Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime - Softcover

Williams, Kristian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849354561 ISBN 13: 9781849354561

Publisher: AK Press, 2022

Synopsis

In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society''s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticised, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between ''gangs'' of all sorts - cops and criminals, Proud Boys and Antifa, Panthers and skinheads - arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarised and conflict more common, Williams''s analysis is a crucial corrective to our usual ideas about the role violence might or should play in our social struggles.

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About the Authors

Kristian Williams is the author of six books, including Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America. Williams has been actively writing and leading discourse on anarchism in historical and present-day contexts, social inequalities, and critiques on police and political force since the 1990s. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Robert Evans, the author of After the Revolution, has had an eclectic career as an investigative journalist reporting from war zones in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and covered the 2020 uprising in Portland, Oregon. He hosts the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here.

Edition details

• Publisher: AK Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849354561
• ISBN 13: 9781849354561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144