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Their Voice Is Fire: The Banlieues And The New Uprising in France

It Could Happen Here

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The Long-Range Crisis of Capitalism

Youth unemployment in this suburbs is 45% and this is the kind of thing that caused the area of spring. You have all of these populations who are just structurally unemployed. The other thing that's going on here is because the French police are like unbelievably racist. This is a product of a lot of long-range political trends. It's capitalism spitting people out of the social system.

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