In the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, a number of NBA teams staged a wildcat political strike in protest of the racist police terror that has convulsed the country in recent months.
The brutal police shooting of Jacob Blake—an unarmed black man in Kenosha, WI—has sparked a new series of Black Lives Matter protests across the country.
Unbalanced by the depth and breadth of the BLM movement, the ruling class has been desperate to restore order. The scaling up of repression raises many questions about bourgeois democracy and the future facing the movement.
There is immense untapped potential for the Black Lives Matter movement to connect with the broader labor movement, which would take the struggle to the next level.