Black women: a quiet revolution in our unions From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Features | Thursday 20th Mar 2025 Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation
Thursday 25th Jul 2024 From Obama to Kamala, ‘diversity’ without progress is pointless Having black capitalist politicians in leadership positions shows that capitalism is able to accommodate racial diversity, writes ROGER McKENZIE — but if the world still starves and burns, so what?
Thursday 18th Jul 2024 Islamist terrorism in Xinjiang ROGER MCKENZIE uncovers a history of extremist violence ignored by Western media, contextualising the security measures which have been seized on to allege ‘a genocide’ is being carried out by China
Thursday 11th Jul 2024 Farewell to a generation of Caribbean pioneers As the last of his family’s Windrush elders pass away, ROGER McKENZIE reflects on migration, courage and the ongoing struggle against racism in Britain, from the Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’
Friday 05th Jul 2024 The Xinjiang I saw was a hub of diversity, not oppression From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion — a reality obscured by Western propaganda
Thursday 27th Jun 2024 What can we learn from Freedom, a landmark magazine of the cold war era? During the height of McCarthyist repression in the US, black rights legends Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham launched a publication that drew the anti-imperialist connections that others feared to make, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Saturday 22nd Jun 2024 London Recruits film could inspire a new generation of activists The award-winning documentary on British anti-apartheid heroes has already sparked passionate discussions — now trade unions and progressives must integrate it into training and education courses, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Friday 14th Jun 2024 From Windrush to Thatcher: black workers get organised As African and Asian activists pushed back against racism in workplaces and politics in the ’70s and ’80s, eventually trade unions and political parties reluctantly opened their doors to self-organised groups, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Wednesday 12th Jun 2024 Black British activism after WWI In the second in a four-part serialisation of his new book, African Uhuru, ROGER McKENZIE outlines the organised resistance to a surge of racism against black workers in law and in the unions as they returned from the war
Thursday 30th May 2024 Gold rush: how the UAE fuels the war in Sudan In grim replaying of colonial plunder, the UAE is arming both sides in Sudan’s civil war that broke out in April 2023, paying itself handsomely from the nation’s gold reserves, reports ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 23rd May 2024 The People’s Forum NYC: an inspiration The professional and modern ‘movement incubator for working-class and marginalised communities’ in a smart building in New York’s Midtown is a shining example of what we should aspire to build in Britain, writes ROGER McKENZIE
