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From its appearance in Seattle in 1999 up to the recent Arabic Springs, the Black Bloc has been present in the major manifestations for the Global Justice Movement, where it often played an important role in directing the protests. Nevertheless, in spite of the media echo, social dentist barely deserved their attention to the phenomenon. Likewise, the use of the violence has benn seen as incompatible with a democratic policy. In this paper I want to analyze the phenomenon of the political violence in the Black Bloc. In the first part I will try to identify the type of violence from the categories of political violence as they have been formulated by the social movements theorists. Later I will offer a different interpretación of Bloc's identity and action which will let to contextualize the phenomenon inside the web and democratic form of protest which have developed in the last decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]