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Comment on Antigone by Jan

Jan — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:27:50 +0000

Great Interpretation – thank you very much!

Comment on Nightmare Politics: October 20th and after by Thoughts on the Sussex occupation as a dead end | Nieuws | Kritische Studenten Utrecht

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:03:49 +0000

[...] and coercive forces. The form of the demo reinforces this construction by becoming a form of ‘three-dimensional lobbying, or a moral pressure’ generated by [...]

Comment on Nightmare Politics: October 20th and after by Thoughts on the Sussex Occupation as Dead End - AntiCapitalists

Thoughts on the Sussex Occupation as Dead End - AntiCapitalists — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:08:53 +0000

[...] and coercive forces. The form of the demo reinforces this construction by becoming a form of ‘three-dimensional lobbying, or a moral pressure’ generated by [...]

Comment on Justice by Defend the Right to Protest – Solidarity with Alfie and Zak during their third trial!

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:29:21 +0000

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Comment on Justice by piercepenniless

piercepenniless — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:36:22 +0000

Thanks, yes, good spot – have altered wording to make that clearer.

Comment on Justice by Rosa Smith (@quendergeer)

Rosa Smith (@quendergeer) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:32:01 +0000

Fantastic stuff. Minor quibble over the wording in paragraph 2 – makes it sound like MacKinnon is denying police violence, rather than the police prosecutor.

Comment on Justice by Faxe

Faxe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:19:27 +0000

Wonderful as always, but this post was especially moving. Solidarity to Alfie & Zak. <3

Comment on On Total Policing by sharon

sharon — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:54:45 +0000

Yeah… now i get to leave my comment!! So brilliant to find this group of smart people thinking and asking question about this issue.
I’m currently researching the ‘politics of the police’ and came across this article and LOVE what you are all saying its so right on.
I even agree with the person who has been helped by the police and wonders what all the police bashing is about, and i’m curios about her demographic.

I’m about to start working on the development of a community project with police and community in Tottenham.
The project is a dialogue with the people who are police officers. It’s about TOTAL COMMUNITY.
(by the way i think the use of the term ‘Total War’ arose from the French revolution).

It is an opportunity to engage in a conversation in which we all swop roles, what if you were a police officer, about to step into a riot scene? What if you were a black youth, being stopped for the 5th time this week and searched by the SAME officers? What if you were a single mother trying to find a job, or a shop keeper just trying to protect your shop?

Unless we start to see all sides, and recognize the roles we play in our imagined community we will never be able to unveil the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. The powermongers control the police, they are only a part of the tactics used, mechanisms put in place to control the masses.

This ‘war’ with the police force persists because it serves as a way of keeping US separate from THEM. The old divide and conquer.
We don’t think of the police as people anymore, we refer to them as ‘The Force’… this anonymatification (is that a word?) keeps us distracted from the real problems. They are not part of the communities they ‘serve’ for a reason.
I’m sure you all know this,
let me know if you can help with the project in anyway!

Comment on Nightmare Politics: October 20th and after by Rupert Read

Rupert Read — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:30:04 +0000

Thanks for this helpful and wonderfully-provocative piece. Much of the analysis seems spot-on, to me.
For a more detailed analysis of the crisis of political parties, see my report here: http://www.greenhousethinktank.org/page.php?pageid=recentpublications
However, it should be noted that the crisis is _not_ universal. Membership is shooting up in the Green Party. (Also, incidentally, in UKIP…; and the SNP has grown healthily in recent years). There’s a lesson there…

IN terms of where we go from here economically, again I think my thinktank has something to offer. What is needed is a new economics and politics of post-growth. See my report introducing our project on this: http://www.greenhousethinktank.org/files/greenhouse/home/1Post_growth_inside.pdf
We’d welcome your involvement!

Comment on Nightmare Politics: October 20th and after by ejh

ejh — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:24:49 +0000

Marx once suggested that the generalised trend to immiseration would tend inevitably to revolution.

To emigration, would be a more likely scenario.