16 definitions by annoyed anarchist

Concentration camp for children. Set up to teach people to become docile and obedient subjects of capitalism and the state. This is achieved through mind-numbing, attacks on individual identity, and various degrees of disguised terror, usually (but not always) concealed by a double-bind.

Often combined with indoctrination into dominant ideas and training in skills useful to bosses.

Spanish/Italian word for police.

Theft, when it is carried out by the state or by other authoritarian agents.

The pigs invented this word, which sounds fancy and official, so they can keep on pretending to be consistently against theft when really they're the biggest thieves of all.

Not a form of torture, only a mild form of abuse, according to the US military. Considered a way of "softening up" prisoners of war for interrogation.

Rush Limbaugh describes it as "letting off steam" and says soldiers have a right to do it.

Sloganistic derivative of "capitalism", sometimes seen in graffiti and on placards.

Crap + capitalism = crapitalism.

1) Traditional symbol of socialist resistance.

2) in an Orwellian reversal, also the song sung by Blair and his cronies at Labour Party Conference

November 30th, 2000, and the protests which took place on that day.

This was the biggest and best day of protests at the Seattle WTO summit (aka "Battle of Seattle" and, in media-whorespeak, "Seattle Riots"). There were also protests elsewhere on that day - e.g. at Euston Station in London (the first recorded use of the pigpen tactic against anti-capitalists, as cops tried to pen everyone into the station). Not very well-organised this time. A cop van got torched and this became an iconic image.