Name: Are All Cops Bastards?
Start: 2026-09-06T17:00:00-0500
End: 2026-09-06T18:30:00-0500

Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

While liberal objections to an ACAB approach may be expected, recently some surprising defenses of police forces in supposedly socialist states have emerged. This session will examine the role of police around the world and ask the question, is there really any such thing as a “revolutionary” cop?

Speakers

brian bean

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist organizer, writer, and agitator originally from North Carolina. They are one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. Their work has been published in Truthout, Jacobin, Tempest, Spectre, Red Flag, New Politics, Socialist Worker, International... Read More →

Anderson Bean

Anderson Bean is a North Carolina–based activist and editor and contributor of the book Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives from Haymarket Books, and the author of Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis from Lexington... Read More →

Sunday September 6, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
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Abolition

Socialism 2026

brian bean

Anderson Bean

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Socialism 2026

brian bean

Anderson Bean

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