In light of recent events in Ferguson Aaron Bastant draws comparison with police behaviour in the UK and looks at how the media give credence to lies spread by police press offices.
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Back with a new series, hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Nicole, a researcher at Corporate Watch about the British government’s plans for prison expansion, how this will impact people inside and outside prisons and how communities across the country are resisting.
Ash sat down with Spike Lee to talk cops, Kanye, and why an honest racist is better than a respectable liberal. BLACKkKLANSMAN is in UK cinemas on 24th August. A Novara Media Joint
Turns out a press pack can be pacified with nothing more than a cup of tea. Tonight Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar ask why the establishment get a carte blanche for racism.
Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.
Ash Sarkar and Owen Jones debate Communism vs Socialism and talk Tommy Robinson and Trump.
