VIRTUAL VIGIL FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE ATLANTA SHOOTINGS Organised by the Goldsmiths Anti-Imperialist Society — Sunday 2nd May 2021 Text of Anna Chen’s online talk The Roots of the Clash between the United States of America and China After a year of increasing anti-Asian violence encouraged by unscrupulous politicians and media, we took another […]
Labour dogwhistles echo Trump protectionism and the spirit of MAGA Congratulations and a big thank you to everyone who made it to today’s protest against the Home Office’s aggressive immigrant fishing raids blighting London’s Chinatown, called by the London Chinatown Chinese Association. These raids have intensified under the Tories’ hostile environment ever since the Brexit
Anna Chen writes in the Guardian, An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is not cultural appropriation (Guardian headline and standfirst written by sub-eds) PROM pic.twitter.com/gsJ0LtsCmP — Keziah (@daumkeziah) April 22, 2018 When is a dress just a dress? Remember those photos of the little cocktail number that looked blue with black lace to some
President Trump has told Theresa May that he will personally negotiate the trade deal with the UK. He has no commerce secretary yet. Many of us are wondering what could possibly go wrong? Estimates that the Trump chicken comes home to roost (in the Chinese year of the Fire Rooster, note) are set somewhere around
Reports of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman appointment to the UN miraculously omit her Israeli Army background More proof that we’ve slipped into the Twilight Zone as the popular culture takes a hit. Today’s news about Wonder Woman at the United Nations yields a graphic example of how slippery the media is and why we need
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Sterling has taken a post-Brexit pounding and may even fall below parity with the dollar. The US economy is at the top of a bull run and running on fumes. The Euro is sliding and the European Union may disintegrate. Deutsche Bank may fail (it’s much, MUCH bigger than Lehman Bros) and could be the
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