Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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George Floyd is the spark but systemic issues are the fuel
Disorder in the US is not just driven by police brutality — the nation's free-market ideology is losing its grip as the disenfranchised population see through its empty promises, argues KEITH LAMB
Although the riots have been sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd, the rebellion has been taken up by all races.
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AS a European growing up in the Cold War with the image of the US as the land of liberty and freedom the scenes of carnage that we see today are truly saddening
Superficially this is a problem of racial discrimination with the backdrop of a failed Covid-19 response and rising unemployment. However, although riots have been sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of police, the fuel that continues to kindle this blaze is systemic in nature.
Two acute meta-problems have matured and coalesced to bring the US to the state it is in now. Firstly, there is the problem of the ordinary citizen who is indoctrinated with the dogma of “market fundamentalism.” Secondly, there exists the true state of economic affairs which is “corporate-welfarism.”
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