It’s not a war – it’s a colonial occupation
The war on Afghanistan has been anything but. It's actually been a money grab for private security firms and arms ...
Tag: Colonialism
Trial date set for four accused of damaging Colston statue
December 13 will be the trial date of four people charged with criminal damage in relation to a bronze memorial ...
Statues to be removed in London over links to slavery
The City of London Corporation has voted to re-site monuments to William Beckford and Sir John Cass in Guildhall.
60 years on, Patrice Lumumba’s assassination stands as a gruesome reminder of post-colonial brutality
Exactly 60 years ago today, Congolese national liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Those responsible were most likely troops of ...
California ski resort changes name over offensive term for Native American women
Squaw Valley Ski Resort hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics.
British Museum removes bust of its slave-owning founding father
The institution’s director said the museum must not ‘hide anything’.
Cecil Rhodes statue will remain outside Oxford college until at least next year
A long-running campaign demanding the removal of the statue gained renewed attention amid the Black Lives Matter movement.
Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter is a double revolution that opens a possibility for Africa to change its relationship with the west
In his youth, Professor Yash Tandon was a presidential adviser to Uganda's government soon after the country's political independence. Because ...
Here’s why you might not be seeing the systems of oppression that surround us
Sometimes it’s hard to see the systems of oppression we're living in. This is especially true when you're not directly ...
The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem continues as a family fights imminent eviction
In 2018, I visited the Sumarin family in their East Jerusalem home, right by the walls of the historical Old ...
Idols must fall. We can’t address racism in the present without condemning Britain’s colonial past.
As the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement continues to make waves and hold racist power structures to account, the marketplace ...
Lisa Nandy’s call for the government to ‘step up’ for human rights in Hong Kong is ignorant of Britain’s colonial past
Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy came off as very neo-colonial following her recent comments on Hong Kong. So much so ...
UK higher education must be decolonised, students warn
A plan published by the National Union of Students says some parts of the sector ‘have propagated systems that assure ...
Chagos Islanders use papal visit to Mauritius to highlight desire to return home
Thousands of the islanders were evicted in the 1960s and 1970s so the US military could build a base at ...
Thousands of people protest the ongoing racist occupation of West Papua
The most famous military occupation in the world today is probably Israel's occupation of Palestine. But on the other side ...
As Johnson hogs the headlines, it’s revealed how much UK ‘foreign aid’ the Tories have given to the fossil fuel industry
New data shows the government is spending hundreds of millions of pounds from the foreign aid budget on fossil fuel ...
China says Jeremy Hunt ‘basking in faded glory’ after Hong Kong comments
The Foreign Secretary and candidate to be next prime minister had spoken out on the recent anti-Beijing protests in the ...
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