Social Control and ‘Black Lives Matter’

If issues of social injustice and social control needed to be made more open and explicit in the USA and UK during an era of more authoritarian leaderships, the Black Lives Matter movement supplied the impetus for exactly this need to reach the top of the political agenda. The death in the USA of the black citizen George Floyd was the catalyst for an uprising of protest marches in both countries, but also a right-wing reaction in the UK, and a distancing from the movement by President Trump in the USA.