Black Lives Matter – Pandemic Perspectives

Protest and the Pandemic

Posted on March 23, 2021November 1, 2021Debates, Politics, Society

During the pandemic, the British government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, both of which restricted the right of assembly and therefore the right to protest. In enforcing these restrictions, ...

Covid and Gramsci

Posted on March 16, 2021March 29, 2021Culture, Debates, Politics

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), was the head of the parliamentary communist group in Italy at the time of his arrest by Mussolini’s facist regime in 1926. Sentenced in 1928, Mussolini is reported as saying at his ...