I wrote:

4a.

*English Racialist Violence Directed at Migrants*
From: John A Imani ( 
johnaima...@gmail.com?subject=Re:%20English%20Racialist%20Violence%20Directed%20at%20Migrants
 )
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 14:35:38 PDT

As it was with Jan 6th, the Left is in the unfamiliar and unfortunate position 
of not opposing police attacks upon civilians. And the Left will be next in the 
explosion of hatred.  Fully expect similar to occur urged on by right wingers 
here with the elections as an excuse.  Trump win.  Trump lose.  Don't matter.  
The hatred and the normalization of racial violence.  America.  Look to 
England. De te fabula narratur.

Good Comrade Hari responded:  "...in this instance, the British police are 
being instructed by the Labour Party (it seems anyway!) to clamp down on 
fascists. Not on "civilians".

Technically, you are wrong: the EDL hooligans are non-state actors, with no 
official policing powers and, hence, "civilian".  But, in essence, you hit the 
nail straight on the head.   We have nothing in common with these 'civilians'.

Blacks in the US have a long history paralleling the current events in the UK.  
The response of the British policing forces to the racialist attacks upon 
migrant and non-migrant people of color is understandably somewhat comforting 
to those under attack.  It is much the same as was with the intervention of the 
federal government in the strife originating in the racialist response of 
southern whites (and their local police forces) to a Civil Rights Movement 
seeking to end the de jure segregation polices of governmental and private 
entities.  Growing up there there was unanimity in the relief felt by us.

Yet a decade later these same federal forces spearheaded the repression of the 
militancy of the student, Black and Brown Power advocates.  The lesson is that 
when there is a threat to the social stability the government is neutral as to 
whether the source is reactionary or radical.  Whatever threatens the social 
stability will be met with the state power of capital when the system requires, 
in proportion as the system requires.

Understandable it is that those under attack in the UK are consoled with the 
present position of the state vis the racialists.  Yet such a stance is but a 
contingency as should, for example, the militant anti-racialist resistance that 
developed in Brighton threaten to become a permanent fixture.  The 
anti-racialist forces shouted to all that would hear "Allahu Akbar".  When it 
brings forward resistance then God is indeed Great.

JAI


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