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Anti-racism

More than a moment: what did Black Lives Matter achieve?

Posted on 26th June 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement of 2020 was arguably the most inspiring movement against racism in recent decades.1 It represented the largest social movement in the history of the United States and forced discussions about racism onto the agenda… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, The United States, United States

Bookwatch: racism and resistance

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The eruption of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on the 25 May was a spectacular highlight to the eerie summer of 2020. In the United States alone, an… Continue Reading →

Article Anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, privilege, Racism

Life-long class fighter against racism

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

Avtar Singh Jouhl is the national president of the Indian Workers’ Association (IWA GB) and was a leading workplace militant and anti-racist activist in the Smethwick area and in the foundries of the West Midlands from the late 1950s through… Continue Reading →

Interview anti-fascism, Anti-racism, Trade unions

Tackling racism: the Communist Party’s mixed record

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Evan Smith, British Communism and the Politics of Race (Haymarket, 2018), £24.99 Evan Smith’s book deals with the Communist Party of Great Britain and anti-racism from 1945 to the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. Aiming for… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti-racism, Communist Party

The Anti Nazi League and its lessons for today

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

The Anti Nazi League and the mass movement it generated in the late 1970s is one of the great achievements of the revolutionary left in post-war Britain. The experience is particularly important today with the growth of the far right… Continue Reading →

Article Anti Nazi League, Anti-racism

Darkening prospects

Posted on 25th June 2018 by Camilla

Internationally the neoliberal order continues to implode. Donald Trump seems intent on pursuing trade wars with both the United States’ strategic rival China and allies such as the European Union and Canada, while he embraces détente with North Korea, once… Continue Reading →

Analysis Anti-racism, antisemitism, Labour Party

Remembering “Rivers of Blood”

Posted on 12th April 2018 by Camilla

On 20 April 1968 Enoch Powell gave a talk in a small upstairs room to 85 Tories in Birmingham’s Midland Hotel. The words of this Conservative shadow minister and MP for nearby Wolverhampton South West were not directed towards these… Continue Reading →

Article 1968, Anti-racism, Enoch Powell

The story of the story of Stagger Lee

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

This is the story of how a bar-room shooting involving one “Stag” Lee Shelton became one of the most prominent narratives of 20th century popular culture in America: William Lyons, 25, colored, a levee hand, living at 1410 Morgan Street,… Continue Reading →

Article Anti-racism, folk music, The United States

Frantz Fanon: Decolonisation through revolution

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

A review of Peter Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015), £12.99, Lewis R Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (Fordham University Press, 2015), £28.49 and Leo Zeilig, Frantz Fanon: The… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti-racism, decolonisation, Frantz Fanon

The EDL: recognising the nature of the beast

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Joel Busher, The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest: Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League (Routledge, 2015), £95 In The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest Joel Busher attempts to understand the growth of the fascist English Defence League (EDL)… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Anti-racism, EDL

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