Repression into Barbarism: The War on Terror in Australia
Submitted on October 24, 2011
By JEFF SPARROW - October 24, 2011
Before 2001, Australian authorities gave a certain institutional recognition of the legitimacy of protest. By rallying regularly...the social movements of the 1970s established the street march as an accepted facet of the political process...Those days are well and truly over. The post-9/11 security laws give authorities tremendous powers to use against protesters...[T]he deployment of state violence against anti-corporate protesters provides a happy point of concurrence for neo-conservatives and neo-liberals.
