June 4, 2020
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IRR News (20 May – 3 June 2020)
4 June 2020 —Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice A ‘fascist speech’ verging on ‘a declaration of war against American citizens’. That’s how US president Donald Trump’s 1 June speech, where he invoked the threat of the Insurrection Act (1807) to suppress protests in 350+ US cities over the police killing of Continue reading
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NHS Data: 24 hours to get transparency!
There’s been an urgent development in our campaign to stop the secrecy about NHS data deals with private companies. The government now says they’ll make the decision “imminently” on how much detail they’ll disclose. It could be as soon as tomorrow. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2020
1 June 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading in Lockdown Books we’re reading this month … The Life of V. Gordon Childe; The Tragedy of US Science; Four Billion Years of Life; Marx and Climate Crisis; Tell the Bosses We’re Coming; Essays on Red Rosa Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every Continue reading
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The Death of George Floyd News Links 27 May – 4 June 2020
4 June 2020 15:20 — The New Dark Age “A riot is the language of the unheard” https://mronline.org/2020/06/03/a-riot-is-the-language-of-the-unheard/ UPRISING: The Story of America Crashes Headlong Into the Reality of America https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/04/uprising-the-story-of-america-crashes-headlong-into-the-reality-of-america/ Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property https://williambowles.info/2020/06/04/agent-provocateurs-police-at-protests-all-over-the-country-caught-destroying-property/ Continue reading
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Confronting Institutional Racism
A week ago in Minneapolis, for all the world to see, a black man, George Floyd, was murdered by a policeman, Derek Chauvin. Protests broke out in nearly 100 American cities, and even worldwide, and have continued now for more than a week. Continue reading
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Goliath Is Not Invincible: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2020)
Last year, I walked with Mariela Machado in her housing complex known as Kaikachi in the neighbourhood of La Vega (Caracas, Venezuela). After Hugo Chávez was inaugurated president in 1999, a group of working-class residents of the city saw an empty piece of land and occupied it. Mariela and others went to the government and said, ‘We… Continue reading
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Israel renews racist marriage law
Israel this week renewed one of the most overtly racist of the dozens of laws on its books that discriminate against Palestinians and Palestinian citizens of Israel. The “Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law” prohibits Israeli citizens who marry Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or Gaza Strip, or nationals from several other regional states,… Continue reading
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The cia coup against ‘the most loyal ally’ is history’s warning in 2020
The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? Continue reading
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Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property
The United States is on fire. Since the police killing of George Floyd on May 26, millions have taken to the streets in protest, clashing with police. At least 11 people have died, and thousands have been arrested. 15 states (plus Washington, D.C.) have called in the National Guard to quash protests raging in over… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 June 2020
4 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the politics of the street. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 