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Oct 9, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
What happens when the police become an army? Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. This militarization has, unsurprisingly, been shown to unjustly impact on Black communities and is associated with increased killings by police. The Police Public Safety Training Center in Atlanta – more commonly known as ‘Cop City’ – is just the latest manifestation of the militarization of policing.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
Chris Browne:Hello and welcome to episode 74 of Radicals in Conversation, the monthly podcast from Pluto Press, one of the world’s leading independent radical publishers. I’m your host, Chris Browne. It’s great to be back in the studio after a couple of months away. We should, with luck, be back to our usual output of episodes for the rest of the year.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
Content warning: Suicide, traumatic death and severe mental distressIn the early 2010s, reports began to emerge of deaths linked to a government department. Suicide notes, coroners’ reports, and research by disabled activists pointed to failings within the Department for Work and Pensions – the DWP – the government body responsible for the disability benefits system.
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May 14, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
‘Whether one is an anarchist or not, the contemporary turn of geopolitical events—from the global phenomena of pandemics, fascistic regimes, and collapsing infrastructure for any sort of social well-being, to capitalist-fueled climate catastrophes and displacement, to occupations spiraling into genocides—has compelled a shift toward prioritizing do-it-ourselves forms of taking good care of each other.
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May 8, 2024 | 
covertactionmagazine.com | Paul L. Atwood |Pluto Press
In the last decade xenophobic tropes intended to stoke fear and loathing of Chinese have accelerated ominously in the American mainstream media as many public officials of both parties label China as our “adversary” or even our “enemy.”This last formulation is deep cause for growing alarm, especially because many decisions have been made to agitate Beijing and its unambiguous position on the “red line” over the issue of Taiwan.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
In this worrying climate of censorship and attacks on academic freedom, Pluto Press stands in solidarity with our authors Mohamed Abdou and Jodi Dean, and with all those targeted for their outspoken support of the cause of Palestinian liberation. We wish to amplify the campaigns that have already been initiated in defence of both Mohamed Abdou and Jodi Dean:Sign the open letter in support of Mohamed Abdou.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
Forbes’ annual rich list reveals that 2,781 people in the world have fortunes in excess of $1 billion. 141 people joined the list in 2023, with a combined wealth of around $14 trillion – a $2 trillion collective increase on the previous year. There are now more billionaires than ever before. It is a grotesque state of affairs, when we reflect on the misery and hardship that have been wrought by the cost of living crisis, soaring inflation, and years of stagnating pay and decaying public services.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
BUY THE BOOKIn our first episode of 2024 we speak to Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. Awareness around and diagnoses of neurodiversity have exploded in recent years, but as Robert argues, we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
BUY THE BOOKAlmost two months have passed since Hamas’s October 7th attack, in which it killed around 1,200 Israeli civilians. The retaliatory campaign that has been waged since then by the Israeli state against the Palestinian population—predominantly in Gaza, but also in the West Bank—has been nightmarish to behold. The latest estimates suggest as many as 15,000 people have been killed. For those of us who believe in the cause of Palestinian Liberation, how do we make sense of what is happening?
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
plutobooks.com | Chris Browne |Pluto Press
BUY THE BOOKFrom England, France and Germany to Palestine, South Africa and Brazil, the ‘beautiful game’ has been a powerful instrument of emancipation for workers, feminists, young people and protesters around the world. Football has often found itself at the heart of anti-colonial struggles; a tool of repression and cooptation, as well as liberation and resistance. In October 2023, Pluto published the English language edition of A People’s History of Football by Mickaël Correia.
