The world is waking up to the brutality of police racism following the killing of George Floyd, which has instigated mass protests of resistance. Here we publish a collection of Race & Class articles (all free to download for the next six weeks) on policing and the carceral state in the US and the UK, featuring seminal writers including A. Sivanandan, Angela Davis, Micol Seigel and Lee Bridges.

 

On the US carceral state

• Violence work: policing and power by Micol Seigel, vol. 59 no. 4 (2018)
• Racism, fines and fees and the US carceral state by Elizabeth Jones, vol. 59, no. 3 (2017)
• Detroit and the political origins of ‘Broken windows’ Policing by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin, vol. 59, no. 2 (2017)
• Framing Ferguson: Fox news and the construction of US racism by Colleen E Mills, vol. 58, no. 4 (2017)
• De-provincialising police violence by Dylan Rodriguez, vol. 54, no. 1 (2012)
• Seize the time: an interview with Stephen Jones by Avery Gordon, vol. 53, no. 2 (2011)

 

On policing and deaths in custody in the UK

• ‘There is no justice, there is just us’ by Stafford Scott et al, pp. 59—61 of Dying for Justice (IRR, 2015)
• The defamation of Joy Gardner: press, police and black deaths in custody by Ryan Erfani-Ghettani, vol. 56, no. 3 (2014)
• The case against joint enterprise by Lee Bridges, vol. 54, no. 4 (2013)
• Total policing by Liz Fekete 54, no. 3 (2013)
• Race, law and the state by Lee Bridges, vol. 43, no. 2 (2001)
• From Oldham to Bradford by Arun Kundnani, IRR News (2001)
• Introduction to Deadly Silence by A. Sivanandan, vol. 33, no. 1 (1991)
• The police against the people by Tony Bunyan, vol. 23, no. 2/3 (1981)
• Poverty is the new black, A. Sivanandan, 43, no. 2 (2001)

 

Historical articles on the US

• Globalism and the prison industrial complex: an interview with Angela Davis by Avery Gordon, vol. 40, no. 2/3 (1999)
• Globalisation and US prison growth by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, vol. 40, no. 2/3 (1999)
• Interviews with Black Panthers Geronimo ji-jaga Pratt and Mumia Abu-Jamal by Heike Kleffner, vol. 35, no. 1 (1993)

 

BME deaths in custody graphic by Sujata Aurora, featured in IRR report, Dying for Justice 

Feature image: ‘End Police Brutality’ by Jamelle Bouie, 14 August 2014 via Flikr

Read a twitter thread on the UK articles and the US articles