We Fight: Three Decades of Rebellion Against the Police

by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

As long as the state has existed, people have defended each other against its assaults. The state has been coercive and destructive since its inception; the police are just one of its more recent enforcement mechanisms. As soon as there were police, there was resistance to the police.

Here, we have collected the voices of maybe two dozen people, most of them anonymous. Yet in the events they describe, we can see the agency of thousands who stood up to the police, who refused to permit them to divide and conquer us, to play the boot on the State’s foot, that would crush us all into oblivion if we let it.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics

318 pages, Paperback

Published December 22, 2020

Reviews

[Happy Red Panda · Rating 5 out of 5]

2020 still feels like a lifetime ago. I really appreciated this book for being a refresher on the protests against police brutality in the US and a reminder on why we must fight for a world without cops.

This was made in 2020 so the parts about Minneapolis and Kenosha aren’t up to date. The last part about Kenosha is a really painful and infuriating reminder on how difficult and near impossible it is for justice to be achieved in this accursed country.

I hope for a day when protesting will not longer be necessary for survival, that we can live in a world where protesting will no longer be needed.

[Louis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining stuff, the police.
It’s a sad joke, life, isn’t it?