Racism
31 August 2020 · Britain, Racism, Uncategorized · 7 comments
United Against Tory Brexit
It doesn’t matter how socialists voted in the 2019 referendum, argues Phil Hearse. What matters now is unity against the nationalist-racist Brexit of the Tories. So as far as the Left is con…
17 June 2020 · Africa, Belgium, Racism
Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo: a duty to remember
This text by Eric Toussaint is an introduction to the book Promenade au Congo - petit guide anti-colonial de Belgique, published in 2010. Eric Toussaint is a member of the Committee for the …
3 June 2020 · Racism, USA
We Can’t Breathe: Rebellion against Racist Police Violence
Solidarity National Commitee The uprisings and demonstrations in Minneapolis and other cities including in front of the White House that followed the brutal May 25th killing of George Floyd,…
24 April 2020 · · Britain, Migration, Racism
A Short History of Resistance to Immigration Detention and Deportations
In 2019, ‘enforced returns’ from the UK fell to 7,361, 22% lower than the previous year and the lowest number since records began in 2004, writes Bill MacKeith, Oxford Against Immigration De…
12 February 2020 · Britain, Labour Party, Racism, Tories · 3 comments
Analysing a disastrous result
What happened? Like many others on the left, we got the election result seriously wrong. Most thought a hung Parliament or even a Labour minority government was a real possibility. It was no…
30 December 2019 · · EU, Labour Party, Racism · 1 comment
Actually, it is racist
One conclusion being drawn from Labour’s defeat is that the party under Corbyn was insufficiently concerned about migration, English nationalism and the concerns of the “majority of the work…
14 November 2019 · · Labour Party, Racism, trade unions
Union leaders shouldn’t make excuses for racism
The Brexit referendum result showed that there is large scale racism in British society writes Andy Stowe . It affects both the Labour Party and the unions. There’s the infamous “controls on…
13 February 2019 · Migration, Racism · 1 comment
The Stansted 15: A lesson in action and solidarity
Following the sentencing of the Stansted 15, Bill MacKeith, father of May MacKeith, one of the defendants, offers this reflection. See also the earlier SR posting following the convictions i…
10 January 2019 · Racism
The new undesirables
Sivamohan Valluvan and Eleanor Penny unpack neoliberal attitudes to migration and 'low-value' humans. Presiding over an otherwise vacuous Conservative conference characterized by empty ‘ tec…
22 September 2018 · Britain, EU, Far right, Labour Party, Racism · 1 comment
Resisting the right
As the Labour Party conference starts, Socialist Resistance looks at the challenges for the left in the coming months. Resisting the right has been a theme over recent months on three interr…
19 August 2018 · Racism, antisemitism
Community Organisations Speak Out Against Public Silence
Socialist Resistance is happy to publish the important statement below from 85 BAME and migrant organisations in Britain. including many Palestinian groups. These are voices that need to be …
10 June 2018 · · Racism · 7 comments
Tommy Robinson, English nationalism and Brexit
Three things strike you when looking at videos and photos of the neo-fascist demonstration on June 9 th calling for the release from prison of the Islamophobic criminal Tommy Robinson writes…
30 April 2018 · · Racism, Tories · 1 comment
Rudd goes - oppose racist immigration regime
Amber Rudd's resignation as Home Secretary is perhaps the most significant ministerial departure for racism since Enoch Powell's. She oversaw a racist deportation policy and denied knowing t…