Murdering Democracy in Kenosha
Common Dreams
No other president or presidential candidate than Donald Trump has so openly courted far-right violence.
No other president or presidential candidate than Donald Trump has so openly courted far-right violence.
Joe Lowndes interviews Leila Hassan and Farruk Dhondy, who worked at the UK publication Race Today, which chronicled the early 1980s struggles against racism there.
By Joe Lowndes “I’ve always been a populist,” Tom Turnipseed, once told me. “I just had the wrong idea of who I should be fighting for.” The political career of Turnipseed, who died last week at the age of 83, is an extraordinary one. He was the national director of Alabama Governor and segregationist George … Read more
By Joe Lowndes Roy Moore won’t be in Washington next year, after all. But the Republican Party isn’t anywhere near rid of his style of racialized right-wing rhetoric — or of politicians like him. Exit polls showed that 91 percent of Republicans who voted in Alabama’s special election Tuesday supported the controversial former judge, even as Doug … Read more
The originator of dub poetry talks about the role of culture in politics, antiracist and class struggle in the UK.