September 2025

Political violence is unacceptable when wielded by the poor, the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the occupied, the colonised and the enslaved. Political violence is unacceptable when the violence comes as response to the politics. Political violence is unacceptable when it arises out of the refusal to accept the domination of empire and the ruling class. Political violence is unacceptable when it strives to liberate. But the political violence wielded by the state and its lawmakers, by colonialism, by “progress”, by carcerality, by capitalism, by the weapons manufacturing industry, by the tech oligarchs, by the media, by Israel, by imperialism and its thirst for more power, more money, more privilege, more control - well, that’s not political violence at all. That’s democracy. And it’s the price of doing business if we want to protect our freedoms.