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  "description": "When a governing political party labels protesters as \"terrorists\" and defies the courts, a red line is crossed from upholding public order to a fascist repression of dissent. ",
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  "textContent": "What is most appalling about the Labour Party’s enactment of state violence against members of Palestine Action is not that they proscribed it as a “terrorist organisation”. Excessive power makes people stupid, and their decision was obviously, ridiculously stupid.\n\nNor was it the government’s refusal to back down when this stupidity was brilliantly exposed by the civil disobedience campaign of holding placards in support of the protesters. Power is also proud. It cannot lose face.\n\nNo, what is most appalling is that, once the court ruled the proscription was illegal, the Home Secretary immediately announced they would appeal the judgement.\n\nIn other words, they are not just stupid. They are evil.\n\nFind out more at https://defendourjuries.net/\n\nThe two things are quite different. We can all be stupid. We all make mistakes. But when a political organisation running a state is told by the courts that its actions are illegal, and then continues to insist that protesters are terrorists, it shows that this was not a mistake. These people actually believe that protesting is a terrorist act.\n\nThis is the essence of the fascist position: to label opponents as terrorists in order to justify violence against them — raids, arrests, imprisonment.\n\nIf any member of the Labour Party does not resign over this exposure of what their politicians have now shown themselves to be, then they themselves are complicit in this strategy.\n\nBecause this is massively serious.\n\nYou either protect a free society or you lose it.\nYou either believe in proportionality or you believe in the fascist playbook.\n\nThe difference here is the same as the difference between direct action and terrorism. There is a fundamental chasm between them.\n\n## Join Me\n\nIn the Revolution of Our Lives\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo nonsense. Change your mind anytime.\n\n* * *\n\n## No alliance with Labour\n\nWhich raises a serious question: is the Green Party going to go into alliance with this organisation?\n\nAny alliance with Labour has to be ruled out absolutely. Labour is now functioning as a pathological criminal organisation. Keir Starmer lied to become leader. The party broke its own rules to expel tens of thousands of members on trumped-up charges. Its culture is rooted in a top-down, oligarchic and factional structure that suppresses dissent and consolidates control.\n\nOrganisational research consistently shows that century-old institutions do not fundamentally reform themselves. They protect their internal power arrangements. They double down. They expel critics. They bureaucratise dissent. They become more rigid over time, not less.\n\nLabour is not drifting accidentally into authoritarianism. Its internal structure predisposes it towards it.\n\nIf the Green Party enters into alliance with Labour, it will be dragged into the cesspit of neo-liberal appeasement of the corporate class. That is how institutional gravity works. Smaller parties do not transform larger oligarchic machines. They get absorbed, neutralised, or compromised by them.\n\nAnd history is instructive. In Germany, the long-term accommodation of social democracy and the Greens within a constrained neoliberal framework created the political vacuum in which the AfD surged to over 30 per cent in parts of the country. When progressive parties manage decline instead of confronting power, the far right feeds on the disillusionment.\n\nIf the Greens blur the moral line here, they will not weaken Reform. They will strengthen it.\n\nThis is the red line for any real progressive politics.\n\nIf you stand for proportionality, for civil liberties, for the right to dissent without being labelled a terrorist, then you do not ally with those who criminalise protest.\n\nThere is no grey zone here.\n\nIt is a red line.\n\n* * *\n\nHobbes would be turning in his grave. Yes, the state may repress those who threaten public order — but there is one exception: when those who run the state themselves become an existential threat to public order through the destruction of the biosphere. Remember a certain trial after 1945. If you want to understand that argument in full, read my new book _Suicide_.\n\nOrder Suicide\n\nThe book tour kicks off in Bookhaus, Bristol, on the 17th and continues online and in London over the next month. Sign up to join.\n\nIf you're a paid member of this blog, you can download the ebook below. I hope you like it, and let me know your thoughts.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "🟢 The Green Party Must Reject an Alliance with Labour Over Palestine Action",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-16T10:43:00.000Z"
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