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.
How to be gaslit
08 Apr 2021
Anger is an insufficient response to the Sewell report, argues Paul Demarty. The left needs its own critique of liberal anti-racism
Anti-racism as a straitjacket
01 Apr 2021
Boris Johnson's government boasts of its anti-racism, the UN boasts of its anti-racism, the SWP boasts of its anti-racism. Paul Demarty detects more than a whiff of popular frontism
Blasphemy laws old and new
01 Apr 2021
Freedom of speech includes the right to criticise, explain and even mock, insists Eddie Ford
Uyghurs: why now?
18 Mar 2021
Are the Chinese guilty of ‘genocide’? Daniel Lazare looks behind the wall-to-wall propaganda
Hispaniola shibboleth
21 Jan 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'The farming of bones' by Edwidge Danticat
An establishment bigot
03 Dec 2020
Tony Greenstein does not mourn the death of rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks (March 8 1948 - November 7 2020)
Prom and prejudice
04 Sep 2020
As the BBC finally agrees to allow a select group of vocalists to sing ‘Rule, Britannia!’ and ‘Land of hope and glory’, Harley Filben takes stock of musical nationalism
Racism and jealous gods
13 Aug 2020
Overweening taboos on certain slurs do nothing to aid our understanding of racism, argues Paul Demarty
Not just one idiot historian
09 Jul 2020
Slavery involved the loss of life on a staggering scale, and it was bound up with the capitalist mode of production, writes Eddie Ford
Power of child-like logic
09 Jul 2020
Without a centralised leadership BLM risks playing into Trump’s hands, argues Daniel Lazare
Statue wars
19 Jun 2020
Eddie Ford says it is healthy to question the iconography that is all around us
Calling a different tone
19 Jun 2020
Will Stratford of the US Platypus Affiliated Society explains why he thinks it is essential for the left to question the establishment’s hegemonic anti-racism
Racism and Covid-19
19 Jun 2020
Capitalism itself is the cause of structural social inequality, writes James Linney
Race über alles?
11 Jun 2020
Daniel Lazare looks beneath the skin of Black Lives Matter and reveals the links with big business
Salvini, Israel and anti-Semitism
09 Feb 2020
In Italy IHRA-style propaganda is linked to anti-migrant racism, writes Toby Abse.