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After Genoa: Debate on Street Tactics

Brian Becker / Workers World (U.S.) | 09.08.2001 13:24

These days every anti-globalization activist is confronted in meetings and private conversations with a hotly debated issue of street tactics. After the highly publicized street clashes in Genoa, Italy, the capitalist-owned media have
served as the vehicle for a highly coordinated campaign against "violent protesters" and "anarchists."

Brian Becker / Workers World (U.S.)
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10.08.2001 23:19

>Violence is not the issue. The guardians of this political >and economic system do not abhor violence. On the >contrary, they are the greatest purveyors of violence on >the planet.


Violence is precisely the issue. The state repression we are fighting is based on violence. By using violence ourselves, we are giving in to its means, we are allowing it to define our actions, entering a reciprocal circle of violence.
The only chance we have to build a better world is through nonviolence. If done correctly, this is not giving into the corporate media, but a far more effective tactic. And far more radical, as it lifts us out and above of the situation and definitions laid down by the currently powerful.

PS the kid that did the shooting was not a police assassin, but a 20-year-old conscript who thought he was going to die. The blame lies with those that put him in that position.

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