racism

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

bell hooks

Homeplace (A Site of Resistance)

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

The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter

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

The Texas-Vermont-Maine nuclear dump: bringing environmental racism home

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.

Sylvia Wynter

“No Humans Involved”: An Open Letter to my Colleagues

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

A modern painting of the 1811 revolt

The German coast uprising of 1811

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

Claudia Jones

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!

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

Black Panthers at 50: Reflections on their legacy

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…

Black Panthers in London: who were they and why should they interest anarchists? - Carlus Hudson

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

Marx at the Margins

Marx at the Margins

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

South African coal miners, 1920s.

The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU, 1904–1934

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

AZAPO militants in the 80s

Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The dialectics of liberation in South Africa

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

State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race…