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The ‘war on woke’ must not be normalised
The Tories' point-blank refusal to acknowledge structural disadvantages by scapegoating ‘the woke agenda’ instead must be resisted wholesale if we want to address racial and social inequality, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Kemi Badenoch MP, the Conservative minister for equalities, said: ‘I don’t care about colonialism,’ and that it made no real impact on people living in colonised areas
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
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
THE race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister has descended into a grotesque lurch to the right, with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak trying their utmost to outdo each other with ever-more divisive, nonsensical and damaging policies.
The two Tory leadership contenders have both outlined tax cuts that would further enrich the wealthy at a time of immense inequality and hardship, and have rolled out Thatcherite union-bashing policies which are so draconian that they prompted threats of a general strike from union leaders.
Yet perhaps most concerning is the concerted “war on woke” that has come to define this race-to-the bottom leadership contest.
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