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.
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
Corbyn: grow a backbone
03 May 2018
Sacrificing an outstanding anti-racist for having dared to criticise a pro-Israel MP will only increase the appetite of the right, warns Tony Greenstein
May’s crocodile tears
26 Apr 2018
The Windrush scandal has shone an unintended light on the position of present-day immigrants, writes Eddie Ford
Both sides of the fence
19 Apr 2018
Leftist intellectuals have taken fright when faced with the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign. Tony Greenstein responds to Richard Seymour
No more ‘Enoch was right’
19 Apr 2018
Attempts to ban BBC’s Rivers of blood programme were totally misplaced, writes Eddie Ford