Confronting Counterinsurgency
Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pluto Press
Publishing:20th Aug '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 20th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors is an invaluable contribution to the fightback.
Joy James brings together the voices of frontline activists, artists, and organizers from movements against militarism and state violence in the USA, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Palestine, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and within prison walls. The book includes accessible and revealing discussions of the role of institutions, universities and nonprofit organizations in the suppression of radical movements. It introduces and analyzes contemporary militarized policing projects like Cop City, ICE, and the School of the Americas, and links them to historical and contemporary settler colonialism and slavery.
Made as an offering of revolutionary love, Confronting Counterinsurgency will be a crucial tool for deepening and radicalizing our analysis and learning from each other's movements, in order to strengthen our resistance and unite to fight for a better world.
'Makes plain the relations between the U.S. as a militarized carceral police state, the imprisonment of our resistance, and the genocidal wars our technocracy imparts to the world in Gaza and beyond. This is a work of radical care and love, a study guide for the urgency of the moment where we must fight, to live, and to struggle'
-- Dian Million, author of Therapeutic Nations, Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights'True to its title, this eye-opening book holds its readers steady while guiding us through a perturbing confrontation with counterinsurgency in empire’s proxy wars, colonies, prisons and schools. Cop cities emerge as domestic forts to contain an unlikely enemy — us. But we’re neither helpless, nor alone'
-- Frances Madeson, writer, author of Cooperative Village'This is an essential and incendiary political and philosophical reflection on current global resistance movements. A collection of powerful narratives rooted in the liberation strategies of those who struggle against corporate and state conquest, brutality and death and who continue to resist'
-- Ken Fero, radical filmmaker and convenor of The People's Tribunal on Police Killings'A powerful collection that reminds us that the progress we build toward liberation must be constantly defended. Rooted in a radical sense of love, care, and self critique, this collection brings together necessary conversations and analyses surrounding our movements'
-- Momodou Taal, The Malcolm Effect PodcastISBN: 9780745351544
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: unknown
176 pages