In an extended version of a presentation on 3 February 2022 to the Stuart Hall Foundation’s fifth Annual Conversation on ‘Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity’, the director of the Institute of Race Relations asks whether a refreshed anti-fascism, that tackles the global war against the poor, New Right ‘culture wars’, ‘total policing’ and the surveillance state, can act as an inspiration for diffuse struggles to come together into communities of resistance.
Four young people were acquitted by a jury in January 2022 of criminal damage after they pulled down the statue of Bristol slave-trader, Edward Colston, deputy governor of the eighteenth-century Royal African Company, and dumped it in the Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020.
