Is Marxism Eurocentric?
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A common charge heard against Marxism in recent decades is that it is a Eurocentric theory, one with arguably colonial assumptions and underpinned by Western values.
Anti-Racism
Liverpool FC: ignorance in the Suarez scandal
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A few weeks have now passed since Liverpool player Luis Suarez was found guilty of using a racially objectionable word towards Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. But in the storm that followed the incident in the game last October, huge levels of ignorance around racism were shown.
Lessons of the Stephen Lawrence murder
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That Gary Dobson and David Norris have been jailed for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence was for the people who loved him, some sort of justice.
Diane Abbott's comments were problematic, but "anti-white racism" is nonsense
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(Written in a personal capacity.)
How to beat the racists - a North East London AWL open branch meeting
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Date:
8 September, 2011 - 21:30 - 23:30
Location:
Room G8, Montefiore Centre, Hanbury Street (off Brick Lane)
Description:
Following the mobilisation against the EDL's protest in Tower Hamlets, how can we build an anti-racist movement that can confront the far-right in the streets and provide socialist political answers to the issues that allow them to grow?
An open branch meeting of North East London AWL: all welcome.
Kala Tara: the Asian Youth Movement and the fight against fascism in the 1970s
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Date:
7 October, 2010 - 20:30 - 23:00
Location:
Old Cinema, University of Westminster Regents Street Campus (Oxford Circus tube)
Description:
A film showing to mark the launch of an Anti-Fascist Society and a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) liberation campaign/officer at the University of Westminster Students' Union.
Followed by panel discussion with:
* Meena and Shakila from Southall Black Sisters
* Sacha Ismail from Workers' Liberty
* Ken Ferro from Migrant Media
“In the mid 1970s, a new generation of South Asian youth were growing up in Britain. They emerged less prepared to tolerate the racism in British society, which their parents had had to suffer. This period saw increased unemployment with the decline of industries including the textile industries in the North, which had been a focus point of migration.
“This period also saw heightened fascist and racist activity, increasing police violence, the institutionalisation of racism through discriminatory immigration laws and the ‘bussing’ of Asian children to schools outside of their communities.
“This is the story of their fightback!”
For more information ring students' union Vice-President Education Jade Baker on 07595 738 396 or email her at J.Baker3@wmin.ac.uk
Students' union website: www.uwsu.com
For a downloadable leaflet click the attachment below.
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More information about the film can be found at www.tandana.org, an archive on South Asian people's struggles in Britain.
Southall Black Sisters is a not-for-profit organisation fighting for black (Asian and African-Caribbean) women www.southallblacksisters.org.uk
Workers' Liberty is a revolutionary socialist group active in anti-racist, feminist and LGBT as well as workers' struggles www.workersliberty.org
For more on Migrant Media and its films see www.injusticefilm.co.uk
Film showing: the Asian Youth Movement and the fight against fascism in the 1970s
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Date:
9 July, 2010 - 21:00 - 10 July, 2010 - 01:00
Location:
The Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street, London NW1
Description:
A film screening to open Ideas for Freedom 2010
In the 1970s, many thousands of British Asian youth became active around the Asian Youth Movement, a radical, secular, socialist-influenced network fighting against racism, police brutality and the threat of the far right.
Kala Tara (Black Star), a film named after the Bradford AYM's paper, tells the story. We are showing it to open Ideas for Freedom, the weekend of socialist discussion and debate hosted by Workers' Liberty.
We will be discussing what lessons the left can draw for the fight against racism and fascism today, and why the decades since the AYM's heyday have seen a shift from secular, leftist towards religious and communalist politics.
Facebook event here.
How can we beat racism and fascism? NW London discussion
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Date:
16 December, 2009 - 19:00 - 21:00
Description:
NWLondon AWL hosts a discussion on how to beat racism and fascism, drawing on lessons from the recent events in Harrow. Two speakers - Faryal Velmi from AWL, and Steve Hedley, London region RMT (personal capacity) - but also lots of time for everyone to ask questions/share views. Wednesday 16 December, 7pm, Victoria Hall, Sheepcote Road, Harrow
The Economic Crisis and the threat from the Far Right
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Date:
8 December, 2009 - 19:30 - 21:00
Location:
International Community Centre, Mansfield Road
Description:
After the EDL's racist provocation in Nottingham on Dec 5, socialists will be meeting to discuss the threat of the far right.
Protest at Italian government's racist attacks on Roma people
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Date:
3 October, 2008 - 14:00
Location:
Italian Tourist Board, 1 Princes St, London W1B 2AY (near Oxford Circus)