# The State Is the Enemy: Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice - Hardcover

by **James Kelman** (Author)

**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.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.11 x 5.04 IN

**Publication Date:** August 01, 2023

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