Common objections to the Black Lives Matter movement - Patrick O’Donohue Patrick O’Donohue, an IWW member and a participant in the 'Black Lives Matter' movement in…
Are our communities strong enough for police to be obsolete? Cindy Milstein considers the possibility of society without a police force.
Warwick University students to continue campaign against brutality After police and security attacked a Free Education sit in on Dec 3rd 2014, students at Warwick…
Origins of the police - David Whitehouse Excellent text examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th…
Expanding the struggle: notes on the future of the #blacklivesmatter movement - Black Rose NYC The Black Rose Anarchist Federation on the black lives matter protests sweeping the…
Who gives the orders? Oakland police, City Hall and Occupy The recent declaration of "war" by the NYPD police union shows how the police are a political…
A worthless piece of plastic - Invisible Man This week’s piece comes to us by a regular Recomposition contributor, Invisible Man. In the face of fierce debates on racism, profiling, protests…
Solidarity, as weapon and practice, versus killer cops and white supremacy Cindy Milstein blogs about the wave of protests against police killings in the Bay Area, in the wake…
The killing of Eric Garner and the failure of social justice unionism Rather than providing a strategy for fighting racism, social justice unionism has led some union…
"From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson, the state is our enemy" So much could be said of yesterday's large, boisterous, self-organized #ShutItDownForMikeBrown…
Iguala: state crime, class crime What kind of “order” demands that 43 people vanish? They were killed because they defy the fundamental politics of the state regarding education…
No more Missouri compromises - John Garvey Like many others, we at Insurgent Notes have been paying a great deal of attention to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, that began with the…
