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TUC backing demo on 6 November (28 Aug 2010, #2216)
The TUC has given its backing to the national demonstration against racism, fascism and Islamophobia on Saturday 6 November in London

Bradford: a disaster for racist ‘English Defence League’ (4 Sep 2010, #2217)
The English Defence League’s “Big One” in Bradford last Saturday was an utter humiliation for the racist group

Unity can overcome racist scapegoating (28 Aug 2010, #2216)
In the last week we have seen those with power scapegoating those without it—over the proposed mosque in New York, the Notting Hill Carnival, the Roma expulsion in France and attacks on the welfare state in Britain

Harassment starts in run up to Notting Hill Carnival (7 Aug 2010, #2213)
Police have begun using their annual excuse to harass and arrest black people

National demonstration called as fight against racism stepped up (31 Jul 2010, #2212)
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and the Muslim Association of Britain have called a national demonstration—“No to racism, No to Islamophobia”—on Saturday 6 November in central London

Is Britain more racist than it used to be? (3 Jul 2010, #2208)
The police are seven times more likely to stop and search you if you’re black than if you’re white, a government report revealed last week

False logic linking race and crime (3 Jul 2010, #2208)
An article written in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper last weekend pushed the idea that ethnicity and crime are linked

You can't beat the BNP by taking up their racism (15 May 2010, #2201)
The argument that it was a willingness to talk about people’s “legitimate fears” over immigration that lanced the boil of the BNP is wrong

Noxious election campaign stirs up racist divisions (8 May 2010, #2200)
This general election has been the one most dominated by immigration since 1979

Barnsley LMHR carnival: ‘We’re the future - not the fascist BNP’ (8 May 2010, #2200)
The packed Love Music Hate Racism carnival in Barnsley shows the potential to build the movement against the Nazis, writes Tom Walker

Racist lies kick off election campaign (17 Apr 2010, #2197)
No sooner has the general election campaign begun than a great lie about immigration has swamped the news headlines

Sus: a story of police racism all too relevant for today (8 May 2010, #2200)
A new film Sus is a powerful attacks on police racism – its writer Barrie Keeffe spoke to Yuri Prasad

Parties play the race card (17 Apr 2010, #2197)
The Tories are happy to whip up racism to grab votes

Young people stuck on the dole - and it’s worse if you’re black (30 Jan 2010, #2186)
Ken Olende and Viv Smith spoke to some of those who have struggled to find work

Bound, gagged and jailed in the land of the free (3 Apr 2010, #2195)
Former Black Panther Robert King spoke to Ken Olende about his life in prison—the basis for a new film

Defend the Harrow mosque (5 Sep 2009, #2167)
“We won’t let racists or fascists divide us

John Brown’s rebellion heralded the death of slavery (17 Oct 2009, #2173)
This week marks the 150th anniversary of a rebellion that helped end slavery in the United States, writes Michael Bradley

Dominique Walker: ‘Unite against racists who killed my brother’ (18 Jul 2009, #2160)
Dominique Walker, whose brother Anthony was killed in a racist attack in 2005, speaks out against racism and says that a united campaign against the BNP is vital

Reworking racism (25 Apr 2009, #2148)
Liz Fekete, author of a new book on racism, spoke to Yuri Prasad about how old prejudices have been adapted for new targets

Gordon Brown panders to bigoted lies (4 Jul 2009, #2158)
Gordon Brown is playing a very dangerous game with his pledge that “local people” will get priority for social housing

England People Very Nice: why racism and comedy do not mix (14 Feb 2009, #2138)
Playwright and activist Hussain Ismail is shocked at the racism of the National Theatre’s England People Very Nice

Is racism dead? If only it were true (31 Jan 2009, #2136)
Could Martin Luther King’s dream of a society without racism ever become a reality? For millions of people, the inauguration of Barack Obama as US president is a sign that maybe it can

The beginning of racism (24 Mar 2007, #2043)
Yuri Prassad looks at the origins of racism

The Notting Hill riot and a carnival of defiance (23 Aug 2008, #2115)
Resistance to a vicious race riot in west London fifty years ago this week inspired the creation of the Notting Hill Carnival, writes Ken Olende

Films show a history of black unity in Britain (10 Jan 2009, #2133)
Yuri Prasad takes a look at an inspiring series of films made in the 1980s about the struggles of black people in Britain against racism

Has Black History Month become too safe? (11 Oct 2008, #2122)
Dean Ryan argues Black History Month has become too sanitised

Emory Douglas interviewed about the Black Panthers in print (8 Nov 2008, #2126)
The former Minister of Culture in the Black Panther Party talks to Ken Olende about the fight for black liberation in the United States and a new exhibition of his art work

Tommie Smith interview: Olympic black power gesture of defiance (18 Oct 2008, #2123)
Athlete and campaigner Tommie Smith spoke to Ken Olende about his iconic protest against racism at the Olympic Games 40 years ago – and how it came about

Notting Hill Carnival crackdown targets young black men (30 Aug 2008, #2116)
London's Notting Hill Carnival turned into a nightmare for hundreds of young black men as heavily armed police swooped on buses carrying them to the event

Why no outcry from black leaders as police target black males round Notting Hill? (6 Sep 2008, #2117)
Yuri Prasad looks at the fall out from the police operation at the Notting Hill Carnival and asks what the muted response tells us about black politics

Marcus Garvey: a liberating legacy of challenging racism (12 Jul 2008, #2109)
Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey inspired millions to challenge racism, but his politics were contradictory, writes Ken Olende

The Hounding of David Oluwale – interview with Daniel Francis (31 Jan 2009, #2136)
A play about David Oluwale’s tragic life and death can change perceptions, actor Daniel Francis tells Esme Choonara

Attacks on Roma echo a warning from history (30 Aug 2008, #2116)
Jess Hurd and John Sinha report from Rome in the aftermath of a wave of attacks on Roma Gypsy people

The illusion of Britishness (18 Nov 2006, #2027)
New Labour tells us that ethnic minorities need to adopt British values

600 Coventry cab drivers strike against racist attack (25 Aug 2007, #2065)
A Coventry taxi driver was racially abused and battered with a metal bar last Saturday

Revealed: how Murdoch press smears Muslims (4 Nov 2006, #2025)
The Sun ran a fabricated story of Muslim threats to soldiers in Windsor | Forest Gate ‘shoot and smear’ falls apart

Rock Against Racism: beating time, beating the Nazis (14 Jul 2007, #2059)
The launch of Rock Against Racism 30 years ago was a defining moment in the struggle against the Nazi National Front, writes Roger Huddle | Plus interviews with activists from the time – Don Letts, Poko from Misty in Roots, Carol Grimes, Kate Webb

Stop and search - racist, then and now (9 Jun 2007, #2054)
The plans to give the police more powers to stop and question “terror suspects” has disturbing echoes of the notorious “sus” laws of the early 1980s, writes Simon Basketter

Following racism down the wrong path (12 May 2007, #2050)
Ten years of New Labour in power have brought further attacks on minority ethnic communities, writes Hassan Mahamdallie

Ruqayyah Collector: ‘Racism is the cause of segregation in society’ (4 Nov 2006, #2025)
The black students’ officer for the National Union of Students (NUS), Ruqayyah Collector, spoke to Socialist Worker

Barking needs homes, not racist myths (26 May 2007, #2052)
Councillors, trade unionists and anti-fascists in the east London borough of Barking & Dagenham have refuted claims by Margaret Hodge, the New Labour minister and MP for Barking, that the borough’s housing crisis is caused by immigrants

Racism is the real obstacle we face (21 Oct 2006, #2023)
Salma Yaqoob looks at the real issues behind the attack on the veil

Warmongers play race card (21 Oct 2006, #2023)
• Ministers line up to denounce the veil • Racists given green light to launch war of hate on Muslims

The hidden story of West Indian volunteers in the Second World War (21 Jun 2008, #2106)
The part played by the West Indians in the Second World War is finally being recognised

A right wing attack on multiculturalism (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
Jack Straw’s calculated entrance into the seething right wing debate on Muslims and multiculturalism has little to do with the wearing of the veil - and still less with the need to “open a dialogue” with Muslim communities

Anger in Blackburn at scapegoating of Muslim veil (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
Over 100 people gathered outside the town hall in Blackburn, Lancashire last Saturday to protest against Jack Straw’s attacks on a woman’s right to wear the veil

Voices from Rock Against Racism (14 Jul 2007, #2059)
DJ Don Letts | Poko from Misty in Roots | Carol Grimes, Blues singer | Kate Webb, RAR team

Race riot in Windsor? Don’t believe the hype (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
“Ghettos”, “No-Go Areas”, “Race Riots On Queen’s Doorstep” screamed the newspaper headlines last week as a Muslim owned dairy near Windsor castle became the latest victim of Islamophobic hysteria

Stop scapegoating Muslims - it’s war and racism that fuel division (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
Jack Straw's comments on Muslim women wearing the veil will add to the climate of Islamophobia fuelled by the "war on terror"

Jack Straw's veil comments are ammunition for racists (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
The last week has seen a new wave of attacks on Muslims, including Jack Straw’s speech on veiled women

Huddersfield taxi drivers strike against racism (5 Aug 2006, #2012)
Over 1,700 drivers went on strike last Saturday in a show of solidarity for their colleague Mohammad Parvaiz, who was killed in Golcar in Yorkshire

‘Racism against Muslims has rocketed since 9/11’ (11 Feb 2006, #1987)
The anger expressed by Muslims over the caricatures of the prophet Mohammed is rooted in the growth in Islamophobia since 9/11

Cartoon row: the issue is racism (11 Feb 2006, #1987)
This is not about “freedom of speech” or a “war of civilisations” – it’s about racism

Racism is the enemy within (6 Aug 2005, #1962)
Following the anti-Muslim backlash after London bombings and last week's vicious racist murder, Paddy Hill, of the wrongly imprisoned Birmingham Six, and Madeline Heneghan, a black anti-racist campaigner who lives in Liverpool spoke to Socialist Worker

Stephen Lawrence: the shocking case that lifted the lid on racism (19 Apr 2003, #1847)
When Doreen Lawrence asserted that no police officer had tended her dying son because they didn't want to get "black" blood on their hands, the reverberations shook British society

Who is behind rising racism across Europe? (13 Dec 2003, #1881)
SUCCESSIVE WAVES of immigrants arriving in Britain have faced racism

Tackling racism on the terraces (30 Aug 2003, #1866)
BBC2 BROADCAST The Colour of Football on 19 August about racism in the game

Police racism: has nothing changed? (1 Nov 2003, #1875)
Why have the police always been racist and why are they so resistant to change, asks Kevin Ovenden

What is racism and why must we fight it? (13 Mar 2004, #1892)
Colin Barker continues his series on the "Where We Stand" Socialist Workers Party statement of principles printed each week in Socialist Worker

Headscarf ban unveils racism (20 Dec 2003, #1882)
THE FRENCH government is proposing to ban Islamic headscarves in schools

Racism lurks behind election (10 Jun 2004, #1905)
Hardly a week passes without racist scare stories in the press directed against refugees and asylum seekers

Islam and racism (17 Jul 2004, #1910)
Bush and Blair’s wars on Afghanistan and Iraq have helped to fuel a rise in Islamophobia, says Kevin Ovenden

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