The methods of repression deployed by the French state in Paris were almost carbon copies of some of those developed to crush the National Liberation Front, pointing to a continuing legacy of French colonialism within the metropolis itself.
Some of this country’s most coercive institutions – including the Metropolitan Police and Security Service (MI5) – can be traced to the imperial needs of 19th and early 20th century imperial Britain.
From the Philippines to the War on Terror, the U.S. state has utilised its vast imperial domains as grounds for experimentation for coercive social control.
