racism

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

The decline of African-Americans in unions and manufacturing, 1979-2006

Article about the diminishing numbers of African-American workers in trade unions, which is dropping…

The Soweto riots, 1976

Reflections on the black consciousness movement and the South African revolution - Selby Semela, Sam Thompson and Norman Abraham

A situationist-influenced text decribing how a protest by Soweto school students in…

Interview with southern African anarchists, 2004

A detailed and interesting interview between Black Flag magazine and members of the South African Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation…

The ANC and the legacy of the liberation struggle

Anarcho-syndicalism, racism and struggle

Interesting account of an anarcho-syndicalist and member of the Direct Action Movement about being an ethnic "minority" in Britain and how to oppose racism, from around 1983.

Bill Gates in Mozambique

Multiculturalism or the cultural logic of multinational capitalism? - Slavoj Žižek

The loopy leninist (lite) takes aim at the homogenous heterogenity of modern capitalism.

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron

Black autonomy: civil rights, the Panthers and today - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin and JoNina Abron

Interview with two anarchist ex-Black Panthers about their involvement in the civil…

Day the East End said 'No pasaran' to Blackshirts

Next Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the day that the workers of the East End of London united in defiance of Sir Oswald Mosley's British…

Intakes: 'Rostock or: How the new Germany is being governed'

In this abridged translation of an article originally published in Wildcat (Germany), it is shown how the state is using the issue of racism to develop its 'social strategy of tension'.

1992: The LA riots

A brief account of the six days of rioting which set Los Angeles aflame following the acquittal of four police officers who were filmed beating…

We want to riot, not to work: The 1981 Brixton uprisings

Pamphlet reflecting on the 1981 anti-police riots in Brixton by the Riot Not To Work Collective…

1976: The Notting Hill Carnival riots

An account of the riots at the popular West London carnival which were sparked by the arbitrary harassment and arrests of young black attendees…