racism

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

EDL seems to be fading fast

Reports of recent activities of the anti-Muslim English Defence League and Infidels groups, which have been a washout.

Malcolm X and anarchism - Wayne Price

An article by Wayne Price for Black History Month 2010 on the relevance of Malcolm X's life and philosophy to anarchism.

“The industrial union is the embryo of the socialist commonwealth”: The International Socialist League and revolutionary syndicalism in South Africa, 1915-1920

A paper by Lucien van der Walt that examines and dispels many of the myths surrounding the International Socialist League, the main revolutionary socialist organization active in South Africa in the latter half of the 1910s.

Bakunin’s heirs in South Africa: race and revolutionary syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League, 1910–21

Lucien van der Walt disputes the prevailing discourse of the Communist school,…

The Young Lords and early Chicago Puerto Rican gangs

An interview with Chicago Puerto Rican historian Mervin Mendez conducted by Erika Rodriguez for the Chicago Gang History Project. In it Mendez…

The Young Lords: A reader: “Health and hospitals”

A selection of writings on healthcare by the Young Lords. We do not agree with the politics but reproduce it for reference.

Occupy Atlanta: Privilege politics or popular self-management for the post-civil rights city

Theo Tegemea and Z.A. Mrefu on Occupy Atlanta, race, reformism and white privilege.

Occupy the class war

A member of Wild Rose Collective writes about how Occupy's '99% vs 1%' rhetoric is problematic and who in reality in includes and excludes.

Against the racist delirium - Camillo Berneri

Camillo Berneri's 1934 article, The Racist Delirium, in which he dissects the racist Nazi doctrines that were then coming to ascendancy in Europe…

The Cape Town docks in 1919, site of the joint strike between the syndicalist In

Anarchism and syndicalism in an African port city: the revolutionary traditions of Cape Town's multiracial working class, 1904-1931 - Lucien van der Walt

A paper by Lucien van der Walt examining the development of anarchism and…

The Brotherhood of Timber Workers 1910-1913: A radical response to industrial capitalism in the southern USA

A journal article by James R. Green on the the violent struggle between the…

A radical history of 121 Railton Road, Lambeth

The story of the first successful squatters of private property in Lambeth. In 1972, Olive Morris and Liz Turnbull, both members of the Brixton…