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.
Stoked by government ministers
16 Feb 2023
Kevin Bean reports on the Knowsley riot, its causes and the inadequacies of the economistic left’s responses
Truth must be silenced
09 Feb 2023
BBC2’s documentary about the 2002 Gujarat pogrom has caused a storm. Modi’s government and its friends abroad have made accusations of insensitivity, racism and colonial attitudes, reports Bill Goodridge
Diminished responsibility
08 Dec 2022
The high-profile cases of Lady Susan Hussey and Kanye ‘Ye’ West highlight the limits of official anti-racism, argues Paul Demarty
Turbocharging Zionist colonialism
10 Nov 2022
Negotiations to form a far-right coalition are still ongoing, but there can be no hiding Netanyahu’s victory. Moshé Machover locates the drift to the right in the Zionist project itself
Far right triumphs
10 Nov 2022
Tony Greenstein refuses to shed a tear for the virtual disappearance of the hypocritical Zionist ‘left’. They provided cover for Israel’s racism and kept alive the bogus two-state solution
A disaster predicted
16 Jun 2022
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Dictating to the estate' written by Nathaniel McBride, directed by Lisa Goldman and Natasha Langridge, performed at the Maxilla Social Club
Out of sight, out of mind?
21 Apr 2022
Rwanda deal is a cynical election ploy, writes Eddie Ford
Get out of Zionist ghetto
24 Feb 2022
Communists say national liberation is a task of the working class. Tony Greenstein takes issue with the left Zionism of Daniel Lazare
Abstraction and obfuscation
10 Feb 2022
Paul Demarty reviews 'Anti-Postone', an essay written by Michael Sommer and translated by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press, 2021, pp124, £11.99)
Behind Israeli apartheid
10 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it
Rightwing ‘Marxism’- a senile disorder
03 Feb 2022
Michael Sommer’s 2014 essay 'Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective' has recently been translated into English by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press 2021, Available on Amazon or in the Cosmonaut webstore). A more than useful contribution to the fightback against the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie, which finds its most ‘sophisticated’ justification in the pseudo-Marxist writings of Moishe Postone. Here is the introduction provided by Mike Macnair
Calluses on our souls
13 Jan 2022
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Nigger - an autobiography' by Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte (Plume 2019, pp235, £19.79)
Three cheers for juries
13 Jan 2022
With attorney general Suella Braverman threatening to use extraordinary measures and a deafening silence coming from Labour’s front bench, Paul Demarty unhesitatingly welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four
How not to lead a liberation
25 Nov 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Fordsburg fighter: the journey of an MK volunteer' by Amin Cajee, as told to Terry Bell (Cover2Cover Books, 2016, pp194, £22.09)
No saving graces
11 Nov 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis: what the left got wrong and how to learn from it' by David Renton (Routledge, 2021, pp230, £19.99)