Colston s statue, which had stood in a public square in the centre of Bristol for over 100 years, was toppled by protesters and dropped into the harbour in June 2020 during BLM protests.
The son of an illiterate immigrant, Sanghera has become a hate figure of the right for his unflinching examinations of the history of the British empire
The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Sam Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing character of the working class,” first published in 1986. Marcy is the late chairperson of Workers World Party. The book is available as a free download at workers.org/marcy. The scientific-technological…
It was during the reign of George III that abolitionism began to be a major social movement, leading to the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. But what do we know about the king's views on slavery? Professor Trevor Burnard considers the evidence