Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Black History Month is needed now more than ever
Black history is world history, and attempts to water it down are harmful to black people in our struggle against racism, says ZITA HOLBOURNE
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
KEITH FLETT looks at the long history of coercion in British employment laws
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
WHEN local authorities decide to scrap Black History Month or change it to something else such as “diversity month” or, in the case of one London borough, reduced not just in scope but in time too to “heritage week,” we should question not whether Black History Month is needed but decision-makers’ motives in wanting to erase black history or water it down.
Black History Month in Britain, inspired by the US Black History Month, came about because there was a real need for it.
History books and school curriculums failed to include black history or minimised its importance. Race discrimination was deepening.
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