Black Lives matter
Sickle Cell Disease exposes racial health inequalities
The announcement of the first new treatment for Sickle Cell Disease for 20 years is good news. But it also tells us a lot about systemic racism in healthcare
Why struggle is more important than parliament
For the Labour left the movements outside of parliament are important but always secondary. Nick Clark explains why the party holds even its most militant members back
Don’t let Black History Month be tamed
Has Black History Month become a pale reflection of what it should be?
School exclusions hit Traveller and black students
Exclusions are a product of a broken education system obsessed with exams and directed towards a single model of 'success'
Hurricane Katrina—class, race and climate change
As flash flooding and tornadoes hit the north-east United States, Sophie Squire looks at the lessons from Hurricane Katrina in 2005
State tried to derail Black Lives Matter
Something of an echo of the establishment panic of the late 1960s is reverberating around the seats of power in Britain and the US.
Ultraviolence—giving voice to victims of killer cops
27 June 2021Director Ken Fero talks to Socialist Worker about injustice and his new film Ultraviolence
Anti-racists demand Tory MP Drax hands back family’s old slave plantation to people of Barbados
23 June 2021Anti-racists in Dorset have told their Tory MP—whose family fortune comes from the slave trade—that “it’s time” for justice.
Letters—Why sexual harassment of young women is normalised
15 June 2021I wasn’t surprised by the latest report describing the scale of sexual harassment faced by young women. No young woman would have been.
Protesters demand that racist statue must fall
14 June 2021More than 200 protesters demanded the removal of a statue of 17th century slaver Robert Geffrye at the Museum of the Home in east London, last Saturday.
Cover-up! How the state helped hide the truth about the murder of Daniel Morgan
13 June 2021Daniel Morgan was murdered beside his car at the back of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south east London, in 1987. He had met his business partner Jonathan Rees for a drink.
A city in revolt, seen through the eyes of its Labour mayor
08 June 2021This BBC documentary follows mayor Marvin Rees as he faces up to the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s interesting—and infuriating
Resistance gives hope of break from Tory ‘normal’
01 June 2021Everyone wants to get back to normal. But what does that mean? For most people it means being able to go about daily life without restrictions and without fear of picking up and passing on the virus.
LETTERS—Spirit of anti-racism grows—and my hospital is proof
29 May 2021Sometimes years of patient work as anti-racists and trade unionists pays off.
Anti-racists take the knee across Britain on anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
25 May 2021Anti-racists took the knee in workplaces and local areas across Britain on the one-year anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd.
LETTERS—Halting deportations means keeping up militant response
25 May 2021We won a massive victory over immigration deportations last week on the streets of Pollokshields in Glasgow.
Who is working class?
17 May 2021A debate is raging about the attributes that make us working class to try and understand why some are losing faith in the Labour Party. Isabel Ringrose explores what really defines class.
Activists in the US speak out—why our fight for justice isn’t over
24 April 2021There are big questions and debates opening up about the future of the Black Lives Matter movement
Derek Chauvin is guilty, and so is the whole rotten system
20 April 2021If tens of millions of people had not taken to the streets and defied the cops then Floyd’s case would have been just another scandal covered up by a corrupt system
Fight killer cops after Floyd trial
19 April 2021Rage at a racist system and killer cops continued to burn as closing statements were heard on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin.
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