racism

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

Smithfield meat packers strike for Powell - London, 1968.

Enoch Powell: the New Right (1970) - Tom Nairn

An assessment of Powell's patriotism and racism and its influence within the politics of his time.

Reparations As A Verb

The Black Autonomy Network on reparations and recuperation.

The 'Polynesian Panthers' and 'The Black Power' Gang: Surviving racism and colonialism in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Nich Shilliam's academic analysis of white supremacy, black power and the…

1958 Notting Hill race riots.

1958 Notting Hill race riots

Ron Ramdin's history on the 1958 Notting Hill 'race riots', which saw mass racial violence last for several days over a wide area of West London…

Local newspaper covering the 1958 Nottingham race riots.

1958 Nottingham race riots

Ron Ramdin's short history on the 1958 Nottingham race riots, in which over a thousand white people took part in mass racist violence against…

Bradford 12: Self-Defence is No Offence.

Bradford 12: Self-Defence is No Offence

Anandi Ramamurthy's history of the Bradford 12 trial, in which twelve members of the United Black Youth League were arrested on conspiracy…

United Black Youth League, Bradford.

Emerging conflicts in the Asian Youth Movements

Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the emerging divisions within the Asian Youth Movements around the issue of state funding. One faction opted to accept…

White and black dockworkers rest on cotton bales. The general strike was success

1892 New Orleans General Strike

An extract from Life in the Teamsters: The Civil Rights Movement documenting an early example of class solidarity in the segregationist southern…

Demonstration of the Anwar Ditta Defence Campaign.

Women and the Asian Youth Movements

Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the involvement of women within the Asian Youth Movements and how the groups engaged (or didn't) with issues of gender…

Asian Youth Movement poster in solidarity with the 1984-85 miners' strike.

Trade Unionism and the Asian Youth Movements

A look at the engagement of Asian Youth Movement activists with workers' struggles and the British trade union movement.

Strikers in Saris - The Grunwick Strike

In 1976 South Asian women workers who had made Britain their home, led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory. Lakshmi…

Black liberation organisations in Britain: the 1970s and 1980s

Overview of the array of black liberation organisations active in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s…