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Essential reading on policing and deaths in custody in the UK- free to access

‘The silence of the custodial system is compounded by the silences of racism. We have chosen to break that silence’
-A. Sivanandan, intro of IRR report Deadly Silence

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‘There is no justice, there is just us’ - Stafford Scott in the IRR report Dying for Justice. 1/2

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A discussion with families of Cynthia Jarrett, Joy Gardner, Roger Sylvester and Mark Duggan, who live in a 3 mile radius in Tottenham/Haringey and each lost loved ones at the hands of the police. 2/2

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Joy Gardner died following a violent deportation raid in 1993. Ryan Erfani-Ghettani shows the role of the media in justifying police brutality and exonerating the police.

Read ‘The defamation of Joy Gardner’: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Read ‘Total Policing’ by Liz Fekete, which draws historical parallels between the militarised policing of the black community in Tottenham after the August 2011 ‘riots’, and the policing of Republican areas of Belfast.

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‘It is only this sort of [frontline] solidarity across communities that can help to fight off the threat of militarised policing and the social control that such ‘total policing’ ushers in.’ argues Liz Fekete
How is joint enterprise used by the police and the courts to target both political protest and ‘gang’ violence, in particular in black and working-class communities?

Read the case against joint enterprise by Lee Bridges:
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Police violence has always been met with resistance.
In 1981, black communities and the dispossessed white working class joined together to fight the police, starting in Brixton the protests spread throughout the country.
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Read about this watershed moment in ‘The Police against the people’ by Tony Bunyan: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

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In 2001, Oldham, Burnley and Bradford saw violent confrontations between young Asians and the police.
‘It was the violence of communities fragmented by colour lines, class lines and police lines. It was the violence of hopelessness. It was the violence of the violated.’ 1/2
Read Arun Kundnani, ‘From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated’ 2/2

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And finally, read, and re-read, Sivanandan.

Poverty is the new black:
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‘The argument is not so much about facts as about interpretation’ – Colin Prescod (Archives, race, class and rage)

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How does the carceral state operate in the US?

As the world wakes up to racism and police brutality, these articles reveal the implications of the carceral state for black communities in the US.

Feat. Angela Davis, Micol Seigel & Colleen E Mills
📺Framing Ferguson

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‘We see that police work is the work of the state, and the work of the state is violence, racialised in the interests of capital.’
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‘We starved, but we shared.’

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As these principles become more crucial during the pandemic, we publish an Editors selection of R&C articles on the black tradition of mutual aid, self-help and solidarity.

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In post-war Britain, racialised and working-class communities organised to meet vital needs that were either neglected by a racist state, or engendered by it, whilst also pushing for a more radical ‘normal’.

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