racism

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

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.

Dan Hodges, mob mentality and the white working class

Dan Hodges has written an article for the Telegraph, using the horrific murder of Bijan Ebrahimi as…

The limit point of capitalist equality: notes toward an abolitionist antiracism - Chris Chen

Chris Chen writes for Endnotes journal on race, capitalism and class.

Towards a revolutionary left: a critique and proposal

A critique by the Facing Reality Collective in Philadelphia of the 'revolutionary left' and the 'ultraleft'.

South Africa: The state's brutality

The article looks at recent notable acts of repression by the South African state directed at protestors and strikers. Linked to this it looks at…

[Video] Modibo Kadalie on the 1977 Atlanta sanitation workers' strike and direct action

"This damn Maynard Jackson..." Scholar/actvist Modibo Kadalie discusses his role in organizing…

[Video] Modibo Kadalie on the "bat patrols": Community self-defense and the 1981 Atlanta child murders

Scholar/actvist Modibo Kadalie discusses helping to organize community self-defense…

Mass grave after the Wounded Knee massacre

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American West - Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic…

Painting by January Suchodolski of Haitian Revolution

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution - C.L.R. James

This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794…

Image created to commemorate the 2010 Georgia prisoners' strike

Georgia inmates beaten with hammers during 2010 prisoners' strike - new video released

New video evidence has been publicly released showing Georgia prison guards beating inmates with a …

Post-race, post politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism

Post-race, post politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism - Alana Lentin

Declarations of the end of race ignore the continuing impact of racism upon socio…