FERGUSON: Build a new Black Freedom movement

The prospect of a new Black freedom movement has been raised through nearly three months of heroic protests by the youth of Ferguson. Like the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, which helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, Mike Brown’s murder symbolizes the systematic violence and oppression faced by millions of people of color in our society. The whole process of top-down investigation by police and use of secretive grand juries has failed to provide justice. Socialist Alternative calls for an independent investigation by organizations in the black community and the wider working class, such as unions. We call for a democratically elected civilian review board with real powers to deal with police brutality. This board should have the power to hire and fire officers and launch independent investigations. The only way to gain justice is to...