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.
Proper sites, not eviction
22 Sep 2011
Travellers must be free to follow the lifestyle of their choice, writes Peter Manson
Government demonises Muslims as extremists
17 Jun 2011
'Extremist' is being redefined to mean any Muslim who opposes British foreign policy. Eddie Ford looks at the revamped 'Prevent' strategy and the left's knee-jerk response
Left gets it wrong
21 Apr 2011
Cameron should not be condemned for playing into the hands of the BNP, argues Peter Manson. He should be condemned for pushing a vicious anti-working class line right now
'Anti-Zionist' holocaust denier
10 Mar 2011
Israeli jazz musician Gilad Atzmon represents a small but important current within the broader Palestine solidarity movement, writes Tony Greenstein. He sees the oppression of the Palestinians as being due to something inherent in Jewishness
National chauvinism and xeno-racism
02 Sep 2010
David Bates examines evolution of ruling class ideology
Gerbils on a wheel
08 Jul 2010
Mike Macnair argues that the single tactic of 'No platform for fascists' merely recapitulates the errors of Dimitrov's popular front. This is an edited version of the speech he gave to the July 4 London Communist Forum fringe meeting during this year's Marxism
Integration and working class culture
13 May 2010
David Bates reviews Dave Renton's 'Colour blind? Race and migration in north-east England since 1945' University of Sunderland Press, 2008, pp286, £10.95
They all scapegoat migrants
06 May 2010
The reaction to Gordon Brown's attack on the 'bigoted' Gillian Duffy demonstrates the depth and breadth of the national chauvinist consensus, argues Eddie Ford
Griffin's eclectic manifesto
29 Apr 2010
BNP policies owe as much to the mainstream as they do to its leaders' fascist past, writes Eddie Ford
The obligation and means to resist tyranny
15 Apr 2010
Eddie Ford disagrees with the preaching of pacifism and legalism dressed up in anti-fascist clothing
Police ran riot in Bolton
25 Mar 2010
The mobilisation against the English Defence League was attacked and kettled by a well planned police operation. Sinead Rylance and Chris Strafford report
Football fan nationalism and ‘anti-fascist’ theatre
05 Nov 2009
Melvin Dawson witnesses collaboration between the UAF and the police
Racism or nationalism
07 May 2009
Much of the left continues to experience a great deal of difficulty in coming to terms with the British state's now highly developed official anti-racism, writes Peter Manson. The fact is that the state has colonised the left's anti-racism and turned it into its dialectical opposite - anti-racist national chauvinism
'Official anti-racism' cracks again
18 Sep 2008
The accusations of Tarique Ghaffur against the Metropolitan Police have given the lie to the state's 'liberal' PR, argues James Turley
Cut across ethnic divide
17 Jan 2008
It is class interests arising from the legacy of British rule that underlie Kenyan rivalries. Nick Rogers looks at the background to the current chaos