The State Is the Enemy

Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemy

lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants,

asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of "a lower

order." Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurds

by the Turkish State, and the racist police brutality, and government

sanctioned murders in the UK, James Kelman shatters the myth of Western

exceptionalism, revealing the universality of terror campaigns levied

against the most vulnerable, and calling on a global citizenship to

stand in solidarity with victims of oppression. Kelman's case against

the Turkish and British governments is not just a litany of murders, or

an impassioned plea--it is a cool-headed take down of the State and an

essential primer for revolutionaries.