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The killing of George Floyd is part of a broader pattern of state violence
Police violence is bound up with the class system and the place black people occupy in our class system is in turn bound up with our history, says NICK WRIGHT
A mourner at George Floyd’s funeral service on Tuesday, a mural to the murdered man in Pittsburgh, Cynthia Jarrett (standing), who died during a police search of her north London home in 1985 and an upturned car in the aftermath of the Tottenham riots after her death
The left has become too reliant on persuasion and too detached from the workplaces and communities it seeks to represent, argues NICK TROY
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The drive to strengthen European defence is reshaping relations between France, Germany, Italy and Britain, says NICK WRIGHT
The UN blames gangs for Haiti’s turmoil, while ignoring decades of foreign intervention and support for an unelected government that lie at the heart of the country’s continuing crisis, says RUBEN BRETT
HOW should we understand the events in the United States? And in our own country?
Over 10,000 people have been arrested in the US during protests against police racism and violence.
When such events simultaneously occur across dozens of cities then any analysis which attributes the cause of such disorder to a conspiracy by “antifa” or any other imaginary category of subversives itself is fantasy.
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