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ROANNA TAYLOR argues that removing the hatemongers from YouTube and Facebook has been a success — should Telegram and other platforms be next?
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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
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
IT HAS become a widespread reaction to label anti-hate activists and those who stand against prejudice “politically correct.” Given the examples of racism paraded with sensationalist headline-grabbing horror by the press, this is perhaps not surprising.
Only last week we watched mainstream media tie itself up in knots wondering if Marks and Spencer’s bra colours are making a covert racial statement while Tesco shoppers vowed to boycott the supermarket in retaliation for sales of a child’s T shirt depicting a pretty black mermaid whose hair was apparently “too fluffy.”
Headlines like this do nothing to tackle the growing problem of racism and hate in our country. If anything they actually turn people away from tackling genuine issues of inequality and prejudice. While the focus is on this nonsense the real racists are busy spewing their bile to the young and the vulnerable in an attempt to recruit and radicalise more people to their extremist way of thinking.
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