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Racism as a capitalist strategy to divide workers
Anti-racism is indivisible from class struggle: sometimes we need to find ways to bring black and white workers together but also it can mean black self-organisation, writes ROGER McKENZIE

RACISM must be understood as an instrument of exploitation in the workplace and beyond.
Far from being an abstract phenomenon of ideas and influences, racism is a dynamic which is deeply rooted in the structures of exploitation, power and privilege.
Consequently, the radical tradition of resistance to racism by black workers through the strategy of self-organisation is also far from being random or accidental.
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