Colonialism
Zionism: The theory and practice of ethnic cleansing
Alex Rutherford charts the origins of Zionism in response to antisemitism and its evolution into a colonial project backed by imperialism.
Review: The Last Colony by Philippe Sands
By Jeremy Dewar Between 1969 and 1973, Britain deported 1,500 islanders from their homes on the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Many of them were descendants of African slaves, brought to the islands to work on coconut plantations, first by the Portuguese, then by the French. Twice removed from their homes, on both occasions […]
‘You caan’ mek we shut up’ – Review of Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
Jeremy Dewar reviews Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
End Britain’s colonisation of the Chagos Islands
Return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
When Lancashire workers fought slavery
International solidarity in 1862-3.
1920: the Irish war of independence
100 year anniversary.
Slavery bad, empire good: The Black history they won’t celebrate
The struggle for anti-racist education.
Land of hope and glory?
The ‘traditions’ and ‘culture’ that Boris Johnson lauds are inextricably bound up with Britain’s pioneering role as slave-trader and coloniser.
