racism

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

The Burnsall strike: a glimpse of the future

A short history of the year-long strike of mostly Asian women workers at Burnsall Ltd in Smethwick 1992-93.

Rioting at Roosevelt Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 1971 (Guy Bralley)

US Latino urban riots - Aaron Fountain

There have been at least 64 riots in Latino communities since 1964, but most have been forgotten. Aaron Fountain gives an overview of the…

Black bus workers fight "plantation" conditions - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

An article by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin about discrimination in the Chattanooga Area Regional…

Imperial Typewriters strikers, 1974

Before the 'unity' of Grunwick: 40 years since the Imperial Typewriters strike - Evan Smith

Article written 40 years on about the strike of predominantly East African Asian…

Police guard Imperial Typewriters from a strike March, August 1974

The Imperial Typewriters strike, 1974 - Ron Ramdin

An account of the three-month strike by hundreds of mostly East African Asian women workers at the Imperial Typewriters plant in Leicester,…

The One Big Union Monthly (February 1937)

The February 1937 issue of The One Big Union Monthly, with articles on mechanization, a Southern lynching and the Works Progress Administration…

On the Suicide of a Revolutionary (For Bob Starobin)

Letter eulogizing radical scholar Bob Starobin, by author and photographer Julius Lester, mailed to me (paper copy) by my comrade Ellen from her personal archives. 6-page pdf.

Black Revolutionaries in the US: Communist Interventions, vol. 2

Second volume of the Communist Interventions series, collecting debates between Black…

BLM demonstrators

The 4th Precinct: a black anarchist’s perspective on struggle in Minneapolis’ Northside streets - Ikemba Kuti

An overview by Ikemba Kuti of the movement that arose in Minneapolis after police…

Fascist takes beating in Dover, January 2016.

No apologies: anti-racism, multiculturalism and violence

As neo-nazis and anti-fascists prepare to head to Dover this weekend, Ed Goddard takes a look at the…

From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain - Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Excellent extended essay on black and Asian resistance in postwar Britain, giving a…

Baltimore and the Black Lives Matter movement

An interview with Baltimore activists looking into the social issues that fed into and inspired the Black Lives Matter movement in the city, how…