From Priti Patel's police bill to a racist local Labour leaflet, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are facing attacks from all sides. If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind, writes Jake Bowers.
The race report fundamentally misunderstands racism - telling us it is interpersonal, rather than structural, and denying the role of class. This is no accident, writes Annie Olaloku-Teriba – in doing so it seeks to further an agenda as old as colonialism.
The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]
On Wednesday, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Boris Johnson said there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being ‘woke’. Yet the signature of the Tories in recent years has been a ‘war on woke’, with MPs and media outriders attacking ideas of social and economic equality while using the term. […]
The attack on the Capitol, some claim, is all the more shocking considering the US is the ‘home of democracy’. Aaron Bastani argues this couldn't be further from the truth - and that it’s only by acknowledging the nation’s real history that we can guard against fascism in our own time.
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