ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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Reparations for slavery and colonialism are non-negotiable
Western dominance of the capitalist system and the poverty of formerly colonised people in the global South or living as minorities in countries like Britain are the legacy of historic crimes that can and must be paid for, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Protesters topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
OCTOBER is Black History Month, which in truth would not need to happen if we lived in a fairer, just and post-capitalist society.
A society where the curriculum taught the truth about empire; the mass enslavement, famines and genocides that built the origins of Britain’s wealth and how the system extracted wealth and exerted control and influence abroad.
The racialised murder of George Floyd, the rising awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, decolonising education and museums, movements on university campuses, bringing down statues of slavers and imperialists and sportspeople taking the knee and many other acts of solidarity have been met with strong fascistic political and media backlash on both sides of the Atlantic.
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With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
As Israel’s crimes escalate, Keir Starmer’s government must not subvert, block or ignore the investigation and prosecution of British citizens involved in acts of genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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