The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
There are bigger prizes to be won than mere ‘black recognition’
Our movement mustn’t limit itself to the odd statue of a black person or plaque – it is the reality of racism and working-class exploitation that must be confronted head on, writes KEVIN OVENDEN

WE ARE in the greatest eruption against racism and for black liberation since 1968.
In April that year smoke rose above every black ghetto in the US following the murder of the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King in the city of Memphis.
As so many black and anti-racist radicals have said for half a century in response to Establishment jibes about violence and the movements against oppression: we had a prince of non-violent mass action — you assassinated him.
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