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The intensifying clamp down on #protest is just capitalism & the capitalist state “out in the open”. Climate activism, worker struggle and opposition to the clowning of a new King show people are less willing to passively accept their domination. So it must be done forcibly (1/5)
Significantly, it’s now being experienced more by those not used to it. They should be justifiably outraged. But there are many in our society who’ve been subjected to unjust and discriminatory punitive actions from police, politics and the legal system their entire lives.
This has been central to the critique of the climate activist space as too white and middle class, especially when it came to tactics of “wilful arrest”. State repression and violence is not new, it’s always been necessary for maintaining this system of hierarchy and oppression.
But neoliberal capitalism is now *clearly* not providing a good life for all, even for those previously enjoying relative comfort and security under it. If people are less willing to consent to it, repressive forces must be wheeled out to suppress that dissent wherever it appears
#solidarity matters. Whether it’s arresting @JustStop_Oil activists for their t-shirts, #NotMyKing protestors for having placards & megaphones, criminalising refugees or introducing anti-strike legislation, these aren’t isolated incidents but a systematic mobilisation vs dissent
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