Author Paul Gilroy tells Brian Richardson why he hopes images of past moments of everyday life and struggle will inspire a new generation

Leading black intellectual Paul Gilroy spoke Socialist Worker meeting last week attended by 300 people on ‘Who Really Ended the Slave Trade?’ It discussed the commemoration of the 1807 Act that formally ended the trade in the British Empire. Here are extracts from his speech.

Our failure to deal with our imperial past and present.