Tag: Islamophobia
‘Angry White People’, a review
David Renton reviews Hsiao-Hung Pai's Angry White People: coming face-to-face with the British far right. He finds an 'exemplary account' of the rise of the English Defence League and bemoans the left's failure to contest the same...
rs21 podcast, episode 1: refugees and the rise of the far right
Episode 1 of the rs21 podcast is finally here! Duncan Thomas introduces the show.
Image credit: Kate Evans
Comrades: the day has been a constant battle against technology. Never has machines' description as crystallisations of "dead labour" been...
Charlie Hebdo is racist, not anti-racist ‘satire’
Charlie Hebdo's latest cartoon is 'satire' that does nothing to satirise. In uncritically reproducing racist tropes, it can be considered as nothing other than racist itself. Kavita Krishnan explains...
The latest Charlie Hebdo (CH) cartoon suggests that...
France: How close is fascism?
Already stressed by economic stagnation since the onset of the banking crisis in 2008, and by the interminably threatened, but repeatedly averted, collapse of the Euro, Peter Fysh asks can the French political system...
Sorry! An apology from Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslims) to humanity
We're pleased to be able to republish a poem by the Syrian Kurdish poet Amir Darwish with permission of publishers Smokestack books. A collection of Amir Darwish's poetry can be found in the book Don't...
After Paris: no to imperialist wars, no to Islamophobia, no to attacks on refugees
We are horrified by the attacks in Paris: we join in mourning the dead, and send our condolences to the loved ones of those who have died.
These attacks are part of the war raging...
PREVENT: protecting the vulnerable?
Emily Cousens looks at what's behind the language of 'vulnerability' in the government's PREVENT strategy.
Spying and suspicion are now legally required as public sector workers are being trained to look for signs of vulnerability...
The fear of Islamism and the terror of the state
Peter Hill on the 'power of nightmares' from Syria to India and the UK.
The 'war on terror' has seen a revival since the rise of ISIS, aka Da'esh, in Iraq and Syria, and now...
One man’s terrorist…
Differing reactions to the violence perpetrated by white supremacists and Islamist jihadists reveal how racism is mobilised to advance projects of state domination, writes Duncan Thomas.
"You look like a terrorist", a woman once said...
The Labour right: smearing Corbyn, not fighting racism
The Labour right is trying to smear Jeremy Corbyn as an associate of anti-Semites – when they should be looking at their own lousy record on racism and war.