Police brutality and why it requires endless resistance all those more coming up in todays going underground 1st britain finally faces up to something of the alleged war crimes committed during the socalled troubles today as a Parliamentary Committee releases a report into the legacy of bloodshed in ireland its all been alleged that british Army Techniques employed in illegal british wars like the one in iraq were honed in the new book traces the past present and future of state coersion and its critical connection to Global Capital joining me now from los angeles is the author of the Global Police state Professor William i robinson thank you so much for coming on we got a hint arguably of the Global Police state from wiki leaks they released the iraq war logs 10 years ago this week this month what is the Global Police state the title of your book i mean 3 things by Global Police state but let me put that in context by saying the starting point. For the discussion of Global Police stat
Humanity that 2000000000 people in the world are at this point of what i call surplus humanity structurally marginalized unemployed that have to scratch out a living in an informal economy which is deteriorating and collapsing and then another 1300000000 workers in the world work in extremely precarious condition so we have one half of humanity is in this a misery disagreed and they probably think youre immediately talking about cost if you when this program suggested that class warfare may exist it made the model current Times Newspaper but you quote Warren Buffett claiming its been going on for decades class war and his class won tell me about this this. Connection between class and the Global Police state than more clearly. Sure well lets look at it global inequalities have reached unprecedented levels i mean we can barely wrap our minds around these inequalities one percent of humanity controls over 50 percent of the worlds wealth that we know because thats been broadly publicized
Crisis it only made it much worse and in talking about Global Police state theres 2 dimensions i want to highlight one is the structural technically we call it over accumulation but its a crisis of chronic stagnation in the Global Economy and the 2nd dimension of that crisis is is political this one of state legitimacy and capitalist henschel money so i mean 3 things but Global Police state and the 1st as we see the deepening the and the extension worldwide of transnational systems of social control of repression militarisation and warfare all around the world and we see that in order to contain the real and the potential rebellion of what i call in the book surplus humanity and the mess of the downwardly mobile and destabilized and concrete in the impoverished global working class and you know very quickly the International Labor organization has already reported that one 3rd of humanity that 2000000000 people in. World are at this point a what i call surplus humanity structurally mar
Widely condemned around the world so i wanted to have the answers she gave us. Regina that you welcome to a conference on hollow you recently wrote an article about the controversial new security law that chinas going to impose on hong kong and you said this does not to necessarily spell the death of hong kong separate systems but youre taking a huge gamble backing this law arent you because beijing has done everything it can to prove that its not interested in those separate systems not interested in freedom of expression human rights or the rule of law is it. I dont think we need to come to a conclusion because china already has its own National Security law you know which is only a few pages long whats consists mainly of principles exhortations duties obligations. I think the fact that it needs it feels like its true and that a whole call version reflects its understanding that hong kong to version which is consistent with our common law system thats why painting is going ahead to a
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