Following a spate of violent incidents, the Ministry of Public Security has launched a summer crackdown on "extreme violence", including terrorism, arson, gun and bomb attacks and assault.
Soon after May Day was created in response to the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago, the holiday became an occasion for "an extreme right wing conservative crackdown," said Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbra.
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Authors including Hanif Kureishi, Blake Morrison, Yann Martel, and Ali Smith are among those who have put their names to an open letter drafted by the organization English PEN, which expresses "extreme concern about the current crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey".
Media and free speech in the Middle East today are caught between two extremes: radical extremists and government crackdown.
But the crackdown on them — not just in extreme examples like Eric Garner's but in the general pitilessness of the pursuit — can make urban life less civil, not more.
"Political forces with extreme views could emerge in the face of government crackdown and repressive measures," said Asif Nazrul, a law teacher and analyst.
The findings come amid controversy about a planned crackdown on what the government says are extreme views, which are currently lawful, which some British Muslims and even police chiefs warn will create further alienation.
That violence turned out to be a prelude to a crackdown: a series of new repressive laws, the exertion of extreme pressure on the media and the arrests of dozens of activists and rank-and-file protesters.
A gag about the absence of cooking oil and milk takes root in Caracas at a given moment, while another joke, about totalitarian extremes — say, the one where a frantic rabbit flees a secret-police crackdown on camels ("I know, but you try explaining that to the secret police!") — never gains traction.
