Analysis
Stamped on a human facial recognition database, forever
December 28th: Rob Ray writes on proposals to roll out facial recognition cameras across Britain, alongside the bringing of passport photos into police databases.
Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
December 23rd: Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with severe external and internal social pressures and halt society’s steady rush toward inequality, stratification, violence, and inhumane repression.
R.I.P George Floyd: An indictment of police
December 18th: While it is fairly evident that the size and organisation of a centrally managed police force have no bearing on the level of crime, it is just as pertinent for me to discuss the police in the abstract.
Wethersfield camp causing irreparable harm to asylum seekers
December 15th: "I came through Libya, and this place is no different."
For Kurds, Kissinger’s cynical realpolitik capped a century of US betrayal
December 7th: In Kissinger’s ultra-realist perspective, the state and only the state could serve as a legitimate or functional vehicle for foreign policy, with the lives, experiences and suffering of people living in and under those states so much chaff in the wind.
The travails of Patriotic Alternative
December 3rd: Anti-fascist research group Red Flare report on the far-right group's trajectory and split.
Police invade Kurdish Assembly
November 27th: This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a meeting agreeing to "enhance" defence and security cooperation.
Confronting DSEI needs a long strategy
November 19th: Emily Apple writes on resistance to the bi-annual arms dealing circus and where the movement against it can go next.
