5LL #372: Struggle, Images, Surveillance, Children, Cheney
We Will Not Retreat to the Shadows
Editorial Collective, Long-Haul
Recent street protests in LA’s working-class areas, and the entangled histories underlying them, speak to the challenges that confront prospects for solidarity in the face of anti-immigrant populism.
Pity and Fear
Hisham Matar, Equator
What is clear is that Israel has lost much more than can ever be compensated by theft and murder, and notwithstanding this, or perhaps exactly because of it, the fanatical temptation for it to engage in more theft and murder has never been more irresistible.
How Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine
Theia Chatelle, The Intercept
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
Horizons of Youth Liberation
Sarah Brouillette, Protean
If Solidarity with Children has a unifying message, it is that we need to embrace, rather than mock, the ambition to radical and utopian reversals of injustice and suffering.
Iron-Ass
Grey Anderson, New Left Review
For all the obloquy heaped on him in the final years of the Bush presidency – from liberal revulsion at torture and surveillance to conservative unease over executive aggrandisement – Cheney’s architecture of power proved remarkably durable.