 So last year hundreds of young people in Bristol through a statue of the slave owner Edward Colston into the city's harbor Now Colston is rightly reviled by people as a as a governor of the Royal African Company that in his time controlled much of the transatlantic slave trade Well that company was actually established by a British monarch and the the wealth that the company acquired was piled upon the huge amounts of wealth The the monarchy today continues to sit on so you could say that in the British monarchy the British royal family We have here a living monument to all of the crimes of British imperialism and Thanks to Megan and Harry's interview over the course of the weekend We we've been given a brief glimpse into precisely how deeply this racist and colonial history runs through this institution And among many of the the revelations of which I'm sure you've heard and are aware One in particular I think shocked a lot of people and that was the fact that an unnamed Royal expressed to Harry his concern at how dark or his or her concern How dark the skin of their unborn child would be once they were finally born And all of this I think and all of the rest of the revelations have shown for millions of people that the you know All of these things that were lauded in the royal family their concern for pure pedigree is nothing more basically than racist white supremacy their celebrated cool detachment is basically a little more than a callous vengefulness and It's no wonder therefore that in this context that the complete lack of Humanity this family has shown that it's led to a certain outpouring of sympathy for Megan and Harry Now Megan and Harry will be okay They will they will be able to look after themselves and they I'm sure they will become Tremendously wealthy off of these interviews But these interviews are a real problem for British capitalism because this isn't just any old family that these people are exposing This is a family which is part and parcel of the British ruling class their racism and their callousness are not accidental They are they are part of the organic racism and callousness of the of the capitalist system of which they form a part And and the royal family are very important actually to the the British ruling class now some people Opposed the monarchy as a waste of money, but to the ruling class. It's a lot more than simply an expense Onto the British constitution the monarch actually has completely unlimited powers And it's not for nothing that they refer to it as her majesty's government and her majesty's armed forces It's actually an extremely powerful reserve weapon in the hands of the capitalist class now in normal times We're allowed to believe that this is merely a formality the powers that the monarch enjoys But in times of crisis should the interests of the British ruling class be threatened Particularly if it were threatened by the the the working class organized They would not hesitate to use these reserve powers basically And it is for this reason above all else that having seen the monarchy exposed for what it is We need to topple this feudal and racist relic relic and this this this living monument to the crimes of British imperialism In just the way the same way that the the statues of slave owners were toppled last summer That is why we as socialist appeal we raise the demand of the need for a socialist republic