The tragedy of a toothless UN What is so galling about this body that has the potential to deliver global justice on a fairly egalitarian basis, is that it generally identifies what should be done — then cannot do it because the US is all-powerful, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 11th Jan 2024 Black or BAME: the right to choose our own name From the arbitrary lines drawn with a ruler on the map of Africa to arbitrary regional terms like ‘the Middle East,’ we need to reject names picked for us — including the new clumsy ethnic labels, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 28th Dec 2023 War is becoming the world’s default setting From the Congo to Sudan conflicts are raging — as leftists, our job has to be not just calling for peace, but identifying the malign outside forces and wider geopolitical interests fuelling the slaughter, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Wednesday 29th Nov 2023 The West still traps the global South in debt For all the talk of the rise of the developing world and the decline of the West’s malignant power over it, we still haven’t seen a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ rebellion over ballooning Third World debt, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Friday 03rd Nov 2023 Black communists, immigration, reparations and anti-racism The proud history of black and white unity in the Communist Party over the last century has laid the ground to develop the progressive policies we need today, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
Thursday 02nd Nov 2023 The only position of conscience is to oppose war To withdraw into cold geopolitical analysis is unforgivable — there is nothing inevitable about the massacre being carried out against the Palestinians and our calls for peace matter, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Tuesday 10th Oct 2023 Labour Party Conference 2023 ‘We are looking at compensation for slavery and colonialism’ Speaking to the Star’s Roger McKenzie, BELL RIBEIRO-ADDY MP talks about the growing campaign for reparations that now has cross-party support from several Members of Parliament
Thursday 05th Oct 2023 Modern-day slavery is growing Forced and unpaid labour are spreading across the globe, from the garment trade to cleaning to construction — we need to stop turning a blind eye, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 21st Sep 2023 Is the Caribbean even ready for Brics? These rich islands still have close political and economic relationships with the nations that enslaved them — is it any wonder truly independent nations in Africa are considered for Brics first, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Monday 11th Sep 2023 ‘The enemy worked from the darkness’ Two Chilean refugees, JUANI COLQUE and SYLVIA VELASQUEZ, tell Roger McKenzie how they experienced the US-backed coup on September 11 1973 that installed the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet
Sunday 10th Sep 2023 Drinking on the pitch at Lords ROGER McKENZIE recalls a formative experience for black Britain, watching the West Indies beat England half a century ago — and the ‘explosive’ situation that led to fans drinking on the pitch with the players