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.
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.
Reject the IHRA
08 Aug 2019
The decision of Tower Hamlets council to refuse to host the Big Ride for Palestine is both cowardly and shameful, writes Tony Greenstein
Marx and Jewish emancipation
14 Mar 2019
By citing a few thoroughly decontextualised phrases, the establishment finds Marx - and therefore contemporary Marxism - guilty of anti-Semitism. Jack Conrad puts the record straight
Explorations of inequality
21 Feb 2019
Andrea Levy: March 7 1956 - February 14 2019
Our rights threatened too
17 Jan 2019
Although Britain’s far-right yellow vests are an obnoxious assortment of racists, xenophobes and odd-balls, we must defend their right to protest, says Eddie Ford
Review: 22 July, directed by Paul Greengrass
18 Oct 2018
Out on general release and Netflix
Where next for the SACP?
20 Sep 2018
As the ANC continues to lose support, Peter Manson looks at the dilemmas of the ‘official communists’
Movement we need to build
06 Sep 2018
Review of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, on general release
Dead end of intersectionality
02 Aug 2018
Only the working class can unify the oppressed, argues Mike Macnair. This is an edited version of his talk at the July 29 London Communist Forum
Getting beyond capitalism
05 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair completes his critique of intersectionality and identity politics
Mistaken versions of Maoism
28 Jun 2018
Two books on intersectionality reviewed: 'How we get free: black feminism and the Combahee River Collective' by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Haymarket, 2017, pp191, £9.70) and Asad Haider's 'Mistaken identity: race and class in the age of Trump' (Verso, 2018, pp132, £9.90)
Race and class
21 Jun 2018
Mike Macnair examines the critiques of intersectionality developed by Adolph Reed Jr and Walter Benn Michaels
The rise of a Mini-Me Hitler
03 May 2018
Thomas Klikauer looks at the fruitcakes, loonies and out-and-out racists who inhabit the völkische wing of the AfD