The Gulags of Democracy: Reflections and Interviews book by Angela Davis

In this series of interviews, Davis takes a few pages to take an extraordinary and enlightened look at our world, at institutionalized racism, sexual violence, torture, poverty, globalization... She highlights the close relationships between American prison policy and its foreign policy. She analyzes the prison-industrial complex as a system of oppression and lays bare the links between imperialism, prison and torture, which leads her to analyze the recent cases of torture in the prisons of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. For her, any society based on the oppression of one group by another group cannot be considered democratic. A true democracy can only be abolitionist; and, in the continuity of the abolition of slavery, Davis calls for the abolition of the death penalty, then of prisons. The most recent book by a great lady, one of the most important contemporary activists, who transformed the United States, alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, an intellectual of great stature, who brings, through her reflection, hope and depth to the monochrome ambient discourse.