I was reminded of the issue of free speech when I did my previous post about Paul Robeson, the great American singer, actor, footballer, activist for civil rights, working people, black people and what I would call an all-round Renaissance man. But he was black, faced endemic racism in the US and he crossed the Establishment when he fought for workers and black people.
I first saw Paul Robeson when I was a young kid at the Saturday morning children’s cinema in Ramsgate, Kent, England. He was in the movie “Sanders of the River” which was a godawful grovel to British colonialism and which Robeson very much regretted once he saw the final cut.
After that he kind of disappeared and I never gave him much thought until he surfaced on a radio programme (can’t remember which after all this time) where he sang over a transatlantic link to a…
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