Black Lives matter

Black Lives strike hits 160 cities across US

21 July 2020
Workers’ action on Monday showed the anger at racism and poor conditions, says Sophie Squire

Boris year zero—a year of lies, cuts, corruption, racism and ‘getting it done’

21 July 2020
There were those who thought a year of Boris Johnson as prime minister would spell disaster.

Carmarthen protest says Picton monument must fall

21 July 2020
Around 100 people gathered in Carmarthen in west Wales last Saturday to demand the toppling of the town’s Picton monument.

Movements will mean trouble for Trump

13 July 2020
Donald Trump’s reaction to the two major crises in US politics has been to play to the most racist, reactionary sections of society. But it doesn’t look like it’s working for him.

Ida B Wells, a writer who exposed the racist terror of lynching

12 July 2020
'Tell the world the facts,' said Wells as she unmasked US racism

Thousands join Black Lives Matter protests in Britain

11 July 2020
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

09 July 2020
A coalition of trade unions and campaign groups in the US is organising a “strike for black lives,” set for Monday 20 July.

Protests continue to say that Black Lives Matter and refugee lives matter

01 July 2020
Anti-racist protests took place in many parts of Britain on Wednesday

‘Dehumanised’ by racist system

29 June 2020
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 2020
The scale and radicalism of the month of Black Lives Matter protests continues to shake those in power.

‘The anti-racist momentum should not be lost, we cannot be silenced’—protests across Britain

24 June 2020
Anti-racists “took the knee” for Black Lives Matter in towns and cities on Wednesday.

Fight capitalism to smash racist system

23 June 2020
Right wingers are trying to create a backlash against the fantastic Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Reject local government pay offer and raise anti-racist solidarity

23 June 2020
Consultation with Unison union members on a 2.75 percent pay offer to local government workers in England and Wales is underway.

Anti-racist rage boils over in protests across the US

23 June 2020
Protests are continuing to rage across the US over the racist murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin a month ago.

Structural racism is behind high coronavirus death rate for black and asian people

22 June 2020
A new report has provided further proof of how racism is behind the disproportionate deaths of black and Asian people from coronavirus

Oxford activists want to make sure Rhodes falls

22 June 2020
Student activists have vowed to keep fighting until the front of Oriel College, Oxford, no longer features a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes