As the conditions for revolution rapidly mature in the US, there is an urgent need for the movement to grapple with some serious questions: What role do police play under capitalism? What will it take to abolish this institution?
Faced with this unprecedented show of mass defiance, the US ruling class has realized repression can’t stop the movement and is now trying to defuse it by offering some concessions.
In over 20 countries, workers and youth held protests against racism. Featured are reports from IMT comrades who participated in these events, raising slogans for the revolutionary overthrow of the racist capitalist system.
Alan Woods comments on the uprising in the US, which was sparked by the police murder of George Floyd and has become the catalyst for an explosion of anger that has sent shockwaves throughout the world.
While Trump’s bravado has received the most attention, it is Democratic Party governors and mayors who are spearheading the brutal police repression of George Floyd protests.
Black Lives Matter protests have broken out across all 50 states in the USA following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Comrades of Socialist Revolution have been intervening in many of these protests, fighting on the frontlines alongside workers and youth of all races against the oppressive capitalist system and its murderous state.