racism

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

Micky Fenn, docker, socialist and anti-fascist.

Dockers Against Racism: an interview with Micky Fenn

Interview with Micky Fenn, a socialist and trade unionist on the London Docks, discussing how he and other dock workers confronted racism among…

Indian Workers' Association, Southall.

Asian workers' associations in Britain, 1956-1980s

Ron Ramdin on the history and development of autonomous Asian working-class organisation in postwar Britain, their activities and their…

Chartists.

Chartism and the multi-ethnic proletariat

A short history on the influence of William Cuffay, a black tailor, and Irish Catholic workers in the Chartist movement and how the British…

Black British sailors, 1919.

Racists, Reds and the Revolt on the Clyde, 1919

The story of a race riot that broke out in Glasgow, during the height of Red Clydeside militancy, when around 30 black sailors were chased out of…

Article on Courtauld's Red Scar Mill strike in the Lancashire Evening Post.

The Courtaulds Red Scar Mill strike, 1965

A short history of the unofficial strike at Courtauld's Red Scar Mill in Preston, 1965, the first of what would become a long list of significant…

From the sloppy humanist “Black-White- Beur1” slogan of the 1980s to the so-called “social race”: confusion grows among Gallic l

Class relations in the US - A background text

We wrote this text last year, as a reading suggestion for our debate on current class struggle in the US. We thought it might still be of…

The strange career of jim crow - C. Vann Woodward

The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history.

At canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68

At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race,…

Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.

Parting the waters: Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch

First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of…

Workers of all Identities, Unite!

For the past few years, but particularly in the aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential election, the theme of identity politics has dominated…