Egypt's Black Bloc Doesn't Want to Be Your Friend

By Oz Katerji: Anarchists in the West get pretty touchy about the usage of the phrase "black bloc." While the mainstream media has co-opted the term to christen a new movement of furious, state-destroying bank smashers, the anarchists gripe that all it really refers to is the tactic of wearing all black to help preserve your anonymity at a protest or riot.
In Egypt, however, they seem less concerned with the terminology. Modeling themselves on the anti-establishment ideals of their Western counterparts, the Egyptian Black Bloc share the same tactics and uniform, but have adopted the name with its capital letters intact: Black Bloc as anti-Islamist movement, rather than lowercase anti-CCTV strategy...Continue reading... "Black Bloc' shows up in Egypt