Anybody else remember the New Statesman’s ‘Kosher conspiracy’ cover from 2002? Given that this influential British political weekly has recently waxed sanctimonious over a supposed surge in antisemitism in the Corbyn-led Labour Party, it’s worth recollecting that its own track record on this score isn’t completely spotless. The illustration – a Star of David piercing a […]
Posts under ‘Race/Racism’
Young Labour in Left landslide but chaos, manipulation & smears mar NEC election
Feb 29th, 2016 by Jon Lansman.The Young Labour conference in Scarborough this weekend has seen the triumph of the Momentum Youth and Student slate in the elections for the Young Labour national committee. The sweeping victory of the Left for the first time in 30 years presents an opportunity to create a movement capable of attracting not those who want careers in politics […]
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Question Time and the the BBC’s problem with black people
Dec 22nd, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.David Lammy early this month made waves in theQuestion Time obsessives’ community by pointing out how limited the panel composition is. He wrote: Within the meagre 9.2% of Question Time slots filled by a BAME panellist, there is a staggering lack of diversity. Black women have appeared just 16 times in five years, and 12 […]
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Britain First: cynical Islamophobia on the telly
Oct 10th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.A documentary about Britain’s First virtual fascist group, Britain First? Why ever not. With UKIP commanding four million votes at the general election, the press stuffed with xenophobic bullshit as per, and the woman who would lead the Tories pitching herself as Nigel Farage’s successor, a little package shedding light on a tiny and utterly marginal […]
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Tories talk of freedom, but authoritarianism is their hallmark
Jul 5th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.This last week something little-noticed happened which could have very worrying consequences for the future. All local authorities, NHS trusts, schools, universities, further education colleges, and prisons had a new statutory duty imposed on themto prevent extremist radicalisation taking place within their ambit. These new duties will be vastly intrusive. Local authorities will have to […]
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Labour needs to confront not appease the UKIP agenda
May 29th, 2015 by Barry Gray.In the wake of UKIP’s electoral advance, both at this year’s General Election and last year’s European Parliament election, the Labour Party has come under growing pressure, from inside and outside its own ranks, to adapt to UKIP’s anti-immigrant and English nationalist agenda. Backed by the right-wing media, the Blue Labour current within the party in […]
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If you think Ed Miliband was too leftwing you weren’t paying attention
May 14th, 2015 by Diane Abbott.It is alarming how quickly the myth has taken hold that Ed Miliband lost the general election because he was too “leftwing”. On the one hand, it might seem a reasonable guess at all the reasons for our failure. Miliband is, after all, the son of one of the 20th century’s most distinguished Marxist academics. But in […]
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Let’s celebrate the positive role of migration in building modern Britain
May 2nd, 2015 by Diane Abbott.As the general election campaign comes to a climax it remains open season on migrants. London needs to voice its resistance. London is a world class city. Its cultural and economic power comes from its openness to the people of the world. International investment and international relations drive its contribution to the economy. The contribution […]
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There is nothing radical about little Englandism
Mar 21st, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.I’m not an avid follower of Paul Kingsnorth’s work, but I do remember his One No, Many Yeses. This was a contribution – some may say cash-in – to the burgeoning library on the internationalist, anti-capitalist, and fashionably networky movement of sundry NGOs, anarchists and occasional Trots of the early part of the last decade. […]
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McCluskey leads attack on Farage’s promise to axe racial discrimination laws
Mar 12th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.Nigel Farage has said he would scrap laws designed to stop racial discrimination in the workplace that he claims are out of date because British society has moved on, making them redundant, and it is, he says, “ludicrous” that employers could not favour a British national for a role over a foreigner. In response, Len McCluskey, leader […]
