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'With the racism of poverty and state violence deepening relentlessly, new generations have responded, to create new forms of antiracist struggle. A World Without Racism is an essential guide to this work' Arun Kundnani, author of
What is Anti-Racism? And Why it Means Anti-Capitalism'An antiracist communion towards revolutionary love - it is what you need to read for the emergencies before us' Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of
The Futures of Racial CapitalismWhat is antiracist activism? And how do we organise for power around antiracist principles? In this groundbreaking collection, activist Joshua Virasami gathers the voices of some of our most inspirational organisers, thinkers and collectives.
A World Without Racism offers a set of clear-eyed, radical and accessible principles and strategies for building working-class power through antiracist organising. The book features ten contributions from collectives such as Sisters Uncut, No More Exclusions, Tipping Point and Greater Manchester Tenants Union on subjects including women's liberation, land and food, healthcare and housing, culture, imperialism, policing, prisons and climate justice.
Challenging the harms of the racist establishment as well as the entrenchment of the liberal diversity-inclusion complex, this book carves out a much-needed space for the ideas of radical antiracists, putting the politics back into activism.
Joshua Virasami is an antiracist activist and organiser. He is the author of
How to Change it. He has also written for the
Guardian,
Independent and Novara Media. He has been involved with many grassroots initiatives, and is currently head of organising and training at the London Renters Union.
List of contents
Introduction: A World Without Racism - Joshua Virasami
1. Transforming Education
- No More Exclusions
2. Monitoring, Non-reformist Reforms, Solidarity, Internationalism, and Abolitionist Dreams - the Northern Police Monitoring Project
3. Land as a Site of Antiracist Struggle - Land in Our Names
4. Weaving Together Internationalism and Global Solidarity in Britain - a roundtable with Akram Salhab, Asad Rehman, Elif Sarican, Martina Rodriquez and Mohammed Elnaeim
5. Solidarity Knows No Borders - Migrants Organise
6. Time Travelling: Organising for Antiracist Futures - Healing Justice London
7. Creative and Embodied Approaches to Antiracism - Voices that Shake
8. Building an Antiracist Tenants Union - Greater Manchester Tenants Union (GMTU)
9. Breaking the Cycle: Repairing Harms Through Climate Reparations - Tipping Point UK
10. Nothing to Lose But Our Chains - Sisters Uncut
About the author
Joshua Virasami is an antiracist activist and organiser. He is the author of How to Change it: Make a Difference, a handbook for young activists, published with Stormzy and Penguin's #Merky Books. He has also written for the Guardian, Independent and Novara Media, and contributed a chapter on anti-racism to Futures of Socialism. He has been involved with many grassroots initiatives, including London Black Revolutionaries, Black Dissidents and Black Lives Matter UK, Climate Justice collective Wretched of the Earth, and is currently head of organising and training at the London Renters Union.
Summary
A groundbreaking collection from individuals and organisations at the forefront of transformative antiracist work
