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While the “Benalla Affair” has dominated French public discussion since July, the country’s police force’s mingling with private militias has not stopped there, as border police have supported ultra-right gangs in violent actions against refugees, according to information gathered from solidarity networks in the area. Although Emmanuel Macron was elected primarily due to a desire to defeat Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, under his rule the police have stepped up cooperation with extra-legal “thugs.” MediaPart, a French socialist website, noted that “because the police are happy to have reinforcement…..they know how to find allies.” These allies can be both ideological or purely practical. In the case of the Benalla Affair, the official police and private militias effectively merged. In a parliamentary session, the Interior Minister, Gérard Collomb, essentially admitted that there had been cooperation due to the alleged threat posed by the Black Bloc and ot...

A process of ongoing high-level cooperation between European governments following the G20 in Hamburg this time last year has led to the creation of a "black bloc task force," as well as what appears to be a Europe-wide digital database of so-called "left wing extremists" based on a dubious and toxic ideological framework, according to a series of articles, activist commentary, and government documents. Over the past few months, a huge number of activists from Switzerland, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Belgium, Austria, France and Germany have been arrested by police in conjunction with the G20 protests. The raids in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland were conducted by a "black bloc task force," according to DW. The black bloc task force, DW says, has been "combing through terabytes of police footage, CCTV recordings, and private videos with the help of facial recognition software and geolocation data." It has been disclosed al...

End Of The ICE Age As Over 700 Protests & Occupations Sweep USA, Activists Fight Cops #MeltICE: Antifa Groups & Leftists Beat Back Fascist Riot In Portland Aligned With Cops #CrushICE: A Look Inside The #OccupyICE Camps & Communes And Their Struggle #AbolishICE: 600 Anti-ICE Feminists Arrested En Masse In DC NYC Cops Steal Palestinian Flags From Anti-ICE Protest Groups The Failure Of Liberals And Their Collaboration With Police- An Essay Charlottesville Right-Wing Extremists Plot Rally Outside White House EU Gives Stamp Of Approval To Frontex State Terrorist Campaign Against Refugees "Controlled Centres" - Migrants To Be Directed To African Concentration Camps.... NGO Ships Detained Without Explanation As Hundreds Drown Rightwing Smears Of NGOs As "Human Traffickers" Has No Basis In Reality Varoufakis: European Leaders Dancing To Salvini's Racist Tunes Germany: Socialist And Communist Groups Protest AfD Anti-Refu...

At the time I am writing this, Donald Trump is getting a lot of flak for imposing tariffs on allied countries, skipping the G7 environmental meeting, and treating “dictators” like Kim Jong Un with more respect than Justin Trudeau and Theresa May. Trump, of course, deserves all the criticism directed at him. But is a man who pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement skipping a talk shop on ecology any worse than a known rapist attending a meeting on women’s empowerment? Is imposing tariffs on allies any worse than the entire G7- via the Trade In Services Agreement – imposing a marketisation of public services around the globe? Respecting Kim that much different than cozying up to Netanyahu and Mohammad Bin Salman, both engaged in active ethnic cleansing and genocide? The G7 hates Trump, not because his policies are much different from theirs. On the contrary. It should now be obvious to everyone that the promise of corporate-led globalization is not the breaking down of b...

#NoG20: Massive Repression As Security Services Raids Launch Raids Against Protestors In Italy, Spain, France And Switzerland Multinational "Anti-Black Bloc" Force Uses Geolocation, Facial Recognition, Photo Analysis To Capture And Cage Anticapitalist Youth Hamburg Cop Forces Unveil Statement Branding Protestors "Terrorist" #Berlin: The Senate Speaks Of Housing Policy – We Make It CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION: On June 8th, Stop The G7 In Quebec! First Anti-G7 Banner Drop in Saguenay Tight Security And Business Repression Ahead of Summit Trudeau Nationalises Kinder Morgan Pipeline To Force Through Ecocidal Agenda Austria’s New Coalition Betrays on CETA Corporate Power Pact NEW VIDEO: 2018 French Revolts Timeline #ZAD Notre-Dame-Des-Landes: Until Where Will We Go With This Scam Of Negotiations? Alain Badiou: Down with Privatisations: For a "Convergence" With Some Content Slavoj Zizek and Bernard Henri-Levy Debate Meaning Of M...

Day Of The Barricades "We Have No Future:" Students And Public Sector Employees Rebel Against Neoliberal Order 140 Cities Rebel Against Macron, Dozens Of Universities Occupied Amid CRS Violence Workers Strike Across The Country Amid CRS & Media Attempts To Smother Strike Macron Outsources Redevelopment Of "Depraved" Housing Blocks To Private Corporations Amid Social Discontent 2018: Slogans From A Beautiful May In Paris #ZAD #NDDL Serious Injury This Morning – Communiqué Of The Medical Team And Caregivers Of La ZAD #ZAD #NDDL: Reoccupation and Reconstruction – THEY ARE CUTTING US DOWN, WE GROW BACK Protesters Defy 1,500 CRS In Renewed Expulsions From Eco-Camp LIVE: Latest Information On The ZAD Struggles.... AfD Bringing Militarism And Fascist Demagogy Against Muslims, Foreigners And "Bankers" To The German Bundestag Germany: Bavarian Police Law Passed—A Step Toward A Police State Sapling From Anne Frank’s Tree T...