The Stuttgart conference and the debate on immigration
Position agreed by the 1907 Second International:
Any exclusions or measures against migrant workers would be, “a policy that is in conflict with the principle of proletarian solidarity.”
anti-racism
Notting Hill Carnival: 60 Years of Resistance
The Notting Hill Carnival cannot be reduced to corporate slogans about diversity. Its joy has always been political. It says that people who were attacked, excluded, and policed will not disappear.
The ‘White Working Class’ Disadvantage is Real – the race story built on top is not
Reform’s material interest in a racial explanation for attainment gaps is its economic agenda, which is designed to benefit high earners – so it needs to supply an ‘enemy’ to working-class voters that is not Reform’s policies.
Labour’s interest points the same way. Adopting the language of white working-class grievance allows it to be seen to address the concern, while continuing to operate inside the same fiscal settlement that produced the gap.
Marxism, Black Liberation and the Global Class Struggle – Part 2: Settler colonialism
Colonial rule often destroyed pre-existing social and economic systems, replacing them with production oriented toward the European market.
The exploitation of enslaved Africans in the Americas and of colonised populations across Asia and Africa underpinned the industrial growth of Europe.
When police kill, the state rewrites the rules: the IOPC and Chris Kaba
The extraordinary treatment of the police firearms officer who shot and killed Chris Kaba: “throughout this case sends a dangerous message: when police kill, the system will bend over backwards to protect police officers rather than hold them accountable and deliver justice”.
The hounding of Jason Arday was racist
The right has spent years attacking diversity, anti-racism and the idea that structural racism shapes who gets ahead in Britain. Jason Arday became perfect material for that project.