This remarkable report by the BBC reveals the extent to which China uses Uyghur slave labour in order to pick and process cotton.

Is there a more resonant reminder of the Atlantic slave trade than cotton-picking?

My immediate thought was ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton
China's ‘tainted’ cotton

New evidence of forced labour at the heart of the global fashion industry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton
... how obscene it is that the SWP-run Stand Up to Racism held an event, which purported to focus on the legacy of US slavery, that featured defenders of the Chinese Communist Party's enslavement of Chinese minority groups: all of them Muslim .... https://twitter.com/ToubeDavid/status/1316672624936849409
... and how remarkable it is that the islamist lobby group, MEND, works hand in glove with Stand up to Racism. https://www.mend.org.uk/mend-sheffield-collaborates-with-stand-up-to-racism-sheffield/
MEND Sheffield Collaborates with Stand Up to Racism Sheffield - Muslim Engagement and Development

Last week our Sheffield Working Group co-organised with Stand Up to Racism Sheffield and a number of other organisations to hold an open meeting with the topic of Decolonising Education. A number of...

https://www.mend.org.uk/mend-sheffield-collaborates-with-stand-up-to-racism-sheffield/
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