Anti-racism and multiculturalism

• Multiculturalism: facing both ways December 14 2006
  Tony Blair’s December 8 speech on multiculturalism shows that his government has no coherent programme to deal with the fact that the majority of British muslims oppose his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and are in general deeply alienated. Jim Moody looks at the issues
• Islamophobia: no! Free speech: yes! February 16 2006
  Peter Manson analyses the furore over the Danish cartoon controversy
  • Oppose all blasphemy laws
    Communists fight for the complete separation of church and state, says Eddie Ford
• Trouble on the beach January 26 2006
  A month after race riots in Sydney, Marcus Ström points to a crisis in official multiculturalism in Australia
• Defend free speech January 19 2006
  Abu Hamza and Nick Griffin have more in common than they would like to admit: both are being prosecuted for their views and speeches - rather than their actions. Communists must take a firm stand against the chipping away of our civil liberties, because left critics of the government might be next in line, says Tina Becker
• Working class unity - not multiculturalism October 27 2005
  The rioting that broke out in the Lozells area of Birmingham over the weekend of October 22-23 offers a disturbing insight into the fragmented nature of many working class communities in this country - and the pathetically inadequate response of the left. Eddie Ford reports
• New Orleans comes to Britain? September 22 2005
  Communists have always argued that multiculturalist ideology and implementation has introduced retrogressive divisions and are not surprised by Trevor Phillips u-turn, says Eddie Ford
• Stench of bigotry and intolerance March 17 2005
  Communists must defend travellers against Howard and Prescott, says Eddie Ford
• It’s quite nice today, George March 10 2005
  Tony Cliff once referred scathingly to socialists who prefer to chat about the weather rather than tackle ruling class ideas head on. With this in mind, David Isaacson notes the SWP’s silence over George Galloway’s recent article on ‘controlled immigration’
• Galloway joins in the numbers game February 24 2005
  The SWP voted down the CPGB’s principled call for the scrapping of all immigration controls at the October conference of Respect. Now we can see the result, writes Tina Becker. George Galloway is free to ape the populist calls of the Tories and Labour government for ‘controlled immigration’
• For the right to offend January 6 2005
  The Sikh protests and drama on and off stage at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre poses important questions for working class politicians, argues Ian Mahoney
• Time of reckoning January 13 2005
  Gurharpal Singh, professor of inter-religious studies at Birmingham University, is author of a number of studies on the politics of the Sikh minority and the tensions between multiculturalism and political integration. He spoke to Mark Fischer
  
• Divide and rule January 13 2005
  Cameron Richards reviews Kenan Malik's Are muslims hated?, broadcast on Channel 4 last week
• Class struggle and the holocaust January 27 2005
  In the light of this week’s Holocaust Memorial Day, and the official Auschwitz commemorations, Eddie Ford revisits a controversial work - Norman G Finkelstein The holocaust industry: reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering
• Border wars January 27 2005
  The left must put forward a clear alternative to Tory-Labour attacks on migrants, writes Peter Manson. We must fight for the free movement of people and the international organisation of all workers
• Fighting for assimilation April 15 2004
  Some see multiculturalism as equivalent to anti-racism: including comrades in the Socialist Workers Party. Eddie Ford argues that it is an essentially bourgeois ideology, and presents a communist analysis.
• No respect for borders March 25 2004
  Eddie Ford rips apart the "reactionary consensus" about migration, and calls for a revolutionary solution
• Against fascism. For what? March 4 2004
  Anne Mc Shane attended the London launch of Unite Against Fascism and was left wondering who the main enemy was
• End asylum system February 21 2002
  Abolition of the system of detention centres must be set within the context of a broadeer programme for change, argues James mallory
• Open the borders February 14 2002
  Immigration controls should be opposed because they divide workers, argues Eddie Ford