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Category: ANTI-RACISM

ANTHONY OWEN: POEM ‘Hurricane Benjamin’

Posted on October 31, 2025

In the heart of a stolen starWe are back to wigwams againNames on limbs just incase it comesHurricane Benjamin destroyer of tents,Destroyer of children and whole bloodlines. Fuck it, lets get back…

TRUMP’S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE: Two poems by Shaun Belcher

Posted on September 19, 2025

Trump’s Birthday Party Surprise In Minnesota a right-wing evangelistDressed as a Marlboro County Cowboythen as a policeman knocked the door And  fired multiple shots through it at two lawmakersand a Spinal bifida…

Benjamin Zephaniah, Sitting Bull and a Sleepy Nation – Andy Croft

Posted on August 1, 2025

Effective oppositional spaces are rapidly disappearing. Democratic process is blocked by inequality, authoritarianism, deceit and a narrow ideological consensus. Constitutional and legal constraints on power, within and between nation states have no…

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