Infinitely more interested in collective organising and collective politics than any discussions around collective language. BAME, BIPOC, POC, whatever... But, if we really want collective language it should start from our analysis. Thread 1/8

Racialised communities in the UK are under siege from the state. And the situation has escalated rapidly throughout Covid-19, and following the global BLM uprisings. 2/8

Section 60, stop and search, Gangs Matrix, Prevent, war on terror, Fortress Britain, hostile environment, the slow yet swift disappearing of the Gypsy, Roma & Traveller community, criminalisation of our resistance, hyper-surveillance of our daily lives... 3/8

Race is the foundation upon which the state rationalises its terror as justice: criminals, gangs, terrorists, traffickers, paedos, thieves economic migrants... We all know who these words refer to. 4/8

Oh, and the new one, covid carriers and spreaders. The opportunistic fucks. 5/8

Collective political language shouldn't just be a description of skin colour, or nationality, or culture, or language. It should, surely, shed light on our collective experience of state and societal violence and brutality... 6/8

This experience isn't just one of institutional racism, the reality is heavier than this. I honestly think we should talk stronger, and deeper, of communities under siege. Of communities under occupation by internal border regimes. 7/8

And I guess, this means the need to start talking about anti-colonial resistance *at home*. 8/8