On the violence of the police against pardons, the militarization of our cities and “democracy” this morning, police attacked housing camps in Lisbon and Porto. The scenes of oppression and police brutality become increasingly repeated. Hundreds of police officers in a military array, dogs, tigers, rubber bullets – and now even simple clothes that are being used in the midst of protesters. We are witnessing the normalization of our city center. But these repression and militias should not be excluded from their relationship. It does not happen separately, nor can it be separated from the processes that occur in the world. A text written for Instagram to try to balance the amount of liberal analysis of the reality there is in abundance.

On the violence of the police against pardons, the militarization of our cities and “democracy” this morning, police attacked housing camps in Lisbon and Porto. The scenes of oppression and police brutality become increasingly repeated. Hundreds of police officers in a military array, dogs, tigers, rubber bullets – and now even simple clothes that are being used in the midst of protesters. We are witnessing the normalization of our city center. But these repression and militias should not be excluded from their relationship. It does not happen separately, nor can it be separated from the processes that occur in the world. A text written for Instagram to try to balance the amount of liberal analysis of the reality there is in abundance.