Call out racism — get called a crank ROGER McKENZIE braves the trolls to ask what the Labour Party and wider labour movement will actually do about the racism revealed in Forde and other reports
Thursday 16th Dec 2021 Black people will resist the Borders Bill Given our history of colonisation, emigration, life as second-class citizens and our experience of open racial prejudice, Britons of African and Asian descent are not surprised by the Tories' latest attack on us — and we are ready to resist it, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 02nd Dec 2021 Colonialism is not historical – it is alive and well This weekend’s Latin America conference is a staging post in the struggle against colonialist thinking and towards building international solidarity, says ROGER McKENZIE
Friday 19th Nov 2021 Cop26 betrayed the global South Real action to deal with the climate emergency will require system change – without it, money will always outweigh the interests of the world’s poorest, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 04th Nov 2021 Pandora Papers reveal the web of new colonialism The exposé is important, but we have always know the super-rich pay little tax and squirrel their wealth away in secret — only working-class power can redress the balance and bring justice to tax-avoiders and the global South, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 21st Oct 2021 Black lives don’t matter to the Tories …as evidenced by how human greed is allowed outweigh the importance of African lives, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 07th Oct 2021 Unions need to be doing more to eradicate racism As far as many black workers are concerned, not enough is being done within the labour movement to address racial discrimination, says ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 23rd Sep 2021 African antiquities: time to return the loot The British Museum still refuses to follow countries such as France in returning artefacts stolen during the colonial era — this enables white supremacy and the belief that Africans were too primitive to be able to produce great works of art, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 09th Sep 2021 A people’s vaccine not a profit vaccine Hoarding by the West, in league with big pharma, has seen Africa in particular starved of Covid vaccines — we need an international health service free at the point of delivery, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Monday 23rd Aug 2021 The slave trade: unfinished business Remembering slavery on August 23 each year is not about closing the chapter and reassuring the guilty, but a call for justice: the descendants of those that profited still enjoy that wealth today — we must have meaningful reparations for the descendants of slaves, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 12th Aug 2021 Spreading the anti-imperialism message far and wide Long-time trade union organiser ROGER McKENZIE is looking forward to a new era as he moves to a new role heading up the anti-colonial organisation Liberation
