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.

Open the borders

22 Jun 2000

The tragic deaths of 58 Chinese illegal migrants underlines the urgent need for the left to make free movement and the ending of all border controls a basic demands, says Alan Fox

Their anti-racism and ours

15 Jun 2000

Banal identity reasoning

16 Dec 1999

Phil Watson reviews 'John Coltrane and the jazz revolution of the 1960s' by Frank Kofsky

Act to save Mumia

21 Oct 1999

Death warrant signed

Hero and criminal

14 Oct 1999

Ian Mahoney reviews ‘Redemption song: Muhammad Ali and the spirit of the sixties’ by Mike Marqusee (London 1999, pp310, hbk, £17)

New cricket test

27 May 1999

Shadowing Blair

20 May 1999

SWP and bourgeois anti-racism

Guns, bombs and workers’ control

06 May 1999

After Brixton and Brick Lane

29 Apr 1999

Our anti-racism and theirs

Sad but true

08 Apr 1999

Around the left

Tailing Macpherson

04 Mar 1999

Around the left

Smash all immigration controls

25 Feb 1999

National chauvinism, not racism, is today the bourgeoisie’s main ideological weapon. And, for all their official anti-racism, the police remain an organ of the chauvinist state

Blaming the oppressed

05 Nov 1998

South Africa ‘reconciles’ apartheid with its victims

Left’s aim misdirected

08 Oct 1998

Lawrence enquiry

Police shift on Lawrence

25 Jun 1998

‘Race relations’ row