JAMES, Joy (ed.)
Confronting Counterinsurgency. Cop Cities & Democracy’s Terrors

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. Through conversations and essays, the book examines 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. [publisher's note]

Contributors include Margaret Kimberley, Kalonji Jama Changa, Benjamin Ramos Rosado, susan albuhawa, Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore, Silicon Valley De-Bug Organization, rosalind hampton, kai barrow, Jazz Franklin, Kara Lynch…

Published by Pluto Press, 2025
Essays / Conversations / Politics