Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Which tactics are appropriate for today’s rebellions can only be determined by a strategic and organizational analysis along the lines [Marin Luther] King proposed, and not according to the moral judgment which he subordinated to that analysis. In fact, with news that Los Angeles is considering cuts in police department funding, Minneapolis city council members openly considering disbanding the police force, and curfews being lifted in several cities, there are good reasons to believe that the current riots are strategically effective. “No justice, no peace,” from King’s vantage point, means that there is no positive peace without justice. Therefore in the context of injustice, there can be no negative peace, in the sense that there must be tension, there must be a “disturbance of the peace” in order to have the presence of justice. Today, when protestors shout “no justice, no peace,” we should understand this as a political principle which takes primacy over the abstract conceptio...

It is good to remember that it was through struggle, an uprising-like action, including the use of violence, that gays won theirs rights, not because "our Liberal" regime granted them those rights as many today think.  It was through people's own struggle, not like today's missionaries touring Asia and Africa, lecturing gay people about "their identity" as gays. It was withinin a context of the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the influence of other militant groups such as the Black Panthers'. It was within socio-economic conditions of a fully developed capitalist relations, not a Uganda-like one or a dictatorship . Historian John D'Emilio provides good insights on the subject. *** The BBC calls it "a fury years in the making", i.e. a movement. But it chose a title that reduces it to a "riot"!! Broidy thinks something has been lost in the process. "I think it's much more powerful without the fl...