Confronting Counterinsurgency

“A work of radical care and love, a study guide for the urgency of the moment” Dian Million, author of Therapeutic Nations “Guides us through confrontation with counterinsurgency in empire's proxy wars, colonies, prisons and schools” Frances Madeson, author of Cooperative Village “An incendiary political and philosophical reflection” Ken Fero, radical filmmaker and convenor of The People's Tribunal on Police Killings As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency 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 examines the role of institutions, universities and nonprofit organizations in the suppression of radical movements. Analyzing historical and contemporary colonialism, slavery, and militarized policing—such as Cop Cities, ICE, and the redesigned School of Americas—Confronting Counterinsurgency is a crucial tool for radicalizing and uniting our movements to fight for a better world. Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition; and Contextualizing Angela Davis. Her edited volumes include Beyond Cop Cities and ENGAGE.

Preface Introduction (Joy James) PART I. Carceral Cities and Civil/Human Rights 1. Atlanta's Black Community Says “Stop Cop Cities!” (Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore, interview by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report) 2. Resisting [Global] Cop Cities and the Militarization of Policing (Liliana, Joy James, Kalonji Jama Changa, interview by Chris Browne) 3. 1492: Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Self-Determination amid Repression (Mohamed Abdou, Ashanti Alston, interview by Kalonji Changa, Joy James) PART II. Battling Colonialism 4. UN Special Committee on Decolonization: Puerto Rico (Benjamin Ramos Rosado) 5. Oxford Union Address on Genocide, Israel, Palestine (susan albuhawa) 6. Fighting for the Congo (Maurice Carney, Claude Gatebuke, Dr. Ikema Ojore, Brother Passy, Kwame Wilburg, interview by Kalonji Changa and Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore) PART III. Counter Moves 7. Prisoner Human Rights Movement [PHRM]: 2025 Nobel Letter and the Agency of PHRM (Joy James with Silicon Valley De-Bug Organization) 8. The Abolition of Carceral Schooling (rosalind hampton) 9. Black (Brazilian) Futurity (Andréia Beatriz dos Santos, Hamilton Borges dos Santos, interview by joão costa vargas) 10. When Opportunity Knocks... by Galley of the Streets (kai barrow, Jazz Franklin, Kara Lynch) Conclusion: Democracy's Terrors and our Endless Resistance (Joy James) Contributors