Ash Sarkar Meets Akala | Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Ash Sarkar spoke to Akala about the white working class, conscious rap and politics, Britishness and his new book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.
Tag: Race
On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.
Faultlines: Liz Fekete on Racism, Europe and the New Right
On #NovaraFM, James Butler and Ash Sarkar are joined by Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations, to talk about racism, resistance and the rebirth of the right.
What Is Effeminacy and How Can We Celebrate It?
Jules Gleeson
Should We Trust a “woke” Theresa May on Race?
Ash Sarkar assesses May’s pledge to release data on the racial pay gap, and explains why austerity is an anti-racist issue.
Unsettling Feminism and the Politics of the Prison Break: Ash Sarkar In Conversation with Alana Lentin
Ash Sarkar
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.
Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On
40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?
Reducing ‘Drop-Out’ Rates for Black Students Means Institutional Transformation, Not Individual Support
Remi Salisbury
UK Black Lives Matter Activists #Shutdown the M4
This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racism of borders. Ash Sarkar reports.
‘They kill us because they see that we were never alive anyway’ – Black Lives Matter in the UK
Wail Qasim on why the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in North America, has a lot to add to ongoing struggles on the other side of the Atlantic.
4 Reasons Why #RhodesMustFall in Oxford – and Everywhere Else
Connor Woodman
#BlackLivesMatter: Race and Resistance in the UK
Ash Sarkar is joined by Adam Cooper, Ashok Kumar and London Black Dissidents as they discuss racist policing and immigration policy in the UK.
8 Reasons the Curriculum is White
the 'Why is my Curriculum White?' collective, UCL
#FergusonToLondon
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani are joined by Wail Qassim as they discuss racist policing both sides of the Atlantic.
On Ferguson, Black Lives and Solidarity: An Open Letter
Wail Qasim
12 Books White People Should Read in Preparation for Becoming a Minority in Britain
Adam Elliott-Cooper & Ashok Kumar
