How British Elites Lit the Torch for Far-Right Mobs, Then Feigned Horror at the Fire

Decades of anti-migrant, Islamophobic politics in the United Kingdom culminated in an egregious far-right attack targeting mosques, public infrastructure, and hotels housing asylum seekers last weekend.

Roger McKenzie, International Editor of the Morning Star Newspaper, joins the show to discuss the rampant scapegoating of migrants and the other social and political forces fueling racist outbursts of violence in the UK.

Anti-migrant mob violence in the UK “has been years in the making,” says @RogerAMck  w/ @M_Star_Online

. “When you add imperialism, militarism and austerity all together it creates the whole picture.”