Not only is the UK involved in constant conflicts it is also financially benefitting from them. The UK is one of the world’s largest arms exporters. Between 2010 and 2019, almost 60% of UK arms exports went to the Middle East, mostly to Saudi Arabia. UK-made weapons have been used in the Saudi-led bombardment of Yemen, and the UK government has provided ongoing maintenance and technical support for Saudi aircraft. More recently it has been condemned for supplying F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, a country being investigated for genocide by the international criminal court. 80 years after the Holocaust in Germany, the UK is actively involved in another Holocaust, this time in Gaza.
Tag: history
Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor – Review
It would be unfair to suggest that the entirety of this book is awful, far from it. It just needed the author to sit with someone to discuss his views towards Muslims, and ask if they were the lingering consequence of colonialism or more recently developed ideas from the racist BJP party, currently governing India.
Frantz Fanon Philosopher of the Barricades by Peter Hudis – Book Review
The Hungarian revolution highlighted the obvious racism in France and Western Europe. Whilst hardly anyone in the French Left had flinched at the butchering of Algerians, tens of thousands of communists, in France and Western Europe, now tore up their party cards and left the Communist Party in response to the brutal Soviet repression of the workers revolution in Budapest.
This Hybrid Reads 