Clips and episodes from TV shows in the 1960s and 70s show that they featured terms like âuppity niggerâ, âdarkiesâ, âmy little mammyâ, ânig-nogâ, âsamboâ, âwogâ, âwog birdâ, and âwog landâ, as well as talk of civility.
Singapore's ruling People's Action Party will win an overwhelming majority in the 2020 elections, as in all elections for decades. But will more left-wing voices break through and win election?
Tower Hamlets council workers are striking again on 15-16-17 July, after a well-supported strike on 3-6-7 July. The strike is against plans by the Labour council to sack the entire 4,000-strong workforce â carers, caretakers, childrenâs centre workers, housing and homelessness workers, refuse workers, cleaners, social workers, teaching assistants â and re-employ only those who will accept substantially worse terms and conditions.
A survey of Michelle Alexander's book. Poverty generates crime and criminalisation generates poverty. And the answer is "a durable, interracial, bottom-up coalition" which "moves beyond civil rights to human rights and democratic socialism".
Under the Sign of the Beylis Affair [1913], an article by Leon Trotsky translated by Stan Crooke. The case of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Russian Jew framed for the "ritual murder" of a Ukrainian boy who disappeared in 1911 and was later found dead, triggered a great international outcry against the notoriously antisemitic Tsarist regime in Russia. Eventually, in 1913, Beilis was acquitted by a jury in Kiev.
Denunciations of Israel (so the argument goes) canât be antisemitic, because only antisemites can identify Jews with Israel and consider a denunciation of the Israeli state as an attack on Jewish people.
Both the government and the scientists who criticise it say that finding people with Covid-19 symptoms, testing to confirm, tracing their close contacts, and getting sufferers and contacts to self-isolate, is central to controlling the virus.
Beijing has taken advantage of pandemic disarray to impose new, and it hopes crushing, repression on Hong Kong.
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As Australia emerges from pandemic lockdown, battles lie ahead on job, racism, climate, social provision, and more.
How To Beat The Racists is a Workers' Liberty pamphlet published inâŚ
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Arguments for socialist politics cross-borders.
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We need demands to address oppression, as well as class unity
The kind of unions we need.
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The noble history of toppling statues (or in one case blowing themâŚ
Our job is to build a politically independent working-class party, using the footholds provided by liberalism.
Robert Fine, who died on 9 June 2018, was a socialist writer unafraid to stand up to much of the leftâs received wisdom on the questions
Labor Action May Day Special from 1957 on the revolutions in Eastern Europe.
Watch videos giving socialist commentary on the Covid-19 crisis: a playlist.
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