ireland have witnessed escalating violence incited by far-right groups. This can’t be used to increase police powers.

Join us for our event in Leeds!

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1986) No. 21

Tuesday 4 June 2024: Join us for the public launch of our new resource: ‘Addressing Gender-Based Violence: Carceral Reforms vs Abolitionist Strategies.’ Speakers include Leah Cowan, Lola Olufemi and Billy a frontline gender-based violence worker.

5 artists will be invited to produce their work to completion on topics defined in community workshops.

The parts of the state that provide welfare and the parts of the state that provide punishment are deeply intertwined and interdependent. This is especially paramount for Care Experienced people, who are the children of the state.

Most histories of policing start with the 1829 establishment of London’s Met. This article explores British policing experiments in the quarter century before 1800.

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

How can the abolitionist movement in the Global North learn from prisoner liberation movements in Palestine’s decades-long struggle for liberation and within this present moment?

Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1984) No. 18

A selection of recent and forthcoming resources.

Abolitionist Futures reading group starting February 2024

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.