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Anatomy of a counter-insurgency
On May 25, 2020, police in Minneapolis Minnesota murdered George Floyd in cold blood. Responding to allegations of counterfeit money, police arrested Floyd, with one officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes, ultimately suffocating him. The killing was captured on video and quickly spread across the internet. Continue reading
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The storm of protest in the United States
ÖŞK: The protests started after George Floyd’s death continue all over the United States. Do you think these protests will fuel the will to organize among the working-class people? Can the energy coming out of the protests be persistent? What are the obstacles? Continue reading
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What Journalism Needs Is Not More Diversity, but Less White Supremacy
As police violence against Black people and those who would rise in their defense forces a national engagement—of a sort—with the reality of white supremacy in our institutions, the widening recognition that the batons and tear gas are just one part of it, that there is more than one way to choke the life out… Continue reading
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IRR: It Happens Here Too
As the world wakes up to police racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists and campaigners are working tirelessly to draw attention to the long histories and present day realities of the violence of police racism in the UK – it happens here, too. Continue reading
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From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security
100 members of the 800-strong Minneapolis police department were trained at a conference in Israel in 2012. That means at least one of every eight members the city’s force has been influenced by the methods of an occupying apartheid entity. Continue reading
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“There Is a Transformation In The Content, Character, and Operation of the Capitalist State in the United States”
The mobilizations and protests have changed their nature. The protests began against the repression of victims of racism, but now there are some social, political, and legal demands, among others, which could have an impact on the structure of power. Continue reading
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Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are more than skin deep
It is hard to ignore the striking parallels between the recent scenes of police brutality in cities across the United States and decades of violence from Israel’s security forces against Palestinians. Continue reading
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Israel lobby sees Black Lives Matter as major strategic threat
Israel lobby groups have long seen the Black Lives Matter movement as a threat and have tried both to disrupt and co-opt it. Continue reading
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The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Among the constant deluge of police brutality footage flooding the internet as America’s armed goon patrol responds to the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, there is one video which stands out above all the others in illustrating just how pervasively violent police culture is. Curiously enough, this video itself contains no police brutality. Continue reading
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Speak out against systemic racism
George Floyd’s murder must prompt deep interrogation of the structural racisms that pervade our society. The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on BAME communities are increasingly clear, compounding pre-existing truths about how minority groups are more likely to suffer from impoverishment, low pay, poor housing and ill health. Continue reading
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I…Can’t…Breathe
6 June 2020 — Daily Maverick Zapiro (South Africa) Continue reading
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“The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed by the U.S. – A Country Built on Genocide and Slavery
More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. 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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Rebellion and Repression: Capitalism’s Long Hot Summer Begins
Trump declared last night from the White House that he would “end the riots” with a national military mobilization to “dominate the streets” and that “if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary,” he would “deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.” Continue reading
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As US protests show, the challenge is how to rise above the violence inherent in state power
This kind of bipartisan denial of reality only underscores how quickly we are entering a period of crisis and revolt. From the G8 protests, to the Occupy movement, to Extinction Rebellion, to the schools protests, to the Yellow Vests, to the current fury on US streets, there is evidence all around that the centre is… Continue reading
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The UK is Not Innocent – Police Racism Has a Long and Violent History Here Too
“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.” This desperate refrain has once again become the dying words of yet another black man in the United States. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 