racism

Content about race, ethnicity, racism, and struggles against racism, and struggles of Black, Indigenous and other workers of colour.

The 1975 Spaghetti House siege: making the rhetoric real - Jenny Bourne

A history of the Spaghetti House siege of 1975, when three armed black liberation activists intent…

One of the victims of the massacre

The Hilo massacre, 1938

Detailed history of the Hilo massacre, Hawaii's Bloody Monday, when police opened fire at a crowd of unarmed striking longshoremen, injuring 50,…

Justice for Rash - police kill a twenty year old black man in Hackney

Police chased Rash into a shop, then held him on the floor for several minutes. He stopped breathing…

Dockum Drug Store sit-in

Wichita students sit-in for US civil rights, 1958

A short history of the first successful sit-in protest of the civil rights movement in the Dockum Drug Store in Kansas.

Protest by the New York police union

Blood on their hands: the racist history of modern police unions

Against the background of the black lives matter movement, Flint Taylor takes a look at the racist…

Urban poor in Ghana

The lie of black capitalism

Article by Hija de Oya explaining how the liberation of black people is inherently bound up in the struggle against capitalism.

They Can't Kill Us All

Review: They can't kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore, and the new era in America's racial justice movement

A review of Wesley Lowery's book covering the emergence of the Black Lives Matter…

Young Patriots Organisation

Young Patriots at the United Front Against Fascism Conference, 1969

A speech by William "Preacherman" Fesperman at the 1969 anti-fascism conference held by the Black…

Wallace Wilkerson and Woodfox, the three leading Black Panther Militants

The Rise and Fall of the Angola Prison Chapter of the Black Panther Party: Herman Wallace

A short history of the forming of the only Black Panther Party chapter in prison,…

Passing for politics - Asad Haider

Asad Haider of 'Viewpoint' magazine reflects on campus politics, race and identity.

Jackson State women's dormitory window

The Jackson State shootings, 1970

A short account of the shooting of several black students and bystanders by police on the night of May 14/15, 1970.

Roger Johnson and Pete Seeger singing "We shall overcome"

Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement

The rise of “black power” led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement…