Police Unions, Politics, and Power
Police unions represent the most powerful yet reactionary and racist aspects of police departments and police officers.
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Police & Prisons
The “Network” Case and the Fascist Future Everywhere
If twenty years ago the post-Soviet world was “catching up” with the so-called “West,” it is the opposite today: post-Soviet Russia is the future of the West.
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Take it from a Veteran Civil Rights Attorney: Yes ACAB
If there isn’t resistance to police brutality, then the white supremacy and violence will increase. In some ways, we’re holding back a tide more than we’re actually advancing the bar.
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A Pattern of Torture and a Code of Silence
It’s something I ask every cop I question: Is there a code of silence in the Chicago police department? “Oh, no.” Have you ever testified against a fellow cop? “Oh, no.” Have you ever seen any police misconduct in your thirty years on the job? “Oh, no.”
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This Is What Antifascism Looks Like
The more publicity this case gets, the safer our comrades will be in remand prison from violence at the hands of prison stooges and more torture at the hands of the FSB.
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Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton
The FBI links all this together into something called the “black identity extremist movement,” which then gives them the opportunity to surveil whomever they put in that category. There’s no definition of that category, so we have to believe that they’re doing the same thing that they did back then.
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“In our mouths, words become crimes.”
The laws have changed their names, but they are still laws of exception, and they still have the same consequences for dissidents: persecution, criminalization, repression, and imprisonment. Freedom of expression exists only for those who think the way they do.
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Mass Incarceration and the Contested Legacy of Civil Rights
We cannot be a free country when we have five percent of the world’s citizens and 25% of its prisoners. The fight against mass incarceration is a fight for liberty and dignity.
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The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
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