Stop The City 1983/4 - Documentation and Attitudes To Policing
A brief account of the 'Stop The City' protests 1983/4, concentrating on attitudes to possible and actual police repression - and efforts to ensure effective protests.
For The Conference Against Police Repression
Haringey, 14th September 1985
Also includes leaflets and discussion documents produced by those involved at the time:
Knife crime - analysing a moral panic
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 12 2019 22:05
Knife violence is highly emotive and traumatic, whether it’s the images of youthful victims or bereaved parents conducting marches to end street violence. This week, a majority of Labourlist readers believe that the Labour Party should back stop and search and all Labour London MPs are lobbying government for more police to deal with knife crime. Everyone wants something to do be done but what must be done and how do we get it?
Police Regulation of Working Class Life in 19th Century France
Submitted by Reddebrek on Nov 22 2018 21:39
One of the consequences of the frequent insurrections, riots and demonstrations of 19th Century France was the increased surveillance and repression by the police, army and government. This article details the rise of the Party of Order and then Napoleon III's police state and the state of emergencies in the countryside.
Jeremy Hammond’s statement on the plea and sentencing of his brother, Jason Hammond
Imprisoned anarchist hacker Jeremy Hammond's response to his twin brother's sentencing for participation in a militant direct action against white supremacists. Jason Hammond has since been released after serving his sentence, but the statement is still noteworthy as a summary of Jeremy's ideology.
A World Without Police - Audio Book
A reading of a pamphlet stressing the need to abolish police as an institution which provides some practical steps for communities to take in that process.
Counterinsurgency and the Policing of Space in Ferguson
This article will briefly document and analyze the various methods and techniques through which the St. Louis Metropolitan Police, the National Guard, and several other local law enforcement formations were able to gradually achieve a kind of ‘total spatial dominance’ over this small region and its residents.
A Victim of Power (Corp) and Police: The La Presse Conflict and the Tear Gas Suffocation of Michele Gauthier
Submitted by greensyndic on Mar 7 2018 04:37
A report on the 1971 conflict at La Presse and the police killing of socialist feminist Michele Gauthier. The broader struggle against Power Corp., the impact of the police killing, and the development of the Common Front and subsequent general strikes.
Iron Bars on the House of Labour
Submitted by O Berkman on Mar 2 2018 23:26
How accepting surveillance officers and other parts of the repressive state into trade unions is a threat to organizers across so-called Canada...
Don’t Die Wondering: Atlanta Against the Police (2011-2012)
The winter of 2011-12 saw a number of clashes with the police in Atlanta. I hope that this piece can be helpful for anarchists, anticapitalists, and other would-be rebels in medium sized cities with almost no radical or combative history.
Unforgiving and Inconsolable: Durham Against the Police (2013-14)
An account of the movement in Durham, North Carolina, after the police killing of Chuy Huerta in late 2013. Found hosted at the Ferguson & Further collection about anti-police revolts.
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