abolition
The state of being abolished.
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2/ She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to education, the end of coverture in British law, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, the abolition of child prostitution and an end to human traffic…
Capitalism is what people do, how people live. Socialism is always about revolutions, disruptions, expropriations, abolition, and other violent efforts and events. Socialism is violence. Socialism is terrorism.
👉 Anna Terwiel, “Alligator Alcatraz and the Environmental Politics of Prison Abolition” (Winter 2025), muse.jhu.edu/article... 6/6
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the abolition of the Greater London Council. To mark the occasion comes a new book 'London's Ours! Images from the Greater London Council 1981-1985'. You can read my review here…
So you want the abolition of the state of Israel even if it pulled back to its 1967 borders?
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The state of being abolished.
The campaign for the abolition of slavery changed the course of history.
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The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
The campaign for the abolition of slavery changed the course of history.
“2/ She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to education, the end of coverture in British law, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, the abolition of child prostitution and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Capitalism is what people do, how people live. Socialism is always about revolutions, disruptions, expropriations, abolition, and other violent efforts and events. Socialism is violence. Socialism is terrorism.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(historical, often capitalised, UK, US) The ending of the slave trade or of slavery.
The campaign for the abolition of slavery changed the course of history.
“👉 Anna Terwiel, “Alligator Alcatraz and the Environmental Politics of Prison Abolition” (Winter 2025), muse.jhu.edu/article... 6/6”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This year marks the 30th anniversary of the abolition of the Greater London Council. To mark the occasion comes a new book 'London's Ours! Images from the Greater London Council 1981-1985'. You can read my review here www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/londons-ours...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“So you want the abolition of the state of Israel even if it pulled back to its 1967 borders?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It’s about how I imagine the drum circle trials would go after prison abolition”
— Bluesky· May 2026“the reason that talk of pure credentialing is so pernicious to progressive causes is that it treats higher ed as basically and empty exercise in auditioning for eliteness, which would naturally lead one to think abolition would be better for everybody”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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