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Reparations for slavery and colonialism are non-negotiable
Western dominance of the capitalist system and the poverty of formerly colonised people in the global South or living as minorities in countries like Britain are the legacy of historic crimes that can and must be paid for, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Protesters topple statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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OCTOBER is Black History Month, which in truth would not need to happen if we lived in a fairer, just and post-capitalist society.
A society where the curriculum taught the truth about empire; the mass enslavement, famines and genocides that built the origins of Britain’s wealth and how the system extracted wealth and exerted control and influence abroad.
The racialised murder of George Floyd, the rising awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, decolonising education and museums, movements on university campuses, bringing down statues of slavers and imperialists and sportspeople taking the knee and many other acts of solidarity have been met with strong fascistic political and media backlash on both sides of the Atlantic.
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