Joint statement from the Anti-Racist/Anti-Fascist Commission and @ycl_britain. Read thread 📜👇
In order to fully recognise the problems of racism in Britain and its continued imperialist role, it is absolutely necessary that Britain confronts its racist and imperialist past.
In order to fully recognise the problems of racism in Britain and its continued imperialist role, it is absolutely necessary that Britain confronts its racist and imperialist past.
History is not neutral. Having statues dedicated to those who benefited from slavery in Britain's public spaces, effectively legitimises their status and by extension the slave trade and racial oppression.
We fully support the demands that statues of slavers and racists be pulled down and hidden away.
We have long demanded that Britain's education system must cover all its history including the crimes of Empire, its wars, slavery, and the millions made, the subjugation of people in Africa, and a quarter of the planet along with the history of black people in Britain itself.
