21 April 2021

USA: cop killings and the anti-racist movement

As the Socialist goes to the printers, the verdict by jurors in the trial of white cop Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering unarmed black man George Floyd, is expected

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14 April 2021

US cops shoot dead another black man

Incredibly, in the middle of the trial of white cop Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering unarmed black man George Floyd, a Minnesota white cop shot dead 20-year-old black motorist Duante Wright, who had been stopped for a traffic violation.

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2 September 2020

Fight racism, Trump and capitalism

Angry young people poured onto the streets of US cities following the police shooting of unarmed black man Jacob Blake in Wisconsin

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1 April 2020

Fully fund hospices to care for vulnerable children

I am a parent of a child with a terminal diagnosis.

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6 April 2018

Socialists respond to shooting tragedies

A 16-year-old boy has been shot dead in Walthamstow and a girl, age 17, in Tottenham

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28 February 2018

United States: young people demand change after latest mass shooting

Parkland school massacre: Socialists support some limitations on access to guns as a public health measure. However, this will clearly not solve the problems of poverty, inequality and alienation that underlie violence

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23 September 2015

1985: police murder sparks Brixton riot

30 years ago, the police shot blameless mother Cherry Groce. We look back on the murder and ensuing riots.

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15 July 2015

2005: Jean Charles de Menezes shooting

On 22 July 2005 an innocent man was brutally shot to death by police at Stockwell tube station in south London. Ten years later and his family, and the Socialist Party, are still fighting for justice.

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1 July 2015

Terrorist attacks: working class people pay the price

The cold-blooded slaughter of tourists in Tunisia was carried out in the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London.

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4 March 2015

50,000 march in Moscow after shooting of Nemtsov

The planned 'anti-crisis' march organised by Russia's liberal opposition in Moscow was turned into a political protest against terror after one of the organisers, Boris Nemtsov, leader of the Russian Republican Party, was gunned down as he was walking past the Kremlin

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8 August 2011

Tottenham riots: Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest & anger

Mark Duggan’s death in Tottenham is the latest shocking death at the hands of the police, mostly of young black men. But the highly combustible material that led to the riots was also crippling poverty, frustrated ambitions and alienation

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10 December 2008

Greece in widespread revolt

Protesters in Greece, photo Xekinima

THERE HAS been an explosion of anger across Greece following the fatal shooting of a 15 year-old in Athens by police.The killing has acted as a lightning rod for the pent-up anger among the youth and the working class at a government hit by corruption scandals and rocked by economic crisis. Andros Payiatsos of Xekinima (CWI in Greece) reports on this revolt from below.

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9 August 2007

Jean Charles de Menezes: Security forces not held to account

AN INVESTIGATION by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into the fatal shooting of Brazilian migrant worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, in Stockwell tube station by police in July 2005 has concluded that the counter-terrorism chief Andy Hayman 'misled the public'... By Dave Carr

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26 April 2007

US mass shooting horror

THE SHOOTING at Virginia Tech, the worst mass shooting in modern US history, shocked people in the US and around the world...

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25 August 2005

No more police cover-ups

Jean Charles de Menezes: THE RECENT leaked report on the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes clearly shows what many local activists already suspected, that this was the murder of an innocent Brazilian man...

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