Escalating resistance met with legalized repression entrenches rather than contains mobilization.

Evidence

In 1985, a similar (and, in fact, overlapping) coalition of trade unions formed the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Those well-brokered organizations coordinated widespread resistance to the regime. Threatened, the government declared successively more repressive states of emergency in July 1985 and June 1986. The later declaration “gave every police officer broad powers of arrest, detention, and interrogation, without a warrant; they empowered the police commissioner to ban any meeting; and they prohibited all coverage of unrest by television and radio reporters and severely curtailed newspaper coverage. The government had resorted to legalized tyranny” (Thompson 2000, 235). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577

Categorization

• XREF: Adds a contrast-point for the reader’s matrix: in a repressive regime, absorption-attempts and repression drive escalating contention, opposite to the supposed democratic defusion channel. — connects to: Token political incorporation can accelerate rather than appease opposition mobilization. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577; Security-force killings of activists triggered escalatory cycles of mourning and reprisal — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 603; Shift from welfare paternalism to racial modernism produced a new militant generation — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 607 (+12 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Severe repression can accelerate the very mobilization it targets. #corroborates (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 578
• Repression drives nonviolent movements to armed rebellion #expands (0.85) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 32
• Restricting freedom provokes the rebellion it aims to prevent #corroborates (0.85)
• Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent #qualifies (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326
• Indiscriminate repression by weak militarized states breeds revolutionary movements. #corroborates (0.80)
• Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths #corroborates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129
• Regroupement bred resistance even as it hampered the A.L.N. militarily. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Racial repression provides the terms for its own resistance #corroborates (0.80)
• Legal-but-unacceptable conversion pressure can trigger rebellion by delegitimizing a regime #expands (0.75)
• Protest success produces a far deeper subsequent crash when repression follows #complicates (0.75)