Race, class and coronavirus: lessons from Leicester
Leicester is back in lockdown because of a spike in Covid-19 cases. We look at how issues of race and class are playing out in the city amid the coronavirus outbreak…
POLAND and FRANCE elections: how did far right and fascist parties fare?
Poland’s far right Andrzej Duda will go into the second round in the presidential election with an increased vote, while the fascist vote has also risen sharply. And in France, the municipal elections have produced one key gain but otherwise mixed results for the cleaned-up fascists of the Rassemblement National, formerly the Front National.
India and pandemics: the forgotten and the scorned under colonialism and the far right
Pandemics throw into sharp relief the structural inequalities in our societies. The brutality of the British empire and today’s Hindu-supremacist BJP government in India have exploited the divisions of race and class, exacerbating the effects of deadly disease
Analysis: far right racist DFLA hits disaster in the age of Black Lives Matter
Saturday 13 June was disastrous for the far right. We look at how the racists’ Westminster demo – ostensibly to “defend” war memorials from Black Lives Matter protestors – went wrong, despite its size
All fall down: what lies behind the toppling of the statues?
“As a true picture of British history, with its imperial connections stretching back hundreds of years, this country’s statuary is beyond inadequate – it’s downright offensive…”