For as long as cops have existed, they have served to protect the pillars of capitalism, from colonial plunder to worker discipline to private property. Yet across geographies and generations, the people have resisted, challenging police power in liberation struggles the world over, from the streets of Minneapolis to Mexico City, from Cairo to London.

Exploring the origins of the institution of policing and its significance to capitalism today, this discussion will look at the promises of revolutionary abolitionism in breaking from this system, and the methods and strategies of resistance in practice in communities around the world today.
 

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Speakers:

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist organizer, writer, and agitator originally from North Carolina. They are one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. Their work has been published in Truthout, Jacobin, Tempest, Spectre, Red Flag, New Politics, Socialist Worker, International Viewpoint, and more. They coedited and contributed to the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, and wrote Their End is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, both from Haymarket Books.

Shanice Octavia McBean is activist, writer, feminist and Afro-Marxist. She is co-author of Abolition Revolution, the 2023 winner of the Bread and Roses book award, and co-host of the new podcast Life of the Party.

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