After long study, an anti-racial violence Monitoring Group found that anti-Black violence in the UK is driven mainly by “the police and other mechanisms of the state,” said Adam Elliott-Cooper, a Research Associate at the University of Greenwich and anti-racial violence activist and scholar. “Racial capitalism is the most urgent issue,” said Elliott-Cooper, who notes that Cedric Robinson was living in London when he wrote “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition,” which introduced the term “racial capitalism.”
Thomas Wolf, Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center, joins us to discuss the implications of Trump’s executive order, which denies citizenship to children of undocumented people and…
Fifteen grueling months of bombing and military assault have finally come to a pause as the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel has come into effect.
Though party leadership called it inhumane, 48 democratic members of Congress voted for the bill to deport immigrants accused, not convicted, of petty theft.
Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters.
The late Stuart Hall cautions us to be wary of turning to historical precedent without understanding the specific conjunctures of power that characterize the rise of the right.
