<It’s become a daily thing. Every day a new UKIP candidate is exposed as a racist, a homophobe, a Holocaust denialist. It’s like we’ve been here before. The establishment is all sixes and sevens as an upstart far right party makes waves, but this is 2014, not 2009. The debates that have rippled across countless […]
Posts under ‘Race/Racism’
The resistable rise of UKIP
May 13th, 2014 by Andy Newman.Regular readers may recall that I raised the alarm when anti-Islam activist, Anne Marie Waters, was seeking the selection to be Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion. Sadly this led to Nick Cohen writing a rather ill judged article for the Spectator, where he stood up for Anne Marie: [Andy Newman] has campaigned against Anne Marie […]
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Socialism and Nationalism and anti-English racism in Scotland (part 2)
May 10th, 2014 by Greg Philo.This is the second part of this article. You can read part one here. Who is a Real Scot? A new nation brings with it new questions of who belongs in it. Nationalism can very quickly divide people into who are Real Scots and those who are not. So Facebook entries on independence now include […]
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On socialism, nationalism and anti-English sentiment in Scotland (part 1)
May 6th, 2014 by Greg Philo.How would you feel about being rich? As Scottish Finance secretary, John Swinney, says, Scotland would be the sixth richest country in the world, while the rest of the UK would be a mere 16th if they are lucky. So that is one up on the Southerners, who we have apparently been subsidising. Even if this was […]
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UKIP: knee-jerk reactions won’t stop the spread of knee-jerk politics
Apr 28th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.What a week for UKIP. By any standard political measure, the blowback from their British Jobs for British Workers campaign, the Faragey-bargy over expenses and employment of his German wife as secretary, and the tendency of candidates who can’t help but say stupid, racist things would have been severely bruising. And yet as we survey the damage wrought by a hurricane […]
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UKIP’s turn to the workers
Apr 22nd, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.I don’t love UKIP. I don’t love to hate UKIP. I simply loathe them, despise them. UKIP is the Daily Mail in party form, a chamber pot spilling over with effluvia and poison. From climate change denialism to sexism, from ‘are-you-thinking-what-we’re-thinking’ wink-wink racism to stupid-minded selfishness, it is the new home for everything that is vile, everything […]
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Anti-Roma attacks show need to resist rise of the far-right throughout European Union
Apr 14th, 2014 by Jeremy Corbyn.Last Monday saw the wonderful sight of Roma flags raised outside Downing Street, representing a small proportion of the 12 million Roma people who live within the European Union. The Roma suffer huge discrimination and abuse on differing levels in every country across Europe. They were the first victims of the nazis, who shipped them off […]
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Labour still underperforms in selection of women and BAME council candidates
Mar 26th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Figures reported to Labour’s national executive committee yesterday show that, whilst it may be doing better than other parties, it is still failing to ensure that its candidates for English local councils reflect their populations. With selections now having taken place in the vast majority of winnable seats, the proportion of women candidates is as […]
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The far-right must be halted in its tracks
Mar 22nd, 2014 by Aaron Kiely.Today is UN Anti-Racism Day. It is our chance to show that we can prevent fascism and racism scarring Europe’s future in the way it has scarred its past. We enter these European elections with fascist and extreme right parties likely to increase their seats. In France backing for Le Front Nationale is at an […]
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Stand up to racism – support March 22nd rally
Mar 8th, 2014 by Billy Hayes.In the run-up to the European elections it is vital that the labour and progressive movement takes a stand against racism. The Tories are adapting to UKIP’s efforts to make immigration the central question in the election. Large sections of the media are only too happy to fuel and facilitate this agenda. Yet the whole […]
