Race And Class

RACE AND CLASS

The governing classes regarded the negro just as they had quite openly regarded their own labouring classes : as thouroughly undisciplined, consequently requiring to be kept in order by force, and by, occasional but severe flashes of violence. (Race Attack)

Articles from the Red Action Bulletin volumes 3 and 4.

TIME 'TO DUMP' MULTICULTURALISM
Currently there is much discussion on how the rise of the Far-Right can be halted. The truthful answer, says J. Reilly, is that an anti-fascism joined at the hip with multiculturalism cannot do so.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 12, July/Aug '01

SEPARATISM - ACCIDENT OR DESIGN?
Ghettoisation is widely blamed for the simmering racial unrest in Oldham and Bradford. Yet, astonishingly some 'anti-racists' argue racial separatism is the solution. A Shaw investigates.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 11, May/June '01

NEARLY ALL WORKING CLASS NOW?
Contrary to the working classes becoming more middle class, it is, in fact, as A Shaw argues, the middle classes who are being proletarianized.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 10, March/April '01

THE ELEPHANT IN THE SITTING ROOM SYNDROME
Red Action have long pointed to the existence of a ‘reactionary reservoir’. ‘Critical mass’ is the term the BNP prefer. Now even as Searchlight concede to the reality, the revolutionary Left remain firmly in denial. This is what specialists refer to as ‘the elephant in the sitting room syndrome’ A. Shaw examines the implications.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 9, November/December '00

A RETURN TO WINNING WAYS
Under the title 'Official anti-racism and the white working class' a senior member of Red Action addressed a seminar organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) at Brunel University on August 9th 2000. The following is the full text of the speech.

IS ANTI-RACISM WORKING?
Anti-Fascist Action hosted an afternoon of film and discussion at the Lux cinema in East London. Following the films, which included the first public screening of the controversial Routes of Racism, a panel of speakers debated the question ‘Is anti-racism working?’
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Vol 4, Issue 4, Dec '99/Jan '00

INTO THE GHETTO
For all the expressions of piety about the 'dignity of the Lawrences', history and recent developments in Europe show that the middle classes are not to be trusted. Which is why A. Shaw, in a reversal of accepted custom and practice, argues that the interests, aspirations and sensitivities of the 'ghetto dwellers' must now become anti-fascism's absolute priority.
Reproduced from RA Vol 4, Issue 1, June/July 1999

RACE ATTACK
Born of the desire to combat communism, multiculturalism was conceived out of cynicism and embraced by the left out of defeatism. G. O'Halloran argues that by it's betrayal of principle, it is a major propaganda gift to the far-right, as well as laying the foundations for the political extermination of the working class itself.
Reproduced from RA Vol 3, issue 5, February/March 1999

BRANDED
A public denunciation of militant anti-fascism by the USA-based 'United Front Against Fascism' serves to demonstrate perfectly the incautious methodology and paucity of thinking that makes up this strain of anti-fascism. G. O'Halloran investigates the multi-cultural rationale.
Reproduced from RA vol 3, Issue 2, Aug/Sept '98