Socialist Appeal

Racism

By Fred Weston
Friday, 18 July 2008
What is the most effective way of combating racism? Fred Weston, of the marxist.com editorial board, spoke at the Marxist Day School held recently in London on the effects of positive discrimination and the lessons for the labour movement, touching on the origins of racism, the Black question in the USA, South Africa and the struggle against apartheid and Brazil where today the Black Socialist movement is opposing racial legislation.

By Ben Peck
Friday, 04 April 2008
Today marks 40 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shot in the face on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray was imprisoned for the assassination, though never granted a trial for his murder. Given the US government's targeting of radicalised black leaders at this time, whoever pulled the trigger did the state's dirty work for them. The King family never accepted Ray was responsible.

By Jon Avis
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
This month marks the 200th anniversary of the official abolition of slavery and the passing of the Slave Trade Act, which made the capture, and transport of slaves by British subjects unlawful.