Abolitionist Futures is a collaboration of community organisers and activists in Britain and Ireland who are working together to build a future without prisons, police and punishment. We share information and resources to strengthen the network of existing and emerging abolitionist groups and allied organisations. Our aim is to support the flourishing of a diverse, vibrant and powerful abolitionist movement in Britain and Ireland. It’s time to imagine and build the world we want!

WHAT WE DO
  • We create and distribute abolitionist resources, particularly focussed on the British and Irish context.
  • We host regular reading groups and book clubs to introduce people to abolitionist ideas and deepen abolitionist knowledge and discussion.  We also provide resources to support community members to run their own learning groups.
  • We organise political events and workshops.
  • We circulate a monthly ‘Abolitionist Digest’, which shares recent articles, news, podcasts and highlight opportunities for people to get involved in abolitionist groups, campaigns and organising.
  • We archive abolitionist materials and seek to build knowledge of abolitionist organising histories in Britain and Ireland.
  • We organise in Britain and Ireland but seek to strengthen links internationally.

OUR ORGANISING PRINCIPLES
  • We organise with a vision for an abolitionist future. This means we recognise the harms done by policing, prisons, immigration detention, surveillance and other forms of punishment. We are working to build safe, healthy and flourishing communities for everyone.
  • We are committed to challenging and undoing oppression, particularly racism, sexism, ableism, classism, transphobia, homophobia, islamophobia, antisemitism and xenophobia and how these intersect. We pay attention to issues of power and privilege in how we organise.
  • We recognise that undoing oppression – whether on an individual, community or structural level – is an ongoing practice and will support each other to do that work.
  • We support each other’s learning, recognising that we will make mistakes and are committed to learning from them to make our movements stronger.
  • We reflect together and challenge and support each other to strengthen our movements collectively.
  • We respect a diversity of tactics and movement building strategies.
  • We recognise and appreciate the work of all those who contribute to abolitionist struggle and aim to support and lift up that work.
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The Politics and Poetics of Transnational Abolition