Category: Racism

Matt Benson analyzes historic and ongoing dispossession of the Mapuche people’s land, and their resistance against the Chilean state.

On Friday, June 6, 2025, federal agents descended on four businesses in Los Angeles and arrested dozens of workers on suspicion of violation of U.S. immigration laws. In response, hundreds of people gathered around federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles

Bill Kelly argues that exploitation and deportation of Latin American immigrants have long been a feature of U.S. capitalism.

That people cannot afford their lives is the designed outcome of an economic system that hoards resources for billionaires, exploiting workers to insulate the overwhelmingly white ruling class.

In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people specifically, has been limited. 

We have all been horrified to learn of Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults and rape of young girls and women.

brian bean recommends the book No Cop City, No Cop World, a collection of essays by activists in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.

Brian Jones reviews Brian Kwoba’s biography of Hubert Harrison, a radical and socialist Black intellectual in early twentieth-century Harlem.

Brian Ward recommends Brian Jones’ book Black History Is for Everyone, an essential resource on Black history as a vital part of collective human story for all.

The genocidal Israeli assault on Gaza since October 7, 2023, is the latest development in the ongoing process of dispossession and erasure aimed at Palestinians since the Nakba of 1947–48. People around the world have mobilized in solidarity with Palestine

An analysis of victim blaming, looking at, among others, Primo Levi, JD Vance, and Richard Wright

What role for African-Americans in the fight against Trump?

Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes argue that support for the far-right is gaining among people of color, reframing the politics originally rooted in white supremacy.

Looking back at the last sixty odd years, at different times and different places, I have to say I have been asked that question about once every year. Mostly by suspicious white folks.

Carl Davidson and Bill Fletcher Jr. call for the Third Reconstruction – a deep, systemic emancipatory transformation in the United States.

I was born in 1955 in the segregated state of Alabama where the oppressive conditions of segregation meant that my only escape was to “travel in thought” which could only be found in books.

I don’t think the election of Trump runs straight along the lines of White racism alone. It reflects racism, sexism and self-hate that includes Black, Brown and Women that voted for

The past week of antifascist mobilisation in Britain has seen off the immediate threat, but we need to construct a counter-hegemonic force that puts an end to the cycle of state racism and far-right violence.

George Edwin Taylor, the candidate.
This is the first of a series of articles about Black political candidates for the two highest offices of president and vice-president of the United States. The idea of writing this series originally begun when Cornel

The original impetus behind writing Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing was the Black Lives Matter movement that exploded across the world after the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.

John Clarke recommends Oliver Kearns’ book “The Covert Colour Line,” on racism as the foundation of US and British intelligence agencies.