racism

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

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…

Hammer and hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression - Robin D. G. Kelley

A book by Robin D. G. Kelley about the Communist Party USA's efforts organizing in Alabama during…

Marx, Race and Neoliberalism - Adolph Reed Jr.

The making of a politicized prisoner

The third installment in Recomposition's 'How I was radicalized' series comes from Okwute Ekwensu. His powerful account describes the experience…

Bahar Mustafa - Golsmiths Student's Union Welfare & Diversity Officer

Persecution and threats against student activist escalate

A London student union officer has received death threats in a month-long campaign of harassment,…

South Africa: class struggle, 'xenophobia' and the local elite

This article offers a brief case study of how grassroots self organisation enables communities to…

Speaking of anarchism, racism and black liberation - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Originally titled “Anarchism and Racism,” this editorial was written in the early 1990s around the…

Border controls continue to kill

Some thoughts on the recent tragedy off the coast of Libya and how it ties into political rhetoric on immigration and the received wisdom of…

Stamford Hill, East London.

If you wouldn’t do it to Jews, don’t do it to Muslims - Levi Tazir

Spare a thought for the racists. They’re having a really hard time lately. They keep trying to…

Slave patrol badge, 1858.

Stop kidding yourself: the police were created to control working class and poor people - Sam Mitrani

A short historical account of the US police force explaining their origins in slave…

"The American blindspot": Reconstruction according to Eric Foner and W.E.B. Du Bois - Noel Ignatiev

Noel Ignatiev's review of two books about Reconstruction, which was the period in…

Police arrest a demonstrator, Welling 1993

Ready, Welling and able: reflections on the events at Welling, 16.10.93 - Colin B West

An account of, and thoughts on, the demonstration against the far right British National Party…