The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
Black people will resist the Borders Bill
Given our history of colonisation, emigration, life as second-class citizens and our experience of open racial prejudice, Britons of African and Asian descent are not surprised by the Tories' latest attack on us — and we are ready to resist it, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Asian anti-fascists face police repression during clashes with the racist National Front in Southall, London, April 1979
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
MAT COWARD recommends a crop that keeps growing well under drought conditions
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
THE Nationality and Borders Bill allows the government to strip, without notice, the nationality of nearly six million British citizens, including two in every five black people, even if this makes those people “stateless.”
The Bill, now heading for the House of Lords after the Tories voted it through the Commons last week, also criminalises anyone helping an asylum-seeker to arrive in Britain — with a penalty of up to life imprisonment.
When one sees these measures alongside this government’s deeply draconian measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to curb non-violent protest, everyone should be incandescent with rage — but realise these are not new proposals.
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