One of the most influential black Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century is now being rebranded for the neoliberal era. In a very daring article in Race & Class (October 2018) New York college teacher Jonathan Scott, author of Socialist Joy in the writing of Langston Hughes, takes issue with the way that C. L.
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Below we reproduce the speech given by human rights lawyer Frances Webber to the meeting ‘Confronting Racism in the UK: a return to collective principles’, organised by the Monitoring Group at Conway Hall on 6 September. I very much welcome the opportunity to speak here today, because there has been a long history of progressive
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A seminal radical black feminist text, first published in 1985, which tells the story of black women’s experiences in Britain, has now been republished by Verso, at a time when we need it more than ever. Born out of anti-colonial, feminist politics and black solidarity, young generations of activists have much to learn from The
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German anti-fascists are asking for support and international protest around events in Chemnitz. On 27/28 August, in scenes reminiscent of the 1991 pogroms in Rostock and Hoyerswerda, police in the east German state of Saxony all but lost control of the streets to the far Right in the former industrial city of Chemnitz, once a
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An appeal from German anti-fascists, received via Apaziz ‘We are more’ – and we need your help to prevent more racist mobilizations and violence and Chemnitz and elsewhere in Saxony. Chemnitz and Saxony is not only home to the largest militant and organised neo-Nazi and racist movement in Germany, it is also home to an
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration August: Frontex publishes its risk assessment of the west Balkans route taken by refugees, download Western Balkans annual risk assessment 2018 here. 15 August: London mayor Sadiq Khan and the victims’ commissioner call on the
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A night of panel discussions, short films, dramatic monologues, poetry, and probing questions exploring the racial state under the War on Terror. Speakers include: Nisha Kapoor Liz Fekete Ken Ferro Suhaiymah Manzooh-Khan Hamja Ahsan Saturday 8 September 2018 RichMix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Related Links Tickets for event Show map
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A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 18 July: Liverpool City Council passes a cross-party motion calling on the government to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, saying the system is ‘inhumane’ and ‘not fit for purpose’. (These Walls Must Fall,
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The government intends to make future ‘Windrush’ scandals impossible to uncover with the sweeping immigration exemption from new data protection obligations. Can campaigners and lawyers prevent the cover-ups? We are all data subjects now. The new data protection legislation which entered into force on 25 May gives us all rights – to see what data
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A French Muslim activist gives the Daily Mail a lesson on how to avoid racial and religious stereotyping. French activist Marwan Muhammad was so incensed by a Daily Mail article that linked ‘immigration on a mammoth scale’ to drug dealing, crime and poverty in the French neighbourhood of Saint-Denis, in northern Paris, that he sent a
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