Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America: Chapter 4 - Part 1

An essay entitled Anarcho-Syndicalism written by Errico Malatesta. Also included are 2 letters written to the editor of El Productor an anarchist magazine published in Barcelona. The intermingling of labor and anarchy is discussed, as well as what anarchists within labor organizations should work towards.
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Kristian Williams' book "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. This is Part 2 of Chapter One: "Police brutality in theory and practice", It explores the history of police brutality and our cultural understanding of it.
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Many societies throughout the world practiced their entire economic activities along the lines of gift-exchanges, the most famous of which is the potlatch. In this text Neal Keating proposes that gifting should be the ultimate goal of a revolutionary and that a gift-economy could destroy work and ultimately lead to healthier communities.
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How to Piss off Authority in Eight Easy Steps is a short essay written for young people who are desperate to find something more than just what capitalism and hierarchy have planned for them, but are not sure where to look. Written by James Hutchings and stolen from the Anarchist Library.
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Anonymously written, "Toward the Destruction of Schooling" is an intelligent critique of modern schooling and it's role in society as a machine that produces, not free thinkers, but workers. Topics include the history of schooling and the “poverty of student life.” This is Chapter One: The Role of Schooling in Society
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An essay entitled, Democracy and Anarchy written in 1924 by Errico Malatesta.
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Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War
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An essay entitled Revolutionary Haste written by Errico Malatesta.
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Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration of people of color in the US constitutes the newest structure of racialized social control, replacing slavery and Jim Crow to create an African American undercaste. She argues that the vastly disproportionate imprisonment (and the resultant disenfranchisement and exclusion from numerous aspects of mainstream society such as education and employment) of African Americans constitutes the single most important impediment to equality and civil rights in the US. -Chapter Five, "The New Jim Crow" - Part 2-
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Kristian Williams' book, "Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America" explores the history of policing including its roots in slave patrols and its evolution in the post-slavery US as a tool for controlling people of color and working people. Chapter Four, "Cops and Klan, hand in hand", explains the role of the police as a tool to prop up white supremacy, from slave patrols, to enforcement of white supremacist laws, to racial profiling.  It provides historical examples. Part 1 of 2
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