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Tag Archives: Security State
Experiments in total power: Portland
From one country to another, the pretense of democratic constitutional rule, respect for citizens’ rights, the presumed worth and dignity of everyone, is stripped away as quickly as the crises multiply and rain down upon us. Increasingly, the one obvious … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Normalising the state of exception under the Covid-19 epidemic
What follows is an interview with Giorgio Agamben by Nicolas Truong for Le Monde (24/03/2020), where he analyses “the very serious ethical and political consequences” of the security measures applied to curb the pandemic. As Le Monde reserves full access … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Creative violence against State brutality
Fear! How long has it been since the ruling classes (of a “developed” country) have feared their poor? The forced gymnastics of the french government’s “great national debate”, supported and secured by a militarised police apparatus whose only red line … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, Security State, State terror, Violence
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Reflections on the ongoing prison strike
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. These problems often are veiled by being conveniently grouped together under the category “crime” and by … Continue reading
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Tagged prison strike, Security State, State and terror
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To bring down prisons
What is the real basis of punishment, however? The notion of a free will, the idea that man is at all times a free agent for good or evil; if he chooses the latter, he must be made to … Continue reading
He who designates the terrorist, in this world, is sovereign: The “Tarnac affair”
Antiterrorism, contrary to what the term would suggest, is not a means to fight against terrorism, it is the method by which the political enemy is positively produced as a terrorist. It is a matter, by a luxury of provocation, … Continue reading
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Tagged france, Invisible Committee, Security State, State and terror, Tarnac, Tiqqun
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In solidarity with Pablo Hasél
In solidarity with the rapper Pablo Hasél, and all of the other dissidents fined, arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the spanish state.
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Tagged anarchism, Pablo Hasél, Security State, spain, State and terror
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Scenes from the class struggle in france: From Crimethinc
Left to their own devices, the police found themselves for the first time in a troublesome quandary. Suddenly stripped of the compass of the law, unable to decide which of the emergent governments should be considered lawful, and realizing the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, france, insurrection, Security State
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A wall of exclusion and domination
The actual physical borderland that I’m dealing with … is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the Borderlands are physically present wherever two or … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa, LGBTQI, mexico, migration, Security State, State and terror, united states
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Learning From Portland
By Black Flag Catalyst (Anarchist Library 16/07/2020) … Foreword My city: Portland, Oregon is currently under siege from an occupying force. Make no mistake in assuming the state will hesitate to occupy other cities with their militant, violent force, for … Continue reading →