terrorism
Shoot to Kill
This article is from Black Flag in 1999. It analyses the British state's use of shoot to kill.
The depraved heroes of 24 are the Himmlers of Hollywood - Slavoj Žižek
In this short article Žižek shows how the popular TV series is essentially a reflection of newly acceptable fascistic behaviour - torture, expendability of subordinates - in the 'war on terror', concluding that "24's real problem [is] not the content itself but the fact that we are being told openly about it."
On Sunday, the fifth season of the phenomenally successful television drama 24 will start in the US. Each season is composed of 24 one-hour episodes and the whole season covers the events of a single day.
Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo - Slavoj Žižek
Žižek draws on Giorgio Agamben's notion of Homo sacer - someone who is biologically alive but deproved of all rights - in order to understand the rationales and causes of the 'war on terror'.
On security and terror - Giorgio Agamben
"We can say that politics secretly works towards the production of emergencies." A short article written in response to the 9-11 attacks by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [Frankfurt general newspaper] September 20, 2001.
Security as leading principle of state politics dates back to the the birth of the modern state. Hobbes already mentions it as the opposite of fear, which compels human beings to come together within a society. But not until the 18th century does a thought of security come into its own.
1958-1990: Operation Gladio, Italy
The history of the secret neo-fascist army in Italy set up ostensibly to resist Soviet invasion, but in reality to be used in the event of the working class growing too strong once again.
Following the end of World War II, the Italian workers’ movement was rapidly gaining strength. In some towns the fascists had been kicked out by Resistance forces (as before the war, these were usually led by socialists and anarchists), and embryonic workers’ councils were governing.
1969-?: The Strategy of Tension in Italy
Information about the Italian state's "Strategy of Tension" policy in which it carried out terrorist attacks against its own people in order to blame the left and anarchists.
"State-Fetishism": some remarks concerning the Red Army Faction - by A. Grossman
A critical article about 1970s West German Marxist urban guerrilla group the Red Army Faction, sometimes known as the Baader-Meinhoff gang.
1982: The death of Neil Roberts
A short account of a little known political death in New Zealand. In 1982, an anarchist punk rocker attempted to blow up the Wanganui police computer. He blew himself up in the process
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McDonalds, 9-11 and US foreign policy
Statement by Glasgow MWR following a statement issued by the McDonalds corporation following the September 11th attacks covering the attacks, the war, and McDonalds itself
BNP leader resigns amid assassinations claim
Earlier this year, Tony Lecomber, the BNP's second most senior member resigned following rumours that he had approached a Liverpool BNP member to get him to carry out assassinations.
Lecomber contacted Joe Owens, and solicited him to carry out assassinations against members of the 'Establishment'. Joe Owens has now taken the time to publish his side of the story.
Setting the record straight.
Around two weeks before Christmas, I received a Christmas card from Tony Lecomber.
I found this rather strange as I have never received one from him any time before,
