NORWICH SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national, Student and tagged Adat Yeshua Synagogue, Angela Davis, antisemitism, AOC, Apartheid, BDS, colonialism, Cromer, decolonisation, ethnic cleansing, featured, Gaza, genocide, Great Yarmouth, IHRA, imperialism, islamophobia, Jacob Ecclestone, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Declaration, justice, Kill the Bill, liberation, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, norwich, palestine, Palestine solidarity, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, peace, ramallah, Rashida Tlaib, settler colonialism, Sheikh jarrah, solidarity, tiktok, UEA, UEA Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, UEA SU, Welsh language, West Bank, zionism.

By Sean Meleady and Callum James

CN: death, violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing

Norwich, like many cities and towns across Britain, has seen a number of Palestinian solidarity protests in recent weeks. These protests came in the wake of the latest series of aerial bombardments between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of 256 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, according to UN figures. The spark for this recent escalation of violence occurred when an Israeli court greenlit eviction proceedings of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and subsequent peaceful protests were brutally repressed, culminating in attacks by Israeli police on the holy site of Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, which elicited international condemnation.

DECOLONISE WALES: II

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #decolonisewales, 1905, absentee landlords, All Blacks, British exports, Butes, Capel Celyn, Cardiff Coal Exchange, carnifal, cymreictod, decolonise, development, Dic Penderyn, Eisteddfod, environmental cost, featured, Glan Rhondda, Haka, hell, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadua, Herbert Asquith, human cost, Iago ap Euan, industrialisation, James James, Liverpool City Council, merthyr rising, metal works, miner, National Miners Union, nonconformity, north south divide, Pontypridd, postcolonialism, Prince of Wales, Red Flag, solider, South Wales, South Wales Coalfield, sport, Taff, Taff Vale Railway, Talbots, Thatcher, Trade Unionism, Wales, welsh government, Welsh language, Welsh Language Act, welsh national anthem, Welsh Nationalist movement, Welsh sporting events, Wild West, workers' power.

by Jonathan Lee

Decolonise Wales: Part 1 can be found here.

The Welsh National anthem was the first anthem to ever be sung at a sporting event. In 1905, when Wales played the New Zealand rugby team for the first time. Declining to sing the official “God Bless the Prince of Wales”, the crowd gave a spontaneous rendition of “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau” in response to the All Blacks’ Haka. The song became a staple of Welsh sporting events from then on. Although until 1975 organisers refused to let the anthem be sung unless accompanied by “God Save the Queen”.Continue Reading

DECOLONISE WALES: I

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #decolonisewales, 1847 Royal Commission on Welsh Education, Barwyg, Benedictine, Catwg, Christianity, church, collective denial, colonise, colony, cooperative, cymru, decolonise, division, Ecclesiastical Appeals Act, Elementary Education Act, england, Englishries, exports, featured, Henry VIII, Illtud, imperialism, Index of Negrescence, John Beddoe, language, merthyr rising, Meuthin, miners strike, monasticism, Newport Rising, oppression, picket line, Rebecca Riots, settlements, St David, Tonypandy miners strike, Wales, Welsh, Welsh Chartist Movement, Welsh language, Welsh Not, Welshries, William Lamb, Winston Churchill, working class, Y Brad y Llyfrau Gleision.

by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: this article mentions racism, discrimination, oppression, and racial / cultural slurs.

“If the Welsh are striking over hunger, we must fill their bellies with lead” are the famous words Winston Churchill never spoke, about sending in the Lancashire Fusiliers to put a swift end to the 1910 Tonypandy miners’ strike.

Though he never advocated firing on the miners, he did send the soldiers to the picket line, and was definitely still an imperialist, eugenically-minded war criminal. The only reason the quote is mistakenly attributed to him so commonly is because it is so utterly believable. It typifies the contemptuous colonial attitudes held by the man himself, and the English parliament, for the Welsh and the working class.

Wales was England’s first colony – the template for later British imperialism. Many of its basic strategies were forged here in England’s closest and very first colonial asset, before being exported all over the world.Continue Reading

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NORWICH SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

By Sean Meleady and Callum James

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