Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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

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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