racism
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American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy. Continue reading
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‘I’m from St Raphael’s estate’: an interview with George the Poet
IRR’s Jessica Perera continues her examination of the human cost of estate regeneration by talking about pride and potential with a north-west London poet. Continue reading
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The School That Tried to End Racism: A cruel experiment in furtherance of identity politics
Channel 4’s two-part documentary, The School That Tried to End Racism, centres on events during the filming of a group of Year 7 (eleven- and twelve-year-old) pupils over three weeks in April last year. The pupils were subjected to a cruel experiment, but this was positively described by the programme’s narrator as a “ground-breaking initiative”… Continue reading
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Protest, Riot, Loot, and Burn for Black Freedom in America?
In Russia Today, Helen Buyniski reflects on corporate responses to the depiction of Black people in brand labeling. Buyniski highlights the comments of B and G Foods as it jumped onto the bandwagon of corporate virtue signalling. The company signalled its intentions to “proactively take steps to ensure that we and our brands do not inadvertently contribute… Continue reading
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Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge
5 June 2020 — Youtube Double Down News “Riots are often justified, what’s the French Revolution but a riot blessed by history” Full 33 minute interview with Gary Younge: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-33min-gary-37948951 Continue reading
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Would ‘Defund the Police’ Work in the UK?
‘Defund the police’ has emerged as a central demand amid a spectacular eruption of collective action against lethal police violence in the United States. As UK Black Lives Matter activists take inspiration, questions are being asked about how this demand – forged in the long history of the US prison abolition movement – can gain purchase in Britain. Continue reading
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Webinar: Walls Must Fall: Ending the deadly politics of border militarisation (TNI)
COVID-19 has become another touchstone for today’s deeply entrenched politics of militarised borders and anti-migrant racism. Leaders like Trump and Orban have blamed the virus on foreigners and to claim justification for their racist politics. But they have also been used European Union Member States of all political tendencies have used the crisis to close… Continue reading
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NHS and Racism: Deeds not words
10 June 2020 — The Lowdown Evidence-based journalism and research on the NHS to create change. Report after report has told us about systemic racism in the NHS and in national policy, the government must address it. Continue reading
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Tearing down statues isn’t vandalism. It’s at the heart of the democratic tradition
It is easy to forget how explicitly racist British society was within living memory. I’m not talking about unconscious prejudice, or social media tropes. I’m talking about openly celebrating racism in the public space, about major companies making racism integral to their brand, a selling-point. Continue reading
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Speak out against systemic racism
George Floyd’s murder must prompt deep interrogation of the structural racisms that pervade our society. The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on BAME communities are increasingly clear, compounding pre-existing truths about how minority groups are more likely to suffer from impoverishment, low pay, poor housing and ill health. Continue reading
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Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse
Dwayne Francis was racially profiled and detained by police in London last month, while on his way to work in a secondary school. “The rhetoric is always the same,” he said, describing how police routinely tell black people: “You fit the description of someone who has committed a crime, this is a high crime area,… Continue reading
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Israel renews racist marriage law
Israel this week renewed one of the most overtly racist of the dozens of laws on its books that discriminate against Palestinians and Palestinian citizens of Israel. The “Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law” prohibits Israeli citizens who marry Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or Gaza Strip, or nationals from several other regional states,… Continue reading
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As US protests show, the challenge is how to rise above the violence inherent in state power
This kind of bipartisan denial of reality only underscores how quickly we are entering a period of crisis and revolt. From the G8 protests, to the Occupy movement, to Extinction Rebellion, to the schools protests, to the Yellow Vests, to the current fury on US streets, there is evidence all around that the centre is… Continue reading
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The UK is Not Innocent – Police Racism Has a Long and Violent History Here Too
“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.” This desperate refrain has once again become the dying words of yet another black man in the United States. Continue reading
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BAME People Are More Likely to Have Been Fined for Breaking Lockdown Across the Country, FOI Data Shows
BAME people living outside of London were 4.4 times more likely than white people to receive a £60 fine for breaking lockdown in the first full week that new police powers were in place, according to a freedom of information exercise to all British police forces. Continue reading
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Media Smeared Ahmaud Arbery After His Lynching
While it took two and a half months for the authorities to finally make arrests in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, corporate media were much quicker to follow the time-honored practice of besmirching victims of racist violence. Continue reading
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Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration. Continue reading
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USA: Capitalism & Racism + Covid-19 = Murder
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison are being offered $6 per hour to dig mass graves on Hart’s Island off the Bronx. That’s… Continue reading
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Pandemic lays bare Israel’s systemic racism
As I sit in my house in Haifa, quarantined, like others around the world, I cannot help but recall a previous experience under Israeli-imposed curfew. Continue reading
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Western media unlocked: Hypocrisy behind COVID-19 reports
Why did apparently stigmatizing names like Chinese virus or Wuhan virus keep making headlines? How have the Western media shaped the narrative of China’s response to the novel coronavirus? As the virus continues to wreck havoc, China Daily investigates how the Western version of propaganda plays out in the global battle against coronavirus. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 