racism

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

Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition - Cedric J. Robinson

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to…

White supremacy and the looting of Detroit

Mike Kolhoff on right wing politics and its effects on the current situation in Detroit.

How anti-immigrant myths serve the bosses

As the anti-migrant propaganda of the UK press continues, London Antifascists examine how their scapegoating lets government and employers off…

Incidents in the life of a slave girl - Harriet Jacobs

A first person slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name …

Twelve years a slave - Solomon Northup

A harrowing first person account of a free African-American being kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana for 12 years. First published in 1853, in…

Voice from the Aliens cover image

A voice from the aliens: about the anti-alien resolution of the Cardiff Trade Union Congress

No One Is Illegal's 2006 reprint of the first known leaflet against immigration…

Asian children play in Bradford.

'You're different, you're one of us': the making of a British Asian

Interesting interview with a Sikh man who grew up in Manningham, Bradford, and was one of the…

AYM members from Bradford, Sheffield and Birmingham.

The politics of Britain's Asian Youth Movements - Anandi Ramamurthy

Excellent study into the politics of the Asian Youth Movements, groups of radical working class…

The factors of race and nation in Marxist theory - Amadeo Bordiga

A book-length essay illustrating the principles of historical materialism with respect to the role…

Pinkertons during the 1894 coal strike

Racial conflict and racial solidarity in the Alabama coal strike of 1894: new evidence for the Gutman-Hill debate - Alex Lichtenstein

Alex Lichtenstein looks at the issue of race in an Alabama coal strike.

Organized labor and the black worker in the 1970s - Philip S. Foner

An essay by Philip S. Foner about the relation between the AFL-CIO unions and Black Americans in the 1970s.

Documents of the Knights of Labor

Letters from the South Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, revealing that the color line still remained a serious problem, and that the Knights did not succeed in breaking down the wall separating white and black. They also throw light on some of the special problems facing the KoL when it moved into the South.