The Global Police State (Hardback)
Hardcover 192 pages English Aug 20, 2020
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As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson exposes the nature and dynamics of this out-of-control system, arguing for the urgency of creating a movement capable of overthrowing it. The global police state uses a variety of ingenious methods of control, including mass incarceration, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrants and refugees, and the repression of environmental activists. Movements have emerged to combat the increasing militarization, surveillance and social cleansing; however many of them appeal to a moral sense of social justice rather than addressing its root - global capitalism. Using shocking data which reveals how far capitalism has become a system of repression, Robinson argues that the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state.
- Author:
- William I. Robinson
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 20, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 192 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0745341632
- ISBN-13:
- 9780745341637