#10021. ‘Fight the reds, support the blue’: Blue Lives Matter and the US counter-subversive tradition

September 2026publication date
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Archeology (arts and humanities);
Archeology;
Anthropology;
Social Sciences (all);
Sociology and Political Science;
Social Sciences (miscellaneous);
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Abstract:
In the wake of the rightwing siege of the US Capitol, which put ‘Blue Lives Matter’ supporters at odds with police protecting the Capitol, the authors look to the history and contours of the ‘counter-subversive tradition’ in the United States and its locus in local police departments. They examine a similar moment of social unrest – the mid-to-late 1960s – and the pro-police organising undertaken by Support Your Local Police (SYLP), a front group of the ultra-right John Birch Society, which blended anti-communism with opposition to the Black Freedom Movement, with particular anxiety about the spectre of united white and black revolt from below and the encroachment of the federal government on local power from above.
Keywords:
Antifa; BLM; Blue Lives Matter; Capitol siege; John Birch Society; police power; radical Right; Support Your Local Police

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