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Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding s
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the peop
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occ
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen t
Defunding the police might end the armed and uniformed force as we know it, but the ruling class will then hire mercenaries to protect their wealth
This policy paper makes the case for reviving the Black Panther Party program for community control of the police.
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“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions addre
