Tag: racism
How Hillary Laid the Foundations for Donald Trump’s Popular Neo-Fascism
As Trump hires a far right Breitbart executive to his campaign Ash Sarkar looks at how his brand of populist racism is built on the Liberal policies of the Clintons.
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.
5 Years on: Police Violence and August 2011
On this week’s show Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani are joined by Wail Qasim as they discuss police violence and racism within the context of the forthcoming five year anniversary of the 2011 riots.
‘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.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Brexit
Two weeks on from the referendum Ash Sarkar visits Barking, which voted 62% leave, and looks at the way class and race shape inequality and political disenfranchisement.
Against ‘Integration’
Ash Sarkar looks at recent comments by Professor Ted Cantle on segregation in the UK and explains why ‘Integration’ is a flawed and oppressive approach to understanding race.
Will Sadiq Khan’s Election Make a Difference to the Policing of London’s ‘Gangs’?
Harry Stopes
Islamophobia and Racism in the Twenty-First Century
On this week’s show Ash Sarkar and Wail Qasim discuss the changing landscape of contemporary racism and the rise of Islamophobia.
Antifascists on the Front Foot as Neo-Nazis Return to Dover
Novara Reporters
The media’s selective response to sexual violence shows the racism of society’s misogyny
Katie Arthur
Two Deportation Cases Show the Racism of ‘Common Sense’ Borders
Callum Cant
Does this humiliation have no end? Stop sending people like me to our deaths.
Luqman Onikosi
4 Reasons Why #RhodesMustFall in Oxford – and Everywhere Else
Connor Woodman
What is Islamophobia?
Ash Sarkar examines how a state-sponsored distrust of ‘Muslimness’ in the west has led to the emergence of new racisms, blurring the boundaries between scientific and cultural definitions.
4 Reasons to Stand Up to Fascism in Dover
George West
Contesting Detention: A #ShutDownYarlsWood Photo Essay
Rosie Polya
“We Had Community Involvement” – Cephus Johnson on Oscar Grant and Fighting Against Police Violence
Cephus Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, whose murder by Californian police was the subject of the Hollywood film Fruitvale Station talks about his experience campaigning for justice and why he came to London to speak at the United Family and Friends Campaign march.