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 marred report
07 Jul 2016
Chakrabarti relies on the subjective, writes Tony Greenstein. She also fails to understand how ‘anti-Semitism’ was weaponised by the Labour right
Why Ken Livingstone was right
23 Jun 2016
Who exactly is making ‘factual misrepresentations’? Tony Greenstein replies to Paul Bogdanor
Orlando, Brexit and the media
23 Jun 2016
What happens when anti-foreigner rhetoric merges with Islamophobia? Yassamine Mather describes what it feels like to be on the receiving end
Abuse of a corpse
23 Jun 2016
We should not be blind to the corruption at the heart of bourgeois politics, argues Paul Demarty
Politics of derangement
23 Jun 2016
Obviously the killing of Jo Cox was an act of political terrorism? Eddie Ford looks at the politics
Blundering ineptitude
16 Jun 2016
There are furious objections to the Morning Star giving Ken Livingstone a regular column. Peter Manson reports
My encounter with the thought police
09 Jun 2016
Tony Greenstein is still in one piece following his grilling by a Labour Party witch-hunt apparatchik
A threat laid low
09 Jun 2016
Once considered a dangerous radical and traitor, Muhammad Ali died an establishment hero. Paul Demarty wonders what this says about our era
Relationship of mutual dependency
02 Jun 2016
Zionism uses the term ‘anti-Semitism’ against anyone who opposes its crimes against the Palestinian people, writes Eli Aminov
Right’s heresy hunt
26 May 2016
If I am anti-Semitic, so is the Israeli press, writes Tony Greenstein
Life in the bubble
26 May 2016
Paul Demarty argues that the growing culture of brittle denunciations only hurts the left
Don’t apologise - attack
19 May 2016
The right will not let up if we retreat before their smears, argues Moshé Machover. This is an edited version of his speech to the May 15 London Communist Forum
Party of lost causes
12 May 2016
Eddie Ford looks at the prospects for Ukip
Recipe for disaster
12 May 2016
Labour’s election results have given Corbyn only a temporary reprieve, predicts Tony Greenstein
Reinstate Ken Livingstone
05 May 2016
Corbyn must fight back against Britain’s Cointelpro, urges Tony Greenstein