by Joshua Virasami
Pluto Press
7/20/2024, paperback
SKU: 9780745348094
What is antiracist activism? And how do we organize for power around antiracist principles? In this groundbreaking collection, long-time activist Joshua Virasami gathers the voices of some of our most inspirational organizers, thinkers, and collectives. A World Without Racism offers a set of clear-eyed, radical, and accessible principles and strategies for building working-class power through antiracist organizing. The book features ten contributions from collectives such as Sisters Uncut, No More Exclusions, Tipping Point, and Greater Manchester Tenants Union on subjects including women's liberation, land and food struggles, healthcare and housing, culture, imperialism, policing, prisons, and climate justice. Challenging the harms of the racist establishment and the entrenchment of the liberal diversity-inclusion complex, this book carves out a much-needed space for the ideas of radical antiracists, putting the politics back into activism.
Reviews:
"With the racism of poverty and state violence deepening relentlessly in Britain, new generations have responded, drawing on the legacies of their predecessors to create new forms of antiracist struggle. A World Without Racism is an essential guide to this work and the possible futures it beckons." -- Arun Kundnani, author of What is Anti-Racism? And Why it Means Anti-Capitalism
"Reviving the fierce tradition of transnationalism and practices of global solidarity that were core to grassroots anti-racist movements in the 1970s & 1980s, A World Without Racism brings together key anti-racist scholars and organisers from a new generation to examine the operation of race and racism in our current political conjuncture. It exposes the productive tensions that can drive our political demands and formations, it invites us, to think again about what is to be done." -- Lola Olufemi, author of Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
About the Author:
Joshua Virasami is an antiracist activist and organiser. He is the author of How to Change it: Make a Difference, a handbook for young activists, published with Stormzy and Penguin's #Merky Books. He has also written for the Guardian, Independent and Novara Media, and contributed a chapter on anti-racism to Futures of Socialism. He has been involved with many grassroots initiatives, including London Black Revolutionaries, Black Dissidents and Black Lives Matter UK, Climate Justice collective Wretched of the Earth, and is currently head of organising and training at the London Renters Union.