Socialist Party :: Black and Asian

There is undoubtedly widespread relief among workers and young people that Trump has gone. However, the lavish praise Starmer and co. are heaping on Biden is yet another indication of their desperation to show they can be relied on to defend the interests of the elite.

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20 January 2021

New Cross Gate fire 40 years ago

Forty years ago, on 18 January, a fire started deliberately by suspected racists swept through a house where a 16th birthday party was being celebrated by young black people in New Cross Gate, south east London

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16 December 2020

Rich countries hoarding vaccine is danger to us all

The Covid-19 pandemic has been truly global in character, with every nation reporting cases. Why is it then, that as the first vaccine shipments leave the factories, your ability to access it will depend

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9 December 2020

TV review: Red, White and Blue

More than just diversity - we need democratic, working-class control of the police: The BBC recently aired the film 'Red, White and Blue' from the Steve McQueen mini-series 'Small Axe'

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25 November 2020

Mangrove: When the black community made a stand against state racism

The inspirational film about Britain's most influential black power trial, 'Mangrove', was recently aired on the BBC

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18 November 2020

Race disparity gets worse - fight to improve living standards for all

Disparities in racial progress are getting worse, according to a recent report 'Black people, racism and human rights', by a committee of mainly Tory MPs and unelected Lords.

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28 October 2020

BAME Covid deaths due to capitalist inequality, confirms government

Death rates are up to three times as high for BAME people.

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28 October 2020

Under the microscope

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7 October 2020

Non-fiction: 'Why I no longer talk to white people about race'

'Why I no longer talk to white people about race' by Reni Eddo-Lodge, written in 2014, is a personalised, honest and thought-provoking read about racism in Britain

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30 September 2020

US: Police escape justice over Breonna Taylor killing

The failure of a grand jury to charge police with the murder of Louisville black medical worker Breonna Taylor has reignited anti-racist protests in the USA and throughout the world.

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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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9 September 2020

Video game developer attacks Black Lives Matter

Just two months ago, French video game giant Ubisoft joined the hollow chorus of corporations exclaiming that black lives matter

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2 September 2020

No to polluting incinerator, dumped in working-class Edmonton

A plan to build a giant new waste incinerator in Edmonton Green would produce health-threatening air pollution across north London and Essex. The current incinerator is coming to the end of its life

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2 September 2020

Black Lives Matter: Fighting injustice, fighting for our rights

Protesters marched in Cardiff on 30 August, part of the wave of international solidarity for Jacob Blake after he was shot in the back by police in Wisconsin.

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12 August 2020

After Scottish government U-turn, Young Socialists fight for a future on A-Level results day

Join one of the actions in 12 towns and cities across the country

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5 August 2020

North London: Socialist Party speaks at BLM protest

A lively Black Lives Matter protest in Edmonton, north London, on 25 July didn't shy away from politics. The event organiser said the whole lives of black people have been political for centuries.

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