21 April 2021

USA: cop killings and the anti-racist movement

As the Socialist goes to the printers, the verdict by jurors in the trial of white cop Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering unarmed black man George Floyd, is expected

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3 March 2021

Swansea BLM protest against racist police brutality

Eleven members of the Socialist Party and Socialist Students from Swansea and the surrounding area attended a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration, wearing masks and socially distancing, on 27 February

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16 December 2020

School boy assaulted by police in Tottenham

People woke up to a horrific video on Friday 11 December. It was of a 16 year old black boy in his school uniform, being assaulted by a police officer in Tottenham, north London. A protest was quickly

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21 October 2020

Southampton: Coxford community condemns racist attack

On 8 October, two people walking in the residential area of Coxford, Southampton, were surrounded by six people on mopeds who taunted them with racist abuse, stole the woman's phone and injured her, and then stabbed the man

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9 September 2020

BLM: Socialist alternative to racist capitalism

Black Lives Matter (BLM) held a demo in Newport calling for justice for Jacob Blake, shot seven times in the back by police in Wisconsin, and Mercy Baguma, a Ugandan asylum seeker who was found dead in her Glasgow flat alongside her one-year-old malnourished son.

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2 September 2020

Fight racism, Trump and capitalism

Angry young people poured onto the streets of US cities following the police shooting of unarmed black man Jacob Blake in Wisconsin

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24 June 2020

Towards an anti-racist school curriculum

The Black Lives Matter movement has quite correctly posed the question of black history in our schools and public life

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17 June 2020

Oppose racist symbols and the racist system

Cheers filled the air as the statue of slave-trader Colston in Bristol was pulled down

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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

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

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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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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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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29 January 2020

Protest against Modi's racist law

Tamil Solidarity called a demonstration involving various organisations to protest the racist, anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act in India.

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23 October 2019

Boot racism out of football - reclaim the game!

Football fans were shocked and disgusted when play was stopped twice during the Bulgaria v England Euro 2020 qualifying match on 14 October due to racist chanting from a section of Bulgarian fans.

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17 July 2019

The 45th anniversary of the strike

How oppressed workers fought back against racist 'divide and rule': This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 14-week Imperial Typewriters strike which had national repercussions.

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15 May 2019

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.

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23 January 2019

Racist jobs discrimination same for 50 years - unions must fight for jobs for all

Black and Asian workers in Britain have to send almost twice as many job applications before we get a positive response

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