The Reunion
Caliban's Revenge •Artwork by Caliban’s Revenge.
Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
Artwork by Caliban’s Revenge.
How can we generate our own meanings and oppose right-wing moral panics about identity politics?
Coalitions of the oppressed show the power of solidarity, but ruling classes use race and nationalism to divide workers. Shanice McBean explores how the left can overcome these divisions.
A report on a migrant farm worker’s protest and the campaign for rights for workers on seasonal visas
The long term issues that underlie the shift in US policy on Ukraine
Billions are wasted on landlord profits so what can be done different?
As massive cuts and redundancies are threatened across the university sector – how can we build the fightback?
Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.
Treatlerism describes a reactionary entitlement rooted in exploitation. But what if we reclaimed entitlement?
A review of a new collection of poetry by Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha.
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I was very struck by this extraordinary piece for the way it furthers the narrative of Colston’s toppling as he must come face-to-face with his crimes. I think moving forward such a thing needs to be applied to other slaver statues. While I understand the urge to destroy them or place them in museums, in the long term this maybe a bad thing. These evil men when celebrated were made visible publicly, why should their shame be different? While I support the National Slavery Memorial, I wonder that it may erase an important question of the slave trade- why it happened. The why is clear when you see men like Colston in their fancy wears- it was for financial enrichment. My idea of how to capture the why of and cost of slavery would be to have a monument that brings the beneficiaries and victims of slavery together face-to-face like you’ve done here, perhaps in a way where the moral superiority of the victims is made clear by having them encircle the slavers or have them looking down on them in a heap on the floor. Happy to chat further if you want to contact me!
I believe the intention for the Colston statue is to display it in a museum “as is” with the graffiti and ropes left on, surrounded by Black Lives Matter placards saved from the demonstration. A copy of this image would be a good addition to such a display.