Since 2023, Western governments have done next to nothing to stop Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. Instead, they have preferred to maintain relations with rogue states under the guise of lucrative weapons contracts, all at the expense of their (and our) humanity.
Faced with this monolithic indifference, ordinary people have sidestepped negotiations with governments and instead chosen to act directly. Because that’s what ‘direct action’ means. It is a form of protest that sidesteps political negotiation… That’s it…
You’d think this was a simple enough concept to grasp. Unfortunately, as far as the British state is concerned, this definition might as well be written in Arabic.
My latest for the Canary, following the re-arrest of Qesser Zuhrah for allegedly “encouraging … the commission of [a criminal] offence” by posting the words ‘take direct action’ on social media. You can read it here.
Yesterday, I also wrote a short reflection on the chaos that engulfed the Green Party’s spring conference.