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While the prison industrial complex (PIC) is an ever-shifting goliath in California politics, we’ve seen community-oriented and abolitionist gains in the state over the last 10 years due to decades… Dear Friends & Comrades of CR,
Black August is a time of year to strengthen our commitment to fight for the end of imprisonment and imperialism and for Black liberation. … On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Critical Resistance (CR) printed the newest issue of The Abolitionist Newspaper to date, a bi-lingual, cross-wall political education and organizing project free to imprisoned people… For the month of March, we celebrate the legacy of international working women’s struggle for liberation. In this moment it is ever relevant to strengthen the fight for the power… Critical Resistance (CR) remains steadfast in the struggle for Black and Palestinian freedom.
This Black History Month, we at Critical Resistance uplift the ongoing legacy of the fight for… 2023’s final issue of Critical Resistance’s cross-wall bilingual newspaper, The Abolitionist— this time focused on control units—, is heading to print at our new printing press and will be en… The all-out war apartheid-Israel has waged on the people of Gaza in the past two weeks has exposed the unreliability and outright racism of Western media once again. The demonization… On the heels of Indigenous People’s Day, we join communities all over the world in condemning the horrific aggression of the apartheid state of Israel against the people of Gaza… The latest issue of Critical Resistance’s cross-wall bilingual newspaper, The Abolitionist— this time focused on examining reproductive justice and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition—, has printed on Juneteenth 2023, and… This International Workers’ Day, Critical Resistance celebrates recent advances in the labor movement and the necessary growth in ties to the fight for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition.
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CA Prop 36 Endangers Abolitionist Gains in the Golden State
This Black August: Train, study & fight for abolition with Critical Resistance (CR)
Abolition Saves the Planet: Read all about it in Issue 41 of The Abolitionist Newspaper
Celebrating international working women’s struggle for liberation
The Fight for Black Liberation is Abolitionist and Internationalist
Issue 40 of The Abolitionist on Control Units Heads to Print
Apartheid-Israel, War & Propaganda: Legitimizing Genocide of Palestinians
Solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian Liberation
Hot off the press: Issue 39 of The Abolitionist on Reproductive Justice!
Building Worker Power for Abolition: International Workers’ Day 2023