racism

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

Muhammad Ali arrested for refusing the draft

A people's history of Muslims in the United States - Alison Kysia

Alison Kysia on what is left out of school textbooks and media reports on the history of Muslims in…

Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics? - Feminist Fightback

Feminist Fightback take a class-based look at intersectionality and identity politics.

Reflections on "Straight Outta Compton"

I just saw Straight Outta Compton near my home, in a tiny theater that dates back to the silent era (1913) and which has miraculously survived…

Sanders gets burned

It is right to protest Bernie Sanders, no matter how socialist he claims to be. The women who disrupted his speech did not create a racial divide…

Riots, race and capitalism

Appeals to “community” in the face of anti-police riots in Baltimore and elsewhere ignore the inherent class contradictions at the root of these…

race and iq

Race, education, intelligence: a teacher's guide to the issues

A late 1970s pamphlet from the National Union of Teachers on the bankruptcy of IQ studies and the…

An open letter to other white working people

A polemic against, and history of, white racism in the US written in the run up to the 2008 presidential election.

William 'Preacherman' Fesperman, Young Patriots leader.

Young Patriots and Panthers: A story of white anti-racism

A brief history of the collaboration between the Black Panthers and its white counterpart Young…

How Are Racist Organizations Responding to the Charleston Shooting and Confederate Flag Controversy?

As movements attempt to deal with the tragic church shooting, and the growing…

A creepy professor meme

Against students - Sara Ahmed

Student activism - especially feminist and anti-racist activism - is conflated with neoliberalism and managerialism in order to be dismissed out…

'Haitians' facing mass deportation from the Dominican Republic

Mass deportations in the Dominican Republic

Hundreds of thousands of black people are facing expulsion from the Dominican Republic, after new rules allowing the state to strip Dominican…

Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist

The autobiography of Harry Haywood, a long-time member of the Communist Party USA. We do not…