Read Against the Machine
Sun, Sep 28
|Bàrd Books
The first of our book clubs catering towards the activists amongst our reader. 'Abolition Revolution' by Day & McBean Tickets must be bought in the bookshop
Time & Location
Sep 28, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Bàrd Books, 341-343 Roman Rd, Bow, London E3 5QR, UK
About the event
Winner of the Bread and Roses Prize 2024
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly after, Sarah Everard's murder by a serving police officer sparked a national abolitionist movement in Britain. But to abolish the police, prisons and borders, we must confront the legacy of Empire.
Abolition Revolution is a guide to abolitionist politics in Britain, drawing out rich histories of resistance from rebellion in the colonies to grassroots responses to carceral systems today. The authors argue that abolition is key to reconceptualising revolution for our times - linking it with materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class struggle, internationalist solidarity and anti-colonialism.
This is an invaluable book for those new to abolitionist politics - whilst simultaneously telling a passionate and authoritative story about the need for abolition and revolution in Britain and…