This performative policing epitomizes the culture war posturing of which it is a part. The contemporary right is predicated on denying the actual problems and crises of our time, constructing instead imaginary threats that don’t disturb their worldview.
“Simultaneously needing and rubbishing nature, capitalism is a cannibal that devours its own vital organs, like a serpent that eats its own tail” https://t.co/pzpjijVKGK
This is a section of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, ordered by @pritipatel following the BLM and XR demos last year. It comes to Parliament on Monday, and MPs will vote on it on Tuesday.
It must be opposed.
Police are perpetrators of individual and state violence against women - as evidenced last night.
The police abuse the powers they already have, yet the government plans to give them even more powers in the #PoliceCrackdownBill.
We must resist this.
4pm. New Scotland Yard.
"Capitalism will always be racist and sexist, because it has to mystify its core contradiction — the promise of prosperity vs the reality of widespread poverty — by denigrating the 'nature' of those it exploits: colonial subjects, women and the dispossessed."
—Silvia Federici
Wrote this for @novaramedia on one of the most important and neglected aspects of Keir Starmer's CPS tenure - his proximity to the British security state - and its relevance for his remaking of the Labour Party.
https://t.co/Tc0KNjl36l
“Our thoughts will be influenced, all through instructions from the Microsoft server”
Thrilled to report that the Covid tinfoil hat lot are apparently now going door-to-door in Leytonstone lol
So glad this exists. Saw Angel Bat Dawid last year, way back when live music was still a thing, and it was one of the most powerful live performances I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/LzqjQU1ZTT
I don't give a fuck about "party unity". The suspension is act of revenge both calculated and in anger of a good man who while not perfect helped to organise, inspire and cohere a politics from below that the state including the state within the Labour Party despises.