Anti-racism
Morrissey: sound and fury over immigration
04 December 2007"Oh dear. Not again." So read the headline on the front page of last week’s music paper the NME. The words appeared below a quote from Morrissey, in which the former lead singer of The Smiths was alleged to have said: "The gates of England are flooded. The country’s been thrown away."
Frederick Douglass and Riversmeet: connecting 19th century struggles
27 November 2007In 1845 Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland and began a speaking tour that would take him across Scotland and England.
Tell it like it is: interview with editor Brian Richardson
20 November 2007It is two years since the book was first launched. It sold out very fast and a second edition has just been published. Some large meetings and campaigns have been organised around the book. Why do you think it touched a nerve?
Mine Eyes Have Seen - chronicling black people’s resistance to US racism
20 November 2007Journalists, we are told, must be impartial. Photojournalists are no exception. Both are trained not to get emotionally involved in the stories they cover in case they allow their feelings to affect their work.
Stop and search is not a solution to crime
23 October 2007Keith Jarrett, the outgoing president of the National Black Police Association, sparked outrage last weekend by suggesting that police should stop and search more young people.
James Watson’s 'scientific' racism is inferior science
23 October 2007So the hideous but seemingly immortal serpent that is scientific racism has emerged once again. This time the perpetrator is James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of DNA.
Gun and knife crime campaign targets the poverty behind youth crime
16 October 2007Over 120 people took to the streets of north London last Sunday against the gun and knife crime that has blighted so many young lives over the last few months.
Arun Kundnani: How liberals lost their anti-racism
02 October 2007A new sentiment has gripped mainstream liberal thinking in Britain over the last few years – one which regards Muslims as uniquely problematic and in need of forceful integration into "superior" Western values.
Racism and class solidarity in history of the US South
18 September 2007On the 50th anniversary of the campaign against school segregation in Little Rock, Ken Olende looks at how racism and class solidarity have always pulled the South in different directions
Little Rock and the fight to end school segregation
18 September 2007The campaign against school segregation in Little Rock in the US in September 1957 challenged a racist society. Ken Olende looks at the events
The real role models are not in the boardroom
04 September 2007There has been much talk recently about the need for black role models as the answer to the problem of gun and knife crime that has blighted so many lives this year.
Jesse Jackson visit
28 August 2007Hundreds of people attended US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson’s final meeting of the day in Nottingham on Friday of last week.
600 Coventry cab drivers strike against racist attack
21 August 2007A Coventry taxi driver was racially abused and battered with a metal bar last Saturday. Some 600 Coventry taxi drivers went on strike in response last weekend.
Burnley demonstration demands justice for Nadeem Khan
10 July 2007Hundreds of protesters marched in Burnley last Saturday seeking answers to questions about the death of Nadeem Khan in police custody.
Voices from Rock Against Racism
10 July 2007Don Letts, DJ Pioneering musician, filmmaker and DJ Don Letts made his name playing reggae to the emerging punk scene in London the mid-1970s.
Rock Against Racism: beating time, beating the Nazis
10 July 2007The 1970s moved from intense struggle between workers and bosses to bitter disillusionment with Labour, mass unemployment and defensive fights to protect services.
Black people and criminal justice: ‘Target the system, not black culture’
20 June 2007Last week saw the publication of a House of Commons home affairs committee report into young black people and the criminal justice system.
Stop and search - racist, then and now
05 June 2007‘We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first. I happen to believe this is misguided and wrong. I believe this is a dangerous misjudgement." So said Tony Blair in a parting shot at civil liberties before stepping down.
'Nationality: Wog' - the police hounding of David Oluwale
29 May 2007Kester Aspden's new book Nationality: Wog – The Hounding Of David Oluwale is an extraordinary piece of social history that investigates the persecution and lonely death of David Oluwale in 1960s Leeds.
Barking needs homes, not racist myths
22 May 2007Councillors, trade unionists and anti-fascists in the east London borough of Barking & Dagenham have refuted claims by Margaret Hodge, the New Labour minister and MP for Barking, that the borough’s housing crisis is caused by immigrants.
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