This collection, published in 2024 by Going Against the Tide, brings together articles, coming from a communist perspective, on the struggle against police brutality that were published in the journal kites and on its website from 2020–23. kites journal was a collaboration between communists in the US and Canada, and was the predecessor of Going Against the Tide, a journal charting a path for communist revolution in the US.

Mail-order copies of The Struggle Against Police Brutality are available through www.leftwingbooks.net.

Bookstores and distros: reach out to us by email at goingagainstthetide AT proton.me if you’re interested in carrying Going Against the Tide.

Contents:

From the masses, to the masses: a summation of the October 22nd Coalition’s 
resistance to police brutality in the late 1990s
Kilmore and John Albert, 2020

Nothing is hard in this world if you dare to scale the heights
kites editorial committee, 2020

Defund, abolish…but what about overthrow?
kites editorial committee, US section, 2020 

Everything’s changed/nothing’s changed: Minneapolis a year after the rebellion
kites readers, 2021

Some orientation to our readers on the continued struggle against police killings
kites editorial committee, 2023