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…
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
Minneapolis and San Francisco: eyewitness reports from the George Floyd uprising
Ambulance worker Ellen Milligan in Minneapolis and Matt Cooper in San Francisco report in our series of eyewitness accounts from the George Floyd uprising.
George Floyd uprising: New York eyewitness report
The brutal murder of George Floyd by four police officers in Minneapolis has sparked a rebellion in more than 75 US cities. Over the next few days Dream Deferred will be publishing a series of eyewitness accounts of the protests in different cities.
Under cover of Covid-19: the international far right and the coronavirus crisis
From minimising the threat of Covid-19 to violent racist scapegoating, street protests, conspiracy theories and even food distribution, the international far right’s responses to the coronavirus crisis have been many and varied. Here, we look at how it has responded to the pandemic and the real problems it faces.