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Direct Action Is Now Terrorism (novaramedia.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Last Friday at Woolwich crown court, Mr Justice Johnson sentenced four Palestine Action activists to a total of nearly 27 years (Nelson Mandela’s term in prison) for their role in an action on the Bristol-based research centre of an Israeli weapons factory. At the same time, our history was rewritten. The suffragettes, the chartists, the women of Greenham Common, and many more besides: all terrorists.

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[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

... But the suffragettes were terrorists.

When states murder and wage war to get their way, don't let them convince you that terrorism is always wrong. Because they'll never say the state's violence is wrong.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Yep. Terrorism is often good, and often the least violent form of action that works.

I don't think throwing paint at war machines counts as terrorism, but the UK has seen a lot of morally correct car bombs and I do imagine it'll see plenty more still.