The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
Racism report seeks to divide communities and trivialise racial prejudice
ZITA HOLBOURNE explains how offensive omissions and distortions have led Black Activists Rising Against Cuts to reject the findings of the government commission on race disparities

BARAC UK is deeply concerned by the tone and content of the report of the government commission on race and ethnic disparities, published on March 31.
It seeks to reduce the very real and devastating lived experience of racism by racialised groups of people living in Britain.
It also seeks to divide black and ethnic minority communities into “good” and “bad” migrants and suggests that those of us who campaign against racism are stuck in the past or that we are imagining it — effectively gaslighting people who experience racism.
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