#CivilResistance scholarship recommends #SocialMovements adopt a #nonviolent (NV) strategy for #SocialChange. The #violence analyzed is usually #ArmedStruggle, but it recommends NV in all tactics (thus excluding property destruction, #rioting, confrontation w/ #police). Benjamin Case's excellent "Street Rebellion" shows movements involving rioting are more likely to be successful, largely b/c riots lead to wider #CivilSociety participation in movements. Well-researched book!

#AKPress #Reading

#PeacefulProtest is being punished more severely in #Britain than #racist #rioting – that’s the real ‘#TwoTier’ justice

Compare the rioters’ prison sentences with those of #JustStopOil. How can our justice system claim to be blind?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/14/peaceful-protest-punished-britain-racist-rioting-real-two-tier-justice

A Finnish #neoNazi has been coordinating the far right #riots in the #UK.

Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle's investigative journalism found him from a Telegram-group called #SouthportWakeUp from which the riots have been organized.

In English: https://yle.fi/a/74-20104291

På svenska: https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-10061898

#England #NorthernIreland #Southport #violence #ExtremeRight #NeoNazis #Nazis #nazism #NeoNazism #Britain #society #poltics #FarRight #rioting #Yle #journalism #InvestigativeJournalism

About 15,000 join #Belfast #AntiRacism rally after week of #rioting

More than 120 groups take part in #demonstration organised by the #UnitedAgainstRacism group
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/10/about-15000-join-belfast-anti-racism-rally-after-week-of-rioting
#UAR