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Despite the restrictions placed on us by the pandemic, this will be remembered as a year of resistance to racism and austerity, argues socialist historian KEITH FLETT

PERHAPS for several understandable reasons the reality that 2020 has been a year of worldwide protest has been rather missing from the numerous media summaries of the last 12 months.
After all, a deadly pandemic has seized the world and led to illness and death, particularly in neoliberal economies that put profit ahead of people.
Yet protest there has been and its global nature has been dictated in part by lockdowns restricting to an extent physical protests.
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