Report and analysis from Philadelphia on the recent rebellion following the police murder of Eddie Irizarry. Originally posted to Philly Anti-Capitalist. On Monday August 14th 2023, Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry as he sat in his car. Police initially lied sayin...
More looting, while using the tactics expressed in the linked article: overwhelm the police by taking small, distributed actions where they can't effectively counter them. In other words, more looting and more defending each other against the state, both directly and by being strategic.
violence, robbing and looting doesn’t solve much
Completely wrong.
What I am trying to say is I think it’s better to build, create, progress, rather then destroy someone’s neighborhood or place of work.
It's better to do both. Always. "Someone's neighborhood or place of work," is a liberal, garbage way of framing this. These were attacks on capital and state. Period. The workers don't own those places of work, or have any real say at all about what happens there; they aren't theirs. They don't own the neighborhoods, or have any real say at all about what happens there; they aren't theirs. The idea that attacking state and capital hurts the people they are oppressing is an extremely privileged idea. It needs to be checked wherever it appears. Hard.