Preliminaries to any Struggle against Prisons

Tiqqun on the relation between prison abolition and the broader revolutionary movement.

"In all the revolutions of the 19th century — 1830, 1848, 1870 — it was traditional that there either be revolts within prisons and for the prisoners to stand in solidarity with the revolutionary movement outside, or for the revolutionaries to force open the doors of the prisons and liberate the inmates. In any case, the shortest path to dismantling prisons remains the construction of a revolutionary movement."