This May we have seen another round of sentencing for at least 4 comrades, for standing up to the police during the 2021 Kill the Bill uprising in Bristol.
Statement on recent Kill the Bill sentencing
Tag: abolition
Justice nowhere: Introducing Bristol Copwatch
Freedom’s resident cop-botherer, Carl Spender, sits down with John and Kat from Bristol Copwatch to discuss the group’s first year of existence and the painstaking work of building a grassroots police monitoring project. Please be aware that this article contains descriptions of racist police violence. CS: I guess it’s traditional to begin with some introductions.
Movements First, Solutions Later
Netpol’s Kevin Blowe argues that Britain’s nascent abolitionist movement needs to focus its energy into long-term grassroots organising, not top-down academic debate. Ever since the rebirth of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, it has been far from clear that the demand to “defund the police” will resonate in Britain as it has in
This is not a call out
The following reflection on conflict, care and pain in political organising was submitted on condition of anonymity. This is not a call out. This is an expression of hurt and pain. It’s an attempt to let go. It’s a sharing of a story of a group I was part of that fell apart. And in
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