George Floyd protests in Washington DC, Lafayette Square. Source: Wikipedia
Counterfire’s Shabbir Lakha interviewed Chris Smalls, former Amazon employee and now an organiser, about the protests sweeping across the US against racist police violence
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Shabbir Lakha
Shabbir Lakha is a Stop the War officer, a People's Assembly activist and a member of Counterfire.
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An image from the 1965 Watts Riot
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