Speech is a projection of the power that allows that speech to be heard. As such, political discourse isn't a marketplace of ideas where the best one wins out, but a constant struggle between rival discourses to gain access to the positions where they can drown out the others.
A Telegraph...
*very clippy the microsoft paperclip voice*
It looks like you're writing fascist apologia. Need some help?
I don't think they're idiots, per se, I think they're dangerous fascists whom our collective liberation is bound up in opposing. I think to an extent they are defending their class...
Put bluntly, Mark, there's no danger of a civil war in America between the left and the right because the US left is in no position to fight one and would get crushed if it tried.
There are no left militias. Police forces (which are heavily infiltrated by the far right) have access to...
Weird how fear of being called racist doesn't stop the cops harassing black kids all the time.
Weird how fear of being called racist doesn't stop the public performance of "anti-terror raids" after an attack, that almost never result in actually catching any terrorists.
Weird how, despite the...
If you walk around Dalston on any Saturday night you'll bump into people who are clearly off their heads on a cocktail of different drugs. Yet by and large these people don't get stopped by the police and don't end up dead because they're white.
Not even all the democrats support Trump's impeachment. It needs a majority in the house and a two-thirds majority in the Senate and has never successfully removed a President.
Can't see it happening tbh.
The Hamburg stuff was explicitly anarchist, wasn't it?
For clarification, where I stand
- antifascists using violence to physically resist fascists: good
- anarchists damaging private property and using violence to physically resist police: also good
(I'd caveat the last point slightly in...
Can we not conflate "antifascist" and "anarchist"? It erases the important work fighting fascism being done by our tank-loving, state supporting comrades in arms.
Dunno if this point is quite the knockout political point you think it is either.
Fash in germany regularly burn down refugee shelters, blew up Borussia Dortmund's team bus, had a well developed plan involving military personnel to prosecute a false-flag terror campaign.
Germany is still reeling from the revelations of the NSU trials - about far-right infiltration of...
Everyone loves Roy Larner, the brave Millwall fan who stood up to terrorists
*five minutes later*
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/millwall-fan-hailed-lion-london-10745482?ICID=FB_mirror_main
By the way this is a decent analysis of the FLA
https://londonantifascists.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/report-and-analysis-of-fla-demo-in-london-saturday-24th-june/
Alty taught me that Sam Harris, far from being a crypto-fascist hack who is too thick to even understand how badly owned he gets every time he opens his mouth, is in fact the greatest thinker of his age.
I'll never forget the time when I claimed that the reason Romanians were responsible for...
It's pretty obviously a front for resurrecting an islamophobic street movement and the people getting involved because it's "working class lads making a stand" are desperately naive.
This bears many of the hallmarks of the initial incarnation of the EDL - before it splintered; the attempts to...