People take part in a protest outside Yorkshire County Cricket Club's Headingley Stadium in Leeds, in support of former county player Azeem Rafiq, after he spoke out about the racism and bullying he suffered over two spells at Yorkshire
I HAD a number of things on my mind to discuss this week, but they were soon overshadowed by Azeem Rafiq’s harrowing evidence to the digital, culture, media and sport committee on Tuesday morning.
The insight he gave into the sheer scale of institutional racism present, not only in the sporting industry but in Britain more broadly, is a tough pill to swallow.
You’d be naive to think that this has come out of nowhere — it is everywhere, from certain newspapers’ depictions of Raheem Sterling, to the response to the missed penalties at the Euros, to booing the knee, to trolls online.
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war
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