17 June 2020

Tears and anger over the treatment of the Windrush generation

'Sitting in Limbo' is a powerful and moving real-life drama. It shows the trauma of Anthony Bryan, a member of the Windrush generation, as he struggles against removal from Britain

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17 June 2020

Three years on: No justice for Grenfell, no peace from BLM

Three years ago 72 people died in Grenfell Tower, in the richest borough of London, due to profit-over-safety seeking companies

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17 June 2020

Film: Da 5 Bloods - entertaining but politically constrained

Spike Lee's new film 'Da 5 Bloods', featuring four black American army veterans of the Vietnam War who meet up again in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, has been released on Netflix just as racism and the class system that ferments it are in the forefront of the minds of millions of people

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10 June 2020

Donate so we can raise our socialist message

We've printed tens of thousands of leaflets explaining our socialist response to the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police

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10 June 2020

Readers' opinion: Things will never be the same

Do you have something to say? Send your news, views and criticism in no more than 150 words to [email protected] or Socialist Inbox, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT.

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10 June 2020

Black Lives Matter protests sweep country: How can the movement win?

Mass, united, working-class action and organisation, around a programme of anti-racism and anti-capitalism, to fight for socialism, is necessary.

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10 June 2020

Fight racism and class inequality. "Seize the time!"

Anti-racist protests are sweeping across the country and the world. A diverse and powerful movement, it feels stronger and more radical than we have seen for years.

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10 June 2020

Socialists call for trade unions to join the fight

We raised a motion urging the union to state support for "the demonstrations that are being called across the UK, with suitable social distancing and other protective measures, including in Cardiff at the weekend, Belfast on Monday, and Glasgow and London on Wednesday

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10 June 2020

Capitalism = racism: "You fight capitalism with socialism"

The current Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is the biggest wave of protests against racism since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s

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10 June 2020

As a health worker, I had to march against racism

Like all health workers, coronavirus has dominated my life. We've been concerned to see people returning to crowded workplaces, beaches and beauty spots.

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10 June 2020

France: 20,000 rally against Paris's killer gendarmes

20,000 people rallied in Paris on 2 June to demand #JusticePourAdama, to fight against racism, and in solidarity with the movement in the United States.

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10 June 2020

"We're going to fight racism and capitalism with socialism"

My name's Deji. I'm a member of the Socialist Party. And I'm here for the same reason as all of you lot.

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10 June 2020

Black and white youth rise up against racism - US protester speaks to the Socialist

At this stage, violence almost exclusively stems from the police. Despite these attacks, the movement has won incredible victories from the capitalist class in a couple of weeks that were almost unimaginable

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9 June 2020

Mass protests erupt

A sea of protesters, wave after wave, poured out of the stations, their accumulated anger bursting out.

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3 June 2020

Going viral: Socialist comments and letters

The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed

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3 June 2020

USA - another cop killing of unarmed black man sparks widespread protests

On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014.

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3 June 2020

3rd June anti-racist demonstrations across Britain

A sea of protesters, wave after wave, poured into Hyde Park

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3 June 2020

Fight racism and class inequality, fight capitalism!

Following the killing on 25 May of unarmed black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police, there has been on outpouring of anger against systemic racism and widening inequalities in the USA.

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31 May 2020

Outrage spreads globally following US police murder of George Floyd

Protesters have taken to the streets across the US - and internationally - following the killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man

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18 March 2020

TV: Noughts and Crosses

Our reviewer gives the BBC TV series the thumbs down, but recommends the original book

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