Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The legacy of racism in both the United States and the United Kingdom has impacted the ability of Blacks and other ethnic groups to accumulate wealth.
It’s an old saying that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language.
But they are united by racial wealth gaps that (...)
The policing bill deliberately targets Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people, criminalising them if they move – and if they stop
At last, we are waking up to the astonishingly oppressive measures in the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, intended to criminalise effective protest. At last, (...)
We have been accused of erasing history – but that’s impossible. All we did was shine a light in places people don’t want lights to shine
On 7 June 2020, I was part of a group of protesters who pulled down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the Bristol harbour. I have (...)
Jurors were asked to rule that Edward Colston’s heinous crimes were immaterial, but they chose to put themselves on the right side of history
There were cheers from the public gallery of Bristol crown court when the verdicts of not guilty were returned. Eighteen months after Bristol’s now (...)
Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public dissent during Bristol protest
Anti-racism campaigners have hailed a jury’s decision to clear protesters responsible for toppling a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston as a huge step in (...)
The historian and TV presenter on the story of former slave Olaudah Equiano and the significance of Black History Month in the UK.
Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the (...)
Boris Johnson owes his position as Prime Minister to institutional racism writes Andy Stowe.
Johnson was the public face of the Brexit campaign which galvanised racists with its slogan about 76 million Turkish citizens entering Britain if the country remained in the European Union.
This (...)
Social and economic changes have pushed people into ‘reluctant individualism’
First, the good news. Britons see inequality as a major problem and divide broadly along traditional political lines in their attitudes towards it. Then, the bad news. Britons are also inclined to see inequalities as (...)
Claims about the failure of multiculturalism are persistent yet, they are also consistently inaccurate.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has generated a momentum for tackling racism, but it has also provoked questions about what kind of approaches can help address issues of discrimination. One (...)
This wouldn’t happen to any other minority” has been a rallying cry for the Labour party’s fiercest critics of its handling of the antisemitism crisis. It’s certainly true that the specific characteristics of antisemitism have sometimes resulted in the British left’s reluctance to see it in the same (...)
JVL Introduction
Steve Cohen’s pamphlet, That’s Funny, You don’t look Antisemitic, first appeared in the early 80s. It was republished by Engage twenty years later as part of a campaign against the call for an academic boycott of Israel – a campaign which suggested that antisemitism underpinned (...)
It felt like 1968. It looked like the birth of a new mass movement of the oppressed. Neil Faulkner, Namaa Al-Mahdi, and Federica Dadone report back from the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in London and Cardiff.
What has emerged are two possible worlds, which exist in opposition to one (...)
It’s rare that a single image expresses an ideal as complex as ‘justice’. That isn’t for want of trying, of course. Lady Justice, blindfolded and holding the scales of consequence aloft, is a mainstay in popular metaphor, her figure adorning law courts around the world. In London she stands atop (...)
Thousands of protesters came out in Scotland, in Glasgow and Edinburgh, on Sunday, to take the knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matters protests in the United States, and to express their opposition to institutional racism here in Britain too.
The mood was festive, but resolute, as a (...)
Asian community faces verbal and physical abuse in aftermath of first recorded cases of virus in Britain.
“We’ll be in trouble if these guys sneeze on us,” Jason Ngan overheard as he and his brother got into a lift in Manchester’s Piccadilly station. Born and bred in Manchester, home to more than (...)
By focusing all our attention on preventing hatred from creeping in through the back door, we have allowed it to stride in through the front.
At 10pm on Thursday 12 December, millions of Britons felt their chests tighten. As the exit polls sounded the death knell of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour and (...)
UK research finds levels of discrimination unchanged since late 1960s
Black Britons and those of south Asian origin face “shocking” discrimination in the labour market at levels unchanged since the late 1960s, research has found.
A study by experts based at the Centre for Social Investigation (...)
Showing solidarity with Palestinians brings condemnation, while complicity in the Israeli occupation is seen as acceptable
In November 2004, Britain’s foreign secretary Jack Straw laid a wreath at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. How might this have been framed with the current Labour leader? Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon saw Arafat as a “Jew murderer”. According to the Israeli minister of parliamentary affairs at the time, Danny Naveh, Arafat was “personally (...)
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