The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
Trade unions are at the heart of combating racism
ROGER McKENZIE welcomes the opportunity to develop the movement’s anti-racist and black-worker organising strategies
The assertion of the importance of black lives cannot just be a convenient slogan to use at the appropriate time. It is a call for real change to happen to deal with the racism that so many of us face on a daily basis; from the attacks on the street to the discrimination in the workplace; from being passed over again for promotion to missing out on yet another training opportunity.
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
MAT COWARD recommends a crop that keeps growing well under drought conditions
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
THE United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is held each year on the day the police opened fired and killed 69 people and injured 180 others at a peaceful demonstration against the South African apartheid “pass laws” at the now infamous Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.
At its general assembly in 1979 the UN agreed that each member state should organise a week of activities every year, beginning on March 21, to bring focus to the fight against racism.
Twenty years ago, after the fall of apartheid, the UN held a World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, to give fresh impetus to the struggle.
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