05.07.2020
SUBVERSION -
JULY 2020 ISSUE
The July 2020 issue of
Subversion, political bulletin of the League of
Communists in Britain, can be downloaded here.
LEAGUE STATEMENT
ON GEORGE FLOYD
The League of Communists in Britain condemns the racist
murder of George Floyd by police in the American city of
Minneapolis, Minnesota this week. The tragic killing is
the latest in a long series of killings by the police
forces in the United States, events which have seen
victims and their families denied justice by the
institutionally racist state institutions in the US.
It is clear the influence of the far right on American
political life, and in particular the ruling Republican
party and President Donald Trump, has allowed a climate
of racist violence to pervade American society. The
hypocrisy allows heavily-armed white anti-lockdown
protesters to occupy public
buildings with impunity, but which punishes black
presence in society with indiscriminate violence, clearly
demonstrates how ingrained racist practices are in
American society.
Furthermore, the League notes that both the
disproportionate use of lockdown powers against black and
minority ethnic people in the UK, and the
disproportionate number of deaths by Covid-19 amongst
BAME patients, shows that neither is Britain a society
without ingrained racism.
We call for emphatic justice for George Floyd and for
urgent measures to reform the police system in the States,
and express our solidarity with those protesters fighting
for action.
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