Paul Field

Paul Field is the author, with Robin Bunce, of Renegade: Darcus Howe and the Fight for Black British Civil Rights.

Jubilee 1977

Robin Bunce and Paul Field, 9 June 2022

As Britain​ braces itself for the Platinum Jubilee, a fanfare to hereditary power and privilege, where’s the opposition? With the exception of a three-day ‘Fuck the Jubilee’ festival in Bristol, there’s little of the agitprop street theatre or situationist provocation that accompanied previous royal celebrations. We are unlikely to see any plywood guillotines or 21...

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