race
Information about race, racism and anti-racism.
Blue Shield & the Union: A Post-Mortem
Debra Wittley analyses the strike action at Blue Shield insurance from 1980-81 for Processed World.
Blue Shield and the Union: Post-Mortem II
Being a temporary office worker occasionally gives me interesting opportunities to learn about the inner workings of the corporate world. I recently finished a temporary assignment at Blue Shield of California where I had the opportunity to learn some very interesting things indeed.
Antiracist demo attacked by fascists in Athens
A local antiracist demo in Ampelokipoi, Athens, came under attack by fascist thugs, leading to the hospitalisation of one woman. More than 40 fascists have been detained. The attack marks a climax of fascist violence which has also led to the torching of Chania's Synagogue.
On Saturday 23 January an anti-racist demo of the Cultural Centre of Ambelokipoi in Athens was fiercely attacked by a fascist group of so-called “autonomous nationalists”. The demo was organised as a response to continuing disturbance of the functioning of the 50 year old Centre by fascist thugs who tried to burn it down last week.
Race and the Enlightenment Part. II: The Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond
American left communist Loren Goldner's history of the origins of race and racism. Part Two of Two.
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"The animal is immediately one with its life activity, nor distinct from it. The animal is its life activity. Man makes his life activity itself into an object of will and consciousness. It is not a determination with which he immediately identifies.
Race and the Enlightenment Part I: From Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy, 1492-1676
American left communist Loren Goldner's history of the origins of race and racism. Part One of Two.
Part One: Pre-Enlightenment Phase: Spain, Jews and Indians1
- 1. This article will appear in two parts; Part One will treat the first appearance of racial ideas, in the Spanish "blood purity" laws and the expulsion of Jews and Moslems after 1492, and the transition period up to the 1650's in which Europeans debated whether the New World peoples were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel; Part Two
Paris riots: Information on immigrants and the suburbs, 2005
Ni patrie ni frontières give background information on migration and race in French society and in relation to the suburbs. Written in the aftermath of the Paris suburb riots of 2005.
Immigration
New Orleans: after the storms, 2005
Prol-Position on New Orleans and the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005.
Right after Katrina hit, it looked like issues of race, class, and poverty were again coming to the forefront in the United States.
Fewer black people want to join the US Army, 2005
Prol-Position in 2005 on the rapidly declining number of young black men enlisting to served in the United States Army.
“Be all you can be”
Anti-Semitism and the Makhnovists - Michael Malet
Malet finds that - despite false allegations - Makhno was not anti-Semitic and that incidents of anti-Semitism among the Makhnovists were less than in rival military forces, including the Bolshevik Red Army.
Croissants and Roses - New Labour, communalism, and the rise of muslim Britain
An account and analysis of the rise of communalism, multiculturalism and the creation of the British "Muslim Community" under New Labour.
In 1997 New Labour came to power with the promise of sweeping away the last vestiges of the old British establishment, with all the class ridden and racist attitudes it had entailed, and create a new diverse, meritocratic and multicultural Britain.
The perplexities of the Middle Eastern conflict
Essay looking at the concepts of nation and national identity, especially in relation to the Israel/Palestine conflict.
If…we cast a glance over the World’s-History generally, we see a vast picture of changes and transactions; of infinitely manifold forms of peoples, states, individuals, in unresting succession…
