BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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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
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
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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From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
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