And what does it mean especially for people of colour when we turn our fire on each other? And indeed, in that short clip, it is pretty obvious that she is making a joke. But for this Sarkar essentially accuses him of veiled racism: ‘Cantle just isn’t interested in how different people of colour interact with one another. The godfather of grime didn’t need to raid the library of Soas University of London to come up with his critique. The problem, particularly with EU state aid regulations, has been how UK governments have chosen to interpret EU rules. The nature of class composition and industrial organisation has changed a great deal since the party was founded 119 years ago, but a decisive shift towards being the electoral vehicle for socially liberal metropolitan voters represents a substantial – and undesirable – transformation in Labour’s soul. Cantle told the Guardian that Britain had become more segregated since those riots. But ethnic minorities who are not integrated – particularly if they don’t speak English – are probably not going to be a part of some radical, transformative political project. There’s a difference between understanding how these frustrations have a politicised background, and treating these issues as sites of political contestation in themselves. In it, Sarkar responds to an interview with Ted Cantle in the Guardian, marking 15 years since his report for the Home Office on the race riots in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham. But Brexit, since the 2016 vote, has become entrenched as a polarised conflict about values and political culture, rather than trade or economics. The artist Kenneth Coutts-Smith wrote one of the first essays on the subject in 1976, entitled Some General Observations on the Concept of Cultural Colonialism. A remain campaign is no longer about continuity, an affirmation of neoliberal values at the expense of workers’ struggle. Are ethnic-minority people who are already integrated ‘complicit’ in the oppression of others? This month, news broke that Inuit singers were boycotting Canada’s Indigenous Music Awards over the nomination of a Cree singer who, it is claimed, utilises specifically Inuit throat-singing techniques without coming from that culture herself. Corbyn’s failure to embrace Europhilia during the 2016 referendum was blamed by many for remain losing the vote. Wed 29 May 2019 01.00 EDT Labour has been unable to bring together leave and remain voters by synthesising a soft Brexit position.
Ash Sarkar If a future manifesto comes into conflict with the EU’s rules, Labour should show it’s willing to take it on Wed 29 May 2019 01.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Feb 2020 06.52 EST Exactly what is cultural appropriation? It is the case, however, that even when spending decisions taken by national governments fall within EU deficit-reduction targets, they have been threatened by disciplinary measures. That middle-class woke types like Sarkar can’t see this speaks to how cut off they are from the communities they claim to speak for. The natural party of government saw its vote share eroded by the Brexit party so badly that it was forced to endure its worst performance at a national election since 1832.

Ash Sarkar (born 17 April 1992) is a British journalist and left-wing political activist. As someone who voted remain, I look at some of the EU’s greatest hits – the crippling austerity measures imposed by the troika of the European commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund on Greece, the bloody borders of Fortress Europe, the institutionalisation of neoliberal ideology – and worry that my vote was interpreted as a mandate for the continuation of those horrors. It’s a call for complicity.’. Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe. Why has cultural appropriation, an imperfect term mobilised in imperfect contexts, become such live ammunition for the socially conscious? And it can’t throw its lot in with the no deal brigade and maintain a claim to protecting the economic interests of working-class people, or indeed taking an ideological stand against the far right. The clear implication in this is that his views and position in the government make him a bad, inauthentic Asian. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure. Perhaps this is just woke posturing. You can find out more here. Similar arguments have emerged recently in relation to high-profile Tory politicians. • Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut But there’s another uncomfortable feeling lurking at the bottom of it. An uncomfortable fact for leave supporters on both the left and right is that the EU has not been the main cause of Britain’s regional inequalities or austerity measures. Black writers and artists from the Harlem Renaissance voiced their concerns about the distortion of African cultures in some modernist artworks, and wrote at length about the demeaning caricatures of black identity in minstrel shows. The tone of it alone makes that clear.

An anonymous Twitter account posted a short clip of Sarkar talking about recent changes in London’s population. And this isn’t just a PR exercise, it’s a push for political change. It’s all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who’s cooking biryani. This is important to bear in mind. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Novara Media’s Ash Sarkar was at the centre of a Twitterstorm at the weekend. As Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle says, “much is done in [European politics] by a show of strength, determination and willing to go to the line – we could lead the rebel charge to transform the worst bits of Europe and keep the bits of EU democracy and socialism we have already achieved”. Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut December 2019 It’s a myth that Labour has lost the working class 10 Dec 2019 It’s worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Brexit represents a fundamental crisis for the governing party.
Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer W riter, lecturer and activist Ash Sarkar…

Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, went further and pinned Labour’s poor performance on its failure to campaign for remaining in the EU. Meanwhile, protests are banned and Covid Marshals are being hired to patrol a high street near you. The people who suffer most from rejecting integration will always be ethnic minorities themselves.

Tory leadership hopefuls, looking to placate the infuriated Conservative grassroots, are already butching up talk of a no-deal Brexit, an outcome that parliament simply will not tolerate. Is Gordon Ramsay allowed to cook Chinese food ? You’re a foreigner here, you’re a tourist back in your ancestral land, and home is the magpie nest you construct of the bits of culture you’re able to hold close. Ash Sarkar, senior editor at Novara Media, photographed in north London. Some people are just sad try-hards. Unlike so many things these days, spiked is completely free. It’s always been half-in, half-out – a state of affairs that has been most effectively weaponised by rightwing Eurosceptics.

It’s reasonable to suspect that if Labour wanted to pursue a policy platform that was more interventionist than its 2017 manifesto, it would soon come into conflict with the EU. • Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut, The debate, tied up with racial oppression and exploitation, is a difficult one.

The Tory party would split if it pursued a soft Brexit deal with Labour votes; it would split if a new leader ran on taking Britain out of the EU to trade on World Trade Organization rules. But we do need to become a lot more discerning about how we use the idea in discussing interpersonal dynamics. Follow him on Twitter: @FraserMyers. The most obvious is that 78% of Labour’s target Tory marginals voted leave in 2016. And this is the sticky point. You’re all the same anyway.”, Daniel Heath Justice, a Cherokee professor of indigenous studies at the University of British Columbia, points out that the row isn’t the result of oversensitivity or prickliness. Britain has historically had a strong position within the EU by virtue of its status as a former imperial power, enjoying opt-outs on the Schengen travel rules and the eurozone that few others have been granted. Rather than accepting the constraints of Labour’s electoral tightrope walk, Corbyn could set out a vision of EU membership, with a fightback on limits to the UK’s economic autonomy. The attempt to broker a soft Brexit compromise was a noble, if doomed, enterprise. There’s a very particular feeling when you know that the identity I wear on my skin is an outfit for someone else – that culture is valued more than the humanity that produced it. Elvis Presley was said to have exploited “negro” music. After losing 13% of its vote share to the Brexit party, Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott have all signalled a strong pivot towards a second referendum to win back the 39% of Labour’s 2017 voters who switched to the Liberal Democrats and the Green party. To enquire about republishing spiked’s content, a right to reply or to request a correction, please contact the managing editor, Viv Regan. Last modified on Mon 29 Apr 2019 10.28 EDT. Ash Sarkar He may appear to be a centrists’ dream, but take a closer look at his voting record ‘It’s this ability to master his own amiable incongruity with his surroundings that has led people … This argument against integration becomes all the more ridiculous when you consider who it is coming from. Sarkar said the joke was taken out of context and that she was mocking the moral panic over demographics. If that is not ‘integrated’, then what is? It is striking that a phrase intended to sharpen a political analysis of life under postcolonial capitalism seems to have drawn the most blood between people who share overlapping experiences of racism and displacement. We rely on the generosity of our readers to keep us going. Can Jamie Oliver cook jollof rice despite plainly not knowing what it is? it pursued a soft Brexit deal with Labour votes. I say bring it on. But to do so we need your help. And in return, new media outlets have guaranteed traffic from anxious millennials by listing things that fall into the category of problematic when white people adopt them (blaccents, bindis and box braids). It has become fashionable to label any and every social problem or argument as stemming from whiteness or white supremacy. Most of the barriers to implementing a manifesto on the radical edge of social democracy have to do with the constraints of domestic politics, rather than transnational governance. And if you don’t, please do consider making a donation today. The idea that cultural appropriation is primarily a form of erasure – a kind of emotional violence in which people are rendered invisible – came along later. A dash of Euroscepticism in a campaign to stay in the EU needn’t be a demobilising factor; it’s grounds for strong leadership in reviving popular consent for EU membership. It is the fact that they have integrated into the top of British society that seems to make them morally suspect to left identitarians like Sarkar. It’s no good blaming the electorate for failing to understand your Brexit strategy, when the hedging of positions looks evasive and faffy. Activist Ash Sarkar is promoting a revitalised ‘fun communism’, without the inconvenient history. It is demanding that we participate in that which oppresses us – and with a glad heart. A straightforward “Listen, bumbahole” did the trick just fine.