racism

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

Short hot summer 1981

A series of articles by History is Made at Night on the 1981 July uprisings/ riots, which occurred in Brixton, Southall, Toxteth, Moss Side, Wood…

Sketch of T.W. Thibedi.

Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on the radical left…

St Pauls uprising, Bristol 1980

An article on the 1980 uprising in St. Pauls, Bristol and the music scene which flourished there after with excerpts from contemporary literature…

Italy is a racist country

This was written the day after the racist shootings in Florence, where a right-wing extremist shot dead two Senegalese men, Samb Modou and Diop…

Beyond nationalism, but not without it

Former Black Panther and anarchist Ashanti Alston's brief article outlining why he objects to anti-nationalism and how he sees nationalism and…

Reasonable accommodation

Our friend and comrade Invisible Man has contributed stories before about life on the job. In this piece he provides an analysis of race and…

Life during war time

Slightly fictionalized autobiographical short story, with the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the early 1990s as background.

Support is urged for CeCe McDonald, victim of a hate crime who defended herself

An important case demands our support. Crishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a young Black transgender woman…

Fascists out of our cities! More on Casapound and recent racist murders in Florence, Italy

After the shootings of 3 days ago in Florence at the hand of a right-wing extremist…

These numbers are not from heaven

When the People occupy the square, walk in the park. When the People occupy the park, walk in the square. An event is not an Event if one can…

The shoe nazi

This is a story about race, class, and poverty, from a friend who writes a blog anonymously as Invisible Man.

Caring: a labor of stolen time

Our friend Jennifer Ng wrote this about her job and her organizing at a nursing home. It deals with a lot of issues about the commodification of…