Issues and campaigns: Anti-Racism

Fighting against racism and the structures and institutions that perpetuate it

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  • Antisemitism
    • Prejudice against, hostility towards, stereotyping of Jews

Officer Slager’s Defence

On 4 April 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael T Slager shot dead 50-year-old black man Walter T Scott. He is to be charged with murder. Officer Michael T Slager, how do you plead to the charge … Read More

Socialism and Liberation

This is the speech that I gave in the opening plenary of Workers’ Liberty’s ‘Ideas for Freedom’ event in 2013 – originally published here. On 23rd June 2012, Steven Simpson, a gay autistic student, was verbally abused, stripped, and his … Read More

Should the Workers’ Movement Have Special Structures for Women?

The fourth in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914, written in 2005, originally published here: Laws against women’s organisation After Bismarck’s Anti-Socialist Law lapsed in 1890, laws remained which restricted women’s political activity. The 1851 … Read More

Organising working-class women

The second in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914, written in 2005, originally published here. Education German socialist women placed strong emphasis on education. They set up education clubs for women and girls (Frauen- and … Read More

Stop Israel Railways Sacking Arab Workers

In March 2009, Israel Railways, a state-owned company, launched a new policy denying employment to railroad crossing guards who have no permit to carry weapons – that is: who have not served in the Israeli army. This policy will lead … Read More

Nazis and Nailbombers: Fighting the Fascists

from the pamphlet Radical Chains: Sexuality and Class Politics, published in 1999. On 30 April 1999, a nail-bomb killed three people and injured dozens more. It exploded in the Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street, the heart of gay … Read More