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24 June 2020
Lessons from the Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party marked the high point of the Civil Rights movement - what are the lessons for today?
3 June 2020
USA - another cop killing of unarmed black man sparks widespread protests
On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014.
14 August 2019
Northern Ireland, August '69: 'Battle of the Bogside' and British troops on the streets
Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of PM Harold Wilson.
13 February 2019
'Green Book' film: a timely reminder of racism in the USA
It's been called a buddy/road trip film in the tradition of 'Driving Miss Daisy' - it is much more than that and yet, perhaps, less than it could be
28 March 2018
The life and legacy of Martin Luther King
50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK jnr in Memphis: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King junior, who was shot and killed on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting striking sanitation workers, writes April Ashley, Unison national executive council, black members rep (female) (personal capacity).
15 November 2017
TV review: Abortion on Trial - hard-hitting look at impact of 1967 act
Abortion on Trial is a hard-hitting, personal and political look at the 1967 Abortion Act. Eight women, who had all had abortions, and one man were invited to discuss their experiences
15 March 2017
International Women's Day: taking action against capitalist oppression
International Women's Day (8 March) was celebrated with special enthusiasm this year by members of the parties and organisations affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), including the Socialist Party in England and Wales.
1 March 2017
How black women fought racism and sexism at Nasa
Film review: Hidden Figures: Space rockets and the struggle against racism and sexism might seem an odd combination but Hidden Figures definitely pulls it off
19 October 2016
The radical life of Paul Robeson
Fighting racism and capitalism with solidarity, socialism and song: An actor who starred on Broadway, a talented college American football player, a brilliant singer - and a socialist and civil rights campaigner at a time when Malcom X and Martin Luther King were just children.
5 October 2016
The police killing spree in the United States has unleashed a mass movement. It has also uncovered anew the ties between the profit system and endemic racism. The struggle against racism must also be the struggle for a socialist society.
24 August 2016
Black footballer's taser death: stop police racism now
Ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson was repeatedly tasered by police at his home in Telford, Shropshire on 15 August. His death follows those of many other black people at the hands of police.
8 June 2016
As well as Muhammad Ali's sporting achievements, many will mourn the loss of an activist of the 1960s' anti-war and black liberation movements
2 December 2015
A socialist Christmas gift guide
What does a Socialist Party member buy their loved ones at Christmas? Certainly not rolling in money; unlikely to have loads of time to go shopping...
4 November 2015
US: #blacklivesmatter movement challenges racism
The #blacklivesmatter movement (BLM) has overtaken the traditional 'civil rights' campaigners, seen as too close to corporate interests.
25 February 2015
50 years on: the assassination of Malcolm X
21 February this year marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. As anti-racist protests continue across the US following last year's high profile police killings of two black men - Mike Brown and Eric Garner - the lessons of his life and struggle should be examined
5 February 2014
Pete Seeger - Sound of US protest movement
The death of American folk singer Pete Seeger will be keenly felt by those who lived through the social and political convulsions of the 1960s
MLK: The Assassination Tapes - Film about Martin Luther King's assassination shown on BBC Four
4 September 2013
TV review - MLK: The Assassination Tapes
There's been no shortage of material in the mass media commemorating US black civil rights leader Martin Luther King's (MLK) landmark 1963 'I have a dream' speech in Washington
March on Washington for jobs and freedom, photo US Library of Congress
28 August 2013
"I have a dream" - 50th anniversary of march
The mass movements for civil rights before and after the 1963 250,000-strong march on Washington for jobs and freedom, won victories against the brutal racist system in the US
16 April 2013
Initial Statement on Boston Marathon Tragedy from Socialist Alternative
The bombings today at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn't happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world, writes Reposted from Socialist Alternative in the USA, sister party of the Socialist Party, posted. Apr 15, 2013.
7 December 2012
Demand the immediate release of Ramy Sabry and all activists in Egypt
The CWI condemned the organised killing of journalist Al Housseini Abou Dayf, and the kidnapping and torturing of activists by Muslim Brotherhood members during the recent mass protests
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