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We will not go quietly into the history books
On Romany Holocaust Memorial Day, JAKE BOWERS warns that the new laws now being levelled at Britain's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities by the Police Bill once again threaten an entire people’s way of life
Romani prisoners at Belzec camp, 1940
Editor BEN CHACKO looks at the invaluable contribution the paper makes, and the headwinds it has to struggle against to get by, following the Morning Star’s 80th AGM this month
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
The nationalisation move to Great British Railways (GBR) must be about more than just changing the livery, writes MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Activists will urge MPs to protect the five-year settlement route and cut visa costs, warning reforms risk deepening inequality and labour shortages, says HARSEV BAINS
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the issues of liberty, safety and risk in relation to people receiving psychiatric treatment
TODAY is Romany Holocaust Memorial Day — yet ask most lifelong anti-racists what the significance of August 2 is and they will be puzzled.
For our history, just like our plight, remains one of Europe’s dirty secrets.
So come with me, if you will, on a journey into the past of Europe’s 12 million Romany people because we desperately need your help to secure a better future. Because history does not always exactly repeat itself, but in 2021 it is starting to rhyme.
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