![]() In light of recent events, it is time that we consider how we can apply Fanon’s theories of violence and struggle to our protest movements here in modern colonial states (US) and colonial metropoles (London, Bristol, Liverpool etc). ![]() In response to, again, very tame actions of protestors graffitiing the statue of Churchill in Parliament square, District Commissioner Johnson described protests as "hijacked by extremists intent on violence". Patel even went as far as to encourage the police (yes, in this climate) to follow up on the incident and go after the perpetrators. Priti Patel, the (current) Home Secretary described the act as one of ‘disorder’ as ‘vandalism’, criminalising the behaviour of the protestors. It was a rather tame show of what we might consider ‘violent protest’ but was met by abject opposition from the official mouthpieces of the UK government. On the 7th June 2020 the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was spray painted, toppled and rolled into Bristol Harbour during public protests against the prevalence of racism in Euro-American institutions. ![]()
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