Posts tagged: policing

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  Spycops in context: Why does the state infiltrate political organisations?

  Recent revelations show that at least 140 English and Welsh ‘spycops’, long-term undercover agents, infiltrated around 120 dissident political organisations between 1968 and 2011 - the vast majority of the these being organisations on the left. But why does the state infiltrate political organisations? And why does it disproportionately target those on the left, as opposed to the right? In this article Connor Woodman looks at the history of the British secret state and the role it plays in the maintenance of capitalism.

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  The Benalla Affair in Context

  The revelation that Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguard disguised himself as a riot cop in order to beat up protestors exposes larger problems with the presidency and policing in France. 

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  From Rentacop to RoboCop: "Absolute Security" in Los Angeles

  In this excerpt from his classic City of Quartz, Mike Davis examines the home security arms race that erected gates, walls, and thousands of "Armed Response" lawn placards across suburban Los Angeles in the Reagan era.

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  Abolish ICE, But Don’t Stop There

  If the abolition of ICE is to be more than symbolic, it must include the abolition of local police departments. 

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  Hostages to Democracy

  Focussing on the Indian government's counterinsurgency operations against Maoists in Bastar, Nandini Sundar examines how formal democracy works to subvert popular power. 

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  Revenge Against the Commons

  Why France’s biggest police operation since May 68 is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare.

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  In Solidarity with the Students at Nanterre

  The Mouvement du 22 mars, founded on 22 March 1968, was a Nanterre-based movement decisive to catalysing the student revolt that sparked the France-wide general strike of May–June 1968. Fifty years later, in this text former M22M militants express their solidarity with the students today under attack on this same campus.

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  Superpredators: Police on the Hunt

  Police often speak of themselves as hunters. This might best be understood as an honest admission of what they actually do: hunt, capture, cage, and often kill those subjects marked as fugitive, unruly, impolite.

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  The Widening Gap Between The Working Class and the Proletariat: A Conversation with Joshua Clover

  Joshua Clover speaks with the IGDCast on contemporary struggles in the context of the conjuncture described in Riot. Strike. Riot.

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  Police: A Field Guide, a radical handbook of policing terms

  40% off Police: A Field Guide, a radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement, to help build a future free of police.

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  Five Book Plan: Making "Order"

  David Correia and Tyler Wall select five essential books on the "order" police make. 

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  A Brief History of School Violence in the United States (2011)

  In this Weekend Reads excerpt from Lockdown High, Annette Fuentes reconstructs the history of school violence in the US, as both a fact and a concept, from the nineteenth century onwards.