Confronting Counterinsurgencies: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors

By Joy James

As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors 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 includes accessible and revealing discussions of the role of institutions, universities, and nonprofit organizations in suppressing radical movements. It introduces and analyzes contemporary militarized policing projects like Cop City, ICE, and the School of the Americas and links them to historical and modern settler colonialism and slavery.

Confronting Counterinsurgency, made as an offering of revolutionary love, will be a crucial tool for deepening and radicalizing our analysis, learning from each other's movements, strengthening our resistance, and uniting to fight for a better world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745351549
• ISBN13: 9780745351544
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.