Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist
Kojo Koram
Smoke out the foxholes.
Tag: colonialism
The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How
Rivkah Brown & Simon Childs
A slow creep.
The New Scramble for Africa in the Vacuum of Empire
Richard Hames meets James Pogue
Guns for hire in the neocolonial hinterlands.
Latin America Is Leading the Charge Against Ultra-Processed Food
Aron Penczu
No more food colonialism.
Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel prescribe the “deep medicine” of decolonisation to cure our bodies, societies and the planet.
Fascism Is Not the Exception
To understand the threat we need to look beyond 20th century histories, explains Alberto Toscano.
In Search of Red Africa
Kevin Okoth excavates the revolutionary history of a continent to make the case against Afropessimism.
The Queen Bears Responsibility. Aaron & Ash Monarchy Special
On the 8th of September this year, Queen Elizabeth II died. In a special episode of Downstream, Aaron and Ash discuss her life and the aftermath of her death.
Angolans Are Done With a One-Party State
Joana Ramiro
Democracy now.
A Prestigious London University Has Suspended Four Latinx Cleaners for Protesting Racist Pay, Falsely Accusing Them of Violence
Polly Smythe
The good news is they may be suing.
How Britain Starved Ireland
Today the island of Ireland has a smaller population than it did 200 years ago. How did that happen, and what has it got to do with free market capitalism? Aaron Bastani explains how London politicians and Irish landlords exploited a crisis in the name of an ideology – in the process wrecking the lives […]
The Met Could Be Sued Over Its Racist Gang Database
Sophie K Rosa
Some people on it are the victims, not perpetrators, of crime.
How Racism Affects Our Sex Lives
Does love transcend everything? What does it mean to fall in love in an unequal world? Dalia Gebrial looks at how race shapes our experiences of sex and desire, and asks: what would it take to create better conditions for loving one another?
Anti-Vax Canadian Truckers Deserve Our Solidarity
Shanice McBean
Justin Trudeau’s protest crackdown is a grim echo of Priti Patel’s.
Challenging Monogamy Is a Political Act
Sophie K Rosa
The institution has its roots in capitalism and colonialism.
First, Citizens Were Turned Into Immigrants. Now We’re Being Stripped of Political Rights
Gurminder K Bhambra
It’s time Britain stopped pretending to be a democracy.
How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
In Keir Starmer’s Anti-Racist Universe, Palestinians Don’t Count
Barnaby Raine
Keir Starmer is a racist endeavour.