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Bob Kroll — Trump’s racist policeman
The people of Minnesota believe that the racism in the police emanates directly from the president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, writes PETER FROST
Armed members of the Minnesota National Guard are shown leaving the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility in downtown Minneapolis, on Thursday, June 4, 2020, following the first court appearance for three former Minneapolis police officers now charged in the death of George Floyd
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
DONALD TRUMP’s tame racist policeman Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Union, has to go.
That is the opinion of many Minnesota labour union members, including local AFL-CIO president Bill McCarthy.
McCarthy has called on Kroll to resign immediately, saying: “Kroll has failed the labour movement and the residents of Minneapolis. Bob Kroll has a long history of bigoted remarks and complaints of violence made against him.
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