Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression

In a time of heightened mobilization, like now, law enforcement systems ratchet up repression and deploy legal categories to undermine our movements by singling out particular groups and tactics for criminalization. Universities and colleges collaborate with law enforcement to target and isolate student activists. It is essential that we show solidarity right now and resist their predictable attempts to divide-and-conquer.

This document is an invitation, not a set of instructions. As organizers and writers who have fallen into the anti-solidarity traps described in the resource, we invite anyone commenting or reporting on political repression to consider the questions we offer.

Haymarket books hosted the launch of this tool in the summer of 2024, you can watch below.

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