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Starting university? Join Student Socialist Alternative!

Join Student Socialist Alternative here! Students across the world have been on the frontline of struggles for change. Most recently, people of all ages have been joined by radical students in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, demanding justice for George Floyd and for an end to racist policing. We have been central to the climate strikes movement, […]

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The Haitian Revolution and the abolition of slavery

Review of ‘The Black Jacobins’ by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Most schools teach pupils that the Atlantic slave trade went against European ‘enlightenment’ principles of rationality, equality and democracy; a horror perpetrated against docile and simple Africans that was abolished by high minded powerful European leaders in a peaceful and democratic way. With calls to […]

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Caerphilly County lockdown: we’re not all in this together

New lockdown measures started in Caerphilly County at 6pm on 9 September. The reasons for it, and the nature of the new lockdown measures reveal quite starkly the priorities of the Senedd (Welsh Government). The background to these new measures is a rise in cases with 133 confirmed cases in the last week alone, equivalent […]

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