Welcome to the second installment of Ready for Revolution: A digital study guide to raise our collective consciousness. This installments subject matter is decolonization and abolition, crucial areas to bolster our knowledge in as anti capitalists, pan Africanists, communists; whatever you want to identify as! Below are study questions.
- What are current examples of colonialism/neo colonialism?
- How can we build new forms of safety and accountability that center care, not policing?
- How can I foster decolonial thinking in myself
- What can I contribute to this struggle? How can I tap in?
Websites
- abolition notes
- The Marshall project
- Africa World Now! Project
Books
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution – C.L.R James
- How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing – Celeste Winston
- The Irritated Genie: An Essay on the Haitian Revolution of 1804
- We Do This Til We Free Us – Mariame Kaba
- The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
- Instead of prisons: a handbook for abolitionists – Mark Morris
- Return to the Source – Amilcar Cabral
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
- Decolonial Marxism – Walter Rodney
- Decolonization and Afro Feminism – Sylvia Tamale
- Discourse on Colonialism – Aimé Césaire
Films/documentaries
- Concerning Violence (documentary)
- The Battle of Algiers (film)
- Eyes of the Rainbow (documentary)
- Long Distance Revolutionary (documentary)
Podcasts
- Prison Radio (podcast)
- Abolition Learnings (podcast)
- Hood Communist Radio (podcast)
Greetings Comrades!
I wanted to see if there’s any updates to the Decolonization and Abolition books, podcasts, and films?
Love & light.