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.
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.
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’