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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.

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.