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THE Oxford Union admitted it has been “institutionally racist” after it was confronted by a coalition of the university’s equalities societies and local campaigns on Monday night.
The prestigious debating society hit the front pages last week when a picture of posters advertising a “Colonial Comeback” cocktail party at the union went viral online.
But, under pressure from groups including anti-racist movement Rhodes Must Fall, the Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality (Crae) and the Black Students’ Union, Oxford Union leaders passed a motion “to acknowledge that the union is institutionally racist.”
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics
RONNIE KASRILS pays tribute to Ruth First, a fearless fighter against South African apartheid, in the centenary month of her birth