Racism & anti-racism

Refugee prison hulk plumbs new depths of mistreatment

The government wants to ‘house’ asylum seekers on the 220-bed accommodation barge.

Millie Collins  ·  16 September 2023

Rap lyrics ‘evidence of bad character’ in racist prosecutions

Courts use participation in rap music used as evidence of ‘bad character’.

Rob Schofield  ·  15 September 2023

Oppressed French youth demand justice for Nahel!

27 June, Nanterre (a banlieue of Paris): two policemen stop a car, one shouting, ‘Open or I put a bullet in your head!’. Seconds later, a shot. 17-year-old Nahel M is dead.

Marc Lasalle  ·  05 July 2023

Why Shamima Begum must return

By Alex Rutherford SHAMIMA BEGUM has lost her latest appeal to regain British citizenship after this was stripped from her on supposed ‘national security grounds’ after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL in 2015, when she was just 15 years old. She is now being held at the al-Roj detention camp in north-east Syria. […]

Rob Schofield  ·  21 March 2023

‘You caan’ mek we shut up’ – Review of Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik

Jeremy Dewar reviews Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik

Jeremy Dewar  ·  18 December 2022

‘Touch one, touch all’: The murder of Chris Kaba

By Jeremy Dewar TWO TO three thousand people turned out in central London on Saturday 10 September to protest the killing of Chris Kaba by the police the previous Monday. The large response clearly surprised the police and organisers, just as it lifted the spirits of the grieving family. Another police murder Chris was the […]

KD Tait  ·  13 September 2022

Child Q scandal: cops out of schools now!

We need working class self-organisation to stop police harassment in schools and on the streets

Jeremy Dewar  ·  21 March 2022

Colston 4 acquitted – now kill the bill

The PCSC Bill must be defeated.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  09 February 2022

Racism in Yorkshire County Cricket Club

The recent revelations by Azeem Rafiq have illuminated the deep rooted racism faced by many cricket players.

Sarah Barden  ·  08 December 2021

Met boss keeps top job – for now

Despite a career of abuse, cover-up and racism, Cressida Dick will be reappointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Marcel Rajecky  ·  07 October 2021

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