3 Myths About Riots
Riots are often individualised; put down to criminality, gangs, and moral decline, rather than treated as political eruptions. Here are 3 correctives to some common myths about riots.
Tag: racism
“Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless
Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.
Conversations at the ‘White Table’ in the Age of Trump
At dinner tables across the United States educated white liberals are discussing and debating how Trump came to be their president. Race, however, is a topic that’s never on the table.
5 Things You Should Know About Toxic Water Inside the United States
With corrupt government officials and big business devastating the country's clean water supply, America's poor are being poisoned. A look into the murky water politics of the US.
No Patient is Illegal: Fighting Borders in the NHS
This week, migrant activists protested changes to UK law, which will see healthcare workers co-opted as agents in the continuing assault on the rights and lives of UK migrants. Yesterday, a group of protesters dressed as patients in hospital gowns, doctors in scrubs, and border guards blocked the path of those heading into work at the Department […]
Filling Up Seats: Charter Flights and the UK’s Unlawful Deportation Tactics
One man has been deported into destitution in Nigeria without receiving an answer to his asylum claim, and was given only one day to challenge his removal. Here, he speaks about the experience of being locked up and forced onto a flight under the cover of darkness.
Vive La Resistance?
On #NovaraFM Ash Sarkar and James Butler are joined by anti-racist activist Joshua Virasami and Stop Trump Coalition organiser Nick Dearden to discuss protest and strategies for resistance against rightwing populism.
Racist Besties: Theresa May and Donald Trump
Theresa May won’t criticise Donald Trump or the Muslim ban. Thats because she agrees with much of his politics.
From the Women’s March to the International Women’s Strike
Cinzia Arruzza, author of Dangerous Liaisons: the Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism, explains the potential of the Women's Marches against Trump to grow into a powerful mass movement linked to wider struggles against oppression and exploitation.
Fuck ‘Em and Their Law: Repression and Resistance in Rave and Grime
From marches ending with street parties instead of speeches to illegal gigs under railway underpasses, political resistance in Britain has always had a banging soundtrack. As the sneering successor to the escapist rave culture of the 90s, does Grime have what it takes to finally fight the establishment head on?
Towards A Radical Critique of Cultural Appropriation
With the centre-left suffering regular electoral defeat, liberal defences of anti-racism have shown themselves insufficient. Starting with cultural appropriation, how can we move beyond such a politics, and begin to restore the movement's radical roots?
Structural Racism Has Big Oil’s Dirty Fingerprints All Over It
Steve Rushton examines links between the fossil fuel industry and racist pressure groups. Racist exploitation is at the heart of the fossil fuel industry, and its effects are most keenly felt by people of colour.
East London Racism Row is Labour’s First Test of Chakrabarti Principles
Two weeks ago the Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick chose to racialise a routine selection procedure, providing Labour with its first test following the Chakrabarti report.
Jonathan Pie Is Wrong: This Is Not the Time to Pander to Racism
The solution to our predicament isn’t to give such racists and xenophobes greater respect for their ‘legitimate concerns’ – it’s to begin actually challenging them.
Passive Voices: On Remembrance, Political Agency and the Rise of Trump
Remembrance encourages us to think back over history to the situation of those who lived through it. Amid our current turmoil, we ought to reflect on how history happens - and our own role in creating it.
It’s Not About Jackie Walker
Comments made about Holocaust Memorial Day by Jackie Walker, now ex-vice chair of Momentum, have once again prompted a discussion about antisemitism on the left.
It’s Political Blackness Gone Mad!
This week Ash Sarkar is joined by Wail Qasim and Reni Eddo-Lodge to discuss the politics of blackness, and how the global phenomenon of racism finds purchase in locally specific ways.
Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS
The Byron raids highlighted the extent to which companies are complicit in immigration enforcement, but the government's pursuit of a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants is asking NHS workers to police patients.