Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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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
STRENGTH IN UNITY: White and African-American workers together with placards: ‘The Dress Shipping Clerks' Won't Cross the Picket Line. We Stand United with the Dressmakers Union!,’ 1958
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In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL
As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON
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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