Good Cop Radicals

The ruling class, and the police and military strategists that serve them, prefer the type of social movements orbiting nonprofit funding and academic career tracks to those rooted in the fighting capacity and care networks of the working and ‘surplus’ classes. Why is it that this ‘movement middle class’ of social workers, lawyers, nonprofit coordinators, teachers and professors, have have learned to disregard and fear working class autonomy and revolt, and, rather than fuel it, manage it?

Good Cop Radicals argues this is a predictable outcome of ‘counterinsurgency’ – the police and military ‘science’ of movement repression – in which counterrevolutionaries seek to create a ‘pacified’ block, more invested in the continued existence of racial capitalism, who moderate movements in return for minor concessions. The zine calls for the mass defection of ‘respectable protestors’ from ‘movement middle management,’ in favour of an insurgent solidarity with the ‘criminal elements,’ and for the redistribution of money, accountability and risk with the excluded classes.

Limited edition riso print colour cover run of 150. 100% of author proceeds donated to Sudanese Anarchist Comrades’ mutual aid fund.

Published by ritornanti, 2026.