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Race and racism

  • Children in a classroom stand with hands on their hearts

    Teaching in and against the state

    Should fascists ‘fear’ US public school teachers? Potentially, argues Ranita Ray. First, we must address educators’ complicity with state racism and violence

  • A black and white photograph of Groote Schuur, the country estate of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa

    Cape Fever – review

    Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

  • A stock photograph of a baby being held by their parents

    We Grow the World Together – review

    We Grow the World Together’s collected essays are a vital resource on caregiving and abolition for those hoping to build a better world for future generations, writes Gracie Mae Bradley

  • An illustration showing a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat – wearing a bow-tie that says: 'EDI Training'

    Rethinking racism

    The left has forgotten our traditions of anti-racist analysis and organising. We must abandon liberal analyses, says Gargi Bhattacharyya, and see racism as an exercise of power

  • Three blood-covered actors in a scene from the movie Sinners

    Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

    Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

  • A blue Transform Drug Policy Foundation billboard under a train bridge reading 'Getting Drugs Under Control.'

    How the left can support drug law reform

    It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton

  • Telling our own stories: An interview with Jen Deerinwater

    Empowerment comes from fighting marginalisation and discrimination on multiple fronts, says Jen Deerinwater