Patch Davies

book publishing (editing/production), solidarity, seeking friendly comrades in Lancashire, and climbing/hiking friends, he/they

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@beth_stratford @NEF Hi Beth, I can't see this report anywhere - has it been published yet?

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

Anyone looking for a one man band?

https://t.co/EI7ussC113

[michael @Sisyphusa]

why does it feel like it's 2010 all over again?

probably because this government is made up of the ideological children of the last Labour government who innovated most of the attacks on sick and disabled people (esp asylum seekers) that the Coalition government then escalated?

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

OVER 500 RENTERS from every corner of our city came together today to send a clear message to politicians.

We won't stand for the exploitation any longer! We need #RentControlNow!

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars I also don't think we should censor our own ideas/practices because respectability types will mobilise against them. But it's been interesting hearing your take on it!

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Ok, personally I think it's useful/agitational idea that has developed out of, and that coheres, various types/sites of resistance, and that links powerfully between other struggles.

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars I think I'm getting where you're coming from now. But NGOs didn't create abolitionist ideas - I think they're probably more extractivist in relation to it. Maybe the bathwater is the NGOs and the baby might be careful discussion of abolition within and grounded by movements?

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Ok, that sounds like a potentially interesting criticism (I'm generally not v keen on NGO-land) but I'm just not sure where you're getting it from, and how abolition as a horizon, linked to practice, might be conservative, or lead to something even more conservative...?

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Ie. some proportion of people active in the housing movement want the abolition of landlords. Some proportion of people in the labour movement will want the abolition of bosses, capitalism, class. /2

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 @ESOLallstars Yeh, I mean there's obviously a whole spectrum of people with differing experiences/beliefs where some proportion of people critical of + resisting policing might also want 'abolition', + even call themselves abolitionists. I think that's comparable to most movements. /1

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 If anything, it’s just another (v important) way in to struggles and consciousness-raisings that are deeply linked? /7

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 1) Again, I don’t know why positioning abolitionism as in competition. My experience of it is that it often draws on implicit/explicit forms of anti-capitalist practice, desires, theory – more often anti-racial capitalism / black Marxism than strands that focus less on race. /6

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@leninology @PattesSouris @ArgenBenja @ING (it's bit opaque)😅

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@leninology @PattesSouris @ArgenBenja @ING Could you poss expand a bit on what you mean by 'tellingly opaque'?

[Patch Davies @Patch_JD]

@David_Jamieson7 or other disciplining/carceral forces. Abolitionism also much broader + deeper than just idea of totally abolishing the police/prisons. My sense is that we use that utopian idea(I don't mean utopian in sense of not actually real aim) exactly in order to inspire/agitate/provoke /3