Society & Culture > Racism
Racism as thoughtcrime
05 Apr 2012
In the light of the jailing of Liam Stacey for making racist comments on twitter about footballer and recent heart attack victim Fabrice Muamba , Paul Demarty takes a look at official ant-racism and the attitude of Marxists.
A shameful retreat
05 May 2016
It is time the Labour leadership realise that no amount of grovelling will spare them nightmares like the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear scandal, argues Paul Demarty
Elephant in the room
05 May 2016
While the Labour left is under attack, writes Eddie Ford, why is there no criticism of Zionism?
Zionism and anti-Semitism
05 May 2016
This interview with Israeli communist and Weekly Worker writer Moshé Machover was conducted by the Croatian online publication Slobodni Filozofski
Slurs, lies, innuendos
28 Apr 2016
Defend Malia Bouattia and Naz Shah, urges Tony Greenstein
Don’t appease: fight!
07 Apr 2016
The Labour Party’s Compliance Unit is employing TheDaily Telegraph to pursue its allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’, writes Tony Greenstein
Weapon of choice
24 Mar 2016
False accusations are being carefully aimed at Jeremy Corbyn and the left, argues Tony Greenstein
Solidarity, not sectionalism
06 Aug 2015
Paul Demarty looks at the chauvinist backlash against the Calais migrants
The Goldsmiths ideology
28 May 2015
The rightwing press campaign against Bahar Mustafa puts the parlous state of student politics under the spotlight, writes Paul Demarty
Contradictions laid bare
23 Apr 2015
There are two sides to South Africa’s ‘vibrant emerging market economy’. Peter Manson points to the underlying causes of the xenophobia
Victims of capitalism
23 Apr 2015
The needless death of hundreds of refugees puts the left to the test, says Tina Becker
Collaborators and the ANC
19 Mar 2015
Jacob Dlamini Askari Jacana Media (Johannesburg), pp305, R225 (£12.25)
Nationalism and role of Pegida
22 Jan 2015
Tina Becker examines the impact of Germany’s new rightwing force
Methods of social control
08 Jan 2015
In the age of ‘colour-blindness’, what accounts for the targeting of blacks by police? Jim Creegan critiques a recent influential book
The cauldron boils over
18 Dec 2014
Racial repression has provoked mass protest. Jim Creegan responds to the two high-profile killings by the US police
Clarkson: Beyond the pale
22 May 2014
Uproar over Jeremy Clarkson’s use of the ‘n-word’, writes Eddie Ford, demonstrates yet again how the bourgeoisie has appropriated anti-racism