There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Slavery, colonialism and resistance, from Bristol to Boston to Hong Kong
To oppose racism means also opposing imperialist wars and imperialist destabilisation and coercion, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
A protester holds a sign as she and others gather to listen to speakers, rap artists, faith leaders and others during a Caribbean-led Black Lives Matter rally at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza last Sunday
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
ON June 7, during an anti-racist rally in Bristol (part of the global wave of protests in the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd), a group of protesters ripped a statue of notorious slave trader Edward Colston from its plinth and rolled it into Bristol harbour.
This act, although widely condemned by Establishment politicians (Home Secretary Priti Patel, for example, describing it as “sheer vandalism”), was justly celebrated by anti-racists and anti-colonialists worldwide.
A prominent member of the Royal African Company, Colston is estimated to have been involved in the enslavement of at least 84,000 Africans, nearly a quarter of whom died on the journey between west Africa and the Americas.
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