racism

In 1948 dock workers in Zanzibar struck for higher pay, the use of force by the British Colonial authorities lead to other workers coming out in sympathy making the strike a general one.

This essay, by bell hooks, was first published in 1990 in Yearning: Race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston, MA: South End Press. Chicago

Sylvia Wynter interviewed by David Scott. First published in Small Axe in 2000.

Article from 1998 on the dumping of nuclear waste from Vermont and Maine in Texas. The article details the involvement of Bernie Sanders in sponsoring the bill that led to the dump being authorized.

A letter by Sylvia Wynter written in response to the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

A short history of possibly the largest slave uprising in the United States, in Louisiana in 1811, written by Rhae Lynn Barnes.

An essay by Claudia Jones first published in 1949. It is sometimes taken to anticipate…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, founded in Oakland, California. I went to the Oakland Museum of…

The text of a talk given at the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh on 17/12/2016. The…

Kevin Anderson, writing from a Marxist Humanist perspective, reexamines Marx's thinking about the world beyond Europe.

Lucien van der Walt on transnational labour activism in Southern Africa in the…

Article on the Black Consciousness movement by Nigel Gibson from 1988.