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‘The monarchy is a fundamentally racist institution,’ TWT hears
Charles Windsor during his visit to the Global Underwater Hub, in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 29, 2023

“THE MONARCHY is a fundamentally racist institution,” said Republic CEO Graham Smith at The World Transformed (TWT) festival in Liverpool today.

Mr Smith was addressing a meeting on how to abolish Britain’s monarchy, with the republican activist saying the institution was “based on racist notions of bloodlines from a single, white, Protestant family from this country.”

The monarchy, slavery and empire are absolutely wedded to each other, Mr Smith told the TWT festival, a socialist alternative conference running along the Labour Party’s.

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