NORWICH CITY, ONEL HERNÁNDEZ AND CUBAN SOLIDARITY IN FOOTBALL

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged bbc, canaries, costa rica, cuba, Cuban blockade, Cuban FA, Cuban solidarity, Curaçao, defection, diplomacy, doctors, featured, football, germany, guatemala, international football, international politics, MLS, norwich, norwich city football club, Onel Hernández, Osvaldo Alonso, premier league, Seattle Sounders, UN, UN General Assembly, US imperialism, USA.

By Howard Green

Norwich City’s glossy matchday programme for their home match against Stoke on February 13th is emblazoned with the face of fan favourite winger, Onel Hernández. Hernández, a famously bubbly and humorous character who has played for the Canaries since the beginning of the 2018/19 season, made a late substitute appearance against Stoke during Norwich’s 4-1 win. On this occasion it was a brief outing for the programme cover star – but recent developments in Hernández’s career are much more significant than this match might suggest.

FROM SCHALKE TO NEWCASTLE: ARE FOOTBALL CLUBS BECOMING COVERS FOR CORRUPTION?

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Amnesty International, Angela Merkel, Ben Mee, black lives matter, Bundesliga, commercialisation, community organising, corruption, fan activism, Fans Supporting Foodbanks, featured, football, free school meals, gazprom, Gerhard Schroeder, germany, Hatice Cengiz, human rights, international politics, Jamal Khashoggi, manchester, Manchester City, marcus rashford, Newcastle, newcastle united, Nord Stream, PIF, premier league, Ruhr Valley, Russia, Saudi Arabia, schalke 04, sheikh mansour, sponsorship, sport, U.A.E., Vladimir Putin.

By Howard Green

Professional football has been hyper-commercialised by every means available. Billion pound deals between private entities to secure TV rights, ridiculous sponsorship schemes that see clubs partner with the most strange or dangerous of companies, and ever-rising ticket prices turning the sport into an occasional daytime activity for the well-off rather than dedicated working-class fans. But there are still instances of defiance, of fans and players organising and speaking out against the commercial elements of the sport.

HOW THE NAZIS WIPED OUT THE ROMANI MIDDLE CLASS

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged auschwitz, central europe, Civil Rights, ethnic cleansing, featured, first world war, german history, germany, history, Holocaust, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, middle class, Nazi, nazi regime, Roma, Romani, second world war, Sinti, Sinto, Wehrmacht, world war I, world war II.

By Jonathan Lee

CW genocide, ethnic violence

Between 1936 and 1945 the Nazis wiped out over 50% of Europe’s Romani people.

Whether they were choked to death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, “exterminated through labour” climbing the stairs of death at Mauthausen, or shot in a mass grave dug by their own hands in Romania – the extermination of the Gypsies of Europe was carried out with deadly efficiency.

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, china, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, john bolton, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela, war, weapons.

by Gunnar Eigener

America’s influence in the Middle East is beginning to fray at the edges. This is bad news for both the region and the global community. America has, over the past decade, became something of a pariah in the area. Its foreign policy, already distrusted by enemies and allies alike, has looked increasingly unclear and erratic under the current administration.

While previous Presidents acted with caution and measure, the Trump White House presses on, having found in its new National Security Advisor John Bolton the man who would seemingly give weight to any decision that Donald Trump would be likely to favour, yet is already being rumoured to be behind Trump’s decision to withdraw from the North Korea Summit. Continue Reading

IRAN AND THE ART OF THE DEAL

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela.

by Gunnar Eigener

The US President, Donald Trump, has announced that the US will pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran much to the dismay of all those involved and many other countries around the world. The deal was viewed by Trump as ‘the worst deal ever’, possibly an overstatement since Iran surrendered 97% of its enriched uranium stockpile and limited to installing at a maximum 5,060 centrifuges, making the production of a nuclear weapon impossible. Still, time limits were placed on these and other elements of the deal, meaning that in 15 years, Iran could have begun its nuclear programme again. While the JCPOA can, and should, be viewed as a successful deal, it is another example of not dealing with the root cause of the problem, which is the part Iran plays in propping up terrorist organisations and brutal regimes worldwide.Continue Reading

ON IMMIGRATION 1. LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Africa, Blair, Chicago, choice, Clinton, colonialism, conflict, economic migrant, economy, featured, free market, germany, globalisation, history, Irish, italian, migrant, migration, national socialism, New York, on immigration, risk, Third Way, totalitarianism, travel, work.

by Stu Lucy

Last time we met I penned a reflective piece that acknowledged not only my privilege but also the de facto situation of millions of people across the planet, not least in Africa, forced to make the difficult decision to leave all they know behind, hoping for a better life in alien and often hostile lands many thousand of miles away. I’d like now to rewind to the very beginning of that process to try and suggest why it is so many end up making such a choice.Continue Reading

WHO IS STANDING UP FOR FOOTBALL FANS?

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged canaries, carrow road, Celtic, clive lewis, Community, fans, football, footie, games, germany, Glasgow City Council, Labour, Lib Dems, local, norwich, Norwich FC, regulations, safe standing, safety, soccer, stadium, standing, world cup.

by James Anthony

Earlier this week, Norwich City Football Club announced that they would be moving young season ticket holders and their accompanying adults out of their seats over safety concerns caused by supporters standing up during matches. Fans are not permitted to stand in seating areas of the stadium, and the club is responsible for enforcing this. This latest move has come as advice from a safety advisory group, who warns that the club could face their stadium capacity being reduced if fans continue to stand up during games. Safety must be the number one concern at football matches, but there have to be better options in the long term than displacing young fans who are being moved through no fault of their own.Continue Reading

YOUNG GERMANS AND URBAN GLORIFICATION

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged AAVE, appropriation, art, ball, berlin, bigot, Brexit, City, commodification, demand, drag, exoticism, fetish, fetishisation, gender, gentrification, germany, globalisation, housing, housing crisis, identity, intersectionality, landlord, lease, lgbtQ+, liberalism, london, neocolonialism, QTBPOC, queer, race, racism, rent, renting, safe spaces, self-congratulatory, spaces, urban, West, young, Zoopla.

by Candice Nembhard

In recent years the discussion of gentrification and globalisation has become almost unavoidable – and for the most part, these terms have now been resigned as popular buzzwords in pseudo-intellectual conversations. As glib as this may sound, I shall do my best to explain.

While many a piece has been written on this subject, this is in fact not my primary focus. My intention is not to deny the lived and consequential reality of western mobilisation, but rather look towards the supporters and benefactors of this growing socio-economic practice. In particular, a generation of young people who are forgoing academic careers in favour of acquired/inherited wealth and personal development. More specifically, I will focus on my experience in post-Brexit Germany.Continue Reading

HOW SHOULD WE ACKNOWLEDGE NATIONAL SINS?

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged African American History Museum, America, civil war, Confederate, Crescent City White League Obelisk, Frederick Douglass, General Lee, George Washington Cable, germany, Harriet Jacobs, Jefferson Davis, legacy, Martin Luther King Jr, memorial, Mitch Landrieu, New Orleans, P.G.T Beauregard, slavery, Smithsonian, W.E.B. DuBois, Washington, white supremacy, William Lloyd Garrison.

by Tara Debra G

Content warning: Holocaust/genocide, slavery, white supremacy

Under the cloak of night, on the 24th of April this year, an obelisk that celebrated members of the Crescent City White League was removed in New Orleans. It was erected in 1891 to honour the group that, twenty years prior, launched a failed insurrection against the Reconstruction Louisiana state government, murdering police officers in doing so. Its plaque in 1931 read: “the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state.”Continue Reading

BUT HE’S NOT RACIST

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged African, BAME, berlin, berlin wall, black, BLM, Britain, Business Location Center, colonialism, culture, France, germany, guilt, Isaiah Lopaz, manchester, melting pot, microaggression, personal experience, POC, politics, population, race, racism, report, resist, resistance, shame, slurs, statistics, systematic racism, The Netherlands, uk, UN, white west, whiteness, woc.

by Candice Nembhard

I have been living in Berlin for around two months now and generally the transition from the UK to mainland Europe has been a relatively easy process. If we put rising rent prices, endless German bureaucracy, and the future of Brexit aside, Berlin in some ways is a safe haven for a young black Brit such as myself.

Undoubtedly, my ability to move, live and work in Germany is not possible without an immense amount of privilege. I, unlike many people, do not face the same amount of adversity by simply being here; irrespective of my feelings towards my nationality, having a British passport is a golden ticket I didn’t have to work for. However, even with its numerous working and academic advantages, my citizenship does not defend me against the microaggressions of prejudice and racism that I receive almost on a daily basis.Continue Reading

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NORWICH CITY, ONEL HERNÁNDEZ AND CUBAN SOLIDARITY IN FOOTBALL

By Howard Green

FROM SCHALKE TO NEWCASTLE: ARE FOOTBALL CLUBS BECOMING COVERS FOR CORRUPTION?

By Howard Green

HOW THE NAZIS WIPED OUT THE ROMANI MIDDLE CLASS

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

IRAN AND THE ART OF THE DEAL

ON IMMIGRATION 1. LET’S START AT THE BEGINNING

WHO IS STANDING UP FOR FOOTBALL FANS?

YOUNG GERMANS AND URBAN GLORIFICATION

HOW SHOULD WE ACKNOWLEDGE NATIONAL SINS?

BUT HE’S NOT RACIST

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