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Is there a rainbow beyond the riots?
Following the wave of far-right violence, people came together across the land, demonstrating that we are so much better than the racists would have you believe and a better Britain can be built, writes ALAN SIMPSON
THEY SHALL NOT PASS! Demonstrators at an anti-racist protest
in Birmingham, above, and in Walthamstow, London, below, on Wednesday August 7 2024
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
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KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
LET’S start with the language and analysis. The tidal wave of racist gatherings that swept across Britain was designed for riot, not protest.
It isn’t enough to describe them in terms of mindless violence, working-class bigotry or plain ignorance.
Behind the ugliness lies an organised attempt to undermine British democracy, divide working-class communities and shift political attention from redistribution to retribution.
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