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The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.

Leslie Kern asks how we can create a feminist city and what tools women can use to support each other.

'Carceral feminism has gained popularity even though the police – and the wider criminal justice system – are key perpetrators of violence against women.' 

Andreas Malm on his new book, 'Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century' with Alex Doherty. 

Chi Chang, a Chinese emigrant to the United States who joined the Communist Party and volunteered for the International Brigades to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. His story is retold here by Hwei-Ru Tsou and Len Tsou, and translated into English from the original Chinese by Agnes Khoo.

Capital and Covid-19: Robert Brenner, Wolfgang Streeck, Roberto Schwarz, Lorna Finlayson, and more

In an open letter to theorist Sylvia Wynter on Wynter's text "1492: A New World View," Ariella Aïsha Azoulay  retrieves memories of her Jewish family's Arabness: "I refuse to become a memory-less Jew, whose life was mutated and reformatted to begin only with the creation of the nation-state."

Gazelle Mba on the pernicious myth of Britain's 'covert' racism.

The last of three interviews with trans retail workers in New York, conducted by Pinko, a biannual magazine of gay communism.