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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

From eugenics to scientific racism

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

In 2013, during his time as Mayor of London, Boris Johnson gave a lecture to city bankers in which he said: Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests, it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality… Continue Reading →

Article biology, Racism, Science

Marx and race: a Eurocentric analysis?

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

There is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia.1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of… Continue Reading →

Article black nationalism, Karl Marx, Racism

How not to resist racism: a lesson from France

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Jim Wolfreys, Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France (Hurst, 2018), £14.99 This April, French president Emmanuel Macron urged Catholic bishops to “engage once again” with the “political scene” and “repair” the relationship between… Continue Reading →

Book reviews France, Islamophobia, Racism

A hard road to travel: black people and racism in the 19th century United States

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

The following lyrics were written by an anonymous black soldier in the 54th Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment, one of the first black combat regiments, at the height of the Civil War in the United States (1861-5). They undermine the pernicious myth… Continue Reading →

Article American Civil War, Racism

Antisemitism and the far-right today

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

Within weeks of Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, news and media channels were dominated by charges of antisemitism levelled against his supporters, the National Union of Students and others for their opposition to the State of Israel. The furore… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Fascism, Islamophobia, Racism, the far right

Why did Britain vote Leave?

Posted on 6th October 2016 by Camilla

The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians.1 With only minor exceptions they had united to support a… Continue Reading →

Article Brexit, Class, Racism

Racism and resistance in the US after Ferguson

Posted on 11th April 2015 by ISJ

In August 2014 unarmed 18 year old black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson. Brown was shot six times including twice to the head, despite having… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Racism, USA

The changing face of racism

Posted on 15th April 2010 by ISJ

Racism, according to the New Labour communities secretary John Denham, is on the decline. The government’s progress in promoting racial equality in the last decade is, he argues, substantially responsible for this state of affairs.1 Denham’s claim is astonishing in… Continue Reading →

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