Recent history has revealed, to our great distress, that the social ruthlessness, brutality and decadence of the unbridled free market in present-day Russia has offered, on balance, few advantages over the harsh command-economy police state that preceded it.
Much of his work examines tendencies toward social alienation and brutality within contemporary middle-class milieus.
While we currently wrestle with the enormous social issues of brutality, violence and irrational hatred, we seldom take time to celebrate the sweeping up of tiny injustices around the edge of society, that constant recalibration of conduct which keeps us moving towards a better place.
The poets addressed issues such as racial violence, immigration, social justice, police brutality and women's rights.
The anger of the black community, fueled by decades of social injustice, police brutality and institutional racism, finally burst at a blind pig on 12th Street and Clairmount.
The birth of hip-hop is so intrinsically linked to the existence of blackness in America and from a specific African-American reality which understood and was exposed to poverty, police brutality, social inequality, and economic segregation all entrenched in anti-black racism.
Evening dress offsets the brutality as social constraints begin to crack.
The second generation, again as in Britain, was far less willing than their parents had been to accept passively social discrimination and police brutality.
Police dispersed the protesters with tear gas but another demonstration in Rio de Janeiro last Monday turned ugly, with police using pepper spray and stun grenades on the 300 marchers, and videos of police brutality on social media swelling the crowds.
They swiftly conquered MTV with a video for their first US single Welcome to the Jungle that was half streetwise social protest against police brutality and half Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls.
