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.
Pseudo-secularism on the beach
01 Sep 2016
The petty cruelty of the French burqini bans stems from an elite looking for scapegoats, writes Paul Demarty
Voting for the right lizard
04 Aug 2016
Who’s afraid of president Trump? Not Paul Demarty
Life of a heroic traitor
04 Aug 2016
Jim Creegan looks back at the extraordinary story of Roger Casement on the 100th anniversary of his execution
From Powell to Brexit
28 Jul 2016
Alex Carnovic interviews Evan Smith about his forthcoming book 'British communism and the politics of race'
An old rhythm
14 Jul 2016
With the huge rise in xenophobic attacks and the role of motherhood in the Conservative leadership race, Commissaress argues that the past has come back with a vengeance
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