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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.
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
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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