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Together, trade unions and grassroots campaigns can defeat racism
Building links between workers and communities can assist in the battle to dismantle racist oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
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Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
THE mainstream media seem to have moved on from covering the Black Lives Matter protests which rocked Britain, the US and many other countries in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.
Papers and news channels which carried opinion pieces and editorials arguing that this must be “a movement not a moment,” and that our response to racism needs to be deep and sustained, have been notable for the speed with which they found something else to focus on.
Yet, if we look at our society — from the tragic roll-call of deaths in custody to the black children failed by and excluded from our education system, from the high-profile politicians (including the Prime Minister) who utter racist bile with impunity to the migrants whose lives are torn apart by racist immigration laws, it is clear that something fundamental needs to change.
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