The “war on terror” began over a century ago in colonial India and Ireland, where resistance was criminalised and entire populations were surveilled, detained, and brutalised. Those same tactics were later imported to the UK, rebranded, and used against Black and Muslim communities.

31 July 2025

Rivkah Brown explains how counter-terrorism has always been a colonial project, and it still is.

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