Racism

Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights

An investigation by the Victorian Ombudsman has found that the July lockdown of public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne "was not compatible with the residents' human rights, including their right to humane...

Greece: Anti-Fascist Campaign Leads to Guilty Verdict Against Golden Dawn

Last week, an Athens court handed down a guilty verdict in a historic trial over the Greek fascist organisation Golden Dawn. On October 15, its neo-Nazi leaders were given 13-year prison sentences. This outcome...

US: Fighting Trump and the Far Right

In the US Presidential debate two days ago, Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacy and called on the Proud Boys, a violent white nationalist group, to "stand back and stand by". This article...

US: Justice for Breonna Taylor – The Whole System Is Guilty

The below is the text of a leaflet distributed at protests the night of the non-indictment in Breonna Taylor’s murder by Socialist Action's US co-thinkers, Socialist Alternative. Under intense pressure from the political establishment, a...

History: The Haitian Revolution and the abolition of slavery

Review of ‘The Black Jacobins’ by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Most schools teach pupils that the Atlantic slave trade went against European ‘enlightenment’ principles of rationality, equality and democracy; a horror perpetrated against docile and...

US: Revolt for Black Lives in Kenosha

  This article was first published by Socialist Action's co-thinkers in the United States, Socialist Alternative. Jacob Blake: unarmed, Black, father, and paralyzed from the waist down. Seven shots in his back at point blank range...

The role of the working class in fighting racism

This article was published by Socialist Action’s sister organisation in the U.S. While it focuses on the specifics of the racist, violent history of the U.S. ruling class analogies, parallels and similarities can be...

Australian capitalism built on forced labour

Prime Minister Scott Morrison tried to cut across the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in June by claiming there was no slavery in Australia. He was quickly forced to retreat. Australia’s ruling class and the...

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