Opinion: Salman Rushdie Was Once on the Left. What Happened?
Alfie Steer
The author, currently in hospital following a knife attack in the US, has done a 180 over the course of his career. Alfie Steer examines why.
Tag: orientalism
Explainers: 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?
Of Course Tony Blair Won’t Back Down on Afghanistan – He’s Still Profiting Off Interventionism
Joe Duffy
Not content with having kept the plates of global warfare spinning whilst in office, Tony Blair has spent his post-Downing Street years selling his services to the highest authoritarian bidder and banging the drum for perpetual military interventions.
Opinion: Filth: Racist Scaremongering Around Covid-19 Is Nothing New. We Have Always Blamed Racial Others for Disease
Eleanor Penny
Western governments have every reason to opportunistically stoke sinophobia, it helps them to distract us and to dodge blame. But what they are doing is nothing new. A glance over the history of colonialism and race-making reveals a longstanding tradition of scaremongering about racial others as founts and bearers of disease, writes Eleanor Penny, in part two of a series on 'filth'.
12 Books White People Should Read in Preparation for Becoming a Minority in Britain
Adam Elliott-Cooper & Ashok Kumar
Recent research suggesting that by 2066 white people will be an ethnic minority in Britain has caused a storm in the right-wing press. Here's a short reading list to help the white-dominated left prepare to fight capitalism from their new societal position.