Anti-racism
Thousands join Black Lives Matter protests in Britain
Protests across Britain show there is still anger more than a month after the Black Lives Matter movement erupted over the murder of George Floyd by police.
US ‘Strike for black lives’ called as details emerge of George Floyd’s killing
A coalition of trade unions and campaign groups in the US is organising a “strike for black lives,” set for Monday 20 July.
British society scarred by deep poverty and racism
A new report shows 14.4 million people, including 4.5 million children, are living in poverty—and it’s even worse for black people, writes Sadie Robinson
Virus, slump and racism show up system failure
The Polish‑German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg warned that capitalism gives us a choice between “socialism or barbarism”. We need to choose—and fight for—socialism.
Protests continue to say that Black Lives Matter and refugee lives matter
Anti-racist protests took place in many parts of Britain on Wednesday
‘Dehumanised’ by racist system
A mother of two women who were murdered says revelations of cops’ misconduct “speaks volumes of the ethos” that runs through the Metropolitan police force.
Protests challenge the racist system
29 June 2020The scale and radicalism of the month of Black Lives Matter protests continues to shake those in power.
Fight back against right wing lies—refugees are welcome here
27 June 2020Right wingers want to use the stabbings in Glasgow to stoke a backlash against migrants and refugees
‘The anti-racist momentum should not be lost, we cannot be silenced’—protests across Britain
24 June 2020Anti-racists “took the knee” for Black Lives Matter in towns and cities on Wednesday.
Reading stabbing is being used by the right
23 June 2020The Tories are using the appalling stabbing of three people in Reading to push racism and repression.
Fight capitalism to smash racist system
23 June 2020Right wingers are trying to create a backlash against the fantastic Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
Anti-racist rage boils over in protests across the US
23 June 2020Protests are continuing to rage across the US over the racist murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin a month ago.
Oxford activists want to make sure Rhodes falls
22 June 2020Student activists have vowed to keep fighting until the front of Oriel College, Oxford, no longer features a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes
Labour report misses what led the party to lose election
22 June 2020A report into the Labour Party’s 2019 general election defeat says the party has a “mountain to climb” to beat the Tories. But it reinforces both left and right wing explanations for the defeat—meaning it will be used to justify the party’s shift to the right.
How the sun set on the British empire
21 June 2020As Britain’s rulers try to defend their colonial past, Sarah Bates looks at how resistance, imperialist rivalries and decline ended the biggest empire in the world
W.E.B Du Bois—a pioneer of anti-racist theory and struggle
21 June 2020Du Bois was one of the most prolific and popular sociologists, academics and civil rights activists of the first half of the 20th century
Thousands more join fresh round of Black Lives Matter protests
20 June 2020Some of the biggest mobilisations took place outside London
Tulsa: the city of Trump’s rally is the site of a racist massacre
20 June 2020In 1921 racists wanted to put black people down, and break workers' unity
This movement must try to fight all forms of racism
20 June 2020Although different groups are affected differently by racism this must not divide the struggle against it says Yuri Prasad
Three years after Grenfell and people's homes are still not safe
19 June 2020Three years on from the Grenfell Tower catastrophe, people are still living in hundreds of buildings that haven’t been stripped of dangerous cladding.
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- Cops reflect racism from the top of society
- US ‘Strike for black lives’ called as details emerge of George Floyd’s killing
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