Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MONBIOT George
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, (...)
, by GRAHAM Rhian
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 (...)
, by OLUSOGA David
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 (...)
, by GAYLE Damien
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 getting (...)
, by STOWE Andy
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 (...)
, by MALIK Kenan
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 (...)
, by SEALY Thomas
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 (...)
, by Al-MAHDI Namaa, DADONE Federica, FAULKNER Neil
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 (...)
, by SIDDIQUEL Haroon
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 (...)
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