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Tag Archives: State and terror
George Orwell: Vanity and despotism
But what light does our difference here throw upon the problem before us? What connection is there between the sartorial splendours of the educated man and the photograph of ruined houses and dead bodies? Obviously the connection between dress and … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-militarism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, George Orwell, State and terror
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Giorgio Agamben: State and terror
What is a state that, ignoring all forms of law, methodically murders or kidnaps the leaders of states it arbitrarily declares to be its enemies? Nevertheless, this is what is happening with the approval or embarrassed silence of European countries. … Continue reading
Christian Laval: Total war as a neo-fascist mode of government
From the Verso Books Blog (03/02/2026) Christian Laval, co-author of The Choice of Civil War, on the escalation of the neoliberal order through the Trump administration’s total war. Trump is carrying out a protracted coup d’état right before our eyes, making … Continue reading
See ICE? Add Heat
From Ill Will (13/02/2026), by anonymous authors Yesterday, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, which brought several thousand ICE and CBP agents to the streets of Minnesota over the past few months. While this … Continue reading
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Tagged insurrection, no borders, revolution, State and terror, State terror, united states
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The Road to Prairieland
From the CrimethInc. collective (13/02/2026) The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression On July 4, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility imprisoning immigrants facing deportation … Continue reading
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Tagged no borders, State and terror, State terror, united states
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Nate Holdren: Against The Border Power
The article that follows was originally posted here, at buttondown.com (05/02/2026) and subsequently here, at libcom.org (10/02/2026). As I’ve mentioned a while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, Nate Holdren, no borders, racism, State and terror, united states
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Rodrigo Karmy Bolton: The law of fire
From Ficción de la razón (21/01/2026) 1. In a short text dedicated to his daughter Anima entitled Land and Sea, the German jurist Carl Schmitt proposed the term nomos of the land to refer to the “original appropriation of space” … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Malm, Carl Schmitt, ecology, James C. Scott, Rodrigo Karmy Bolton, State and terror
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State integration forced on Rojava
From Freedom News (20/01/2026) Islamist attacks and great-power manoeuvres place the revolution in existential threat Blade Runner Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian state forces and Kurdish forces have developed into a multi-front assault on Rojava, threatening open war as a … Continue reading
How Everyday Organizing Stopped Trump’s Bay Area ICE Surge
In this article a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s California Bay Area Local reflects on the organizing that made recent mobilizations to oppose a “surge” of federal agents in their region both possible and successful. (06/11/2025) Juan Verala Luz Between … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-statism, migration, State and terror, united states
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Israel, Apartheid, and the Death Penalty: When Law Becomes a Tool of Ethnic Cleansing
By Rezgar Akrawi, from libcom.org (10/04/2026) The Death Penalty for Terrorists Law was formally passed on 30 March 2026, with a 62–48 vote. Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, during a session of the Knesset’s National Security Committee. He and … Continue reading →