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Should I consider myself English?
Despite being a proud Black Country boy, ROGER McKENZIE has mixed feelings about Englishness and its all too common petty nationalism, following a lifetime of being considered inferior because of the colour of his skin
Male and female black slaves cut sugar canes in Jamaica. In the background, canes are bound together and loaded into oxcarts. Image date: 1825
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
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General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE arch-racist imperialist Cecil Rhodes once said: “To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.”
Closer to home, in 1937, another arch-racist, Winston Churchill, displayed his own master race inclinations when he said: “I do not believe that the dog in the manger has the right to the manger, simply because he has lain there for so long. I do not believe that the Red Indian has been wronged in America, or the black man has been wronged in Australia, simply because they have been displaced by a higher, stronger race.”
To them everything other than white is inferior and to be treated that way. Sadly these were not isolated views and were and are prevalent throughout England.
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