In this video, Joe Higgins MEP criticises the hypocrisy shown by capitalist rulers when they criticise human rights abuses abroad while ignoring human rights abuses at home. No criticisms have been made of the Danish state which arrested hundreds of peaceful protestors in “preventative arrests”, despite Denmark being a member state of the European Union.
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