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Boris Johnson. Photo: Flickr/Number10

Government defeat on schools shows organised resistance can win – CounterBlast 9 June

March against Bolsonaro in Brasília, 7 June 2020. Photo: Mídia Ninja

How Bolsonaro can be beaten – a Brazilian socialist speaks out

Wellington statue with traffic cones in front of what was slaver William Cunninghame’s home. Source: Flickr – Tony Webster

Boot the Wellington: The growing resistance to Glasgow’s colonial monuments

Christine Whyte

Charles Dickens statue in Portsmouth. Source: Geograph.org – Basher Eyre

‘Are there no food banks?’ The Poor Laws and Charles Dickens at 150

Katherine Connelly

Edward Colston’s statue being thrown into Bristol Harbour. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Tearing down Colston’s statue is not destroying history, it is illuminating it

Black Lives Matter protest, 7 June. Photo: Lucy Nichols

Black people protesting racism are not thugs – CounterBlast 8 June

Fred Hampton by Jacob Anikulapo (2010), Flickr

Fred Hampton: Black Panther and red revolutionary

BLM, Doncaster, 2020. Photo: Mick Wattam

#BLM: Doncaster steps up

A Black Lives Matter protester in Westminster, 2016. Photo: Flickr/Alisdare Hickson

A turning point against racism – weekly briefing

Black Lives Matter protest London, 7 June

Don’t blame the protesters for the virus

Edward Colston, slave trader, statue demolished. Source: Wikipedia and Counterfire

From BLM to decolonising Bristol

Susan Newman and Jeni Van Heerden

This statue now belongs to history. Source: Wikipedia

Why pulling down Colston’s statue was right