racism

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

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…

FOWAAD!, newsletter of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent.

Black women organising - Brixton Black Women's Group

A critical look at the growth, contradictions and eventual demise of Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent in the late-1970s/early…

Black anger shakes the rotten pillars of bourgeois and democratic "civilization" - Bruno Maffi (1965)

Originally published anonymously (the norm within the Bordigist tradition) in 'Il…

Robin D. G. Kelley

Identity Politics and Class Struggle

Article from 1997 by Robin D. G. Kelley on discussions around identity politics and class struggle. While written twenty years ago it remains…

Street Speech - Walter Rodney

A street speech in Guyana by Walter Rodney arguing against racial antagonism and explaining its role in the functioning of capitalism. Note: It…

African Anglo-Boer War prisoners of war in St Helena

Black concentration camps during the second Anglo-Boer war

The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and…

Role of Black people in the South African War

A short article from South African History Online about the role of black soldiers and workers in the second Boer war.

Donald Trump, White Nationalism and America's Colonial Legacy

Rosa Soros discusses the colonial legacy of America, how it is still felt deeply today, and why we…

Toussaint Louverture

Black Sansculottes and Ambitious Marionettes: Cedric J. Robinson, CLR James and the Critique of Political Leadership - Alberto Toscano

Leadership can serve as a privileged prism to revisit, in this theoretical homage…

Spanish Moroccan troops in 1936

Why Moors help Franco

A short article by George Padmore discussing the use of Moroccan troops by Francoist forces in the Spanish Civil War, after the Popular Front…