Citizenship, Counterinsurgency, and the Right to Protest
As states increasingly wield the mechanisms of the border to suppress protest and Palestinian solidarity, we explore the history of border controls and policing as colonial counterinsurgency.
Books Against Borders
Anti-colonial & Abolitionist Reading
Who are we?
We are a collective learning project exploring decolonial, abolitionist and anti-capitalist work. We view collective education as fundamental to our organising and aim to bring together our theory and practice to ensure that we approach our work with clear principles, working towards socialist, abolitionist alternatives.
We believe in creating non-hierarchical spaces for meaningful reflection, dialogue, and discussion, seeking to learn from one another.
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Resources for a Free Palestine
Reading, podcasts, videos, and tools on the struggle for liberation.
The Ship
The Bibby Stockholm and the Legacies of Empire, Slavery, and Death Content warning: discussion of state violence, self-harm, and suicide. “Watching the canoes ferry the slaves offshore, some might have wondered why none who boarded those ships were ever seen again, and the curious might have speculated about what happened to them in the countries…
Containing ‘Victims’: Border Control and the Carceral State
As states take increasingly militant and violent steps towards migration control while using the language of humanitarianism, we consider the consequences for those states purport to ‘protect’.
Book Review: The Counter-Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne
Dominic Murphy looks at the great Gerald Horne’s groundbreaking analysis of the narratives surrounding the events of 1776, the mythologies of the ‘founding fathers’ of the U.S.A., and their deep roots in slavery and colonialism.
Carcerality, Colonialism, and Freedom as a Place
Reflections on the spatial dynamics of racial capitalism, with a focus on the border, the prison, and the detention centre.
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Abolition: A Reading List
After reading Cradle Community’s Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons last month, we put together a reading list of some of the most important writers and works on the topic of abolition. We have included links to PDFs or articles where possible!(Compiled by @myleshoward94) Mariame Kaba’s work as an activist and…
Border Abolition: A Reading List
As we will be discussing Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha’s Against Borders: The Case for Abolition online on the 18th of July, we wanted to put together a list of some of the books we’ve found helpful around the question of borders. By no means an exhaustive list, we are eager to hear…
“Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law”
Harsha Walia, Border & Rule
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